The Oldest Company In Each European Country 

Do you know of any other old companies?

Imagine being in business for over 1000 years just to go out of business because of COVID-19

This map is weird, it includes Armenia, but makes no mention of Russia or Georgia...

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France's Oldest: Monnaie de Paris Ukraine's Oldest: Drohobych Salt Plant Hungary's Oldest: *ZWACK*

You can freely pronounce "Montenegro", that name is older than discovery of America XD

When you think the oldest longest running company still running in italy was Beretta, but its oldest business was supplying bells to Il Vaticano

I love how the thumbnail shows Poland with Kaliningrad Oblast.

Just a fun fact - Kremnica is actually pronounced Kremnitsa, the ending similar as in "Tsar" for example. :)

For Romania : 1806 Borsec , 1718 Timisoreana Also, it's nice to see that the Turks are considered European and Russia isn't.... The map maker literally took a piece out of Asia and slapped it on this map , but completely ignored everything east of Ukraine... After all, the Turks gave us Dostoyevsky, Tolstoi, Stoletov, Korolev, Cherenkov , Tchaikovski and thousands more people that shaped our world... What can I say... Güzel!

No 1: Don't only hope on the government for income

I love how you put German marching songs in the background

One could argue that the Vatican itself is one very old company 😅🇻🇦

Lovely video. Now I’m curious about the oldest still operational government body by country in Europe. Thinking about the water-regulation boards that have existed since the 700’s and still have authority over the Dutch waterworks and management of the flood protection installations. So, yeah, they still have their work cut out for them. And they still do it well.

Fun fact, for Romania, the oldest brewery (not even company) is Timisoreana, from the city of Timisoara. That brewery was even the one in the first picture, not the Ursus one, and it was founded in 1718 :). Also, way better and tastier than Ursus.

idr how exactly it's supposed to be, but you should change the timestamps in the description so they work with the YT timestamp feature, wehre timestamps are shown in the video progress bar

The Romanian Timisoreana brewery was founded in 1718. The city of Timisoara was at the time part of the Habsurg Empire, but it was a Romanian City, now part of Romania and the name of the beer, Timisoreana, comes from the city's name, which is as Romanian as they come. This is a nice topic, but a little hard to pull off as countries change their territory a lot over the centuries.

Hey! It is some impressive work you did on these years and company details. Also for Croatia, very good. However, to my knowledge, there is at least one company that is older and still in operation: Belje d.d. (j.s.c) it was founded in 1687 as an agricultural estate producing all kinds of goods and food products and is still in operation under the same name today :) ... Now I remember, there is a really old business in Croatia, still in operation, the Dubrovnik Central Farmacy, founded in 1317 :)

For Romania, there is another brewery that's older and still producing large amounts of beer today called Timisoreana and established in 1718.

"how hard is it to say 'brewery'? made me giggle so much 😂

Funny, Russia, even if you only include it's European part, is the biggest, most populated country in Europe, yet there's no mention of it

Sean's Bar (Ireland) isn't a company - it's a bar that operates in a building that (allegedly) has 10th century bits incorporated into the much later structure. The Royal Mint (England) was a branch of government and didn't become a company until the late 20th century. The Bank of Scotland is a company, but not the oldest in Scotland by a long chalk - the Shore Porters Society is a company formed in Aberdeen in 1498

Oldest piece of literature from each country

Tuga, ótimo vídeo como sempre, abraços do Zuca.

love that feeling when you watch a vid and know noone has finished it yet

Não fazia ideia que quem narra estes vídeos é português! (Pelo menos pareceu-me) Incrível! Já sigo esta página há algum tempo e torna-se bastante viciante ver estes vídeos tanto pela sua duração e também pelo conteúdo. A partir de agora vou acompanhar com maior regularidade haha Abraço 🇵🇹

Wellpark Brewery in Glasgow, Scotland has been in operation since 1556.

There´s a franciscan pharmacy in Dubrovnik, Croatia that´s in business since 1317.

Brand beer in the Netherlands used to be the Wijlre brewery in the banpanhuis built in the 14th century and in 1871 the brand family bought the brewery to produce their own beer, so it’s true the roots go back that far but the company itself is much younger

Scotland's oldest company is not the Royal Bank of Scotland (1695). It has 6 companies that are older. There used to be 8 until Robert Noble (1666), a textiles company, was sold in around 2015, and The Old College Bar (1515) burnt down in 2021. There's the Aberdeen Harbour Board, which the earliest records date back to 1136. The Sheep Heid Inn, a pub dating back to 1360. The Shore Porters Society, a removals and storage company from 1498. The White Hart Inn, a pub dating back to 1516. The Globe Inn, dating back to 1610. The Coylet Inn, a hotel dating back to 1650. The Aberdeen Harbour Board dating back to 1136 was, however, only discovered after this video was published.

Underground church is actually in Wieliczka Salt Mine which is bigger but Bochnia Salt Mine is still older sadly the mine is a little neglected by town authorities

Definatly some cultural stereotypes here: Turkey with Baths, Chechia and Belgam and many others with Bewerys, Andora with a Bank, Ireland with a Pub. Some suprises too.

Are you Portuguese? Your Portuguese accent is actually really good!

"The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced" - Andrew Carnegie

Can't wait til you make the Africa episode. Been wondering what the oldest company in Burundi may be.

Why there is turkey but not russia? If video is about europe ONLY, than why is turkey here, if only Istanbul is located in europe? As a russian i feel prejudiced...

Very interesting video! Congrats on your excellent work

I’ve learned that if you want to establish a company that would last. You open a brewery. So as long as you produce decent beer at a right price. You’ll have a loyal following to weather through any recession and economic boom. Since people will always drink their alcohol no matter what. They’ll just spend more or less depending on their economic situation.

romania is wrong. it is another brewery called TIMISOREANA which was established in 1716

Shore Porter's Society EST. 1498 Aberdeen Harbour Board EST 1136 (both Aberdeen, Scotland) 1695? We have older pubs.

Key to Slavic pronuciation for foreigners speaking English is to learn individual pronunciation of C, R, K, I/Y and you will get most of them. Granted you won't know the gramma rules of pronunciation or symbols but because there are 3 things fundamentally different for all Slavs (as far as i know) you can pronounce them much more accurately. That is: C is more of like in the word "Citrus". Always. R is always hard unless there are some symbols indicating otherwise or special grammar rule... Yet it is always close to the harder r. And it is determined by grammar, unlike English where pronunciation changes somewhat fluently. Slavs have a clear and specific pronunciation that is never fluid. That's why there are those special symbols of grammar rules which can determine how specific word is pronounced. However a good rule of thumb is... If you can pronounce individuals Lettres, you can pronounce the words well because in the alphabet almost all Lettres always sound the way they would in words.

‘Gastuž’ is pronounced ‘Gastuzh’; the ž sound is the same as the J in the french name Jean. Gostilna Gastuž used to be part of a monastery, and the tavern originally operated as an inn for travellers. Nowadays, they serve traditional Slovene food.

Port of Aberdeen (in Scotland) was established in 1136.

I feel like instiutions as national banks shouldn't count for this.They don't sell products for profit

That village Fiskars called Fiskari in Finnish and Fiskars in Swedish. Greetings from Finland! :-) Terveisiä Suomesta! :-)

Very interesting!

A bit of extra history on Gubernija from one of its interim financial reports (newsclient.omxgroup.com/cds/DisclosureAttachmentServlet?messageAttachmentId=317453): "GUBERNIJA is the oldest industrial brewery working in Lithuania which has developed from the manufactory manor house and the brewery. It is known that in 1682 its products reached not only different places in Lithuania, but also a part of western Belarus and Minsk. There is a document dated in the second half of the XVII century in the historic archives of Radvilos in Warsaw where the brewery of Šiauliai manor is described in details. “GUBERNIJA’ brewery is justly considered as the oldest brewery in Lithuania. The first reconstruction of “GUBERNIJA” brewery which started in 1799 lasted more than ten years. Later reconstructions of “GUBERNIJA” brewery took place every hundred years. The second reconstruction took place in the last decade of the XIX th century and the beginning of the XX th century. Till the end of the XIX th century all works were manual. Beer was tipped off into casks and only since the end of the XIX th century bottles came into the use. During the Second World War “GUBERNIJA” brewery was destroyed badly and burnt but in August, 1944 it started working again. The brewery developed little by little. In 1982 a spacious room for bottling was opened, in 1985 a new administrative building was built. In 1996 after privatization of “GUBERNIJA” brewery, a new period of the brewery history started. In 1996 a material reconstruction of the brewery was begun. A modern brewery with forward technologies was built in the territory of the Old Gubernija." There is also more info on its page on the Lithuanian Wikipedia lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gubernija_(alaus_darykla)

Nicely content buddy.

At the time of their inception the mentioned Greek, Macedonian, Serbian, Bosnian and Albanian companies were actually Turkish (Ottoman) companies.

You gave Kaliningrad to Poland on the thumbnail, watch out for some angry Russians.

Scotland’s oldest is Aberdeen Harbour from 1136AD

the Brand Brewery has recently grown a lot again, their beer is actually very good.

Funfact: In Polish, when there’s a „ch” cluster, you pronounce it the same as "h". Which is pronounced as /x/, less commonly as /h/. Funfact2: there isn’t any trill in /x/.

The oldest country in Europe is Bulgaria. Bulgaria has not changed its name since its inception. And we officiallywere established as a state in 681, but in fact, in the 5th century we had another country. The name of this country is Old Great Bulgaria. It was on the territory of today's Ukraine. THAT IS WHY BULGARIA IS THE OLDEST COUNTRY IN EUROPE! 🇧🇬 🇧🇬 🇧🇬

03:43 this house got some nice lashes I must say

Why isn't Russia included in this? Russia is a part of Europe.

Thanks for giving Kaliningrad to Poland

Noted that Northern Ireland is coloured dark blue, but no mention of its oldest company. Map designer has shown the boarder with the Republic so perhaps their colorist didn't get the message

Suggest you update this video. Aberdeen Harbour Board was established in 1136 in Scotland and still in existence.

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And Russia?

One minor correction: If Croatia's Kraljevica Shipyard was founded in 1729, the Emperor would be Charles VI, not V, as shown. Otherwise really cool vid.

Not even a picture of the Brand brewery included? The maker surely doesn't know any Dutch, but even when I search for Brand Brewery on Google the official website from the brewery shows up, although in Dutch, the Google translate function can be used to translate in English, I'm sure the maker didn't put much effort in finding information.

Actually the Dutch one isn't correct. As was admitted by the Brand brewery itself, the year was just made up because it sounds cool. They wanted something in the 1000's because that sounds old and then chose the 300 because the 3 looks a bit like the B from Brand....

In Spain should be «Tribunal de las Aguas" of Valencia. This exist since 10th century.

I love the style of your videos, keep up the nice work!

The Royal mint moved to Llantrisant in Wales so its the Royal mint of England.

Just a bit correction, Zwack is the 4th oldest company in Hungary. The oldest one is "Alföldi Nyomda". It is a printing house since 1561

Imagine going in the oldest restaurant and saying „I take whatever Columbus or Mozart had“ xD

Yo your portuguese was on point😳

Do Antarctica!

Great job👍🏻

The oldest company in Wales is the Black Boy inn in Caernarfon. It dates back to 1522

You should make a video of "What if California broke up?" if you haven't already!

A bar or inn is not a company. An institution or government owned is not a company. An abbey is not a company.

I love this Chanel , as much as I don't see the tambnail and just tap to video.

08:33 "Ducat" EU4 players : *Di Caprio pointing meme*

are you from Portugal ? your portuguese is so clean.

I was slightly confused at first to see the pharmacy under the quaternary sector, but I guess you could put it into any category except for the primary. And even that might be debatable for some if they have a reasonably sized herb garden.

How could countries that didn’t exist back then have their own companies? (For example: Slovakia?)

This guy sounds Portuguese.

does moldova not have companies?

3:54 - what do you mean by „it was sold for seventeen seventy-four silver coins.“? - 17.74? 1774?...

The Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) is a company by tradition and has been operating since about 1532.

Why in thumbnail Kaliningrad is inside polish borders? x)

There was not a Pub on UK or Ireland from the Roman era that was still being used?

Your map of Poland on the thumb nail is wrong because it contains Kaliningrad which is today part of Russia

Where is Russia?

Marinelli Bell Company was founded around 1000

Your wrong...Kosovo and Albania first companies are way older. Peja Beer In Peja(Kosovo) was founded in 1968,there are more older companies.

Wieliczka Salt mine is large inside. You can get wedding there or oraganise gig its pretty impressive

*I have an Idea for next videos:* You did in an old video oldest borders between countries why you don't make newest borders between countries

Idk if 8t is a company but an honorable mention for Italy could be the Venice arsenal.

That was a really cute way to pronounce Raeapteek

So i live in Romania and in my city ,,, there s this factory that has been running since 1771

17:45 POSHTA TZRNEH GOREH since Crna Gora (Tzrnah Gorah) means Black Mountain... Montenegro.

in czech is beer company what a suprise

Why does Poland have kalliningrad in the thumbnail did I miss something

Skyllbergs Bruk is a confirmed date. But most believe Stora AB to be the oldest in Sweden, with no confirmed date more than "before 1288".

Geographically, the eastern boundary of Europe is not very well defined. There seems to be a consensus that Europe is west of the Urals and north of the Caucasus. There seems to be a disagreement whether it is the foothills or the watershed of the Caucasus that is the boundary. However, Armenia and Turkey have parts that are in Europe as far as I understand.