File:Holy Roman Empire 1648.svg

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Summary

Abbreviations:
Letter	English name	German name
A	Archbishopric	Erzbistum
B	Bishopric	Bistum
C	County	Grafschaft
D	Duchy	Herzogtum
E	Electorate	Kurfürstentum
L	Landgraviate	Landgrafschaft
M	Margraviate	Markgrafschaft
P	Principality	Fürstentum

Description

Map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1648, after the Peace of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years' War.

Imperial cities

Ecclesiastical lands

Wittelsbach Palatinate

Wittelsbach Bavarian

Hohenzollern Brandenburg

Hohenzollern Franconia

Wettin Albertine

Wettin Ernestine

Oldenburg

Austrian Habsburg

Spanish Habsburg

Swedish after 1648

Württemberg

Hesse-Kassel

Made in Inkscape. Each of the parts to the map are saved on a separate layer, so that they can be edited/moved/hidden separately when it is opened in Inkscape. All the regions such as imperial cities, ecclesiastical lands, etc. are grouped together so that the colours can be changed easily if necessary. Uses the colour scheme of WikiProject Maps and the free to use Colour Brewer.

Date

29 January 2007

Source

Made from the public domain map "Central Europe about 1648" from the Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, at the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas. Further information from Overy, Richard, 2006, The Times Complete history of the world Times Books ISBN 0007181299, and from this map

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Author

Astrokey44

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