@MaxTracy-lb8lc Rome is England They were borned on Italian lands just like Italy so it's basicly Italy Kievan Rus isn't Ukraine or Belarus or Russia because the people which created Kievan Rus came from Scandinavia and that was actually vikings means it was Sweden
Interesting video, no doubt! From a historians perspective - as already mentioned in the comment section - it’s difficult to compare these current nation: (1) there’s a difference between modern Italy and the Roman Empire in terms of culture, language, religion. I would have shown only the territories, modern Italy has ever occupied; (2) where to draw the line between real incorporated territories and for example personal unions: medieval understanding of a “state” (by a monarch’s realm) is very different from the modern definition of a national territorial state (beginning in the 16th century); (3) duration of the occupation: there’s a difference between territories only occupied for months or even days (as the German holdings in Russia during WWII) and territories that where heavily influenced by the occupant (e.g. Spain holding the throne of Naples). But again: just some thoughts of me, still great to see people’s interest in history!
This exactly. It's like in a boxing mach - you have to at least count to 10 to claim a win, if your opponent quickly resumed a fight, it's like nothing happened.
By the way, in the video they showed only the territories of Roman Empire for Italy, but during the last century we also occupied Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Libya, Dodecanese and Tientsin.
This and as an Norwegian 5:30 then did UK occupy Norway? And its modern Norway, with current borders, Like Sweden as it was up to 1905, but Finland does not have the northern parts as it was earlier and area was not ruled by countries. My guess it was an technical term after German forces in Norway capitulating at end of WW 2 Norway was under the UK occupation zone for a week or two before Norwegian government took over even if disarmament was done by Norwegian forces.
@@shazamnegroid7379 I dont know what bizzare alternate reality you are from, but nothing remotely close to that ever happened. It's far more likely that the video is referring to the castle of Corycus held by the Lusignan kingdom of cyprus in the 14th century I would love a source for this alleged invasion you mention though
Belgium is understandable, what they look like now is the biggest they've ever been (not including Congo). But yes, Bulgaria was massive, and not just once, but twice.
@@Vincent-jq6vx Belgium occupied the territory, they didn't annex it. It was never part of Belgium. And unless I'm missing some part of history, back when Limburg was whole Belgium didn't exist, it was part of the Netherlands then.
Be aware that only the countries that are currently independent states appear in the video. Therefore many nations are hidden under the name of the current states. By the way, some states are missing: Bulgaria, Bosnia&Herzegovina,...
Most of these countries merged with the current country or are just the sucesor of that country. Now days almost every european country isnt occupied and the ones who are in this list includes their original extention
Are we talking about the UK, because it is not since the days of The Roman Empire that the French have hidden populations. You could make the case for Germany because of its Prussian past, which was not the whole of what became the Germany of 1871-1919. Why is there a chunk of land under Turkey with the German flag on it, Ottoman's were in control of that area for 400+ years.
@@jrus690 your comment makes no sense. Either way, I don't see a part of turkey during the German extension. Syria was most likely during the crusades (France has a similar extension in syria) And claiming that the Holy Roman Empire isn't German would be like claiming the Ottoman Empire isn't turk. Just stupid. The Byzantine empire is trickier, could be Roman or Greek. Or both. Also I'd put Alexander as Macedonian, not greek. The video added him to the Greeks. Another tricky thing is Poland-Lithuania or Auatria-Hungary or the Frankish empire, which was both German and french.
@@reneshm Italy wasn't Italy but the Roman empire though. France and Germany are in direct line of succession of the states that occupied these territories, Italy isn't.
@@drmaticviewerItaly also had Fascist Italy the maritime republic’s and various other kindoms od Italy that are just overlapsed by Rome’s Territory. Also technically Germany isn’t directly descending from the Hre but from Prussia a polish state inhabited by Germans ^^
If we're counting Personal Unions, Poland should also have the former Kingdom of Sweden, since it already has Hungary, Saxony and Bari. Sweden was a junior partner in a Polish-Lithuanian-Swedish Union with the king - Sigismund Vasa being the King of Poland first, and King of Sweden second. Poland also had a lot more lands occupied in Russia, most notably the city of Pskov, with polish raiding parties going as far as the river Ob deep within Siberia, where we have accounts of polish soldiers encountering "strange golden statues of chubby women" (most likely buddah statues). Also a small nitpick - at one point the crimean city of Kaffa pledged loyalty to the Kingdom of Poland, It's not shown on the map, however it is more of a nuisance anyway.
@Adolf Meyer first major democracy? Are you just going to pretend ancient Greece and the Roman Republic didn't exist? Not to mention the duchy of Novgorod, a democratic republic formed in the early medieval times, centuries before PLC
Really good video! I would've liked for countries like France or UK to show all the territories around the world they've had but I guess that would make it harder
@@norwaydude4798 You should learn what third world means. Really. It's a term that was born during the cold war to designate countries that weren't aligned with the western or eastern blocks. so... during decolonisation. Nobody colonized the third world countries.
By the way, there are some errors in the video. Russia, Sweden and Crimea are missing when specifying the by the Polish empire mastered territories. In addition, the dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
@@greaterforce3981 that isnt True. First look at bulgaria under simeon 1 bulgaria was a major power in the balkans for hundreads of years plus the first bulgaria empire under khan kubrat was in today ukraine and it was realy big
no, but seriously, you included the fact that Sweden controlled Poland, but it was literally only for a few days, and you didn't include the fact that Poland controlled Russia and Sweden for several years
And Jever(Napoleonic era) and Schleswig-Holstein(while Peter the 3. and Catherine the Great) in Germany and the Ionian Islands(Greece, Napoleonic era) had Russia
1:48 Germany 4:18 Russia 3:56 Poland 2:25 Italy 5:26 United Kingdom aka Great Britain 5:34 Ukraine 1:33 France 5:19 Turkey Edit: I started a massive war Why is this getting so much attention? People are arguing in the reply section and at the time I did not know much about history back then I think I was just listing my favourite ones ok? I THINK.
most of that isnt from colonialism, its from military occuptaion e.g spain and portugal refers to the napoleonic wars where the kings of spain and portugal fled their countries and left partisans +the british to do all the work.
@@mappingshaman5280 the Kings of Spain were captured by Napoleon. And the partisans did a lot. I even think that Napoleon himself recognized that his defeat started against the spanish's guerrillas. All that, without despise for the British participation which was crucial.
@@oriolcampsperez3170 I don’t think any British dispute this. It’s mostly due to people accidentally overstating involvement in an effort for making sure it’s not forgotten in the first place A few notable examples: - Korean Civil War = seen as a US war vs USSR, when in reality the overwhelming majority of southern fighters were Korean and overwhelming majority of northern fighters were Chinese - North African campaign = Axis often represented as Germany/Rommel even though Italy were the majority - Gallipoli = Allies often represented as ANZAC despite their very small numbers compared to French, British, Indian etc.
Interestingly (3:57) you can see a few personal union ones, but not all of them I miss the Polish-French union and the Polish-Swedish union. For example, Henry III Valois will still be king of Polish he crowned himself king of France. A similar situation Sigismund III Vasa King Polish was elected King of Sweden.
To be fair henry III did left everyone in poland when hé was about to be crowned king of France, leaving the polish throne vacant, so by the Time he got to France, the poles were without a king for months and started electing another, which means he was never de facto both king or France and poland. It would have been cool tho
@@clementlefevre5384 You are right Henry left Polish throne, while leaving a big shit. This "strange" union was only formally. Really she wasnt there. The period of Henrys reign in Poland falls from 11 May 1573 to 18 June 1574 (until his escape). There is now a catch. Henry doesnt renounced his rights to the Polish crown. Formally, his reign ended in May 1575. So at the end of August 1574 the sejm was convened, where some senators were against the introduction of interregnum. However, the second part was in favor of introducing interregnum. However, they came to an agreement by sending a letter to Henry, setting him as a deadline for returning to the country for May 12, 1575. At the same time, it was announced that if this deadline wasnt met, Henry would lose the throne. So what was the reaction Henry to this letter? He promised mps that he would return quickly, and yet he didnt return. Interestingly, after his dethronement, he considered himself the rightful monarch Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In addition, I would like to add that for Polish history he was a tragic ruler. Which "fired" the clock for the fall of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Eh... how convoluted it all has to be...
*Mongolia takes up all of the screens in the Video* Because of the Mughals, Mogulistans, Timurids, and other 4th Generation of Mongol nations or successors only place they wouldn't have is South East Asia, very north Siberia, and southern Arabia
Poland: I have the most :) France: I HAVE THE MOST! Italy: SHUT UP YOU BAGUETTE! Turkey: SHUT UP PIZZA! Russia: NO! I HAVE THE MOST YOU *cyka!* Britain: *amateurs*
@@janni_03 lmao they were ambushed in the woods, where you can not deploy your formation, by a filthy traitor, who was later killed by it's own people. And then Germanicus came to get revenge and he did.
I like the idea of the video, I can't judge how well it is made, besides the missing countries, because I don't know much history, but I'd be interested to see when each country reached its biggest form.
It’s interesting, but let’s keep mind that these territories are vast simplifications and combine maximum extent of each country over the totality of their existence, including alliances and unions with other countries.
No definitely not or else Austria would have owned the entirety of Spain and Portugal at one point through a personal union, idk why it wasn't included for Austria
It's also interesting in my opinion that there are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland. Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsIt is interesting that you couldnt spot the biggest flaw. The Golden Horde literally exists and it was controlled by Turks after Genghis Khan's death. Most of Russia must be shown as captured land.
Portugal, in the past, had a region called "Olivença" which is now part of Spain. In "A Reconquista" between 912 and 1492, Portugal managed to obtain Olivença, but in a treaty Spain annexed that territory, but promised Portugal to deliver Olivença back to them, Spain never gave Olivença back to Portugal Sorry if it was poorly explained
It wasn't a region, it was and still is a city. Also Spain gave them Olivença, which became part of Portugal again, but in 1801, during the "War of the Oranges", Spain demanded the city of Olivença to Portugal and they accepted it. After that, Spain never gave back Olivença to Portugal and banned their language and culture until the Franco's dictatorship ended in 1975. And actually in this video it is visible that Portugal holded Olivença, if you compare to the actual eastern portuguese borders and the borders that Portugal occupied back then.
@@wellshitigotanotherstrike ehmm spanish(castellano) is the language , spain the country and spanish or spaniard the people from Spain , but a lot of people use spanish as hispanic so its easier that way to know the difference
Bulgaria was one of the 4 European superpowers in the 9-9th century and controlled the whole Balkans, half of modern day Hungary, all of modern day Romania and reached the Dnieper river. It's a shame you didn't include the country.
@@Alexandros.Mograineno it literally is not. Turkiye's real name was already Türkiye since it was founded. But in recent years Turkiye demanded a name change in ENGLISH to make the name of "Turkey", "Turkiye". And so it got accepted.
I like your variety of video a lot. As for things related to the video, it is interesting to see that some were almost all over Europe, such as Germany. I liked it 👍
Thought this entire video I kept thinking: "is [blank] country going to count as a predecessor state to [country in question]" The answer was almost always yes (except for different kinds of unions which where just the "heads" of the unions)
It was so weird. The whole Roman Empire counted for Italy, the Byzantine empire counted for Greece, and yet the Macedonian empire didn’t count for Macedonia? Very weird
In the history of europe mostly not the countries occupied other countries, but the dynasties take over territories. For example Austria has not really occupied Burundy, Netherlands, Bohemia, Hungary and so on, but the Habsburgs have married luckily and have taken over many territories. Therefore a video about all territories controlled by each dynasty would be also interesting.
@@Nickel_Eye Bohemia was not "annexed". After the death of King Ludvik in the Battle of Mohács, there was no male heir, only the king's sister Anna, who married the Habsburg Ferdinand. Bohemian estates elected Ferdinand I as a King of Bohemia and in 1526 the Lands of the Bohemian Crown joined the territories of the Habsburgs
I think Vatican City is more of a successor to the Roman Empire than Italy is. The Papal States included the entire city of Rome and basically the middle third of the Italian peninsula.
@@alexanderlapp5048how? The Vatican wasn’t a thing at the time the pope had to take in serious account the papal states citizens as several times he got overthrown and another roman reppublic was declared but it was run by Italian people the same that ruled Italy. It’s like saying ohio has a better claim to The Thirteen colonies than the Usa does.
@@wojtekpolska1013the papal states also weren’t direct in the line from Rome. But in the beggining the Pope was elected as a sort of Italian president, so i see your point. But still it’s another Italian state. It’s like saying San Marino has a better claim. Ok cool where’s san marino? What do they speak? What’s their ethnicity? 🇮🇹
In 1204 the Latins turned stabbed the Orthodox Christians in the back and attacked Constantinople, resulting in the Division of Rhomania. Byzantium was split among some Orthodox (Greek) and Catholic (Latin) nobilities and this allowed for the rise of the Turks.
@@georgios_5342 but during ww2, the british didnt occupy greece, they fought with the greeks at first and then when the greeks were conquered the british eventually invaded so they could give all the land to the monarchists before the communists took over.
Here is the wrong map of Ukraine. What is shown here is the territorial claims of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918, but in fact, its territories were smaller than modern Ukraine. For example, Kuban has never been part of Ukraine, even though Ukrainians lived there. Kuban created its own Kuban People's Republic, where the official languages were Russian and Ukrainian. But this republic did not last long, on June 23, 1918, there was a vote on which country to join (Ukraine or Russia). According to the results of the vote, it became part of the Russian Republic (the white movement). Then there were conflicts between the leadership because some insisted on autonomy, and others on a full-fledged subject of the country. As a result, the Communists took advantage of this internal conflict and seized these lands during the civil war.
@@vikkoro Did you pay a lot for history lessons at McDonald's? 1. The fact that Ukraine is located where Kievan Rus' once was does not make Ukraine its successor. 2. "Kievan" Rus' is just the name of the period when Kiev was the capital of Rus'. Before Kiev, Novgorod and Ladoga were the centers, which are located in modern-day Russia. Rus' emerged in Ladoga, and at that time Kiev was part of the Khazar Khaganate. 3. All historical documents up until the 20th century in "Ukraine" were written in Russian. 4. In Ukrainian books, national heroes call themselves Russians. 5. Famous people who the West now claims as Ukrainians somehow called themselves Russians. And in some cases, the West made a mistake. For example, the artist Aivazovsky is called Ukrainian because he was born in Crimea. But Ukrainians did not live in Crimea at that time; Aivazovsky was Armenian by nationality and was a pro-Russian activist. Another example is the artist Repin, who is supposedly Ukrainian because he was born in Kharkov. However, Russians lived in Kharkov at that time, and Ukrainians appeared there only after the creation of the Ukrainian SSR. Repin lived his whole life in Moscow and St. Petersburg, was pro-Russian, a monarchist, a personal artist of the imperial court, and during the civil war, he was radically against the Ukrainian national identity. Yet the West calls him Ukrainian.
This video is INCORRECT and INCOMPLETE because doesn't show all European countries. The country of BULGARIA is missing. BULGARIA Is located in the southeastern Europe between Turkey, Greece, North Macedonia Romania and the Black sea, and it was a big Empire in the 10th century during the rain of Czar Simeon. During that time the Frank's empire of Charlemagne and the Bulgarian empire of Czar Simeon were the biggest in Europe and even bigger than the Eastern Roman Empire named Byzantium.
However, the list is incomplete. Why did you choose these countries? However mistakes were made in the countries listed, as was the case with Poland. There are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland. Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
So what? You are so brave to attack during the Civil War in Russia? When parts of Russia were occupied by Brittish, German, Japanese, American and French military? So brave of you.
Interesting video, I love it. I guess it gets complicated because it's hard to really deliminate what a state is, maybe it'd be better to say territories ever occupied by nationality. One thing too: Liechtenstein used to be like 5x bigger, still microscopic, but definitely bigger than that.
You are wrong, because as you can see in the video it is possible to show the countries with all the areas they once occupied. But there were also mistakes made in the video, as you also noticed with Liechtenstein, and mistakes were also pointed out in other comments. By the way, mistakes were also made regarding my country Poland. There are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland. Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
@@jimskoutas1933 to be honest? the part that alexander came from is currently part of greece and yes the land itself is greek now. but back in the days? they were not greeks although they for sure weren't whatever the fuck the north macedonians are
It is such a pleasure to see my home country Bulgaria in its historical zenith. Oh, wait a second, yeah, you didn't show us, of course, sorry for interrupting the party of the true countries!
The west and south slavs immigrated from russia, belarus and ukraine. Wasn't really a proper kingdom and it wasnt just czech, all the western slavs are descended from them.
Sweden did not control the Rzeczpospolita. A personal union by a monarch of the same dynasty does not mean that this was a real union, especially not in the case of the Polish-Lithuanian state which was less a kingdom but much more a republic built up by nobles.
Two countries that always surprise me are Bulgaria and Czechia. Rather small countries today, but massive territory in the past, for example Bohemia=Czechia stretched from Baltic sea to a few kilometres to Jadran sea, almost having access to both northern and mediterrenean sea. Bulgarian empire was also massive, it was like the biggest land in the Balkans stretching from Ukraine to almost Greece.
Yes, but in those times borders were more fluid. Those were times when maps and cartography were quite rare and not precise. Borders were usually thought as rivers, hills, specific landmarks. It was also age of quite low population in Europe. Big kingdoms had we can just guess only dozens of thousand of people so it was incredibly sparse, most of kingdoms were endless forests with ocassional small keep. I would say that Bohemia was far more structured and borders were more precise and protected. For example whole Silesia was part of Bohemia from 12th to almost 18th century. Unfortunately Maria Theresa managed to loose it to Prussia in 1742, as well Lusitania which today is parted between eastern Germany and Western Poland.@@GreatPolishWingedHussars
@@Aggoenix But it is a fact that Great Moravia was shown in the video and not Bohemia. So change Bohemia to Great Moravia and your comment will be correct.
Little innacuracy in Ukraine map. Territories that you showed as ever occupied was actually never occupied by Ukraine. It territories that was claimed by Ukraine People Republic, so it actually must have Crimea and some parts of Moldova
They forgot how Great Ukraine (Kievan Rus') had gigantic territories over ruSSia and other lands. Real, many brainwashed foreigners even don't know that ruSSia is not Rus' because true Rus' is Ukraine and Belarus and ruSSia is ulus of Mongol Horde with stolen nickname ruSSia
but most of those territories she knocked out with her army and returned the Crimea, the UNR lived for 3 years. But formally it would be more correct for that picture of the territory Kievan Rus, and those territories that the UNR took under its control. but in this video with many countries there are inaccuracies so there is no difference
@@moony7144 "Linguists derive the name Berlin from the Proto-Slavic *brl, meaning marsh or bog, and give the meaning of the name as a city on marshes[3]. According to Reinhold Trautmann's hypothesis, Berlin is a corruption of the name Bralin (which is supported by, among others, the record of the name of the town as Braline in a document from 1215) and comes from the personal name Bral, i.e. a shortened form of the Slavic compound name Bratosław[4]."
It's easy to determine where Moscow is here on the map, because in France and Poland, there are some strange tails, and these were one of the really tiny number of countries that had Moscow for a while.
@@Tibet_a but Liechtenstein was part of it, and Germany didn't fully create it. Germany had other empires. As everybody says: the holy Roman empire was nor holy nor roman nor an empire
Denmark also had Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Normandy as a vassal, more claimed territory in Finland and Karelia (including Kola peninsula claimed) Pommeranian coast stretching to Prussia briefly), prolly more of Lapland claimed, Bremen-Verden (vassal) and more of Estonia (in the North West)
@@toomaskroll2282 semantics, the monarch is the state. Otherwise the British Empire didnt control a shitton of its territory, spain was for long still Aragon and Castille, and you may even split up the Austrian Empire into Bohemia other accessories, which very much still were personal union countries. Its just that for the most part the local nobility was either curbed or all the laws were brought into being harmonised and consolidated so the areas effectively merged
@@DesperateDawggo21 yes they did. For your information Odessa itself is an ancient Greek city. And they took it for about 2 months in 1919 (Odessa Mariupol Kherson Crimea was taken by Greeks.)
Imagine each European country starting to claim the territories they have lost….
big conflict 👍
Oh oh oh
Poland,Germany,greece,italy,russia,france,britan,turkey,austria,hungary,Czechia, and sweden:ITS MINE MINE MINE
I would imagine if Israel claims every territory were are living some Jews
@@patopcidemexico7646 LOL that’s basically Putin
I love how some countries are like “Oh I’ll take some for myself” and others go “NOM NOM NOM, TASTY CONTINENT”
Не континент , планета . я имею ввиду Англия , Франция , Россия были куда больше чем показаны тут
@@Atomzhsbecause three largest Europe empires
AHEM
Britain.
@@Atomzhsbecause umm… literally this is a europe map??
NOM NOM NOM I TAKE EUROPE ALL FOR MY SELF
1944: england owns italy
144: italy owns england
italy owns england*
*Romanium controls the region of the delightful dental avoiding people, England@MaxTracy-lb8lc
@MaxTracy-lb8lc Rome is England
They were borned on Italian lands just like Italy so it's basicly Italy
Kievan Rus isn't Ukraine or Belarus or Russia because the people which created Kievan Rus came from Scandinavia and that was actually vikings means it was Sweden
@@OfficialUKGov England Wales and south Scotland
@MaxTracy-lb8lc Sorry i meant Rome is Italy
Interesting video, no doubt! From a historians perspective - as already mentioned in the comment section - it’s difficult to compare these current nation: (1) there’s a difference between modern Italy and the Roman Empire in terms of culture, language, religion. I would have shown only the territories, modern Italy has ever occupied; (2) where to draw the line between real incorporated territories and for example personal unions: medieval understanding of a “state” (by a monarch’s realm) is very different from the modern definition of a national territorial state (beginning in the 16th century); (3) duration of the occupation: there’s a difference between territories only occupied for months or even days (as the German holdings in Russia during WWII) and territories that where heavily influenced by the occupant (e.g. Spain holding the throne of Naples). But again: just some thoughts of me, still great to see people’s interest in history!
This exactly.
It's like in a boxing mach - you have to at least count to 10 to claim a win, if your opponent quickly resumed a fight, it's like nothing happened.
For dramatic effect, obviously you should take the greatest extent that can be argued, so you get a bigger "wow" moment.
By the way, in the video they showed only the territories of Roman Empire for Italy, but during the last century we also occupied Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Libya, Dodecanese and Tientsin.
@@corrado.08 overseas territories not shown
This and as an Norwegian 5:30 then did UK occupy Norway? And its modern Norway, with current borders, Like Sweden as it was up to 1905, but Finland does not have the northern parts as it was earlier and area was not ruled by countries.
My guess it was an technical term after German forces in Norway capitulating at end of WW 2 Norway was under the UK occupation zone for a week or two before Norwegian government took over even if disarmament was done by Norwegian forces.
If you can I'd love to see this video on the World Map. So many "overseas lands not shown" even in countries you wouldn't expect
like latvia
Or Malta
Like Cyprus having a dominion on Turkey for some reason
@@dinasov9 it was when turkey declared war on cyprus, cyprus got a port and some cities with the help of some brave cretic pilots that they shot down
@@shazamnegroid7379 I dont know what bizzare alternate reality you are from, but nothing remotely close to that ever happened. It's far more likely that the video is referring to the castle of Corycus held by the Lusignan kingdom of cyprus in the 14th century
I would love a source for this alleged invasion you mention though
Would love to see a heatmap of the most occupied territories.
A big line along the Danube River
@Ed Winters that's central europe, geographically
Me
@Ed Winters aprox. between the Vilnius/Białystok areas is the center of Europe
@Ed Winters I understood that according to the EU only Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are classified as eastern europe
No Belgium, Bulgaria and Bosnia… Maybe include them in future videos as well, especially Bulgaria, that has a rich history
Belgium is understandable, what they look like now is the biggest they've ever been (not including Congo). But yes, Bulgaria was massive, and not just once, but twice.
@@Voxdalian Lies. Limburg used to fully belong to Belgium, and in 1923 Belgium occupied the German Ruhr territory
@@Vincent-jq6vx Belgium occupied the territory, they didn't annex it. It was never part of Belgium. And unless I'm missing some part of history, back when Limburg was whole Belgium didn't exist, it was part of the Netherlands then.
@@Voxdalian Limburg was splitted in 1839 between Netherlands and Belgium. Belgium did own the whole of Limburg from 1830 to 1839
@@Vincent-jq6vx Ah, I didn't know that. That's pretty cool. Thanks for the info.
4:59 i like how spains flag is everywhere
Yes! I love to see the total territories occupied by countries, Seems very interesting
Real
Is it a joke? He didn't bother to show the colonies of U.K, France and Spain. Turkey's full territory has not been shown.
@@Naan_Oru_Vinnan It was written there that overseas territories are not shown...
@@bence_bagosi Ok then
Can you believe Latvia was once an overseas empire? Sometimes history is wilder than fiction.
*A*
0:02 🇦🇱 Albania
0:10 🇦🇩 Andorra
0:17 🇦🇲 Armenia
0:25 🇦🇹 Austria
0:32 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
*B*
0:39 🇧🇾 Belarus
*C*
0:47 🇭🇷 Croatia
0:54 🇨🇾 Cyprus
1:02 🇨🇿 Czechia
*D*
1:09 🇩🇰 Denmark
*E*
1:17 🇪🇪 Estonia
*F*
1:24 🇫🇮 Finland
1:31 🇫🇷 France
*G*
1:39 🇬🇪 Georgia
1:46 🇩🇪 Germany
1:54 🇬🇷 Greece
*H*
2:01 🇭🇺 Hungary
*I*
2:09 🇮🇸 Iceland
2:17 🇮🇪 Ireland
2:24 🇮🇹 Italy
*L*
2:32 🇱🇻 Latvia
2:39 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
2:47 🇱🇹 Lithuania
2:54 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
*M*
3:02 🇲🇹 Malta
3:09 🇲🇩 Moldova
3:17 🇲🇨 Monaco
3:24 🇲🇪 Montenegro
*N*
3:32 🇳🇱 Netherlands
3:39 🇲🇰 North Macedonia
3:47 🇳🇴 Norway
*P*
3:54 🇵🇱 Poland
4:02 🇵🇹 Portugal
*R*
4:09 🇷🇴 Romania
4:17 🇷🇺 Russia
*S*
4:24 🇸🇲 San Marino
4:33 🇷🇸 Serbia
4:40 🇸🇰 Slovakia
4:48 🇸🇮 Slovenia
4:55 🇪🇸 Spain
5:03 🇸🇪 Sweden
5:10 🇨🇭 Switzerland
*T*
5:18 🇹🇷 Turkey
*U*
5:25 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5:33 🇺🇦 Ukraine
*V*
5:40 🇻🇦 Vatican City
4:41 Slovakia
4:48 Slovenia
4:56 Spain
5:04 Sweden
5:11 Switzerland
5:19 Turkey
5:26 UK
5:34 Ukraine
5:41 Vatican City
Georgia is a state
There isnt bulgaria
@@dvdgo2006 nor belgium
@@TiffanyPlaysOwO there is also a country named georgia
Be aware that only the countries that are currently independent states appear in the video. Therefore many nations are hidden under the name of the current states.
By the way, some states are missing: Bulgaria, Bosnia&Herzegovina,...
Belgium too
Most of these countries merged with the current country or are just the sucesor of that country. Now days almost every european country isnt occupied and the ones who are in this list includes their original extention
@@vicrai578turns out author really despises the letter b
Are we talking about the UK, because it is not since the days of The Roman Empire that the French have hidden populations. You could make the case for Germany because of its Prussian past, which was not the whole of what became the Germany of 1871-1919. Why is there a chunk of land under Turkey with the German flag on it, Ottoman's were in control of that area for 400+ years.
@@jrus690 your comment makes no sense. Either way, I don't see a part of turkey during the German extension. Syria was most likely during the crusades (France has a similar extension in syria)
And claiming that the Holy Roman Empire isn't German would be like claiming the Ottoman Empire isn't turk. Just stupid.
The Byzantine empire is trickier, could be Roman or Greek. Or both. Also I'd put Alexander as Macedonian, not greek. The video added him to the Greeks. Another tricky thing is Poland-Lithuania or Auatria-Hungary or the Frankish empire, which was both German and french.
France: "Yo watch this shit!" Germany: "Hold my beer for a second..."
Just make sure to not put french, germans, russians in same room
France controlled more territory
Russia and uk what did you say?
Don't use this language
@@avd829 Turks laughing in Seljuks Köktürks Ottomans The Golden Horde:
"All territories occupied"
France and Germany: It's show time
Ehm italy...
@@reneshm Italy wasn't Italy but the Roman empire though. France and Germany are in direct line of succession of the states that occupied these territories, Italy isn't.
@@drmaticviewer Let me guess Eastern Roman empire never existed?
@@NIKOS_GEROSIDERIS What? Why would anybody think that and how would that support what I said?
@@drmaticviewerItaly also had Fascist Italy the maritime republic’s and various other kindoms od Italy that are just overlapsed by Rome’s Territory. Also technically Germany isn’t directly descending from the Hre but from Prussia a polish state inhabited by Germans ^^
If we're counting Personal Unions, Poland should also have the former Kingdom of Sweden, since it already has Hungary, Saxony and Bari. Sweden was a junior partner in a Polish-Lithuanian-Swedish Union with the king - Sigismund Vasa being the King of Poland first, and King of Sweden second. Poland also had a lot more lands occupied in Russia, most notably the city of Pskov, with polish raiding parties going as far as the river Ob deep within Siberia, where we have accounts of polish soldiers encountering "strange golden statues of chubby women" (most likely buddah statues). Also a small nitpick - at one point the crimean city of Kaffa pledged loyalty to the Kingdom of Poland, It's not shown on the map, however it is more of a nuisance anyway.
Mhm, Polish King Vladislaus II Jagiellon was also the King of Croatia together with being the King of Hungary
Hence the kingdom stretched from adriatic to baltic sea
Most sane Polish Nationalist
@@suhnih4076 what's bad about it?
@Adolf Meyer first major democracy? Are you just going to pretend ancient Greece and the Roman Republic didn't exist? Not to mention the duchy of Novgorod, a democratic republic formed in the early medieval times, centuries before PLC
Really good video! I would've liked for countries like France or UK to show all the territories around the world they've had but I guess that would make it harder
You forget the Netherland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Danemark and probably some other.
I think Germany had some oversea territories before WWI, no ?
@@lnomsim2 Yes they had some African holdings
Colonizing the 3rd world is no accomplishment, only Europe is
@@norwaydude4798 You should learn what third world means. Really. It's a term that was born during the cold war to designate countries that weren't aligned with the western or eastern blocks.
so... during decolonisation.
Nobody colonized the third world countries.
By the way, there are some errors in the video. Russia, Sweden and Crimea are missing when specifying the by the Polish empire mastered territories. In addition, the dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
2:34 "overseas lands not shown"
Hold up
Yeah Latvia (technically the Duchy of Courland but whatever) once had a small colony in the Caribbean island of Tobago around 1650.
@@f1ufand also three small islands in Gambia
@@user-ls8or7ps3oWasn't it Poland-Lithuania?
@@AllanLimosin all of that was in theory kinda Polish since Dutchy was vasal state of Commonwealth
WHEN DID IT HAPPEN,LATVIA TAKING A ISLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN?
I love how the music goes dramatic when germany shows up
uh oh
guten tag
gotta love the latvian “overseas lands not shown” disclaimer
And surprisingly, it's true!
Its such a disrespect to bulgaria to dont show them while you showed countries like san marino and andora Who didnt chaced.
Bulgaria didnt conquer anything tho. xd
@@greaterforce3981 Bulgarian Empire?
@@greaterforce3981 that isnt True. First look at bulgaria under simeon 1 bulgaria was a major power in the balkans for hundreads of years plus the first bulgaria empire under khan kubrat was in today ukraine and it was realy big
@@greaterforce3981 Bro you have a brain? Did you forget the Balkan Wars? The 2nd Bulgarian Empire? This guy is an American lol
@@ucsmastara4975 yup
in 1610, Poland controlled all of Russia and Sweden, reaching 12.5 million km²
no, but seriously, you included the fact that Sweden controlled Poland, but it was literally only for a few days, and you didn't include the fact that Poland controlled Russia and Sweden for several years
Source?
Russia to Moscow, and the residents of Russia themselves did not even know that they were being controlled🤡
When?
Look at google,it lived jn 1592 to 1599.its basically a presonal union of seeden and poland
A single mistake: Russia also had Turkish Thrace during Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78
Russia also had part of Sweden
Estonia nearly took St. Petersburg
@@trialbruh6063 yet failed, eh.
I'd say completely omitting Bulgaria would be another mistake lmao
And Jever(Napoleonic era) and Schleswig-Holstein(while Peter the 3. and Catherine the Great) in Germany and the Ionian Islands(Greece, Napoleonic era) had Russia
Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Bulgaria: do they forget we exist?
1:48 Germany
4:18 Russia
3:56 Poland
2:25 Italy
5:26 United Kingdom aka Great Britain
5:34 Ukraine
1:33 France
5:19 Turkey
Edit: I started a massive war
Why is this getting so much attention? People are arguing in the reply section and at the time I did not know much about history back then I think I was just listing my favourite ones ok? I THINK.
It should be germany italy near not russia and poland near germany
You good?
@@RaulSalazar-cn5iv you ok? You sound like you had a stroke
5:29 Bro UK OWNED MY COUNTRY 🇪🇸🌚
Why did u have to to add "aka Great Britain" like bruh, their aint any 1700's ppl watching rn, everyone in the modern age knows it as the UK
1:37 oh great heavens
A mix between Napoleon, Charlemagne? and William The Conqueror?
5:27 Just imagine if the colonization had been only in Europe
britain is weak, they can't colonize europe, because european nations are strong while britain only goes to colonize weak nations in africa or asia
Nah it’s still as terrible as it was irl around the world.
most of that isnt from colonialism, its from military occuptaion e.g spain and portugal refers to the napoleonic wars where the kings of spain and portugal fled their countries and left partisans +the british to do all the work.
@@mappingshaman5280 the Kings of Spain were captured by Napoleon.
And the partisans did a lot. I even think that Napoleon himself recognized that his defeat started against the spanish's guerrillas.
All that, without despise for the British participation which was crucial.
@@oriolcampsperez3170 I don’t think any British dispute this. It’s mostly due to people accidentally overstating involvement in an effort for making sure it’s not forgotten in the first place
A few notable examples:
- Korean Civil War = seen as a US war vs USSR, when in reality the overwhelming majority of southern fighters were Korean and overwhelming majority of northern fighters were Chinese
- North African campaign = Axis often represented as Germany/Rommel even though Italy were the majority
- Gallipoli = Allies often represented as ANZAC despite their very small numbers compared to French, British, Indian etc.
Interestingly (3:57) you can see a few personal union ones, but not all of them I miss the Polish-French union and the Polish-Swedish union. For example, Henry III Valois will still be king of Polish he crowned himself king of France. A similar situation Sigismund III Vasa King Polish was elected King of Sweden.
To be fair henry III did left everyone in poland when hé was about to be crowned king of France, leaving the polish throne vacant, so by the Time he got to France, the poles were without a king for months and started electing another, which means he was never de facto both king or France and poland.
It would have been cool tho
@@clementlefevre5384
You are right Henry left Polish throne, while leaving a big shit. This "strange" union was only formally. Really she wasnt there. The period of Henrys reign in Poland falls from 11 May 1573 to 18 June 1574 (until his escape). There is now a catch. Henry doesnt renounced his rights to the Polish crown. Formally, his reign ended in May 1575. So at the end of August 1574 the sejm was convened, where some senators were against the introduction of interregnum. However, the second part was in favor of introducing interregnum. However, they came to an agreement by sending a letter to Henry, setting him as a deadline for returning to the country for May 12, 1575. At the same time, it was announced that if this deadline wasnt met, Henry would lose the throne. So what was the reaction Henry to this letter? He promised mps that he would return quickly, and yet he didnt return. Interestingly, after his dethronement, he considered himself the rightful monarch Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In addition, I would like to add that for Polish history he was a tragic ruler. Which "fired" the clock for the fall of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Eh... how convoluted it all has to be...
Dont forget about Władysław IV Vasa who was temporarely a tsar of russia
The HRE/Austria and Spain...
I live in Netherlands as a pole and in fact, i have never seen a polish lands near the border with dutchies
I’d love to see this for other continents like, Asia
Mongolia
@@laamiaaaa and japan
@@radustana i meant that mongolia would be shown controlling basically all of asia
*Mongolia takes up all of the screens in the Video*
Because of the Mughals, Mogulistans, Timurids, and other 4th Generation of Mongol nations or successors only place they wouldn't have is South East Asia, very north Siberia, and southern Arabia
mongolia would def have the biggest difference
0:45 Rip Bulgaria 🇧🇬 😊
Former satellite of the Soviet Union
Poland: I have the most :)
France: I HAVE THE MOST!
Italy: SHUT UP YOU BAGUETTE!
Turkey: SHUT UP PIZZA!
Russia: NO! I HAVE THE MOST YOU *cyka!*
Britain: *amateurs*
Germany: am anti eu
Why don't you count Germany? It was huge too.
Uk:I may look small in europe but look outside I'm bigger than europe and oceania combined
(Also britain is an island not the actual country)
@@all-stargamer3333 but it was evil Germany that made most if the land-
Uk 1st
France 2nd
(in colonies)
imagine if every European country was included
Faroe Islands, but they extend just on a some Islands in the north atlantic!🇫🇴
@@zombieman333Faroe is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Not independent. like Greenland
2:28 The moment we've all been waiting for
DAJE ROMA
they were still no match for germanic tribe men lmao
… that’s not Nazi Germany?
@@janni_03 lmao they were ambushed in the woods, where you can not deploy your formation, by a filthy traitor, who was later killed by it's own people. And then Germanicus came to get revenge and he did.
@@janni_03 they still survived the east…
Комментарии под этим видео- отдельный вид искусства.
I like the idea of the video, I can't judge how well it is made, besides the missing countries, because I don't know much history, but I'd be interested to see when each country reached its biggest form.
Most annoying issue I have is he got Romes and Macedonias max occupation zones wrong.
It's about all territories ever occupied not what the shape at a single time was
@@darth3911 north macedonians are not descended from the ancient macedonians
He did that alerady
Biggest in Europe or worldwide?
It’s interesting, but let’s keep mind that these territories are vast simplifications and combine maximum extent of each country over the totality of their existence, including alliances and unions with other countries.
Z tego co widzę to są stany z najlepszych okresów nawet jeśli nie trwały długo
No definitely not or else Austria would have owned the entirety of Spain and Portugal at one point through a personal union, idk why it wasn't included for Austria
or during wartime and lasted for a couple years at most. Also, Italy and rome???
It's also interesting in my opinion that there are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland.
Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsIt is interesting that you couldnt spot the biggest flaw. The Golden Horde literally exists and it was controlled by Turks after Genghis Khan's death. Most of Russia must be shown as captured land.
Portugal, in the past, had a region called "Olivença" which is now part of Spain. In "A Reconquista" between 912 and 1492, Portugal managed to obtain Olivença, but in a treaty Spain annexed that territory, but promised Portugal to deliver Olivença back to them, Spain never gave Olivença back to Portugal
Sorry if it was poorly explained
It wasn't a region, it was and still is a city.
Also Spain gave them Olivença, which became part of Portugal again, but in 1801, during the "War of the Oranges", Spain demanded the city of Olivença to Portugal and they accepted it. After that, Spain never gave back Olivença to Portugal and banned their language and culture until the Franco's dictatorship ended in 1975.
And actually in this video it is visible that Portugal holded Olivença, if you compare to the actual eastern portuguese borders and the borders that Portugal occupied back then.
well is a city but yeah all true and im spaniard
@@ashenone3050 STOP SAYING IT'S SPANIARD IT'S SPANISH NOT SPANIARD
@@wellshitigotanotherstrike ehmm spanish(castellano) is the language , spain the country and spanish or spaniard the people from Spain , but a lot of people use spanish as hispanic so its easier that way to know the difference
@@wellshitigotanotherstrike bro why so mad fr
Bulgaria was one of the 4 European superpowers in the 9-9th century and controlled the whole Balkans, half of modern day Hungary, all of modern day Romania and reached the Dnieper river. It's a shame you didn't include the country.
Including today's Ukraine.
@@kalinxristov1654 yes
😂👍👏
For Austria you are forgetting California, which had an Austrian ruling them in the 2000's
You can't see California this is a map of europe
Bruh ARNOLD SCHWARTZNEGGER
@@estebananda9364 its a joke
California and Nazi Germany have both had an Austrian ruling them.
@@nicolastorresbatzakis8727😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Finally! I aways wanted to see something like this!
@The Philosoraptor yes.
@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος εμ. Είπα κάτι;
@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος λέω εάν είπα κάτι. Είπα ότι θα το δούμε ή ότι δεν θα το δούμε; Ξέρεις τι λες;
1:13 Denmark
1:28 Finland
2:13 Iceland
3:51 Norway
5:07 Sweden
the nordics greatest times
Yeah! Great times for those Nordic nations.
What if allo those territories were united into one country
It would become a great nordic empire!
Also, Greece was ruled by a Danish king! Why did they not put that in?
5:22 You forgot Otranto (The heel of the boot of Italy) which was controlled by Turkey in the 16th century briefly
Imagine if all the land these countries owned was restored and all the overlapping areas had to be shared by the governments
probably instant ww3
Balkans and Africa going crazy
Germany, UK, russia, Turkiye, france, italy : 💀
Bulgaria: 💀
@Robeedrill türkiye*
@@checkmatestalingrad In english its turkey. Or should i demand people to call Finland "Suomi"?
@@Alexandros.Mograineno it literally is not. Turkiye's real name was already Türkiye since it was founded. But in recent years Turkiye demanded a name change in ENGLISH to make the name of "Turkey", "Turkiye". And so it got accepted.
@@steeve643 Bulgaria is very small
i am shocked that austria actually conquered that much land in the total time of its history
Some of it Conquered Some of it was through a Series of Marriages
@@bruh5992 *most of it was through marriages
Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube
The map doesn't do justice to Austria, since it ignores Spain and Portugal who used to be ruled by Hapsburgs as well
Austria was a major power in Europe
Uk in Europe:💀
Uk in rest of world:☠️
imagine if the french, German, Russia, Italian or Turks claimed all this land 💀
Most of Russian land in video are liberated german occupied territories
Basically Europe before 1945
@Polanie ah yes Poland ofc, Poland can into space!
@@thelaststylebender01 Poland invented water and sunshine
Turkey already had like 1/3 of Europe and got massive lands in African countries and in Asia and most of the sea’s
I like your variety of video a lot. As for things related to the video, it is interesting to see that some were almost all over Europe, such as Germany. I liked it 👍
I hope you mean you liked the video lol
@@ita6444 of course yes
@@ita6444i like when europe occupy each other.
I've had been imagined this since it was my childhood and is finally real! Thanks you!
You should have made it dude
@@tyunpeters3170 but in that time I didn't know how to make videos like this one
Thought this entire video I kept thinking: "is [blank] country going to count as a predecessor state to [country in question]"
The answer was almost always yes (except for different kinds of unions which where just the "heads" of the unions)
Yeah but that's actually open to interpretation
It was so weird. The whole Roman Empire counted for Italy, the Byzantine empire counted for Greece, and yet the Macedonian empire didn’t count for Macedonia? Very weird
M. Empire is greek@@volcanoherogc6057
0:04 Albania
0:10 Andorra
0:18 Armenia
0:26 Austria
0:34 Azerbaijan
0:41 Belarus
0:48 Croatia
0:55 Cyprus
1:04 Czechia
1:11 Denmark
1:19 Estonia
1:26 Finland
1:34 France
1:41 Georgia
1:49 Germany
1:56 Greece
2:04 Hungary
2:11 Iceland
2:19 Ireland
2:27 Italy
2:34 Latvia
2:41 Liechtenstein
2:49 Lithuania
2:57 Luxembourg
3:04 Malta
3:11 Moldova
3:19 Monaco
3:27 Montenegro
3:34 Netherlands
3:42 North Macedonia
3:49 Norway
3:56 Poland
4:04 Portugal
4:12 Romania
4:18 Russia
4:27 San Marino
4:35 Serbia
4:42 Slovakia
4:50 Slovenia
4:57 Spain
5:05 Sweden
5:12 Switzerland
5:20 Türkiye
5:27 United Kingdom
5:35 Ukraine
5:42 Vatican City
(Bulgaria, Bosnia and Belgium is on community section)
They did the 3 countries dirty fr
I live in italy
I think he hate You guys
Черногория: что?
3:05 Lmao the Maltese "overseas lands not shown" are the Knight Hospitaller colonies in the caribbeans XD
2:27
*this is.... Beautiful*
@MustafaPlay Yes, roman period.
I know grande Giulio Cesare mio imperatore
@@Ornio.709
Know*
E comunque grazie mio fedele cittadino
@@JiafeiProducts6969 i am very alfabeta
Rome
All territories ever occupied by Portugal in Europe:😐
All territories ever occupied by Portugal in the world:💀
In the history of europe mostly not the countries occupied other countries, but the dynasties take over territories. For example Austria has not really occupied Burundy, Netherlands, Bohemia, Hungary and so on, but the Habsburgs have married luckily and have taken over many territories.
Therefore a video about all territories controlled by each dynasty would be also interesting.
Hungary and Bohemia were just annexed lands in the Austrian empire before Austria-Hungary was established, but i get what you mean
@@Nickel_Eye
Bohemia was not "annexed". After the death of King Ludvik in the Battle of Mohács, there was no male heir, only the king's sister Anna, who married the Habsburg Ferdinand. Bohemian estates elected Ferdinand I as a King of Bohemia and in 1526 the Lands of the Bohemian Crown joined the territories of the Habsburgs
I like how Vatican City had more land than a lot of the countries here
Yea, it used to be known as "Papal States", was actually pretty powerful
I think Vatican City is more of a successor to the Roman Empire than Italy is. The Papal States included the entire city of Rome and basically the middle third of the Italian peninsula.
Italy is more a Piedmont-Sardinia successor
@@alexanderlapp5048how? The Vatican wasn’t a thing at the time the pope had to take in serious account the papal states citizens as several times he got overthrown and another roman reppublic was declared but it was run by Italian people the same that ruled Italy. It’s like saying ohio has a better claim to The Thirteen colonies than the Usa does.
@@wojtekpolska1013the papal states also weren’t direct in the line from Rome. But in the beggining the Pope was elected as a sort of Italian president, so i see your point. But still it’s another Italian state. It’s like saying San Marino has a better claim. Ok cool where’s san marino? What do they speak? What’s their ethnicity? 🇮🇹
You should make more videos like this with the other continents.
2:35 I like how it says "overseas lands not shown for Latvia as the duchy of Courland had a colony in Trinadad.
I didn't expect Hungary and Spain to have a small part of Greece
I didn't expect the UK to have Greece.
In 1204 the Latins turned stabbed the Orthodox Christians in the back and attacked Constantinople, resulting in the Division of Rhomania. Byzantium was split among some Orthodox (Greek) and Catholic (Latin) nobilities and this allowed for the rise of the Turks.
@@yougoslavia it means in WW2
@@yougoslavia They had Greece because they freed us from the Germans
@@georgios_5342 but during ww2, the british didnt occupy greece, they fought with the greeks at first and then when the greeks were conquered the british eventually invaded so they could give all the land to the monarchists before the communists took over.
Here is the wrong map of Ukraine. What is shown here is the territorial claims of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918, but in fact, its territories were smaller than modern Ukraine.
For example, Kuban has never been part of Ukraine, even though Ukrainians lived there. Kuban created its own Kuban People's Republic, where the official languages were Russian and Ukrainian. But this republic did not last long, on June 23, 1918, there was a vote on which country to join (Ukraine or Russia). According to the results of the vote, it became part of the Russian Republic (the white movement). Then there were conflicts between the leadership because some insisted on autonomy, and others on a full-fledged subject of the country. As a result, the Communists took advantage of this internal conflict and seized these lands during the civil war.
Stop
Ukraine is the direct successor of Kievan Rus. So, the map is still incorrect, but the territory has to be much bigger
You make a point but also you didn't. It's wrong map, but it must much larger.
This video is total bullshit
@@vikkorothere was no such state as kievan rus, my xoxoI buddy. Wake up to reality and take that cattle off your head
@@vikkoro Did you pay a lot for history lessons at McDonald's?
1. The fact that Ukraine is located where Kievan Rus' once was does not make Ukraine its successor.
2. "Kievan" Rus' is just the name of the period when Kiev was the capital of Rus'. Before Kiev, Novgorod and Ladoga were the centers, which are located in modern-day Russia. Rus' emerged in Ladoga, and at that time Kiev was part of the Khazar Khaganate.
3. All historical documents up until the 20th century in "Ukraine" were written in Russian.
4. In Ukrainian books, national heroes call themselves Russians.
5. Famous people who the West now claims as Ukrainians somehow called themselves Russians. And in some cases, the West made a mistake. For example, the artist Aivazovsky is called Ukrainian because he was born in Crimea. But Ukrainians did not live in Crimea at that time; Aivazovsky was Armenian by nationality and was a pro-Russian activist. Another example is the artist Repin, who is supposedly Ukrainian because he was born in Kharkov. However, Russians lived in Kharkov at that time, and Ukrainians appeared there only after the creation of the Ukrainian SSR. Repin lived his whole life in Moscow and St. Petersburg, was pro-Russian, a monarchist, a personal artist of the imperial court, and during the civil war, he was radically against the Ukrainian national identity. Yet the West calls him Ukrainian.
Damn bro should show us overseas territory in another video
Including the Austrian territory in China
latvia
This video is INCORRECT and INCOMPLETE because doesn't show all European countries. The country of BULGARIA is missing. BULGARIA Is located in the southeastern Europe between Turkey, Greece, North Macedonia Romania and the Black sea, and it was a big Empire in the 10th century during the rain of Czar Simeon. During that time the Frank's empire of Charlemagne and the Bulgarian empire of Czar Simeon were the biggest in Europe and even bigger than the Eastern Roman Empire named Byzantium.
Good point!
"Nahhhhh, Bulgaria is located in asia"
WOW,REALLY,I THOUGHT IT WAS IN OCEANIA
Least nationalistic BULGARIAN
Estonia, for a very brief period of time during the war of independence, held Northern Latvia, and up to St. Petersburg.
True.
However, the list is incomplete. Why did you choose these countries? However mistakes were made in the countries listed, as was the case with Poland. There are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland.
Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
For a very brief period Russia held Paris.
So what? You are so brave to attack during the Civil War in Russia? When parts of Russia were occupied by Brittish, German, Japanese, American and French military? So brave of you.
@@YuriZhevnevRussia held Paris for 3 years.
3:36 you seemed to have forgot east frisia for the netherlands, which was occupied under the batavian republic/napoleonic netherlands
doesn't include overseas lands
@@HissPhunnyCat b r u h east frisia is literally in germany
@@HissPhunnyCat frisia is europe lol
@@tubbeyt ok i read it wrong
The overseas lands are colonies like: Indonesia and Suriname
Interesting video, I love it.
I guess it gets complicated because it's hard to really deliminate what a state is, maybe it'd be better to say territories ever occupied by nationality.
One thing too: Liechtenstein used to be like 5x bigger, still microscopic, but definitely bigger than that.
You are wrong, because as you can see in the video it is possible to show the countries with all the areas they once occupied. But there were also mistakes made in the video, as you also noticed with Liechtenstein, and mistakes were also pointed out in other comments. By the way, mistakes were also made regarding my country Poland. There are mistakes regarding Poland, because Sweden, Finland and Russia should have been shown in Polish colors as Polish domains. Because Sweden was a domain of the Polish King during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1592 to 1599 by which Finland was also a domain of the Polish king because the Polish king was not only the king of Sweden, but also the Grand Duke of Finland. Russia, on the other hand, was during the time of the personal union with Poland in 1610-12 a domain of Poland. By the way, the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon was also the grand duke of Luxembourg in the 15th century, which made Luxembourg a Polish domain. So Sweden, Finland, Russia and Luxembourg should also have been shown in Polish colors in the video. During the time of the Polish King Casimir IV, Crimea was a Polish protectorate from 1462 to 1475. Unfortunately, the Polish army was strongly committed in the fight against the Teutonic Order and therefore Crimea could not be defended against the Ottomans and was lost for Poland. But since Crimea was a Polish domain for a while, Crimea should also appear in Polish colors in the video. In case anyone is wondering why a piece of Italy was Polish. This are the territoris of Bari and Rossano which came to Poland through the marriage of the Polish king Sigismund I with the Italian Duchess of Bari and Rossano Bona Sforza who thereby became Queen of Poland.
Although there are other errors! The dominion of the Soviet Union was shown and not the dominion of Russian Empire. Serbia mistakenly was confused with Yugoslavia. The Germans have never mastered Syria as is claimed in the video. Germans were involved in the Crusades. But there was no German crusader state. About half of Syria was then the principality of Antioch. But this principality was certainly not mastered by Germans.
You Forgot The British Occupation Of Murmansk And The area around it
the thing you did with north macedonia is bound to make them salty, but i fully support it
nothing is wrong with it though
North macedonia is not macedonia
@@artzuel2616 North macedonia for a very short amount of time actually owned territory all the way to india, but, that wasn't included.
@@notaspect721 that was Macedonia (Greece) not slavs
@@jimskoutas1933 to be honest? the part that alexander came from is currently part of greece and yes the land itself is greek now. but back in the days? they were not greeks although they for sure weren't whatever the fuck the north macedonians are
It is such a pleasure to see my home country Bulgaria in its historical zenith. Oh, wait a second, yeah, you didn't show us, of course, sorry for interrupting the party of the true countries!
But seriously, Bulgaria was f***ing huge in the medieval period
@@mrtrollnator123oh yes. Bulgaria was a literal European giant.
@@tutorialesminecraft8930 fr
France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, & UK 🇬🇧:
You forgot a lot of countries that start with B
Bulgaria and Bosnia
Person: how many territories did you once occupy?
Britain: yes
1:50 jumpscare
Nazi jumpscare
Aaaaaaah
Oh was I supposed to be scared? :/
@@CoolAstrost you're so innocent
@@CoolAstrost its haha funny third reich forcing jews to work all day long
Nazi jumpscare
Armenia isn’t an European country. It’s in west Asia.
There are several different systems of border between Europe and Asia
4:20
What Putin thinks Russia's borders look like.
That's even better
Why were they in France
@@L1M.L4M I think during the Napoleonic Wars
@@bod-7268 Russia reached to Bulgaria in the Napoleonic war?
Also I know Bulgaria is under control by the ottoman at that moment.
@@nothinghere200 The title says ALL Territories occupied, so WW2 also counts
In the Estonian war of independence, they had like half of Latvia and almost st petersburg
Первый раз слышу про эстонскую войну за независимость
@@AlmazornЭто когда белогвардейцы при поддержке британцев наступали на красных с территории Прибалтики😂
Where is Bulgaria it is in Europe, not in Asia
wait Bulgaria's actually missing LOL
Turkey never miss...
Also belgium
@@AdmiralMorgan be quiet because we are not turks, we are not greeks, we are not romanians, and we are NOT russians.
@@bulgaria5075 the ancient bulgars were turkic tho.......
If authors forget Bulgaria, how can we trust the whole video..
1:50 missed a swedish island
It says “overseas lands not shown” somewhere
@@Ethangonzalezahh1 Swedish island is on europe. Overseas is just colonies
Bro, but you don't see the map of a frustrated painter... ☠️☠️☠️
@@golden_studior5879 which one? There are 221,800
@@Ethangonzalezahh1 i researched it. It was gotland
if Austria is like the Habsburgs, shouldn't they "control" Spain as well?
they definitely should
But then Germany should "control" Spain aswell, because of the Hohenzollern Monarch
Suppose so, especially because Spain and Austria were briefly united under Charles V
Was it a union? (Read description)
Then that should mean that the rest of Germany should be controlled by Austria due to the HRE.
If all countries were to return to their maximum size, Europe would need about 5(?) times the land area.
Of course that wouldn't end things.
human nature: that guys land has nicer grass, gold, farm land, whatever, so imma take it
@@notsamhoward Reduce us all to the size of ants, we'll go to war over the same old borders!
Everybody enjoying the video:
Belgium: What do you mean “no access?”
Was not expecting that from Czechia
The west and south slavs immigrated from russia, belarus and ukraine. Wasn't really a proper kingdom and it wasnt just czech, all the western slavs are descended from them.
It's also fake.
@@ub3rfr3nzy94 this is literally land owned by czechia,not samos empire
@@tamaszlav somebody didnt listen in history class
Sweden did not control the Rzeczpospolita. A personal union by a monarch of the same dynasty does not mean that this was a real union, especially not in the case of the Polish-Lithuanian state which was less a kingdom but much more a republic built up by nobles.
Sweden invades Poland. They are have a name for it - Potop Szwedzki
@@FisikYadershik SZWECJA NIGDY NIE PANOWALA NAD POLSKA WOJNA TO NIE PANOWANIE.
@@JERZ69GSweden destroyed poland, quit yapping
@@JERZ69G No ale Szwecja okupowała te tereny przez jakiś czas więc w czym problem
@@TarasPorosuk Lepiej Ukraińcu dziękuj Polakom na kolanach za pomoc, a nie otwieraj gębę, gdzie cię nie proszono
This is amazing this channel is entering the “Geossance”
europe: exist
germany: you mean...my country ?
Two countries that always surprise me are Bulgaria and Czechia. Rather small countries today, but massive territory in the past, for example Bohemia=Czechia stretched from Baltic sea to a few kilometres to Jadran sea, almost having access to both northern and mediterrenean sea. Bulgarian empire was also massive, it was like the biggest land in the Balkans stretching from Ukraine to almost Greece.
It surprised you, because it is false, fake. The uploader pulled out all of this from his butthole.
BUT...the Czech's great expansion was not with Bohemia but with Great Moravia in the early Middle Ages.
Yes, but in those times borders were more fluid. Those were times when maps and cartography were quite rare and not precise. Borders were usually thought as rivers, hills, specific landmarks. It was also age of quite low population in Europe. Big kingdoms had we can just guess only dozens of thousand of people so it was incredibly sparse, most of kingdoms were endless forests with ocassional small keep. I would say that Bohemia was far more structured and borders were more precise and protected. For example whole Silesia was part of Bohemia from 12th to almost 18th century. Unfortunately Maria Theresa managed to loose it to Prussia in 1742, as well Lusitania which today is parted between eastern Germany and Western Poland.@@GreatPolishWingedHussars
@@Aggoenix But it is a fact that Great Moravia was shown in the video and not Bohemia. So change Bohemia to Great Moravia and your comment will be correct.
Ever heard about Lithuania?
Little innacuracy in Ukraine map. Territories that you showed as ever occupied was actually never occupied by Ukraine. It territories that was claimed by Ukraine People Republic, so it actually must have Crimea and some parts of Moldova
They forgot how Great Ukraine (Kievan Rus') had gigantic territories over ruSSia and other lands. Real, many brainwashed foreigners even don't know that ruSSia is not Rus' because true Rus' is Ukraine and Belarus and ruSSia is ulus of Mongol Horde with stolen nickname ruSSia
but most of those territories she knocked out with her army and returned the Crimea, the UNR lived for 3 years. But formally it would be more correct for that picture of the territory Kievan Rus, and those territories that the UNR took under its control. but in this video with many countries there are inaccuracies so there is no difference
Yes. Ukraine is the direct successor of the Kievan Rus, so the occupied area is much, much bigger
@@casualstone920 no, why? Obviously successor of Rus is Russia.
@@casualstone920 the heirs of Kievan Rus are Russia, Ukraine, Belarus
Oh look Poland had Moscow which Germany never had
Germany is something that Poland will never be: Developed
Lol, Germany had Warsaw as province. Had Poland Berlin as province?
@@moony7144 "Linguists derive the name Berlin from the Proto-Slavic *brl, meaning marsh or bog, and give the meaning of the name as a city on marshes[3]. According to Reinhold Trautmann's hypothesis, Berlin is a corruption of the name Bralin (which is supported by, among others, the record of the name of the town as Braline in a document from 1215) and comes from the personal name Bral, i.e. a shortened form of the Slavic compound name Bratosław[4]."
As an Irishman, we used to own Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Brittany, Cornwall, and Galicia. Just letting ya know!
Bro thinks Celtics=Irish
happened never
It's easy to determine where Moscow is here on the map, because in France and Poland, there are some strange tails, and these were one of the really tiny number of countries that had Moscow for a while.
Yeah, but France for just a moment entered empty Moscow burned by Russians, but Poland ruled Moscow for 2 years.
@@LewicowyPatriota yes
@@LewicowyPatriota France still captured Moscow.
@@x-a- well, yes. yes, Russians have let them capture Moscow.
Where's Bulgaria? They had many massive empires and have a very rich history
You should’ve showed the Holy Roman Empire as Liechtenstein as its the last segment of it 2:45
iirc Liechtenstein was established after the HRE was dissolved. And honestly, The HRE was hardly even a country.
Liechtenstein is a remaining piece of the Holy Roman empire, and its borders had little to no changes.
Holy Roman Empire is German
@@Tibet_a but Liechtenstein was part of it, and Germany didn't fully create it.
Germany had other empires.
As everybody says: the holy Roman empire was nor holy nor roman nor an empire
I agree @@AllanLimosin
Alexander's empire wasn't Greek. It was Mecadonean.
And Macedonia is Greek ❤🇬🇷
And it was the greek macedonia not north macedonia
Slavs didnt exist😂 Macedonians were and still are Greeks. Same as Alexander.
Macedonians, they was called barbars by Athenians. No gayreeks at that time.
@@pripri632 MACEDONIA FOREVER GREEK 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Denmark also had Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Normandy as a vassal, more claimed territory in Finland and Karelia (including Kola peninsula claimed) Pommeranian coast stretching to Prussia briefly), prolly more of Lapland claimed, Bremen-Verden (vassal) and more of Estonia (in the North West)
Polish-Danish king also conquered England
@@lch7732 Yup, Cnut II was the king of the North Sea empire
Kalmar Union was a personal union, so there were three separate kingdoms not just one Denmark up to woods of Carelia🙂
@@toomaskroll2282 semantics, the monarch is the state. Otherwise the British Empire didnt control a shitton of its territory, spain was for long still Aragon and Castille, and you may even split up the Austrian Empire into Bohemia other accessories, which very much still were personal union countries. Its just that for the most part the local nobility was either curbed or all the laws were brought into being harmonised and consolidated so the areas effectively merged
5:30 Russia:You are allowed to invade a country if it used to be yours
UK:
Correction: Moldova also had Izmail one time.
You mean Bukhovina Oblast?
@@halamadridynadamas14 south of the Odessa oblast
From the time of Principality of Moldavia right?
@@lewycraft Moldovia inherently became romania along with walachia it isnt the ancestor of moldova
@@K.Pershing I mean, half im old Moldavia is currently in Romania and other half is in Moldova, with coast belonging to Ukraine
I wish everyone was this patriotic to wear Union Jacks. Admit you were British at some point.
Is it me, or Bulgaria and Belgium have casually been skipped?
4:21 ur forgot bout Soviet Expansion in Nazi Norway under Hitler control.
Also great video 🤝🌟
It was Britain who took n@$i
2:28 Mussoloni's dream during WW2
i’d like to think that somewhere in luxembourg there is a singular irredentist who yearns for the days when it was triple its current size
1:54 Greece also controlled Odessa in 1919.
Ok greek russian supporter
I live in Odessa
No they didn't
@@findyourselfinthisworld nice. Odessa is a beatifull city we Greeks once built!
@@DesperateDawggo21 yes they did. For your information Odessa itself is an ancient Greek city. And they took it for about 2 months in 1919 (Odessa Mariupol Kherson Crimea was taken by Greeks.)