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Introduction to Nation-States
European boundaries set by the Congress of Vienna, 1815.
This map of Europe, outlining borders in 1815, demonstrates that still at the beginning of the 19th century, Europe was divided mostly into empires, kingdoms, and confederations. Hardly any of the entities on the map would meet the criteria of the nation state.
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