Why does Monaco Exist?

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  • Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024

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  • @jamesrussels7766
    @jamesrussels7766 Год назад +14819

    The docks of Monaco being visible as part of its coastline will never not be hilarious to me.

    • @Yosef_Marks
      @Yosef_Marks Год назад +1974

      Also, the fact that the F1 track covers a significant area of the whole country.

    • @812gingerable
      @812gingerable Год назад +338

      Well known to Worldle players

    • @GarkKahn
      @GarkKahn Год назад +844

      The entire territory is basically the f1 track and wrc stages

    • @albevanhanoy
      @albevanhanoy Год назад +361

      Little Monaco's so tiny you can see the piers within

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 Год назад +106

      Gibraltar also.

  • @darinfoat8410
    @darinfoat8410 Год назад +5396

    A few years back a friend of mine was on a road trip in France, and decided to visit Monaco. He crossed the border, drove around for over an hour, and had to leave the country because he couldn't find a parking space. This is a wonderful illustration of just how small this place is.

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 Год назад +405

      They have built lots of underground parking garages and have signs directing you to the nearest one with open spaces. Parking on the street, though, is hard unless you're driving a supercar.

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 Год назад +457

      If that country were any smaller, the "Welcome To..." and "You're Now Leaving..." signs would share the same post.

    • @jackgibsxxx0750
      @jackgibsxxx0750 Год назад +84

      @@louisduarte8763 ..... Know a few towns like that.

    • @rubywest5166
      @rubywest5166 Год назад +56

      Eh, Schumacher and Rosberg managed just fine

    • @livifan45
      @livifan45 Год назад +17

      Yes, I thought everyone knew you just stop in the middle of the road outside La Rascasse and everyone just waves that off as fine.

  • @MrAlsachti
    @MrAlsachti Год назад +9084

    Apparently, Free French forces had the opportunity to take Monaco at the end of the second world war. The officer in charge asked permission from De Gaulle to invade the principality. De Gaulle answered: "If you had invaded Monaco and told me later, I would have condemned you in public, and I would have congratulated you in private. Now, you are asking me permission. I can't give it."

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Год назад

      De Gaulle was a Natural Born Politician

    • @Sagoner
      @Sagoner Год назад +814

      Especially since Monaco collaborated with the Italian during WW2

    • @alanpennie8013
      @alanpennie8013 Год назад +231

      That's very Sextus Pompey The Boat King. (See Act II of Antony and Cleopatra).

    • @hjonesjr5316
      @hjonesjr5316 Год назад +106

      @@Sagoner invaded by the Italians*

    • @answerman9933
      @answerman9933 Год назад +694

      "It's easier to get forgiveness than to get permission"

  • @KrunchymanTheBold
    @KrunchymanTheBold Год назад +7430

    Monaco is basically what would happen if a country club was its own country.

    • @KarlBunker
      @KarlBunker Год назад +218

      Shh! You'll give a certain orange guy ideas!

    • @zerotofifty
      @zerotofifty Год назад +133

      @@KarlBunker For a second I thought you were talking about someone in Orange County, California

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz Год назад +15

      @@KarlBunkerI can’t imagine anyone letting him do it

    • @abdurrazzaqmumin1574
      @abdurrazzaqmumin1574 Год назад +30

      @@ecurewitz I think many Americans including myself would welcome such an opportunity.

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz Год назад +48

      @@abdurrazzaqmumin1574 prison is a better opportunity for him

  • @grondhero
    @grondhero Год назад +3939

    Yes! We are back to "Why does this small country exist?" series. Also known as "Why didn't their neighbors take them over?" 😅

    • @markmuller7962
      @markmuller7962 Год назад

      Nasty nasty Europe 😅

    • @t.texastimmy1022
      @t.texastimmy1022 Год назад +19

      now lets do an update on Ukraine ....

    • @josephsarra4320
      @josephsarra4320 Год назад +28

      Why not Liechtenstein?

    • @Fire157_
      @Fire157_ Год назад +31

      @@josephsarra4320 already done

    • @chrisl9934
      @chrisl9934 Год назад +28

      Also known as "why this small country didn't just die?"

  • @rockoorbe2002
    @rockoorbe2002 Год назад +2149

    Kinda surprised and disappointed we didn't get a scene of the Princes of Monaco running across a field of flowers celebrating that they weren't conquered.
    Also, I found out that Monaco residents (at least the permanent ones) speak a language called Monegasque (a dialect of Ligurian which I believe it's the same language spoken in Genoa), which, like the country itself is one of those relics of when Europe was divided into many units and each had its unique language or dialect. Kinda like Maltese or Luxembourgish.

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow Год назад +158

      Ligurian is more alive in Monaco than in Liguria, I'm afraid...

    • @Alex-to8es
      @Alex-to8es Год назад +85

      Pretty sure these days the language they speak these days is richy mcTaxEvasion. But there we go.

    • @jojbenedoot7459
      @jojbenedoot7459 Год назад +107

      Well Maltese is a Semitic language wholly unrelated to the languages of Europe aside from a bunch of Italian vocabulary. That one was always gonna be classified differently

    • @krle7970
      @krle7970 Год назад +9

      So Italian then

    • @sopwithsnoopy8779
      @sopwithsnoopy8779 Год назад +46

      Does Monaco even have flower fields? 😁

  • @CallieMasters5000
    @CallieMasters5000 Год назад +531

    I heard a Monaco tour guide once describe Monaco as the expensive mushroom or truffle on the tree of France. It's very small and depends on France for national security and resources, but it's an expensive addition to have and it attracts much wealth and joy.

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Год назад +60

      Yeah, so much joy.
      Couldn't possibly imagine how utterly desolate I would be in a world without Monaco.

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 Год назад +43

      Monaco provides a lot of jobs for people living in France and Italy, who commute in every day. Formula 1 fans and tourists keep coming every year, and there's a lot of joy.

    • @estebanod
      @estebanod Год назад +6

      ​@@CallieMasters5000 lots of pain too, Monaco traffic fckn sucks!!! So horrible to drive through

    • @rachelar
      @rachelar Год назад +3

      The monarchy France pretends it doesn't need or want

    • @shogun2215
      @shogun2215 Год назад +9

      @@CallieMasters5000 Nothing would give me more joy than seeing the disgustingly wealthy of Monaco all thrown into the ocean.

  • @jonathanwebster7091
    @jonathanwebster7091 Год назад +474

    Also fun fact: Monaco is actually smaller (0.78 sq.miles/2.02 km²) than Central Park in New York (1.31 sq. miles/3.41 km²).

    • @stevenmaginnis1965
      @stevenmaginnis1965 Год назад +56

      Vatican City is even smaller , being smaller than even Disneyland in Anaheim.

    • @MM126.90
      @MM126.90 Год назад +33

      @@stevenmaginnis1965 the Burj Kalifa is taller than Vatican City is wide

    • @manchesterunitedno7
      @manchesterunitedno7 Год назад +11

      Monaco is so small, that even Sentosa Resort Island in Singapore still twice as large as Monaco. A really small island that is part of a small wealthy island country, still bigger than this.

    • @danielstewart2602
      @danielstewart2602 17 дней назад

      @@manchesterunitedno7 when you realise how small these countries are, youre just like "whoa"
      Central Park, for that matter, from what I heard, I always expected was way bigger, at least twice as big but I don't care per se and I was never mislead. I just assumed it would have been bigger

  • @zork999
    @zork999 Год назад +731

    I got kicked out of the casino in Monaco 45 years ago. Just because I 1) did not have a suit or jacket and 2) was only 18 (minimum age was 21). I was "eurailing" through Europe so jackets were contraindicated in my backpack. I am convinced that if I had the suit they would never have asked about my age.

    • @KingOfClay
      @KingOfClay Год назад +160

      They ask if you win. They ignore if you lose.

    • @zork999
      @zork999 Год назад +49

      @@KingOfClay I was just walking around but I guess I did not look like I belonged. I don't know if it still is, but in 1978 the casino was VERY fancy, and pretty much everyone else was in suits and long dresses. I generally find that if you act like you belong they don't hassle you, but I guess they had not translated that page into French.

    • @grangermontag1824
      @grangermontag1824 Год назад +84

      I've been kicked out of 109 Casinos because everyone is mean to me. Definitely not because I was counting cards.

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Год назад +34

      I can understand the people of Monaco.
      Without the dress code, their casinos would just be ordinary gambling dens like most of Las Vegas.
      Hey, we can all pretend we're better than others, can we not?

    • @nicobsm111saintmichel7
      @nicobsm111saintmichel7 Год назад +8

      In Monaco, the gambling age is 18.

  • @aidenbuck4765
    @aidenbuck4765 Год назад +1043

    If all of us History Matters subscribers got together we could probably take over Monaco easily. So whose with me.

    • @TheTrex9000
      @TheTrex9000 Год назад +9

      Me

    • @grondhero
      @grondhero Год назад +55

      That's true. And if we conquered them quickly enough, none of their neighbors would react for fear of starting an invasion. 😉

    • @degekkegier8385
      @degekkegier8385 Год назад +73

      With 1,5 million man, you can conquer a lot of countries

    • @dtglck4fkds
      @dtglck4fkds Год назад +146

      Only if a certain James Bissonette funds us, with him on board- we have certain victory.

    • @QWERTY-gp8fd
      @QWERTY-gp8fd Год назад +36

      @@degekkegier8385 1,5 milion civilians with no military funding.

  • @3km143
    @3km143 Год назад +81

    Monaco is so small, the street circuit it has, takes quite a large part of the entire country

  • @francescoiuliano5690
    @francescoiuliano5690 Год назад +1006

    It is worth making 2 clarifications: 1) when we speak of the Kingdom of Sardinia, in reality it is the Savoys, specifically the Piedmontese 2) there is an agreement between the Principality and France, which provides that in the event the Royal Family dies out, the remaining territory will become France.

    • @krle7970
      @krle7970 Год назад

      That sounds like a terrible idea, in the future France can kill the family and take the land

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Год назад +48

      Although not American (I'm Dutch) but I have never been able to master all the intricacies of French and Italian territories.
      I do remember a propaganda image from before World War I that said, "Avanti Savoia!"
      So I presume Savoyans speak Italian?

    • @nunopereira6092
      @nunopereira6092 Год назад +44

      No chance of that with the amount of legitimate (and the not so much) heirs, thanks to the Monegasque counterpart to Nick Cannon.

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper Год назад +64

      @@AudieHolland Savoyards (Savoisiens) speak Savoyard which is a dialect of Arpetan. Also spoken in Romandy in Switzerland, Vallée d'Aoste, Lyonnais, Dauphiné, etc. However because of France being France, very few people speak their own indigenous language. Really hope it'll change one day with a linguistic and national revival.

    • @Sagoner
      @Sagoner Год назад +36

      @@AudieHolland There are Franco-Italian minority on both side the Aost valley in north west Italy is French the rest is fully Italian
      And French Savoie is French (except some community that still hold on but they are very small)
      They are also some regional language in the French part nobody speak them except +70 years old, and in Italy the same process is under way

  • @NIDELLANEUM
    @NIDELLANEUM Год назад +176

    When you showed how Monaco looked like before being annexed to Sardinia, I thought "alright, I can't wait to see the map changing to show its current borders". I didn't even notice that said current borders were one of its tips

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 Год назад +5

      They sliced pieces of alot of micronations. Luxemberg, the vatican, I think that nation between france and spain. Kuwait. ALthough I don't think they qualify as microstate, well Nepal and Bhutan as well.

    • @NIDELLANEUM
      @NIDELLANEUM Год назад +2

      @@slewone4905 yeah I know, Luxembourg has that shape because its neighbours kept taking pieces

    • @Tony.H03
      @Tony.H03 Год назад +1

      @@slewone4905 the Vatican doesn't really belong in that list, unless you consider it to be a very very very sliced off continuation of the Papal States. Its borders have never changed since its foundation afaik.

    • @Diedwhilemakingwaffles
      @Diedwhilemakingwaffles 3 дня назад

      @@slewone4905 "the nation between France and Spain" 💀

  • @jonathanwebster7091
    @jonathanwebster7091 Год назад +272

    Fun fact: every family that has succeeded to the throne of Monaco has adopted the name and coat of arms of Grimaldi even if they aren't actually descended from the the original family in the male line.
    In fact, this has happened twice: first, with Prince Jacques I who was originally a Goyon-Matignon and adopted the name on his marriage to the daughter of the last Grimaldi Prince of the original family, Louise Hippolyte, who also reigned in her own right, and secondly when the grandfather of the current Prince, Prince Pierre, who was originally a Polignac, married Charlotte, the legitimatised daughter of Louis II, the last Prince of the Grimaldi family of the Goyon-Matignon male line.

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 Год назад +22

      You mean like King Charles is the house of Windsor, but his real last name is Mountbatten, and only claim of the house is through his mother, and Mountbatten isn't the real last name, but forced to anglicize it, because they didn't want to be associated with Germans during the wars, and i was originally Battenberg, but Charles father only took that name from his mother side.

    • @jonathanwebster7091
      @jonathanwebster7091 Год назад +16

      @@slewone4905 not really because Mountbatten wasn't his father's real last name (it was the name of his mother's family).
      His father Prince Phillip was an Oldenburg, of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg branch.
      The same family that still reigns in Denmark and Norway, and formerly in Iceland and Greece.
      The only reason his father used that surname was because he needed a surname for naturalisation purposes when he became a British citizen in 1947, having considered and rejected an anglicised version of his House name; 'Oldcastle'.
      Also, while the name of the Royal House is Windsor, the surname of the royals descended from the marriage of Prince Phillip is actually 'Mountbatten-Windsor'.
      Which is only really used by male-line descendants of the late Queen and Prince Philip when they don't have a higher title (like Prince/Princess, or a peerage, ie a Duke, Earl, Baron, etc) that would 'eclipse' and mean they wouldn't need a surname.
      Which is why for example, Prince Harry's children are Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor, and the daughter of the Earl of Wessex is Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor.
      This was introduced with a 1960 Order in Council by the Queen just before the birth of Prince Andrew (basically because Prince Philip was annoyed that a previous Order in Council, in 1952, stated that the Queen *and her children* would just be 'the House of...and bear the name of Windsor). Basically, it was a compromise.
      Also, while in practice it's used by the non-titled descendants of the Queen and Prince Philip, in practice, it's actually been used on occasion by the titled ones as well: the present King, Princess Anne, and Prince Andrew have all used it occasionally; Princess Anne even used it on her marriage certificate.

    • @jonathanwebster7091
      @jonathanwebster7091 Год назад +6

      @@slewone4905 oh sorry I partially misread what you said there, but eh not really.
      The most clear parallel with the Monegasque tradition of keeping the House name and coat of arms; even when the house has become extinct in the male line, is in the Netherlands.
      Just like eg. the name of Habsburg became inextricably linked with Austria (hence why it was kept; though hyphenated with Lorraine) even after the original House of Habsburg became extinct in the male line. Ditto the Romanovs as regards Russia: the family that ruled until 1917 was actually a branch of the House of Oldenburg of the Holstein-Gottorp branch that inherited the throne through the first monarch (Pyotr III) being the son of Peter the Great's daughter Anna. Also true for Liechtenstein (hell, the country is *named* after the family rather than the other way around); only that's not become extinct in the male line. Basically, because the House and name of Grimaldi had become so intertwined with the identity of Monaco it seemed wrong to ditch it.
      In the same way, the House of Orange-Nassau had become so identified with the identity of the Dutch nation, going back to even before it became a monarchy, even to its founding, for the same reasons, they were loath to bin the name just because the original House had become extinct.
      This was first made concrete in law by Queen Wilhelmina in 1908, just before the birth of the future Queen Juliana.
      Which is why Queen Juliana was an Orange-Nassau, even though she should have really been a Mecklenburg-Schwerin like her father;
      Queen Beatrix, the same, even though she should have been a Lippe-Biesterfeld like her father,
      And ditto for King Willem-Alexander, even though he should have been a Amsberg like his father.
      Note that even then, that's not exactly the same as the Grimaldi example; because it's only for the reigning monarch: the individual princes and prince (for example, King W-A's brother Prince Constantijn and his children) have the surname of Amsberg hyphenated with that of Orange-Nassau; and this was also the case for Beatrix before and after her (and her sisters too) as regards their father's House name. Likewise Juliana hyphenated her father's house name before and after she was Queen too.
      It's just that, in the case of Willem-Alexander, for the first time in three generations of the Royal Family, he was male, and he only had (two) male siblings to carry on the hyphenated name.
      And out of the three brothers, only Prince Constantijn actually has had a son (the King and the other brother, Prince Friso, 'only' had daughters, and all of the other children of Prince Constantijn are girls) to carry on the Amsberg name.

    • @TheBlaqOrder
      @TheBlaqOrder Год назад +2

      @@jonathanwebster7091 Charles Oldenborough

    • @ralfklonowski3740
      @ralfklonowski3740 Год назад

      In NW Germany, this often used to happen when a guy married into a farm. If Mr. A married Miss B who had inherited the family farm, than the husband might appear in church records as "A called B" or "A-B", and after one or two generations his original family name could just vanish entirely.

  • @TheEnergeticPanda
    @TheEnergeticPanda 3 месяца назад +39

    Here after Charles Leclerc won at Monaco - the true hero of the Monagasque

  • @mrididnt1631
    @mrididnt1631 Год назад +29

    "Because no self respecting king of France can resist the opportunity to deprive Spain of subjects"
    This gave me a good chuckle.

  • @antonimaciag1259
    @antonimaciag1259 Год назад +379

    Actually, Monaco survived because James Bisonette needed it as a tax haven. This later became one of the cornerstones of his immense wealth.

    • @kevinmahernz
      @kevinmahernz Год назад +33

      James shares it with Kelly Moneymaker 😂

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 7 месяцев назад

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
      (2:136 / Translated by Community)
      Salam (Peace) ---------------

    • @ThatGuyNicho
      @ThatGuyNicho 3 месяца назад +1

      Well, that, and because James Bisonette hid a 20 megaton nuclear weapon deep underneath Nice, threatening to detonate it if France ever threatened his beloved Monaco

    • @jamesbissonette8002
      @jamesbissonette8002 2 месяца назад

      Doubt it

    • @masterchinese28
      @masterchinese28 2 месяца назад +1

      The name is Bisonette... James Bisonette.

  • @timschutz9068
    @timschutz9068 Год назад +187

    I love this channel for being so niche. Answers questions I never had, but once I hear them, i want to have them answered.

    • @croma2068
      @croma2068 Год назад +7

      Well, it's mostly because he has run out of the big topics.

    • @DargorShepard
      @DargorShepard Год назад +1

      ​@@croma2068 My thoughts exactly.

  • @Chorutowo
    @Chorutowo Год назад +45

    "Had one objective, dont get conquered" - Thanks for the advice, I will take it into consideration when I start my next country

  • @aethergasm
    @aethergasm Год назад +64

    THANK YOU!!! We had a voluntary school trip to Europe when I was 17 and we went to Monaco. We tried to ask our tour guide to tell us about it and she was always like "hey, look over there" and dodged our questions. You've answered a question that was confusing my lazy brain for 20 years. 😆

  • @erwinrommel6114
    @erwinrommel6114 Год назад +591

    Hey History Matters. I really like your sense of humor and the topics. Can you make a video about why nobody speaks latin?

    • @bricksburger5409
      @bricksburger5409 Год назад +42

      I would like to see a video on this. Good idea

    • @noluckyyy
      @noluckyyy Год назад +37

      I mean, Vatican bishops and the Pope speaks Latin

    • @cyrusthegreat7030
      @cyrusthegreat7030 Год назад +66

      Because it become the modern romance languages French, Italian, Spanish etc

    • @gts1300
      @gts1300 Год назад +63

      Good idea. Although, what do you exactly mean by Latin? Are you speaking about classical Latin, the language which eventually became reserved to the elite, or vulgar Latin, which was spoken by everyone else?
      If you're talking about Vulgar Latin, it never ceased to exist. It just evolved into various languages (Italian, Spanish, Romanian, etc.) and people just began referring to the resulting languages in different ways.
      Modern Greek looks more unintelligible with Ancient Greek than Italian is with Latin, but we still call it Greek because the place is still called Greece. Same for Chinese for example.

    • @mcswordfish
      @mcswordfish Год назад +28

      French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, and Catalan are all just Latin Dialects

  • @Darksnowman13
    @Darksnowman13 Год назад +49

    I love these little micro histories for places you just kinda forget exist.

  • @andrewrollason4963
    @andrewrollason4963 Год назад +43

    There remains but one question: Why? Why does Monaco exist.
    The reason for this is that James Bissonette wanted a city to hold a Formula One Grand Prix and he wanted it to be in southern England. But Fun Fact: No.
    Kelly Moneymaker and Boogiily Woogily found a small villiage in southern France that specialised in making spinning three plates and they stumped up the cash to build the rest of the city around it.

  • @GhostVII
    @GhostVII Год назад +80

    One of the best history channels on RUclips, the animations always make me laugh as well.

    • @zork999
      @zork999 Год назад +6

      I love the little figures with signs. Also whenever he goes "Fun Fact - No". I don't know why but that just cracks me up.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 Год назад +84

    Next: “How is San Marino still independent and not absorbed by Italy?”

    • @goranpersson7726
      @goranpersson7726 Год назад +19

      there was an agreement back during the formation of italy, i cant quite recall the exact details but i think it was something or another about san marino basically just being a mountain fort so it was annoying to conquer and held not really much value

    • @jonathanwebster7091
      @jonathanwebster7091 Год назад +22

      @@goranpersson7726 also because San Marino gave shelter to Garibaldi when he went into hiding after the failed 1848 revolutions.

    • @bighillraft
      @bighillraft Год назад +3

      he already made that I think

    • @minecraftify95
      @minecraftify95 Год назад +1

      what about vatican city

    • @jonathanwebster7091
      @jonathanwebster7091 Год назад

      @@minecraftify95 what about it?

  • @-socialcredit
    @-socialcredit Год назад +13

    F1 fans: To torture us for a weekend

  • @jaywalkallstar
    @jaywalkallstar 3 месяца назад +5

    Mostly it exists to be turned into a racetrack once a year.

    • @JebuzzCrust56
      @JebuzzCrust56 2 месяца назад +1

      More than once!

    • @grantorino2325
      @grantorino2325 2 месяца назад

      "Monte Carlo"
      That's an awesome name for a global auto-racing center!
      CAR-lo. 🚗

  • @evandalemon
    @evandalemon Год назад +13

    Honestly surprised to not see more F1 comments but great video nonetheless
    A very interesting country indeed

  • @christianwestling2019
    @christianwestling2019 Год назад +13

    I like that you had the most recent map of Monaco, with the new Portier district that has been reclaimed from the sea. Good work!

  • @DarthVader-ig6ci
    @DarthVader-ig6ci 2 месяца назад +5

    Answer:- To host the Monaco Grand Prix.... here you go

  • @AloisAgos
    @AloisAgos Год назад +5

    I hope San Marino is next on this list of "Why does this country exist" series.

  • @KingOfClay
    @KingOfClay Год назад +11

    Fun Fact: Monaco has the most princes that also race bobsleds.

  • @rif.geo_
    @rif.geo_ Год назад +28

    He answers questions that nobody asked, but everyone wants to know the answer to

  • @HumbleAshe
    @HumbleAshe Год назад +53

    Neat video! I’ve never really known myself how Monaco came to be (mainly since I’m not majorly familiar with European history), but seeing this small nation’s history that dates back centuries is really fascinating.

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 Год назад +2

      Europe was full of city states back in the middle ages that eventually joined together in mutual defense leagues or by control of the same families. Eventually they joined together into countries, but some managed to stay separate like Monaco.

    • @ThatVillain-the-Gamer
      @ThatVillain-the-Gamer Год назад

      Clearly, Monaco only exists because the Crusaders wanted it to.

    • @TheNinetySecond
      @TheNinetySecond Год назад

      Much of Europe (_especially_ central Europe) was comprised of city states which in turn were comprised of various ethnic groups like Germans, Poles and Italians. Around the middle of the 19th century and especially around 1848 (as mentioned in the video) nationalism became a thing, and those ethnic groups started to actively clump up into modern countries. For millennia before that, the administrative status quo was city states or similarly small areas of influence. The empires controlled many such areas, but the administration was still executed through regional powers (unless you wanna march an army out to collect taxes).

  • @LM-pt1rr
    @LM-pt1rr Год назад +20

    Thank god for the existence of Monaco
    A great gift for the F1

    • @mattsingh_
      @mattsingh_ Год назад +7

      Unless you want to see overtaking…

    • @carlossainz4805
      @carlossainz4805 Год назад +3

      Then make cars smaller and lighter. The track is great

    • @wiegraf9009
      @wiegraf9009 Год назад

      Only worth watching Formula E go around there. The F1 is only good for quali.

  • @wordart_guian
    @wordart_guian Год назад +9

    i'd add that monaco wasn't at all french speaking until very recently. the two native languages are ligurian (or genoese) on the rock and occitan outside it (plus in all the part that france annexed)

  • @cs82271
    @cs82271 Год назад +31

    Visited Monaco last October and I made it a goal of mine to walk the entire border, or at least what was possible, in one day. I did and it was exhausting. I forgot the part where pretty much every direction was uphill. The oceanography museum was nice tho.

  • @ianpatterson6552
    @ianpatterson6552 Год назад +15

    There was also in the late 19th/early 20th centuries a Prussian then German interest in Monaco. A Duke of Urach (Württemberg) was related to the Grimaldi’s and was technically in line for the succession. But France didn’t want a German Duke in charge of the place, so various legal sleights of hand were conjured up to keep him at bay.

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Год назад +1

      Well, you know how the British royals ended up having a German sitting on their throne.

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 Год назад +6

      Mainly this meant that Prince Louis went through the trouble of formally adopting his adult illegitimate daughter, Princess Charlotte, so the throne wouldn't go to the German cousin. When Louis died, Charlotte handed the throne to her son, Prince Rainer. The irony was that Louis had spent many years growing up in Germany with his mom, while the German cousin was born and raised in Monaco and spoke French as his first language.

    • @watersportsbyjamesfitzroy5870
      @watersportsbyjamesfitzroy5870 Год назад

      @@CallieMasters5000 Life is full of irony

  • @pheumann86
    @pheumann86 Год назад +2

    Your list of patreon supporters is now almost as long as the entire rest of the video. And I'm loving it.

  • @samrevlej9331
    @samrevlej9331 Год назад +7

    2:29 First time I've seen History Matters depict De Gaulle as he actually looked when he was president (i.e. old) and not in his WW2 general outfit.

    • @piratamaia
      @piratamaia Год назад +3

      The first time was in a video about Quebec

  • @guilhermecesar9185
    @guilhermecesar9185 Год назад +6

    "Monaco try to find new ways of making money and did this by two methods: Gambling and later on, evasive accounts"
    And they are really good on doing this for entire Europe! How I love the sense of humor of this channel!

  • @Cnimail
    @Cnimail Год назад +5

    Makes a bloody good race track

  • @alexandrevidal5203
    @alexandrevidal5203 Год назад +28

    I've noticed 2 mistakes there. The old borders of Monaco being wrong. The city of Monaco had slightly more land further inland and the 2 other cities that are Menton and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin held referendum to decide whether to stay with Monaco or to be annexed.
    And other anecdote: After the crisis with Charles de Gaulle (Who said that the only thing needed to blockade Monaco was a wrong way sign 😂) the agreement between France and Monaco stipulates that the day there's no more heir to the throne, France would rightfully annex Monaco. (Update: I don't find where I red that last thing. I might be wrong)
    Your videos are still awesome. Continue like that! 👍

    • @americanloyalist4599
      @americanloyalist4599 Год назад

      Wasn’t the heir thing removed?

    • @alexandrevidal5203
      @alexandrevidal5203 Год назад

      @@americanloyalist4599 No. Why would it be?

    • @galaxspace1
      @galaxspace1 Год назад +3

      @@alexandrevidal5203 it was never stated that France could annex it, just that it would become a protectorate. It doesnt matter however, because in 2002 it was changed to always guarantee a monarch from whatever line so that its independence is secured.

    • @alexandrevidal5203
      @alexandrevidal5203 Год назад

      @@galaxspace1 Yes. I searched where I had red this thing but nowhere to be found. I might have made a mistake.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 Год назад +2

    James Bisonette props up the Monegasque economy on his shoulders.

  • @faizannehal1
    @faizannehal1 Год назад +3

    The fact that Monaco exists but my girlfriend doesn’t is scary

  • @bprw12
    @bprw12 Год назад +17

    I’d like more videos about micro-states. I’ve always found their existence very interesting

    • @lqr824
      @lqr824 2 месяца назад

      When I was little, early 70s, my parents had some travel brochures for tours of Europe:5 countries in 7 nights, etc. I got to thinking it'd be fun to do a tour of Europe where you basically focus on microstates and other oddities: Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican, Malta, both sides of Cyprus, but also Gibralter, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete, Aaland, and even Kaliningrad. There's also weird exclaves of Italy and Germany inside Switzerland and a weird place in the Netherlands where there's pieces of Belgium that have pieces of Netherlands in them, one of which has a piece of Belgium in it. It might be fun to visit Slovenia and even Kosovo. Mt. Athos in Greece is apparently a slightly separate country too.

  • @mrterp04
    @mrterp04 Год назад +2

    -Monte Carlo is a place in Monaco
    -Monaco has a car race
    -Monte Carlos are cars that have been run in races
    …yet no Monte Carlos have raced in Monaco.

  • @nizam-alem6761
    @nizam-alem6761 Год назад +3

    Monaco speaks its own language called Monegasque and it is a separate romance language

  • @zbeen-ah-lah
    @zbeen-ah-lah 2 месяца назад +4

    2nd answer: F1

  • @MomMom4Cubs
    @MomMom4Cubs Год назад +6

    Yay! A question I've actually asked myself before!
    I can now cross that item off my bucket list.

  • @hawkeyeten2450
    @hawkeyeten2450 Год назад +9

    Most of us Americans probably became more acquainted with Monaco after Grace Kelly became the Princess Consort in the 1950s. Very interesting to learn more about this micro-country!

    • @David_T
      @David_T Год назад

      They missed a golden opportunity not not having an Easter egg with her picture

  • @Hypophreniac
    @Hypophreniac Год назад +24

    I love these videos so much they’re legit helping me in history class so much

  • @connorgolden4
    @connorgolden4 Год назад +6

    Because James Bisonette said so!

  • @LietunantGreek
    @LietunantGreek Год назад +8

    According to me only 22% of the planet knows that Monaco exist

    • @grondhero
      @grondhero Год назад +4

      I appreciate you citing your sources. 👍

    • @overlord7523
      @overlord7523 Год назад +2

      Most people know it thanks to Formula 1

    • @LietunantGreek
      @LietunantGreek Год назад +1

      @@overlord7523 yes. That made me know Monaco

  • @AlexanderRM1000
    @AlexanderRM1000 Год назад +5

    I had no idea most of Monaco broke away with the Revolution of 1848, so it's even smaller than it used to be. 10/10 very informative video

    • @mbd501
      @mbd501 Год назад

      I once visited that area. Beautiful area. There's an old Grimaldi castle you can visit in one of the towns along there.

  • @loremasterxp3635
    @loremasterxp3635 Год назад +2

    2:00 The French: Look guys we only took half of it! Ok a little more than half but still! We didn't conquer it conquer it! It still exists!
    The rest of Europe: Why you little.......eh whatever they make a good point.
    Monaco: But but...but why?

  • @HMB106
    @HMB106 Год назад +4

    Another episode of “A question I’ve never thought to ask but now that I’ve seen the video title I want to know the answer”

  • @erikluning6361
    @erikluning6361 Год назад +55

    Me as an European I’ve always gone kinda crazy when thinking why such a small country existed. Like, “why it exist? Just make it a part of France!”

    • @kvarterto4277
      @kvarterto4277 Год назад +13

      What do you think Monaco feel when you write things like that? Hm?

    • @billygoatgruff3536
      @billygoatgruff3536 Год назад +41

      @@kvarterto4277 I'm sure all 6 of them would be very upset.

    • @ritikshaw5868
      @ritikshaw5868 Год назад +11

      @@billygoatgruff3536 stop lying... there were only 2.. and a dog. I counted.

    • @bluelaser1012
      @bluelaser1012 Год назад +7

      I feel the same way about most of the tiny northeastern states that barely have the population of a mid-sized city. Just merge them all into Massachusetts

    • @kvarterto4277
      @kvarterto4277 Год назад +1

      @@billygoatgruff3536 As they have every right to be! Monacophobia must end!

  • @miguelteodoro5013
    @miguelteodoro5013 Год назад +2

    Short answer: Monaco exists for Motorsport events

  • @DemonetisedZone
    @DemonetisedZone Год назад +2

    As someone who didn't like History at school this channel is helping me learn so much

  • @BartlomiejDmowski
    @BartlomiejDmowski Год назад +4

    2:13 Now that's an interesting point. What was their interest in it?

  • @theconqueringram5295
    @theconqueringram5295 Год назад +7

    You know, it's still amazing that Monaco still exists today. It has a lot to do with diplomatic issues and luck. As a side note, from the end of the Middle Ages to a later after 1816, the Barbary pirates raided European coastlines around the Mediterranean and I read about Monacan history and I never read of an episode where the Barbary pirates raided Monaco.

    • @jbshiva865
      @jbshiva865 Год назад

      They always paid bribes to make the pirates go away.

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 Год назад +2

      Maybe that’s where they sold their goods

    • @algorithmsavior3820
      @algorithmsavior3820 Год назад

      ​@@tomhenry897maybe it was sort of like their Tortuga from Pirates of the Caribbean

  • @adhesiveregex1720
    @adhesiveregex1720 Год назад +2

    Any day is a good day when a new History M video comes out

  • @Plate-
    @Plate- Год назад +2

    If Monaco had disappeared, there would have been no "the Monegasque" in today's F1 commentary anymore, only "Charles Leclerc".

  • @FranciscoSciaraffia
    @FranciscoSciaraffia Год назад +3

    Now gotta do Liechtenstein and San Marino :D

    • @NicolaW72
      @NicolaW72 Год назад +1

      Not to forget Andorra.

  • @helloimskip
    @helloimskip Год назад +3

    I was just thinking about this. You came in clutch 💪

  • @Obi1Classic
    @Obi1Classic Год назад +1

    "Evasive accounting."
    Never change, my friend.

  • @herisruns
    @herisruns Год назад +2

    yess.... thank you for this. monaco is the one micro-state that i never really understood, no matter now much i read about it. but you make it actually sound sensible, concisely

  • @Sh_rib
    @Sh_rib Год назад +3

    Last time i was this early, James Bisonette wasn't a subscriber 😁

  • @marsspacex6065
    @marsspacex6065 Год назад +3

    In the old days a small state like Monaco was common but most were taken over by larger countries.

  • @quentintin1
    @quentintin1 Год назад +1

    regarding the French blocus of Monaco, De Gaulle is reputed to have once said:
    "To blockade Monaco, all you need is to no-entry signs"

  • @oxonomy2372
    @oxonomy2372 3 месяца назад +2

    2:47 You can actually make out the T13 T14 swimming pool chicane

  • @krisweinschenker598
    @krisweinschenker598 Год назад +5

    Good one as always....
    Although I found my Self distracted by a memory of an argument by two other players in a "History of the World" game over how many Cantons in Switzerland still speak Romanish. One guy was lawyer from Kentucky and the other was named Crazy Bob.

    • @masterchinese28
      @masterchinese28 Год назад +1

      I actually met a lady from Switzerland who spoke Romanche when I was in Paris. She told me something I could hardly believe: her computer ran a version of Windows in her language!

    • @jaimel88
      @jaimel88 Год назад

      ​@@masterchinese28 was that a very long time ago; why is that hard to believe? Many modern apps can be set to Romanche

  • @MM126.90
    @MM126.90 Год назад +3

    Well duh, obviously everyone on the F1 schedule needs a nap at some point

  • @Gorthan
    @Gorthan Год назад +2

    1:45 "Most of the country broke away". Fun fact: the flag of the Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune is the first "official" use of the italian tricolour, one month before its adoption by Kingdom of Sardinia.

  • @mohamadsufihaziq1692
    @mohamadsufihaziq1692 Год назад +3

    Do history of Brunei next please. Brunei is also a very small country but the country is very rich

  • @Alexxoniel
    @Alexxoniel Год назад +4

    Currently watching this from Monaco! Funny little state. ❤

  • @blockydude2253
    @blockydude2253 Год назад +3

    I had no idea Monaco was previously much larger

  • @Saruman38
    @Saruman38 Год назад +2

    Just a little bit of trivia for your future videos: Charles de Gaulle had a moustache. It's kind of hard to see on the pictures of him when he was President, because his moustache had turned grey by that point, and most of the pictures are black and white, but it's there.

  • @AdamJRawlins
    @AdamJRawlins Год назад +3

    I visited Monaco nearly eleven years ago and really enjoyed it. It's a fascinating place.

  • @mikedrewson5545
    @mikedrewson5545 Год назад +7

    This guy makes my day.

  • @harveya1a952
    @harveya1a952 Год назад +32

    Because James Bisonette owns it

  • @joshuafredericksen5370
    @joshuafredericksen5370 Год назад +1

    This is one that deserved an old fashioned ten minute video.

  • @TheHylianBatman
    @TheHylianBatman Год назад +2

    I had no idea that Monaco used to be bigger.
    How interesting.

  • @willlink7950
    @willlink7950 Год назад +9

    Could you do a video on the history of Sardinia? I never really learned about it in school, probably because it doesn't exist anymore

    • @arx3516
      @arx3516 Год назад +3

      You mean the island of Sardinia or the kingdom of Sardinia wich started the italian unification? I ask because they are two very different things.

    • @CFS1822
      @CFS1822 Год назад

      @@arx3516 actually sardinia as an autonomous status, so technically the state never ceased to exists.

  • @Lego-Brick-Gaming
    @Lego-Brick-Gaming 2 месяца назад +2

    It’s still here because Charles Leclerc won his home Grand Prix!

  • @SpartanX300
    @SpartanX300 Год назад +1

    "why does Monaco exist"
    Charles Leclerc asks himself this question every time he DNFs there

  • @syedlam9632
    @syedlam9632 Год назад +77

    We have to admit he never disappoints us with his contents

    • @rif.geo_
      @rif.geo_ Год назад +15

      We have to admit you’re a bot

  • @BrammBass
    @BrammBass Год назад +4

    Every time I see a video from you, I know I am going to laugh and learn.

  • @dinsdaleseven1627
    @dinsdaleseven1627 Год назад +1

    Like most questions that start with "Why", the answer is almost always money.

  • @benjaminmclaren8782
    @benjaminmclaren8782 Год назад +1

    Little Monaco's so tiny you can see the Piers within.
    And Chile's very, very, very, very, very long and thin.

  • @thatfrenchguy8972
    @thatfrenchguy8972 Год назад +4

    I am seriously trying to find a video of History Matters that doesn’t mention Napoleon 😂

  • @Bragegud
    @Bragegud Год назад +4

    Educational and entertaining as always. I love your "Why does country exist" series and I've been hoping for one about Monaco. Personally, I find microstates very fascinating.
    Thank you so much for this video!

  • @nickmacarius3012
    @nickmacarius3012 Год назад +1

    *Napoleon:* "Hi. It's me, again. I know this seems to be a sort of running theme." 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @TheMrbadaboum
    @TheMrbadaboum Год назад +2

    De Gaulle famously said "to blockade Monaco, all you need are two no-go signs".

  • @nightrider_
    @nightrider_ Год назад +4

    I'd love to hear more about the kingdom of Sardinia. Even the history of the island as well. Had no idea they were involved in the Monaco debate.

    • @lucianboar3489
      @lucianboar3489 Год назад +1

      It's usually known as the kingdom of Piedmont or Sardinia-Piedmont since it was the mainland tegion of Piedmont that held the most power in every possible way. But the entity's origin is in Sardinia.

    • @maasro
      @maasro Год назад +1

      @@lucianboar3489 No it isn't. Sardinia was given in exchange to the duke of Savoy to allow for the duke to keep the title of king. Originally, Savoy got (the kingdom of) Sicily after the war of Spanish succession, but when Spain attacked them over it a few years later, Austria stepped in and demanded as a reward to trade it for (the then far inferior) kingdom of Sardinia, which Austria had gotten from Spain after the war os Spanish Succession. The only upside for the house of Savoy was that they would still have a kingdom and therefore not lose the higher rank they had just attained.

    • @lucianboar3489
      @lucianboar3489 Год назад

      @@maasro that's what I mean about entity: the kingdom

  • @TheLocalLt
    @TheLocalLt Год назад +27

    For even more detail (and mapping) of Menton breaking away from Monaco’s rule and eventually being conquered by Mussolini’s army, there’s a recent video over on the Wayback history channel called “Mussolini’s Mediterranean Conquest: the only French city conquered by Italy in WWII”

  • @DDLCMC
    @DDLCMC Год назад +1

    I have been waited for this forever!

  • @timmccarthy872
    @timmccarthy872 Год назад +1

    Wouldn't be a History Matters episode without Napoleon fucking with borders.

  • @halite_g
    @halite_g Год назад +3

    I initially read the thumbnail as "Does Monaco exist?"