What is your favorite obscure autonomous or semi-autonomous state?
I got to go with Britanny, Burgundianboo nerds can smd
>Britanny
>obscure
Nigga ...
Most paternal lineage is britainic, but originally french Huguenots from Brittany. Can confirm minor nobility/at least land owning wealthy ancestprs in the distant past.
Never really bothered looking much into Breton history being that I am more enamoured with Ancient History.
So what can you tell me Breton-lover
If anything I know much more about Gascony, Normandy, and Anjou because I know a fair amount about England's medieval-modern history
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Burgundy could have got somewhere, Brittany had good geography (much better than Burgundy's) but it had none of the other benefits of Burgundy and was much more at the mercy of England and France with little bargaining power.
Also, for another favorite state, I'd say maybe Congress Poland or other sorts of remnants of the institutions of a conquered Kingdom remaining in place under the new regime under semi-autonomy.
Say it's early 16th century and the Habsburgs inherit Brittanny. What happens next?
The Safavid empire is relatively obscure, since you'll never see it on the history channel, in pop history sources, in videogames or anywhere in popular culture.
It's the textbook definition of forgotten empire.
