Why Does Britain Own Gibraltar?
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- Why is Gibraltar British? For most of history Gibraltar was ruled by various Iberian powers, but in 1704 England seized it from Spain, and despite several attempts to retake it over the centuries, it's belonged to Britain ever since.
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Can you do how the channel islands (Jersey and Guernsey) are British
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as a Brit i can tell you that the primary reasons we own Gibraltar are:
- Passive Aggression
- Spite
- so we can pretend we still have an empire
- because it's shiny
Add on "because the people there want to be British" and I'm with you.
@@LookBackHistory i mean that's how we can JUSTIFY it which is somewhat different.
@@NiskaMagnusson Lol
@@NiskaMagnusson Self determination is a fair justification, also there's a treaty guaranteeing British ownership of Gibraltar in perpetuity.
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Fun fact: Gibraltar is the only part of the United Kingdom where they drive on the right.
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Great video! I especially enjoyed your map work here, Mr Look Back History. The Mediterranean is fascinating, so many pirates. Do you think Hannibal really drove elephants over the Alps? Maybe he stole them from the Roman zoo
Many thanks! Yes, Hannibal did bring African war elephants when he invaded Roman Italy, though, as I understand it, most of them died in the Alps before reaching Italy proper. As for whether he nicked them from a Roman zoo... well, who knows, but I seriously doubt it :)
@@LookBackHistory
Gibraltar is Spain 🇪🇸♥🇬🇮
Reino unido no pinta nada en tierra extranjera fuera colonialistas de nuestra tierra
@@javierrodriguezdiaz3935 Jealous much?
🇬🇧🇬🇮
@@oliversherman2414
Jealous of who from UK? 🤣😂
don't make me laugh Englishman 😂😂
Should I be jealous of your cloudy weather all day on those bland islands? 😂🤣
Of your disgusting gastronomy?
Or the fact that you are the European country with the most cases of pedophilia? 😂😂
Viva gibraltar Español inglesito de mierda🇪🇸🇬🇮
@@LookBackHistory, considering the fact that most Romans had never even heard of elephants before the 2nd Punic War and thought of them as literal monsters at first... I'm gonna go with no.
Also, I feel like Spain is extremely hypocritical by continuing to demand the return of Gibraltar while refusing to give Morocco back the cities of Ceuta and Melilla. I personally think that Spain and Morocco should both shut up and accept that they will never get those cities back.
Not really, first Ceuta and Melilla are core parts of the Spanish nation, being considered as Spanish as Madrid or Oviedo and their inhabitants have the same rights as any other Spaniard, while Gibraltar is, by the UN, a colony of Great Britian. Something that the Treaty of Utrech also also states.
@@Lucas24997 the UN isn't the best place to look for this. Their idea of free speech is still based on the knee bent version they made to appease the Soviets. Gibraltar is as much a part of Britain as the channel islands. Whilst closer to another nation, it is still vehemently British. The cities in Africa are exactly the same situation as Gibraltar is to Britain.
@@OnlyGrafting
Gibraltar is only bitan for the money and because you expelled the native population that today lives in San Roque trashy colonialists 🤣😂 and Ceuta and Melilla are not in the same situation Gibraltar is a colony and Ceuta and Melilla are autonomous cities like the rest of the territory😂😂
It's funny that a Brit talks to me about hypocrisy😂🤣 But even so, I am going to answer why we should return Ceuta and Melilla to Morocco when, to begin with, Ceuta and Melilla have always belonged to Spain since their conception, unlike you with Gibraltar, who stole it from us 🤣😂 She better not talk about Morocco as an official country existing since 1956 as Morocco is going to recover something that has never belonged to it😂🤣 Just because you guys are thieves doesn't mean everyone is 🤣😂
@@OnlyGrafting No. First of all Ceuta and Melilla were part of Spain before morroco even exist, Gibraltar was given by Spain to the British, thats a big difference, also this territories have the same rights as the rest of Spain, there is no independent governor of this places. Also British extended their land in Gibraltar broken what was extipulated in the treaty, as example the Spanih civil War, at that time Gibraltar increased their territory because our internal problems. Nowadays their are building in Spanish sovereign sea. So the difference is that Ceuta and Melilla are Spanish from a long time (Already in roman and visigothic times they were rule from the Iberian Peninsula) and the British are fucking pirates.
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🇬🇮 Has a lovely flag.
It does, doesn't it? I personally quite like the general style for British Overseas Territories' flags, but Gibraltar's is still a nice exception.
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Pretty hypocritical of Spain to want Gibraltar back since they essentially have the same in Morocco
imagine if Spain had gotten involved in either world war (mostly the first) on Germany's side...might have changed things.
A lot of islands that belong to other countries now used to belong to Spain 🇪🇸 which is kinda sad
I got an ad for Gibraltar tourism
Great vid as always. If only you used the Dutch flag instead of the Luxembourgish one :(
"Because we do"
A perfectly sufficient answer, but perhaps a bit short for a full video :)
"Because we do, and also because were England and why not"
Do How Bad Was The Independent State of Croatia?
Interesting suggestion. I honestly don't know the details, though given when and by whom it was established... :/
@@LookBackHistory it was established in 1941
@@thedownfallparodist1145 Yeah. What I meant was that, while I don't know exactly how bad the Independent State of Croatia was, I know who set it up and when... so I can assume it was pretty damn bad.
@@LookBackHistory It Was Setted Up By The Fascist Group Ustaše
It Was Led By Ante Pavelić
Great job! Where are you from exactly?
The UK, but I live in the US.
Great
Why did I read the title as "why does Gibraltar owns British"
Gibraltar was also a geographer if I am not wrong
We came for Gibraltar and got all of Iberia
ecause we want to be. greetings from the Rock of Gibraltar
Greetings from Russian Donetsk
I'm British but I live in southern Spain. I live a 20 minute drive from Gibraltar and visit the territory regularly. The people are very pro-British and want nothing to do with Spain. It's a cool place to visit and I'm proud to have it as a part of my country 🇬🇧🏴🏴🇬🇮
As a fellow Briton, your are a coloniser who shouldnt encourage our government to violently annex land abroad and fill it with transported people to replace the locals. Hong Kong is as British as Gibraltar is
@@Rynewulf It's not colonisation if the people of Gibraltar themselves voted to stay British 3 times in a row. The Gibraltarians don't want to be Spanish
@@oliversherman2414 a conquered place on a far off landmass, only British due to military occupation. Like how Hong Kong was eternally British until it wasnt, or New Zealand or Australia or Malta and so on.
Most of the dominions werent given independence referendums, they were given decentralised home rule then slowly exercised those powers until clearly not government by the colonial office of Parliament in London. Does that mean theyre eternally and natural as British as Kent? Which is physically in Britain and not musket or maxim gun won territory thousands of miles across the sea?
@@Rynewulf Gibraltar isn't an occupied piece of land. In fact, the military only makes up 10% of the Gibraltarian population. The other 90% is entirely civilian. And like I said, they VOTED to be British
@@oliversherman2414 after a centuries old conquest, by that logic Kaliningrad is naturally and inconsequentially Russian
🇬🇮 do you like The flag?
I do. I always appreciate it when flags incorporate something from their history and the key for "key to Spain" and "key to the Mediterranean" is a nice touch. Though I also like the British ensign style of overseas territories flags, so I'm glad Gibraltar has a variant like that.
@@LookBackHistory You like ensigns? So you like the red ensign?
(Canada's)
@@Historical_events I do think it's pretty, and as I said, I like flags with history, and it clearly shows off Canada's historical connection to Britain. On the other hand, the maple leaf flag is also good-looking, though, not being Canadian, I don't know the symbolism behind it. Besides, obviously, maples and maple syrup being associated with Canada.
@@LookBackHistory The current flags of Australia and New Zealand? (do you like them?)
_"reconquista-ing"_
Inb4 you watch: the answer is: why the fuck not!
is Gibraltar too small to become independent?
Why would they? They have their own parliament, they're under British defense and they get some nice cash for it. Gibraltar is like a tiny stretch of land, bit hard to make money there unless they go crazy into the service economy.
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On the topic of the modern political contention surrounding the sovereignty and control of Gib: Crossing the border from Spain back into Gib my non-European spouse was blatantly racially profiled by the Spanish border guards (all white). They demanded to see her passport (as white Spaniards & Gibraltarians swanned by unchecked), refused to concede she hadn’t broken any immigration laws, refused to let us go for over an hour. It took an amazingly helpful and sympathetic S. Asian-British border staff member to convince them to let us go back into UK territory. On top of that, the Spanish consulate refused to grant my SO a Schengen Visa despite having no valid reason not to. My spouse met all of the residency requirements. Apparently they are notorious for harassing non-white people on the border even if they’re accompanied by European descended family.
I didn’t really like Gibraltar- too crowded, horrible traffic, not that much to do. On a related note I am a big leftist and critic of neo-colonial stuff. But I’ll never criticise the British administration of Gibraltar when the alternative is what we were treated to at the border by the Spaniards. Unlike the Chagos Islands, no one is having their human rights violated here. No one. Gibraltar is no shame on Britain. Spain is even more proud of its white supremacist colonial past, especially with their arguments of “we didn’t wipe them out, we bred with them!” - yes, ‘bred’ with them to control them and destroy their culture…
Much better to anhiliate the natives and confine them into reservations than to integrate them fully into the empire. Typical british Hipocrisy. Who treated slaves like cattle.
Gibraltar is famously know in Spain for enabling drug and people trafficking from Africa who then cross into Spain. So yes, non white get checked because there is a shit ton of illegal immigration.
I live in Subsaharan Africa and I the police continuously to check my papers. Does it bother me? Yes but at the same time I'm white so obviously if they have to check passport is going to be mine.
Gibraltar : Zabal e Tarek
( Mount of Tarek )
AL Andalus ❤️☪️
And what about Olivença? Ceuta & Melila in Morocoo? Canary Guanches Islands in North África? Imperialism! Zpain! Catalonia? Basque Country? Galiza? Zpain imperialism,! Not ONLY Putin's Rússia is imperialistic!!!
Catalonia= Imperialism
British having islands in distant places = democracy
Nice Anglo logic
@@cristianiiv6418 In Britain they know what is a referendum, if the people ask about that! For example In Bermudas Scotland, etc! Zpain is like Putin's Rússia ! Imperialism! Imperialism is not democracy! You must think with youre head, not tour dick head! I know zpain is the playground for adults In Europe! Lolas and Manolos are waiting....for easy fun! Anglo - Saxons did many good things for the civilization! What did Zpain? Inquisition! Wars! Extermination and holocaust In South América! Bullfigthing!etc...blood, blood! I think the austrian Hitler, the land of the catholic Habsburgs like In zpain, had Spanish blood! So, don' t compare democracy with totalitarism!!!
@@suevialania and the Br*tish never did any crimes? Do I need to remind you about the indian famine, the 13 colonies abuse with taxes and much much more
This sounds like double standards to me
@@cristianiiv6418 is not double standard! I neverr Said the British are perfect, but they did better things for civilization! Like in democracy , people do and did wrong things, but in dictatorship they did wrong things! What is the balance for you??? For you is the same thing? I don't understand why are you pro Zpain or pro Putin's Rússia??? Maybe for you to BE free and democracy is wrong! For me is not! Anyway your opinion/ mind was recorded!😡