Changing the Map of Europe Back to 1815
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- What did Europe look like in 1815? In this video we’ll redraw the map of Europe back to the year when Napoleon finally lost his grip on Europe, and when a new future was laid out at the Congress of Vienna.
NOTES
• When pronouncing originally non-English names, I've adhered to the American English pronunciation given by the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
• The borders of some smaller German and Italian states have been simplified for hopefully obvious reasons.
• Hesse-Homburg did not join the German Confederation until 1817, but is nevertheless included here.
ERRATA
• Serbia was granted autonomy within the Ottoman Empire already in late 1815. The territory corresponded to the Smederevo Sanjak/Belgrade Pashalik region.
• The Kiurin khanate in the north Caucasus should be called 'Kurin'.
• The two (artificial) lakes in present-day Ukraine did not exist in 1815.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Background
01:49 Redrawing the map
11:31 Reflections
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Europe in 1815: we won't have a major war in at least 100 years!
Europe in 1914: we got so close...
Does Crimean War 1853-6 not count? At least it involved Russia, France, Turkey, Great Britain, Sardinia-Piedmont so quite a few of the Great Powers.
Yeah it's really not true that there weren't any major conflicts in Europe for 100 years. The Crimean War and Franco-Prussian War were pretty damn defining, as were the oh so many different revolutions that happened in the 1820s, then again in 1848, then yet again in the 1860s/1870s.
The reality is that there wasn't a "continent-spanning" war with a multi-million+ death toll like the Napoleonic Wars for 100 years. And in the history of Europe nothing like those wars had ever really happened to begin with. So the phrase is almost a non-sequitur, because the reality is that Napoleon fundamentally changed how wars would be fought.
No, not many many people died and the war ALMOST never left the Crimean Peninsula. RB Films brought up the Franco-Prussian war, but is only involved France, Prussia, and some other German states. Still not many people dies like in the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, or the World Wars.
Not as many people died (although it was still in the hundreds of thousands for both conflicts, which is no small number.)
However, the political ramifications of the wars were still very huge in their times. It's a shame that they've been forgotten by the mainstream of history because they absolutely were important.
+Steven Peay It only included France and "the German Empire"(the german states unified within the war) actually
i'm pretty sure even the modern map is unrecognizable to most people today
soamd123 true
soamd123 ikr
I recognise the old one better because I play EU4
savage
@@spacedoutorca4550 me too
What I’ve learned from playing EU4 is:
*POLAND KEEPS MOVING*
it really is lol
Yep I played EU4 one time and Poland migrated into Asia while losing Poland :p
Poland exists in a liquid state
This is why it is known as “country on wheels”.
Thats because there's no physical borders, its borders are entirely political. Nearly all of eastern europe is like this: just flat grass planes
*they says that the netherlands is still in war with the sea*
It is and it's winning
Woosh *sad Flevolandian noises*
Ugh!!
We are losing to de sea!!!!!!
Woosh do you mean the sea is losing because then you are right
They meant one of of Netherlands province, which was underwater, that’s what they mean, they just didn’t say it.
On April 1st make a video called “Changing the map of europe to the year 2219” where you just make up stuff
I can imagine the entire continent being Luxembourg
Apollo Pulse I think you mean *_GREATER ULM_*
Hacks in 5 make one big caliphate and thats it, also make latvia,moldova and the isle of man the last strongholds of the europeans(for shits and giggles)
MusketWalrus no let’s make it Greater London
Everything is turkey then. Terrorist invasion ongoing for many years already
You should make a map of Europe in 1618, before the 30 Years War.
To much work
Just look it in eu4 and change a bit lol
1648?
Graham Turner .
get the extended timeline mod on eu4 and then switch from those times...
Imagine showing a modern map to someone back then! I'd love to know all the questions they'd ask.
Obviously one of the main things is german reunification, but if they ask why Germany is so much smaller than the German Confederation, then you'd have to explain 2 World Wars. And Italian Reunification would be a big point too, I suppose. I don't know if the Ottomans were called the "sick man of Europe" back then, but if not you'd have to explain why they lost their whole empire. I think they'd be extremely shocked about Russia. Sure, maybe they'd understand an independent Poland and Finland, but there are so many more countries in eastern Europe now. One of the questions would probably be asking why Ireland exists without northern Ireland. I suppose Austria would also be shocking. I don't know if their empire was as unstable as Austria-Hungary, but if not then you'd have to explain a lot.
Sometimes I wish historians had a time machine to go back and show this map to someone back then and find out all the questions they'd have to ask.
Dude what happened to Norway? They split up
How did Russia get smaller?
Well it was engulfed in a future ideology, then America which just got the White House burnt down, will become a great power, and it will fight against Russia, causing Russia to lose its territory.
Wait why is Germany smaller?
Well they reunited but then there were 2 giant wars, Germany lost them both
How did the Ottomans get smaller? Wait why are they named Turkey now?
It was because of the 1st giant war, which also caused Russia to be engulfed in the ideology.
existence of Belgium would be hardest to explain.
I don't think Austria-Hungary was considered unstable back then; nationalism only really started about 50 years later.
Francesco Dondi Austria-Hungary wasn’t a thing in 1815, it only just became Austria-Hungary after the Astro-Prussian war.
Ottoman empire was a sick man of Europe in that time
I love that. Netherlands didn't loss land to a nation no they lost it to a sea. Really shows dutch enerigineering is nothing to laugh at
😂 half of the Netherlands is below sea level do your research
tonijnplay's so what? It’s still dry even though it’s below sea level. That’s the power of Dutch engineering🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
@@thenetherlandsball8185 that's what I'm trying to say
Stonersloth Hughes it is a lot to laugh at. It’s not impressive at all.
Still trying to find when the island of Freisland below Iceland disappeared.
Europe 1444 next time.
Eu4 people will be happy
AlwaysRM_ eu4 community would be happy
I would be happy
Before the fall of the true Rome
RomuX true Rome my ass
there is a man alive whos grandfather was alive when the map looked like this
Oh yeah yeah
yeah , US president John Tyler, born 1790, still has two living grandsons www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-grandfather-john-tyler-the-us-president-born-in-1790-z0j6jkk5x
@@crystxlzx6442
No.
6 people are still alive who were born in the 19th century, most likely from 1899
@@SobQuaza that numbers actually 0 and it has been since 2017. Last person was emma morano (however nabi tajima who was born in 1900 which is technically still the 19th century died in 2018) and the oldest person now is kane tanaka who was born in 1903 (almost 1902) and is 117 years old. Shes actually been the worlds oldest since 2018 which is hella long.
A list of European countries that will not change:
Portugal 🇵🇹
Spain 🇪🇸
M0r0cC0 🇲🇦
X for doubt
@@mazingmorocco9810 i know its in africa thats why i pointed it out silly 😳🤦🏾🤦🏾🤦🏾
Addison Allen x Civil war
The Iberians and their former overlord
Alina Naiman and it got reversed in the Scramble for Africa :)
why is italy so full of culture?
italy 200 years ago:
What about....
PIZZA
Because they steal it very well :)
The 1st pizzas were made in Greec and pastas in Arabic countries
@@estebanod improve*
@@estebanod not stealing its just how culture spreads
@@masterdeetectiv9520 im british and a lot of stuff that make up our culture are from other countries (who wouldve guessed right 🤣) so yes i think you are right
'Countries aren't static and change a lot.' - Me: *Laughs in portuguese*
Literally all the colonies: *bet*
Portuguese Brazil: *crying*
ikr as a Portuguese i agree
Portuguese colonies: *Shut.*
BRAZIL: Yeet
"In addition to losing a bit of land to the North Sea"
Netherlands: THAT DAMN SEA
Love to every single country in Europe
From 🇩🇰
Even Sweden?
Yes, beautiful country.😘💯♥️
But Its just sad that our 2 countries hate each other. Sorry for our rude government 😣😖
Is that flag of Norway? Or Denmark? I always have a trouble knowing the both countries sorry if I offended you
@@Cobretsov2022 That is Denmark.
Leonardo Alvarenga thank you for telling me :)
I have some time period suggestions for more of these:
1954 (just after the allies left Germany and Austria)
1870 (just before the Franco-prussian war)
1774 (just before the American and French revolutions)
1750 (just before the 7 years war)
1700 (just before the war of Spanish succession)
I love these map videos and I really want to see more of them
If he was going to make another one I’d pick 1700. 1954 would be just uniting some countries and splitting Germany. The other ones would be too similar to 1815 to be interesting
@@tentthegamer790 perhaps
1870 map is practically the same to the 1815 map other than north german federation, Italy and Romania
The allies left austria in autumn of 1955 (not 1954) and they left germany (completely) decades later.
I always hated looking at maps that didn't have Germany as a unified state Hahaha. The tiny states in the middle always gave me a headache
So no European maps before 1870 for you.
well if you go back far enough to pre HRE maps
I always love looking at such maps. It helps that I am French :D
takix2007 lol
Then you have a 200% chance of having german ancestry.
0:05
Kosovo: *exists*
Serbia: _R E M O V E_
It never existed, by the Helsinki treaty by which no European borders can change unless all the countries territorially affected by the change don't agree. As Serbia doesn't agree with Kosovo's independance it doesn't exist.
You mean the non-binding Helsinki accords, which were not a treaty and thus means that Kosovo can be independent.
Timothy Wingates YOU DON'T SAY!!!! Yes, they wanted independence but it couldn't happen because Yugoslavia was the deciding one there, but they did it anyway because 'Murica
Timothy Wingates Yugoslavia was 80 years old and it was created because Croats and Slovenians wanted to join Serbia because they didn't have a government after WW1. People now miss Yugoslavia and it broke apart because parties like the Croatian Neo-nazi party aka HDZ and Serbian Neo-nazi party aka SRS. Nationalism and USA destroyed Yugoslavia, not that people really wanted it. Now we have a pretty much joke saying 'Now we know that many things they tought us about socialism were a lie but that everything they tought us about capitalism was true'
I was saying that it couldn't have happened because of the already mentioned accords of Helsinki.
Also who told you 'Serbia'? Tito was a Croat and Yugoslav motive was 'Bratstvo i jedinstvo!' which means 'Brotherhood and unity!'
They did want it but now we deeply regret it... I'm from Bosnia and I can tell you, we are not progressing, we are degressing. Unemployment is among the highest in Europe, 27% which is about a quarter of the population, average salary is 400 euros, education is useless if you aren't moving away because the intelectual elite is the middle class while war profiters who exploited the times of war to rob their own country which they now rule are the high class... we are doomed.
Now in Croatia they asked the people I think 3 years back and 88% of the people older than 45 (25+ years of living in Yugoslavia) wanted Yugoslavia back and the older they were (more expirience in Yugoslavia) the percentage was bigger. There was no testing in Serbia as far as I know but I would expect even more pro-Yugoslav results because the Croats were the ones that rebeled!
I hope you revive this series by changing the map next to 1648! That's probably the next most fitting date back in time and I'd love to see it. Keep going further back, these "changing the map" videos are your best! Keeping going back, 1492, 1300, 1200, 1066, 800.
"countries and states are not static"
*takes a look at switzerland*
Switzerland DID change.
Oh wait no, never mind, I see what you meant 🤣
Krok Krok lmao a triggered guy.
Switzerland got money and wealth without hardly any natural resources.
Its not so easy to nuke it and flying above switzerland (mountains)
also, did you hear about the swiss emergency plan and that switzerland has enough bunkers for 114% of its population?
Gosh, do some research triggered kid and then come back, but please come back as an adult.
Belagerungsmörser the Sheep Aha and whom?
Its funny because the Swiss confederation used to include Mulhouse until 1796, when the French aggressively invaded and annexed Mulhouse as well as what is now the southernmost part of Alsace.
Fun fact: the swiss have been neutral ever since.
Please make more of these
You sir, are one of the best explainers out here. You have the perfect voice wich comes with a solid knowledge and explanation. I Enjoy watching ur vids!
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. Thanks!
10:45 Italian flag in Italy lol
LOL
Is so beautiful
Seems like a dango to me
these videos are really well made
These are awesome videos. So amazing. Keep making them😊
Absolutely brilliant video! Thanks :)
Please make more map videos, this was really well done
I really like this video I don’t know really chill, informative and clear
People tend to think that the German states were a total mess.
But I think it's rather brilliant. The local people had their respective identity and government, whilst most of the states were also organized in a bigger European Union type alliance.
The EU prequel
@Ultimate Ake they lead EU due to the roumanian man Dacian Ciolos wich holds theyr back. Without France and Roumania would be no german leader there
In the 1400 it was worse
Except they fight all the time
Except for the middle Thurignian states
Long overdue! Great work!
Thank you!!!! I knew about 90% of this history, but I was never able to visualize it...Your map presentation was fantastic, and clarified many of the things I wondered on how Europe was before WWI...Your presentation should be shown in world history classes...It would teach many students who thought that Germany and Italy were countries long before the 1800's...and show them that they were, in fact, very recent countries...
Very well made, excellent video!
This is honestly, really good
this is one of my favorite videos, i want more
FINALLY ANOTHER CHANGING MAP OF EUROPE THANK U :DDDD
Btw keep them coming them coming pls!!!
Perfekt video! Jag hoppas att du kan göra mer sådana videor!
Such an improvement from the last two videos, great work! Maybe for your next video you could do 1492
What about just continue working backwards? Europe in 1789? 1715? 1648? 1618?
Spencer O'Dowd how about 1300
Hey 1492 is my address
@@MilkyWay-xg8mx how about 1215
Please do more of these!
Meh : losing land in wars -> germany
Meh: losing land because of 1 serbian man -> austo-hungarian empire
*0 IQ* : losing land by the north sea -> NeThErLaNdS
I hope that is a joke
especially because of your username RandomDutchGuy
Awesome video!!
That's really great video, didn't think it will be that awesome when I was clicking it. Good job!
I looked for copper, struck platinum. Awesome video!
nice video, even more detailed than the other ones
Very well done ... Great presentation! Though two centuries ago not many people had either access to maps nor would the vast majority have had the leisure to indulge in such an exercise.
Really good video man 👍
👏👏I love your channel! ❤️
please make more videos like this. i love them so much
1721, the end of the Great Northern War which was a major conflict in Poland,Russia and Sweden
Darth1nsidious7 and Denmark.
Keyboard Jihadi Denmark is irrelevant
Darth1nsidious7 i wouldn't say denmark was irrelevant and to be fair at one point of the war it was pretty much just sweden vs russia
To & Fr gaming Poland did more than Denmark
@@darth1nsidious726 Yes but it was basically still just Russia VS Sweden
Can you please make a video about the map before the french revolution and how it changed in the wienna congress?
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I enjoyed that, very interesting when you see it pictorially .
I love this kind of power balance!
Russia: ~22800000 km2
Ottoman Empire: ~4000000 km2
Austria: ~700000 km2
Montenegro: ~3000 km2
(ha magyar vagy, érteni fogod xD)
btw Great video as always. :)
Debre Szabolcs Attila I’m Montenegrin lol
Ez jó. :D
Wait, I thought MNE had less!
You mean Austro-Hungary?
@@zoard3620 In 1815 it was still Austria
3:27 The tiny part of Poland is where my ancestors are from!
And ?
so incest?
@@christian9125abd :flushed:
thank you very much for making this video! I have a class of "congrès de vienne " and I literally understood nothing as there are drastic changes of the maps from 19century to today.
i'm a history buff who knows lots about european history and am pretty knowledgeable about geography and the borders that existed in different times, and because i focus on history more than recent events, i'd say it puts me in a weird spot where maps like the pre-great war map, and victorian maps of europe are more familiar to me than the modern one. weird isn't it?
I feel your pain, brother.
A related thing: when walking through cities, my vision feels more like a collage of all the black-and-white photographs I have seen of these places also.
More of these pls
Love this. If you ever come back to this, could you do the map of Europe in 1440?
Perfect. Good job Mister.
The ironic thing about the German Confederation is that the Prussian part of Prussia isn’t even in it lol
That is not ironic but was important. A lower-ranked ruler was able to coronate himself the "King in Prussia" due to the fact that Prussia was outside the Holy Roman Empire which was a monarchy and had an emperor yet. The Confederation borders follow the old HRE tradition.
@@kellymcbright5456 I was talking about East Prussia (now Kaliningrad), which was the actual part of Prussia that was Prussian.
@@PatriotMapper Yes, and i was, too. That "East Prussia" was the original Prussia. All other parts of the later kingdom were not.
@@kellymcbright5456 Prussia was Brandenburg with another name lol, that's why the capital was in Berlin and not in Königsberg
@@elyisusking3603 No, it was not.
I love these types of videos !
I bet my ancestors under the Ottoman empire never thought that one day their map would look like today considering how powerful and dictatorial it was !
I wonder what it’ll look like 200 years from now ! I have some not so good predictions haha !
Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, Lybian, etc?
no, i’m Iraqi but since my country and its neighbors were under the Ottoman empire ruling due to invasion for centuries, at some point my people were even forced to learn Turkish and not speak Arabic anymore, i’m sure that’s very familiar historically, so that’s what i meant . when all my people were living in despair no one would ever think that this empire would end so unexpectedly and the map of today looking like that .
Adem Turan you’re Turkish as you mentioned earlier so you should know your history well also i don’t think it’s morally possible to compare between the British and the ottomans because an invasion is still inhuman no matter who does it because innocent people are involved and history and legacy is being destroyed, however the ottoman invasion lasted longer therefore it’s harmful effects are more scarring than the others .
The middle east has been dealing with conflict, war and destruction and stealing of our economical resources for uncountable amount of years and god know if it’ll ever have a peaceful era . Lastly i don’t think refugees leave there home land by choice they’re forced to after losing everything so no one appreciates calling them dumb, also you can’t deny that your Turkish government had a hand in the Syrian conflict .
OR Kurdistan will finally get independent and the USA will pump money into them until they are the second Israel while Turkey gets a major period of unrest and probably never gets back up on its feet again.
Keine Ahnung und so... so another US puppet in the middle-east? Absolutely no one (except Isreal) would support them in the region and Russia probably won't even allow it.
Imagine if someone in 2220 making a video about “ changing the map of Europe back to 2020”
As you see poland doesnt exist again
So we add an independent romania
We unite all of spain, and catalonia.
We would break Benelux into luxembourg belgium and netherlands
We give Saarland, Bavaria, Hanover, and Holstein to Germany.
Very good mapping!
Very good video!! Subbed
Yeeeesssssss. You did another one!!!!!
amazing vid dude
Great presentation!
Very informative!
Great video!! :)
Suggestion: 1900. I think it would be interesting to see how the world looked as the 20th century began.
1914s just a better year right before the great war when the archduke got assasinated
I love these vids
Make more of these pls!!!
I love how Portugal never changes for hundreds of years
I think it's cool how some of the small countries stayed the same for many, many years '
Very well done! Obviously, there are some oversimplifications and inaccuracies; many of today's states were certainly more predictable than you say, and already existed long before 1815. But you manage to make the main point: there is nothing static or 'this-is-supposed-to-be-the-way-of-things' about almost any national border.
Please make this more often
Thank you France, Spain, and Portugal for keeping your borders the same.
But france changed its borders....
We can't be bothered. Cheers from Portugal.
@tornadonuniversify If you mean they gained the most land than no, Russia had more land.
And Morocco. Don't forget that famous European nation with the same borders.
Wow. Superb essay. I'm going to watch it again. However, it would be better if the map had been panned slightly farther south (not much information at the top), and stretched a bit to the east, even at the expense of altering the aspect ratio (squeezing), if necessary.
An interesting map project would be to match all the different treaties and established borders and see which sections of national borders have lasted the longest and which territories have been under the control of their nations for the longest, even if as vassals or autonomies.
As in which areas can politically be understood as being the areas they claim to be.
Great video! You should do 1715, 1615 and so on.
“and a little peice of turkey” mmmmmmmmm yummmmmy
World: "How much do you want to eat Turkey?
Europe:" Meh..."
World:" I meant the country Turkey"
Europe: *y e s*
Mmmmmmmmmmmm turkey
9 million km²
Turkey was very big in the past, I never knew it, damn.
0:07 “As recognized by most of the countries themselves”
HOI4 Players: *_oui_*
Thank you so god damn much man! No one ever seems to recognise the fact that Norway and Sweden were in a personal union and not just the same country. We fought abloody war in 1814 to achieve a union with Seden and not straight up anexation. Thank you for being a good mother****** and actually researching stuff before you tell people about us!
Well done!
bra video som alltid, adam. blir alltid glad när man ser dig i sin subscription box
what is that new font you're using, btw?
Tack så mycket! Alltid kul att det uppskattas :)
If you're referring to the font for the countries' names, it's called Aller Display!
Mostly Photoshop.
Svenska
Trudde det var norsk fyrst !!
I Think This is norwegian but i Can read it because om Danish and its simmilar to danish
"This was a personal union between sweden and norway"
OH REALLY?!
Ps. I love this series,make more please
Pps. Can you make before the cold war?
CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION? HOW DO YOU PERFECTLY REDRAW THE MAP, LIKE REDRAW THE ALREADY DRAWN SOMEWHERE BORDERS
You should make a follow-up video to this in 200 years!
the area with all the small countries shifted from centtal europe (germany and italy) to the balkans.
Good observation
TheKewlPerson yea the balkans is where all my hopes and dreams go
When you, an intellicual, gas played Paradox Grand Strategy's Victoria 2
THIS WAS RELEASED ON MY BIRTHDAY YAY
There are alot of shapes on maps which almost never change and you can see alot of these on both maps and most historic maps
Suggestion: Changing the map of europe to 1700
Fun fact: After Napoleon was exiled the first time, he came back and was surrounded by a French Regiment. He then shouted "I am your Emperor! Who would shoot their Emperor?"
The soldiers then joined forces with Napoleon and he rose to power again for 100 days (I think?)
Well that's what I learnt at school, at least.
Although the shouting part might have been embellished.
@@11Survivor It isn't, it really happened.
This reminds me of all the times I change the date in Europa Universalis 4 and Victoria 2 to see how the map changes
Good video.
I know is an old video but here are some fixed mistakes:
Morocco, Spain and Portugal changed territories since 1815
Spain took some small territory close to Ceuta in Morocco in 1860 Africa War.
Portugal and Spain had some micro-disputed territories normally called fresnos or contiendas, all this tiny gaps where finally fixed in 1926. And we can't forget of Couto Misto micronation.
"Sees this video"
Putin: *Let's make it happen again shall we?*
On the border between the Netherlands and Prussia there was a tiny country called Central Moresnet which existed between 1815 and 1919.
This is great