Temporary Countries of the 20th Century

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  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +112

    *Are there any more temporary countries you know of?*
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  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 3 lety +397

    Then Chamberlain returned home victorious, waving his signed piece of paper in the air, declaring crisis to be averted, and the continuation of World Peace, and we built a statue of Chamberlain in his honour and every day on the 30th of September we celebrate Chamberlain Day

    • @omska9325
      @omska9325 Před 3 lety +75

      Germany is invading the rest of Czechoslovakia

    • @daroach5362
      @daroach5362 Před 3 lety +65

      ...W-what?

    • @no1fanofthepals
      @no1fanofthepals Před 3 lety +59

      @@daroach5362 Germany is invading the rest of Czechoslovakia

    • @Sam_vx.
      @Sam_vx. Před 3 lety +45

      @@no1fanofthepals u lied to me

    • @bot_5786
      @bot_5786 Před 3 lety +11

      @@no1fanofthepals
      In the vid he goes to Hitler and says that

  • @casey653
    @casey653 Před 3 lety +676

    all countries are temporary. just like my life

    • @giubob1862
      @giubob1862 Před 3 lety +33

      That's deep

    • @Mewplant
      @Mewplant Před 3 lety +41

      @@joshuagibson6531 it will fall eventually

    • @mihailojovicevic5576
      @mihailojovicevic5576 Před 3 lety +11

      I thought you'd say girlfriend.

    • @funishark8201
      @funishark8201 Před 3 lety +3

      See i all readdy got out of my temporary phase aka dead so for halloween i dont have to dress up

    • @beu9245
      @beu9245 Před 3 lety +20

      @@joshuagibson6531 it's been at the point of collapsing (The whole North vs South debacle) once before, and things aren't looking very stable right now so i wouldn't be so sure.

  • @misobarisic4013
    @misobarisic4013 Před 3 lety +56

    There was no Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. There was the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Oh yes. Complicated

    • @koalabear1984
      @koalabear1984 Před 3 lety +1

      stfu post-unification royalist
      this post was made by OG SHS gang

    • @misobarisic4013
      @misobarisic4013 Před 3 lety +4

      @@koalabear1984 Suddenly, Stjepan Radić rises from the dead

  • @RexilliusK7
    @RexilliusK7 Před 3 lety +380

    An another temporary country of the 20th century ?
    The Soviet Union

    • @cardinalfrabrizioruffo6127
      @cardinalfrabrizioruffo6127 Před 3 lety +12

      Not very temporary...

    • @killme2675
      @killme2675 Před 3 lety +19

      You son of a...

    • @aerohydreigon1101
      @aerohydreigon1101 Před 3 lety +73

      Yugoslavia
      Republic of China (I mean, their rule over mainland China)
      Pahlavi Dynasty of Iran
      Kingdom of Iraq
      Hashemite Federation
      State of Vietnam
      Republic of Vietnam
      Mongolian People's Republic
      Arab Kingdom of Syria
      Kingdom of Hejaz
      Kingdom of Najd & al-Hasa
      Kingdom of Najd & Hejaz
      Mutawakkite Kingdom of Yemen
      People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
      Kingdom of Egypt
      Dervish State
      Ethiopian People's Republic
      Somali Democratic Republic
      People's Republic of Congo
      United Arab Republic
      Hungarian Soviet Republic
      Banat Republic
      Tsardom of Bulgaria
      German Democratic Republic
      French State
      4th Republic of France
      Republic of Spain
      Kingdom of Tibet
      State of Manchukuo
      State of Mengjiang
      Empire of Vietnam
      Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China
      First Hungarian Republic
      Second Hungarian Republic
      Kingdom of Hungary
      Hungarian People's Republic
      Polish People's Republic
      People's Republic of Bulgaria
      Socialist Republic of Romania
      Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
      And most importantly...
      *_Tuvan People's Republic_*

    • @brokkrep
      @brokkrep Před 3 lety +6

      You don't understand what he meant.

    • @edmundthespiffing2920
      @edmundthespiffing2920 Před 3 lety +19

      @@aerohydreigon1101 WHO CAN FORGET TANU TUVA

  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +131

    This was the case in Europe because of WW1 and WW2. I'm not sure if there's any other examples of 'Temporary' Countries in other continents!

  • @jamespyle777
    @jamespyle777 Před 3 lety +46

    The flag of Carpatho-Ukraine may be just like Ukraine's, but their coat of arms were very unique with the red bear since it was formally known as the Subcarpathian Rus' and was a part of the older Czechoslovakia.

  • @vekikusham9915
    @vekikusham9915 Před 3 lety +51

    I greet from Slovakia, from the small town near the border with Ukraine. It is nice to see that someone is also interested in our state.🇸🇰😊

    • @Nk_Neel
      @Nk_Neel Před 3 lety

      Till 2013 I believe that Slovakia is still a part of Czech Republic i.e. Czechoslovika still exist 😂😂

    • @vekikusham9915
      @vekikusham9915 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Nk_Neel 😂😂😂 Not at all, by the end of 1992 it was already clear that we would split up and on January 1. 1993, the two countries were already separate. So I was no longer born in Czechoslovakia.😊

    • @Nk_Neel
      @Nk_Neel Před 3 lety +2

      @@vekikusham9915 yeah i know later on about that...I am just sharing my Unfamiliar Experience, Actually I lived in india so don't know much about this and also internet era is not so common at that time here in India.

    • @vekikusham9915
      @vekikusham9915 Před 3 lety +4

      @@Nk_Neel It's fine, we're used to it. We are often mistaken for the Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, and often we are Russia. I have no idea why when there is a whole country between us. I once even heard that we were something like "Lower Poland".🤣🤣🤣

    • @tonijelecevic9238
      @tonijelecevic9238 Před 3 lety +3

      Poor people who are not familiar with the region would be more confused if they knew that there not just Slovakia and Slovenia but a Croatian region named slavonia

  • @pieropurich990
    @pieropurich990 Před 3 lety +13

    Hi, finally a video speaking about the Free Territory of Trieste! In other video you describe states which can exist in future or part of territories wanting to split from the state in which they now are. Remember that in Trieste there is still an underground movement for indipendence, which sometimes grow up to the surface: in 2013 almost 3.000 inhabitants of Trieste marched to remember the anniversary of foundation of the Free Territory of Trieste., claiming the indipendence of the city from Italy

  • @DerekTDR
    @DerekTDR Před 3 lety +10

    So I'm from Gdańsk. We are still using 2 crosses with crown, but know they looks otherwise. Also in Napoleonic Times we used also another flag but still 2 crosses with crown. We still using a coat of arms but not just only a shield with 2 crosses and crown, but also 2 lions holding the shield and at the bottom there is ribbon with the inscription "NEC TEMERE NEC TIMIDIE".

  • @AlirioAguero2
    @AlirioAguero2 Před 3 lety +8

    Hello from Rijeka, former Free State of Fiume (it's actually pronounced with a sonic E at the end). Today, we live in the third largest city in Croatia, but there's a strong local identity as well. While any kind of serious separatist movements aren't present, there is a constant reminder of the unique position we are in. The symbolic two-headed eagle still stands in several public places. Some curiosities might be the strong Italian culture being present here, as well as generally somewhat more liberal political stances than the majority of Croatia. Throughout history, we have been under Hungary, Habsburg Empire, Serbia, France, Italy and of course, Croatia. There is a lot of cultural mixing here.

  • @filipkopec525
    @filipkopec525 Před 3 lety +8

    Poland built its new port (the biggest in the baltic see at the time) in Polish city of Gdynia(also built from scratch ), because Danziger were making the Danziger port difficult to use.

  • @GarrettFruge
    @GarrettFruge Před 3 lety +27

    Cool video! This is one of those events in history that I find really fascinating. There are many others that could've been mentioned as well. There were a lot of these types of nation-building and separatist experiments going on during the various Communists uprisings and the Russian Civil War like the Republic of the Far East, Green Ukraine, the Transcaucasian SFSR, etc. You could also take as examples the territorial holdings of the Warlords during the Warlord Era and the civil war in China from the 20s up to the 50s.

    • @roman.ia.empire
      @roman.ia.empire Před 3 lety +1

      As a Ukrainian, it's pretty funny how our deportations led to a ton of these states from existing. Grey Ukraine, Purple Ukraine, Pink Ukraine (Kuban'), and the most famous, Green Ukraine. And then Carpatho-Ukraine, as mentioned here. But there was a group of pro-Russian Rusyn's in west Galicia, that declared a Lemko-Rusyn People's Republic, which shouldn't be confused for its nearby pro-Ukrainian neighbour, the Komancza Republic (East-Lemko Republic).

    • @whitealliance9540
      @whitealliance9540 Před 3 lety

      @@roman.ia.empire ukraine is weak and smells like old fish.
      Proof czcams.com/video/n7rjEEk7q9M/video.html

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt Před 3 lety +2

      A ton of short lived European states are featured in this vid on Austria-Hungary’s collapse: czcams.com/video/TSQkFNO6H_0/video.html

  • @dankjust0601
    @dankjust0601 Před 3 lety +16

    I absolutely love this channel!❤

  • @lordkc3007
    @lordkc3007 Před 3 lety +13

    As a Danziger, I want the city-state to be back...please

    • @dawidtan8
      @dawidtan8 Před 3 lety +2

      Gdansk, I say

    • @doncorleone1553
      @doncorleone1553 Před 2 lety +2

      Isn't Danzig still a free city?

    • @QingChina1
      @QingChina1 Před 2 lety +2

      Hello fellow Danziger

    • @lochux9741
      @lochux9741 Před 18 dny

      Ukończ waść swą egzystencji w trybie natychmiastowym, chwała Rzeczypospolitej

  • @moslimhassan
    @moslimhassan Před 3 lety +8

    You forgot to mention the Regency of the carnaro of 1920.
    It was a temporary state in fiume, led by the italian poet Dannunzio.
    Fun fact he called the volunteers that joined him legionnaires.
    Btw cool video

    • @The0Stroy
      @The0Stroy Před 3 lety +2

      It was creazy mix of proto-fascism, anarchism and pirate republic.

  • @xsXRevanXsx
    @xsXRevanXsx Před 3 lety +9

    13:31 hey! I remember that! They used that image in my history text book! I remember back when I asked my teacher what flag that was. And now I know! Thanks!

    • @stefano2583
      @stefano2583 Před 3 lety +1

      Hey revan! It's nice to find a star wars fan on youtube!

    • @xsXRevanXsx
      @xsXRevanXsx Před 3 lety +1

      @@stefano2583 hahahaha there are enough Star Wars fans on YT trust me xd.

  • @lewatoaofair2522
    @lewatoaofair2522 Před 3 lety +37

    Italian language note: You do pronounce the E at the end of words.
    So, it’s “fyoo-meh” and “tree(not chree)-es-teh”

    • @nobodyhere2803
      @nobodyhere2803 Před 3 lety +1

      Currently it is spelled trieste, but historically it was spelled "triest". I don't know what language that's in though.

    • @dragandraganic
      @dragandraganic Před 3 lety

      Trieste in English is officially pronounced as "Triest", probably because German is much closer to English (and the German name is without the "e"). However, you are right about Fiume, with the difference in that I would describe it to an English speaker as "few+may".

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k Před 2 lety

      The final "E" in Triest(e)is not pronounced in Portuguese or in Germanic languages, like English.

  • @HW-sw5gb
    @HW-sw5gb Před 3 lety +7

    Can you make a “Divided Countries that used to Exist” video? I think that would be a pretty cool topic. 🙂

  • @emilianoborro5
    @emilianoborro5 Před 3 lety +33

    Missed opportunity to talk about how before the institution of the free city of Fiume, it was militarily occupied by famed italian poet, writer, aviator, aesthete, nationalist and douchebag Gabriele D'Annunzio and a bunch of so called "legionaries", since they all were fairly outraged about the ridiculous territorial concessions given to Italy followin the Versailles treaty. Overall events like these were among the causes that led to the rise of fascism in Italy, but it's also really something we italians love to joke about based on how over the top D'Annunzio was

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt Před 3 lety +2

      D’Annunzio and co. set up an Italian regency of Carnaro in the city, which was more of a Salazar-type syndicalist dictatorship rather than fascism, but then the British and French decided to create a free territory so they had the Italians reject the protectorate and send troops to free the city of the Italian legionaries and set up a free territory instead, however despite Italy granting this favor which was unpopular at home, the allies then did not grant Italy as much of Dalmatia as it had been promised and only let them keep Zara. I believe this was part of the “mutilated victory” narrative, very similar to the “stab in the back” only from the victor’s perspective

  • @syedaliasghar9973
    @syedaliasghar9973 Před 3 lety

    Great video as always

  • @OpeNinGCA
    @OpeNinGCA Před 3 lety +41

    As a german from Saarland can I add that learning french in school as the first foreign language is still mandetory.

    • @Hugo-cn9no
      @Hugo-cn9no Před 3 lety +9

      local government wants to make the population 100% bilingual for 2030 I read

    • @dereinzigartigeherryoda9742
      @dereinzigartigeherryoda9742 Před 3 lety +8

      Et war dat schlimmste wat ma sich vorstelle kann. eich bin bis heit traumatisiert

    • @Blattgemuese
      @Blattgemuese Před 3 lety +1

      @@dereinzigartigeherryoda9742 Heer uff ze brille

    • @SirFaceFone
      @SirFaceFone Před 3 lety +1

      Cool. So most people are trilingual there, I'd presume?

    • @OpeNinGCA
      @OpeNinGCA Před 3 lety +5

      @@SirFaceFone I wouldn't agree with that. The elderly for example mostly do not speak English while the younger generations shift towards English but are capable of at least speaking/understanding basic French. For myself I had 7 years French lessons (3rd to 10th grade, wrote my Abitur in english, (11th and 12th grade)) but I didn't practice it after school and forgot a lot.

  • @luxtayii3473
    @luxtayii3473 Před 3 lety +15

    I'm from Gdańsk and I really want to appricieate that you mentioned my city.

    • @SillyUwUBilly
      @SillyUwUBilly Před 3 lety +3

      No witam rodaka.

    • @kiterkun1606
      @kiterkun1606 Před 3 lety +7

      *Danzig^^

    • @luxtayii3473
      @luxtayii3473 Před 3 lety

      @@SillyUwUBilly siemka. Ty też z Gdańska?

    • @SillyUwUBilly
      @SillyUwUBilly Před 3 lety

      @@luxtayii3473 Nie , ja z pod Dąbrowy Górniczej , niedaleko Katowic.

    • @luxtayii3473
      @luxtayii3473 Před 3 lety +1

      @@SillyUwUBilly podobno kiedyś dużo tam smogu było.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 3 lety +87

    I'm Saary but blue white and black is such an odd combination for a striped flag

  • @ralpholiverschaumann5612
    @ralpholiverschaumann5612 Před 3 lety +13

    I was once on holiday in Danzig and as I am German, I called it Danzig in public one single time and got angrily corrected that Danzig is the fascist name of the city, I should call it Gdańsk.... I was just 12 years old and felt really bad afterwards - NOT A GOOD EXPERIENCE😢

    • @brokkrep
      @brokkrep Před 3 lety

      Do they speak a bit German?

    • @tonijelecevic9238
      @tonijelecevic9238 Před 3 lety +1

      Lol dann war Schopenhauer wohl auch ein faschist

    • @moritzk3004
      @moritzk3004 Před 3 lety +9

      The name danzig is way older than the nazis....

    • @bruh-mm3ux
      @bruh-mm3ux Před 3 lety

      @@brokkrep well I mean even in Warsaw like 30% people speak German, why?

    • @ivanpuz3907
      @ivanpuz3907 Před 3 lety +3

      I really feel sorry for Danzig and Königsberg.

  • @1882osr
    @1882osr Před 3 lety +6

    This feels like a weird shilly thing to say but I swear it's legit. I've never seen a channel I watch do an ad for something I've played or used before a decent amount and enjoyed. I've played Supremacy 1914 and Call of war loads on and off, it's definitely a specific taste of game and should be seen as more of an idle game you can really focus in on and requires communicating with other players a fair bit but if you want something to sink the odd few minutes every hour or so into then definitely give it ago!

  • @danI43541
    @danI43541 Před 3 lety +19

    What about Neutral Moresnet? I existed from ca. 1815 till WW1 on the border between Germany, Netherlands and Belgium

    • @martin12345qwerty
      @martin12345qwerty Před 3 lety +2

      It was dissolved in the 20th century but was created in 1815. I think he focussed on countries that were formed and dissolved during the twentieth century.

    • @danI43541
      @danI43541 Před 3 lety +1

      @@martin12345qwerty yeah but I was just generally asking for a video about Moresnet

    • @martin12345qwerty
      @martin12345qwerty Před 3 lety +1

      That would be a interesting one

  • @aerohydreigon1101
    @aerohydreigon1101 Před 3 lety +4

    Republic of Užice
    It is in Western Serbia, it's capital is Užice
    It existed as a communist state in occupied Yugoslavia during WWII (autumn 1941)
    It was led by the Yugoslav Partisans
    It was eventually destroyed by a joint Chetnik-German attack

    • @joyfulc1015
      @joyfulc1015 Před 3 lety +2

      ok

    • @whitealliance9540
      @whitealliance9540 Před 3 lety

      @@joyfulc1015 this is more ok. Now go love him czcams.com/video/iMp7BHahY8c/video.html watch his movie when you are bored. He's a dark Sith... And his forehead is blessed with the blood and guts of little baby jesus. His writing is not from this planet. Go love him. Use a fake account if you have to

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc Před 3 lety +1

    If you watch Lidia’s Kitchen on PBS in the states, the host Lidia Bastianich was actually born in the southern part of Istria, which became Zone B. Her family was forced (like many others) to change their names to sound more Slavic, her family went from Matticchio to Motika, fearing life In Yugoslavia, she fled with her mother and brother to Trieste, under the pretense of visiting a sick relative. Her father was to stay behind as an unspoken hostage, to ensure their return. He snuck away that night and crossed into zone A to join them. They ended up as refugees along with many others, and eventually were given permission to emigrate to America. Her ex-husband was also from zone B, hence her still having a Slavic last name.

  • @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150

    Great video!

  • @MrWolf-xk8sl
    @MrWolf-xk8sl Před 3 lety +29

    8:27 there's an interesting story about Fiume (river in Italian).
    Italian soldiers felt cheated from the treaty of Versailles, just like the Germans did, because Italy requested those lands of Istria and Dalmatia when winning the war with treaty of London prior entry of Italy to WW1 having the majority of Italians living on those coasts. The morale of Italian soldiers was low at the end of WW1 because they felt they had fought for nothing.
    Unfortunately, Woodrow Wilson didn't give those lands to Italy because many Slavs were also living there, but the majority of them were on the inside of those regions. What he granted to Italy was the South Tyrol (Alto Adige), which was never part of Italy and always belonged to Austria. That's why in that part of Italy nowadays, those people living there are still very hostile to us Italians.
    This was one of the main factors that made fascism grow after the Great War and inspired the famous Italian poet and writer Gabriele D'Annunzio and other WW1 veterans to take over Fiume which was part of those lands for which Italians fought for. D'Annunzio was an heroic WW1 veteran who flew alone over Vienna and dropped leaflets making fun of the Austro-Hungarian empire and trolling them basically as he could have dropped bombs instead. He also left, on another occasion, 3 bottles (a green, a white and a red one) in the harbour of Kotor in Montenegro (where a good amount of Austria Hungary fleet were) with a war boat and with only a few men onboard.
    If anyone is interested, it's possible to visit his mansion which he left and it is very peculiar inside ( Google "il Vittoriale of D'Annunzio).

    • @unnamed7582
      @unnamed7582 Před 3 lety +4

      Nice addition!
      Greetings from Italy as well :)
      Anyways, *depending on who you ask*, D'Annunzio is also kind of a big deal in Italy in matters of irredentism etc, by many considered something else from fascism. There's also a big movie on his figure coming out in some weeks.

    • @MrWolf-xk8sl
      @MrWolf-xk8sl Před 3 lety +1

      @@unnamed7582 ciao anche a te! D'Annunzio era un grande.

    • @grindelz
      @grindelz Před 3 lety

      Lmao pizza mafia mamma mia

    • @ginjordom6065
      @ginjordom6065 Před 3 lety +3

      Italians weren't even near being a significant minority on "those" coasts. Except in western part of Istria. Territory that Italy requested ceased having major latin population since the middle ages and what Italy wanted was just bullshit considering their contribution to the win was almost nothing except switching sides.

    • @MrWolf-xk8sl
      @MrWolf-xk8sl Před 3 lety +4

      @@ginjordom6065 they were a majority on the coasts, just look up the numbers.
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istrian-Dalmatian_exodus
      In WW1 Italy didn't "switch sides" as She was never allied for an offensive war with Austria. They were allied in a DEFENSIVE PACT and since Austria And Germany declared war without being attacked, Italy didn't have to join them.

  • @BartoszCybula94
    @BartoszCybula94 Před 3 lety +30

    Greetings from Gdansk/Danzig :)

    • @GeographyWorld
      @GeographyWorld Před 3 lety +3

      I visited Gdansk last year. It's a lovely city with lots of history.

    • @BartoszCybula94
      @BartoszCybula94 Před 3 lety +2

      @Renan_PS well, actually I’m Kashubian with some Polish German heritage

    • @czmychal
      @czmychal Před 3 lety +3

      @Renan_PS Fortunately, there aren't that many Germans in Gdańsk anymore, they were chased away from there.
      So the question of whether he identifies himself as a German is nonsense. Now the main inhabitants of Gdańsk are the offspring of Poles from the Polish eastern borderlands.

    • @bruh-mm3ux
      @bruh-mm3ux Před 3 lety +2

      @Renan_PS Please if you’re in Pomerania, Masuria, Silesia, Poznań - don’t ask these questions, it’s very offensive. Even when you’re in Sczecin, don’t ask questions like these, please.

  • @SgtRocko
    @SgtRocko Před 11 měsíci

    Cool video! My mum was born in the Freie Stadt Danzig. I still have the Danzig IDs, passports, and some coins/currency that my mum & grandmother held.

  • @Punditas1
    @Punditas1 Před 3 lety +2

    While not well known, but between 1920 and 1922 there was the Republic of Central Lithuania,
    an interesting temporary country, with an ideological background. Marshall Pilsudski dreamed of creating the great polish state, witch would have included present day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine. By Pilsudski's idea, the great polish should have had such administrative territories as East Lithuania (mostly present day Belarus), central Lithuania (mostly the Vilnius region) and west Lithuania (mostly present day Lithuania). The attempt to create such a state was unsuccessful, but the Republic of Central Lithuania did gain a temporary materialization in the following years after WW I. In the end, when the Republic of Lithuania was able to get a foothold, and little by little gained international recognition, the country of Central Lithuania was scrapped and incorporated into Poland.

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt Před 3 lety +1

      Yep and Lithuania was pissed that Poland didn’t give them Vinius/Wilna. That was one of the carrots the Soviets offered in 1939/40 after the annexation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union. Vilnius was given back to Lithuania, but then a few months later the Soviet Union annexed Lithuania as well. However Vilnius remained in the Lithuanian SSR, allowing Lithuania to keep the city upon its independence.

  • @darkestpotency1
    @darkestpotency1 Před 3 lety +3

    Your english accent has greatly improved, and it sounds much more pleasent to listen to.

  • @vladutcornel
    @vladutcornel Před 3 lety +3

    The flag of Fiume was used in the 19th century in Romania, though with darker blue.
    If you rotate it 180deg., you almost get the flag of another temporary WWI country: Moldavian Democratic Republic.

  • @ahmedalneaimi6437
    @ahmedalneaimi6437 Před 3 lety +1

    I would like to send you all my respect for your vedio's contants

  • @panostriantaphillou766
    @panostriantaphillou766 Před 3 lety +10

    Fiume: the e at the end is pronounced.
    Trieste: same as above.
    Think Italian, please, in this case.

  • @joef9207
    @joef9207 Před 3 lety +1

    Great vid :). I can’t find the game u mentioned tho

    • @Alig-jx9mc
      @Alig-jx9mc Před 3 lety +2

      It should just be the first result if you Google call of War turn based strategy

    • @joef9207
      @joef9207 Před 3 lety +2

      Sorry phrased it wrong. I meant the game on CoW

  • @justamoravian1042
    @justamoravian1042 Před rokem +1

    I think that this video should have included the country of 'Neutral Moresnet', which existed as a micronation in-between Belgium and Germany due to a tiny border dispute. I have never seen it get mentioned by any large history channel!

  • @ferenctaisz449
    @ferenctaisz449 Před 3 lety +6

    I really like your videos. Could you make one about Hungary falling apart after ww1? I'm Hungarian and I would really like to see the opinion of an outsider.

    • @TheKickingDonkey
      @TheKickingDonkey Před 3 lety

      As a German with eternal possibilities to experience what you wish for, let me tell you: it doesn't hurt less when it comes from an outsider. 😋

  • @legomattie3295
    @legomattie3295 Před 3 lety +2

    What happened with Neutral Moresnet. Also existed in the 20th century.

  • @jashnohri3498
    @jashnohri3498 Před 2 lety

    hey can you tell me the map you used for the video to show Temporary Countries of the 20th Century

  • @leafpool2014_gaming
    @leafpool2014_gaming Před 3 lety

    fun fact i onch won a match as the free city of danzi somehow one one of the maps where every country during ww2 is available

  • @clocker9321
    @clocker9321 Před 3 lety +1

    Danzig is a very interesting case. Not poles, yet polish. There even was rebellion of the Prussian Confederacy, centered around the city, managed by Pomeranio-prussian merchants and peasants against the teutonic order, with the aim to unite as an autonomous part with poland - it was a historical tradition that Gdańsk would be poland s seagate and tradehub, in exchange for autonomy, protection from (mostly) germans, which allowed the Danzigers to avoid kinda strangling holyroman laws and customs. So yeah, the city decided to be polish to cheat in the game of trade.

  • @mrnecro3071
    @mrnecro3071 Před 3 lety

    Can you make a second video about temporary Countries?

  • @Kameruner
    @Kameruner Před 3 lety +2

    All countries are temporary.

  • @emperor_ra
    @emperor_ra Před 3 lety +1

    There were more states honestly like the Banat republic, in the 20th century you also had many Chinese warlords, you had many civil wars and proxy conflicts in the cold war especially, you had a lot basically but I guess you mentioned a few less known small ones too so that's cool.

  • @arthurswart4436
    @arthurswart4436 Před 3 lety +2

    You missed Neutral Moresnet, It was a state that basically consisted of a zinc mine and three villages in Kelmis in present day Belgium from 1816 until 1920. When Napoleon had lost, Germany (Prussia) and The Netherlands coukd not agree on ownership, so it became an independent country where the mayor was also king. They had their own money, stamps. taxation, anthem and flag (the Saargebiet flag upside down). There were plans to declare esperanto the national language, There even was the only quadrupal border in the world between Moresnet, Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. At the current triple border between Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands there still is a Moresnet border stone. After WW 1 Belgium annexed Moresnet.

    • @grandcrowdadforde6127
      @grandcrowdadforde6127 Před 8 měsíci

      Stamps? No. As a life long collector i can tell you ain"t no such thing as (( UPU recognized)) Moresnet stamps...cinderellas maybe?

    • @grandcrowdadforde6127
      @grandcrowdadforde6127 Před 8 měsíci

      >> a ha! locally produced && valid only in Moresnet!

  • @gianb3952
    @gianb3952 Před 3 lety

    This has nothing to do with the video, but in 8:28 the sound of the video keeps triggering my phone's Google assistant, does it happen to anyone else?

  • @insertcoolnamehere7168
    @insertcoolnamehere7168 Před 3 lety +2

    One of the rare videos where he didn't say "in the thumbnail" at the first one 😅

  • @Anonixw
    @Anonixw Před 3 lety

    Genious!

  • @didonegiuliano3547
    @didonegiuliano3547 Před 3 lety +1

    It’s Fiume, with the plain final “E”, like “phiumay"

  • @DaSpecialZak
    @DaSpecialZak Před 3 lety

    can you a video on the worlds shortest rivers

  • @iexistentimbicil2090
    @iexistentimbicil2090 Před 3 lety

    The Saar Protectorate
    And
    Free Territory of Trieste
    Are my favorites

    • @KingJupiter
      @KingJupiter Před 2 lety

      I am from the Saar ,which is why its my favorite

  • @spoonmugen5599
    @spoonmugen5599 Před 3 lety

    Ok seriously, what happened to the call of war server? I logged in today and it did not show up, even though I was already a player in it.

  • @predfir5823
    @predfir5823 Před 3 lety

    Hey general knowledge. Could u make what if SEA become unite

  • @amira_the_lynx
    @amira_the_lynx Před 3 lety +2

    Продовжуйте робити чудові відео 👍 👍

  • @LazyAndFabulous
    @LazyAndFabulous Před 3 lety +3

    Tannu Tuva?

  • @MirkoC407
    @MirkoC407 Před rokem

    Saarland maintained a commercial link to France after joining Germany. Until public tenders became mandatory by the EU, public services would use French vehicles. The police usually drove Peugeot, Saarbrücken city buses were Berliet (maybe that is why the Berliet PR110 citybus was not totally but in many points built to the German SL1 citybus standards) and later Renault, etc.

  • @roelantverhoeven371
    @roelantverhoeven371 Před 3 lety

    neutral moresnet is similar, it lasted from 1815 to 1919 however, much loner than intended, it's flag was a combination of the prussian black-white and the dutch blue, that saarland flag reversed basicly

  • @nicolek4076
    @nicolek4076 Před 8 měsíci

    My preference (not speaking Portuguese, but fluent Italian) would be to pronounced the final E of both Trieste and Fiume. Otherwise, yet another well-researched and entertaining gallop through history.

  • @francescoconti3996
    @francescoconti3996 Před 3 lety +1

    Good video man i love your channel
    if you don't mind i give you just two Little suggestions...
    First you messed up a Little bit with the Italian pronunce (try with Google translate maybe)
    Second: in Fiume you didn't mention all the D'Annunzio "Impresa", very important in order to understand the rise of fascism in Italy.
    Keep working like that

  • @para31
    @para31 Před 3 lety +1

    0:06 the free city of Danzig was counquered by Germany

  • @Luizgcmotta
    @Luizgcmotta Před 3 lety

    There was a Caribbean Antilles commonwealth after independence from the UK. The western indies

  • @Chrizz06041980
    @Chrizz06041980 Před 3 lety +1

    It's a very interesting Documentation and I like many others of your Documentation as well. After the Saar Protectorate became a Federal State of the FRG 🇩🇪 on January 1st 1957 its Economy was until July 5th 1959 still under the Control of France 🇨🇵. So the Border between it and the FRG 🇩🇪 and also the Currency, the "Saar-Franken", which was pegged 1:1 to the French Franc and had its own Bills and Coins which had the same Measures like the French Franc and was also authorized from the French National Bank and existed until then.

    • @Chrizz06041980
      @Chrizz06041980 Před rokem

      @a basketboy So what? Where's written that I'm not allowed writing american english words? Think about it.

    • @Chrizz06041980
      @Chrizz06041980 Před rokem

      @a basketboy and why you didn't write Canada and the USA itself in your list? If you're using the word "Yankee" instead of "America" you're offending those people. You obviously don't think about that.

    • @Chrizz06041980
      @Chrizz06041980 Před rokem

      @a basketboy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote

  • @kevanhubbard9673
    @kevanhubbard9673 Před 3 lety +1

    If you considered proto Yugoslavia, the Kingdom of the Serbs,Croats and Slovenes as a country you'd have to consider the much more modern Serbia Montenegro the short-lived proto state between between the rump of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro as separate countries.although Serbia Montenegro was technically one county and I suppose similar to the modern United Kingdom,a country made up of countries, they used different money.Serbia the Yugoslav Dinar and Montenegro the Euro and I had a lot of trouble changing Serb money in Montenegro.

  • @seanchadwick9036
    @seanchadwick9036 Před 3 lety +1

    The correct pronunciation of Trieste has no silent letters. Thus, every letter in this place name is pronounced. Trieste is pronounced: 1st syllable: tree (In Italian, the letter i is pronounced like the long e sound.), 2nd syllable: es (In Italian, the letter e is pronounced like the long a sound. However, the letter in this syllable is pronounced almost like the short e sound. This pronunciation is between the long a sound and short e sound, but sounds closer to the short e sound.), 3rd syllable: te (The letter e I this syllable is pronounced like the long a sound.).

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw Před 3 lety +1

      That's correct, in Italian. There's still a small Slovene minority, who write Trst, and pronounce Terst. In other languages, Trieste is known as Triest, without the ending -e, even if most have adopted the Italian name nowadays, so it's not as clear-cut.

  • @CloveredFirearm83
    @CloveredFirearm83 Před 3 lety +1

    Countries. A land. A continnent. A world. A universe
    Not so complicated but this is

  • @ivansych8956
    @ivansych8956 Před 3 lety +1

    Great video! Thanks for Carpatho-Ukraine.

  • @josemiguelsilvalopes103
    @josemiguelsilvalopes103 Před 3 lety +2

    Parte 2 - Protetorado Internacional de Tânger

  • @vervalkon
    @vervalkon Před 3 lety

    Saar took part in its sole Olympic Games at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw Před 3 lety +1

      Wasn't there a football match on a World Cup (or European Cup) where Saarland played against the Federal Republic of Germany, too?

    • @TheKickingDonkey
      @TheKickingDonkey Před 3 lety

      @@barvdw Yes. They faced each other twice in the World Cup qualification Group 1 leading up to the WC 1954, the very tournament that eventually won (West-) Germany its first World Cup title.

  • @Iomhar
    @Iomhar Před 3 lety +1

    That is not a “Kingdom“ of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, but the short-living State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.

  • @Alexander-lg1pk
    @Alexander-lg1pk Před 3 lety +6

    Love Carpatho-Ukraine from Slovakia

    • @OrkosUA
      @OrkosUA Před 3 lety

      Love to Slovakia from Ukraind

  • @almacmathain6195
    @almacmathain6195 Před 3 lety +1

    Saar 1935 Referendum: The ballot papers used for the referendum had numbers on them that corresponded to the names on the register of electors, U.K. elections also use these identification numbers. After the Saar was united with Germany the new Nazi regime used these identification numbers to track down all who had voted for the Saar not to be reunited with Germany.

  • @tm03035
    @tm03035 Před 3 lety

    3:25 what is Memel T?

  • @Youthure
    @Youthure Před 3 lety

    What about Neutral Moresnet or was that founded too early?

  • @SebastianVonReschitza
    @SebastianVonReschitza Před 3 lety +2

    Where is Banat... next video of this kind you should add Banat.

  • @pramodmk6752
    @pramodmk6752 Před 3 lety

    Plz do temporary countries in Asia in 20 century

  • @vivaeljason
    @vivaeljason Před 3 lety +1

    No Neutral Moresnet?

  • @avantelvsitania3359
    @avantelvsitania3359 Před 3 lety

    One day you will have to talk about Couto Misto to the world.

  • @maybe6536
    @maybe6536 Před rokem +1

    Its wasnt called the kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. It was called the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs before they juined with Serbia to create a kingdom

  • @princevesperal
    @princevesperal Před 3 lety

    The Saar is the reason why the number of stars on the European Union flag is fixed at 12, irrespective of the number of member States, as opposed to the flag of the USA, which adds a star every time a new State joins the union.

    • @KingJupiter
      @KingJupiter Před 2 lety

      No, Saarland was one of the founding members but when it was officially foundet it only had 7 member states.
      I would love for this to be true ,but I wasnt able to find evidence

  • @George83_Thomas
    @George83_Thomas Před 3 lety +2

    how do you draw so fast

  • @Darnellfishing
    @Darnellfishing Před 3 lety

    nice video

  • @grse.official3272
    @grse.official3272 Před 3 lety +4

    Fun fact: Rijeka means a river in Croatian and other slavic languages and Fiume means a river in Italian so thats why it was called like that

  • @DerVolman
    @DerVolman Před 3 lety

    The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas. It was created on 15 November 1920[1][2] in accordance with the terms of Article 100 (Section XI of Part III) of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I.

  • @Kanabai1871
    @Kanabai1871 Před 3 lety +1

    My great grandmother was born in Danzig

    • @KingJupiter
      @KingJupiter Před 2 lety +1

      My normal grandmother in the independent Saarland

  • @alexdel5629
    @alexdel5629 Před 3 lety +8

    Fascinating, but in Fiume and Trieste you read the E's at the end. That's Italian for y'all.

    • @ikad5229
      @ikad5229 Před 3 lety

      He pronounces Spanish words as in Portuguese too.

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k Před 2 lety

      How dare he pronounce cities like they are in English or Portuguese.

  • @Jaden_CH
    @Jaden_CH Před rokem

    2:05 Friendship of Worse

  • @NeroPiroman
    @NeroPiroman Před 3 lety

    Monserat was allso one of these between 1815 and ww1

  • @danhanqvist4237
    @danhanqvist4237 Před 3 lety

    "began"

  • @ken1666
    @ken1666 Před 3 lety +4

    Kingdom of Finland.

  • @Chris-kz7us
    @Chris-kz7us Před 3 lety

    Theres been a lot of lost countries in Central and Eastern Europe

  • @enesakhan4032
    @enesakhan4032 Před 3 lety +1

    zone B = zombie ... holy shit

  • @YourlocalSk31Ton
    @YourlocalSk31Ton Před 3 lety

    this is one of everything that Schools should Teach
    so their image would be greater
    than it is now

  • @EmperorDarthOP
    @EmperorDarthOP Před 3 lety +6

    General Knowledge Could you pretty please do a video of What if Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland & Iceland united into 1 unifed nation & a video of what is Great Brittan (England, Scotland Wales & All of Ireland), The United States, Canada, Australia & New Zealand united into 1 Anglosphere contrey?

    • @fandomfanatic5428
      @fandomfanatic5428 Před 3 lety +2

      I believe that the Nordic nations had been a unified nation of sorts back in the late 14th century. It was called the Kalmar Union, but I think a modern adaption would be cool to see!

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +2

      All good ideas! I can :)

    • @Hugo-cn9no
      @Hugo-cn9no Před 3 lety +1

      "canada anglophone" : Québec : well I pretend I have not read that

    • @EmperorDarthOP
      @EmperorDarthOP Před 3 lety

      @@General.Knowledge Awesome! Thank you so very much, i almost can't wait to see them.

  • @KingJupiter
    @KingJupiter Před 2 lety

    As a person from the Saarland.
    I like this...

  • @gornichevo
    @gornichevo Před 3 lety

    The republic of Krushevo established in 1903. Ilinden uprising by the internal Macedonian revolutionary organization in ottoman macedonia. Crushed by ottoman forces after 14 days of existence. Precursor of the Balkan wars 10 years later with the division of ottoman Macedonia and the trigger for WW1. Often overlooked but significant.

  • @grindelz
    @grindelz Před 3 lety +5

    Fiume means river in italian

    • @TheScooby455
      @TheScooby455 Před 3 lety

      Today's name is Rijeka which also means River in Croatian
      Cheers from Fiume!

    • @grindelz
      @grindelz Před 3 lety

      @@TheScooby455 I know

    • @grindelz
      @grindelz Před 3 lety

      @@TheScooby455 cool that you are from there tho :)

    • @bruh-mm3ux
      @bruh-mm3ux Před 3 lety

      @@TheScooby455 in Croatian it’s Rijeka and in Polish it’s Rzeka 😂😂