Why is Luxembourg a country? - History of Luxembourg in 11 Minutes

[@eaglemars6123]

Luxembourg was the cushion between cultural borders in the area. This is the old reason. The modern reason is that we always need a safe place to store wealth with mininum taxation

[@ahmedrizk300]

I mean, can one not do the same in Switzerland? Or is there somehow even less taxes in Luxembourg?

[@eaglemars6123]

@@ahmedrizk300 you need diversified destinations. Switzerland alone is not enough.

[@lxi9648]

Nope, the cultural border only came to be there because the French kept pushing into the Imperial German border for half a thousand years

[@ryhanzfx1641]

Lol

[@gogumadalpaengi]

For companies, that does work out. As a person, not so much.

[@elfalla5826]

If there is something to be thankful for in my life as an immigrant, it is this beautiful country and its people. God bless Luxembourg and thank you from the heart for existing.

[@Myriam-nk2fw]

We are happy to have been able to give you a happy place to live in :)

[@ulviyyaahmadova245]

Agree with you ☺️🙏

[@g3n3ralkim23]

Cheers m8

[@flowerpower6216]

If only immigrants could show more respect to their guest countries and stop making it about their religion which does not fit in the west😠😠

[@thekujo1984]

Louxembourgish people are most arrogant people I have ever seen bro.They turn their face to other side when they see an immigrant.What da f are u talking about bro.

[@flopunkt3665]

Fun fact: Belgium's got a province called Luxembourg which is larger than the country Luxembourg.

[@marceloorellana5726]

Because it was taken from Luxembourg. 🤦🏼

[@wafelswafels8613]

@@marceloorellana5726 Luxembourg didn't exist then. It was an agreement between the dutch and belgians bc they wanted independence and thats how they got that part of Luxembourg.

[@Tethloach1]

holy molly.

[@tendertackle669]

​@@wafelswafels8613incorrect.

[@wafelswafels8613]

@@tendertackle669 Adter the belgian revolution one part of luxemburg went to belgium (the more french part) and the other one stayed to the netherlands but then luxemburg gained its independence. Whe the other part of luxemburg stayed was bc of the language i think.

[@luxy9530]

Luxembourg didn’t join the EU, UN and Nato at some point - the country was a founding member off these 3 entities. You really understated their desire to be independent and neutral by not mentioning this Otherwise good video👍

[@ShadowMajestic]

They are also part of the BENELUX, which was in some aspects a precursor to the EU.

[@r.a.2145]

Reminds me of Switzerland! 🇱🇺🇨🇭

[@FoxyVulpes]

Luxembourg was one of the creator of the EU. (as before, BENELUX - wich is a sorf of precursor of the EU) - also: the "Schengen Agreement" (I'm a luxembourger!)

[@TheFriscoblade]

A true fact about Luxembourg is now kid friendly it is . The legal alcohol drinking age in bars is 16 . Fair play to them

[@Seba_ntn]

@@TheFriscoblade same goes for Belgium, you can order/buy alcohol (excluding spirits) from the age of 16

[@adude8424]

Everyday I wake up asking this myself

[@lisamueller1835]

Ja dann NET an der Schoul opgepasst

[@sergiogomes4637]

Genre ass eicht keier wou ech lxb op comentarer gesin

[@takimuserio5776]

Genial

[@oliveradams1555]

WHY!? Why is Luxembourg?!?

[@binzulost5369]

@@Vanko2727 gei mol nees an d'Schoul

[@Saygex45]

Everyone wanted it so they decided that no one can have it.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Good thing right?

[@applez4life200]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 take that damn o out of your name.

[@eddydrouet1888]

@@applez4life200 ??

[@AlexanderAardema]

In that case you should read about Neutral Moresnet. Would make a great video as well I think! In this case two wanted it, so they shared it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet

[@BlackHawk2b]

@@applez4life200 Non

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Why is Luxembourg a country? Because we said so

[@Ali-gt8wj]

hi justin y

[@nuntasuop8211]

Bruh

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Yep

[@DoubleBourbonBaconCheeseBurger]

You again, hi Avery

[@lucmeyer4012]

🇪🇺 😍🎉

[@MartinMizner]

If you were in West Europe your power was determined by: - having colonies - having industry - owning banks You see whitch way Luxemburg has decided to go.

[@Cecil_Augus]

Also as a small country its easier for wealth people to influence over the government. So banks and millionaires approve this state a LOT.

[@JuniorJuni070]

No. Because the prussians Never had a colony yet They were the strongest and Most desciplined army in europe. I know because i am west european Frisian. Which is germanic. Its a german thing. Or dutxh.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Heck yeah.

[@OPTSXFilosoofis]

@@JuniorJuni070 Most frysian that still consider them frysian live in the Netherlands. But there are some in germany and denmark

[@adude8424]

@@JuniorJuni070 >That profile picture You sure you're a european?

[@CritKhan]

Why is Luxembourg a country? Netherlands, France, Germany.-"Good question!"

[@aminaramzan6312]

I think you mean Belgium not Netherlands because luxem bourg does not have a border with Netherlands

[@iskambillordu]

Tomorrows news:Luxemburg being eaten!

[@MChagall]

@@aminaramzan6312 Belgium doesn't exist. I guess you mean Southern Netherlands. 😇

[@edipires15]

@@MChagall I think he means western Luxembourg 😅

[@FF-qp4xq]

@@aminaramzan6312 Belgium didnt exist before 1830, so he mean Netherlands

[@RNAxRibose]

anyone from luxembourg here🇱🇺 gudde moien : D

[@g.s.8393]

Gudde moien!

[@alexandrezito1270]

Moien! :DD

[@edipires15]

Moien 😃

[@Spykezirkov]

owend! 😅

[@axisboss1654]

Sounds very Platt then again Luxemburg is part of the same dialect group as the Northern Rhineland

[@patrickbuchler686]

My dad is from Luxemburg. Belgium, the netherlands and Luxemburg formed the first experiment of the European union, called the Benelux.

[@RogerVerhiest]

A little known fact : the Benelux was from the beginning such a succes Italy and France wanted to join and create the "Fritalux" the reason that specially the Brits consider the European Continent as "the Belgian Empire"

[@-Kc1937-]

@@RogerVerhiest waffler. No Englisch consider it this

[@faramund9865]

Wat een fout was dat zeg.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No it wad owned by Jack Benny so that's why they called it Benny s Lux

[@god6384]

@@RogerVerhiest the waffle empire

[@Drrolfski]

You missed the part where Luxembourg got rid of its Dutch head of state in 1890 because its old Salic Laws of Succession excluded female heirs to the throne (in this case Dutch queen Wilhelmina).

[@reuterromain1054]

Yes and then we put two women on the throne.

[@steelmercenarytheodor4929]

Next: Why is Liechtenstein a country?

[@georgesterpis5700]

Andorra, San Marino too.

[@Lingist081]

Holy Roman Empire

[@axisboss1654]

It like Luxemburg is a small Germanic Kingdom that managed to survive until today

[@Lingist081]

@@axisboss1654 Well a Duchy actually not a kingdom but yeah basically. Most of the native Luxembourgers are Frankish.

[@axisboss1654]

@@Lingist081 Frankish is Germanic

[@joelincz8314]

Luxembourg was strategically very important. And mentioned in the comments the major countries in Europe didn't allow another country to own it. When it was decided to be independent after Napoleon I believe it was also decided to break down all fortifications to make it less threatening in future conflicts.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Correct.

[@FBRR2]

The RED BRIDGE and Um Bock

[@marinarosario8855]

"Because no other empire can have nice things"

[@nikzad2167]

Wrrrong...luxembourg is a country because the European powers know that they can never accept one of the others take it!

[@nikzad2167]

I didn't know about Skopje. 4000 BC...!!

[@nikzad2167]

It's no surprise that the Luxembourgers let half of the "country" go

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@nikzad2167 😂

[@relexrelex1919]

@@nikzad2167 americans should think about doing the same...

[@grungeguy97]

So "more or less simply a product of its environment and circumstances, including its position between Germans and French." I don't see the contradiction

[@lucinae8512]

Why did Europe let Luxembourg exist? Same reason as Belgium: neutrality could stop European Wars! *It didn't work and both were in WW1 & 2* , but annexing countries and territories today is frowned upon!

[@jacobjones4766]

Yes. The 150 man army that stood against a German tank divison. The luxembourgush army and gendarmeries killed a few German scouts, the rest of the army that wernt in the few soldiers on the border line, surrendered in their barracks after a short firefight. Then the focus was on evacuating the dutchess to France. The invasion of Luxembourg only lasted hours

[@pontiuspilatus7900]

Maybe two world wars could have been avoided if also Alsace, like the Benelux, and Suisse had become an independent nation. Then France and Germany had no common borders (which today is not a problem). But alas..., none of the rulers asked ever the population. Vive l'Europe!!!

[@paulh3917]

@@pontiuspilatus7900 Man this idear is interesting.

[@emanuelneagu14]

@@pontiuspilatus7900 so bad you didn't have kings to keep your ground separate like them own life, as these ones from Luxembourg did

[@joeedwards3100]

yea for some reason annexing = imperialism to some people even if the people want it. When it comes to annexing, Belgium is easy. All u have to do is give the Dutch part to the Netherlands, French part to France and German part to Germany but Luxembourg is more complicated because the majority of the people are actually French speaking but the native language luxembourgish is a German dialect so which one does it belong to?

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

"I know, let's use it for storage!" - Some European ruler

[@edipires15]

“No, someone has to take it! What’s is it consisted of” - Some European Diplomat

[@relexrelex1919]

No problem, they store allready all there money here... ;-b

[@Chase1493]

“We need Luxembourg to store our pickled Herring!”

[@snifey7694]

This sounds like Stevenage

[@Lisette001984]

I love the fact that the province of Flevoland already existed in 900 CE and the Afsluitdijk somehow became a Huge piece of land. This map of the Netherlands is hilarious

[@MCorpReview]

Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (house of) used to run Germany 🇩🇪 (hre). Tiny country with illustrious history

[@Cecil_Augus]

If been ilustrious means belonging to a family of people responsible for enslaving, robbing, slaughter and plundering of many other people I'm not surprised our world is dying.

[@WebertNelson]

@@Cecil_Augus if, by your username I assume your of Portuguese descent, The Portuguese were no saints to their colonial subjects man. Brazil speaks Portuguese for a reason. Stop being a party pooper.

[@Drago02129]

@@WebertNelson he's not proclaiming how great portugal is either. I can't believe being a party pooper is being applied to people who dislike monarchist worship

[@krasavits6508]

@@Cecil_Augus lmao name a prosperous country that hasn't done that

[@cyrildewaha]

@@krasavits6508 Luxembourg :)

[@jbvalentin854]

What I find incredible is the lothringian empire that divided the frank kingdoms includes all the modern day « buffers » between France and Germany, the Netherlands Belgique Luxembourg Switzerland and northern Italy. Incredible to think that charlemagnes three grandsons division of land would have such an incredible impact on today’s borders

[@matsroscam]

It really is, but is because of that division that these countries had a claim to keep their borders etc. And in the middle ages these claims were very important

[@the11382]

Its also the reason for most wars in Europe. Alsace-Lorraine contains Ethnic Germans and French.

[@matthewferrantino9521]

It's not incredible to me anymore. I used to ask "why is Lotharingia shaped funny?" Now I think that when they divided the land it must have been the same issues of ethnicity for them all the way back then! Someone was always going to be the buffer lands. What surprises me is why doesn't Italy reunite with the Benelux?

[@mariusmatei2946]

The way the Carolingian/Frankish Empire had been divided, has, Always, looked Bizarre to me; there Must have been a Reason for that (the way it had been divided)!

[@mariusmatei2946]

@@matthewferrantino9521 not sure it had been due to inter-ethnic issues, as those (issues) started to appear much later in the Middle Ages.

[@orapoix6877]

I Love how Portuguese makes 14% of their population but Portugal doesnt even border

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

True

[@LadyNikitaShark]

That's bc Salazar (the Portuguese dictator) gave refugee to the Luxembourgish royal family during WWII.

[@smacwhinnie]

They’re the Mexicans of Europe

[@purcelusucafeniu]

Who? Portuguese? 😂😂😂

[@cleantoad4332]

despite

[@terrysikes6638]

I love having breakfast in Luxembourg because I can have either French toast or Belgian waffles.

[@takimuserio5776]

I would recommend you to try : Kachkeis For breakfast, Its really tasty.

[@eddydrouet1888]

Or even German Streusel!

[@luxr3148]

French toast served by a Belgian 😂

[@flowerpower6216]

Nothing belgian about waffles..

[@TFSIChristmas]

Imagine French toast made by a German

[@AndreZoiaum]

I travelled to Luxembourg 1 month ago to sign my citizenship, I loved the country so much, I already miss being there, can't wait to finish my PhD and move there to work with research.

[@Karishmadaspurkayastharicha]

I want to do a post doc there. My dream land

[@arkady714]

Image at 5:51 is one of our greatest possessions and the most beloved chateau in our country. Originally built by the Romans and used by various dynasties as a strong hold, the Chateau de Vianden is a jewel in our north country.

[@vinnie4v277]

Its not Vianden, it is bourscheid.

[@brostelio]

It's all down to its formidable navy.

[@charleskristiansson1296]

Luxembourg's neutrality was violated TWICE and we were proud to have been neutral. France and Germany's frequent wars did us no favours.

[@fabioartoscassone9305]

Why is Luxembourg a country??? Liechtenstein, Andorra, Malta, Montenegro, San Marino: ...

[@williamberry4615]

Monaco too

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

Why is Luxembourg a country? Luxembourgers* What did he say?

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Exactly 😂

[@Lawnmower737]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 we found him, the sole Luxembourger of Luxembourg.

[@Knattertun]

🥺

[@Ytex8762]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 Ech si vu Schengen

[@elliesgalentine]

I'm a luxembourger

[@kaloarepo288]

The Luxembourg dynasty also ruled in Bohemia (now called the Czeck Republic) and the Holy Roman Emperor of the Luxembourg dynasty Charles IV made Prague his capital and built many of the features we have today in Prague such as the Charles bridge and the university.He issued a Golden Bull which was to be the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire for centuries to come which outlined which rulers (Electors)had the right to vote for a new emperor.Sigismund was his descendant and this emperor presided over the trial and execution by burning of the religious reformer Jan Hus.

[@degenerals6127]

I hadn’t thought about Luxembourg a lot until this video.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Well you should. We are awesome.

[@portigas]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 when are you gonna invade Belgium?

[@mannheim6882]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 u guys are Taking Gas and Oil from Azerbaycan 🇱🇺💪🇦🇿

[@relexrelex1919]

@@portigas we don't invade, we buy it! ;-D

[@eddydrouet1888]

Neither have Luxembourgers, don't worry :P

[@johnnydelirium4448]

Et ass emmer rëm flott e Video iwert eist klengt léift Lëtzebuerg ze gesinn^^ enplus gutt detaileiert. Gutt Aarbescht, ee Like vu mir👍🏼🤘🏼

[@RatchetWarrior]

Viva Mexico Hombre 🤣 You know why

[@thegodofmischief8141]

Ich verstehe alles was du sagtest:))Moin

[@FredericSchwarzSim]

fannen daat och 😂

[@lxi9648]

komische Rheinländer...

[@roberthofmann8403]

Gesundheit!

[@Ukobold]

Nicely done. You missed the importance of Benelux, that initiated the building of EU. But telling stories is making choices, isn’t it ? I find it rather important though because it shows the importance of small countries in historical evolution...

[@momo-cchi5978]

Small country: **EXISTS** 😊 Knowledgia: But WHY, though? 🤔 Small country: 😶

[@wythore]

Jesus imagine being like an american looking at this video and wondering why there's more portuguese in luxembourg than french or german :D

[@Augustus0802]

I thought the same thing

[@sauronsmundwinkel]

Im german and im wondering too, i knew that only 50% are actually luxembourgese, but didnt know about the portugese there

[@wythore]

@@sauronsmundwinkel Luxembourg has a lot of Portuguese emigrants, some of them already on their 3rd generation there! Same as in France

[@PauxloE]

@@wythore That should have been mentioned in the video at some point.

[@edmerc92]

@@finitatem Luxembourgish is a Germanic language, but it's not German. (Most people in Lux can speak German also, but it's a second language.)

[@mathiasbraun5849]

Well done, but a small correction: the German or Eastern Franconian empire was called "Holy Roman Emprire" only after 1157 AD

[@thebackyard7661]

fun fact: the schengen treaty that gives most of the EU the right to travel without border checks in between Schengen zone member countries, was named after the luxembourgish town of Schengen, sitting right at the three border point of france luxembourg and germany along the moselle river.

[@derek5116]

Side note: The Dutch provinces left the Spanish monarchy’s sphere of influence in 1583 and functioned as a republic (and were most certainly not a part of the Holy Roman Empire) until Napoleon invaded in 1795. Beside this detail, great video!

[@janvisser4132]

I noticed that too, we didn't fight an 80-years war of independence with spain to get included in the Holy Roman Empire by some youtuber

[@GholamFareed]

@@janvisser4132 LOL yes the Dutch already had colonies long before.

[@janvisser4132]

@@GholamFareed No they didn't. There were some individual explorers and traders before the war of independence, but they didn't colonize. The East India Company (most succecful Company ever btw) was founded in 1602, the West India Company in 1621, well into the war. And they traded, they didn't colonize. The trading posts they founded did grow to colonies, but that took quite some time. Btw, all those colonies belonged to the companies. It was't until their end, at the end of the 1700's that those area's became formal Dutch colonies. You have to be pretty good to be able to lexture me about my own countries history.

[@GholamFareed]

@@janvisser4132 I live in South Africa which was a former Dutch colony & we were taught Dutch colonial history in schools, we even speak a variant of Dutch which is Afrikaans.

[@janvisser4132]

@@GholamFareed I am well aware of the history of South Africa. The first Dutch cape colony was founded in 1652, 4 years after the end of the 80-years war. When the Netherlands was an independent country. The Dutch colonies in South Africa existed until 1795, when the English took over. There were a few independent countries that were governed by former Dutch Boers, but they were not part of the Dutch Empire. So your point is still wrong, no Dutch colonies before the Dutch independence war.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

If they did aa referendum, they'd vote to join the glorious DPRK

[@blyat5352]

Hello Kimmy

[@ajmainhussain7801]

@@blyat5352 mama ki bangladeshi/?🤣

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Of course supreme leader.

[@jensschroder8214]

The Luxembourgish language is closely related to German, but part of it comes from French. The country has three official languages, Luxembourgish, German and French, but other languages ​​are also spoken. "Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sinn" (Luxembourgish) "Wir wollen bleiben was wir sind" (German)

[@sascharohs9590]

Moselfränkisch mit französischen Wörtern durchsetzt

[@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture]

I see Luxembourgish uses the same word for “we” as Yiddish.

[@val_ist]

@@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture Mazel Tov!

[@epicyes9691]

Boah cool esh sinn net den enzegen den aus letzebuerg kennt

[@publicminx]

@@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture you have/had this also in many other German dialects (Yiddish is strongly connected to the Eastern-European-German dialects (which after WW2 got marginalized) but there was always also a connection due to the Holy Roman Empire/Prussian/Teutonic Order (which were Germans from all kind of parts of Germany, often Western Germans, Flemish/Flamen (now Belgium), Dutch ...) - and also due to trade empires within the holy roman empire like the Hanseatic League etc

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Top marks for imaginative pronunciation.

[@nunodossantos6269]

Good video, but you forgot to mention how it became separated from the Netherlands in 1890: a queen inherit the Netherlands, but the salic law in Luxemburg prevented this, so a male relation took the trone.

[@apveening]

A rather distant relation at that, those two houses of Nassau had been separated for about 700 years already at that time.

[@Fredesen]

I'm from Lux😀. Our slogan: Mir welle bleiwe waat mir sin😃. You did an awsome job. Keep on👍

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Let's do it! 😂 Hi from Luxembourg!

[@davarus]

"Ihr wollt Bleiben, was ihr seit" Sehr schön! Nur so ne Frage, ein deutscher Versteht Luxemburgisch, aber versteht ein Luxemburger einen Deutschen? Ich meine, Luxemburgisch ist ein deutscher Dialekt, von daher sollte das möglich sein?

[@grima0482]

@@davarus Luxemburger verstehen Deutsch ohne Probleme, immerhin ist Deutschunterricht fester Bestandteil des Schulprogramms und in der Grundschule wird sogar ausschließlich auf Deutsch unterrichtet (den Französischunterricht natürlich ausgeschlossen). Im Gymnasium jedoch wird nach und nach Deutsch als Unterrichtssprache durch Französisch ersetzt (und im zweiten Jahr des Gymnasiums kommt noch Englischunterricht hinzu), der Deutschunterricht wird jedoch bis zum Ende beibehalten. Es könnte aber durchaus sein, dass einige Leute, welche in Luxemburg groß geworden sind, kein oder nur begrenzt Deutsch verstehen, da sie zur International School oder Europaschule gegangen sind, wo Deutsch meist auf der Strecke bleibt und English meist die dominierende Sprache im Schulwesen ist. Freundliche Grüße aus Luxemburg 😉

[@davarus]

@@grima0482 Sehr Interessant! Danke für die Antwort.

[@kevinboros7427]

Luxembourg is still a country because their living standards are the best in the word(or the third best depending on where you look), vastly surpassing the USA or its neighbours. Why would Luxembourg want to join a bigger nation when it's doing extremely well on its own?

[@DoctorCymraeg]

Wales next!

[@barbarjinx3802]

You know at one point in time you could rent Luxembourg, in fact that’s how well it was doing LOL

[@kevinboros7427]

@@barbarjinx3802 That was Lichtenstein, not Luxembourg. Luxembourg is too big to be able to be rented, and not poor enough to need to employ such tactics.

[@delphzouzou4520]

It's a fiscal paradize and they steal the money from their neighbours. Except for banks, they have nothing.

[@kevinboros7427]

@@delphzouzou4520 Well banks equal money, and so they are rich. At least they don't have to rely on oil, since that will be gone soon.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Best historical/cultural channel on youtube 👍👍

[@angelolocatelli5579]

Moien from Luxembourg! 🇱🇺

[@johnnydelirium4448]

Halli hallo, vill Gléck am neie Joer🤘🏼

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Moien!

[@midorixi]

Italian in Lux spotted here! Moien

[@zm3793]

Moien 🙋‍♀️

[@sailorfan86]

Moien

[@jasonjimerson7046]

I may be watching these out of order, but I am quite enjoying your 11-minute videos on the history of various countries.

[@fabiomorandi3585]

Why is Luxembourg a country? Because when the Netherlands lost Belgium it forgot it had Exclave Independence set to Total XD

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

😂😂😂

[@yumingshen2971]

Learned more about my home country in this video than in any of my history lessons haha

[@almightya3591]

Just here to add that Luxembourg is one of the founding nations of the EU! Nice video though, enjoyed it:)

[@mikehulsman4735]

You did the dutch province of limburg wrong on your map. It was given to the netherlands after the napoleonic wars. And was shortly belgian during the belgian revolt. But it was retaken by the dutch army. It was part of the german confederation just like luxemburg untill 1867. After that it was full dutch again. For the rest Amazing video i loved it.

[@apveening]

It wasn't retaken by the Dutch army, the Dutch lost that battle and were forced to accept it.

[@mikehulsman4735]

@@apveening in 1830 the modern day dutch province of Limburg became a part of the deutsche bund with the exception of maastricht and venlo. Those became cities with dutch garisons in them.

[@homesteadlegion4419]

" why is Luxembourg a country?" Funny, germany had the exact same question twice.......

[@Mr.HistoryPodcast]

How can the Netherlands remain part of the Holy Roman Empire after 1581 or certainly 1648 according to the map in the video, which remains visible until Napoleon’s conquest of the country? This is incorrect.

[@TruthWillOutOnline]

The real reason is that the Duke of Luxemburg is one of the richest and thus powerful members of the ancient bloodlines of the Old World Order.

[@pangeanrepublic]

“18.2% Portuguese Population **visible confusion**

[@luiali3008]

Money. Money is probably the biggest reason for immigration around the world

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Why does Luxembourg exist? Where would the 'lux' in 'Benelux' be without it? Hehehe...

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

True

[@TheWoollyFrog]

It would be Bene without the lux.

[@jduff59]

@@TheWoollyFrog Bene means good, but the Lux made it even mo better

[@fordhouse8b]

Luxembourg should rename itself Gesserit.

[@DreHill1]

Greetings from The Netherlands, my Luxembourgish brothers!

[@LittletbigT]

LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG

[@philipv477]

I like it! Thanks Knowledgia

[@pedrovascodeoliveiraveriss6293]

With it's existence owning at least partly due to being a Personal Posession of Willem I of Oranje-Nassau, Luxemburg, together with Liechtenstein and Monaco, can be seen as the last remnants of the Feudal Order of the Holy Roman Empire.

[@samuelmargueret9626]

I totaly agree with you about that !! That is a weird thing in Europe and the only way to understand this is to look way back in our history

[@shinjineesen400]

I thought Luxembourg was owned by the Austrian Habsburgs for a few decades (1700/1714-1790s) before Napoleon occupied it. Then the Congress of Vienna gave the duchy to William I of the Netherlands which also included the Austrian Netherlands in 1814-15. When that part of the Netherlands rebelled and won its independence (different religion and culture) in 1830, the Dutch king insisted that Luxembourg was his dynastic property. By doing so, his dynasty continued to rule Luxembourg until 1890 when the exiled Duke of Nassau inherited Luxembourg. Ironically, the second grand duke pf this house only had daughters but his two eldest daughters became the next rulers. That is how Luxembourg became independent.

[@paulh2468]

Thanks for the video. It was brief but concise.

[@H1SCOTTY]

You forgot the treaty of the Benelux and the steel treaty which was the beginning of the European Union.

[@msct6080]

Very good video. But perhaps making clear what the the holy roman empire was, could help identify what Luxembourg is. Basically envision a proto-europe. Where you have 50+ little and bigger states/countries. Some as big as just a city (city states) and other huge (like Austria). Each region with their own history. Forming little melting pots of cultures that shifted constantly due to those counties (sub divisions in the country) being swapped due to constant internal wars inside the holy roman empire. With the unification into a real German empire, one language was pushed. But Luxembourg, due to its special circumstances, kept its local developed dialect. Again dialects are something that is very very common in the region. In Belgium for example, you have hundreds of dialects, each with their own grammar, unique words and pronunciation. This is not taught at schools, so it is slowly disappearing. But Luxembourg managed to keep hold of it's unique local developed melting-pot culture.

[@arthurfilipe7380]

4:55 he pronounced Louis in a way similar as in portuguese (i'm brazilian, so i speak portuguese). Luís, which is Louis in portuguese is pronounced like that

[@msaocer]

Louis is pronounced similar in Luxembourgish as portuguese

[@GholamFareed]

Well that's not how Louis is pronounced in French though.

[@publicminx]

all that is irrelevant, because Louis/Lois is from 'Ludwig' anyway (like the Bavaran king who built 'Neuschwanstein' or many others). Also Henry is from the Germanic Hendrick/Heinrich. There was also no Charlemagne, his name was Karl/Carl (or latinized Karolus Magnus which is why also in Spanish, Italian its still refering to CARLo Magno - same is true for all Slavic languages, all Germanic languages expect the English who were influenced by the French taking Charles (which again, is just a regional localized later name of Karl/Carl) ....

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@dibaldgyfm9933]

Thanks anyway. I did not get how the borders were laid, it seems that there was a period when Lux had a larger extent, and even some enclaves (or "exclaves"). The castle is probably geo-political a main factor. There is a video showing some old border-conflict zones, including a railway stretch which was either German or Luxembourgian. Such areas of conflict show on one hand that people had to cooperate, on the other hand that old borderlines were completely unpractical. An area of totally screwed *old* borderlines between smaller units can be found many places in Germany and Scandinavia. One really weird is the Holstein region before 1864 (when Bismarck took possession of that area, being inhabited by mostly germanspeaking).

[@xavierrst5380]

I'm watching Capitani on Netflix and I wanted to know more about this place. Merci.

[@thedownfallparodist1145]

Good Video Knowledgia!

[@Knowledgia]

Thank you! More to come

[@joseeduardotschen9186]

Thanks! Was waiting for this video 🙂

[@sithersproductions]

Luxembourg is more of an actual country than Belgium

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

100 percent true.

[@OPTSXFilosoofis]

True

[@thomasd897]

Belgique existed already in antiquity

[@c.norbertneumann4986]

@@thomasd897 Belgica Prima and Belgica Secunda

[@Silence_stp]

@@c.norbertneumann4986 i think Belgica Prima is the same as Germania inferior and Germania Inferior and Belgica Sucunda was originally the same province of Gallia Belgica. Then the romans divided it

[@kenklein9228]

One of my grandfathers came to the US during the 1890's from Luxembourg. He said he didn't like what was happening in Europe at that time.

[@flexbat8093]

How old are you sir?

[@kenklein9228]

@@flexbat8093 Sixty one. It was my great grandfather that came from Luxembourg.

[@reuterromain1054]

Luxembourg is a country because we the people want it to be one. I think the part that is now "la Province du Luxembourg Belge" should be returned to Luxembourg.

[@lotus4459]

Eyy finally a video of my county thx

[@columbannon9134]

What is today strange that one of Belgium's provinces is called Luxembourg which is bigger than the country Luxembourg.

[@francis0700]

Very well done and very accurate! Thank you !

[@karlosdeevs]

Luxemburg: we want to stay as we are Rest of the World: yeah.. that's a priveledge we might not be able to afford

[@cprow0997]

Luxembourg*

[@davarus]

@@cprow0997 Luxemburg or Letzeburg is right. (Its German, and Luxemburgers speak a German dialect.)

[@pprehn5268]

I got to see quite a lot of Luxemburg's Architecture and History, Thanks

[@jeffnaslund]

Luxembourg shows up in my DNA. That would explain why my kraut ancestors bailed and settled in Illinois (helping to found the city of Aurora, interestingly) in the 1800s.

[@maitej.1353]

Yeah loads of Luxembourgers immigrated to the US in the late 1800s but I’m surprised you got a specific result for that. Western Europeans (excluding the Iberian peninsula) tend to all have similar DNA bc there are no major lands marks that kept the different populations from mingling.

[@chioptnstdr3448]

Nice ...👍🏽 from Naperville

[@blanco7726]

Theres a town called Luxembourg in Wisconsin I believe

[@ligiamayer4759]

Excellent !!!

[@kennethknoppik5408]

Why is Luxembourg a country? That question has been keeping me up at nights hahaha

[@1101agaoj]

Well researched explanation and presentation, we are 11 minutes older but you explained over a thousand years of history in Luxembourg

[@indefiniteabyss1257]

Luxembourg is still a more legit nation than belgium ever be

[@PixelCC1]

Luxembourgers can't even speak English properly

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@PixelCC1 HEY! I CAN!

[@edipires15]

@@PixelCC1 Luxembourg can surely speak more languages than you

[@PixelCC1]

@@edipires15 " Luxembourg is still a more legit nation than belgium ever be "

[@PixelCC1]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 Sorry :(

[@szbszig]

Short answer is around 6:32-7:42. Belgium gains independence from the Netherlands, both Belgium and the Netherlands claim the territory, the great powers of Europe intervene and establish it as an autonomous country (well, what's left after another partition).

[@Fausty03]

Those 626,000 people are gonna conquer the world tomorrow, 🇱🇺🇱🇺🇱🇺

[@Knowledgia]

Probably

[@regularhuman6108]

@@Knowledgia I'm amazed a country of that size is so small. I may be saying that because of the countries all around it though

[@takasmaka820]

In HOI ?

[@augustuscaesar8287]

I've traced my ancestry back to the Dukes of Luxembourg, so I will gladly be your sovereign.

[@lucmeyer4012]

🇪🇺 Kloer 🤩

[@nicholaspainter5593]

Thank you for this video

[@Raviatiion]

So how do Portuguese people end up in Luxemburg?

[@ole-mariusbergesen7818]

They travel there

[@zokhay5914]

first we had a big immigration waves of italians, working in the mines in the south, there are still remainders. then later on, a lot of portuguese came to i guess do the same thing. now im guessing that theres just a lot of relatives from the portuguese people who live here that come here too, as they see lux as a great opportunity in work etc. Thats how my dad came here :,)

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

In the 1960s all European countries were decolonizasing in Africa except Portugal. Instead Portugal tried to hold onto Angola and Mozambique along with it's other minor colonies. Which was a mistake. Soon the locals of the colonies got so angry that they began to rebel forcing portugal to send many troops to fight them. However portugal had a small population so it had to hire mercenaries as well. After conscripting practically everyone the last few people who didn't want to be conscripted fled to us. Portugal used to be quite a rich country until then when it was spending way to much on it's military which led to it's collapse in 1974. By then we had dozens of Portuguese refugees many for political reasons and religious reasons. But some for economic reasons. Today the portuguese here tend to do low paid jobs such as toilet cleaning etc.

[@zokhay5914]

@Achaean you couldve easily kept that comment for urself tbh

[@zokhay5914]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 thank you

[@mbrennan459]

To summarize all the comments, this is a great video except…then point out different perceived errors or misstatements. I enjoyed the video. That’s all.

[@kingbeastko761]

Next : why is vatican city a country!!

[@fordhouse8b]

The country should at least be realistic and rename itself Vatican Neighborhood.

[@iskambillordu]

Good explained👏

[@Namuchat]

Me reading the title of the video. Me shouting: "Why not?!" (We does a country need to justify its existence?)

[@paullenarts4925]

Well, this is something difficult to understand for americans ......

[@vavi3830]

Nice video of me country, cheers !

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

😂😂😂

[@fhffvgju6299]

Do a video on the history of Bulgaria

[@graceclermont2592]

Absolutely Amazing History.

[@wezelhond5572]

No its sad, look at Them concuring land

[@badhrihari1705]

Why does knowledgia exist?

[@Knowledgia]

This is a complicated question. The answer can fit in an entire book.

[@badhrihari1705]

That's a good idea for a first book then •‿•

[@ilanlara5603]

Im from Luxembourg and i gotta say good video

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

True

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[@onurbschrednei4569]

Ok the real reason is this: Luxembourg was well into being integrated into Germany in the 19th century (speaking a German dialect, being part of the German confederation and having a federal German fortress), but the problem was that it was also part of the Dutch kingdom. Because it was ruled by someone who was decidedly not German, Luxembourg didnt join in the German unification.

[@jphang2950]

If this becomes a drinking game every time he say Luxembourg, either people will get the most drunkest hangover of their life’s or intense intoxication and liver issues,

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Lol

[@SuperWolffie]

You forget one thing....the separation of the Netherlands is due to discussion of the crown in Holland. Because there was no male successor the Dutch went for a queen and the Lux refused that . So since that time there was a separation.....and what also in important . The Be Be Lux, the cooperation of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg was the ground a the EC.......

[@markmh835]

Yes! The Benelux: birthplace of the EU.

[@tf2664]

Dont forget Liechtenstein 🇱🇮

[@Omegasphere]

I like how the answer is essentially "because I felt like it".