What if Hungary was BIG? And other European Irredentism Scenarios
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2019
- What if Hungary was BIG? Today we'll be going over different irredentist/nationalist/expansionist scenarios in Europe; perhaps the region with the highest number of said movements due to the unique ethno-nationalist nature of most European countries throughout history.
There are clearly too many irredentist scenarios in Europe to go over completely, hence we will be brushing over only a select few of some of the more interesting cases, in my opinion. Be sure to check out my older video over irredentist scenarios around the world. Thanks for watching!
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Every good World War includes moving Poland a little bit. It's just tradition at this point.
Poland hasn't moved after WW1.
@@Vitalis94 yes, it did. The eastern part became belarus and a part of Ukraine i think, and they got eastern Germany.
@@madcro8209 That's after WW2.
@The Nova renaissance With that logic, Czechoslovakia or Lithuania had also moved, because they didn't exist prior to their independance.
By the end of the World War 7 Poland will reach Normandy
Yhh here in the Balkans we start wars every 50 years about this topic. Its become a tradition at this point.
Kosovo, Aegean Macedonia and Thrace will be liberated and returned to the Slavic homelands soon!
Cossack Historian
Slavs came in VI century in the Balkans
@Filan Fisteku - before Albanian and Turks
@@filanfisteku8539 Turks came in 1066 and Albanians came in the 8th century
@@cossackhistorian7425 also western Huns came V century before slavs
Correction: The HUN gov. isn't contemplating giving them citizenship.
They have already been doing that for several years now.
If you can speak Hungarian and prove Hungarian descent you will receive a Hungarian Citizenship, no matter where you are from.
Shit. I need to learn Hungarian.
Count me in
...they grant citizenship to Romanians as well, especially in the western counties of Bihor, Satu Mare and Salaj. You would ask why Romanians accept that? Well, because the Hungarian pension/retirement is bigger than from the Romanian government one.
@@vjflow749: Oh of course the Romanians are trying to steal our money on top of our lands.
Charles Anthony they’d probably be willing to be part of Hungary if they’d get better pensions than in Romania.
*Hearts of Iron IV players intensify*
@@gwoopie u should try the mods
@@gwoopie dude chill tf out
@@gwoopie yea who tf plays that shit game when you have Vicky 2
I hate the move by paradox to change the Macedonia state tile. Now it is impossible to have decent Bulgarian irredentist borders.
@@gwoopie imperator:Rome
Allow me ti introduce myself
Don't do Balkan irredentism, or if you do... disable the comments at all cost
Vladimir Agatonović let’s just say the comments will be just like 90s Yougoslavia
@@theArab__ a clusterfuck
lets just say the Balkans should be split between Austria and Turkey.
Hungary can have the Rest.
@@alexander1055 please explain why
Through one of those videos I learned that Romania used to be Serbian.
Finland was part of the Russian Empire, not the USSR.
Interestingly, Finland was a part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the predecessor of the USSR) for about one month before Lenin accepted our declaration of independence. But yeah, we never were a part of the USSR itself.
@@blueoceancorporations1019 Actually, when Finland declared independence, it was from the newly-formed Russian Republic since the revolution hadn't reached the Finish territories yet.
@@outerspace7391 That is correct, but if I remember correctly our declaration of independence was accepted by the soviets, who were the government seated in Petrograd at the time.
if historical Hungary does not fall apart, ... then there is no fascism ... communism in the Carpathian Basin..and now the standard of living in Austria would be 60 years ......
British irredentism: 1/3 of the world
1/1 of the world
the sun never sets
Sips tea
I'd be really interested to see what would come up in that. Here in the UK we usually view irredentism and nationalism as childish, pathetic and pointless and if anything we want to make our country smaller via devolution.
I suppose an obvious one would be Ireland? But we love Ireland here- they're our mates.
I suppose another obvious one might be some countries in the Anglosphere, although tbh we really only see those lands as faraway lands that are good mates with us.
Would be really interested to see this.
@@ECloudDog Ireland hates you though
I clicked because i saw Hungary,much love from Poland 2 Hungarians!!!
Polak Wenger dwa bratanki, i do sabli, i do sklanki!
Oooh Man friendship lvl100
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Dlaczego lubisz Węgrów bardziej niż Słowaków? Słowacy są naszymi prawdziwymi braćmi.
@mateusz w w 39 byli państwem marionetkowym III Rzeszy, tak jak PRL był marionetką ZSRR
Valószínűleg nem tudod, de Magyarországnak van hozzáférése a Balti-tengerhez. Lengyelország szintén az Ön országa testvérek 🇵🇱Ha meghívjuk Önt nyaralásra Gdańskba és Szczecinbe
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Szegény külföldiek, ők ezt nem értik
A nagyobb része értettem, atól írtál.
Video: **Exists*
Romanians: **Heavy Breathing**
Nor really. Because of geopolitical as well as ethnical reasons it's pretty clear that while the Hungarians still have wet dreams about Transylvania, they're just dreams.
@Hermann the antisemetic DUCKY!!! you seem to know jackshit... it was the brits that actually wanted the romanians (and czechs) to go even further then they actually did. but then they got cold feed because of soviets. read some history books (western authors) if you want to get more info on the 1914 - 1921 years rather than spewing utter ignorant crap over the internet.
as for what you believe, it reflects your knowledge about ww I. so jackshit. but hey, trolling the net and spewing provocative propaganda pays well.
@Hermann the antisemetic DUCKY!!! oh well, maybe I should be apologizing then for the aggressive tone. it was a mess... and on top of it, the diplomats (both brits and french) were saying one thing, while the generals (both brits and french) were saying the opposite (diplomats wanted the armies to stop, the generals were expressing their "frustration" that the entente armies were not going all the way). it's not that simple and as a lot of other events in history, there are a lot of PoV.
I recommend you read some Martin Gilbert (and others similar) for the whole picture, and for the romanian front Glenn E. Torrey - The Romanian Battlefront as well as Michael B. Barret - Prelude to Blitzkrieg: The 1916 Austro-German Campaign in Romania.
@Hermann the antisemetic DUCKY!!! One last thing though... I have great respect for the British when it comes to both WW I and WW II. Of course, were I to be Polish, I'd probably still complain about being betrayed in WW II AND having my national treasure practically confiscated... On the other hand the Russians did the same with the Romanian treasure that was sent for safekeeping during WW I.
Perspective is the keyword here...
Anyway, your assessment that Romanins did "jackshit" in WW I is objectively inaccurate, to put it mildly. The same as for Romanians sucking entente's cock (which is quite the other way around). But the Eastern Front is not that well known (studied) as is the Western Front - so I guess at some level it is to be expected that people dismiss it out of hand. Let me explain:
1. The prime-minister of Romania drove a hard bargain, and ended up with the Entente practically accepting all the conditions that Romania asked for in return for the entry in the war on the Entente's side. Mainly it was supplying Romania with arms and ammo (especially heavy art), a southern offensive (from Greece - Salonika) and, most importantly, significant Russian support. Unfortunately none of those were done. Especially the Russian support (lackluster to say the least, except for the first part of 1917) and the Salonika debacle.
As a side-note, the British considered the entry of Romania into the war more as a liability, as did the Russians. On the other hand, it was the British that, at the end of the war, contributed to fulfilling the obligations the Entente agreed on for Romania's entry into the war. On the other (other) hand, the French (who are still held to high esteem in Romania) had no intention whatsoever to upheld those pledges - they secretly had an understanding with Russia to put romania back to "its place" at the end of the war. Luckily for Romania, Russia was no more. The French were more inclined to getting reparations of war from Germany, and the British just wanted to get back to business. Oh, and there was also the Soviet menace, the Bavarian Soviet Republic (yep, that was a thing!). Messy, right?
2. The French were insisting on Romania entering the war because, to sum it up... Verdun was going on. And, as a result of (finally) Romania declaring war on AH, Falkenhayn was dismissed (which in retrospective was just a momentarily setback for the Germans since Hindenburg and Ludendorff took over...) but most importantly it meant not only the end of the Verdun nightmare but an immediate STOP of ALL offensive operations on the western front. So the "jackshit" that Romania did... it immediately meant saving tens if not hundreds of thousand of French and British lives (and German lives too...) on the Western front.
3. As the offensive operations on the western front were stopped, Romania had to face the combined armies of Germany, AH, Bulgaria and Turkey. The AH, Bulgarian and Turkish armies were under German command. The AH army was a mess - as it was throughout the whole war - but it benefited from (very) substantial German reinforcements (entire divisions), while the Bulgarian and Turkish armies had a more modest German contributions in terms of troops on the ground. Coupled with the poorly lead and poorly equipped soldiers and, more importantly, the inexperience that characterized the Romanian army in 1916, it lead to the disaster (almost annihilation) of Romania in that year. Nevertheless, as winter set in, it meant a that the Western Front took a most needed reprieve from the slaughter that was 1914, 1915 and half of 1916.
4. While the 1916 operations all but ended Romania as a fighting force, 1917 was a whole different story. I'll quote The Times: "The only point of light in the East" - referring to Romania, who was tying up ~1M Central Powers troops and was fighting on. Moreover, among historians, the general agreement was the only major successes in 1917, for the Entente, were the Carpathian Passes (Romania) battles that finally stopped the German plan of "quickly and decisively" dealing with the Romanian threat. The Romanian army in 1917 was a whole other beast than it was in 1916.
5. What the Central Powers could no achieve in 1917, the Bolshevik revolution did. The end came finally with Russia turning to utter chaos and the subsequent Brest-Litovsk peace treaty. Romania was, at that point, a practically landlocked country (remember the Gallipoli disaster? The Balck Sea was therefore useless...) surrounded by the Central Powers. Nevertheless, and even though signing an armistice/peace treaty (surrender) - the Bucharest treaty (though trying even to dodge that by having the King not signing the papers which, from the Romanian PoV, made them null :)) ) the Romanians kept in close contact with the Entente major powers. There were many preparations for the re-entry into the war, coordinated with the French and British operations (units demobilized on paper, caches of arms and munitions stored across the country in non-marked locations etc. - all against the Bucharest treaty...) and in 1918 Romania finally re-entered the war. But yes, 1917 was both a blessing and a curse.
6. The "price" for WW I was 250,000 military deaths + 430,000 civilian deaths - so a total of 680,000. Add to that ~150.000 Romanians fighting on the AH side. Romania lost (killed only) about 10% of the total population, second only to Serbia which fared much worse (16% of the total population), or if you count the Central Powers, third since the Ottoma Empire lost some 13% (Armenians are included though, and the Ottomans killed those themselves). To put that into perspective, UK (so not the whole British Empire) lost ~1M (military + civilian), or 2.2% of the total population. Russia - 2% of the total population. France - 4.3, Germany - 4.
7. There's a lot of talk about the Belgrade armistice, and that Romania (and Czechoslovak armies) broke the armistice. Well... the 3rd article (iirc) practically gave the Entente armies (Romanian anc Czechoslovak included) the right to practically requisition anything, and occupy any Hungarian territory as they saw fit. And they saw fit, for strategic and political reasons, to take Hungary out of the equation (as far west as west goes :) ). The British and French were well aware of that, and although diplomatically they were "condemning" the move, out of military necessities they supported and encouraged it. Reasons are many, but needless to say the situation at the end on 1918 was murky and chaotic to say the least, at least in Central and Eastern Europe. And again, there was the Soviets who were regarded as an even greater threat than Germany, especially for the British (bring down the monarch and all...).
I think "jackshit" is a bit harsh to describe years of WW I participation, all the death and suffering, don't you? :) If you're interested to know more on this please read some of the sources I suggested. I've only scratched the surface here, there's tons and tons more interesting info.
So yes, Romanians were dicks in WW I. They fought, they killed and were killed, they signed treaties which they later broke, they pillaged occupied areas and did horrible things and many other things. Not more, nor less than any other nation that fought that senseless carnage...
@George Rackham [actr] from the fact that romania betrayed the central powers in ww1 by joining the other side (the were the allies of the CP just like Italy)
And from the fact that they switched sides in ww2 right when russia was at their doorstep
Not saying ww2 wasnt justified Hungary tried to switch sides too (because the government wasnt nazi at all they just acted like german allies so they preserve their independence and so they can bail out of the war in time not destroying the country)
But German influence was too great at the army so it failed
But what romania did in ww1 is outright disgusting
Attacked their former allies, were defeated signed a peace in 1918 bucharest and after the end of ww1 they attacked Hungary which was absolutely exhausted and broken by the war
So thats where it comes from
The most likely unification/irredentists events to happens are probably:
Albania & Kosovo
Russia & Belarus, Donbass, Abkhazia, South Ossetia...
Ireland and Northern Ireland
Moldova & Romania
France & Wallonia (in case of the independance of Flanders)
Belarus will go nowhere, Lukašenko wants to rule his land everyday until death
@@lalchimiste6947 but what will happen when he dies
Belarus and Russia were going to be united before Putin came into office. Lukashenko wanted this because he thought that if Russia and Belarus united, he would win the Presidential Election and be President of the Russian Federation.
You forgot about:
Armenia & Nagorno Karabakh(Artsakh)
Serbia & Montengro + Serb Republic
Croatia and Herzeg-Bosnia
Greece & Cyprus
Russia won't unite with Donbass, it has much larger ambitions regarding Ukraine.
@@Porkeater2610957 Moldavia is a part of Romania, stolen by Stalin.
Your attempt to avoid the Balkans is palpable.
give a poke at greece, comment on romania- but everything in between *do not touch. it will catch fire.*
Greetings from Hungary!
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This video: **Exists**
Romanians: **visible anger**
hell yeah!
Never in my life have i been so ofendet by something that i 100/agree with From a Romanian
@@gigachad-gx9vu God damnit, Mussolini, are you trying to rebuild the Roman Empire? Try and don't end up being annexed by Ethiopia... _again_
randomboi9000 what do you mean. Romania gave back old lands in 1989
randomboi9000 stop crying
For Italian irredentism, one of the first regions to come to mind would also be the Nice area (Nizza in Italian). Nice, alongside Savoy (Savoia) was ceded to France by Sardinia-Piedmont, as a payment for French help in defeating the Austrians in the second war of Independence. Nice is actually the birthplace of Garibaldi, arguably the most famous (although somewhat controversial) leader of Italian reunification.
The Savoia region is sometimes included as well because it's where the House of Savoy (which united Italy and ruled over the country until it became a Republic right after WW2) is from, but the region itself was always culturally arpitan/french.
Corsica, Istria e Dalmazia: are we a joke to you? XD
Watch your back! South Tyrol should go back to Austria and Trst should belong to Slovenia! LOL
@@mikeromadin8744 said no triestin ever
@@riccardorenda3396 Too late my macaronian phriend! We already sent gang of polite green men to establish People's Slovenian republic of Trst! Prepare to pay reparations for unlawful occupation of Slovenian littoral! Trst je nas! LOL
@@mikeromadin8744 with South Tyrol you have a point but Trieste is Italian
Me: **see thumbnail**
Me: **confused in my avatar's name**
(Edit: this post was made when my avatar's name was Romanian Szekely)
Igen, emlékszem rád. Te vagy az a R*mán+Székely korcsivadék, ki békíteni akarja a két népet. Te leszel az első aki megy a bitóra.
No for the last time you guys are not huns! Lol.
@@nabu213 what did I do to you again?
@@hazzmati that came out of nowhere.
SKeleky I am tired of you hungarians(magyars) larping, pretending that you are the ancient huns while you are not. Very annoying stop it.
What if Sweden was big?
What if the Liberia plan happend?
What if the Madagascar plan happend?
What if italy was big?
What if greece was big?
What if Lebanon was big?
What if Sweden was Huge?
What if the post roman Germanic migratory states survived?
a map with all the irredentist movements would be something...
What if my d**k was big?
What if Sweden wasn't gay?
What if Finland was big?
What if Sweden wasn't big gay?
@@unitedstatesofeu7859 Finland really is everyone's favorite.
Thank you Masaman!
Great video🙏👍🏆
Greetings from Budapest/Hungary🇭🇺
It's time to unite North and South Dakota. And if Montanans don't like it, we'll annex them too! ✊
wyoming nuff said
you're just two German kreis
As always, this has been Masaman, thanks for watching everyone, and I'll see you next time
This video was like 10% about hungary
That's about how much it matters
@@dmihaesi lmao you still clicked on a video about it
Im German and I think the most interesting one is of course...
Hungary actually. Sounds great.
If the Germans were not completely conquered and brainwashed after 1945 the most interesting issue would be Austria and Southern Tyrol.
Because these countries are culturally bavarian and never felt as a separate Austrian Nation. After the World Wars they were two times denied self-determination. German Austria had to change its name to Austria in 1919 and after WW2 again had to agree to stay a separate and neutral state. If not, occupation would have continued until 1990.
Quite a special treatment, a colonial situation for the German Nation until present.
From the book of John R. Schindler, _Fall of the Double Eagle - The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary_ (University of Nebraska Press, 2015):
(pages 25-26)
A true irredentist Italy would undoubtedly include the following territories:
The whole of Istria
Nice and its surroundings
Corsica
Malta
Parts of dalmatia
Canton Ticino
Maybe savoy
Maybe albania
let's correct
ALL ROMAN EMPIRE
i would say that italian balls are not big enough for that. LOL
@@mikeromadin8744 oooof destruction 100
San Marino + Monaco naturally
Istria for the foibe and Fiume,
Nice for Garibaldi,
Savoy for the Savoia,
Corsica to liberate the Corse from the damage that the french are doing to their culture,
And Malta because their culture was polluted by the British
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Correction: Romanians are actually more favourable to unifications than Moldovans. Moldova hasn't even decided if it wants to be on the EU's or Russia's side yet.
Putin already decided that for them.
but pro russins and pro eu decided to accept EU money! and romanians money to
14th Russian Army decide between Europe and Russia. So, ask them.
@@antalpoti Question: Who are Russia's neighbors? Answer: Whoever Russia wants.
that's because they don't want to be ruled from shitty Bucharest. Same sentiment in Transylvania too. If we were a federation, like Germany, maybe.
That music at the end was comforting.
Most of this is very mild. Like for example, you’re missing Dalmazia, Nizza, and Savoia for a greater Italy, or much of Greater Hungary. You should compare the extreme version of the concept, and the realistic one
The realistic scennario - we already sent polite green men troops to make plebescite and establish people's republics in Sud Tyrol and Trst. LOL
Change dalmazia with Istria and it's correct
The Krieg or both
@@thekrieg4251 no, no, extreme Italian Irredentism claims them both lol
@@virginioandrearusso4166 yeah i know, but dalmatia it's really difficult to defend, it's a shit border (and it's not ethically italian for hundred years)
it will be interesting to see such a video for the Balkan countries, as we are really mixed
kinda a crusade based
From Edward Crankshaw's book, _The Fall of the House of Habsburg_ (Viking Press, New York, 1963):
Hell yeah, I love these videos!
These videos are really interesting!
From the study of Gabor Vermes, "Hungarian politics and society on the eve of the revolution" published in the volume edited by Peter Pastor, _Revolutions and interventions in Hungary and its neighboring states, 1918-1919_ (Columbia University Press, New York, 1988):
(page 108)
Finland:Hey um Hungary, i know we are like 5 nations apart but i claim your lands.
@@petrzalkai you are not Hungarian, but a Bolshevik snowflake.
Why should Finland claim Hungary. Unless we create a 'Uralic Union'
@@petrzalkai
Romaina: *hold my stolen beer*
What is Hungary today was actually quite diverse ethnically in the times of Austria-Hungary. Budapest was 50% non-Hungarian, and the countryside outside Budapest was quite Slovak. Also, when Hungarians came into the basin in 900, it was mostly populated by Slavs and other tribes. During the medieval period, ethnic Hungarians were the ruling class, while the majority of population was non-Hungarian, even if we talk only about what is Hungary today. 19th century couldn't possibly measure genetic Hungarians, what those maps (and even they reveal the diversity of today's Hungary) show is language, which was imposed by the ruling elite.
Yeah, Buda was part non Hungarian but defenetly not slovak. Rather German and Jewish.
@@__greG You misunderstood, maybe that's my fault. I didn't say that it was Slovak - it was mostly non-Hungarian. Though the Slovak population that it did have also meant that it was the largest city in the world in terms of Slovak population.
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2nd the most common surname in Hungary is Kovács, it has absolutely the same pronunciation as Slovak Kováč. And yes it has Slavic root.
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3rd one is Tóth, meaning Slovak
@@SladkaPritomnost You are wrong. Most of the people whose name is Kovács have romani/Gypsy ancestry in Hungary.
Balkans: hold my rakija
From the book authored by Pieter M. Judson, _The Habsburg Empire: A New History_ (Belknap Press, 2016):
I really liked that you went over the French and Algeria connection. I'd love to see a video on the Pied-Noirs settlers of Algeria as that is a fascinating topic. Usual suggestions:
1. Any of my reiterations you have not covered yet.
2. Panama Canal Zone and "Zonian" Americans
3. Ethnic groups of American territories in general
4. What if the America's were colonized like Africa, and there were full Native American sovereign nations today? This goes beyond Bolivia and Nicaragua having higher indigenous populations.
5. Colonial powers of Asia beyond Japan
6. What is the Moorish ethnicity in modern times?
7. What is known about the distribution of African ethnic groups in the America's? Obviously there was huge intermixing and a melding of African ethnic groups and cultures in the America's due very tragic factors. But based on modern genetics, are there certain ethnic groups that predominate Afro-American populations? If so, which ones and where?
8. What's the difference between Polish and Kashubian?
9. Indian population in Fiij
10. Botswana
11. Cabinda
12. Central African Republic
13. Areas of Russia you haven't covered yet given it's size and variety
14. Carpatho-Rusyns
15. Yennish culture
16. Taino village in Dominica: ua-cam.com/video/PBRvTBsWnCE/v-deo.html
17. Four Sanskrit villages of India: ua-cam.com/video/s0I8h5oCbrQ/v-deo.html
18. Cornish revival in the UK
19. Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Sao Tome and Principe
20. Tasmania and how the Aboriginal Tasmanian population, who is now completely mixed, is trying to bring their culture back from the
dead after the terrible genocide that happened there: ua-cam.com/video/dGVC7bplIHE/v-deo.html
What is the genetics of the modern peoples of Tasmania as a result, accordingly?
21. Maori of New Zealand and Moriori of the Chatham Islands: ua-cam.com/video/mEZfM0zCpXU/v-deo.html
22. You often mention how there are small populations of "other" groups of people in culturally regional countries that are predominantly dominated by local ethnic groups. Well, if there are small populations of these people's, what ABOUT them, if you get my drift?
This is quite interesting, perhaps a part 2 is in order?
Part 2 was face to face , in the park :)))
Very factual and exact. Thanks.
Typical Romanian: Why the hell is this in my recommendations?
Hungarians: Well, let's start from page 1!
@Wallachian Knight Dacia isn't Romania. Dacians and Romanians are different people.
@Wallachian Knight Just because the Dacians lived there, as the Romanians do now, does not mean that the Romanians are Dacians. The Romanians came from around Albania and Macedonia.
@@adamus1342 There is genetic evidence that at least 80% of the genes of people living today in any European country (exclusions could be some islands such as Malta) identical to the genes of people who lived there on the very same land 10 thousand years ago! So the "big migrations" were not as big as people used to think. By the way there is no one single historical evidence or script that Romanians migrated from Albania. It was the language and the culture that migrated, not the people! Even the Avars had mainly Central-European genes and not Central-Asian ones!
@Wallachian Knight can you show me any online source for this 10%? It sounds to me too much. There are a few words, maybe hundred, but that's it. (As far as I know, althaugh I don't speak Romanian, I only have read about this language)
I knew it
I freaking knew it!
About Belgium:
I think an irredentist Belgium probably includes a mix of Flemish and Walloon irredentism, based on historical claims.
I'd say: the whole Northern Department of France, for both Flanders and Wallonia, Maritime Flanders and Dutch Limburg.
Isn't that what Leopold wanted?
@@mackermate8475 Our former King Leopold II had a lot of ambitions, and he even considered invading ALL of the Netherlands at one moment. As you know, Belgium cannot really make a claim to ALL of the Netherlands. But Dutch Limburg was a part of Belgium until 1839, and the population feels connected to Belgian Limburg, so I think claiming Limburg is not so far fetched. Maritime Flanders is Flemish and even has Flanders in its' name, so that claim is pretty solid too I believe.😁
@@robdevos8405 Yeah that's really interesting. Maybe the Dutch province of Northern Brabant too. Or the Flemish part of Zeeland?
I still dont get this, the only difference between Netherlands and Belgium is religion. They literally need to unify with their 1815 borders
@@EugeneAyindolmah Language (French and German are also spoken in Belgium), cultural identity (mainly food), infrastructure (the roads in Belgium are the worst), history (Belgium belonged to Spain way longer than the Netherlands), how would you merge two kingdoms? and way more
I JUST watched your last irredentism video yesterday!
Don't ask a Corsican if they're french, they wouldn't be pleased.
@Commenttube An actually French person.
Prussian SMN WGLT Je confirme :)
Ethnikally Corsicans are an italic group. Before french bought corsica, the leader of the corsican independentist party said clearly "we are firstly italians, then corsicans"
@IFFs 35th ahhahaha, he was for the corsican independence till 1793.
Read:
The ancestors of Napoleon descended from minor Italian nobility of Tuscan origin who had come to Corsica from Liguria in the 16th century.[5] Napoleon boasted of his Italian heritage saying "I am of the race that founds empires", and he referred to himself as "more Italian or Tuscan than Corsican".[6] His parents Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino maintained an ancestral home called "Casa Buonaparte" in Ajaccio. Napoleon was born there on 15 August 1769, their fourth child and third son. A boy and girl were born first but died in infancy. He had an elder brother, Joseph, and younger siblings Lucien, Elisa, Louis, Pauline, Caroline, and Jérôme. Napoleon was baptised as a Catholic.[7] Although he was born Napoleone di Buonaparte,[8] he changed his name to Napoléon Bonaparte when he was 27 in 1796 upon his first marriage.[b]
Napoleon was born the same year the Republic of Genoa, a former commune of Italy,[12] transferred Corsica to France.[13] The state sold sovereign rights a year before his birth in 1768, and the island was conquered by France during the year of his birth and formally incorporated as a province in 1770, after 500 years under Genoese rule and 14 years of independence.[c] Napoleon's parents fought against the French to maintain independence even when Maria was pregnant with him. His father was an attorney who went on to be named Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI in 1777.[17]
The dominant influence of Napoleon's childhood was his mother, whose firm discipline restrained a rambunctious child.[17] Later in life Napoleon stated, "The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother."[18] Napoleon's maternal grandmother had married into the Swiss Fesch family in her second marriage, and Napoleon's uncle, the cardinal Joseph Fesch, would fulfill a role as protector of the Bonaparte family for some years. Napoleon's noble, moderately affluent background afforded him greater opportunities to study than were available to a typical Corsican of the time.[19]
When he turned 9 years old,[20][21] he moved to the French mainland and enrolled at a religious school in Autun in January 1779. In May, he transferred with a scholarship to a military academy at Brienne-le-Château.[22] In his youth he was an outspoken Corsican nationalist and supported the state's independence from France.[20] Like many Corsicans, Napoleon spoke and read Corsican (as his mother tongue) and Italian (as the official language of Corsica).[23][24][25] He began learning French in school at around age 10.[26] Although he became fluent in French, he spoke with a distinctive Corsican accent and never learned how to spell French correctly.[27] He was, however, not an isolated case, as it was estimated in 1790 that fewer than 3 million people, out of France's population of 28 million, were able to speak standard French, and those who could write it were even fewer.[28]
Napoleon was routinely bullied by his peers for his accent, birthplace, short stature, mannerisms and inability to speak French quickly.[24] Bonaparte became reserved and melancholy applying himself to reading. An examiner observed that Napoleon "has always been distinguished for his application in mathematics. He is fairly well acquainted with history and geography ... This boy would make an excellent sailor".[d][30] In early adulthood, he briefly intended to become a writer; he authored a history of Corsica and a romantic novella.[20]
On completion of his studies at Brienne in 1784, Napoleon was admitted to the École Militaire in Paris. He trained to become an artillery officer and, when his father's death reduced his income, was forced to complete the two-year course in one year.[31] He was the first Corsican to graduate from the École Militaire.[31] He was examined by the famed scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace.[32]
Early career
Napoleon Bonaparte, aged 23, as lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of Corsican Republican volunteers. Portrait by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux
Upon graduating in September 1785, Bonaparte was commissioned a second lieutenant in La Fère artillery regiment.[e][22] He served in Valence and Auxonne until after the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, and took nearly two years' leave in Corsica and Paris during this period. At this time, he was a fervent Corsican nationalist, and wrote to Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli in May 1789, "As the nation was perishing I was born. Thirty thousand Frenchmen were vomited on to our shores, drowning the throne of liberty in waves of blood. Such was the odious sight which was the first to strike me".[34]
He spent the early years of the Revolution in Corsica, fighting in a complex three-way struggle among royalists, revolutionaries, and Corsican nationalists. He was a supporter of the republican Jacobin movement, organizing clubs in Corsica,[35] and was given command over a battalion of volunteers. He was promoted to captain in the regular army in July 1792, despite exceeding his leave of absence and leading a riot against French troops.[36]
He came into conflict with Paoli, who had decided to split with France and sabotage the Corsican contribution to the Expédition de Sardaigne, by preventing a French assault on the Sardinian island of La Maddalena.[37] Bonaparte and his family fled to the French mainland in June 1793 because of the split with Paoli.[38]
@IFFs 35th he said himself he was italian, no matter what french say 🤣😂
Greater Hungary, sounds like it’s Hungary for land
Man, again, I see you another channel..
That is actually funny.
Avery the Cuban-American do you fucking think you’re funny clown
Super Duper Badass Midget Probably
stfu
From the book of Seamus Dunn and T.G.Fraser (eds.) _Europe and Ethnicity The First World War and contemporary ethnic conflict_ (Routledge, London&New York, 1996):
(pages 88-89)
The "Druze" seem to be quite interesting for a video. the wikipedia page is quite confusing for me.
so early i watch @480p) nice vid=)
and thanks for European edition! =)
i’d like to see what an ireland could look like, i have a few ideas but i’m interested to see what you think
IRA 2: Electric Boogaloo
What about Portugal? Are you sugesting Galicia is a part of portuguese culture?
excellent Mason, thank you. I would love to see a separate video on Albania sometime. It has a fascinating history
Masaman did a video about Albania.
love this vid! gj!
If Romania unites with Moldova yes the short-term would suck but long-term I see only benefits. East Germany was in a similar position right?
As a Romanian I don't think that would be the case. West Germany hat alot more economical power due to the Marshall plan than Romania has. And even today East Germany still lacks a bit to be on the level with the West. Romania barely keeps its head above watter as it is. With a dead weight like Moldova and Russian interests no chance.
@@alupigus9284 don't think so, they all are going to go all over Europe to work, 😂😂😂, no big deal
Could you do Punjab/Khalistan nationalist/irredentist claims or a video about the Punjabi people in general, I think there is a lot that you could delve into, such as historical significance, ethnicity, culture, divisions and religion. Thanks. Keep up the excellent content. :)
You should include Bulgaria in the future. Anyways, great video.
please do more of this
You do know that the map of Austria Hungarian is not the reality? It was a way to justifie taking away teritories from Hungary :D
Of course,with its less than 7 million people
See the languages spoken, there’s literally no Hungarian speakers
Yeah.. that's weird.. its been Hungary for 1000 years as Hungary is claiming, however never managed to be the majority in any of these areas... I wonder why ?!?!
@@ceapalata you do know that there were many wars where the lower class population of hungarians weren't on the lucky side, and after the ottoman wars and Habsburgs comeback to the throne, they forbid hungarians to repopulate areas like Vojvodina, instead the Austrians granted serbs, vlachs and germans many rights that the hungarians didn't got?
@@olibruh hmm.. no.. not a fan of Hungarian sci-fi
2:44 Finland didnt achieve independence from the ussr, but from imperial russia
That sleepwalk part came out of nowhere, I was learning about nationalism, now I’m vibing
Bulgaria would be interestingfor this type of video!
If there is a majoroty of X language speakers in Y country on their border, maybe a small border shift (couple of villages) would be encouraged
As a German, I'd love to see a democratic unification of Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, the German part of Switzerland and Lichtenstein... it's probably unlikely to happen since Austrians don't like it if they are called germans anymore (eventhough they are), and Switzerland also distancing itself from germany
Duesen it would be Great Germany👍
Deutschland über alles!
as a french, i support the unification of german cultural region under a single gouvernment... and for alsace lorraine, lets create a common shared region, regulated by both country
Hi ! What's the first song's name you used in the video ? Thanks
You should include Albania in the future, great video btw
For, greater France, I think that you should also include Catalonia, Valencia and the Baleares, or you could just do the "natural borders of France" at the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees.
I've read that it's the other way around than you said and actually Romanian-Moldovan unification has more support in Romania than in Moldova.
Sweet Angel isn’t that why Trans-Dniestria exists? It’s like the Russian Moldovan enclave or something.... I might’ve got that backwards..
Sweet Angel Because of the idiotic people who live in the past and still believe that we still have a chance to unite
@@EntryLevelLuxury Transnistria is inhabited a third by Romanians, a third by Russians, and a third by Ukrainians, but it was never a part of the medieval kingdom of Romania because it is beyond the strong and defensible boundary of the Dniester (nistru). It was taken from the Ukrainian SSR by the Soviets in order to become a Moldova SSR when Bessarabia (a true part of the medieval Kingdom of Romania, even though 2/3 of the medieval kingdom is in Romania even today) united with Greater Romania. Just like states build post offices in disputed areas, even if there are no people there, this branding exercise was a way to maintain a claim on Moldova. When they got Bessarabia back, they united it tio Transnistria, but gave the north and the south of Bessarabia to Ukraine in order for any invasion force towards Romania to bypass natural defences and the Moldovan SSR, which might rebel or might join Romania. This was the strategic thinking of the elites, which was on display in the Caucasus, in Central Asia etc.
@@Jorjgasm Geopolitics manifest. Thanks!
@Panter Panta medieval kingdoms which today maake up Romania - Moldova and Wallachia. Slip-up. My bad. Transnistria was never a part of those. The border was on the Dniester
Did you have the radio on when recording this? It's a bit distracting.
One video which would be cool would be a video about the balkans
THICC Hungary
I wish France would trade Dunkirk and Rijsel for Wallonia. Make Flanders whole again and get rid of the Walloons at the same time.
If Frances takes Wallonia they will want Brussels too, being mostly a french speaking city
@@bogdan9939 Brussels should be an independent capital of Europe, preferably with a wall around it so its shithole population doesn't escape into our Flanders.
@@Roel93 and take Gravellines nuclear power plant as well!
Rejsel never was flemmish
Bruine zak
Your videos are generally awesome. The music of this one distracted me, though I am probably in the minority. Keep doing you. :)
The Dutch and German ones are my favorite 🇳🇱🇩🇪
You forgot to mention Nice, Monaco and Savoy for the Italian irredentism.
if there was not time for more of that stuff then make part 2 some other time.
5:29
Actually only northwestern part. In the 20th century, "Flemish" somehow became the word to refer to all of Dutch speaking Belgium. The dialects of the northeastern half are not Flemish (linguistically and historically speaking), but are often considered as such.
West frisian is actually very closely related to dutch and to the lower german dialects ( Plattdeutsch or Niederdeutsch)
Do a video about the taureg people. It will fit your content.
Please do a irredentist Portugal. I am a Portuguese myself and I am interested to see our Max expension
Great clip
From the book of C. A. Macartney, _The Habsburg Empire, 1790 - 1918_ (Faber&Faber, London, 2014):
(pages 930 - 933)
Please do a future Video on the irredentism of Russia!
you've got the money i gonna visit you! (c) Body Count LOL
Can you do the same topic, but just covering the Balkans please?
Making a video about the Balkan irredentism would turn the comment section into a hostile environment, harsher and more dangerous than the western front in WW1 after the trenches appeared.
Atlas Pro has a good vid about Africa that sort of covers this topic. I think that the people who actually live in a given area should to some degree be able to decide whether or not to move their country's borders, as long as it's not the Russians or Germans.
Do Finland next
The one I think is most interesting is the movement for a grand unified Indochina
You made a video about North Africa, could you please make one specifically about Algeria?
Can you give a short video of
" dissolvation of hungarian kingdom " = within the new states peoples ethnicity with numbers , if is possible ? Thanks .
Do about Persian gulf countries like Kuwait Bahrain and Uae and there diversity plz
good idea. i know next to nothing about these countries.
Greater Hungary, and even WW2 Hungarian borders are so Aesthetically pleasing to me.
for me its czechia that i found very estetic
Pre WW1 Germany was very aesthetically pleasing.
?? Why "Sleepwalk" as the soundtrack for the last few minutes?
You could do a video about the catalan independentist movement and Països catalans (Catalan countries)
This video is 2nd in google search when putting in the term THICC Hungary!
Sunglass Shinpan #tinyvictoiries
2:49 Don't You Mean Russian Empire? Finland Was Never Part Of The USSR, Was It?
0:52 when is this map from? 1900s? Because Greeks were a majority in Smyrna and around Marmara back then.
Good work Masaman. You are probably one of the very few North Americans that actually got the pre ww2 situation of Sud Tirol right. In addition to what you said, it was the fear of a Hitler annexation of Sud Tirol that motivated Bennito to seriously consider an alliance with Hitler. He wagered that if he joined Hitler, he could lessen the chance of a Sud Tirol takeover which would have ultimately become a takeover of the whole Italian nation. Ultimately of course, Hitler walked through Italy anyway as we all know.
Wouldn't Nice be included in Italian irredentism?
nice is like savoy, they where what they call "franco provencal" peoples, so closer from actual france than italy, but for a long time ruled by italian family
nicen't
@@TheGirard62 savoy has always been french kinda speaking(they spoke Arpitan which is really close to french) nice instead spoke Ligurian nizzard which is Ligurian with some occitan (Not even french) loan words, nice was part of Genoa until 1815 and then it became piedmont.(Garibaldi was born in Nice) In 1860 the italian language was banned and italians were stripped of their names and given new ones more "french" sounding
"Hungary" and "Irredentism" in the same subject. It never ends well. :(
Egyszer sikerülni fog
Felvidék
@@jademaiko527 : There was definitely more peace in the region before it was broken into a dozen tiny countries. France wanted Eastern Europe and the Balkans weak. That's why they broke up Hungary.
@@jademaiko527 because the situation in Transilvania is complicate and one wrong move = civil war.
Not with that attitude...
@@MrChaosAdam are you talking to me?
You touched on it slightly but Frisian would be interesting.
Is there a way to turn off the music?
11:30 Nord Bukovina,Herța and Bugeac are more popular than Timoc on irredentism side. Also you should conside a saying/joke:"Romania has only two good neighbors-Serbia and the Black sea. But considering it was the same with Bulgaria until the german king declared a war on them and now we have another german who rule us that may change, and not in good.