what the fuck
>>18457465I am not a German in any shape and form but the Suebi ruled the area of my country where I live in for many years. Can i join that?
>>18457465All feudal states look like that. These territories weren't economically independent and tariffs were infrastructure based, not border-based. So there was little incentive to create continuous areas.
>>18457465openfront io match
>>18457499A turk will become your new state governor so maybe reconsider.
>>18457465The Swabian Circle (Schwäbischer Reichskreis) was a part of the Imperial Circles (Reichskreise) that were created by Emperor Maximilian I. in 1500 for the whole of the HRE (the reform process began in 1495 and ended in 1521). Those Imperial Circles had the aim to combine several states when it came to some aspects of their administration and most importantly their military bans that the Emperor ought to have access to. And while the internal organisation of the Imperial Circles weren't all standardised in practice, all had codified institutions and officials that would directly report to the Emperor/Imperial Diet. One of those institutions which every Imperial Circle had was the Circle Diet, which served as an assembly of all members - of which each had one vote regardless their size and/or influence.Interestingly for the Swabian Circle is the fact that it had a "predecessor organisation" in the form of the Swabian League, which was established in 1488 by Emperor Friedrich III. The reasons were similar to the establishment of the later Imperial Circles: concentration of administration and better governance. Thus it served as a blue print for the later reforms. Funnily though the Swabian League wasn't disbanded in 1500 and hadn't the same members as the Swabian Circle. Thus there were two organisations with partly the same members, similar offices and sometimes conflicting interests.As to why it wasn't a closed territory: territories which enjoyed Imperial Immediacy (like Free Cities, Imperial Cities, Imperial Knights, Imperial Villages, etc.) were not incorporated into the Imperial Circles. Especially in Swabia the existence of the Circle of the Imperial Knights (another internal suborganisation) makes for some impressive "border gore".
>>18457465This is unironically what government territories should look like. The Patchwork is the future.
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>>18457465Man I really do need to read a book on te HRE to understand how it works.
>>18457465Some putrid fetid gasp of air from the middle ages just emerged from the catacombs
>>18458829>how it worksFrequently, the answer was "it doesn't".
>>18459158A state that wouldn't have worked wouldn't have survived from 962 until 1806.
