The Spanish Empire reached its greatest expansion in 1580, during the Iberian Union with Portugal under Philip II of Spain, when the Netherlands and Belgium were still Spanish territory, as well as the Americas.
As a Spaniard, I assure you that they had much more territory in 1803 with Louisiana than with the Spanish Netherlands, since in the time of Philip II the conquest of the Americas had not materialized, probably one of the later Austrians who preserved the Netherlands. exceeded that territorial measure
I'm agree, im from argentina and its true because spain have had california,nuevo mexico, florida, cuba, and all the countrys in south america (without guyana, guyana francesa and patagonia ) were visited for "realistas" and spanish 1800 army.
No you are wrong, livonia was never a full state and if you are talking about the order, for most of its existance it was a teuton counterpart. Estonia in its height was in 1919 during the war of independence
I would be more interested in the greatest extent of borders of each country - so not any particular date but compilation of borders from different points in time.
Actually, there are two mistakes at Romania. First of all, The Greater Romania was bigger than the one you showed. That was a version of Romania that was without a part of Transylvania. Second, The Greater Romania is not the biggest version of Romania. King Burebista of the Dacians had the biggest state located in that area. I know that Dacians are not Romanians, but since you put The Roman Empire as the biggest version of Italy, I think it's fair to take into consideration this fact for Romania as well. I hope my comment will help you
Afaik Romania had a larger territory while scretching until the Southern Bug than Romania pre Vienna Acords. However I do agree that he should've put the Dacian Kingdom
I think that Romania might have been its greatest extent, durring Barbarossa... A bit annoying that the video went with borders that were in wartime flux.
Instead they should do what usa did, creat millions of little states among the countries, make everyone there own country and no unity, thus diversion, not sure whether it's good, but if woke people said let everyone be themselves then, we got +7 billions of countries. Sometimes it's good when countries are united, or in unity, they can do alot of good things together, but that's not always the case with the world War 1 or 2 or cold War, other than weapons, they sure cam do great things.....
At last someone who knows history and has not mixed ancient Greek Macedonia up with the Former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia, now called North Macedonia...
@@Кусак Alexander the Great had greek name,had greek teacher and had been speaking Greek and his kingdom was one of the ancient kindgom of Greece such as Spartans and the capital of Ancient Macedonia still exists and it is in Greece...nothing common with greece right 😂😂learn your history Slav
Incorrect for Estonia, Estonia before WWII had a tiny bit more territory than it does now with the Post-Soviet borders, e.g Estonia used to have the city of Petseri (Pechory)
@@AlexanderSergeevRus don't trust what your propaganda tells you, they twist the fact that some of our politicians make the comparison between Crimea and Petseri, it's literally to show how foolish it would be to redraw borders just because you used to own it. There is literally 0 reason we would want that land back, neither Estonians in Estonia or Russians in Pechory want that. had a good laugh looking at some russian reports on the issue though, I'd expect nothing less, quality entertainment, and you fools eat it up of course 😂
its clear and without doubt that macedonia its a hellenic (greek) state. all historian knows that Alexander the Great was the founder of the hellenic (greek) age...he build greek citys in his empire...with a acropolis, a gymnasion, a lyceum (school´s) a amphytheater, agora (markets), a bibliotheke and more and the write and speaking greek.. it was a stamp of the greek civilication. alexander was the greatest greek in history. his dream was to unite and hellenize the world. no doubt about it. the northern its a slavic part coming waves in year 700 a.d. has nothing to do with the greek world. by the way Alexander means Alex andros (greek: the protector of men)
The Romans enforced their culture across the empire. More significantly, they enforced it in Italia, their home province. Once devoid of taxation. Modern Italians descend from the Romans and Romanized Italian peoples. They then got influences from numerous outside invaders, Arabs, Berbers, and tons of Germans (ostrogoths, lombards and the HRE) I think it's fair to say Italy can claim Roma heritage and ancestry, with the modern Italian empire being that. The modern empire, an attempt to recreate the ancient glory of Rome...which pathetically failed, good job Mussolini.
Kingdom of Byzantium is small we Romans conquered now if you believe the lie of Byzantine Empire you are wrong and Roman Empire everyone knows this see Arabic, African, Italian books
@@LRomano Byzantine Empire was majority hellenic in the later years, and only referred to themselves as Romans. They were far closer to modern day Greeks.
@@paravan2000 yes greece was a bunch of city states with different interests,but they were all greek tribes with the same language,believed to the same gods and they were participating to olympic games which it was a privilege only for Greeks and when the things were bad they united to fight the common enemy...see Persian wars.that was the alexanders main idea to unite greeks under his command and spread the Greek(hellenic)culture and heritage to all the known world..thats why the period after his death called "hellenistic"
actually, the largest extent of belarus was when they were still a soviet republic of the soviet union in 1939-1940 when they annexed half of the invaded parts of poland after the beginning of ww2.
Your profile picture is interesting. Replace the Ukrainian flag with the Israel flag and replace the Russian flag with the flag of the Third Reich and the photo remains just as absurd.
You know that cultutally it was dominated by ruthenian culture and prebelarussian language. So today belarus could be classified as grane duchy of lithuania as well
@@michamarkiewicz1642 Many kingdoms/empires of old were not dominated by the culture of the central power core simply because they were very big. Grand Duchy of Lithuania was what it says on a tin.
I learned about it playing Europa Universalis (historical strategy game) as the English. I wasn't paying attention to Eastern Europe and when I scrolled over to check on it, there was a giant blob called Lithuania. I thought the AI had to have gotten very lucky to expand like that, only to look up later on that it was just a historical reality. (They were one of the last peoples of Europe to maintain 'paganism' and their language is fascinatingly conservative. Modern Lithuanian is arguably closer to proto-Indo-European than Classical Latin. So all around, a very cool country for such a small place now.)
@@k.squared Yup thats how most expantionist states work. For example the mongols became a minority in their country after conquering half of Asia or brits after colonising India.
So sad. Look at the magnificent and glorious empire of San Marino of 1463 (3:27)!! All of those regions should unite again and form a powerhouse to change the world!
@@Пон-ж4ж The Vatican had an "empire" called the church which covered most of central Italy before Italy's unification in the 1860s. Its methods of ruling and surveilling its people would put the Soviet Union to shame, so "no thanks" to the return of that empire.
Czech borders are almost intact since 11th century, because it has natural borders made of mountains, its clearly visible on the map. I did read somewhere, that Czech Rep has one of the most consistent borders in all of Europe. It did loose some land in southwestern Poland and eastern Germany, but that area was out of the natural borders anyway.
Was it smaller than the BSSR? In 1918, it controlled the Line of Mozyr, Minsk, and Drissa, the western regions included in the Kingdom of Lithuania, and the eastern ones remained with Russia. Blen, and even Litbel is bigger than the BNR
The entire island of Greenland was discovered in the XIX century (19 century) during the Kalmar union period, no human had ever step on the north of Greenland.
@@Vlad-yi6oo Well, Romania was formed in 1859 by Cuza(a moldovian that was leader both to Moldova(west) and Țara Românească) but sure , our language(im a moldovan-romanian from Republic of Moldova and hi) and identity was is and will be romanian. But Bucovina(all) made part of Principality of Moldova until 1775, when the female emperor of Austrian Empire ,(i think at her sons Iosif II request ,that he was very in love with that territory) ordered annexation, the ottoman too were invloved. Then in 1812 the Russian Empire annexed Bassarabia(fun fact , Ekaterina the II was of prussian ,meaning german nationality), thus remaining only Moldova and Țara Românească and somehow managing in 1859 forming Romania.
@@Vlad-yi6oo And another fact, Bukovina wasn't in the Molotov Ribbentropp pact(as i know), thus showing that Soviets first broke the pact not the germans.
Are you from Serbia? In Russia, people recognize Kosovo as part of Serbia🇷🇸. We can see how the hypocritical West recognizes Kosovo, but does not want to recognize Donbass, because this will strengthen Russia. The policy of double standards.
@@tudorlazarescu7625 What exactly? I like how the Western audience constantly tells me instead of arguments "you have been brainwashed!!! watch less RT!! don't listen to Putin!!". Given that I take all the information from open sources and relying on UN law
I think you forgot something............................................................. Rurik dynasty came from Novgorod and other members of Dynasty set their capitals in Central Russia..... sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...... Kievan Rus != Ukraine
@@StalinKilled100MillionForJoke Yep, so, technically - all our Countries (Ru,Bl,Lr) may have territorial claims on Each others (Even for Siberia for Belorussia and LittleRussia)
This is just a Norman theory. We don’t really know how it was. But the fact that at that time there was a swamp on the territory of Russia is a fact. Some kind of civilization was only in the interfluve of the Dnieper and Dniester.
No. Let's say if the Norman theory (Rus' Viking origin) is true, Russia still has no rights to Rus' heritage whatsoever and to call itself such. Firstly, you need to understand the huge difference between "Prince", "Tsar" and "King" titles. The first two are almost self-proclaiming, especially in the Russian case, as Tsar was proclaimed by itself with some help of Russian Orthodoxy which did not care about the opinions of any other Orthodox church around for that matter. Princes of Rus, at least the main ones (Kyivan ones) and after the Orthodoxy was brought there, were appointed with the approval of the local Orthodox church which stayed in connection with the Byzantine one, and the kind of permission from all local princes around, as well as boyars (nobility) and even common people of cities (otherwise there would be heavy riots which could be used by other Princes to gain power as it already used to happen before), were obtained. The title of a "King" was different. Mainly, it was given with the permission of the Pope of Rome which was equal to the international recognition of power and country at that time. As such "king" title had actual legitimacy behind it. In the history of Rus, very few individuals received the "King" title. But the last one who did was Daniel of Galicia (I heavily advise you to read about him even in Wikipedia for example or in the Ukrainian Internet Encyclopedia). He was the last Main Prince - Prince of Kyiv (which you remember was the main title in Rus). He also was Prince of Galicia[-n Ukraine] (modern Western Ukraine) and he received the title of "King of Ruthenia" in 1253. He was also from Rurik's house. By receiving this title, he basically was the first one to officially tie Rus' heritage with the territories of Western Ukraine. His title lived long after he died in his gens as well as in other rulers to whom Ukrainian territories were *officially* "given" (not just occupied, which means it includes Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and not Russia). Next, remember that Ivan the Terrible was the one who destroyed the potential Russian heritage of the Novgorod Republic by doing a "small" genocide and basically destroying a more-less free and independent state of such. It made Russian connections to the Novgorod at the very best less than modern Egyptians' connection to the Ancient ones, i.e. almost no official and genetic connections at all. Considering everything said above and the fact that people around Kyiv who founded Rus anyway (whether by themselves or with the help around) have stayed in the same place up to these days as well as long before the foundation, and the fact that even the word Ukraine, which was used in times of Rus as the word "center" which it literally means in many Slavic languages as "u" = "in", "kraine, kraina" = "center" (like "Polska kraina", and even Russian "Krasnodarsky kray"), thus the Rus' official heritage belongs to Ukraine, and Ukraine only (maybe a little to Belarus but they do not seem to be interested as they have their Lithuanian heritage).
No? Albania never had that big of a territorial extent. What you are reffering to is "Greater Albania", but that idea was never formed. So basically what is shown in this video is true
@@ldhsmash2718 the photo shows the principality, in which there is also the Ryazan, Vladimir-Suzdal principality. Where do these lands belong to Ukraine? Then there was the Nyogolskaya land, but it did not become part of Kievan Rus.
Not fully agree! Italy exists since 1861. Before that there were small states on Italy's territory and thanks to Garibaldi those states were united and Italy was created. Roman empire existed until 395 year and after that is divided to western and eastern(byzantium) empire. Western part existed until 476 year and eastern part existed until 1456 year. Yugoslavia is not the biggest extension of Serbia. The biggest extension of Serbia was during 14 century. It contained territories of western Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and northern Greece. And for my country(Bulgaria) I must say this is correct.
Yes, that's how modern Italy came to be, but in my opinion it is ocrrect to consider the roman empire the largest extent of Italy. The romans considered the italian peninsula to be their homeland and they called it Domina Provinciarum(ruler of the provinces), meaning that it was something more to them than just an extension of Rome, it was their native land.
The Spanish Empire reached its greatest expansion in 1580, during the Iberian Union with Portugal under Philip II of Spain, when the Netherlands and Belgium were still Spanish territory, as well as the Americas.
As a Spaniard, I assure you that they had much more territory in 1803 with Louisiana than with the Spanish Netherlands, since in the time of Philip II the conquest of the Americas had not materialized, probably one of the later Austrians who preserved the Netherlands. exceeded that territorial measure
I'm agree, im from argentina and its true because spain have had california,nuevo mexico, florida, cuba, and all the countrys in south america (without guyana, guyana francesa and patagonia ) were visited for "realistas" and spanish 1800 army.
There is only one America, the "americas" term is an anglo word para tocar los huevos.
As a Portuguese those times where the worst in our history ! Down with the Spaniards
Didn't we dutch already revolt at that point let me see yea 1568 so a large part of the netherlands wasnt under Spanish controll anymore
2:02 Latvia was once Livonia, Estonia and Latvia together which makes their year at largest 1215.
Livonia was closer to being Germany because of the Teutons really however by that point it is more personal opinion
@@redlighter516 True.
Not really it was closer to a culture like germany
90% of them were german
No you are wrong, livonia was never a full state and if you are talking about the order, for most of its existance it was a teuton counterpart. Estonia in its height was in 1919 during the war of independence
I think we all can agree that the hungarian kingdom's border is the best looking border in history.
Rome comes close
yes
You’re sure that doesn’t go to the Roman Empire and the Second Polish Republic?
@@audosis6860 nah those are 2nd and 3rd
Hmmm Austria is pretty good
I would be more interested in the greatest extent of borders of each country - so not any particular date but compilation of borders from different points in time.
Actually, there are two mistakes at Romania. First of all, The Greater Romania was bigger than the one you showed. That was a version of Romania that was without a part of Transylvania. Second, The Greater Romania is not the biggest version of Romania. King Burebista of the Dacians had the biggest state located in that area. I know that Dacians are not Romanians, but since you put The Roman Empire as the biggest version of Italy, I think it's fair to take into consideration this fact for Romania as well. I hope my comment will help you
Afaik Romania had a larger territory while scretching until the Southern Bug than Romania pre Vienna Acords. However I do agree that he should've put the Dacian Kingdom
the dacians were basically romans and the romanians were roman so same thing really
I think that Romania might have been its greatest extent, durring Barbarossa... A bit annoying that the video went with borders that were in wartime flux.
Thx man im Romanian and i think that too
Same could be said for Macedonia aswell. Macedonian Empire anyone...?
4:25 when we get to the world map, you know the big boys are gonna show up
Very nice video 👍 keep it up 👍
And this is the best argument why countries need to stop playing the “I want to get back was once was mine” game.
Instead they should do what usa did, creat millions of little states among the countries, make everyone there own country and no unity, thus diversion, not sure whether it's good, but if woke people said let everyone be themselves then, we got +7 billions of countries. Sometimes it's good when countries are united, or in unity, they can do alot of good things together, but that's not always the case with the world War 1 or 2 or cold War, other than weapons, they sure cam do great things.....
Serbian nationalists: What
@@Clash-yp8qy German nazis… What… about Austria, Chehoslovakia, Poland, etc
At last someone who knows history and has not mixed ancient Greek Macedonia up with the Former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia, now called North Macedonia...
Nobody cares how a country is called. You aren't ancient Greek anyway.
Ancient Macedonia has nothing in common with hellas
@@Кусак 1991 ;)
@@Кусак Alexander the Great had greek name,had greek teacher and had been speaking Greek and his kingdom was one of the ancient kindgom of Greece such as Spartans and the capital of Ancient Macedonia still exists and it is in Greece...nothing common with greece right 😂😂learn your history Slav
@@Кусак the slavs didnt even exist when Ancient Macedonia was a thing
Incorrect for Estonia, Estonia before WWII had a tiny bit more territory than it does now with the Post-Soviet borders, e.g Estonia used to have the city of Petseri (Pechory)
Then there's also Ivangorod, next to Narva
And Estonia has demanded them back from Russia a few days ago. : ) Good timing.
Look at description. Estonia was bigger in 1919 in its war of independence
@@MXB2001 they demanded that a lot of decades 🖖🥴
@@AlexanderSergeevRus don't trust what your propaganda tells you, they twist the fact that some of our politicians make the comparison between Crimea and Petseri, it's literally to show how foolish it would be to redraw borders just because you used to own it. There is literally 0 reason we would want that land back, neither Estonians in Estonia or Russians in Pechory want that.
had a good laugh looking at some russian reports on the issue though, I'd expect nothing less, quality entertainment, and you fools eat it up of course 😂
Good for not giving FYROM the macedonian empire of greece.
bro who asked
@@TheWalterJr. you wouldn't understand
It's not FYROM anymore. Its Northern Macedonia
@@colaman8269 learn to spell
its clear and without doubt that macedonia its a hellenic (greek) state. all historian knows that Alexander the Great was the founder of the hellenic (greek) age...he build greek citys in his empire...with a acropolis, a gymnasion, a lyceum (school´s) a amphytheater, agora (markets), a bibliotheke and more and the write and speaking greek.. it was a stamp of the greek civilication. alexander was the greatest greek in history. his dream was to unite and hellenize the world. no doubt about it. the northern its a slavic part coming waves in year 700 a.d. has nothing to do with the greek world. by the way Alexander means Alex andros (greek: the protector of men)
Greetings from Pella, Macedonia Greece ❤️🇬🇷
You know that its about to get big when it zooms out to the world map
I like how Iceland is keeping to itself and didn't expand
The volcanos are making new land and Bjork is entertaining them.
in fact, iceland is growing a few millimeters each year :p
4:49 Germany should’ve been the uhh... “bad” Germany. The “bad” germany is i think way bigger
Nein nein nein nein version of Germany
I dont think so, most of those african colonies are big compared to europe
Dude namibia is bigger then their entire west occupiation + southern norway, denmark, czechia and austria combined
@@Masterchief_Tito didnt you see the “I think” in the comment?! Read sometimes please
@@jaden_dominican-tosd bro that "I think" didn't seem to me like an very important thing in this context
Rome was bacically a completely different empire, i think the facist italian empire would be a legitimate "italian" empire
Then again, Greece and Alexander's empire are apparently the same country.
But without Rome there would be no Italian so technically they can be considered as an Italian empire, the fascist Italian empire is another
The Romans enforced their culture across the empire. More significantly, they enforced it in Italia, their home province. Once devoid of taxation. Modern Italians descend from the Romans and Romanized Italian peoples. They then got influences from numerous outside invaders, Arabs, Berbers, and tons of Germans (ostrogoths, lombards and the HRE)
I think it's fair to say Italy can claim Roma heritage and ancestry, with the modern Italian empire being that. The modern empire, an attempt to recreate the ancient glory of Rome...which pathetically failed, good job Mussolini.
Bro the romans were using the term "italia" to indicate their home peninsula already back in 200 bc
@@camulodunon geographically, genetically and historically they are. Same thing goes to the roman empire
Glad you included macedonia for greece instead of byzantium
Kingdom of Byzantium is small we Romans conquered now if you believe the lie of Byzantine Empire you are wrong and Roman Empire everyone knows this see Arabic, African, Italian books
@@LRomano ask european powers who called it a kingdom of greeks ,it can't be really roman without latins and latin speakers
The Greeks has two empire's the empire of Alexander the Great and the eastern Roman empire or Byzantine empire as the named after (330-1453)
@@LRomano Byzantine Empire was majority hellenic in the later years, and only referred to themselves as Romans.
They were far closer to modern day Greeks.
@@FishwicksREAL Many greeks still called themselves romans until the early 19th century.
Britain: we dont mean to flex, but...
Thank you so much for the ACTUAL and HISTORICALLY correct representation as far as Greece is concerned
Wasn't that right....
Meh
Most influential ones of them ranked from left to right (based on longevity, size, cultural heritage) ;
🇮🇹🇬🇧🇹🇷🇪🇦🇵🇹🇷🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇩🇪🇦🇹🇵🇱
Feel free to debate :)
Poland should be way lefter.
I think france should be higher
France should be rank higher.
@@batavica4135 It was periodically divided between numerous different monarchies rather than one continuous kingdom so the longevity isnt enough
España antes de otomsnod
Thank you for showing the real macedonian empire 🇬🇷. Skopians won't like the truth
It's normal bro,all videos should be like that
Ancient "Greece" wasn't a country but a bunch of small tribes
@@paravan2000 yes greece was a bunch of city states with different interests,but they were all greek tribes with the same language,believed to the same gods and they were participating to olympic games which it was a privilege only for Greeks and when the things were bad they united to fight the common enemy...see Persian wars.that was the alexanders main idea to unite greeks under his command and spread the Greek(hellenic)culture and heritage to all the known world..thats why the period after his death called "hellenistic"
Nobody
Czech rupublic:im Gonna put my boarders right here
actually, the largest extent of belarus was when they were still a soviet republic of the soviet union in 1939-1940 when they annexed half of the invaded parts of poland after the beginning of ww2.
I mean, is New South Wales, AU a country?
See the description of the video. The largest a country was as an INDEPENDENT country.
@@lafabias1876 why did it show the kievan rus' though? wasn't it more like a state or a civilization?
эти земли до сих пор входят в состав беларусии. До 1939 года размеры беларусской ССР были куда меньше.
and before the USSR annexed them, Poland annexed them)))
Luxembourg look like they only put their foot out of the yard and say "Look daddy, i'm an empire (｡◕‿◕｡)"
Sadly, the borders & sizes of those countries changed a lot.....but the evilness & greediness of human still the same
Nice vid:)
First btw your so underrated I swearr
Good video 👍🏻
I live in Poland thats buetiful country
awesome, u should do africa
4:48 finally someone that has a brain and knows that the colonial empire of germany was much larger than shitty ww2 germany
Acutally no the nazi's at their biggest extent were 317,957 sq mi unlike the german empire was like 208,000 sq miles
@@kaidensweet8597 Bruh they colonised Tanzania Angola and many more german empire is bigger than nazi Germany
Yeah they had TZ and Namibia which both have around a million km and also To go land, part of Papua, Pacific and Cameroon
@@mrgamerthebest I think you meant Namibia (south of Angola), Angola was Portuguese
@@mrgamerthebest i totally forgot about that lol
All these people commenting “WeLl AcTuAlLy”
You're Underrated
russia and Ukraine?
@@Copy81 yes
Your profile picture is interesting. Replace the Ukrainian flag with the Israel flag and replace the Russian flag with the flag of the Third Reich and the photo remains just as absurd.
@@FranzJaburek hahah
@@nikolasgorelkin3076 yes
Congrats man, great video
Incorrect :United Kingdom
Correction: United Kingdom of pirates and burglars
same spaniards
@nokky It was a race of who can last longer
@Gustavus Mercurius Based
United Kingdom of native slayers
Russia once had alaska
And also part of Hawaii and California
Wow great video man. Very informative.
PLC looked so shrexy, it makes me sad how corrupted the nobility was
Montenegro was the biggest in time of Constantine Bodin 1085 (Dioclea)
Dioclea was a Serbian state, Montenegro came into existence 5 centuries later.
Lichtenstein had 303 years to grow yet didn't
Belarus’ largest size
*nothing changes*
Man I hope you could do Asia:D
Fun Fact:
Great Britain is UK's Biggest Extent
and it's biggest empire in history
Controlled India Australia Canada. No doubt it's the biggest
It depends… probably Rome was bigger cause the empire extended over all known lands except China…
Good video, very recent by the way xD.
Okay, I had no clue about Lithuania. That area was massive!
You know that cultutally it was dominated by ruthenian culture and prebelarussian language. So today belarus could be classified as grane duchy of lithuania as well
@@michamarkiewicz1642 Many kingdoms/empires of old were not dominated by the culture of the central power core simply because they were very big. Grand Duchy of Lithuania was what it says on a tin.
@@k.squared as a belarusian i wish it would come back would be nice
I learned about it playing Europa Universalis (historical strategy game) as the English. I wasn't paying attention to Eastern Europe and when I scrolled over to check on it, there was a giant blob called Lithuania. I thought the AI had to have gotten very lucky to expand like that, only to look up later on that it was just a historical reality. (They were one of the last peoples of Europe to maintain 'paganism' and their language is fascinatingly conservative. Modern Lithuanian is arguably closer to proto-Indo-European than Classical Latin. So all around, a very cool country for such a small place now.)
@@k.squared Yup thats how most expantionist states work. For example the mongols became a minority in their country after conquering half of Asia or brits after colonising India.
Roman Empire Height is 117 it’s a small typo but good video.
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Love stuff like this
Romania
Romania: can i into kingdom?
No, you can into Kingom
*what*
5:04 *Sighs in spaghetti*
Spain France England combined basically would have owned the world 😂
And Portugal with Brasil
@@josegustavo. there are other country's that have colonised more land than Portugal so no they wouldn't go on the list
0:31 Actually, Belarus has a greatest extent, which is on 1917
ye
what about Grand Duchy of Lithuania. it was bigger.
@@debrikislaw grand duchy of *lithuania*
@@AIArcher002 yes ur right. gdl was full Lithuania, full belarus and big part of ukraine
It was only declared in 1917, but it never existed and never controlled territories they pretended
Nice :)
So sad. Look at the magnificent and glorious empire of San Marino of 1463 (3:27)!! All of those regions should unite again and form a powerhouse to change the world!
We need vatican empire
@@Пон-ж4ж oh dear god that would not end well
@@Пон-ж4ж The Vatican had an "empire" called the church which covered most of central Italy before Italy's unification in the 1860s. Its methods of ruling and surveilling its people would put the Soviet Union to shame, so "no thanks" to the return of that empire.
2022 czech republic has good border in my opinion. But Also the finnish border from 1941 was flawed but Else good video 👍
Czech borders are almost intact since 11th century, because it has natural borders made of mountains, its clearly visible on the map. I did read somewhere, that Czech Rep has one of the most consistent borders in all of Europe. It did loose some land in southwestern Poland and eastern Germany, but that area was out of the natural borders anyway.
0:31 actually , belarus was biggest in 1917 ( Belarusian Democratic Republic )
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@@alexmapper8101 your very quick
"Democratic"
Was it smaller than the BSSR? In 1918, it controlled the Line of Mozyr, Minsk, and Drissa, the western regions included in the Kingdom of Lithuania, and the eastern ones remained with Russia. Blen, and even Litbel is bigger than the BNR
@@ВладимирКрылов-ю1э People's - Народная
-british empire how many lands do you want?
-Yes
as a non American person I understand this
The largest extension of Romania is Cucuteni.
In 2022, France got 700km2 in the Pacific ocean from the UN. France is the only country growing up to its former size.
Nop, in Canary Islands there was a volcanic eruption last year who made the island bigger, so technically Spain has grown
There's a land reclamation scheme in Gibraltar so Britain is aswell lol
Great
The entire island of Greenland was discovered in the XIX century (19 century) during the Kalmar union period, no human had ever step on the north of Greenland.
Kalmar Union ended in the 1400's (15th century), or 1523 at latest.
go tell that to the natives there
@@GreatNZ1 I will
9th not 19th
"Germany's largest extensuon was ad the German Empire"
Me: yea go to the Third Reich (aka NoNo Germany)
1:50 Celtic empire?
5:43 I hate that nobody includes Alaska in the Russian Empire.
At the time of its biggest size Alaska was not a part of the Russian Empire.
germany at its largest was in 1942
germany in 1942 Was only poland, Austria, czech and slovakia
Never knew the ottomans had some piece of and island in asia
But its true, anyway
boy the irish are gonna be PISSED xD
irish free state had N. Ireland
2:40 i as a Moldovan i know that Principality of Moldova had and Bucovina (both North and South).
Pincipality of Moldavia represents in fact Romania. Rep of Moldova was its territory stolen by Russian Empire in 1812
@@Vlad-yi6oo Well, Romania was formed in 1859 by Cuza(a moldovian that was leader both to Moldova(west) and Țara Românească) but sure , our language(im a moldovan-romanian from Republic of Moldova and hi) and identity was is and will be romanian. But Bucovina(all) made part of Principality of Moldova until 1775, when the female emperor of Austrian Empire ,(i think at her sons Iosif II request ,that he was very in love with that territory) ordered annexation, the ottoman too were invloved. Then in 1812 the Russian Empire annexed Bassarabia(fun fact , Ekaterina the II was of prussian ,meaning german nationality), thus remaining only Moldova and Țara Românească and somehow managing in 1859 forming Romania.
@@nickthesoldier7260 yea Bucovina was taken by Habsburgs and retaken by România after ww1 and we loose it to URSS after ribentrop molotov pact
@@Vlad-yi6oo And another fact, Bukovina wasn't in the Molotov Ribbentropp pact(as i know), thus showing that Soviets first broke the pact not the germans.
@@nickthesoldier7260 in fact they wanted all of Bukovina but germans pressured them to take just the north
Bruh man Ukraine its not kievan rus lol
No, it is.
@@gansrusish4729 kievan rus get this name cuz Oleg take kiev and make it capital of Russia on this moment
@@shakal1124 What Russia? It’s not Russia, only Rus. Kievan Rus.
@@shakal1124 This is just a Russian myth. In fact, there was no Oleg.
@@lerichard4857 sure. Ukraine, Russia and Belarus are descenders of Kievan Rus exactly in same way
they saved the best for last.
Alphabet rules but sure, you had a more than fair run, and fruits still being reaped!
1:57 its not legitimate state!
Its Serbia!
Are you from Serbia? In Russia, people recognize Kosovo as part of Serbia🇷🇸. We can see how the hypocritical West recognizes Kosovo, but does not want to recognize Donbass, because this will strengthen Russia. The policy of double standards.
@@lordarchibald3691 Yes, i'm from Serbia, thats why i complain here, and yes western neoliberals is just synonim for bunch of liars and hypocrites...
@@lordarchibald3691 washed up brain...
@@tudorlazarescu7625 What exactly? I like how the Western audience constantly tells me instead of arguments "you have been brainwashed!!! watch less RT!! don't listen to Putin!!". Given that I take all the information from open sources and relying on UN law
@@lordarchibald3691 ok, if russia recognises kosovo as a part of serbia, why dont they recognise donbass as part of ukraine?
Its feasible that the earth flooded even if you don't believe biblical accounts.
5:45 Alaska?
it was after they sold alaska
Today all European countries are ridiculously small, except Russia.
0:46 Bulgarian empire !!
Yeah Turkic state once. Then they got assimilations by Slavs
Our only worth neighbor 🇬🇷
@@asenturk7579 haha nice one ,do u know another jokes ?
You could also do for the Netherlands: Frisian♥︎
slovenia was carantania, which is larger than modern day slovenia.
why has the Ottomans controlled a bit of Indonesia?
Vassal
hacker
Greece stands strong with the Macedonian Empire while Scopians cry. 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
but you remember ottoman empire
Normal people do not care
@Pan at least they have Macedonia in the name of their country, so stfu
@festina lente Yes,that is true Alexandra was from the greek geographical departmend Macedonia!
you forgot tk mention alaska in 18th century
you forgot syria, tunisia, india (little land in india) and lebanon for the french empire
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@@alexmapper8101 thank you man, good videos !
What about Mongolia?
Kosovo is not a country
Right. It is a continent. 😂🤣😆
Did austrian empire own Belgium? (Comment if I’m wrong)
It was Hasburgs' lands
@@malexmans6498 and the habsburg were the emperors and kings of austria... so they ruled over BeNeLux and spain for a short period of time
I think you forgot something............................................................. Rurik dynasty came from Novgorod and other members of Dynasty set their capitals in Central Russia..... sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...... Kievan Rus != Ukraine
Kievan rus is a Russia and ukriane and belarus
@@StalinKilled100MillionForJoke Yep, so, technically - all our Countries (Ru,Bl,Lr) may have territorial claims on Each others (Even for Siberia for Belorussia and LittleRussia)
This is just a Norman theory. We don’t really know how it was. But the fact that at that time there was a swamp on the territory of Russia is a fact. Some kind of civilization was only in the interfluve of the Dnieper and Dniester.
No.
Let's say if the Norman theory (Rus' Viking origin) is true, Russia still has no rights to Rus' heritage whatsoever and to call itself such. Firstly, you need to understand the huge difference between "Prince", "Tsar" and "King" titles. The first two are almost self-proclaiming, especially in the Russian case, as Tsar was proclaimed by itself with some help of Russian Orthodoxy which did not care about the opinions of any other Orthodox church around for that matter. Princes of Rus, at least the main ones (Kyivan ones) and after the Orthodoxy was brought there, were appointed with the approval of the local Orthodox church which stayed in connection with the Byzantine one, and the kind of permission from all local princes around, as well as boyars (nobility) and even common people of cities (otherwise there would be heavy riots which could be used by other Princes to gain power as it already used to happen before), were obtained.
The title of a "King" was different. Mainly, it was given with the permission of the Pope of Rome which was equal to the international recognition of power and country at that time. As such "king" title had actual legitimacy behind it. In the history of Rus, very few individuals received the "King" title. But the last one who did was Daniel of Galicia (I heavily advise you to read about him even in Wikipedia for example or in the Ukrainian Internet Encyclopedia). He was the last Main Prince - Prince of Kyiv (which you remember was the main title in Rus). He also was Prince of Galicia[-n Ukraine] (modern Western Ukraine) and he received the title of "King of Ruthenia" in 1253. He was also from Rurik's house. By receiving this title, he basically was the first one to officially tie Rus' heritage with the territories of Western Ukraine. His title lived long after he died in his gens as well as in other rulers to whom Ukrainian territories were *officially* "given" (not just occupied, which means it includes Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and not Russia).
Next, remember that Ivan the Terrible was the one who destroyed the potential Russian heritage of the Novgorod Republic by doing a "small" genocide and basically destroying a more-less free and independent state of such. It made Russian connections to the Novgorod at the very best less than modern Egyptians' connection to the Ancient ones, i.e. almost no official and genetic connections at all.
Considering everything said above and the fact that people around Kyiv who founded Rus anyway (whether by themselves or with the help around) have stayed in the same place up to these days as well as long before the foundation, and the fact that even the word Ukraine, which was used in times of Rus as the word "center" which it literally means in many Slavic languages as "u" = "in", "kraine, kraina" = "center" (like "Polska kraina", and even Russian "Krasnodarsky kray"), thus the Rus' official heritage belongs to Ukraine, and Ukraine only (maybe a little to Belarus but they do not seem to be interested as they have their Lithuanian heritage).
Thank you for not forgeting Ottoman territories in Sumatra
1:01 I am Turkish. For the first time in my life, I see the TRNC without being affiliated with the Greek Cypriot Administration.
Same
Yes because turkey is the only one who recognizes this fake country...
So you're saying that the German empire was larger than the 4th Reich
the.... the what now?
@@GojiWars Shhhh, he's probably a time traveller from the future. ; )
Actually albania had a short lived
kingdom which had parts of grece,macedonia,montanegro all of kosovo and a little bit of serbia
No? Albania never had that big of a territorial extent. What you are reffering to is "Greater Albania", but that idea was never formed. So basically what is shown in this video is true
Roman made new world. Still on .
Yes, Ukraine this is Kievan Rus
No
Yes it is, the key is the “Kiev” an rus because it was from Kiev the capital of Ukraine
@@ldhsmash2718 right
@@ldhsmash2718 the photo shows the principality, in which there is also the Ryazan, Vladimir-Suzdal principality. Where do these lands belong to Ukraine? Then there was the Nyogolskaya land, but it did not become part of Kievan Rus.
@@ldhsmash2718 Novgorod land*
cool
Not fully agree! Italy exists since 1861. Before that there were small states on Italy's territory and thanks to Garibaldi those states were united and Italy was created. Roman empire existed until 395 year and after that is divided to western and eastern(byzantium) empire. Western part existed until 476 year and eastern part existed until 1456 year.
Yugoslavia is not the biggest extension of Serbia. The biggest extension of Serbia was during 14 century. It contained territories of western Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and northern Greece.
And for my country(Bulgaria) I must say this is correct.
Yes, that's how modern Italy came to be, but in my opinion it is ocrrect to consider the roman empire the largest extent of Italy. The romans considered the italian peninsula to be their homeland and they called it Domina Provinciarum(ruler of the provinces), meaning that it was something more to them than just an extension of Rome, it was their native land.
i can see why Finland had to shrink
@festina lente They lost it even before the war, because of the Russian aggression (the Winter War).
The Duchy of Lithuania is not only Lithuania but also Belarus
Well it was Lithuania only back then
Belarus wasn't a thing until 20th century.
Latvia had a part of Pskov, and also had colonies in South America and Africa
Latvia didnt have African colonies
But not much land
Ukraine -> Kievan Rus XDDD
*Kyivan
You forgot that montenegro existed before 2006 didn't you and it was zeta and duklja so ye they are bigger than today's montenegro
Zeta and Duklja were Serbian medieval states, the term Montenegrin and Montenegro itself came some 5 centuries later.
@@mdza no lol
KOSOVOOOO IZZZ SERBIAAAA!!
no
Kosovo is independent
No longer, sorry dude.
HELL NOOOOOOOOO ! KOSOVO IS KOSOVO, SERBIA IS SERBIA.
I see ,,europen country" and then you put Kosovo and Metohija no sense
Jao, ajde ćuti, ne blamiraj se