European Territorial Disputes
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Which other territorial disputes should I talk about?
I dont know
There's one dispute between the Netherlands and France, albeit not in Europe. It's on the shared island of Saint Martin, concerning the Oyster bay. It kind of dates back all the way to 1648, so that's quite fun to resolve. Another interesting (controversial) topic might be how Indonesia basically annexed Dutch New Guinea instead of letting the island unify as one independent nation, or the whole situation surrounding East Timor.
There is also the dispute of EEZ between Spain and Portugal about the Selvagens Islands
Yes, please do the other continents!
I think middle east is a nice candidate for the next episode, even the next whole season!
That Russia - Ukraine section sure hasn't aged too well
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@@marysartr Didn't you die 34 years ago?
@@marysartr ?
Well also Armenia and Azerbaijan
Well, what would you do if the US and Germany invited Ukraine into NATO ( jannuary 30, 2022 ) so that it took medium-range missiles just 5 minutes to reach your capital and that would be too short a time to stop them? Could it be that you are a person who wants to kill Russian civilization since you see them as second-class citizens?
I love how Germany is staying out of it like “we’re not doing that again”
Natürlich nicht
We tried it to much and its time to stop
*Cries in Silesia*
@@El_Presidente_5337 I thought most of it is in Czech Republic and Poland? I didn't know it was also in Germany. Cool
Yeah, but they have the right to claim danzig and königsberg
“Armenia and Azerbaijan have a dispute” *Checks news* Yep
@@Cjnw true
Angela Kindness Azerbaijan is actually in Europe. Go check europe border map😉
@@nihalhasanov162 I didn’t say either were?
@@nihalhasanov162 its actually in asia but in europe map its shown as europe because its very close to it
Europe to Asia borders are marked by the mountain ranges besides the Turkey border. The Ural mountains cuts Russia into Europe and Asia. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are cut off from Europe by the Caucuses so they are Asian countries. We can dispute Europe boundaries but these are the correct ones. Non of those 3 Caucuses countries are European
Two months later and one of those border conflicts has turned into a real conflict.
Epic bruh moment. F's in the chat
Disputes between Ukraine - Russia, Serbia - "Kosovo", Greece - Turkey, Moldova - Transnistria always have the posibillity of becoming a war zone.
@@user-vm2wi8no1s Ukraine-Russia in Donbass still little skirmishes with potential to go very hot in the Donbass region.
Nagorno Karabakh has never really gone cold, it's like Israelis and Palestinians. And I've only recently learned it too, as everything else in the Caucuses, has roots in Russian imperialism. Regardless of whether it's the tsarist, communist or now nationalist Russia.
@@greggor07 the war has now ended
UN: "ok Turkey and Greece what is your dispute about?" Turkey and Greece: "everything!!"
EmreAnil ALTUNRENDE Turkey still regrets the decline of the Osmanian Empire.
@EmreAnil ALTUNRENDE Lol Turkey does what are you on about?
louismart No we don’t! Stop shaping your opinion of Turks based upon the only thing you know about Turks
@EmreAnil ALTUNRENDE There is no dispute between turkey and Greece except the delimitation of the EEZ. The island of Imia that is mentioned at the video is obviously greek. Since turkey has no sovereignty at any island that is more than 3 nm from her coast.( except the island of imbros) Imia is about 6nm.. everybody that signed the treaty that ended the 1st WW ,( basically all the world) knows what is greek and what is turkish,but they choose to remain silent. Turkey also says that we don't have the right to extend our territorial waters to 12nm.(although everybody else in the world has asserted that right) ..They also say that the INHABITED ISLANDS!!!!! Have no right of EEZ. (Although is clearly stipulated by the law of sea, that they clearly have) .We had enough with the turks. BUT even more we had enough with our EU "partners " (except a handful of them) that they clearly support turkey's outrageous claims...
Jeune_Turc How can you know what I know about Turks?
We wouldn’t have disputes if the Republic of Korea didn’t exist
How about japan
Kim Jong-un I agree, but we also need to question if we still need France, or if we have moved on past the need for France.
Greater lider of the great country in the world . North Korea is PORTUGAL now . Okae ?
Democratic Republic of People's Korea is the one and only Korea
@@maple494 no is Portugal
The UK: thank you for being part of our territory Rockall: I'm literally a rock
A very nice rock
Father Jack ;"i love my rock"
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the rocks!
The fall of the Empire, fighting over a rock now,
I believe the rock is important is that it gives exclusive fishing rights around it for whichever nation owns it
12:21 "Europe has been at peace now." Well that didn't end well...
well...
It is not a war it is a “special military operation for de-nazifacation
Europe has never been in peace. People always forget the cold war and the balkans
@@KilyanAustin and there is literally a war in ukraine since 2014
Russia... Hold my beer!
You kinda of missed the whole Cyprus-Turkey thing, but good video, caralho!
Isnt Cyprus Asia?
Greece Turkey you mean
Turkey does not claim anything in cyprus
Turkey doesn't claim that Northern Cyprus is their territory. Instead, they recognise the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus as an independent state. Northern Cyprus has been covered in a previous video about unrecognised countries.
@@bob-rw3wk That depends on how you define continents and where you want to draw the borders. Geographically, nothing separates Europe from Asia. If you want to get really weird, ask those you know how many continents there are. I've seen answers between 4 and 8.
"Territory; each country in the world has it." Me: Except for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta...
They have a building dont they?
Dammit, I wanted to say this
Iclaims to be “sovereign”, but ti is not a country. According to the Oxford English Dictionary and many others countries must have territory. The Sovereign Military order of Malta is not a Un observer state, as some “fun fact” sites tend to say, it is an observer, a position also held by organisations such as the International Red Cross and Crescent. Many countries don’t recognise Order of Malta passports, and those that do do so simply by tradition, and of course those countries’ laws apply to the people with those passports.
I thought they had a building somewhere in Italy?
@@General.Knowledge kzhead.info/sun/a8uSdM6PjJecfGw/bejne.html
"...the islands of Imia and Kardak..." "Imia" and "Kardak" are the same island. It's called "Imia" in Greek, and "Kardak" in Turkish.
no one gives a shit how its called in turkish.... they are of no importance
@@HellStr82 ok butthurt greek
@@adems.2600 did I say I was Greek? You think it's only the Greeks that don't like you lot?
@@HellStr82 which country are you from?
@Nick Nack Nobody owns it. It's a neutral zone. A grey area. Before 1996, a Greek shepherd kept sheep on the island. He was forced to evacuate his sheep in 1996 after war was averted.
Netherlands: Mine. Germany: Mine. Netherlands and Germany: Ours.
And the thing in question is basically a technicality: Is the border in the middle of the river (as in, equal distance to both shores) or at the deepest part (as in, in the middle of where the water flows)
@Robert Robski lolololol sure bud. fight the power and all that. lolol
It's not entirely in Europe, but Denmark has a border disagreement with Canada: half way between Greenland (part of Denmark) and Ellesmere Island (part of Canada) is Hans Island. Both Canada and Denmark claim this island. And the dispute over the island is ongoing, with shots fired at irregular intervals. But shots are "fired" in a rather untraditional way: both countries every now and then have their respective navy visit the island, and hoist their own flag on the flagpole on the island. They thus remove the flag of the other country. They also remove the bottle of alcohol the other country has left, and leave a bottle of their own country's alcohol! So in this border dispute, shots are not fired but drunk!
Very interesting. I didn't know that. May be the most chivalrous border dispute. Well different from the now ongoing dispute on South China Sea...
@@nuil501 Actually there was a similar story shared in Taiwan that Chinese and Malaysian navy exchanged lunch ration. TBH anyone who takes these disputes seriously in either position are brainwashed. There is simply no "right" for anyone to claim land. It's all based on who has the bigger gun. The UN convention they mentioned here, did you know US never even ratified it?
@@dailyrant4068 Yes, it´s all based on who has bigger guns...
@@nuil501 I dunno if you are being sarcastic but this is an obvious conclusion to literally anyone that pays attention to global politics. Why do you think countries from all sides like Russia, Japan, China, US all do things like military exercises and fly bombers near defense zones? It's literally showing who has bigger guns. If you don't think military might matters then you also clearly don't know how much money goes into weapons globally, whether "good" or "bad" countries.
@@dailyrant4068 No, I am not sarcastic, I am realistic. Yes, we always remember the latin thought, 'si vis pacem, parabellum'... In this case, US is arguing China is not respecting international law ( UN sea rights convention?). I am taking knowledge from you US wouldn't have ratified that convention. By the way, by that convention Portugal would be the biggest beneficiary on sea territorial expansion, compared to its own continental area...
The Balkans:" Europe's favorite conflict area" *angry balkan noises
if they didn't want to get balkanized, they shouldn't have named their region as such.
Austrian march plays in the background. Thats my type of humor.
@@phoenixUPC ah i see another html guy
Balkan is getting better
Yes
10:48 That didnt aged too well
@@justlogical9846 no it isn't.
Middle east: Land dispute over holy Lands Europe: Land dispute over a rock Edit: Thanks for liking my stupid comment, cheers
Egypt and Suan: Land dispute over who has to take it.
@Sebbo h oh ok
there are still disputes over holy lands.......Kosovo is literally the place where seat of Serbian Ortodox church is....... they also tried to steal churches in Montengro, by my nation has freed itself of the dictator and it was prevented. Just come to Balkans....
@@abhabh6896 sorry if I insulted you in any way I just wanted to make a joke
@@felixweinlinger ok
Olivenza: Discussed here Every hoi4 ppl who played as Monarchist Portugal: I've seen this one, its a classic
Is Olivença Caralho.
Ganda Teresa, é assim mesmo caralho. Temos que ensinar tudo a estes caralhos. Olivença é Portugal!
Eu sou de Badajoz. A partir de ahora, hablo español, no se mucho portugués, vivo a 20 Km de Olivenza, tengo familia allí, he ido repetidas veces allí, y se habla español, no hay prácticamente nadie que lo hable allí normalmente, y creo pensar que no es portugués, fue cedido en el tratado de Badajoz, como dice el vídeo, y pienso que prácticamente nadie alli quiere ser de Portugal.
@Ragadaiso Sousa em espanhol é Olivenza
@@javierromerohermosel1559 no convênio de Viena diz que têm que devolver, ladrones.
Yes Welcome to comment section,where everbody is a war General and a historian.
I'm a war general (general Crk Crk)
I don’t claim to be either I just have an interest in history and as a result have read a lot about history because it’s interesting and it gives us the world we see today
@@Cam_Jong_Un me too but just assume that you don’t learn anything on KZhead because here everything is biased
I don't know anything about history and geography, but my easy solution to solve the european borders problem would be "giving everything to Germany"
@@emib6599 as a German I agree
thanks for making this it has helped me understand the book I am reading at the moment " the sleep walkers " It is about the build up to the first world war going back nearly a century before the war started. keep up the good work
Cool video! And, yes, please do more videos on this subject with examples from other parts of the world.
Very enjoyable video, pal!
Thank You for this informative video 😊
This reminds me of my paternal Grandmother's family... growing up, I was always told they came from Denmark... BUT... It turns out the town they were from was part of (In date order from about 1600) :~ 1600 Denmark :~ 1620 Germany (although Germany didn't exist, they were part of one of the principalities that eventually formed Germany) :~ 1660 Denmark :~ 1690 Germany :~ 1715 Denmark :~ 1735 Germany :~ 1745 Denmark :~ 1760 Germany :~ 1780 Denmark :~ 1800 Germany :~ 1825 Denmark :~ 1845 Germany :~ 1865 Denmark :~ 1875 Germany :~ 1895 Denmark : 1919 Germany : 1945 Denmark So are they Danish? or German? It all depends on which decade of which century you're talking about
They’re GerNish.
The language makes a person being from a nation or another not the place
I'm so bold to say they are slesvegian
Which country do they feel more like like. This is also the case for many people who live on the border of 2 countries. Their ethnicity, religion, culture are more like their neighboring country than their own.
If you want a definite answer, whichever country owns that land then you're apart of that Nationality (territories don't count).
With Rockall, who ever claims it gets to increase their fishing territories. That's it really its as sad and as simple as the Rock itself...
Mark Felton did an excellent video on this
Except the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea does not allow it, since that island is evidently uninhabitable. They *could* claim the island is inhabitable, but that claim would be preposterous. That's what makes the conflict quite irrelevant.
@@a2falcone I believe some British military personel did camp on the island for a few days once to prove it was 'habitable'.
Maybe now, but originally the UK claimed it to stop anyone else putting listing/spying equipment, etc on it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-39920686#:~:text=Declassified%20documents%20reveal%20concerns%20of,70ft)%20high%20above%20the%20sea.
That is the point where they wait with a flag and a tent for any land to poke out and claim as theirs and able to support life.
Another good video. Short and sweet and informative. FYI at 05:20 Carlingford Lough (Lough) is pronounced Loch.
Sea: The border where I begin is... Netherlands: Who decided that?
7:10 *laughs nervously in 2022*
*territory, every country has it.* cries in sovereign military order of malta
Though the same.
They're not a country, just an international order that is subject to international law, just like the Red Cross. It hasn't territory, so it can't be considered a state
@@AnAverageItalian that's not a unanimous interpretation. The buildings of the order around the world have the same treatment as an Embassy, the emit Passports, they have citizens. I'm not a expert by any means.
@@AnAverageItalian my comment would be considered a joke
You guys still do crusades & stuff?
*I’m looking forward to watch your next video.*
Here in Romania we have 2 big problems. 1/3 of Romania "Transylvania" was once held by the Hungarians and now the Magyars decedents ask for independence/reuniting with Hungary . Also Romania and Moldavian republic have people on both sides asking to be united but political interests and Russian interest want to keep Moldavia separated. Even further then Moldovia, some Romanians ask for Bessarabia and a part of Bulgaria
No reasonable Hungarian claims that Transylvania should be part of Hungary. But the large number of ethnic Hungarians living there would deserve cultural autonomy.
@@viktorkaposi8256 it depends a lot with what view point you come in to the discussion. I tend more on the EU side and eventually removal of borders and integration of rest of the European countries. If that happened it is irelevant what cultural autonomy any part of europe choose to have. But you know the point used against giving total control. With global warming we will have more and more emigrants that might ask the same off us all. Personally I am not afraid of cultural autonomy as long as it respects the law. But it is a little frightening the fact that you still are part of România but can't buy from a store or order at a restaurant because you don't know the language. Good thing that I know english. Maybe that is the future. We all speak english outside and our original language in the family/community. I am against patriotism as that permits wars and discrimination but we must also consider that in Transilvania we don't have only one grup of people there are several. For example what about gypsies, jews etc. Everyone should have autonomy in privat but in public we should choose what best fits all groups not just one.
@sza A lot to unpack. First "Transylvania was given to Romania bc of the Romanian majority of the population." Not correct this was the result of the WAR. Romania had a choice if we allay with Germans we would receive Moldovia + Bessarabia which was the first choice of Romania but after a Quo near the middle of the war we changed sides so at the end we lost Moldovia and received Transylvania as long as we accept a procommunist party in Romania. You can say it is semantics but this is my point that the borders are were they are now not because of the people but because of wars and politics. Look at Russia today they just taken part of Ukraine and the reason that there are more people of x nationality in an area is just an excuse. If that was true Romanians are all over the world and some Areas of France, Italy, Spain, or England are majority Romanians should we get that small pockets of the country changed to Romanian control? I think not. My political views are liberal and I would like to be an "world citizen" but I know that a majority will not approve. I think the reason is because the people in power use that normal people by appealing to the patriotism line so they can keep us separate. I think that patriotism is a bad trait, it is the reason terrorists attack and soldiers kill. Language is not a reason for me to be afraid to loos in an united world. Language always die. It is going to become like Latin. I consider the advantage of all the world specking the same language much grater then then the lose of parts of culture. But that is me I don't speak for all. If culture is so important then i think there are ways to keep languages alive and for all to have a second language that is sheared (lets not go to much on a tangent) The idea is: are better then our ancestors? We always think in tribal way. This is My tribe! This is My Land! This is My Faith! and I will kill, fight, and take advantage of others not in my Tribe so my Tribe can survive. We have protected our cultures with the price of countless lives and we have a "sunk cost fallacy" mentality about this "you know how many have died for our country". I can't ask others to sacrifice there language and culture for a world with less wars and divisions but I would gladly sacrifice my part of culture. The argument of controlling traffic at the border for the purpose of controlling criminals at the borders I think is wrong. No big criminal is bothered by customs it is just an extra cost to add to the price of the end product. Borders just crate rich borders controls. and if you have the money or will you can go around any border. If borders worked we would have 0 immigrants and 0 illegal products. And if borders is the only way to stop crime why don't we split our country in more parts to stop criminals from moving around our countries ? More money should go to preventing crimes then to try to catch them.
There’s actually a really good video on YT about Rockall (I forget who by) and it explains that a lot of its importance at least in the eyes of the UK, stems from the Cold War. We wanted to put communications systems or something there, but as it wasn’t claimed, it could have caused a serious situation. So, we went to great lengths to legitimise our claim. We planted a flag, had people stay on it for a bit in a tent. All sorts.
we went to great lengths to legitimise our claim. We planted a flag, had people stay on it for a bit in a tent. All sorts.
@@gibrinamesno5019 The UK did this with pretty much any any rock they found. In the Azores, an island popped up due to volcanic activity. A UK commander went there and claimed it. The only reason it's not disputed today is that it sank.
You should add: Transnistria - moldova vs russia
Didn't know that 86 region appeared in Russia.
Bucovina - Romania vs Ukraine More than half of Odessa - Moldova vs Ukraine
@@bonapart3572 romania and Ukraine have a dispute over the Serpent's island, but not Bucovina. That's more of a cultural thing. If we go by that logic, Romania doesn't recognize Moldova as an independent country too
@@cas_de_marcat Who says Moldova need indepencence? We are illegally annexed by Russians after Ribbentrop-Molotov pakt, if Romania didn't recognize our independence because of this pact in '91, Moldova would be part of his Mother country now. Basarabia never existed as a country, it was just a part of Moldavia, wich now is part of Romania
How to solve this? What do Moldavian think about it? Are they proudly to be an independent nation? How do they see moldavians of Transnistria region? This is quite complicated to understand and I had conversations with some moldavians once. They literally said they don't like Transnistrians. This is not going to be solved soon.
2:08 “Downfall of Napoleon” Wait… they made a movie for that too? Why haven’t I ever seen a Napoleon Rants video parody?!
Heh, i was litterally just watching downfall parodies.
Waterloo is kinda that
"Grouchy! Grouchy! Grouchy!" -Napoleon, 1815
I just see Napoleon from the first Bill & Ted, “le water slide...” “I don’t think it’s gonna work dude.? “Non?” “No.”
@@cv4809 je suis emparator, Bitch! *La République nous appelle, Sachons vaincre ou sachons périr* 🎶🎵 Je hate the Britiiiiiiiiishhhhhhh
You cannot fit them all in one video about Europe. Another great video. Thank you.
Great video. Sober narration. Nice!
Now that the Balkans have been discussed, let's move to a slightly less contentious area of the globe: The South China Sea :)
The comments will surely be civil.
Tump Solved Kosovo Serbia Dispute. Rest of the Balkans: Da Fak they doing over there!
@@LaneCorbett bruh nothing is solved tahts just some stuff about israel in that agreement
I'm sure that would go well.
The video discussed and explained nothing. You could have as well read a Wikipedia list. The thing is no one questioned China's sovereignty in that area for most of its history. The claims from other countries are fairly recent because the US military presence encourages them to, cutting off China's trade routes by sea. Also, incompleted WWII land returns and the ongoing Chinese Civil War add to that.
Finally they remembered the Estonian dispute. So many maps don't have it.
@@Vii905 Really?
@@Vii905 Really!? You gave up? Imagine if gave up the claim on Ladogan Karelia (yeah, I'm finnish). That would be unheard of in Finland. In my opinion that small piece of should belong to you. What does Russia benefit from it anyway?
@@Vii905 Estonians say that too. They wanted to fight. But gave up for the same reason. But best of luck to you, my Latvian friend. Perhaps your dream will come true. You've got my support 🇫🇮❤️🇱🇻.
Stop whining irreverent Balts Lithuania happily accepted new Soviet borders and never complained As for Latvia and Estonia They ceased to exist as independent countries on 1940 so their Soviet borders are legit and permanent.
@@Vii905 Greece with more than 800.000 dead in WW2 and most of the industry destroyed, took nothing as a reparation.
In French school they teach us that Mont Blanc sommet is share between France and Italy.
In Italian school too. I didn't even know we had a dispute
10:30 as a dutch person I feel obliged to point out how unrealistic Germanys claims are compared to ours. We want to share halves and they want to claim the entire bay?
And how do you feel about Delfzij?🤣
yeah i thought that too, its a bit nuts
This dates back to 1464 … When the Netherlands were still part of the Holy Roman Empire. So chill my friend ;-)
@@timk1619 yeah but... thats still a shaky claim at best. i mean, germany didnt even exist back then. and the holy roman empire was its predecessor culturally in a few areas maybe, but not legally i think. and even if you go the route of "the german fiefdom on the other side of that bay got incorporated into modern germany eventually and thus transferred all its claims to the new state", by the creation of modern germany that claim would already be more than 500 years old. i think we should just let it go tbh, its completely insignifcant.
If they think their claim is fully valid, why would they accept half?
"territory, all countries have it" Order of malta: am i joke to you?
Well... yes, you are
They have some buildings in rome
@@somerandomguy1887 Does owning a building makes you an independent state? Some guy had a platform on the North Sea. He proclaimed independence but everyone laughed at him. Why don't we treat this Order the same way?
@@tomaszkruszewski8531 it works more like an embassy
@@tomaszkruszewski8531 Well when you've been around since 1048 people tend to treat you a little more seriously. Just a little, though...
For the Aegean Sea's dispute at 6:50 , remember that gas and oil reserves are expected in those waters.. you get similar disputes about sovereignty on sea waters between Palestine/Israel/Lebanon in the Levant. those newly discovered commodities re-ignating old rivalries.
"definitely not worth fighting over" Well...this video did not age well in the Caucuses
Ukraine and Russia oh really?
man, i didnt even think that you would slip in the rock like that. really caught me off guard haha. didnt see it coming. thanks for that. lol
"Some are big, some are small." British Empire: _Am I a joke to you-_
one day world events are going to cause a coming together of the Empires Autonomous states, ( not under direct rule but by equal partnership )the UK Canada Australia and New Zealand being the biggest. there is already a massive push towards integration with CANZUK and the new Trade deals and possible Free movement between territories. the GDP of the commonwealth is US$10.4 trillion which would make it the 3rd biggest economically and a SuperPower in its own right- the Empire isn't dead its just Asleep.
TheTechOasis dang, thanks for all that info.
@@hi-sg5fh sorry bro i'm stoned AF. not even British either lol .....
@Death To The CCP Fuck yes! Long Live CANZUK
@Death To The CCP what does CCP in your name stand for?
There'a one "dispute" between Latvia and Lithuania - the sea border dispute. Basically they don't fully agree how to draw the straight line from the land border into the sea, because of oil (or possible oil) in that sea territory. There have been attempts to settle it, but none were complete. It's so minor that I can't even find a picture online. It was present in some Lithuanian school textbook I think :D
Thank you for including Rockall in your video. The dispute is, as you state, not about the rock itself but about the continental shelf west of Rockall which gives the country that claims it the exclusive rights of natural resources under it, including oil and gas. The continental shelf in this area is separated from the continental shelf of Ireland and UK but continuous with the continental shelf of Iceland and Faroe Islands. The governments of UK and Ireland, however, claim it based on their claim to Rockall since Rockall is located on the disputed continental shelf. In economic terms, this dispute might therefor be the biggest dispute of them all. In the last 100 years, Iceland has once been occupied by the UK (May, 10th 1940) and the countries have also had series of confrontations, so called Cod Wars. Each of the disputes ended with an Icelandic victory.
Incorrect. Ireland does not claim it. Ireland's position is that it is a rock in the middle of the sea. Nobody owns it. And certainly no one can claim 'exclusive economic rights' to seas around it.
Definitely make some of these!
In case you plan to make a part 2, you should include the disputes between Switzerland, Austria and Germany about Lake Constance/Bodensee. Tom Scott made a short video about it as well.
yeah wouldn't want a war to spark their, Germany and Austria don't stand a chance.
@@darrenbutler9819 Besides your terrible grammar 'there', it's actually really interesting and less hostile than you probably expect. This is the really good video mentioned, by Tom Scott: kzhead.info/sun/ftuBmpikoWV8YKM/bejne.html
@@mrkekskopf5904 i see, well it was meant more as a bit of a joke.
Darren Butler ain’t nobody was talking bout a war🤨
@@chileanyways9178 no but it's a joke, honestly
Please do Asia and America. I love these type of videos!
The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland territory dispute isn’t that big of a deal since there is no formal border between the two countries, as agreed in the Good Friday Agreement. There were plenty of buildings that were half in Ireland half in N. Ireland so the border was agreed as a general outline and you can cross the border easily without a passport.
How about now, after Brexit?
@@TarebossT well that’s where the fun begins
@@TarebossT Still the same for now luckily
Yup if an Irish or UK passport holder, crosses the Irish border, no issues at all, either way. But in its Brexit frenzy, the UK soon wants to impose on anyone else travelling from the Republic into NI (eg a Dutch or US person) the need for an entry visa. Both tourist boards (NI and Republic) and the Irish Govt have objected..
Mad respect to Portugal for not giving up their friendship with Britain just cuz some short person said to. Love to Portugal from America!
I’m going to be honest, I laughed at his pronunciation of Lough.
Correct one?
Pronounced as lock
Darren Corr well, no. Pronounced as Lokh where Kh is a voiceless velar/uvular fricative as in German nach
I live beside it, we say it as lock. Lockh would be a more Scottish way.
Same lol
"Carlingford Low" Lock is fine, but you're supposed to half choke / half growl on it. It's a similar pronunciation to Loch Ness.
South China sea and Bolivia's claim to coastal territory. Thanks for the video. Very informative!
I have another one: Lake Constance. Switzerland says it should be split in the middle. Austria says it should be managed together Germany says the countries can just resolve any situation individually when it happens.
Hello @General Knowledge, Hawaii is growing 42 acres per year. A cool video idea will be explaining how big Hawaii will be by the next 1000 years.
Same case with Iceland.
*cries in Sylt*
You know what- I respect you for having the guts to mention the Balkans,, Edit; if you want to, after other continents, i'd love to see a part 2!👍
And you can se that he is a clever one by just skipping the whole Kosovo mess
Excellent video.
4:17 a country’s naval zone of control is designated as 12 nautical miles from their coastline in every direction, along with another 12 miles of enforcement zone. This means Rockall adds 452 square nautical miles of sea territory to whoever might control it.
Mm the issue re Rockall for Denmark (via the Faroe) and for Ireland is not the rock itself. Both states say the UK is welcome to it. What they strongly object to is that since it cannot be permanently inhabited, it should not generate any territorial rights round itself, incl fishery ones..
The Caucus disputes, The Balkans, The Aegean & the Ukraine disputes could flare into war, but the other are more historical curiosities.
The armenian - Azerbaijan one is considered an active conflict I think
balkan one is probably gonna be war cuz dictator in montenegro fell
@Wylde Wylde maybe but probably not montenegro will leave nato reform hole nation and maybe even Serbia will get nice patriotic leader and we get RS back and more may we pray for God
@@lazarmiladinovic3840 Montenegro will never leave NATO Even if Serbs control entire government As for Bosnia it's dissolution will spark a new war So it's status will not change Only thing that can creat conflict in the Balkans is Kosovo issue
I maybe overreacted for war but Montenegro will leave nato dont you worry
Day 1 of waiting for GK to mention his Discord server in a video
You forgot the worst disuptes of them all, an old Finnish man claiming the neighbour is too close to their house.
lol in Portugal there's something similar. In small (worthless) agricultural lands there are small pathways to get to each piece of land and old people have meltdowns every time someone uses their pathway to access another land lmao they're like "he passed in my pathway, he's up to something, he wants to change the land borders!!" * old people angry noises*
The only serious dispute in the Balkans is between Serbia and Kosovo, but it is not only about land dispute so it probably doesn't fit into this category because the story is much more complicated. And probably Greece and Turkey, but that is more about geopolitics than about land dispute. All other disputes are about tiny pieces of land or regulations arund land use, transportation etc... But not a big deal.
Apart from the (as others pointed out) Cyprus-Turkey dispute, you're also missing Transnistria-Moldova. It's highly militarised and Russia also has some bases there.
I was in Crimea 3 weeks ago. Its very cool soviet style courort. The city name we were in is Alushta. I saw some old soviet photos of one building. There was a sign on it “Every soviet citizen has a right for rest!” Nowadays this sign just says: “Alushta is a courort.” It made me a little bit sad, but after that i took 3 beers and became happy again! And we asked some people here, they said that that nothing changed for them, but at least Russia builds schools and hospitals and tries to look after architecture of this place, so they enjoy Russian rule more. I saw one Ukrainian flag in the house, but i think it is the only thing that Ukraine made in Crime. Just some signs and flags.
One more dispute/ historic dispute is Finland and Russia over Karelia.
Dispute! Your meen the area Sovjet stolen during WWII and are still occupied by Russia? Sovjet stal ju Karelska näste av Finland under 2a Vk och några andra områden i norr bl a Finlands korridor till Ishavet!
Karelia and more
no thank you, Finland would go bankrupt trying to bring the lost parts of Karelia to the same standards of living as the rest of Finland
Also, there's the dispute on who should control Königsberg.
@Vladimir Putin I know! Israel has won lots of war against the arabic nations, which started all of them except one! But the land they son or their land wins are still controversial! If Russia still occupird a bit of Finland, ett cant Israel occupie a pice of the former protectorate, Palestine and a part of Syria! We can call that Kaliningrad!
I'd love to see you cover Cyprus and perhaps Transylvania, although the latter is not an actively disputed territory. Yet it's history the past 100 years is a very complex and interesting one.
in Cyprus,Turkey is 100% wrong.They occupied almost half of the island and they refuse to give it back to Cypriots
Who else watching in 2022 💥😐?
The controversial topic of disputes, so interesting, on the same time, for other people not so pleasant
You should have mentioned that France is the country with more unique territorial disputes (because biggest territorial contiguous dispute by landmass/water surface is another one ejem Kashmir ejem) And also it was pretty interesting to see the War of the Pacific conflict as example XDDD, considering the city where I live, Iquique, was shown in a video yaaay aksjsk
I think you missed on of the biggest: The Cyprus and Turkey conflict regardin the north of Cyprus
Carlingford lough, "lock". Great video
The funniest part was during rockall island when rock was crying
The "conflict" about the borders in Lake Constance is also somewhat amusing
very good and interesting video!
Weird that there was a tint to some areas. I guess the use of a sleight of hand is good for general knowledge!!
Spain does NOT recognize British sovereignty over Gibraltar, nor does the UN, which considers it a colony in need of decolonization. There's indeed a secondary issue on the border, because Britain occupied the neutral zone, but Spain only recognizes the "ownership" of Gibraltar by the Crown of Britain under Spanish sovereignty (as those are the terms of the treaty of some 300 years ago). As such Spain does not either recognizes that Gibraltar has territorial waters of its own either.
There are 3 more places which Portugal can claim from Spain, but they are not so much relevant as the area of Olivença. In these 4 places the portuguese borders specialists do not mark any kind of bordering signals. The flag of Ceuta also uses the traditional portuguese background city flags.
Video: All disputes exist peacefully while looking over the map of the Caucasus. The Caucasus: Let's go to war over our disputed territories.
And then there are seperatist movements, where local people (often of their own cultural and/or ethnic identity) want to govern themselves.
carlingford lough as in lock
"We claim ownership of Rockall....on which there is F*ckall."
Large oil and gas pockets around that area. That's why there's a dispute.
What about Northern Flanders and Southern Flanders? ( Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and Frans-Vlaanderen) Between Belgium and Holland and Belgium and France? (old historical borders of the duchy of Flanders)
French Flanders should be given to Belgium forthwith.
Your pronunciation of many areas that are not known to the general public but are very well-known to the people who deal with these issues show that you’re just making KZhead videos ;) but in the end they’re not too bad😎👍
Don't forget the Liechtenstein vs Czech Republic. It's literally about Liechteinsteiner royal family wanting back it's feudal lands from the Habsburg era. It still remains unresolved, but given that the royal family alone is wealthier than the Czech state, and that Czechia has such a bad diplorep, It is possible they gain it back.
When you were talking about Portugal and the napoleonic wars, they did manage to hold on to europe kind of. There were 3 Invasions, first 2 were quickly repeled, and the 3rd was successful, however the british troops, along with the remainder of portuguese forces, managed to retake the country. Its very interesting, i suggest you to look it up!
9:54 If I am not wrong, the Mont Blanc is actiually the highest mountain in europ, not the second highest Edit: turns out I was wrong. Sorry
Sometimes the Elbrus is counted as Europe's highest mountain, but it is situated in the Caucasus, and it id disputed whether it belongs to Europe or Asia
@@mihran9590 mais de rien
I learned in school that Elbrus is the highest
@@petru196 If Elbrus is the highest, then Dychtau would be the second highest. With Mont Blanc on place 9 (or 3, depends on where ou draw the border between Europe and Asia in the Caucasus). It is also possible to define the border between Europe and Asia in a way that Mont Blanc is actually realy the second highest. But... try to find a general accepted border here... Noone can tell you that. For me, Mont Blanc is the highest mountain that is entirely in Europe. Which does not make it the highest mountain of Europe at the same time. Becauser... yeah, see above. That's what I learned at school, and also found the same information on several sides like Wikipedia and stuff.
Love your work! Please continue!❤️🇳🇴🇪🇺👌🏻
You missed Pytalovo/Abrene region dispute. Also, the Baltic sea dispute between Latvia and Lithuania that just got resolved last summer.
When you do the North American Continent, don't forget the world's most civilised dispute between Canada & Denmark over an uninhabitable island in the Baffin Sea between Nunavut Territory (Canada) and Greenland (Denmark)
Are you talking about that island, where the Danish left their own flag and a bottle of traditional danish liquor and the Canadians responded by doing the same with their flag and a canadian liquor? I know it's a serious dispute between them, but that's still funny lol
@@xxlix437 That's the one
The Netherlands have achieved a major victory today by pushing our borders two meters further into Belgian territory.
Belgium is so weird. Shouldnt even exist tbh. Why not just split it between the netherlands and france? Can we all just agree that Belgium isnt even real?
@@BavarianHobbit woah woah woah, Belgian Lives Matter! 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
@@BavarianHobbit I agree Belgium does not make much sense. Some of it to Germany, some of it to Luxembourgh, most of it to the French and the Dutch. Brussels to the Dutch as a French speaking autonomous region.
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just as great a victory as getting 2 meters in ww1
Switzerland also has a border dispute with italy over a bit of mountain and a mountain hut with a restaurant which is italian right now
I'm sure others have said this, but you're essentially right. The Rockall dispute is mostly about fishing rights in the area.
You forgot the South Tyrol thing but maybe it's too small to mention it. Nonthless great video
Nah they had their entire mini Austrian IRA, I find it pretty interesting.
It's just a claim, not a dispute. Alto Adige-south tyrol is totally part of Italy
@@thekrieg4251 The people there don't see themselves as Italians though. But also not as Austrians. They are Südtiroler.
@@Sarah-kc3fb so? Actually Bolzano, the major city of Alto Adige-South Tyrol is of italian majority. It's stupid talking about indipendence or annexation of the land by Austria, it will never happen. They feel south tyrolese but their culture is protected by the italian state and they have FAR more advantages to be part of Italy (they have special laws and can hold back the majority of the taxes). That's also why the independentist party is shrinking more every year
@@thekrieg4251 Like I said, they dont want to be part of Austria, they want to be independent completely. I have met a lot of people from south tyrol that took it as an insult when someone said that they were Italian, they also only spoke german. I personally don't care about it, its just what I have experienced.
7:33 what do the light-blue marked countries represent?
Support Russia but don't recognize Crimea.
french and italians fighting over a big hill feels like the setting to a bad wes anderson film.
I like how you inserted Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson when you said “Let’s just ignore the rocks existence.”
Interesting. I'm Danish and have never heard that we (though on behalf of the Faroese) have laid claim on Rockwall Island
I’d love to have this for the rest of the continents
I love your content I just wanted to tell you tho at around 5:25 you miss pronounced Lough it’s pronounced ‘lock’ something to do with the Irish language
"Territory its something every country has" Knights of Malta: AM I A JOKE TO YOU