All Territories Ever Occupied by Each European Country

Imagine each European country starting to claim the territories they have lost….

1944: england owns italy 144: italy owns england

I love how some countries are like “Oh I’ll take some for myself” and others go “NOM NOM NOM, TASTY CONTINENT”

Interesting video, no doubt! From a historians perspective — as already mentioned in the comment section — it’s difficult to compare these current nation: (1) there’s a difference between modern Italy and the Roman Empire in terms of culture, language, religion. I would have shown only the territories, modern Italy has ever occupied; (2) where to draw the line between real incorporated territories and for example personal unions: medieval understanding of a “state” (by a monarch’s realm) is very different from the modern definition of a national territorial state (beginning in the 16th century); (3) duration of the occupation: there’s a difference between territories only occupied for months or even days (as the German holdings in Russia during WWII) and territories that where heavily influenced by the occupant (e.g. Spain holding the throne of Naples). But again: just some thoughts of me, still great to see people’s interest in history!

If you can I'd love to see this video on the World Map. So many "overseas lands not shown" even in countries you wouldn't expect

No Belgium, Bulgaria and Bosnia… Maybe include them in future videos as well, especially Bulgaria, that has a rich history

4:59 i like how spains flag is everywhere

3:25 That beat drop shouldn't be here at all.

Yes! I love to see the total territories occupied by countries, Seems very interesting

Would love to see a heatmap of the most occupied territories.

1:48 Germany 4:18 Russia 3:56 Poland 2:25 Italy 5:26 United Kingdom aka Great Britain 5:34 Ukraine 1:33 France 5:19 Turkey Edit: I started a massive war

For Austria you are forgetting California, which had an Austrian ruling them in the 2000's

Be aware that only the countries that are currently independent states appear in the video. Therefore many nations are hidden under the name of the current states. By the way, some states are missing: Bulgaria, Bosnia&Herzegovina,...

A 0:02 🇦🇱 Albania 0:10 🇦🇩 Andorra 0:17 🇦🇲 Armenia 0:25 🇦🇹 Austria 0:32 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan B 0:39 🇧🇾 Belarus C 0:47 🇭🇷 Croatia 0:54 🇨🇾 Cyprus 1:02 🇨🇿 Czechia D 1:09 🇩🇰 Denmark E 1:17 🇪🇪 Estonia F 1:24 🇫🇮 Finland 1:31 🇫🇷 France G 1:39 🇬🇪 Georgia 1:46 🇩🇪 Germany 1:54 🇬🇷 Greece H 2:01 🇭🇺 Hungary I 2:09 🇮🇸 Iceland 2:17 🇮🇪 Ireland 2:24 🇮🇹 Italy L 2:32 🇱🇻 Latvia 2:39 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein 2:47 🇱🇹 Lithuania 2:54 🇱🇺 Luxembourg M 3:02 🇲🇹 Malta 3:09 🇲🇩 Moldova 3:17 🇲🇨 Monaco 3:24 🇲🇪 Montenegro N 3:32 🇳🇱 Netherlands 3:39 🇲🇰 North Macedonia 3:47 🇳🇴 Norway P 3:54 🇵🇱 Poland 4:02 🇵🇹 Portugal R 4:09 🇷🇴 Romania 4:17 🇷🇺 Russia S 4:24 🇸🇲 San Marino 4:33 🇷🇸 Serbia 4:40 🇸🇰 Slovakia 4:48 🇸🇮 Slovenia 4:55 🇪🇸 Spain 5:03 🇸🇪 Sweden 5:10 🇨🇭 Switzerland T 5:18 🇹🇷 Turkey U 5:25 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 5:33 🇺🇦 Ukraine V 5:40

Germany, UK, russia, Turkiye, france, italy : 💀

Thought this entire video I kept thinking: "is [blank] country going to count as a predecessor state to [country in question]" The answer was almost always yes (except for different kinds of unions which where just the "heads" of the unions)

A single mistake: Russia also had Turkish Thrace during Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78

If we're counting Personal Unions, Poland should also have the former Kingdom of Sweden, since it already has Hungary, Saxony and Bari. Sweden was a junior partner in a Polish-Lithuanian-Swedish Union with the king - Sigismund Vasa being the King of Poland first, and King of Sweden second. Poland also had a lot more lands occupied in Russia, most notably the city of Pskov, with polish raiding parties going as far as the river Ob deep within Siberia, where we have accounts of polish soldiers encountering "strange golden statues of chubby women" (most likely buddah statues). Also a small nitpick - at one point the crimean city of Kaffa pledged loyalty to the Kingdom of Poland, It's not shown on the map, however it is more of a nuisance anyway.

Damn bro should show us overseas territory in another video

2:34 "overseas lands not shown" Hold up