Wikibooks: Brief History of Europe/Late Middle Ages
The Late Middle Ages was circa AD 1300–1500 or 1250–1500. =States and territories of the Late Middle Ages= States and territories of the Late Middle Ages included Northern Europe British Isles included England and Wales Ireland and Scotland . The Kalmar Union (1397–1523) was of the three kingdoms of...
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| Summary: | The Late Middle Ages was circa AD 1300–1500 or 1250–1500. =States and territories of the Late Middle Ages= States and territories of the Late Middle Ages included Northern Europe British Isles included England and Wales Ireland and Scotland . The Kalmar Union (1397–1523) was of the three kingdoms of Denmark Sweden (then including most of Finland) and Norway. There were also lands of Lapps and Finns. Western and Central Europe France with Gascony (in southern Aquitaine) Gascony precipitated the Hundred Years War when it was lost by the English. The Holy Roman Empire was east of France. Eastern Europe Included Poland (including Mazovia) and Lithuania Galicia–Volhynia was later divided between Poland and Lithuania. The State of the Teutonic Order (Prussia) and Terra Mariana (of present day Estonia and Latvia between 1207 and 1561) were Baltic crusader states. Further east the Kievan Rus principalities were vassals of the Golden Horde khanate there was also the Novgorod Republic (1136–1478). Balkans states included the Kingdom of Hungary which included the Banate of Bosnia Croatia and Transylvania. The Danubian Principalities (Wallachia and Moldavia) were vassals of the Hungarians after gaining independence they would become vassals of the Ottomans. Further south were the Byzantine Empire the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) the Serbian Empire crusader states (e.g. the Duchy of Athens) and possessions of Venice and Genoa. Louis I of Hungary was was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 he had many military successes. Iberian Peninsula Was dominated by Castile Portugal and Aragon . It also included Navarre the Kingdom of Majorca (the Balearic Islands) and Islamic Granada . The fall of Granada in 1492 ended the Muslim rule in Iberia. Italian Peninsula In the north was the Holy Roman Empire but Italian city states such as the Republics of Genoa and Pisa were starting to assert de facto independence as well as expanding their territories including Genoese Corsica. There was ... |
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