All Territories Ever Occupied by Each European Country

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This video shows any territory that the countries of Europe have occupied in their history. This includes areas under direct control or a country proper, vassal states or puppet states, military occupations, and personal unions with other nations. The predecessors of a country is open to interpretation and is often arbitrary, so this video should be taken with a grain of salt. This video also merely focuses on Europe, and doesn't show any land overseas that wouldn't be visible on the map. Any country who had occupied territories that are not on the map such as a colony are stated as such.

Music:
For the Fallen, Dark Star, Heroic Age, and Unholy Knight, all by Kevin MacLeod

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Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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

Giloup

1944: england owns italy
144: italy owns england

Oregon_ball

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

Keeganator

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!

VerumPositor

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

Pigraider

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

HellFireBoy

gotta love the latvian “overseas lands not shown” disclaimer

swag_

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)

IDKisReal

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

williamszy

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

vlish

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

fabiana.

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

akgamer

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, ...

capdenap

*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 🇻🇦 Vatican City

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