Faisal Halla It's a massive delta for the largest river in Western Europe. Like any delta the land is constantly changing because of flooding and deposition. Add in land reclamation and other things people in these lands have done and that's what you get.
It’s not Netherlands’, it’s Dutch. Dutch peoples English grammar may not be used in English. I live in the Netherlands, and almost nobody can speak good English.
Lionel Messi No France and French people destroyed herself their country. It’s the fault of French people for destroying her cultural heritage. It’s sad but France is already lost.
Lionel Messi Non je ne suis pas français mais parle français et est venu en France beaucoup de fois ! Je viens à Paris depuis 1980 et à chaque fois que j’y retourne c’est toujours de plus en plus pire. J’ai l’impression que les français non plus aucune fierté et se laisse cracher dessus. La France était qu’en même le pays le plus puissant du monde ! Il suffit de voir son histoire. Mais quand je vois que des gens se permettent de bafouer votre pays alors qu’ils y vivent je ne comprend pas votre mode de pensé ! Des gens qui viennent vivre en France pour lui cracher dessus et se plaindre ! Je ne pourrais imaginer ça en Argentine (mon pays d’origine et où je vis), on les aurait déjà foutue dehors.
1:48 843CE "France has the biggest Kingdom in Europe. The pope is so proud he invites the King over for Christmas. "Surprise! You're the new Roman Emperor!" said the pope, pretending to still be part of the Roman Empire. Then the Franks broke their Kingdom into what will later be called France and not France."
Do you know that the Franks were a Germanic tribe and Francia was a German empire? Because it is. There's even a Region in modern day Germany called Franconia and the people there are called Franks.
@@joshi3334 Did you know that the germanic tribes weren't Germans ? Thus Francia was not a German Empire ? But is closer to French than German ? Did you know that the Franks hated the other germanic tribes ? And felt closer to the Gallo-Roman culture than the germanic one ? Btw Franconia is a creation of Francia when they destroyed the Alemanni kingdom, a germanic kingdom the Franks hated :) Fun fact : Even Louis II "the German" or "Ludwig der Deutsche", king of East Francia (not Germany) did his oath in "lingua romana" so gallo-roman which is close to old French. The fact that he is called "the German" is just because of the geographic situation of his kingdom, not his culture or language.
@@XR190190 "Fun fact : Even Louis II "the German" or "Ludwig der Deutsche", king of East Francia (not Germany) did his oath in "lingua romana" " If you're referring to the Oaths of Strasbourg: both participants used the language of the other one's realm. Louis the German swore in Old French while Charles the Bald swore in Old High German. "The fact that he is called "the German" is just because of the geographic situation of his kingdom, not his culture or language." Sure, the name is of later date. But the Carolingians did speak an Old High German dialect at the time. Not that it matters...
A couple things I'd like to point out about the Carolingian era- Charles the Bald of West Francia held control of Italy from 875 to 877, and Charles the Fat reunited the entirety of Charlemagne's old empire from 884 to 887. These events seem to be largely forgotten by the mapping community on UA-cam.
I'm german and our history classes be like: "There were dinosaurs, some war then *H I T L E R* " I mean that's wrong, but how do explain 1300 HRE to school kids? lmao
It's the same in France Napoléon take Europe ? No ,he is a dictator ! Clovis? Phillipe August? Charlemagne ? Saint Louis? What is that? I dont know but we lose in WWII and we are bad because we beat the Africans ! (Use Google traduction I'm not very good in English scuse me) Bref courage frère européen et ne tombons pas dans cette culpabilité stérile Vive la France et toute les civilisations européenne !
@@unepersonneinconnu4015 (google translate) Napoléon n'était pas aussi sévère que certains autres dictateurs, mais son règne était encore assez autoritaire. La chute de Napoléon, cependant, n'était pas de perdre une bataille, mais de ne pas savoir quand s'arrêter. Il aurait pu établir une paix qui lui laisserait le contrôle de la France et même de certaines régions voisines à plusieurs reprises, même après la désastreuse défaite de 1812, mais il ne put prendre ce qu'il pouvait obtenir et perdit tout.
@@unepersonneinconnu4015 British history class is Ancient Egypt (???), Romans, castles, *WE DID THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION! AREN'T WE GREAT!* , a _tiny_ bit about slavery then *WE WON WORLD WAR 1 & 2! AREN'T WE GREAT!*
the name "Holland actually comes from "Hout Land" which translates to "Wood Land" (named after a tiny forest) the name you are looking for is "the Netherlands" as nether is another word for low
I love how accurate you depicted The Netherlands, maps like these often get it wrong. Also, isn't it insane to think that every 20-30 years or so, a grandparent for most of us western europeans was born and lived his entire life on this map? They saw those land changes, they worked there asses of, died in battles but luckly after having children who also worked insanely hard, time and time again, and now were here. Incredible.
Teacher: For your homework please draw a map of Western Europe in 1300. Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Teacher: Are you ok?
@@Hdusiekwbshsjs Its because England and France were the only truly completely fuedal states and England was way more centralized. Thus, you do not get a realistic map of France without displaying every single vassals territory within France, until the King started being seen as the defacto ruler.
They didn't. There was constant bickering between these royal families and their tiny lands. Which is why the empire united eventually again. They saw that they needed cooperation to overpower their political enemies.
We skip 90% of our kings. Thats how. I didnt even know before last year we had multiple kings named clotaire, and that their favorite passtime was to murder each other, while being brothers, cousins, or nephews. Seriously there are so many assassinations in france history.
Scandinavia is not even close to being western europe, I would although add denmark, ireland, scotland and iberia to the map, and there would be still space for southern italy I think.
Way back in school I learned all about Flanders changing hands so many times between many countries. This video makes it so much clearer how many times it changed over the centuries.
Great video! Just noticed that Eupen - Malmedy was not included in pre WW1 Germany. Apart from the few mistakes that others have mentioned as well, this was great, well done!
4:45 *West Western Europe*: Nice and orderly, clear borders, nothing complicated * East Western Europe*: What? I can see atleast a bajillion kingdoms in that 500km2!
It's really good that you decided to merge many of your former per-kingdom timelapses into one western european one. Two suggestions though : colorfull palette doesn't make it easy to understand where lies the HRE, with it's different colors for the stem duchies and italy. I would suggest to either retain similar color shades, or at least make the HRE border much bolder. Secondly, it would be nice to also have geograhpical features such as mountains and major rivers appearing, as they were often closely related to the political boundaries (not only country borders, but also explaining why italy although divided remained unconquered by bigger neighbors for long)
nice suggestion. for geography, depends on the complexity of the regions and all. like, a cluster of smaller provinces packed together filling up like 60% of the map, the topography could be less exaggerated or just displayed at a lower opacity instead.
Thank you for the very interesting clip! Well done!! one small note: Austria's eastern border changed 1921, when Burgenland entered Austria. It seems that this region was forgotten to add, but it is included 1955 - today.
Well its because the HRE was a federation of Princes under the Emperor that other princes voted for, in other words its hundreds of semi-indepandant territory that chose their emperor (for a while ofc) meanwhile France despite the state of semi-indepandance lf all of the Great Nobles, in the end even if nominally at first, they were still straight up vassals of the french crown and they didnt decide who would rule over them aside from exceptions during a succession crisis. The divisions while still there works under differant rule, its not a bunch of micronations ruled over by a ruler of their chosing, but a bunch of powerfull lords that willingly submit to the authority preferably extremely weak of the King and his dynasty aka classic feudal interactions. This video chose to show the royal domain for a good while which was really the only place where the king could really affirm his autority which in truth is cool too since it shows more feudal related stuff
@@wertyuiopasd6281 Bollocks, it was not a state since 498. For example, some ssouthern regions were absolutely independent and only gave tacit allegiance to the Crown and didn't even pay taxes. People in these regions did not consider themselves French.. At best, France was a nation starting in the 10th century, and some would say 1190 with Philip
Bohemian borders are mostly in mountains so it makes sense, also Czech lands were part of HRE so it wasn't nessesery changing borders when it was commonwealth with German speaking states with same ruler as HRE.
@Luca Nitsche Czechs are not Ukrainians, Czechs are not traveling for work much, only some people living near to borders, we have low unemployment and all companies are looking for people, there is no reason why people should travel hunderds of kilometers to be cheap workers somewhere. If someone is living 2 km from German border, then it make sense live here for our prices and work in Germany, but when you have to pay German prices of housing and taxes then it's not so worthy going there for work.
@@erichvonmanstein1952 No it's not, France and Germany are the two only entity that actually come from it (west Francia and east Francia), the rest were conquered territories that have no relation whatsoever with the Franks in their royal lineages.
i like how you made it different when in france for instance its a clear mass when the king controls the land directly, while Austria has quasi independant nobels so austria is being cut by white borders
WOW! it must have been a real pain and took a lot of effort to finish this whole video especially in the middle of the time where the HRE is existing. Kuddos to the creators who did this and Very Good Job! 😊
It’s quite impressive that the tiny nation of Andorra have been around since the 1200’s in a continent that have changed so much during the centuries...
"Western Europe" without Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Scotland? The title should be something like "The History of Central Europe" because this is definitely NOT Western.
PS1GamerCollector Not related to the topic of this video. I find it insane how someone incredibly talented has made a fantastically precise video and then so many people write comments claiming the video to be wrong and the creator to be a heretic for not including some regions that occasionally are part of the vague and historically irrelevant geographic term he used to describe the much more specific topic of the video primarily being feudalism in Germany and France. Central Europe is Czechia and Hungary.
5:23 Weimar Republic was not the name of the german state. It was still German Empire (1871 - 1943). Weimar Republic refers to a time period (1918 - 1933). In Germany the period from 1949 to 1990 is called the Bonn Republic and from 1990 the Berlin Republic, but from 1949 the name of the state is Federal Republic of Germany.
Fantastic. Amazing how fragmented Europe was going into as late as the 1800's! I learned that post WW2 Austria remained divided into Allied sectors even after West German unification; and that Vienna was divided just as Berlin. Thanks for the video!
As I'm deeply interested in Italian history, I really admire your work, like this one and the "History of the Italians" as well as other videos related to adjacent nations throughout the years. So I really wonder about your sources especially the detailed maps! Any help?
@Giorno Maybe he is so uneducated that he can't even clean toilets. Czechs are well qualified workers because Czechia is industrial country with modern factories full of CNCs and robots, he just probably can't see difference between Czechs, Poles and Ukrainians. But Ukrainians are still better than Romanians. :-D
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At 5:13, in the year 1871, legend says that, if you listen carefully, you can almost hear the cries of joy uttered by a thousand cartographers...
why is that?
Small german states going away.
Of course. Cheers
You still had all the states actually...but united ofc and practically ruled by prussia...
I meant as in they werent their own country anymore and didnt appear on (most) maps.
I like how you even showed the differences in the dutch coastline over time.
JmmiP 20 What caused the coastline to change so dramatically?
Faisal Halla land reclamation
Faisal Halla It's a massive delta for the largest river in Western Europe. Like any delta the land is constantly changing because of flooding and deposition. Add in land reclamation and other things people in these lands have done and that's what you get.
Quintinohthree you mean 2 of the largest rivers
Alex Mason reclamation ? humans are so cute, it would only take a little tsunami for the sea to "reclame" the land
0:36 what the teachers give you
3:11 what is actually on the test
This is my school
*JAPANESE SYMBOL FOR BEGINNER*
@@Kromiball or any asian language
exactly :-D
4:32 what actually the test really is
4:58 Napoléon joined the game
5:03 Napoléon has left the game
5:27 Adolf Hitler joined the game
@@holius1 no he don't he live in Argentina
4:58 when you play Conflict of Nations and there’s that one guy that plays as a small nation but ends up wrecking everyone including you
*Mapper and Maps Drawer has quit the game*
Reason:German
I like the effort put into the Netherlands' changing coastline. It's a very nice touch.
bremmbremmproduct I didn’t notice that
It’s not Netherlands’, it’s Dutch. Dutch peoples English grammar may not be used in English. I live in the Netherlands, and almost nobody can speak good English.
Golden D1 English people: Netherlands'
Me, an intellectual: Lower Lotharingian
bremmbremmproduct MAKE NEW VİD FOR UR CHANNEL!
@@axelandersson6314 More like a dumb cause region doesn't mean official name
Year 812 - Damn France you scary
Year 1812 - DAMN FRANCE YOU SCARY!!!
Next episode in 2812 ^^ ;) :XD
Sebastien LE GALLIC I'm happy, I don't live in 2939
matte drey
Year 2812 : DAMN FRANCE YOU DESTROY USA AND YOU CONQUER ALL THE GALAXY !!!!
matte drey
French blobbing is real
Episode 0 - 812 Bce
I love how Netherlands is taking territory from the fuckin ocean.
> Sir our army is too small to conquer another country
> Then we conquer the ocean!
Taking "Ruling the waves" to a new level.
this video is focused in France, being that the most important countries of Western Europe are Italy and Spain-
Netherlands, the mad lad
POLDEREN!
Bohemia is just chillin for hundreds of years unchanged.
Love it
And we still chill
We will save you in future brother .-)
if you call Austrian oppression chilling, than yeah sure.
While today's Slovakia had to live under Hungary's control for almost 1000 years
@@TimeLord-rt7ku relativelly, it was chill, for example against slovakia repression by hungarians
Holy Roman Empire meme:
When there is more states than people in your Empire
ik it is a meme, and i dont want to ruin it, but there were around 500-1000 states at any time, and there were millions of people.
4:58 Boss music plays
@@dodolulupepe it's meme dude
@@dodolulupepe r/whooooosh
@@gohanssj48 did you not see me literally say "ik (i know) it is a meme"
Love how for longest time Bohemia is just sitting around 50+ borders like, "nah fam, we're good on our own."
Cz was the most advanced tolerant country...for a long time.
Jan Huss a hero first to protest Pope.
@Luca Nitsche 🖕
From NYC
You accidentally had the four allied zones of Berlin still appearing past 1948. And the Czechoslovakian split was 1993, not 1992. Good video though.
Everyones a critic :P
Don't compete
Hahahaha
Hater
zorin leroy >Calling the person who practically invented modern mapping a noob
Ok then...
2:02 "Well the HRE isn't so bad..."
3:20 "Mother of all maps!"
In 910 it is the Kingdom of Germany. The Holy Roman Empire was refounded in 962.
"New achievement!
*how did we get there?* "
0:51 ♫ Francia is whole again ♫
0:52 ♫ then it broke again ♫
France sucks :v
butt hurt arab
youssef hachfi Lol france sucks 5:02
Yea boi 5:28
youssef hachfi lol 5:29
France blobing his way through centuries.
Big Blue Blob...
F R A N C E
R
A
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C
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@@BruneSixtine the EU is blue ;)
Yeah we will return i hope 🤔. France will be back again more power 🤔🤨
Lionel Messi No France and French people destroyed herself their country. It’s the fault of French people for destroying her cultural heritage.
It’s sad but France is already lost.
Lionel Messi Non je ne suis pas français mais parle français et est venu en France beaucoup de fois !
Je viens à Paris depuis 1980 et à chaque fois que j’y retourne c’est toujours de plus en plus pire. J’ai l’impression que les français non plus aucune fierté et se laisse cracher dessus.
La France était qu’en même le pays le plus puissant du monde ! Il suffit de voir son histoire.
Mais quand je vois que des gens se permettent de bafouer votre pays alors qu’ils y vivent je ne comprend pas votre mode de pensé !
Des gens qui viennent vivre en France pour lui cracher dessus et se plaindre !
Je ne pourrais imaginer ça en Argentine (mon pays d’origine et où je vis), on les aurait déjà foutue dehors.
1:48 843CE "France has the biggest Kingdom in Europe. The pope is so proud he invites the King over for Christmas. "Surprise! You're the new Roman Emperor!" said the pope, pretending to still be part of the Roman Empire. Then the Franks broke their Kingdom into what will later be called France and not France."
Do you know that the Franks were a Germanic tribe and Francia was a German empire? Because it is.
There's even a Region in modern day Germany called Franconia and the people there are called Franks.
@@joshi3334 Did you know that the germanic tribes weren't Germans ? Thus Francia was not a German Empire ? But is closer to French than German ? Did you know that the Franks hated the other germanic tribes ? And felt closer to the Gallo-Roman culture than the germanic one ?
Btw Franconia is a creation of Francia when they destroyed the Alemanni kingdom, a germanic kingdom the Franks hated :)
Fun fact : Even Louis II "the German" or "Ludwig der Deutsche", king of East Francia (not Germany) did his oath in "lingua romana" so gallo-roman which is close to old French. The fact that he is called "the German" is just because of the geographic situation of his kingdom, not his culture or language.
@@joshi3334 and germanic guy are pagang charlomagne are no germanic beacause was crestian. And conversion the german
@@XR190190 "Fun fact : Even Louis II "the German" or "Ludwig der Deutsche", king of East Francia (not Germany) did his oath in "lingua romana" "
If you're referring to the Oaths of Strasbourg: both participants used the language of the other one's realm. Louis the German swore in Old French while Charles the Bald swore in Old High German.
"The fact that he is called "the German" is just because of the geographic situation of his kingdom, not his culture or language."
Sure, the name is of later date. But the Carolingians did speak an Old High German dialect at the time. Not that it matters...
@@XR190190 the franks were germanic tribes.
1:47 the big blue blob as been spotted guys
Dominique Pouget 1:49 what big blue blob?
The expansion of the Netherlands in the 1900's is awesome
Dudu Channel Nothing happens
@@YangSing1 no he is talking about the coast line of the netherlands.Look closely
A couple things I'd like to point out about the Carolingian era- Charles the Bald of West Francia held control of Italy from 875 to 877, and Charles the Fat reunited the entirety of Charlemagne's old empire from 884 to 887. These events seem to be largely forgotten by the mapping community on UA-cam.
Wait is Charles the bald and Charles the fat actually what they’re called 🤣
@@electronicbamboo6764 ye
@@electronicbamboo6764 Yep. And Charles the Bald wasn't bald and Charles the Fat wasnt fst
@@Vampirecronicler makes sense
@@electronicbamboo6764 Charles the bald was called that because he wasn't crowned until later in life so his head was bald of a Crown
I'm german and our history classes be like: "There were dinosaurs, some war then *H I T L E R* "
I mean that's wrong, but how do explain 1300 HRE to school kids? lmao
It's the same in France
Napoléon take Europe ?
No ,he is a dictator !
Clovis? Phillipe August? Charlemagne ? Saint Louis?
What is that?
I dont know but we lose in WWII and we are bad because we beat the Africans !
(Use Google traduction I'm not very good in English scuse me)
Bref courage frère européen et ne tombons pas dans cette culpabilité stérile Vive la France et toute les civilisations européenne !
All history schools just focus on the recent stuff but the old stuff is important as well!
@@unepersonneinconnu4015 (google translate) Napoléon n'était pas aussi sévère que certains autres dictateurs, mais son règne était encore assez autoritaire. La chute de Napoléon, cependant, n'était pas de perdre une bataille, mais de ne pas savoir quand s'arrêter. Il aurait pu établir une paix qui lui laisserait le contrôle de la France et même de certaines régions voisines à plusieurs reprises, même après la désastreuse défaite de 1812, mais il ne put prendre ce qu'il pouvait obtenir et perdit tout.
@@OrionAltHist yes , accurate
@@unepersonneinconnu4015 British history class is Ancient Egypt (???), Romans, castles, *WE DID THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION! AREN'T WE GREAT!* , a _tiny_ bit about slavery then *WE WON WORLD WAR 1 & 2! AREN'T WE GREAT!*
Why conquer lands? Do it like the netherlands. Make the ocean land
Hperik When does it show that?
Around 1930 and 1950
the name "Holland actually comes from "Hout Land" which translates to "Wood Land" (named after a tiny forest) the name you are looking for is "the Netherlands" as nether is another word for low
So do not make African people slaves in America, don’t conquer Indonesia, don’t send a whole army to Indonesia, don’t conquer Suriname.
Golden D1 mad cause your race wasn’t strong enough to defend themselves. C O P E H A R D E R
I love how accurate you depicted The Netherlands, maps like these often get it wrong. Also, isn't it insane to think that every 20-30 years or so, a grandparent for most of us western europeans was born and lived his entire life on this map? They saw those land changes, they worked there asses of, died in battles but luckly after having children who also worked insanely hard, time and time again, and now were here. Incredible.
Their* asses off*.
Sorry bud.
western europe L
Teacher: For your homework please draw a map of Western Europe in 1300.
Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Teacher: Are you ok?
*puts a big blob on the left* France
*put a big blob on the right* HRE
I never realised it was so complex. I only every knew the English map at that time
Drawing dots on hre
@@Hdusiekwbshsjs Its because England and France were the only truly completely fuedal states and England was way more centralized.
Thus, you do not get a realistic map of France without displaying every single vassals territory within France, until the King started being seen as the defacto ruler.
Holy Roman Empire gave me an aneurysm halfway through the video
How did they even keep those borders straight back in the day lol.
They didn't. There was constant bickering between these royal families and their tiny lands. Which is why the empire united eventually again. They saw that they needed cooperation to overpower their political enemies.
Ah, the Holy Roman Empire. It was not Holy, wasn’t Roman and definitely wasn’t an empire!
@@galaxyred7 Well it was an Empire.
@@galaxyred7 french propaganda
0:58
Italy Italy Italy Italy
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Cat WithShotGun Italy is written 4 times on each of the green spots on Italy.
@@SxVaNm345 Oh yeah... You right
Du schon wieder
انا عربي من بني خزاعة هل من ترحيب؟
I wonder how Ollie Bye was able to make this wonderful history video. Your works are so fantastic!
김상석님 여기서 뵙네요 :O
안녕하세요! >_
그렇습니다
대김정은3대세습과이재용의3대세습반 stop doing that
hey japan i love your cartoons?
I died when I saw the HRE...
Khan productions
3:18
*MOTHER OF MAPS*
O.O
It hurts. My eyes
Khan productions didn't we all?
Its normally called HRE of Germany.
Attention to detail.
1812 = Best France
812 = Best Francia
@@PercepiusProductions u mean 512
《LION OF THUGS》 no
《LION OF THUGS》 1:42
@@PercepiusProductions oh yes the best time. The king who saved france from the muslims who set out to conquer france
HRE is beautiful as always.
Nationalist From Canada I'm glad Napolean rid of it, too confusing
Exactly the opposite.
Not Holly
Not Roman
Nor Empire
The tiny states and the borders make it beautiful to my eyes.
UNLAWFUL LAND !!
And some people says : "France always lose wars "
france even lost fewer *world* wars than germany. ;P
montanus777 France never lost any WW...
yep, that's the point. ;)
Dien Bien Fu
Max P
Hehe, No
FRANCE STRONK.
Germany: Let me introduce myself
Jean-Issou de la Quintère-Chancla so france got stroked?
pp
@@GeorgeeWBush Russia : Let me introduce myself
@SakthiV nope
The sheer detail of this had me amazed! Good job on this one, Ollie!
Great Work and greetings from germany
1:47
Me: I thought this was a history of Western Europe, but i'm just seeing blue
Azuma Kyoukai I'm blue
Francia was like
- All is mine !
- But....
- Nope ! It's mine I say
All that wasnt francia
@@nijamkaj France = francia
@@saupiquet7516 no France was West Francia
I like how you worked on the Geography of the Netherlands, nicely done.
Is anyone here from France? If so, how long are your history books, they must be huge because of how long France has been around.
@@florianchabaud8548 Italian's history must be sooooooooo huge 😂
@@SACHINYadav-sn4op Definitely! Imagine if they must learn the history of every city-states of the Middle Ages ^^
We skip 90% of our kings. Thats how. I didnt even know before last year we had multiple kings named clotaire, and that their favorite passtime was to murder each other, while being brothers, cousins, or nephews. Seriously there are so many assassinations in france history.
LOUIS !!!!!!! LOUIS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!
OH GOD CANT PEOPLE THINK OF ANOTHER NAME !!!!!!!
@@jameslegrand848 I think we had only up to Charles X
History of western europe,Mostly France!
Nah, not all of France is shown. Switserland... Saint Martin is not shown.
Europe = France > All
and roman empire
And Frankia
Because france is so big with is great history
Wouldn't "western Europe" also include Ireland, Scotland, Spain, and even Scandinavia? Otherwise, excellent video. I really enjoyed it.
pepperVenge what about Portugal? The most western Country of all Europe?
Scandinavia is not even close to being western europe, I would although add denmark, ireland, scotland and iberia to the map, and there would be still space for southern italy I think.
Aren't italy and spain in South Europe?
Scandinavia is NOT in Western Europe.
@@emperorpirk2003 OF course it is.
Why during WW2 you put only the United States for Italy's occupation. There was also British, French and Canadians troops in Italy in 1944.
Issou :rire:
But officially, the US had control of all the infrastructure
At this point of the war, it was just a civil war, so it wasn't an ocupation, it was just Italy
Way back in school I learned all about Flanders changing hands so many times between many countries. This video makes it so much clearer how many times it changed over the centuries.
Paris is my country !
England is my city!
Winston Smith Im sorry for you fam
Arsenal is my national team
France is my culture
Rocco Siffredi is my model
the fact that it doesnt includes Spain is pain...full.
Admire Germany, France, Britain, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Norway, Scandinavia, Denmark, And Sweden
aren't Sweden, Denmark and Norway Scandinavian?
@@arolemaprarath6615 Pretty sure that's just Fennoscandia, not Scandinavia...
@@arolemaprarath6615 true,it is Fennoscandia, Finland is not scandinavian and l think Denmark so It is
@@SimTwinBrien original guy deleted his comment, should've been obvious
"Western europe"
Doesn't show Portugal, Spain, Ireland, or scotland. But shows Poland.
Seems legit that title
Bruh, Portugal and Spain are in Southern Europe and Scotland isn't even a country, it's part of the UK. Why are you even commenting this? -_-
I'm guessing culturally.
@@2dav7ry Most western part of Europe is the Iberian Peninsula, more west than Germany that's for sure.
ANIMALDIQ Thanos ‘and scotland isnt a country’ lmao it was
@Luca Nitsche Yes,and Spain is only Siesta and fiesta no? SHUT UP PUSSY GERMAN...
I really appreciate the work you put on this. Great video Ollie!
0:45 When someone says that Paris is a city.
Great video! I always look forward to these. I might have to watch it at half speed, it’s so detailed.
Great video!
Just noticed that Eupen - Malmedy was not included in pre WW1 Germany.
Apart from the few mistakes that others have mentioned as well, this was great, well done!
4:45 *West Western Europe*: Nice and orderly, clear borders, nothing complicated
* East Western Europe*: What? I can see atleast a bajillion kingdoms in that 500km2!
Sorry guys, ran out of time to shorten the intro. I'll try and get it done for next time. Anyway, enjoy!
Thanks for considering shortening it. Great video.
3:02 Wtf happened to France?
How many people do you have working on this with you?
Great job!
I know this might kill you, can you make a History of the world this complex.
Feudalism is one hell of a drug
Good evening, m'lord! Helps to have a map!
@@ictoan5966 well the joke was 3 years ago. The joke is not funny anymore
1816 : Let's divide our occupation zones
1945 : Let's divide our occupation zones
Some things never change when it comes to what to do with fallen enemy territory in central Europe.
It's really good that you decided to merge many of your former per-kingdom timelapses into one western european one. Two suggestions though : colorfull palette doesn't make it easy to understand where lies the HRE, with it's different colors for the stem duchies and italy. I would suggest to either retain similar color shades, or at least make the HRE border much bolder. Secondly, it would be nice to also have geograhpical features such as mountains and major rivers appearing, as they were often closely related to the political boundaries (not only country borders, but also explaining why italy although divided remained unconquered by bigger neighbors for long)
nice suggestion. for geography, depends on the complexity of the regions and all. like, a cluster of smaller provinces packed together filling up like 60% of the map, the topography could be less exaggerated or just displayed at a lower opacity instead.
The holy roman mess
“Thomas has never seen such a mess before”
This is nuts. You are truly gifted.
Thank you for the very interesting clip! Well done!!
one small note: Austria's eastern border changed 1921, when Burgenland entered Austria. It seems that this region was forgotten to add, but it is included 1955 - today.
4:25 Sweden jumpscare
It's interesting how much the Netherlands has changed geographically
3:03 Oh my God just look at this mess ._.
MrRussianMapper My eyes are bleeding
Guys ! Stop ! Let's build some big and real kingdom
And that explains why Germany was always ruled by dictators
Beautiful, ya?
It looks beautiful what are you talking about?
It's so awesome that you included autonomous areas within France, most maps make the hre spilt but just ignore France which always bugs me.
Well its because the HRE was a federation of Princes under the Emperor that other princes voted for, in other words its hundreds of semi-indepandant territory that chose their emperor (for a while ofc) meanwhile France despite the state of semi-indepandance lf all of the Great Nobles, in the end even if nominally at first, they were still straight up vassals of the french crown and they didnt decide who would rule over them aside from exceptions during a succession crisis.
The divisions while still there works under differant rule, its not a bunch of micronations ruled over by a ruler of their chosing, but a bunch of powerfull lords that willingly submit to the authority preferably extremely weak of the King and his dynasty aka classic feudal interactions.
This video chose to show the royal domain for a good while which was really the only place where the king could really affirm his autority which in truth is cool too since it shows more feudal related stuff
"Autonomous" means "vassals" in French history.
The HRE is nothing like France which was a state since 498 AC.
@@wertyuiopasd6281 Bollocks, it was not a state since 498. For example, some ssouthern regions were absolutely independent and only gave tacit allegiance to the Crown and didn't even pay taxes. People in these regions did not consider themselves French.. At best, France was a nation starting in the 10th century, and some would say 1190 with Philip
German - Czech border is 1000yrs old
As the Spanish-French one
Earth Crafter Maps Slovenian - Croatian border is 1230 years old.
Bohemian borders are mostly in mountains so it makes sense, also Czech lands were part of HRE so it wasn't nessesery changing borders when it was commonwealth with German speaking states with same ruler as HRE.
@Luca Nitsche Czechs are not Ukrainians, Czechs are not traveling for work much, only some people living near to borders, we have low unemployment and all companies are looking for people, there is no reason why people should travel hunderds of kilometers to be cheap workers somewhere. If someone is living 2 km from German border, then it make sense live here for our prices and work in Germany, but when you have to pay German prices of housing and taxes then it's not so worthy going there for work.
4:58 - 5:02 best 4 seconds ever
R.I.P. culture
2:17 France: Doctor I have a disease, what can it ever be!? Doctor: *You have Feudalism*
Cure: 1 dose of napoleon for 15 years and it will dissappear
@@KameroonEmperor Side effects: may spill over into neighboring regions and affect border gore in the HRE.
If side effects are too severe doctor prescribes one spontaneous winter campaign into the Russian interior.
Who else paused at 1444?
Jude Sir everyone who's still a Europa pleb
This is what Europeans mean when they say they have so much culture.
Me
What else am I supposed to play? Victoria?
Ck2?
The Grand Empire of Napoleon truly was one of the most powerful entities in all history.
Sucks that it was short lived
Destroyed by Russian who simply ran away
jdghgh it was short life
Better was Roman empire
@@moonwolf8470 The Russians had not destroyed anything.
@@erwannleligerien3771 LOL
1:42, Germany and France were born from this *T H I C* Kingdom of Francia.
@Fils actually he is right, we trace the history of France and Germany back to the split or Francia.
Fils Fuck off idiot Kindom Francia is one of the ancestors of most of Europe.
@Fil and before that, the Germanic tribe of the Franks conquered what today is France and founded Francia...thats where the nation has its name from
Erich Von Manstein You’re always so agressive on any comments.
Idk what you’re on but chill, stop being so insecured about France, wars are over.
@@erichvonmanstein1952 No it's not, France and Germany are the two only entity that actually come from it (west Francia and east Francia), the rest were conquered territories that have no relation whatsoever with the Franks in their royal lineages.
i like how you made it different when in france for instance its a clear mass when the king controls the land directly, while Austria has quasi independant nobels so austria is being cut by white borders
3:19 it's sure that if you say in that time:
"i'm a cartographer"
Everyone would think:
"This man is brave"
Yeah
The best of all this is how the music fits so well on the map changes
5:03
Netherlands looks so beautiful ;)
Hans ja :(
I can't believe Flanders existed before nl 😶
no they dont
4:59 here too
This goes well with the recent Extra Credits - Extra History video on the Carolingian collapse.
Can’t believe you took the time to animate this but dedication is real👍👍
When you're so early but you cant come up with a funny or edgy comment
Well, here's my input:
*you're
Holy fuck you're a brain expert
Weeaboo Jones *y''o'Ur'''ě''
When you're so early, France isn't founded yet.
2:12 Oh yes... The greatest "Holy Empire" has joined
WOW! it must have been a real pain and took a lot of effort to finish this whole video especially in the middle of the time where the HRE is existing.
Kuddos to the creators who did this and Very Good Job! 😊
Western Europe are also Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom and Denmark... 😅 Good video at all
@@souviktudu28868 yes but geopolitically it’s Western European
Also the other Nordic countries beside Denmark 🇩🇰 like Finland🇫🇮, Sweden🇸🇪 , Iceland🇮🇸, and Norway🇩🇰 .
Absolutely brilliant!
It’s quite impressive that the tiny nation of Andorra have been around since the 1200’s in a continent that have changed so much during the centuries...
I love how many times the englanders tried to invade france xD
They invaded nothing. they just paid for mercenary
Ocean Of Games stupid.
fuck off sassy
Thats still invading with paid troops, and?
Crimson Bardamu Hon hon hon silly rosbeefs
Correct title:
The history of France
And Germany, and Luxembourg and Netherlands and Belgium and Austria and Switzerland and Andorra and lietchenstein
@@YesCoolRo Exactly, France.
@@YesCoolRoand england
Amazing!!!! Nice work Ollie Bye
"Western Europe" without Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Scotland?
The title should be something like "The History of Central Europe" because this is definitely NOT Western.
PS1GamerCollector Not related to the topic of this video.
I find it insane how someone incredibly talented has made a fantastically precise video and then so many people write comments claiming the video to be wrong and the creator to be a heretic for not including some regions that occasionally are part of the vague and historically irrelevant geographic term he used to describe the much more specific topic of the video primarily being feudalism in Germany and France.
Central Europe is Czechia and Hungary.
Spain and Portugal are southern Europe, but I agree Ireland could have been included.
@@mathieuvigne7336 Ireland is northern europe....
@@mathieuvigne7336 They-re both south AND west, if only there was a name for that, hmmm.
@@axelandersson6314 spain irrelevant in central europa? xD, carlos I laugh.
5:23 Weimar Republic was not the name of the german state. It was still German Empire (1871 - 1943). Weimar Republic refers to a time period (1918 - 1933). In Germany the period from 1949 to 1990 is called the Bonn Republic and from 1990 the Berlin Republic, but from 1949 the name of the state is Federal Republic of Germany.
that is debatable. i watched a video that shared about this, and it's likely a mistranslation of the word "reich" to mean realm or empire etc.
i like how bro really put in the detail probably spending hours for every frame in 3:00 going as far to draw every small state
Man I Love watching Switzerland, so intense
Fantastic. Amazing how fragmented Europe was going into as late as the 1800's! I learned that post WW2 Austria remained divided into Allied sectors even after West German unification; and that Vienna was divided just as Berlin. Thanks for the video!
Great video, I love your job, the effort in the details.
842 and 1811 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
*1940*
youssef hachfi 1945
1871
youssef hachfi 1918
1815
As I'm deeply interested in Italian history, I really admire your work, like this one and the "History of the Italians" as well as other videos related to adjacent nations throughout the years. So I really wonder about your sources especially the detailed maps! Any help?
Important years
1:33 769 CK2
3:10 1257 AD
3:48 1444 EU4
Half of western europe
No... all of Western Europe. Western Europe's boundary is usually said to be along Germany, Austria, and Italy.
Ollie Bye sry mate, but western europe includes iberia, ireland, Scotland, wales, denmark etc... not Just the great powers but is ok, good video :)
I've done those in other videos if you're interested.
Ollie Bye yeah, but change the title please. It's not true that you included all the western countries
It is he creat "cadastre" and we steel use it now
Just look at Switzerland!
England and Bohemia also very nice!
Looks like Bohemia has the most stable borders.
To bad we cant see all of England
@Giorno Maybe he is so uneducated that he can't even clean toilets. Czechs are well qualified workers because Czechia is industrial country with modern factories full of CNCs and robots, he just probably can't see difference between Czechs, Poles and Ukrainians. But Ukrainians are still better than Romanians. :-D
5:32 You even added The Netherlands creating "Flevoland", nice
The Napoleonic wars was most definitely a wild time
So minor complaint but, that border between Belgium and Germany should change post WW1 by quite a bit.
Actually, he should remove the eastern cantons before the end of WWI.
He should have also included the Belgian republic from 1787 to 1791... @@Corbalte
I like the way how France is depicted during the Middle ages. The country is divided into small feuding provinces. After time it unites.
This is art
Germany gray, France blue, uk red, Italy green, Spain yellow. Did a certain game/games have influence in this?
It's incredible how the author considers that Italy, Spain and Portugal are not part of Western Europe. Unbelievable!
Some say Napoleon is the God of mappers....