As a Spaniard, I assure you that they had much more territory in 1803 with Louisiana than with the Spanish Netherlands, since in the time of Philip II the conquest of the Americas had not materialized, probably one of the later Austrians who preserved the Netherlands. exceeded that territorial measure

I'm agree, im from argentina and its true because spain have had california,nuevo mexico, florida, cuba, and all the countrys in south america (without guyana, guyana francesa and patagonia ) were visited for "realistas" and spanish 1800 army.

There is only one America, the "americas" term is an anglo word para tocar los huevos.

As a Portuguese those times where the worst in our history ! Down with the Spaniards

Didn't we dutch already revolt at that point let me see yea 1568 so a large part of the netherlands wasnt under Spanish controll anymore

Livonia was closer to being Germany because of the Teutons really however by that point it is more personal opinion

@@redlighter516 True.

Not really it was closer to a culture like germany

90% of them were german

No you are wrong, livonia was never a full state and if you are talking about the order, for most of its existance it was a teuton counterpart. Estonia in its height was in 1919 during the war of independence

Rome comes close

yes

You’re sure that doesn’t go to the Roman Empire and the Second Polish Republic?

@@audosis6860 nah those are 2nd and 3rd

Hmmm Austria is pretty good

Afaik Romania had a larger territory while scretching until the Southern Bug than Romania pre Vienna Acords. However I do agree that he should've put the Dacian Kingdom

the dacians were basically romans and the romanians were roman so same thing really

I think that Romania might have been its greatest extent, durring Barbarossa... A bit annoying that the video went with borders that were in wartime flux.

Thx man im Romanian and i think that too

Same could be said for Macedonia aswell. Macedonian Empire anyone...?

Then there's also Ivangorod, next to Narva

And Estonia has demanded them back from Russia a few days ago. : ) Good timing.

Look at description. Estonia was bigger in 1919 in its war of independence

@@MXB2001 they demanded that a lot of decades 🖖🥴

@@AlexanderSergeevRus don't trust what your propaganda tells you, they twist the fact that some of our politicians make the comparison between Crimea and Petseri, it's literally to show how foolish it would be to redraw borders just because you used to own it. There is literally 0 reason we would want that land back, neither Estonians in Estonia or Russians in Pechory want that. had a good laugh looking at some russian reports on the issue though, I'd expect nothing less, quality entertainment, and you fools eat it up of course 😂

Instead they should do what usa did, creat millions of little states among the countries, make everyone there own country and no unity, thus diversion, not sure whether it's good, but if woke people said let everyone be themselves then, we got +7 billions of countries. Sometimes it's good when countries are united, or in unity, they can do alot of good things together, but that's not always the case with the world War 1 or 2 or cold War, other than weapons, they sure cam do great things.....

Serbian nationalists: What

@@Clash-yp8qy German nazis… What… about Austria, Chehoslovakia, Poland, etc

bro who asked

@@TheWalterJr. you wouldn't understand

It's not FYROM anymore. Its Northern Macedonia

@@colaman8269 learn to spell

its clear and without doubt that macedonia its a hellenic (greek) state. all historian knows that Alexander the Great was the founder of the hellenic (greek) age...he build greek citys in his empire...with a acropolis, a gymnasion, a lyceum (school´s) a amphytheater, agora (markets), a bibliotheke and more and the write and speaking greek.. it was a stamp of the greek civilication. alexander was the greatest greek in history. his dream was to unite and hellenize the world. no doubt about it. the northern its a slavic part coming waves in year 700 a.d. has nothing to do with the greek world. by the way Alexander means Alex andros (greek: the protector of men)

Nobody cares how a country is called. You aren't ancient Greek anyway.

Ancient Macedonia has nothing in common with hellas

@@user-be2cx5mf5v 1991 ;)

@@user-be2cx5mf5v Alexander the Great had greek name,had greek teacher and had been speaking Greek and his kingdom was one of the ancient kindgom of Greece such as Spartans and the capital of Ancient Macedonia still exists and it is in Greece...nothing common with greece right 😂😂learn your history Slav

@@user-be2cx5mf5v the slavs didnt even exist when Ancient Macedonia was a thing

Kingdom of Byzantium is small we Romans conquered now if you believe the lie of Byzantine Empire you are wrong and Roman Empire everyone knows this see Arabic, African, Italian books

@@LRomano ask european powers who called it a kingdom of greeks ,it can't be really roman without latins and latin speakers

The Greeks has two empire's the empire of Alexander the Great and the eastern Roman empire or Byzantine empire as the named after (330-1453)

@@LRomano Byzantine Empire was majority hellenic in the later years, and only referred to themselves as Romans. They were far closer to modern day Greeks.

@@FishwicksREAL Many greeks still called themselves romans until the early 19th century.

The volcanos are making new land and Bjork is entertaining them.

in fact, iceland is growing a few millimeters each year :p

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Wasn't that right....

Meh

Then again, Greece and Alexander's empire are apparently the same country.

But without Rome there would be no Italian so technically they can be considered as an Italian empire, the fascist Italian empire is another

The Romans enforced their culture across the empire. More significantly, they enforced it in Italia, their home province. Once devoid of taxation. Modern Italians descend from the Romans and Romanized Italian peoples. They then got influences from numerous outside invaders, Arabs, Berbers, and tons of Germans (ostrogoths, lombards and the HRE) I think it's fair to say Italy can claim Roma heritage and ancestry, with the modern Italian empire being that. The modern empire, an attempt to recreate the ancient glory of Rome...which pathetically failed, good job Mussolini.

Bro the romans were using the term "italia" to indicate their home peninsula already back in 200 bc

@@camulodunon geographically, genetically and historically they are. Same thing goes to the roman empire

Nein nein nein nein version of Germany

I dont think so, most of those african colonies are big compared to europe

Dude namibia is bigger then their entire west occupiation + southern norway, denmark, czechia and austria combined

@@Masterchief_Tito didnt you see the “I think” in the comment?! Read sometimes please

@@ssb2lostplayer926 bro that "I think" didn't seem to me like an very important thing in this context

It was Hasburgs' lands

@@malexmans6498 and the habsburg were the emperors and kings of austria... so they ruled over BeNeLux and spain for a short period of time

Pincipality of Moldavia represents in fact Romania. Rep of Moldova was its territory stolen by Russian Empire in 1812

@@Vlad-yi6oo Well, Romania was formed in 1859 by Cuza(a moldovian that was leader both to Moldova(west) and Țara Românească) but sure , our language(im a moldovan-romanian from Republic of Moldova and hi) and identity was is and will be romanian. But Bucovina(all) made part of Principality of Moldova until 1775, when the female emperor of Austrian Empire ,(i think at her sons Iosif II request ,that he was very in love with that territory) ordered annexation, the ottoman too were invloved. Then in 1812 the Russian Empire annexed Bassarabia(fun fact , Ekaterina the II was of prussian ,meaning german nationality), thus remaining only Moldova and Țara Românească and somehow managing in 1859 forming Romania.

@@nickthesoldier7260 yea Bucovina was taken by Habsburgs and retaken by România after ww1 and we loose it to URSS after ribentrop molotov pact

@@Vlad-yi6oo And another fact, Bukovina wasn't in the Molotov Ribbentropp pact(as i know), thus showing that Soviets first broke the pact not the germans.

@@nickthesoldier7260 in fact they wanted all of Bukovina but germans pressured them to take just the north

It's normal bro,all videos should be like that

Ancient "Greece" wasn't a country but a bunch of small tribes

@@paravan2000 yes greece was a bunch of city states with different interests,but they were all greek tribes with the same language,believed to the same gods and they were participating to olympic games which it was a privilege only for Greeks and when the things were bad they united to fight the common enemy...see Persian wars.that was the alexanders main idea to unite greeks under his command and spread the Greek(hellenic)culture and heritage to all the known world..thats why the period after his death called "hellenistic"

Czech borders are almost intact since 11th century, because it has natural borders made of mountains, its clearly visible on the map. I did read somewhere, that Czech Rep has one of the most consistent borders in all of Europe. It did loose some land in southwestern Poland and eastern Germany, but that area was out of the natural borders anyway.

I mean, is New South Wales, AU a country?

See the description of the video. The largest a country was as an INDEPENDENT country.

@@lafabias1876 why did it show the kievan rus' though? wasn't it more like a state or a civilization?

эти земли до сих пор входят в состав беларусии. До 1939 года размеры беларусской ССР были куда меньше.

and before the USSR annexed them, Poland annexed them)))

ye

what about Grand Duchy of Lithuania. it was bigger.

@@debrikislaw grand duchy of *lithuania*

@@AIArcher002 yes ur right. gdl was full Lithuania, full belarus and big part of ukraine

It was only declared in 1917, but it never existed and never controlled territories they pretended

russia and Ukraine?

@@Copy81 yes

Your profile picture is interesting. Replace the Ukrainian flag with the Israel flag and replace the Russian flag with the flag of the Third Reich and the photo remains just as absurd.

@@FranzJaburek hahah

@@nikolasgorelkin3076 yes

same spaniards

@nokky It was a race of who can last longer

@Gustavus Mercurius Based

United Kingdom of native slayers

Poland should be way lefter.

I think france should be higher

France should be rank higher.

@@batavica4135 It was periodically divided between numerous different monarchies rather than one continuous kingdom so the longevity isnt enough

España antes de otomsnod

Europe

I thought the British empire was the largest

​@@JANG553 yeah they had a quarter of the world

Alexander was Greek that's why

Alexander the great was greek

What greek salad man? What do you mean?

Alexander and his kingdom were a part of Greece, by his own account.

How do you assume the nationality of Alexander the Great? You have his word?

And also part of Hawaii and California

Vassal

hacker

Controlled India Australia Canada. No doubt it's the biggest

It depends… probably Rome was bigger cause the empire extended over all known lands except China…

Dioclea was a Serbian state, Montenegro came into existence 5 centuries later.

the.... the what now?

@@GojiWars Shhhh, he's probably a time traveller from the future. ; )

You know that cultutally it was dominated by ruthenian culture and prebelarussian language. So today belarus could be classified as grane duchy of lithuania as well

@@michamarkiewicz1642 Many kingdoms/empires of old were not dominated by the culture of the central power core simply because they were very big. Grand Duchy of Lithuania was what it says on a tin.

@@k.squared as a belarusian i wish it would come back would be nice

I learned about it playing Europa Universalis (historical strategy game) as the English. I wasn't paying attention to Eastern Europe and when I scrolled over to check on it, there was a giant blob called Lithuania. I thought the AI had to have gotten very lucky to expand like that, only to look up later on that it was just a historical reality. (They were one of the last peoples of Europe to maintain 'paganism' and their language is fascinatingly conservative. Modern Lithuanian is arguably closer to proto-Indo-European than Classical Latin. So all around, a very cool country for such a small place now.)

@@k.squared Yup thats how most expantionist states work. For example the mongols became a minority in their country after conquering half of Asia or brits after colonising India.

germany in 1942 Was only poland, Austria, czech and slovakia

But its true, anyway

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@@alexmapper8101 your very quick

"Democratic"

Was it smaller than the BSSR? In 1918, it controlled the Line of Mozyr, Minsk, and Drissa, the western regions included in the Kingdom of Lithuania, and the eastern ones remained with Russia. Blen, and even Litbel is bigger than the BNR

@@user-vn7xn7qd3p People's - Народная

it was after they sold alaska

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@@alexmapper8101 thank you man, good videos !

We need vatican empire

@@user-qt2ji8ef5q oh dear god that would not end well

@@user-qt2ji8ef5q The Vatican had an "empire" called the church which covered most of central Italy before Italy's unification in the 1860s. Its methods of ruling and surveilling its people would put the Soviet Union to shame, so "no thanks" to the return of that empire.

Latvia didnt have African colonies

But not much land

Ruthenia are Ukraine and Belarus, but if we are talking about exact countries it won't e shown

Nop, in Canary Islands there was a volcanic eruption last year who made the island bigger, so technically Spain has grown

There's a land reclamation scheme in Gibraltar so Britain is aswell lol

And Portugal with Brasil

@@josegustavo. there are other country's that have colonised more land than Portugal so no they wouldn't go on the list

Alphabet rules but sure, you had a more than fair run, and fruits still being reaped!

Kalmar Union ended in the 1400's (15th century), or 1523 at latest.

go tell that to the natives there

@@GreatNZ1 I will

9th not 19th

Kievan rus is a Russia and ukriane and belarus

@@StalinKilled100MillionForJoke Yep, so, technically - all our Countries (Ru,Bl,Lr) may have territorial claims on Each others (Even for Siberia for Belorussia and LittleRussia)

This is just a Norman theory. We don’t really know how it was. But the fact that at that time there was a swamp on the territory of Russia is a fact. Some kind of civilization was only in the interfluve of the Dnieper and Dniester.

No. Let's say if the Norman theory (Rus' Viking origin) is true, Russia still has no rights to Rus' heritage whatsoever and to call itself such. Firstly, you need to understand the huge difference between "Prince", "Tsar" and "King" titles. The first two are almost self-proclaiming, especially in the Russian case, as Tsar was proclaimed by itself with some help of Russian Orthodoxy which did not care about the opinions of any other Orthodox church around for that matter. Princes of Rus, at least the main ones (Kyivan ones) and after the Orthodoxy was brought there, were appointed with the approval of the local Orthodox church which stayed in connection with the Byzantine one, and the kind of permission from all local princes around, as well as boyars (nobility) and even common people of cities (otherwise there would be heavy riots which could be used by other Princes to gain power as it already used to happen before), were obtained. The title of a "King" was different. Mainly, it was given with the permission of the Pope of Rome which was equal to the international recognition of power and country at that time. As such "king" title had actual legitimacy behind it. In the history of Rus, very few individuals received the "King" title. But the last one who did was Daniel of Galicia (I heavily advise you to read about him even in Wikipedia for example or in the Ukrainian Internet Encyclopedia). He was the last Main Prince - Prince of Kyiv (which you remember was the main title in Rus). He also was Prince of Galicia[-n Ukraine] (modern Western Ukraine) and he received the title of "King of Ruthenia" in 1253. He was also from Rurik's house. By receiving this title, he basically was the first one to officially tie Rus' heritage with the territories of Western Ukraine. His title lived long after he died in his gens as well as in other rulers to whom Ukrainian territories were *officially* "given" (not just occupied, which means it includes Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and not Russia). Next, remember that Ivan the Terrible was the one who destroyed the potential Russian heritage of the Novgorod Republic by doing a "small" genocide and basically destroying a more-less free and independent state of such. It made Russian connections to the Novgorod at the very best less than modern Egyptians' connection to the Ancient ones, i.e. almost no official and genetic connections at all. Considering everything said above and the fact that people around Kyiv who founded Rus anyway (whether by themselves or with the help around) have stayed in the same place up to these days as well as long before the foundation, and the fact that even the word Ukraine, which was used in times of Rus as the word "center" which it literally means in many Slavic languages as "u" = "in", "kraine, kraina" = "center" (like "Polska kraina", and even Russian "Krasnodarsky kray"), thus the Rus' official heritage belongs to Ukraine, and Ukraine only (maybe a little to Belarus but they do not seem to be interested as they have their Lithuanian heritage).

At the time of its biggest size Alaska was not a part of the Russian Empire.

Zeta and Duklja were Serbian medieval states, the term Montenegrin and Montenegro itself came some 5 centuries later.

@@mdza no lol

Acutally no the nazi's at their biggest extent were 317,957 sq mi unlike the german empire was like 208,000 sq miles

@@kaidensweet8597 Bruh they colonised Tanzania Angola and many more german empire is bigger than nazi Germany

Yeah they had TZ and Namibia which both have around a million km and also To go land, part of Papua, Pacific and Cameroon

@@mrgamerthebest I think you meant Namibia (south of Angola), Angola was Portuguese

@@mrgamerthebest i totally forgot about that lol

Yeah Turkic state once. Then they got assimilations by Slavs

Our only worth neighbor 🇬🇷

@@asenturk7579 haha nice one ,do u know another jokes ?

@festina lente They lost it even before the war, because of the Russian aggression (the Winter War).

*Kyivan

Then what was it? Moscow was founded way later than the kievan rus, plus kievan rus is located in modern day Belarus and Ukraine and part russian only

Kievan Rus is both Russia and Ukraine and Belarus, it cannot be attributed to one country, it is a common state

Kievan Rus' was a conglomeration of Eastern Slavic tribes created and ruled by the Varangians (Vikings).

Jao, ajde ćuti, ne blamiraj se

Yeah

The anwser is yes.

Yap ! For two centuries.

Right. It is a continent. 😂🤣😆

Illyrians didn't have a state. No such thing as a kingdom of prizren

@@geodim3904 yeah About The Illyrians Yeah But Kingdom Of Prizren Was Basically Like a state their independence got Guranteed But they were turkey its Like Basically Poland When it was a Puppet of The Ussr

No? Albania never had that big of a territorial extent. What you are reffering to is "Greater Albania", but that idea was never formed. So basically what is shown in this video is true

Same

Yes because turkey is the only one who recognizes this fake country...