Every Territorial Anomaly in Europe Explained
8It was fun (and tedious) to make this, I hope you all think it turned out great. Let me know in the comments if my writing and/or choice of music has improved. Sources of literally everything I used to write/make the video are below.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Abkhazia & South Ossetia
1:53 - Artsvashen, Karki, Yukhari Aksipara, Barkhudarly, and Sofulu
3:05 - Crimea
5:32 - David Gareja monastery complex
5:53 - Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, Kinburn peninsula, and Snihurivka
7:15 - Dragonja river
7:32 - Drina river
7:47 - Gibraltar
8:47 - Imia/Kardak
9:44 - K Island
10:01 - Kosovo
10:48 - Military complex near Sveta Gera
11:15 - Mont Blanc summit
11:46 - Nagorno-Karabakh
12:52 - North Cyprus
14:51 - Olivença & Vila Real
15:23 - Prevlaka
15:54 - Rockall('s EEZ)
16:41 - Šarengrad, Vukovar, etc.
17:43 - Strovilia
18:15 - Transnistria
18:41 - Outro
MUSIC (All from the YouTube Audio Library):
- Sinister Cathedral by Asher Fulero
- Feels by Patrick Patrikios
- To Pass Time by Godmode
- Go on the Go by Chris Haugen
- Lost Constructs by White Hex
- Stuck In The Air by The Tower of Light
- Hypnosis by Godmode
SOURCES:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_disputes?useskin=vector#Europe (and pretty much every link on here)
- Origins of the Crimean Crisis - Cold War DOCUMENTARY by The Cold War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eVr3RqnCRA
- The Ukraine/ Russia conflict in 10 minutes by Geography Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63_MJNZ3Ce8
- How Russia Annexed Crimea by Newsweek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itywOPBcLgk
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Crimean_sovereignty_referendum
- Meet the Crimeans Who Voted to Join Russia: Russian Roulette in Ukraine by VICE News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v_lu6qcyk
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_annexation_of_Donetsk,_Kherson,_Luhansk_and_Zaporizhzhia_oblasts#:~:text=Russian%20annexation%20of%20Donetsk%2C%20Kherson%2C%20Luhansk%20and%20Zaporizhzhia%20oblasts,-Article%20Talk&text=On%2030%20September%202022%2C%20Russia,Kherson%2C%20Luhansk%2C%20and%20Zaporizhzhia.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic_and_the_Luhansk_People%27s_Republic#:~:text=From%20April%202014%20until%20September,North%20Korea%20in%20July%202022.
- https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-005844_EN.html
- Why Does Britain Own Gibraltar? (Short Animated Documentary) by History Matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMTJW_eEYDs
- Why did Spain give up Gibraltar? by Knowledgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTrEGCdgLt0
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall_Bank_dispute
- Why the UK Desperately Wants This Rock to Be Inhabitable by Half as Interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8ZbCOxouM
- The Most Complex International Borders in the World - Part 2 by WonderWhy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZdkqqjosCM&list=PLH8wQGOt7Ee2Z71GtuGh2EouE9P16xAZV&index=3
- https://www.ankasam.org/border-issues-in-the-balkans-the-case-of-bosnia-and-herzegovina/?lang=en
- https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2017/11/03/serbia-bosnia-border-demarcation-contentious-matter/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/world/europe/18customs.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus
- The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier: Cyprus Dispute Explained by WonderWhy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHlHnCwFp5c&t=645s
- Why is Cyprus Divided? (Short Animated Documentary) by History Matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38NGVPw3UFw
- Russian-Georgian conflict explained (Abkhazia & South Ossetia) by Politics with Paint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2jpMWNoJLE
- https://kosovothanksyou.com
- Recognition of Kosovo map made by me using https://mapchart.net
PICTURES (They didn't fit here, so I put the links into a pastebin):
https://pastebin.com/FsXnJqQd