European Countries at their Smallest Extent 

A bit?!?!? Hahaha... more like a lot

@@Waffen-id9gn Duck Russia tbh

It was a joke

Just a smidge

A lot u mean

Flip!

true

@@terigonUSAS12 even our planet agrees

@@ultrachaos5983 our planet is aware of us like a parasite lol

Its a duchy anyway, so if we can combine it all we become stronk

luxembourg was much bigger in the past

@@poke-champ4256 Not much... Double the size also those territories were just some random castles and they sold them or gave them to other countries as 'gifts' which actually means "dont end my existence please"

@@donteatmycheeze4901 bro I knew it was double the size I do consider that "much bigger"

also andorra

Poland also increased 100 times

How Russia Was Born: Mongol Empire: I don’t feel good Russia: *mama* Mongol Empire: WHAT THE F- *dies* Russia: *mama?*

@@CJMapping mongol empire -ahhh help Russia-VIVA LE REVOLUTION

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Siberian tribes: *Why do i hear boss music?*

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All of the balkans were gone for 500 years

@@elenamancheva9961 o-o

Germany at its smallest extent: 1000BC: nonexistent

Would you remind us how long there was no such a thing as Russia/Muscovy/Kievian Rus etc., but the Mongols empire, or is it a part of Russian identity already?

@@elenamancheva9961 What's the difference? Both the Balkans and Poland suffered the most because of their horribly geographic place between 2 big and powerful countries.

Imagine forgetting Malta

Imagine forgetting Kosovo, Andorra and Cyprus.

@Boris Dacommie Palestina and falkland islands are Serbian tho.

@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding Falkland Islands?????????.

@@carpetchair5778 yeah

Everything comes with its downside

Greec forcely take some more extra land from ottoman empire by help of british empire. So greec is now big. Greec didn't right to forcely take extra land from ottoman empire

Yeah same with Turkey, seems like that's also what the 2 countries have in common

Macedonian empire

@17kxllrq lol greec 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

we said "IT'S TIME TO CONQUER WORLD" before Christ, when we were living IN ALTUN TAGLAR and then conquered the lands from spain (in the time of great kagan IDIL) to China (still we are living in a land from Balkans to China). by we I mean Turkic people because Turkish people don't see themselves as a nation, but see Turkic people as a nation

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@@ozgurmehmet4258 Aynen

@@ozgurmehmet4258 Noldu Paşinyan? Puhahah

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That map was so wrong, look it up.. He just made that one up....

@Fureori 1:No one asked (even though its good to be honest ) 2:You explaining pretty non - objective

@Fureori yep, this is so fkin badly done

@@tomasvrana1703 Yeah, I it's fcked it up, but if I ignore it as a mistake then Czechia has its largest formation and smallest formation the same one.

@@pushinp1 his reply is related to the comment which further elaborates that this video is inaccurate and also gives other examples that this video is wrong. His comment is also very informative and should be left alone.

But east germany was smaller

But west germany was the foundation of germany now

True But you cant say that east germany simple isnt germany just because it was socialist

Ja da hast du Recht

What About The Old Prussia

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Its Poland mapping

Agreed

You forget san marino

he forgot some country’s and got the smallest extant for belgium germany and england wrong i am not sure about anything else

As a Slovak I can confirm that

Salut

And in 1919, there was a shortly living state in Eastern Slovakia which however is mostly ignored, kind of like GDR. Or the principality of Nitra, which was annexed by Great Moravia in 833. One of them should be the smallest Slovakia.

@@michalhospodar1113 yes

But officially that Slovakia was not a predecessor of current Slovakia.

I've also noticed that quite some maps showing Europe before WW1 falsely show Eupen-Malmedy as Belgian

I proud of Belgium the fries that you eat comes from Belgium

It's inaccurate, after world war 1 belgium gained territory from germany. a bit north of luxembourg. And it never changed again.

@@sebmatonga12abonnevousarpg39 psssh, our country sucks, taxes high but wasted on useless stuff

@@officialzelensky thank your linguistic-communautary policy of "giving both Flemish and Walloons the same budget so both are to spend it on useless stuff just cuz don't have enough to spend it on useful things, but too much to spend it on wages."

@ this doesn't change it both Germany's are the same

@@comradedavis6343 It kinda does. The video is about the smallest extent of the modern European countries. West Germany was the predecessor to modern Germany and not East Germany which is why it is Germany at its smallest extent.

@@bg1052 well yes that's true

I was thinking of Prussia

@@comradedavis6343 no they are not. When the two united, they went under the flag of the Western and the laws of western Germany, kinda like and annexation, the predecessor of modern Germany is West Germany. That being said there were some times when Germany was smaller, like when Prussia was where Kaliningrad is now.

Romania? 🤔 There were countless bigger Kingdoms and Empires than them

@@darklaci6886 Romania isnt so small

@@exelierxe.e When I said it is small? It is a medium sized country, there were Empires like Russia, the HRE, French Empire, Austrian Empire, etc. which were far bigger than Romania

@@darklaci6886 eh idk, Romania is as Big as the UK , Ghana or as big as the former Yugoslavia, gor comparison...

@@funfoxvlad7309 ukraine is bigger than romania romania idnt that big and thet have no importsnt empire

Well it was at its smallest extent right after it gained independence. In the years leading up to WW1 Belgium had the Belgian Congo.

Well they had the Belgian Congo

@@renamling2251 He is not counting colonies, otherwise think of how big the UK would be. Also, Belgium didn’t have direct rule over the Belgian Congo, so think of the Belgian Congo as their puppet.

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic9689 no, he’s right. Before the WW1 Belgium was missing a small piece of land at the border with Germany it gas today

Has*

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic9689 German had Malmedy

@@angelobarberio6391 only in european part . in 1914 belgum was smaller in european part but they had whole demecratic repblic of congo

@@angelobarberio6391 they had colonies in congo in 1914

Taki Polisz-Inglisz Ci wyszedł xD

lol it is polish-english mixture I didnt notice that

Ty tak always pierdolisz pół english pół Polish?

Nie lol

Dwieście

Azerbaijanis have dominated middle east until the Turks came. Also iran have a very large Azerbaijani minority FYI

As an Eu4 player can confirm

@@pinklasagna8328 Azerbaijanis are Turk too

@@istanbulerkeklisesi4241 azerbaijanis are turkified iranians

@@pinklasagna8328 Azerbaijan never really dominated but they were always a significant power.

And Asturias isn’t Spain, tho they are related, Spain is a union of several kingdoms, even though Asturias is part of that union it is the Spain creator and booster, that is Castile role, that’s the same thing as saying that Portugal’s smallest point in history was Asturias, both countries originated from Asturias but emerged to form different countries, as also did Lion, Galicia and so on...

byzantium after the fall of constantinople ceased to exist lol, the remaining territories in the peloponnesus are considered part of a different state called despotate of morea

@@goncalocarrapico7942 in that point in history spain was only that, castille came some years later so yes that was the smallest moment of spain becouse asturias was all we had

@@DiegoCarmona45 it Portugal too lol, Asturias isn’t Spain, Spain is Castile, it is the same thing as saying that Portugal is Asturias, it isn’t bro. They both came from Asturias as Galaico-Portuguese and Castilian may evolved from an old form of Asturio-leonese, but that doesn’t mean that back in that point of history Asturias was Spain, as it wasn’t Portugal either! Asturias is a diferente thing, just because Asturias territory and natives are now, since a very long time in history, inside Spain’s territory it doesn’t mean that Asturias is the old form of Spain... get it?

@@goncalocarrapico7942 asturias at that point was spain spain got invaded and asturias was the only thing left, spain was already formed but got invaded and it is not the same as saing that portugal was formed from austria portugal was already a country but also got invaded and conquered but when spain took the portugal part of the peninsula and then the part of portugal that was under controll of spain got independence and castille formed spain but castille was formed by asturias so yes asturias was spain in that point of history ...GeT iT?

But a lot of them are just because they got independence recently (in the early 90s) and they haven’t changed size since.

F

@@cocoabluetie2 exactly

F.

@@cocoabluetie2 is there a single country in Euorope like that? Well, ok, maybe Slovakia and idk, Belarus, but that's probably it

Thank you for giving me the name of the music, because I have really enjoyed it, but couldn't find the original track ;)

Small moravia Tak to sie powinno nazywac

@@gawj8z8 xD

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Tylko że Wielkie, nie oznaczało powierzchni państwa w tamtych czasach

@@tyrannosaurussex8161 Wiem tylko śmieję się XDD

It's not Litva, it's Belarus

@@yiyuy This is not Lithuania and Bularus. This principality was formed on the territory of Belarus and Lithuania. Now many people think that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is Lithuania, but this is not so. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is both Lithuania and Belarus together. When the Slavs came north to the Baltic, the Balts became Slavic. So if, under the 3rd division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commowealth, the lands of Belarus would become independent before Lithuania, then Belarus would be called Lithuania. Earlier, before Rusinization, the Belarusian lands of all Belarusians were called Litvin.

Novogrudok was the first capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It's belarus sity since 1044.

Litvin is a term used in historical sources to refer to the population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. As a rule, the term meant both ethnic Lithuanians and today's Belarusians. In the XIV-XVIII centuries, this term was used to designate mainly Belarusians and Eastern Lithuanians, who were opposed to neighboring ethnographic groups - Rusyns, Lyakhams, Mazuras, Samogitians, Prussians, Volynians and others. I've finished...

@@yiyuy he was talking ahout grand duchy of Lithuania, not Belarus, wtf are you talking ahout

Or could it be brandenburgs smallest extent? Brandenburg formed prussia, prussia formed germany

@@themorebike880 prussia already existed before that as a vassal of PL

@@Peppermynt. yeah but the plc vassal never really formed Germany as that was brandenburg

@@themorebike880 the plc vassal entered a union with brandenburg and then brandenburg prussia formed prussia when the lands were connected. Tf do you mean they didn't

or the GDR

Actually, the biggest Greece has been, was with the empire of Alexander The Great, with the Byzantine Empire, or better, the Eastern Roman Empire coming 2nd place.

It's a title saying that they were the emperors of eastern rome, nothing with size

the term Empire doesnt mean smth is big. Its either when you are "king of kings" or you are somewhat tied to Roman Empire, thats why Trebizond was an empire for example

For those who corrects me, I know it is still an empire until the emperor says it's not. But just look at it! It is really tiny!

@@apollonara2000 the empire of alexander the great was macedonian but i get your confusion

and Monaco T-T

Cyprus is a mix between Greek and Turkish cultures and protected by the British. Cyprus is an island, therefore it is not a part of either the Asian or European continents if you want to get super technical. The country also has a dmz which divides these cultures because Turkey claims the state of northern Cyprus as independent from the rest of the island.

they were too like vatician

Also albania and kosovo

andorra is asia

Yes

The anexation of Nagorno Karabakh and surrounding regions by Armenia has never been internationally recognised.

Jose Fernandes yes It is,Karabakh is Azerbaijan but Armenia annexed it.And I mean the 2020 nagarno karabakh war.Now Karabakh is %100 Azerbaijani/Turkic

@@Kaiserr1871 Armenia didn’t annex shit if it would Armenia would be in big trouble instead Armenia set up the shitty Artsakh republic

Arda Gültekin at least there is no more shitty armenian karabakh republic

U forget vatican

Yes, they gained their modern boarders after ww1

@Shaker42 what

The Duchy of Carniola was the smallest slovene state ever existed. Was established by the Habsburgs in 1364 and it disappeared in 1918 after WW1.

@@nicks5636 Carniola is de-facto part of Slovenian History, but de-jure not the beginning of Slovenia.

*Confused belgian noises*

@@thibautsmies1220 That is actually incorrect. Before the Treaty of Versailles, Belgium did not include a small eastern region called Eupen-Malmedy. It now does. Just a little fun fact. :)

when you're almost as small as possible, but you find some way to being smaller

I did it on my channel before :)

Also East Germany was smaller than West Germany

Also it says belgium is at its smallest today but actually it was before the great war since it took some lands out of germany in 1918

Because the free city of Danzig wasn't Germany. The Weimar republic was, still officially being the Deutches Reich. Just because it was German doesn't mean it was Germany. As for why they included Cracow, I have no idea. I'd have to know more about the geography of the period.

why Dantzig would be the German state, since... Hallo! the Germany was actually *slightly* bigger... and about to grow *a bit* more?

@@SKAPaul it’s because of the Congo protecterate

It got taken away from them after ww2

@@sinpar1226 No, it didn't. Eupen-Malmedy is still Belgian to this day.

@@timonheidema6837 I feel like I've heard of them ceeding their german Territories back to Germany after ww2, guess I was wrong.

they was small like shit in 15 century

@@zabitykaszalotnietonie6352 they didn’t exist in the 15th century.

Year it's super inconsistent, sometimes its the same country sometimes it's another country in the same place.

Take note of the Belgian Congo, factor that in first.

@@kohwenxu ye

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Hm, if he takes the duchy of moscow as a predecessor of russia, he could also choose one of the smaller states of the HRE for germany

Could have made it before the treaty was signed, it is the first country in the video after all :/

@@Toby-Wan-Kenobi940 hmmm. I don't have time to discuss this with you

But this borders are not true azerbeijan won the war karabakh is in the azerbeijan border.

@@zuleyhaduysak3577 no

@@Elaine..yfghh-628 Yes, and thats a fact.

@@Elaine..yfghh-628 Azerbaijan took control over occupied lands again :)

I knew there was a war but i didnt know the borders changed

Russia was a scattered territory much like HRE until it all got united by Moscow in 1547.

@@Someone-lr6gu oh

@@matheusjedi5955 they just expanded with the help of Cossacks. They are basically people who invade large territory in less time. They cant be seen nowadays i think. Soldiers dont expand but they invade nicely.

then it was Czechoslovakia

@@Martin-ky3ry NOPE DUDE

@@Martin-ky3ry Aıt was Slovakia

@@undertaker9587 no it was Czechoslovakia

@@Martin-ky3ry It was n*zi s attack czechslovakia and they made bohemian and SLOVAKIAN puppets

Byzantium has a cool and beautiful flag

And even if we excluded that, East Germany was smaller than West Germany so not sure why did he did that

@@alejandropalenciano2319 Because west Germany is modern day Germany and East Germany wasn't. West Germany and modern Germany literally have the same name and government so, safe to say West Germany was the "real Germany". Plus, if you include East Germany and Prussia as "Germany", you'd also have to include all the tiny German kingdoms, princetoms, duchys, ect that coexisted with Prussia.

not roman empire, kingdom of roma, its vasicaly in its very earliest years

Nitrianské Kniežatstvo

@CatzMan I mean , why it shouldn't count ? Description says "smallest moments of countries" . A puppet country is still a country while it is recognized by other countries . Even US recognized Vichy France xD .

And what do they have in common? The Moscow kingdom in all its glory.

I think the FRG was also given back Helgoland in 1950.

It won't. The austrians were the leaders of germany from 1200s/1400s to 1866 when they lost the Austro-Prussian War, being forced to stop being Presidents of the German Confederation and dissolving it. Brandenburg was never leader of Germany because that state never hold the emperorship of the HRE while it lasted. From 1866 to 1871 there was no german leader, instead there were the North German Confederation and several southern german states, after Franco-Prussian war, the german states united into a federation, so the kings, grand dukes, dukes, princes, etc kept their states under the emperorship of the King of Prussia (like in the HRE). The Hohenzollern Prussians ruled germany from 1871 to 1918 when the Empire fell after WW1, then a more unitarian but still federalizated Germany took place. So, this is the top smallest german states (unified or at least nominally unfied): 1. East Germany. 108,333 km2 2. West Germany. 248,577 km2 3. German Empire. 540,857.54 km2 4. German Confederation. 630,100 km2 5. Holy Roman Empire. ~950 000 km2 6?. Carolingian Empire, they were germanic and both dutch language and franconian german dialect derives from frankish language, so we can add it to the list. 1,112,000 km2

congo

It’s not but it kinda is: Rome gave us the sense of unity for the first time in History, that’s why it’s our progenitor