List of the border territories
Overview of Germany's era-specific borders
The territorial definition of JDG's coverage of publications varies with the different periods. According to the determinations of the Jahresberichte, following border territories were considered.
Carolingian time till 1500
North
- Dutchy Saxony
- County Holstein
West
- Frisia
- Holland
- Diocese Utrecht
- Lower Lorraine (inter alia Duchies Brabant; Limburg; County Hainault; Empire Flanders; Diocese Liège; County Namur; Diocese Cambrai)
- Upper Lorraine (inter alia Bar; Luxembourg; Dioceses Metz, Toul, Verdun; Counties Montbéliard, Ferrette; Dutchy Upper-Lorraine)
- Burgundy (inter alia County / Free County Burgundy; Diocese Basel)
South
- County Gorizia
- Diocese Trient
- Diocese Chur
- County Tyrol
- Dutchy Bavaria
- Dutchy Swabia
- Carinthia (Dutchy from 976)
- Margraviate Styria (Dutchy from 1180)
East
- Ellbe and Baltic Sea Slavic
- Dutchy Pomerania (incl. Diocese Kamień Pomorski)
- Margraviate Brandenburg
- Margraviate Lusatia
- Margraviate Meissen
- Silesian Duchies
- Bohemia (incl. Moravia)
- Teutonic Knights (with Pomerelia, Prussia)
- Eastern march (from 1156 Austria)
1500-1648
North
- County Holstein-Oldenburg
West
- County Frisia
- County Veluwe
- County Holland (till 1579)
- County Seeland (till 1579)
- Dutchy Luxembourg
- Dutchy Lorraine
- Free County Burgundy (till 1559)
- Old Swiss Confederacy (till 1500)
South
- County Tyrol
- Dutchy Carniola
- Dutchy Carinthia
- Dutchy Styria
East
- Dutchy Austria
- Kingdom Bohemia
- Margraviate Moravia
- Dutchy Silesia
- Electorate Brandenburg
- Dutchy Szczecin
- Order's land Prussia
1648-1815
No coverage of the Spanish Netherlands; Coverage of the lost territories to France, located at the left bank of the river Rhine
North
- Dutchy Holstein
West
- County East Frisia
- Diocese Muenster
- Dutchy Guelder(s)
- Dutchy Cleves
- Dutchy Juelich
- Arctillhopric Trier
- Dutchy Lorraine
- Thionville (City)
- Saarbruecken (City)
- Diocese Strasbourg
- Margraviate Baden-Baden
- Princedom Liechtenstein
South
- County Tyrol
- Diocese Trient
- Dutchy Carinthia
- Dutchy Carniola-Styria
East
- Archtillhopric Austria
- Kingdom Bohemia
- Margraviate Moravia
- Dutchy Silesia
- New Silesia (1795)
- South Prussia (1793)
- Electorate Brandenburg (incl. Hither and Farther Pomerania, Swedish-Pomerania)
- Gdansk (1793)
- Netze District (1772)
- West Prussia (1772)
- Warmia (1772)
- Dutchy Prussia
1815-1866
North
- Dutchy Holstein
- Grand Dutchy Oldenburg
West
- Rheinprovinz
- Grand Dutchy Luxembourg
- Dutchy Limburg (1839-1866)
- Pfalz (from 1838 Rhinepfalz)
- Grand Dutchy Baden
- Princedom Liechtenstein
- Kingdom Wuerttemberg
South
- Kingdom Bavaria
- County Tirol
- Dutchy Salzburg
East
- Upper Austria
- Margraviate Moravia
- Kingdom Bohemia
- Austrian Silesia
- Prussian Silesia
- Silesia
- Grand Dutchy Poznan
- West Prussia
- East Prussia
1871-1918
North
- Province Schleswig-Holstein
- Grand Dutchy Oldenburg
West
- Province Rhine
- Empire state Alsace-Lorraine
- Grand Dutchy Baden
- Kingdom Wuerttemberg
South
- Kingdom Bavaria
- Kingdom Saxony
East
- Silesia
- West Prussia
- East Prussia