How has Liechtenstein Managed to stay Independent?

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Liechtenstein is the fourth smallest country in Europe, and also one of the richest. It's Prince is perhaps the most powerful monarch in Europe. But how has this small, rich principality stayed independent for all these years?
Some Sources:
Liechtenstein: History and Institutions of the Principality
by Raton, Pierre
The Sovereignty of Liechtenstein by Walter S. G. Kohn
www.liechtenstein.li/en/count...
www.inyourpocket.com/vaduz/th...
www.napoleon.org/en/history-o...
www.liechtensteinusa.org/page/...
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  • @TheGeneralistPapers
    @TheGeneralistPapers3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching! Let me know other small countries you want me to cover. CORRECTION: the castle liechtenstein shown in the video is in Wuttenburg, Germany. The one I meant to put is in Austria. My mistake.

  • @zdtfdfhgjk

    @zdtfdfhgjk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I also got confused by that in my research of the family. I corrected the mistake before putting it down in any written form though. (I do most of my work in my head.)

  • @RSmyII

    @RSmyII

    3 жыл бұрын

    Rob is my o

  • @NovelIdeaIndeed

    @NovelIdeaIndeed

    2 жыл бұрын

    San Marino!

  • @jeffgerritsen6502

    @jeffgerritsen6502

    2 жыл бұрын

    Andorra.

  • @peterg.8941

    @peterg.8941

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's called Württemberg and not Wuttenburg 😅

  • @jorgkohler-schunk640
    @jorgkohler-schunk6402 жыл бұрын

    The castle that you have shown as the "Castle of the Liechtenstein Family" is in fact lying in Württemberg in germany and is named "Lichtenstein" - after a novel by the German Autor Wilhelm Hauff. It was built in the middle of the 19th century by a second born of the house of Württemberg. So it has nothing to do with "Liechtenstein" as a country.

  • @tomdaly5036

    @tomdaly5036

    2 жыл бұрын

    qq

  • @jmpht854
    @jmpht8542 жыл бұрын

    A component you missed in the Austrian connection: The Houses of Habsburg-Lorraine and Liechtenstein were staunchly Roman Catholic, whereas the German Empire was unified under the Protestant Prussians.

  • @tommoncrieff1154

    @tommoncrieff1154

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, this is a very important point. It explains a lot of European borders such as Ireland and Northern Ireland.

  • @txtoolfan

    @txtoolfan

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeah thats kinda a huge foundational piece of this story he left out

  • @eljanrimsa5843

    @eljanrimsa5843

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, but in that part of the world the big religious wars were fought 200 years earlier. Big parts of South and West Germany are Catholic, that didn't matter when creating the Empire.

  • @pedanticradiator1491

    @pedanticradiator1491

    2 жыл бұрын

    Religion did not really come into the creation of the Prussian dominated German Empire as Bavaria was and is very much catholic but was a major player in the empire

  • @papapok13
    @papapok132 жыл бұрын

    Liechtenstein: -didn't have an army -most memed for its army suffering negative casualities in a war

  • @bensteven3091

    @bensteven3091

    2 жыл бұрын

    It did once have an army. Sporting 12 soldiers. They went off and returned with 13. They picked a guy up who joined them. It became then clear that the idea of having an army is pointless and it was abolished.

  • @hansberger4939

    @hansberger4939

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bensteven3091 Liechtenstein army had 80 soldiers. There last war was the prussia-austriaof 1866. And after that war it was 81 soldiers.

  • @serujiphonx9070

    @serujiphonx9070

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bensteven3091 I heard that story countrless times and xyou managed to even get the numbers wrong. This never happened. In the austro-prussian war we were ally to the Habsburgs of Austria - they wanted to send our military to prussia but we refused fighting fellow germans in a war we havent started. In the end they sent our 82 men to a mountain pass in italy, where, after no fighting broke out, we were escorted back home by an austrian general. The woman, the elder and the children who counted the men while marching back upon arrival counted 83 and were confused. They hoped for 82 and got one more, this is how this legend started.

  • @dylanmurphy9389

    @dylanmurphy9389

    2 жыл бұрын

    Money is the strongest weapon

  • @wtripley
    @wtripley3 жыл бұрын

    This channel deserves a much larger audience for the quality!

  • @markuslang8349
    @markuslang83492 жыл бұрын

    good overview but you missed a couple of things regarding the Rheinbund, Liechtenstein did not join it, not really anyways. At the time the prince of Liechtenstein was the Commander of the Austrian army. Napoleon respected his skills as such and out of that respect he included Liechtenstein into the Rheinbund but Liechtenstein never signed the the documents, since the prince was at war with napoleon.

  • @Jsmith2024
    @Jsmith20242 жыл бұрын

    The castle illustrated at 2:47 is Lichtenstein, not Liechtenstein, and it is in Baden-Wurttemberg, not Austria. It's a great place. Also, it was built in the 1800s.

  • @shonenjumpmagneto

    @shonenjumpmagneto

    2 жыл бұрын

    Germany.

  • @BrianZick
    @BrianZick3 жыл бұрын

    Another great video, thank you for making this content!

  • @alexjk2204
    @alexjk22043 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE your youtube channel! I love your art and how you explain things, I haven't seen other channels talk about these things and you do it in such a easy to understand and entertaining way! I really hope you keep making more great videos

  • @Kelz_X
    @Kelz_X2 жыл бұрын

    I stumbled onto this side of KZread and ended up subscribing 😂 I … guess it’s interesting info and I love when the drawing lifts his hand and closes his eye in each video. It’s like a literary “mic drop” you’re about to drop some knowledge on us

  • @kkrauter1
    @kkrauter12 жыл бұрын

    I was there in the summer of 1980, touring with a concert choir...it was lovely!!! Can't wait to visit again!!!

  • @beau9956
    @beau99562 жыл бұрын

    Your animations are delightful. keep up the great work

  • @ernestojr.acosta972
    @ernestojr.acosta9722 жыл бұрын

    I’ve been to Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 twice, mainly as a stopover either going to or coming back from Switzerland 🇨🇭. I didn’t even know I was in Liechtenstein if it were not for our tour guide declaring “Welcome to Liechtenstein.” It’s very quaint and quiet though. After watching this video, now I know why they like it that way, quaint and quiet.

  • @zdtfdfhgjk
    @zdtfdfhgjk3 жыл бұрын

    You make the videos I'd make if I wasn't so shy. I love them, Thank you.

  • @larrybird8655
    @larrybird86552 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video and great content I hope to see more videos soon! :)

  • @alexrafe2590
    @alexrafe25902 жыл бұрын

    A curious little side note is that the current Jacobite pretender to the British throne (silly I know, since after more than 3 centuries on Britain’s throne of the branch of the house of Stuart descended from the youngest daughter of James I’s eldest daughter, instead of the youngest daughter of his youngest son, this is about as arcane a topic of conjecture as you can get, and frankly ain’t gonna happen anyway) is the Duke of Bavaria. And his eldest daughter (he has no son) is married to the heir of the current ruler Hans Adam. And they have a son. So at some point the Jacobite pretender will have this very little principality to rule and call his own.

  • @blackjacktrial

    @blackjacktrial

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did someone say Liechtensteiner-British Union War? I believe we have casus belli! - said no one ever

  • @rodrigofernandes255
    @rodrigofernandes2552 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from Brazil. Excellent video!

  • @msinvincible2000
    @msinvincible20002 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou for this video, I always wondered

  • @isaacmiser2680
    @isaacmiser2680 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the straightforward info!

  • @minghaoxu4386
    @minghaoxu43862 жыл бұрын

    nice video, very well articulated.

  • @KvaGram
    @KvaGram2 жыл бұрын

    So Liechtenstein is basically the feudal bordergore you end up making at some point in a CK3 game, and it survives over the ages as an eyesore until it just ends up as an independent state.

  • @2712animefreak

    @2712animefreak

    2 жыл бұрын

    Even on the inside it's bordergore. Just look at the administrative divisions map.

  • @MemphiStig

    @MemphiStig

    2 жыл бұрын

    bordergore? thank you for teaching me a new word!

  • @richardgibson3160
    @richardgibson31602 жыл бұрын

    Nicely and entertainingly explained 😊👍

  • @theeutecticpoint
    @theeutecticpoint3 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating, thanks!

  • @dominiqueschaffner308
    @dominiqueschaffner3082 жыл бұрын

    Very educational and well told..

  • @dominiqueschaffner308

    @dominiqueschaffner308

    2 жыл бұрын

    A story about Andorra or San Marino would be nice

  • @rtleitao78
    @rtleitao782 жыл бұрын

    Loved the video

  • @annettemalaski1967
    @annettemalaski19672 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! You made a bland topic very interesting!

  • @danielcarlsen2217
    @danielcarlsen22172 жыл бұрын

    A great information channel

  • @BooksBooks-oo9lz
    @BooksBooks-oo9lz Жыл бұрын

    Wow, I learned so much from this video on Liechtenstein! It's amazing how such a small country has such a rich and complex history. If you're interested in learning more about Liechtenstein, I highly recommend the book 'A Journey Through Liechtenstein's Fascinating History' by Lea Marie Nigg. It's a beautiful and informative book that offers a unique perspective on Liechtenstein's history

  • @ThePussukka
    @ThePussukka2 жыл бұрын

    Funny how literally every time Liechtenstein is talked about, "Little Liechtenstein" has to be said atleast once

  • @carolgebert7833
    @carolgebert78332 жыл бұрын

    Prince Hans-Adam II has published a provocative book called “ The State in the Twenty First Century.” Fascinating reading for political theorists.

  • @1Krista
    @1Krista3 жыл бұрын

    2:37 You got the image wrong mate, that was Castle Lichtenstein in Wurttemburg, Germany. But indeed the one you're referring to, Liechtenstein, is in Austria.

  • @TheGeneralistPapers

    @TheGeneralistPapers

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ah, you are correct. That's my bad. Thanks so much for pointing it out

  • @frax520l

    @frax520l

    2 жыл бұрын

    Also, „der 7 jährige Krieg“ lastet 7 years, not weeks.

  • @olleani

    @olleani

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@frax520l I'm sure he didn't mean the 7 years war of the 1756-1763 which also pitted Austria vs Prussia, but the Deutscher Krieg in 1866 which is called 7 weeks war in the english language amongst others.

  • @peterg.8941

    @peterg.8941

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@frax520l that's not the 7 years war xD

  • @peterg.8941

    @peterg.8941

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Krista it's called Württemberg and not Wurttemburg 😉.

  • @craftchild_9151
    @craftchild_91512 жыл бұрын

    Generally interesting and good video! But im sorry I couldn’t make it through this one in one go. Tour accent had me torn between lmao and cringing. 😂🤣 But thanks for the great vid! 💕 Greetings from Germany.

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz13299 ай бұрын

    A friend once asked me to help him find the address of the Liechtenstein embassy in the U.S. This was the early Internet days, so I went online and the closest thing I could find found was the Liechtenstein Desk of the Swiss Consulate in New York City. I realized two things: Liechtenstein indeed is largely absorbed into Switzerland in terms of diplomacy, and I want to work at that Liechtenstein Desk. Gotta be an easy job.

  • @edgarlopez-asselin6274
    @edgarlopez-asselin62742 жыл бұрын

    Small heads up : the picture you show at 2:40 is of the Schloss Lichtenstein im Land Baden-Württemberg, which never belonged to the Liechtenstein dynasty.

  • @jppitman1
    @jppitman19 ай бұрын

    I learned a dozen years ago or more that Liechtenstein had at least SOME industry inside the principality. I noticed embossed in naturally tiny letters within the Neutrik XLR connectors our company bought the words "Made in Liechtenstein". Who knew!

  • @cyrilmarasigan7108
    @cyrilmarasigan71082 жыл бұрын

    It would be great if a documentory history series of Liechenstein and how they reacted when world 1 and 2 broke out and their reaction when they were the only medieval family to ruled a land

  • @Plelement94

    @Plelement94

    2 жыл бұрын

    Definitely a difficult time for them with their monarch married to a member of the Guttmann Jewish banking dynasty

  • @sethlorenz320
    @sethlorenz3202 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting.

  • @Pedro-ds3cq
    @Pedro-ds3cq Жыл бұрын

    Liechtenstein is that small kid who whenever a fight starts in class goes to a corner and just observes along with his best buddy, Switzerland.

  • @theobolt250
    @theobolt2502 жыл бұрын

    That General Assemblee is not a diet but a deet, pronunciationwise that is. Although you write Diet. The 'e' straight after the 'i' (so 'ie') means an elongated full vowel. So not "i" as in "this" but "ee" as in "sweet". Swiet, Diet etc. The spelling rules in German and Dutch speaking countries differ somewhat from the English speaking ones.

  • @peterg.8941

    @peterg.8941

    2 жыл бұрын

    He is American and his pronunciation is correct.

  • @livinginthebackground5140
    @livinginthebackground51402 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Liechtenstein is one of only two doubly-landlocked countries, the other being Uzbekistan.

  • @dylanmurphy9389

    @dylanmurphy9389

    2 жыл бұрын

    I can’t get my head around the definition, why isn’t Luxembourg considered one.

  • @pseudonymous9153

    @pseudonymous9153

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dylanmurphy9389 doubly landlocked countries are bordered only by other landlocked countries. Luxembourg's bordering countries all have coastline.

  • @dr.scottcrullphd9133
    @dr.scottcrullphd91332 жыл бұрын

    Used to go there often in the mid-1990s.

  • @ignatiusqi9736
    @ignatiusqi97362 жыл бұрын

    Liechtenstein's coat of arms is totally unrelated to the land itself, but a depiction of the princely family's title and succession claims. it uses the middle shield to represent "Prince of Liechtenstein", Q1 for Silesia which "Duchy of Opava and Krnov" is partitioned off from, Q2 for the Kuenringer family which have appointed them as their successors, Q3 for Opava, bottom corner for Krnov and Q4 for the County of Rietberg. nothing about "Vaduz", "Schellenberg" or "Hohenems family" got to be mentioned anyhow,

  • @melainewhite6409
    @melainewhite64092 жыл бұрын

    Been there once, wasn't much to see (har har). All I remember was getting there through a one lane tunnel that had one of those automatic red light-green lights systems.

  • @EmpireProductions1
    @EmpireProductions13 жыл бұрын

    When you make Switzerland seem big...

  • @indobalkanizer6557

    @indobalkanizer6557

    2 жыл бұрын

    Underrated comment 😂

  • @michaelnash9970

    @michaelnash9970

    2 жыл бұрын

    My wife is from the Island of Grenada, W.I. ...I thought IT was a 'thumbprint' in the middle of the ocean.

  • @sonofthebearking3335
    @sonofthebearking33352 жыл бұрын

    Yoooo so THAT'S how it stuck around. Been kinda wondering 10 years easy but never taken time to research. Nice goin' Liechtenstein! Oh and thanks for the video!

  • @E_Laternser
    @E_Laternser2 жыл бұрын

    Hi from Liechtenstein!👋

  • @19MAD95
    @19MAD952 жыл бұрын

    Europe a continent where if you are small enough and don’t move no one will bother you.

  • @5674inCincy
    @5674inCincy2 жыл бұрын

    5:47 “exclave” 🤷

  • @americanfreedomlogistics9984
    @americanfreedomlogistics99842 жыл бұрын

    I’ve been to Lichtenstein... beautiful country

  • @mschlindwein
    @mschlindwein2 жыл бұрын

    The castle is not located in Austria, but in Germany, and it’s called Lichtenstein: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenstein_Castle_(W%C3%BCrttemberg)

  • @placeholdername3818
    @placeholdername38182 жыл бұрын

    You're doing the Holy Roman Empire dirty by not including northern Italy.

  • @whatkenyan7684
    @whatkenyan76842 жыл бұрын

    I chose to believe Monty Python... Any way great work.

  • @peaceraybob
    @peaceraybobАй бұрын

    Listening to your explanation of feudal roots, lands ruled by small 'noble' families, I am reminded of large swathes of the southern US. Boss Hogg is a cultural meme for a reason, after all, as is the tendency of Americans to lynch inconvenient outsiders.

  • @Reichsritter
    @Reichsritter2 жыл бұрын

    Liechtenstein and Luxemburg are the last former Imperial German principalities (excluding Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Federal Germany and Belgium because they're more sizable and less continuous) , they exist because they were never mediased.

  • @joshuastein1888
    @joshuastein18882 жыл бұрын

    maybe i misunderstood, but if liechtenstein would have joined germany, it would have been an exclave, not an enclave

  • @OpsFox245
    @OpsFox2453 жыл бұрын

    neat.

  • @mr.googoopants3581
    @mr.googoopants35812 жыл бұрын

    Fun Fact: The Spencer Family to whom Lady Diana Spencer was born to are heirs body to sovereign princes in the Holy Roman Empire who held a seat in the Imperial Diet - the Princes of Mindelheim granted to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. John did not have a male heir and his English titles were passed down to his grandson Charles Spencer, son of The Earl of Sunderland and Princess Anne Churchill of Mindelheim. His imperial title went extinct as the empire strictly follows the salic law of succession.

  • @hansberger4939

    @hansberger4939

    2 жыл бұрын

    ...and the saxon-gotha and coburg still rule UK.

  • @mr.googoopants3581

    @mr.googoopants3581

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hansberger4939 Yeah they do until Her Majesty's death and then the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburgs will then rule in their place.

  • @lightyagami3492

    @lightyagami3492

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@hansberger4939Now it's the house of Gluksburg but the Royal family will never publicly acknowledge that.

  • @hansberger4939

    @hansberger4939

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lightyagami3492 They also never tell us how close his parents were relate.d

  • @lightyagami3492

    @lightyagami3492

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hansberger4939 Correct. The royal family only publicity acknowledged that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip were 3rd cousins through Queen Victoria but they are also 2nd cousins once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark.

  • @abelgerli
    @abelgerli2 жыл бұрын

    Big Big error ! The castle shown in the video is not the castle of the country Liechtenstein in Vaduz it is the castle Lichtenstein in the federal state Baden-Württemberg in Germany. You have to change the animation to fix it, actually I live in the small town of Lichtenstein so I am pretty sure about this mistake. And yes I also think our castle is prettier... but it was build as a hunting castle after a romantic novel by Wilhelm Hauff went popular with the title The Lichtenstein.

  • @hansberger4939

    @hansberger4939

    2 жыл бұрын

    prettier than the castle liechtenstein near vienna? that one is also historism.Built 1808.

  • @kuuhgle
    @kuuhgle2 жыл бұрын

    Interestingly, Liechtenstein is a lot closer culturally to Switzerland than to Austria now

  • @WeirdWonderful
    @WeirdWonderful Жыл бұрын

    Liechtenstein DID have an army. However it disbanded it after the dissolution of the German Confederation in 1866. Andreas Kieber, the last surviving solider of the Liechtenstein army, often would pose in uniform, appearing on a variety of postcards, until his death in 1939. Also note there is story ogten repeated, that during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, not only did all of Liechtenstein's 80 soldiers return home, they actually found a friend they recruited along the way, so they had *negative* war casualties.

  • @Crunkboy415
    @Crunkboy4152 жыл бұрын

    Austria: So, you want to join us? Liechtenstein: Naw. Austria: No big whoop. Have a nice day.

  • @Ramon73
    @Ramon732 жыл бұрын

    I once visited Liechtenstein. We ate an ice cream there. There is really nothing to experience. There are no tourists. While we ate an ice cream, the police wanted to see our papers. With the vehicle papers they walked around our car and caravan for half an hour. When our ice cream was finished we could continue. There was clearly nothing to do.

  • @gazpachopolice7211

    @gazpachopolice7211

    2 жыл бұрын

    You know a country really has nothing to see when the tourist becomes a tourist attraction to the locals.

  • @Ramon73

    @Ramon73

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gazpachopolice7211 Haha indeed, you are right about that. :-)

  • @RSidneyB
    @RSidneyB2 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps another reason it’s been able to stay independent is that Liechtenstein is so hard to pronounce that whenever neighboring generals would go over invasion plans they would get to Liechtenstein, start to try and say it, give up and move on to a larger, easier to pronounce country. Just sayin (or trying to...)

  • @UDumFck

    @UDumFck

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s pretty damn funny.

  • @Skyfighter94

    @Skyfighter94

    2 жыл бұрын

    Both neighboring countries of Liechtenstein are German speaking. And as a German speaker I can tell you that Liechtenstein is really easy to pronounce for us. So, your theory is only funny for non-German speakers.

  • @kittonsmitton
    @kittonsmitton2 жыл бұрын

    My little story, I spent three weeks in Liechtenstein waiting for a job application to be processed, when asked about where I had spent my three weeks outside of Switzerland, I replied 'Liechtenstein' my fremden politzi started laughing, told me Liechtenstein is independent in name and a couple of banking laws only. lol

  • @shonenjumpmagneto

    @shonenjumpmagneto

    2 жыл бұрын

    By chance did he actually ask "what country did you stay in?" Seems yo mke more sense.

  • @kittonsmitton

    @kittonsmitton

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shonenjumpmagneto Yes but in an off hand way, relaxed conversation, we got along very well, nice fellow I forget his name tho.

  • @qqqsfdf1232
    @qqqsfdf12322 жыл бұрын

    If it was bigger, it would need an army and air for e to protect itself. How wealthy would it be after that?

  • @arkady714
    @arkady7142 жыл бұрын

    As an American who resided 15 years in Luxembourg, few things irritated me more than when people confused the two places.

  • @stickoutofthemud
    @stickoutofthemud2 жыл бұрын

    For heaven’s sake, the phrase is SET foot!

  • @melanoidmarkus
    @melanoidmarkus7 ай бұрын

    👍🏾👌🏾

  • @Crom1980
    @Crom19809 ай бұрын

    Funfact, before asking USA about to buy Alaska the Tsar of Russia first ask the monarch of Liechtenstein, but he declined.

  • @johnfisher247
    @johnfisher2472 жыл бұрын

    The Holy Roman Emperor. In 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans, reviving the title in Western Europe after more than three centuries, thus creating the Carolingian Empire, whose territory came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire. After the dissolution of the Carolingian Dynasty and the breakup of the empire into conflicting territories, Otto I became king of Francia and worked to unify all the German tribes into a single kingdom and greatly expand his powers. The title of Emperor was again revived in 962 when Otto I was crowned by Pope John XII, fashioning himself as the successor of Charlemagne and thus establishing the Holy Roman Empire. The Imperial Diet. Those nobility who attended the Diet were educated and trained in the duties of ruling their states. Many had to work themselves to have income. Democracy is in our modern worls where we elect an oligarchy of often uneducated to rule. The unelected bureaucracy runs the government. We don't vote on policy or legislation. Others do it.

  • @BrunoGunzi
    @BrunoGunzi2 жыл бұрын

    Money!!! Money!!! Money!!!

  • @jensschroder8214
    @jensschroder82142 жыл бұрын

    Lichtenstein even tried to get back areas and castle that are now in the Czech Republic. But the Czechs said no. In the communist era these all went to the Czech state. The area used to belong to Austria.

  • @barbedbeggar5520
    @barbedbeggar55202 жыл бұрын

    1 of only 2 double land locked contries in the world.

  • @UDumFck
    @UDumFck2 жыл бұрын

    How to stay independent as a small country: 1) keep your head down and 2) do NOT have significant natural resources that others would covet.

  • @adrianvintila5077
    @adrianvintila50772 жыл бұрын

    History lessons must be dream in Lichtenstein.. especially compared to England or France. 1 family, 200 years, done

  • @eodon201
    @eodon2012 жыл бұрын

    Liechtenstein will never merch with switzerland. We‘re just too proud for that

  • @gazpachopolice7211

    @gazpachopolice7211

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was looking for a Lichtensteiner in the comments. Almost didn't expect to see one. May your country last forever.

  • @noelikechukwuazubogu2211
    @noelikechukwuazubogu22112 жыл бұрын

    sweet

  • @eamonreidy9534
    @eamonreidy95342 жыл бұрын

    You missed the opportunity to talk about it being double landlocked

  • @Kalah_
    @Kalah_2 жыл бұрын

    He's blonde, he's cute, he wears an amour suit / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein / He's hot, he's strong, his winning streak is long / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein / He's smart, he's funny, he makes a lot of money / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein / He's quick, he's mad, he comes from Gelderland / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein / He's hot, he's pissed, he'll see you in the lists / Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein!

  • @lmaocetung
    @lmaocetung2 жыл бұрын

    Comment for algorithm

  • @shonenjumpmagneto
    @shonenjumpmagneto2 жыл бұрын

    Holy Rome once had 1000 fucking Provinces?! God damn!

  • @SwissTanuki
    @SwissTanuki2 жыл бұрын

    They even use the Swiss money. Not euro

  • @richardfarsang5606
    @richardfarsang56063 жыл бұрын

    You just LOVE saying Austria yea? Like its not just the 20th of the size you show there

  • @noahway13
    @noahway132 жыл бұрын

    Well, being surrounded by Switzerland and Austria is all that needs to be said.

  • @worldtraveler930
    @worldtraveler9303 жыл бұрын

    It was my understanding that the general public had recently voted the monarchy into supreme power disbanding the Parliament altogether as well as having a small volunteer army?!?

  • @Laotzu.Goldbug

    @Laotzu.Goldbug

    3 жыл бұрын

    Based

  • @callnight1441

    @callnight1441

    2 жыл бұрын

    you heard wrong mate, in 2003 they just voted to expand his power

  • @bensteven3091

    @bensteven3091

    2 жыл бұрын

    No and no. There was a referendum on cutting his powers but that was rejected, so nothing changed and parliament wasnt affected at all by this. And no, we do not have an army. I am a Liechtenstein Citizen in case you question the authenticity of my comment.

  • @callnight1441

    @callnight1441

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bensteven3091 OMG, öbr uss liechtestei! die gseht me au nid jede daag!😃

  • @LTPottenger
    @LTPottenger2 жыл бұрын

    Smaller would be better for all if it could be achieved.

  • @anna-lenameijer9942
    @anna-lenameijer9942 Жыл бұрын

    Pocket-sized history :)

  • @justmeonthebeach
    @justmeonthebeach Жыл бұрын

    I always wanted postage stamps from Liechtenstein many years ago.. 😄

  • @1Maklak
    @1Maklak9 ай бұрын

    Cool, Switzerland has it's own little sibling.

  • @calvinroyals6463
    @calvinroyals64632 жыл бұрын

    He that controls the money makes the rules. That's why they don't need an Army.

  • @leonhardpauli5815
    @leonhardpauli58152 жыл бұрын

    Why have you drawn borderlines on the Bodensee/Lake Constanze? Make dotted lines or no lines at all, because this is extremely political

  • @tarync6539
    @tarync65392 жыл бұрын

    Money. Next!

  • @shonenjumpmagneto
    @shonenjumpmagneto2 жыл бұрын

    Fun Fact: Lichtenstein is a sovereign protectorate.

  • @artysanmobile
    @artysanmobile2 жыл бұрын

    When I look at the geopolitics of Europe, particularly in the context of the past 3-4 centuries, I can’t understand how it is not a smoldering ruin, trashed by the natural decay of failed authoritarians. The fact it functions at all as the European Union is frankly staggering. Can you even imagine the various, inept, tribal fiefdoms of ‘America’ merging ideologies to function politically as, say, a ‘United States’ in the same period of years?! I know, I know. That’s extreme, but I hope it makes my point.

  • @anlumo1

    @anlumo1

    2 жыл бұрын

    The EU was a consequence of those ruins, because for the first time since recorded history and only a brief moment, there were actually politicians at work who didn't want to continue the forever wars. Now the regular crop of politicians are back again and are trying to undo all of it, but that takes a bit of time.

  • @Stamboul

    @Stamboul

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's exactly what it was in 1945.

  • @jintermax1073
    @jintermax10732 жыл бұрын

    fun fact: In ww2 their war causality was -1

  • @Bananenmilch-iy1bl

    @Bananenmilch-iy1bl

    2 жыл бұрын

    wrong. The war you are talking about wasn't ww2 but the austria-prussian war, mentioned in the video. Shortly after that war, the army was disbanded. (I am from Liechtenstein)

  • @whatkenyan7684

    @whatkenyan7684

    2 жыл бұрын

    How? Did a soldier bear a child soldier? Seriously, how did that happen?

  • @bensteven3091

    @bensteven3091

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@whatkenyan7684 They picked a guy up on their return and so they returned with 13 soldiers, but initially left with 12.

  • @Bananenmilch-iy1bl

    @Bananenmilch-iy1bl

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bensteven3091 wrong. They left with 80 men and came back with 81. However, the 81th wasn't an italian friend or something similar, but rather just an austrian officer that accompanied them back

  • @hansberger4939

    @hansberger4939

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bensteven3091 not 12...it was 80 !!! and then 81....

  • @dietrichbickelmann5884
    @dietrichbickelmann58842 жыл бұрын

    Castle Liechtenstein is in Württemberg not in Austria.

  • @alexanderdrummond7603
    @alexanderdrummond76032 жыл бұрын

    The castle you show as "Liechtenstein Castle" is in fact Lichtenstein Castle and has no connection with either the principality or its ruling family, and is in fact the residence of the Princes and Dukes of Urach in what used to be the Kingdom of Wuerttemberg in southwestern Germany. The castle Liechtenstein in Austria is not quite as romantic looking as the castle Lichtenstein.

  • @abelgerli

    @abelgerli

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's the problem when you have the 2nd prettiest castle in Germany 🤔🤔

  • @hansberger4939

    @hansberger4939

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@abelgerli hard to say, who is nr 2. Liechtenstein? Hohenzollern? Eltz? there are some candidates... And... of course its embarassind, if you dont know that and want to teach about Liechtenstein. And: both castles, the austrian and the württembergish are built in the 19th century. They are modern buildings.

  • @abelgerli

    @abelgerli

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hansberger4939 Actually I live in the valley below the castle Lichtenstein in Germany and yes I there's some local patriotism in my statement. In my opinion Neuschwanstein Castle is the most prettiest in Germany and its actually younger than the current castle Lichtenstein. But castle Lichtenstein was build for a romantic reason because there was a novel written by Wilhelm Hauff about the old knights of Lichtenstein which lived there in the old historic ruin Lichtenstein on the swabian alb. So there more history behind it than in Neuschwanstein Castle. There's a similar history for castle Hohenzollern which is the 3rd castle on the same location of the ruling family. And it was also rebuild in the same few decades when castle Lichtenstein and Neuschwanstein where build. So in case of real surviving historic castles Eltz is the real deal and its very pretty. Here is a drone shot of the castle Lichtenstein in the town Lichtenstein in Germany. kzread.info/dash/bejne/noaFqJtrkZOnkrg.html This is the castle of the ruling Family in the county Liechtenstein in the city of Vaduz. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dnuq1saictacfKg.html

  • @hansberger4939

    @hansberger4939

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@abelgerli Als Bayer fühle ich mich geehrt. Aber... es ist eigentlich zufall,dass Disney sich dieses schloss als vorbild fürs cinderella castel ausgesucht hat und es deswegen zur weltweiten ikone wurde. Ja,ich gaube ernsthaft, das liegt an Disney. Und,wie du auch weisst, Neuschwanstein ist aus der 2. hälfte des 19. JH, ein damals ultramodernes gebäude mit stahlträgern in den Säulen versteckt und elektrisches licht und eins der allerersten telefone bayerns. Also, ein schönes Schloss neu-romanischen stil, aber halt keine echte Burg.

  • @abelgerli

    @abelgerli

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hansberger4939 Stimmt aber sie sind alle ein Produkt ihrer Zeit. Hohenzollern ist innen auch nicht so gebaut als sollte es ans Mittelalter erinnern es sollte repräsentativ sein wie Neuschwanstein auch. Im Lichtenstein wurde an einigen Ecken gern ans Mittelalter erinnert aber es ist auch ganz klar das Jagdschloss das es gebaut wurde. Denn echte Mittelalter Schlösser waren dem Adel im 19. Jahrhundert auch schon zu unbequem und zu spartanisch 😉. PS. Neuschwanstein hat ne Partnerschaft mit Himeji in Japan was als echtes historisches Schloss anzusehen ist und in Japan auch unangefochten an erster Stelle steht und das nicht nur wegen der groesse es sieht auch umwerfend aus auch wenn es extrem karg eingerichtet war. Ich persönlich finde Matsumoto castle in den Japanischen Alpen nahe Nagano absolut meine Nummer zwei und die Geschichte mit dem Mondbalkon erinnerte mich von der Romantik her an Schloss Lichtenstein. kzread.info/dash/bejne/domej7KKm8qTqMY.html Und hey ein bisschen Lokalpatriotismus darf schon sein. Zumal die Japaner nicht so kritisch sind Himeji castle wurde im 13. Jahrhundert gebaut und viele Burgen wurden nachgebaut und wieder aufgebaut. Kumamoto castle erlebt massiven Erdbebenschäden z.B. gerade einen Wiederaufbau die sollten in 2 Jahren fertig sein war 2019 dort. Shinto schreine werden regelmäßig neu aufgebaut gehoert da ein wenig zur Religion.

  • @horrorhahn8204
    @horrorhahn82042 жыл бұрын

    as a liechtensteiner hearing you saying liechtenstein could possibly join switzerland at some point shows that you don't know anything more about the country and its people than wikipedia aricles told you... i appreciate that your effort for making this video, but this is kinda offensive... by the way we had a small army once haha

  • @lucariolps277

    @lucariolps277

    Жыл бұрын

    Even as somone from Switzerland, I have to say, that won't happen anytime soon for several reason.. For one, Switzerland dosent want Liechtenstein as a canton.. We already declined Vorarlberg when they wanted to join.. Why would want Liechtenstein.. And I doubt your Monarch would allow a merger.

  • @youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687
    @youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan66872 жыл бұрын

    out of thousands of German monarchies during the Holy Roman Empire era. they’re the only survivor

  • @glennhubbard5008
    @glennhubbard50082 жыл бұрын

    It is their massive nuclear arsenal that keeps them safe.