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Yes, I have more suggestions. Bavaria(Germany), Transnistria(Moldova), South Ossetia and Abhazia(Georgia), Novorussia(Ukraine), Ilirida(Macedonia), East Tukestan and Tibet(China), South Tirol, Sicily, Sardinia(Italy), Occitania, Corsica(France), Northern Ireland, Wales(UK), Laponia(Norway, Sweeden, Finnland and Russia), West Papua(Indonesia) and Nagorno-Karabakh(Azerbaijan)
Russia would never let go of their biggest city either. They're fighting tooth and nail just to annex a small part of the crimea. Who knows what they would do if St. Petersburg wanted to succed.
We germans got a independence movement as well, you don't believe it? Germans are saying that Germany has never become the 3rd Deutsches Reich nor the Federal Republic of Germany, they say there never was a proove for the Treaty of Versaille after World War 1 meaning that Germany is still a controlled Nation from Huge Nations like the Usa, France and the uk(not sure about the uk) there are people who created Passports for The German Empire/Kaiserreich, they got punishments for illegal passport creations and not paying bills and taxes, they even say: If a Person enters OUR Property he instantly Enters the German Kaiserreich and leaves the country he was inside a moment ago, meaning that you would leave the Federal Reublic of Germany and Enter the German Kaiserreich, it sounds crazy but even some assholes are still waiting for Hitlers return no matter how, once he does they will support him since they were loyal to the Führer like never before, it's possible for a big German Revolution in the coming Century or even Decades
As a French, I know about independance movement in Brittany. However, THE biggest independance movement is in Corsica. I am surprised you didn't choose this region for France
@@CadeFenster You're right, France doesn't want Corsica to become independant.But it has nothing to do with Napoleon's birthplace (note : he was raised on the continent, with few attachment to the island. Corsica's true legendary hero is Pascal Paoli who proclaimed the first independant corsican republic in 1755). It's mainly about money and power. France heavely relies on its maritime zones, and does not want to set an example to all its others islands in the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Oceans ... (well it's a little bit more complicated and I'm not an expert, so feel free to look up details) What I meant in my comment was : Britanny's independance movement is completely dead today. Whereas Corsica's is very lively, with some violent events in the recent years. That's all
I'm Bulgarian and this is the first time i'm hearing this whole thing about East Thrace Sounds like some redditor's ''what if'' border painting fantasy
I am a Turk, and I've never heard about that either. That's too much even for being a fantasy. I am not sure what Bulgaria and Hellas think about that and it may cause a whole conflict which is unnecessary. We had fought enough, and I personally always hated that. We are neighbours and the conflicts have to come an end. It's 21st century, and countries should not fight for lands.
@@LuneNoir88 Selam komsu, unfortunately even now in the 21st century there still exists imperialism, bolstered by the greed of the individuals in power, sugar coated with the pretext of ''culture, language and religion''. It's in our nature to have an enemy, scapegoat, black sheep or whatever you may call it, and to blame our problems on them, and make unnecessary conflicts. Truly a shame...
@@0msreactiontime Lol. Their is no Bulgarian minority in Turkey . Thrace always dominated by Ottoman Turks. Thrace was core of Ottoman Empire . We r majority in whole Thrace even today
A separation is likely at one point, but what would happen next? As a french I would like wallonia be part of France but I dont know if walloons are in this mood. The same for flemish, would you prefer to be part of the netherland or being a independant country?
@@leowilly29 I don't think Belgium will ever split. Even though a lot of the flanders tax money flows to wallonia most People don't want Belgium to split. Most people who vote voor N-VA and Vlaams belang do this because they want less immigrants. I think they want this, not out of racism but because a lot of criminality in Belgium is Committed by north africans and Arabs. Furthermore all of the other parties have a pact that they Will never rule with Vlaams belang because some of their members have been openly racist or discriminating towards holebi's. N-VA are liberals who looks after the industry and the rich, while Vlaams belang are socialists. So even though they want some of the same things, I don't see NVA breaking that pact because they have contradictional economical ideas. As last the majority of the flemish People would never want to be a part the Netherlands. We don't really need them to survive. People saying they want to join the Netherlands are a minority of loudmouths who don't know what the consequences would be. Wallonia on the other hand can not survive on it's own financily.
@@leowilly29 Both could exist as separate countries just fine but Wallonia might join France although Flanders will never join the Netherlands... The only issue would be Brussels cuz it's predominantly French speaking but surrounded by Flanders
In 1997 a group of Venetian people tried a coup d'etat with a home made tank in Venice, they kept the control of a small part of the city for about nine hours but then they had been arrested. In veneto (Venice territories) they're like national heroes and the tank they used now is exposed at the annual party of the Venetian people.
Both Ingria and East Thrace seem like they're completely improbable. And from comments of people who live in each of those regions, the movements really do seem to be unexistant. I guess some people just decided to bring up the idea when there's no real popular desire for it
"Both Ingrian Finnish and Izhorian populations all but disappeared from Ingria during the Soviet period. 63,000 fled to Finland during World War II, and were required back by Stalinafter the war. Most became victims of Soviet population transfers and many were executed as "enemies of the people".[2][4][9] The remainder, including some post-Stalin returnees (it was not until 1956 that some of the deported were allowed to return to their villages), were outnumbered by Russian immigration."
The California Republic separating from the US is also improbable. The "Calexit" statement was merely dependent upon the possibility of the federal government (and thus country) becoming despotic. Though, overall, the idea was never taken seriously and no one has talked about it since in the state. Furthermore, the loss of California would have been a massive economical blow to the US given that California alone is the 5th largest economy in the world, thus it would have been unacceptable to allow it to leave the Union. Speaking of which, it's odd how Texas was never mentioned since the Texas Republic was also an independent country that became a state, and has also mused about exiting the Union to become independent again. Texas becoming independent is also improbable, but the locals have discussed succession more than once before, and have historically left the Union as part of the formation of the separatist country known as the Confederate States of America. Once again, however, Texas has no inclination to leave the Union. Hawaii and Puerto Rico are also far more notable cases dealing with independence than either of the two states mentioned previously.
I have never, ever seen any movement for the independence of East Thrace as a person who comes from there and lived there for 9 years. We are Turkish, and we will always be.
@@youprayteas Can't say for always, as we do not know the future. But in right now there, surely, are more Greeks living in Pontus and Smyrna than in the Eastern Thrace. Plus the Cyprus is still not resolved. So, I would agree that right now the idea of independent East Thrace is laughable. There is no cultural difference as people see themselves as Turks and a part of the country and the region itself can't sustain itself up to the current state if it separates.
Flemish isn't an official language, it's more of a collection of dialects. The official language for Flanders is Dutch. We share the same grammar, vocabulary and spelling, and even have a "Grand Dictation" contest. for a large part of the second half of the 20th century, we were taught the "General Civilized Dutch" language. the "civilized" part was dropped late in the period, because it was derogatory to the regional dialects, some of which started to disappear.
@@pommes0078 dann sollten wir deiner Meinung nach Baden-Württemberg und Bayern vom Rest der Deutschen abgrenzen nur weil der Süden reicher ist... hää was soll die scheisse nur wegen Geld
If you ever make a part 3 of this "series", and for anyone interested in this kinda thing: As of 2020/2021, there is also currently a political party that seeks a separation between the North and South of England, known as the Northern Independence Party or "Free The North" - basically, the North has had enough of constantly being let down by the Westminster government, and as someone who lives in the North of England, I totally get it. The UK government is literally one of the most unfairly centralized governments, the North-South divide is a real thing, the economy and infrastructure of the North suffers compared to the south, and it always has for a long time. You may not think it, because yes the North has great cities like York, Manchester and Newcastle - but the reality is that for the most part? Our towns see no development anymore, (my hometowns high street is dead, it's just charity shops, vape shops and computer repair shops, it's awful) and the transport system up here, especially outside the cities, can be abysmal, there's a great lack of jobs that force people to need to move further afield, etc etc. We get promised so much from our Government yet it is never received. So what the N.I.P wishes is to separate from the westminster government and form a separate nation, north of the river Humber, known as Northumbria - as named for the Historical meaning of it generally being considered "The North" and from the merged historic kingdoms of the 7th century being the last time the North was united as an independent entity. The Flags colours would be burgundy red and gold - from the flag of Northumbria (one of the oldest flags in the world) and the colours of Northumbria's founder St Oswald. It is more likely that "Northumbria" as a nation is not going to have a capital city - so that the government/economy etc does not revolve around one centralized location, but instead there may be different "capitals" for different functions. The Queen would most likely still be invited to have some sort of Reign over Northumberland, as a part of being a commonwealth nation much like Canada for example. :)
@@kets4443 I don't think there is any cities, come to think of it. The largest places I can think of are places like Morpeth, Hexham and Prudhoe, but they're classified as Towns and not Cities. Newcastle was once part of Northumberland, but that was back in the 1300's so a very long time ago lol
An interesting region for you: I live in Western Austria, in a state called "Vorarlberg", right next to Liechtenstein. Exactly 100 years ago the local population voted about separating from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, which collapsed during WW1, to join Switzerland. 80% voted yes, but the treaty of Saint-Germain didn't allow Vorarlberg to leave Austria, and also Switzerland didn't want to take the region, which made my state known under the name of "Kanton übrig", which translates to "canton leftover". Now, there aren't any big independence movements any longer, but the region transformed from a farmer's land to a economically stable state, with good industry, so i think we could support ourselves on our own, and i also think a voting could pass, if it was today I hope somebody reads this, sorry if I made English mistakes
@@kalyka98 I'm not really familiar with the game but I don't think it is. The name Vorarlberg can be derived from the state's geographical location and not from a historical personality (there's a mountain called the "Arlberg", which seperates us from the rest of Austria, so Vorarlberg basically means "in front of the Arlberg").
Do you think that Vorarlberg could be part of Lichtenstein? Or at least a fraction of it like Dornbirn and Bludenz. What do you think people could. Maybe Liechtenstein would be open to the idea.
@@RodrigoColimodio To be honest, I don't really think that this would be an option for Vorarlberg or Liechtenstein. However, I could somehow imagine Liechtenstein to join Switzerland, if Vorarlberg would also try to do so. Liechtenstein's inhabitants are pretty similar to the swiss.
@@Azoth86730 i mean They did exist, long ago But they were gone, assimilated completely by the end of medieval days, by the countries the region is part of now
A bunch of websites list out 'possible' countries, and a few of them mentioned East Thrace. But I agree, not only does there seem to be no actual independence movement, but like I said in the video there doesn't even seem to be a reason for any movement to exist
@@tincan6747 the Thracians are long gone through assimilation. I mean, purely genetically, bulgarians are mostly Thracian actually, but I don't think the idea is about that. Historically speaking, this area was populated by bulgarians, Turks and greeks and we all have some reasons to claim this territory for ourselves. For example, before the Balkan wars there were villages with 100% bulgarian population in turkish Thrace, and even today some bulgarian nationalists want this territory back to Bulgaria, but that will most likely NEVER happen.
Only problem with this video is... I can climb on the top of my house and scream, “independence” and it would have a place on those list. Most of these movements are barely even recognized or carried out in said places.
@@themorebike880 I live in the venetian region and if you want to know the truth most people want autonomy because they see their neighbouring region of south tyrol doing much better not because they want independence.
9:30 In my opinion this is very very unlikely because of the fact that the border would go through the middle of a city. It would divide families. Also the Turkish nationality is a big part of education in Turkey so the people have a strong sense of nationality.
I think he forgot like a lot of people do that East Thracia acutally spans the straight with half being on the European side and the other half on the Anatolian side. So, It wouldn't acutally cut through Istanbul. It would take Istanbul away from Turkey completely.
I'm from California... I don't want to leave the USA. Yes California is usually on the top for most lists but like.... I don't think it will do well without the Federal Government of USA.
I love these kind of videos, please make more! In addition, I also love that you used Norway in red, white and blue in the background when you talked about Venice and East Thrace 😄
@@Federico19871000 that's the difference between Venice and the rest but for Modena I never heard anyone caring, it's like Germany most people know diffence between east and west but all they care about is bavaria
I'm Flemish so I like to compare this with the Belgian situation. Tbh, I probably don't know enough about Italy, but I think it's mostly an economic difference? I believe that the economic difference is even bigger than the economic difference between Flanders and Wallonia. I know there's some cultural difference, but I'm not sure how big it is. I do know that the South and the North both speak Italian, but only with some different dialects. I think language plays a huge roll in this kind of situations. Flanders speaks Dutch, Wallonia speaks French. As far as I know, the difference between South and North Italy isn't as big as the difference between Flanders and Wallonia. The separation of Belgium is not very likely to happen though (at least not within the next 10 years), so I don't think the the difference in Italy is something we should be concerned about right now.
Well, Brittany and Venice have decent support for at least increased autonomy, but Ingria and East Thrace are not happening unless some weird war or something happens.
Quebec isn't really possible anymore. They had a referendum in 1995, 24 years ago, and they choose to stay, since then its really died down. Maybe more possible than other situations, because Canada would let any province leave peacefully (its in our constitution provinces can vote to leave) but still not likely to happen. Financially it wouldn't make sense for Quebec.
4:43 *Personally, I see France as a pretty well consolidated nation-state, and I don't think it will collapse anytime soon* Yellow vests and Bretons : *Yeah, nobody will see it coming indeed*
Independance movement in Brittany might have had some importance at some point in 20th century, but it has mostly disappeared today, only being talked about between britons as a joke. Actually, most britons don't even talk Briton nor Gallo nowadays, as the language is slowly dying. And this is the actual point of tension, it's not about getting autonomy or independance, just about getting the legal recognition of briton and gallo as official languages in Brittany, to promote them better, to better embrace the Briton identity, inside of France. Lot of britons will speak about briton independance after getting drunk (which happens often), but actually only few delusional people truly want it.
I totally disagree with this analysis. There have never been so many officials autonomists and regionalists now than in the entire history of the Breton movement. In addition, the cores in the elections of the pro-Breton lists are rising slowly. The number of Breton speakers has stabilized and Breton identity has largely penetrated the economic sphere. We also remember that last year, the president of the regional council of Brittany asked for the autonomy of Brittany because of the negotiations that there were between the Corsican elected officials and the French government. I think you have a very exterior view of the situation.
To shed some light on Eastern Thrace: There isn't any indepence movement or even a serious thought about this country. Supposed flag is totally unrelated which leads me to think it as some fictional or alt-history country. The closest you can get to a seperate Thrace where some people joke about splitting the whole western and southern coast (left leaning provinces) apart from rest.
@@georgianakopoulou6339 only because a little part of thrace belongs to Greece they must put a cross on their possible flag right? İf independent thrace happen. Probably they use green variety of turkish flag. When Ottoman Empire times ottoman use 2 different flag. One is the now days Turkish flag for anatolian part of empire and the other is green variety of this flag for european part of empire. İf you look at ottoman coat of arms you can see both of flag on it
@@yudaosh-ida This flag refers to Rumelian regions of the Ottoman Empire, yes. But I think it's far from that. The flag you said was going to be the flag of Western Thrace if it was going to be independent from Greece. But, if in any case, for the sake of speculation, Eastern Thrace becomes independent, it would include Istanbul as well. Basically it would be an Istanbul state with eastern thrace as hinterland. And trust me it would be more secular than the whole of Turkey, while Kemal was alive. So the crescent-star flag would be avoided and I think that maybe a tricolor flag would emerge to incorporate a more European identity, because otherwise there's no reason for splitting off of Erdogan's Turkey. And by the way, the crescent is connected more to Turkic people, Romans and Persians, rather than Muslims.
That will not happened in the next 50 years. also Greenland can`t really sustain itself alone so yeah. I doubt Texas,Alaska and hawaii have any significant support to become independent
For some reason states aren't allowed to be independant. But who knows modern America may want to respect it's citizens wishes. Who am I kidding no they don't.
Ok, I'm from Bulgaria, more specifically Burgas and I see that East Thracia wants Burgas as a territory. Honestly, this is the first time I ever hear about this. I've never seen any Bulgarian even talking about that. I literally live in East Thracia and I didn't know it.
И аз никога не съм чувал за това и живея в Тракия, във всеки град в който съм бил в Тракия съм виждал Български знамена и хората никога не са ми говорили за тая глупост.
@@bennelson6207 you do realize that California would never be allowed to keep any of the military equipment if they ever somehow gained independence. Just because there is US military equipment and personnel in the state doesn't at all mean it magically gets transfered to that state upon independence. The US would never allow a nation in its boarders to just take its nukes.
Ben Nelson America won’t be able to do anything about it. It’s Balkanization is inevitable, Americans are not a united people and will go their own way given the chance.
@@bennelson6207 #1: California does not have nuclear weapons under STATE control. If CA were to go independent, the US military would completely pull out taking all the weapons and equipment with them. #2: There's a large US military presence in CA now and a large portion of the CA economy is derived from the military bases, personnel, (mostly non CA natives), and defense contractors there. If the CA were to break away and the US pulled out of CA and no longer does business with CA based defense contractors, and more than 85% of personnel returning back to the US and not spending money in CA, that projected "5th largest economy" would be greatly reduced. #3: Also the liberal Democratic leadership which now dominates the political scene is driving CA and their spend, spend, spend policies are driving CA into bankruptcy. Any currency that CA would try to print would be worthless when the massive state debt is factored in. Also no more federal dollars would pouring in to help prop up the debt ridden state like it does now. Also most major corporations and banks based in CA would move out of the state prior to independence to avoid the uncertainty of the new unstable economy. Again driving it's economy down even further if independence were to happen. #4: Currently the eastern part of CA is mostly conservative and the western coastal areas are mostly liberal. If independence were to happen, I believe a civil war would erupt almost immediately with the mostly conservative portions wanting to form their own independent state or rejoin the US as a new state. A civil war and/or a shrinkage in size of the new independent state would greatly reduce it's economy even further since no other countries would want to invest in an unstable gov't embroiled in a civil war.
@COPS .101 We only need one Province to be independant to make the Canada Split up.... Ottawa know it too well this why they do everything to Rig Referendum and crush independance movement, while creating massive "Pro Canada" Propaganda....
@COPS .101 I know that our relationship between Alberta and Québec isn't the best but I think that you have the right to be a sovereign state and decide of your Destiny yourself to
Despite there being cultural differences between Alberta and Quebec, I often find is a little surprising that they don't seem to realize that they are natural allies (as provincial governments) in arguing for a more decentralized federation. While they clearly have different visions on some issues, like energy policy (which is honestly guided by their own very different natural resources and decades of investment), they have a lot of common ground in perceiving themselves to be the odd man out and wanting the federal government to stay out of their affairs. Ontario is fervently against decentralization (and Atlantic Canada seems lukewarm to the idea) but after living in Ontario a few decades, it's pretty evident that Ontario thinks of itself as the heart and soul of Canada and is pretty quick to dismiss the complaints of other regions as whining. I've seen it since the last election and honestly, I find it rather troubling. The putdowns of western concerns remind me of the way Quebec's concerns got put down back in the 80s and 90s. As someone who lived through the social turmoil of the two referendums and the two failed constitutional re-negotiations, I've got a pretty good sense of the kind of deeply felt alienation, frustration and resentment that fuels a secessionist movement. If Alberta and Saskatchewan are hitting that kind of boiling point and things feel that out of touch right now, my natural inclination as a born and bred Quebecois is to listen to them the way I've always wanted the rest of Canada to listen to us. Not to be dismissive. Not treating them as spoiled brats or a problem child. Rather, as fellow citizens who feel they have a genuine grievance and require us to listen with an open mind. I can relate to that feeling and it sucks. I'm sure we wouldn't reach a perfect consensus but we can bloody well put a bit of real effort into ensuring we all have a voice in the national dialog.
@COPS .101 And why does more like from Western Ontario to Kamloops and even the territories want to leave? Its Quebec. So I think it's time to shake hands, part ways but always be there if in need. 100 years is to long, no need the stretch it out any further.
Some corrections about Quebec: 1. Quebec wasn’t the only part colonized by France. All of southern Canada on the coast of the St. Lawrence river was colonized by France. Quebec was the outcome of the fights and the subsequent accords. 2. The Quebecois are no longer interested in separating from Canada. That’s virtually impossible to happen anymore, despite them loathing calling Quebec a province (although its nickname is la Belle Province!) 3. The catholic vs. protestant argument is just history. Since la revolution tranquile the Quebecois completely turned against any official form of religion in politics and became entirely secular.
Half of Quebec geographically wasn’t colonized by the French. Northern Quebec around Hudson’s bay was never French. That was Rupert’s Land which belonged to the British crown. As for an independent Quebec most of the independence movement used the threat of independence as a way to blackmail the Federal government into giving them more money and special privileges. In 1995 when Quebec separatists nearly won their referendum a lot of soft separatists realized they didn’t really want to separate especially when Canadians were planning to partition the Province if they did. Quebec as an independent country really isn’t viable. If independent Quebec would suffer a huge decline in living standards without the Federal government’s assistance. Its population and economy is just too small and the Provinces debts too large.
Your 3rd and 1 points are valid, but not the second. Independence is still debate here in Quebec and more than 35% support it, with some polls even indicating 42% support independence. So I would not say québécois are no longer interested by the independence!
Plus it’s not impossible to happen. 2 of the 4 parties in Quebec are for independence. There is only 1 major party that is federalist, and this party is close to death. The historical Independence Party is still second in the polls, so ya I think you’re wrong on that.
@@ronanbolduc-jg8sj fine. Leave and starve. The entire French population in Quebec only survives thanks to Canadian transfers payments. We’ll just partition the Province and you can die.
One example that often appears is the seccession of Western Australia from Australia. In recent years with the mining boom Western Australia contributes more in taxes to Australia than it gets back in investment in the state which has created a minor rumbling. It is also mentioned in this wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession Although there has not been a referendum since 1933.
Bro that’s because they’re stealing that land from the natives. Australians will sooner give independence to a ridiculously wealthy state than to the people they’ve been lying about, stealing children from, raping, and robbing for centuries.
Brittany is one of the last European regions of France that still has a strong identity not crushed by Parisian centralized state (with Corsica and Alsace) but nobody thinks about independance, even autonomist parties are basically non-existent (sadly).
Hong Kong completely belongs to china after the uk's lease expired. It still has some autonomy but 50 years later china will have integrated it in for sure.
China is 100% against separatist movement of any kind. Xinjiang (aka East Turkestan), for example, is on high alert surveillance by Chinese government and more Han Chinese people are moving there which dilutes out the native population, now a minority in the territory. -Hong Konger here
9:55 WOAH! WOAH! The official language of Flanders is Dutch! Colloquially it's often named "Flemish", but this is not a different language "very close to Dutch" but a national variety of the same language, cf. British and American English.
"out of all the ones in this state, belgium seems the most likely to occur" oh buddy i spent my entire teen and adult life with that as a possibility. the biggest issue is flanders wouldn't want to give up on brussels (arguing that it's within their territory) because of its economic importance (not to mention how many people who live their lives essentially in brussels but live in the periphery, in the Brabant provinces)
Honestly it'd fuck up as much things as it'd resolve Yes it would help with the current agricultural revolts, but the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai metropole would now be split between THREE countries Yes it would help a revival of the Walloon language, but since a lot of Dutch speakers still live in Wallonia (esp. in the west which can't speak Walloon) it would either mean to give administrative documents in THREE languages, or it would mean to suppress Dutch speakers The current "compromis" is pretty good already honestly. And yeah the Bruxelles situation seems impossible to deal with. So while yes, the political and linguistic landscape are DRASTICALLY different between the two, I don't see it breaking anytime soon.
For Britany, it's very unlikely to happen. Most of Britons don't even speak Breton. They mostly want to be considered as special in a folklorical way. I lived in Britany for times and never heard someone seriously as for any kind of independence.
I totally disagree with this analysis. There have never been so many elected autonomists and regionalists now than in the entire history of the Breton movement. In addition, the cores in the elections of the pro-Breton lists are rising slowly. The number of Breton speakers has stabilized and Breton identity has largely penetrated the economic sphere. We also remember that last year, the president of the regional council of Brittany asked for the autonomy of Brittany because of the negotiations that there were between the Corsican elected officials and the French government. I think you have a very exterior view of the situation.
Euskadi ("Basque Country") is mentioned in passing during the discussion of Catalunya in the first video, but it really deserves to be discussed on its own.
Exactly, especially someone's from Sarawak. I can confirm that independence movement here are quite strong. Thanks for your comment, so more content like this we would like to see from him in the future.
With the Taiwanese they want independence. Main you, Taiwan has it's own native people who want their own country versus the refurgee mainlander Chinese who came over with Chiang Kai-shek.
Dude, Venice back in the day was at large and in charge, kicking butts across half the Mediterranean. Don't let these guys loose from Italy, they'll destroy us all with clever trade deals!
Here in veneto the indipendence movement is still pretty strong but the local government isnt brave enough to break away from italy, there was even a coup d'etat in 1997 , when some Venetian people tried to occupy venuce with a home made tank. They kept control of the san square for nine hours but then they got arrested. I think its impossible that italy will let us ve indipendent, but we can try to get autonony for our region.
Peter McM, haven't felt much lately if Northern Ireland's independence movement (caused by Brexit and aimed at "getting back in the EU", like Scotland) is to a SEPARATE COUNTRY or to re-enter the EIRE...
@@syxepop Northern Ireland becoming an independent state is impossible and if the left the UK it would be reunited with the rest of Ireland (which is their link to the EU).
James Hussey, I certainly agree that it'd be FAR EASIER for their purposes (get back into the EU and its' millions of customers w/o additional foreign taxation) to get back into the EIRE. But I do wanted to confirm if the other option was considered (I can see it may be not viable, but it shouldn't be illegal).
What about the East African Federation? It's a proposed union between Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan. Currently the largest hurdle for it is the civil war and general chaos in South Sudan, and it could even exclude South Sudan.
@@brandonlyon730 Yup. Well, at least their Assembly is dominated by nationalist/regionalist/pro-independence parties (41 out of 63 members). It is absolutely not the case of Britany - their regional council is dominated by traditional parties and it has only 3 "regionalists" out of 83 members.
Western Australia once voted with 68% majority to leave Australia but it kinda didn't happen. Apart from being the last state to agree to join the Australian federation (only joining at the last minute after a promise of a rail line to link them to the east coast, and the initial preamble to the constitution did not even include WA), this is the only state to also try to leave. Secessionist movements still appear every few years when Canberra takes a bigger chunk of tax dollars from the state.
that is true and we were taught it in the textbook when we looked at federation in Humanities as some1 who lives on the opposite end of Australia in the East i also get why
A quebecois once told me that when someone asks them where they're from abroad, they say Quebec and not Canada, and most quebecois do that, and i find that really interesting
Not exactly. We say we're from Quebec vs from Canada mainly because we don't want people to think we speak English since we pretty much are the only region in the Americas that speak French.
9:54 - Uhm... No. Flemish *is* Dutch. It's just another name for the Dutch language spoken there. Officially, it's still called "Nederlands" (Dutch). Belgium and the Netherlands have an active harmonisation policy and unify spelling etc.
Flanders seems extremely likely to separate once the new government is formed and probably joins the kingdom of the Netherlands soon after as an independent nation at first. Then Flanders will slowly change everything to dutch standards and most likely join the country completely.
@@tr33c21 the Flemish movement makes a lot of noise but it's smaller than it actually is. I am a Fleming myself and i can say with certainty that the practically the only reason that the people vote for the Flemish Nationalists is because of the incompetence of the Socialists and the inactiveness of the Christian Democrats. It has a lot to do with immigration and a lot of Arabic people not being very welcome in Flanders. When it comes to the separation of Belgium i have never in my life personally met anyone that supports the idea of splitting Belgium and when asked, they scoff at the idea of joining the Netherlands. A lot of people don't seem to understand the finer details of Belgian politics but it basically boils down to this: there were a lot better, more opportune times for separation, but it didn't happen then so it likely won't happen now. I identify as a Belgian, so does everyone I know.
@@tr33c21 Also to really get the point across. The majority of the Flemish really scoff at the idea of ever joining the Dutch and we certainly wouldn't change our ways to suit Holland, Holland can't even keep their own provinces happy, Nortb Brabant still has a number of people that would rather join Belgium and unite with the rest of Brabant than be screwed over by the Hollandic
There’s Corsica as well, with a very strong indipendence movement, they’re demonstrating right in this moment, Basque Country who have fought quite a while, deserve more visibility
it is actually real, Just because Europea has butthurt. North cyprus has its own anthem, currency (not used, but mostly turkish) Military, and they got independence. so what is wrong with ''not real''
@@TatarProductions If I with some friends get into your house, barricade half of it and claim it mine. The police says that I should move, the government saying tha same, you insist to get my ass out of your house and the only people that support my claim are my friends, does that mean I would owe half our house? North Cyprus is occupied not Independent.
@@WERTYUIO821 Alright, let's just get this to the light; Turks invaded north cyprus to save turks from greek pressure, So if your Room mate pressuring you and beating you always, you would call a person that will stop it. So Turks called Turkey for independence, Let's say the Teacher came and gave you a new room, and you can now live in it as you want. ^I hope you read all of them before commenting, And lets not forget about turks wanted help from USA, but no responds came.
@@TatarProductions And about U.S.A. . Why would they care about some few fanatics? Every country have them even nowadays. Turkey just wanted an excuse to occupy an area.
Breton here, the Brittany independence movement has pretty much died out in the last decades. I only meet very few people who still talk about it here. Very different from Corsica, where you can still regurarly meet many inhabitants speaking about independence.
I totally disagree with this analysis. There have never been so many elected autonomists and regionalists now than in the entire history of the Breton movement. In addition, the cores in the elections of the pro-Breton lists are rising slowly. The number of Breton speakers has stabilized and Breton identity has largely penetrated the economic sphere. We also remember that last year, the president of the regional council of Brittany asked for the autonomy of Brittany because of the negotiations that there were between the Corsican elected officials and the French government. I think you have a very exterior view of the situation.
@Demy Troy brother, I like greece, could you please marry me, I fell in a love with all greek people, I respect you in my heart, truly, marry me please
Cheeki Breeki Bree! Actually, the region is indeed called east Thrace, and used to be part of ancient Thrace. Byzantium was an Ancient Greek town near nova Roma, or Constantinople. That’s from where the historians named the empire. Therefore, the name of the region is not Byzantium.
I mean there are only 2000 Greeks living in region out of 20 Million Including number of Turks in region are much more than population of whole Greece It's a suicide to take 15 million Turks into Greece when you have 10 million Greeks in total, m8.
I live in Istanbul and I've never heard about the East Thrace Independence Movement. It would be really really impossible for them to be independent because they want Istanbul apparently. Istanbul is the biggest city in Turkey if you separate it from Turkey there will be no longer Turkey.
hahah not really! I love California, and I even think they would eventually manage well as an independent country, they have a lot of 3rd sector businesses that would be able to generate income without depending on other US States. But I think their independence is unlikely
I'm watching Quebec now, but I heard people in Hawaii wants to be their own country again. The native feel like the mainland USA is using them simply to grow pineapples and sugar cane. They use to be able to grow all their own food, now they have 90% of their food imported.
0:26 Igria 🇷🇺🇸🇪 is not all that of a possibility. Their people are relatively prosperous. Pls, talk about Nigeria 🇳🇬 and its possible division , because they got *way more* differences and wider economic divides among regions and local tribes.
basileus b I was gonna say that, but they have no chance to go back to communism, they aint gonna separate cus they are literally gonna fall... There will be no South Yemen, and United is better than separation. At least make an army that defends Yemen from Saudi air strikes, I am Yemeni, I ain’t gonna call myself a North Yemeni....
Taiwan is independent. Greenland, Faroe Islands, Hong Kong, Macao aren't fully independent but everyone treats them as separate entities. New Caledonia just decided to stay within France not to long ago. North Cyprus is de facto independent but it ain't gonn move any further cuz no one will ever recognize it besides turkey lmao.
Technically speaking Taiwan as it stands now is independent but on paper they are considered part of mainland China. The "native Taiwanese" want total separation from mainland China thus becoming separate countries.
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Also leave a comment below with your suggestions for part 3!
Yes, I have more suggestions.
Bavaria(Germany), Transnistria(Moldova), South Ossetia and Abhazia(Georgia), Novorussia(Ukraine), Ilirida(Macedonia), East Tukestan and Tibet(China), South Tirol, Sicily, Sardinia(Italy), Occitania, Corsica(France), Northern Ireland, Wales(UK), Laponia(Norway, Sweeden, Finnland and Russia), West Papua(Indonesia) and Nagorno-Karabakh(Azerbaijan)
Please explore BANGSAMORO in the Southern Philippines for your 3rd video.
Unified Romania and the East African Federation
Hey still make another part and don't forget to list Balochistan waiting for next video.
1. Kashmir
2. Khalistan
3. Balochistan
4. Tamil nadu
5. Kurdistan
6. Sri Lanka split up
7. Tibet
Ingria is completely impossible, there are about 200 ethnic ingrians
most of them assimilated into slavic culture. There could be 100 000+ ingrians if russians never had come
Thanks Stalin
Americans aren't a nationality either. You can unite by other things than nationality as well
Those 200 ingrians are welcome to come to Finland or Estonia any time if they like to do so
Russia would never let go of their biggest city either. They're fighting tooth and nail just to annex a small part of the crimea. Who knows what they would do if St. Petersburg wanted to succed.
*I live in Saint-Petersburg and this is the first time when I hearing about Ingria, lol*
Purple Mapper This is kinda abrupt but how would you feel if you became part of the capital of Ingria?
Like you hear on the news that the place where you live has become an independent state with a personal name and flag. Wtf...
тоесть ты знаешь русский?
Iolex128 Everyone has their own opinions, I was just asking. And btw I wasn’t asking you
@@willmakecontentoneday2159 I'll just wake up I think...
If i start my own independence movement for my house does that count as a potential nation
yes
We germans got a independence movement as well, you don't believe it? Germans are saying that Germany has never become the 3rd Deutsches Reich nor the Federal Republic of Germany, they say there never was a proove for the Treaty of Versaille after World War 1 meaning that Germany is still a controlled Nation from Huge Nations like the Usa, France and the uk(not sure about the uk) there are people who created Passports for The German Empire/Kaiserreich, they got punishments for illegal passport creations and not paying bills and taxes, they even say: If a Person enters OUR Property he instantly Enters the German Kaiserreich and leaves the country he was inside a moment ago, meaning that you would leave the Federal Reublic of Germany and Enter the German Kaiserreich, it sounds crazy but even some assholes are still waiting for Hitlers return no matter how, once he does they will support him since they were loyal to the Führer like never before, it's possible for a big German Revolution in the coming Century or even Decades
yes but if the president hears about a rebbelion you won't live long
The smallest country in the world, your house.
Mama mia i dont wanna live italia
As a French, I know about independance movement in Brittany. However, THE biggest independance movement is in Corsica. I am surprised you didn't choose this region for France
I doubt France would let Corsica become independent, since it’s the birthplace of Napoleon.
@@CadeFenster You're right, France doesn't want Corsica to become independant.But it has nothing to do with Napoleon's birthplace (note : he was raised on the continent, with few attachment to the island. Corsica's true legendary hero is Pascal Paoli who proclaimed the first independant corsican republic in 1755).
It's mainly about money and power. France heavely relies on its maritime zones, and does not want to set an example to all its others islands in the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Oceans ... (well it's a little bit more complicated and I'm not an expert, so feel free to look up details)
What I meant in my comment was : Britanny's independance movement is completely dead today. Whereas Corsica's is very lively, with some violent events in the recent years. That's all
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@@General.Knowledge *YEETING INTENSIFIES*
I live in the Moon and i've never heard of these countries
Same, what region do you live in?
i think he live in jahdnduv region
If you've never heard of Québec you must indeed live in the moon....
Oh you live *inside* the moon?
What moon tho?? I live on saturn
nobody
absolutely nobody
USA : FREEEEEEEEEDOM!!!!!!
UK : you're already independent you know
nice
What if we wanted another independence to independent ourselves from independence?
@@HyouMix It's illegal apparently! ;)
@@HyouMix That is called Civil War, the time when the United States brought freedom to the United States.
@@HyouMix Just call the Confederates.
I'm Bulgarian and this is the first time i'm hearing this whole thing about East Thrace
Sounds like some redditor's ''what if'' border painting fantasy
I'm Bulgarian too! 🇧🇬
@@dapurplepupchoco4328 Ee нaвсякъде сме :D
I am a Turk, and I've never heard about that either. That's too much even for being a fantasy. I am not sure what Bulgaria and Hellas think about that and it may cause a whole conflict which is unnecessary. We had fought enough, and I personally always hated that. We are neighbours and the conflicts have to come an end. It's 21st century, and countries should not fight for lands.
@@LuneNoir88 Selam komsu, unfortunately even now in the 21st century there still exists imperialism, bolstered by the greed of the individuals in power, sugar coated with the pretext of ''culture, language and religion''. It's in our nature to have an enemy, scapegoat, black sheep or whatever you may call it, and to blame our problems on them, and make unnecessary conflicts. Truly a shame...
We are the smallest countries from these three and our 2/1 land is going to be there.
Thumbnail: *Exists*
All of South America: *Where did we go wrong*
Never heard of this South America, is it some Bar in the US?
@Martin Vasco maybe Mexico or Cuba
@@MinesomeMC Never heard of this Mexico, is it a part of Texas?
@@MinesomeMC What is the US , is it the shit I did yesterday?
@@fduranthesee na it's a region of California
Wales is more likely to get independence than East Thrace
Nobody want independance in Eastern Thrace but Turks in Western Thrace want independance from Bulgaria and Greece.
And what is with the greek and bulgarian Population near their border
And i think that the greek and bulgarian Population habe a higher Chance to get indepence from turkey than the some people from turkey Who lives there
And i think that scootland gets more likely indepence than wales
@@0msreactiontime Lol. Their is no Bulgarian minority in Turkey . Thrace always dominated by Ottoman Turks. Thrace was core of Ottoman Empire . We r majority in whole Thrace even today
As a Flemish Belgian, I can confirm that the separation Flanders and Wallonia really is a thing. They're not yet splitting...but it is possible
A separation is likely at one point, but what would happen next? As a french I would like wallonia be part of France but I dont know if walloons are in this mood. The same for flemish, would you prefer to be part of the netherland or being a independant country?
@@leowilly29 I don't think Belgium will ever split. Even though a lot of the flanders tax money flows to wallonia most People don't want Belgium to split. Most people who vote voor N-VA and Vlaams belang do this because they want less immigrants. I think they want this, not out of racism but because a lot of criminality in Belgium is Committed by north africans and Arabs. Furthermore all of the other parties have a pact that they Will never rule with Vlaams belang because some of their members have been openly racist or discriminating towards holebi's. N-VA are liberals who looks after the industry and the rich, while Vlaams belang are socialists. So even though they want some of the same things, I don't see NVA breaking that pact because they have contradictional economical ideas. As last the majority of the flemish People would never want to be a part the Netherlands. We don't really need them to survive. People saying they want to join the Netherlands are a minority of loudmouths who don't know what the consequences would be. Wallonia on the other hand can not survive on it's own financily.
@@leowilly29 Both could exist as separate countries just fine but Wallonia might join France although Flanders will never join the Netherlands... The only issue would be Brussels cuz it's predominantly French speaking but surrounded by Flanders
@@ramon475 who said flanders will not join NL? Lol
@@dedomraz1265 because we don't want to join the Netherlands
Venice: *gets independent*
Croatia: "Uh-oh"
Turkey : Don't you dare attack my shipping again!
@@MichaelDavis-mk4me Venice : I don't know you
Istanbul: I'm getting that 1204 feeling again...
In 1997 a group of Venetian people tried a coup d'etat with a home made tank in Venice, they kept the control of a small part of the city for about nine hours but then they had been arrested. In veneto (Venice territories) they're like national heroes and the tank they used now is exposed at the annual party of the Venetian people.
Both Ingria and East Thrace seem like they're completely improbable. And from comments of people who live in each of those regions, the movements really do seem to be unexistant. I guess some people just decided to bring up the idea when there's no real popular desire for it
"Both Ingrian Finnish and Izhorian populations all but disappeared from Ingria during the Soviet period. 63,000 fled to Finland during World War II, and were required back by Stalinafter the war. Most became victims of Soviet population transfers and many were executed as "enemies of the people".[2][4][9] The remainder, including some post-Stalin returnees (it was not until 1956 that some of the deported were allowed to return to their villages), were outnumbered by Russian immigration."
And you didn't factchecked this??
The California Republic separating from the US is also improbable. The "Calexit" statement was merely dependent upon the possibility of the federal government (and thus country) becoming despotic. Though, overall, the idea was never taken seriously and no one has talked about it since in the state. Furthermore, the loss of California would have been a massive economical blow to the US given that California alone is the 5th largest economy in the world, thus it would have been unacceptable to allow it to leave the Union.
Speaking of which, it's odd how Texas was never mentioned since the Texas Republic was also an independent country that became a state, and has also mused about exiting the Union to become independent again. Texas becoming independent is also improbable, but the locals have discussed succession more than once before, and have historically left the Union as part of the formation of the separatist country known as the Confederate States of America. Once again, however, Texas has no inclination to leave the Union.
Hawaii and Puerto Rico are also far more notable cases dealing with independence than either of the two states mentioned previously.
I have never, ever seen any movement for the independence of East Thrace as a person who comes from there and lived there for 9 years. We are Turkish, and we will always be.
@@youprayteas Can't say for always, as we do not know the future. But in right now there, surely, are more Greeks living in Pontus and Smyrna than in the Eastern Thrace. Plus the Cyprus is still not resolved. So, I would agree that right now the idea of independent East Thrace is laughable. There is no cultural difference as people see themselves as Turks and a part of the country and the region itself can't sustain itself up to the current state if it separates.
I'm from Turkey and no one really talks about East Thracia lul
Ozan Mercan exactly..never heard about such thing in my life
Lmao im from Bulgaria
Excuse me WTF?
Nearly everyone in eastern Thrace is a Turkish immigrant from Bulgaria and Greece and he says that Eastern Thrace wants to be independendent.😂😂😂😂 LOL
I agree, there is no independence movement happening.
Still no United Ireland . Okay then
I was thinking that too he probably know where Ireland is or he doesn't like us mate
What’s 26+6?
Siena's World 1 obviously 😉
James McDonagh Good job! You’re smart.
That wouldn’t be new it would just big a larger version of Ireland
Flemish isn't an official language, it's more of a collection of dialects. The official language for Flanders is Dutch.
We share the same grammar, vocabulary and spelling, and even have a "Grand Dictation" contest.
for a large part of the second half of the 20th century, we were taught the "General Civilized Dutch" language. the "civilized" part was dropped late in the period, because it was derogatory to the regional dialects, some of which started to disappear.
Meanwhile Walloon actually is a language, though I live in the part of Wallonia that basically doesn't speak at all.
How to trigger a canadian
VIVE LE QUÉBEC LIBRE!!!
Edit: I won my bet
le québec a besoin du reste du canada je pense
Un Québec indépendant de nos jours est juste impossible. Si on a pas réussi dans les années 90, on réussira jamais
Marble & Blizzard Not according to the participants of the 2 previous Quebec referendums.
50.2% isnt every one..
Mikhael07 It is the majority.
Nobody:
Italians: “I don’t want to be Italian”
me ( a kid obbesed with italy and came from shiq ) : but i wanna :c
it’s beacause north Italy is richer than the south so the “Padania” would do better without the rest of the Italy
Because they aren't
POMMES 007 How?
@@pommes0078 dann sollten wir deiner Meinung nach Baden-Württemberg und Bayern vom Rest der Deutschen abgrenzen nur weil der Süden reicher ist... hää was soll die scheisse nur wegen Geld
Quebec referendum: exists
JJ McCullough: I'm about to end this referendum's whole career
Avery The Cuban-American I’m honoured to be the first reply
Your here to pig smh
We tried
XxJohnnyXx 239 *You’re *too
I think you need to stay in school. Johnny. Also, Avery’s a conservative so he’s not a pig
XxJohnnyXx 239 Triggered much? Like Kim said, I’m a conservative not a commie pig. I see you still watch CNN...
If you ever make a part 3 of this "series", and for anyone interested in this kinda thing: As of 2020/2021, there is also currently a political party that seeks a separation between the North and South of England, known as the Northern Independence Party or "Free The North" - basically, the North has had enough of constantly being let down by the Westminster government, and as someone who lives in the North of England, I totally get it. The UK government is literally one of the most unfairly centralized governments, the North-South divide is a real thing, the economy and infrastructure of the North suffers compared to the south, and it always has for a long time. You may not think it, because yes the North has great cities like York, Manchester and Newcastle - but the reality is that for the most part? Our towns see no development anymore, (my hometowns high street is dead, it's just charity shops, vape shops and computer repair shops, it's awful) and the transport system up here, especially outside the cities, can be abysmal, there's a great lack of jobs that force people to need to move further afield, etc etc. We get promised so much from our Government yet it is never received. So what the N.I.P wishes is to separate from the westminster government and form a separate nation, north of the river Humber, known as Northumbria - as named for the Historical meaning of it generally being considered "The North" and from the merged historic kingdoms of the 7th century being the last time the North was united as an independent entity. The Flags colours would be burgundy red and gold - from the flag of Northumbria (one of the oldest flags in the world) and the colours of Northumbria's founder St Oswald. It is more likely that "Northumbria" as a nation is not going to have a capital city - so that the government/economy etc does not revolve around one centralized location, but instead there may be different "capitals" for different functions. The Queen would most likely still be invited to have some sort of Reign over Northumberland, as a part of being a commonwealth nation much like Canada for example. :)
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Does Northumberland even have actual cities or just towns?
@@kets4443 I don't think there is any cities, come to think of it. The largest places I can think of are places like Morpeth, Hexham and Prudhoe, but they're classified as Towns and not Cities. Newcastle was once part of Northumberland, but that was back in the 1300's so a very long time ago lol
Yeah this will never happen
@@badnews2222 probably not, but nice to think of a life without those tory bastards raw fucking us each day.
An interesting region for you: I live in Western Austria, in a state called "Vorarlberg", right next to Liechtenstein. Exactly 100 years ago the local population voted about separating from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, which collapsed during WW1, to join Switzerland. 80% voted yes, but the treaty of Saint-Germain didn't allow Vorarlberg to leave Austria, and also Switzerland didn't want to take the region, which made my state known under the name of "Kanton übrig", which translates to "canton leftover". Now, there aren't any big independence movements any longer, but the region transformed from a farmer's land to a economically stable state, with good industry, so i think we could support ourselves on our own, and i also think a voting could pass, if it was today
I hope somebody reads this, sorry if I made English mistakes
Is this the region they talk about in the game Syberia? There was a Franz Voralberg
@@kalyka98 I'm not really familiar with the game but I don't think it is. The name Vorarlberg can be derived from the state's geographical location and not from a historical personality (there's a mountain called the "Arlberg", which seperates us from the rest of Austria, so Vorarlberg basically means "in front of the Arlberg").
@@tobiaskung630 Nice to know
Do you think that Vorarlberg could be part of Lichtenstein? Or at least a fraction of it like Dornbirn and Bludenz. What do you think people could. Maybe Liechtenstein would be open to the idea.
@@RodrigoColimodio To be honest, I don't really think that this would be an option for Vorarlberg or Liechtenstein. However, I could somehow imagine Liechtenstein to join Switzerland, if Vorarlberg would also try to do so. Liechtenstein's inhabitants are pretty similar to the swiss.
I live in East Thrace but had never heard anything about independence how did you even heard of this?
I think he misunderstood western Thrace for eastern Thrace
@@Azoth86730 The guy literally said it was very unlikely to happen.
@@Azoth86730 i mean
They did exist, long ago
But they were gone, assimilated completely by the end of medieval days, by the countries the region is part of now
A bunch of websites list out 'possible' countries, and a few of them mentioned East Thrace. But I agree, not only does there seem to be no actual independence movement, but like I said in the video there doesn't even seem to be a reason for any movement to exist
@@tincan6747 the Thracians are long gone through assimilation. I mean, purely genetically, bulgarians are mostly Thracian actually, but I don't think the idea is about that. Historically speaking, this area was populated by bulgarians, Turks and greeks and we all have some reasons to claim this territory for ourselves. For example, before the Balkan wars there were villages with 100% bulgarian population in turkish Thrace, and even today some bulgarian nationalists want this territory back to Bulgaria, but that will most likely NEVER happen.
Only problem with this video is... I can climb on the top of my house and scream, “independence” and it would have a place on those list. Most of these movements are barely even recognized or carried out in said places.
Brittany Venice flanders and wallonia all have a good chance..
The Morebike and quebec eventually
@@themorebike880 I live in the venetian region and if you want to know the truth most people want autonomy because they see their neighbouring region of south tyrol doing much better not because they want independence.
@@kalyka98 fair enough
You can do that. But you will not have any historical ir ethnical "justification". The Mentioned cases do in one Form or another
9:30 In my opinion this is very very unlikely because of the fact that the border would go through the middle of a city. It would divide families. Also the Turkish nationality is a big part of education in Turkey so the people have a strong sense of nationality.
I think he forgot like a lot of people do that East Thracia acutally spans the straight with half being on the European side and the other half on the Anatolian side. So, It wouldn't acutally cut through Istanbul. It would take Istanbul away from Turkey completely.
@@timothyclark803 or it would take istanbul away from east thrace completely, it can go both ways
Nobody
really nobody
i mean nobody
Sealand: Can we get independence
Sorry but this joke is still not funny for me
Quirck 22, don't worry... The MARITIME TRANSPORT BRAND of the same name will get independence before those guys of that 'tower" get theirs.
Sealand is independent country but nobody recognize it
TheUnknownRacer, how they'll pay for PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING after "getting rid of the Brits"? I didn't thought so...
Normie
I'm from California... I don't want to leave the USA. Yes California is usually on the top for most lists but like.... I don't think it will do well without the Federal Government of USA.
Are people in California or parts of California actually considering that? I think or assume it’s just some crappy running joke on the news
@@jakeg3126 - It is just a crappy running joke. No one refers to it in California except as a joke.
@Stephen Jenkins well I know some states have petitions going for the hell of it, like Jersey that wouldn't be missed
@@jakeg3126 we could do without most of the southern part of the country.
There are probably more people outside of California that want it to leave than in.
I love these kind of videos, please make more! In addition, I also love that you used Norway in red, white and blue in the background when you talked about Venice and East Thrace 😄
Timestamps:
0:22 - Ingria
2:19 - Quebec
3:39 - Brittany
4:53 - California
6:39 - Venice
8:25 - East Thrace
9:36 - Flanders and Wallonia
I don't think people know how much difference they're is between north and south Italy
Oh we know, we just choose to ignore it
*hand gestures intensifies*
@@Federico19871000 that's the difference between Venice and the rest but for Modena I never heard anyone caring, it's like Germany most people know diffence between east and west but all they care about is bavaria
I'm Flemish so I like to compare this with the Belgian situation. Tbh, I probably don't know enough about Italy, but I think it's mostly an economic difference? I believe that the economic difference is even bigger than the economic difference between Flanders and Wallonia. I know there's some cultural difference, but I'm not sure how big it is. I do know that the South and the North both speak Italian, but only with some different dialects. I think language plays a huge roll in this kind of situations. Flanders speaks Dutch, Wallonia speaks French. As far as I know, the difference between South and North Italy isn't as big as the difference between Flanders and Wallonia. The separation of Belgium is not very likely to happen though (at least not within the next 10 years), so I don't think the the difference in Italy is something we should be concerned about right now.
They're different in every level from Monarchist and Republican to Agriculture and Industrial. The only thing that makes them United is the language
Only Quebec and Belgium one are in somewhat possible... The rest is VERY unlikely
Well, Brittany and Venice have decent support for at least increased autonomy, but Ingria and East Thrace are not happening unless some weird war or something happens.
Quebec isn't really possible anymore. They had a referendum in 1995, 24 years ago, and they choose to stay, since then its really died down. Maybe more possible than other situations, because Canada would let any province leave peacefully (its in our constitution provinces can vote to leave) but still not likely to happen. Financially it wouldn't make sense for Quebec.
Belgium no no no no no no no!! It want happen
Brittany and Venice are quite possible
The Morebike Bretagne is impossible
4:43 *Personally, I see France as a pretty well consolidated nation-state, and I don't think it will collapse anytime soon*
Yellow vests and Bretons : *Yeah, nobody will see it coming indeed*
The french are always protesting afainst something, it doesnt mean the country is about to collapse.
Do the French have a problem with Corsica?
@@GuonMr Not at all, it's Corsica who has a problem with mainland France. Most Corsicans want independence
In the constitution it’s written that France cannot be separated so neither Brittany or Corsica will become independent...
@S S The French haven't collapsed yet.
Independance movement in Brittany might have had some importance at some point in 20th century, but it has mostly disappeared today, only being talked about between britons as a joke. Actually, most britons don't even talk Briton nor Gallo nowadays, as the language is slowly dying. And this is the actual point of tension, it's not about getting autonomy or independance, just about getting the legal recognition of briton and gallo as official languages in Brittany, to promote them better, to better embrace the Briton identity, inside of France.
Lot of britons will speak about briton independance after getting drunk (which happens often), but actually only few delusional people truly want it.
I totally disagree with this analysis. There have never been so many officials autonomists and regionalists now than in the entire history of the Breton movement. In addition, the cores in the elections of the pro-Breton lists are rising slowly. The number of Breton speakers has stabilized and Breton identity has largely penetrated the economic sphere. We also remember that last year, the president of the regional council of Brittany asked for the autonomy of Brittany because of the negotiations that there were between the Corsican elected officials and the French government. I think you have a very exterior view of the situation.
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To shed some light on Eastern Thrace:
There isn't any indepence movement or even a serious thought about this country. Supposed flag is totally unrelated which leads me to think it as some fictional or alt-history country.
The closest you can get to a seperate Thrace where some people joke about splitting the whole western and southern coast (left leaning provinces) apart from rest.
That territory is mostly muslim turkish speaking nowadays and also in the past. If there will be a country, its flag contains no cross but crescent.
@@korayatesli2399 It is Greek territory. Punto y basta.
@@georgianakopoulou6339 only because a little part of thrace belongs to Greece they must put a cross on their possible flag right?
İf independent thrace happen. Probably they use green variety of turkish flag. When Ottoman Empire times ottoman use 2 different flag. One is the now days Turkish flag for anatolian part of empire and the other is green variety of this flag for european part of empire. İf you look at ottoman coat of arms you can see both of flag on it
Yeah it would be more like Agea, Mediterranean and Thrace combined. The cross is also fairly irrelevant. I like blue and black, though, hot damn!
@@yudaosh-ida This flag refers to Rumelian regions of the Ottoman Empire, yes. But I think it's far from that. The flag you said was going to be the flag of Western Thrace if it was going to be independent from Greece. But, if in any case, for the sake of speculation, Eastern Thrace becomes independent, it would include Istanbul as well. Basically it would be an Istanbul state with eastern thrace as hinterland. And trust me it would be more secular than the whole of Turkey, while Kemal was alive. So the crescent-star flag would be avoided and I think that maybe a tricolor flag would emerge to incorporate a more European identity, because otherwise there's no reason for splitting off of Erdogan's Turkey.
And by the way, the crescent is connected more to Turkic people, Romans and Persians, rather than Muslims.
As with last week I’ll add
Cascadia
Texas
Greenland
Alaska
Hawaii
All these have active separatist movements in North America
That will not happened in the next 50 years.
also Greenland can`t really sustain itself alone so yeah.
I doubt Texas,Alaska and hawaii have any significant support to become independent
discord.gg/Fgp8nYR join and tell the general himself
Mary Texas National Movement amen
That only a minority of the population supports usually being one to 2% of the population
For some reason states aren't allowed to be independant. But who knows modern America may want to respect it's citizens wishes. Who am I kidding no they don't.
Ok, I'm from Bulgaria, more specifically Burgas and I see that East Thracia wants Burgas as a territory. Honestly, this is the first time I ever hear about this. I've never seen any Bulgarian even talking about that. I literally live in East Thracia and I didn't know it.
И аз никога не съм чувал за това и живея в Тракия, във всеки град в който съм бил в Тракия съм виждал Български знамена и хората никога не са ми говорили за тая глупост.
Trakistan, what the f...
California: exist
Mexico: *I'm about to end this country's whole career*
@@bennelson6207 you do realize that California would never be allowed to keep any of the military equipment if they ever somehow gained independence. Just because there is US military equipment and personnel in the state doesn't at all mean it magically gets transfered to that state upon independence. The US would never allow a nation in its boarders to just take its nukes.
Ben Nelson America won’t be able to do anything about it. It’s Balkanization is inevitable, Americans are not a united people and will go their own way given the chance.
@@Unknownnameplease and you're wrong
@@bennelson6207 5th strongest economy yet they can't properly build a high speed railway
@@bennelson6207 #1: California does not have nuclear weapons under STATE control. If CA were to go independent, the US military would completely pull out taking all the weapons and equipment with them.
#2: There's a large US military presence in CA now and a large portion of the CA economy is derived from the military bases, personnel, (mostly non CA natives), and defense contractors there. If the CA were to break away and the US pulled out of CA and no longer does business with CA based defense contractors, and more than 85% of personnel returning back to the US and not spending money in CA, that projected "5th largest economy" would be greatly reduced.
#3: Also the liberal Democratic leadership which now dominates the political scene is driving CA and their spend, spend, spend policies are driving CA into bankruptcy. Any currency that CA would try to print would be worthless when the massive state debt is factored in. Also no more federal dollars would pouring in to help prop up the debt ridden state like it does now. Also most major corporations and banks based in CA would move out of the state prior to independence to avoid the uncertainty of the new unstable economy.
Again driving it's economy down even further if independence were to happen.
#4: Currently the eastern part of CA is mostly conservative and the western coastal areas are mostly liberal. If independence were to happen, I believe a civil war would erupt almost immediately with the mostly conservative portions wanting to form their own independent state or rejoin the US as a new state. A civil war and/or a shrinkage in size of the new independent state would greatly reduce it's economy even further since no other countries would want to invest in an unstable gov't embroiled in a civil war.
I loved this video and i could be really happy if part 3 is coming
4 Word to trigger Canadian: Vive le Québec Libre !
Also: The French are in a Majority of 85% not 78% :P
@COPS .101 We only need one Province to be independant to make the Canada Split up.... Ottawa know it too well this why they do everything to Rig Referendum and crush independance movement, while creating massive "Pro Canada" Propaganda....
@COPS .101 I know that our relationship between Alberta and Québec isn't the best but I think that you have the right to be a sovereign state and decide of your Destiny yourself to
Despite there being cultural differences between Alberta and Quebec, I often find is a little surprising that they don't seem to realize that they are natural allies (as provincial governments) in arguing for a more decentralized federation. While they clearly have different visions on some issues, like energy policy (which is honestly guided by their own very different natural resources and decades of investment), they have a lot of common ground in perceiving themselves to be the odd man out and wanting the federal government to stay out of their affairs. Ontario is fervently against decentralization (and Atlantic Canada seems lukewarm to the idea) but after living in Ontario a few decades, it's pretty evident that Ontario thinks of itself as the heart and soul of Canada and is pretty quick to dismiss the complaints of other regions as whining. I've seen it since the last election and honestly, I find it rather troubling. The putdowns of western concerns remind me of the way Quebec's concerns got put down back in the 80s and 90s.
As someone who lived through the social turmoil of the two referendums and the two failed constitutional re-negotiations, I've got a pretty good sense of the kind of deeply felt alienation, frustration and resentment that fuels a secessionist movement. If Alberta and Saskatchewan are hitting that kind of boiling point and things feel that out of touch right now, my natural inclination as a born and bred Quebecois is to listen to them the way I've always wanted the rest of Canada to listen to us. Not to be dismissive. Not treating them as spoiled brats or a problem child. Rather, as fellow citizens who feel they have a genuine grievance and require us to listen with an open mind. I can relate to that feeling and it sucks. I'm sure we wouldn't reach a perfect consensus but we can bloody well put a bit of real effort into ensuring we all have a voice in the national dialog.
@COPS .101 And why does more like from Western Ontario to Kamloops and even the territories want to leave? Its Quebec. So I think it's time to shake hands, part ways but always be there if in need. 100 years is to long, no need the stretch it out any further.
You are Canadian
Some corrections about Quebec:
1. Quebec wasn’t the only part colonized by France. All of southern Canada on the coast of the St. Lawrence river was colonized by France. Quebec was the outcome of the fights and the subsequent accords.
2. The Quebecois are no longer interested in separating from Canada. That’s virtually impossible to happen anymore, despite them loathing calling Quebec a province (although its nickname is la Belle Province!)
3. The catholic vs. protestant argument is just history. Since la revolution tranquile the Quebecois completely turned against any official form of religion in politics and became entirely secular.
Half of Quebec geographically wasn’t colonized by the French. Northern Quebec around Hudson’s bay was never French. That was Rupert’s Land which belonged to the British crown.
As for an independent Quebec most of the independence movement used the threat of independence as a way to blackmail the Federal government into giving them more money and special privileges. In 1995 when Quebec separatists nearly won their referendum a lot of soft separatists realized they didn’t really want to separate especially when Canadians were planning to partition the Province if they did. Quebec as an independent country really isn’t viable. If independent Quebec would suffer a huge decline in living standards without the Federal government’s assistance. Its population and economy is just too small and the Provinces debts too large.
Your 3rd and 1 points are valid, but not the second. Independence is still debate here in Quebec and more than 35% support it, with some polls even indicating 42% support independence. So I would not say québécois are no longer interested by the independence!
Plus it’s not impossible to happen. 2 of the 4 parties in Quebec are for independence. There is only 1 major party that is federalist, and this party is close to death. The historical Independence Party is still second in the polls, so ya I think you’re wrong on that.
@@ronanbolduc-jg8sj fine. Leave and starve. The entire French population in Quebec only survives thanks to Canadian transfers payments. We’ll just partition the Province and you can die.
One example that often appears is the seccession of Western Australia from Australia. In recent years with the mining boom Western Australia contributes more in taxes to Australia than it gets back in investment in the state which has created a minor rumbling. It is also mentioned in this wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession
Although there has not been a referendum since 1933.
Bro that’s because they’re stealing that land from the natives. Australians will sooner give independence to a ridiculously wealthy state than to the people they’ve been lying about, stealing children from, raping, and robbing for centuries.
Im Turkish,lived in İstanbul but this is the first time im hearing about East Thrace Lol
Constantinopolis.
@@notsure1277 Your church is mosque now,cry greek kid 😂😂😂
@@cenanmehmet it has been a mosque already since 1453, but converted into a museum for a short time period
@@felagundfinrod9223 napim
@@cenanmehmet domal
Great Video as always General Knowledge!
Brittany is one of the last European regions of France that still has a strong identity not crushed by Parisian centralized state (with Corsica and Alsace) but nobody thinks about independance, even autonomist parties are basically non-existent (sadly).
In China, there a few possible new countries, including Tibet, East Turkestan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
That's the least likely to happen
Hong Kong completely belongs to china after the uk's lease expired. It still has some autonomy but 50 years later china will have integrated it in for sure.
Brett Fafata , PRC wants MORE territory, NOT LESS. Ask the people of Taiwan...
hellboyy2001 Their population disagrees with you.
China is 100% against separatist movement of any kind. Xinjiang (aka East Turkestan), for example, is on high alert surveillance by Chinese government and more Han Chinese people are moving there which dilutes out the native population, now a minority in the territory.
-Hong Konger here
9:10 I think I can hear Polish Varsovienne 1831 playing in the background ;)
9:55 WOAH! WOAH! The official language of Flanders is Dutch! Colloquially it's often named "Flemish", but this is not a different language "very close to Dutch" but a national variety of the same language, cf. British and American English.
The official language of The Netherlands is Flemish!
@@bubbykins4864 LOL wrong
Official language of Flanders is Flemish which is a dialect of Dutch
@@jasquesdanneels5462 - Wrong: It's never called anything other than Dutch officially, only Flemish colloquially sometimes.
@@jasquesdanneels5462 It's not called Flemish officially.
"out of all the ones in this state, belgium seems the most likely to occur" oh buddy i spent my entire teen and adult life with that as a possibility. the biggest issue is flanders wouldn't want to give up on brussels (arguing that it's within their territory) because of its economic importance (not to mention how many people who live their lives essentially in brussels but live in the periphery, in the Brabant provinces)
To Brussel : aanpassen of opkrassen 😂
Honestly it'd fuck up as much things as it'd resolve
Yes it would help with the current agricultural revolts, but the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai metropole would now be split between THREE countries
Yes it would help a revival of the Walloon language, but since a lot of Dutch speakers still live in Wallonia (esp. in the west which can't speak Walloon) it would either mean to give administrative documents in THREE languages, or it would mean to suppress Dutch speakers
The current "compromis" is pretty good already honestly. And yeah the Bruxelles situation seems impossible to deal with.
So while yes, the political and linguistic landscape are DRASTICALLY different between the two, I don't see it breaking anytime soon.
I'm from Canada and I dont see Quebec splitting in my lifetime
Fuck canada long live Québec free
It's precisely when you expect it the least that it can happen the most.
Vive le Québec Libre!
O CANADAAAAAA OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND
What's more likely to happen is Alberta leaving. Even then that's not very likely.
For Britany, it's very unlikely to happen. Most of Britons don't even speak Breton. They mostly want to be considered as special in a folklorical way.
I lived in Britany for times and never heard someone seriously as for any kind of independence.
I totally disagree with this analysis. There have never been so many elected autonomists and regionalists now than in the entire history of the Breton movement. In addition, the cores in the elections of the pro-Breton lists are rising slowly. The number of Breton speakers has stabilized and Breton identity has largely penetrated the economic sphere. We also remember that last year, the president of the regional council of Brittany asked for the autonomy of Brittany because of the negotiations that there were between the Corsican elected officials and the French government. I think you have a very exterior view of the situation.
You can also speak about some unification movements and not only independentists
Euskadi ("Basque Country") is mentioned in passing during the discussion of Catalunya in the first video, but it really deserves to be discussed on its own.
I thought it was Euskal herria?
Man, this dude should talk about Finland and Åland. Åland lives in atonomy and may want indepence.
Ei ahvenanmaasta itsenäistä tuu ainakaan lähi vuosikymmenillä.
I think Åland will be part of Sweden because they speak swedish etc... Im finnish and i think that Åland will ever be independent
There was finnish autonomic state in British Columbia, Malcom Island, Canada (Sointula) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sointula
Ahvenanmaa is righteous Finnic territory, as is half of Russia and majority of northern Europe.
I'm watching your video, then I didn't expect you upload a video 8 minutes ago
There are a lot of independence movement in Asia. Sarawak, Sabah in borneo, Pattani in Thailand, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan etc
Exactly, especially someone's from Sarawak. I can confirm that independence movement here are quite strong. Thanks for your comment, so more content like this we would like to see from him in the future.
hey i'm from indonesia and interested to hear about our neighbour, is there any links to independece movement?
With the Taiwanese they want independence. Main you, Taiwan has it's own native people who want their own country versus the refurgee mainlander Chinese who came over with Chiang Kai-shek.
That's right
La Serenísima is also an argentine lacteal company, and i laughed my ass off when you said La Serenísima was a giant empire lol
Oh no... Nos conquistaran a base de diabetes 😔
Dude, Venice back in the day was at large and in charge, kicking butts across half the Mediterranean. Don't let these guys loose from Italy, they'll destroy us all with clever trade deals!
I live in the european side of Turkey and its my first time hearing about "east thrace" no one in Turkey knows about that either
greece wil take it back one day
@@hirosan8386 Take it back? You should he happy with what you have, most of modern day Greece was never Greek in Ancient times!
Hey General Knowledge, can you do next countries that might disappear? (Ex. Moldova uniting with Romania)
Oh and you re doing very good! Keep it up!
discord.gg/Fgp8nYR join and you can message him on there. He always replies
I live in east Thrace but I never heard of it being it’s own country
Here in veneto the indipendence movement is still pretty strong but the local government isnt brave enough to break away from italy, there was even a coup d'etat in 1997 , when some Venetian people tried to occupy venuce with a home made tank. They kept control of the san square for nine hours but then they got arrested. I think its impossible that italy will let us ve indipendent, but we can try to get autonony for our region.
You Should Talk about Western Australia. They had a successful independence referendum in 1933 that was ignored by the UK and Australia.
Republican of Ireland and Northern Ireland to unite should be in the next one
Why? Ireland as one island will not be new,only going back to how it was in the past
Peter McM, haven't felt much lately if Northern Ireland's independence movement (caused by Brexit and aimed at "getting back in the EU", like Scotland) is to a SEPARATE COUNTRY or to re-enter the EIRE...
@@syxepop Northern Ireland becoming an independent state is impossible and if the left the UK it would be reunited with the rest of Ireland (which is their link to the EU).
@@JamesHussey404 you are 100% right
James Hussey, I certainly agree that it'd be FAR EASIER for their purposes (get back into the EU and its' millions of customers w/o additional foreign taxation) to get back into the EIRE. But I do wanted to confirm if the other option was considered (I can see it may be not viable, but it shouldn't be illegal).
What about the East African Federation? It's a proposed union between Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan. Currently the largest hurdle for it is the civil war and general chaos in South Sudan, and it could even exclude South Sudan.
Didn't they even already sign an agreement? I think it's already began its course to become a reality. I'll add it in Part 3 if this video does well!
@@General.Knowledge In September of last year they formed a committee that's drafting the constitution
Lol. I was just watching this video while playing oblivion, then I hear Jarls, and see Jarl Balgruuf on my screen for a brief second.
Nothing special. Jarl means earl in scandinavian…
I’m French and trust me, Corsica becoming independent is a looot more likely than Brittany!
Lol avec eux ça ce corse vite ^^
The island where Emperor Napoleon was from?
@@brandonlyon730 Yup. Well, at least their Assembly is dominated by nationalist/regionalist/pro-independence parties (41 out of 63 members). It is absolutely not the case of Britany - their regional council is dominated by traditional parties and it has only 3 "regionalists" out of 83 members.
@@ArturoSubutex leave Brittany alone. Let them be independent.
@@sychocfj I personally would gladly let them if I had the power and if Bretons wanted to
Western Australia once voted with 68% majority to leave Australia but it kinda didn't happen.
Apart from being the last state to agree to join the Australian federation (only joining at the last minute after a promise of a rail line to link them to the east coast, and the initial preamble to the constitution did not even include WA), this is the only state to also try to leave. Secessionist movements still appear every few years when Canberra takes a bigger chunk of tax dollars from the state.
that is true and we were taught it in the textbook when we looked at federation in Humanities as some1 who lives on the opposite end of Australia in the East i also get why
Don’t forget about reunified Korea
That was in the first video dear leader
Comrade
its Korea's destiny to reunite.
south Korean and North Korean is not A Country,they are different nation,
Another in Italy: Principality of Seborga
Do they have oil and democracy?
I'm asking for a friend =3
Does olive oil count?
does that friend of yours send spy drone?
I suppose you'd rather have anarchy or communism right. You're not funny idiot
@@hyoroemonmeto6874 maybe the marines
By Any chance Does your Friend Name USA.
Me: Hi, Flanders!
Flanders: Hi-Diddily-Ho!
ha
A quebecois once told me that when someone asks them where they're from abroad, they say Quebec and not Canada, and most quebecois do that, and i find that really interesting
Not exactly. We say we're from Quebec vs from Canada mainly because we don't want people to think we speak English since we pretty much are the only region in the Americas that speak French.
If someone tells me they are Canadian I will wonder whether they are from a French or English area so it's an important distinction
9:16 background music: Warszawianka 1831 (La Varsovienne) [Oto dziś dzień krwi i chwały...]
9:54 - Uhm... No. Flemish *is* Dutch. It's just another name for the Dutch language spoken there. Officially, it's still called "Nederlands" (Dutch). Belgium and the Netherlands have an active harmonisation policy and unify spelling etc.
Wrong some words change
@@NeichoKijimura that doesn't make it a different language
Actually, Dutch is Flemish. Netherlands? You mean north Belgium and south Denmark?
@@bubbykins4864 - Not sure if you're being facetious or just actually ignorant on this matter.
@@NeichoKijimura en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Language_Union
Puerto Rico has a large independence movement as well, it's currently an American colony (the only large colony in the world)
Didn't they want to be an state of USA? I'm confused
The Real world: Non of these countries will ever happen!
A HOI4 game: We'll see about that...
Border goar Intensifies
Bro do you even english?
Flanders seems extremely likely to separate once the new government is formed and probably joins the kingdom of the Netherlands soon after as an independent nation at first. Then Flanders will slowly change everything to dutch standards and most likely join the country completely.
@@tr33c21 the Flemish movement makes a lot of noise but it's smaller than it actually is. I am a Fleming myself and i can say with certainty that the practically the only reason that the people vote for the Flemish Nationalists is because of the incompetence of the Socialists and the inactiveness of the Christian Democrats. It has a lot to do with immigration and a lot of Arabic people not being very welcome in Flanders. When it comes to the separation of Belgium i have never in my life personally met anyone that supports the idea of splitting Belgium and when asked, they scoff at the idea of joining the Netherlands. A lot of people don't seem to understand the finer details of Belgian politics but it basically boils down to this: there were a lot better, more opportune times for separation, but it didn't happen then so it likely won't happen now. I identify as a Belgian, so does everyone I know.
@@tr33c21 Also to really get the point across. The majority of the Flemish really scoff at the idea of ever joining the Dutch and we certainly wouldn't change our ways to suit Holland, Holland can't even keep their own provinces happy, Nortb Brabant still has a number of people that would rather join Belgium and unite with the rest of Brabant than be screwed over by the Hollandic
There’s Corsica as well, with a very strong indipendence movement, they’re demonstrating right in this moment, Basque Country who have fought quite a while, deserve more visibility
8:20 man I am Turkish and I never heard this one in my life...
I am greek and i heard this to my life
Öyle bişey yokki zaten, İstanbulda yaşıyorum ama hayatımda bunla ilgili zerre kadar şey duymadım, uydurmasyon bence
@@dorukstar7377 gayet var
@@Estel_98 yok
@@Estel_98 Türkiye icin yok
Norther cyprus: *I AM REAL :D*
Turkey: yes you are
Any other country: *Turkey is out of its mind*
@-DoyouhaveKebab?- :3 No
it is actually real, Just because Europea has butthurt. North cyprus has its own anthem, currency (not used, but mostly turkish) Military, and they got independence. so what is wrong with ''not real''
@@TatarProductions
If I with some friends get into your house, barricade half of it and claim it mine. The police says that I should move, the government saying tha same, you insist to get my ass out of your house and the only people that support my claim are my friends, does that mean I would owe half our house?
North Cyprus is occupied not Independent.
@@WERTYUIO821 Alright, let's just get this to the light;
Turks invaded north cyprus to save turks from greek pressure, So if your Room mate pressuring you and beating you always, you would call a person that will stop it. So Turks called Turkey for independence, Let's say the Teacher came and gave you a new room, and you can now live in it as you want.
^I hope you read all of them before commenting, And lets not forget about turks wanted help from USA, but no responds came.
@@TatarProductions
And about U.S.A. . Why would they care about some few fanatics? Every country have them even nowadays. Turkey just wanted an excuse to occupy an area.
That Nord VPN transition was very impressive haha
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Breton here, the Brittany independence movement has pretty much died out in the last decades. I only meet very few people who still talk about it here. Very different from Corsica, where you can still regurarly meet many inhabitants speaking about independence.
I totally disagree with this analysis. There have never been so many elected autonomists and regionalists now than in the entire history of the Breton movement. In addition, the cores in the elections of the pro-Breton lists are rising slowly. The number of Breton speakers has stabilized and Breton identity has largely penetrated the economic sphere. We also remember that last year, the president of the regional council of Brittany asked for the autonomy of Brittany because of the negotiations that there were between the Corsican elected officials and the French government. I think you have a very exterior view of the situation.
That jarl balgruuf tho 1:42 nice to know you play tesv too
Another TES comment bro, i was gonna say the same thing
10:11
The German Speaking Minority, Speaks German because it used to be part of the German Empire, Until 1919
1920 2 day before i sen this its 100 years belgian🇧🇪
So, if Belgium splits up, Northrhine-Westfalia and Rhineland-Palatinate get bigger.
@@swashbukk that will never happen eaven if we'll splitt(what will never happen)the German speaking part belongs to wallonia. So stop dreaming.
As a norwegian, I love the inclusion of «Norge i rødt, hvitt og blått» at 6:56 lol.
Słyszę w tle Warszawiankę :) I hear Polish military song "Warszawianka" in the back ground! Big hug from Poland!
8:21 i am from Turkey and i dont lie I DIDNT EVER HEARD ABOUT THAT “country*?
böyle bişey olmaz çünkü zaten ordakilerin %80 i türk
احمد افه yani bencede akıl var mantık var
@Demy Troy brother, I like greece, could you please marry me, I fell in a love with all greek people, I respect you in my heart, truly, marry me please
@Demy Troy Don't insult your mother nation!
@@dntrait8731 Gay
8:32 I'm used to call that Byzantium, with capital Costantinople
Cheeki Breeki Bree! Actually, the region is indeed called east Thrace, and used to be part of ancient Thrace. Byzantium was an Ancient Greek town near nova Roma, or Constantinople. That’s from where the historians named the empire. Therefore, the name of the region is not Byzantium.
@@olbiomoiros Yes thank you to mention my greek bro.
I mean there are only 2000 Greeks living in region out of 20 Million
Including number of Turks in region are much more than population of whole Greece
It's a suicide to take 15 million Turks into Greece when you have 10 million Greeks in total, m8.
I live in Istanbul and I've never heard about the East Thrace Independence Movement. It would be really really impossible for them to be independent because they want Istanbul apparently. Istanbul is the biggest city in Turkey if you separate it from Turkey there will be no longer Turkey.
I love these videos!
0:42 I can see what you did there.
@Blocko ^?
?wtf
Remote guys, remote
@@docteurflipus2487 What’s a REMOTE GUY
And Texas want to be independent too
talks about thinks like ingria
wont mention Bavaria to lol
Isn't Bavaria the country that Germany sends its national stereotypes to?
Bom Cabedal basically. Lederhosen, Oktoberfest, pretzels, you name it.
I like the NORTH written by him in skopje
There was a little bit of shade thrown towards california in this video lmao
hahah not really! I love California, and I even think they would eventually manage well as an independent country, they have a lot of 3rd sector businesses that would be able to generate income without depending on other US States. But I think their independence is unlikely
8:36 wouldn’t that just split the city of Instanbul in half? lol
ʕ•̫͡•ʔ DerPoto constantinople*
@@sypan3205 Constantinopel was the old name
So what?
There are crazy People who want to split Jerusalem in two.
And Jerusalem has no huge water strait in the middle.
"Now it's instanbul not constantinopole"
Greeks: Constantinople
Turks: Istanbul
Croatians: Novi Split
Only if There is a cultural difference doesn't Mean They want independents...
I'm watching Quebec now, but I heard people in Hawaii wants to be their own country again. The native feel like the mainland USA is using them simply to grow pineapples and sugar cane. They use to be able to grow all their own food, now they have 90% of their food imported.
0:26 Igria 🇷🇺🇸🇪 is not all that of a possibility. Their people are relatively prosperous.
Pls, talk about Nigeria 🇳🇬 and its possible division , because they got *way more* differences and wider economic divides among regions and local tribes.
Africa in general has way more independence movements than Europe and Northern America.
You forget SOUTH YEMEN
It's de facto independent already
basileus b I was gonna say that, but they have no chance to go back to communism, they aint gonna separate cus they are literally gonna fall... There will be no South Yemen, and United is better than separation. At least make an army that defends Yemen from Saudi air strikes, I am Yemeni, I ain’t gonna call myself a North Yemeni....
@@jgelias4289 Hi Elias, it cant go back to that old communism poor state they had.
yeah maybe yemeni people learn Chinese
@@jgelias4289 google STC south yemen
@@eliasziad7864 nobody in the south wants communism
You forgot : Corsica, New Caledonia, Greenland, Féroé Islands, Tibet, Taïwan, Hong Kong, Macao, North Cyprus, Texas, Cachemire.
Taiwan is independent. Greenland, Faroe Islands, Hong Kong, Macao aren't fully independent but everyone treats them as separate entities. New Caledonia just decided to stay within France not to long ago. North Cyprus is de facto independent but it ain't gonn move any further cuz no one will ever recognize it besides turkey lmao.
Technically speaking Taiwan as it stands now is independent but on paper they are considered part of mainland China. The "native Taiwanese" want total separation from mainland China thus becoming separate countries.