The History of the Netherlands (Low Countries): Every Year

The history of the Low Countries, every year.
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Music:
Deskant - The King's Carpet
Deskant - Tinker's Curse
Wandel Scherer - Heroic Arms

[@OllieBye]

Special thanks to my friend Bapo for helping with this. He hasn't uploaded anything yet, but I'll put his channel here for future reference: kzbin.info/door/ASD-WDri53CdYTjvW_cm5g

[@bapo224]

Thanks for the shoutout! In case anyone's interested I am working on a project to portray the evolution of the Dutch coastline and lakes as accurately as possible.

[@swausgebouwen143]

@@bapo224 hell yes I'll sub for that

[@harold4492]

Next Please Make Video History Of United Stated Every Year Please Reply Immediately

[@notaugustus2076]

I don't engage with hypothetical youtube accounts.

[@OllieBye]

@@harold4492 have you tried searching for that? There are lots of videos about the USA already.

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Germany really just looks like shattered glass for the longest time.

[@renerpho]

And the map is still a simplification, leaving out many of the subdivisions. For instance, what's just called "Ziegenhain" in this map from the 13th century onward should really include the county of Battenberg, which then splits into the counties of Battenberg and Wittgenstein, only to be consumed by Mainz and Hesse shortly after. Germany is a mess. :-)

[@xenotypos]

Apart from that, I like how Ollie Bye is always showing that France was also a complicated feudal mess, to a lesser extent than Germany but still. A lot of people seem to forget it wasn't a centralized state sometimes.

[@micahistory]

when the two biggest mappers collide

[@antonipolski9569]

Lol

[@miliba]

@@renerpho Battenberg is one of many German places where the Royals came from teehee

[@neverluckym8728]

I like how you also changed the coastline of the Netherlands depending on the year.

[@andrefarfan4372]

Apart and thanks

[@ShaunCheah]

"God made the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands."

[@iSyriux]

@@ShaunCheah The world made god

[@user-nv7fx1gd7z]

why do they change ?

[@gigachad3457]

@@user-nv7fx1gd7z because they build dam and netherlands would flood are you dumb?

[@theportuguesehistorian6093]

2:46 Imagine being a Philip the first, second, third, and fourth at the same time

[@nickmtp8824]

What achieved the dukes of Burgundy is impressive. Philip the good was the third, but it was Philip the bold that prepared it by making the good unions. Philipp the good had so many titles that he was named the western great duke. It was the first time these lands were united and that hase become Belgium and Netherlands when the Hasburg inheritated it.

[@napster1987]

Yep, after that they got independence from Spain in 1648, Westfalia's peace.

[@RacingGuy570]

Lol *xD*

[@maude7420]

Burgundian State is an actual term used to describe his possessions

[@aqpatt4675]

In 3:11 it's Philip the first, second (of Spain it's not shown there), third, fourth, fifth and sixth

[@ramirosotto]

This is GOLD material for history students/buffs. We don't deserve you man

[@moroccangeographer8993]

I cannot agree more. The nerd inside of me is having a moment.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

@@moroccangeographer8993 The same -- the only thing better is playing "The Cones of Dunshire."

[@marceltelang7825]

2:48 Oh my goodness that's a lot of Phillips

[@WOLF36554]

The duke of Burgundy. Back then Belgium, Eastern France, Luxembourg and large parts of the Netherlands were united by Burgundy.

[@unanec]

its the same guy XD

[@tonit4233]

Feudalism be like...

[@dodec8449]

I thought I was in Eindhoven for a moment

[@knightarnaud]

It's the same guy, but with a different name for every title. He was the third Count of Flanders with the name Philip, so that's why they called him Philip III in Flanders. In Luxemburg he was called Philip I, because he was their first Duke ever with the name Philip. This is European feudalism.

[@micahistory]

Imagine how hard it must be to draw all those borders

[@yigit-nh2vn]

it's as if you could just sneakly take lands one by one with nobody noticing. like people think: wait, that land?! what's it? i only know these 5- no, 4 ones...it's uh, something with, two sounds both sounds close...oh wait, they're the same one)

[@GandalfGreyhame]

Sea: _exists_ Netherlands: *g i b c l a y*

[@Vitalis94]

I N G E P O L D E R D

[@stealthsoldier4400]

Countryballs 😂🤣

[@micahistory]

Wow this is definitely another masterpiece by Ollie. This is why he's my favourite mapper, going into all that detail was amazing

[@Scrungge]

Couldn't agree more, this takes so much effort!

[@erikkarsies4851]

No its wrong and not a 'masterpiece' check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia

[@vickie213]

In Flanders exist a tradition introduced by the spaniards that consist in free a prisoner if he does the Santiago path with a bag filled of rocks.

[@sithpancakes1441]

I can tell that English is not your first language. :)

[@vickie213]

@@sithpancakes1441 Maybe (yes) I am sleepy too, so...

[@wachtwoorden2]

I am from Flanders and I didn't know that! I'm guessing most prisoners prefer the (fairly luxurious) Belgian prison system above walking from Flanders through France and Spain with a big bag of f*cking rocks Edit: Luxurious

[@antoninuslarpus7107]

*Reclaiming land and controlling the sea intensifies*

[@123TeeMee]

You forgot to label the most important state the Netherlands were at war with, the sea, ruled by Poseidon of course

[@RacingGuy570]

*:/*

[@stealthsoldier4400]

The sea is ruled by god alone

[@glacierlegion9439]

@@stealthsoldier4400 yes, the god poseidon alone

[@stealthsoldier4400]

@@glacierlegion9439 yeah no

[@glacierlegion9439]

@@stealthsoldier4400 cringe chr*stian

[@lionheartmapping]

2:47 wow I cant believe this guy created several clones of himself just to get more lands

[@thewelldweller3092]

what a mad man

[@wrjtung3456]

His son also did it

[@emperorscoubs2405]

lol

[@mr.snaplles5964]

Not only dealing with the map gore that is the HRE but showing the coastline changing as well. Absolutely mad video

[@MrPbhuh]

Small mistake, the Rhine River up until around the year 1000 primarily went through the Leidsche Rijn and the Kromme Rijn, which are nowadays no longer really where it goes through. The place where the NetherRhine splits into the Kromme Rijn and the Lek is the city of Dorestad or Wijk bij Duurstede. The Northern Leidsche Rijn formed the Roman Frontier, which thus included cities like Utrecht, which are no longer on the main stream of the Rhine.

[@Querelle2008]

You are right. It's a big mistake, that a lot of people are still making. The border followed Katwijk, Leiden, Alphen a/d RIJN and Woerden also.

[@luxembourger]

Yes, a lot of those rivers and side streams shifted or regrouped in a different way. I only recently realized, the collapsed the roman settlement "Nijmegen" and the later refounded Carolingian "Nijmegen" are a few kilometers off duo to the shift and regroup of the rivers between the 4th and the 8th century.

[@EncompassingHistories]

Well there would be no Mapping video which is 100% accurate.

[@CinnamonRobins]

The fact that you included the land reclamation changes is amazing, very good work!

[@l0os176]

This might be the first map I've seen that has both political and geographical changes. Good stuff!

[@whyamihere832]

Here's my Request, The Growth of Tokyo: Every Year

[@_roberto_tripodi_389]

also growth of Byzantium/Costantinople/Istanbul

[@mahdimehdi445]

@@_roberto_tripodi_389 baghdad or cairo

[@genericchannelname4110]

@@_roberto_tripodi_389 that would be so much research but really interesting to see the city’s growth

[@heirofptah]

One small thing: after the independence of the Dutch "United Provinces", it would be appropriate to keep showing the separate provinces, as they were quite autonomous

[@ariearie3543]

Correct it was more like a confederation. I also missed the frisian kings.

[@gras0068]

guys stfu he did the best job he could stop nagging him

[@jaykaufman9782]

I really appreciate how you showed the changing physical coastlines. Great work!

[@nicolamiceli9097]

You could do the history of Tyrol, it's actually very interesting: celts, romans, avars, lombards, franks, bishops, counts, austrians, WW1 and split between Austria and Italy, fascism in the south, nazism in the norh, the nazi zone of occupation and resistance, split again in two, terrorism and modern day (the euroregion Tyrol is made up of all the actual Tyrolean territories between Austria and Italy).

[@bobbobb4804]

Tyrol has an interesting history but it gets covered in German/Austrian and Italian history already which have plenty of coverage

[@seronymus]

This actually. As someone who loves the Early Middle Ages the most this is one of my fave exemplary regions

[@sabahmerchant1866]

I was so excited when I saw this! I've been reading a lot of English history lately, and there's been a lot of discussion in the texts about England's relations with the Low Countries. This map is definitely going to help me visualize these places better than I did before!

[@dream-67]

You should read about the "Strangers" the Dutch and Flemish immigrants to Norwich in the UK in the 16th century....

[@micahistory]

Wow Ollie, this is absolutely incredible. That must've been so hard to make

[@Judah132]

Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia are pretty closely related to the Netherlands - their native dialects are similar to Dutch.

[@nico210]

What is native and what is not? Dutch is modern frankish, apart from the Frisians who are indeed more closely related to the saxons. Franks have lived quite separated from the saxons since the roman times, so although they're both germans and "not high" (with all the historic bagage), it would be amazing that they would be so close (more close than Saxon and Danish maybe, but not that much).

[@MarcoTheHague]

​@@nico210 were not germans fukker. "Germanic"

[@erikkarsies4851]

That's because Francia was much further north in the early middle ages than this misleading video suggests en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia The first dutch is now considered the Salic Law which was neither Frisian or Saxon.

[@IapetusStag]

It's really impressive how you included the appearances of Dutch islands that were originally submerged and then "Reclaimed" by Dutch engineering.

[@VW-Gaming18]

He made one mistake though, it is not emmeloord but schokland

[@BloxxterT]

I really appreciate the projects you work, thats why you take very long making your videos. This is a masterpiece.

[@WOLF36554]

Really good. I love how you showed all those small medieval counties.

[@michielp1922]

Love how Liège is basically the Switzerland of the Low Countries

[@TheJH1015]

that's mostly because it was a prince-bishopric, so it technically couldn't be inherited due to dynastic ties, which happened to the rest of the Low Countries under the Burgundians and Habsburgs.

[@inferno38]

And then Napoléon came and f*cked everything

[@planteruines5619]

@@bigmoniesponge it is less painful now but belgium...

[@enrajbroin]

@@TheJH1015 tbf, Utrecht was one as well and Charles V just annexed it.

[@bastienvanoverschelde8287]

Liège has been shortly annexed by the Burgundians but succeeded to claim back its freedom when Mary of Burgundy succeeded her father. The rest of the time it was more like foreign influence by supporting inner troubles or by the choice of the prince-bischop... And then arrived France 😢😭

[@tasoslts3480]

Οh wow, it was SO complicated, so many small states, duchies, committees and so on, it was all so divided for most of it's history, the preciseness is beyond great!! Congratulations!!

[@DynastyLuminous46]

The Dutch and Frisians have a long history of complicated relationships with feudalism, and turned to a republic at a very early stage.

[@brandonbuca]

Hey Ollie! Haven’t checked in in a while so just want to say this new (I think) animation format is great! I remember when you only had 50k! Keep up great work!

[@MartijnVos]

I love the changing coastline. That kind of detail makes all the difference for this sort of video.

[@POGKPP]

Amazing video!

[@LiquidRelief]

Thank you so much for this!!! Great work!

[@lttanfam8755]

Keep up the great work Ollie!

[@pinkomoore]

After 1713 west Flanders was partially maintained by the dutch before being reincorporated into Austria which couldve been shown on the map. Also in 1789 belgium briefy gained independence which deserves to be shown aswel.

[@kirilll7806]

Who dares to put dislikes on such a masterpiece???

[@gabrielsouzasilva5727]

I was loooking for a a Low Countries history map in KZbin for months! I finally found it! Thx OllieBye!

[@erikkarsies4851]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia for the middle ages this is a better one.

[@HollandMapping]

What an amazing region. Also great work!

[@fridayyy.2102]

Hi Holland Mapping I love your videos

[@daddypoil]

Amazing work, thank you so much !

[@micahistory]

i like how you also included the changes to the coastline

[@JarNO_WAY]

countries: **fight each other** the netherlands: why is no one conquering from this big blue nation to the northwest that has no real army?

[@sadiqahmed4143]

Netherlands :- proceeds to expand into the Ocean Netherlands:- I will reach Britain soon and Attack my arc rival hahahahahah no one knows my plan

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

Well done for sorting that out.

[@HoH]

Great video, this must have been an incredibly painstaking process to research.

[@maciejniedzielski7496]

01:40 KING 👑 in 1111: How many States you want my nobles Chevaliers ? NOBLES : YES. EVEN MORE.

[@mecidiyemapping9634]

Nice Work Ollie !

[@NikhileshSurve]

I love maps like these that show the history of a country or a region so well. One thing about European history I like is that it's so well documented.

[@Koellenburg]

awsome video... especially with the portraits and everything .... perhaps slowing down for the last 100 years would have been nice, so much happened there. And much of the beautiful details you added are hardly seen. Anyway great job :)

[@micahistory]

If only this video had existed a few years ago, it would've helped me so much But thank you so much for making, this video was long overdue

[@mikehulsman4735]

I like that even though this map is extrememly detailed , it still misses so much information and devisions.

[@guillaumemeseguer3690]

Amazing work thanks !

[@alinehaye6561]

It's very good and your map's is very beautiful!

[@pinkomoore]

I had never done a map video so i was trying to do basically this exact video but never finished it. I'm glad it does exist know and done by a competent mapper

[@BygoneChina]

Fascinating how the borders of the Netherlands have varied over time - perhaps the most of any European country

[@eksiarvamus]

Lol, have you heard about Poland?

[@foxfoster1]

Nah

[@GandalfGreyhame]

@@eksiarvamus He's talking about the border against the sea

[@imwinningthisone7613]

It's actually the opposite

[@MarcoTheHague]

Yeah sad howmuch land and people we lost. Even brussel the largest dutch city is now 0% dutch speaking. The french are ruthless and will destroy the native culture after their conquest.

[@ASMapping]

Good job. Must be a pain getting this one done!

[@littlehistorian5751]

Yeah I think so

[@equalopportunityoffender1816]

2:54 I don't think there are enough Charles's, we might need some more.

[@B_men_apo]

Passive respect for doing the coastline changes I have always wondered what they would Look like on a map.

[@marcstein2510]

As a luxembourger this was so cool ! 😊

[@marcstein2510]

As a luxembourger i am absoluetly stunned that you know that namur was luxembourgish for a short time when count henry the blonde conquered it!! Nobody knows thus usually !! Gret great work, also the 3 partitions of luxembourg are absolutely correct. 👍👍👍👍

[@littlehistorian5751]

Nice video bro appreciate it

[@nox6855]

0:10 ok He named so many tribes and put them on this map, that is NEXT LEVEL effort. I'm really impressed where do you get your research from?

[@MatsHalldin]

That was complicated! Must have taken ages to animate -- thanks for uploading!

[@ronaldl9085]

excellent work!

[@Vibez727727]

I love your videos, Thank You

[@andrefarfan4372]

Great video!

[@thehistoryaxis]

Another great video, yet again.

[@pavelavietor1]

Hello 👋thanks for this production, very nice 👍. Saludos

[@Gia1911Logous]

4:20 music lines up with both world wars

[@ThamesMapping]

This video is just amazing in every way

[@failedbirthcontrol8995]

i love the level of detail with the land reclamation and floods

[@csalvo3653]

It was very cool to see Brugge being decimated by the golden inlet drying up in the early 1300’s, from tht point on the kost developed piece of land in europe and the biggest port was doomed

[@dodolulupepe]

Wow, this is really nice :D

[@JG_Science]

Awesome video! Nice to see my country featured

[@andrefarfan4372]

Yes

[@gurrenlagannsc8658]

Hey-o JG!

[@heirofptah]

4:01 Thank god Napoleon cleaned up the mess for us

[@ortherner]

Literally the best thing Napoleon has ever done.

[@flamingoxe5984]

@REMANENT DATA napoleon was not proto hitler lol

[@MJ_PutuArisSatriyaWibawa]

I keep rewatch your videos just for the music

[@Reziac]

Nederlands: "FILL DIRT WANTED" As a descendant of Pepin the Short, I approve the music used in this video.

[@aryaankhan3725]

As a descendant of Tyrone the Long, I also approve

[@bapo224]

As a descendant of Redbad I hate it. /s

[@Reziac]

@@bapo224 Next time pick better ancestors. ;)

[@Reziac]

@@pm40394 Pretty much. It's like how on my Norwegian side, I go back to Harald the Great... well, so do ALL Norwegians... I still think it's funny.

[@imwinningthisone7613]

Pepin the short would technically be belgian/wallon

[@marclouys]

Great job. I was hoping for the antiquity with Gallia Belgica and all but good stuff anyway.

[@vashudevsharma6004]

BEAUTIFUL. no other words can justify this masterpiece

[@isaacarias617]

I've been waiting a long time for this video about the historical map of the Netherlands :^)

[@erikkarsies4851]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia for the early middle ages. This video is really wrong.

[@sgm3488]

It’s weird how long it takes me to process a five minute video.

[@job4528]

Wow nicely done. You ever got the all reclamations accurate. And also peat degradation in the Zuiderzee!

[@franzjosephikaiservonaustr5525]

Great map as usual! However, i would like to note (although i'd doubt anyone would be misinformed by this tiny mistake) that despite the country still bearing the formal name _Deutsches Reich_ until 1945, the country name used in the labels from 1919 - 1945 should be something else, maybe the _German Reich_ instead of the _German Empire_. Using the labels "Empire" post-1919 might be erroneous or confusing for some people. Still, the video is great as usual and i can't imagine the amount of work that had to be done to complete all of this.

[@franzjosephikaiservonaustr5525]

Also to add a bit, the left white area near France between Oldenburg's exclave and the Palatinate was actually already annexed by Prussia in 1834 (The Principality of Lichtenberg). Still, of course there's loads of small principalities here and mistakes here and there are beyond normal.

[@decantabriaball938]

Good video man

[@andrefarfan4372]

Thanks

[@EduNauta95]

Wow, very good video!! Just to nitpick a bit, i'd like to have seen the provincial map of both roman and belgian/dutch eras, to compare them with the history of the duchies.

[@abydos7775]

The attention to detail with the great floods and polder reclamations is so damn good.

[@aidandoles6354]

Mhm

[@abensoby7349]

ollie bye pls upload more videos i like ur videos and they have full of history

[@claudiovasquez8386]

Amazing Video

[@tjs200]

I like how as time goes on even the painted portraits of the leaders get more realistic

[@nocab7624]

The Dutch-Ocean war, every year

[@amosamwig8394]

4:00 merci Napoléon, I started to get all fuzzy sseing those small communities and their borders

[@imwinningthisone7613]

It's the reason they speak French in Belgium today

[@micahistory]

I like how you distinguished between head of state and head of government. I think it's better to show the head of government since they have the actual control

[@Warsawke]

Great video

[@andrefarfan4372]

Nice. #Rosalina

[@cagantaylanozgun7892]

now i was talking with my friend named ollie and i saw that Ollie bye channel uploaded a new video. The first words that came out of my mouth were: Ollie, bye...

[@dagstanadam6768]

Very good video

[@royalredbird9717]

Hey Ollie!Can you please make a detailed video on History of Nepal, and even a more informative video on History of the Himalayan region?

[@OllieBye]

Have you seen this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZ22f4CeiNJ6orc

[@marinalima9533]

3:40 Lot of Churles gutyyyyyyy

[@GandalfGreyhame]

I want to know what the songs are called, but the ones written in the description aren't the same as in the video!

[@imwinningthisone7613]

Very good video. I'm going to use this every single time someone tries to say that Belgium and Netherlands have a shared history

[@LLDJ_]

4:02

[@imwinningthisone7613]

@@LLDJ_ forced and unnatural, after Napoleon

[@LLDJ_]

@@imwinningthisone7613 true

[@arnold3768]

They do have a shared history!! Look at 03:11 and many others.

[@bv2623]

@@arnold3768 There is shared history. But not like, what mostly the Dutch try to claim, that both countries have been part of the same national entity for hundreds of years. There are actually Dutch people who try to claim the medieval past of Flanders (then being part of the French crown) as their own...

[@andresvida95]

The romans controlled 100% of the Netherlands and around 80% of Germany from 12 BCE till 9 AD. Then Arminius happened. AAAA VARUS GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!

[@dagstanadam6768]

Hm

[@andrefarfan4372]

Hi

[@Picollo860847]

Yeah but it was quite a loose control. Gallia was conquered one century before by Caesar, who murdered millions of people there, probably one of the first genozids in history. If that would also have happen in Germany, they would probably stay for longer, but germany at that time was also too cold and uninteresting too. Just Forests, pure wilderness and so on.

[@erikkarsies4851]

After that Romans had still a big influence above the Rhine. An more important even in the time of Clovis around 500AD Drenthe & Overijsel belonged to Francia already en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia for a better map

[@aidena8381]

The music in the description isn't the music in the video, cheers.

[@MaviAntwerp]

Wij Antwerpenaren zijn Brabanders. Vlaanderen ligt aan de andere kant van’t water.

[@r.v.b.4153]

Dè hedde gij goe gezééd, zèkske. Veel mensen weten van niks. Toen ik een Brabantse leeuwenvlag in mijn kot had, vroeg een meid uit Herentals of het "een Vlaamse vlag" was. Noord-Brabanders weten ook niet veel beter. Zou ze eens moeten vragen of Antwerpen "Vlaams" of "Brabants" is. Ik verwacht dat ze sneller het eerste zullen zeggen en het tweede zullen verwerpen.

[@michielp1922]

small mistake, the county of flanders was independent from france from 1302-134 following a military victory against the french (battle of the golden spurs)

[@erikkarsies4851]

Bigger mistake in the early middle ages : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia