Changing the Map of Europe Back to 1914 

“Getting rid of Poland has been a favourite activity for many of its historical neighbors, so we'll jump on the bandwagon, too."

Im a history nerd this is more normal than a modern map

You forgot to remove the province of Flevoland from the Netherlands. It belonged to the water back then

Eastern Europe: *exists* Rússia: *Its free real estate*

The 1914 map has got to be my favorite map of Europe ever. It is so simple, elegant, smooth... It was brilliant. And then the war came...

1814: A lot of city states and a bunch of little small countries 1914: Big, huge countries composed of a lot of land/countries grouped together 2014: Back to a bunch of countries Meanwhile in France: "Wait, ya'll change?" Meanwhile in Poland: "Wait, ya'll don't get constantly pushed around?"

"First thing we're gonna do is get rid of Iceland" *100-gigaton nuclear detonation in the background*

Amazing video! Funny how to see aunty Iberia hasn't changed at all xD

Now this is my kind of porn.

Due to democracy and the territorial satisfaction of most nations, I doubt borders will look very different 100 years from now. The biggest changes will probably occur in the Balkans and Ukraine.

If you would go just a couple of years back the Ottoman Empire would be even larger.

I love when he’s like “look at this a great power the size of France!” He says so nicely with his accent

“Let’s get rid of Ukraine too” That aged amazingly

Nice one, but I would change Romania's colour, because in 1914 it is barely distinguishible from Russia.

Russia hungry! Russia eat! Nom nom nom!

Me: *looks at modern map* I have never seen such montrosity Me: *looks at 1914 map* Ah, that’s better

It’s nice to see which countries were part of what empire during ww1, I actually didn’t know

Wow. Now that I think about it, my great grandmother (whose still alive) was born before Ireland became an independent country!

NOOOO!!! Poland cannot into Map of 1914!!!

"after only 4 generations" yeah theres actually over 1000 people still alive now in 2018 that were alive pre 1914... the oldest is chiyo miyoko

honestly the german empire and austria-hungary have such beautiful shapes, idk why, just really think they have the best shapes, may be because im a history nerd but still

This is impressive! I really like your videos. Everything is explained so clearly and you get a good overview :)

Prussia!

countries with no change that if found: 1. Switzerland 2. Albania 3. Portugal 4.Sweden 5. Norway 6. Luxemburg 7. Iran (i think) 8. The Netherlands

Seeing all that land return to Mother Russia makes me want to drink vodka.

Awesome video!

I love the borders of the german kaiserreich it looks so right like it was and it should be today still like 1914

I came here to nitpick in case you forgot Eupen-Malmedy or something, but you seem to have covered absolutely everything! Good job

There's something really aesthetically pleasing about the borders of the German Empire.

nice video this helped me from my project

Nice! It's incredible to think about how much has happened in such a short amount of time...

this video was amazing ! !

I already knew all this, but it's still cool to visualize it this way.

"Russia still wants more" Poland: story of my life bruh

That was so interesting!

Interesting to think that there are still people alive today (although pretty few left at this point) who were born when Europe looked liked this. People born in the old empires, like Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, etc. Kinda crazy to think about, and almost a bit sad that soon there will be none left who were born then.

1914 had the best borders

I love how the way you speak

It will never get better than this

Awesome!

I live in germany and always went to Austria for skiing, nothing more. I always thought of Austria this small german speaking country right next to Germany, and that‘s it. When I found out that Austria was once one of, if not the strongest force on the European continent, i was mindblown. I now look at Austria on a map and think „wow, that such a small country was once so powerful is unimaginable, but true“, it really fascinates me.

"Now, let's get rid of Poland." -Russian empire, Austria, Prussia 1772, 1793, 1795 Third Reich, SSSR 1939

This videos are so cool

You should definitely make more.

Perfection.

Just to be precise, you forgot some small parts of France that were actually Italian back in the day: the upper Roya Valley, the Montgenèvre pass and the Mont-cénis pass

Good videos about Denmark and Europe in 1914. And good subtitles, thank you . And do you speak German or Danish or even Portuguese or Spanish? I noticed that it also had these options which is not very common and videos in English ?

Why is it so pleasing to look at? I've been staring at it for 20 mins

Fun fact a small part of czechia was a part of germany and not Austria-Hungary

switzerland now: *exists* switzerland then: *we will do the peace thing*

This is so cool.

How do you make these awesome videos?

And then you see your homecountry Switzerland right in the center of europe. And of course it hasn’t changed at all😂

I think that the 1914 was beautiful to see, even if I'm Italian and my country was smaller than today.

4 years have passed since this video has been made

You forgot that a very tiny strip of Thrace located in modern-day Northeastern-most Greece and a super minuscule bit of Southern Bulgaria somewhat north of it actually belonged to the Ottomans during that time (also prior to the Second Balkan War), not Bulgaria. It can be very hard to notice in WW1 maps (took me a while too before) but yes, that’s a little-known fact so it’s understandable if someone people don’t notice that.

If you really think about this, the countries that gained land in this video are the ones you should be sad about, because it's reverse, so they actually lost them, while the ones that lost land actually gained those lands.

4:10 My favorite part

There is a small sliver of land owned by the Czech Republic today that used to be owned by the German Empire. It's so small that it wouldn't even show up on the map but I thought I would mention it.

6:33 forgot North Epirus, which was then a part of Greece. Other than that, very well done.

*Getting rid of Poland has been a favorite activity for many of its historical neighbors.*

why couldn't it just stay like this? topography lessons would be so much easier

there is a way to download the maps?

you included egypt in this map but comepletely forgot about it in your other changing europe map videos

Incredible vids, and to get to the core of it all, it's all in our heads... borders actually don't exist in physical reality.

Iran was called Persia.

Honestly, the way you say "France" is just fantastic

This the map of Europe at the time of my parents birth. Louie Beriot had flown the channel for the first time approximately six or seven months before. No wonder I do not take the UK leaving the EU as a disaster.

"The first thing we are gonna do is to get rid of Iceland" LMAO

You missed a small part of northeastern Thrace that was part of the Ottoman Empire.

ah perfection

Which software did you use to modify the map?

How did Bulgaria gain territory? They lost ww1 and ww2, but in the map looks like they won something.

Could you make a version for 1933?

Can you do Europe in 1818? It'll look even more different 200 years ago!

Could you please make a video about Europe 1900.

Could you make a 1570 european borders?

could you make a map of the napoleonic france at its greatest extent?

Oh god I saw this video years ago. I just wanted to hear more about Danish and it turns out both videos are from this channel

Make more please Make More Well Redrawing the Map please

Can you make a video Europe in 1550 AD Please?

I believe that in the future, -Alsace-Lorraine will become independent. -Novorossiya becomes part of Russia. -Some changes in the Balkans.

Europe is so much simpler in 1914 yet so much more tense... we learned all about this in my ww1 unit

WOW SO SIMPLE!

Nobody: Vladimir Putin: 4:32

Damn Luxembourg.

that beautiful

Basically you at the beginning of every video: *breaths deeply and then exhales all of the air* "Iceland was part of Denmark"

Adam:Get rid of Poland is favorite activity of its historical neighbour Me:*Laugh to death*

Aaand russia eats everybody, this make Adam say "Aaand" almost every time russia eats someone.

#Thanks4This

Another small error. A part of Thrace (a part of Greece near the north of it's border with Turkey) was under Ottoman control. I know it's a very small detail and i'm being picky 😅

Austria is Hungary

Be nice if it woulda stayed that way

This map is easier to learn than the one that we use nowdays.

Will you please do changing the map of europe back to 1700

I imagine scotland, catalonia and the basque country as independent states by then. Maybe wales and cornwall and brittany too. Switzerland might have expanded to aosta and chablais and sondrio and maybe vorarlberg. Italy would be divided between northern and southern parts. Belgium might split between wallonia and flanders and germany (eupen-malmedy). Maybe an independent frisia and a polish-lithuanian divided kaliningrad. Russia might annex transnistria and the donbass and fully annex crimea. Bosnia might become divided between croats and serbs and bosniaks. Maybe the wendish, pomeranian, occitan, rusyn and roma would gained their own nation states. Nice video thanks

History has a lot of these "the fuck is this map" moments - Medieval Europe was especially messy. Major weird ones : England used to own chunks of modern days Frances coast. Muscovy (Russia before it became Russia) was heckin' TINY for ages then kinda exploded in all directions in the space of a few decades until they became the monsters you see here. Spain was in cut in two, and the east side of it (known as Aragon) owned most of Southern Italy... sorta. And don't even get me started on the fucking holy Roman Empire. Oh and like 'Turkey' (the Ottoman Empire) was just massive for the longest time, as was the ex-Byzatium Empire, which was still around 600 years ago. Yeah - what was basically the Roman empire was still around 600 years ago, KINDA WIERD. Also, there was like dozens of entire country's most people have never heard of that existed. Honestly for anyone intrested in this kind of thing - watch a timelapse of Europe from 0AD to today and it's pretty mind-blowing, it's increadible how long it takes until anything is even remotely reccognisable.

Make a video predicting how the world will look like in 100 years

You could've also mentioned the Netherlands and their land reclamation projects.