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How much land has your country lost throughout its history?
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How much land has your country lost throughout its history?

Pic related, Sweden at its height.
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Not much really.
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>>550
Ye, just some backwater colonial outposts
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Basically nothing, just some dirty backwaters that aren't worth anything aside from guano and nuclear tests.
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>>701
Boer war best day of my life
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>>550
>Literally once the largest empire in history
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>>454
you really claim us senpai?
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>>610
fuck it lad at least we still have the falklands

>>745
>british army getting btfo by farmers
fucking kek
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>>745
the boer war mean nothig to us t b h
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>>454
TOO MUCH
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>>454

Half the world no big deal
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>>454
>mongol empire
>largest contiguous land empire ever
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If 1000 his gets deleted
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Just some Islands we gave away
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>>893
If anyone posts w/ it its a fake ip tho.
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>>454
that's the danish empire
swedens not even marked on that map
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>>1115
?
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>>1268
No one in mongolia would be on 4chan.
Or you could prove me wrong, that would be cool.
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>>454
Lol, "sure, sven"
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I don't understand the question.
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Do I have to tell you? You all know what happened.
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>>1403
no one cares about spanish history
something about aztecs and burritos?
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>>1540
And rocks, don't forget rocks, you guys love them too. btw that is a shitty bait
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>>1733
nah doubt anyone learns about it but yourselves
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Some islands in the Pacific nobody cares about
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>>1815
oh, but you know the rocks too :^)
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>tfw annexed
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>>1907
too bloody right
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>>454
Makes me sad t b h
>inb4 not German "muh heritage" ameritard
German immigrant actually
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>>2172
>Memeland
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>>1403
Yeah we're literally worse than the UK, that's how much we fucked up
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>>2197
Memelland is correct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da_Region
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>>2172
>mutilation of germany
>mutilation
fucking really?
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>>2172
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>>2513
>small plot of land
>call it "empire"
>lose even smaller plots of land
>call it "mutilation"

Germans are a joke.
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>>2513
Not my filename, there is no denying though that Germany lost a shit ton of territory
>>2730
>What is Benes decrees, what is German flight from the east
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene%C5%A1_decrees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2%80%9350)
>>2838
>Canada
>A FUCKING LEAF
>Irrelevant country with a shit ton of nothing
>Now has to take it up the ass from natives because they c u c k e d themselves by electing a faggot
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>>3049
Do you really want to talk about "taking it up the ass from foreigners", German?
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>>3049
it would have happened sooner or later. someone had to clean up this "colonizing east" mess.
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>>2172
Don't foget Luxemburg.
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>>454
>tfw german

if you guys wouldn't have stopped us there wouldn't be shitskins all over europe
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>>3125
this>>3256
>>3172
Don't worry, you might have been Germanized (^:
>>3231
That's somewhat iffy, but that's a point that can be made
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>>3355
>iffy
I don't see why. Don't tell me they're francophones or that they speak Luxemburgish.
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>>3294
arent there majorty mexican areas now?
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>>1371
emu territory
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>>3256

Kek Hiter would allow them in and try to Germanize them. He like shitskins especially muslims
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>>3410

When has Mexico reclaimed land it lost to us
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this,..
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The Phillipines ;_;
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>>3483
compared to this now
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>>3440
at least they would be somewhat controlled instead of flooding our country...
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>>454

Is that what they're teaching you in Swedistan?

That's historical Denmark. We still have the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
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>>3407
Well they're German in the sense of the Flemish or Dutch, but I guess you're correct
>>3440
No he didn't kek. He only liked them as allies against the Jews and had some soft spot for Islam, but he would never want Europe to be overtaken by Islam and Arabs
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>>3415
We try not to talk about that.
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>>2172
You forgot the couple of hills the Dutch took after WW2
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>>3611
kek
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>>3099
Some funny shit happened there in the Dutch East Indies
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>>3596

Yeah he did. Remember Hitler's last speech was hims saying that Germans were weak and deserved to be destroyed by the soviets
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>>3599
>Part of the Great Depression
seems accurate

and thus australia invented valium
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>>3599
How do you even lose this badly?
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>>2172
to be fair a lot of that wasn't German to begin with

You can definitely make an argument that taking Pommerania and Silesia was dumb though.
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>>2172
>mfw they think austria is going to not reunite with germany
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>>3515
corrected
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>>3753
The tirades of a man whose dream had failed should be taken with a grain of salt
>>3910
That's fair.
>pic related
>>4101
We'll see
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>losing land
kek
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>>3515
>>4176
What the hell is up with Western Sahara? Are they trying to be their own country?
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>>454
>sweden at its height

Yeah okay, buddy. I'm sure it was Canada that also had a huge global empire instead of Great Britain.
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>>4234
>what is 54 40 or fight
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>>4247
Yes.
It's a little bit comparable with the Israel Palestine conflict, but less severe and less media attention.

It's mostly sand anyway and no oil so don't bother.
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>>1214
As much norwegian as danish, but yeah
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>>454
bump
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Balkans except Croatia and Montenegro and some vassals, North Africa except Morocco though they were vassals, occasionally Caucasus, Norther Middle East, parts of Hungary, occasionally parts of Iran and Crimean vassals.
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The first ever Global Empire. Portugal's former empire is pretty insane to look at.

Of course, now all we own is good old Portugal. That minuscule country on Europe.
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>>6730
how many portuguese have direct history to the colonizers?
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>>6730
How come you guys never got Galicia?
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>>6878
We are galiza
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Romania got more land from us than we got left, baka
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>>8475
Wtf is this shit hiro, why does the board correct shake my head to baka?
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>>8545
Because anyone who says that is a baka
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>>701
>seriously posting brasil
fucking kek
you guys lost everything lmao
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>>3483
lol this was never a thing
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>>6878
we never really cared to be honest
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>>6730
Goddamnit, I came here to post this.
I wish I was born just 50 years ago.
And I wish Cisplatina was rightfully brasilian too.
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>>454
too much :-(
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>>2071
>mfw
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We actually ended up getting more than we lost.
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Too much.

I don't care about colonies
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>>2071
Texas is literally the worst.

>literally composed of illegal immigrants
>literally founded so that its residents could practice slavery
>begged to be annexed by the US so that it wouldn't have to face the consequences for its stupid ass decisions
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>>454
>swe in charge of knowing it's own history
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>>9092
X V I I
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>>9530
>no Brussel
France out, it's our clay.
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>>454

>Not a map of Sweden in the 1600s
>No Swedish Pomerania and Livonia

Shit map
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fuck the netherlands
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>>9619
Not anymore. To much french
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Has a country ever been badly JUST'd by one treaty as Hungary was?
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Daily reminder everything west of the Rhine is rightful French clay
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>>10129

The Ottoman Empire
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>>5279
No, it was Danish, ruled by the Danish royal family, from Denmark.
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>>9219
Go build a wall paco
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>>10187
That's fucking stupid, why would you want to take a bunch of German and Dutch land?
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>>2172
>Alsace/Lorraine
>Being part of germany

I mean, come on, those regions were german for what, 30 years ?
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>don't need an empire because you're already the 3rd biggest nation by landmass and biggest nation by arable land
feels good man
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>>10782
Because it's full of people and wealth.

It's always been about controlling the Rhine, that's fair game.
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>>9092
>>9530
>not owning Duinkerke, c u c k
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>>454

>Swedes being this jealous of Danes

Also they didn't own that much of Scotland. Nor did they own Cornwall/Devon.
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