Unknown Colonial Empires

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  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +419

    *Which other small or lesser known colonial empires are there?*

    • @jsonattard2179
      @jsonattard2179 Před 3 lety +88

      In the same way of the New Zealand Empire, Australia controlled Papua New Guinea, from 1932-1975, and Narau, from 1927-1968.
      Today Australia also controls Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. the Cocos (or Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. All of these are part of Australia, but are given autonomy as Overseas Territories.
      Australia also has claims on Antartica, with the Australia Antarctic territory (AAT), but after the Antartica Treaty in 1959, this became inactive.

    • @NubDiePie
      @NubDiePie Před 3 lety +77

      Liechtenstein almost bough alaska

    • @bot_5786
      @bot_5786 Před 3 lety +9

      austian hungary empire u have talked about it before i think they held a small town in china after i think one of the opium wars
      Edit: ok so it was a small street not a town thanks for correcting me!

    • @aggeloskaggelos2867
      @aggeloskaggelos2867 Před 3 lety +52

      Scotland founded some settlements in America before they united with England.

    • @isaacbobjork7053
      @isaacbobjork7053 Před 3 lety +19

      Sweden bought Saint Barthelemy in 1784 and ruled it until 1878 when we sold it back to France. So not only for a year but for almost a century. Guadeloupe on the other hand was ruled by Sweden for only a year during the napoleonic wars.

  • @mrmacguff1n
    @mrmacguff1n Před 3 lety +2112

    "I got Mexico"--Spain
    "I got India"--England
    "I got a Rock"--Norway

    • @k3nz1e73
      @k3nz1e73 Před 3 lety +240

      “I got colonised” - Africa

    • @rj5848
      @rj5848 Před 3 lety +173

      I got named India- America

    • @samsmith4242
      @samsmith4242 Před 3 lety +83

      “I got the artic Islands, and all that sweet whaling money”-Norway

    • @eventhorizon2339
      @eventhorizon2339 Před 3 lety +93

      "I got F**ked"--Japanese empire

    • @2good4u71
      @2good4u71 Před 3 lety +12

      Guess who still have their "Colonies" :P

  • @Swuiddy0086
    @Swuiddy0086 Před 3 lety +592

    Fun fact: one time russia almost sold Alaska to Liechtenstein instead of america

    • @minjajovanovic6501
      @minjajovanovic6501 Před 3 lety +101

      Yeah, still don't know why did they refused it

    • @sriyasodharmma4021
      @sriyasodharmma4021 Před 3 lety +108

      alaska je srbija

    • @leadharsh0616
      @leadharsh0616 Před 3 lety +67

      @@minjajovanovic6501 well they probably thought that it was useless just like Russia.

    • @Ms-fe2bo
      @Ms-fe2bo Před 3 lety +7

      Yeah, I said the same thing to him in twitter

    • @AkshayNumberOne
      @AkshayNumberOne Před 3 lety +6

      I have seen the video so dont brag

  • @waleed4017
    @waleed4017 Před 3 lety +489

    One big empire that always goes unnoticed is the Omani empire, it held territories from modern day Pakistan all the way to modern day Mozambique and were probably the only non-European colonizers of Africa in the 20th century.

    • @mfaizsyahmi
      @mfaizsyahmi Před 3 lety +25

      Yemen, that's not fair omitting them altogether!

    • @waleed4017
      @waleed4017 Před 3 lety +39

      mfaizsyahmi. Yes Yemen included, just wanted to give an indication of how vast it was from north to south 😅

    • @-3696
      @-3696 Před 3 lety +14

      They only controled the Eastern part of modern day Yemen.

    • @gabrielfrost9134
      @gabrielfrost9134 Před 2 lety +7

      Somebody should make a detailed video about it.

    • @Komicklepto
      @Komicklepto Před rokem +18

      They're part of the reason Arabic is spoken in Zanzibar.

  • @jeffsanders1609
    @jeffsanders1609 Před 3 lety +575

    When your colony starts colonizing
    Britain: *Cries* They grow up so fast!

    • @bakthihapuarachchi3447
      @bakthihapuarachchi3447 Před 3 lety +68

      New Zealand: I really don't like this colonizing stuff
      Britain: you are no son of mine!!

    • @jacobthompson2189
      @jacobthompson2189 Před 3 lety +6

      @@bakthihapuarachchi3447 when a colony makes a colony

    • @MadMan3498
      @MadMan3498 Před 3 lety +4

      @Laksama Hang Tuah And they had and still do have some other stuff too, also Singapore of all places briefly administered Christmas Island if I’m not mistaken.

    • @fluff5
      @fluff5 Před 3 lety +5

      Phoenicia flashbacks

    • @johnappleseed3428
      @johnappleseed3428 Před 3 lety +5

      usa also colonized

  • @Man_0f_Trenches
    @Man_0f_Trenches Před 3 lety +1706

    When your colony has a colony, you know your doing something right.

  • @DutchTunisian
    @DutchTunisian Před 3 lety +433

    New Sweden: Exists
    The Netherlands: it’s a free real estate
    New Netherlands: Exists
    The British: it’s a free real estate

    • @legoleviathan6411
      @legoleviathan6411 Před 3 lety +13

      *New Amsterdam

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw Před 3 lety +12

      *G E N O R M A L I S E E R D*

    • @Arribones
      @Arribones Před 3 lety +17

      @@legoleviathan6411 wrong new Amsterdam was a city ( new York ) not a colony and new Netherlands is where about new England is

    • @DutchTunisian
      @DutchTunisian Před 3 lety

      @@ArribonesExactly

    • @mfaizsyahmi
      @mfaizsyahmi Před 3 lety +1

      British Tea tax: _exists_
      Colonists: "So you have chosen death"

  • @paradox7358
    @paradox7358 Před 3 lety +621

    Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: "You know, I'm somewhat of a coloniser myself"

    • @devataxeqed
      @devataxeqed Před 2 lety +1

      Stolen Comment
      Ik comments dont have copyright

    • @theotherdashmelted
      @theotherdashmelted Před rokem +9

      Yeah, they owned the small Caribbean island of Tobago for a short period of time.

    • @darkpoliceplayz5199
      @darkpoliceplayz5199 Před rokem

      over seas

    • @bartolomeuszkosciuk2006
      @bartolomeuszkosciuk2006 Před rokem +6

      @@theotherdashmelted And Principality of Courland and Semigalia, that was vassal of PLC (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) has some small parts of land on the territory of todays Gambia. Also, there's fun fact - on one if Kiribati islands there's a village called "Poland".

    • @theotherdashmelted
      @theotherdashmelted Před rokem +5

      @@bartolomeuszkosciuk2006 Kiribati also has Paris, London and BANANA.

  • @epikurejczyk
    @epikurejczyk Před 3 lety +137

    fun fact about Courland is that in Ghana, they were protected by the native tribes against Dutch attacks. they cut off water and food supply for the aggressors resulting in Dutch retreat. and they had many more stories like that there. you could make a solid movie based on those adventures.

  • @dementor9852
    @dementor9852 Před 3 lety +220

    "Courland colonies in today's Ghana" It's the Gambia,not Ghana. An error I've just spotted.

    • @JxH
      @JxH Před 3 lety +16

      "The Gambia" to be precise. :-) !! I spotted it as well, but you beat me to it.

    • @dementor9852
      @dementor9852 Před 3 lety +4

      @@JxH You as well.

    • @sriyasodharmma4021
      @sriyasodharmma4021 Před 3 lety +9

      @@JxH "Republic of The Gambia", to be very precise. 😁

    • @RandomLorence
      @RandomLorence Před 3 lety +6

      Gambia + Ghana = Gamhana

    • @henris9717
      @henris9717 Před 3 lety +1

      2 months later and still the same

  • @philipelmen6601
    @philipelmen6601 Před 3 lety +176

    The Swedish owned Saint-Barthélemy for almost a century before selling it back to the french. Not less then a year.

    • @JohnSmith-sl2qc
      @JohnSmith-sl2qc Před 3 lety +4

      Yeah

    • @Pyxlean
      @Pyxlean Před 3 lety +5

      He was talking about Guadeloupe not Saint-Barthélemy

    • @ilesdunord-noobyoutuber-sx9543
      @ilesdunord-noobyoutuber-sx9543 Před 3 lety +9

      Yes your right. Being born on Guadeloupe but raised on Saint-Martin we were taught about the history of our islands and who originaly owned/colonised them.

    • @ilesdunord-noobyoutuber-sx9543
      @ilesdunord-noobyoutuber-sx9543 Před 3 lety

      @Rollox RA the Lesser Antilles to be more exact

    • @thetoyyya6890
      @thetoyyya6890 Před 3 lety +3

      And we made mad money from making it a free trade port which made it become a large restocking hub for slave ships... It's not really something we like to talk about but we definitely played a decently sized part in the slave trade.

  • @kingguernon
    @kingguernon Před 3 lety +131

    I saw the danish colonial empire in the history of the Caribbean and the history of India

    • @VATJON
      @VATJON Před 3 lety +3

      IM norwegian

    • @maveo5736
      @maveo5736 Před 3 lety +3

      I didn't see them in indian history

    • @vaishalijagdale6203
      @vaishalijagdale6203 Před 3 lety +6

      @@maveo5736 They had Nicobar Islands they sold those to Britain in 1884

    • @_pixelmation_
      @_pixelmation_ Před 3 lety +3

      *Cough* bandiaterra *Cough*

    • @kingguernon
      @kingguernon Před 3 lety +1

      @@vaishalijagdale6203 that's why Nicobar was part of British Raj

  • @kristoffer-2614
    @kristoffer-2614 Před 3 lety +71

    When it comes to St. Barthelemy there’s still some Swedish influence on the island. The flag of St. Barthelemy has the Three Crowns, representing Sweden, on their flag. A couple of streets have Swedish names and some streets are even bilingual in French and Swedish. Some places and buildings even have Swedish names; the airport is named after our previous king Gustaf III, there’s a fort named Fort Karl (probably after Charles XII) and the capital of the island is named Gustavia, also after King Gustaf. One of last islanders of Swedish descent Marius Stakelborough (a descendent of Swedish governour Bernt Robert Gustaf Stackelberg) died in june 2020. St. Barthelemy was our longest overseas procession, we had it from 1784 to 1878.

  • @kingkusnacht
    @kingkusnacht Před 3 lety +54

    John Sutter, was a Swiss living in the US, who at one point made some attempts to colonise California. His first settlement, Sutter's Fort, is now known as Sacramento.

    • @mjw907
      @mjw907 Před 3 lety +4

      The first settlement in Sacramento was called "New Helvetia" meaning New Switzerland.

    • @GeorgeVenturi
      @GeorgeVenturi Před 3 lety +3

      What? Colonise California LOL The first Europeans to explore the California coast were the members of a Spanish sailing expedition led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo; they entered San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542, and reached at least as far north as San Miguel Island. What is now California was first settled by various Native Californian tribes before being explored by a number of Europeans during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish Empire then claimed and colonized it. In 1804 it was included in Alta California province, within the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its successful war for independence but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican-American War.

    • @ashaler__
      @ashaler__ Před 3 lety

      @@GeorgeVenturi "What?" is exactly my question

    • @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
      @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Před 7 měsíci

      @@mjw907 I thought the Swiss don't establish colonial empires or invade other countries, as they are neutral.

  • @boodashaka2841
    @boodashaka2841 Před 3 lety +88

    New Zealand also to this day 'owns' Tokelau, Niue and the Cook Islands which are all in the "Realm of New Zealand"

    • @chemikillsNZ
      @chemikillsNZ Před rokem +4

      Tokelau is a territory, but Niue and the Cook Islands are in "free association" with the Realm of New Zealand. The Ross dependency in Antarctica is another territory in the Realm of New Zealand

    • @Scriptorsilentum
      @Scriptorsilentum Před rokem

      Responsibility for them... Also, Pitcairns (UK), Penrhyn, Ross Dependency.

    • @Ihomahomay
      @Ihomahomay Před 3 měsíci

      That not a colony

    • @Ihomahomay
      @Ihomahomay Před 3 měsíci

      Australia and New Zealand never have a colony

  • @sodapop1794
    @sodapop1794 Před 3 lety +74

    Well if New Zealand tecnically had a colony then so did South Africa, when they took control over Namibia, and held on to it well passed independence

    • @pedromenchik1961
      @pedromenchik1961 Před 3 lety +9

      then so did Brazil, which controlled Uruguay

    • @ironcheater1012
      @ironcheater1012 Před 3 lety +7

      so did Australia, which controlled papua new guinea, Nauru and possibly timor leste (but dont quote me on that on)

    • @nyoni_tour6677
      @nyoni_tour6677 Před 3 lety +2

      I nearly wanted to comment on that unti I saw yours.

    • @sodapop1794
      @sodapop1794 Před 3 lety

      When Hitler suddenly wins local elections in Nambia it becomes more clear that they should have just become ZAs ninth province

    • @nyoni_tour6677
      @nyoni_tour6677 Před 3 lety

      @@sodapop1794 lol 😂😂😂

  • @matthiascoast9680
    @matthiascoast9680 Před 3 lety +28

    Courlands tobago colony didn't fail ,because of natives. As Latvian from documentation we had. Netherlands who also owned part of the island took it.

  • @paperbagman9445
    @paperbagman9445 Před 3 lety +41

    This looks like a good one

  • @CraftsmanOfAwsomenes
    @CraftsmanOfAwsomenes Před 3 lety +52

    Almost goes without saying, but Siberia wasn’t uninhabited.

    • @franzjosefkerkhoff592
      @franzjosefkerkhoff592 Před rokem

      And is still a Russian Colony

    • @andrewjgrimm
      @andrewjgrimm Před rokem +6

      He ought to have said “sparsely populated” instead.

    • @wwanca3771
      @wwanca3771 Před rokem

      goes without saying read a book

    • @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
      @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Před 7 měsíci

      There are islands of Siberia in the Arctic Ocran that are literally uninhabited, like the infamous Tsar Bomba island in the far west where rumor states that there's a city on such island, but there are more islands off the coast of central Siberia, like the Bolshevik and the October Revolution islands, which are literally uninhabited.

  • @089roblox1
    @089roblox1 Před 3 lety +156

    The Norwegian 'colonial' empire is also known as Norgesveldet, if anyone wanted to know a fact for today.

    • @gudmundls6287
      @gudmundls6287 Před 3 lety +5

      @Jemalo They would have had habited colonies too, but they were under Danish and Swedish rule for so long that they couldn't.

    • @gulapa8920
      @gulapa8920 Před 3 lety +7

      @Jemalo cough cough!! (Greenland) cough cough!

    • @jeanbonnefoy1377
      @jeanbonnefoy1377 Před 3 lety

      Another fact: the Bouvet island is now a French one...

    • @089roblox1
      @089roblox1 Před 3 lety +6

      @@jeanbonnefoy1377 It still remains a part of Norway in 2020 and it probably will be a part of Norway for some time.

    • @HelloThere-ls7yf
      @HelloThere-ls7yf Před rokem

      @@089roblox1 no. I just annexed it.

  • @thecrazysunflower9360
    @thecrazysunflower9360 Před 3 lety +34

    Good video! I just wanted to point out that Sweden actually controlled St Barthelemy for close to a hundred years, from 1784-1878

  • @cTc10691
    @cTc10691 Před 3 lety +32

    Expected Scotland's attempted colonies in Central America to be here tbh!

    • @chrisVNZ
      @chrisVNZ Před rokem +5

      The South Sea Bubble?
      Too soon... Too soon.... ;-)

  • @thegrasswhistle5238
    @thegrasswhistle5238 Před 2 lety +23

    I actually live in what used to be “New Sweden”. One of their settlements still exists in my home town in the form of a small log cabin and some ruins of other small buildings next to a creek. It’s called the “Lower Swedish Cabin”, but we just call it “The Swedish Cabin”. It’s one of the oldest log cabins in the United States as well. People claim they can hear ghosts and stuff at night there, so it’s considered one of the most haunted places in America. You can visit it any time, but you can only go inside on Halloween.

    • @alexanderlapp5048
      @alexanderlapp5048 Před rokem +3

      I have read that New Sweden was mainly Finnish people (Sweden ruled Finland at the time). Can you tell me your thoughts on that since you are from there?

    • @Zzrik
      @Zzrik Před rokem +1

      @@alexanderlapp5048 where did you hear that from or are you just making that stuff up?, As a person of Finland-Swedish background I'm curious to why Finnish people are so bound and determined to bash or down credit their swedish brothers whom we shared a bond with for at least 500 years.
      Being of both cultures i see a lot of this where Finns go out of the way and make it so Sweden didn't do shit and Finland did everything, yet without the Swedish Crown where would our nation be?. I mean for 500 years everyone identified as Swedish even the Finnish population so most likely the term "Finnish" was never used so those who colonized new Sweden where all Swedish with different ethnic backgrounds.

    • @alexanderlapp5048
      @alexanderlapp5048 Před rokem +2

      @@Zzrik,
      I think I read it someplace in Hancock, Michigan. Most likely at Soumi College (Finlandia University) I was not trying to bash Sweden or any Swedish people. There is a significant population of Finns in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The thing I was reading was just an informative piece about the contributions Finnish people made to the United States. There was nothing negative about Sweden.

    • @stephenandersen4625
      @stephenandersen4625 Před rokem +1

      I used to live in Mullica Hill, NJ reportedly named after Swedish settler Silas Mulicas.

    • @timoterava7108
      @timoterava7108 Před rokem +3

      @@stephenandersen4625
      Mullica was originally a Finnish name Mulikka.

  • @Rivan98
    @Rivan98 Před 3 lety +14

    I think this video needs a part 2, talking about the empires of USA, Japan, Australia, Scotland, Oman and maybe China

    • @paulgordon6949
      @paulgordon6949 Před rokem +1

      I agree. Good call particularly with the Omani empire, and the Scottish one. Scotland tried to colonise a part of modern day Panama and it went terribly. They all died and it just about bankrupted the country. Good Times.

    • @simonebaruzzi156
      @simonebaruzzi156 Před rokem +1

      also Tuscany tried in Venezuela and failed . while Venice and Genoa had their empire in the black sea and eastern mediterranean sea .. so in another continent .

  • @JoaoPedro-gc8mw
    @JoaoPedro-gc8mw Před 3 lety +79

    I like that, you being Portuguese, you never forget Portugal when talking about colonialism like most people do.

    • @sohopedeco
      @sohopedeco Před 3 lety +23

      He never misses an oportunity to talk about Portugal. Hahaha

    • @leadharsh0616
      @leadharsh0616 Před 3 lety +16

      Everybody loves their country. I get super excited to see my country in these. Good to know the history

    • @naze2659
      @naze2659 Před 3 lety +17

      talking about colonialism and forgeting portugal is like doing lemonade with out the lemon

    • @adamknight5089
      @adamknight5089 Před rokem +3

      They basically started it all

    • @Ihomahomay
      @Ihomahomay Před 3 měsíci

      Portugal is first Colonial nations

  • @jtinalexandria
    @jtinalexandria Před 3 lety +6

    Great video, but when you mention the main European colonial empires at the beginning, you list Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy - but you forgot Belgium, which held the Belgian Congo under King Leopold.

    • @wafelswafels8613
      @wafelswafels8613 Před rokem

      No not true, that was ONLY private property of leopold 2, after 1908 when leopold had to give its colony away belgium got it. I mean that leopolds colony wasn't a belgian colony so you schould not call the congo belgian.

    • @br3menPT
      @br3menPT Před rokem

      @@wafelswafels8613 yeah...but was rule by the belgian king

    • @wafelswafels8613
      @wafelswafels8613 Před rokem

      @@br3menPT True but that doesn't mean begium had anything to do with it. It was his private property not belgiums.

  • @jrexx2841
    @jrexx2841 Před 3 lety +2

    Best Geopolitics/History Channel

  • @thomasmartin8917
    @thomasmartin8917 Před 3 lety +66

    You forgot Australia’s rule over PNG, the Solomon Islands and now most of Antartica and all of Norfolk Island.

    • @pingnick
      @pingnick Před 3 lety +3

      USA guano etc hahaha phillipines and so on - definitely japan huge history yeah Arab colonization of Africa interesting etc

    • @Frahamen
      @Frahamen Před 3 lety

      Not to mention, Spain and there colonies...

    • @markdelahoya9763
      @markdelahoya9763 Před 3 lety

      @@pingnick what happened in the philippines?

    • @pingnick
      @pingnick Před 3 lety

      @@markdelahoya9763 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_in_the_Philippines

    • @Ggdivhjkjl
      @Ggdivhjkjl Před 3 lety +1

      The people Norfolk Island have a standing protest against the hostile Australian occupation as well as a tent embassy.

  • @CharlesTirrell
    @CharlesTirrell Před 3 lety +4

    At 3:22 you showed "Courland Colonies in Today's Ghana." I think that is a mistake and should in "The Gambia." Besides that, great video! Loved it :)

  • @jackdaw1905
    @jackdaw1905 Před 3 lety +20

    You could have mentioned Franz-Josef-Land für Austria (an Archipelago in the Arctic Sea discovered by Austria and now owned by Russia)

  • @originalhistory4446
    @originalhistory4446 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you so much for doing these!

  • @stvasile
    @stvasile Před 2 lety +1

    Very nice video! It was interesting to watch!
    I appreciate the irony starting at 7:41 : Maria Theresa founded the Austrian Company of Trieste that tried establishing a gold mining company on the coast - the latter being in... Africa.

  • @britishperson6276
    @britishperson6276 Před 3 lety +41

    A way to get cash from colonies: sell them to France or Britain

  • @keizervanenerc5180
    @keizervanenerc5180 Před 3 lety +11

    A few years back i wrote an article about the Courland/Latvian colonization attempts in the 17th century. They pretty much only tried a few times, mostly in the Gambia and on the Carabean island of Tobago. Courland had a pretty big fleet at that point in time, so commercially the colonies were somewhat of a succes for a few years.
    However the setler colony on Tobago was plagued with... well plagues. Europeans did not fit well into the tropical climate and harsh conditions, and the first few settlements got wiped out after a few years.
    I believe the 3rd try on Tobago was a bit more succesful, but that was partially due to the fact the Courish were kind of working together with a Dutch effort to colonize the island at that point.
    The colonial attempts of Courland seized to exist after a few decades. The nation got caught up in a massive war between Sweden and Poland, the Duke got captured and the fleet was unable to compete with larger nation in the long term. All Courish settlements were either abandoned or taken over by other colonial powers.

  • @comradeedwin1006
    @comradeedwin1006 Před 3 lety +1

    Love your videos! Keep the great work up!

  • @ognjenstanic2210
    @ognjenstanic2210 Před 3 lety +6

    Awsome i love history but i didnt know anything about these colonial empires. Thank you

  • @jsonattard2179
    @jsonattard2179 Před 3 lety +31

    In the same way of the New Zealand Empire, Australia controlled Papua New Guinea, from 1932-1975, and Narau, from 1927-1968.
    Today Australia also controls Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. the Cocos (or Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. All of these are part of Australia, but are given autonomy as Overseas Territories.
    Australia also has claims on Antartica, with the Australia Antarctic territory (AAT), but after the Antartica Treaty in 1959, this became inactive.

    • @Random_Panda_eating_cake
      @Random_Panda_eating_cake Před 2 lety

      What you stated in Antarctica is incorrect all nations who claimed land at the time of the Antarctic treaty still claim that land but for research only

    • @K3rrJu5t1n
      @K3rrJu5t1n Před rokem

      Britain: Of course! I'm doing it for research! Definitely research!
      Also Britain: Colony, colony, colony, colony, colony. If that's not 'research', I don't know what it is!

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 Před rokem

      Australia’s neighbours in Antarctica recognise its claim. So when your neighbours agree the boundary between you that’s the end of any argument about who own what.

    • @robinryan4429
      @robinryan4429 Před rokem

      I doubt that any Antarctic claims will ever be recognised but Australia has an undoubted sub-Antarctic territory, the Heard and McDonald Islands; there is also Macquarie island, halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica, which we pretend is part of Tasmania, even having a postcode which makes it seem like a Hobart suburb.

  • @andrewlim9345
    @andrewlim9345 Před 3 lety +6

    Thanks for the discussion of NZ and Samoa. NZ still had a large Samoan ethnic population and there are still close ties between the two countries. NZ also still had a dependency called Tokelau in the Pacific as well as two associated states called Cook Islands and Niue, which are independent but they look to NZ for defense and foreign policy. They also retain NZ citizenship.

    • @NoDrNo
      @NoDrNo Před rokem +1

      Cook Islands are in for a shock when we show up in our tug boats equipped with our .303's to defend them....we're bringing a butter knife to a nuke fight.

  • @anshumannbatra8907
    @anshumannbatra8907 Před 3 lety +1

    Your best video till now !!!!

  • @Rivan98
    @Rivan98 Před 3 lety +1

    Gracias por el video, esto era justo lo que estaba buscando. Like 👍

  • @stankyjoe3458
    @stankyjoe3458 Před 3 lety +31

    I saw this in my recommended and didn’t realize it was released like 5 minutes ago

  • @Hixaren2
    @Hixaren2 Před 3 lety +19

    Interesting topic. Sweden rules at Barthelemy for 100 years not 1. Also what about Japan and Belgium?

  • @FilipinoPatriott
    @FilipinoPatriott Před 10 měsíci +1

    I'm so happy someone finally recognized Courland!! Love to our Latvian brothers 🇱🇻❤🇵🇭

  • @renatoovelar7442
    @renatoovelar7442 Před 3 lety +11

    Ragusa was not "croatian", they considered themselves a Merchant Republic with italian ethnicity just like Venice, Genoa, Amalfi, etc. It changed owner several times during the Napoleonic Wars from being independent to France and then to Croatia inside the Austrian Empire. But the timeline you mention in the video it was an italian city (ethnically speaking) not croatian.

    • @simonebaruzzi156
      @simonebaruzzi156 Před rokem +2

      i bet that if italy took it instead of Fiume/Rjieka someone would remember it . Or at least should remind that crusaders sacked Ragusa before going to Costantinopole in the 4th crusade ..

    • @adamknight5089
      @adamknight5089 Před rokem +1

      Ahh it's CZcams historians, they do their best. Dalmatian coast was for a long time ruled by Italians/Romans

    • @ggeronimo4412
      @ggeronimo4412 Před 3 měsíci

      I suggest you go look up most famous ppl from Dubrovnik and most of them will be croatians such as Marin Držić from 16th century and Ruđer Bošković

  • @manuelsilva8528
    @manuelsilva8528 Před 3 lety +7

    The fact that some of these nations are actually quite bigger and stronger, makes me think how Portugal stood its colonies the way it did.

  • @CoverHistory
    @CoverHistory Před 3 lety +26

    The Austrian was unexpected

    • @outerspace7391
      @outerspace7391 Před 3 lety +4

      He failed to mention that Austria had plans to colonize northern Borneo

  • @AaronCookeEngines
    @AaronCookeEngines Před 11 měsíci

    You have made me realise that I thought I knew more than I did about colonialism, thanks for making this video. Great quality too!

  • @republicofglarnesia186
    @republicofglarnesia186 Před 3 lety +2

    Hey man nice video, my ancestors are danish colonizers that went to at at croix, nice to know more facts about the empire haha

  • @theemirofjaffa2266
    @theemirofjaffa2266 Před 3 lety +25

    "Courland colonies in Ghana"
    Shows a map of Gambia

  • @gorzux2829
    @gorzux2829 Před 3 lety +10

    Chile annexed Rapa Nui (then called Easter Island/Isla de Pascua) from the kingdom that was sovereign of the island under the mistranslation of a treaty of protection which in spanish said another thing. It's a pretty interesting history the one of Rapa Nui and I would consider that it is an example of colonization by a Latinoamerican country as it is located on another continent which is Polynesia, Oceania. I recommend you reading through the history of the island and specially from their people

    • @a2falcone
      @a2falcone Před 3 lety +1

      It was already called Rapa Nui then, and it's still called Easter Island now. Both names are interchangeable. The island was treated as a colony: it was exploited for cattle herding by a private company though a concession, and the natives were Chilean nationals but not citizens (i.e. had no political rights). This changed in 1966, when the island was fully incorporated as a territory with equal legal status to the rest of Chile.

    • @ArcueidBrunestudReal
      @ArcueidBrunestudReal Před rokem

      That island was a legacy of the spanish empire so it cannot be considered a colony

    • @gajahsumat
      @gajahsumat Před 3 měsíci

      Rapa nui actually a chilian colony...

    • @gorzux2829
      @gorzux2829 Před 3 měsíci

      Rapa Nui wasn't part of the Spanish empire, it was annexed by Chile in 1888

  • @fdumbass
    @fdumbass Před 3 lety +1

    +rep for recognising SMOM, I went there a few years back and was let in by a janitor driving something like a limo. Truely a homie

  • @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150

    Great video as always!

  • @malteliskibergwall4762
    @malteliskibergwall4762 Před 3 lety +7

    Saint-Barthélemy was controlled by Sweden for 96 years from 1784-1878 and another cool thing was that there capital is called Gustavia named after the Swedish king Gustav III who bought them

  • @Marcus-rs6fr
    @Marcus-rs6fr Před 3 lety +41

    3:23 mistake, you probably meant Gambia, not Ghana

    • @jonathanr.
      @jonathanr. Před 3 lety +5

      Another mistake - Polish flag is upside down, shown this way becomes Indonesia's flag.

    • @jonathanr.
      @jonathanr. Před 3 lety +1

      @⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ He's talking about Poland and Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth so it is incorrect no matter what.

  • @slamtilt01
    @slamtilt01 Před 3 lety +6

    You should check out New Zealand’s Realm countries. The Cook Island 🌴 , Niue 🇳🇺,Tokelau 🇹🇰 and the Ross Dependency in Antarctica 🇦🇶

  • @simonbii5625
    @simonbii5625 Před 3 lety +30

    9:54 The island of Saint Barthelmy was ruled by Sweden between the years 1784-1878 which is closer to 94 years, not 1 year. Their biggest city, Gustavia is even named aver the Swedish king during that period, Gustav III. The island also has several streets with Swedish names, the welcome sign when you arrive has the word "välkommen" which means welcome in English. The coat of arms even includes three crowns as a reference to their Swedish colonial rule.

    • @GeorgeVenturi
      @GeorgeVenturi Před 3 lety +6

      Cool you have a city name after your king. We named whole countries after our kings. For example Philippines for our king Phillip. And even his wife Maria de Austria got the Mariana Islands.

    • @ZyXxOmAn
      @ZyXxOmAn Před 2 lety +4

      @@GeorgeVenturi so?

    • @ccane978
      @ccane978 Před 2 lety +2

      @@GeorgeVenturi you’re country got the name from the romans

  • @sebastianfandino7553
    @sebastianfandino7553 Před 3 lety +3

    There was also a short-lived colony of Scotland in Panama. (Darien scheme)

  • @mightymagnus
    @mightymagnus Před 3 lety +3

    Saint Barthelemy was Swedish 1784 - 1878 and it's capital is still called Gustavia after the Swedish king at the time (Guadeloupe was formally a year, although 4 years in total 1810-1814)

  • @giuseppemongiardini3924

    I love these type of videos. The Norwegian way of colonisation is interesting, no human beings to rule, only animals (maybe)

  • @Aleksander-kr3vb
    @Aleksander-kr3vb Před 3 lety

    Love that u included Norway

  • @adrielgarciauwu
    @adrielgarciauwu Před 3 lety +4

    Australia had colonies too. Papua New Guinea and Nauru were former colonies. PNG being the largest. Australia still owns Norfolk island, cocos (keeling) islands, Christmas Island, and a bunch of other islands. They even governed New Zealand for a bit.

    • @adamknight5089
      @adamknight5089 Před rokem

      Yeah NZ were just another state of Australia, until we all decided they should be independent state

  • @MiguelLopez-yc2rh
    @MiguelLopez-yc2rh Před 3 lety +11

    Doesnt USA count as a colonial empire? It has had a lot of insular territories at the pacific and at the caribean sea. What about Liberia and Panama Canal Zone?

    • @CountScarlioni
      @CountScarlioni Před 3 lety +1

      It was more like Russia and Austria at first, in that the USA was expansionist, but mostly concentrated on claiming contiguous westward regions and pushing against its neighbours (both Canada and Mexico were attacked during the 19th century with an aim on incorporating them into the USA).
      Things shifted a lot with the 1898 Spanish-American war which occurred at the height of the "New Imperialism" era. The US took over the foreign colonies of Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The same year the USA also annexed Hawaii. These new possessions transformed the US into a European style colonial empire, and one of the bigger ones at that.
      The Panama canal zone followed a couple of years later. It was a fairly benign deal by the standards of the time although hypocritical considering the US denied France and Britain the right to their own Suez Canal Zone in Egypt 50 years later.

    • @MiguelLopez-yc2rh
      @MiguelLopez-yc2rh Před 3 lety

      @@CountScarlioni Dont forget their history with Liberia and the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo.

    • @kenaikuskokwim9694
      @kenaikuskokwim9694 Před 3 lety +1

      Few of us would complain if the Puerto Ricans left, but they won't.

  • @evanschemenauer1356
    @evanschemenauer1356 Před 3 lety +2

    New Zealand still has some additional colonies in Niue, Cook Islands, Tokelau and a claim to Antarctica. Australia also has several colonies. The list was much longer in the early 1900's but still consists of a handful of islands and a claim to Antarctica.

  • @aldrintoscano
    @aldrintoscano Před rokem +1

    5:05 The Ragusan Colony in India was in the village of São Braz (now called Gandaulim), in Goa.
    My family's native village is near to that place.

  • @agnivnandi419
    @agnivnandi419 Před 2 lety +9

    Wow! I never knew about Austrian India, despite being Indian. I knew there had been Danish colonies in Nicobar and Serampore, but Austria!? That was unexpected!

    • @ritobhashbhattacharya2795
      @ritobhashbhattacharya2795 Před rokem +5

      there was also a Dutch colony in Issapore (now Ichapur) and in the nearby delta regions in Bengal... There are a few buildings there remaining as well.

    • @Scriptorsilentum
      @Scriptorsilentum Před rokem

      what architecture remains?

  • @ultimatestoryteller
    @ultimatestoryteller Před 3 lety +24

    Random European colonizer : "so our colony would be like a start-up"
    *Britain , France , Spain etc : "well you see , we are the big businesses then"*

  • @mazdmiat7023
    @mazdmiat7023 Před 3 lety

    Glad you mentioned dubrovnik or ragusa grettings from croatia

  • @mybrandnewlogin
    @mybrandnewlogin Před 3 lety +3

    Poland was trying to set up a colonial outpost in Angola in the 1930s. I think there was even a Polish coffee plantation there. And then there was also one failed attempt of a kind-of-colonial relation with Liberia just somewhere around 1936.

    • @br3menPT
      @br3menPT Před rokem

      No, they wanted to buy some lands in Angola...but the portuguese government never accepted

  • @Germ_f
    @Germ_f Před 3 lety +13

    2:31 "When you think of early modern empires, your mind wwent off and think of Latvia as being a colonizer"

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 Před 3 lety

      I honestly never imagined that latvia had colonies. It's really amazing

    • @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
      @AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Před 7 měsíci

      @@tomaszzalewski4541 Courland could possibly declare its independence, as it is already an autonomous territory.

  • @DJMattEmpathy
    @DJMattEmpathy Před 3 lety +3

    Aren't you forgetting the Darien Expedition by Scotland? It was that that led to the Union and the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam Před 3 lety +1

    Nice video as always🌝

  • @Q2W345
    @Q2W345 Před rokem

    Norway in Brazil? Where did you find it?

  • @nurdle
    @nurdle Před 3 lety +11

    imagine if Malta was a super power and fought in the world wars with it's own colonies as it's allies...

  • @kakashi9557
    @kakashi9557 Před 3 lety +14

    U forgot the empire of Oman Muscat

  • @jmfoerst
    @jmfoerst Před 3 lety

    Like the service madly in the background

  • @caliman4796
    @caliman4796 Před 3 lety +1

    Please continue with fun with flags

  • @mightymagnus
    @mightymagnus Před 3 lety +4

    New Sweden should be mentioned first it was much larger than Cabo Corso (Swedish Gold Coast) and built from scratch (the advisor was Peter Minuit that is famous from buying Manhattan for the Dutch)

  • @CC-yx2rt
    @CC-yx2rt Před 3 lety +3

    I was convinced on that earthquake... totally :)

  • @remcolodeweges2132
    @remcolodeweges2132 Před 3 lety

    Great series this.

  • @stupidmonkey1015
    @stupidmonkey1015 Před rokem +1

    Ragusa was the only one I didn't know of, neat.

  • @Artaios02
    @Artaios02 Před 3 lety +2

    The Cook Islands are also a colony of New Zealand, and Nauru was shared with Australia and the UK. As Norway, they also claim a part of the Antarctica.

    • @mmartijn78
      @mmartijn78 Před rokem

      New Zeeland + Australia = Dutch

  • @Turplemaple6318
    @Turplemaple6318 Před 3 lety +32

    Uses Indian map in thumbnail
    Indians: You have once again provoked our powers

  • @michaeldudash
    @michaeldudash Před 11 měsíci

    man I was laying down why did you have to make me get out of bed and stand up for the first minute of this video

  • @9090poll
    @9090poll Před 3 lety +1

    I would love to see a video going over the very long and strange history of the knights hospitalier pleaseee take the time to make one because they have a very lomg history and after seeing recent videos seeing what theyve became now and im curious so pleasee make this happen for me p.s. i love your videos!

  • @123history5
    @123history5 Před 3 lety +3

    At 3:34 u made a mistake u labeled the Gambia's map as Ghana

  • @Sofus.
    @Sofus. Před 3 lety +2

    The ex-Danish colonial buildings in India have just been renovated (reconstructed). An inn, university, church and a fort

    • @leadharsh0616
      @leadharsh0616 Před 3 lety

      Oh I didn't noticed in the news. Maybe it's not so popular in north. The news is full of farmers nowadays

  • @tomso9246
    @tomso9246 Před 7 měsíci

    6:02 It was good, I bought it, nice touch, ya, do more things like this.

  • @ernstwalter6518
    @ernstwalter6518 Před 3 lety

    Is it GuP orchestra I hear in the background!?

  • @DomenBremecXCVI
    @DomenBremecXCVI Před 3 lety +29

    Belgium colonising Congo: Not big enough to be a colonial power, too big to be in the lesser-known section.

    • @sohopedeco
      @sohopedeco Před 3 lety +3

      Same with the US with the Philipines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc, and Japan with Korea and Formosa.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +10

      I literally thought this when making the list. I was going to include Belgium because it's a small empire but then I thought - no, everyone knows about it already!

    • @diarllugaliu1943
      @diarllugaliu1943 Před 3 lety +2

      @@General.Knowledge but what about USA Colonies?

    • @beauchum
      @beauchum Před 2 lety

      If Russia was a land based expansion of Empire then you could say the same about the United States of America expanding west like Russia expanded east. Also if Russia is a colonial empire then so is China except they did it much earlier in areas that were not as sparsely populated as Siberia, for the most part.

    • @GuglielmusTheGreat
      @GuglielmusTheGreat Před 2 lety

      @@diarllugaliu1943 the USA does have colonies but it isn’t an empire.

  • @gustavn654
    @gustavn654 Před 3 lety +3

    sweden had Saint Barthélemy for almost 100 years, 94 to be exact

  • @sandrocorruption2599
    @sandrocorruption2599 Před 3 lety +1

    how about you make a video about the diplomatic relations between Portugal and other countries?

  • @Carloshache
    @Carloshache Před rokem +5

    I think the line is very blurry between European colonialism and "normal" empires. Also many many non-European states could be considered colonizers. For Japan's expansion into Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria was definitely colonial, and on an industrial scale.
    The Khedivate of Egypt did take part in the "scramble for Africa" when they colonized present day Sudan and South Sudan. Even the borders of modern day Ethiopia reflect Emperor Meneliks huge territorial expansion that happened during the African scramble era (1878-1904), taking territories belonging to the Oromos, Somalis and many other peoples. In this way Ethiopia did take part in the colonization of Africa. which is still a reflected in the ethnic tensions in the present day country.
    Oman was definitely a Middle Eastern colonial Empire in - ruling many coastlines of eastern Africa and western Asia and profiting imensly on on slave trade and traded with spices harvested by slaves - from modern day Pakistan to modern day Mozambique. They also threw out the Portuguese from many areas.
    Several Indian states did colonize parts of South East Asia. Was the Ottoman empire a colonial empire? - It ruled many countries a a long way from its core territory, also very far away places such as Aceh in Indonesia and modern day Eritrea in east Africa.

  • @Hamsteak
    @Hamsteak Před 3 lety +3

    It's pretty cool the part of my heritage from my grandpa is Latvian 🇱🇻, but specifically Courland. Where his last name is part the the "Curonian Kings". History and famil history is quite interesting

  • @kimbonzky
    @kimbonzky Před 3 lety +2

    Greenland, parts of Scorland, the Faroe Islands, Isle of Man and parts of Sweden used to be controlled by Norway before the colonial era

  • @gmicg
    @gmicg Před 2 lety +1

    US, Australia, South Africa, Oman., Italy.

  • @aidandelgass4701
    @aidandelgass4701 Před 3 lety +4

    In the Courland Colonial Emprire section it shows a map of The Gambia but labels it “Ghana”

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 3 lety +13

    If General Knowledge formed his own empire it would be the best one of all time

  • @justanormalcat4810
    @justanormalcat4810 Před 3 lety

    Your handwriting is so good

  • @davidmcsorley9263
    @davidmcsorley9263 Před rokem

    No mention of the US colonies - Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Panama Canal Zone, Hawaii?

  • @lamskc
    @lamskc Před 3 lety +2

    “And finally New Zealand”
    Me: ‘Sad Polish noises.’