Eli5 How did ancient and medieval borders work?
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As a followup to other’s great answers to this question, Robert Jordan illustrated this point pretty clearly in the Wheel of Time series, where residents of the region the main characters came from (Two Rivers) had mostly forgotten that they were even a part of Andor, even though on a map, the borders of the nation contained the Two Rivers, and no representative of the Queen had visited the area in generations. But when the characters met up with the Queen later on, she clearly considered them her subjects.
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