The World's oldest Countries

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San Marino (301 AD)
France (486 AD)
Denmark (950 AD)
Portugal (1143 AD)
Andorra (1278 AD)
Switzerland (1291 AD)

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Yes that is true.. The oldest would have to be Armenia. Egypt would be second in my opinion. But Armenia would definitely be the oldest nation.

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Armenia.

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Well from my studies, it would be Armenia. My college professor talked about this and we ended up with Armenia.

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Armenia maybe the oldest continuous in Europe because it was established in about 600 BC but has been conquered and reconquered and its people scattered in different countries but it still exists today. Armenia is the oldest nation in the world that still exists.

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It is Armenia. Armenia once included Mount Ararat, which biblical tradition identifies as the mountain that Noah’s ark rested on after the flood. It was the first country in the world to officially embrace Christianity as its religion (c. 300).

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Armenia would have to be the oldest nation in the world.

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Obviously Egypt is the oldest country in the world. It started way before the 10th millenium BC, and their first unification was c. 3150 BC. The DNA of Egyptian mummies indicate that people in Egypt lived way before the 10th millenium BC, in order to develop such a science

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An uneducated moron high on marijuana must have come up with this 'laughable' list. He/She needs to be sent back to school to learn World History and Geography.

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Any oldest countries in the world list should include Ethiopia and China. Ethiopia is exceptional because it is the only country without any 'inter-uption' in its existence.

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go fuk urselves up the oldest countrie is armenia its 786236179861269398643189641386943168361996842 b.c old. fuk indians and btrish

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Adiba, i wish all the other Indians living in my great country called "ENGLAND" had the same view as you have, then maybe they would all fuck off back to India or some other poor bastards country. YOU PRICK. You say your country is the oldest country?? Who gives a fuck its still a shit hole

Yes!!! INDIA is the oldest or at least one of the oldest it's stupid to say that San marino is the oldest.India was there way before the STUPID BRITISH came.who the hell cares that america stole some names from england,england stole stuff from every country. I'm an INDIAN and also a New Yorker. i HATE england.

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Egypt is the oldest country 3150 B.C and the capital was back then was Memphis Egypt go look it up and Cairo is the present day capital.

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Stephen I guess you should go back to school or go and upload your education
I am not a Persian (from Iran) or a Danish ,but you definitely sound like you don't know anything about the history
of course Persia was a Country and the original name of current "Iran" ,since Aryan people divided by three groups after they moved to Caucasus mountains ,Mad(Kurdish ,and basically Middle stern),Part(Don't have much info about this group),Pars(that's where the word Persian comes from,in other word Indo Europeans Germans: you can search it on You-tube : Iran and Germany Aryan Brotherhood
we are talking about 7000 years ago dud (there was no Greece in that time)

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The oldest nation in Europe according to the research i have done in the last month, well there are two. Serbia and Bulgaira.Romanians,Albanians and Turks are Bulgarians.Croats,Bosnian Muslims are Serbian. Celts and Serbs were once one nation until they split up and halfe had to travel to the UK.

1.Serbia
2.Bulgaria
3.Celts (Scotts)
4.Turkey
5.Albania
6.France
7.Denmark
8.Portugal
9.Andorra
10.Switzerland

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The oldest country in the in europe is albania as we all know that is from doria tribe,epirotic tribe and than came the spartans.

I have notice that people such as portugal poland and so on they are far from the oldes.
Try and say the truth if you know the answer otherwise do comment.

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The oldest PEOPLE in Europe are Albanians which actualy are the descendants of Illyrians, and Illyrians are descendants of Pellazgians.
And the youngest are Slavs which took Illyrians territory bit by bit!

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This list was very, very, very innacurate. Those countries are new, baby countries compared to Europe, and especially the rest of the world. If talking about europe I would say the oldest nation with the oldest people is probably Albania, although it's not very well known, and popular. It's people were there long before the greeks who came there if my memory serves me right around 1500 BC, and of course long before the slavs who came there around the 9th-11th century AD. A tribe of the albanians called the ETRUSCANS are also held responsible for the formation of Rome by some historians, and this belief is growing stronger as archeological descoveries point to it.
When talking about the world I believe Iraq, India, or China to be the oldest nation. Wasnt the Messopotamian Empire the oldest civilized empire, and it's descendant today is Iraq. For India, and China I can't provide any fact for sure, but I remember from history that they were in the top oldest nations on the world. To anybody who reads this list: IT'S GOOD FOR FICTION BUT DON'T USE IT FOR A PROJECT IN SCHOOL CAUSE U WILL GET A GRADE YOU WON'T LIKE.

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I think Bulgaria is the oldest country only in Europe since scientist have traced Bulgarian history back to 225 BC.
But there isnt a chance its the oldest since countries like Egypt and Persia(Iran) have been around since 7000 BC(Persia is but I'm not sure about Egypt

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To the main topic, the list is pretty....inaccurate. There were obviously countries before "AD/BCE" Ethiopia, Egypt and China for example.

France is one of the oldest countries in Europe. Hungary is older (and was around in BC).

But, as to the oldest country in the world, I would have to say Ethiopia should definitely be on the list. China as well. I don't think there is an established answer, as to this question anyway. People are still discovering, things after all.

To the person who said America has the second oldest constitution; look up the definition of "constitution". And the CIA is crap.

And remember people, it's "Oldest Country" not "oldest civilization".

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the oldest place in world is middle east the countries such as Iran, Iraq, Egypt and ect. but to answer this question is difficult, from latest discoveries I can say Iran believes to be the oldest country . may be it will be change to another country. The list above is so stupid you list the newest country in the world.

In reality japan does need to be on the list. You can arguably use emperor ojin as the start of the early japanese state of yamato in 270 AD though as these dates are often disputed you could use the Taika reforms of 646 AD to establish that yamato existed at least as one continuous nation from that point forward. However there is significant evidence from both China and Korea that Japan has had a single state, Wa, from at least the 3rd century AD putting it at #2 minimum #1 maximum on the list.

China cannot be considered as a continuous independent nation until after the fall of the mongol controlled yuan dynasty and the founding of the ming dynasty. Though many use the current chinese state as having existed since Mao founded the PRC in 1949.

Iran lost control to the mongols in the mid 13th century and did not regain local Iranian rule until the Safavid dynasty of 1501.

England is usually considered founded in 1066 after the end of the viking invasions.

The current Indian state was founded through Ghandi's actions in 1947. Though really before British rule there never was a truly unified India.

France is often said to be founded by the Treaty of Verdun in 843 though you could say that the Dynasty that lead them there, which was founded in the early 8th century under Charles Martel in which he unified the Franks to fight the Islamic invasion from Spain.

Also, Turkey cannot be used as they were founded by the Seljuk in 1071.

I could go through more but some of them start to become moronic and I don't feel like it. :p

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Bulgaria exist at that place with that name for 1327 years (681)
So that is the oldest country in Europe

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Im sorry, but sadly China is the oldest country in the world and Japan cant be because Japanese people came from China like American people came from Europe so Japan is OUT OF THE FUCIN QUESTION!!!

San Marino has the oldest constitution in the world. It would suprise you to know that the country with the 2nd oldest constitution in the world is the United States. A country is defined by their constitution. The first civilization was Sumaria, located in Iraq. They invented things like the wheel and writing (cuneform) 2000 years before the Egyptians got out of their mudhuts.

Boy, are you people dumb.

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I'm sorry, but the oldest country in the world is Portugal, 1143 AD., because the definition of country is a sovereign state that has its borders recognized by an official authority, in this case, the Church, with the "Bula Manifestis Probatum", recognizing Portugal as the first sovereign state in the world with recognized borders. India, China, Iran, or the United Kingdom only had its borders recgnized by an official authority way after Portugal.

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India is the oldest Country in the world Because not only Ramayan and mahabharatha recently it is proved the First life on the Earth Was started in India...By scientists

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i make clear that the oldest country in the world is Sri Lanka because the Prophat Adam came from sky for the first time their and the generation started so after that i think afghanistan is the oldest country because of its name Aryana.

Well, Chris... If you have a friend in Japan, it's gotta be the oldest country in the world! Good point!

Bingers>> Denmark was occupied in WWII. That's correct.

But hopefully you don't think that Denmark became a part of Germany because of that??!!

Denmark has always been Denmark,and that is not going to change because of an occupation! In fact, parts of Germany have been part of Denmark long time ago!

But because of some not so clever kings, Denmark not as big as they were for several hundred years ago.

japan is the oldest country. I have a friend from japan

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The oldest country that was recognized as an independant state and beares the same name, language , culture for over 1300 years is Bulgaria.We are not talking here about , oldest civilization, nor peoples , nor tribes that existed at one point but disappeared later on or were assimilated by others. We are talking about the ildest country. Neither is Iran , because Iran was Persia before that, nor it is Roman Empire , nor India. Live in bulgarian lands dates back to 8000 years before Christ but we do not consider us that old. Here we talk about founded countries.And the oldest one is Bulgaria.

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i am saying this to those who think that the real name of iran is iran.no.
the real name is pars(persia).
iran is the name that is given to this country by hitler suggestion to reza shah in 1935.and reza shah accept it and
made the name official in the same year.
iran means the land of aryans.

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why does every body think and guess.by studing history we can learn.
persia(iran)is the oldest civilization and is the oldest country in the world.
i suggest to those who are interested to study,please read this book:
persia 7000years of civilization
written by siavash awesta

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These all are folks.
The oldest country in the world is INDIA.Ramayana & Mahabharata were fought
in 800 B.C. & 900 B.C. respectively.

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In Europe - Bulgaria is one of the oldest countries.

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San Marino? Oh yea? If thats true then why are they so crap at football? Tossers.

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Iran/Persia is the oldest country and civilization. Iranians have always called their land Iran, Persia is the Greek name for Iran. (for those who did not know.)

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egypt doesnt count as the oldest country becuase it is a tottally diffrent nation to the ancient egyptian
the ancient egyptians worshipped sun god RA and many other gods were as the current nation follows islam 2 completely different societies

Africa i guess , coz the first civilization in the world had started from there. the neanderthal man....ADAM was scientifically proved to have originated from africa...just a guess mates....

some aboriginal tribes of australia predate anything anybody can come up with ................

some aboriginal tribes of australia predate anything you lot can come up with ................

what about australia. before white man came(205 years ago).theres evidence of humanity dating back one hundred thousand years............

shane

its been a joke no help what so ever i may aswell say australia and never come back to this site

I will just remind you:
Bulgaria was established in 165 AD.

China wasn't even called China until 221 BC when the Chin dynasty was established. Before it was composed of several warring states each with their own ruler. Even after this dynasty was established it fell after only 20 years following by a sucession of other dynasties. So China is not even close to being 5000 years old much less the oldest country in the world.

San Marino is the oldest united country, that has remained intact.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0776695.html

Well, we can not really say which country is the world oldest country but I think Egypt(7500), Persia (Iran8000) are one of the oldest countries of the world.

...China was unified under the Qin Emperor in 221 BC...what the hell are you arguing about - San Mariano is older than Hungary - 301 AD, Hungary isn't old.

well kami, i have to say that i am agree with you, i am not persian, but from what i have learnt, persia is the oldest in the world, but it does'nt exist enumore, but still, non of u people said the oldest country, which still exist. but anyway, i have to say that persian flag is the oldest in world, actually used to be, becasue 27 years ago Islamic Republic Changed the Logo of the flag (only the logo inside), but if u look at ut, logo does'nt make a big deal, any way, the flag of persia goes back to 9th century ago, older that any other flag, and i have to say that this people have diffrent flag before that, but muslims destroyed it, the new flag has been made by " King Mahmood Ghaznavi" in 1031, older that anyother flag still in existance, and i have to say that persia is DAMN OLDDDD...

Well im sorry, But i have to say that Persia is the oldest country, or in the other world, oldest cilvisation. if u dont agree with have a look at the Elamite Empire at http://www.iranchamber.com/history/elamite/elamite.php , Hope u all like it, well i just wanted to say my opinion and that is Persia

Hello anyone remember China they've been there since 5000 B.C.

Where does Egypt fit in?

the oldest country must be china

The CIA world factbook lists Hungary as the oldest country of the world. It is an independent country since 896 AD and recognized as an independent state since 1001 AD. (Bulgaria was under Turkish rule for more than 500 years, please people....)

Milten

Bulgaria is the Europeans oldest country that have remained with the same name for about 1300-1400 years.It is founded for a first time in 630 a.c. and in the actual theritory in 681 a.c.!It's in the books!!!

OH, P.S. England is probably the newest culture to be in existance. It is a dialect of French and German. Northern France was once belonging to Germany. France took it over and thus the Germans were forced to conform. Soon enough a dialect became present and the new people spoke what we now know as English. They moved away to an Island they decided to call...England...and voila!
P.S. Why do you think Bretagne is up north in France...

France is the second oldest country AD. However I think Greece must be the oldest. In any case, all countries (e.g. England, France) have been occupied thousands of years BC at some pt.

Though India became as a country only after britishers rule it was split up into many kingdoms before their regime. it was not a country till then but still their kingdoms worshipped Sun and their religion was the oldest. even today the hindus worship the sun god which was the first religion in the world. This proves that India should have been the oldest kingdom in the world.
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the issue about iran being the oldest country is bs. iran was founded just after the first world war by the colonial power of great britain before world war 1 it was known as persia divided numerous of time by other nations of war one of them being arabians and also the britains so iran is not the oldest country in the world neither is bulgary since its been divide by the roman empire and was in the state of turmoil right after the fall of the roman empire the oldest nation and country is denmark and it has existed since around 430a.d. the official flag of denmark also the oldest in the world came to around 1174 the monarchy of denmark has existed since before year 800 a.d. making Denmark not only the oldest nation but also the oldest monarchy in the world this is historic fact and not speculations look instead of just guessing your own country to be the oldest the first official king of england was a danish viking lord called kanute the great read the books people its out there.

I think that Iran is the oldest country

One of the oldest countries and maybe the oldest is Bulgaria. The first Bulgarian state in Europe is found 165 AD.Bulgars as nation are known since 5th centuty BC.Later in 631 AD is found the Old Great Bulgaria(also called Bulgaria of Kubrat) in the area between the Black sea and the Caspian sea.In present borders the state of Bulgaria was established in 681 AD.In that year khan Asparuh, son of Kubrat and leader of a branch of the nomadic Bulgars who were imigrating in their search of new land and living,crossed the Danube river
and managed to unite the local Slavic tribes and ancient Thracian people into a common state.Medieval Bulgaria was one of most powerful states in Europe.
In fact in the 8th sentury there were only 3 important states in Europe:the Frankish empire,the Byzantine empire and the Bulgarian khanate.
Bulgaria is the only contry in Europe which hasn't changed its name for almost 20 centuries.

Hungary is one of the oldest country dating back to 896. First king (St. Stephen) crowned in 1000.

our history teacher told us the oldest contry in the world is iran.

well as far as i can see your all wrong Denmark is the oldest nation in the world the danish flag dates back to around 1219 a.d. and the first british king was in fact a dane not to mention that the reason they call it normandy is because of the viking occupation there normandy means northmen scotland france england ireland and many more countries where occupiede by the danes of course back then Denmark was a big nation consisting of sweden and norway and a big part of germany and poland there have even been found evidence that the vikings where the first to set foot in northamerica but if you talk in terms of country wise and not nations greece and egypt are perhaps some of the oldest

& the winner is: San Marino is the oldest country in the world (301 AD) followed by France (486 AD) with Denmark (950 AD) coming in 3rd...

jamlan

both Scotland and Wales have been fully invaded by England since the Norman conquest of England

jj	Both Scotland and Wales are older than England though.......

i belive that the worlds oldest country is ENGLAND beacuse we have a lot of history and many many countries have originated from ENGLAND and have stolen our city names e.g America with NEW york, NEW hampshier and lots more with a lot more countries

If you're talking in terms on not being invaded or occupied England (1066 AD) and Thailand have to be some of the oldest. India was a British colony so that doesn't count. Most parts of France have being owned by England/Spain/Austria at some point as well as being occupied in two world wars. Denamsrk was also occupied in WWII

i think aryan is wrong it was invaded many times

Looks like a crack head wrote this list. From what I learned, INDIA is the oldest. Ramayan was dated back to pre historic man.

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