Why does Monaco Exist? 

Also, the fact that the F1 track covers a significant area of the whole country.

Well known to Worldle players

The entire territory is basically the f1 track and wrc stages

Little Monaco's so tiny you can see the piers within

Gibraltar also.

They have built lots of underground parking garages and have signs directing you to the nearest one with open spaces. Parking on the street, though, is hard unless you're driving a supercar.

If that country were any smaller, the "Welcome To..." and "You're Now Leaving..." signs would share the same post.

@@louisduarte8763 ..... Know a few towns like that.

Eh, Schumacher and Rosberg managed just fine

Yes, I thought everyone knew you just stop in the middle of the road outside La Rascasse and everyone just waves that off as fine.

De Gaulle was a Natural Born Politician

Especially since Monaco collaborated with the Italian during WW2

That's very Sextus Pompey The Boat King. (See Act II of Antony and Cleopatra).

@@Sagoner invaded by the Italians*

"It's easier to get forgiveness than to get permission"

Shh! You'll give a certain orange guy ideas!

@@KarlBunker For a second I thought you were talking about someone in Orange County, California

@@KarlBunkerI can’t imagine anyone letting him do it

@@ecurewitz I think many Americans including myself would welcome such an opportunity.

@@abdurrazzaqmumin1574 prison is a better opportunity for him

Nasty nasty Europe 😅

now lets do an update on Ukraine ....

Why not Liechtenstein?

@@josephsarra4320 already done

Also known as "why this small country didn't just die?"

Ligurian is more alive in Monaco than in Liguria, I'm afraid...

Pretty sure these days the language they speak these days is richy mcTaxEvasion. But there we go.

Well Maltese is a Semitic language wholly unrelated to the languages of Europe aside from a bunch of Italian vocabulary. That one was always gonna be classified differently

So Italian then

Does Monaco even have flower fields? 😁

Yeah, so much joy. Couldn't possibly imagine how utterly desolate I would be in a world without Monaco.

Monaco provides a lot of jobs for people living in France and Italy, who commute in every day. Formula 1 fans and tourists keep coming every year, and there's a lot of joy.

​@@CallieMasters5000 lots of pain too, Monaco traffic fckn sucks!!! So horrible to drive through

The monarchy France pretends it doesn't need or want

@@CallieMasters5000 Nothing would give me more joy than seeing the disgustingly wealthy of Monaco all thrown into the ocean.

Vatican City is even smaller , being smaller than even Disneyland in Anaheim.

@@stevenmaginnis1965 the Burj Kalifa is taller than Vatican City is wide

Monaco is so small, that even Sentosa Resort Island in Singapore still twice as large as Monaco. A really small island that is part of a small wealthy island country, still bigger than this.

That sounds like a terrible idea, in the future France can kill the family and take the land

Although not American (I'm Dutch) but I have never been able to master all the intricacies of French and Italian territories. I do remember a propaganda image from before World War I that said, "Avanti Savoia!" So I presume Savoyans speak Italian?

No chance of that with the amount of legitimate (and the not so much) heirs, thanks to the Monegasque counterpart to Nick Cannon.

@@AudieHolland Savoyards (Savoisiens) speak Savoyard which is a dialect of Arpetan. Also spoken in Romandy in Switzerland, Vallée d'Aoste, Lyonnais, Dauphiné, etc. However because of France being France, very few people speak their own indigenous language. Really hope it'll change one day with a linguistic and national revival.

@@AudieHolland There are Franco-Italian minority on both side the Aost valley in north west Italy is French the rest is fully Italian And French Savoie is French (except some community that still hold on but they are very small) They are also some regional language in the French part nobody speak them except +70 years old, and in Italy the same process is under way

They ask if you win. They ignore if you lose.

@@KingOfClay I was just walking around but I guess I did not look like I belonged. I don't know if it still is, but in 1978 the casino was VERY fancy, and pretty much everyone else was in suits and long dresses. I generally find that if you act like you belong they don't hassle you, but I guess they had not translated that page into French.

I've been kicked out of 109 Casinos because everyone is mean to me. Definitely not because I was counting cards.

I can understand the people of Monaco. Without the dress code, their casinos would just be ordinary gambling dens like most of Las Vegas. Hey, we can all pretend we're better than others, can we not?

In Monaco, the gambling age is 18.

Me

That's true. And if we conquered them quickly enough, none of their neighbors would react for fear of starting an invasion. 😉

With 1,5 million man, you can conquer a lot of countries

Only if a certain James Bissonette funds us, with him on board- we have certain victory.

@@degekkegier8385 1,5 milion civilians with no military funding.

You mean like King Charles is the house of Windsor, but his real last name is Mountbatten, and only claim of the house is through his mother, and Mountbatten isn't the real last name, but forced to anglicize it, because they didn't want to be associated with Germans during the wars, and i was originally Battenberg, but Charles father only took that name from his mother side.

@@slewone4905 not really because Mountbatten wasn't his father's real last name (it was the name of his mother's family). His father Prince Phillip was an Oldenburg, of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg branch. The same family that still reigns in Denmark and Norway, and formerly in Iceland and Greece. The only reason his father used that surname was because he needed a surname for naturalisation purposes when he became a British citizen in 1947, having considered and rejected an anglicised version of his House name; 'Oldcastle'. Also, while the name of the Royal House is Windsor, the surname of the royals descended from the marriage of Prince Phillip is actually 'Mountbatten-Windsor'. Which is only really used by male-line descendants of the late Queen and Prince Philip when they don't have a higher title (like Prince/Princess, or a peerage, ie a Duke, Earl, Baron, etc) that would 'eclipse' and mean they wouldn't need a surname. Which is why for example, Prince Harry's children are Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor, and the daughter of the Earl of Wessex is Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor. This was introduced with a 1960 Order in Council by the Queen just before the birth of Prince Andrew (basically because Prince Philip was annoyed that a previous Order in Council, in 1952, stated that the Queen *and her children* would just be 'the House of...and bear the name of Windsor). Basically, it was a compromise. Also, while in practice it's used by the non-titled descendants of the Queen and Prince Philip, in practice, it's actually been used on occasion by the titled ones as well: the present King, Princess Anne, and Prince Andrew have all used it occasionally; Princess Anne even used it on her marriage certificate.

@@slewone4905 oh sorry I partially misread what you said there, but eh not really. The most clear parallel with the Monegasque tradition of keeping the House name and coat of arms; even when the house has become extinct in the male line, is in the Netherlands. Just like eg. the name of Habsburg became inextricably linked with Austria (hence why it was kept; though hyphenated with Lorraine) even after the original House of Habsburg became extinct in the male line. Ditto the Romanovs as regards Russia: the family that ruled until 1917 was actually a branch of the House of Oldenburg of the Holstein-Gottorp branch that inherited the throne through the first monarch (Pyotr III) being the son of Peter the Great's daughter Anna. Also true for Liechtenstein (hell, the country is *named* after the family rather than the other way around); only that's not become extinct in the male line. Basically, because the House and name of Grimaldi had become so intertwined with the identity of Monaco it seemed wrong to ditch it. In the same way, the House of Orange-Nassau had become so identified with the identity of the Dutch nation, going back to even before it became a monarchy, even to its founding, for the same reasons, they were loath to bin the name just because the original House had become extinct. This was first made concrete in law by Queen Wilhelmina in 1908, just before the birth of the future Queen Juliana. Which is why Queen Juliana was an Orange-Nassau, even though she should have really been a Mecklenburg-Schwerin like her father; Queen Beatrix, the same, even though she should have been a Lippe-Biesterfeld like her father, And ditto for King Willem-Alexander, even though he should have been a Amsberg like his father. Note that even then, that's not exactly the same as the Grimaldi example; because it's only for the reigning monarch: the individual princes and prince (for example, King W-A's brother Prince Constantijn and his children) have the surname of Amsberg hyphenated with that of Orange-Nassau; and this was also the case for Beatrix before and after her (and her sisters too) as regards their father's House name. Likewise Juliana hyphenated her father's house name before and after she was Queen too. It's just that, in the case of Willem-Alexander, for the first time in three generations of the Royal Family, he was male, and he only had (two) male siblings to carry on the hyphenated name. And out of the three brothers, only Prince Constantijn actually has had a son (the King and the other brother, Prince Friso, 'only' had daughters, and all of the other children of Prince Constantijn are girls) to carry on the Amsberg name.

@@jonathanwebster7091 Charles Oldenborough

In NW Germany, this often used to happen when a guy married into a farm. If Mr. A married Miss B who had inherited the family farm, than the husband might appear in church records as "A called B" or "A-B", and after one or two generations his original family name could just vanish entirely.

They sliced pieces of alot of micronations. Luxemberg, the vatican, I think that nation between france and spain. Kuwait. ALthough I don't think they qualify as microstate, well Nepal and Bhutan as well.

@@slewone4905 yeah I know, Luxembourg has that shape because its neighbours kept taking pieces

@@slewone4905 the Vatican doesn't really belong in that list, unless you consider it to be a very very very sliced off continuation of the Papal States. Its borders have never changed since its foundation afaik.

James shares it with Kelly Moneymaker 😂

Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace) ---------------

Well, that, and because James Bisonette hid a 20 megaton nuclear weapon deep underneath Nice, threatening to detonate it if France ever threatened his beloved Monaco

Doubt it

Well, it's mostly because he has run out of the big topics.

​@@croma2068 My thoughts exactly.

I would like to see a video on this. Good idea

I mean, Vatican bishops and the Pope speaks Latin

Because it become the modern romance languages French, Italian, Spanish etc

Good idea. Although, what do you exactly mean by Latin? Are you speaking about classical Latin, the language which eventually became reserved to the elite, or vulgar Latin, which was spoken by everyone else? If you're talking about Vulgar Latin, it never ceased to exist. It just evolved into various languages (Italian, Spanish, Romanian, etc.) and people just began referring to the resulting languages in different ways. Modern Greek looks more unintelligible with Ancient Greek than Italian is with Latin, but we still call it Greek because the place is still called Greece. Same for Chinese for example.

French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, and Catalan are all just Latin Dialects

there was an agreement back during the formation of italy, i cant quite recall the exact details but i think it was something or another about san marino basically just being a mountain fort so it was annoying to conquer and held not really much value

@@goranpersson7726 also because San Marino gave shelter to Garibaldi when he went into hiding after the failed 1848 revolutions.

he already made that I think

what about vatican city

@@minecraftify95 what about it?

I love the little figures with signs. Also whenever he goes "Fun Fact - No". I don't know why but that just cracks me up.

Europe was full of city states back in the middle ages that eventually joined together in mutual defense leagues or by control of the same families. Eventually they joined together into countries, but some managed to stay separate like Monaco.

Clearly, Monaco only exists because the Crusaders wanted it to.

Much of Europe (_especially_ central Europe) was comprised of city states which in turn were comprised of various ethnic groups like Germans, Poles and Italians. Around the middle of the 19th century and especially around 1848 (as mentioned in the video) nationalism became a thing, and those ethnic groups started to actively clump up into modern countries. For millennia before that, the administrative status quo was city states or similarly small areas of influence. The empires controlled many such areas, but the administration was still executed through regional powers (unless you wanna march an army out to collect taxes).

The first time was in a video about Quebec

Well, you know how the British royals ended up having a German sitting on their throne.

Mainly this meant that Prince Louis went through the trouble of formally adopting his adult illegitimate daughter, Princess Charlotte, so the throne wouldn't go to the German cousin. When Louis died, Charlotte handed the throne to her son, Prince Rainer. The irony was that Louis had spent many years growing up in Germany with his mom, while the German cousin was born and raised in Monaco and spoke French as his first language.

@@CallieMasters5000 Life is full of irony

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Wasn’t the heir thing removed?

@@americanloyalist4599 No. Why would it be?

@@alexandrevidal5203 it was never stated that France could annex it, just that it would become a protectorate. It doesnt matter however, because in 2002 it was changed to always guarantee a monarch from whatever line so that its independence is secured.

@@galaxspace1 Yes. I searched where I had red this thing but nowhere to be found. I might have made a mistake.

Unless you want to see overtaking…

Then make cars smaller and lighter. The track is great

Only worth watching Formula E go around there. The F1 is only good for quali.

I appreciate you citing your sources. 👍

Most people know it thanks to Formula 1

@@overlord7523 yes. That made me know Monaco

I actually met a lady from Switzerland who spoke Romanche when I was in Paris. She told me something I could hardly believe: her computer ran a version of Windows in her language!

​@@masterchinese28 was that a very long time ago; why is that hard to believe? Many modern apps can be set to Romanche

They speak French though.

You mean the island of Sardinia or the kingdom of Sardinia wich started the italian unification? I ask because they are two very different things.

@@arx3516 actually sardinia as an autonomous status, so technically the state never ceased to exists.

Not to forget Andorra.

I once visited that area. Beautiful area. There's an old Grimaldi castle you can visit in one of the towns along there.

It's usually known as the kingdom of Piedmont or Sardinia-Piedmont since it was the mainland tegion of Piedmont that held the most power in every possible way. But the entity's origin is in Sardinia.

@@lucianboar3489 No it isn't. Sardinia was given in exchange to the duke of Savoy to allow for the duke to keep the title of king. Originally, Savoy got (the kingdom of) Sicily after the war of Spanish succession, but when Spain attacked them over it a few years later, Austria stepped in and demanded as a reward to trade it for (the then far inferior) kingdom of Sardinia, which Austria had gotten from Spain after the war os Spanish Succession. The only upside for the house of Savoy was that they would still have a kingdom and therefore not lose the higher rank they had just attained.

@@maasro that's what I mean about entity: the kingdom

They always paid bribes to make the pirates go away.

Maybe that’s where they sold their goods

​@@tomhenry897maybe it was sort of like their Tortuga from Pirates of the Caribbean

You’re either a hardcore fan or a bot

The former

More than once!