Dr. plague Spain is not ruled by the leader of Spain. It's a sovereign country whose heads of states are the president of France and the bishop of Urgell. These leaders (co-princes) have no real powers since the people of Andorra elect their own representatives.
You can tell the quality of people a country produces by their comments on Stratfor videos. Yes, I’m sure Stratfor is unaware that Spain is next to Morocco or that Gibraltar is British
Spain's biggest geopolitical challenge was 1) Between 1350-1550s, Venice 2) Between 1550s-1750s, Holland 3) Between 1750s and up to today Britain (and implicitly US as the latter inherited UK) Basically this set of challenges was the one that other nations of the Mediterranean faced - like Greeks who might have not faced the Dutch but who were destroyed by the Venitians (it was Venitians that handed over the region to the Ottomans, a wholy Venitian creation) and then the British/US
Álvaro de Bazán You are right. But Galicia is an autonomous community of Spain that has a different language from castellano and it should be mentioned as another ethnic group within the diversity of Spain.
These videos are to give people quick facts about the nations geographic challenges and don't go into detail. I am starting to see too many comments like yours in this video but they are only meant to give the facts straight and quickly.
BlackBountyCA I'm from Spain and I can't agree more with you. Spain needs to rise again, but it will be hard with all the incompetent politicians that we have
The race in the end of the 15th century and the 16th century was between Portugal and Castile (apart the Castilian "union" with Aragon). Divided the world two times, in the west Atlantic and in the Pacific later because of the dispute, already reaching the edges of the world. France and England still out, also Netherlands independent provinces, still out and under Borgongnese and Habsburgs rule. (Britain only in a wide interpretation, for much later times, for France - as continental disputes and atempts in the South Atlantic since 1502, its correct) the rest good.
Actually not. That's a popular belief. The Franks stop them from keeping conquering Europe. But the Moors didn't conquer all of Spain. It was The Atlantic coast area was never subdue, so they reorganized into small kingdoms fighting between each other and with the caliphate. Then by marriage or conquest during several centuries, the kingdoms became 3, Portugal, Aragon and Castille and finally became bigger and bigger since the moors where becoming weaker and weaker. Each kingdom at their own expenses. So some places have been conquered by the moors for only 12 years (Burgos) and others instead, for 800 years (Granada). Others were never conquered like Oviedo or Santander.This Kingdoms were the ones who really stopped the Moors with their continued warfare,
You are right, in some way. It wasn't Christian Spanish army, they were Castillian and Catalan-Aragonese armies which conquered the rest of the península, but we can't talk about a unified Spain by then.
Dani Vall-llosera, you're forgetting Portugal wich was actually the first to expell them entirely of it's territory. Granada's conquest, was also helped by Portugal!
***** Navarra was there but didnt enlarge greatly due to Muslim territory. In fact it was squized in between Castille and Aragon which didnt allow the Kingdom to Flourish that's why I did not mention it.
Por mim a Galiza unia-se a Portugal, e o País Basco, as Canárias, Andaluzia e a Catalunha ficavam independentes... Mas não temos que ser hostis aos castelhanos, precisamos de uma Europa com diferentes estados-nação!
Rúben Luso, Sim, claro, mas uma Europa de estados-nação, sem espanha (que nunca foi um estado-nação), só ajudaria Portugal. Castela é pobre, e dos outros, Portugal é o maior. Imagina as possibilidades económicas que Portugal arriscaria ganhar!
0.44 "Unified Spain" is a bit misleading. Isabella (Castile) & Ferdinand (Aragon) married but each Kingdom remained separate : with it's own parliament (Cortes) ,privileges and laws. The American Empire was Castilian the Aragonese weren't welcome. Trade was monopolised by Seville (Barcelona didn't get a look in). Spain was one country but with competing Kingdoms. The Catalonia rebellion was largely due to Madrid believing they had a taxable 1million population when it was actually 350K. So Philip IV was always making unreasonable demands and believed they were holding out on him. Also, Catalonia had been very wealthy in the 15thC but had run foul of Genoa. Plague devastated Catalonia much more than in Castile (hence pop fall).
When Spain was the predominant world power in the 15th and the first half of the 16th century, England was not a maritime power and all she had was pirates such as Francis Drake.
By the way Spain didn´t exist as a country, state, much less nationality ("of diferente nations is enriched" (composed of diferent nations - Os Lusíadas - 1572), it was only a geograhic name were it was also Portugal: the Peninsula, exacley as Scandinavia and Europe (Iberian Peninsula name was not used then, but Spain (Peninsula)) - a region of Europe, as Europe itself was then, for all in the world , and for many, many time after the Catholic Kings, until 1700s, for Europeans - the Peninsula - geography with diferent nations. And you had laws on nationality (letters of naturaleza or natureza in the 16th, 17th centuries etc.) they were Castillian, Aragonese Portuguese, French etc.. Ironicly was Portugal, not properlly by its own will who launched the seeds for that (today) name for its nowdays neighbour, by the union in 1580 (Now it was a king on all states and nations in the Peninsula, i. e. "Spain", but still an informal title or shortenned popular european expression for Phillips II (I), III (II), IV(III) - it was only geographic, not the official tittle. The official was of the list tittle of Crowns and countries involved.
In an ideal world South Italy would split from North Italy (with the limit at Rome choosing which side... ) and would come in an agreement with Spain and Greece to a southern front doing 3 basic things : 1) Kicking the Brits frmo Gibraltar 2) Ousting British influence from Malta 3) Kicking the Brits from Cyprus 4) Pressing the US to accept and play with a new geopolitical outlook where the SOUTH decides on mediterranean traderoutes.
Very good, but I dislike that it glosses completely over the fact that the basis of Spanish Civilization is that it is a continuation of Roman/Latin civilization because of it's language.
Lol how can you speak about maritime powers and not talk about Portugal ? The first country to start the discoveries, the first country to have a global empire, the country with the longest global empire ?
Actually Spain started the whole race for colonies with the expansion into the the new world, Portugal was just twiddling around Africa at the time. Sue to the fact it actually still holds non native lands in the form of cities in Africa it's the longest continuous empire from the 1400s onwards.
I think Turkey would be a good subject, their issues with Syria and Iran. "Who will be the greatest power in the Middle East" race between Iran and Turkey and so on.
Incomplete and incorrect. The first maritime power that Castile (and not "Spain" as you call it) had to compete with was Portugal. Check "Treaty of Tordesillas" if in doubt.
I visited Catalogne sorry i dont say in English because im French, the people as nationalisme its verry difficult to be renseignement for spain but its nice contry or autonomous regions ,and Spain ,France ,Ukraine,Russia,usa,canada world as nice and people.
Every autonomous community of Spain has a unique culture, the catalonian one isn't even the most unique. It's just that y'all foreigners seem to talk without knowing lol
Every region has a regional dialect, also Galicia has only a minor separatist movement, compared to cataluña and el país vasco. So he must’ve not deemed it important enough to state that.
Spongenigga squarepants Y si piensas que el gallego es un dialecto del castellano (otra excusa de algunos imperialistas castellanos para intentar justificar el absolutismo centralista, gavacho y antiespañol), ¿entonces por qué no puedes entender lo que te dicen cuando te hablan en el mismo? España no funciona así, los Habsburgo lo aprendieron muy bien pero los Borbones lo jodieron todo.
1. Moors came from Mauritania, not Arabic Peninsula. 2. Regionalism/Independence in Spain are used as a smokescreen. In our days real independence should carry financial independence, and that would not be the case at all.
Espana is currently in a severe financial decline because of its allegiance to the ECE for economic interests. Currently, the states of Catalonia and Basque are two major issues against Spanish nationalism are contributing the economy to decline rapidly. If a civil war happens, Espana will face collapse not only itself but its economy and its former colonies in Latin America who invested Spanish interests will experience economic and political disasters extremely. Espana's economic collapse not only effects itself but the ECE will experience like the Soviet Union an era of decline as the largest economy it didn't benefit the global economy entirely.
juan cueva, the idea of unifying Europe from a Spanish Socialist ideology is ineffective, causing more than one issue within economics will have inflation, high interest rates and mass debts leading to another financial crisis within Europe and the world.
Not really a very good video. There is SO MUCH MORE to talk about, that this seems like a joke that you think this covered Spain's geography. What about it's sharing of rivers, it's different borders, Gibraltar, Ceuta, Melilla, what of the internal borders that define those regional differences?
What causes Spain's disunity is not that it has lots of mountains. The reason for this is that it wasn't unified well. Catalonia is older than Spain as well as the Basque ethnic group, which is preindoeuropean as its own language. The biggest old kingdom of Spain, called Castile didn't want a diverse unification of Spain but a domination of the other Spaniards by imposing their language and culture. This Castilian disrespect for diversity caused this 400-year-old problem that is still up nowadays. Spain wasn't meant to be centralized, but a French dinasty got the Throne of Spain and messed up everything. The Habsburgs had learnt how to rule Spain and those Frenchies came here imposing absolutism which is the worst cancer we could get.
Yet France managed to unify the country through forcibly crushing regional cultures and identities. Seems to me that if you want a centralized country you have to concentrate all the resources and wealth in the capital (see how well-off Paris is compared to other big cities in France), or you have to devolve more power to the regions in order to appease separatists. Spain is not as powerful as France so it failed miserably to centralize the country
The way you avoid the issue Portugal in this video seems almost intentional, but maybe you didn't research properly or, since you are American, maybe you tried to privilege your former colonists... Compete with other maritime powers like the United Kingdom, please... PORTUGAL, before anything else. Anyway, I guess this has HUGE gaps, even for a two-minute video and even for the Spanish. I considered subscribing, but not anymore.
Y las islas Canarias? y las islas Baleares? y Ceuta y Melilla? Y Gibraltar es español i els catalans ens sentim Espanyols!!!!!! una merda de documental
John Carter Yup, history caused all this territorial problems we have in Spain nowadays not the fucking mountains that separate us (he might think we live in caves or something and we can't build tunnels to communicate with each other). The worst thing is he doesn't even know about geography, which is the whole point of this video.
Epic trailers It should but interests from all this countries differed along history. Anyway, if it was it should be with a Spain that rescpects diversity not the bullshit we have today ruled by dickheads.
Stating that the threat to Spanish unity is geography means knowing jack all about it's history... Learn about the history, learn about the history and learn about the history. Once you have done that, you can look at current politics and recent history. And look in some more. After that you can talk about it. And not come up with stupid conclusions that somehow have nothing to do with the current situation.
Portugal in 1700 century with the England conquest madrid. What if today half of iberial had under Portuguese control,,,,,,if,,,if,,,if,,,But If portugal was smart and inteliggent could make better use of the north atlantic and so leaves the rest of europe and spain hostages.
Donde coño estan esos desiertos que se ven en la imagen??? He viajado por toda españa y el unico desierto que hay esta en Almeria.. Que cojones pero si se ve toda españa desertica a vista de satelite..
+Mr Pink También está el Desierto de los Monegros, en Aragón, por ejemplo, y se ve desértica debido a que españa en su inmensa mayoría no tiene bosques medianamente grandes
+Sergio C. S. No creo que el color verde lo den los bosques, he estado en por toda Francia e Italia y es mas de lo mismo que España. Supongo que sera el color de nuestros campos lo que hace que parezca un desierto gigante a vista de satelite.
Spain also borders Andorra, Morocco and the UK.
Technically*
+Brian Morales Yes, he said Gibraltar Straight and Africa is just 15kms away on the narrowest point. So this is Morocco.
+Armando B. it's because there are two regiones of Spain un Africa
danichu cichu Yes, Ceuta and another
+Jason DiRusso (MLPVoiceActorFanatic) Melilla
Spain also border Andorra and Gibraltar
Gibraltar is spain lol
Nope, it's British...
@@albertolopez5546 it’s bri’ish
And Morocco
@@nicklassthr5147 its Spanish 🇪🇸
Spain and Portugal were really advanced in maritime affairs before the UK was a real thing...
you completly forget canary islands ¬¬
Yes and moors are definetly not arab
berbers served arab army in order to move to a better place those berbers where from the north were agriculture is difficult
Spain is beautiful
And Andorra? so tiny that he forgot
Spain borders with Morocco for African cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and you have forgotten the Canary Islands
+Xavi N. Cambeiro Also, Andorra and the UK too!
Xavi N. Cambeiro Are you dumb? Ceuta y Melilla are considered Spanish territory, and both belong to the Communities that form Spain
^That's what he said
+Javier Sánchez ¿Y tú sabes leer?
Inténtalo de nuevo o si no te lo traduzco.
@@JavierSanchez-dn4yn The guy said the same thing.
I always love the mellow music - I love analyzing the weakness of countries to plot their downfall while listening to mellow music
bajahha
You forgot to mention Andorra
such a poor video for a really amazing geografical and historical nation. No mentions to Ceuta and Melilla, and not mention to the arquipelagos.
@Vladimir Putin ew
It's a 2 minute video chill.
@Vladimir Putin in your dreams
andorra.. uk.. morocco..
the last 2 are technicalitys and andora is technically not its own country. every 6 months its part of France, and for the other 6, Spain itself.
that said, you did make a good point since, he didn't even mention them.
My apologies. For some reason, I keep mistaking one for the other.
but then again, i probably confuse the 2 because, Andorra is ruled by the leaders of Spain and France.
Dr. plague
Spain is not ruled by the leader of Spain.
It's a sovereign country whose heads of states are the president of France and the bishop of Urgell.
These leaders (co-princes) have no real powers since the people of Andorra elect their own representatives.
You can tell the quality of people a country produces by their comments on Stratfor videos. Yes, I’m sure Stratfor is unaware that Spain is next to Morocco or that Gibraltar is British
Sorry Stratfor, last time I checked Spain's 'Geographical Challenge' was GIBRALTAR.
Spain's biggest geopolitical challenge was
1) Between 1350-1550s, Venice
2) Between 1550s-1750s, Holland
3) Between 1750s and up to today Britain (and implicitly US as the latter inherited UK)
Basically this set of challenges was the one that other nations of the Mediterranean faced - like Greeks who might have not faced the Dutch but who were destroyed by the Venitians (it was Venitians that handed over the region to the Ottomans, a wholy Venitian creation) and then the British/US
Do states within the USA also have geographic challenges in this same manner? Or provinces in Canada, etc.?
Damn! you guys made Spain seem like a complete desert
Xd
They forgot Galician regionalism.
Álvaro de Bazán You are right. But Galicia is an autonomous community of Spain that has a different language from castellano and it should be mentioned as another ethnic group within the diversity of Spain.
At the beginning of the video it's not mentioned that spain also borders gibraltar, which is a britisch oversees territory.
Stratfor you forgot Andorra. Spain borders Andorra.
And Morocco
And the UK (Gibraltar)
Dani Vall-llosera Technically not the UK itself, but a British Territory nonetheless
And soon, Spain will border Catalonia. ll*ll
Dani Vall-llosera We Brits support you Catalonian's fully in your struggle! Good Luck!
spain also have border with andorra
And The U.K (Gibraltar)
Logan Nobes - And Basque country and Catalunya.
@@turkoositerapsidi Catalonia and Basque country are spanish.
@@JoeMartinez18 Not very soon, ähähähähää!
@@turkoositerapsidi Similar to Kurdistan which will soon not be Turkey
I love these geographic challenge videos. Please explain India's geographic challenge.
These videos are to give people quick facts about the nations geographic challenges and don't go into detail. I am starting to see too many comments like yours in this video but they are only meant to give the facts straight and quickly.
Whoever made this. Great work! Keep it up.
Also borders with morocho, Ceuta and melilla
An American giving a history and geography lesson, how funny
BlackBountyCA I'm from Spain and I can't agree more with you. Spain needs to rise again, but it will be hard with all the incompetent politicians that we have
zarzaparrilla67 - Euskal Herria neesd independence!
@@turkoositerapsidi Euskadi need another gernika
@@blackbountyca4644 You are american so your opinion is discarted
I went to Spain today-AND this vid was made 3 years ago
What about Andorra, Morrocco, and Gibraltar, UK?
Spain has a good location for tourism as Italy
Remember that Andorra borders Spain too.
The race in the end of the 15th century and the 16th century was between Portugal and Castile (apart the Castilian "union" with Aragon). Divided the world two times, in the west Atlantic and in the Pacific later because of the dispute, already reaching the edges of the world. France and England still out, also Netherlands independent provinces, still out and under Borgongnese and Habsburgs rule. (Britain only in a wide interpretation, for much later times, for France - as continental disputes and atempts in the South Atlantic since 1502, its correct) the rest good.
brilliant!! I LOVE THESE TYPES OF REPORT!
Spain also borders Andorra, Morocco and Gibraltar
please make a video about portugal`s geographic challenge
I'm pretty sure that it was the Franks who were from France who dispelled the Moore's from Spain and not a united Christian Spanish army.
Actually not. That's a popular belief. The Franks stop them from keeping conquering Europe. But the Moors didn't conquer all of Spain. It was The Atlantic coast area was never subdue, so they reorganized into small kingdoms fighting between each other and with the caliphate. Then by marriage or conquest during several centuries, the kingdoms became 3, Portugal, Aragon and Castille and finally became bigger and bigger since the moors where becoming weaker and weaker. Each kingdom at their own expenses. So some places have been conquered by the moors for only 12 years (Burgos) and others instead, for 800 years (Granada). Others were never conquered like Oviedo or Santander.This Kingdoms were the ones who really stopped the Moors with their continued warfare,
You are right, in some way. It wasn't Christian Spanish army, they were Castillian and Catalan-Aragonese armies which conquered the rest of the península, but we can't talk about a unified Spain by then.
Dani Vall-llosera, you're forgetting Portugal wich was actually the first to expell them entirely of it's territory. Granada's conquest, was also helped by Portugal!
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***** Navarra was there but didnt enlarge greatly due to Muslim territory. In fact it was squized in between Castille and Aragon which didnt allow the Kingdom to Flourish that's why I did not mention it.
Portugal's Geographic Challenge pleeeasee!!
That's easy! Spain is, and will always be, the biggest stone in our shoe! They are always in the middle of our prosperity!
da fuck?!
Rúben Luso, qualquer português sabe o que digo. Portugal deve rezar pela balcanização da espanha!
Por mim a Galiza unia-se a Portugal, e o País Basco, as Canárias, Andaluzia e a Catalunha ficavam independentes...
Mas não temos que ser hostis aos castelhanos, precisamos de uma Europa com diferentes estados-nação!
Rúben Luso, Sim, claro, mas uma Europa de estados-nação, sem espanha (que nunca foi um estado-nação), só ajudaria Portugal. Castela é pobre, e dos outros, Portugal é o maior. Imagina as possibilidades económicas que Portugal arriscaria ganhar!
0.44 "Unified Spain" is a bit misleading.
Isabella (Castile) & Ferdinand (Aragon) married but each Kingdom remained
separate : with it's own parliament (Cortes) ,privileges and laws.
The American Empire was Castilian the Aragonese weren't welcome.
Trade was monopolised by Seville (Barcelona didn't get a look in).
Spain was one country but with competing Kingdoms.
The Catalonia rebellion was largely due to Madrid believing they
had a taxable 1million population when it was actually 350K.
So Philip IV was always making unreasonable demands and believed they
were holding out on him.
Also, Catalonia had been very wealthy in the 15thC but had run foul of Genoa.
Plague devastated Catalonia much more than in Castile (hence pop fall).
When Spain was the predominant world power in the 15th and the first half of the 16th century, England was not a maritime power and all she had was pirates such as Francis Drake.
Spain's greatest challenge is Gibraltar !
are you sure?
By the way Spain didn´t exist as a country, state, much less nationality ("of diferente nations is enriched" (composed of diferent nations - Os Lusíadas - 1572), it was only a geograhic name were it was also Portugal: the Peninsula, exacley as Scandinavia and Europe (Iberian Peninsula name was not used then, but Spain (Peninsula)) - a region of Europe, as Europe itself was then, for all in the world , and for many, many time after the Catholic Kings, until 1700s, for Europeans - the Peninsula - geography with diferent nations. And you had laws on nationality (letters of naturaleza or natureza in the 16th, 17th centuries etc.) they were Castillian, Aragonese Portuguese, French etc.. Ironicly was Portugal, not properlly by its own will who launched the seeds for that (today) name for its nowdays neighbour, by the union in 1580 (Now it was a king on all states and nations in the Peninsula, i. e. "Spain", but still an informal title or shortenned popular european expression for Phillips II (I), III (II), IV(III) - it was only geographic, not the official tittle. The official was of the list tittle of Crowns and countries involved.
In an ideal world South Italy would split from North Italy (with the limit at Rome choosing which side... ) and would come in an agreement with Spain and Greece to a southern front doing 3 basic things :
1) Kicking the Brits frmo Gibraltar
2) Ousting British influence from Malta
3) Kicking the Brits from Cyprus
4) Pressing the US to accept and play with a new geopolitical outlook where the SOUTH decides on mediterranean traderoutes.
Why can't the same be accomplished by keeping Italy together? Splitting countries up weakens them.
ah yes, Africa, that well known country
Don't Poke The Octopus o_____o, Africa isn't a country...
+Thank you for taking the time of your day for reading my completely unnecessarily long username that was a joke i think................
ah that's the point... o.o
You are stupid.Since when Africa is a country!?idiot
Thank you for taking the time out of your day for reading my completely unnecessarily long username I love your name. xD
1:50 Belearic Islands....
BELEARIC
Very good, but I dislike that it glosses completely over the fact that the basis of Spanish Civilization is that it is a continuation of Roman/Latin civilization because of it's language.
Lol how can you speak about maritime powers and not talk about Portugal ? The first country to start the discoveries, the first country to have a global empire, the country with the longest global empire ?
Because this video isn't called "Portugal's geographic challenge"
Smmy11 but in the video you see mentioning France and UK why?
Stfu this is Spain not Portugal
Luca Lombardo
is not a France nor Uk video too and they are mentioned in the video, not Portugal.
Actually Spain started the whole race for colonies with the expansion into the the new world, Portugal was just twiddling around Africa at the time. Sue to the fact it actually still holds non native lands in the form of cities in Africa it's the longest continuous empire from the 1400s onwards.
Awesome!
Good video, just a bit short
Do Portugal, please!
There's already one for Egypt and for Syria. Look them up in the channel here.
The Spanish islands in the Mediterranian are spelt Balearics Islands.
Iberia ought to be a nation without bull fighting, clean air, clean rivers, and better rewarding peoples' labour...
I think Turkey would be a good subject, their issues with Syria and Iran. "Who will be the greatest power in the Middle East" race between Iran and Turkey and so on.
Shame on the person who mistyped ''Balearic Islands'' in the video as ''Belearic''
UK GEOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE!!! Please. :'(
plsss do slovenia geographic challenge
Me encanta ser español. Tengo armadura de conquistador.
You forgot Morocco and Andorra. -_-
Incomplete and incorrect. The first maritime power that Castile (and not "Spain" as you call it) had to compete with was Portugal. Check "Treaty of Tordesillas" if in doubt.
I visited Catalogne sorry i dont say in English because im French, the people as nationalisme its verry difficult to be renseignement for spain but its nice contry or autonomous regions ,and Spain ,France ,Ukraine,Russia,usa,canada world as nice and people.
+Gregoire Jarlot Parle en français directement au moins avec Google translate ils risqueraient de comprendre ...
+Machette80 XD exactement
Hey you forget OF the border with andorra
i dont get how cataluña gained such a unique culture without being geographically blocked from other regions of spain
Every autonomous community of Spain has a unique culture, the catalonian one isn't even the most unique. It's just that y'all foreigners seem to talk without knowing lol
@@SR-jr5nh tiene nombre de español.. pero a mi tampoco me parece tan unica...
Galiza would must be integrated into portugal or vice-versa the geography of peninsula would be diferent.
Hey men In Galicia we speak Galician dont forget that >:/
Every region has a regional dialect, also Galicia has only a minor separatist movement, compared to cataluña and el país vasco. So he must’ve not deemed it important enough to state that.
Spongenigga squarepants They are another ethnic group within Spain and not every region has it's own language.
Spongenigga squarepants Y si piensas que el gallego es un dialecto del castellano (otra excusa de algunos imperialistas castellanos para intentar justificar el absolutismo centralista, gavacho y antiespañol), ¿entonces por qué no puedes entender lo que te dicen cuando te hablan en el mismo?
España no funciona así, los Habsburgo lo aprendieron muy bien pero los Borbones lo jodieron todo.
What happens with the Canary Islands? Are they vanished?
Awesome
how about UK Morrocco and Andorra?
1. Moors came from Mauritania, not Arabic Peninsula.
2. Regionalism/Independence in Spain are used as a smokescreen. In our days real independence should carry financial independence, and that would not be the case at all.
At the time the biggest maritime power was Portugal not the UK that rise long after Portuguese great discoveries.
Spain has a border with the UK and Andorra
Espana is currently in a severe financial decline because of its allegiance to the ECE for economic interests. Currently, the states of Catalonia and Basque are two major issues against Spanish nationalism are contributing the economy to decline rapidly. If a civil war happens, Espana will face collapse not only itself but its economy and its former colonies in Latin America who invested Spanish interests will experience economic and political disasters extremely. Espana's economic collapse not only effects itself but the ECE will experience like the Soviet Union an era of decline as the largest economy it didn't benefit the global economy entirely.
It was stupid PSOE
juan cueva, the idea of unifying Europe from a Spanish Socialist ideology is ineffective, causing more than one issue within economics will have inflation, high interest rates and mass debts leading to another financial crisis within Europe and the world.
My science teacher send me see this video for the class:|
show Chile's geographic challenge!
0:11 and africa, Ceuta and Melilla.
Not really a very good video. There is SO MUCH MORE to talk about, that this seems like a joke that you think this covered Spain's geography. What about it's sharing of rivers, it's different borders, Gibraltar, Ceuta, Melilla, what of the internal borders that define those regional differences?
What about having to share the biggest rivers with Portugal?
If they can leave Portugal alone, they can leave Catalonia alone...
What causes Spain's disunity is not that it has lots of mountains. The reason for this is that it wasn't unified well. Catalonia is older than Spain as well as the Basque ethnic group, which is preindoeuropean as its own language.
The biggest old kingdom of Spain, called Castile didn't want a diverse unification of Spain but a domination of the other Spaniards by imposing their language and culture. This Castilian disrespect for diversity caused this 400-year-old problem that is still up nowadays. Spain wasn't meant to be centralized, but a French dinasty got the Throne of Spain and messed up everything. The Habsburgs had learnt how to rule Spain and those Frenchies came here imposing absolutism which is the worst cancer we could get.
Yet France managed to unify the country through forcibly crushing regional cultures and identities. Seems to me that if you want a centralized country you have to concentrate all the resources and wealth in the capital (see how well-off Paris is compared to other big cities in France), or you have to devolve more power to the regions in order to appease separatists. Spain is not as powerful as France so it failed miserably to centralize the country
The way you avoid the issue Portugal in this video seems almost intentional, but maybe you didn't research properly or, since you are American, maybe you tried to privilege your former colonists... Compete with other maritime powers like the United Kingdom, please... PORTUGAL, before anything else. Anyway, I guess this has HUGE gaps, even for a two-minute video and even for the Spanish. I considered subscribing, but not anymore.
Portugal é um pais de merda...
Luís Almeida Broh da faq Portugal threatened Spain by sea? Its a joke or what
Desde que se vendeu à Europa, sim, é.
Portugal is a depleted country, nowadays. But a few centuries ago was maritime superpower and dominated the trade with the Eastern part of the world.
Com o grande António de Oliveira Salazar tavamos bem melhor!
RAM RAM ❤️
COME ON NEXT TIME MAKE GREECE!!!
Canary Islands where?
Dude, you completely left out where many of my ancestors lived; the Canary Islands. I am a pissed off Isleno, now!
yeah also Hannibal lectar was the first one using the straight road to invade europe not arabs
he pronounces it like "muh-drid"
Show Serbia's geographic challenge.!
Y las islas Canarias? y las islas Baleares? y Ceuta y Melilla? Y Gibraltar es español i els catalans ens sentim Espanyols!!!!!! una merda de documental
parla per tu, nai
tens tot el dret del mon a votar que no al referendum, pero parla per tu xato
oi tant, catalunya es espanya, i el carallot no posa les balears, canaries ceuta i melilla
de debo creus que guanyarà el no a la independencia?
Visca Catalunya independent!
Morocco waa laga tahriibi karaa ileen
Ceuta? Melilla? immigration and border protection? Ever heard of it?
Quite a poor Anglo-analysis of Spain...
galicia stronk
this guy knows nothing about history
John Carter Yup, history caused all this territorial problems we have in Spain nowadays not the fucking mountains that separate us (he might think we live in caves or something and we can't build tunnels to communicate with each other).
The worst thing is he doesn't even know about geography, which is the whole point of this video.
@@nantzstein moors were not black.
aussstraliaaaaa
Andorra? Morocco? U.k
andorra shoud be spanish also gibraltar and the last one portugal
Epic trailers It should but interests from all this countries differed along history.
Anyway, if it was it should be with a Spain that rescpects diversity not the bullshit we have today ruled by dickheads.
Stating that the threat to Spanish unity is geography means knowing jack all about it's history... Learn about the history, learn about the history and learn about the history. Once you have done that, you can look at current politics and recent history. And look in some more. After that you can talk about it. And not come up with stupid conclusions that somehow have nothing to do with the current situation.
spain also borders andorra
Portugal in 1700 century with the England conquest madrid. What if today half of iberial had under Portuguese control,,,,,,if,,,if,,,if,,,But If portugal was smart and inteliggent could make better use of the north atlantic and so leaves the rest of europe and spain hostages.
Visca Catalunya!! Gora Heuskal Herria!!
+Dani Vall-llosera why do you want to split with spain???
Galiza ceibe
Ghalicia ceibe!
Tío para ya con ésa mierda
Euskal Herria needs inependence and Catalunya also. Doewn with the Inquisición española!
It looks like a desert lol
And Israel not to forget.
Donde coño estan esos desiertos que se ven en la imagen??? He viajado por toda españa y el unico desierto que hay esta en Almeria.. Que cojones pero si se ve toda españa desertica a vista de satelite..
+Mr Pink También está el Desierto de los Monegros, en Aragón, por ejemplo, y se ve desértica debido a que españa en su inmensa mayoría no tiene bosques medianamente grandes
+Sergio C. S. No creo que el color verde lo den los bosques, he estado en por toda Francia e Italia y es mas de lo mismo que España.
Supongo que sera el color de nuestros campos lo que hace que parezca un desierto gigante a vista de satelite.
Portugal must anexed spain,,,