The Countries of Europe at their Smallest Extent

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This video shows the countries of Europe at when they were the smallest. Please note that this video is not definitive, as countries change throughout time and this may not be 100% accurate.
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@StRodeNL 2 года назад

Honestly it's so ironic that when the Netherlands was its smallest, it was also at its most powerful.

@mateopaz4340 2 года назад

Mhm

@sailorbrit 2 года назад

Example to modern day Israel

@The-ZebraFinch-Channel 2 года назад

@@sailorbrit fake country lol

@pans7761 2 года назад

@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel nah

@Henrique____ 2 года назад

@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel israel is real

@ribdakse3970 2 года назад

Finland was technically smaller during the civil war, but that brings up the question of how much of a true state "Red Finland" was.

@tapio5193 2 года назад

Finnish socialist workers republic was'nt real country. It was just a rebel government

@discozula4469 2 года назад

Finland was smallest at 1743.

@tapio5193 2 года назад

@@discozula4469 we count it when its indenpendent. Finland was part of Sweden then

@theappel 2 года назад

@@tapio5193 Albania wasn’t independent, it was a vassal of the Greeks.

@tapio5193 2 года назад

@@theappel I mean that it didn't seen in map as indenpendent. Albania was semi indenpendent

@Burgermeister1836 2 года назад

Following the logic of Prussia->Germany, France's smallest extent should have been the Salian Frankish Kingdom in 451, or at least the united Franks in 480. Denmark might have also been smaller when they had Scania but before they gained Jutland, hard to pinpoint years but around 500, after the Angles and Jutes left for Britain.

@zubrifikusummuk 2 года назад

no because the frankish kingdom was the common ancestor of both germany and france, also we can say that the prussians were germans

@TheThing274 2 года назад

@@zubrifikusummuk What about the Holy Roman Empire and the several realms in it that very much considered themselves German at this point in time? Saying that the Duchy of Prussia in 1700 is Germany at its smallest extent doesn't make any sense at all for that reason alone, though I guess it is tricky to answer that question since a united German state didn't exist until 1871.

@Max-xk5us 2 года назад

@@TheThing274 Prussia unified the Germans, making it the fair predeccesor to Germany.

@gunkanmaki__9951 2 года назад

@@Max-xk5us it's far more complicated than that

@P.H.226 2 года назад

@@gunkanmaki__9951 still, you won't name bavaroa or ansbach etc. Bc they weren't thw unifiers. Prussia as the country who conquered other states and basically changed the name is fair to name. Not to mention that king, system, gocernors etc. Were still all prussian. I don't know of the shown borders can be named as the smallest exfend. I would have rather went with brandenburg. However the succesion line of these countries remains intact

@StuffandThings_ 2 года назад

Technically Iceland isn't at its smallest in 2022, as volcanism has slowly added land to the country over the centuries

@milesmehew9009 2 года назад

Politically though they probably retained the same borders since afaik most countries politically own some distance from their coastline and I would imagine that Iceland wouldn't change their borders every year just to account for that so they would still keep the same borders from when they were independent

@StuffandThings_ 2 года назад

@@milesmehew9009 Well, accounting for maritime borders, I point you to the Cod Wars. If anything that's a *stronger* argument for territorial growth over time for Iceland!

@milesmehew9009 2 года назад

@@StuffandThings_ true. forgot about that whole cod wars thing

@estek02 2 года назад

iceland is legit spawning land

@maxfi878 2 года назад

Same with Finland due to post-glacial rebound.

@charlespatulin2802 2 года назад

I never thought that Monaco can be even smaller.

@ivanmacgar6447 2 года назад

Fun fact: Just like the Netherlands, Monaco grows partly thanks to gaining land to the sea. The last time they made their territory bigger was in the 1970s, and they have an ongoing project to expand further for the late 2020s and early 2030s.

@MrBeast60o0 Год назад

@@ivanmacgar6447 Monaco sea empire

@rizkyadiyanto7922 11 месяцев назад

@@ivanmacgar6447singapore too.

@liamgavinwells 13 дней назад

It's also crazy that San Marino was smaller as well

@ImperialZorn686 2 года назад

Since the all these countries are the smallest, could you put them all together on a map ? cuz it doesn't look like they will overlap

@mnpvl 2 года назад

Most countries had a short period due to fragmentation. That is why there are feelings that they will not intersect.

@waralionamtb 2 года назад

they were smallest each at different times so shouldn't they overlap or have gaps?

@RubyPiec 2 года назад

hungary overlaps a bit

@irmaosmatos4026 2 года назад

vatican city and Italy overlaps I think

@sephikong8323 2 года назад

Belgium and France also overlap quite a bit

@hydrargyruschaldaecus2572 2 года назад

Germany used to have like millions of mini-states. There is probably a far smaller bishopric out there than Prussia.

@manekrit2417 2 года назад

But they are irrelevant cuz Germany was formed by Prussia

@jaeckex6214 2 года назад

@@manekrit2417 "Formed" by Prussia is overly simplified. Yes, the process was driven by Prussia and they were the most powerful constituent state, but the other smaller German states were just as involved and can still be seen as predecessor states. As a German, I also think including the Duchy of Prussia, which had nothing much to do with Germany proper back then, as the smallest extent of "Germany" is odd. The "correctest" answer would probably be East Germany, the French occupation zone, or the actual smallest constituent that went on to go up in the German Empire (which is probably the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen).

@campbellfranklyn7192 2 года назад

@@jaeckex6214 what about the duchy of Brandenburg at it's smallest extent? It was the same state that would go on to become Prussia, and later Germany, after all.

@jaeckex6214 2 года назад

@@campbellfranklyn7192 Might make a bit more sense, but even then, I just think it's hard to pinpoint Brandenburg and/or Prussia as THE predecessor state to what's now called 'Germany', and Germany as a successor state to those. That's why it's so hard. Same thing with Italy tbh. To be safe, I'd honestly have put in the Sarre Protectorate, the DDR or the french occupation zone.

@Luwi1996 2 года назад

@@jaeckex6214 I would agree, esspecially since the region where the duchy of prussia was in isn't even a part of modern day germany.

@Myckelin 2 года назад

It's interesting to see how some are their "littlest" moment so to speak

@jorgeabrahamhernandez1209 2 года назад

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@brunitoforrester 2 года назад

@@jorgeabrahamhernandez1209 basado

@RubyPiec 2 года назад

or they havent shrunk yet and were always this size

@philemonzz 2 года назад

especially finland

@davesmad4646 2 года назад

@@jorgeabrahamhernandez1209 I have one thing to say… Mexico ain’t gonna be a superpower

@GeographyandSpace 2 года назад

Minor mistake at 1:57 with France, it should say "Year at smallest" instead of "Year at largest"

@marcom6089 2 года назад

Great video. I really liked it. When I saw the date for Spain at its smallest 721, I thought to myself Spain is way older than 721. I then realized that the video had nothing to do with that. lol

@peterthomas8825 2 года назад

Oh sorry

@Luke_05 2 года назад

Ah okay

@orim8849 2 года назад

i've thought that it's a joke lol

@mysteriousDSF 2 года назад

@@orim8849 me too I thought it was some trollery upon France

@anoNEMOs 2 года назад

I love how Czechia at it's smallest extent was called Great Moravia.

@areon400 2 года назад

and it even wasn't all of Moravia

@horatiocaine2177 2 года назад

yea moravia should have been far larger, the borders are very wrong

@anoNEMOs 2 года назад

@@horatiocaine2177 This video shows the smallest extent.

@Rhosus 2 года назад

@@anoNEMOs exactly, and it got the size of "Great Moravia" wrong, if anything it should've taken "simply" Moravia because "Great Moravia" is a term used for the state after it merged with the duchy of Nitra. (+ there could even be an entire argument about if Great Moravia can be considered historical predecesor of Bohemian state aka Czechia due to few reasons)

@NARKYCZ 2 года назад

@@Rhosus Great Morava was technically the first Czechoslovakia :D We always had close bonds :D

@FaithfulOfBrigantia 2 года назад

The county of Portugal by 1095 already stretched down to the Mondego and incorporated the county of Coimbra. Portugal's smallest extent was the county of Portugal in 868, which was indeed the size this video shows at 1095.

@Neion8 2 года назад

If you're gonna put Wessex (the founding father of England) as the smallest point for the UK, you might as well put the smallest extent of Wessex which was in 878, when it bassically consisted of a single swamp in Summerset.

@QuantumScratcher Год назад

Somerset*

@roberthudson3386 11 месяцев назад

I don't know why they chose Wessex, since the current royal family have no links to the royal house of Wessex and the kingdom isn't a direct successor state since Wessex merged with the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, then of course we had the Norman Conquest, so an entirely new ruling class, the Plantagenets, the Tudors, the Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, and finally the Hanoverians, Victorians and House of Windsor, all of them foreign in origin. They may as well have chosen any of the other petty kingdoms of Britain at that time.

@williamcurtin5692 11 месяцев назад

Alfred earned his "Great" the hard way.

@Neion8 11 месяцев назад

@@williamcurtin5692 True, but I'd say his daughter Queen Aethelflaed and grandson King Aethelstan are equally deserving of that title. It's a shame the line of English kings was severed so soon after its start.

@faelirra 2 года назад

Greece at smallest: Last days of Rome (Byzantine empire is just an incorrect name for the Roman empire) Italy at smallest: First days of Rome

@stefst2 2 года назад

Byzantium was the East Roman Empire till 1453. The end of West Roman Empire (Rome) was at 476 AC. So, Greece at smallest was not last days of Rome but last days of Constantinoupolis.

@j1r2000 2 года назад

@@stefst2 it was still the Roman Empire after western Rome fell

@crazycocainemercenary7498 2 года назад

Byzantine empire was Greek its a fact you can't deny it,they spoke Greek,write Greek,where orthodox,had Greek names and name their army unites and cities with Greeks names

@bustanut5876 2 года назад

@@crazycocainemercenary7498 it is still a Roman empire, the word "byzantine" was invented to discredited a eastern part of Rome

@bustanut5876 2 года назад

@@crazycocainemercenary7498 copium

@20ege008 2 года назад

I love how turkey was both largest and smallest in ottoman reign

@NickIncomplete 2 года назад

yes!!! i've been waiting for this series for so long !!!!!!!

@davidmorris8319 2 года назад

That's so interesting!! It would be also cool have smallest and biggest extent in the same video

@GeographyNuts 2 года назад

Great video, it is interesting to see then and now.

@eclypse1513 2 года назад

I don't think the Roman Kingdom counts as Italy. I think it should be the kingdom of Sardinia and Piedmont, as the 2 kingdoms united to conquer the peninsula forming modern day Italy

@JiafeiProducts6969 2 года назад

I think Rome counts, I mean the kingdom of Rome and the Roman Empire are the ancestors of Italy

@blitzkrieg6076 2 года назад

@@JiafeiProducts6969 but they are not the same nation. They aren’t directly related. By that logic, most countries in the video would just be the Roman Kingdom at their smallest extent

@izawa9211 2 года назад

@@blitzkrieg6076 their capital is called rome, i dont care what you say it sounds like italy is roman kingdom

@k0z4k4k7 2 года назад

@@izawa9211 if you don't care what he says why are you even writing

@izawa9211 2 года назад

@@k0z4k4k7 oh you are the mr smart one arent you, the one that has stupidly annoying argument, the one that knows fully what you actully meant but he will just have too reply

@isaac_aren 2 года назад

I wouldn't count the Lordship of Ireland as a precursor to modern Ireland. It was owned and ruled by England and was considered to be England, especially by the native Irish. Ireland was at its smallest between 1921 and 1938. The borders were the same as they were today, but Britain still held onto three strategic ports as full sovereign British territory. They were handed back to Ireland in 1938 making the modern day borders

@danielmacpherson8487 2 года назад

I have issue with that one too, but its worth mentioning that the idea of ireland as anything more than a geographic or cultural term would have been wierd to the irish people at the time. Ireland before the english is one of the most fractured places ever. Split between a lot of different tiny kingdoms. The precursor to ireland in my mind would be when they were unified as an entity under the British crown a few centuries later. Before that, every irish man was the king of his own home as the saying goes

@isaac_aren 2 года назад

@@danielmacpherson8487 I wouldn't count any Ireland under British rule to really be Ireland. For a time, Ireland was semi-unified, ruled by the Irish with the High King system

@mappingshaman5280 2 года назад

@@isaac_aren the high king had no real authority. In fact the English invasion was caused by the king of leinster disagreeing with the high king. The high king of Ireland was basically as much of a functioning title as emperor of the the Han empire during the three kingdoms period of China, or shogun of Japan during the sengoku jidai period. Except at least China and Japan were unified before those civil wars, whereas Ireland was never unified under Irish rule until 1921.

@isaac_aren 2 года назад

@@mappingshaman5280 Exactly why I said semi-unified. They were unified under a figurehead in a similar way to the HRE or as you said, China

@maxdavis7722 2 года назад

@@isaac_aren the hell does semi unified mean, seems like you are making that up. Either way if you don’t consider English unified Ireland as a form of Ireland does that mean you think the first time Ireland existed as a country was the Republic of Ireland?

@booperdooperproductions2545 2 года назад

I don’t feel like Prussia counts as Germany any more than the other German states do, so you should have just used which ever state’s smallest extent was the smallest out of all German states.

@amelialiu-flowers3340 2 года назад

yeah, maybe when east francia was first a thing in the 800s

@husted5488 2 года назад

Germany at smallrst extent is just Germany today.

@arminius7909 2 года назад

@@husted5488 that's not true

@ludovisuis 2 года назад

@@husted5488 We could consider West Germany (before reunification with Saarland) as its smallest extant then

@booperdooperproductions2545 2 года назад

@@husted5488 No, West Germany is its smallest extent since it’s the direct predecessor state to modern Germany.

@dani.munoz.a23 2 года назад

You should do one that shows present day, smallest, then largest

@Myckelin 2 года назад

after the long series on the great size of the countries, it follows its opposite that it is how small they have been! I'm excited 😃

@Luwi1996 2 года назад

For Germany I think the Margraviate of Brandenburg at it's smallest point would be far more fitting than the duchy of prussia. And if you choose prussia, I think you have to add Brandenburg on the map, since they both were ruled by the Hohenzollern, who would later become the german emperors

@MasonGreenWeed 2 года назад

Duchy of Prussia is irrelevant since it was the inherited by Margrave of Brandenburg. Had Brandenburg inherited say, Duchy of Kurland, the kingdom name will be Kingdom of Kurland.

@royalroyal2210 Год назад

Why not Saxony or Bavaria tho?

@Luwi1996 Год назад

@@royalroyal2210 because they weren't leading the formation of the German Empire. If you consider them, why not consider any other German state in the mid 18th century and just pick the smallest?

@flagadabilal6565 11 месяцев назад

@@Luwi1996 That's the point. Picking Prussia makes not any more sense than picking the duchy of Hintertupfingen. Neither of them were Germany. Both were part of Germany in the pre nation sense.

@andrefarfan4372 2 года назад

Great video.

@user-drinkwater 2 года назад

this is amazing

@age3801 2 года назад

Let's not forget that during their early ages of national development their were at theirs peaks (which mean their "biggest" during their context of existence). It's paradoxical, so small and so big at the same time...

@katunyuz1319 2 года назад

Hi! This is really good video 😍🤩

@ole3273 2 года назад

Why is Spain considered smallest during the kingdom of Asturias? Back then, there were Christian and Muslim kingdoms spread across the Iberian peninsula. Modern consept of Iberian(Spanish) unity didn't exist back then.

@nicolasmaillo2165 2 года назад

Well, before the Muslim invasion the Iberian peninsula was actually unified under Visigoth rule, which itself collapsed into Asturias after the Muslims wiped out almost all of the peninsula. Combined with the fact that many consider the kingdom of Asturias as a predecessor of modern day spain (it was the first Christian area that resisted Muslim occupation and the origin of the reconquista) I guess it makes sense

@ole3273 2 года назад

@@nicolasmaillo2165 you are rigth. I forgot about the establishment of the Visigothic kingdom before the invasion my bad.

@mappingshaman5280 2 года назад

At the start of the kingdom of asturias, asturias was the only independent state in Spain. The rest was ruled by the umayyad caliphate from Damascus. There were not "christian and muslim kingdoms spread across iberia." There was just a foreign Muslim empire and asturias. Also asturias is in the direct lineage of Spain. It goes kingdom of asturias > kingdom of Leon > kingdom of castile > Spain. Thus a state like navarre which was smaller than asturias doesn't count as it wasn't a direct predecessor to Spain.

@ivanmacgar6447 2 года назад

Yeah, well, you could say this for more than half of the countries here.

@Kriegter 2 года назад

Politically speaking France controlled those territories. The Angevin Empire was half a french vassal that paid allegiance to the french monarchy, as it grew from the cadet house of Anjou, subordinate to the Capetian Monarchs. This all changed when Henry of Anjou became the king of England. This meant that the house of Anjou, supposedly subordinate to the French monarchy, were suddenly just as powerful. It's extremely complicated because of how feudalism works. The concept of countries at the time did not exist and the nobility were just landlords who owned large swathes of territory. tldr. During the 1100s France wasn't actually so small. It still "owned" those territories, but because of how medieval France was so decentralized it was ruled by another house subordinate to the french monarchs in France, but having their own stuff in England.

@aethlred7380 2 года назад

Going back to any kingdom during the middle ages is so hard to say what territory they controlled. First the exact boundaries are shady because there normally weren't detailed treaties saying what land changed hands in war. Plus the number of enclaves and exclaves were insane so it might look from afar they control a huge track of land but in reality its a patchwork of duchies, city states, independent bishoprics, and counts. All of them would have their own handshake agreements or sometimes written agreements of how much they paid the king, how many troops they provided, etc. Some would provide next to nothing so did the King really control them or were they the equivalent of modern puppet states?

@dz0n117 2 года назад

How can be Azerbejan be smaller in 2022 than it was in 2019, after 2020 war it got some of territory from Nagorno-Karabagh region?

@_.tineks 2 года назад

Nagorno-Karabakh region is recognized as part of Azerbaijan since colapse of USSR.

@booperdooperproductions2545 2 года назад

@@_.tineks Armenia and Russia don’t recognize that, so it’s not full recognition.

@imperatormaximus8952 2 года назад

@@booperdooperproductions2545 Well then, I can confidently say that this video was not made by the Armenian or Russian government.

@RubyPiec 2 года назад

@@imperatormaximus8952 I actually know the creator, they are the Armenian and Russian government, you were wrong.

@bierwolf8360 2 года назад

@@imperatormaximus8952 ew, are you siding with the Azerbaijanis?

@cristiarnautu6367 2 года назад

Hello how do you make your vids?Great video btw!!!

@beefyblom 2 года назад

Given how you included the Duchy of Estonia, shouldn't Finland's smallest size be the Duchy of Finland under Sweden?

@Vinterloft 2 года назад

There are many errors in this video, notably Italy, (should show the smallest extent of Savoy) Finland (Duchy of Finland) and Bosnia & Herzegovina (should show smallest extent of Herzegovina, which was smaller than the smallest extent of Bosnia)

@ivanmacgar6447 2 года назад

If you display Ukraine without Crimea, you too should display Georgia without Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Moldova without Transnistria, Serbia without Kosovo, Cyprus without the entire Northern half of the island or Azerbaijan without Karabakh.

@zephyr7429 2 года назад

And also , Ukraine without the Lugansk and Donetsk People 's Republics

@BluePencily Год назад

@@zephyr7429 its luhansk not lugansk

@zephyr7429 Год назад

@@BluePencily Thanks for the correction, however, you can write both ways

@politonno2499 Год назад

Do you think people matters about what happens away from Europe?

@ivanmacgar6447 Год назад

@@politonno2499 except all the examples I used are IN Europe.

@krassendimitrov9747 2 года назад

Bulgaria Year at smallest: Shows Kingdom of Turnovo with the Flag of Vidin while Vidin not controlling the city of Vidin.

@tehnokrat1840 2 года назад

Good job 👍

@tehnokrat1840 2 года назад

Good job 👍

@llobak 10 месяцев назад

Geography and Space: Belgium, Year at smallest: 1918 Meanwhile: *Belgium Congo* : 👁️ 👄 👁️

@mappingshaman5280 2 года назад

1:36 wouldn't today technically be Denmarks smallest? Whilst yes they lost Schleswig-Holstein in the prussian Danish War, they still had all of Iceland which would make them bigger than they are today.

@Meg_kul1 2 года назад

Germany lost a bit to Denmark after ww1

@AnglosArentHuman 2 года назад

Iceland became independent in December 1918.

@kortess7900 2 года назад

Well, actually, Denmark is technically at its largest right now, as only after the II World War did they begin to control the entirety of Greenland, instead of just the south-western and south-eastern coasts

@wallhop 2 года назад

@@AnglosArentHuman ye but Denmark still had what this person described before that

@What-thaW 10 месяцев назад

Damn I can’t believe 1:58 is France at it’s largest 😳

@old_mapper 2 года назад

Nice!

@tequt 2 года назад

1:06 This is wrong, Bulgaria was at it's smallest extent in the 1440s when what remained of the Kingdom was relegated to a single castle in the middle of Bulgaria.

@ggCA07 2 года назад

France didn’t really loose its land in 1166. The Kingdom of France still existed roughly on the lands it sits on today. But various duchies like Aquitaine, Gascony, Brittany, Normandy and counties like Anjou were in personal union with the Angevin Kings of England. And the Angevin Kings held great autonomy in their territory making the King of France unable to rule there. The King was only able to rule in Toulouse, Paris, and the regions East of Paris as shown. So the video doesn’t show France’s smallest extant. It shows the French King’s smallest extent of power in terms of geography.

@pilkpog7952 2 года назад

as opposed to when they were biggest, this is very nice!

@XxSpyroKetchumxX 2 года назад

The main problem I find with this video is that it counts countries as their smallest as a sovereign state or division, however some of them didn’t exist for a long time (like Ireland being part of the UK)

@joshuahargrave8239 2 года назад

It's surprising to see Monaco as having been smaller at one point. Would it've been smaller than the Vatican if it still had these borders, I wonder?

@FoxTrotteur 2 года назад

Yes it would. The modern days' Monaco-Ville neighborhood is roughly the same area as the one showed one the map and it's 20ha wide... so half the size of the modern Vatican city (44ha)

@mappingshaman5280 2 года назад

@@FoxTrotteur twice as little is grammatically incorrect. The correct term would be "half the size of."

@FoxTrotteur 2 года назад

@@mappingshaman5280 thank you! I'll correct it and I'll try to remember it 😅

@eoghanburke2581 2 года назад

The lordship of Ireland wasn't Ireland. In fact it was the opposite, it was the English controlled part of Ireland.

@OnlyGrafting 2 года назад

Modern Ireland is heavily anglicised. Its roots come from the Kingdom of Lenister does it? Funny how the damn place is soo English swayed. There is no way to guarantee Irish unification under any state historically that isn't England and GB afterwards. Prior it was divided to all fuck like most other places.

@Vinterloft 2 года назад

@@OnlyGrafting Leinster and Desmond. Though England's sticky fingers technically brought about Ireland from the old county of Pale (Meath)

@likk98 Год назад

Irish are a lot more similar to the english than many realise, so then they stole parts of scottish culture to separate themselves from english culture

@lebendigesgespenst7669 2 года назад

Interesting concept

@rafitoskov2754 2 года назад

Very nice

@tsarnicholasthesecond728 2 года назад

When San marino's smallest extent isnt in 2022: -T-they expanded?

@ap6480 2 года назад

San Marino is the oldest country in Europe by the way

@aariyanmahmud301 Год назад

for france at 2:00 it says year at largest

@stephmod7434 2 года назад

I always wanted you to make this! Oh and btw Corfu is a Greek island not albanian

@january1may 2 года назад

I've read somewhere that Liechtenstein was actually assembled out of smaller pieces? But apparently the nation of Liechtenstein wasn't actually declared until after the pieces were unified, so it's hard to tell which, if any, of them should be considered a predecessor.

@justafnaffan2.016 2 года назад

Tfw Germany at it's smallest extent is around a thousand kilometers away from where it is now in Lithuania. History do be weird like that sometimes but it checks out.

@mappingshaman5280 2 года назад

Actually most of duchy of prussia in 1700 today resides in the Russian enclave of kaliningrad. About 50% of it is in said enclave, another 49% is in Poland and then like 1% is in Lithuania.

@justafnaffan2.016 2 года назад

@@mappingshaman5280 That was once called Konigsberg, if I'm correct. I was considering calling it that but thought it didn't really represent Prussia much as visually represented in this map lol.

@flagadabilal6565 11 месяцев назад

It doesn't check out at all. Weird American Kaiserboo flex to show East Prussia as if it was anything more than one territory of thousands in the HRE. Germany traces back its roots to the Frankish Kingdom, the heartland of Germany has always been along the Rhine.

@siegechamp2295 2 года назад

2:10 Germany... Well, it's complicated. Depending which country you see as Germany's ancestor.

@vilodomg2507 2 года назад

Yey new video

@harveygirlsforeveryesbubbl1339 2 года назад

I don't know if you except requests but, can you do Collapse of the Soviet and in Flags?

@TfsMcopilotlikesplanes 2 года назад

5:32 saved country

@florinradulescu6034 2 года назад

4:32 is my country

@TheChosenFailure 2 года назад

I'd say that many of the countries on this list would be at their smallest extent when they where annexed by some other major power at a specific time.

@augustusgermania 2 года назад

Hey that’s a cool new idea

@Vodkavsky 2 года назад

This video isn't very good tbh. Some countries are listed as smallest in the current year, then other ones are somehow derived from a seperate ancient nation. Prussia isnt even a part within the modern borders of Germany, but for some reason is considered its smallest extent, but somehow the kingdom of France started with such a large swath in the 1100's? I don't have all the answers, but I can tell theres some glaringly wrong things with this map, and im only 2:26 into it.

@awsomeantler902 2 года назад

1:58 you accidentally wrote year at largest for France

@CitrusyGuy 2 года назад

No, 1812 was France’s largest, that says 1166

@alphatwist2191 2 года назад

@@CitrusyGuy no the actually words above the year say year at largest instead of smallest

@Nobody54545 2 месяца назад

Cool video. One question though. Wouldn’t Finland have been smaller immediately following the Winter War of 1939-1940?

@justafnaffan2.016 2 года назад

Did anyone else notice that when it was France's turn, it said Year at Largest, then switched back?

@RubyPiec 2 года назад

i didnt think monaco could get any smaller

@lidallyhim 2 года назад

After seeing your country: I’ve seen enough, I’m satisfied

@qorax4564 2 года назад

my country wasn't in the video...

@suddenchangessans3119 2 года назад

@@qorax4564 Let me guess, Poland?

@qorax4564 2 года назад

@@suddenchangessans3119 nope

@ultragame4540 Год назад

You should combine these videos and make a country at its smallest vs at its largest

@Balkan4269 Год назад

1:55 "year at *largest* extent"

@vladihnatiev9223 2 года назад

Crimea is a part of Ukraine. what wrong with you?

@NMNTD 2 года назад

Crimea is a part of Russia. what wrong with you?

@Blawir Год назад

Bruh Look At How Small Russia Was

@souroshi Год назад

it's origin of russia

@jeez3178 Год назад

@@souroshiKievan Rus' (Ukranian History and Origin Russia) or Novgorod Republic is the Origin of Russia.

@souroshi Год назад

@@jeez3178 1) Kievan Rus (Ukraine and Belarus) and Moscovia (russia) is two different countries and have nothing same 2) if Novgorod is "origin of russia" why did Tsar Ivan IV launched attack on it?)

@alguemai6636 2 года назад

Please make history of world 1 year to 2022 year with flags

@kullanc5626 2 года назад

Hello G&S 🤗 Can you make a timeline of Precolumbian America ?

@Barneyfromhalflife1 2 года назад

actually belgium is impossible to be the smallest during ww1 because bingo bango bongo it's the congo

@isaac_aren 2 года назад

After 1908, the Congo was under the administration of the Congo Free State so not quite Belgium itself. Comparable to India's position within the British Empire at the time. Not quite a dominion and still under British influence, but not an integral part. Prior to 1908, Belgium was truly at its smallest extent as the Congo was not owned by Belgium, but was personal property of the king. It was given to Leopold II, not Belgium, in the Berlin conference.

@UbuntuBtw 11 месяцев назад

Belgium during ww1 was only a small part of the west of West-Vlaanderen, everything else was conquerend by Germany.

@RobloxAndOthersGamesToPlay 2 года назад

0:05 THATS SMALL

@splatfestkid2022 2 года назад

How come you didn’t do the largest one with Oceania countries

@XanuL74 Год назад

I can't imagine that Monaco can be even smaller in the past.

@emperorayquaza Год назад

0:53 Belgium at it's smallest: 1918 Congo: Am I a joke to you?

@Subscribe2JJERT Год назад

It's *E U R O P E*

@Tusiriakest 2 года назад

Very wrong most of the time. it should be the smallest extent of the countries history, not of a ancient country in the same area.

@rorois27374 2 года назад

Make a video about the sand war between Algeria and Morocco

@French_Goodball 16 дней назад

The fact that some countries at their smallest is bigger than some countries today is just crazy to think a bout.

@turkeybywhatmeans 2 года назад

5:49 what about Crimea

@jeez3178 Год назад

@@DogesBasement He's talk about Republi of Crimea.

@jeez3178 Год назад

@@DogesBasement U're silly Israel

@user-md5fn6mf9k Год назад

@@DogesBasementCrimea is Ukraine. rusia is Brazil

@SKORPIO_228 11 месяцев назад

@@DogesBasementno, lol

@KataboranananSoldier14 Год назад

Small russia can't hurt you Small russia:

@benismann Год назад

why not duchy of holland or smth for the netherlands? You did include predecessors for other countries

@supermario3dworldandothers426 2 года назад

Request: The Countries of Asia at their Smallest Extent

@doubleu.illiam 2 года назад

I love the idea of the video, but it is just incorrect to say that italy or greece are direct successors to rome or the byzantine empire

@right_jar 2 года назад

who tf are the byzantines? TURKEY?

@doubleu.illiam 2 года назад

@@right_jar bro the byzantines doesn't exists anymore, that's it: while it makes sense to say that the kingdom of france and the modern france are a continous entity, its very much different for an empire that was conquered and formally dismantled centuries before the creation of the modern greek state

@chekiefloofderg4997 2 года назад

I can agree. Throughout history so many countries claimed the title of "successor of rome" which would be a mere honorific title at that point. Italy at its shortest is in 1861 as a real unified, sovereign country. About Greece possibly the same, I dont know how much the 19th century Grece had in common with an empire fallen nearly 400 years prior.

@nicoladonelli7121 2 года назад

Absolutely correct. I am Italian, I am a descendant of the Romans, that's for sure, but I am not a Roman. I mean, I do not show up with my legions in Gaul on Sunday morning (unfortunately). Greeci would be after the indipendence and Italy too. PS Also for Germany Prussia is bullshit, it's like saying that all the other states, like Bavaria, weren't German.

@LRomano 2 года назад

Your country owes 24 trillion largest debt on earth is it correct to say q is the richest? Think

@glenncollette 2 года назад

When it was at France, it said ‘year at largest’ instead of ‘year at smallest’

@roidrannoc1691 2 года назад

It was also a mistake, as the Angevin Empire (England excluded of course) was part of France, not a separated country... France at its smalles would either be 1360-1380 (when Aquitaine became a constituant part of England as the conclusion of the Edwardian phase of the 100 years war) or Childeric I's kingdom, during the mid-5th century (since we count precurssor states in this video)

@kristian9014 2 года назад

Scrolled through comments waiting for someone to bring this up

@grubygrzib6308 2 года назад

I think it would be interesting to see these countries when they were the biggest

@ast7106 2 года назад

Nobody: Albania in 1190: I'm 3 grains of wheat

@peterszilagyi1405 2 года назад

Germany is not equals with Prussia! Rather, the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. But anyway, good video!

@TheRealH2OBlue 2 года назад

How? Explain pls

@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687 2 года назад

@@TheRealH2OBlue it’s because Prussia despite being the de facto ruler of the German Empire, they are not a sovereign state of their own. they’re a constituent monarchy within another country just like Abu Dhabi of UAE and Johor of Malaysia

@ishaanroy2436 2 года назад

😂😂

@MasonGreenWeed 2 года назад

Smallest eh?

@nordicnostalgia8106 11 месяцев назад

It would be cool if their largest extend was included in the same video

@singapore.967 2 года назад

Nice

@parvoneski3780 2 года назад

Turkey should have been her size during the War of Independence. Since the Ottoman Empire ended around 1922, it’d been better to just consider Turkey herself than with the Ottoman Empire too.

@billy-bo_ 2 года назад

Where's Greece???????????

@fabiopepe702 2 года назад

2:17

@thurespottke3795 2 года назад

In 1918 Belgium was one of the biggest countrys with Kongo as their colony

@dynamic_rb 2 года назад

1:59 it does say 'year at largest'

@buggedbeatle 2 года назад

Wessex does not count as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as this came to be England which united with Wales, Scotland and Ireland to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland so United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is smallest now as they lost most of Ireland, Great Britain was smallest in 1707, Wales and England united was just counted as England and England at its smallest was Wessex

@JasperWWMarshall 2 года назад

The kingdom of wessex founded the kingdom of england and thus the united kingdom. Also, wales did not unify with england - it's a part of the kingdom of england. It is not a seperate kingdom.

@roberthudson3386 11 месяцев назад

@@JasperWWMarshall Wales was several independent kingdoms prior to annexation by England in the 13th century. It was then legally under a seperate set of laws until the 1536 Act of Union. Describing Wales as "part of the kingdom of England" is a bastardisation of history. For most of England's history Wales was distinct.

@R0LAND0 2 года назад

4:43 Y pensar que ese pequeñisimo pais llego hoy en dia a ser uno de los mas inmensos Solo porque no cuenta la union s0vĺətĺCq porque era mas grande

@pohanikomarac2137 2 года назад

You got silver play button!!!

@Acypto 11 месяцев назад

every time it shows the smallest extent, i hear the "AAUUUUGHH" sound effect in my head 😂

@alphafn42069 2 года назад

As a german..... 1:56 is largest... (Fact) Here's the real message: As a German I'm not sure that Prussia was smallest extent, I think allied occupied germany

@singapore.967 2 года назад

That video do not include invasions

@jeez3178 Год назад

@@singapore.967 *This. And actually, included

@jeez3178 Год назад

Allied Occupied Germany have same land with Germany lmfao

@alphafn42069 Год назад

@@jeez3178 yep

@jeez3178 Год назад

@@alphafn42069 So Duchy of Prussia is still Smallest