some may say it's France...

 or maybe China....we've been conquered a few times.

You're forgetting USA now!

     subjugated hey? ahhh...

Egypt has been ruled by:

Egyptians, Lybians, Nubians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottomans, French and British.

Reread the post - he meant Germany as conquerors of Norway.

Not as a country, but Anatolia was a region which different cultures always fought for and tried to conquer. These lands have been homelands for lots of developed civilizations and ethnic populations throughout history, since ancient times... Also these lands were always used as the bridge btw civilizations, so both eastern and western civilizations left their cultural inheritance in these lands, and formed a multi cultural structure in these lands of todays Turkey...

i meant that Germany had conquered us.I meant like if it is not Denmark that conquers us then it is Sweden.And Germany did it once.

Sorry.I can understand that you misunderstood my post.

Are you sure about Byzantines?

But Gutians, Kassites, Hurrians, Medians, Seleucids, Buyids, Zangids, Jalayirids, Turkmens (Kara Koyunlu & Ak Koyunlu), Afsharids, Mamluks and British can be added to this list too.

i say the area which is Iraq now.

BTW there is no such ancient land called Israel, there was a Kingdome of Israel more than  2700 years ago and there is a State call itself Israel from the last 56 years.

that land called Palestine and the land of Cannan before . Israeli or sons of Israel lived there for a period of time so did others.

I still say Lebanon wins with Iraq close behind, sure Iraq may have had more different nations conquer it, but if you look at the amount of times Lebanon was conquered, and count how many times the same peopel re-conquered it...they win.

I mean the Egyptians alone had to reconquer it every time a new Pharoah came to power, that sure adds up over time.

 Israel without doubt. Have been conquered by almost every superpower of the old and dispersed around the world.

By number of conquerors: It has to be Iraq... two dozen names have been already mentioned by other posters - and this land practically never lived by self-rule of it's inhabitants, every now and then someone would jump up and add them to his empire or kingdom or emirate or (in the light of the most recent developments) "sphere of influence".

Palestine is a close second. It too has seen a host of conquerors from the wake of time until today - many people seem to forget that the Hebrew themselves have conquered (and reconquered, after WW2) this area (irregardles if we count Canaa in Palestine).

Anatolia is up there as well. Has been conquered (all or parts of it) among others by the Hittite, Cimmerian, Persian, Greeks, Gauls, Roman, Seljuks, Ottomans and many, many others over time.

The Helladic area has lived many years under a single foreign ruler (first the Romans, who were disposed by the Greeks in the course of the "eastern" half of the Roman Empire and then the Turks) and for a very brief period of time the Germans. Maybe you could add the Bulgarian  as well, although the never really established themselves in southern Greece and only ruled briefly the Northern part (Macedonia and Thrace). The whole area of the Balkans has the same, more or less, history of many rulers. 

Of western Europe: Iberia was a playground for several upstarts in the great game of "grap your neighbors land": Carthagenians, Romans, Goths, Moors, French and others (you could add Britain too, she still "occupies" a small strip of land - yes, the "rock"). France has also been conquered a lot.

Armenia was conquered by: Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks, other Turkic khanates, Mongols, Egyptians, Ottomans, Russians, and some others that I might have forgotten to mention. Present day Armenia has only kept one tenth of its historical size.

But it was pretty strong during later Antiquity, and was able to forge an empire of its own. And Armenians were still relatively a majority in their lands until early 20th century.

 France isn't gaul dude. France started with the Franks invasion, anything before that isn't France but Gaul. Since the existence of the France, France has never been conquered, invaded, defeated and occupied yes but conquered never. It took  100 years to defeat the Angevin or Platagenet empire (actually it wasn't the English vs France during the 100 years wars but more Frankish France vs anglo-french burgundian alliance). We were occupied during WW2 but again not conquered since it took 5 years for the german to be defeated. To be conquered mean to be ruled by foreigners in your totality this has yet to happen in France. England has been conquered France has never been.

Afghanistan is probably pretty high up there too.

I wouldnt really say that the Babylonians or the Sumerians conquered Iraq since basically both were natives to the land.

Originally posted by Mystic China has been conquered quite a few times as well. Well actually only two foreign groups were successfully able to conquer and rule all of China, them being the Mongols and the Manchus but during the age of fragmentation, many of the various kingdoms and dynasties that were established were of non-Chinese origin. Of course they eventually assimilated and sinicized but that's a whole nother issue. THe Song dynasty also had various parts of China occupied by foreigners such as the Tanguts, Khitans, and the Jurchens. Considering China's geographical location, one should not be surprised that many foreign groups at various times were able to conquer and occupy parts of China simply because of the proximity to the Central Asian Steppelands who were home of the nomadic invaders. I guess you can call it a very unfortunate position for China as you can see that she was constantly invaded and threatened by these nomadic peoples. So much so that the very symbol of China's greatest monument, the Great Wall was built to protect them from these peoples. One thing that is amazing though is that no matter how many times the nomadic peoples invaded and even successfully conquered China, Chinese civilization and culture was able to survive as they assimilated those various peoples around her. As you can see I'm quite fascinated with the concept of Sinicization

Actually Mongol and Manchu not really conquered China by their miltary force, 90% of their sodiers were Chinese. So some people says if Chinese unified against others they will never lose

If we don't want to consider the whole of a country then I think Iran was conquered more than Iraq becuase all of those who conquered Iraq also conquered parts of Iran, other than them:

Afghans
Alavids
Amardians
Armenians
Assassins
Atabegs
Bavandids
Caspians
Dutch
Eldeguzid
Ghaznavids
Ghurids
Hephthalites
Hyrcanians
Kavusids
Lullubis
Mosaferids
Muzaffarids
Omanese
Paduspanids
Portuguese
Russians
Saffardis
Salghurids
Samanids
Scythians
Simjurids
Spaniards
Tahirids
Urartians
Uzbeks
Zeyarids

Portuguese?

they were in the Arabic part of the Hurmz strait also

Indeed, from 1511 to 1620, the Portuguese were in the Persian Gulf, doing whatever it was they did (they also dominated bits of Oman). What does surprise me is the mention of the Spaniards. As far as I remember, they never went near the Persian Gulf. 

In terms of the permanent lost of the indenpendence it's about 250 years. In terms of single invasions or temporary occupation of the land ... many to many.

It depends if you look at how long they have been conquered or or how many times they have been conquered. Mesopotamia was ruled by Iranians for about 13 of the past 25 centuries. Overall, middles east is probably the most conquered mainly because it is the oldest part of the world and its location of being in the middle of everything. It would be very hard to say which country in the middle east.

What are you talking about???Poland???Or the middle east? And i can never see poland one of the most invaded/conquered lands (mainly invaded) but as i can see only the USSR and Germany have conquered it. None of the others did it, or they were packed by revolutions and killed a month afterwards.

But if you take the percent then from the last 900 years that from Estonian history is known at all, i might say it is us, for we ruled the land 118+37+14=169 years of 900... that makes it a decent 18% ownage of the land by years.

If country A is independent but then conquered by country B, and then country C comes along and takes over from B, does that mean A has been conquered once or twice?

In other words, between two conquests doesn't there have to be a period of independence?

Actually Mongol and Manchu not really conquered China by their miltary force, 90% of their sodiers were Chinese. So some people says if Chinese unified against others they will never lose

Portugal get's the prize for this one.

Every summer a crab-red horde of anglo-german barbarians invades Southern Portugal, causing imense disturbance, like massive noise, plunder and raping. When the summer ends, they all leave as swiftly as they came, with the promisse to return next year for another "chevauch�".

On the other hand they do leave loads of cash....  

I vote for the I countries:Iraq and Israel

Troy?They found 8-9 of that one

kubilai was a real chinese lover

China as the most conquered country? haha don't make me laugh...

Everybody knows that throughout history, only Mongols and Manchus completely conquered and annexed China.

While the event of capital sacked and emperors captured by foreign/barbaric power happened three times. But the imperial succession was not ended.

The honour is far from being ours. We have got enough 'most' already. Leave it to other nations.

Chinese soldiers were present during Mongol conquest of Song, while the proportion may not be so high. Many Han soldiers joined the Mongol after the fall of Jin. The final pursuit of the infant Song emperor (poor kid) in Guangdong coast was performed by the Han corps. Their commander was Zhang Hongfan (1238-1280) whose father was a surrendered official of Jin.

Zhang was a familiar guy to the Chinese, mainly of his opposite, Wen Tianxiang (1236-1283), one of the last Song ministers who escorted the emperor. He was captured by the Mongol troops. Zhang Hongfan pursuaded Wen to defect. Wen showed his famous poem Guo-Ling-Ding-Yang (Crossing the Strait of Lingding (outer mouth of Pearl River)) writtern not long before to refuse. Wen was jailed for four years and executed in Dadu. Wen was a national hero to the Chinese and his poem (mainly the last two phases) became one of the most famous quotations in Chinese history.

I believe that Iran was actually the most conquered country.

• Elamites
• Babylonians
• Assyrians
• Medians
• Achaemenids
• Arsacids (Parthians)
• Seluicids
• Sassanids
• Macedonian (Alexander the Great)
• Caliphate of Rashuddin
• Caliphate of Ummaviyeh (ummayads)
• Caliphate of Abbasi (Abbasids)
• Tahirids
• Safarids
• Samanids
• Ghaznavids
• Buyids
• Aleyan Tabarestan
• Al-Zeyar
• Sultanate of Qurn
• Seljuks
• Etabakan Azerbaijan
• Khuarmzshaheyan
• Mongols under Genghis Khan and Ogati Khan
• Khanate of Hulago and the Il-Khans
• Al-jalaler
• Emrayeh Chupane
• Al-Muzaffar
• Inju
• Sarbadarian
• Malouke kert
• Etabakan Fars
• Garakhtayan Kerman
• Emrayeh Luristan
• Timurids
• Qara Quyunlu
• Aq Quyunlu
• Safavids
• Afsharids
• Ghilzais
• Zand
• Qajar
• Mohammareh
• Pahlavi
• Islamic Republic of Iran

As you can see, Iran does have a violent history and mostly a history of disunification. I like to separate the category of disunification in Iran to the first, second, and third age of disunification. The First is with the Arab Resolution (with the Samanids, Ghaznavids, etc.). The Second is the Mongol resolution (with small tribes, kingdoms, and city-states). The Final Age of Disunification is when Iran is split into 4 nations (Safavids, Zand, Ghilzai, & Afshar). Another age of disunification is shown between the Mohammareh and Pahlavi, but I don't consider that as an official age.

Macedonia is maybe not the most conquered country in the GLOBAL history, but concidering the last 10 - 11 centuries, we would be almost on the top

We�ve been conquered more than 10 times only in the 20 century.

In the period from 1900 & 1945 the region where i come from (part is today Republik of Macedonia, part is in Republic of Greece) was a site of unnumbered uprisings, balkan & world wars, plunderings, genocides, exodus & all the misery that bring military conflict ;�(

The "Authority" was changed so oft, from Othoman, Bulgarian, Greek, First YU, after WW2  the "komunist"

& it would be not so tragic if that would be only the part where i come from, the whole darn Balkan is stucked in that Nacionalistic kind of thinking, "me, my nation, my land", that we often forget that we like it or not WE HAVE to learn to live together.

It takes only litle bit of good will to TRY to listen what have the other side to say...

Before, tackling this subject you've got to set aside what you mean by 'country'!  If you consider it a 'nation-state' then you've just eliminated all situations prior to the 19th century. If you are simply addressing 'violent confrontation' then those regions with the longest 'recorded' history would come to the fore, but then you could not pass this on to a modern state such as 'Iraq' which did not exist until carved out of the old Ottoman State in 1921 and awarded to the Hashemites as compensation for not getting Damascus and being kicked out of Mecca to boot! In fact, when you have an 'imperial' situation it exists because the system has brought 'peace' to the appended territories [if not the frontiers]. In all truth every 'patch' of land on the surface of this planet has been fought over in one way or another at any given time. So the real question to ask should be made in the negative: Is there a patch of the surface that has not been subject to conquest during the last 10,000 years?

No one can possibly include China on a list of most conquered nations. It is the oldest example of a continuous nation state in history. Some examples of conquest have been given here, yet the only ones I would say are genuine foreign invasions are the Mongol invasion and the Manchu invasion. But even the Manchu can be regareded as a sub-group of Chinese culture, not traditionally considered pure Chinese but obviously Chinese enough to create a very traditional regime for three centuries based on Confucian teaching and all the traditional ethics of the previous dynasties. I would argue the Manchis were even more deeply traditional conservative and insular than previous Chinese dynasties.

Really only the Mongols being a foreign people conquering China, and in the end Chinese culture was so irresistable it pretty much assimilated them. To have been properly conquered by a foreign nation only once in a history as long as China's is a truly incredible achievement.

I generally agree with the statement that Mesopotamia/Iraq takes the title, but I'd like to mention Romania as well:

Dacians

Scythians

Greeks/Macedonians

Romans

Ostrogoths

Huns

Slavs

Avars

Bulgars

Magyars

Cumans

Petchenegs

Mongols

Vallachians/Moldavians

Turks

Poles

Russians

Austrians

Germans

Soviets (similar to Russia (I know, but there is a distinction)

"Factions that have ruled the region:
Achaemenid Empire
Macedonian Empire
Seleucid Empire
Bactrians
Scythians
Sakae
Parthian Empire
Kushan Empire
Sassanid Empire
Hepthalite
Kok Turuk
Caliphate
Saffarids
Bokhara
Ghaznavid Empire
Gurid Empire
Khwarezm-Shah Empire
Mongol Empire
Chagatai Khanate
Herat
Tamerlane's Empire
Safavid Empire
(various rulers) etc."

You forgot the Tang empire, the Soviet Union and the United States.

china and korea..... these lands have been conquered by so many different ethnic groups and also there were many civil wars that were fought in these lands......

i would say east asia (excluding japan) and europe were the places that have been conquered and reconquered.....

not much is known aobut africa.... but who knows......

The most conquered country: Palestine

Far East: China
Middle Asia: India
Middle East : Iran
Europe: Italy, England
Africa: Egypt
North America:US
South America: Azteks

& South Pole: White Bears!!!!