Countries That Changed Their Location

whenever we think of a country one of the main things we think about is where it is what its borders are shaped like and what region of the world it is a part of if you think of France you think of Europe if you think of Brazil you think of South America our concepts of countries are definitely connected to their locations however throughout history some countries have seemingly done the impossible move where they exist either by choice or being forced by circumstances various Nations throughout time have picked up and simply moved to another location re-establishing their country in another region in this video we're going to list out a few of those examples understanding which countries moved when from where to where and why foreign first Bulgaria it is said the first Bulgarian people originated somewhere in Asia it's uncertain where but historians have at least determined that in around the 7th Century that settled in what is today Ukraine and Crimea the old country of great Bulgaria existed between 632 and 668. they were eventually defeated by the avads and the khazads and the destruction of this early country led to the migration of bulgarians to various regions places like Italy Greece the Dinuba Basin or even Anatolia saw small Bulgarian communities move there but there were two real successor states to this ancient Bulgarian country first Volga Bulgaria which as its name indicates established itself along the Volga River North of where they existed before and second the first Bulgarian Empire which migrated to where Modern Bulgaria is although also stretching into Romania Ukraine and the rest of the Balkans Volvo Bulgaria lasted quite a long time up to the 1240s when they were destroyed by the Mongol invasions of Russia but the Balkan bulgarians were able to endure sure the Empire itself didn't last being replaced by other entities and sometimes even being occupied by other Empires but a bulgarians themselves remained the main ethnic group of people in this region the second Bulgarian Empire was also tremendously successful and after ottoman occupation Bulgaria recovered its independence lasting as a country until today a perfect example of a set of people that initially established their country in one region but were forced by circumstances to move and move it somewhere else next we moved to Africa to take a look at Ghana it's important to note that unlike Bulgaria ancient Ghana and modern Ghana are not connected they can only be viewed as a country that moved in the sense that there was a country called Ghana in one place it disappeared and now there's a country called Ghana in another place the Ghana Empire existed in what is today more Tanya and Mali from 300 to around 1100 A.D they eventually went into Decay and became a vassal of the neighboring Mali Empire hundreds of years later in 1957 the British colony of the Gold Coast renamed itself as Ghana upon Independence in honor and remembrance of the historic African Empire although their Geographic boundaries never overlapped Not only was their territory different but the people themselves might have been as well it is thought that after the collapse of the Empire some people may have migrated South with a few making it as far south as present-day Ghana however there is very little evidence to prove this claim before we continue though I have to thank nordvpn who made this video possible through their sponsorship nordvpn is a good friend of the channel and not only have I worked with him for a while but I actually used their VPN myself here are four key reasons you should use norvpn first you get online protection with a single click two you don't have to miss your favorite content either when you're traveling or when you want to access content from another country's streaming catalogs three you can stay safe from malware using their threat protection feature which keeps away malware trackers scans your files is like an incorporated antivirus and four 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has all these names is precisely because of those location changes the Order of Malta is a very interesting case of a country that today has no territory but still exists if you want I can make a full video on it it was founded in 1048 when Italian Merchants obtained permission from the Muslims to establish a monastic community in Jerusalem when Jerusalem was retaken by the Muslims in 1291 after being held by the Crusaders they moved to Cyprus but they cannot deal with the local politics well enough to establish themselves permanently so in 1310 they moved to the island of Rhodes to attempt to establish their own Sovereign Nation they remained there until 1522 when the Ottoman Empire took the island after this they kept island hopping in in the Mediterranean remaining without territory for a while but in 1530 they reached Malta from where they get their modern name the current flag of Malta is still inspired by them as well an island gifted to them by Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire in Spain oh and also from 1651 to 1665 the order bought four islands in the Caribbean from the French attempting to establish their own Colonial Empire Saint Bartholome Saint Christopher senkoa and Saint Martin then selling them back to the French Napoleon eventually conquered the island in 1798 forcing the order to leave and having them find refuge in Russia in Saint Petersburg in 1806 the Swedish government offered the sovereignty of the island of gotland to the order but they rejected it because they would have had to renounce their claim to Malta in order to accept however this renowning ended up happening in 1815 so they might as well have taken gotland they returned to Italy residing in various towns until they made their way to Rome where they remain up to today an official Southern country that moved around so many times existing today in only a palace in Rome back in Africa is Benin which has an almost identical situation to that of Ghana the modern state of Benin is here while the ancient Kingdom of Benin was here and the two have almost no connection other than its Regional proximity and name the kingdom of Benin is in modern day Nigeria although its old capital of Edo is now known as Benin City it was annexed by the British in 1897 becoming a part of the Nigerian colony and then becoming independent as a part of modern Nigeria the people of the kingdom of Benin were the Edo and the ogiso none of which make up the various ethnic groups of modern day Benin because modern Benin was actually named the homie before after the kingdom of the home that existed there from 1600 to 1904. by the way having some of the coolest flags and coat of arms ever they became a French colony and eventually got independence back in 1958 but still still used this name in 1975 though the country was renamed to Benin after the bite of Benin this ocean area right here which was in turn named after the ancient Benin Empire not necessarily a country that moved in itself but a name that moved being only connected through sharing the same region and perhaps also in homage of the ancient Kingdom next is another European country Magyar Hungary the establishment of modern Hungary can trace its history back to the migration of the Magyar people into Europe the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian Basin took place in the 9th and 10th centuries the Hungarian soldiers were familiar with the areas as they were often hired as mercenaries to fight there for other European powers namely that first Bulgarian Empire we saw after being attacked by the peshnex and the bulgarians themselves in their Eastern hometowns they migrated to Europe and eventually established themselves permanently in this region in this map we can see the process of these migrations from an initial State called Magna ungaria near the Ural Mountains to the Black Sea Coast Ukraine and finally into the Carpathian Basin where modern day Hungary partially is in this other map of Europe from the year 900 we can see how the region is still labeled as magyats with the passionates controlling the regions east of there where the hungarians were pushed from another example of a country or at least a nation and people that were forced to move from one region to another we can also take a look at the Mughal Empire the Mughal Empire was established by a leader called babur in the 16th century he was a warrior ruler in what is today Uzbekistan with military aid from the Ottomans which provided them with cannons and guns they managed to conquer vast territories reaching into what is today Afghanistan Northern India and Pakistan especially after the defeat of the Sultan of Delhi in 1526. after that they moved further south and at one point controlled almost all of the Indian subcontinent the mughals eventually lost their ancestral lands in Uzbekistan remaining in the South until they were destroyed and effectively seen their territory move from one place to the other over the course of time a consequence of both their military successes and Conquest in the South and their military defeats in the north however when we think about it the Mughal example is simply one of Conquest sure they lost the entire territory where they began as a country but there wasn't a break from location a to location C ignoring b along the way there was a continuous expansion that was then taken away on one side Poland for instance is also a great example of this and a country that if we assume this additional criteria could also be described as having moved locations polish borders have changed tremendously throughout history to the point of the country actually not existing a few times this is also a fascinating subject I want to do a full video on leave a comment to let me know if you'd be interested in it this map shows us an overlay of the different borders that polish states have had throughout history from arguably the first Polish state under bolslow the first moving to the gigantic polish Lithuanian Commonwealth to the second polish Republic that was much smaller losing Eastern territory this polish Republic was then occupied by Germany and the USSR losing its eastern territory to the Soviets even after being reformed but gaining in compensation some old German territory to the West being more more closely related to the year 1000 Kingdom I have to admit I didn't know about this territorial similarity between the kingdom and the modern day state but the point is that as we can see these border changes meant great movement of the location of the country although always along contiguous territory One More Country That according to this criteria moved locations not to mention the various peoples throughout times especially nomadic ones such as the Huns which moved their nation's location all the time not settling in one place or the various Germanic people that moved into Western Europe and established in new locations forming the predecessors of what would eventually become European kingdoms and modern states such as the migration of the angles from Denmark to England where the Franks from Germany to France where each of them established the countries that became known as such so that is a brief list of a few countries that move locations throughout history some truly moving like Bulgaria Hungary or The Sovereign military order of Malta While others moved in a less true sense of the word with the moving having to be described simply as two different countries sharing the same name existing in two different regions at two different times in addition to others that could also be categorized as having moved if we expand the definition to include extreme border changes along a contiguous territory as Poland is such a good example of do you agree that these countries moved or not and are there any other moving countries that I didn't mention let me know in the comments thanks so much for watching this video subscribe if you want and I will see you next 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Published: Fri Jun 02 2023