Why is Liechtenstein a Country?

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  • @Knowledgia
    @Knowledgia  11 місяців тому +38

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    • @Will_92
      @Will_92 11 місяців тому +1

      Y'all made a mistake in the editing of the video. You said that liechenstein was 62 square miles but you wrote 62 square kilometers in the animation. Otherwise great video

    • @DreadMaps.
      @DreadMaps. 11 місяців тому

      Isn’t Liechtenstein at war with Germany still?

    • @fuqupal
      @fuqupal 8 місяців тому +1

      It's pronounced "lishtenstein", not "liktenstein"

    • @akeutmann79
      @akeutmann79 6 місяців тому

      How are the neighbors?

    • @RajSingh-w3v2m
      @RajSingh-w3v2m Місяць тому

      @@akeutmann79 2

  • @chiefjohnson2642
    @chiefjohnson2642 11 місяців тому +627

    Sent 80 soldiers returned with 81

    • @Logmankixass12
      @Logmankixass12 11 місяців тому +82

      Liechtensteiner: you like German beer?
      Italian: yeah. You like pasta?
      Liechtensteiner: wanna head back to my place and watch Fifa? (Yes ik it didn't exist yet)
      Italian: f**k yeah let's go!

    • @user-dj1dg3sp6o
      @user-dj1dg3sp6o 11 місяців тому +8

      😂😂😂

    • @dylonmartinez7946
      @dylonmartinez7946 11 місяців тому +15

      I like this comment a lot

    • @natheriver8910
      @natheriver8910 11 місяців тому +4

      👏👏👏

    • @Bruhman_16
      @Bruhman_16 11 місяців тому +33

      Sir we got -1 casualties

  • @fatherofhistory
    @fatherofhistory 11 місяців тому +98

    I've always been fascinated by small countries with big histories, and Liechtenstein is definitely one of them. I learned a lot from this video, and I'm definitely going to do some more research on the country. Thanks for sharing!

  • @alexanderjentes
    @alexanderjentes 11 місяців тому +99

    I’ve had the privilege to spend many a summer in Liechtenstein. A truly beautiful and blessed swathe of land nestled in an idyllic valley somewhere beyond St. Gallen (CH) and the Rhine, and which one can easily drive past and miss - quite literally - in a blink of an eye…
    Should you ever find yourself traveling between Switzerland and Austria (or vice versa) by train, car, motorcycle, or bicycle, be sure to visit the Fürstentum for a day or two (or even just a quick “Kaffeepause”)! It’s worth the memory!

    • @LloydDownUnder1988
      @LloydDownUnder1988 11 місяців тому

      Planning just such a trip! Added to the list 😊

    • @mightyx5441
      @mightyx5441 11 місяців тому +3

      would've been better to be born in it tho

    • @bunk95
      @bunk95 11 місяців тому

      I got a huff and mouth bath near there and was then electrocuted by a [Swiss] farmer.
      Us [Royals love] Zermatt.

    • @frankroto
      @frankroto 10 місяців тому

      It takes about a half hour to drive across Liechtenstein. If you're blinking for, quite literally, 30 min. at a time, perhaps you should visit an ophthalmologist.😄

    • @kaloarepo288
      @kaloarepo288 10 місяців тому

      A big exaggeration - to miss it literally in the blink of an eye would mean it's only a few square meters in size when actually it's about 64 square miles!!!

  • @Grasslander
    @Grasslander 11 місяців тому +122

    In short, after Napoleon's defeat there was a German Confederation of 39 states, in which Lichtenstein could build up its structure as a state. Later, neither Austria-Hungary nor the Third Reich sought to incorporate Lichtenstein.

    • @schusterlehrling
      @schusterlehrling 11 місяців тому +10

      Actually the principal family had close ties with the Habsburgs and a close economic and monetary union with it.
      Only after WWI they switched to an economic and monetary union with Switzerland, though today Liechtenstein is actually closer bonded to the EU then to Switzerland, but for instance in sports, they are still close to Switzerland

    • @labbecedario1579
      @labbecedario1579 11 місяців тому +3

      The Prince of Liechtenstein and the Head of the house of Habsburg-Lorraine are second cousins once removed, actually (both descendants of archiduke Karl Ludwig of Austria)

    • @conservative6759
      @conservative6759 10 місяців тому

      It is deeper than that, the lickers defeated the suckers and the rest is history.

  • @garypage9515
    @garypage9515 10 місяців тому +14

    Interesting fact: The royal family of Liechtenstein owns the opera palace in Vienna! Additionally, when I traveled there in 2003, the Liechtenstein estate in the Moravian area of the Czech Republic was beginning a renovation, to correct the harms done to it during the Soviet era.

  • @kaloarepo288
    @kaloarepo288 10 місяців тому +18

    Liechtenstein was created by the Holy Roman emperor in order to give a certain prince imperial immediacy (not subject to any other ruler than the Holy Roman emperor) so they granted him the area around Vaduz (the present capital) but the name came from a castle in another part of Austria. Actually the princes of Liechtenstein resided almost exclusively either in Vienna or in palaces in other parts of the Habsburg dominions and they even didn't bother to ever go to the Vaduz area (present day Liechtenstein) until much much later. That's how I understand the history of this principality.

    • @Psychiatrick
      @Psychiatrick 9 місяців тому +1

      Money - Asset launderers!

  • @Fantasygod930
    @Fantasygod930 11 місяців тому +73

    I like how around the time Little Liechtenstein formation all the major powers didn't really care for this area They all thought it was useless It's always funny to see a Little country Appear in an area That it gets ignore by its former country

    • @Grasslander
      @Grasslander 11 місяців тому +1

      So if other countries don't invade the country, that means it's "useless," not that European German states had good relations with each other. That arrogant history-ignorant language sounds like it comes from an American, what a surprise.

    • @Louis-Napoleon
      @Louis-Napoleon 11 місяців тому

      Liechtenstein wasn't a part of any Nation in the Past

  • @0Dx_ge
    @0Dx_ge 11 місяців тому +59

    It’s crazy that Liechtenstein almost bought Alaska

    • @Mujhe_Credit_nahin_chahiye
      @Mujhe_Credit_nahin_chahiye 5 місяців тому +1

      India advised them not to. The Indian people interpret Alaska as
      A Loss ka......means a deal of loss.
      😊😊😊

    • @trendshort_
      @trendshort_ 4 місяці тому

      ​@Pyaaz_Kaat_Ke am Indian and never heard that this happend maybe some Pakis interrupt 'em cause they wanna have Alaska to their PAW PAW 'Murica

  • @frankroto
    @frankroto 11 місяців тому +46

    The map at 2:20 shows the location of the wrong castle. Liechtenstein is named for the Liechtenstein Castle in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), not the Lichtenstein Castle (note missing letter e) in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.

    • @BobBrandon
      @BobBrandon 11 місяців тому +3

      And there are many misspellings.

  • @miliba
    @miliba 11 місяців тому +39

    Liechtenstein is the only nation to have participated in a war and come back with a negative number of casualties. When returning home from that war, the contingent brought a friend along!

  • @happyslappy5203
    @happyslappy5203 11 місяців тому +45

    Fun fact: there are no kangaroos🦘in Liechtenstein, they live only in neighbouring country Australia.

    • @Pipothegreatfirstofhisname
      @Pipothegreatfirstofhisname 11 місяців тому +1

      I assume there are zoo's no?

    • @ShadowOfThePit
      @ShadowOfThePit 11 місяців тому +1

      I'd be surprised if there was even one zoo in Liechtenstein, and not to mention it holding kangaroos

    • @cykablyat6531
      @cykablyat6531 11 місяців тому +7

      neighbouring country Australia?😲

    • @rivenoak
      @rivenoak 11 місяців тому +5

      @@cykablyat6531 people confuse AUS and Austria all the time and ask for Kangaroos in the alps :D

    • @AnjinThomas
      @AnjinThomas 11 місяців тому +4

      Yeah, during the time of the Australo-Hungarian Empire, the Kangaroos sided with the humans against Emus, and it was a mess and really nobody won, but the Emus claim it as a victory

  • @theobserver3753
    @theobserver3753 10 місяців тому +26

    Because it’s not near China or Russia.

    • @cherylmarcuri5506
      @cherylmarcuri5506 8 місяців тому +2

      I wish I could like this more than just once!

    • @Sohlah24
      @Sohlah24 3 місяці тому

      Or the US

    • @theobserver3753
      @theobserver3753 3 місяці тому

      @@Sohlah24 lmao there’s a reason why nearly all of china neighbors hate it.

    • @brizzle3903
      @brizzle3903 3 місяці тому

      Or the United States plus it doesn’t any oil 😅 no need for regime change there huh

    • @theobserver3753
      @theobserver3753 3 місяці тому

      @@brizzle3903 regime change? When was the last time the ccp was replaced?

  • @MatthewTheWanderer
    @MatthewTheWanderer 11 місяців тому +35

    Fun fact: Liechtenstein has the same land area as Washington, DC (62 square miles), but DC has at least 16 times as many people!

    • @nintendomusicchannel1317
      @nintendomusicchannel1317 10 місяців тому +1

      And none of them can vote for Congress

    • @markalexander832
      @markalexander832 10 місяців тому +5

      @@nintendomusicchannel1317 As is proper. The Congress of the United States. DC is a Federal district created by the Constitution to host the federal government outside the jurisdiction of any state. It is not a state of the United States. For the same reason, it is absurd that it now gets three votes for US president.

    • @DENVEROUTDOORMAN
      @DENVEROUTDOORMAN 9 місяців тому

      Nope not fun at all

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 9 місяців тому +2

      @@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Whatevs, you're just boring

    • @HungryLoki
      @HungryLoki 8 місяців тому

      @@markalexander832 Yeah, and imagine, people still have to live there, because, imagine, any city requires a fucking civilian population to run.
      Nothing about ignoring the voice of an entire city is proper.

  • @Greenday4405
    @Greenday4405 Місяць тому +1

    A very good Explanation about Liechtenstein for dont know where the tiny Country is. Im from Liechtenstein

  • @dhawthorne1634
    @dhawthorne1634 11 місяців тому +23

    More videos on micro-nations please! Nauru, San Marino and Grenada would be a good start.
    A video on the Native American reservations would be nice too. CGPGrey has been promising one for years but has never delivered.***

    • @AnjinThomas
      @AnjinThomas 11 місяців тому +3

      San Marino would be great, it's been a sovereign state since 301 AD, the oldest continuous country in the world. And through similar manoeuvrings as Liechtenstein

  • @Grasslander
    @Grasslander 11 місяців тому +16

    Fun fact: That southern part of England held by France is where Monty Python's King Arthur encountered the French castle. "You silly English kniggits!"

  • @boqn9748
    @boqn9748 11 місяців тому +10

    they originated in Liechtenstein castle in Lower Austria, not Lichtenstein castle in Württemberg

  • @Gosudar
    @Gosudar 11 місяців тому +9

    It is telling, that the current Principality of Liechtenstein was so unimportant for the Liechtensteins themselves, that the first member of the family visited(!) the country only 100 years(!) after they acquired it. Most of the family's possesions were for centuries in Czechia and they eventually became one of the largest landholders in the country and one of the richest of the Czech noble families. The total area of their land holdings in Czechia was many times larger than the territory of the current Liechtenstein. They lost a large part of it after WWI during the land reform and the rest of it after WWII. The dispute ower this confiscation between the House of Liechtenstein and Czechia hasn't been settled to this day.

    • @markalexander832
      @markalexander832 10 місяців тому

      The House of Liechtenstein's Texas landholdings are greater in size than Liechtenstein itself.

  • @ListenToPowerViolence
    @ListenToPowerViolence 11 місяців тому +51

    I live in Liechtenstein.

    • @SunsetNova
      @SunsetNova 11 місяців тому +12

      Can you lend me some money?

    • @nemiw4429
      @nemiw4429 11 місяців тому +10

      ​@@SunsetNovamy Croat family is the same. They think we drive on golden roads in Switzerland. In CRO most have an own house. In CH most rent apartments. My Mom worked as Dr. post war. Thx to my Mom we have a house too, but now prices start at ~1 million. Life in CH is costly.

    • @Putput-se5ew
      @Putput-se5ew 11 місяців тому +3

      A rare encounter indeed:D Grüß Gott aus Finnland

    • @arthemis1039
      @arthemis1039 11 місяців тому +1

      It is so expensive !!

    • @TadParker
      @TadParker 11 місяців тому +6

      will you adopt me?

  • @alexanderboulton2123
    @alexanderboulton2123 10 місяців тому +5

    They kept their head down and never gave anyone a reason to mess with them.

    • @dancollins2568
      @dancollins2568 3 місяці тому

      it is mainly just a bunch of super rich people.
      no one will bother you when you can just pay them to leave you alone and launder money for you

  • @NicolaW72
    @NicolaW72 8 місяців тому +2

    Thank you for doing this overview over the History of Liechtenstein - a tiny, but very interesting Country.

  • @gyderian9435
    @gyderian9435 11 місяців тому +10

    I visited there about 15 years ago during summertime, lovely place

    • @HerrKurt
      @HerrKurt 11 місяців тому

      That's cool

    • @seed_drill7135
      @seed_drill7135 11 місяців тому

      20 years for me. I ate rabbit for the first time in a restaurant in Veduz.

    • @lynnhubbard844
      @lynnhubbard844 9 місяців тому

      I've seen it in winter and summer...thought it was romantic in winter, like a fairy tale

  • @szbszig
    @szbszig 11 місяців тому +8

    Beside said attributes (luck, innocence, diplomacy), let's not forget its geographical position. It is situated at the periphery of both the German Empire and the Austrian Empire, while backed up by neutral Switzerland from the other side. Another German speaking state could not have held its independence, however hard it had tried, simply because of being completely surrounded by one or two much larger empires.

    • @NicolaW72
      @NicolaW72 8 місяців тому

      Indeed, exactly.

  • @epicnicity916
    @epicnicity916 10 місяців тому +4

    Now imagine if Liechtenstein actually bought Alaska, it would be so much bigger, and much richer (because of oil), but they didn't know that at the time.

  • @rutufn0596
    @rutufn0596 11 місяців тому +21

    Some countries are just paradises where some can hide the money

  • @ZarZarevitz
    @ZarZarevitz 11 місяців тому +4

    It was said, ‘around 62 square miles or 160 square kilometres to be exact.’ However, in the video appeared written ‘62 sq/km’

  • @sareinhart
    @sareinhart 11 місяців тому +3

    I’ve been to Lichtenstein! Beautiful place. 😊

    • @Iconicjoe256
      @Iconicjoe256 9 місяців тому

      Woooww would love to go with you nxt tym

  • @FdubsMapping
    @FdubsMapping 4 місяці тому

    I live like 5 miles away from Liechtenstein I’ve been there multiple times, beautiful place.

  • @Cyan.Captian
    @Cyan.Captian 10 місяців тому +2

    Liechtenstein gdp per capita is explained because it’s a micro nation with not a bunch of people which means a decent amount of people just have a lot of money

  • @depekthegreat359
    @depekthegreat359 11 місяців тому +4

    Wow!!!Lietchtenstein is one of my favourite countries ever and this is a fascinating history about the nation,good friends!!!I do want to visit there once in my lifetime and it is one of the best respective smallest countries in the world!!!LONG LIVE LIECHTENSTEIN 🇱🇮 !!!👍🏾

  • @zaidsaidiadi9813
    @zaidsaidiadi9813 11 місяців тому +2

    Nice vid

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey9895 11 місяців тому +3

    It helped that Liechtenstein ALSO bordered perpetually neutral Switzerland to stay out of wars.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 11 місяців тому +8

    What a peaceful history of small and great Leinchinstein principality .

  • @claygorovoy5467
    @claygorovoy5467 11 місяців тому +3

    It's got a lot of Banks where the netanyahu family routes it's money on the way to Geneva

  • @flawyerlawyertv7454
    @flawyerlawyertv7454 10 місяців тому +2

    Amazing! 🇱🇮

  • @mrknoch
    @mrknoch 11 місяців тому

    1:42 County. Great video.

  • @revinhatol
    @revinhatol 11 місяців тому +2

    The lineage of the Royal Family there is almost strictly male-line/agnatic, with some male-preference primogeniture added to the mix.

  • @TiagoEstevinha
    @TiagoEstevinha 11 місяців тому +7

    Since when the frakinsh empire has lands on south of England? ( 1:18 )

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 8 місяців тому

      Maybe they were thinking of 1066.

  • @adrianmartin1308
    @adrianmartin1308 11 місяців тому +6

    I thought switzerland is "obligated" to defend liechtenstein, we also represent them in some diplomatic things. Dk when switzerland did promise to defend liechtenstein, would be interesting to know when that was.

    • @nemiw4429
      @nemiw4429 11 місяців тому

      No wer not. I served in the Swiss Air Force (which consists of Croats and Serbvs mainly btw. u Swiss vaginas 😂). If they work here, they have to serve. But we wud probably defend them versus Austria and Italy. Depends on the current status. 70/30 yes defend. I GUESS.

  • @billythepigeon4602
    @billythepigeon4602 10 місяців тому +1

    One overlooked point, too many mountains!
    It’s not worth the trouble to try and march through snow and rough terrain.

  • @youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687
    @youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687 11 місяців тому

    I have a struggle of memorizing this tiny HRE's spelling along with countries with Guineas on it

  • @andrew2353
    @andrew2353 Місяць тому

    Liechtenstein is very unique as it's the last unbroken remnant of the Holy Roman Empire and European Medieval Feudalism.
    The house of Liechtenstein considered their various castles scattered throughout Austrian and Czech lands to be their real home and the Alpine Principality was only purchased so they could be represented in the HRE's Imperial Diet.
    They didn't even live in the Principality until 1938.

  • @jensschroder8214
    @jensschroder8214 11 місяців тому +2

    The Princes of Liechtenstein still had a castle in the former Austria-Hungary, today's Czech Republic. But the Czechs expropriated the property because the claim was too old.
    Otherwise, Lichtenstein stayed out of all conflicts in Europe, always claiming it was too small.

    • @bunk95
      @bunk95 11 місяців тому

      How could one portion of the[ ]system stay out of conflict in other portions of said[ ]system?

  • @mattmeyer3211
    @mattmeyer3211 9 місяців тому

    some errors, Liechtenstein country is named after the ruling family. The Family got the name from the original residence Liechtenstein in Austria. That where they owned land long befor they bought the country, that was later on united and named Liechtenstein.

  • @danieljohnmorris
    @danieljohnmorris 11 місяців тому +6

    What was the southern part of England that was coloured as part of Frankish empire?

    • @Grasslander
      @Grasslander 11 місяців тому +5

      That's where Monty Python's King Arthur encountered the French castle

  • @grubasny
    @grubasny 11 місяців тому +2

    at 1:03 when the frankish empire is shown, map depicts that they had control over some parts of the southern england, i want to know is that true that they were controling this land or is it just a simple mistake, because as far i as i know they never had this in their realm

  • @nemiw4429
    @nemiw4429 11 місяців тому +2

    They serve with us in the Swiss Army. They have the Swiss Franc. (Allthough as I served in the army I know, Switzerland wudnt defend Liechtenstein in a war, but probably wud after all).

  • @swifteh1780
    @swifteh1780 11 місяців тому +5

    @5:38 "Austira"? Surely that's a typo.

    • @Keikdv
      @Keikdv 10 місяців тому

      Look how the Netherlands is shaped...

  • @markun79
    @markun79 9 місяців тому +1

    Lucky they didn’t have astronomical amounts of oil. Or they would have swiftly found the need for some “freedom” and “democracy” from someone

  • @dantetre
    @dantetre 11 місяців тому +12

    Forgot to mention the three times when Liechtenstein was invaded by the Swiss.

    • @rivenoak
      @rivenoak 11 місяців тому +3

      by accident, the border is invisible :D
      FL and CH also share currency and post codes; easy to miss the transfer

    • @bunk95
      @bunk95 11 місяців тому +1

      Couldve been [marketed] as invasion.

    • @DPMConnacht
      @DPMConnacht 11 місяців тому

      ​@@rivenoakexcept the Rhine river separates the countries. Austria has the land border with Liechtenstein.

    • @goobot1
      @goobot1 11 місяців тому

      @@DPMConnachtrivers move

  • @tanksouth
    @tanksouth 11 місяців тому

    Allegedly, and unconfirmed, it’s rumored that cousin Frankenstein sometimes summered there.

  • @cuddlesandkafka
    @cuddlesandkafka 11 місяців тому +1

    It would be nice if the writer and narrator could confer to clarify the distinction between "soured" and "soared," but there's a lot of sloppy with in this vid

  • @OhioFarmerJake
    @OhioFarmerJake 11 місяців тому

    Ulrich Von Lichtenstein has been spreading awareness for decades.

  • @SantaFe19484
    @SantaFe19484 11 місяців тому +1

    I live in a rural county in Pennsylvania with more people and land area than Liechtenstein.

  • @Mujhe_Credit_nahin_chahiye
    @Mujhe_Credit_nahin_chahiye 5 місяців тому

    This country has no zeal and enthusiasm to do anything. In last 75 years India has been equally neutral and has built a formidable cricket team. Sad this European country does not even have a cricket team. What good are the people there for. India has won 17 IPL which no other country has won. That is why one should be living in a country like India where cricket and only cricket is important than anything.
    👍👍👍

  • @user-zx8de8op9l
    @user-zx8de8op9l Місяць тому

    Well done

  • @tracaine
    @tracaine 11 місяців тому +2

    I thought they just established this country so they could film a Knight's Tale.

  • @brucetelfeyan
    @brucetelfeyan 10 місяців тому

    Interesting! It is a shame that the maps of the present day fail to show Austria fully on the eastern border of Lichtenstein, not just to the southeast.

  • @oribeth7229
    @oribeth7229 8 місяців тому +1

    they got accidentaly invaded by switzerland once due to a faulty map (or dumb officier) who got lost with it's regiment in liechtenstein during an exercices

  • @Mohamedmerwany3rd
    @Mohamedmerwany3rd 11 місяців тому

    Very good history ❤❤

  • @RajSingh-w3v2m
    @RajSingh-w3v2m Місяць тому

    That crazy history

  • @KAZVorpal
    @KAZVorpal 11 місяців тому +2

    So you completely failed to explain the origin of the NAME of Lichtenstein Castle.

    • @raudigerrudiger9713
      @raudigerrudiger9713 11 місяців тому +1

      And what would that origin be? A castle on top of a very shiny rock?

    • @KAZVorpal
      @KAZVorpal 11 місяців тому +2

      @@raudigerrudiger9713 Yes. More specifically, "lichten" is "light" and "stein" is "rock", in German.
      That is an absolutely essential detail for a video purporting to tell the history of Lichtenstein.

  • @labankienthuc1779
    @labankienthuc1779 9 місяців тому +1

    Liechtenstein, a country in Europe

  • @kaanrivis
    @kaanrivis 11 місяців тому +6

    I study there. Ask me all questions you guys have.

    • @nickylc8475
      @nickylc8475 11 місяців тому +2

      How beautiful is the scenery

    • @kaanrivis
      @kaanrivis 11 місяців тому

      @@nickylc8475very beautiful

    • @Grafite949
      @Grafite949 11 місяців тому +2

      Is there good food

    • @FriendlyBatDoom
      @FriendlyBatDoom 11 місяців тому

      Do you have great Chinese food? Ya boy loves him some crab Rangoon.😂🤣

    • @SJ-nl6xl
      @SJ-nl6xl 11 місяців тому +1

      Can an average person live and work their or is it too expensive

  • @1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.
    @1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish. 11 місяців тому

    I was involved in a semi successful frozen custard MLM there in the 80’s.

  • @philippbobkaufmann4004
    @philippbobkaufmann4004 10 місяців тому +2

    So, seriously: A dude sets out to make a video about a country... and never bothers to find out how to say its name properly? Imagine me as a continental twerp setting off to make a video about Virrsester or Nev Yairrsay. Sorry, bit of a grump today, but gosh it sometimes rubs me the wrong way how Anglophones think everything out there is really just English in drag.

    • @lynnhubbard844
      @lynnhubbard844 9 місяців тому +1

      I made the pronunciation comment 3 times...I'm with you on that

  • @mospeada1152
    @mospeada1152 8 місяців тому +1

    5.50 - Austira?

  • @danwe6297
    @danwe6297 7 місяців тому

    Fun fact: The beef between Czechia and Lichtenstein is still going on... Currently, they are sueing over some castles in Czechia, notably mentioning that they lost some lawsuits in 2022 and 2023.

  • @BrianL2795
    @BrianL2795 10 місяців тому +1

    Question: is this narration done by an AI? This is an American accent, and we have a very crisp “Six-th” with the “th” being a full on “edth” pronunciation. This sounds like a confused accent between American English and British English.

    • @lynnhubbard844
      @lynnhubbard844 9 місяців тому

      it's also pronounced "Leektenstein"

    • @philippbobkaufmann4004
      @philippbobkaufmann4004 9 місяців тому

      I hope AI would actually have pronounced the word Liechtenstein halfway correctly at least once.

  • @elenaswensen4811
    @elenaswensen4811 11 місяців тому +3

    Wait, since when did the Franks control parts of the British Islands?

  • @Silver_77777
    @Silver_77777 8 днів тому

    Oh, I want to travel or move to this land..,

  • @Kelashnikov800
    @Kelashnikov800 3 місяці тому

    Adam adreas really said let me cook 🔥

  • @Kienyeji2580
    @Kienyeji2580 4 місяці тому

    I love this country but very rear to migrate there!

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman9821 11 місяців тому +2

    Surprised that Leichtenstein has survived independently so long, one would think one of her neighbors would have taken it over long ago. Perhaps one day it will be incorporated into another country.
    With prosperous Germany, next door, I wonder if the people of Leichtenstein would vote to become a German state if a referendum for it was available?

    • @nandinhocunha440
      @nandinhocunha440 11 місяців тому +1

      Have you seen Germany today? They would not like to join them

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 11 місяців тому +2

      @@nandinhocunha440 Germany has the best economy in Europe, so far why would it not be popular?

    • @the11382
      @the11382 11 місяців тому +8

      Why Germany? Liechtenstein has closer bonds to Switzerland.

    • @janvisser4132
      @janvisser4132 11 місяців тому +7

      Liechtenstein doesn't have a border with Germany. Also, Liechtenstein is way more prosperous than germany.

    • @nandinhocunha440
      @nandinhocunha440 11 місяців тому

      @@theawesomeman9821 illegals Arabs

  • @robertfoulkes1832
    @robertfoulkes1832 11 місяців тому +5

    Two pieces of nonsense on this video are
    (1) Unlike the map which shows a part of southern England to belong to the Frankish Empire, that empire never owned any part of the island of Britain.
    (2) The commentator horribly mispronounces the name of the country. It's not "Lick-ten-stine" but "Leekh-ten-shtine" (ch in German is pronounced the same as in Scottish "loch").

    • @yon8378
      @yon8378 10 місяців тому

      'ch' in German
      has two pronunciations: one as in 'loch,' the other does not exist in any other language I know, so I cannot describe it here except to say that it's like in 'ich' ("I') in german. it is a very soft sound and it's the one that appliies to 'Lichtenstein.'

    • @philippbobkaufmann4004
      @philippbobkaufmann4004 9 місяців тому

      @@yon8378 if it's any help, they speak High Alemannic dialects in LI, so the Loch sound (and in some cases a softer variant that still isn't the ich sound) is actually right on the money.

  • @solotx8798
    @solotx8798 10 місяців тому

    For the glory of the great Liechtensteinian people!

  • @alairdy_2314
    @alairdy_2314 11 місяців тому

    The narrator says 62 sq miles. The video grafic says 62 sq kms

  • @tommykawaii
    @tommykawaii Місяць тому

    Lichtenstein:
    Warfare: 0
    Luck: 999
    Diplomacy: 99999

  • @dantetre
    @dantetre 11 місяців тому +2

    4:00 you forgot to mention that out of 80 men 81 returned.
    Yes, 81. :D

  • @blackwidowsm
    @blackwidowsm 11 місяців тому

    Fun fact Liechtenstein was offered Rusdia America (Alaska) for purchase prior to settling on an agreement with young republic. Tsar Alexander III was a great admirer of the r pertinent known as young republic particularly Alexander Hamiltons banking system. He was more reform indeed than most leaders and he wanted to incorporate that banking sister into imperial Russia that was part of an agreement and one reason Alaska was sold at that price. Fresh back in Russia boyars/ oligarchs were not happy and had Alexander was assassinated in street of Moscow. He was assassinated ending any such move . Imagine what could have been. He also protected young republicans in thier civil war keeping Prussia France England out of it was close to becoming a world war. Tsar Alexander III had war ships in rivers off coast of Atlantic Bering and Pacific Ocean s protecting Americas shores. At one time imperial Russia was an Allie our first allie. We both had issues with England. Notice common denominator is always England . We were friendly with Tehran and in 1953,Tehran was only democratic government in Middle East. Was a parliamentarian system. The shah was simply king in name only had no power whatsoever . Prime minister had the power. Than England asked USA to depose prime minister and his government installed shah who was far worse than pol pot. This was a free democratic society in this time. Imagine losing your freedom over night. Say one word you’re sent to jail or simply disappeared. Remember Argentina under pinachet and all citizens that went disappeared was on a far greater scale in Iran. Justctobgivecyou an idea where hate started festering for United States. UK is friendly with Iran while United States is enemy #1 all started in 1953 because Iran had a long border with USSR. John Dulles thought it would be a good idea to be there. 1953 you have generation after generation of Iranians brought up in thier culture the United States is the super villain. People just didn’t think Einstein’s theory of cause and effect. Every action has a just similar action in turn to action taken. We are now experiencing said actions worldwide. Don’t forget thank UK and USA they are equal partners in this endeavor. As they say the barbarians at the gate are getting louder…

    • @bunk95
      @bunk95 11 місяців тому

      It was probably marketed as agreement. You did learn much of what is required to have some act as if they in agreement right?

  • @mnk9073
    @mnk9073 11 місяців тому +1

    Let's be honest, it only exists because Switzerland hasn't had the balls yet to annex it.

  • @29naf
    @29naf 10 місяців тому +1

    I've been told that the Liechtenstein language is hard to understand by German/Austrian speakers.

  • @pedroduran7833
    @pedroduran7833 11 місяців тому

    My guy went for a Tall Build.

  • @dinopivcic2287
    @dinopivcic2287 9 місяців тому

    They have real history, that's reason

  • @dr.perfectsmile4175
    @dr.perfectsmile4175 Місяць тому

    You should do one about Monaco🇲🇨. Just no BS, I live there so I know its history 😆

  • @arminhanik7229
    @arminhanik7229 10 місяців тому +2

    You might have learned how to PRONOUNCE Liechtenstein,
    This is effing disgraceful.

  • @johndurham6172
    @johndurham6172 8 місяців тому +1

    One wonders if it would still exist if it wasn't for Switzerland 🤔

  • @hanstubben
    @hanstubben 10 місяців тому

    Brownosing it´s way through history!

  • @AirCone
    @AirCone 11 місяців тому +2

    I'm honoured.

    • @Manofsalty
      @Manofsalty 11 місяців тому

      Are you from Lichtenstein

  • @NikeaTiber
    @NikeaTiber 10 місяців тому

    "Why is Liechtenstein a country?"
    Hilti.

  • @mellissadalby1402
    @mellissadalby1402 10 місяців тому

    That is the home of the Hilti Fastening systems company.
    Just saying...

  • @R.Pfalzgraff1989
    @R.Pfalzgraff1989 7 місяців тому

    Hier in Österreich 🇦🇹, wir leben Liechtenstein 🇱🇮! 💕✌🏼💖🫶🏻🇦🇹🇱🇮🇪🇺

  • @pureorganiclove6627
    @pureorganiclove6627 Місяць тому

    If Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 were an astrological sign, it would be a neutral Aquarian ♒️. 😂

  • @Adamm17004
    @Adamm17004 11 місяців тому +1

    next video: who invented france? and why?

    • @GarkKahn
      @GarkKahn 11 місяців тому +1

      What the hell were they thinking?

  • @johnrichards3394
    @johnrichards3394 4 місяці тому

    Funny how we ask why this principality is a country but never ask the same for dictatorships like Belarus and other's.

  • @jonathanstensberg
    @jonathanstensberg 11 місяців тому

    TL;DR: “no one cared to change that.”

  • @GBOAC
    @GBOAC 11 місяців тому +2

    Austira 😮

  • @beepboop204
    @beepboop204 11 місяців тому

  • @galaxyn3214
    @galaxyn3214 11 місяців тому

    9:34 That's just what they want you to think!