Strange Borders and Their History 

Hurray! New video! Love it :3

I'd love to see you cover the UAE enclave, within the Omani enclave, within the UAE in the peninsula that creates the straits of Hormuz in a possible part 2.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's small coastline on the Adriatic is only 20 km and has no harbour, but relies on Croatia for trade and shipping.

6:50 That little chain of islands between West and East Malaysia is actually part of Indonesia. The way you coloring it makes it looks like part of Malaysia.

Just wanna mention abit about the map of Vietnam, the small island (Phú Quốc) should also be included

I'm from Croatia and can confirm that the segment on Neum corridor was explained properly. However, your pronunciation of "Pelješac" could use some work :D

Brunei: top 10 anime betrayals 19th century

You really know a lot about history, and to see someone describing the Balkans so adroitly and without just shoving his opinions, as is the case for the grand majority of Balkan related channels, it really warms my heart. Have a good day!

Love how quickly you started the video. Underrated way to get more viewers.

Bosnia and croatia are one and the same. Religion broke us apart

Love your content man, your so underrated and congrats on 30k subs man. I definitely see you being up with the big history kids like oversimplified some day.

This was good, hope you do another

What a coincidence. I subscribed to this channel less than an hour ago and you uploaded this.

You deserve alot more subs. Excellent explenation of my countrys border! Much love from Croatia!

Godt gået, du laver nogle super interessante videoer, jeg er glad for at have fundet din kanal:)

1:45 PEL-yə-shahts

Really appreciate this video

Croatia`s borders are more of less the 1699 AD war borders from the Treaty of Karlowitz. Minus some Eastern parts that were annexed by Serbia & Montenegro ( Bay of Kotor) after 1918. The sea side town of Neum was actually handed back to Croatia before WW2 when the autonomous "Banovina of Croatia" was established by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After WW2 the Yugoslav communist party handed the Croatian populated town of Neum to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

I think you should have mentioned the fact that During Kingdom of Yugoslavia Neum was part of Banovina of Croatia, like all the teriotires with Croat majority Only after the ww2 was Neum returned to Bosnia, which was even dissolved during the kingdom

Your pronunciation of Asian countries word is very good and interesting video keep it going. :)

0:29 Outdated ethnic borders, not only is it not per the most recent censi, but the Bosniaks in Sandzak and the Serbs in Montenegro and other places are not present as well.

If you include Brunei, might as well include East Timor's Oecusse region then!

Croatia and Vietnam: We grabbed the coasts like nobody's business

Bruenei was all inhabited areas of the island of borneo before colonisers showed up. You could mark the whole island instead of just the former British colony. The people on the Indonesian side are also malay

Very interesting.

Quality video

Endnu en god video fra neatling

6:41 i think you forgot to color an island called Phú Quốc

Thanks for talking about us(in vietnam) Bc im vietnamese

Nice.

That is why Bosniaks are actually Serbs. 0:30 - 1:00

Hey this is kinda awkward to bring up because it basiclly has nothing to do with the video, but the channel What happend to the "what if the red revoloution never happend" video? It was something along the names of that but i cant find it on this channel anymore

🧐Burma is not "an old name for Myanmar" but the REAL name of the country. Like Zaire, the name Myanmar is only used by one temporary regime, and when that regime falls, the country will revert to its real name. 😍

Hello

The bizzare borders of Croatia and Bosnia are simply due to the Ottoman conquests of the central part of Medieval Croatia. Northern and southern Croatia remained free of the Ottomans, but Central and Eastern Croatia were conquered. Eastern Croatia (Slavonia) was eventualy recovered, but Bosnia never was. Also most of the Croat population of Medieval Bosnia dissapeared trought the Ottoman period and thus today Croats are the smallest ethnic group in Bosnia. If not for those events Croatia and most of what is today Bosnia would be the same country today, it's without doubt Europe's strangest border, since these two countries are clearly the same patch of land from the physical/geographic aspect.

Cool

I wonder what happened to the Russia video I loved that one

6:49 you're coloring the natuna islands as malaysian even though it belongs to Indonesia

Hungary's present day borders are really weird. Mostly they were drawn so that the created new countries would not have to build their own railways in order to maintain their connections. Just look at the railways running 5-20 kms almost all around the present day borders outside of Hungary.

when is the new alternate history?

There is Serbian Kraina... Olson...

Anyone else see a crocodile when who look al Croatia

A small detail. The serbian orthodox cross looks different. It has rounded corners, made of 3 circles The depicted one, is russian. Other then that, good job.

Btw the term Bosniak is used for ethnic and thus muslim Bosnians. While Bosnian could also refer to the Croats or Serbs in Bosnia.

A question I've always wondered but I guess won't really ever be answered due to it being history is why did the eastern part of the German Empire and Weimar Republic have such a weird border in which even the ethnic German and ethnic Polish border is weirdly shaped like this "

1. old brunei only present in coastal area. not whole present day Sarawak 2. Sarawak didnt join malaysia but form malaysia together with sabah, singapore and malaya

Didn’t Brunei use to control the entire coast of Borneo?

you forgot to speak about sudan and south sudan's weird border

7:39 lol riau is part of malaysia

Make countries at its greatest extend 7

Never heard about the Raj of Sarawak being British

Phú Quốc island of Vietnam, You didn't color it, thats bad

North Borneo or Sabah is part of Philippines given by the sultan of Brunei after sulu sultan help in win the battle . But the British empire stolen and given it to Malaysia.

Would also mention that *long* earlier, Bosnia was also a center of Bogomilism. Also many languages of southern China are Tai or more broadly Kra-Dai, a language family consisting of Thai and Lao/Isan more prominently. There are also very small Vietic language communities that live in China, (talking in the single digit thousands), so they aren't *entirely* gone, but mostly.

I am vietnameese

Croatia is from 791 only it was a kondom first in 925

Armenian-Azerbaijan border is pure nightmare

Bosnians are trully an European religion mix max, huh?

Had Bosnia not stopped Croat travel by road, they wouldn't have had a bridge built preventing their sea access.

Peldžesak bridge lol

Bosnians wanna swim too 😭🤣

Cambodia

7:27 THE AUDACITY OF JAMES BROOK! Stole Brunei!

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Faild to mention that most Bosnians were members of the Bosnian church and to a lesser extent the catholic church. Orthodoxy only became relevant during Ottoman rule

I dislike this video because in the map of Vietnam, there are no islands of Phu Quoc and Why are the Riau Islands part of Malaysia? If you don't know the geography well, don't do it.

there were also a lot of Bogomilists in Bosnia before the Ottomans

In almost every video about a country or countries with fucked up borders, British involvement must appear 😄

USA most strange

But Montenegro did steal the 2nd coast we had. 😡😡😡

The Entire Video Explained By Just Using 1 Word= Colonization

Việt nam for hồ chí minh

Why Croatia is strange border?

You don’t even mention Cambodia . Disappointed

Thanks for not calling Kashubian a Polish dialect and using a map that shows us apart

One correction, Bosniaks are a majority on more land than shown here on the maps:)!

bosnia is croatia

I am the 189th viewer 😎

"Simply" when Serbia launched conquest of Croatia, trying to prevent Croatia's independence, Serbia also made a campaign of ethnic hatred and violence that resulted in expulsion of 70,000 Croats from NW Serbia. The rebelled Croatian Serbs did not fled. The rebels' parastate government organized the forced evacuation of them. Third, Republic of Dubrovnik was also the name; Romanic name Ragusa was in use because Latin and Italian were the language of higher classes, just like French in medieval England. Bosnia does not have the access to the sea. Herzegovina does. Bosnia is 100 km away. Dubrovnik Republic also sold the sourhern part of its territory (Sutomore) to Ottomans to evade direct land border with Venice Republic which held the Bay of Kotor (not drawn on Your map). However, in socialist Yugoslavia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina exchanged territories so BH remaibed w/o that sea access but got the Perućica area on north. Borders in socialist Yugoslavia weren't just administrative. These were the borders of republics that had greater degree of autonomy.

You’re using modern pictures to show where Bosnian-croats/serbs live in RBiH but you forget to mention all the ethnic cleansing and genocides commited against Bosniaks in eastern RBiH. Also there are many Bosniaks in Sandzak which serbia controlls after the Berlin-congress.

1:45 hahahah got to love foreign people butcher croatian names

You show on your map Crimea as part of Ukraine but it is no longer the case it's again part of Russia since 2014 .

0:31 small correction, serbs also inherit all of montenegro, i can understand the mistake, because some ethnic maps show "montenegrins" as a separate group, however these people are serbs in culture, religion, ethnicity, and just about everything else, the term "montenegrin" was first coined by fascist italy in the 1930s, and then carried on by the communist authorities of SFR Yugoslavia, so yea, minor mistake

Königsberg would like to go home!..

It's not a mistake, ✨it's a masterpiece✨

Serbia is bigger. kosovo is part of serbia. Dont use that map

Bullshit about the Vietnamese borders ! Southeast Asia were part of the Khmer Empire!

Croatia's ethnic map is incorrect. The majority of the soldiers on the military border in Krajina were Serbs. Krajina also included most of Dalmatia, Lika, Kordun, Banija, and Slavonia, all of which were populated by Serbs. Croatia today is the result of ethnic cleansing and genocide.