Unconquered nations

Parts of the UK such as the island of St Helena have been conquered empty and never conquered since.

Iceland, Mongolia (though she was a satellite state to powerful neighbours such as the USSR).

Edited by Constantine XI - 30-Apr-2007 at 02:46

We should consider the nations/countries with 500+ years long history,not countries like Canada or USA.It's harder to keep you're freedom for 2000 years,with lots of aggresive neighbours and through lots of eras than for 200 years with only 2-3 neighbours like the two above.

Originally posted by Jagiello We should consider the nations/countries with 500+ years long history,not countries like Canada or USA.It's harder to keep you're freedom for 2000 years,with lots of aggresive neighbours and through lots of eras than for 200 years with only 2-3 neighbours like the two above.

In a way I have to agree. Australia has never been conquered, that is the nation state of Australia. But the land itself was colonised by the British and the original inhabitants pushed largely aside. Keep in mind, most nation states in the world today did not exist until the 20th century unfolded.

Montenegro

Colonies shoudn't count, by definition they were conquered. 

USA Canada

Conqured by English and Americans.

Iceland, Mongolia (though she was a satellite state to powerful neighbours such as the USSR).

Mongolia was conqured by the Manchu, and was a part of China until Russia forced it to seperate as a buffer state. Iceland has only been conqured (or was it settled?) by the danes. I'm prepared to count Iceland I think.

turkey.

Conqured by the Turks of course. Not to mention the Romans, Greeks, Hittites and so on. Also we might want to make a distinction between Ottoman turks and non-ottoman turks.

Japan goes on the list

America conquered Japan. Changed its government and maintains military bases.

have the famously neutral swiss ever been occupied?

by Austria

There is only one place that I think truly qualifies for this award: Independent Pakhtunistan. The mountainous boarder region currently between Pakistan and Afghanistan. I cannot think of a single power that has controlled that region, many have formed alliances & treatys with various tribes - but no-one I can think of has controlled it.

PS:
What about Russia? Has a non-Russian ever captured the Moscow-Novgorod region?

PPS:
The Tuareg and Saharan tribes too.


Edited by Omar al Hashim - 01-May-2007 at 05:22

The tatars ruled Moscow for e few centuries,the poles took it once(It's funny that Russia's national holiday is when the 300 starving and tired polish soldiers leaved Moscow ) and of course Napoleon took it....and burned it.

Edited by Jagiello - 01-May-2007 at 06:46

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turkey.

Conqured by the Turks of course. Not to mention the Romans, Greeks, Hittites and so on. Also we might want to make a distinction between Ottoman turks and non-ottoman turks.[/QUOTE]

Originally posted by Omar al Hashim PS: What about Russia? Has a non-Russian ever captured the Moscow-Novgorod region?