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[โ€“] NIB 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Europe used to have lions, especially southern Europe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is "southern Europe" what they used to call colonies in Africa?

[โ€“] BenadrylChunderHatch 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you go back far enough there were now extinct lions in northern Europe as well. But wild lions as we know them today existed in Greece, the Balkans, etc. Even as late as the 10th century CE.