@MaxTracy-lb8lc Rome is England They were borned on Italian lands just like Italy so it's basicly Italy Kievan Rus isn't Ukraine or Belarus or Russia because the people which created Kievan Rus came from Scandinavia and that was actually vikings means it was Sweden
Interesting video, no doubt! From a historians perspective - as already mentioned in the comment section - it’s difficult to compare these current nation: (1) there’s a difference between modern Italy and the Roman Empire in terms of culture, language, religion. I would have shown only the territories, modern Italy has ever occupied; (2) where to draw the line between real incorporated territories and for example personal unions: medieval understanding of a “state” (by a monarch’s realm) is very different from the modern definition of a national territorial state (beginning in the 16th century); (3) duration of the occupation: there’s a difference between territories only occupied for months or even days (as the German holdings in Russia during WWII) and territories that where heavily influenced by the occupant (e.g. Spain holding the throne of Naples). But again: just some thoughts of me, still great to see people’s interest in history!
This exactly. It's like in a boxing mach - you have to at least count to 10 to claim a win, if your opponent quickly resumed a fight, it's like nothing happened.
By the way, in the video they showed only the territories of Roman Empire for Italy, but during the last century we also occupied Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Libya, Dodecanese and Tientsin.
This and as an Norwegian 5:30 then did UK occupy Norway? And its modern Norway, with current borders, Like Sweden as it was up to 1905, but Finland does not have the northern parts as it was earlier and area was not ruled by countries. My guess it was an technical term after German forces in Norway capitulating at end of WW 2 Norway was under the UK occupation zone for a week or two before Norwegian government took over even if disarmament was done by Norwegian forces.
@@shazamnegroid7379 I dont know what bizzare alternate reality you are from, but nothing remotely close to that ever happened. It's far more likely that the video is referring to the castle of Corycus held by the Lusignan kingdom of cyprus in the 14th century I would love a source for this alleged invasion you mention though
Belgium is understandable, what they look like now is the biggest they've ever been (not including Congo). But yes, Bulgaria was massive, and not just once, but twice.
@@Vincent-jq6vx Belgium occupied the territory, they didn't annex it. It was never part of Belgium. And unless I'm missing some part of history, back when Limburg was whole Belgium didn't exist, it was part of the Netherlands then.
Be aware that only the countries that are currently independent states appear in the video. Therefore many nations are hidden under the name of the current states. By the way, some states are missing: Bulgaria, Bosnia&Herzegovina,...
Most of these countries merged with the current country or are just the sucesor of that country. Now days almost every european country isnt occupied and the ones who are in this list includes their original extention
Are we talking about the UK, because it is not since the days of The Roman Empire that the French have hidden populations. You could make the case for Germany because of its Prussian past, which was not the whole of what became the Germany of 1871-1919. Why is there a chunk of land under Turkey with the German flag on it, Ottoman's were in control of that area for 400+ years.
@@jrus690 your comment makes no sense. Either way, I don't see a part of turkey during the German extension. Syria was most likely during the crusades (France has a similar extension in syria) And claiming that the Holy Roman Empire isn't German would be like claiming the Ottoman Empire isn't turk. Just stupid. The Byzantine empire is trickier, could be Roman or Greek. Or both. Also I'd put Alexander as Macedonian, not greek. The video added him to the Greeks. Another tricky thing is Poland-Lithuania or Auatria-Hungary or the Frankish empire, which was both German and french.
most of that isnt from colonialism, its from military occuptaion e.g spain and portugal refers to the napoleonic wars where the kings of spain and portugal fled their countries and left partisans +the british to do all the work.
@@mappingshaman5280 the Kings of Spain were captured by Napoleon. And the partisans did a lot. I even think that Napoleon himself recognized that his defeat started against the spanish's guerrillas. All that, without despise for the British participation which was crucial.
@@oriolcampsperez3170 I don’t think any British dispute this. It’s mostly due to people accidentally overstating involvement in an effort for making sure it’s not forgotten in the first place A few notable examples: - Korean Civil War = seen as a US war vs USSR, when in reality the overwhelming majority of southern fighters were Korean and overwhelming majority of northern fighters were Chinese - North African campaign = Axis often represented as Germany/Rommel even though Italy were the majority - Gallipoli = Allies often represented as ANZAC despite their very small numbers compared to French, British, Indian etc.
If we're counting Personal Unions, Poland should also have the former Kingdom of Sweden, since it already has Hungary, Saxony and Bari. Sweden was a junior partner in a Polish-Lithuanian-Swedish Union with the king - Sigismund Vasa being the King of Poland first, and King of Sweden second. Poland also had a lot more lands occupied in Russia, most notably the city of Pskov, with polish raiding parties going as far as the river Ob deep within Siberia, where we have accounts of polish soldiers encountering "strange golden statues of chubby women" (most likely buddah statues). Also a small nitpick - at one point the crimean city of Kaffa pledged loyalty to the Kingdom of Poland, It's not shown on the map, however it is more of a nuisance anyway.
@Adolf Meyer first major democracy? Are you just going to pretend ancient Greece and the Roman Republic didn't exist? Not to mention the duchy of Novgorod, a democratic republic formed in the early medieval times, centuries before PLC
1:48 Germany 4:18 Russia 3:56 Poland 2:25 Italy 5:26 United Kingdom aka Great Britain 5:34 Ukraine 1:33 France 5:19 Turkey Edit: I started a massive war
@@reneshm Italy wasn't Italy but the Roman empire though. France and Germany are in direct line of succession of the states that occupied these territories, Italy isn't.
And Jever(Napoleonic era) and Schleswig-Holstein(while Peter the 3. and Catherine the Great) in Germany and the Ionian Islands(Greece, Napoleonic era) had Russia
Really good video! I would've liked for countries like France or UK to show all the territories around the world they've had but I guess that would make it harder
@@norwaydude4798 You should learn what third world means. Really. It's a term that was born during the cold war to designate countries that weren't aligned with the western or eastern blocks. so... during decolonisation. Nobody colonized the third world countries.
By the way, there are some errors in the video. Russia, Sweden and Crimea are missing when specifying the by the Polish empire mastered territories. In addition, the dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
@@janni_03 lmao they were ambushed in the woods, where you can not deploy your formation, by a filthy traitor, who was later killed by it's own people. And then Germanicus came to get revenge and he did.
Interestingly (3:57) you can see a few personal union ones, but not all of them I miss the Polish-French union and the Polish-Swedish union. For example, Henry III Valois will still be king of Polish he crowned himself king of France. A similar situation Sigismund III Vasa King Polish was elected King of Sweden.
To be fair henry III did left everyone in poland when hé was about to be crowned king of France, leaving the polish throne vacant, so by the Time he got to France, the poles were without a king for months and started electing another, which means he was never de facto both king or France and poland. It would have been cool tho
@@clementlefevre5384 You are right Henry left Polish throne, while leaving a big shit. This "strange" union was only formally. Really she wasnt there. The period of Henrys reign in Poland falls from 11 May 1573 to 18 June 1574 (until his escape). There is now a catch. Henry doesnt renounced his rights to the Polish crown. Formally, his reign ended in May 1575. So at the end of August 1574 the sejm was convened, where some senators were against the introduction of interregnum. However, the second part was in favor of introducing interregnum. However, they came to an agreement by sending a letter to Henry, setting him as a deadline for returning to the country for May 12, 1575. At the same time, it was announced that if this deadline wasnt met, Henry would lose the throne. So what was the reaction Henry to this letter? He promised mps that he would return quickly, and yet he didnt return. Interestingly, after his dethronement, he considered himself the rightful monarch Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In addition, I would like to add that for Polish history he was a tragic ruler. Which "fired" the clock for the fall of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Eh... how convoluted it all has to be...
*Mongolia takes up all of the screens in the Video* Because of the Mughals, Mogulistans, Timurids, and other 4th Generation of Mongol nations or successors only place they wouldn't have is South East Asia, very north Siberia, and southern Arabia
It’s interesting, but let’s keep mind that these territories are vast simplifications and combine maximum extent of each country over the totality of their existence, including alliances and unions with other countries.
No definitely not or else Austria would have owned the entirety of Spain and Portugal at one point through a personal union, idk why it wasn't included for Austria
It's also interesting in my opinion that there are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland. Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsIt is interesting that you couldnt spot the biggest flaw. The Golden Horde literally exists and it was controlled by Turks after Genghis Khan's death. Most of Russia must be shown as captured land.
Thought this entire video I kept thinking: "is [blank] country going to count as a predecessor state to [country in question]" The answer was almost always yes (except for different kinds of unions which where just the "heads" of the unions)
It was so weird. The whole Roman Empire counted for Italy, the Byzantine empire counted for Greece, and yet the Macedonian empire didn’t count for Macedonia? Very weird
@@greaterforce3981 that isnt True. First look at bulgaria under simeon 1 bulgaria was a major power in the balkans for hundreads of years plus the first bulgaria empire under khan kubrat was in today ukraine and it was realy big
Poland: I have the most :) France: I HAVE THE MOST! Italy: SHUT UP YOU BAGUETTE! Turkey: SHUT UP PIZZA! Russia: NO! I HAVE THE MOST YOU *cyka!* Britain: *amateurs*
no, but seriously, you included the fact that Sweden controlled Poland, but it was literally only for a few days, and you didn't include the fact that Poland controlled Russia and Sweden for several years
In the history of europe mostly not the countries occupied other countries, but the dynasties take over territories. For example Austria has not really occupied Burundy, Netherlands, Bohemia, Hungary and so on, but the Habsburgs have married luckily and have taken over many territories. Therefore a video about all territories controlled by each dynasty would be also interesting.
@@ItzBelgianAnimations but Liechtenstein was part of it, and Germany didn't fully create it. Germany had other empires. As everybody says: the holy Roman empire was nor holy nor roman nor an empire
Portugal, in the past, had a region called "Olivença" which is now part of Spain. In "A Reconquista" between 912 and 1492, Portugal managed to obtain Olivença, but in a treaty Spain annexed that territory, but promised Portugal to deliver Olivença back to them, Spain never gave Olivença back to Portugal Sorry if it was poorly explained
It wasn't a region, it was and still is a city. Also Spain gave them Olivença, which became part of Portugal again, but in 1801, during the "War of the Oranges", Spain demanded the city of Olivença to Portugal and they accepted it. After that, Spain never gave back Olivença to Portugal and banned their language and culture until the Franco's dictatorship ended in 1975. And actually in this video it is visible that Portugal holded Olivença, if you compare to the actual eastern portuguese borders and the borders that Portugal occupied back then.
@@wellshitigotanotherstrike ehmm spanish(castellano) is the language , spain the country and spanish or spaniard the people from Spain , but a lot of people use spanish as hispanic so its easier that way to know the difference
I like the idea of the video, I can't judge how well it is made, besides the missing countries, because I don't know much history, but I'd be interested to see when each country reached its biggest form.
However, the list is incomplete. Why did you choose these countries? However mistakes were made in the countries listed, as was the case with Poland. There are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland. Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
So what? You are so brave to attack during the Civil War in Russia? When parts of Russia were occupied by Brittish, German, Japanese, American and French military? So brave of you.
Interesting video, I love it. I guess it gets complicated because it's hard to really deliminate what a state is, maybe it'd be better to say territories ever occupied by nationality. One thing too: Liechtenstein used to be like 5x bigger, still microscopic, but definitely bigger than that.
You are wrong, because as you can see in the video it is possible to show the countries with all the areas they once occupied. But there were also mistakes made in the video, as you also noticed with Liechtenstein, and mistakes were also pointed out in other comments. By the way, mistakes were also made regarding my country Poland. There are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland. Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
Great video, so glad you included the Caucasus too, both Georgia and Armenia had phenomenal grand nations that almost stood the test of time, but our location in the dead middle of a such a perfectly engineered breeding ground for empires (middle east, anatolia and siberian steppe all conjoining...), doomed us from the start.
I think Vatican City is more of a successor to the Roman Empire than Italy is. The Papal States included the entire city of Rome and basically the middle third of the Italian peninsula.
@@alexanderlapp5048how? The Vatican wasn’t a thing at the time the pope had to take in serious account the papal states citizens as several times he got overthrown and another roman reppublic was declared but it was run by Italian people the same that ruled Italy. It’s like saying ohio has a better claim to The Thirteen colonies than the Usa does.
@@wojtekpolska1013the papal states also weren’t direct in the line from Rome. But in the beggining the Pope was elected as a sort of Italian president, so i see your point. But still it’s another Italian state. It’s like saying San Marino has a better claim. Ok cool where’s san marino? What do they speak? What’s their ethnicity? 🇮🇹
I like your variety of video a lot. As for things related to the video, it is interesting to see that some were almost all over Europe, such as Germany. I liked it 👍
@@Alexandros.Mograineno it literally is not. Turkiye's real name was already Türkiye since it was founded. But in recent years Turkiye demanded a name change in ENGLISH to make the name of "Turkey", "Turkiye". And so it got accepted.
Bulgaria was one of the 4 European superpowers in the 9-9th century and controlled the whole Balkans, half of modern day Hungary, all of modern day Romania and reached the Dnieper river. It's a shame you didn't include the country.
In 1204 the Latins turned stabbed the Orthodox Christians in the back and attacked Constantinople, resulting in the Division of Rhomania. Byzantium was split among some Orthodox (Greek) and Catholic (Latin) nobilities and this allowed for the rise of the Turks.
@@georgios_5342 but during ww2, the british didnt occupy greece, they fought with the greeks at first and then when the greeks were conquered the british eventually invaded so they could give all the land to the monarchists before the communists took over.
respectable effort, this video is extemely difficult to make, but some mistakes are too blatant, such as forgetting the countries that start with B, Crimea being Russian all of a sudden, and mistakes with Denmark, Ukraine and Russia
Is there a Ukrainian flag over Crimea now?) I don’t understand why everyone is squeaking about recognition or non-recognition, Taiwan is not recognized by half of the countries, but no one is outraged, what difference does it make whether some resident 1 million kilometers away recognized someone else’s territory if it doesn't change anything Well, you don't recognize Crimea as Russian, what changes? The flag is Russian, passports are Russian, license plates on cars are Russian, the administration is included in Russia, taxes go to Russia, so what changes from that?Lying on my bed in a Crimean hotel, I can say that nothing has changed and Crimea is Russian.
The west and south slavs immigrated from russia, belarus and ukraine. Wasn't really a proper kingdom and it wasnt just czech, all the western slavs are descended from them.
Denmark also had Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Normandy as a vassal, more claimed territory in Finland and Karelia (including Kola peninsula claimed) Pommeranian coast stretching to Prussia briefly), prolly more of Lapland claimed, Bremen-Verden (vassal) and more of Estonia (in the North West)
@@toomaskroll2282 semantics, the monarch is the state. Otherwise the British Empire didnt control a shitton of its territory, spain was for long still Aragon and Castille, and you may even split up the Austrian Empire into Bohemia other accessories, which very much still were personal union countries. Its just that for the most part the local nobility was either curbed or all the laws were brought into being harmonised and consolidated so the areas effectively merged
Two countries that always surprise me are Bulgaria and Czechia. Rather small countries today, but massive territory in the past, for example Bohemia=Czechia stretched from Baltic sea to a few kilometres to Jadran sea, almost having access to both northern and mediterrenean sea. Bulgarian empire was also massive, it was like the biggest land in the Balkans stretching from Ukraine to almost Greece.
Yes, but in those times borders were more fluid. Those were times when maps and cartography were quite rare and not precise. Borders were usually thought as rivers, hills, specific landmarks. It was also age of quite low population in Europe. Big kingdoms had we can just guess only dozens of thousand of people so it was incredibly sparse, most of kingdoms were endless forests with ocassional small keep. I would say that Bohemia was far more structured and borders were more precise and protected. For example whole Silesia was part of Bohemia from 12th to almost 18th century. Unfortunately Maria Theresa managed to loose it to Prussia in 1742, as well Lusitania which today is parted between eastern Germany and Western Poland.@@GreatPolishWingedHussars
@@Aggoenix But it is a fact that Great Moravia was shown in the video and not Bohemia. So change Bohemia to Great Moravia and your comment will be correct.
@@jimskoutas1933 to be honest? the part that alexander came from is currently part of greece and yes the land itself is greek now. but back in the days? they were not greeks although they for sure weren't whatever the fuck the north macedonians are
It's easy to determine where Moscow is here on the map, because in France and Poland, there are some strange tails, and these were one of the really tiny number of countries that had Moscow for a while.
Fun fact. Ottoman pirates conquered and keep Iceland for 25 days and Ottomans also conquered a state in south italy Just a little time. You could include them as well.
This video is INCORRECT and INCOMPLETE because doesn't show all European countries. The country of BULGARIA is missing. BULGARIA Is located in the southeastern Europe between Turkey, Greece, North Macedonia Romania and the Black sea, and it was a big Empire in the 10th century during the rain of Czar Simeon. During that time the Frank's empire of Charlemagne and the Bulgarian empire of Czar Simeon were the biggest in Europe and even bigger than the Eastern Roman Empire named Byzantium.
Correction: Sweden did hold territories to the north of Ladoga, approximately having the same border as Finland did with Russia under the Treaty of Tartu. The border towards Lapland was a straight line, though.
I thouht Russia occupied some parts of sweden during the napoleonic wars when they went to war? Other than that wonderful job! This is extremely impressive, keep up the great work.
It is such a pleasure to see my home country Bulgaria in its historical zenith. Oh, wait a second, yeah, you didn't show us, of course, sorry for interrupting the party of the true countries!
Then we'd see just how frighteningly massive the Soviet Empire was (not the Russian Empire technically since the 12+ ethnicities were statedly equals after 1922). The USSR and its puppet states was probably the biggest contiguous empire in history apart from the Mongols.
This vid deserves a do-over, this time with context. Maybe label various territories depending on which progenitor state occupied it and to what degree
@@DesperateDawggo21 yes they did. For your information Odessa itself is an ancient Greek city. And they took it for about 2 months in 1919 (Odessa Mariupol Kherson Crimea was taken by Greeks.)
Imagine each European country starting to claim the territories they have lost….
big conflict 👍
Oh oh oh
Poland,Germany,greece,italy,russia,france,britan,turkey,austria,hungary,Czechia, and sweden:ITS MINE MINE MINE
I would imagine if Israel claims every territory were are living some Jews
@@patopcidemexico7646 LOL that’s basically Putin
I love how some countries are like “Oh I’ll take some for myself” and others go “NOM NOM NOM, TASTY CONTINENT”
Не континент , планета . я имею ввиду Англия , Франция , Россия были куда больше чем показаны тут
@@Atomzhsbecause three largest Europe empires
AHEM
Britain.
@@Atomzhsbecause umm… literally this is a europe map??
NOM NOM NOM I TAKE EUROPE ALL FOR MY SELF
1944: england owns italy
144: italy owns england
italy owns england*
*Romanium controls the region of the delightful dental avoiding people, England@MaxTracy-lb8lc
@MaxTracy-lb8lc Rome is England
They were borned on Italian lands just like Italy so it's basicly Italy
Kievan Rus isn't Ukraine or Belarus or Russia because the people which created Kievan Rus came from Scandinavia and that was actually vikings means it was Sweden
@@OfficialUKGov England Wales and south Scotland
@MaxTracy-lb8lc Sorry i meant Rome is Italy
Interesting video, no doubt! From a historians perspective - as already mentioned in the comment section - it’s difficult to compare these current nation: (1) there’s a difference between modern Italy and the Roman Empire in terms of culture, language, religion. I would have shown only the territories, modern Italy has ever occupied; (2) where to draw the line between real incorporated territories and for example personal unions: medieval understanding of a “state” (by a monarch’s realm) is very different from the modern definition of a national territorial state (beginning in the 16th century); (3) duration of the occupation: there’s a difference between territories only occupied for months or even days (as the German holdings in Russia during WWII) and territories that where heavily influenced by the occupant (e.g. Spain holding the throne of Naples). But again: just some thoughts of me, still great to see people’s interest in history!
This exactly.
It's like in a boxing mach - you have to at least count to 10 to claim a win, if your opponent quickly resumed a fight, it's like nothing happened.
For dramatic effect, obviously you should take the greatest extent that can be argued, so you get a bigger "wow" moment.
By the way, in the video they showed only the territories of Roman Empire for Italy, but during the last century we also occupied Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Libya, Dodecanese and Tientsin.
@@corrado.08 overseas territories not shown
This and as an Norwegian 5:30 then did UK occupy Norway? And its modern Norway, with current borders, Like Sweden as it was up to 1905, but Finland does not have the northern parts as it was earlier and area was not ruled by countries.
My guess it was an technical term after German forces in Norway capitulating at end of WW 2 Norway was under the UK occupation zone for a week or two before Norwegian government took over even if disarmament was done by Norwegian forces.
If you can I'd love to see this video on the World Map. So many "overseas lands not shown" even in countries you wouldn't expect
like latvia
Or Malta
Like Cyprus having a dominion on Turkey for some reason
@@dinasov9 it was when turkey declared war on cyprus, cyprus got a port and some cities with the help of some brave cretic pilots that they shot down
@@shazamnegroid7379 I dont know what bizzare alternate reality you are from, but nothing remotely close to that ever happened. It's far more likely that the video is referring to the castle of Corycus held by the Lusignan kingdom of cyprus in the 14th century
I would love a source for this alleged invasion you mention though
Would love to see a heatmap of the most occupied territories.
A big line along the Danube River
@Ed Winters that's central europe, geographically
Me
@Ed Winters aprox. between the Vilnius/Białystok areas is the center of Europe
@Ed Winters I understood that according to the EU only Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are classified as eastern europe
No Belgium, Bulgaria and Bosnia… Maybe include them in future videos as well, especially Bulgaria, that has a rich history
Belgium is understandable, what they look like now is the biggest they've ever been (not including Congo). But yes, Bulgaria was massive, and not just once, but twice.
@@Voxdalian Lies. Limburg used to fully belong to Belgium, and in 1923 Belgium occupied the German Ruhr territory
@@Vincent-jq6vx Belgium occupied the territory, they didn't annex it. It was never part of Belgium. And unless I'm missing some part of history, back when Limburg was whole Belgium didn't exist, it was part of the Netherlands then.
@@Voxdalian Limburg was splitted in 1839 between Netherlands and Belgium. Belgium did own the whole of Limburg from 1830 to 1839
@@Vincent-jq6vx Ah, I didn't know that. That's pretty cool. Thanks for the info.
4:59 i like how spains flag is everywhere
*A*
0:02 🇦🇱 Albania
0:10 🇦🇩 Andorra
0:17 🇦🇲 Armenia
0:25 🇦🇹 Austria
0:32 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
*B*
0:39 🇧🇾 Belarus
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0:47 🇭🇷 Croatia
0:54 🇨🇾 Cyprus
1:02 🇨🇿 Czechia
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1:09 🇩🇰 Denmark
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1:17 🇪🇪 Estonia
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1:24 🇫🇮 Finland
1:31 🇫🇷 France
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1:39 🇬🇪 Georgia
1:46 🇩🇪 Germany
1:54 🇬🇷 Greece
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2:01 🇭🇺 Hungary
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2:09 🇮🇸 Iceland
2:17 🇮🇪 Ireland
2:24 🇮🇹 Italy
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2:32 🇱🇻 Latvia
2:39 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
2:47 🇱🇹 Lithuania
2:54 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
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3:02 🇲🇹 Malta
3:09 🇲🇩 Moldova
3:17 🇲🇨 Monaco
3:24 🇲🇪 Montenegro
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3:32 🇳🇱 Netherlands
3:39 🇲🇰 North Macedonia
3:47 🇳🇴 Norway
*P*
3:54 🇵🇱 Poland
4:02 🇵🇹 Portugal
*R*
4:09 🇷🇴 Romania
4:17 🇷🇺 Russia
*S*
4:24 🇸🇲 San Marino
4:33 🇷🇸 Serbia
4:40 🇸🇰 Slovakia
4:48 🇸🇮 Slovenia
4:55 🇪🇸 Spain
5:03 🇸🇪 Sweden
5:10 🇨🇭 Switzerland
*T*
5:18 🇹🇷 Turkey
*U*
5:25 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5:33 🇺🇦 Ukraine
*V*
5:40 🇻🇦 Vatican City
4:41 Slovakia
4:48 Slovenia
4:56 Spain
5:04 Sweden
5:11 Switzerland
5:19 Turkey
5:26 UK
5:34 Ukraine
5:41 Vatican City
Georgia is a state
There isnt bulgaria
@@dvdgo2006 nor belgium
@@TiffanyPlaysOwO there is also a country named georgia
Yes! I love to see the total territories occupied by countries, Seems very interesting
Real
Is it a joke? He didn't bother to show the colonies of U.K, France and Spain. Turkey's full territory has not been shown.
@@Naan_Oru_Vinnan It was written there that overseas territories are not shown...
@@bence_bagosi Ok then
Can you believe Latvia was once an overseas empire? Sometimes history is wilder than fiction.
Be aware that only the countries that are currently independent states appear in the video. Therefore many nations are hidden under the name of the current states.
By the way, some states are missing: Bulgaria, Bosnia&Herzegovina,...
Belgium too
Most of these countries merged with the current country or are just the sucesor of that country. Now days almost every european country isnt occupied and the ones who are in this list includes their original extention
@@vicrai578turns out author really despises the letter b
Are we talking about the UK, because it is not since the days of The Roman Empire that the French have hidden populations. You could make the case for Germany because of its Prussian past, which was not the whole of what became the Germany of 1871-1919. Why is there a chunk of land under Turkey with the German flag on it, Ottoman's were in control of that area for 400+ years.
@@jrus690 your comment makes no sense. Either way, I don't see a part of turkey during the German extension. Syria was most likely during the crusades (France has a similar extension in syria)
And claiming that the Holy Roman Empire isn't German would be like claiming the Ottoman Empire isn't turk. Just stupid.
The Byzantine empire is trickier, could be Roman or Greek. Or both. Also I'd put Alexander as Macedonian, not greek. The video added him to the Greeks. Another tricky thing is Poland-Lithuania or Auatria-Hungary or the Frankish empire, which was both German and french.
Комментарии под этим видео- отдельный вид искусства.
5:27 Just imagine if the colonization had been only in Europe
britain is weak, they can't colonize europe, because european nations are strong while britain only goes to colonize weak nations in africa or asia
Nah it’s still as terrible as it was irl around the world.
most of that isnt from colonialism, its from military occuptaion e.g spain and portugal refers to the napoleonic wars where the kings of spain and portugal fled their countries and left partisans +the british to do all the work.
@@mappingshaman5280 the Kings of Spain were captured by Napoleon.
And the partisans did a lot. I even think that Napoleon himself recognized that his defeat started against the spanish's guerrillas.
All that, without despise for the British participation which was crucial.
@@oriolcampsperez3170 I don’t think any British dispute this. It’s mostly due to people accidentally overstating involvement in an effort for making sure it’s not forgotten in the first place
A few notable examples:
- Korean Civil War = seen as a US war vs USSR, when in reality the overwhelming majority of southern fighters were Korean and overwhelming majority of northern fighters were Chinese
- North African campaign = Axis often represented as Germany/Rommel even though Italy were the majority
- Gallipoli = Allies often represented as ANZAC despite their very small numbers compared to French, British, Indian etc.
I love how the music goes dramatic when germany shows up
uh oh
guten tag
If we're counting Personal Unions, Poland should also have the former Kingdom of Sweden, since it already has Hungary, Saxony and Bari. Sweden was a junior partner in a Polish-Lithuanian-Swedish Union with the king - Sigismund Vasa being the King of Poland first, and King of Sweden second. Poland also had a lot more lands occupied in Russia, most notably the city of Pskov, with polish raiding parties going as far as the river Ob deep within Siberia, where we have accounts of polish soldiers encountering "strange golden statues of chubby women" (most likely buddah statues). Also a small nitpick - at one point the crimean city of Kaffa pledged loyalty to the Kingdom of Poland, It's not shown on the map, however it is more of a nuisance anyway.
Mhm, Polish King Vladislaus II Jagiellon was also the King of Croatia together with being the King of Hungary
Hence the kingdom stretched from adriatic to baltic sea
Most sane Polish Nationalist
@@suhnih4076 what's bad about it?
@Adolf Meyer first major democracy? Are you just going to pretend ancient Greece and the Roman Republic didn't exist? Not to mention the duchy of Novgorod, a democratic republic formed in the early medieval times, centuries before PLC
1:48 Germany
4:18 Russia
3:56 Poland
2:25 Italy
5:26 United Kingdom aka Great Britain
5:34 Ukraine
1:33 France
5:19 Turkey
Edit: I started a massive war
It should be germany italy near not russia and poland near germany
You good?
@@RaulSalazar-cn5iv you ok? You sound like you had a stroke
5:29 Bro UK OWNED MY COUNTRY 🇪🇸🌚
Why did u have to to add "aka Great Britain" like bruh, their aint any 1700's ppl watching rn, everyone in the modern age knows it as the UK
"All territories occupied"
France and Germany: It's show time
The boys are back in town
Ehm italy...
@@reneshm Italy wasn't Italy but the Roman empire though. France and Germany are in direct line of succession of the states that occupied these territories, Italy isn't.
@@drmaticviewer Let me guess Eastern Roman empire never existed?
@@NIKOS_GEROSIDERIS What? Why would anybody think that and how would that support what I said?
A single mistake: Russia also had Turkish Thrace during Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78
Russia also had part of Sweden
Estonia nearly took St. Petersburg
@@trialbruh6063 yet failed, eh.
I'd say completely omitting Bulgaria would be another mistake lmao
And Jever(Napoleonic era) and Schleswig-Holstein(while Peter the 3. and Catherine the Great) in Germany and the Ionian Islands(Greece, Napoleonic era) had Russia
gotta love the latvian “overseas lands not shown” disclaimer
And surprisingly, it's true!
France: "Yo watch this shit!" Germany: "Hold my beer for a second..."
Just make sure to not put french, germans, russians in same room
France controlled more territory
Russia and uk what did you say?
Don't use this language
@@avd829 Turks laughing in Seljuks Köktürks Ottomans The Golden Horde:
Really good video! I would've liked for countries like France or UK to show all the territories around the world they've had but I guess that would make it harder
You forget the Netherland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Danemark and probably some other.
I think Germany had some oversea territories before WWI, no ?
@@lnomsim2 Yes they had some African holdings
Colonizing the 3rd world is no accomplishment, only Europe is
@@norwaydude4798 You should learn what third world means. Really. It's a term that was born during the cold war to designate countries that weren't aligned with the western or eastern blocks.
so... during decolonisation.
Nobody colonized the third world countries.
By the way, there are some errors in the video. Russia, Sweden and Crimea are missing when specifying the by the Polish empire mastered territories. In addition, the dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
2:28 The moment we've all been waiting for
DAJE ROMA
they were still no match for germanic tribe men lmao
… that’s not Nazi Germany?
@@janni_03 lmao they were ambushed in the woods, where you can not deploy your formation, by a filthy traitor, who was later killed by it's own people. And then Germanicus came to get revenge and he did.
@@janni_03 they still survived the east…
2:27
*this is.... Beautiful*
@MustafaPlay Yes, roman period.
I know grande Giulio Cesare mio imperatore
@@Ornio.709
Know*
E comunque grazie mio fedele cittadino
@@JiafeiProducts6969 i am very alfabeta
Rome
2:34 "overseas lands not shown"
Hold up
Yeah Latvia (technically the Duchy of Courland but whatever) once had a small colony in the Caribbean island of Tobago around 1650.
@@f1ufand also three small islands in Gambia
@@user-ls8or7ps3oWasn't it Poland-Lithuania?
@@AllanLimosin all of that was in theory kinda Polish since Dutchy was vasal state of Commonwealth
WHEN DID IT HAPPEN,LATVIA TAKING A ISLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN?
Interestingly (3:57) you can see a few personal union ones, but not all of them I miss the Polish-French union and the Polish-Swedish union. For example, Henry III Valois will still be king of Polish he crowned himself king of France. A similar situation Sigismund III Vasa King Polish was elected King of Sweden.
To be fair henry III did left everyone in poland when hé was about to be crowned king of France, leaving the polish throne vacant, so by the Time he got to France, the poles were without a king for months and started electing another, which means he was never de facto both king or France and poland.
It would have been cool tho
@@clementlefevre5384
You are right Henry left Polish throne, while leaving a big shit. This "strange" union was only formally. Really she wasnt there. The period of Henrys reign in Poland falls from 11 May 1573 to 18 June 1574 (until his escape). There is now a catch. Henry doesnt renounced his rights to the Polish crown. Formally, his reign ended in May 1575. So at the end of August 1574 the sejm was convened, where some senators were against the introduction of interregnum. However, the second part was in favor of introducing interregnum. However, they came to an agreement by sending a letter to Henry, setting him as a deadline for returning to the country for May 12, 1575. At the same time, it was announced that if this deadline wasnt met, Henry would lose the throne. So what was the reaction Henry to this letter? He promised mps that he would return quickly, and yet he didnt return. Interestingly, after his dethronement, he considered himself the rightful monarch Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In addition, I would like to add that for Polish history he was a tragic ruler. Which "fired" the clock for the fall of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Eh... how convoluted it all has to be...
Dont forget about Władysław IV Vasa who was temporarely a tsar of russia
The HRE/Austria and Spain...
I live in Netherlands as a pole and in fact, i have never seen a polish lands near the border with dutchies
I’d love to see this for other continents like, Asia
Mongolia
@@laamiaaaa and japan
@@radustana i meant that mongolia would be shown controlling basically all of asia
*Mongolia takes up all of the screens in the Video*
Because of the Mughals, Mogulistans, Timurids, and other 4th Generation of Mongol nations or successors only place they wouldn't have is South East Asia, very north Siberia, and southern Arabia
mongolia would def have the biggest difference
Finally! I aways wanted to see something like this!
@The Philosoraptor yes.
@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος εμ. Είπα κάτι;
@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος λέω εάν είπα κάτι. Είπα ότι θα το δούμε ή ότι δεν θα το δούμε; Ξέρεις τι λες;
Damn bro should show us overseas territory in another video
Including the Austrian territory in China
latvia
It’s interesting, but let’s keep mind that these territories are vast simplifications and combine maximum extent of each country over the totality of their existence, including alliances and unions with other countries.
Z tego co widzę to są stany z najlepszych okresów nawet jeśli nie trwały długo
No definitely not or else Austria would have owned the entirety of Spain and Portugal at one point through a personal union, idk why it wasn't included for Austria
or during wartime and lasted for a couple years at most. Also, Italy and rome???
It's also interesting in my opinion that there are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland.
Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsIt is interesting that you couldnt spot the biggest flaw. The Golden Horde literally exists and it was controlled by Turks after Genghis Khan's death. Most of Russia must be shown as captured land.
Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Bulgaria: do they forget we exist?
imagine if every European country was included
Faroe Islands, but they extend just on a some Islands in the north atlantic!🇫🇴
Thought this entire video I kept thinking: "is [blank] country going to count as a predecessor state to [country in question]"
The answer was almost always yes (except for different kinds of unions which where just the "heads" of the unions)
Yeah but that's actually open to interpretation
It was so weird. The whole Roman Empire counted for Italy, the Byzantine empire counted for Greece, and yet the Macedonian empire didn’t count for Macedonia? Very weird
M. Empire is greek@@volcanoherogc6057
3:05 Lmao the Maltese "overseas lands not shown" are the Knight Hospitaller colonies in the caribbeans XD
Its such a disrespect to bulgaria to dont show them while you showed countries like san marino and andora Who didnt chaced.
Bulgaria didnt conquer anything tho. xd
@@greaterforce3981 Bulgarian Empire?
@@greaterforce3981 that isnt True. First look at bulgaria under simeon 1 bulgaria was a major power in the balkans for hundreads of years plus the first bulgaria empire under khan kubrat was in today ukraine and it was realy big
@@greaterforce3981 Bro you have a brain? Did you forget the Balkan Wars? The 2nd Bulgarian Empire? This guy is an American lol
@@ucsmastara4975 yup
Poland: I have the most :)
France: I HAVE THE MOST!
Italy: SHUT UP YOU BAGUETTE!
Turkey: SHUT UP PIZZA!
Russia: NO! I HAVE THE MOST YOU *cyka!*
Britain: *amateurs*
Germany: am anti eu
Why don't you count Germany? It was huge too.
Uk:I may look small in europe but look outside I'm bigger than europe and oceania combined
(Also britain is an island not the actual country)
@@all-stargamer3333 but it was evil Germany that made most if the land-
Uk 1st
France 2nd
(in colonies)
in 1610, Poland controlled all of Russia and Sweden, reaching 12.5 million km²
no, but seriously, you included the fact that Sweden controlled Poland, but it was literally only for a few days, and you didn't include the fact that Poland controlled Russia and Sweden for several years
Source?
Russia to Moscow, and the residents of Russia themselves did not even know that they were being controlled🤡
When?
Look at google,it lived jn 1592 to 1599.its basically a presonal union of seeden and poland
In the history of europe mostly not the countries occupied other countries, but the dynasties take over territories. For example Austria has not really occupied Burundy, Netherlands, Bohemia, Hungary and so on, but the Habsburgs have married luckily and have taken over many territories.
Therefore a video about all territories controlled by each dynasty would be also interesting.
Hungary and Bohemia were just annexed lands in the Austrian empire before Austria-Hungary was established, but i get what you mean
1:13 Denmark
1:28 Finland
2:13 Iceland
3:51 Norway
5:07 Sweden
the nordics greatest times
Yeah! Great times for those Nordic nations.
What if allo those territories were united into one country
It would become a great nordic empire!
Also, Greece was ruled by a Danish king! Why did they not put that in?
0:04 Albania
0:10 Andorra
0:18 Armenia
0:26 Austria
0:34 Azerbaijan
0:41 Belarus
0:48 Croatia
0:55 Cyprus
1:04 Czechia
1:11 Denmark
1:19 Estonia
1:26 Finland
1:34 France
1:41 Georgia
1:49 Germany
1:56 Greece
2:04 Hungary
2:11 Iceland
2:19 Ireland
2:27 Italy
2:34 Latvia
2:41 Liechtenstein
2:49 Lithuania
2:57 Luxembourg
3:04 Malta
3:11 Moldova
3:19 Monaco
3:27 Montenegro
3:34 Netherlands
3:42 North Macedonia
3:49 Norway
3:56 Poland
4:04 Portugal
4:12 Romania
4:18 Russia
4:27 San Marino
4:35 Serbia
4:42 Slovakia
4:50 Slovenia
4:57 Spain
5:05 Sweden
5:12 Switzerland
5:20 Türkiye
5:27 United Kingdom
5:35 Ukraine
5:42 Vatican City
(Bulgaria, Bosnia and Belgium is on community section)
They did the 3 countries dirty fr
I live in italy
I think he hate You guys
Черногория: что?
You should’ve showed the Holy Roman Empire as Liechtenstein as its the last segment of it 2:45
iirc Liechtenstein was established after the HRE was dissolved. And honestly, The HRE was hardly even a country.
Liechtenstein is a remaining piece of the Holy Roman empire, and its borders had little to no changes.
Holy Roman Empire is German
@@ItzBelgianAnimations but Liechtenstein was part of it, and Germany didn't fully create it.
Germany had other empires.
As everybody says: the holy Roman empire was nor holy nor roman nor an empire
I agree @@AllanLimosin
I've had been imagined this since it was my childhood and is finally real! Thanks you!
You should have made it dude
@@tyunpeters3170 but in that time I didn't know how to make videos like this one
Portugal, in the past, had a region called "Olivença" which is now part of Spain. In "A Reconquista" between 912 and 1492, Portugal managed to obtain Olivença, but in a treaty Spain annexed that territory, but promised Portugal to deliver Olivença back to them, Spain never gave Olivença back to Portugal
Sorry if it was poorly explained
It wasn't a region, it was and still is a city.
Also Spain gave them Olivença, which became part of Portugal again, but in 1801, during the "War of the Oranges", Spain demanded the city of Olivença to Portugal and they accepted it. After that, Spain never gave back Olivença to Portugal and banned their language and culture until the Franco's dictatorship ended in 1975.
And actually in this video it is visible that Portugal holded Olivença, if you compare to the actual eastern portuguese borders and the borders that Portugal occupied back then.
well is a city but yeah all true and im spaniard
@@ashenone3050 STOP SAYING IT'S SPANIARD IT'S SPANISH NOT SPANIARD
@@wellshitigotanotherstrike ehmm spanish(castellano) is the language , spain the country and spanish or spaniard the people from Spain , but a lot of people use spanish as hispanic so its easier that way to know the difference
@@wellshitigotanotherstrike bro why so mad fr
I like the idea of the video, I can't judge how well it is made, besides the missing countries, because I don't know much history, but I'd be interested to see when each country reached its biggest form.
Most annoying issue I have is he got Romes and Macedonias max occupation zones wrong.
It's about all territories ever occupied not what the shape at a single time was
@@darth3911 north macedonians are not descended from the ancient macedonians
He did that alerady
Biggest in Europe or worldwide?
1:50 Germany: MY DREAMS COME TRUE!!!!!!
Imagine if all the land these countries owned was restored and all the overlapping areas had to be shared by the governments
probably instant ww3
Balkans and Africa going crazy
For Austria you are forgetting California, which had an Austrian ruling them in the 2000's
You can't see California this is a map of europe
Bruh ARNOLD SCHWARTZNEGGER
@@estebananda9364 its a joke
California and Nazi Germany have both had an Austrian ruling them.
@@nicolastorresbatzakis8727😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i am shocked that austria actually conquered that much land in the total time of its history
Some of it Conquered Some of it was through a Series of Marriages
@@bruh5992 *most of it was through marriages
Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube
The map doesn't do justice to Austria, since it ignores Spain and Portugal who used to be ruled by Hapsburgs as well
Austria was a major power in Europe
Everybody enjoying the video:
Belgium: What do you mean “no access?”
Estonia, for a very brief period of time during the war of independence, held Northern Latvia, and up to St. Petersburg.
True.
However, the list is incomplete. Why did you choose these countries? However mistakes were made in the countries listed, as was the case with Poland. There are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland.
Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
For a very brief period Russia held Paris.
So what? You are so brave to attack during the Civil War in Russia? When parts of Russia were occupied by Brittish, German, Japanese, American and French military? So brave of you.
@@YuriZhevnevRussia held Paris for 3 years.
Interesting video, I love it.
I guess it gets complicated because it's hard to really deliminate what a state is, maybe it'd be better to say territories ever occupied by nationality.
One thing too: Liechtenstein used to be like 5x bigger, still microscopic, but definitely bigger than that.
You are wrong, because as you can see in the video it is possible to show the countries with all the areas they once occupied. But there were also mistakes made in the video, as you also noticed with Liechtenstein, and mistakes were also pointed out in other comments. By the way, mistakes were also made regarding my country Poland. There are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland.
Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
You should make more videos like this with the other continents.
Great video, so glad you included the Caucasus too, both Georgia and Armenia had phenomenal grand nations that almost stood the test of time, but our location in the dead middle of a such a perfectly engineered breeding ground for empires (middle east, anatolia and siberian steppe all conjoining...), doomed us from the start.
I like how Vatican City had more land than a lot of the countries here
Yea, it used to be known as "Papal States", was actually pretty powerful
I think Vatican City is more of a successor to the Roman Empire than Italy is. The Papal States included the entire city of Rome and basically the middle third of the Italian peninsula.
Italy is more a Piedmont-Sardinia successor
@@alexanderlapp5048how? The Vatican wasn’t a thing at the time the pope had to take in serious account the papal states citizens as several times he got overthrown and another roman reppublic was declared but it was run by Italian people the same that ruled Italy. It’s like saying ohio has a better claim to The Thirteen colonies than the Usa does.
@@wojtekpolska1013the papal states also weren’t direct in the line from Rome. But in the beggining the Pope was elected as a sort of Italian president, so i see your point. But still it’s another Italian state. It’s like saying San Marino has a better claim. Ok cool where’s san marino? What do they speak? What’s their ethnicity? 🇮🇹
I like your variety of video a lot. As for things related to the video, it is interesting to see that some were almost all over Europe, such as Germany. I liked it 👍
I hope you mean you liked the video lol
@@ita6444 of course yes
@@ita6444i like when europe occupy each other.
You Forgot The British Occupation Of Murmansk And The area around it
Germany, UK, russia, Turkiye, france, italy : 💀
Bulgaria: 💀
*turkey🦃
@@Robeedrill türkiye*
@@checkmatestalingrad In english its turkey. Or should i demand people to call Finland "Suomi"?
@@Alexandros.Mograineno it literally is not. Turkiye's real name was already Türkiye since it was founded. But in recent years Turkiye demanded a name change in ENGLISH to make the name of "Turkey", "Turkiye". And so it got accepted.
4:21 ur forgot bout Soviet Expansion in Nazi Norway under Hitler control.
Also great video 🤝🌟
It was Britain who took n@$i
imagine if the french, German, Russia, Italian or Turks claimed all this land 💀
Most of Russian land in video are liberated german occupied territories
Basically Europe before 1945
@Polanie ah yes Poland ofc, Poland can into space!
@@thelaststylebender01 Poland invented water and sunshine
Turkey already had like 1/3 of Europe and got massive lands in African countries and in Asia and most of the sea’s
Person: how many territories did you once occupy?
Britain: yes
Bulgaria was one of the 4 European superpowers in the 9-9th century and controlled the whole Balkans, half of modern day Hungary, all of modern day Romania and reached the Dnieper river. It's a shame you didn't include the country.
Including today's Ukraine.
@@kalinxristov1654 yes
😂👍👏
In the Estonian war of independence, they had like half of Latvia and almost st petersburg
Первый раз слышу про эстонскую войну за независимость
@@AlmazornЭто когда белогвардейцы при поддержке британцев наступали на красных с территории Прибалтики😂
If all countries were to return to their maximum size, Europe would need about 5(?) times the land area.
Of course that wouldn't end things.
human nature: that guys land has nicer grass, gold, farm land, whatever, so imma take it
@@notsamhoward Reduce us all to the size of ants, we'll go to war over the same old borders!
I didn't expect Hungary and Spain to have a small part of Greece
I didn't expect the UK to have Greece.
In 1204 the Latins turned stabbed the Orthodox Christians in the back and attacked Constantinople, resulting in the Division of Rhomania. Byzantium was split among some Orthodox (Greek) and Catholic (Latin) nobilities and this allowed for the rise of the Turks.
@@yougoslavia it means in WW2
@@yougoslavia They had Greece because they freed us from the Germans
@@georgios_5342 but during ww2, the british didnt occupy greece, they fought with the greeks at first and then when the greeks were conquered the british eventually invaded so they could give all the land to the monarchists before the communists took over.
respectable effort, this video is extemely difficult to make, but some mistakes are too blatant, such as forgetting the countries that start with B, Crimea being Russian all of a sudden, and mistakes with Denmark, Ukraine and Russia
Is there a Ukrainian flag over Crimea now?) I don’t understand why everyone is squeaking about recognition or non-recognition, Taiwan is not recognized by half of the countries, but no one is outraged, what difference does it make whether some resident 1 million kilometers away recognized someone else’s territory if it doesn't change anything Well, you don't recognize Crimea as Russian, what changes? The flag is Russian, passports are Russian, license plates on cars are Russian, the administration is included in Russia, taxes go to Russia, so what changes from that?Lying on my bed in a Crimean hotel, I can say that nothing has changed and Crimea is Russian.
Was not expecting that from Czechia
The west and south slavs immigrated from russia, belarus and ukraine. Wasn't really a proper kingdom and it wasnt just czech, all the western slavs are descended from them.
It's also fake.
@@ub3rfr3nzy94 this is literally land owned by czechia,not samos empire
@@tamaszlav somebody didnt listen in history class
Denmark also had Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Normandy as a vassal, more claimed territory in Finland and Karelia (including Kola peninsula claimed) Pommeranian coast stretching to Prussia briefly), prolly more of Lapland claimed, Bremen-Verden (vassal) and more of Estonia (in the North West)
Polish-Danish king also conquered England
@@lch7732 Yup, Cnut II was the king of the North Sea empire
Kalmar Union was a personal union, so there were three separate kingdoms not just one Denmark up to woods of Carelia🙂
@@toomaskroll2282 semantics, the monarch is the state. Otherwise the British Empire didnt control a shitton of its territory, spain was for long still Aragon and Castille, and you may even split up the Austrian Empire into Bohemia other accessories, which very much still were personal union countries. Its just that for the most part the local nobility was either curbed or all the laws were brought into being harmonised and consolidated so the areas effectively merged
3:36 you seemed to have forgot east frisia for the netherlands, which was occupied under the batavian republic/napoleonic netherlands
doesn't include overseas lands
@@HissPhunnyCat b r u h east frisia is literally in germany
@@HissPhunnyCat frisia is europe lol
@@tubbeyt ok i read it wrong
The overseas lands are colonies like: Indonesia and Suriname
2:35 I like how it says "overseas lands not shown for Latvia as the duchy of Courland had a colony in Trinadad.
Two countries that always surprise me are Bulgaria and Czechia. Rather small countries today, but massive territory in the past, for example Bohemia=Czechia stretched from Baltic sea to a few kilometres to Jadran sea, almost having access to both northern and mediterrenean sea. Bulgarian empire was also massive, it was like the biggest land in the Balkans stretching from Ukraine to almost Greece.
It surprised you, because it is false, fake. The uploader pulled out all of this from his butthole.
BUT...the Czech's great expansion was not with Bohemia but with Great Moravia in the early Middle Ages.
Yes, but in those times borders were more fluid. Those were times when maps and cartography were quite rare and not precise. Borders were usually thought as rivers, hills, specific landmarks. It was also age of quite low population in Europe. Big kingdoms had we can just guess only dozens of thousand of people so it was incredibly sparse, most of kingdoms were endless forests with ocassional small keep. I would say that Bohemia was far more structured and borders were more precise and protected. For example whole Silesia was part of Bohemia from 12th to almost 18th century. Unfortunately Maria Theresa managed to loose it to Prussia in 1742, as well Lusitania which today is parted between eastern Germany and Western Poland.@@GreatPolishWingedHussars
@@Aggoenix But it is a fact that Great Moravia was shown in the video and not Bohemia. So change Bohemia to Great Moravia and your comment will be correct.
Ever heard about Lithuania?
the thing you did with north macedonia is bound to make them salty, but i fully support it
nothing is wrong with it though
North macedonia is not macedonia
@@artzuel2616 North macedonia for a very short amount of time actually owned territory all the way to india, but, that wasn't included.
@@notaspect721 that was Macedonia (Greece) not slavs
@@jimskoutas1933 to be honest? the part that alexander came from is currently part of greece and yes the land itself is greek now. but back in the days? they were not greeks although they for sure weren't whatever the fuck the north macedonians are
It's easy to determine where Moscow is here on the map, because in France and Poland, there are some strange tails, and these were one of the really tiny number of countries that had Moscow for a while.
Yeah, but France for just a moment entered empty Moscow burned by Russians, but Poland ruled Moscow for 2 years.
@@LewicowyPatriota yes
@@LewicowyPatriota France still captured Moscow.
@@x-a- well, yes. yes, Russians have let them capture Moscow.
Nice video
1:50 missed a swedish island
It says “overseas lands not shown” somewhere
@@youlookingatme575 Swedish island is on europe. Overseas is just colonies
Bro, but you don't see the map of a frustrated painter... ☠️☠️☠️
@@golden_studior5879 which one? There are 221,800
@@youlookingatme575 i researched it. It was gotland
Fun fact. Ottoman pirates conquered and keep Iceland for 25 days and Ottomans also conquered a state in south italy Just a little time. You could include them as well.
That was only pirates, not ottoman army.
@@bjrnjernsida5297 they were working for the ottoman government so I think it counts
if Austria is like the Habsburgs, shouldn't they "control" Spain as well?
they definitely should
But then Germany should "control" Spain aswell, because of the Hohenzollern Monarch
Suppose so, especially because Spain and Austria were briefly united under Charles V
Was it a union? (Read description)
Then that should mean that the rest of Germany should be controlled by Austria due to the HRE.
This video is INCORRECT and INCOMPLETE because doesn't show all European countries. The country of BULGARIA is missing. BULGARIA Is located in the southeastern Europe between Turkey, Greece, North Macedonia Romania and the Black sea, and it was a big Empire in the 10th century during the rain of Czar Simeon. During that time the Frank's empire of Charlemagne and the Bulgarian empire of Czar Simeon were the biggest in Europe and even bigger than the Eastern Roman Empire named Byzantium.
Good point!
"Nahhhhh, Bulgaria is located in asia"
WOW,REALLY,I THOUGHT IT WAS IN OCEANIA
5:13 forgot about Mulhausen
Correction: Sweden did hold territories to the north of Ladoga, approximately having the same border as Finland did with Russia under the Treaty of Tartu. The border towards Lapland was a straight line, though.
Fakt: Szwecja nigdy nie posiadała tylu Polskich ziem.
Latvia: (overseas territory not shown)
Me: AYO
I thouht Russia occupied some parts of sweden during the napoleonic wars when they went to war? Other than that wonderful job! This is extremely impressive, keep up the great work.
1 city
That was more of a siege though and the peace treaty was signed I think 1 day after.
@@oplixgaming670
My bad, I noticed it on omni atlas, they showed Russia occupying parts of eastern Sweden before the annexation of Finland.
1:50 jumpscare
Nazi jumpscare
Aaaaaaah
Oh was I supposed to be scared? :/
@@CoolAstrost you're so innocent
@@CoolAstrost its haha funny third reich forcing jews to work all day long
Nazi jumpscare
Countries That Have Invaded Italy
0:25 Austria
1:02 Czechia
1:32 France
1:47 Germany
1:55 Greece
2:02 Hungary
3:55 Poland
4:55 Spain
5:26 UK
5:40 Vatican City
It is such a pleasure to see my home country Bulgaria in its historical zenith. Oh, wait a second, yeah, you didn't show us, of course, sorry for interrupting the party of the true countries!
But seriously, Bulgaria was f***ing huge in the medieval period
@@mrtrollnator123oh yes. Bulgaria was a literal European giant.
@@tutorialesminecraft8930 fr
5:23 If you do one where you include overseas, please don’t forget Eastern Iceland!
5:30 Russia:You are allowed to invade a country if it used to be yours
UK:
I can’t wait for a world version
Then we'd see just how frighteningly massive the Soviet Empire was (not the Russian Empire technically since the 12+ ethnicities were statedly equals after 1922). The USSR and its puppet states was probably the biggest contiguous empire in history apart from the Mongols.
@Thunderbird 1 funny how the mongols claimed much of Russia as well
Is it me, or Bulgaria and Belgium have casually been skipped?
1:50 me: grandpa look at this
Grandpa: Remind me of something
5:30 just in time for the jubilee.
5:06 as a swede I approve of this message
Yeah because your monarchy was rigged and got gifted land because of corruption
Under Lichtenstein, you forgot the castles in Bohemia and Slovakia
This vid deserves a do-over, this time with context. Maybe label various territories depending on which progenitor state occupied it and to what degree
1:54 Greece also controlled Odessa in 1919.
Ok greek russian supporter
I live in Odessa
No they didn't
@@findyourselfinthisworld nice. Odessa is a beatifull city we Greeks once built!
@@DesperateDawggo21 yes they did. For your information Odessa itself is an ancient Greek city. And they took it for about 2 months in 1919 (Odessa Mariupol Kherson Crimea was taken by Greeks.)
Correction: Moldova also had Izmail one time.
You mean Bukhovina Oblast?
@@halamadridynadamas14 south of the Odessa oblast
From the time of Principality of Moldavia right?
@@lewycraft Moldovia inherently became romania along with walachia it isnt the ancestor of moldova
@@K.Pershing I mean, half im old Moldavia is currently in Romania and other half is in Moldova, with coast belonging to Ukraine
5:44 upgrades people upgrades
5:22 You forgot Otranto (The heel of the boot of Italy) which was controlled by Turkey in the 16th century briefly
2:28 Mussoloni's dream during WW2
4:12 You made a minor mistake.
you forgot dobrich
This is amazing this channel is entering the “Geossance”
Bardzo mocne uproszenia historyczne, ale dziękuję za materiał :)