Vanished KingdomsA magical and acclaimed history, bringing back to life the lost realms of Europe, now in trade paperback. We habitually think of the European past as the history of countries which exist today, but Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires, and republics that have now disappeared but were once fixtures on the map of their age. Consider the Empire of Aragon, which once dominated the western Mediterranean, or the Grand Duchy of