Unknown Colonial Empires

[@General.Knowledge]

*Which other small or lesser known colonial empires are there?*

[@jsonattard2179]

In the same way of the New Zealand Empire, Australia controlled Papua New Guinea, from 1932-1975, and Narau, from 1927-1968. Today Australia also controls Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. the Cocos (or Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. All of these are part of Australia, but are given autonomy as Overseas Territories. Australia also has claims on Antartica, with the Australia Antarctic territory (AAT), but after the Antartica Treaty in 1959, this became inactive.

[@NubDiePie]

Liechtenstein almost bough alaska

[@bot_5786]

austian hungary empire u have talked about it before i think they held a small town in china after i think one of the opium wars Edit: ok so it was a small street not a town thanks for correcting me!

[@aggeloskaggelos2867]

Scotland founded some settlements in America before they united with England.

[@isaacbobjork7053]

Sweden bought Saint Barthelemy in 1784 and ruled it until 1878 when we sold it back to France. So not only for a year but for almost a century. Guadeloupe on the other hand was ruled by Sweden for only a year during the napoleonic wars.

[@mrmacguff1n]

"I got Mexico"--Spain "I got India"--England "I got a Rock"--Norway

[@k3nz1e73]

“I got colonised” - Africa

[@rj5848]

I got named India- America

[@RealPeppaPigXD]

"I got invaded too much"-- Poland

[@samsmith4242]

“I got the artic Islands, and all that sweet whaling money”-Norway

[@eventhorizon2339]

"I got F**ked"--Japanese empire

[@Man_0f_Trenches]

When your colony has a colony, you know your doing something right.

[@Cjnw]

*Merry British noises*

[@paradoxicalpotato8927]

And when that colony gets a colony, you are a pro.

[@paradoxicalpotato8927]

@@LarzGustafsson Correct, but tell that europeuns.

[@the_changerang]

Like father like son 😂

[@zaikolebolsh5724]

@@LarzGustafsson haha bly me quite a funny gentlemen, innit?

[@Swuiddy0086]

Fun fact: one time russia almost sold Alaska to Liechtenstein instead of america

[@minjajovanovic6501]

Yeah, still don't know why did they refused it

[@sriyasodharmma4021]

alaska je srbija

[@leadharsh0616]

@@minjajovanovic6501 well they probably thought that it was useless just like Russia.

[@Ms-fe2bo]

Yeah, I said the same thing to him in twitter

[@AkshayNumberOne]

I have seen the video so dont brag

[@waleed4017]

One big empire that always goes unnoticed is the Omani empire, it held territories from modern day Pakistan all the way to modern day Mozambique and were probably the only non-European colonizers of Africa in the 20th century.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Yemen, that's not fair omitting them altogether!

[@waleed4017]

mfaizsyahmi. Yes Yemen included, just wanted to give an indication of how vast it was from north to south 😅

[@-3696]

They only controled the Eastern part of modern day Yemen.

[@gabrielfrost9134]

Somebody should make a detailed video about it.

[@Komicklepto]

They're part of the reason Arabic is spoken in Zanzibar.

[@jeffsanders1609]

When your colony starts colonizing Britain: *Cries* They grow up so fast!

[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

New Zealand: I really don't like this colonizing stuff Britain: you are no son of mine!!

[@jacobthompson2189]

@@bakthihapuarachchi3447 when a colony makes a colony

[@MadMan3498]

@Laksama Hang Tuah And they had and still do have some other stuff too, also Singapore of all places briefly administered Christmas Island if I’m not mistaken.

[@fluff5]

Phoenicia flashbacks

[@johnappleseed3428]

usa also colonized

[@DutchTunisian]

New Sweden: Exists The Netherlands: it’s a free real estate New Netherlands: Exists The British: it’s a free real estate

[@legoleviathan6411]

*New Amsterdam

[@Cjnw]

*G E N O R M A L I S E E R D*

[@Arranus]

@@legoleviathan6411 wrong new Amsterdam was a city ( new York ) not a colony and new Netherlands is where about new England is

[@DutchTunisian]

@@ArranusExactly

[@mfaizsyahmi]

British Tea tax: _exists_ Colonists: "So you have chosen ｄｅａｔｈ"

[@paradox7358]

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: "You know, I'm somewhat of a coloniser myself"

[@sakanig]

Stolen Comment Ik comments dont have copyright

[@theotherdashmelted]

Yeah, they owned the small Caribbean island of Tobago for a short period of time.

[@darkpoliceplayz5199]

over seas

[@theotherdashmelted]

@Bartolomeusz Kiribati also has Paris, London and BANANA.

[@keithstevens5614]

Plantations were never set up or slaves imported, only and strictly trading. The wars with the natives were not against Tobago natives, but with the Caribs armed and transported by the Jesuits from the mainland South America.

[@dementor9852]

"Courland colonies in today's Ghana" It's the Gambia,not Ghana. An error I've just spotted.

[@JxH]

"The Gambia" to be precise. :-) !! I spotted it as well, but you beat me to it.

[@dementor9852]

@@JxH You as well.

[@sriyasodharmma4021]

@@JxH "Republic of The Gambia", to be very precise. 😁

[@RandomLorence]

Gambia + Ghana = Gamhana

[@henris9717]

2 months later and still the same

[@epikurejczyk]

fun fact about Courland is that in Ghana, they were protected by the native tribes against Dutch attacks. they cut off water and food supply for the aggressors resulting in Dutch retreat. and they had many more stories like that there. you could make a solid movie based on those adventures.

[@dawida6788]

it's in Gambia not Ghana

[@epikurejczyk]

@@dawida6788 right. My mistake.

[@awildcrusader5033]

That's very interesting

[@philipelmen6601]

The Swedish owned Saint-Barthélemy for almost a century before selling it back to the french. Not less then a year.

[@JohnSmith-sl2qc]

Yeah

[@Pyxlean]

He was talking about Guadeloupe not Saint-Barthélemy

[@ilesdunord-noobyoutuber-sx9543]

Yes your right. Being born on Guadeloupe but raised on Saint-Martin we were taught about the history of our islands and who originaly owned/colonised them.

[@ilesdunord-noobyoutuber-sx9543]

@Rollox RA the Lesser Antilles to be more exact

[@thetoyyya6890]

And we made mad money from making it a free trade port which made it become a large restocking hub for slave ships... It's not really something we like to talk about but we definitely played a decently sized part in the slave trade.

[@kristoffer-2614]

When it comes to St. Barthelemy there’s still some Swedish influence on the island. The flag of St. Barthelemy has the Three Crowns, representing Sweden, on their flag. A couple of streets have Swedish names and some streets are even bilingual in French and Swedish. Some places and buildings even have Swedish names; the airport is named after our previous king Gustaf III, there’s a fort named Fort Karl (probably after Charles XII) and the capital of the island is named Gustavia, also after King Gustaf. One of last islanders of Swedish descent Marius Stakelborough (a descendent of Swedish governour Bernt Robert Gustaf Stackelberg) died in june 2020. St. Barthelemy was our longest overseas procession, we had it from 1784 to 1878.

[@eliasbengtsson9315]

If was Tobago we only had for a year

[@kingkusnacht]

John Sutter, was a Swiss living in the US, who at one point made some attempts to colonise California. His first settlement, Sutter's Fort, is now known as Sacramento.

[@mjw907]

The first settlement in Sacramento was called "New Helvetia" meaning New Switzerland.

[@GeorgeVenturi]

What? Colonise California LOL The first Europeans to explore the California coast were the members of a Spanish sailing expedition led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo; they entered San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542, and reached at least as far north as San Miguel Island. What is now California was first settled by various Native Californian tribes before being explored by a number of Europeans during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish Empire then claimed and colonized it. In 1804 it was included in Alta California province, within the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its successful war for independence but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican-American War.

[@ashaler__]

@@GeorgeVenturi "What?" is exactly my question

[@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn]

@@mjw907 I thought the Swiss don't establish colonial empires or invade other countries, as they are neutral.

[@vieiradosreismariadelurdes9105]

​​@@GeorgeVenturi The "French" in Califórnia.... The Vikings= Denmark+ ...too

[@boodashaka2841]

New Zealand also to this day 'owns' Tokelau, Niue and the Cook Islands which are all in the "Realm of New Zealand"

[@chemikillsNZ]

Tokelau is a territory, but Niue and the Cook Islands are in "free association" with the Realm of New Zealand. The Ross dependency in Antarctica is another territory in the Realm of New Zealand

[@Scriptorsilentum]

Responsibility for them... Also, Pitcairns (UK), Penrhyn, Ross Dependency.

[@Ihomahomay]

That not a colony

[@Ihomahomay]

Australia and New Zealand never have a colony

[@sodapop1794]

Well if New Zealand tecnically had a colony then so did South Africa, when they took control over Namibia, and held on to it well passed independence

[@pedromenchik1961]

then so did Brazil, which controlled Uruguay

[@ironcheater1012]

so did Australia, which controlled papua new guinea, Nauru and possibly timor leste (but dont quote me on that on)

[@nyoni_tour6677]

I nearly wanted to comment on that unti I saw yours.

[@sodapop1794]

When Hitler suddenly wins local elections in Nambia it becomes more clear that they should have just become ZAs ninth province

[@nyoni_tour6677]

@@sodapop1794 lol 😂😂😂

[@kingguernon]

I saw the danish colonial empire in the history of the Caribbean and the history of India

[@VATJON]

IM norwegian

[@maveo5736]

I didn't see them in indian history

[@vaishalijagdale6203]

@@maveo5736 They had Nicobar Islands they sold those to Britain in 1884

[@_pixelmation_]

*Cough* bandiaterra *Cough*

[@kingguernon]

@@vaishalijagdale6203 that's why Nicobar was part of British Raj

[@thegrasswhistle5238]

I actually live in what used to be “New Sweden”. One of their settlements still exists in my home town in the form of a small log cabin and some ruins of other small buildings next to a creek. It’s called the “Lower Swedish Cabin”, but we just call it “The Swedish Cabin”. It’s one of the oldest log cabins in the United States as well. People claim they can hear ghosts and stuff at night there, so it’s considered one of the most haunted places in America. You can visit it any time, but you can only go inside on Halloween.

[@alexanderlapp5048]

I have read that New Sweden was mainly Finnish people (Sweden ruled Finland at the time). Can you tell me your thoughts on that since you are from there?

[@Zzrik]

@@alexanderlapp5048 where did you hear that from or are you just making that stuff up?, As a person of Finland-Swedish background I'm curious to why Finnish people are so bound and determined to bash or down credit their swedish brothers whom we shared a bond with for at least 500 years. Being of both cultures i see a lot of this where Finns go out of the way and make it so Sweden didn't do shit and Finland did everything, yet without the Swedish Crown where would our nation be?. I mean for 500 years everyone identified as Swedish even the Finnish population so most likely the term "Finnish" was never used so those who colonized new Sweden where all Swedish with different ethnic backgrounds.

[@alexanderlapp5048]

@@Zzrik, I think I read it someplace in Hancock, Michigan. Most likely at Soumi College (Finlandia University) I was not trying to bash Sweden or any Swedish people. There is a significant population of Finns in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The thing I was reading was just an informative piece about the contributions Finnish people made to the United States. There was nothing negative about Sweden.

[@stephenandersen4625]

I used to live in Mullica Hill, NJ reportedly named after Swedish settler Silas Mulicas.

[@timoterava7108]

@@stephenandersen4625 Mullica was originally a Finnish name Mulikka.

[@089roblox1]

The Norwegian 'colonial' empire is also known as Norgesveldet, if anyone wanted to know a fact for today.

[@gudmundls6287]

@Jemalo They would have had habited colonies too, but they were under Danish and Swedish rule for so long that they couldn't.

[@gulapa8920]

@Jemalo cough cough!! (Greenland) cough cough!

[@jeanbonnefoy1377]

Another fact: the Bouvet island is now a French one...

[@089roblox1]

@@jeanbonnefoy1377 It still remains a part of Norway in 2020 and it probably will be a part of Norway for some time.

[@HelloThere-ls7yf]

@@089roblox1 no. I just annexed it.

[@JoaoPedro-gc8mw]

I like that, you being Portuguese, you never forget Portugal when talking about colonialism like most people do.

[@sohopedeco]

He never misses an oportunity to talk about Portugal. Hahaha

[@leadharsh0616]

Everybody loves their country. I get super excited to see my country in these. Good to know the history

[@naze2659]

talking about colonialism and forgeting portugal is like doing lemonade with out the lemon

[@adamknight5089]

They basically started it all

[@Ihomahomay]

Portugal is first Colonial nations

[@matthiascoast9680]

Courlands tobago colony didn't fail ,because of natives. As Latvian from documentation we had. Netherlands who also owned part of the island took it.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Almost goes without saying, but Siberia wasn’t uninhabited.

[@franzjosefkerkhoff592]

And is still a Russian Colony

[@andrewjgrimm]

He ought to have said “sparsely populated” instead.

[@hurremhightower]

goes without saying read a book

[@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn]

There are islands of Siberia in the Arctic Ocran that are literally uninhabited, like the infamous Tsar Bomba island in the far west where rumor states that there's a city on such island, but there are more islands off the coast of central Siberia, like the Bolshevik and the October Revolution islands, which are literally uninhabited.

[@JackRabbitSlim]

But anyone who tried to go there to colonise it usually got a cold reception.

[@cTc10691]

Expected Scotland's attempted colonies in Central America to be here tbh!

[@christianZaal]

The South Sea Bubble? Too soon... Too soon.... ;-)

[@thecrazysunflower9360]

Good video! I just wanted to point out that Sweden actually controlled St Barthelemy for close to a hundred years, from 1784-1878

[@thomasmartin8917]

You forgot Australia’s rule over PNG, the Solomon Islands and now most of Antartica and all of Norfolk Island.

[@pingnick]

USA guano etc hahaha phillipines and so on - definitely japan huge history yeah Arab colonization of Africa interesting etc

[@Frahamen]

Not to mention, Spain and there colonies...

[@markdelahoya9763]

@@pingnick what happened in the philippines?

[@pingnick]

@@markdelahoya9763 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_in_the_Philippines

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

The people Norfolk Island have a standing protest against the hostile Australian occupation as well as a tent embassy.

[@andreastjm6959]

The fact that Norway actually colonized iceland greenland and the faroe islands, but Denmark formed a union over us, so they get the credit..

[@zhkoende2379]

undskyld?

[@consumebees1404]

When you colonize the biggest island on Earth along with multiple other smaller ones (Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes), be the first Europeans to have a settlement in North America (Vinland), and terrorize Europe for centuries (viking age), but get no credit for it: n o r w a y

[@mikemikkelsen5666]

@@consumebees1404 Dude Denmark was the strongest viking and we were the first Vikings known

[@noahgr8]

the danish vikings took over norway before they both took over lands, like, faroe islands, iceland, greenland, vinland, (new foundland???) so.....

[@consumebees1404]

@@mikemikkelsen5666 Back then there wasn't concepts of nationality yet, so in the case of my comment Norse people are simply regarded as Scandinavian or Icelandic (who's slightly more Celtic and cold Norway, basically)

[@jackdaw1905]

You could have mentioned Franz-Josef-Land für Austria (an Archipelago in the Arctic Sea discovered by Austria and now owned by Russia)

[@michaelbuchinger6191]

True I mean it is even named after an austrian emperor

[@simonbii5625]

9:54 The island of Saint Barthelmy was ruled by Sweden between the years 1784-1878 which is closer to 94 years, not 1 year. Their biggest city, Gustavia is even named aver the Swedish king during that period, Gustav III. The island also has several streets with Swedish names, the welcome sign when you arrive has the word "välkommen" which means welcome in English. The coat of arms even includes three crowns as a reference to their Swedish colonial rule.

[@GeorgeVenturi]

Cool you have a city name after your king. We named whole countries after our kings. For example Philippines for our king Phillip. And even his wife Maria de Austria got the Mariana Islands.

[@ZyXxOmAn]

@@GeorgeVenturi so?

[@ccane978]

@@GeorgeVenturi you’re country got the name from the romans

[@britishperson6276]

A way to get cash from colonies: sell them to France or Britain

[@joebloggs396]

Or US.

[@Rivan98]

I think this video needs a part 2, talking about the empires of USA, Japan, Australia, Scotland, Oman and maybe China

[@paulgordon6949]

I agree. Good call particularly with the Omani empire, and the Scottish one. Scotland tried to colonise a part of modern day Panama and it went terribly. They all died and it just about bankrupted the country. Good Times.

[@simonebaruzzi156]

also Tuscany tried in Venezuela and failed . while Venice and Genoa had their empire in the black sea and eastern mediterranean sea .. so in another continent .

[@stvasile]

Very nice video! It was interesting to watch! I appreciate the irony starting at 7:41 : Maria Theresa founded the Austrian Company of Trieste that tried establishing a gold mining company on the coast - the latter being in... Africa.

[@ultimatestoryteller]

Random European colonizer : "so our colony would be like a start-up" *Britain , France , Spain etc : "well you see , we are the big businesses then"*

[@zed3443]

Croatia (Dubrovnik-Ragusa) had colony in India 💪🏻🇭🇷

[@keizervanenerc5180]

A few years back i wrote an article about the Courland/Latvian colonization attempts in the 17th century. They pretty much only tried a few times, mostly in the Gambia and on the Carabean island of Tobago. Courland had a pretty big fleet at that point in time, so commercially the colonies were somewhat of a succes for a few years. However the setler colony on Tobago was plagued with... well plagues. Europeans did not fit well into the tropical climate and harsh conditions, and the first few settlements got wiped out after a few years. I believe the 3rd try on Tobago was a bit more succesful, but that was partially due to the fact the Courish were kind of working together with a Dutch effort to colonize the island at that point. The colonial attempts of Courland seized to exist after a few decades. The nation got caught up in a massive war between Sweden and Poland, the Duke got captured and the fleet was unable to compete with larger nation in the long term. All Courish settlements were either abandoned or taken over by other colonial powers.

[@stankyjoe3458]

I saw this in my recommended and didn’t realize it was released like 5 minutes ago

[@jsonattard2179]

In the same way of the New Zealand Empire, Australia controlled Papua New Guinea, from 1932-1975, and Narau, from 1927-1968. Today Australia also controls Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. the Cocos (or Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. All of these are part of Australia, but are given autonomy as Overseas Territories. Australia also has claims on Antartica, with the Australia Antarctic territory (AAT), but after the Antartica Treaty in 1959, this became inactive.

[@Random_Panda_eating_cake]

What you stated in Antarctica is incorrect all nations who claimed land at the time of the Antarctic treaty still claim that land but for research only

[@K3rr-wth]

Britain: Of course! I'm doing it for research! Definitely research! Also Britain: Colony, colony, colony, colony, colony. If that's not 'research', I don't know what it is!

[@seanlander9321]

Australia’s neighbours in Antarctica recognise its claim. So when your neighbours agree the boundary between you that’s the end of any argument about who own what.

[@robinryan4429]

I doubt that any Antarctic claims will ever be recognised but Australia has an undoubted sub-Antarctic territory, the Heard and McDonald Islands; there is also Macquarie island, halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica, which we pretend is part of Tasmania, even having a postcode which makes it seem like a Hobart suburb.

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

"Courland colonies in Ghana" Shows a map of Gambia

[@tomaszzalewski4541]

Details

[@Marcus-rs6fr]

3:23 mistake, you probably meant Gambia, not Ghana

[@jonathanr.]

Another mistake - Polish flag is upside down, shown this way becomes Indonesia's flag.

[@jonathanr.]

@⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ He's talking about Poland and Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth so it is incorrect no matter what.

[@larslindahl8367]

Saint Bartholomew was held by Sweden almost 100 years, not one year Nothing was mentioned about Sweden's Baltic dominions; Estonia, West Russia, Pommerania, Bremen Verden etc

[@jtinalexandria]

Great video, but when you mention the main European colonial empires at the beginning, you list Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy - but you forgot Belgium, which held the Belgian Congo under King Leopold.

[@wafelswafels8613]

No not true, that was ONLY private property of leopold 2, after 1908 when leopold had to give its colony away belgium got it. I mean that leopolds colony wasn't a belgian colony so you schould not call the congo belgian.

[@br3menPT]

@@wafelswafels8613 yeah...but was rule by the belgian king

[@wafelswafels8613]

@@br3menPT True but that doesn't mean begium had anything to do with it. It was his private property not belgiums.

[@CharlesTirrell]

At 3:22 you showed "Courland Colonies in Today's Ghana." I think that is a mistake and should in "The Gambia." Besides that, great video! Loved it :)

[@manuelsilva8528]

The fact that some of these nations are actually quite bigger and stronger, makes me think how Portugal stood its colonies the way it did.

[@howardstern8720]

Portugal had a colony?

[@br3menPT]

@@howardstern8720 dozens...

[@jrexx2841]

Best Geopolitics/History Channel

[@andrewlim9345]

Thanks for the discussion of NZ and Samoa. NZ still had a large Samoan ethnic population and there are still close ties between the two countries. NZ also still had a dependency called Tokelau in the Pacific as well as two associated states called Cook Islands and Niue, which are independent but they look to NZ for defense and foreign policy. They also retain NZ citizenship.

[@NoDrNo]

Cook Islands are in for a shock when we show up in our tug boats equipped with our .303's to defend them....we're bringing a butter knife to a nuke fight.

[@Vilgotczky]

9:57 Incorrect, St. Barths were the longest Swedish colony and existed between 1784-1878 and Guadeloupe were just for one year 1813-1814.

[@Germ_f]

2:31 "When you think of early modern empires, your mind wwent off and think of Latvia as being a colonizer"

[@tomaszzalewski4541]

I honestly never imagined that latvia had colonies. It's really amazing

[@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn]

@@tomaszzalewski4541 Courland could possibly declare its independence, as it is already an autonomous territory.

[@paperbagman9445]

This looks like a good one

[@CoverHistory]

The Austrian was unexpected

[@outerspace7391]

He failed to mention that Austria had plans to colonize northern Borneo

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

@@outerspace7391 Well one could argue that "plans" may be a bit of a stretch to be included in a brief overview like this

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

Yes, but it borders on nitpicking :) - Austria was the only european power that was thoroughly landlocked, even though there was access to the Adria. You could theoretically argue that under Karl V. Austria/Habsburg was the biggest colonial empire of the time due to the spanish possessions - there's still the Motto AEIOU (alles Erdreich ist Österrich untertan - roughly "all Earth is subject to Austria") - but Austria never was a naval Power (of any significance) so there was no real drive behind colonialism, no entrepreneurship to push it and of course that in the haydays of colonialism the power of Habsburg came from the holy roman empire, a loose conglomerate of principalities and not from solid national entities like England, France or Spain - the Austrian Empire was only established in 1804, when the cake was already more or less sliced and eaten, and of course the fact that the Habsburgs were never really conquerors. Aggressive expansion was, aside from the Balkans maybe, never really their forte - they inherited and were pretty good at it :)

[@evanschemenauer1356]

New Zealand still has some additional colonies in Niue, Cook Islands, Tokelau and a claim to Antarctica. Australia also has several colonies. The list was much longer in the early 1900's but still consists of a handful of islands and a claim to Antarctica.

[@malteliskibergwall4762]

Saint-Barthélemy was controlled by Sweden for 96 years from 1784-1878 and another cool thing was that there capital is called Gustavia named after the Swedish king Gustav III who bought them

[@malteliskibergwall4762]

I said this because I think he said we only had it for one year

[@Jack_today]

You missed the kingdom of Scotland, had colonies in Canada and the USA as well as attempting to colonise Panama. And colonised the eastern part of NI. Also Russia had colonies

[@Carloshache]

I think the line is very blurry between European colonialism and "normal" empires. Also many many non-European states could be considered colonizers. For Japan's expansion into Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria was definitely colonial, and on an industrial scale. The Khedivate of Egypt did take part in the "scramble for Africa" when they colonized present day Sudan and South Sudan. Even the borders of modern day Ethiopia reflect Emperor Meneliks huge territorial expansion that happened during the African scramble era (1878-1904), taking territories belonging to the Oromos, Somalis and many other peoples. In this way Ethiopia did take part in the colonization of Africa. which is still a reflected in the ethnic tensions in the present day country. Oman was definitely a Middle Eastern colonial Empire in - ruling many coastlines of eastern Africa and western Asia and profiting imensly on on slave trade and traded with spices harvested by slaves - from modern day Pakistan to modern day Mozambique. They also threw out the Portuguese from many areas. Several Indian states did colonize parts of South East Asia. Was the Ottoman empire a colonial empire? - It ruled many countries a a long way from its core territory, also very far away places such as Aceh in Indonesia and modern day Eritrea in east Africa.

[@Riddleiculous632]

Fun fact: Norway was the first ever colonial empire, having settlements in Newfoundland in the 1040s.

[@Hixaren2]

Interesting topic. Sweden rules at Barthelemy for 100 years not 1. Also what about Japan and Belgium?

[@tetra4289]

Yeah im surprised he didn' mention belgium

[@JohnHenryEden2277]

@@tetra4289 Belgium is pretty well known.

[@tomaszmurzyn2928]

Japan is pretty well known

[@Turplemaple6318]

Uses Indian map in thumbnail Indians: You have once again provoked our powers

[@loyalpetpmim-rand-kutta7556]

😅😂

[@Turplemaple6318]

@Olivia Addison yeah i was late

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

Belgium colonising Congo: Not big enough to be a colonial power, too big to be in the lesser-known section.

[@sohopedeco]

Same with the US with the Philipines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc, and Japan with Korea and Formosa.

[@General.Knowledge]

I literally thought this when making the list. I was going to include Belgium because it's a small empire but then I thought - no, everyone knows about it already!

[@diarllugaliu1943]

@@General.Knowledge but what about USA Colonies?

[@beauchum]

If Russia was a land based expansion of Empire then you could say the same about the United States of America expanding west like Russia expanded east. Also if Russia is a colonial empire then so is China except they did it much earlier in areas that were not as sparsely populated as Siberia, for the most part.

[@romeforeverr]

@@diarllugaliu1943 the USA does have colonies but it isn’t an empire.

[@aldrintoscano]

5:05 The Ragusan Colony in India was in the village of São Braz (now called Gandaulim), in Goa. My family's native village is near to that place.

[@mybrandnewlogin]

Poland was trying to set up a colonial outpost in Angola in the 1930s. I think there was even a Polish coffee plantation there. And then there was also one failed attempt of a kind-of-colonial relation with Liberia just somewhere around 1936.

[@br3menPT]

No, they wanted to buy some lands in Angola...but the portuguese government never accepted

[@gorzux2829]

Chile annexed Rapa Nui (then called Easter Island/Isla de Pascua) from the kingdom that was sovereign of the island under the mistranslation of a treaty of protection which in spanish said another thing. It's a pretty interesting history the one of Rapa Nui and I would consider that it is an example of colonization by a Latinoamerican country as it is located on another continent which is Polynesia, Oceania. I recommend you reading through the history of the island and specially from their people

[@a2falcone]

It was already called Rapa Nui then, and it's still called Easter Island now. Both names are interchangeable. The island was treated as a colony: it was exploited for cattle herding by a private company though a concession, and the natives were Chilean nationals but not citizens (i.e. had no political rights). This changed in 1966, when the island was fully incorporated as a territory with equal legal status to the rest of Chile.

[@ArcueidBrunestudReal]

That island was a legacy of the spanish empire so it cannot be considered a colony

[@Daavlavi]

Rapa nui actually a chilian colony...

[@gorzux2829]

Rapa Nui wasn't part of the Spanish empire, it was annexed by Chile in 1888

[@mightymagnus]

Saint Barthelemy was Swedish 1784 - 1878 and it's capital is still called Gustavia after the Swedish king at the time (Guadeloupe was formally a year, although 4 years in total 1810-1814)

[@adrielgarciauwu]

Australia had colonies too. Papua New Guinea and Nauru were former colonies. PNG being the largest. Australia still owns Norfolk island, cocos (keeling) islands, Christmas Island, and a bunch of other islands. They even governed New Zealand for a bit.

[@adamknight5089]

Yeah NZ were just another state of Australia, until we all decided they should be independent state

[@sebastianfandino7553]

There was also a short-lived colony of Scotland in Panama. (Darien scheme)

[@DJMattEmpathy]

Aren't you forgetting the Darien Expedition by Scotland? It was that that led to the Union and the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[@kakashi9557]

U forgot the empire of Oman Muscat

[@FilipinoPatriott]

I'm so happy someone finally recognized Courland!! Love to our Latvian brothers 🇱🇻❤🇵🇭

[@ognjenstanic2210]

Awsome i love history but i didnt know anything about these colonial empires. Thank you

[@General.Knowledge]

You're welcome! :)

[@agnivnandi419]

Wow! I never knew about Austrian India, despite being Indian. I knew there had been Danish colonies in Nicobar and Serampore, but Austria!? That was unexpected!

[@ritobhashbhattacharya2795]

there was also a Dutch colony in Issapore (now Ichapur) and in the nearby delta regions in Bengal... There are a few buildings there remaining as well.

[@Scriptorsilentum]

what architecture remains?

[@nurdle]

imagine if Malta was a super power and fought in the world wars with it's own colonies as it's allies...

[@riowarner0617]

Too much pastizzi

[@riowarner0617]

You guys did well in 1564 btw

[@nurdle]

@@riowarner0617 what? Canada didn't exist then...

[@riowarner0617]

@@nurdle cos if you're Maltese 156r defeated the ottomans

[@thegloomykoala]

YES (i live in malta)

[@user-gx9xf2zb6o]

Many Westerners complain about Japan's past colonies, but But when it comes to their own history of colonization, they talk happily.

[@DanielSmith-ky9uf]

Do you mean Western Europe?

[@mariatheresavonhabsburg]

Japan's imperialism is notoriously known to be accompanied with genocide.

[@slamtilt01]

You should check out New Zealand’s Realm countries. The Cook Island 🌴 , Niue 🇳🇺,Tokelau 🇹🇰 and the Ross Dependency in Antarctica 🇦🇶

[@jaffacakenjoyer]

🇨🇰

[@AaronCookeEngines]

You have made me realise that I thought I knew more than I did about colonialism, thanks for making this video. Great quality too!

[@MiguelLopez-yc2rh]

Doesnt USA count as a colonial empire? It has had a lot of insular territories at the pacific and at the caribean sea. What about Liberia and Panama Canal Zone?

[@CountScarlioni]

It was more like Russia and Austria at first, in that the USA was expansionist, but mostly concentrated on claiming contiguous westward regions and pushing against its neighbours (both Canada and Mexico were attacked during the 19th century with an aim on incorporating them into the USA). Things shifted a lot with the 1898 Spanish-American war which occurred at the height of the "New Imperialism" era. The US took over the foreign colonies of Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The same year the USA also annexed Hawaii. These new possessions transformed the US into a European style colonial empire, and one of the bigger ones at that. The Panama canal zone followed a couple of years later. It was a fairly benign deal by the standards of the time although hypocritical considering the US denied France and Britain the right to their own Suez Canal Zone in Egypt 50 years later.

[@MiguelLopez-yc2rh]

@@CountScarlioni Dont forget their history with Liberia and the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo.

[@kenaikuskokwim9694]

Few of us would complain if the Puerto Ricans left, but they won't.

[@mightymagnus]

Not sure if that factory in India can be called a colony, there was also a factory in Canton by the Swedish East India Company (Ostindiska kompaniet with HQ in Gothenburg, building still standing and is history museum) a fun thing is that the Swedish flag can be seen in contemporary paintings of Canton: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Factories#/media/File:Canton_factories.jpg

[@TurtleChad1]

A Turtle approves these unknown colonial empires.

[@gabrielboeno4258]

A idiot aproves the turtle coment

[@mightymagnus]

New Sweden should be mentioned first it was much larger than Cabo Corso (Swedish Gold Coast) and built from scratch (the advisor was Peter Minuit that is famous from buying Manhattan for the Dutch)

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

If General Knowledge formed his own empire it would be the best one of all time

[@iblame_darian]

Hey commie

[@neutralboi1984]

@@iblame_darian how rude

[@iblame_darian]

@@neutralboi1984 I'm not wrong. Look at his discord server

[@neutralboi1984]

@@iblame_darian how did you get his discord server

[@iblame_darian]

@@neutralboi1984 I'm Jotaro Kujo, Why wouldn't I have had his discord server

[@kimbonzky]

Greenland, parts of Scorland, the Faroe Islands, Isle of Man and parts of Sweden used to be controlled by Norway before the colonial era

[@Artaios02]

The Cook Islands are also a colony of New Zealand, and Nauru was shared with Australia and the UK. As Norway, they also claim a part of the Antarctica.

[@mmartijn78]

New Zeeland + Australia = Dutch

[@republicofglarnesia186]

Hey man nice video, my ancestors are danish colonizers that went to at at croix, nice to know more facts about the empire haha

[@stephen9381]

0:28 I mean japans economy was pretty heavily influenced by the British, Russian Dutch and Americans

[@DutchTunisian]

By the Portuguese to!

[@CoolioXXX52]

what?

[@Pyxlean]

Only the Economy not the Politics though

[@jayseaandfriends]

@@Pyxlean I mean the economy influences politics

[@Pyxlean]

@@jayseaandfriends Well Japan adopted the Western Expansion Policy on its own. I might say that after the Meiji restoration the Politics and Economy didn't have much influence from the west

[@michaeldudash]

man I was laying down why did you have to make me get out of bed and stand up for the first minute of this video

[@Sofus.]

The ex-Danish colonial buildings in India have just been renovated (reconstructed). An inn, university, church and a fort

[@leadharsh0616]

Oh I didn't noticed in the news. Maybe it's not so popular in north. The news is full of farmers nowadays

[@lxrdsacrifice]

fun fact: austria-hungary had a small neighborhood in china, brunei and a small part of malaysia

[@a2falcone]

Chile annexing Easter Island in 1888: "You know, I'm something of a colonial empire myself". Sad that you missed this one, though, because unlike most, it was a success and not a short lived initiative. And later in the 60s, Easter Island and the natives gained equal status with the rest of Chile.

[@joebloggs396]

This misses anything not European.

[@ArcueidBrunestudReal]

That island was a legacy of the spanish empire so it cannot be considered a colony

[@a2falcone]

@@ArcueidBrunestudReal not at all. Easter Island wasn't colonized before. It had been subject to all kind of abuses (enslavement, piracy and more), but no foreign power established permanent presence there. It was first annexed by a foreign power by Chile in 1888, long after Chile had become independent.

[@ArcueidBrunestudReal]

@@a2falcone esa isla fue herencia de España. Ya desde la epoca del virreinato del Peru estaba reclama por España. Y por ende sus herederos (Peru y Chile) tenian argumentos para quedarse con la isla

[@ArcueidBrunestudReal]

@@a2falcone si no sabes la historia de Chile por favor no escribas de dicho pais. Chile no es un pais imperialista

[@mirkoalbe4264]

Ragusa wasn't a croatian city but an Italian maritime Republic as Venice and Genoa until the Republic of Venice conquisted it. It become croatian only after WW1 because was part of Austo-hungarian empire

[@clunston]

I think you should know New Zealand actually was very into colonialism. Policy makers had ambitions for New Zealand to be the ‘Britain of the south seas’ in a cultural aswell as colonial sense. New Zealand to this day administers cook islands, Nuie and Tokelau with Samoa gaining independence in the 60’s. Not to mention New Zealand’s conquest of Maori held lands in the New Zealand Wars. New Zealand was not only involved with pacific colonialism, it was quite prolific especially for its small size.

[@adamknight5089]

Yeah but these days they don't even have their own navy or air force, relying on Australia

[@clunston]

@@adamknight5089 new zealand has both of those things

[@adamknight5089]

@@clunston Patrol boats and trainer aircraft don't count.

[@AveragePakistaniChild]

Love how some of South America is apart of Europe.

[@aidandelgass4701]

In the Courland Colonial Emprire section it shows a map of The Gambia but labels it “Ghana”

[@alexgrabienski4185]

Maybe the danish and norwegian wikings could be mentioned for their settlements and colonies in Britain, Greenland and North America, and don't forget, they populated Iceland and the Faroese Islands. Also the swedish wikings, who where primary active in East Europe, founded several trading posts in the Ukraine, Russia and Turkey (they had trading posts in Constantinople) and their settlers in Ukraine and Russia created the Kingdom of Nowgorod.

[@lamskc]

“And finally New Zealand” Me: ‘Sad Polish noises.’

[@FilK79]

Ragusa was not a Croatian state but a stateon its own with much more links to Venice and Serbia than to Croatia. Also, in 3:25 you are showig a map of Gambia, not Ghana. Abraço!

[@gustavn654]

sweden had Saint Barthélemy for almost 100 years, 94 to be exact

[@Okami1313]

If New Zealand counts you have to count Japan who gained Pacific islands off of Germany as well. Not to mention their colonization of Okinawa, Hokkaido, Taiwan, and Korea amongst others

[@Hendricus56]

Guys, join the General Knowledge Discord server and talk with other fans and sometimes GK himself

[@jonigiri9335]

yeah, GK once told me where to buy pasteis de nata in my city (they were so good!!!)

[@Hendricus56]

@Roberto Hagge yea, you can talk to GK there. He is often hard to catch though

[@jaydenferris7464]

02:26 Ethiopia is also a country that has never been colonised, it hasn’t been highlighted on the map

[@NorwayCB872]

and later it got Invaded by Italy since 1935

[@edwinlomax6342]

New Zealand invaded SaMOA in 1914, it also has dependencies in the Coolk Islands, Nuie, and Tokelau Islands as well as parts of Antarctica, Sott Base.

[@lanceyoung9955]

If you're going to bring up a New Zealand empire, why not mention the parts that are technically still associated with NZ like the Cook Islands, Tokelau and Niue and the Part of Antarctica that NZ claims.

[@radustana]

Fun fact colonial empires technicaly still exist because they still have a bunch of island and france has some land in south America

[@Hamsteak]

It's pretty cool the part of my heritage from my grandpa is Latvian 🇱🇻, but specifically Courland. Where his last name is part the the "Curonian Kings". History and famil history is quite interesting

[@tomaszmurzyn2928]

Czy wy nadal mówicie tam po niemiecku?

[@originalhistory4446]

Thank you so much for doing these!

[@gabrielfrund9497]

Switzerlandchad a kind of colony in Brazil (1818) called "Nova Fribourgo"

[@CountryballBrasilmapperCBM]

a immigrant colony, like Holambra or even Mococa