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Title: The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bénézet, Louis Paul, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ain had been divided into four little kingdoms: Leon, Castile, Aragon, and Gra- ?P^^ o ^ becomes a nada, the latter ruled by the Moors. The nation marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon to Isabellaof Castile and Leon joined the three Christiankingdoms into one, and after 1492, when theMoors were defeated and Granada annexed tothe realm of Ferdinand and Isabella, Spainbecame one kingdom. About this time, also,there had grown up a strong kingdom of Hun-gary, a kingdom of Portugal, a kingdom ofPoland, and one of Denmark. Norway wasruled by the Danes, but Sweden was a separate kingdom. In Russia, Czar Ivan the Terrible ^^ . The rise(1533-84) had built up a strong power which was of Russia still further strengthened by Czar Peter the Great (1690-1725). The Holy Roman Empire The rest of the continent of Europe, with theexception of the Turkish Empire, formed what ^^^le Holywas called the Holy Roman Empire, a rule Ro^^p ^ *^ r- Empire of which had been founded by Charlemagne Germany 90 The Story of
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The Map of Europe 91 (a.d. 800), the great Frankish monarch, whohad been crowned in Rome by the pope asruler of the western world. (The name ^HolyRoman Empire was not used by Charlemagne.We first hear of it under Otto I, the Saxonemperor, who was crowned in 962.) This Holy Roman Empire included all of ^ . ^ Extent of what IS now Germany (except the eastern the empirethird of Prussia), all of what is now Bohemia,Austria (but not Hungary), and all of Italyexcept the part south of Naples. There weretimes when part of France and all of the lowcountries (now Belgium and Holland) alsobelonged to the Empire. (The mountain-eers of Switzerland won their independence fromthe Empire in the fourteenth century, andformed a little republic.) See map Europein 1540. In the Holy Roman Empire, the son of the emperor did not necessarily succeed his father as ^^ Theruler. There were seven (afterwards nine) electors electors who, at the death of the ruling mon-arch, met to elect his successor. Three of th

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