Which other territorial disputes should I talk about?

I love how Germany is staying out of it like “we’re not doing that again”

UN: "ok Turkey and Greece what is your dispute about?" Turkey and Greece: "everything!!"

That Russia - Ukraine section sure hasn't aged too well

Two months later and one of those border conflicts has turned into a real conflict.

You kinda of missed the whole Cyprus-Turkey thing, but good video, caralho!

We wouldn’t have disputes if the Republic of Korea didn’t exist

“Armenia and Azerbaijan have a dispute” *Checks news* Yep

The UK: thank you for being part of our territory Rockall: I'm literally a rock

"Territory; each country in the world has it." Me: Except for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta...

12:21 "Europe has been at peace now." Well that didn't end well...

"...the islands of Imia and Kardak..." "Imia" and "Kardak" are the same island. It's called "Imia" in Greek, and "Kardak" in Turkish.

Netherlands: Mine. Germany: Mine. Netherlands and Germany: Ours.

It's not entirely in Europe, but Denmark has a border disagreement with Canada: half way between Greenland (part of Denmark) and Ellesmere Island (part of Canada) is Hans Island. Both Canada and Denmark claim this island. And the dispute over the island is ongoing, with shots fired at irregular intervals. But shots are "fired" in a rather untraditional way: both countries every now and then have their respective navy visit the island, and hoist their own flag on the flagpole on the island. They thus remove the flag of the other country. They also remove the bottle of alcohol the other country has left, and leave a bottle of their own country's alcohol! So in this border dispute, shots are not fired but drunk!

Middle east: Land dispute over holy Lands Europe: Land dispute over a rock Edit: Thanks for liking my stupid comment, cheers

10:48 That didnt aged too well

The Balkans:" Europe's favorite conflict area" *angry balkan noises

You should add: Transnistria - moldova vs russia

With Rockall, who ever claims it gets to increase their fishing territories. That's it really its as sad and as simple as the Rock itself...

Yes Welcome to comment section,where everbody is a war General and a historian.

Here in Romania we have 2 big problems. 1/3 of Romania "Transylvania" was once held by the Hungarians and now the Magyars decedents ask for independence/reuniting with Hungary . Also Romania and Moldavian republic have people on both sides asking to be united but political interests and Russian interest want to keep Moldavia separated. Even further then Moldovia, some Romanians ask for Bessarabia and a part of Bulgaria

Olivenza: Discussed here Every hoi4 ppl who played as Monarchist Portugal: I've seen this one, its a classic

2:08 “Downfall of Napoleon” Wait… they made a movie for that too? Why haven’t I ever seen a Napoleon Rants video parody?!

7:10 *laughs nervously in 2022*

This reminds me of my paternal Grandmother's family... growing up, I was always told they came from Denmark... BUT... It turns out the town they were from was part of (In date order from about 1600) :~ 1600 Denmark :~ 1620 Germany (although Germany didn't exist, they were part of one of the principalities that eventually formed Germany) :~ 1660 Denmark :~ 1690 Germany :~ 1715 Denmark :~ 1735 Germany :~ 1745 Denmark :~ 1760 Germany :~ 1780 Denmark :~ 1800 Germany :~ 1825 Denmark :~ 1845 Germany :~ 1865 Denmark :~ 1875 Germany :~ 1895 Denmark : 1919 Germany : 1945 Denmark So are they Danish? or German? It all depends on which decade of which century you're talking about

In case you plan to make a part 2, you should include the disputes between Switzerland, Austria and Germany about Lake Constance/Bodensee. Tom Scott made a short video about it as well.

Cool video! And, yes, please do more videos on this subject with examples from other parts of the world.

Sea: The border where I begin is... Netherlands: Who decided that?

"definitely not worth fighting over" Well...this video did not age well in the Caucuses

*territory, every country has it.* cries in sovereign military order of malta

10:30 as a dutch person I feel obliged to point out how unrealistic Germanys claims are compared to ours. We want to share halves and they want to claim the entire bay?

I have another one: Lake Constance. Switzerland says it should be split in the middle. Austria says it should be managed together Germany says the countries can just resolve any situation individually when it happens.

Another good video. Short and sweet and informative. FYI at 05:20 Carlingford Lough (Lough) is pronounced Loch.

Finally they remembered the Estonian dispute. So many maps don't have it.

The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland territory dispute isn’t that big of a deal since there is no formal border between the two countries, as agreed in the Good Friday Agreement. There were plenty of buildings that were half in Ireland half in N. Ireland so the border was agreed as a general outline and you can cross the border easily without a passport.

thanks for making this it has helped me understand the book I am reading at the moment " the sleep walkers " It is about the build up to the first world war going back nearly a century before the war started. keep up the good work

There'a one "dispute" between Latvia and Lithuania - the sea border dispute. Basically they don't fully agree how to draw the straight line from the land border into the sea, because of oil (or possible oil) in that sea territory. There have been attempts to settle it, but none were complete. It's so minor that I can't even find a picture online. It was present in some Lithuanian school textbook I think :D

Hello @General Knowledge, Hawaii is growing 42 acres per year. A cool video idea will be explaining how big Hawaii will be by the next 1000 years.

In French school they teach us that Mont Blanc sommet is share between France and Italy.

There’s actually a really good video on YT about Rockall (I forget who by) and it explains that a lot of its importance at least in the eyes of the UK, stems from the Cold War. We wanted to put communications systems or something there, but as it wasn’t claimed, it could have caused a serious situation. So, we went to great lengths to legitimise our claim. We planted a flag, had people stay on it for a bit in a tent. All sorts.

Apart from the (as others pointed out) Cyprus-Turkey dispute, you're also missing Transnistria-Moldova. It's highly militarised and Russia also has some bases there.

*I’m looking forward to watch your next video.*

I think you missed on of the biggest: The Cyprus and Turkey conflict regardin the north of Cyprus

Thank You for this informative video 😊

Very enjoyable video, pal!

For the Aegean Sea's dispute at 6:50 , remember that gas and oil reserves are expected in those waters.. you get similar disputes about sovereignty on sea waters between Palestine/Israel/Lebanon in the Levant. those newly discovered commodities re-ignating old rivalries.

You forgot the worst disuptes of them all, an old Finnish man claiming the neighbour is too close to their house.

4:17 a country’s naval zone of control is designated as 12 nautical miles from their coastline in every direction, along with another 12 miles of enforcement zone. This means Rockall adds 452 square nautical miles of sea territory to whoever might control it.

"Carlingford Low" Lock is fine, but you're supposed to half choke / half growl on it. It's a similar pronunciation to Loch Ness.

One more dispute/ historic dispute is Finland and Russia over Karelia.

The only serious dispute in the Balkans is between Serbia and Kosovo, but it is not only about land dispute so it probably doesn't fit into this category because the story is much more complicated. And probably Greece and Turkey, but that is more about geopolitics than about land dispute. All other disputes are about tiny pieces of land or regulations arund land use, transportation etc... But not a big deal.

I'd love to see you cover Cyprus and perhaps Transylvania, although the latter is not an actively disputed territory. Yet it's history the past 100 years is a very complex and interesting one.

"territory, all countries have it" Order of malta: am i joke to you?

The Caucus disputes, The Balkans, The Aegean & the Ukraine disputes could flare into war, but the other are more historical curiosities.

Thank you for including Rockall in your video. The dispute is, as you state, not about the rock itself but about the continental shelf west of Rockall which gives the country that claims it the exclusive rights of natural resources under it, including oil and gas. The continental shelf in this area is separated from the continental shelf of Ireland and UK but continuous with the continental shelf of Iceland and Faroe Islands. The governments of UK and Ireland, however, claim it based on their claim to Rockall since Rockall is located on the disputed continental shelf. In economic terms, this dispute might therefor be the biggest dispute of them all. In the last 100 years, Iceland has once been occupied by the UK (May, 10th 1940) and the countries have also had series of confrontations, so called Cod Wars. Each of the disputes ended with an Icelandic victory.

Mad respect to Portugal for not giving up their friendship with Britain just cuz some short person said to. Love to Portugal from America!

Now that the Balkans have been discussed, let's move to a slightly less contentious area of the globe: The South China Sea :)

I’m going to be honest, I laughed at his pronunciation of Lough.

Don't forget the Liechtenstein vs Czech Republic. It's literally about Liechteinsteiner royal family wanting back it's feudal lands from the Habsburg era. It still remains unresolved, but given that the royal family alone is wealthier than the Czech state, and that Czechia has such a bad diplorep, It is possible they gain it back.

Also, on the Greek-Turkish dispute: In 1975 the Turkish army formed the "Ege Ordusu" (Aegean Army), headquartered in Izmir and covering the entire west coast of the Anatolia Peninsula. Up to that moment Greek islands in the Aegean Sea were not militarized. However, repeated military exercises performed by the Ege Orsudu, during which Turkish forces violated Greek airspace, triggered a response by the Greek State setting defense military posts across the Aegean islands in view of this "clear and present danger". This was a lawful step and had been executed under the provision of, and in accordance to Art. 51 of the UN Chart, where any member state retains "...the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence".

"Some are big, some are small." British Empire: _Am I a joke to you-_

Please do Asia and America. I love these type of videos!

8:34 So, my Croatia crush a world record.

There are 3 more places which Portugal can claim from Spain, but they are not so much relevant as the area of Olivença. In these 4 places the portuguese borders specialists do not mark any kind of bordering signals. The flag of Ceuta also uses the traditional portuguese background city flags.

You know what- I respect you for having the guts to mention the Balkans,, Edit; if you want to, after other continents, i'd love to see a part 2!👍

The controversial topic of disputes, so interesting, on the same time, for other people not so pleasant

There are no islands of "Undeclared Sovereignety" in the Aegean sea. According to the Treaty of Lausanne, all the islands in the archepelago over 3 miles from the Turkish coast belong to Greece (except Imvros and Tenedos).

Who else watching in 2022 💥😐?

Spain does NOT recognize British sovereignty over Gibraltar, nor does the UN, which considers it a colony in need of decolonization. There's indeed a secondary issue on the border, because Britain occupied the neutral zone, but Spain only recognizes the "ownership" of Gibraltar by the Crown of Britain under Spanish sovereignty (as those are the terms of the treaty of some 300 years ago). As such Spain does not either recognizes that Gibraltar has territorial waters of its own either.

Monte bianco (mont blanc) is part of both italy and france

You cannot fit them all in one video about Europe. Another great video. Thank you.

9:54 If I am not wrong, the Mont Blanc is actiually the highest mountain in europ, not the second highest Edit: turns out I was wrong. Sorry

You forgot the South Tyrol thing but maybe it's too small to mention it. Nonthless great video

You should have mentioned that France is the country with more unique territorial disputes (because biggest territorial contiguous dispute by landmass/water surface is another one ejem Kashmir ejem) And also it was pretty interesting to see the War of the Pacific conflict as example XDDD, considering the city where I live, Iquique, was shown in a video yaaay aksjsk

Switzerland also has a border dispute with italy over a bit of mountain and a mountain hut with a restaurant which is italian right now

You missed Pytalovo/Abrene region dispute. Also, the Baltic sea dispute between Latvia and Lithuania that just got resolved last summer.

When you were talking about Portugal and the napoleonic wars, they did manage to hold on to europe kind of. There were 3 Invasions, first 2 were quickly repeled, and the 3rd was successful, however the british troops, along with the remainder of portuguese forces, managed to retake the country. Its very interesting, i suggest you to look it up!

What about Northern Flanders and Southern Flanders? ( Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and Frans-Vlaanderen) Between Belgium and Holland and Belgium and France? (old historical borders of the duchy of Flanders)

general knowlegde : fortunalty, most of the ines we saw are disputes that exist peacefully *2 months later* *literally turned into a real conflict*

"We claim ownership of Rockall....on which there is F*ckall."

When you do the North American Continent, don't forget the world's most civilised dispute between Canada & Denmark over an uninhabitable island in the Baffin Sea between Nunavut Territory (Canada) and Greenland (Denmark)

These disputes have all kinds of reasons to exist, but let's all agree in one thing: *Olivença belongs to Portugal*

All four of the five Balkan disputes noted in the main graphic include Croatia 8:52.

Great video. Sober narration. Nice!

Interesting. I'm Danish and have never heard that we (though on behalf of the Faroese) have laid claim on Rockwall Island

The "conflict" about the borders in Lake Constance is also somewhat amusing

Weird that there was a tint to some areas. I guess the use of a sleight of hand is good for general knowledge!!

man, i didnt even think that you would slip in the rock like that. really caught me off guard haha. didnt see it coming. thanks for that. lol

You are wrong about Greece and turkey. Those islands are clearly given to one or the other in the treaty of Lausanne

A comment on the Greek-Turkish "dispute" section: Article 12 of the Treaty of Lausanne stipulates that "...Except where a provision to the contrary is contained in the present Treaty, the islands situated at less than three miles from the Asiatic coast remain under Turkish sovereignty." In the absence of any such provision for the islands of Imia/Kardak and since they are beyond the 3 mile limit, this matter is not to be considered part of any territorial dispute.

UN: So Spain do you want Gibraltar? Spain: Yes UN: So you recognise that you own it yes? Spain: Well… about that

dispute between russia and ukraine has aged well...

Abkhazia and South Ossetia are, like the issue with Nagorno-Karabakh, Crimea and several disputes in Central Asia basically a result of the Soviet Union never planning to disband. The USSR had no incentives to consider peoples' will, any kind of "justice", ethno-cultural-linguistic logic etc, it was all purely political and quite cynical. And that approach backfired badly once it fell apart. When it did fall apart, all kinds of shitty border drawing became hot issues. The collapse of the USSR made the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic an independent country, and according to how the borders were drawn in the wake of that, the autonomous South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast became part of Georgia while the Soviet Socialist Republic of North Ossetia became part of the Russian Federation. Then the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Republic also became part of Georgia, and shitloads of fighting broke out in the 1990s over this. Regardless, neither region has ever been controlled by the modern, independent country of Georgia - they've been de facto independent since the early 1990's, since the rest of the Georgian SSR became independent... And since the brief 2008 conflict these two regions are more or less satellite statelets of the Russian Federation (which doesn't claim the regions, but officially endorses their sovereignty and uses it as an excuse to base military there). A third region also went nuts after the USSR collapse, Adjara, but Tbilisi rapidly regained control there, and the brief insurgency seemed to be mostly ex-Soviet military going rogue without any particular basis in ethnolinguistic differences unlike the other two. Crimea was randomly included in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1950's (having been part of Russia since the late 1700's, and part of the Russian RSFSR under Soviet rule for quite a while), and subsequently ended up under Ukrainian control post-Soviet collapse, but remained majority Russian and strongly Russia-leaning. Nagorno-Karabakh ("Artsakh") had been majority Armenian since time immemorial but was fought over by Azerbaijan even before the Soviet Union existed, I have newspaper clippings from freaking 1905 that could just as well be about the current conflict! Eventually, however, it was included into the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic after the Soviet invasion and Stalins new border-drawing frenzy, according to many because he saw a chance there to dilute the ethnic/cultural make-up of the Azerbaijani SSR to make it less coherent, making it easier to deal with. When the USSR fell apart, and Artsakh remained within the internationally recognized national border of the newly independent Azerbaijan, the fighting resumed and a bloody war was fought in the 1990s. Now, as we all know, the fighting has resumed, in 2020. There is so much of this post-Soviet chaotic crap it beggars belief. The situation with Moldova, and how it relates to Romania and Transnistria is another thing that has its roots in how the collapsing Russian Empire was carved up, how the Soviet Union re-took the territories and created random new internal Soviet Socialist Republic borders, and how the Soviet Union eventually fell apart and these borders became recognized, in spite of how illogical they often were. Cue conflict, if not immediately (as we saw all over the place in the 1990's) then eventually, as we've seen here and there now in the past 10 years.

woop there went the decades long peace

I love your content I just wanted to tell you tho at around 5:25 you miss pronounced Lough it’s pronounced ‘lock’ something to do with the Irish language

Definitely make some of these!

carlingford lough as in lock

To the Rockall-Dispute: Around this little Rock there is estimated to be a big oil- and gas-field. So the owner of the Rock owns the sea around it and therefore the oil and gas. Also there is one of Europes biggest and most lucrative fishinggrounds around Rockall.

4:53 "The British and the Irish signed an agreement which literally just ignores the existence of The Rock" That made me laugh :DD

5:00 fastest way to solve that dispute is to just bomb the rock till it's no longer visible