@@henrydelta1165 I think the point is the temperature. Snow, yes, but it doesn't go down to -30ºC or -50ºC. Fun fact, when it's truly cold it's actually too cold to snow.
@@danielgadomski5129 In Chinese Jaxa is 雅克萨(Ya Ke Sa). And this place name is known for the battle of Jaxa, which this video talks about. This battle and the following treaty of Nerchinsk (in Chinese, 尼布楚条约) are included in the Chinese history textbook as they are almost the first contact between China and Russia and this treaty is the first treaty China signed (and probably the only one that is regared as fair for both sides). But the textbook never mentioned the involvement of Polish during the battle.
@@danielgadomski5129 鹿鼎记 is usually the one to go, it is remake after a popular novel the the film industry love to milk it once every few years. It usually happen in the middle end when the main character meets with Princess Sofia Romanov. 康熙王朝 mentioned it but it didn't put a very big focus at it, the Treaty of Nerchinsk was mentioned but the drama was more dealing with Ming loyalists in Taiwan and rebellious generals/lords, and state affair in general.
Simmilar story to Maurycy Beniowski who was exiled to Siberia, then found his way to Macau and embarked on a French ship. He became French governor of Madagascar. After he was proclaimed a king by the locals, he turned against his former bosses. He tried to get Americans to support his cause but eventually died in skirmish, trying to seize the island with his followers.
The strangest states I’ve heard of all come out of the Russian Civil War; The North Caucasian Emirate, Green Ukraine, the Baltic Duchy, the Estonian Republic of Soldiers and Fortress Builders and, my favourite, The Free Territory. If you can find reliable sources, have a look at some of these, it was one of the wildest times in human history. Plenty of people did just what the Soviets had done and just proclaimed their own states after the autocracy ended and Liberal Republic fell, and tbh many of them could have been as successful as the Soviets as none of them have any guarantee of success.
Also a Russian nobleman of Baltic German origin briefly became Khan of Mongolia during that time by driving out the Chinese occupation with an army of Mongols, White Russians, and Japanese mercenaries
@@zanderrose I’ll one up you. This man believed that he was the reincarnation of Genghis Khan, and if you look up “Baron von Ungern-Sternberg” you can find Tibetan chants dedicated to him. He was widely regarded as being extremely cruel, as he would torture people and kill them if they annoyed him in the slightest, which earned him the nickname the, “Mad Baron.” Additionally, because he was originally from the Baltics, if you look around in Central and Eastern Europe you can see some people who are from the same family as him.
@@redsamson0023 Because they were the ones that started the chaos and they kept everything in control with purges and massacres. They also had the moral support
@@James-sk4db yep! and that’s why the buddha has curly hair, he’s supposed to look greek. prior to the greco-buddhist kingdoms, buddha was represented by a footprint, a lotus flower, or an empty chair if he was represented at all
The Persian Empire had a policy of forcibly deporting populations from one part of the territory to another. That included Greeks who were forcefully displaced from the Westernmost to the Easternmost borders of the Empire. It's fascinating to think that Alexander the Great conquered Asia and kept pushing further and further East, encountering increasingly foreign and exotic people, until... he ran into fellow Greeks!
@@zanderrose is that supposed to be curly hair though. It looks nothing like the curly hair of greek and roman statues and I know these little topknots have a name but I forgot it. Unless you're talking about something else, like very early depictions of him or a different style of portraying him in vogue in the greco-iranian kingdoms in contrast to other regions, but for the life of me I can't recall any statue of buddha with curly hair.
@@NN-qw8jf being so far cut off from the Mediterranean, it's perfectly reasonable to think that styles changed and mixed with those of the new neighbors
The Vandalic Kingdom in North Africa that formed during the migration period, while not exactly short-lived (survived for around 100 years), was certainly an interesting nation. A North African realm with a capital in Carthage, whose people primarily spoke a dialect of Latin, ruled over by a Germanic people. In another timeline, where they survived, I could imagine a North African romance nation arising that in many ways parallels a place like France (similarly formed from a Latin-speaking majority being conquered by a small minority of Germanic people)
Did you Know Than In Middle ages some Western Chroniclers call Poles Vandals .Becouse Vandals Live on Polish Territory long ago .They split More warlike go west and Farmers and farmers and so left .They Later assimilate with Slavs.Like Czechs were called Bohemians becouse one Celtic tribe live there long ago .
@@Picassoturtlenumba5 Indeed a Romance language did exist in the area, known simply as African Romance, but it was not wiped out by the Islamic conquests. It faded away over time, but is believed to have been spoken in parts of Tunisia until the 12th century at the earliest, and the 14th century at the latest.
Those guys ware also from Poland (erlier name Vandalia, Vindland in sagas). They kept relations with the old country. There is recorded in history delegation, that came to Africa to ask if they are coming back or not, because people don't know if they should remain within Przeworsk or move to Slavic Prague archeological culture and use both at the same time what is confusing (archeologicaly proven fact :P
2:53 His actual name was Nicefor Jaxa Czernichowski (Neetzafor Yaxa Chernihovsky). The name of his state came from his coat of arms - Jaxa, a white griffin.
Marvellous! When I saw the notification I remembered that I've read something about it a few years ago. I can't believe that I completely forgot about it. BTW, Jaxa (or Jaksa in modern, standardised Polish spelling, that doesn't use x at all) is pronounced 'Yaxa'. It's an old, rarely used now Polish name (probably derived from Jacob) but also an alternative name of the Gryf (Gryphon) coat of arms. In Polish heraldry one coat of arms was usually used by many families and had its own name, often several alternative names. Sometimes nobles were adding the name of their coat of arms to their surname. Interestingly, the Wikipedia article about the state of Jaxa claims that according to some Chinese sources there was some old local name of the place were Albazino was built that sounded similar (yakesa). So the name might have a double meaning.
The semi-independent pirate cities in Morocco spring to mind as interesting short-lived states. I like the new style but feel a little more expression from your avatar might help.
This isn’t a very short lived state, but the Maniots of the Peloppenese during Ottoman times are pretty interesting, along with how Kashmir functioned as an independent state for the small period it existed after the British left
The Kushan Empire was a weird state that existed in northern India from the 1st to the 4th century AD. It used Greek as its official language (albeit in a bastardised form) but its ruling class was an unknown Indo-European ethnic group from China called the Yuezhi and their religion seems to have been a combination of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Greek polytheism.
This story sounds like it came straight out of a video game. A bunch of Rogue Poles, Cossacks, Prussians, etc. building their Outer Heaven in the middle of Siberia
Not short-lived, but Ditmarschen was a pretty unique little state on the border between Denmark and Germany for several centuries, basically a semi-anarchic peasant’s republic that the Danes never could really pacify.
Interesting video, decent rework. I really liked those quick ones you made while you travelled from Japan to Britain, since there were so many interesting tidbits there too. Keep at it mate, you've got the most underrated youtube channel out there
Harbin isn't exactly Polish. It's the seat of Manchu power and often regarded as the most important city of the north from a cultural standpoint. It did have Russian (and by extension Polish and other ethnic groups) influence the area, as there used to be a significant East European population there. However, now, it's more or less completely Han/Manchu, but Slavic architecture still remain
@@dvf1736 According to China census hardly any Manchu left there, vast majority in Census are in two coastal provinces just to the South, basically the Han ethnically cleansed the heart of Manchuria.
@@deanfirnatine7814 . Nah mongols allied with han genetically heavily diluted the manchuria with chinese soldiers before qing was even established . Meaning the manchus who conquered china where already heavily mixed with han chinese .
Two empires, Russia and China spent 20 years to stop that rising power. For Russia it was the biggest nightmare imaginable, both Mongols and Poles occupied them. Chinese as reasonable nation also recognized the threat. Just imagine what would happen if a couple of hundreds of those guys dragged theirs boats there, not a couple of dozens. We would all speak in Mongolian-Polish language by now...
In fact, such a combination existed and was quite common. Poles hired Tatar horse archers from Mongolian settlers in the east of Poland. Many Tatars to this day live in Poland in small rural communities.
The Republic of Ireland (1798), pretty strange country. It only ever controlled a small western portion of Ireland and was established by a military expedition from revolutionary France of about 2000 soldiers. It only lasted for about a month as the French lost their second battle against the British in the area. Unfortunately while the French survivors were taken prisoner the Irish irregular that joined them were executed en masse for treason.
In feudal Europa ruled by kings, nobels, the church and with time the bourgeoisie, the peasant republic of Dithmarschen have always seeamed Strange (if not shortlived) to me.
There is a similar story of a short lived state created by a polish-hungarian noble Maurycy Beniowski. He was born in Hungary, moved to Poland, where he fought in the first anti-russian uprising, known as the bar confederacy. He was captured and sent to Siberia where he incited a rebellion, stole a ship, sailed to China, sold the ship and ended up serving the French in Madagascar, he eventually grew so strong that he was elected to be a king by the locals and challenged the French, after some years of fighting he was defeated.
Two strange states which also were in asia are the Kingdom of Tungning by Koxinga, a chinese-japanese pirate warlord and Ming loyalist who kicked the Dutch out of Formosa and fought the Qing along the Chinese southeastern coast. The other one being the Lanfang Republic, a chinese presidential republic established by a chinese mining settlement in Borneo in 1777 and lasted for over a century.
This video drops. Then less then a month later Total War: Warhammer 3 is announced with Kislev (fantasy Poland/Russia) and totally unexpectedly Cathay (fantasy China) as playable factions. Coincidence? (Well probably, but) I THINK NOT!
Fun Fact: A lot of Imperial Russian troops and royalty fled to Manchuria after the red October revolutions and joined the local Chinese Feng Warlord to operate as mercenaries to prepare for a counter-attack on the reds.
@@whoeverest_the_whateverest it would be yaksa following the polish phonetics, as Jaxa von Köpenick is transcribed Jaksa z Kopanicy on Polish Wikipedia.
In terms of weird short-lived states, the Ezo Republic, the Kingdom of Andorra, and the 1848 German Empire come to mind. In their contexts, all 3 of them were unusual in terms of political structure, which makes them all the more interesting.
The Maya state of Santa Cruz lasted about 60 to 90 years depending on how you count I think, and was definitely a unique one in world history. It was a sort of syncretic theocracy but wasn't able to establish stable government over all its territory. Its remnants died out during and after the Mexican revolution for various reasons.
What an amazing piece of history! I had no idea about it. But what's more amazing is the new animation! Though I hope that it doesn't become another armchair historian clone.
Can you make a video about a British battalion that got lost in Persia during ww1 and had to travel the entirety of western asia under the Serbian flag and make it to india. I think it was something like that but I can't quite remember.
I have never heard of this before, this to me is like someone saying the pyramids were built by aliens- meaing, if it had happened i would have heard from it by now. But here we are, thank you so much for this, you see I am Polish, I am also a historian and Polish history is important to me. Thank you again!
So it took 20 years and two Empires to stop this power in its infancy. As I wrote somewhere above, we are very lucky that there is no Jaxa world empire.
In fact, such a combination existed and was quite common. Poles hired Tatar horse archers from Mongolian settlers in the east of Poland and Lithuania. Many Tatars to this day live in Poland in small rural communities. pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazda_tatarska
Fantastic that you dug up this story. But what is your source for Albazin being named Jaxa and that it was some kind of independent? Is that from Dubiecki and is he providing any documentary evidence for that? According to the Russian archives Chernigovsky was refereed as prikazchik (regional administration representative) in Albazin and he was sending all collected yasak to Nerchinsk.
The Paris Commune is definitely on my list. Arguably not a state since it's often pointed to as a historical precedent for an anarchist society but it was a briefly existent organised society outwith the control of any other state so I'd say it counts enough for a video...
I've been watching you for years I'm curious as to what I would have to do for the opportunity to have a conversation with you one day as I think it would be absolutely fascinating
Republic of Munster. During the religious wars / conflict the city of Munster Rebelled.... it held out for several years, even hosted Johannes Faust for a bit (before exiling him) ... then the Republic was crushed as if by magic...
I don't know if it was an independent state as such, but I'd like to see some reliable content on the rebellion of collectivist farmers in the Iga and Koga valleys of Japan, the one that was put down by Oda Nobanaga.... Ninja I'm afraid! but maybe the real history might be more interesting than the myths.
Principality of Theodoro, greek-ghotic christian state, ruled by armenians in the Crimean mountains in 13-15 centuries. And of course, Judeic Khazar Khaganate on the Volga and Nothern Caucasus. These fascinated me from school history classes.
Would you be able to redirect me to the sources used for this video? I’d like to use this topic for a research project and I’d like to be able to cite some sources.
Actually, there are sources in the Russian archives but the story is much different. There was no any 'independent state', Nikifor runaway and rebuild the fort of Albazin and was sending yasak (fur tax) regularly and begging the Tsar for a pardon. Finally, he was pardoned.
@@lamafioza5123 maybe, but especially right now it's also our fault. Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs almost doesn't exist, when last year Putin said that Poland started WWII together with the Nazis, our government didn't even react and our president didn't attend Holocaust's victims Memorial in Israel. I wouldn't be surprised if in few decades schoolbooks will say that Poland was responsible for WWII. To prevent future conflicts and catastrophies, we all Europeans must remember both good and bad periods in our history
I'll bid for the some of the Basque states: 1. The Basque-Cantabrian post-Bagauda free zone, which lasted almost two centuries but it's almost unknown for lack of internal sources (only scarce external references, legal and linguistic legacy and some archaeology). It may have existed between c. 450 CE (Bagaudae) to c. 632 BCE, when the Franks invaded it but had eventually to accept a de-facto indepdent duchy after many revolts. 2. Duchy of Vasconia and Aquitaine, founded by Felix in the early 7th century, it lasted some 80 years until the Muslim invasion attempts of 714-32, which culminated at the famous Battle of Tours, when the retreating Basque-Aquitanian ("Aquitanian" in this period refers to Romance peoples between the Garonne and the Loire) army was aided by Charles Martel Franks, decisively defeating the largest Muslim army Europe had seen before the Ottomans. Unlike Gothic Hispania, which was easy prey for lack of loyalty of the very oppressed subjects, the Basques had reasons of rights and freedoms to fight, so they resisted for almost two decades succesfully 3. Alaba (Álava/Araba) - While the first reference to the "Alabanenses" (same as the Varduli or Bardyetas, chief town: Gebala, modern Gebara) is from Ptolemy the County of Alaba appears to have been independent in the 9th century under a count named Eylo or Gilo, who was defeated by the Asturians, who claimed he was a rebel (but the territory had been formerly part of the Duchy of Vasconia, not of the Gothic kingdom). While Pamplona (later Navarre) already existed it did not seem to intervene, so Alaba became attached to early Castilian politics, first under Asturias-Leon, later under Pamplona/Navarre. 4. The late Hugenot Navarre. After Charles V conquest of Southern Navarre in the 1512-21 war, the Kingdom formally continued existing North of the Pyrenees (Low Navarre, Bearn, Foix, plus the feudal lands of the Albrets/Bourbons in Southern France, formally part of France but de facto under Navarrese rule). Queen Jean adopted the Huguenot version of Protestantism and became the de facto leader of the French Huguenots in the French Wars of Religion. Her son Henri actually managed to inherit the French throne but had to convert to Catholicism ("Paris is well worth a mass"), he's the putative ancestor of all later Bourbons reigning in France and Spain (although probably cuckholding means they are not actually his biological descendants). Until the 19th century the French Bourbons styled the double title of "King of France and Navarre", although it was a formal title and for all practical purposes residual Navarre had been annexed to France. 5. Very similar to Jaxa, a Basque "conquistador" named Lope de Aguirre, who had killed a Castilian judge in Peru who dared to flog him, was pardoned but exiled to a quasi-suicidal expedition in search of mythical Eldorado in the Amazon basin. He took over, proclaimed himself Prince of Freedom, decreed egality of European and Natives, and declared war on Emperor Charles V, being eventually defeated near Trinidad. Before being captured and executed he murdered his own daughter "so she would no serve as mattress for his enemies". 6. The conquests of the Navarrese Company in Greece. While the Catalan Company is arguably more famous (and older), notably for defeating the Byzantine cataphracts with mere falchions and spears, it had to be a Basque-Gascon mercenary company who defeated them at Thebes, establishing the duchies of Athens and Neopatria (Peloponnese). For what I know they were heavy in pikes and engineers (hence one of the first modern armies arguably) and also had a mysterious contingent of Gascon mounted archers. They went first organized to aid in an adventurer expedition by the Navarrese prince Luis, brother of Charles the Bad, for his Norman wife's claim on Durazzo (Dürres, Albania). After Luis died soon after the conquest of the city, the Company found itself involved in intrigues and conflict for Greece (I believe that they initially served the Latin Empire but that was a doomed enterprise) and created these two duchies that would eventually end under Aragonese control anyhow.
I don’t know about strange but a very interesting short-lived states that I would’ve liked to of seen live for at least a bit longer is united Gaul under Vercingetorix
Do they teach you, that this was a country made by a bunch of renegades from Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth or just that you fought Russians in Jaxa? It is not even an interesting fact in the Polish school program...wird. The country with official Polish language, with a decent territory, that existed for 20 years is more important fact, then much better known Beniowski, a guy who was a king of Madagascar for a few years.
“HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE THREATENED ON BOTH SIDES NOW RUSSIA???”
@@theblackprince1346 rubbish
@SomethingShort yes Poland strong
@SomethingShort I mean technically france also took Moscow for like a minute, also Mongolia. Germany never could.
@SomethingShort sorry if what I said sounded rude though, Poland was still very cool for a while
@SomethingShort oh your welcome then, thanks.
Imagine being a soldier in Taiwan and only knowing life in a tropical climate and then getting sent to Siberia.
Lol
We still have mountains that snow every year
@@henrydelta1165 I think the point is the temperature. Snow, yes, but it doesn't go down to -30ºC or -50ºC. Fun fact, when it's truly cold it's actually too cold to snow.
Taiwan is not tropical
Jaxa is not really that forgotten, it is always being featured in Chinese dramas about Emperor Kangxi
Really? In Poland it's almost entirely forgotten. Could you provide me with some titles?
Fr Im Polish and I love history but Ive never seen a mention of this before
@@danielgadomski5129 In Chinese Jaxa is 雅克萨(Ya Ke Sa). And this place name is known for the battle of Jaxa, which this video talks about. This battle and the following treaty of Nerchinsk (in Chinese, 尼布楚条约) are included in the Chinese history textbook as they are almost the first contact between China and Russia and this treaty is the first treaty China signed (and probably the only one that is regared as fair for both sides). But the textbook never mentioned the involvement of Polish during the battle.
Chinese drama? You mean tv series or something like 京劇?
@@danielgadomski5129 鹿鼎记 is usually the one to go, it is remake after a popular novel the the film industry love to milk it once every few years. It usually happen in the middle end when the main character meets with Princess Sofia Romanov. 康熙王朝 mentioned it but it didn't put a very big focus at it, the Treaty of Nerchinsk was mentioned but the drama was more dealing with Ming loyalists in Taiwan and rebellious generals/lords, and state affair in general.
Conflict: exists
Poles: *elo*
More like
"Siema kto PL"
Elo mordeczki, kogo klepiemy?
Co to za nielegalne zgromadzenie?
Kto stawia wóde?
Idziemy na Moskwę?
I'm Pole and I haven't known about it and I'm History freak
That's why we love Jabzy
Probably because this wasn't a state, nor was it Polish, nor it had any kind of independence ; )
@@simplicius11 Eh, the official language of Jaxa was Polish.
@@simplicius11 You clearly haven't read enough about the subject
@@twojstary5600 Are you sure?
Simmilar story to Maurycy Beniowski who was exiled to Siberia, then found his way to Macau and embarked on a French ship. He became French governor of Madagascar. After he was proclaimed a king by the locals, he turned against his former bosses. He tried to get Americans to support his cause but eventually died in skirmish, trying to seize the island with his followers.
What if he won though
Neo-Poland
History is stranfer than fiction.
@@slendy5367 Polish-Africa or Polish-Madagascar
The strangest states I’ve heard of all come out of the Russian Civil War; The North Caucasian Emirate, Green Ukraine, the Baltic Duchy, the Estonian Republic of Soldiers and Fortress Builders and, my favourite, The Free Territory.
If you can find reliable sources, have a look at some of these, it was one of the wildest times in human history. Plenty of people did just what the Soviets had done and just proclaimed their own states after the autocracy ended and Liberal Republic fell, and tbh many of them could have been as successful as the Soviets as none of them have any guarantee of success.
Also a Russian nobleman of Baltic German origin briefly became Khan of Mongolia during that time by driving out the Chinese occupation with an army of Mongols, White Russians, and Japanese mercenaries
@@zanderrose I’ll one up you. This man believed that he was the reincarnation of Genghis Khan, and if you look up “Baron von Ungern-Sternberg” you can find Tibetan chants dedicated to him. He was widely regarded as being extremely cruel, as he would torture people and kill them if they annoyed him in the slightest, which earned him the nickname the, “Mad Baron.” Additionally, because he was originally from the Baltics, if you look around in Central and Eastern Europe you can see some people who are from the same family as him.
but the soviets had more success than any of the break away states
@@redsamson0023 Because they were the ones that started the chaos and they kept everything in control with purges and massacres. They also had the moral support
@@faustogiorno5467 who is “they?”
The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. It's not the most short lived but one that has always fascinated me.
Created the first statues of the Buddha.
Out lasted all other Greek free states.
@@James-sk4db yep! and that’s why the buddha has curly hair, he’s supposed to look greek. prior to the greco-buddhist kingdoms, buddha was represented by a footprint, a lotus flower, or an empty chair if he was represented at all
The Persian Empire had a policy of forcibly deporting populations from one part of the territory to another. That included Greeks who were forcefully displaced from the Westernmost to the Easternmost borders of the Empire. It's fascinating to think that Alexander the Great conquered Asia and kept pushing further and further East, encountering increasingly foreign and exotic people, until... he ran into fellow Greeks!
@@zanderrose is that supposed to be curly hair though. It looks nothing like the curly hair of greek and roman statues and I know these little topknots have a name but I forgot it. Unless you're talking about something else, like very early depictions of him or a different style of portraying him in vogue in the greco-iranian kingdoms in contrast to other regions, but for the life of me I can't recall any statue of buddha with curly hair.
@@NN-qw8jf being so far cut off from the Mediterranean, it's perfectly reasonable to think that styles changed and mixed with those of the new neighbors
The story of Jaxa sounds like a wild playthrough of Mount and Blade.
That Polish Nobleman could have held against the siege from the Chinese,
IF THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!!!!!
they were away fighting the Swedes and then the Moskals once more a few thousand kilometers westward
Coming down, they'd turn the tide
The Vandalic Kingdom in North Africa that formed during the migration period, while not exactly short-lived (survived for around 100 years), was certainly an interesting nation. A North African realm with a capital in Carthage, whose people primarily spoke a dialect of Latin, ruled over by a Germanic people. In another timeline, where they survived, I could imagine a North African romance nation arising that in many ways parallels a place like France (similarly formed from a Latin-speaking majority being conquered by a small minority of Germanic people)
Did you Know Than In Middle ages some Western Chroniclers call Poles Vandals .Becouse Vandals Live on Polish Territory long ago .They split More warlike go west and Farmers and farmers and so left .They Later assimilate with Slavs.Like Czechs were called Bohemians becouse one Celtic tribe live there long ago .
I hear that there may have been a Romance language wiped out of Africa by the Islamic conquests.
@@Picassoturtlenumba5 Indeed a Romance language did exist in the area, known simply as African Romance, but it was not wiped out by the Islamic conquests. It faded away over time, but is believed to have been spoken in parts of Tunisia until the 12th century at the earliest, and the 14th century at the latest.
@@Picassoturtlenumba5 And Many Treasures Vandals Plunder in The Rome Sank In Mediterran sea .And Still are there .
Those guys ware also from Poland (erlier name Vandalia, Vindland in sagas). They kept relations with the old country. There is recorded in history delegation, that came to Africa to ask if they are coming back or not, because people don't know if they should remain within Przeworsk or move to Slavic Prague archeological culture and use both at the same time what is confusing (archeologicaly proven fact :P
"What makes you think he's Prussian-?"
"He built a bastion fort."
"Ah, ok."
The Republic of Vermont is a classic. Kind of fits with the way they are.
man i want to watch a tv show about Jaxa. It would be such a cool story about an area of the world so rarely talked about
2:53 His actual name was Nicefor Jaxa Czernichowski (Neetzafor Yaxa Chernihovsky). The name of his state came from his coat of arms - Jaxa, a white griffin.
Marvellous! When I saw the notification I remembered that I've read something about it a few years ago. I can't believe that I completely forgot about it.
BTW, Jaxa (or Jaksa in modern, standardised Polish spelling, that doesn't use x at all) is pronounced 'Yaxa'. It's an old, rarely used now Polish name (probably derived from Jacob) but also an alternative name of the Gryf (Gryphon) coat of arms. In Polish heraldry one coat of arms was usually used by many families and had its own name, often several alternative names. Sometimes nobles were adding the name of their coat of arms to their surname. Interestingly, the Wikipedia article about the state of Jaxa claims that according to some Chinese sources there was some old local name of the place were Albazino was built that sounded similar (yakesa). So the name might have a double meaning.
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@@Artur_M. aha
Miałem to samo napisać.
* o to samo zapytać.
The semi-independent pirate cities in Morocco spring to mind as interesting short-lived states. I like the new style but feel a little more expression from your avatar might help.
This isn’t a very short lived state, but the Maniots of the Peloppenese during Ottoman times are pretty interesting, along with how Kashmir functioned as an independent state for the small period it existed after the British left
The Kushan Empire was a weird state that existed in northern India from the 1st to the 4th century AD. It used Greek as its official language (albeit in a bastardised form) but its ruling class was an unknown Indo-European ethnic group from China called the Yuezhi and their religion seems to have been a combination of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Greek polytheism.
Not to mention The emperor was a cloud
@@arawn1061 That wasn't a coincidence, Kentaro based it of the real life empire
@@tisright8164so that’s ganishka sounds very similar to Kanishka
Damn, I'm Polish and I love random history trivia but never heard about this state, thank you for this video!
This story sounds like it came straight out of a video game.
A bunch of Rogue Poles, Cossacks, Prussians, etc. building their Outer Heaven in the middle of Siberia
We're everywhere, you can't hide from the Polish legion.
Nobody excepts the Polish Legions
This type of stuff I'm literally learning for a masters, good job on bringing the most obscure events of history to light through your channel!!!!
Not short-lived, but Ditmarschen was a pretty unique little state on the border between Denmark and Germany for several centuries, basically a semi-anarchic peasant’s republic that the Danes never could really pacify.
The stragnest state i can think of? Buddhist Greek kingdom in India.
Bactria?
Interesting video, decent rework. I really liked those quick ones you made while you travelled from Japan to Britain, since there were so many interesting tidbits there too. Keep at it mate, you've got the most underrated youtube channel out there
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was pretty strange
There is "Polish" city in China Harbin also interesting story.
Harbin isn't exactly Polish. It's the seat of Manchu power and often regarded as the most important city of the north from a cultural standpoint. It did have Russian (and by extension Polish and other ethnic groups) influence the area, as there used to be a significant East European population there. However, now, it's more or less completely Han/Manchu, but Slavic architecture still remain
@@dvf1736 this is why I used "" there are no Polish people any more for many reasons, they left to fight for Poland, were forcibly expelled etc.
@@dvf1736 According to China census hardly any Manchu left there, vast majority in Census are in two coastal provinces just to the South, basically the Han ethnically cleansed the heart of Manchuria.
@@deanfirnatine7814 . Nah mongols allied with han genetically heavily diluted the manchuria with chinese soldiers before qing was even established . Meaning the manchus who conquered china where already heavily mixed with han chinese .
The quasi-state of Deseret is a good example of a short-lived nation.
Though Deseret never really tried for independence.
I Just wanted to say that I love your channel, and you were one of the people that inspired me to make my own history channel Bias History.
Bro winged hussars and Steppe horseman?!? How was that not unstoppable?
Two empires, Russia and China spent 20 years to stop that rising power. For Russia it was the biggest nightmare imaginable, both Mongols and Poles occupied them. Chinese as reasonable nation also recognized the threat. Just imagine what would happen if a couple of hundreds of those guys dragged theirs boats there, not a couple of dozens. We would all speak in Mongolian-Polish language by now...
In fact, such a combination existed and was quite common. Poles hired Tatar horse archers from Mongolian settlers in the east of Poland. Many Tatars to this day live in Poland in small rural communities.
@@marsjanskimaszynista4626 Those Lipka Tatars swore allegiance to the Polish king whom they called the Great Kahn
Great video @Jabzy. You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. I hope your channel will grow even more, you fully deserve it.
The Republic of Ireland (1798), pretty strange country. It only ever controlled a small western portion of Ireland and was established by a military expedition from revolutionary France of about 2000 soldiers. It only lasted for about a month as the French lost their second battle against the British in the area. Unfortunately while the French survivors were taken prisoner the Irish irregular that joined them were executed en masse for treason.
your new video style is very entertaining and informative I enjoy you being able to explain in more depth such niche topics.
In feudal Europa ruled by kings, nobels, the church and with time the bourgeoisie, the peasant republic of Dithmarschen have always seeamed Strange (if not shortlived) to me.
There is a similar story of a short lived state created by a polish-hungarian noble Maurycy Beniowski. He was born in Hungary, moved to Poland, where he fought in the first anti-russian uprising, known as the bar confederacy. He was captured and sent to Siberia where he incited a rebellion, stole a ship, sailed to China, sold the ship and ended up serving the French in Madagascar, he eventually grew so strong that he was elected to be a king by the locals and challenged the French, after some years of fighting he was defeated.
For some reason I haven’t been seeing your videos in my feed. Seeing this was a surprise to be sure but a welcomed one.
I'd never heard of this! So fascinating to learn a completely new bit of history :)
Two strange states which also were in asia are the Kingdom of Tungning
by Koxinga, a chinese-japanese pirate warlord and Ming loyalist who kicked the Dutch out of Formosa and fought the Qing along the Chinese southeastern coast. The other one being the Lanfang Republic, a chinese presidential republic established by a chinese mining settlement in Borneo in 1777 and lasted for over a century.
What a bizarre little epic. Europeans, Chinese, Koreans, Reindeer riders, Taiwanese with bullet blocking Ratan shields. I want to see this movie.
State of Buenos Aires.
I still can't understand how mid XIX Century Argentina worked
This video drops. Then less then a month later Total War: Warhammer 3 is announced with Kislev (fantasy Poland/Russia) and totally unexpectedly Cathay (fantasy China) as playable factions. Coincidence? (Well probably, but) I THINK NOT!
The Italo-Normans logically should not have existed nor should they have ever conquered Tunisia
This was incredibly interesting. Thanks for making the video. Still getting used to the new art style, it has grown on me in the past few videos.
Great video, really interesting story. Never heard about it before, could easily be made into a movie / series or game.
Fun Fact: A lot of Imperial Russian troops and royalty fled to Manchuria after the red October revolutions and joined the local Chinese Feng Warlord to operate as mercenaries to prepare for a counter-attack on the reds.
Isn't it pronounced Yaksa?
It probably is pronounced as ee-aha
it is
It's definitely either "yaksa" or "yaha", since I completely don't know the origin of the "x" letter here
@@whoeverest_the_whateverest it would be yaksa following the polish phonetics, as Jaxa von Köpenick is transcribed Jaksa z Kopanicy on Polish Wikipedia.
@@pawelabrams thanks
I believe someone wrote in your comments about this in your “stuff i find interesting videos” idk which one tho.
The Republic of Sonora is probably the strangest short lived state I can think of. The whole William Walker saga is very strange.
The more I learn about my Polish ancestors, the prouder I am. Gentle souls until you mess around and make them vengeful.
Loving the new art style mate, keep it up
The Limerick Soviet existing for two weeks in 1919
Actually I read about this about a week ago (Russian expansion east from Ivan the terrible). Nice timing and great video.
Wow this new style is amazing!
In terms of weird short-lived states, the Ezo Republic, the Kingdom of Andorra, and the 1848 German Empire come to mind. In their contexts, all 3 of them were unusual in terms of political structure, which makes them all the more interesting.
Andorra still exists though
The Principality of Andorra exists, but the Kingdom of Andorra doesn't.
@@denpadolt9242 can't find anything about the kingdom of andorra care to elaborate.
@@netz8439 There was a Russian prince who declared himself king of Andorra.
@@fantasia55 cool, thanks.
History is stranger than fiction.
Love this channel but i would love tp see maps or images of what it would have looked like maybe future content?
Bremen Soviet Republic (and many of the other short lived post ww1 soviet republics) sure are interesting
The Maya state of Santa Cruz lasted about 60 to 90 years depending on how you count I think, and was definitely a unique one in world history. It was a sort of syncretic theocracy but wasn't able to establish stable government over all its territory. Its remnants died out during and after the Mexican revolution for various reasons.
I feel like an ocasional map would have been nice to understand it better
What an amazing piece of history!
I had no idea about it.
But what's more amazing is the new animation! Though I hope that it doesn't become another armchair historian clone.
I was kinda close with mentioning the Hussars and the Mongols, damn it
Strange (but not so short lived state): The Lanfang Republic (1777-1884), a small Hakka Chinese trading federation in Western Borneo.
Can you make a video about a British battalion that got lost in Persia during ww1 and had to travel the entirety of western asia under the Serbian flag and make it to india. I think it was something like that but I can't quite remember.
I have never heard of this before, this to me is like someone saying the pyramids were built by aliens- meaing, if it had happened i would have heard from it by now.
But here we are, thank you so much for this, you see I am Polish, I am also a historian and Polish history is important to me. Thank you again!
Dude winged hussars and mongol horse archers in the same army would be unstopable
So it took 20 years and two Empires to stop this power in its infancy. As I wrote somewhere above, we are very lucky that there is no Jaxa world empire.
In fact, such a combination existed and was quite common. Poles hired Tatar horse archers from Mongolian settlers in the east of Poland and Lithuania. Many Tatars to this day live in Poland in small rural communities.
pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazda_tatarska
@@marsjanskimaszynista4626 cool
Fantastic that you dug up this story.
But what is your source for Albazin being named Jaxa and that it was some kind of independent? Is that from Dubiecki and is he providing any documentary evidence for that?
According to the Russian archives Chernigovsky was refereed as prikazchik (regional administration representative) in Albazin and he was sending all collected yasak to Nerchinsk.
So in an alternate universe there could be a European state in Siberia bordering China and Russia.
Question. Why did jaxa raid the qing?
Is there a book on this? Extremely interesting
So this was the Polish equivalent of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdoms.
Also, REINDEER CAVALRY!!!
Talk about the pirate heavens at Hispaniola and Tortuga
You're right that I'm unfamiliar with the Battle of Hutong. Are there any good primary and secondary sources on it that you can recommend?
Sir, it’s pronounced as “Yakh-sa”
The Paris Commune is definitely on my list. Arguably not a state since it's often pointed to as a historical precedent for an anarchist society but it was a briefly existent organised society outwith the control of any other state so I'd say it counts enough for a video...
I always heard this story but I never was able to search it up because the names got mixed up thanks!
I've been watching you for years I'm curious as to what I would have to do for the opportunity to have a conversation with you one day as I think it would be absolutely fascinating
Ha, I'm sure you'd be sorely disappointed by that.
@@JabzyJoe why the low self esteem bro
Republic of Munster. During the religious wars / conflict the city of Munster Rebelled.... it held out for several years, even hosted Johannes Faust for a bit (before exiling him) ... then the Republic was crushed as if by magic...
Look up the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia
Depends on what you call "short lived" but I would suggest: Moresnet
I don't know if it was an independent state as such, but I'd like to see some reliable content on the rebellion of collectivist farmers in the Iga and Koga valleys of Japan, the one that was put down by Oda Nobanaga.... Ninja I'm afraid! but maybe the real history might be more interesting than the myths.
Oh no 6:32 I can’t get it out of my head, it looks like his beard is a massive smile
Polish winged hussars, cossaks, mongols...they could have been a force to reckon with if they held together.
Would be good if there were sources in the description.
The smallest state near me was the state of Franklin. It came before Tennessee
Principality of Theodoro, greek-ghotic christian state, ruled by armenians in the Crimean mountains in 13-15 centuries. And of course, Judeic Khazar Khaganate on the Volga and Nothern Caucasus. These fascinated me from school history classes.
Jabzy is going for a History matters style now
The Republic of West Florida, last only about 2 months and a half.
Would you be able to redirect me to the sources used for this video? I’d like to use this topic for a research project and I’d like to be able to cite some sources.
Are there any credible sources for all that?
Actually, there are sources in the Russian archives but the story is much different.
There was no any 'independent state', Nikifor runaway and rebuild the fort of Albazin and was sending yasak (fur tax) regularly and begging the Tsar for a pardon. Finally, he was pardoned.
@@simplicius11 What are the sources? I read Russian.
@@cryostratos5359 Г. Красноштанов Никифор Романов Черниговский
I'm Polish and I've never heard of it
Poland history and culture were deliberately eradicated in 19 and 20th centuries. Many episodes are forgotten
@@lamafioza5123 maybe, but especially right now it's also our fault. Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs almost doesn't exist, when last year Putin said that Poland started WWII together with the Nazis, our government didn't even react and our president didn't attend Holocaust's victims Memorial in Israel. I wouldn't be surprised if in few decades schoolbooks will say that Poland was responsible for WWII. To prevent future conflicts and catastrophies, we all Europeans must remember both good and bad periods in our history
I'll bid for the some of the Basque states:
1. The Basque-Cantabrian post-Bagauda free zone, which lasted almost two centuries but it's almost unknown for lack of internal sources (only scarce external references, legal and linguistic legacy and some archaeology). It may have existed between c. 450 CE (Bagaudae) to c. 632 BCE, when the Franks invaded it but had eventually to accept a de-facto indepdent duchy after many revolts.
2. Duchy of Vasconia and Aquitaine, founded by Felix in the early 7th century, it lasted some 80 years until the Muslim invasion attempts of 714-32, which culminated at the famous Battle of Tours, when the retreating Basque-Aquitanian ("Aquitanian" in this period refers to Romance peoples between the Garonne and the Loire) army was aided by Charles Martel Franks, decisively defeating the largest Muslim army Europe had seen before the Ottomans. Unlike Gothic Hispania, which was easy prey for lack of loyalty of the very oppressed subjects, the Basques had reasons of rights and freedoms to fight, so they resisted for almost two decades succesfully
3. Alaba (Álava/Araba) - While the first reference to the "Alabanenses" (same as the Varduli or Bardyetas, chief town: Gebala, modern Gebara) is from Ptolemy the County of Alaba appears to have been independent in the 9th century under a count named Eylo or Gilo, who was defeated by the Asturians, who claimed he was a rebel (but the territory had been formerly part of the Duchy of Vasconia, not of the Gothic kingdom). While Pamplona (later Navarre) already existed it did not seem to intervene, so Alaba became attached to early Castilian politics, first under Asturias-Leon, later under Pamplona/Navarre.
4. The late Hugenot Navarre. After Charles V conquest of Southern Navarre in the 1512-21 war, the Kingdom formally continued existing North of the Pyrenees (Low Navarre, Bearn, Foix, plus the feudal lands of the Albrets/Bourbons in Southern France, formally part of France but de facto under Navarrese rule). Queen Jean adopted the Huguenot version of Protestantism and became the de facto leader of the French Huguenots in the French Wars of Religion. Her son Henri actually managed to inherit the French throne but had to convert to Catholicism ("Paris is well worth a mass"), he's the putative ancestor of all later Bourbons reigning in France and Spain (although probably cuckholding means they are not actually his biological descendants). Until the 19th century the French Bourbons styled the double title of "King of France and Navarre", although it was a formal title and for all practical purposes residual Navarre had been annexed to France.
5. Very similar to Jaxa, a Basque "conquistador" named Lope de Aguirre, who had killed a Castilian judge in Peru who dared to flog him, was pardoned but exiled to a quasi-suicidal expedition in search of mythical Eldorado in the Amazon basin. He took over, proclaimed himself Prince of Freedom, decreed egality of European and Natives, and declared war on Emperor Charles V, being eventually defeated near Trinidad. Before being captured and executed he murdered his own daughter "so she would no serve as mattress for his enemies".
6. The conquests of the Navarrese Company in Greece. While the Catalan Company is arguably more famous (and older), notably for defeating the Byzantine cataphracts with mere falchions and spears, it had to be a Basque-Gascon mercenary company who defeated them at Thebes, establishing the duchies of Athens and Neopatria (Peloponnese). For what I know they were heavy in pikes and engineers (hence one of the first modern armies arguably) and also had a mysterious contingent of Gascon mounted archers. They went first organized to aid in an adventurer expedition by the Navarrese prince Luis, brother of Charles the Bad, for his Norman wife's claim on Durazzo (Dürres, Albania). After Luis died soon after the conquest of the city, the Company found itself involved in intrigues and conflict for Greece (I believe that they initially served the Latin Empire but that was a doomed enterprise) and created these two duchies that would eventually end under Aragonese control anyhow.
The West Florida Republic comes to mind
Ah yes the west Florida republic
IN LOUISIANA.
Almost as weird as Cajuns in Maine.
Wait is Jabzy becoming a vtuber?
I accept Jabzy-chan.
Please look up The British state in Patagonia (Argentina/Chile) in the 1800.
But did they have hussars?
I like the new style, but if I might suggest, the expressions need to be bit more nuanced to sync with the material better.
I don’t know about strange but a very interesting short-lived states that I would’ve liked to of seen live for at least a bit longer is united Gaul under Vercingetorix
I had no idea that this happened and Im from poland
Thats wild
well，battle of Jaxa is actually taught in every Chinese classroom.
Do they teach you, that this was a country made by a bunch of renegades from Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth or just that you fought Russians in Jaxa?
It is not even an interesting fact in the Polish school program...wird. The country with official Polish language, with a decent territory, that existed for 20 years is more important fact, then much better known Beniowski, a guy who was a king of Madagascar for a few years.