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Then Chamberlain returned home victorious, waving his signed piece of paper in the air, declaring crisis to be averted, and the continuation of World Peace, and we built a statue of Chamberlain in his honour and every day on the 30th of September we celebrate Chamberlain Day
There was no Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. There was the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Oh yes. Complicated
@@joshuagibson6531 it's been at the point of collapsing (The whole North vs South debacle) once before, and things aren't looking very stable right now so i wouldn't be so sure.
@@Quantam_Ranger 😂😂😂 Not at all, by the end of 1992 it was already clear that we would split up and on January 1. 1993, the two countries were already separate. So I was no longer born in Czechoslovakia.😊
@@vekikusham9915 yeah i know later on about that...I am just sharing my Unfamiliar Experience, Actually I lived in india so don't know much about this and also internet era is not so common at that time here in India.
@@Quantam_Ranger It's fine, we're used to it. We are often mistaken for the Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, and often we are Russia. I have no idea why when there is a whole country between us. I once even heard that we were something like "Lower Poland".🤣🤣🤣
Poor people who are not familiar with the region would be more confused if they knew that there not just Slovakia and Slovenia but a Croatian region named slavonia
Yugoslavia Republic of China (I mean, their rule over mainland China) Pahlavi Dynasty of Iran Kingdom of Iraq Hashemite Federation State of Vietnam Republic of Vietnam Mongolian People's Republic Arab Kingdom of Syria Kingdom of Hejaz Kingdom of Najd & al-Hasa Kingdom of Najd & Hejaz Mutawakkite Kingdom of Yemen People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Kingdom of Egypt Dervish State Ethiopian People's Republic Somali Democratic Republic People's Republic of Congo United Arab Republic Hungarian Soviet Republic Banat Republic Tsardom of Bulgaria German Democratic Republic French State 4th Republic of France Republic of Spain Kingdom of Tibet State of Manchukuo State of Mengjiang Empire of Vietnam Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China First Hungarian Republic Second Hungarian Republic Kingdom of Hungary Hungarian People's Republic Polish People's Republic People's Republic of Bulgaria Socialist Republic of Romania Czechoslovak Socialist Republic And most importantly... *_Tuvan People's Republic_*
Hi, finally a video speaking about the Free Territory of Trieste! In other video you describe states which can exist in future or part of territories wanting to split from the state in which they now are. Remember that in Trieste there is still an underground movement for indipendence, which sometimes grow up to the surface: in 2013 almost 3.000 inhabitants of Trieste marched to remember the anniversary of foundation of the Free Territory of Trieste., claiming the indipendence of the city from Italy
The flag of Carpatho-Ukraine may be just like Ukraine's, but their coat of arms were very unique with the red bear since it was formally known as the Subcarpathian Rus' and was a part of the older Czechoslovakia.
Poland built its new port (the biggest in the baltic see at the time) in Polish city of Gdynia(also built from scratch ), because Danziger were making the Danziger port difficult to use.
Hello from Rijeka, former Free State of Fiume (it's actually pronounced with a sonic E at the end). Today, we live in the third largest city in Croatia, but there's a strong local identity as well. While any kind of serious separatist movements aren't present, there is a constant reminder of the unique position we are in. The symbolic two-headed eagle still stands in several public places. Some curiosities might be the strong Italian culture being present here, as well as generally somewhat more liberal political stances than the majority of Croatia. Throughout history, we have been under Hungary, Habsburg Empire, Serbia, France, Italy and of course, Croatia. There is a lot of cultural mixing here.
So I'm from Gdańsk. We are still using 2 crosses with crown, but know they looks otherwise. Also in Napoleonic Times we used also another flag but still 2 crosses with crown. We still using a coat of arms but not just only a shield with 2 crosses and crown, but also 2 lions holding the shield and at the bottom there is ribbon with the inscription "NEC TEMERE NEC TIMIDIE".
8:27 there's an interesting story about Fiume (river in Italian). Italian soldiers felt cheated from the treaty of Versailles, just like the Germans did, because Italy requested those lands of Istria and Dalmatia when winning the war with treaty of London prior entry of Italy to WW1 having the majority of Italians living on those coasts. The morale of Italian soldiers was low at the end of WW1 because they felt they had fought for nothing. Unfortunately, Woodrow Wilson didn't give those lands to Italy because many Slavs were also living there, but the majority of them were on the inside of those regions. What he granted to Italy was the South Tyrol (Alto Adige), which was never part of Italy and always belonged to Austria. That's why in that part of Italy nowadays, those people living there are still very hostile to us Italians. This was one of the main factors that made fascism grow after the Great War and inspired the famous Italian poet and writer Gabriele D'Annunzio and other WW1 veterans to take over Fiume which was part of those lands for which Italians fought for. D'Annunzio was an heroic WW1 veteran who flew alone over Vienna and dropped leaflets making fun of the Austro-Hungarian empire and trolling them basically as he could have dropped bombs instead. He also left, on another occasion, 3 bottles (a green, a white and a red one) in the harbour of Kotor in Montenegro (where a good amount of Austria Hungary fleet were) with a war boat and with only a few men onboard. If anyone is interested, it's possible to visit his mansion which he left and it is very peculiar inside ( Google "il Vittoriale of D'Annunzio).
Italians weren't even near being a significant minority on "those" coasts. Except in western part of Istria. Territory that Italy requested ceased having major latin population since the middle ages and what Italy wanted was just bullshit considering their contribution to the win was almost nothing except switching sides.
@@ginjordom6065 they were a majority on the coasts, just look up the numbers. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istrian-Dalmatian_exodus In WW1 Italy didn't "switch sides" as She was never allied for an offensive war with Austria. They were allied in a DEFENSIVE PACT and since Austria And Germany declared war without being attacked, Italy didn't have to join them.
@@MrWolf-xk8sl If you count in Italians that moved in and those in military service that came during occupation than those numbers are true for that point in time. But also there was forced italianization on the Croat population where they were mixed with Italians and generally they didn't give much fucks what slavs within their territory back then think or feel. As far as they were concerned it was all to be italianized or expelled. The same thing goes for Serbs who got a chunk too big for them to swallow so they settled for Yugoslavia to achieve their post-war goals.
Missed opportunity to talk about how before the institution of the free city of Fiume, it was militarily occupied by famed italian poet, writer, aviator, aesthete, nationalist and douchebag Gabriele D'Annunzio and a bunch of so called "legionaries", since they all were fairly outraged about the ridiculous territorial concessions given to Italy followin the Versailles treaty. Overall events like these were among the causes that led to the rise of fascism in Italy, but it's also really something we italians love to joke about based on how over the top D'Annunzio was
D’Annunzio and co. set up an Italian regency of Carnaro in the city, which was more of a Salazar-type syndicalist dictatorship rather than fascism, but then the British and French decided to create a free territory so they had the Italians reject the protectorate and send troops to free the city of the Italian legionaries and set up a free territory instead, however despite Italy granting this favor which was unpopular at home, the allies then did not grant Italy as much of Dalmatia as it had been promised and only let them keep Zara. I believe this was part of the “mutilated victory” narrative, very similar to the “stab in the back” only from the victor’s perspective
Trieste in English is officially pronounced as "Triest", probably because German is much closer to English (and the German name is without the "e"). However, you are right about Fiume, with the difference in that I would describe it to an English speaker as "few+may".
You forgot to mention the Regency of the carnaro of 1920. It was a temporary state in fiume, led by the italian poet Dannunzio. Fun fact he called the volunteers that joined him legionnaires. Btw cool video
Cool video! This is one of those events in history that I find really fascinating. There are many others that could've been mentioned as well. There were a lot of these types of nation-building and separatist experiments going on during the various Communists uprisings and the Russian Civil War like the Republic of the Far East, Green Ukraine, the Transcaucasian SFSR, etc. You could also take as examples the territorial holdings of the Warlords during the Warlord Era and the civil war in China from the 20s up to the 50s.
As a Ukrainian, it's pretty funny how our deportations led to a ton of these states from existing. Grey Ukraine, Purple Ukraine, Pink Ukraine (Kuban'), and the most famous, Green Ukraine. And then Carpatho-Ukraine, as mentioned here. But there was a group of pro-Russian Rusyn's in west Galicia, that declared a Lemko-Rusyn People's Republic, which shouldn't be confused for its nearby pro-Ukrainian neighbour, the Komancza Republic (East-Lemko Republic).
I was once on holiday in Danzig and as I am German, I called it Danzig in public one single time and got angrily corrected that Danzig is the fascist name of the city, I should call it Gdańsk.... I was just 12 years old and felt really bad afterwards - NOT A GOOD EXPERIENCE😢
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13:31 hey! I remember that! They used that image in my history text book! I remember back when I asked my teacher what flag that was. And now I know! Thanks!
Republic of Užice It is in Western Serbia, it's capital is Užice It existed as a communist state in occupied Yugoslavia during WWII (autumn 1941) It was led by the Yugoslav Partisans It was eventually destroyed by a joint Chetnik-German attack
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@@SirFaceFone I wouldn't agree with that. The elderly for example mostly do not speak English while the younger generations shift towards English but are capable of at least speaking/understanding basic French. For myself I had 7 years French lessons (3rd to 10th grade, wrote my Abitur in english, (11th and 12th grade)) but I didn't practice it after school and forgot a lot.
If you watch Lidia’s Kitchen on PBS in the states, the host Lidia Bastianich was actually born in the southern part of Istria, which became Zone B. Her family was forced (like many others) to change their names to sound more Slavic, her family went from Matticchio to Motika, fearing life In Yugoslavia, she fled with her mother and brother to Trieste, under the pretense of visiting a sick relative. Her father was to stay behind as an unspoken hostage, to ensure their return. He snuck away that night and crossed into zone A to join them. They ended up as refugees along with many others, and eventually were given permission to emigrate to America. Her ex-husband was also from zone B, hence her still having a Slavic last name.
It was dissolved in the 20th century but was created in 1815. I think he focussed on countries that were formed and dissolved during the twentieth century.
@Renan_PS Fortunately, there aren't that many Germans in Gdańsk anymore, they were chased away from there. So the question of whether he identifies himself as a German is nonsense. Now the main inhabitants of Gdańsk are the offspring of Poles from the Polish eastern borderlands.
@Renan_PS Please if you’re in Pomerania, Masuria, Silesia, Poznań - don’t ask these questions, it’s very offensive. Even when you’re in Sczecin, don’t ask questions like these, please.
The flag of Fiume was used in the 19th century in Romania, though with darker blue. If you rotate it 180deg., you almost get the flag of another temporary WWI country: Moldavian Democratic Republic.
I think that this video should have included the country of 'Neutral Moresnet', which existed as a micronation in-between Belgium and Germany due to a tiny border dispute. I have never seen it get mentioned by any large history channel!
You missed Neutral Moresnet, It was a state that basically consisted of a zinc mine and three villages in Kelmis in present day Belgium from 1816 until 1920. When Napoleon had lost, Germany (Prussia) and The Netherlands coukd not agree on ownership, so it became an independent country where the mayor was also king. They had their own money, stamps. taxation, anthem and flag (the Saargebiet flag upside down). There were plans to declare esperanto the national language, There even was the only quadrupal border in the world between Moresnet, Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. At the current triple border between Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands there still is a Moresnet border stone. After WW 1 Belgium annexed Moresnet.
While not well known, but between 1920 and 1922 there was the Republic of Central Lithuania, an interesting temporary country, with an ideological background. Marshall Pilsudski dreamed of creating the great polish state, witch would have included present day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine. By Pilsudski's idea, the great polish should have had such administrative territories as East Lithuania (mostly present day Belarus), central Lithuania (mostly the Vilnius region) and west Lithuania (mostly present day Lithuania). The attempt to create such a state was unsuccessful, but the Republic of Central Lithuania did gain a temporary materialization in the following years after WW I. In the end, when the Republic of Lithuania was able to get a foothold, and little by little gained international recognition, the country of Central Lithuania was scrapped and incorporated into Poland.
Yep and Lithuania was pissed that Poland didn’t give them Vinius/Wilna. That was one of the carrots the Soviets offered in 1939/40 after the annexation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union. Vilnius was given back to Lithuania, but then a few months later the Soviet Union annexed Lithuania as well. However Vilnius remained in the Lithuanian SSR, allowing Lithuania to keep the city upon its independence.
I really like your videos. Could you make one about Hungary falling apart after ww1? I'm Hungarian and I would really like to see the opinion of an outsider.
Danzig is a very interesting case. Not poles, yet polish. There even was rebellion of the Prussian Confederacy, centered around the city, managed by Pomeranio-prussian merchants and peasants against the teutonic order, with the aim to unite as an autonomous part with poland - it was a historical tradition that Gdańsk would be poland s seagate and tradehub, in exchange for autonomy, protection from (mostly) germans, which allowed the Danzigers to avoid kinda strangling holyroman laws and customs. So yeah, the city decided to be polish to cheat in the game of trade.
Saar 1935 Referendum: The ballot papers used for the referendum had numbers on them that corresponded to the names on the register of electors, U.K. elections also use these identification numbers. After the Saar was united with Germany the new Nazi regime used these identification numbers to track down all who had voted for the Saar not to be reunited with Germany.
There were more states honestly like the Banat republic, in the 20th century you also had many Chinese warlords, you had many civil wars and proxy conflicts in the cold war especially, you had a lot basically but I guess you mentioned a few less known small ones too so that's cool.
Saarland maintained a commercial link to France after joining Germany. Until public tenders became mandatory by the EU, public services would use French vehicles. The police usually drove Peugeot, Saarbrücken city buses were Berliet (maybe that is why the Berliet PR110 citybus was not totally but in many points built to the German SL1 citybus standards) and later Renault, etc.
The correct pronunciation of Trieste has no silent letters. Thus, every letter in this place name is pronounced. Trieste is pronounced: 1st syllable: tree (In Italian, the letter i is pronounced like the long e sound.), 2nd syllable: es (In Italian, the letter e is pronounced like the long a sound. However, the letter in this syllable is pronounced almost like the short e sound. This pronunciation is between the long a sound and short e sound, but sounds closer to the short e sound.), 3rd syllable: te (The letter e I this syllable is pronounced like the long a sound.).
That's correct, in Italian. There's still a small Slovene minority, who write Trst, and pronounce Terst. In other languages, Trieste is known as Triest, without the ending -e, even if most have adopted the Italian name nowadays, so it's not as clear-cut.
General Knowledge Could you pretty please do a video of What if Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland & Iceland united into 1 unifed nation & a video of what is Great Brittan (England, Scotland Wales & All of Ireland), The United States, Canada, Australia & New Zealand united into 1 Anglosphere contrey?
I believe that the Nordic nations had been a unified nation of sorts back in the late 14th century. It was called the Kalmar Union, but I think a modern adaption would be cool to see!
Its wasnt called the kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. It was called the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs before they juined with Serbia to create a kingdom
Fun Fact: The Federal Republic of Germany was created to last no more than just a few years until a new german Republic is formed. That did not happen because of the Cold War and the FRG still exists to this day.
If you considered proto Yugoslavia, the Kingdom of the Serbs,Croats and Slovenes as a country you'd have to consider the much more modern Serbia Montenegro the short-lived proto state between between the rump of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro as separate countries.although Serbia Montenegro was technically one county and I suppose similar to the modern United Kingdom,a country made up of countries, they used different money.Serbia the Yugoslav Dinar and Montenegro the Euro and I had a lot of trouble changing Serb money in Montenegro.
My preference (not speaking Portuguese, but fluent Italian) would be to pronounced the final E of both Trieste and Fiume. Otherwise, yet another well-researched and entertaining gallop through history.
The Saar is the reason why the number of stars on the European Union flag is fixed at 12, irrespective of the number of member States, as opposed to the flag of the USA, which adds a star every time a new State joins the union.
No, Saarland was one of the founding members but when it was officially foundet it only had 7 member states. I would love for this to be true ,but I wasnt able to find evidence
The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas. It was created on 15 November 1920[1][2] in accordance with the terms of Article 100 (Section XI of Part III) of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I.
It's said that the double headed eagle on the coat of arms of Fiume/Rijeka is facing towards the right because in the past threats to the city came from the east like the Ottoman and Tatar invaders for example.
It's a very interesting Documentation and I like many others of your Documentation as well. After the Saar Protectorate became a Federal State of the FRG 🇩🇪 on January 1st 1957 its Economy was until July 5th 1959 still under the Control of France 🇨🇵. So the Border between it and the FRG 🇩🇪 and also the Currency, the "Saar-Franken", which was pegged 1:1 to the French Franc and had its own Bills and Coins which had the same Measures like the French Franc and was also authorized from the French National Bank and existed until then.
@a basketboy and why you didn't write Canada and the USA itself in your list? If you're using the word "Yankee" instead of "America" you're offending those people. You obviously don't think about that.
Central Lithuania was False Flag operation. "Żeligowski's Mutiny" - "rebelled" forces of Polish army, officially acting against orders, but really orchestrated by Marshall Piłsudski invaded Lithuania and taken Vilnius/Wilno creating "Central Lithuania" and later incorporating it into Poland.
neutral moresnet is similar, it lasted from 1815 to 1919 however, much loner than intended, it's flag was a combination of the prussian black-white and the dutch blue, that saarland flag reversed basicly
@@barvdw Yes. They faced each other twice in the World Cup qualification Group 1 leading up to the WC 1954, the very tournament that eventually won (West-) Germany its first World Cup title.
The republic of Krushevo established in 1903. Ilinden uprising by the internal Macedonian revolutionary organization in ottoman macedonia. Crushed by ottoman forces after 14 days of existence. Precursor of the Balkan wars 10 years later with the division of ottoman Macedonia and the trigger for WW1. Often overlooked but significant.
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*Are there any more temporary countries you know of?*
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I will make my own country just for you to talk about it
*soviet union*
talk about the zulu
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Then Chamberlain returned home victorious, waving his signed piece of paper in the air, declaring crisis to be averted, and the continuation of World Peace, and we built a statue of Chamberlain in his honour and every day on the 30th of September we celebrate Chamberlain Day
Germany is invading the rest of Czechoslovakia
...W-what?
@@daroach5362 Germany is invading the rest of Czechoslovakia
@@no1fanofthepals u lied to me
@@no1fanofthepals
In the vid he goes to Hitler and says that
There was no Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. There was the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Oh yes. Complicated
stfu post-unification royalist
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@@koalabear1984 Suddenly, Stjepan Radić rises from the dead
all countries are temporary. just like my life
That's deep
@@joshuagibson6531 it will fall eventually
I thought you'd say girlfriend.
See i all readdy got out of my temporary phase aka dead so for halloween i dont have to dress up
@@joshuagibson6531 it's been at the point of collapsing (The whole North vs South debacle) once before, and things aren't looking very stable right now so i wouldn't be so sure.
I greet from Slovakia, from the small town near the border with Ukraine. It is nice to see that someone is also interested in our state.🇸🇰😊
Till 2013 I believe that Slovakia is still a part of Czech Republic i.e. Czechoslovika still exist 😂😂
@@Quantam_Ranger 😂😂😂 Not at all, by the end of 1992 it was already clear that we would split up and on January 1. 1993, the two countries were already separate. So I was no longer born in Czechoslovakia.😊
@@vekikusham9915 yeah i know later on about that...I am just sharing my Unfamiliar Experience, Actually I lived in india so don't know much about this and also internet era is not so common at that time here in India.
@@Quantam_Ranger It's fine, we're used to it. We are often mistaken for the Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, and often we are Russia. I have no idea why when there is a whole country between us. I once even heard that we were something like "Lower Poland".🤣🤣🤣
Poor people who are not familiar with the region would be more confused if they knew that there not just Slovakia and Slovenia but a Croatian region named slavonia
An another temporary country of the 20th century ?
The Soviet Union
Not very temporary...
You son of a...
Yugoslavia
Republic of China (I mean, their rule over mainland China)
Pahlavi Dynasty of Iran
Kingdom of Iraq
Hashemite Federation
State of Vietnam
Republic of Vietnam
Mongolian People's Republic
Arab Kingdom of Syria
Kingdom of Hejaz
Kingdom of Najd & al-Hasa
Kingdom of Najd & Hejaz
Mutawakkite Kingdom of Yemen
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Kingdom of Egypt
Dervish State
Ethiopian People's Republic
Somali Democratic Republic
People's Republic of Congo
United Arab Republic
Hungarian Soviet Republic
Banat Republic
Tsardom of Bulgaria
German Democratic Republic
French State
4th Republic of France
Republic of Spain
Kingdom of Tibet
State of Manchukuo
State of Mengjiang
Empire of Vietnam
Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China
First Hungarian Republic
Second Hungarian Republic
Kingdom of Hungary
Hungarian People's Republic
Polish People's Republic
People's Republic of Bulgaria
Socialist Republic of Romania
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
And most importantly...
*_Tuvan People's Republic_*
You don't understand what he meant.
@@aerohydreigon1101 WHO CAN FORGET TANU TUVA
This was the case in Europe because of WW1 and WW2. I'm not sure if there's any other examples of 'Temporary' Countries in other continents!
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Palestine
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You forgot NEUTRAL MORISNET 1816-1920. Do a video on that country.
tibet, the 2 yemens, and also east germany if you take it exact
Hi, finally a video speaking about the Free Territory of Trieste! In other video you describe states which can exist in future or part of territories wanting to split from the state in which they now are. Remember that in Trieste there is still an underground movement for indipendence, which sometimes grow up to the surface: in 2013 almost 3.000 inhabitants of Trieste marched to remember the anniversary of foundation of the Free Territory of Trieste., claiming the indipendence of the city from Italy
sorry: 8.000 not 3.000
The flag of Carpatho-Ukraine may be just like Ukraine's, but their coat of arms were very unique with the red bear since it was formally known as the Subcarpathian Rus' and was a part of the older Czechoslovakia.
Poland built its new port (the biggest in the baltic see at the time) in Polish city of Gdynia(also built from scratch ), because Danziger were making the Danziger port difficult to use.
Hello from Rijeka, former Free State of Fiume (it's actually pronounced with a sonic E at the end). Today, we live in the third largest city in Croatia, but there's a strong local identity as well. While any kind of serious separatist movements aren't present, there is a constant reminder of the unique position we are in. The symbolic two-headed eagle still stands in several public places. Some curiosities might be the strong Italian culture being present here, as well as generally somewhat more liberal political stances than the majority of Croatia. Throughout history, we have been under Hungary, Habsburg Empire, Serbia, France, Italy and of course, Croatia. There is a lot of cultural mixing here.
The same for Trieste!!!
So I'm from Gdańsk. We are still using 2 crosses with crown, but know they looks otherwise. Also in Napoleonic Times we used also another flag but still 2 crosses with crown. We still using a coat of arms but not just only a shield with 2 crosses and crown, but also 2 lions holding the shield and at the bottom there is ribbon with the inscription "NEC TEMERE NEC TIMIDIE".
To mean Danzig? 🇩🇪
8:27 there's an interesting story about Fiume (river in Italian).
Italian soldiers felt cheated from the treaty of Versailles, just like the Germans did, because Italy requested those lands of Istria and Dalmatia when winning the war with treaty of London prior entry of Italy to WW1 having the majority of Italians living on those coasts. The morale of Italian soldiers was low at the end of WW1 because they felt they had fought for nothing.
Unfortunately, Woodrow Wilson didn't give those lands to Italy because many Slavs were also living there, but the majority of them were on the inside of those regions. What he granted to Italy was the South Tyrol (Alto Adige), which was never part of Italy and always belonged to Austria. That's why in that part of Italy nowadays, those people living there are still very hostile to us Italians.
This was one of the main factors that made fascism grow after the Great War and inspired the famous Italian poet and writer Gabriele D'Annunzio and other WW1 veterans to take over Fiume which was part of those lands for which Italians fought for. D'Annunzio was an heroic WW1 veteran who flew alone over Vienna and dropped leaflets making fun of the Austro-Hungarian empire and trolling them basically as he could have dropped bombs instead. He also left, on another occasion, 3 bottles (a green, a white and a red one) in the harbour of Kotor in Montenegro (where a good amount of Austria Hungary fleet were) with a war boat and with only a few men onboard.
If anyone is interested, it's possible to visit his mansion which he left and it is very peculiar inside ( Google "il Vittoriale of D'Annunzio).
@unnamed75 ciao anche a te! D'Annunzio era un grande.
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Italians weren't even near being a significant minority on "those" coasts. Except in western part of Istria. Territory that Italy requested ceased having major latin population since the middle ages and what Italy wanted was just bullshit considering their contribution to the win was almost nothing except switching sides.
@@ginjordom6065 they were a majority on the coasts, just look up the numbers.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istrian-Dalmatian_exodus
In WW1 Italy didn't "switch sides" as She was never allied for an offensive war with Austria. They were allied in a DEFENSIVE PACT and since Austria And Germany declared war without being attacked, Italy didn't have to join them.
@@MrWolf-xk8sl If you count in Italians that moved in and those in military service that came during occupation than those numbers are true for that point in time. But also there was forced italianization on the Croat population where they were mixed with Italians and generally they didn't give much fucks what slavs within their territory back then think or feel. As far as they were concerned it was all to be italianized or expelled. The same thing goes for Serbs who got a chunk too big for them to swallow so they settled for Yugoslavia to achieve their post-war goals.
Missed opportunity to talk about how before the institution of the free city of Fiume, it was militarily occupied by famed italian poet, writer, aviator, aesthete, nationalist and douchebag Gabriele D'Annunzio and a bunch of so called "legionaries", since they all were fairly outraged about the ridiculous territorial concessions given to Italy followin the Versailles treaty. Overall events like these were among the causes that led to the rise of fascism in Italy, but it's also really something we italians love to joke about based on how over the top D'Annunzio was
D’Annunzio and co. set up an Italian regency of Carnaro in the city, which was more of a Salazar-type syndicalist dictatorship rather than fascism, but then the British and French decided to create a free territory so they had the Italians reject the protectorate and send troops to free the city of the Italian legionaries and set up a free territory instead, however despite Italy granting this favor which was unpopular at home, the allies then did not grant Italy as much of Dalmatia as it had been promised and only let them keep Zara. I believe this was part of the “mutilated victory” narrative, very similar to the “stab in the back” only from the victor’s perspective
Italian language note: You do pronounce the E at the end of words.
So, it’s “fyoo-meh” and “tree(not chree)-es-teh”
Currently it is spelled trieste, but historically it was spelled "triest". I don't know what language that's in though.
Trieste in English is officially pronounced as "Triest", probably because German is much closer to English (and the German name is without the "e"). However, you are right about Fiume, with the difference in that I would describe it to an English speaker as "few+may".
The final "E" in Triest(e)is not pronounced in Portuguese or in Germanic languages, like English.
You forgot to mention the Regency of the carnaro of 1920.
It was a temporary state in fiume, led by the italian poet Dannunzio.
Fun fact he called the volunteers that joined him legionnaires.
Btw cool video
It was creazy mix of proto-fascism, anarchism and pirate republic.
Cool video! This is one of those events in history that I find really fascinating. There are many others that could've been mentioned as well. There were a lot of these types of nation-building and separatist experiments going on during the various Communists uprisings and the Russian Civil War like the Republic of the Far East, Green Ukraine, the Transcaucasian SFSR, etc. You could also take as examples the territorial holdings of the Warlords during the Warlord Era and the civil war in China from the 20s up to the 50s.
As a Ukrainian, it's pretty funny how our deportations led to a ton of these states from existing. Grey Ukraine, Purple Ukraine, Pink Ukraine (Kuban'), and the most famous, Green Ukraine. And then Carpatho-Ukraine, as mentioned here. But there was a group of pro-Russian Rusyn's in west Galicia, that declared a Lemko-Rusyn People's Republic, which shouldn't be confused for its nearby pro-Ukrainian neighbour, the Komancza Republic (East-Lemko Republic).
@@roman.ia.empire ukraine is weak and smells like old fish.
Proof th-cam.com/video/n7rjEEk7q9M/w-d-xo.html
A ton of short lived European states are featured in this vid on Austria-Hungary’s collapse: th-cam.com/video/TSQkFNO6H_0/w-d-xo.html
I'm Saary but blue white and black is such an odd combination for a striped flag
BLUE WHITE AND BLACK FLAGS MATTER
*Estonia wants to know your location*
Nice grammar
@@zachatck6567 comon how didn't you get the joke?
@@zachatck6567 dickhead
I absolutely love this channel!❤
Thanks :)
I was once on holiday in Danzig and as I am German, I called it Danzig in public one single time and got angrily corrected that Danzig is the fascist name of the city, I should call it Gdańsk.... I was just 12 years old and felt really bad afterwards - NOT A GOOD EXPERIENCE😢
Do they speak a bit German?
Lol dann war Schopenhauer wohl auch ein faschist
The name danzig is way older than the nazis....
@@brokkrep well I mean even in Warsaw like 30% people speak German, why?
I really feel sorry for Danzig and Königsberg.
Can you make a “Divided Countries that used to Exist” video? I think that would be a pretty cool topic. 🙂
This feels like a weird shilly thing to say but I swear it's legit. I've never seen a channel I watch do an ad for something I've played or used before a decent amount and enjoyed. I've played Supremacy 1914 and Call of war loads on and off, it's definitely a specific taste of game and should be seen as more of an idle game you can really focus in on and requires communicating with other players a fair bit but if you want something to sink the odd few minutes every hour or so into then definitely give it ago!
13:31 hey! I remember that! They used that image in my history text book! I remember back when I asked my teacher what flag that was. And now I know! Thanks!
Hey revan! It's nice to find a star wars fan on youtube!
@@stefano2583 hahahaha there are enough Star Wars fans on YT trust me xd.
As a Danziger, I want the city-state to be back...please
Gdansk, I say
Isn't Danzig still a free city?
Hello fellow Danziger
Ukończ waść swą egzystencji w trybie natychmiastowym, chwała Rzeczypospolitej
I'm from Gdańsk and I really want to appricieate that you mentioned my city.
No witam rodaka.
*Danzig^^
@@Lucas_07-PL siemka. Ty też z Gdańska?
@@luxtayii3473 Nie , ja z pod Dąbrowy Górniczej , niedaleko Katowic.
@@Lucas_07-PL podobno kiedyś dużo tam smogu było.
Republic of Užice
It is in Western Serbia, it's capital is Užice
It existed as a communist state in occupied Yugoslavia during WWII (autumn 1941)
It was led by the Yugoslav Partisans
It was eventually destroyed by a joint Chetnik-German attack
ok
@@joyfulc1015 this is more ok. Now go love him th-cam.com/video/iMp7BHahY8c/w-d-xo.html watch his movie when you are bored. He's a dark Sith... And his forehead is blessed with the blood and guts of little baby jesus. His writing is not from this planet. Go love him. Use a fake account if you have to
As a german from Saarland can I add that learning french in school as the first foreign language is still mandetory.
local government wants to make the population 100% bilingual for 2030 I read
Et war dat schlimmste wat ma sich vorstelle kann. eich bin bis heit traumatisiert
@@dereinzigartigeherryoda9742 Heer uff ze brille
Cool. So most people are trilingual there, I'd presume?
@@SirFaceFone I wouldn't agree with that. The elderly for example mostly do not speak English while the younger generations shift towards English but are capable of at least speaking/understanding basic French. For myself I had 7 years French lessons (3rd to 10th grade, wrote my Abitur in english, (11th and 12th grade)) but I didn't practice it after school and forgot a lot.
Your english accent has greatly improved, and it sounds much more pleasent to listen to.
If you watch Lidia’s Kitchen on PBS in the states, the host Lidia Bastianich was actually born in the southern part of Istria, which became Zone B. Her family was forced (like many others) to change their names to sound more Slavic, her family went from Matticchio to Motika, fearing life In Yugoslavia, she fled with her mother and brother to Trieste, under the pretense of visiting a sick relative. Her father was to stay behind as an unspoken hostage, to ensure their return. He snuck away that night and crossed into zone A to join them. They ended up as refugees along with many others, and eventually were given permission to emigrate to America. Her ex-husband was also from zone B, hence her still having a Slavic last name.
What about Neutral Moresnet? I existed from ca. 1815 till WW1 on the border between Germany, Netherlands and Belgium
It was dissolved in the 20th century but was created in 1815. I think he focussed on countries that were formed and dissolved during the twentieth century.
@@martin12345qwerty yeah but I was just generally asking for a video about Moresnet
That would be a interesting one
Fiume: the e at the end is pronounced.
Trieste: same as above.
Think Italian, please, in this case.
f i u m
Greetings from Gdansk/Danzig :)
I visited Gdansk last year. It's a lovely city with lots of history.
@Renan_PS well, actually I’m Kashubian with some Polish German heritage
@Renan_PS Fortunately, there aren't that many Germans in Gdańsk anymore, they were chased away from there.
So the question of whether he identifies himself as a German is nonsense. Now the main inhabitants of Gdańsk are the offspring of Poles from the Polish eastern borderlands.
@Renan_PS Please if you’re in Pomerania, Masuria, Silesia, Poznań - don’t ask these questions, it’s very offensive. Even when you’re in Sczecin, don’t ask questions like these, please.
The flag of Fiume was used in the 19th century in Romania, though with darker blue.
If you rotate it 180deg., you almost get the flag of another temporary WWI country: Moldavian Democratic Republic.
I think that this video should have included the country of 'Neutral Moresnet', which existed as a micronation in-between Belgium and Germany due to a tiny border dispute. I have never seen it get mentioned by any large history channel!
Love Carpatho-Ukraine from Slovakia
Love to Slovakia from Ukraind
You missed Neutral Moresnet, It was a state that basically consisted of a zinc mine and three villages in Kelmis in present day Belgium from 1816 until 1920. When Napoleon had lost, Germany (Prussia) and The Netherlands coukd not agree on ownership, so it became an independent country where the mayor was also king. They had their own money, stamps. taxation, anthem and flag (the Saargebiet flag upside down). There were plans to declare esperanto the national language, There even was the only quadrupal border in the world between Moresnet, Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. At the current triple border between Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands there still is a Moresnet border stone. After WW 1 Belgium annexed Moresnet.
Stamps? No. As a life long collector i can tell you ain"t no such thing as (( UPU recognized)) Moresnet stamps...cinderellas maybe?
>> a ha! locally produced && valid only in Moresnet!
While not well known, but between 1920 and 1922 there was the Republic of Central Lithuania,
an interesting temporary country, with an ideological background. Marshall Pilsudski dreamed of creating the great polish state, witch would have included present day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine. By Pilsudski's idea, the great polish should have had such administrative territories as East Lithuania (mostly present day Belarus), central Lithuania (mostly the Vilnius region) and west Lithuania (mostly present day Lithuania). The attempt to create such a state was unsuccessful, but the Republic of Central Lithuania did gain a temporary materialization in the following years after WW I. In the end, when the Republic of Lithuania was able to get a foothold, and little by little gained international recognition, the country of Central Lithuania was scrapped and incorporated into Poland.
Yep and Lithuania was pissed that Poland didn’t give them Vinius/Wilna. That was one of the carrots the Soviets offered in 1939/40 after the annexation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union. Vilnius was given back to Lithuania, but then a few months later the Soviet Union annexed Lithuania as well. However Vilnius remained in the Lithuanian SSR, allowing Lithuania to keep the city upon its independence.
I really like your videos. Could you make one about Hungary falling apart after ww1? I'm Hungarian and I would really like to see the opinion of an outsider.
As a German with eternal possibilities to experience what you wish for, let me tell you: it doesn't hurt less when it comes from an outsider. 😋
Danzig is a very interesting case. Not poles, yet polish. There even was rebellion of the Prussian Confederacy, centered around the city, managed by Pomeranio-prussian merchants and peasants against the teutonic order, with the aim to unite as an autonomous part with poland - it was a historical tradition that Gdańsk would be poland s seagate and tradehub, in exchange for autonomy, protection from (mostly) germans, which allowed the Danzigers to avoid kinda strangling holyroman laws and customs. So yeah, the city decided to be polish to cheat in the game of trade.
All countries are temporary.
What happened with Neutral Moresnet. Also existed in the 20th century.
Saar 1935 Referendum: The ballot papers used for the referendum had numbers on them that corresponded to the names on the register of electors, U.K. elections also use these identification numbers. After the Saar was united with Germany the new Nazi regime used these identification numbers to track down all who had voted for the Saar not to be reunited with Germany.
Fun fact: Rijeka means a river in Croatian and other slavic languages and Fiume means a river in Italian so thats why it was called like that
Thanks for that knowledge nugget!
There were more states honestly like the Banat republic, in the 20th century you also had many Chinese warlords, you had many civil wars and proxy conflicts in the cold war especially, you had a lot basically but I guess you mentioned a few less known small ones too so that's cool.
Cool video! My mum was born in the Freie Stadt Danzig. I still have the Danzig IDs, passports, and some coins/currency that my mum & grandmother held.
Thanks for mentioning Carpathian Ukraine! Respect from Ukraine!
Fascinating, but in Fiume and Trieste you read the E's at the end. That's Italian for y'all.
He pronounces Spanish words as in Portuguese too.
How dare he pronounce cities like they are in English or Portuguese.
Saarland maintained a commercial link to France after joining Germany. Until public tenders became mandatory by the EU, public services would use French vehicles. The police usually drove Peugeot, Saarbrücken city buses were Berliet (maybe that is why the Berliet PR110 citybus was not totally but in many points built to the German SL1 citybus standards) and later Renault, etc.
Countries. A land. A continnent. A world. A universe
Not so complicated but this is
One of the rare videos where he didn't say "in the thumbnail" at the first one 😅
The correct pronunciation of Trieste has no silent letters. Thus, every letter in this place name is pronounced. Trieste is pronounced: 1st syllable: tree (In Italian, the letter i is pronounced like the long e sound.), 2nd syllable: es (In Italian, the letter e is pronounced like the long a sound. However, the letter in this syllable is pronounced almost like the short e sound. This pronunciation is between the long a sound and short e sound, but sounds closer to the short e sound.), 3rd syllable: te (The letter e I this syllable is pronounced like the long a sound.).
That's correct, in Italian. There's still a small Slovene minority, who write Trst, and pronounce Terst. In other languages, Trieste is known as Triest, without the ending -e, even if most have adopted the Italian name nowadays, so it's not as clear-cut.
Great video as always
That is not a “Kingdom“ of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, but the short-living State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.
It’s Fiume, with the plain final “E”, like “phiumay"
You can't simply remove the Umlaute/accent from German letters they are their own thing the correct way to write Ü/ü without it is Ue/ue (and Ae/Oe)
[Paul Joseph] Goebbels is never _Göbbels_ , though!
@@Cjnw Correct, that only works one way.
The other way is not always correct (same with ß -> ss/sz, but not ss/sz -> ß).
Where is Banat... next video of this kind you should add Banat.
General Knowledge Could you pretty please do a video of What if Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland & Iceland united into 1 unifed nation & a video of what is Great Brittan (England, Scotland Wales & All of Ireland), The United States, Canada, Australia & New Zealand united into 1 Anglosphere contrey?
I believe that the Nordic nations had been a unified nation of sorts back in the late 14th century. It was called the Kalmar Union, but I think a modern adaption would be cool to see!
All good ideas! I can :)
"canada anglophone" : Québec : well I pretend I have not read that
@@General.Knowledge Awesome! Thank you so very much, i almost can't wait to see them.
Its wasnt called the kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. It was called the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs before they juined with Serbia to create a kingdom
Fun Fact: The Federal Republic of Germany was created to last no more than just a few years until a new german Republic is formed. That did not happen because of the Cold War and the FRG still exists to this day.
Great video! Thanks for Carpatho-Ukraine.
If you considered proto Yugoslavia, the Kingdom of the Serbs,Croats and Slovenes as a country you'd have to consider the much more modern Serbia Montenegro the short-lived proto state between between the rump of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro as separate countries.although Serbia Montenegro was technically one county and I suppose similar to the modern United Kingdom,a country made up of countries, they used different money.Serbia the Yugoslav Dinar and Montenegro the Euro and I had a lot of trouble changing Serb money in Montenegro.
Great video!
My preference (not speaking Portuguese, but fluent Italian) would be to pronounced the final E of both Trieste and Fiume. Otherwise, yet another well-researched and entertaining gallop through history.
everything is temporary...
but doom is eternal
The Saar is the reason why the number of stars on the European Union flag is fixed at 12, irrespective of the number of member States, as opposed to the flag of the USA, which adds a star every time a new State joins the union.
No, Saarland was one of the founding members but when it was officially foundet it only had 7 member states.
I would love for this to be true ,but I wasnt able to find evidence
Продовжуйте робити чудові відео 👍 👍
STARTS AT 2:06
Fiume means “river” in Italian and you pronounce the e at the end. Same with trieste.
he said trieste in it's german name. Triest.. what do you want the old latin Trigeste back?
You forgot the Republic of Catalonia, which existence was only of 8". The least of the history
The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas. It was created on 15 November 1920[1][2] in accordance with the terms of Article 100 (Section XI of Part III) of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I.
Kingdom of Finland.
fun fact i onch won a match as the free city of danzi somehow one one of the maps where every country during ww2 is available
It's said that the double headed eagle on the coat of arms of Fiume/Rijeka is facing towards the right because in the past threats to the city came from the east like the Ottoman and Tatar invaders for example.
It's a very interesting Documentation and I like many others of your Documentation as well. After the Saar Protectorate became a Federal State of the FRG 🇩🇪 on January 1st 1957 its Economy was until July 5th 1959 still under the Control of France 🇨🇵. So the Border between it and the FRG 🇩🇪 and also the Currency, the "Saar-Franken", which was pegged 1:1 to the French Franc and had its own Bills and Coins which had the same Measures like the French Franc and was also authorized from the French National Bank and existed until then.
@a basketboy So what? Where's written that I'm not allowed writing american english words? Think about it.
@a basketboy and why you didn't write Canada and the USA itself in your list? If you're using the word "Yankee" instead of "America" you're offending those people. You obviously don't think about that.
@a basketboy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote
Where the hell is Tannu Tuva
There is a singular lack of non-European countries. Where is the 3rd Republic of Acre?
hey can you tell me the map you used for the video to show Temporary Countries of the 20th Century
Parte 2 - Protetorado Internacional de Tânger
Fiume means river in italian
Today's name is Rijeka which also means River in Croatian
Cheers from Fiume!
@@TheScooby455 I know
@@TheScooby455 cool that you are from there tho :)
@@TheScooby455 in Croatian it’s Rijeka and in Polish it’s Rzeka 😂😂
You missed Republic if Middle /Central Lithuania. There was also short lived Republic or Western Ukraine.
There were a lot of short-lived states in Ukraine at that time. It probably deserves a video of its own.
Central Lithuania was False Flag operation. "Żeligowski's Mutiny" - "rebelled" forces of Polish army, officially acting against orders, but really orchestrated by Marshall Piłsudski invaded Lithuania and taken Vilnius/Wilno creating "Central Lithuania" and later incorporating it into Poland.
@@The0Stroy True but the country "self governed" for about two years before it got incorporated to Poland. It even had its anthem!
All adds are temporary. But sometimes less temporary than others
Can you make a second video about temporary Countries?
You forgot Neutral Moresnet
You're right! I just left it out since I had mentioned it in a previous, although different, video.
The most interresting unknown fact about Danzig is that after the WW2 some German nationalists created goverment in exile which is still living today
Well, it would never be real because in Poland nationalistic parties are illegal. Also probably like 0.01% of the people approve it
Where are they?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig_Government_in_Exile
@@tonijelecevic9238 nice thanks
Well, they are concidered a group that only want revenge and nothing else
neutral moresnet is similar, it lasted from 1815 to 1919 however, much loner than intended, it's flag was a combination of the prussian black-white and the dutch blue, that saarland flag reversed basicly
the saar protectorate has a nordic cross on its flag that means it's a Nordic Country
With French Colours.
Meaning its the only French-Nordic country...
poles were actually something about 15% population od Danzig
Saar took part in its sole Olympic Games at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
Wasn't there a football match on a World Cup (or European Cup) where Saarland played against the Federal Republic of Germany, too?
@@barvdw Yes. They faced each other twice in the World Cup qualification Group 1 leading up to the WC 1954, the very tournament that eventually won (West-) Germany its first World Cup title.
how do you draw so fast
fast forwarding ?
As a person from the Saarland.
I like this...
I’m glad to see all the Asian and African and Latin American temporary countries!
I would like to send you all my respect for your vedio's contants
During WWII in Yugoslavia- Independent State of Croatia.
Ne znam da li se i Užička republika računa?
There was a Caribbean Antilles commonwealth after independence from the UK. The western indies
This is the Zapfenstreichmarsch.
This is some good nachmusik th-cam.com/video/n7rjEEk7q9M/w-d-xo.html
Proof
The republic of Krushevo established in 1903. Ilinden uprising by the internal Macedonian revolutionary organization in ottoman macedonia. Crushed by ottoman forces after 14 days of existence. Precursor of the Balkan wars 10 years later with the division of ottoman Macedonia and the trigger for WW1. Often overlooked but significant.
Bro, I'm already playing call of war. I beat the game as Romania who took all of europe with my comrades, Egypt who took all of Africa, communist Russia who took all of Asia, Canada who took all of the Americas, and Australia who took all of Oceania
The Saar Protectorate
And
Free Territory of Trieste
Are my favorites
I am from the Saar ,which is why its my favorite
Temporary countries are like temporary human relationships
A fuck all at the end
2:05 Friendship of Worse
"This country may contain nut traces"
That doesn't narrow it down. :D