List of the border territories

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