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Medieval Eastern Europe

Gone Medieval

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The Ottoman Empire and Hungary

Hungary was a powerful nation, an important influential nation. What prevented kind of imperial expansionism for places like Hungary? Why do we never see them becoming vast empires? There are other places, there's a kind of Eastern European tradition of, instead of powerful dynasties, powerful aristocracy. So these Eastern European kingdoms bloom when the aristocrats make a good choice of king.

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