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And after 1860, travel and communications started getting better, so the specific location of the capital started mattering less.
by theandrewbailey 5y ago
And after 1860, travel and communications started getting better, so the specific location of the capital started mattering less.
- atlasunshrugged 5y agoBut Abuja, Brasilia, the new capital in Cairo etc. are all pretty recent; why the changes in those countries?
- PaulHoule 5y agoProbably the best comparable is Germany moving the capital to Berlin, which is a bigger deal than it sounds. Bonn is convenient to Brussels and Paris and looks westward to the heart of the EU, Berlin is a commitment to more economic integration w/ Poland, and the east.
- simonblack 5y agoBonn was a temporary capital of West Germany. Berlin was the always the capital of a Germany which was unified around 1870 from about a dozen smaller states, like Bavaria, Saxony, Prussia, Silesia, etc. Read up about Bismarck, he was the main driver for a unified Germany. The Prussians formed a unified Germany, so their choice of capital was a Prussian city.