Ok SORRY THE MAP IN THE BEGINNING IS MISSING UKRAINE AND BELARUS, I didn't notice at the time! They are obviously also part of Europe! Also let me know of country/video suggestions below!
Europe is kind of a weird continent, as there's much disagreement on where its borders lie. Hell, some people include bloody Turkey and leave Russia out lmfao
I can do a video where I talk about modern ones! But I feel like there aren't many unrecognized countries these days, most independence movements tend to either succeed or disappear/lose strenght. Do you have any suggestions?
@@General.Knowledge Crimea, Donbass, South Ossetia, Nagorno Kabrah (probably spelled wrong). You have 2 more in Ukraine. Also Liberland, altough it dissapeared fast. Edit: you also had "Srpska Krajna" from 1991-1995 and Republic Srbska in Bosnia that started in 1992
actually it's also a flag of the Russian Empire and although the revolution occured in 1917, the flag was still valid in the beginning of 1918, so during that period (1918-1923) both flags were in use
@@veljkozivanovic7210 Russian Dependency* Russia's Gov is a joke,still communist in sort of views. Transnistria is just a joke of soviet state and will never be an independent country And this comment comes from a Romanian
11:30 thank you so much for mentioning this! i live in Karelia and there is much more information you can find about the republic in the libraries of any city or town. my family was all Russian but fought for the Finns against the Soviets.
Never expected that you would talk about the Cantón or Cartagena, it's such an interesting time in history of my city :) And yes, the history of the cantonal flag it's true
Limerick in Ireland declared an independent Soviet that lasted a few weeks in the 1920's I think it was. They issued their own currency too. I don't know much about it apart from that.
You can mention the Carpatho-Ukraine. A country that became "independent" after the annexation of Czechia by the Third Reich. It was conquered by the hungarians a few days later though.
4:13 west Thrace had government in the times of Balkan Wars and Territorial divisions. Soon western Thrace was ceded to Bulgaria and after WWI was given to Greece. Edit: When First Balkan war ended Everything that was got from Ottomans wasn’t divided yet. After treaty of London and Conference in Russia Bulgaria lost south Dobrudja and from Komotini- Kavala to Midia- Enos was for Bulgaria. But after second Balkan war Only Alexandropolis region was ceded for Bulgaria
There was also another short lived republic in Ireland, the Limerick Soviet when the workers of Limerick took over the city of Limerick for a brief period in 1919 just as the Irish war of independence was starting. They also had their own currency, but the British eventually suppressed it. It is said to be the first soviet outside Russia or Mongolia.
Great Work GK!! Irish man myself, from County Galway (The largest in Connacht or Connaught). Thanks for bringing light to the short lived Republic and the noble efforts of Wolfe Tone and co. A great piece of history to learn. Also, don't be afraid with the words, their not stretched or strained in anyway. E.g Bal-ina-muck, Con-nuct. But great job overall, happy to help if you need anything from Éire!!
@CipiRipi00 yeah, than tell me what importance does this banat republic have to the history of the world?Am I supposed to know a country that a total of 40 people know in the entire world?and im not even american smartass
@CipiRipi00 and you're a dumbass if you dont understand that "a total of 40 people in the entire world know" is an expression, if we were talking about i dunno maybe Portugal or Andorra or Nigeria or Thailand, and I didnt knew about those countries than it would be reason to be ashamed, but RN if you go to the streets of any country in the world and ask about the banat republic nobody will know, thats if you have the social capabilities to do something other than shittalking,of course. That isnt even learn in the schools, it isnt part of essential/important knowledge, so its at least nonsensical to judge a person just bcz that person doesnt know about something meaningless, like the existence of that banat republic.
@@gamestutorials8922 it showed period of 1918-1923. Latvia gained independence in 1918 november.Although it still conflicts and powers struggle with Germany and Russia(or Solvet Union). It was done by 1920s.
In Croatia the village of Petrijevci near Osijek was also a country(unrecognised) around the swamps there but was later incorporated into Yugoslavia in 1919.
There was a short Independence of the Faroe Islands, but the danish King called the vote that let to the Independence illegal and desolved their parlament
Neutral Moreset (not certain I'm spelling it correctly). It used to form a 4-point country border with Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany. Transnistria cannot go unmentioned, especially as you named Gagauzia in Moldova (not Moldavia, which is a part of Romania).
The Republic of Transnistria ! And in France : Brittany Basque Country Corsica Alsace Lorraine Savoy (These aren't really unrecognized but have quite interesting pro independance stories through history, like the Faeroe Islands, Scotland, the Duchy of Normandy or Burgundy) You could also explain how places like Luxembourg or Liechtenstein became independant unlike most of the small kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire and so on
N’importe quoi, je suis savoyard et personne ne veux l’indépendance ici en Bretagne seulement 18% et en Corse 11% pareil en Alsace Lorraine. Vérifie tes sources avant de raconter des âneries !
Värmland Republic in Sweden. They have their own passport etc. Though the republic is not recognized by the Swedish government, f.ex. their passport is recognized by the local Norwegian border guards.
Some people here in the comments section were debating the limits of Europe. Here's my opinion: To the south-east, the Bosphorus river marks the frontier, thus making Turkey partially European. To the east, the Ural mountain range, the Ural river and the Caucassus mountains mark the frontier, making Russia also partially European (only a small fraction of its land extension but around 70% of its population).
Technically the entire Cyprus is in Western Asia or to be specific, the Middle East. So both the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Republic of Cyprus are also in Asia too. Also the TRNC is only recognised by Turkey, making it the one of three limited recognised nations in (political) Europe along with Kosovo and South Ossetia. Cyprus is politically in Europe, but geographically in Asia.
This isn't a unrecognised country, because it isn't a country. The only legal state on this island is Republic of Cyprus. They are independent citizens and they have their own government. On the other hand Northern Cyprus is part of Turkish Republic, after the Turkish invasion in 1974. Turkey found this pseudo-state and the Turkish government decides about their luck.
@@AlaniariSs7Althoigh it is supported by it financially, TRNC is not part of the Turkish Republic. It is a seperate state. I would know. I live there. It has its own government and an entirely separate lwgal system and constitution.
@@karmababy5077 Have they only financially support from Turkey? Hahaha very nice joke! Educationally? Medical? The pseudo-state of Northern Cyprus is heavily (almost completely) dependent on Turkey for economic, political and military support. In October 2013, CIA published "The CIA World Factbook 2014" and said "The Turkish Cypriots are heavily dependent on transfers from the Turkish Government. Ankara directly finances about one-third of the Turkish Cypriot "administration's" budget.". So how it's possible one state to be independent when another country directly finances the one-third of its administration budget? How it's possible one state to be independent when another country has 30-40k troops and state's officer's corps are drawn from this country? Due to Northern Cyprus's isolation and heavy reliance on Turkish support, Turkey has a high level of influence over the country's politics. That's why Northern Cyprus is an effective puppet state of Turkey!
@@AlaniariSs7It is financially dependent on Turkey because on an international embargo. The majority of Turkish Cypriots don't want any dependence on Turkey. Nothing I have stated is factually incorrect, no matter what you or any other Greek Nationalist who has never actually been in TRNC has to say about the issue.
Any long gone unrecognised countries in Ireland and I thought it would have been the Limerick Soviet. Sprouted around 1919 and even had their own currency, but only lasted a few weeks
On the 27th June 1931 there was the proclamation, in Ourense, of the Republic of Galicia. and Alonso Rios was proclaimed President of the Junta Revolucionária of the Republic of Galicia. This movement of independence of Galicia, however, lasted only one day, and on the 28th the Galician Republic was dissolved.
@@General.Knowledge Tannu Tavu. O.K. It's in Asia, but stamp collectors have postage stamps which come from there. Richard Feynman wanted to visit the country, but the visa arrived after he died.
After WWI there had been a „Freistaat Flaschenhals“ in the Middlerhine reginon of Germany. It was a unclaimed part of Germany that neither the US nor France occupied after the end of WWI. Freistaat Flaschenhals is translated in Republic Bottleneck which comes from the shape of the piece of land, but also remembers the a lot of wine is grown in the areas. The republic existed from 1919 to 1923. More you can find here de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freistaat_Flaschenhals
In The Netherlands we have Friesland (Frysia) in the north with their own recognized language and Limburg (where I am from) in the south which also has their own language but that was recognized as a regional minority language. Of Frysia I don't know a lot, only that there is a East-Frysia in Germany and that they were descendants of the Frisii. Of Limburg however I know a bit more. The Duchy of Limburg wasa state of the Holy Roman Empire and was located in nowadays Liege (Belgium). Later they became part of the Burgundian Netherlands (one of the seventeen provinces). In 1793 French revolutionary troops occupied the land and terminated the duchy. From 1815 till 1830 Limburg belonged to Great Britain, then with the independence of Belgium it became part of Belgium and with the treaty of London singed by Willem I, Limburg was split in two between Belgium and The Netherlands. Untill 1866 Duchy Limburg was part of the German Confederation. The Netherlands was in the possesion of the Duchy of Limburg and with the second treaty of London it became a province of The Netherlands. The Limburgish language is spoken by over more than 2 million people today. In a Dutch newspaper of march this year (when Frysian was recognised as an official language and Limburgish as an regional minority language) it says that from data from a research 30% of the native Frysian speakers still speak the language at home, where 45% of the Limburgish speakers speak the language at home. Sorry for the long comment, just want you to have some information about it
'The mine is ours' is actually an incredibly clever motto for a socialist or communist mining country when taking the English translation into account considering mine means both physical mines and something belonging to one person.
DId not expected to see the "Monarquia do Norte"! After the Republican Revolution of 1910, that brought an almost 800 years Monarchy to its end in Portugal, Monarchist forces tried to bring down the Republic a couple of times. Exactly one year after the Revolution came to place the first attempt, then another one with some more intensity, all of them in the North. But the 1919 movement was the most significant one, and they didn't only took control of Porto, but almost the whole of the North (thus the Monarchy of the North, as it is commonly known). Remember that Portugal joined the Allied in World War One, then came the "Spanish Flu", our First Republic was a mess, so, fertile ground for revolts. Kingdom of "Traulitania" is a hilarious cool nickname. "Trauliteiros" and "traulitada" is a funny folksy way to refer to a hit, as in someone or something hitting another person or another thing. It seems that those who supported the coup liked to persuade others to join in or to not oppose, with a good pair of... "traulitadas". 😆
You should mention the Republic of Ossola in the next video. It lasted for 44 days but it's quite an interesting story. Was officially recognised by Switzerland.
After the Greeks took west Thrace, they forcefully relocated the Bulgarians that lived in the region. My great grandmother took her son and 8 other orphans and crossed the border taking them 500km north. No one ever knew who of the 9 boys was her biological son she payed for their education and bought each one land. She has 9 grand daughters named after her and now my daughter carries her name too.
In fairness if you’re not Irish then it’s a difficult name to pronounce. Listening to rugby commentary when Connacht are playing a foreign team can be a laugh as well.
That thing the bear holds on the coat of arms of Uhtua is not a sword - it's a billhook which (although can be used as such) is not a weapon but an agricultural/forestry tool.
There is 0 chance of western Thrace I live in Greece and Noone has even thought of such thing and in that part of Thrace 90% of people who live there are Greek Christian so I don't think they would want such thing especially with the recent conflicts in the area with turkey on the border
The same thing as the region of Macedonia, ew? After you guys annexed it you moved greek people there and forbit everything to the macedonian people and made them assimilate. Now you dare to say that that region is rightfully yours and not macedonian... Pff!
What about currect ones,such as Transistria,Catalona or North Cyprus,tons of unrecognized republics that declared their independence in wake of Yugoslavia break up such as Kraina,West Bosnia,Republic Serpska,Herceg Bosnia etc.And some of Russian republics such as Tartarstan and Chechnia...
Don't feel bad. I am Greek and reassure you that Thrace never wanted autonomy. And the flag in the video is created by Turkish islamist that want to create problems. It's obvious that this video was not created after a serious research!
for your information: between the month of March and August of 1796, (after the fall of the Most Serene Republic of Venice and before the foundation of the Cisalpine republic, very faithful to Napoleon Bonaparte, the REPUBLIC OF MARTINENGO (Lombardy, province of Bergamo) was proclaimed the goal was the independence of the sovereign people from the dominant city of Bergamo, the colors of the flag were golden yellow and blood red, with a red eagle on a gold field, Napoleon deemed it sufficient to allocate Martinengo as district chief of the Lower Plain which is part of the newly established Cisalpine Republic, comprising a large part of the Po Valley.
Great video, I like what you do, but you have missed an unrecognised country, and that's also in the Republic Of Moldova, it's called Transnistria. Greetings from Moldova!
You didn’t include Russia on the map of Europe, geographically Europe ends at the Ural Mountains, and it’s always been this way, also a part of turkey is European.
@@nikolasavic140 not only istanbul. there are 4 cities in european continent in Turkey. they are : Edirne(adrianopolis) , kırklareli , Tekirdağ , and İstanbul. besides , a city called Çanakkale(Dardanelles) has a part in European continent) so totally Turkey has 5 cities in European Continent.
You really should use appropriate map at 5:55. Lithuania had different eastern border at the time and ultimately republic look diferently. It's a really funny story as well ;)
5:45 I would appreciate if you would use the appropriate name and flag depending on the period you refer to . It was not Germany as it is today. It was the Weimar Republic. It might not be important to you, but for todays Germans it is Because were different political times and thoughts that led to WW1 and espacially WW2. It was not the Federal Republic of Germany and not this Flag that are started those wars! And I think it is not fair to use the terms. I hope you can understand that this is a bit upsetting. But besides that. Great Vid!
Dirk Eickholt Germany from 1919-1933 was not actually the Weimar Republic. What I mean by this is that, “Weimar Republic” was the common unofficial name for Germany at that time. The official name of Germany at that time was the German Reich. Plus there wasn’t a different flag. Do you mean the C-Pennant? Germany was still united at that time, and it was a different regime from the nationalsozialist and imperial ones, so wouldn’t it still have the same German flag?
Uups . Mixed it up with the flag of the Deutsches Kaiserreich (till 1918 and the first part of the German Reich). Then the Flag ( of the Weimarer Republik ( 2nd part of the German Reich)) is correct. So it is not Germany.
There's no rebuplic of Conaught. Wexford was declared a republic in May 1798 by Bagnal Harvey. The Republic ended with his execution by crown forces later that year.
There is a huge dispute in Romania between the romanians and the hungarians in the two counties Covasna and Harghita. They are fighting for independence, but the government won’t allow it. Also the stosrt of how Transilvania became a part of Romania is an interesting one.
Actually, some of the Cossack remnants fought alongside germans on the eastern front against USSR. If they got captured, though, they were executed on the spot.
How about the principality of sealand? Its an old sea fort off the coast of the uk that declared its independence, it has passports and currency and most of its income comes from running a data haven
@@General.Knowledge The spanish republic army was going to all the diferent cantones to repress the uprising, so a group of garrison volunteers were going to hoist the red flag, symbol of cantonal movement, but there was no red flag in the city so they took a similar thing. The Otoman flag was there after war booty from the battle of Lepanto. Even though there is a legend saying that this never happened argued with a letter from a soldier years later, but a telegram was indeed sent from a ship that same day with a clear reference to a Turkish flag (“El castillo de Galeras ha enarbolado la bandera turca”)("Galeras Castle has hoisted the Turkish flag")
Russian Karelia is pretty much indistinguishable from rest if Russia today. Even the parts conquered from Finland in WW2. Minorities in Russia have always had their enormous challenge preserving language and culture.
The Gagauz don't speak Turkish as their mother tongue, they have their own language called gagauz, which is a Turkic language indeed - but not Turkish.
gagauzian and turkish languages are 100% same language. the only difference is some pronounciation styles. gagauzians are oghuz turks same like Turkey Turks. only difference they are orthodox christian , Turkey Turks are (mostly) muslim or alevite or nonteists... gagauzian Turks and Qırım(crimea) Turks speaks Anatolian Mouth Turkish.
You missed out Moresnet/Amikejo. From 1816 to 1920 this small triangle (1.4 square miles) lay between Belgium and Germany. In 1908 it became 'The Place of Friendship' and its official language was Esperanto, the international language. From 1914 it was part of the front line of fighting after which Belgium gobbled it up.
So uh Transnistria, Northern Cyprus, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Bavarian Soviet Republic/People's state of Bavaria, Artsakh, Republika Srpska (among the hundreds of other Balkan nations) Novorossiya, Donetsk people's Republic, and Catalonia are going to be on the next one right?
Like the video. I'm Irish and didn't know that connacht declared a republic. during that reblion county wexford was the other main area for reblion. wexford also declared a short lived republic.
"America" is weird to say since that is normally taken by the United States to refer to their citizens/themselves. Normally people pluralise and say 'the Americas' when referring to North and South America.
I mean yeah... except that 'people' most likely translates to native English speakers and "normally" really just means the modern Anglocentric standard interpretation of it. There are many people out there, as we speak, for whom "America = Area where all things 'America' are located" makes more sense.
My home island in Greece ikaria kicked out the ottomans on our own and we were independent state for three months with our own flag and postnotes before we joined Greece.
I got one for you . The republic of miredita in albania , only lasted from July to august 1921. North Albanian catholic tribesmen declared independence from albania
Ok SORRY THE MAP IN THE BEGINNING IS MISSING UKRAINE AND BELARUS, I didn't notice at the time!
They are obviously also part of Europe!
Also let me know of country/video suggestions below!
There is also a part of Greece missing, the peloponnese. It's just under Athens
And what about Russia and Eastern Thrace? They're also definitely part of Europe!
Arthur Le Toquin YEA I WAS GOING TO COMMENT THAT!!!,,,,!,!,,!,!
Moldova is also missing.
*Russia also a part of Europe! Learn geography man*
0:11 Not drawing Belarus and Ukraine as part of Europe...brave
*Europe
Europe is kind of a weird continent, as there's much disagreement on where its borders lie. Hell, some people include bloody Turkey and leave Russia out lmfao
Brave...
hey look at me im one of those 12 people who downvoted the video!
Russians aren't European, there just Russian lol
@@danielimmortuos666 They're both in
I thought he'd be talking about modern countries, not dead nations from the past...
same
I can do a video where I talk about modern ones! But I feel like there aren't many unrecognized countries these days, most independence movements tend to either succeed or disappear/lose strenght. Do you have any suggestions?
@@General.Knowledge Crimea, Donbass, South Ossetia, Nagorno Kabrah (probably spelled wrong). You have 2 more in Ukraine. Also Liberland, altough it dissapeared fast.
Edit: you also had "Srpska Krajna" from 1991-1995 and Republic Srbska in Bosnia that started in 1992
@@General.Knowledge Also, Chechnya and some other Caucasian Movements would be interesting.
There aren't any except for Transnistria.
In Russia there’s people who believe the USSR never dissolved, so technically the USSR is an unrecognized nation.
My United States of Soviet Russia will live forever
For real?
Lenin our savior That’s not what “USSR” means. It means “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”
@@Bynasf 🤣
Kyle Schlosser I never wanted that name, Stalin is the biggest traitor
These countries aren't unrecognized, they just don't exist anymore.
They were unrecognized during their existence.
What is indeed recognized is how dumb you are
@@ap6480 who is dumb?
@@danielcunningham648 i guess we will never know my friend
The Irish Republic (Connacht) was literally recognised by their ally France.
5:51
Says Soviet Union
Shows flag of Russian Federation
sorry just a small nit-pick
Bold of you to assume that was a mistake
@@xsellepoch9954 in what scenario would he intentionally do that lol?
@@leifkhas7425 To mock the power of the communist party with his sociodemocratic capitalist propaganda
*SOVIET ANTHEM INTENSIFIES*
actually it's also a flag of the Russian Empire and although the revolution occured in 1917, the flag was still valid in the beginning of 1918, so during that period (1918-1923) both flags were in use
The Principality of Sealand off the coast of Britain. Has a really interesting story.
Yeah but too mainstream. These ones are less known
There's the island of Zealand between Denmark & Sweden.
Isn’t that an oil platform?
Want movie about it!!!!
@@JimmiAlli Yes, it startend as a joke and now it turns out be something funny if it would happen
what about transnistria thats like the most interesting one of them all
Lol
Nah its just stalinist ussr reincarnation and its not unrecognised but most ppl dont know about it it is acctually independent country
@@veljkozivanovic7210 Russian Dependency* Russia's Gov is a joke,still communist in sort of views. Transnistria is just a joke of soviet state and will never be an independent country And this comment comes from a Romanian
@Connor Phillips So was the Soviet Union after death of Stalin with some exceptions.What s your point?
Transnistria is probably the most of a country from them all at the moment
11:30 thank you so much for mentioning this! i live in Karelia and there is much more information you can find about the republic in the libraries of any city or town. my family was all Russian but fought for the Finns against the Soviets.
My grandfather's family was from Karelia, but had to escape in 1941
I wish you guys were independent, would be a new nordic brother :)
I want Kariela go be a
It’s own country
0:14
Why is Iceland so sad?
:(
Because it's very cold up there
Because they have to use an app before sleeping with anyone, they might be related.
@@Nearthel c'mon, it's not that bad
Because they fell lonely, look at the map....
I love living in Europe. I didn’t know there were so many unrecognised nations here!
Me either
I live in the US and I want to move to either Wales or Norway. Any other places that are good?
@@0cean6422_ norway.. its the best place to live in the world.. its even ranked the best place to live in the world 12 times in a row :D
@@0cean6422_ Every place in Europe has its benefits.
Never expected that you would talk about the Cantón or Cartagena, it's such an interesting time in history of my city :)
And yes, the history of the cantonal flag it's true
We also declared war to the germans, and ask for de americans to join them as a new state wtf
my neigborhood in Lisboa declared himself independent
which one?
Rei da traulitania?
@@marinarosario8855 nah rei de tugal
Qual Bairro então?
Then declare him dead....
Limerick in Ireland declared an independent Soviet that lasted a few weeks in the 1920's I think it was. They issued their own currency too. I don't know much about it apart from that.
man you could hear the struggle in his voice when he was pronouncing those Lithuanian words
lmao
He even says Lithuania weirdly. LitHUAnia haha in my language it's Litvánia
i am itself lithuanian
Yes lithuanian brothers we rise
tbf portuguese and lithuania dont have simlair languages so it makes sense
btw for those confused at the part that he said : "i'm totally not biased here"
yeah hes from portugal.
:-D :-D :-D
Portugues
You can mention the Carpatho-Ukraine. A country that became "independent" after the annexation of Czechia by the Third Reich. It was conquered by the hungarians a few days later though.
I declared my home property independent.
Will I now also be featured in a video?
Yes
Wait about 200 years and he’ll consider it
no
@David Eerikki did you miss the joke
@David a joke doesn't have to make literal sense
I always find your videos very educational and well researched. You're awesome.
4:13 west Thrace had government in the times of Balkan Wars and Territorial divisions. Soon western Thrace was ceded to Bulgaria and after WWI was given to Greece.
Edit: When First Balkan war ended Everything that was got from Ottomans wasn’t divided yet. After treaty of London and Conference in Russia Bulgaria lost south Dobrudja and from Komotini- Kavala to Midia- Enos was for Bulgaria. But after second Balkan war Only Alexandropolis region was ceded for Bulgaria
There was also another short lived republic in Ireland, the Limerick Soviet when the workers of Limerick took over the city of Limerick for a brief period in 1919 just as the Irish war of independence was starting. They also had their own currency, but the British eventually suppressed it. It is said to be the first soviet outside Russia or Mongolia.
Great Work GK!! Irish man myself, from County Galway (The largest in Connacht or Connaught). Thanks for bringing light to the short lived Republic and the noble efforts of Wolfe Tone and co. A great piece of history to learn. Also, don't be afraid with the words, their not stretched or strained in anyway. E.g Bal-ina-muck, Con-nuct. But great job overall, happy to help if you need anything from Éire!!
Am I the only one who read that in a Galway accent and cant stop laughing?
@@SpectreofEurope21 I nearly laugh saying the feckin words!
Thanks!
Well... talk about the Banat Republic from 1918-1919.
No One Cares about that
@CipiRipi00 no, but no one else Cares about that banana republic or whatever
@CipiRipi00 yeah, than tell me what importance does this banat republic have to the history of the world?Am I supposed to know a country that a total of 40 people know in the entire world?and im not even american smartass
@CipiRipi00 and you're a dumbass if you dont understand that "a total of 40 people in the entire world know" is an expression, if we were talking about i dunno maybe Portugal or Andorra or Nigeria or Thailand, and I didnt knew about those countries than it would be reason to be ashamed, but RN if you go to the streets of any country in the world and ask about the banat republic nobody will know, thats if you have the social capabilities to do something other than shittalking,of course. That isnt even learn in the schools, it isnt part of essential/important knowledge, so its at least nonsensical to judge a person just bcz that person doesnt know about something meaningless, like the existence of that banat republic.
5:55 You gonna catch some hands for that Russian flag in Latvian territory.
Cuz its in 1918
@@gamestutorials8922 it showed period of 1918-1923. Latvia gained independence in 1918 november.Although it still conflicts and powers struggle with Germany and Russia(or Solvet Union). It was done by 1920s.
In Croatia the village of Petrijevci near Osijek was also a country(unrecognised) around the swamps there but was later incorporated into Yugoslavia in 1919.
You know you’re early when there’s no comment from Avery the Cuban-american.
Kim Jong-un is secretly Avery the Cuban-American in disguise
*He's here*
IKR shes everywhere....
odo Who?
Clear off racist
There was a short Independence of the Faroe Islands, but the danish King called the vote that let to the Independence illegal and desolved their parlament
😂😂😂 He was like :"Ok kids you havd had enough fun go to sleep now...."
Neutral Moreset (not certain I'm spelling it correctly). It used to form a 4-point country border with Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany.
Transnistria cannot go unmentioned, especially as you named Gagauzia in Moldova (not Moldavia, which is a part of Romania).
The Republic of Transnistria !
And in France :
Brittany
Basque Country
Corsica
Alsace Lorraine
Savoy
(These aren't really unrecognized but have quite interesting pro independance stories through history, like the Faeroe Islands, Scotland, the Duchy of Normandy or Burgundy)
You could also explain how places like Luxembourg or Liechtenstein became independant unlike most of the small kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire and so on
@Drom Assault Andorra.
#Pridnestrovia
N’importe quoi, je suis savoyard et personne ne veux l’indépendance ici en Bretagne seulement 18% et en Corse 11% pareil en Alsace Lorraine. Vérifie tes sources avant de raconter des âneries !
@Drom Assault Basque Country is IN Spain.
also transnistria isnt a country
Värmland Republic in Sweden. They have their own passport etc. Though the republic is not recognized by the Swedish government, f.ex. their passport is recognized by the local Norwegian border guards.
I live in Lithuania and I didn't know about this republic, it's so cool! :D
Cornwall (UK) also has one of 3 oldest parliaments in world, stannary law still extant,
2:00 Fun fact. After his body was discovered in the 1960s, long after he died he was given a state funeral.
Some people here in the comments section were debating the limits of Europe. Here's my opinion:
To the south-east, the Bosphorus river marks the frontier, thus making Turkey partially European. To the east, the Ural mountain range, the Ural river and the Caucassus mountains mark the frontier, making Russia also partially European (only a small fraction of its land extension but around 70% of its population).
Hearing you pronounce connacht and ballinamuck made my day
I had no idea Connaught was an unrecognised country but omg how he said it “CoNoct” I was dying with laughter.
How do you say it?
Conuct
The way he said ballinamuck was far far worse
> Draws Europe
> Drawing has no Russia [European part], Ukraine nor Belarus
Me: OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU!
HIM: NANI?!
Poland's lonely
Wanna drink Vodka?
Lol just kiding
If you're talking about history you should have included the Limerick Soviet which setup in Limerick city, Ireland
You could do an entire video on the 'Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus'. Unlike those on this list, it is an unrecognized state that exists today.
Technically the entire Cyprus is in Western Asia or to be specific, the Middle East. So both the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Republic of Cyprus are also in Asia too. Also the TRNC is only recognised by Turkey, making it the one of three limited recognised nations in (political) Europe along with Kosovo and South Ossetia. Cyprus is politically in Europe, but geographically in Asia.
This isn't a unrecognised country, because it isn't a country. The only legal state on this island is Republic of Cyprus. They are independent citizens and they have their own government. On the other hand Northern Cyprus is part of Turkish Republic, after the Turkish invasion in 1974. Turkey found this pseudo-state and the Turkish government decides about their luck.
@@AlaniariSs7Althoigh it is supported by it financially, TRNC is not part of the Turkish Republic. It is a seperate state. I would know. I live there. It has its own government and an entirely separate lwgal system and constitution.
@@karmababy5077 Have they only financially support from Turkey? Hahaha very nice joke!
Educationally? Medical?
The pseudo-state of Northern Cyprus is heavily (almost completely) dependent on Turkey for economic, political and military support. In October 2013, CIA published "The CIA World Factbook 2014" and said "The Turkish Cypriots are heavily dependent on transfers from the Turkish Government. Ankara directly finances about one-third of the Turkish Cypriot "administration's" budget.". So how it's possible one state to be independent when another country directly finances the one-third of its administration budget? How it's possible one state to be independent when another country has 30-40k troops and state's officer's corps are drawn from this country?
Due to Northern Cyprus's isolation and heavy reliance on Turkish support, Turkey has a high level of influence over the country's politics. That's why Northern Cyprus is an effective puppet state of Turkey!
@@AlaniariSs7It is financially dependent on Turkey because on an international embargo. The majority of Turkish Cypriots don't want any dependence on Turkey. Nothing I have stated is factually incorrect, no matter what you or any other Greek Nationalist who has never actually been in TRNC has to say about the issue.
Any long gone unrecognised countries in Ireland and I thought it would have been the Limerick Soviet. Sprouted around 1919 and even had their own currency, but only lasted a few weeks
I decleare my house an indipendent country!
Hold on guys, someone is knocking on my front door.
It’s the british
“Knock knock, it’s the British baby”
Dont let them in they dont have a visa xd
No quite as simple as that, unfortunately. :-) Here's a video I made on what makes a state: ruclips.net/video/VTX6gws9Nj8/видео.html
Good move. Downside is that you cannot go to Walmart without a visa issued by the US State Dept.
On the 27th June 1931 there was the proclamation, in Ourense, of the Republic of Galicia. and Alonso Rios was proclaimed President of the Junta Revolucionária of the Republic of Galicia. This movement of independence of Galicia, however, lasted only one day, and on the 28th the Galician Republic was dissolved.
Do ones in russia alone . There should be plenty of them unrecognized or cease to exist
Good idea!
@@General.Knowledge Tannu Tavu. O.K. It's in Asia, but stamp collectors have postage stamps which come from there. Richard Feynman wanted to visit the country, but the visa arrived after he died.
@RWBHere Tanna tuva was recognized though
Cartagena? There's a city in Colombia also called Cartagena. A French Ireland, the French wants some potatoes to go with their baguettes
That one's actually officially called Cartagena de Indias. I have a friend from there
Btw I knew I'd find you here
There are a lot of Cartagena's, Cordoba's etc in latin america because of colonialism.
Avery: why are you on every YT video? :0
Also Cartagena comes from Phoenician word meaning new city (i. e. Carthage)
Carthage or Carthago is only the romanization however, the punic writing is closer to Qart-Hadasht.
There is also Transnistria. It’s a little territory right next to Moldova.
in moldova
Actually, that's like an independent city. That is Moldova, but they consider themselves "AnOtHeR cOuNtRy"
@@marius8333 And east of Gagauzia
After WWI there had been a „Freistaat Flaschenhals“ in the Middlerhine reginon of Germany. It was a unclaimed part of Germany that neither the US nor France occupied after the end of WWI. Freistaat Flaschenhals is translated in Republic Bottleneck which comes from the shape of the piece of land, but also remembers the a lot of wine is grown in the areas. The republic existed from 1919 to 1923. More you can find here de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freistaat_Flaschenhals
In The Netherlands we have Friesland (Frysia) in the north with their own recognized language and Limburg (where I am from) in the south which also has their own language but that was recognized as a regional minority language. Of Frysia I don't know a lot, only that there is a East-Frysia in Germany and that they were descendants of the Frisii. Of Limburg however I know a bit more. The Duchy of Limburg wasa state of the Holy Roman Empire and was located in nowadays Liege (Belgium). Later they became part of the Burgundian Netherlands (one of the seventeen provinces). In 1793 French revolutionary troops occupied the land and terminated the duchy. From 1815 till 1830 Limburg belonged to Great Britain, then with the independence of Belgium it became part of Belgium and with the treaty of London singed by Willem I, Limburg was split in two between Belgium and The Netherlands. Untill 1866 Duchy Limburg was part of the German Confederation. The Netherlands was in the possesion of the Duchy of Limburg and with the second treaty of London it became a province of The Netherlands. The Limburgish language is spoken by over more than 2 million people today. In a Dutch newspaper of march this year (when Frysian was recognised as an official language and Limburgish as an regional minority language) it says that from data from a research 30% of the native Frysian speakers still speak the language at home, where 45% of the Limburgish speakers speak the language at home.
Sorry for the long comment, just want you to have some information about it
I live in Friesland and as far as I know Frys is a dialect, not a language.
I'm Irish. From Dublin. And I never heard of the Republic Of Connacht.
'The mine is ours' is actually an incredibly clever motto for a socialist or communist mining country when taking the English translation into account considering mine means both physical mines and something belonging to one person.
A very nice review of a lot of forgotten would-be and almost countries.
0:19 Russia, Cyprus, Malta, Georgia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan:Are we joke to you?!
Kosovo?
Yea, Turkey and Azerbaijan have land in both continents, but Georgia IS in europe
DId not expected to see the "Monarquia do Norte"! After the Republican Revolution of 1910, that brought an almost 800 years Monarchy to its end in Portugal, Monarchist forces tried to bring down the Republic a couple of times. Exactly one year after the Revolution came to place the first attempt, then another one with some more intensity, all of them in the North. But the 1919 movement was the most significant one, and they didn't only took control of Porto, but almost the whole of the North (thus the Monarchy of the North, as it is commonly known). Remember that Portugal joined the Allied in World War One, then came the "Spanish Flu", our First Republic was a mess, so, fertile ground for revolts.
Kingdom of "Traulitania" is a hilarious cool nickname. "Trauliteiros" and "traulitada" is a funny folksy way to refer to a hit, as in someone or something hitting another person or another thing. It seems that those who supported the coup liked to persuade others to join in or to not oppose, with a good pair of... "traulitadas". 😆
You should mention the Republic of Ossola in the next video. It lasted for 44 days but it's quite an interesting story. Was officially recognised by Switzerland.
All Italian partisan republics are interesting
The Bavarian Soviet Republic was another unrecognised state declared during the German Revolution of 1918-19. I think the name is cool.
Transnistria in Moldavia and Åsen Republic in Sweden :)
Hvor er Åsen Republik hen?
@@danielsolberg1638 Jag tror det är i Värmland. Vi säger ofta "värmlandsrepubliken"
After the Greeks took west Thrace, they forcefully relocated the Bulgarians that lived in the region. My great grandmother took her son and 8 other orphans and crossed the border taking them 500km north. No one ever knew who of the 9 boys was her biological son she payed for their education and bought each one land. She has 9 grand daughters named after her and now my daughter carries her name too.
Sealand best country my dude trust me
Hi from Karelia, really good video!
Do you speak Karelian?
The way he says Connacht is killing me
Lol me too. My dad is from Mayo and if he saw this he would be pissed haha
He's tryna, bless him
In fairness if you’re not Irish then it’s a difficult name to pronounce. Listening to rugby commentary when Connacht are playing a foreign team can be a laugh as well.
Uhtua is also pronouced wrong but to be fair Finnish is gibberish to spell if you aren't from Finland
That thing the bear holds on the coat of arms of Uhtua is not a sword - it's a billhook which (although can be used as such) is not a weapon but an agricultural/forestry tool.
There is 0 chance of western Thrace I live in Greece and Noone has even thought of such thing and in that part of Thrace 90% of people who live there are Greek Christian so I don't think they would want such thing especially with the recent conflicts in the area with turkey on the border
The same thing as the region of Macedonia, ew? After you guys annexed it you moved greek people there and forbit everything to the macedonian people and made them assimilate. Now you dare to say that that region is rightfully yours and not macedonian... Pff!
@@martinkirovski2970 North Macedonia has nothing to do with the Greek region of Macedonia
What about currect ones,such as Transistria,Catalona or North Cyprus,tons of unrecognized republics that declared their independence in wake of Yugoslavia break up such as Kraina,West Bosnia,Republic Serpska,Herceg Bosnia etc.And some of Russian republics such as Tartarstan and Chechnia...
I am from Lithuainia and i never heard about Perloja
Same
@@sufera2070 tu lietuvis jo?
Jo
@@sufera2070 nu malonu lol
Don't feel bad. I am Greek and reassure you that Thrace never wanted autonomy. And the flag in the video is created by Turkish islamist that want to create problems.
It's obvious that this video was not created after a serious research!
for your information:
between the month of March and August of 1796, (after the fall of the Most Serene Republic of Venice and before the foundation of the Cisalpine republic, very faithful to Napoleon Bonaparte, the REPUBLIC OF MARTINENGO (Lombardy, province of Bergamo) was proclaimed the goal was the independence of the sovereign people from the dominant city of Bergamo, the colors of the flag were golden yellow and blood red, with a red eagle on a gold field, Napoleon deemed it sufficient to allocate Martinengo as district chief of the Lower Plain which is part of the newly established Cisalpine Republic, comprising a large part of the Po Valley.
Great video, I like what you do, but you have missed an unrecognised country, and that's also in the Republic Of Moldova, it's called Transnistria.
Greetings from Moldova!
Yes
În sfârșit cineva din Moldova! Văd gen:
"Write I love you in your language" și acolo gen "Te iubes, România
There was a hungarian separatist state named Lajtabánság. It has a pretty interesting story, you should cover that too
November 2019- unrecognized countries in Europe.
March 2020- unrecognizable coubtries in Europe.
You didn’t include Russia on the map of Europe, geographically Europe ends at the Ural Mountains, and it’s always been this way, also a part of turkey is European.
Only Istanbul
@@nikolasavic140 not only istanbul. there are 4 cities in european continent in Turkey. they are : Edirne(adrianopolis) , kırklareli , Tekirdağ , and İstanbul. besides , a city called Çanakkale(Dardanelles) has a part in European continent) so totally Turkey has 5 cities in European Continent.
3% of Turkey is in Europe.
Georgia and the westernmost part of kazakhstan are also european
You really should use appropriate map at 5:55.
Lithuania had different eastern border at the time and ultimately republic look diferently.
It's a really funny story as well ;)
5:45 I would appreciate if you would use the appropriate name and flag depending on the period you refer to . It was not Germany as it is today. It was the Weimar Republic. It might not be important to you, but for todays Germans it is Because were different political times and thoughts that led to WW1 and espacially WW2. It was not the Federal Republic of Germany and not this Flag that are started those wars!
And I think it is not fair to use the terms. I hope you can understand that this is a bit upsetting.
But besides that. Great Vid!
Dirk Eickholt Germany from 1919-1933 was not actually the Weimar Republic. What I mean by this is that, “Weimar Republic” was the common unofficial name for Germany at that time. The official name of Germany at that time was the German Reich. Plus there wasn’t a different flag. Do you mean the C-Pennant? Germany was still united at that time, and it was a different regime from the nationalsozialist and imperial ones, so wouldn’t it still have the same German flag?
DontFeedMe Mentoes someone got their facts right
Uups . Mixed it up with the flag of the Deutsches Kaiserreich (till 1918 and the first part of the German Reich).
Then the Flag ( of the Weimarer Republik ( 2nd part of the German Reich)) is correct. So it is not Germany.
There's no rebuplic of Conaught. Wexford was declared a republic in May 1798 by Bagnal Harvey. The Republic ended with his execution by crown forces later that year.
Norrland . Republic of Jämtland . Province in Sweden
😂😂😂😂😂
Dere får bare ha skogen for dere selv. Husk å ta vare på Samene da
There is a huge dispute in Romania between the romanians and the hungarians in the two counties Covasna and Harghita. They are fighting for independence, but the government won’t allow it. Also the stosrt of how Transilvania became a part of Romania is an interesting one.
As an Irish person and I saw the first one, I was like wtf. But then I saw 1798.
I saw it in the thumbnail too and I was like wtf what? I'm pretty sure Connacht isn't gonna declare independence anytime soon?😂
@@RazvanMaioru ikr
@@RazvanMaioru im from Cork tho so I'm good :)
Actually, some of the Cossack remnants fought alongside germans on the eastern front against USSR. If they got captured, though, they were executed on the spot.
The Limerick soviet during the irish war of independence in 1919
@Liam C QED.
I'm irish, what are you talking about
crashing down it was a self declared Soviet by the labout council of the area.
How about the principality of sealand? Its an old sea fort off the coast of the uk that declared its independence, it has passports and currency and most of its income comes from running a data haven
the story about the flag of the cantón de cartagena is true
Cool! Why was there an Ottoman flag in a Spanish Castle though?
@@General.Knowledge The spanish republic army was going to all the diferent cantones to repress the uprising, so a group of garrison volunteers were going to hoist the red flag, symbol of cantonal movement, but there was no red flag in the city so they took a similar thing.
The Otoman flag was there after war booty from the battle of Lepanto.
Even though there is a legend saying that this never happened argued with a letter from a soldier years later, but a telegram was indeed sent from a ship that same day with a clear reference to a Turkish flag (“El castillo de Galeras ha enarbolado la bandera turca”)("Galeras Castle has hoisted the Turkish flag")
Amazing video! Please do the missing countries in another video too though!!!
You should check the Republic of Prekmurje or Murska republika, it existed for one week or so
Russian Karelia is pretty much indistinguishable from rest if Russia today. Even the parts conquered from Finland in WW2. Minorities in Russia have always had their enormous challenge preserving language and culture.
The Gagauz don't speak Turkish as their mother tongue, they have their own language called gagauz, which is a Turkic language indeed - but not Turkish.
gagauzian and turkish languages are 100% same language. the only difference is some pronounciation styles. gagauzians are oghuz turks same like Turkey Turks. only difference they are orthodox christian , Turkey Turks are (mostly) muslim or alevite or nonteists...
gagauzian Turks and Qırım(crimea) Turks speaks Anatolian Mouth Turkish.
You missed out Moresnet/Amikejo. From 1816 to 1920 this small triangle (1.4 square miles) lay between Belgium and Germany. In 1908 it became 'The Place of Friendship' and its official language was Esperanto, the international language. From 1914 it was part of the front line of fighting after which Belgium gobbled it up.
You forgot about the...
*GLORIOUS EMPIRE OF SEALAND*
I'm Irish and I'd never heard of the Republic of Connacht. Cool. Also tells you a bit of how well history is taught here.
Same, you’d think 1,000 French troops in Ireland would be more worthy.
12:32 You got a lot to learn boi
There is an unrecognised country in the east Midlands of England just above Leicester called Beanbolshland apparently
Missed out on Subcarpathian Ruthenia
Correction Greece got it by ww1 not by second balkán war
May I suggest including the autonomous Monastic peninsula of Mount Athos in Greece?
The republic of North-ingria.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ingria
So uh
Transnistria, Northern Cyprus, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Bavarian Soviet Republic/People's state of Bavaria, Artsakh, Republika Srpska (among the hundreds of other Balkan nations) Novorossiya, Donetsk people's Republic, and Catalonia are going to be on the next one right?
Luftwaffles _ *Transnistria
@@backupacc6029 corrected
And northern epirus
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Cameria
@@perperius4714 Kosova is independent 🇽🇰🇦🇱
There was a independent wackersdorf in germany once because of protest about a nuclear facility
Like the video. I'm Irish and didn't know that connacht declared a republic. during that reblion county wexford was the other main area for reblion. wexford also declared a short lived republic.
jimmy jordan cork is the rebel county
Wow as a history buff I was shocked not to have heard of these states! Thank you very interesting.
I am pretty sure Ukraine, Belarus and a big chunk of Russia (and small chunk of Kazakhstan) are also part of Europe
they are
Definetly they are!
"America" is weird to say since that is normally taken by the United States to refer to their citizens/themselves. Normally people pluralise and say 'the Americas' when referring to North and South America.
I mean yeah... except that 'people' most likely translates to native English speakers and "normally" really just means the modern Anglocentric standard interpretation of it.
There are many people out there, as we speak, for whom "America = Area where all things 'America' are located" makes more sense.
@@quidam_surprise WTF are you even blabbering on about. What a nonsensical reply.
My home island in Greece ikaria kicked out the ottomans on our own and we were independent state for three months with our own flag and postnotes before we joined Greece.
strong folks, i guess you heard of the "Ikaria Study"
I got one for you . The republic of miredita in albania , only lasted from July to august 1921. North Albanian catholic tribesmen declared independence from albania
Think u missed kosovo