European Countries at their GREATEST Extent
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Have you wondered when such countries as France, Russia, Germany, Poland or Turkey (featuring the Ottoman Empire) reached their territorial peak? Answers to some of these questions are obvious, although it's not always the case. In this video, I would like to address these questions and show you the lesser-known history of Monaco, Georgia, Slovakia, Albania and many other countries. Moreover, each country's description features trivia with more or less known facts. Enjoy!
Music used:
Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
Morning Mood by Edvard Grieg
European Countries at their GREATEST Extent; History of Europe, Husavi Productions 2023
#history #europe #germany #france #country #map
This video did take a while and lots of effort, but here it is! Let me know in the comments if would you like to see similar videos for other continents, and let me know what other educational videos would you like to see on my channel.
Previous video: ua-cam.com/video/S-QJj34sPdg/v-deo.html
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It is a pretty great vid👍
Thanks For all your hard work! ⚡⚡⚡🫡🫡🫡🫡
This is good!
Could you make all territories a country has ever held in history?
And one more thing, Empires on a world map: Colonial for example
Next I want to see countries at FULLEST extent, like, combining every territory they ever owned into one spot.
same
So territories ever occupied by any nation? I believe Geography & Space has that
@@ImperialSublimeEmpire So?
@@professionaldriver77878 just saying, no other alternative motive
That's a nice idea! In a few days I will post a poll in my community tab to decide what other history-focused video should I do next
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Kazakhstans trivia is just chefs kiss
Makes me want to go rewatch Borat immediately
all other countries simply don't have enough potassium after all
You're welcome! Please also remember that they invented toffee and trouser belts
I thought golden horde were tatar
@@HusaviProductionstheir prostitutes are also cleanest in the region
There is a parallel universe out there where Liechtenstein owns Alaska. They were asked if they want to buy it, but they turned the offer down because they didn't have the means to defend it.
>timeline without the Liechtensteiner intercontinental empire
Guys, we are born in the wrong timeline 😔
@@HusaviProductionswe truly are 😔
4:24 Small mistake: The Netherlands should have lost some land at the greatest extent and alternative, since the modern Netherlands contains land that was reclaimed from the sea. It would have been very fully if you painted them the sea blue colour.
Weird to show Francia but not Napoleonic France. This is a video of every country greater extent but the greatest extent of "France" is Europe is not shown. Litteral France extended to Rome itself and to the river Elbe in the north, crazy.
Also colonial empire should be shown in a world map next to the main part, otherwise it gives the wrong impression.
And at least Napoleonic France is actually France. And not a pre-french kingdom of the early middle ages
Incredible shame of showing "France 1924" instead of France in 1812.
Negationistic at this point.
3:07 As one of the all other countries, I can confirm that I am run by little girls
Cool stuff! Definately would like to see more of this kind of stuff. Those Bosnian Church and Counts of Celje informations were very interesting and informative. They could get their own endings one day.
Indeed! I will include them when working on All Endings: Bosnia/Slovenia
And now, the only reason people know about them is because they are a OPM in EU4
2:02 tough one for France because French Empire in 1812 would actually be bigger if you count the vassals states of Austria, Prussia, Poland, Confederation of the Rhine, Italy, Croatia and most of Spain
Austria wasn't really a client state of France, but rather just defeated by France to the point where they decided to ally the French Empire. But it was technically still a sovereign state.
Prussia, who's often depictured as defeated but sovereign, was in fact both a client state and under military occupation of France so yeah, I agree with you on that.
*Illyiran provinces and they were under direct French rule
Even tougher because Frankia and France aren’t really the same. France as we know it now starts with West Frankia.
The Franks also didn’t Romanize (aside from their religion)
2:26 Northern Epirus was also part of Greece and not Rhodes and Castelorizo.
Indeed. I forgot that the Greek control in North Epirus lasted until 1923, and also completely forgot the Dodecanese. If I plan on doing a remaster, I will correct this
@@HusaviProductions its fine
@@HusaviProductions, why did Greece have to give Northern Epirus back to Albania, anyway?
Very cool video, only thing to say is that I think the greatest extent of Italy (as the Kingdom of Italy) was in 1941 as it still (not so much) controlled Italian East Africa, including Djibouti and Somaliland (invaded).
and libya too!
That should've been an Alternate, like it was with the other empires, but that was already taken by the Roman Empire, and he probably didn't want to spend time on another one
0:05 Albania 🇦🇱
0:13 Andorra 🇦🇩
0:19 Armenia 🇦🇲
0:25 Austria 🇦🇹
0:35 Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
0:44 Belarus 🇧🇾
0:54 Belgium 🇧🇪
1:04 Bosnia-Herzegovina 🇧🇦
1:10 Bulgaria 🇧🇬
1:16 Croatia 🇭🇷
1:26 Cyprus 🇨🇾
1:32 Czechia 🇨🇿
1:38 Denmark 🇩🇰
1:48 Estonia 🇪🇪
1:54 Finland 🇫🇮
2:01 France 🇫🇷
2:10 Georgia 🇬🇪
2:16 Germany 🇩🇪
2:25 Greece 🇬🇷
2:35 Hungary 🇭🇺
2:42 Iceland 🇮🇸
2:48 Ireland 🇮🇪
2:58 Italy 🇮🇹
3:07 Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
3:16 Latvia 🇱🇻
3:26 Liechtenstein 🇱🇮
3:32 Lithuania 🇱🇹
3:39 Luxembourg 🇱🇺
3:48 Malta 🇲🇹
3:58 Moldova 🇲🇩
4:07 Monaco 🇲🇨
4:14 Montenegro 🇲🇪
4:23 Netherlands 🇳🇱
4:32 Macedonia 🇲🇰
4:40 Norway 🇳🇴
4:45 Poland 🇵🇱
4:52 Portugal 🇵🇹
5:01 Romania 🇷🇴
5:08 Russia 🇷🇺
5:14 San Marino 🇸🇲
5:20 Serbia 🇷🇸
5:30 Slovakia 🇸🇰
5:39 Slovenia 🇸🇮
5:49 Spain 🇪🇸
5:58 Sweden 🇸🇪
6:04 Switzerland 🇨🇭
6:11 Turkey 🇹🇷
6:20 Ukraine 🇺🇦
6:32 Britannia 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
6:41 Vatican City 🇻🇦
Azerbaijan largest extent is Afsharid empire
Why the UK only got its colonies shown but not others? Plus remove turkey Kazakhstan Armenia Georgia and Azerbaijan they're not European.
What I dislike the most about the way how Europe and Asia are divided into separate continents is that no matter where I include such countries as Turkey, neither side will be happy
@@HusaviProductions it's not about being happy or not. I think the borders are clear but we complicate them. In the east it's the Ural mountains and the Caucasus plus the bosphorus. Even if some countries have land in Europe like turkey, they shouldn't be counted since they're not European. Plus I think you should've shown the colonies of all countries not just the UK.
Surprised you didn't include Napoleon's France as an Alternate
Great job! Would of been cool if you showed the entire map for the greatest extent of empires though.
Thank you, and thanks for the feedback!
Nice video! It's so educational and helpful 😊 and I really appreciate making one for Asia too! 😊
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video! I will work on a similar video for Asia in the future
I wished you’d show the whole empires including overseas territories
the franks were germanic not french😡
The franks evolved into the French, so the French Germanic origins I’m not gonna disagree with that.
@@sebdragonholste2404 well yeah the French language involved from Latin and gad some Germanic influence
2:18 I don’t get it. So what were the Reichskommisoriate? I don’t get why colonies with tons of land that may or may not be explored can count all the way but not occupied territory.
3:27 Offered to who? By whom? Was Austria or Germany offered Alaska in return for Liechtenstein becoming a Russian outpost?
5:10 1914? Wasn’t Russia’s greatest extent right before it sold Alaska?
about 3:27, you're misunderstanding the trivia, the country of Liechtenstein recieved an offer to buy Alaska
Ngl I kind of wish you zoomed out to show the whole world map when they had empires outside of Europe using those bubbles to show when they owned small islands of cities
Regardless I’m definitely keeping this bad boy saved for the future and can’t wait for you to do the other continents
Thanks! I will do other continents next for sure, and in the end I may come back to Europe video and make a remaster to include all suggestions and correct the mistakes
Bruh Albania greatest extent was when they were part of italy
Sweden's borders at 6:00 are wrong. Sweden only gained Trondhjem Len at the Treaty of Roskilde. You have also marked the northern part of Bergenhus Len as a part of Sweden. One can also argue that Denmark's greatest extent was around 1613, when Denmark owned Norway from Finnmark to Bohus Len, as well as Skåne, Halland and Blekinge. In 1782 Denmark of course had Greenland, but Greenland isn't shown on the map.
I expected Kievan Rus in the place of Ukraine
it was a russian state
@@redcrown5154 There was no Russia.
@@redcrown5154 Kyivan Rus was more of a Proto-Slavic state than a purely Ukrainian or Russian state. It was the ancestor of those cultural groups, and doesn't belong solely to one of those cultures
@@redcrown5154 The words "russia" and "moscow" did not exist during the time of Kievan Rus
@@redcrown5154 the Kievan Rus was an artifically created state made by a Swede in very early European history, looong before anything Moscow related, and considering its capital was Kiev, its fair to call it Ukraine. Russia is just the remains of the confused Slavs that were conquered by the Mongolian golden horde.
Geography and space made something similar but not this detailed it love it!
Thanks! I am aware that there have been similar videos on the topic made in the past, but I wanted to make a more detailed version.
Do Asia next please!
Will do!
Wasnt France bigger in Napoleonic era?
If we include the client states such as Italy, Warsaw and Helvetia, then yes. Otherwise, no
You could add Union between Commonwealth and Sweden as alternate for Poland
Or when Władysław Waza was tsar of Russia
@@rafakrzentowski9549he had never been crowned
You forgot to include Southern Italy at Hungary's greatest extent.
The problem is that the reign of Nagy Lajos over Naples and his reign over Poland are 19 years apart from each other (Naples 1347, 1350-1351, Poland 1370-1382)
0:40 i’m pretty sure you’re conflating the aq qoyunlu and the qara qoyunlu on this map. The only person who held similar borders to that map in 1465 is Uzun Hasan, ruler of the Aq Qoyunlu.
Hence, "greatest extent"
@@cerebrummaximus3762 those are two different entities.
As far as I know, the Qara Qoyunlu did stretch from Eastern Anatolia to Kerman in 1465 during the reign of Jahan Shah
@@HusaviProductions Ah you're right. I always forget because they were brothers so I keep conflating the two^^; thank you for that!
Isn't Liechtenstein Technically the HRE ?
Always has been
the same for czechia
Or San Marino being the real successor to rome
Fun fact: “Terra Mariana” is Latin for “Maryland”
"Kazakhstan is widely known as the greatest country in the world, as all other countries are run by little girls"
Facts
2:28 Greece at the time didn't control the Dodecanese, but controlled Northern Epirus, a majority Greek region in southern Albania. Also, you forgot the Byzantine Empire
*(Eastern) Roman Empire
@@professionaldriver77878 Same thing
@@zsombortelek8411 Maybe, but names are important.
No they felt romance citizens!
@@003costas004 ?? no you are wrong. We were/are Romans and Hellenes at the same time
6:27 alternate (optional )* 2: Kiev based Rus’.
Also, is it just me or did Kazakhstan roast us with this trivia? I mean, come on guys we’re not “little girls”
Always looking forward to your content man!
Thank you!
@@HusaviProductions anytime
Where is first French empire? It had colonies in Vietnam and Laos, Western Africa and North America, where its colonies had territories of the half of USA and Quebec, Canada. Also, second French empire controled the whole western Africa (1/3 of Sakhara desert territories, Morocco, Algeria, Togo, Mauritania, etc.) and still Vietnam and Laos. You could also add Napoleonic France, which controled 1/3 of USA, Benilux, most part of Spain, part of Germany, Northern Italy, part of Poland, etc.
upd: Russia was bigger in the May of 1945, when it controlled territories of the whole Eastern Europe and German territories eastern than Elbe river.
upd2: Yugoslavia was bigger after WW2, when it had Western Slovenia territories
Italy casually dropping the hardest empire ever existed
Is there a reason you didn't put League of Lezhë for Albania?
The Lezhë League's extent was smaller of that in 1941 when Albania was under the Italian protectorate
1:57
I was expecting the Finno-Korean Hyperwar
the Russian Empire could only boast of its territories!
and so the greatest time of Russia is the USSR
A Portugal le puso "Territorios de ultramar" y a España "Imperio Colonial"
yooo i wanted you to do this one, i sugested doing like a "lest extant" in a comunity post or somewhere but its a bad idea and the opposite is much better anyway.
3:06 great success!
VERY NAÏS
From what I remember Crimean Khanate was the last successor state of the golden horde
Given the Kazakh Khanate emerged from a revolt against Nogai and Uzbek khanates which were created during the disintegration of the Golden Horde, it can also somewhat be considered as the indirect successor of the Ulug Ulus
can you tell me how to make these videos because i really like the map style of it and the smooth animations
Ukrainian People`s Republic proposal map of 1919 and Kyivan Rus` left chat
Kievan Rus was not Ukraine
Bulgaria was bigger than this.
Should’ve shown the whole map/world red when you got up to UK
As a Canadian I approve
The UK has never been that big
The UK is only England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, colonies were not a part of the UK, and today overseas territories like Gibraltar or the Falklands are not either (they are British but not in the Uk)
Portuguese empire lasted until 1999
Husavi you should do a remake of all endings china. It's been a while and i want to see some new endings.
This will be a tough one due to the fact how large and diverse China is (both territorially and historically), but that's a great suggestion!
6:17 turkiye seljcuk and ottoman empire
3:02 biggest zoom out on a map i have ever seen
for some of them you had the wrong flags, I don't know why, but I never seen those flags aswel, maybe there is meaning
which
Long live greater vatican city and greater monaco
Why you didn't show Jagiellonian dynasty as alternate for Poland or Lithuannia when you shown other countries in personal unions like Poland with Hugary?
True, would've been as nice alternative
It's worth remembering that having dynasty members on thrones of different kingdoms didn't mean that they are already in a one big personal union; I only included the personal unions if the territories were ruled by a single monarch
oh, that makes sense@@HusaviProductions
6:07 bruh Switzerland have some north of Italy before Napoleonic France
Not directly, though. It was owned by the Three Leagues/Raetia, which were the associate of the Old Swiss Confederacy
1:46 That's a shame people often forget that Maris and Udnurts kept their native religion up to modern times
Petition to bring back "State of the Church"
Amen!
I expected to see Safevids for Azerbaijan as an alternative but oh well. Great video either way.
Qara Qoyunlu at their greatest extent were still slightly larger than the Safavids
@@HusaviProductionsput Afsharids :)
For kosovo it might be dardania and for albania an alternate one could be this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian_kingdom
It isn't a state, so nobody cares
@@professionaldriver77878 🤓
@@Benefartamemia Now, now, mr.
Don't be a sore loser.
@@professionaldriver77878 Well, like it or not, it is. 101 out of the 193 members (so, the majority) of UN recognises it as one and Serbia has no effective control of the territory. Plus considering how recently both sides agreed to a normalization agreement that will not return Kosovo to Serbia, it seems Serbia is slowly letting go.
@@zsombortelek8411 It is still illegal. Why double standards? Why you don't support recognition of other separatists? Very hypocritical, my Hungarian cousin.
Thank you for recognizing that the free state and kingdom of Ireland were both still under British control despite owning the whole island!
Something seems off about Germany's greatest borders. Can quite put my finger on it....🤔🤔🤔
What exactly?
4:45 Issue with using Poland Lithuania for Poland is that Lithuania was a separate entity in the Commonwealth along with the autonomous southern regions from the Kingdom of Poland
Didn't the Constitution of 3rd May reorganise the Commonwealth into a unitary state? I know that it was in power for like only 1 year but it was the last political system of Rzeczpospolita
@@pawejabonka5095it hadn't actually come into life, moreover it was after the first partition already, so not the greatest extent
I'd recommend using Poland-Lithuania as an alternate for both Poland and Lithuania. Lithuania's first was fine, Poland's first should've been the Crown of Poland after annexing Ukraine from Lithuania right before the second union.
@@ooi97 Good suggestion! If I ever do a remaster of this video to correct the mistakes, I'd go with this solution
Nope, the second union made Poland-Lithuania a Federation, one state
Really cool vid, I like how you included the trivia part
The mapping is to quality as ever, I'd love to see the colonial empires, not solely Europe
Denmarks largest extent was the North Sea Empire. Why did you make it just Denmark Norway/Kalmar Union?
I presume because it is a state founded from personal union (check it out on Wikipedia). Kalmar Union is also, but it is far larger than North Sea Empire.
Husavi always delivers!!!
And he ain't even pregnant
@@Comrade_Blanc I swear! Hahaha
The video doesn't show all the territories Norway had at its peek, like Greenland and The Faroe Islands
Tho it was a good video.
Its also missing several parts we controlled in the british isles back then. The Isles, caithness and some others.
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Golden horde 🥶
Cumania 🥶
I really don't think personal unions should be included in these kind of "greatest extent of x/y country" bits. Still, great video!
True, I had a bit of trouble whether to include personal unions as the greatest extent of a country. When working on similar videos for other continents, the PUs/colonies/autonomous vassals/protectorates won't be included
Hmm, is Samo's Empire really considered as ancestor to Slovakia? If so, got any sources? Because all i can remember from school is our teachers saying Samo Empire is ancestor state to Bohemia/Czechia
It had most territory in modern czechia, but in reality it was a slavic union of many slavic tribes as slovaks and moravians, maybe sorbs and etc
Samo's empire is the ancestor of both Slovakia and Czechia. The reason his empire is shown for Slovakia is that there are not very many empires/ kingdoms that can represent greater Slovakia
@@quasario Yeah thats what i thought
"Capital was in Slovakia" is stated in video. Samo Empire begun with uprising of "Slavs on danube" against avars and avars controlled Slovakia at that time.
@@quasario False. Great Moravia, Duchy of Nitra can represent greater Slovakia.
With Switzerland an alternative could be the extend of the Zugewandte Orte, or "affiliated states". While loose compared to most affiliations for other countries, affiliated states were a building block of the confederacy before federalization after the napoleonic invasion.
For Ukraine greatest extent is Kyiv'ska Rus'.
It isn't the same state.
No it’s not Kievan Rus wasn’t Ukraine
Kazakhstan in 1920’s:🤔
Excuse my ignorance, but wasn't Napoleon's France bigger? and then the empire with the possessions in Africa and America doesn't count?
I like how the only memey part is Kazakhstan
Wasn't the Romanian one supposed to be Dacia under Burebista's rule? Seems more accurate, just like Italy got the surface of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent.
Well, francia was actually the ancestral state to france (or west francia). France's fullest extent was in 1812, or during when it had Algeria as an integral part of the country instead of a colony.
I too, thought yugoslavia was just greater serbia, especially because its capital was Belgrade. But I realized that Yugoslavia emerged in southern Austria Hungary (as the state of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) and Serbia and Montenegro was incorporated into it.
Estonia's greatest extent was in the Estonian war of independence, where they nearly reached Petrograd and took a lot of Latvia.
i burst out laughing at Macedonia
3:04 Didn't the Roman Empire touch the Persian gulf?
It did, but the Persian Gulf in that era was larger than it currently is
Why did you only zoom out for the British Empire
It was a poorly-thought idea of mine to do so. If I plan on doing a remaster of this video to include the correction of all mistakes present, I will include the map of the entire world to better show the European colonial empires
1:25 Aphrodite is from my father's Homeland Cythera according to the oldest sources. Homer which was the first to talk about Aphrodite origin said she was born from the sea of Cythera island.
Just realised how 1939 germany looks like an amalgamation of some sorts. Like some wierd melting creation that only seeks destruction and chaos.
really Husavi, you remember Kalmar Union, but not the North Sea Empire.
Also Nazi Germany did not annex north Schleswig
I think he wanted to make a massive simplification, since I doubt viewers are history experts.
Northern Schleswig aint a huge simplyfication by comparing its territory. Its a editing mistake.
Denmark was allowed More Autonomy during nazi occupation compared to so called Reichskommisariats that Germany formed in its occupied territories denmark itself was never made into a reichskommisariat because it surrended in less than a day and Danish King and government accepted German rule somewhat. Germany didn't annex Northern Schleswig for this reason.
I'm not sure if the North Sea Empire was larger from the Kalmar Union. However, in case of remastering this video, I will check once again and also fix the mistake with North Schleswig
2:01 napoleon:am i a joke to you?
He was a bit too short to make the cut
great video, one thing is the polish-swedish union in the 1590's which could be considered for poland since the polish king inherited the swedish throne, love the video still!
Finally somoene who got Slovakia largest extent right thank you
Portugal at its greatest extent included Brazil, Angola and Mozambique. Plus, Beligum colonised Congo.
You also forgot Portuguese possessions in India and China.
1. In 1816 Portugal did already hold the coastlines of Angola and Mozambique, but they took the rest of the interior of these countries only in the late 19th century
2. Yes, which is why Belgium's alternate greatest extent is 1922 to include Congo and Ruanda-Urundi
Albania's greatest extent was literally only achieved after axis powers occupied them lol
Wheres Kosovo? Also Germany flag on 1943 is wrong
i guess because this account is newly made and this is the first video of yours seen from it, i am obligated to give you a subscription.
3:50 i saw someone do a malta edit with this as a joke and the comments were saying "they just gained a neighborhood"
Malta power 💪💪💪🇲🇹
2:19 tthey edited it into a pp😂
1:21 This map is incorrect. Italy possessed a lot of the islands and coast of the independent state of Croatia
Albania's Optional is the Kingdom of Epirus during Pyrrus of Epirus since the capital Finiq is in Albania.
Man you missed the north sea empire its was bigger the Denmark-Norway