Wednesday 18 January 2023

Upper Bavaria, around Munich

As requested by a $10 Patreon supporter:


Requests tend to be for heavily populated areas; Munich sits on a wide, beautiful floodplain with rich black soil, laid down by the Isar River.  It also happens to be located in a convenient set of trade routes from east, west, north and south ... particularly the route from Italy through Innsbruck, about 46 miles from the bottom edge of the map.  The combination of these things made Munich a phenomenally important place in Europe, sustaining Bavaria as a powerful independent duchy until eventually conquered by Napoleon.

As a stand-alone map, it isn't that impressive ... but the value of these maps is how good they look as piece after piece is added on, giving each part of the map a little more context and flavour. 



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