Thanks for watching! Let me know other small countries you want me to cover. CORRECTION: the castle liechtenstein shown in the video is in Wuttenburg, Germany. The one I meant to put is in Austria. My mistake.

The castle that you have shown as the "Castle of the Liechtenstein Family" is in fact lying in Württemberg in germany and is named "Lichtenstein" - after a novel by the German Autor Wilhelm Hauff. It was built in the middle of the 19th century by a second born of the house of Württemberg. So it has nothing to do with "Liechtenstein" as a country.

Liechtenstein: -didn't have an army -most memed for its army suffering negative casualities in a war

A component you missed in the Austrian connection: The Houses of Habsburg-Lorraine and Liechtenstein were staunchly Roman Catholic, whereas the German Empire was unified under the Protestant Prussians.

This channel deserves a much larger audience for the quality!

good overview but you missed a couple of things regarding the Rheinbund, Liechtenstein did not join it, not really anyways. At the time the prince of Liechtenstein was the Commander of the Austrian army. Napoleon respected his skills as such and out of that respect he included Liechtenstein into the Rheinbund but Liechtenstein never signed the the documents, since the prince was at war with napoleon.

The castle illustrated at 2:47 is Lichtenstein, not Liechtenstein, and it is in Baden-Wurttemberg, not Austria. It's a great place. Also, it was built in the 1800s.

I LOVE your youtube channel! I love your art and how you explain things, I haven't seen other channels talk about these things and you do it in such a easy to understand and entertaining way! I really hope you keep making more great videos

I stumbled onto this side of KZfaq and ended up subscribing 😂 I … guess it’s interesting info and I love when the drawing lifts his hand and closes his eye in each video. It’s like a literary “mic drop” you’re about to drop some knowledge on us

Another great video, thank you for making this content!

You make the videos I'd make if I wasn't so shy. I love them, Thank you.

Your animations are delightful. keep up the great work

Awesome video and great content I hope to see more videos soon! :)

So Liechtenstein is basically the feudal bordergore you end up making at some point in a CK3 game, and it survives over the ages as an eyesore until it just ends up as an independent state.

I was there in the summer of 1980, touring with a concert choir...it was lovely!!! Can't wait to visit again!!!

Greetings from Brazil. Excellent video!

Thankyou for this video, I always wondered

nice video, very well articulated.

I’ve been to Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 twice, mainly as a stopover either going to or coming back from Switzerland 🇨🇭. I didn’t even know I was in Liechtenstein if it were not for our tour guide declaring “Welcome to Liechtenstein.” It’s very quaint and quiet though. After watching this video, now I know why they like it that way, quaint and quiet.

Nicely and entertainingly explained 😊👍

Thanks for the straightforward info!

Fascinating, thanks!

A curious little side note is that the current Jacobite pretender to the British throne (silly I know, since after more than 3 centuries on Britain’s throne of the branch of the house of Stuart descended from the youngest daughter of James I’s eldest daughter, instead of the youngest daughter of his youngest son, this is about as arcane a topic of conjecture as you can get, and frankly ain’t gonna happen anyway) is the Duke of Bavaria. And his eldest daughter (he has no son) is married to the heir of the current ruler Hans Adam. And they have a son. So at some point the Jacobite pretender will have this very little principality to rule and call his own.

A friend once asked me to help him find the address of the Liechtenstein embassy in the U.S. This was the early Internet days, so I went online and the closest thing I could find found was the Liechtenstein Desk of the Swiss Consulate in New York City. I realized two things: Liechtenstein indeed is largely absorbed into Switzerland in terms of diplomacy, and I want to work at that Liechtenstein Desk. Gotta be an easy job.

Loved the video

Generally interesting and good video! But im sorry I couldn’t make it through this one in one go. Tour accent had me torn between lmao and cringing. 😂🤣 But thanks for the great vid! 💕 Greetings from Germany.

Excellent! You made a bland topic very interesting!

Very educational and well told..

I learned a dozen years ago or more that Liechtenstein had at least SOME industry inside the principality. I noticed embossed in naturally tiny letters within the Neutrik XLR connectors our company bought the words "Made in Liechtenstein". Who knew!

2:37 You got the image wrong mate, that was Castle Lichtenstein in Wurttemburg, Germany. But indeed the one you're referring to, Liechtenstein, is in Austria.

A great information channel

Small heads up : the picture you show at 2:40 is of the Schloss Lichtenstein im Land Baden-Württemberg, which never belonged to the Liechtenstein dynasty.

Funny how literally every time Liechtenstein is talked about, "Little Liechtenstein" has to be said atleast once

It would be great if a documentory history series of Liechenstein and how they reacted when world 1 and 2 broke out and their reaction when they were the only medieval family to ruled a land

Liechtenstein is that small kid who whenever a fight starts in class goes to a corner and just observes along with his best buddy, Switzerland.

When you make Switzerland seem big...

Wow, I learned so much from this video on Liechtenstein! It's amazing how such a small country has such a rich and complex history. If you're interested in learning more about Liechtenstein, I highly recommend the book 'A Journey Through Liechtenstein's Fascinating History' by Lea Marie Nigg. It's a beautiful and informative book that offers a unique perspective on Liechtenstein's history

Fun fact: Liechtenstein is one of only two doubly-landlocked countries, the other being Uzbekistan.

Prince Hans-Adam II has published a provocative book called “ The State in the Twenty First Century.” Fascinating reading for political theorists.

Liechtenstein's coat of arms is totally unrelated to the land itself, but a depiction of the princely family's title and succession claims. it uses the middle shield to represent "Prince of Liechtenstein", Q1 for Silesia which "Duchy of Opava and Krnov" is partitioned off from, Q2 for the Kuenringer family which have appointed them as their successors, Q3 for Opava, bottom corner for Krnov and Q4 for the County of Rietberg. nothing about "Vaduz", "Schellenberg" or "Hohenems family" got to be mentioned anyhow,

That General Assemblee is not a diet but a deet, pronunciationwise that is. Although you write Diet. The 'e' straight after the 'i' (so 'ie') means an elongated full vowel. So not "i" as in "this" but "ee" as in "sweet". Swiet, Diet etc. The spelling rules in German and Dutch speaking countries differ somewhat from the English speaking ones.

Very interesting.

Been there once, wasn't much to see (har har). All I remember was getting there through a one lane tunnel that had one of those automatic red light-green lights systems.

Used to go there often in the mid-1990s.

The castle is not located in Austria, but in Germany, and it’s called Lichtenstein: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenstein_Castle_(W%C3%BCrttemberg)

Hi from Liechtenstein!👋

5:47 “exclave” 🤷

Funfact, before asking USA about to buy Alaska the Tsar of Russia first ask the monarch of Liechtenstein, but he declined.

You're doing the Holy Roman Empire dirty by not including northern Italy.

Europe a continent where if you are small enough and don’t move no one will bother you.

Big Big error ! The castle shown in the video is not the castle of the country Liechtenstein in Vaduz it is the castle Lichtenstein in the federal state Baden-Württemberg in Germany. You have to change the animation to fix it, actually I live in the small town of Lichtenstein so I am pretty sure about this mistake. And yes I also think our castle is prettier... but it was build as a hunting castle after a romantic novel by Wilhelm Hauff went popular with the title The Lichtenstein.

I’ve been to Lichtenstein... beautiful country

Yoooo so THAT'S how it stuck around. Been kinda wondering 10 years easy but never taken time to research. Nice goin' Liechtenstein! Oh and thanks for the video!

Liechtenstein and Luxemburg are the last former Imperial German principalities (excluding Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Federal Germany and Belgium because they're more sizable and less continuous) , they exist because they were never mediased.

maybe i misunderstood, but if liechtenstein would have joined germany, it would have been an exclave, not an enclave

Listening to your explanation of feudal roots, lands ruled by small 'noble' families, I am reminded of large swathes of the southern US. Boss Hogg is a cultural meme for a reason, after all, as is the tendency of Americans to lynch inconvenient outsiders.

I chose to believe Monty Python... Any way great work.

Interestingly, Liechtenstein is a lot closer culturally to Switzerland than to Austria now

Fun Fact: The Spencer Family to whom Lady Diana Spencer was born to are heirs body to sovereign princes in the Holy Roman Empire who held a seat in the Imperial Diet - the Princes of Mindelheim granted to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. John did not have a male heir and his English titles were passed down to his grandson Charles Spencer, son of The Earl of Sunderland and Princess Anne Churchill of Mindelheim. His imperial title went extinct as the empire strictly follows the salic law of succession.

Austria: So, you want to join us? Liechtenstein: Naw. Austria: No big whoop. Have a nice day.

I once visited Liechtenstein. We ate an ice cream there. There is really nothing to experience. There are no tourists. While we ate an ice cream, the police wanted to see our papers. With the vehicle papers they walked around our car and caravan for half an hour. When our ice cream was finished we could continue. There was clearly nothing to do.

Liechtenstein DID have an army. However it disbanded it after the dissolution of the German Confederation in 1866. Andreas Kieber, the last surviving solider of the Liechtenstein army, often would pose in uniform, appearing on a variety of postcards, until his death in 1939. Also note there is story ogten repeated, that during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, not only did all of Liechtenstein's 80 soldiers return home, they actually found a friend they recruited along the way, so they had *negative* war casualties.

You missed the opportunity to talk about it being double landlocked

My little story, I spent three weeks in Liechtenstein waiting for a job application to be processed, when asked about where I had spent my three weeks outside of Switzerland, I replied 'Liechtenstein' my fremden politzi started laughing, told me Liechtenstein is independent in name and a couple of banking laws only. lol

If it was bigger, it would need an army and air for e to protect itself. How wealthy would it be after that?

Perhaps another reason it’s been able to stay independent is that Liechtenstein is so hard to pronounce that whenever neighboring generals would go over invasion plans they would get to Liechtenstein, start to try and say it, give up and move on to a larger, easier to pronounce country. Just sayin (or trying to...)

neat.

Holy Rome once had 1000 fucking Provinces?! God damn!

As an American who resided 15 years in Luxembourg, few things irritated me more than when people confused the two places.

Lichtenstein even tried to get back areas and castle that are now in the Czech Republic. But the Czechs said no. In the communist era these all went to the Czech state. The area used to belong to Austria.

Well, being surrounded by Switzerland and Austria is all that needs to be said.

Liechtenstein will never merch with switzerland. We‘re just too proud for that

Cool, Switzerland has it's own little sibling.

For heaven’s sake, the phrase is SET foot!

History lessons must be dream in Lichtenstein.. especially compared to England or France. 1 family, 200 years, done

The Holy Roman Emperor. In 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans, reviving the title in Western Europe after more than three centuries, thus creating the Carolingian Empire, whose territory came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire. After the dissolution of the Carolingian Dynasty and the breakup of the empire into conflicting territories, Otto I became king of Francia and worked to unify all the German tribes into a single kingdom and greatly expand his powers. The title of Emperor was again revived in 962 when Otto I was crowned by Pope John XII, fashioning himself as the successor of Charlemagne and thus establishing the Holy Roman Empire. The Imperial Diet. Those nobility who attended the Diet were educated and trained in the duties of ruling their states. Many had to work themselves to have income. Democracy is in our modern worls where we elect an oligarchy of often uneducated to rule. The unelected bureaucracy runs the government. We don't vote on policy or legislation. Others do it.

He's blonde, he's cute, he wears an amour suit / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein / He's hot, he's strong, his winning streak is long / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein / He's smart, he's funny, he makes a lot of money / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein / He's quick, he's mad, he comes from Gelderland / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein / He's hot, he's pissed, he'll see you in the lists / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein!

👍🏾👌🏾

Castle Liechtenstein is in Württemberg not in Austria.

You just LOVE saying Austria yea? Like its not just the 20th of the size you show there

I always wanted postage stamps from Liechtenstein many years ago.. 😄

1 of only 2 double land locked contries in the world.

It was my understanding that the general public had recently voted the monarchy into supreme power disbanding the Parliament altogether as well as having a small volunteer army?!?

fun fact: In ww2 their war causality was -1

They even use the Swiss money. Not euro

Why have you drawn borderlines on the Bodensee/Lake Constanze? Make dotted lines or no lines at all, because this is extremely political

Money!!! Money!!! Money!!!

Smaller would be better for all if it could be achieved.

But why doesn't the royal family there?

He that controls the money makes the rules. That's why they don't need an Army.

sweet

Pocket-sized history :)

It is their massive nuclear arsenal that keeps them safe.

2:28 the video shows castle Liechtenstein, that has NOTHING to do, with the dynastie of Liechtenstein.

I thought the Swedes used it to store their pickled herring.

How to stay independent as a small country: 1) keep your head down and 2) do NOT have significant natural resources that others would covet.

Fun Fact: Lichtenstein is a sovereign protectorate.

Comment for algorithm

I'll always chuckle every time an American calls it "Licktenstein."

I’ve been here. It’s was small.