The Countries of Europe at their Greatest Extent

This video shows the countries of Europe when historically, any predecessors that controlled the most land for that country. Music: Egmont Overture The predecessors of countries can be open to interpretation. Some pre modern kingdoms or empires shown didn t necessarily have a flag as we think of it today either. Egmont Overture Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Errors: Russia at it s largest extent, the USSR, should not have Istanbul. North Macedonia s largest extent should be right now, not the Macedonian Empire. Greece s largest extent should be the Macedonian Empire, not the Byzantine Empire. Sources: Other YouTube history channels The map used in this video comes from the blank atlas. Other main sources: Wikipedia, FOTW, and other various websites. #flags #history #europe