Unknown Colonial Empires

"courland colonies in today's ghana" Me:💀

Belgian Colonial Empire (Belgium, DRC)

The period of American colonialization of the Philippines was 48 years. It began with the cession of the Philippines to the U.S. by Spain in 1898 and lasted until the U.S. recognition of Philippine independence in 1946.

Brazil was a very short-lived empire, having tried holding Uruguay as a state. Uruguay commemorates independence from Brazil, and not from Spain or Portugal.

The USA with Iceland

@Disco Saturn Can Still Make Anthems and Others I owned half of Europe and lost 2 world wars-nzi germany

"We the Allies have won World War One. I got the Philippines." - the United States "I got Micronesia." - Japan "I got Iraq." - the British Empire

@Awfulity Algeria defeated France for centuries, even though they were 3 million and divided and France almost 40 million. The state of Algiers and the region of Kabylie, which did not have even half a million of population, defeated France and many European powers for centuries. Yet after many wars in Algeria with the French colonialists, Algeria still kicked the butt of France and its settlers that they still resent today.

I joined Indonesia in 1975 but left in 2002- East Timor/Timor-Leste

@neddy laddy your denial of the truth to make yourself feel better is quite sad. Acknowledging the truth is good for you. Go learn something. Ask yourself who would want their land stolen?

Or Angkor or the Mughals and their ancestor, the Mongols or the Meiji Japanese or Indian Kingdoms. We can go on and on and on how the only thing that matters to so called BRvid historians were the short European experiments where countries can barely hang on to their borders for a hundred years.

​@K3rr Ju5t1nthose weren't colonial empires so what's your point

The Empire of Ethiopia was definitely had a huge imperial expansion during the "scramble for Africa" conquering the Oromos and the Somalis and many other ethnic groups so it can definitely be counted as having taking part in African colonization, during Emperor Meneliks expansion (1878-1904). So it was another non-European colonizer in Africa. Also the Khedivate of Egypt did expand during the 19th century and conquered modern Sudan and South Sudan.

@Gabriel frost *cough cough*

@Jirachi- Wish Maker gwadar????

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@Śrī Yaśodharmma Serbia is Liechtenstein

@Śrī Yaśodharmma no

@Minja Jovanovic because it would just be taken away by a stronger power in like 7 minutes.

@Keith Stevens The definition of colonization varies depending on who you ask. It’s most basic definition is just conquering a new area and therefore any country that has expanded its territory can be said to have participated in colonization. But if we’re talking about the sort of settler colonialism practiced by European nations where it was not just necessary to conquer a new area but to send settlers to establish control over it then no, that cannot be said for every nation that has conquered new territory. In any case, however, Poland can be said to have participated in colonization.

@Ousarlxs Fjsbvbg So by your definition everyone in the world colonized someone else at one time, since colonization is now when ever someone expands their own territory.

Nope , Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth never was involved in colonization , that was local initiative , king did not cared about that .

America: establishes colonies Britain: *cries* He grew up so fast! America: Oh, and you're no longer in charge, I am Britain: YOU LITTLE FU-

Bruh

@Bakthi Hapuarachchi NZ: MUM! DADS BEIN WEIRD AGAIN!!

Seems like a scene of Hetalia.

Benjamin Franklin yeah ik,just wanted to add

@DJMattEmpathy yaps, Run Island

@K3rr Ju5t1n true

Crippled Europe and South East/South Asia during post-WW2: exists U.S. of A: It's free real estate

New Britain (York): Exists USA: It’s free real estate

Antarctica: *exists* The British: It's real free estate

That's very interesting

@Dawid A right. My mistake.

it's in Gambia not Ghana

If was Tobago we only had for a year

Thank you! Absolutely correct.

@idk what i am doing He probably meant Guadeloupe but that is not what is said. I had to re-listen several times to make sure.

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

Rollox RA the Lesser Antilles to be more exact

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

They basically started it all

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

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

He never misses an oportunity to talk about Portugal. Hahaha

2 months later and still the same

Gambia + Ghana = Gamhana

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

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

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

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

@Stephen Andersen Mullica was originally a Finnish name Mulikka.

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

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

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

@George Prince "What?" is exactly my question

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

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

@089roblox1 no. I just annexed it.

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

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

Jemalo cough cough!! (Greenland) cough cough!

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

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

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

goes without saying read a book

He ought to have said “sparsely populated” instead.

@Ggdivhjkjl Funny coz Norfolk Island is actually corporation of Australia's HQ

cocos id, christmas (keeling) id., tasmania, westralia (i know these last two are aussie states but you should listen to what a lot of people there say 😶😶).

@Farahen Den the Spanish empire is NOT unknown

@All K They own like 1/3 of it

@Farahen Den everyone knows about the Spanish colonial empire.

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

@George Prince you’re country got the name from the romans

@George Prince so?

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

Or US.

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

True I mean it is even named after an austrian emperor

@SodaPop South Africa already has nine provinces.

Then Russia had siberia as a cölni.

The Definition of a colony is a piece of Land which is not Connected to the motherland.

also Oman, with colonies in modern-day Pakistan, Mozambique, and Tanzania

And also Morocco and Mauretania with Western Sahara after Spain pulled out.

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

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

@Existence The best known Danish colony / tradepost in India was Tranquebar ( in Tamil Nadu ). And is the "Srirampore" you mention also called Serampore? Or is that two seperate places? Serampore was known as Frederiksnagore in Denmark during colonial times.

@maveo also srirampore and trivancore was Danish colony in India. Also had a trade post in balasore. Srirampore is close to me, and still there is a Danish tavern, danish church and Danish governor's house.

I also saw them in indian history

@Vaishali Jagdale that's why Nicobar was part of British Raj

*Cough* bandiaterra *Cough*

what architecture remains?

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

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

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

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

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

I said this because I think he said we only had it for one year

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Czy wy nadal mówicie tam po niemiecku?

Japan is pretty well known

@tetra Belgium is pretty well known.

Yeah im surprised he didn' mention belgium

Why

Liberia and tonga too

YES (i live in malta)

@nurdle cos if you're Maltese 156r defeated the ottomans

@riowarner 06 what? Canada didn't exist then...

You guys did well in 1564 btw

Too much pastizzi

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

@Nielsen N Tar det at du ikke ønsker å fortsette diskusjonen. Takk for praten allikevel, er mulig jeg tar feil men det var morsomt å leke nasjonalist en stund. Pluss, du gav meg endelig en god grunn til å lese meg opp om både dansk og norsk historie igjen. Vi er begge fra land som har mye å være stolt av, inkludert det at vi kan snakke om historie på våre egne språk om nasjonene vi tilhører uten at det blir for seriøst.

​@Nielsen N Britene kjempet ikke med Norge i det stadiet av invasjonen, de kjempet bare imot Tyskland. Norge ble kun fortalt om Operation Wilfred på den åttende april, så det at den begynte på den tredje er irrelevant, det var kun noe britene gjorde for å hindre tyskerene. Håper det går fint for deg å bli sitert Wikipedia: "The Norwegian government issued a strong protest and demanded their (the UK's) immediate removal, but the German fleet was already advancing up their coasts. Then, events moved so quickly that the issue of the minefields became largely irrelevant." Du klagde også på at danskene ikke hadde moderne våpen, men vi sank jo Blucher med drittvåpen selv jo: "The retired torpedoes the officer was aiming at the cruiser were 40-year-old Whitehead torpedo weapons of Austro-Hungarian manufacture. These torpedoes had been practice-launched well over 200 times before, but no one was certain if they would function or not." Og når det kommer til Napoleonskrigene, så har vi denne lange setningen: "At Tilsit, Napoleon and Alexander had agreed that Russia should force Sweden to join the Continental System, which led to a Russian invasion of Finland in February 1808, followed by a Danish declaration of war in March. Napoleon also sent an auxiliary corps, consisting of troops from France, Spain and the Netherlands, led by Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, to Denmark to participate in the invasion of Sweden. But British naval superiority prevented the armies from crossing the Øresund strait, and the war came mainly to be fought along the Swedish-Norwegian border." Jeg vet heller ikke hvor du har det fra at Danmark sloss mot Russland. Når skjedde det? Virkelig, jeg har prøvd mitt beste å finne det. Og hvis dette bare handler om å skryte av landet sitt, så må jeg nevne beleiringen av Fredriksten festning. En av mine forfedre bygde festningen, og mindre enn 2 000 nordmenn vant over den svenske hær på 35 000. Det er vel imponerende nok. Jeg må innrømme at jeg ikke kan mye om den dansk-prøyssiske krigen, men jeg kan tro på at det er noe dansker er stolte over. Jeg kan sikkert lese om det i morgen, men nå må jeg legge meg

@Fdumbass Operation Wilfred var allerede iværksat den 3. april og den Britiske og Franske regering havde lovet Norge støtte i tilfælde af Tysk invasion, hvilket de ikke havde til Danmark, det er det som er hele pointen. Den Britiske flåde kæmpede med Norge fra den første dag: “The First Battle of Narvik took place between the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine on 9 April.[14] The German force took Narvik and landed the 2,000 mountain infantry, but a British naval counter-attack by the modernised battleship HMS Warspite and a flotilla of destroyers over several days succeeded in sinking all ten German destroyers once they ran out of fuel and ammunition”. Da Danmark kæmpede mod Tyskland + Rusland og Sverige under Napoleons krigene var det ved den Dansk Tyske grænse, og uden Norsk indblanding, blandt andet Slaget ved Sehested. De Norske soldater blev i stedet anvendt i forsvaret af Norge. Men de krige jeg hentyder til er efter Norge blev overdraget til Sverige. Mellem 1800 og op til 1864 hvor Danmark tabte den sidste krig mod Tyskland (Prussia) havde Danmark og Tyskland flere krige.

@Nielsen N Det jeg sier er at vi hadde drept flere hundre tyskere og sunket en cruiser før de allierte engang hadde nådd Norge, så det du sier er meningsløst. Ja, de hjalp til i Narvik, men før det hadde vi allerede kjempet hardt. Og hvis du snakker om Napoleonskrigene der mot slutten, kjempet jo vi med dere så det er ingenting å skryte av ;D

@Nielsen N Rett meg hvis det jeg sier er galt, men dere overgav dere etter et par timer med kamp fordi deres hovedstad ble tatt av den tyske marine. De prøvde det samme på oss, men vi sprengte Blücher og drepte flere hundre tyskere etterpå. Selv om de allierte ikke hadde landet (og drept norske sivile mens de sloss mot tyskerne), hadde vi fortsatt gjort det mye bedre enn dere. Som sagt, jeg mener ikke at det var bedre å sloss enn å gi opp. Men hvis det var det, gjorde vi det ganske bra synes jeg

@Howard Stern dozens...

Portugal had a colony?

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

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

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

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

New Zeeland + Australia = Dutch

Olivia Addison yeah i was late

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