War Ihr Land jemals 102 Jahre lang im Krieg mit Japan?
Von vladgrinch
War Ihr Land jemals 102 Jahre lang im Krieg mit Japan?
Von vladgrinch
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While an interesting fact, i really feel like we should ban maps which could be a single sentence / with a single country filled in. They’re just not good maps.
It’s a fake btw
Montenegro didn’t exist for 88 of those 102 years
They were not at war with Imperial Japan during WW2?
Technically Russia is still at war with Japan, because the WW2 peace treaty wasn’t signed because of the Kuril Islands.
The Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on Japan in 1904 as a sympathy gesture for Russia (that helped the slavic uprisings from the Ottoman Empire), after russian forces were attacked by japanese forces in China. But in 1919, Montenegro ceased to exist as a sovereign state after it was integrated into the Kimgdom of Yugoslavia. No peace treaty with Japan was signed till that point. Yugoslavia started disintegrating in the 90s and by 2006 Montenegro became a sovereign state again. Only then a peace treaty was finally signed between Montenegro and Japan. This isn’t the only such anomaly out there.
There is an apocryphal story that Berwick on tweed is (or recently has been) officially at war with Russia. According to a story by George Hawthorne in The Guardian of 28 December 1966, the London correspondent of Pravda visited the Mayor of Berwick, Councillor Robert Knox, and the two made a mutual declaration of peace. Knox said, „Please tell the Russian people through your newspaper that they can sleep peacefully in their beds.“ The same story, cited to the Associated Press, appeared in The Baltimore Sun of 17 December 1966; The Washington Post of 18 December 1966; and The Christian Science Monitor of 22 December 1966. At some point, the real events seem to have been turned into a story of a „Soviet official“ having signed a „peace treaty“ with Knox; his remark to the Pravda correspondent was preserved in this version.
The basis for such status was the claim that Berwick had changed hands several times, was traditionally regarded as a special, separate entity, and some proclamations referred to „England, Scotland and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed“. One such was the declaration of the Crimean War against Russia in 1853, which Queen Victoria supposedly signed as „Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and all British Dominions“. When the Treaty of Paris was signed to conclude the war, „Berwick-upon-Tweed“ was left out. This meant that, supposedly, one of Britain’s smallest towns was officially at war with one of the world’s largest powers – and the conflict extended by the lack of a peace treaty for over a century. In reality, Berwick-upon-Tweed was not mentioned in either the declaration of war or the final peace treaty and was legally part of the United Kingdom for both.
This is not map porn this is just a fun fact on a map
One uk province was also at war for a long time i think with russia or someone
It worked!!
Montenegro didn’t even exist as a sovereign nation for most of this period