Repost: From Strange Maps: Europe’s Continental Divide

Full post here.

This is just mostly a topographic map with a watershed line, but it’s not long before you wonder how physical geography has shaped cultural, religious and linguistic traditions.

A primary factor?

…in military strategy maybe…or trade routes?

Language seemed to be a primary factor in the Protestant Reformation.

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