Countries That Were DESTROYED

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▶ In this video I talk about some destroyed countries that no longer exist; either because they were conquered, annexed, or simply failed at fully establishing themselves. I talk about Poyais in the Honduras coastline, the Amelia Island Republic of the Floridas, the Vajjika League in Northern India, the Novgorod Republic in Russia, the Micronation of the Kingdom of Sedang in Vietnam, the Islands of Refreshment in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, the Fante Confederacy in modern-day Ghana, the Corsican Republic in what is today a French island, as well as the Southern Song dynasty (one of China's many imperial rulers) and Tanganyika and Zanzibar which came together to form the modern nation of Tanzania.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:33 Poyais & The Republic of the Floridas
02:19 Vajjika League
04:41 Novgorod Republic
05:55 Kingdom of Sedang
07:10 Islands of Refreshment
08:20 Fante Confederacy
09:41 Corsican Republic
11:11 Southern Song Dynasty
12:45 Tanganyika & Zanzibar
14:04 Summary
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[@General.Knowledge]

*Which other countries were destroyed throughout history?*

[@christophernerf3558]

The Confederate States of America is destroyed, particularly by General Sherman.

[@scratch8229]

joe

[@vittar6058]

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is an interesting topic and how from it's territorial peak in 17th century it was totally conquered by the end of next century

[@joshuawells835]

the Confederate States of America, Gran Colombia, Arab Kingdom of Syria and Iraq, Rhodesia, the various Italian and Germany states prior to unification, Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, the State of Deseret, the Kingdom of Hawaii, etc...

[@mourdebars]

Jaxa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaxa_(state)

[@katholikasetiawan5026]

Gregor MacGregor is possibly the most Scottish name ever

[@Quantamity.]

I am scotish, and my name is Liam McCluskey, also not rlly

[@jussischoemakers4879]

Sorry, but it is a Greek name. 😬

[@LuKing2]

​@@jussischoemakers4879not at all

[@georgeliger5708]

@@LuKing2 look up the greek word for fast

[@konkey-dong]

What about mine?

[@giorgitushishvili8947]

Circassia would be a very interesting one to hear about. Also the tragic history of Hawaii.

[@LuKing2]

Hawaii at least eventually got representation wich is kind of a good ending , Circassia was destroyed in it's entirety and genocided by the Muscovites

[@egialte]

Leonardo da Vinci's mother was almost certainly a circassian slave

[@user-jp3wl4fg2h]

@@LuKing2 lol, by "muscovites") This is how you understand that person doesn`t know history as a science - he uses non-scientific terminology based on myths. Circassians actually got maybe more representation today than Hawaii people. Circassians have now their own "republic" as other national minorities in Russia (though they may be not as independent in their Constitutions is declared they are were culturally different from the rest of Russia, have their rules and almost live in their own world, don`t like visitors, travelers and act like Russian laws don`t apply to them) - "thanks" bolsheviks national policy - this is the main thing that destroyed USSR which was already built by commie ter*orists but what is more worse - is their national policy. Basically, Russians were live worse and treated worse than any (!) other nationality in USSR. No wonder why all (!) of former Soviet republics are literally products of bolsheviks national policy. In Russian Empire there was almost no problem under to many nationalities exist under the rule of Moscow - yes, it was a colonization, but as a European state, Russian Empire was bringing civilization to these territories.

[@nenenindonu]

Destroyed countries that resulted in the extinction of their core ethnos would've been a better concept, for instance Western Xia (Tanguts), Later Zhao (Jie people),...

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Qara Khitai (Khitans), Volga Bulgaria (Bulgars) as well

[@vancedradiator903]

Ethnicities which got assimilated/integrated into larger ones would also be an interesting thing. Vlachs for example, a romance speaking people of the Balkans, who got integrated into Croatian, Serbian and Bosniak identities (perhaps even more then those 3). They adopted Slavic language in the Middle ages.

[@kuroazrem5376]

The Mongols were the prime destroyers of countries. Europeans come in close though.

[@LuKing2]

​@@vancedradiator903were those the Dalmatians or is that another group?

[@yashagrawal88]

Tocharians (Tarim Basin), Zhangzhung (Changthang), Dzungar Oirats (Dzungaria), Andalusians (Iberia), Anatolian groups (Anatolia).

[@stevejohnson3357]

Considering where you started, the list could be endless. Why not the Hittite Empire? But some big ones from Europe are the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, The Venetian Republic and Yugoslavia. Each one has a specific, known, date when they just stopped being.

[@Oskiinus]

the problem with PLC is that you could consider Poland and Lithuania as it's successor states - in a sense it still exists today, the union just broke up.

[@therealusman]

^ same for yugoslavia

[@adduced]

He should do a part two with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, PL commonwealth and more since he did tangabika and Zanzibar

[@CC-re9df]

For everyone interested in gone and forgotten, but also small odd countries and places, I can highly recommend the book 'An Atlas of Extinct Countries' by Gideon Defoe. A informative and funny read for any geography- and historynerds!

[@jutice_boner69-po4nj]

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[@paulrouth5997]

I would be very interested in a video done on the Hanseatic League.

[@hans-rudi-der-letzte]

Yes! 😍 Please do a video about the Hanseatic League. I'm from Lübeck, the "Queen of the Hanse" and former inofficial capital of this commercial confederation. 😊

[@GregMcGregsen]

moin

[@hans-rudi-der-letzte]

@@GregMcGregsen moin

[@General.Knowledge]

Ok!

[@MMerlyn91]

If you care about it, check out Principality of the Pindus. It was an Aromanian state during 1941-1943, founded by Alcibiade Diamandi. The Aromanians tried to proclaim their first state during WW1, an attempt by the same Diamandi, during the so-called Samarina Republic which lasted about 10 days. Both times the Aromanians had the backing of Italians and Romanians. Italians helped them militarily since both attempts were made during Italian occupations and the Romanians have tried to helped Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanians ever since the foundation of the Romanian state. Diamandi even tried to get recognition from Romania by asking the Principality to get under the Romanian Crown's tutelage but Antonescu didn't support him in this.

[@adamlatosinski5475]

Some other little known countries that vanished: 1. Empire of Trebizon. The last remnant of Byzantine Empire, it survived the Fall of Constantinople by several years. 2. Alt Clut, a.k.a. Kingdom of Strathclyde. A kingdom of Britons in today's southern Scotland, which survived Anglo-Saxon conquest and only was ultimately defeated several centuries later. 3. Arelat, a.k.a. Kingdom of Burgundy. Located in today's southeastern France it was one of the kingdoms that emerged from the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. It was eventually incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire. 4. Kingom of Brittany. Founded by the Britons who left Great Britain to avoid being conquerred by Anglo-Saxons, it lasted for centuries until it was incorporated into France. 5. Songhay. An empire in western Africa. It replaced better-known Mali Empire as the most critical state in West Africa. It collapsed after it was defeated by Morocco. 6. Vandal Kingdom. Created by Vandals in Northern Africa during the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, it lasted until the times of Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian and general Belisarius. 7. Khazar Khaganate. An empire centered on Pontic-Caspian Steppe, which was the only major state between the antiquity and modern times that had Judaism as their state religion. And there are also more better known: the Roman Empire itself, Carthage and many other states that Romans conquered, the Mayan, Aztec and Inca empires, Al-Andalus, or Golden Horde.

[@PlaylistProleteriat]

Time for a part two

[@RoderickVI]

Arelat wasn't destroyed, but as you said, incorporated into the Roman Empire, where it continued to exist, until it became Savoy. I'd replace it with the Crown of Aragon, conquered by Castille in 1707-1716 and dissolved, its territories annexed into the Crown of Castille (renamed in 1716 the Crown of Spain). I think it'd be interesting to include that one because most people wrongly think Spain was created in 1474 with the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Elizabeth of Castille, but in reality both Aragon and Castille remained as separate crowns with full independence until 1707.

[@bustavonnutz]

@@RoderickVI Correct, technically speaking though this was a merger of crowns so both Castille & Aragon's crowns ceased to exist in 1716.

[@adamlatosinski5475]

@@RoderickVI I specifically wanted to include a state that wasn't conquered, but vanished in a different way: became a part of something greater and eventually dissolved into it, losing its own identity all the same.

[@adamlatosinski5475]

Another state worth mantioning could be Prussia. Begining as a state of the Teutonic Knights, it eventually formed a union with Brandenburg and became a main state within the German Empire. However after WW2 its lands were lost and nowadays there's no state of Prussia within Germany or elsewhere.

[@annehersey9895]

Definately the Hanseatic league!! I have read about it but putting it in map form with your research would be excellent!

[@sebe2255]

Not really a country you can put on a map. It was basically just a trade federation

[@Siience...s]

Im an Indian but didnt knew about the vajjika league although i did knew about the magadha empire. Thanks for the informative video as always.

[@annehersey9895]

I can't tell exactly by his incomplete map of India but it almost looks like Vajjika League was where Bhutan is today. Does it look like that to you or am I way off?

[@Goofysociety]

​@@annehersey9895 vajjika league was larger than bhutan it consists of more than half of present day bihar and parts of bhutan

[@annehersey9895]

@@Goofysociety Thank you! At least I was in the right Geographic area. It sounded like a very forward thinking group. So many early Democracies that didn't last very long. Makes me wonder about our countries.

[@Goofysociety]

@@annehersey9895 welcome, modern democracy are bearly 200 years old as he said in video vajji league also lasted something around 200 years also greek republics

[@nonexistentboi]

Don't they teach that in 5th or 6th grade?

[@Xadflames]

Funny how you have information on the fante and Ashanti they don't teach us in our Ghanaian schools. Keep up the work 👏

[@ManuITA05]

Part 2 please!! This video is so interesting

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks!

[@ManuITA05]

@@General.Knowledge thank you for your very interesting videos

[@mammuchan8923]

This was fantastic, please do more 👋👋👋👋

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Great video. Congrats

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks!

[@Cubac86]

A Video aboug the hanseativc league would be awesome!

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

How about Ming dynasty, Ottoman Empire, Khwarezmian Empire, Kush Kingdom, Ancient Egypt, Hittites, Hattians, Circassia, Nubia, Naiman Khanate, Qara Khitai, Cumania, Volga Bulgaria, Makuria…

[@GigaChad-ev8qi]

He can't possibly talk about all of those countries in one video

[@Munchausenification]

@@GigaChad-ev8qi I would say this is a much better list of countries that no longer exist than the one chosen. Maybe not Ming dynasty, ancient Egypt or Ottoman empire, there are enough videos on those.

[@slook7094]

I don't think Chinese dynasties really count as destroyed countries. It's all still China, it's just the rulers that change, no different than switching from the House of Hanover to the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

[@Yes-qj4bi]

Finally I can learn about Poyais Obrigado

[@AhimtarHoN]

No mention of Carthage / Punic empire? Really odd, they are the first example I thought of here

[@victorviterbo3952]

I would love to see a video about the Hanseatic league!

[@nsk660]

Thanks for mentioning about vajjika league .

[@Xadflames]

I don't know if British Togoland was a country or not but in 1957 through the independence act it was merged with Ghana (then gold coast) in order to achieve independence alongside Ghana

[@nuclearwinter21]

My ancestors used to live in the Kingdom of Pangasinan in the northern part of The Philippine Islands. When the Spaniards conquered the whole Philippine Islands, they integrated the newly independent Kingdom of Pangasinan back into The Philippine Islands. :3

[@jasper3124]

Friesland i think was a country but its now a Province in the Netherlands

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

East Frisia is also a good example

[@TheDarkCeratosaurus]

​@@GwainSagaFanChanneleast frisia is in germany, no?

[@StuTun]

It would be interesting to see a video about the Hanseatic League.

[@kalebwieland4938]

This list mostly covered countries that were either ideas for countries, or propaganda money-making schemes than nations that were actually destroyed. Other than a few examples like the Fante confederacy, I'm thinking about countries that are actually destroyed much like the Mayan Empire, or even the traditional Maori tribes on the north island (it's not a (recognized) country, but a comparable example).

[@insertobject4002]

>Mayan Empire lmao

[@sebe2255]

Novgorod was absolutely a functional state

[@user-HMKMat]

Never knew about the Sedang Kingdom and I love it

[@LadyNeravin]

A video about Die Hanse would be very interesting!

[@remcodevrieze1922]

A video on the Hanze would be a great idea indeed

[@julain3012]

I would be very interested in a video over the hanseatic league

[@Ethanthegreat2]

To people who enjoyed this video, I suggest the book the atlas of extinct countries it has a chapter on a lot of different countries that don’t exist anymore, and I have this book and I would recommend it to anyone willing to read it

[@giorgilabadze1]

Definitely make one about hen Hanseatic league it was one of the most developed op league for some time. Very rich

[@Lapantouflemagic0]

french here : the corsican nationalist like to pretend that their republic was so much more modern than backward france because they allowed women to vote, but that is kind of a stretch. basically it was a sort of clanic society, and women could only vote if they were widowed or something, the gist being that if you need and adult to talk on behalf on your household and no man is around, yeah a woman can vote instead. That's not bad, but not nearly as advanced as they pretend nor as uncommon.

[@ryanwinters9375]

You should do a video on countries that were destroyed and then later reformed

[@93juan]

11:27 wow a +10.000 years dinasty 😮

[@josueveguilla9069]

Gregor MacGregor? The Infographics Show also have a video about the topic.

[@pacogonzales2028]

How about the Republic of the Rio Grande...a short lived nation consisting of Texas, and the Northern Mexican States of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulippas for a few months in 1820s. Capital was in Laredo. There is a museum in Laredo dedicated to it.

[@zaidatimash713]

Carthage is a good example of a nation that was DESTROYED

[@B3Band]

City*

[@cram8242]

@@B3Band bro no it had half of Iberia and half Sicily and all of northern Africa at its heights

[@estebanmorales6487]

I really hoped you would mention Tawantinsuyo, the empire that was ruled by the Incas and destroyed and annexed by the Spanish conquistadors, or at least Tenochtitlan, the Aztec empire

[@prussiansoup]

Poland : those are rookie numbers you gotta pump these up !

[@kaeganlagerquist1694]

Make the Hanseatic league video please

[@ChippyMapping]

what was the music used at the beginning?

[@domundtgregor6683]

# 5 Islands of Refreshment I like their flag very much !

[@Ominous_Walrus]

Hey, the vajjika league is in Nepal. Malla and licchaavi were some of the most famous dynasties.

[@Kurogane-san]

Make a video about the Hanseatic League please.

[@ralfhtg1056]

Wondering why you left out the GDR?

[@IgobyOwen]

Please take a look at Champa, a kingdom that once controlled maritime trade in the Southeast Asia region.

[@johnhemphill1938]

The story of Seborga is interesting because it wasn't destroyed as much as it was forgotten. Another country that was destroyed was Sikkim.

[@GolemDude]

Can you make one of countries that would be on this list but have since started existing again like Poland or Ireland

[@alonsomartinez908]

Napoleon (Genovese roots) born at Corsica in 1769, while Corsica stopped being a Republic in 1769, what a coincidence.

[@antoniousai1989]

Napoleon wasn't Genovese, he was Corsican. He spoke Corsican natively, which is a dialect that comes from Tuscany and not from Liguria.

[@diegone080]

*napoleone

[@alonsomartinez908]

@@diegone080 *Napoleone

[@diegone080]

@@alonsomartinez908 yes but i meant thay his real name is Napoleone

[@newenglandexpansionistsoci2613]

Where is Prussia? Is he safe? Is he all right?

[@Dr_Pepper.ANIMATIONS]

Hey bro can tell you something well I want to start a country when I’m 20 I’m 10 btw and it’s located on a small island I need to learn how to expand so you know a lot about country’s you can help right?

[@BurningMagma]

11:27 Looks like the Yuan Dynasty lasted for 12,089 years. Now THAT'S impressive.

[@slook7094]

You can't really say Poyais was a country that was destroyed when it never existed in the first place.

[@egehan9783]

Do the "provisional government of western thrace" and "republic of kars"

[@pierreabbat6157]

What was music like in the Song Empire?

[@monterrang1]

ah yes, the Yuan dynasty (1279-13368)

[@andkru]

lol

[@AIeksejs]

Frisia/Magna Frisia would be fun. It was a bufferstate between Viking ruled Denmark and Charmlemains France

[@sebe2255]

It wasn’t really a buffer state when it was actually independent and not ruled by the Franks (not French). It was just a pagan Germanic kingdom, just like the Danes

[@hartenpiongribondu]

I had a bad day, then a chad with 800k subscribers made a video with corsica. Thanks dude

[@arthurheidt6373]

Countries can't be Destroyer but the Capital Market can be changed by violently eradicating competitors

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Major nations destroyed by the Mongols ; -Jin(Tungusic) -Khwarezmids(Turkic) -Souther Song(Sinitic) -Kara Khitais(Khitanic) -Cumania(Turkic) -Kievan Rus(Germanic and Slavic) -Seljuk Rum(Turkic) -Abbasids(Arabic) -Western Xia(Qiangic) -Volga Bulgaria(Turkic)

[@slook7094]

The Khwarezmids were culturally Persian. Khitans were also Para-Mongolic. Western Xia was Tangut.

[@maksim05makarov]

Germanic in Kievan Rus? And there were still a lot of Finns there.

[@slook7094]

@@maksim05makarov The original Rus were vikings.

[@scarymonster5541]

​@@maksim05makarov the arabs called the vikings as rus (روس)

[@5l2237]

you should talk about the heavenly kingdom of great peace, its so cool. it was a chinese christian absolute monarchy that tried to overthrow the qing dynasty, its king claimed to be the younger brother of jesus

[@notsure1277]

Recommendations: Palmares and Counani, both were in what is today Brasil.

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

As an American, watching this video makes me depressed that I have never got to learn about the history of the world because my country has always been focused on our own local geography, history, and accomplishments, and it's all just lies, lies, lies. Keep making false narratives about the rest of the world, too. The focus has changed on our education. It isn't about educating students, it's always teaching them how to think critically, and more about universal standards, conforming, and discipline. Besides, I love learning new things about the world and I find them useful. I am thankful for this channel and it helps me keep learning and learning. Never give up!

[@stev4479]

Corsica lives!

[@sydhenderson6753]

Caption translates "Fante Confederacy" as "Phantom Confederacy" which sounds cooler.

[@NovikNikolovic]

You forgot to mention Champa

[@genehawkridge1919]

There are many. Republic of the Rio Grande, Republic of West Florida, and the never quite real Kimgdom of Breckenridge (in Colorado).

[@filippocassano9753]

In zanzibar also popolation composition was change after the unification by estermination of arabs end emigration from the continet

[@seyahatdelisilenurbey]

Please make a video about the Golden Horde and it’s successor Khanates.

[@c.j.sheehan2734]

hanseatic please!

[@qapra]

Off the top of my head there's also Assyria Mitanni and Urartu.

[@user-ny9vd8rw7i]

The unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964 shouldn't be on tle list. It wasn't a country destruction but a peaceful merge of two political entities.

[@nex6939]

There should be a song about Song

[@mertkutlu]

Hatay State was another country that vanished. It was under French Mandate of Syria, later transformed into Hatay Province of Turkey.

[@fredericlatreille]

I would've added Western Sahara, Somaliland and Biafra, but I guess I would've "messed" with your algorithm ;) ... There could also be a "many times" discussion about Poland before 1991.

[@trismica]

cool

[@jhaarbur]

Countries that have been destroyed (no particular order): 1. Zululand 2. Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine (lasted literally 1 day) 3. Ancient Israel and Judah 4. Republic of Pirates 5. Kingdom of Hawaii 6, State of Muskogee 7. Tawantinsuyu (Inca Empire) 8. Triple Alliance (Aztec Empire) 9. Iroquois Confederacy 10. Urartu/Kingdom of Van

[@suevialania]

Corsica! Imperialism is not just a Putin's Rússia ideology! 😢

[@Markus_Abrach]

TANganyika and ZANzibar is for me very similar to CZECHoSLOVAKIA in Europe

[@mishapurser4439]

The Brigantian Federation and the Kingdom of Northumbria are two countries that were destroyed which held approximately the same territory in the Iron Age and the Early Medieval Period respectively.

[@kuroazrem5376]

Also, the Mongols literally destroyed the foundations of the Song by killing millions and destroying their infrastructure. The same applies for the Khwaresmian Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate.

[@ac1455]

Mongol “try not to kill tens of millions and destroy centuries of advancement” challenge, hard

[@pedrogonzalocaballerotorre409]

You forget German Democratic Republic, Popular Democratic Republic of Aden, Republic of Vietnam (South), Confederate States of América, Federative Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, Socialist Republic of Checoslovaquia , and the most bigger: Soviet Union. Thanks for a vídeo.

[@sebe2255]

There are thousands of examples

[@ILiekTrains2024]

I clicked on this videoand got a Corsica ad?!?!

[@lightsinthedarkness]

In the word Veche, the e in the end is pronounced. But you should read it as é.

[@stillr17]

Being from Florida, I knew Amerlia Island called itself the "Isle of 8 flags" and I never could find out what the last flag was, and you did! Thank you for discovering the Republic of the Floridas!

[@magicalworld3181]

Do a video on if Italy breaks up

[@Haradin32]

how about the Mamluk Sultinate, destroyed by the Ottoman empire.

[@Portomat]

You can say Something about Dacia or Wallackya

[@RealSonofGod69]

2:27 North East South-Asia

[@as14j]

If you want to do the 2nd part, you'll find that the list is so long 10 videos can't cover all of them.

[@michalzarecky1546]

Hello!

[@reddykilowatt]

If you are on an Island of Refreshement reach for a Fanta confederacy. 🥤

[@schlitzkreig]

Have you ever researched the Kingdom of Hanover?

[@lukasrentz3238]

Or in general the many Counties, Duchies, Free Cities, Kingdoms, Principalties ... which became Germany. Some were never of much importance (random pick: County of Falkenstein), other played a huge Role and their legacy lives on until today (like Prussia or Bavaria), other never reached again their importance they had once (Electorate of Mainz) and others have weird stories attached to them like the attemped colonisation of today´s french guyana, brazil and suriname by the County of Hanau.

[@stephanezanovello2997]

Yugoslavia, would be intresting

[@Erad_Prime]

Brittany and Byzantium are interesting countries too.

[@sguzzy1973]

Byzantium? do you mean the Eastern Roman Empire? because Byzantium doesn't exist is a term used by historians in modern times... they called each other Romans and for all the rest of the world they were Romans

[@Erad_Prime]

@@sguzzy1973 Yes I know that. That's what I meant. Just wanted to use one word instead of three.

[@llabavi367]

What if corsica stayed independent would be a very interesting scenario

[@gontrandjojo9747]

If the French didn't conquer the island, then it would have been conquered by Piedmond-Sardinia during the Risorgimento.

[@llabavi367]

@@gontrandjojo9747 okay I don't really now about that part but it possibly take out Napoleon from history

[@supersueca1]

Shouldn´t the Independent Republic of Texas (1836-1846) be mentioned here?

[@eggmanrobotnik2449]

It was actually the Grðmzanic who invented gunpowder