CMV: If your country has never had an empire overseas, it’s not a real European country.

by palatable_penis

40 comments

  1. Weird thing for someone from one of the blue countries on the map to say, but ok – you do you I guess

  3. Jokes on you, Ireland made the world their empire. An Irishman is right now in the White House, which was also designed by an Irishman!

  4. The counties that were in modern day Latvia had shortlived colonies.

  6. Interesting, I could’ve sworn that Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had some lowkey colonization attempts, but apparently, in spice of numerous ideas they were never realized (except through Courland).

  8. Austria-Hungary had overseas colonies, Hungary should be red by your own logic.

  10. The Irish have a colony on another continent, trust me.

  11. ottoman empire actually had a “protectorate” in east indies, does this mean we get to be european now?

  13. Iceland? I guess if you call the initial settlement of Greenland an Icelandic colony

  14. i miss the Nicobar Islands. Guess i have to find new Lebensraum.

  15. The Vatican City (or Papal State) blessed entire Crusader armies, one after the other! Should be deep red

    smh

  16. Ireland was part of the UK when we conquered the world. It should be red.

  17. We may not have colonies, but we’ve got the money from it

  18. But this means we have to recognise belgium as a real country

  20. ACTUALLY

    For very short period commonwealth (through its vasal courland (latvia)) colonized new cour land (Tobago).

  21. Latvia kinda did have them though.

    Edit: just saw other commenters point it out.

  22. With the exception of the Swiss they were all part of countries that did have over seas colonies

  24. We had colonies.

    Australia was a British prison colony but the majority of people there were Irish.

    Montserrat is populated by the descendants of Irish Indentured Servants and African slaves. Montserrat also celebrates St. Patrick’s day.

    Don’t get me started on Boston and New York.

  27. 1) the ex soviet countries were colonies

    2) the poles *tried* to colonise but couldn’t

  28. “Overseas Empire” is pretty generously when it comes to the colonial territories of the Austrian Empire.

  29. On the basis of the Union of Vilnius (28 November 1561), Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Livonian Order, created the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia in the Baltics and became its first Duke. It was a vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Soon afterward, by the Union of Lublin (1 July 1569), the Grand Duchy became the part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

    DING DONG

  31. We’re not European at all, we’re just stuck with the rest of ye cannibals

  32. It’s official, UK is the most European! As if there was any doubt😎😎.

  33. I mean Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland….

    Wait does that mean if we get independence we get to claim not to have done any colonising too?!

  35. No Belgium didn’t have a colony, I swear we’re not european guys

  36. All of Russia is Finnish colony, they just don’t know it yet.

  38. Well, version 1 of Finnish version and the completely historically accurate version says that Finnish are just Mongolian colony formed in it’s modern form some time after great Finno-Korean hyperwar, being composed of most autistic members of the Horde.

    Second, completely unreliable version because it does not even mention the Hyperwar, is that Finnish tribes once inhabited some areas in modern Russia, areas which you could say were in Asia, so you could say we did indeed have a colony on another continent. Though strictly speaking they were more of Finno-Ugric ancestors than Finnish.

  39. Does Alaska really count as an overseas colony for Russia?

  40. Isn’t the USA part of Ireland’s Empire? Number of the twats claiming to be Irish would suggest so.

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