Description: A map of Europe at the onset of the French Revolution. "What was Europe in 1789? One thing, at least, it was not: it was not a unity. There were states of every size and shape and with every form of government. The States of the Church were theocratic; capricious and cruel despotism prevailed in Turkey; absolute monarchy in Russia, Austria, France, Prussia; constitutional monarchy in England; while there were various kinds of so–called republics – federal republics in Holland and Switzerland, a republic whose head was an elective king in Poland, aristocratic republics in Venice, Genoa and the free cities of the Holy Roman Empire." — Hazen, 1917
Place Names: Western and Central Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Prussia, German Empire, State of the Church, Russia, Switzerland, Kingdom of Sardinia, Kingdom of Naples, England, Venice, Genoa, Holy Roman Empire,
ISO Topic Categories: boundaries,
inlandWaters,
oceans,
society
Keywords: Europe, physical, political, historical, physical features,
topographical, country borders,
major political subdivisions, historical event, boundaries,
inlandWaters,
oceans,
society, Unknown, 1789
Source: Charles Downer Hazen, The French Revolution and Napoleon (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1917) Frontpiece
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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