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Which European country was the most powerful in the era between 1000-1500 ?
My opinion is Medieval Hungary. Many Hungarian kings had larger inland-revenues and larger armies than their Western European colleagues. Very few country could fight in 3-4 front-line wars with victory in human history.
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hungary[/ame]
The reason:
The differences between Hungary and feudal Europe:
"Medieval Hungarian constitutional development made the power of Hungarian Kings the most efficient one of medieval age, and that reason was the absence of feudalism. No doubt, infiltrations of feudalism, as prevalent through-out Europe, are to be found in old Hungarian institutions, but as an accidental inter-mixture only, not as their essence and chief feature. That blending of public prerogative with rights belonging to the sphere of private law, which is the essence of feudalism never prevailed in the organisation of Hungarian public powers, never broke their action on the nation as a whole. To this early prevalence of public law in the government of the country do Hungary owe not only a superior efficiency not detrimental to liberty of Hungarian public powers, but in connection with it an early growth of conscious national unity, of patriotism on broad lines, at a time when tribal feeling and feudal allegiance sub-divided all European nations into small units which paralysed each other, and into a corresponding fractional mentality adverse to the very idea of State and to inchoate national feeling." ( Count Albert Apponyi: "The juridical nature of the relations between Austria and Hungary" Arts and Science Congress, held at United States St. Louis in 1904 )
Countries under the control of Louis the Great of Hungary (larger than HRE in its biggest extension)
Western conquests of king Matthias Corvinus (wars against HRE) Remember early-absolutist france was stopped and defeated by Habsburgs, Matthias Corvinus conquered the capital city of Habsburgs
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My opinion is Medieval Hungary. Many Hungarian kings had larger inland-revenues and larger armies than their Western European colleagues. Very few country could fight in 3-4 front-line wars with victory in human history.
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hungary[/ame]
The reason:
The differences between Hungary and feudal Europe:
"Medieval Hungarian constitutional development made the power of Hungarian Kings the most efficient one of medieval age, and that reason was the absence of feudalism. No doubt, infiltrations of feudalism, as prevalent through-out Europe, are to be found in old Hungarian institutions, but as an accidental inter-mixture only, not as their essence and chief feature. That blending of public prerogative with rights belonging to the sphere of private law, which is the essence of feudalism never prevailed in the organisation of Hungarian public powers, never broke their action on the nation as a whole. To this early prevalence of public law in the government of the country do Hungary owe not only a superior efficiency not detrimental to liberty of Hungarian public powers, but in connection with it an early growth of conscious national unity, of patriotism on broad lines, at a time when tribal feeling and feudal allegiance sub-divided all European nations into small units which paralysed each other, and into a corresponding fractional mentality adverse to the very idea of State and to inchoate national feeling." ( Count Albert Apponyi: "The juridical nature of the relations between Austria and Hungary" Arts and Science Congress, held at United States St. Louis in 1904 )
Countries under the control of Louis the Great of Hungary (larger than HRE in its biggest extension)
Western conquests of king Matthias Corvinus (wars against HRE) Remember early-absolutist france was stopped and defeated by Habsburgs, Matthias Corvinus conquered the capital city of Habsburgs
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