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Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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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Review by: Anonymous Rating:
i think aryan is wrong it was invaded many times
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Apr 11 12:49:52 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Apr 24 13:05:37 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Apr 28 10:36:40 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
Both Scotland and Wales are older than England though.......
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon May 10 16:49:07 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
both Scotland and Wales have been fully invaded by England since the Norman conquest of England
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu May 13 22:32:16 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
& 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...
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Jun 8 21:27:04 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Jun 19 06:18:37 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
our history teacher told us the oldest contry in the world is iran.
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Review by: Anonymous Rating:
Hungary is one of the oldest country dating back to 896. First king (St. Stephen) crowned in 1000.
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Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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.
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Aug 20 19:55:22 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
I think that Iran is the oldest country
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Sep 30 00:50:23 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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.
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Oct 6 02:40:16 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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.
feedbacks welcome
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Oct 18 11:44:16 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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.
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Oct 21 05:02:54 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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...
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Oct 21 05:06:34 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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!!!
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Dec 2 22:17:13 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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....)
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Dec 5 06:28:46 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
the oldest country must be china
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Dec 11 19:33:52 2004 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
Where does Egypt fit in?
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Jan 16 20:36:37 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
Hello anyone remember China they've been there since 5000 B.C.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Feb 8 18:34:49 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Feb 10 20:32:31 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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...
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Feb 10 20:43:33 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
...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.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Feb 21 04:52:52 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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.
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Feb 24 17:03:19 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0776695.html
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Feb 25 15:53:59 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
San Marino is the oldest united country, that has remained intact.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Mar 20 06:59:28 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
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.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Mar 29 19:16:00 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
I will just remind you:
Bulgaria was established in 165 AD.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Apr 3 16:51:13 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
its been a joke no help what so ever i may aswell say australia and never come back to this site
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Apr 6 07:10:03 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
what about australia. before white man came(205 years ago).theres evidence of humanity dating back one hundred thousand years............
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Review by: Anonymous Rating:
some aboriginal tribes of australia predate anything you lot can come up with ................
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Apr 6 07:23:27 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating:
some aboriginal tribes of australia predate anything anybody can come up with ................
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Apr 6 07:25:51 2005 #
Review by: John Boy Rating: 10
The oldest country is Lemuria which was around 75,000 years ago.
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Sep 30 19:47:45 2005 #
Review by: Robhalford Rating: --
You fools!!! india is THE OLDEST KINGDOM OF THE WORLD. I would like to say kingdom because it was invaded by kings like alexander, persian kings, arabs and all kinds of losers for centuries. India has 10,000 years of history with proof. Rest of the world probably has 2000 years of history that's it. So let's respect india and fall on their feet.
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Oct 13 15:29:51 2005 #
Review by: robhalford Rating: --
I am sorry. india has 500,000 years of history with proof. check out this link.
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/timeline/timeline.htm0
India has the oldest religion of the world. oldest civilization started in india. use of coins started in india. so don't bullshit india.
somebody said england-YOU MUST BE KIDDING ME. Those white trash stole millions of dollars worth diamonds from india.we have proof for that too.
proof counts man. so don't talk through your asses.
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Oct 13 15:52:07 2005 #
Review by: mah Rating: --
The oldest standing government, country, whatever is Japan. Unified in like 660 BC or something. all the other older countries have been invaded many times over so the government wasnt the same government even if the land kept the same name.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Oct 15 19:11:46 2005 #
Review by: mah Rating: --
oh and when I say he government is the same goverment. Its ok for a gov to reform, or have a revolution, that is just the gov changing or evolving. But in my opinion if an outside force takes over and disbands the current gov or the current gov falls and no one else rules for a period of time than they are now not in existance and if a new gov starts up it cant date its existance back to the start of the older gov just because they share a name and common land.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Oct 15 19:15:26 2005 #
Review by: anon Rating: 1
Someone mentioned Greece as being old?
Greece is only about 100 years old. There never was a 'Greece', only a whole bunch of city-states.
Macedonia's first king (died 450BC) has got to make Macedoina One-of the oldest countries and kingdoms.
Before any greeks decide to get political and claim Macedonia as greek, I'll leave you with this:
It is known that Democracy came from the ancient greeks (the city states) and they did not and have never had a king (until the world powers gave them one last century).
Macedonia was a kingdom. You can't have both... make up your mind, did you pioneer democracy or were you a monarchy?
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Oct 17 16:21:02 2005 #
Review by: Bob Gardner Rating: 2
Korea has been around since about 2300 B.C. That makes it about 4300 years old. I don't know if it's the oldest, but it sure beats the heck out of Denmark.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Oct 24 12:03:46 2005 #
Review by: Cadiso Rodrigez Rating: 10
IRAN IS DA OLDEST COUNTRY IN DA WORLD. IM NOT PERSIAN BUT IT WAS A PROVEN FACT. THAT IRAN HAS THINGS FROM 10 000 BC OF DA NATION WOW! DATS OLD
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Oct 27 09:01:41 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
persia is with no doubt the oldest country in the world any of you who are well into your history should surely know that.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Oct 29 01:26:16 2005 #
Review by: Sandy Rating: --
Ok, no racist slurs please.
I think India is the oldest. It's older than Iran and England, the other two popular choices.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Nov 15 05:42:45 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
umm......dont laugh at this, but what about ethiopia? it's always just kind of been there, no one ever occupied it.
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Nov 30 20:10:12 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
India used to be persia.. if yoou know anything about history the oldest country is Egypt and China
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Dec 5 16:36:08 2005 #
Review by: anonymos Rating: --
INDIA used to be PERSIA which are to different nations and IRAQ used to be another nation as well but CHINA and EGYPT have been the same before Histroy was ever recorded.....EGYPT is the oldest and CHINA is the second oldest!
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Dec 5 16:40:01 2005 #
Review by: anonymos Rating: 1
Egypt is MORE!!! than 3570 years old and is still in existance today while INDIA wasnt even established untill the 16th century AD
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Dec 5 17:02:16 2005 #
Review by: anonymous guy Rating: --
I think that dudes right india and persia are two different countries
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Dec 5 17:07:54 2005 #
Review by: anonymous Rating: --
Ethiopia didnt even have a government untill the europeans came to africa.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Dec 5 17:10:24 2005 #
Review by: Luke Rating: --
Ethiopia is in the running, it was an established kingdom before Europeans knew what a king was. The Europeans brought nothing to Ethiopia, just took. Look at history not your predjudices.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Dec 5 19:24:05 2005 #
Review by: khalil Fadah Rating: 1
you fools Yemen is the oldest country in the world because they have stones that go back to 100,000 years ago
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Review by: anon Rating: --
it depends what the context is. according to the Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, geographically Scotland is the oldest land formation in the world, specifically Staffa in the western isles
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Dec 8 19:04:44 2005 #
Review by: ARMEN Rating: --
ARMENIA is the oldest country in the world u fools!
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Dec 8 21:13:27 2005 #
Review by: NN Rating: --
You are all getting confused. The orgiinal question was.. What is the oldest country TO DATE? As in what modern or current country that thrives today is the oldest. And as far as my homework tells me Denmark wins. It's flag has been flown "consistantly" more than any other known country. All others have been (past tence) countries and kingdoms.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Dec 12 05:07:22 2005 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: 1
i still say its India and fck denmark and other countries.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Dec 17 06:42:03 2005 #
Review by: Ian Rating: --
It's not Persia (sorry guys, the Mongols conquered it). It's not Denmark(WWII Germany occupied it). India was owned by Britain, so it wasn't sovereign. Hungary was owned by the Austrian Empire.... The Kingdom of Adal conquered Ethiopia sometime in the 1500's.... And for the oldest country in the world, I have no idea lol.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Dec 19 22:06:30 2005 #
Review by: An American that knows History Rating: --
Boy, it is obvious many do not know their history, especially, some British who claimed "We (Americans) stoled names from their country" --- VERY DUMB STATEMENT--the settlerS who originally named them British names in this blessed country the USA where British transplants! Duuhhhhh
Also, the one who said San Marino is the oldest is right when it comes to Europe it is not England or Demark!
ENGLAND does not even make the list!!
Oh those British--what a pain.
Oh, Boy -- learn your history.
Here is the Oldest countries in Europe
San Marino (301 AD)
France (486 AD)
Bulgaria (632 AD)
Denmark (950 AD)
Portugal (1143 AD)
Andorra (1278 AD)
Switzerland (1291 AD)
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Dec 28 09:44:27 2005 #
Review by: Ian Rating: --
Most of France's western coast was owned by England for a long period of time... Bulgaria was owned by the Ottoman Empire... Denmark was captured by Germany in WWII... Portugal was captured by Napoleon... But as for San Marino, Andorra, and Switzerland, those dates are legitimate. I would have to agree that San Marino is the oldest.
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Jan 6 03:04:43 2006 #
Review by: Apple Rating: 5
NOW I See why the World is in TROUBLE. EVERY SCIENTIST FROM THE WORLD has had this Answers-->YEARS ago. -->AFRICA. Where did we go wrong in the School System..Where?
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Jan 7 23:08:43 2006 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
NOW I See why the World is in TROUBLE. EVERY SCIENTIST FROM THE WORLD has had this Answer-->YEARS ago. -->AFRICA. Where did we go wrong in the School System..Where?
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Jan 7 23:11:43 2006 #
Review by: anonymous Rating: --
I believe that the first countries have been made in Iran and Iraq as it is shown that the first empire have beeen found in iraq by the name Sumer and after that the Babylon, Assyrians Elamites have been made and after the Persian Empire the biggest Empire has been made.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Jan 9 19:30:51 2006 #
Review by: Natasha Rating: 5
I think it's funny that people are forgetting about Egypt. Now it's actully kind of weird cuz I heard that Iraq is the oldest but Egypt goes all the back to 8600 B.C.
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Review by: anommnn Rating: 1
it is iraq end of
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Review by: Lykaios Rating: --
Wow, some people post really dumb shit. All this depends on what constitutes as a country. Mesoptamia and Egypt saw some of the earliest civilizations, but present day Iran and Egypt are hardly the same countries today. England is certanily not the oldest, and to the idiot who wrote that English is just a French dialect of German, don't quit your day job. English is a Germanic language, brought to to the British Isles by three different Teutonic tribes: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. There is most definatly a French influence due to the Norman Invasion and the Latin influence when the conversion to Christianity took place. And Bretagne, in English called Brittany, is a Celtic, ont English settlement.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Jan 15 22:27:28 2006 #
Review by: xchox Rating: 10
Umm I was watching National Geographic and they said Man Kind originated in Africa... wether it be Gods Adam and Eve or Some meteorite with mucus which evolved to humans they dont know. But Definatly came from Africa... So wouldnt it be an Aftican Country?
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Jan 18 16:21:40 2006 #
Review by: xchox Rating: 10
One thing I do know for sure...
CANADA is the Youngest Country in the world.
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Jan 18 16:23:36 2006 #
Review by: no use for a name Rating: --
Prolly Russia Mongolia or China.
But like xchox said... Might be in Africa because I think I saw the same show as him.
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Review by: won't tell Rating: 2
no u r all wrong the oldest country is lebanon since byblos is the oldest cit int the world and byblos is in lebanon it i now called port "port of byblos" and lebanon existed 10 000 bc...
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Jan 19 17:53:24 2006 #
Review by: Ian Rating: --
Not sure what the oldest country, but the idiot who said Canada is the youngest country is horribly wrong. East Timor is the newest by far.
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Review by: Nune Rating: --
In terms of holding their own, Armenia has been an official country by the same name since 7th century B.C. and still very alive. Also, I don't believe you can name the youngest country without some serious research because they are forming all the time.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Jan 22 01:57:43 2006 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
funny how we all have our own ideas of what defines a country...almost sad in some ways
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Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
ethiopia
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Review by: Frédéric the French Rating: --
For me a country is a land where a civilisation is born and still exist. What about China, China is well known to have emperor and borderlines since more than 4 thousands years. The country has not been divided. Perhaps China has been invaded by mongolians but the country was still different from mongolia.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Feb 11 18:42:13 2006 #
Review by: Frédéric the French Rating: --
African's countries are new because before the colonisation, African's where living in tribals and not countries.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Feb 11 18:45:45 2006 #
Review by: DR. JOHN HOPKINS PHD. Rating: 7
Rhode Island is the oldest country in the world!! And Providence is the oldest city!! Hands down!!!!!!
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Review by: karen lashley Rating: --
san marino is the worlds oldest republic. The tiny republic was found by a christian stonemason named marino (or saint marinus) on september 3 in the year 301 C.E. that was the original question wasn't it? the oldest country in the would which is a republic. And the first humans to walk the earth were the "africans" the oldest ever human remains found were in ethiopia over 5 million years ago. And the oldest modern day human remains (Homo sapians) were also found in ethiopia over 160,000 ago. And if your interested the oldest coulture in europe are the baque people which is known as the basque country on the border of france and spain! in the pyrenees who spoke a language called Euskera a pre-indoeuropean language, which dates back to the cro-magnons walked the earth some 40,000 years ago. So people "stick that in your pipe and smoke it"
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Feb 20 13:14:38 2006 #
Review by: hugh juass Rating: --
who da hell said ethiopia didn't have a goverment till da europeans came. Luke ur a dambass. ethiopia is at least 2000 yearrs old as an established state, and before that we have proof of ethiopia trading with persians and egyptians since 3000bc. luke ur a dumbass.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Feb 25 05:04:55 2006 #
Review by: hugh jass Rating: --
oops luke ur not a dumbass, the guy who spit shit above ur post is tho
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Feb 25 05:06:24 2006 #
Review by: joel Rating: 1
ok....you are kind of stupid all of you....basic facts from asia....Japan has not been conquered a single time since 660 BC.....I think that beats san marino----and from what I know....san marino has been part of other nations many times since 600 ad...
so japan rules....
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Feb 25 16:00:11 2006 #
Review by: joel Rating: 1
actually....I just checked this thing out.....another old country is(according to CIAs world factbook, which is most accurate) ethiopia that has been independent for more than 2000 years...
except for the italian occupation between 1936-41....
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Feb 25 16:32:10 2006 #
Review by: nabil Rating: 10
egypt, by far egypt, that's where civilization started
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Feb 28 06:03:58 2006 #
Review by: Tiana Rating: 5
I think, friends, that everything is EQUALLY old. Unless you mean, which country was made first. In which, Id have to say Israel.
:-0
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Mar 1 18:32:04 2006 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
there was civilization in Mesopotamia first but that dosen't mean that the first COUNTRY was located there... when you say country do you mean like... has a government, a flag, a president or minister, and definate borders than why don't you just say that the Roman Empire or one of the first Chinese dynasty was the first and be done with it... i think that you guys just like occupying space on the internet... and thats cool, have at it...
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Mar 3 11:35:05 2006 #
Review by: anon Rating: --
people, the western world is YOUNG!!! ASIA and AFRICA are old, in terms of earth's history. And please don't even mention Thailand, a mere derivative of Cambodia(one of the oldest in asia/South east asia). And oldest even are india, and DUH africa, if you guys ever heard of LUCY!!! Forget about amercian and europe dummies, those are NEWW....
god dumbed amrecianised-western brainwashed idiots.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Mar 4 21:48:45 2006 #
Review by: Devesh Srivastava Rating: 10
India is the oldest country in this world, only india has histroy BC no other country having The bible has come AD so we all have to accept india is oldest country
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Mar 5 06:07:29 2006 #
Review by: Emil Stoyanov Rating: --
Bulgaria is founded on 681 AD with the same name and on the same land where it is in present days.
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Review by: MOULOS Rating: 10
The oldest must be the country that first have the first man leaving on it...... the first homo sapiens lived in Africa the first community established in Africa so the first country must be somewhere in Africa. If we are saying about old nations known for there calture we can say about Greece, China, Iran(Persia), Egypt..... The only old laungage that is still usable is the greek one since 1200bc.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Mar 11 16:09:42 2006 #
Review by: Ricardo Rating: --
Someone said "One thing I do know for sure... CANADA is the Youngest Country in the world". Well you are wrong. The youngest country in the World is Timor Lorosae which achieved full independence from Indonesia on May 20, 2002 thanks to Portugal and the UN.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Mar 21 17:26:28 2006 #
Review by: des Rating: --
youngest country canada? twit! east timor is the youngest country..FACT!
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Mar 22 03:26:29 2006 #
Review by: Anonymus Rating: 10
The world's oldest country is India.Who said that Persia was part of India ? Persian people came to India for shelter when 'Muslims/Arabs' invaded them.Ratan Tata a big name among industrylists is a 'Parsee' whose forefathers were obviously an immigrant like so many people residing.Europe can boast of having oldest "nations" but even then as someone rightly said they can't boast of a book written from pre-historic times (Ramayana) proving again the ancient existence of India.Egypt and Ethiopia are still struggling to make a mark in the world economy ; even their culture hasn't been something of strongly adopted (No controversies please) how can they call them oldest ?
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Mar 22 17:50:37 2006 #
Review by: aksh Rating: --
England... haha, that cracks me up.
By far the oldest countries are India and China, they both have been through periods of occupations (like EVERY other country), but as an identity they have existed since before 2000 BCE.
Both have pioneers in religion, science, mathematics, philosophy and astronomy. Silk, tea, decimal systems, concept of university, pacifism, architecture, martial arts, navigation are among a few marvelous things these countries are attributed to.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Mar 26 11:32:35 2006 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
SYRIA IS OLD..VERY
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Mar 30 00:26:33 2006 #
Review by: sad Rating: 10
The oldest countri in the world is persia ( me call it iran ).Because they have found a gold cup in a city which is called the borned city .That cup is made ~ 6000-6500 B.C ;therfore. by now that cup has more than 8500 years old.
You might or not agree with me ,but that is the fact.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Apr 3 03:21:54 2006 #
Review by: sad Rating: 10
The oldest country in the world is persia ( wee call it Iran ).Because they have found a gold cup in a city which is called the burned city .That cup is made ~ 6000-6500 B.C ;therfore, by now that cup has more than 8500 years old.
You might or not agree with me ,but that is the fact.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Apr 3 03:24:29 2006 #
Review by: Hadi Rating: 10
The oldest country int the world is most definitely SYRIA(Lebanon,Jordan and Palestine) the oldest inhabited city in the world is DAMASCUS. and more and more its was the cent of the world between Egypt,Pesria,Green and Rome .
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Apr 3 07:42:53 2006 #
Review by: Li Yun Rating: --
There used to be four ancient countries. Babylon,ancient india,ancient Egyptand, and China.The first one has disappeared for a long time,ancient India,ancient Egyptand used to be controled by foreign counties as colonies. So, there are neither ancient India nor ancient Egyptand in the world now. The only one is China which had never governed by alience. Moreover, Chinese, both majority(Han race) and minorities(other 55 races)was said as"the posterity of "Yellow Emperor(2698 BC to 2599 BC)".After few wars, he became the Emperor of "Hua Xia(means China)",although some parts of China still did not unify in that period.This is mentioned by the his composing and official history recordations from history minister around that time. And before him there were other who are Emperors called "three kings and five emperors". These were also proved by most of history ministers and recorders in each period of China. So, It should be more than 5000 years when the country was founded.Some one said Chin Dynasty,which is just the first unified kingdom. Although there were a lot of states fighting with each other before Chin Dynasty, it was just civil wars. Actually it is same as USA, having states, however can any person say USA is not a country?
Japan was born at least after Chin Dynasty. According the recods, Chinshi Emperor sent a minister called Xu Fu with 500 girls and 500 boys to go to the east islands for the "live forever medicine".this group of people could not come back without teh medicine ,so they settled down in some island such as Ryukyu and married with the autochthon on these island and , and then founded Japan.That is why they call themselves as "Yamato"which means "peace and unify" in Chinese Characters. Now there is Xu Fu temple in Japan for memory this original founder.
Korean, actually is a minority race of China, and korean byland used to be the territory of China.In past dynasty,korea, Japan and other countries in Asia called China as "ancestor nation".
Persia:its the earliest country is Achaemenid Empire (648 BC–330 BC)
Europe is begin at Angean civilization(around 1600BC), without country. The first country(we do not care was it unified or not)is Ancient Greek(776-323BC).
It is impossible that North and South America is the earliest country. Because most of them founded after the colonists settled down.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Apr 4 11:38:33 2006 #
Review by: Li Yun Rating: 10
And I think, the topic is "the oldest country in the world".That means: first time is "current". second, the country should be governed, should has formal government,instead of civilization.Four ancient countiries,now,rests the unique China. According to my previous saying. The oldest country now must be China, which founded at least 5000 years ago ,without controling by any invaders.Ancient India civilization is from 2500BC but thsi is not a country. Then India is governed by England from 19 century.Ancient Egypt,although it began at 3100BC, it was ended by Macedonia(Ancient Greek at 332BC), after that it was governed by many invader. So it is no longer the Egypt.
Some one said Mongolian, actually Mongolian belongs to Chinese, which is minority of Chinese races.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Apr 4 12:39:05 2006 #
Review by: MAtin Rating: 10
I think that IRAN is the oldest country of the world because of the civiliztion and its rich culture, and the geographic location that this country has proves that its been the oldest country of all. and besides the HAKHAMANESHI empire and the ones after it streched IRAN from Egypt to Greece all the way to India.
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Apr 7 21:23:50 2006 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
I think Eastbourne is the oldest country (i know its a town but christ look at the people there lmao).
me out......
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Apr 23 23:07:26 2006 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
hello where is Ethiopia fit in because Ethiopia has been 5.8 million years or more i believe Ethiopia is one of the oldest country on earth
and i have prove that you can read about it in the website that they found human skeleton which are .8 or 6 million years in ethiopia thats the prove
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Apr 27 12:31:59 2006 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
Ehtiopia is had kingdom more then millions of years and ethiopia not coloniel by any other country except by italian but it didnt last for even 6 years we beatass out of our country
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Apr 27 12:44:40 2006 #
Review by: heidi Rating: 1
PERSIA IS THE OLDEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD..ITS A FACT
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Jun 15 15:20:29 2006 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
ok all of you guys.the most oldest country need to be still existing ok with the same name and on the same location this is the original question the oldest(existing) country.so is not persia cuz there is no more persia on the map there is iran but no persia.it doesnt matter if the country is been under control of some body else as far as is existing today with the same name.so i dont know if india was established as india thousands of years ago or it use to be just many different indian kingdoms.same with china.thats why i thing egypt is the most still existing country known as egypt for some 5000 years and over.about europe i agree wuth the guy who make the list of the countries san marino is first bulgaria second denmark third.(france is not there cuz france has not been known as france before the middle centures dont get confused and dont mixed france with the franks empire of carl the greatest two different things)
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Jun 23 03:43:10 2006 #
Review by: george Rating: 1
What is your defenition of a country, one filled with a bunch of cavemen hanging from trees who have no idea how to ad 1 and 1, or a country of intelligent and sofisticated people such as GREECE who has been around for quite some time now. No offense to any of you but the oldest countries in my books and probably all intelligent people accross the world would have to be GREECE, EGYPT AND CHINA, and some of the earliest areas inhabited by people (i.e people who had some knowledge, trading skills, etc)(not just people such as in africa) although not countries in any means would be mesopotamia and india. Other than that, GREECE, EGYPT AND CHINA prevail.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Jul 2 20:19:55 2006 #
Review by: Sean Rating: --
Iran is the Oldest country, and for those of you who say Persia is not Iran, in 1935 the international name of Persia Changed to Iran but even a thousand year before that date Persians were calling their country "Iran". So Iran is a very old name witch comes from "Aryan". Even Iranian language is called PERSIAN and the gulf in the south of Iran is called PERSIAN GULF. Persians have a very rich culture and literature. Persian Empire for many years was the only power of the ancient world, they could capture many parts of other empires like Greece and Romans and even they captured Egypt.
“shahnam.pesar@gmail.com” is my email for those of you who want to know more.
By the way I'm Australian.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Aug 14 05:27:12 2006 #
Review by: Sean Rating: 10
By the way, Iran (Persia) was never for INDIA. But India was under Persian Empire for many years. But they have completely different races.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Aug 14 06:52:06 2006 #
Review by: killer Rating: 10
i looked in wikipedia it says sri lanka so check it out u might find something and its preety stupid of ppl to think that countirs r only ad (after death of christ)old but its BC old
no offence
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Aug 17 16:20:56 2006 #
Review by: daniel Rating: 10
it was persia
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Aug 17 22:36:14 2006 #
Review by: ei7 Rating: 10
what about ethiopia?
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Aug 18 22:23:27 2006 #
Review by: ESB Rating: --
First off we are talking about a country ppl not kingdom that later fell apart, Secondly we are talking about a country that has existed under 1 leadership not with all kind of different rulers, and third egypt greece w/e dosent count.
Denmark is in fact the oldest country in the world and the danish flag "danebrog" is the oldest flag in the world also. I am not trying to critize what the others has said but it is proven that Denmark is the oldest (if i could just find the link).
To those who wrote that Denmark was captured by the Germans in WWII, true they were captured but they werent under complete german control. The danish goverment+King still controlled everything except for very few things. For example when Danes where arrested they did not go under german control but under danish (except for the jewes due to Hilters hatred). Never was under german control and was not controled by Germany in WWII like the other countries like Poland. Learn the danish history before you type stuff it.
Anyway the danish monarch bloodline goes all the way back to the vikings to today, which is even more reason that Denmark is the oldest country.
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Sep 8 00:46:51 2006 #
Review by: esb Rating: --
917?-948? : Harthacnut (Hardeknud)
948?-958? : Gorm the Old (Gorm den Gamle) (Considered the first king of Denmark by danes, since he is the first documented(the rune stones of Jelling))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Denmark
If u find something else post it
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Sep 8 01:11:42 2006 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
Iran (persia)
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Oct 24 03:09:52 2006 #
Review by: majid Rating: 9
i think that SYRIA is one of thhe oldest countries in the world as it contains aleppo surely the oldest inhabited city in the world.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Oct 30 12:46:01 2006 #
Review by: michael Rating: --
The oldest country in the world is Denmark... All of the examples of other countries claiming to be older seem to be wrong... Firstly Egypt has been ruled by several other countries including the Ottoman Empire and British Empire... Ancient Greece was ruled by independent city-states and was until the Romans had them all under their control. From there they went under Byzantine rule and eventually Ottoman Turk rule, thus obviously excluding them... India wasn't unified until relatively recently and has for most of its history been several smaller states... If you consider India to be the Mughal Empire then its founding only goes back to the 1500's. Yes China is an old country, but it has been split apart and unified several times thus it does not count. Persia/Iran may also be a candidate for the oldest country in the world except for the fact that it was invaded by the Mongols in the 1200's and became part of their empire for a time...There is probably another reason I just can't think of it right now... Ethiopia is not the oldest country in the world because of its control under Italy for six years. San Marino is not the oldest country but the oldest constitution (1600), which is different. France is not the second oldest country in the world and if you really believe that I feel sorry for you... France was only united after the hundred years war... It would be like calling Germany the oldest country in the world because of some old Chieftan in the Brandenburg area of Germany. Japan is not the oldest, because though it may be claimed that it was founded in 660 BC it was only unified much later after many years. Sri Lanka has at several times in its history been a part of Southern Indian kingdom, and most importantly it was colonised by the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the British Empire...
The suggestion that Denmark is not the oldest country in the world because it was invaded by Germany does hold because it was only occupied by Germany and never actually incorporated into Germany. Oh and finally for all those people that think an African country should be the oldest, try opening a history book, you'll find most of them have been colonies and only gained independence in the 1960's... Remember the oldest country does not mean oldest culture, oldest city or oldest group/race of people.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Nov 7 05:19:55 2006 #
Review by: pablo escobaro Rating: --
The only way to do this is by govt? which country has the oldest Govt. Nearly every country in the world has reset since WWII. Among those that havn't change the US is the oldest.
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Nov 8 22:21:12 2006 #
Review by: Buddha Rating: 1
People are stupid to ask (what is the world's oldest country!) Check the population and who have the most population is the oldest county. (CHINA)
Archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest occupants in China date to as long as 2.24 million to 250,000 years ago by an ancient human relative (hominin) known as Homo erectus. One particular cave in Zhoukoudian (near current-day Beijing) has fossilized evidence that current dating techniques put at somewhere between 300,000 and 550,000 years old. Evidence of primitive stone tool technology and animal bones associated with H. erectus have been studied since the late 18th to 19th centuries in various areas of Eastern Asia including Indonesia (in particular Java) and Malaysia. It is thought that these early hominids first evolved in Africa during the Pleistocene epoch. By 2 million years ago, the first migration wave of H. erectus settled throughout the Old World.
Fully modern humans (Homo sapiens) are believed to originally have evolved between roughly 200,000 and 168,000 years ago in the area of Ethiopia or Southern Africa (Homo sapiens idaltu). By 100,000 to 50,000 years ago, modern human beings had settled in all parts of the Old World (25,000 to 11,000 BCE in the New World). In the last 100,000 years, all proto-human populations disappeared as modern humans took over or drove other human species into extinction.
The earliest evidence of fully modern humans in China comes from Liujiang County, Guangxi, where a cranium has been found and dated to approximately 67,000 years ago. Although much controversy persists over the dating of the Liujiang remains[1][2], there is a partial skeleton from Minatogawa in Okinawa, Japan that has been radiocarbon dated to 18,250 ±650 to 16,600 ±300 years BP, which implies that modern humans must have reached China before that time.
for more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Nov 9 08:07:43 2006 #
Review by: USA Rating: --
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
The country that is still going by the same name as when it was founded is: CHINA. It was unified under that name in about 225 B.C.E.
The oldest area of civilization is Mesopotamia, but of course it's now called Iraq. I think the first paragraph is what you meant.
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Nov 16 13:47:40 2006 #
Review by: Ralph Charles Goodwin [rcg] Rating: --
The oldest surviving nation in the world is the Salishan. Verifiable records date back more than 10,000 years - and they still exist as a nation.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Nov 26 16:50:28 2006 #
Review by: unknown Rating: 5
why r u guys fightimg which is the oldest country!
each person is making his country the oldest!
what if i say US is the oldest one!
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Jan 10 17:54:36 2007 #
Review by: peter Rating: --
everyone check out wikipedia, under "the oldest continous civilizations" and u will see that the oldest country is china and then iran.
And, Iran might have been invaded by other nations but it gained its independence again shortly after every time. Egypt can't be the oldest because they aren't egyptians anymore, they call themselfes for arabs. Who said iran have been a british colonie like india, thats wrong, only some parts of iran was occupied for a period. lastly, there is no differens between iran and persia, there are exactly the same only the international name changed.
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Jan 12 23:38:55 2007 #
Review by: majid Rating: --
there is no such thing AS THE OLDEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. ALL THE COUNTRIES WERE ONE. THERE ARE OLDEST INHABITED CITIES. i think the oldest inhabited cities are in the east.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Jan 29 12:21:19 2007 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
UFFFFF PPL PAY ATTENTION!!
U CANT FIGURE OUT WHAT COUNTRY IS THE OLDEST TILL U DEFINE THE QUESTION!!
aRE U TALKING, GOVERN COUNTRIES ARE U TALKING COUNTRIES THAT STILL EXCIST TODAY ARE YOU TALKING COUNTRIES THAT WERE NEVER INVATED PPL U HAVE TOO DEFINE THE QUESTION BEFORE U ANSWER IT First civializations to farm, raise cattle, forge metals, first writtings and the first form of government was Perisa
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Jan 30 06:15:38 2007 #
Review by: anonymus Rating: 1
You are all crazt the oldest civilization/country in the world is Sumeria. Read your history for god's sake it is 200 years older then Egypt. It also invented the oldest form of writing, and counted thigns by 60's, hence how our time works (60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour.) READ YOUR HISTORY. (Sumeria is in Modern Day Iraq)
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Jan 31 01:50:15 2007 #
Review by: Anonymous Rating: --
Actually the oldest country in the world is one of the following, China, Egypt, and Persia (iran). for all you people who think persia and iran are different because persia is the latin word the romans called iran. but im from there and we have documents from 3000 years back saying IRAN, while we were a world super power all of europe was still nomads and pagans. and yes iran has been conquered numerous times but we still have united back as 1 nation of 1 peoples. so that makes us a continuous country. we still speak the same language we spoke 3000 years ago. only our religion has changed. but who's relgion hasnt hanged into christianity,or islam? china is old too. it is the worlds oldest civilization. and so is egypt.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Feb 12 21:45:58 2007 #
Review by: venu Rating: --
Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa, with one of the longest recorded histories in the world. It has long been an intersection between the civilizations of North Africa, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Feb 15 12:48:30 2007 #
Review by: KIKO Rating: --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_date_of_statehood
Read this people, and stop writing bullshit.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Mar 3 21:26:42 2007 #
Review by: Steven Rating: --
Bulgria is the oldest country in the world. San Marino is a city state, not an actual country, the country it is in is Italy, after that i hear the oldest country is France, this is not true because i researched and found it was not known as France, it was aither the Frankish kingdom or Western Francia (in the 800s), the true oldest country which kept its name is Bulgaria, this is the oldest country, but some may say the first cultures or life was in ethiopia or parts of Africa, this is true but it wasn't the first country.
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Mar 30 21:46:33 2007 #
Review by: Jocke Rating: --
"The world's oldest country is a matter of dispute, depending on whether one considers the most important thing to be continuity in recorded history, national independence, or political institutions. The most plausible contender is China, which was united in 221 BC and can document Chinese-speaking governments on the Yellow River since about 1500 BC. Britain counts the oldest functioning parliamentary system (raising taxes, passing laws and hanging traitors since 1265); the Vatican the longest period of control over a single territory (but by now only a few buildings); and Iraq and Egypt the longest recorded histories (to c. 3000 BC). Japan probably has the oldest existing political institution (the imperial family has reigned since at least the 5th century and probably longer.)"
Source = http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=108&subsecID=900003&contentID=252023
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri May 4 19:22:19 2007 #
Review by: 3Cost Rating: --
If national independence, continuity of government, territorial integrity and autonomous foreign policy are the measures of 'countryhood' is there any current nation besides the United States of America with 195 [1812-2007] years [at least] of each?
China was invaded, and parts held, by the European colonial powers and Japanese Empire. Also, it underwent a change in government in 1949.
Japan's autonomy was lost in 1945, but soon regained.
Persia/Iraq/Egypt have not enjoyed autonomy or continuity of government.
The Vatican relies on Italy for national defence.
Another contender, along the lines suggested above, might be the UK, except for the secession of Ireland in 1922. England particularly, whilst an 'old' country in the terms suggested above, has 'surrendered' its sovereignty to the UK.
No source, just interested in the debate.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Jul 9 00:33:38 2007 #
Review by: manuel Rating: 7
Apple said "Portugal was captured by Napoleon...". That is not true. Napoleon never captured Portugal, he was expeled 2 times. it was a big defeat for Napoleon from a small country.
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Jul 20 13:12:26 2007 #
Review by: Caroline Rating: --
Guys, some history here.
First thing to clarify is that when we talk about oldest countries we have to think of countries that still exist, and not old civilizations like the greek, or persians or romans and so on.
Second, and this one is up to debate, i think we have to count with countries that remain the same since they exist. And i think France is not there. France changed a lot during the years, the same with China. China from nowadays is not the China from centuries ago.
i think with eveything account Denmark and Portugal are the oldest countries (after San Marino). I read somehwere Napolean invaded Portugal (though he got his ass kicked) and Denmark was invaded during WW2... but guys, an ivansion doesn't take the idependency away. Iraque is till Iraque.
Another mistake in these comments is about Australia. The country wasn't found by the white man 250 years ago, but 500 years ago by the portuguese.
And all the english people should go and learn their history.
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Aug 27 00:21:49 2007 #
Review by: deep Rating: 7
A very tricky question and the answer depends on the question.
Define oldest country:
- unchanged political borders
- Never comquered and ruled by other country
- Not influenced by external cultural and social influences.
- allways rulled and governed by the willing and power of its people
- allways refered by the same name
Its safe to consider this list as a starting point:
San Marino (301 AD)
France (486 AD)
Bulgaria (632 AD)
Denmark (950 AD)
Portugal (1143 AD)
Andorra (1278 AD)
Switzerland (1291 AD)
Sam Marino is not actualy a state, but a city state many times and the rule of Italian city sates and under cultural and social influence of Italy, several time invadade and conquered.
France is actualy very old but it was unified and referred as France only in the 800, several times invaded and conquered/ruled by foreiner countries.
Bulgaria, well 500 years under the rule of Otomans im sure makes a lot of changes at all levels.
Denmark, quite old and dispersed cultural and tribal, in fact the actual borders are very dificult to define, under germam governement and not allways refered as denmark.
Portugal, as far as i know fills all criteria including the fact that as the oldest unchanged political borders. Napolean tried to invade Portugal 2 times but lost both battles.
I would say Portugal for oldest under this criteria.
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Sep 5 00:35:32 2007 #
Review by: B Rating: --
its Ethiopia. first human stepped foot there. never been colonized. never gained its independence. doesn't have "independence day" as a holiday
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Sep 16 05:39:17 2007 #
Review by: Saffa Efazat Rating: --
There are many amature opinions in these posts. One of these post said that Iran was created after the colonial powers after world war one! THATS NOT TRUE AT ALL!!!. Persia changed its name in the 1930's to the more old(!) and more appropriate name of Iran (the land of the Aryans).
There are or has been many of old cultures and civilisations in the world. But do we count the as countries as the countries we see today in the world? The concept and term of the nation-state did'nt actually arise before the French Revolution. In Political Science we count about 10 nation-states that excisted before the 15th century. They include(among others): Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, Iran and some few others. But thats it! There is no egyptian or greek culture beeing called a nation-state. Civilisation arose independantly in many places in the world: Mesopotamia, Indus-river, Egypt, Yellow-river, South America etc. But becasue we have a ruler and a civilisation it does not count as a country in modern terms.
About Iran: I will not propose that Iran is the oldest nation-state or country in the world because my knowledge is too limited in this sense. But I do whant to say that the first unified Iranian nation-state was created 559 BC by Cyrus the Great when he unified the Elamites and Medians into one state: The Persian Empire(Achaemenian Empire)- the first global empire the world had ever seen. Still the persians had already had a civilisation for hundreds of years before the unification but that does not count in the terms of a nation state
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Sep 22 08:18:30 2007 #
Review by: RICARDO BARBOSA Rating: 10
here is the official list:
OLDEST COUNTRIES
San Marino (301 AD)
France (486 AD)
Bulgaria (632 AD)
Denmark (950 AD)
Portugal (1143 AD)
Andorra (1278 AD)
Switzerland (1291 AD)
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Oct 30 18:58:16 2007 #
Review by: anonymous Rating: --
I agree that China has one of the world's oldest civilisations. However, China was often invaded by nomadic tribe such as Mongolian, and dynasties sometimes changed.
Japanese Imprial House is the world's oldest monarchy. Historian argues that it established in 4 or 5 centuries. No other monarchies in the world have such a long history.
(Some data say the Imperial House founded in BC 660, but it is only a legend.)
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Nov 9 15:29:36 2007 #
Review by: Pigster Rating: 9
I thought the oldest country in the world and still living was China?
England is not near being the oldest.
India can be considered as the oldest country because they found the first human in India. We all involved from monkeys/apes, and monkeys/apes are "Brown skinned" people.
Sooo yeah.. correct me if I'm wrong.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Mar 11 03:33:17 2008 #
Review by: Boris Rating: 1
An old country is a country that preserved its ethnic name, language, and alphabet. The First Bulgarian Empire was founded in 632 and since then we're fighting for our survival.
Even when we disapearred from the map for 500 years it was still known as Bulgarian state. Bulgaria has 1300 years of history.
OFFICIAL LIST OF OLDEST COUNTRIES:
San Marino (301 AD)
France (486 AD)
Bulgaria (632 AD)
Denmark (950 AD)
Portugal (1143 AD)
Andorra (1278 AD)
Switzerland (1291 AD)
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Apr 9 14:52:42 2008 #
Review by: dan Rating: --
it depends whether you mean a country that still exists, or otherwise.
if otherwise, the first towns were in turkey and india, but they were not natios. the oldest nation, 5,000 bc, was mesapotamia. however, if you mean a natin that still exiss, egypt is top, though the obvious choice, the true one.
it also depends what you call a natio. if you call the towns of a few thousand, in india and turkey, nations, then yes, say them, but natios, with rulers, kings, ect, egypt, china, assyria, syria hittite, babylon, persia, lidya, libya, it all depends on what you class as a nation, or whether you mean a presently existing one. if you do, egypt.
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Apr 30 18:25:01 2008 #
Review by: viktor Rating: --
my god!! i am surprised to see how many people are so damn THICK!(mostly british) your ego is so damn BIG for no reason. YOu dont even know your own damn history! and whoever said that Bulgaria was owned by the otoman. that was ages after it was created !!!! And most countries changed their names and everything Bulgaria stayed the same!! there you go.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue May 13 17:06:55 2008 #
Review by: hoho Rating: --
I say Bulgaria is the oldest country in the world.And you all know its true.It may be a small country and not that known by most of the people in the world(which speaks only for them)but thats the true ITS ALL ABOUT HISTORY PPL!!!
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed May 14 19:27:38 2008 #
Review by: Johnnyboy Rating: --
Believe it or not...San Marino is the oldest country(301 AD). Yes, many countries had their borders before this, but this one is the first to have a government.
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri May 16 21:13:35 2008 #
Review by: dimitrov Rating: --
British ppl are arogant eh?...
1)"england" is not even a country...its UK..which is like the USSR ok a bunch of lil nations grouped together...
2) oldest civilization does not = oldest country...
3) Bulgaria dates 681 as an official country, but the slavic tribes were there even before...oldest gold in the world was found around odesos(present day varna)
4)the name china comes from the last name of some ruler dude...has nothing to do with the ppl... iran...thats a joke...iran is some made up country that thinks is the successor of persia...
if you know how to read..proove it by raeding some books...then open your moths
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Jun 2 18:23:52 2008 #
Review by: Herbert M. Valencia Rating: 6
SPAIN IS MENTIONED BY NAME AS AN EXISTING COUNTRY WHEN JESUS CHRIST WALK THE EARTH ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE. THAT WOULD MAKE SPAIN THE OLDEST COUNTRY IN EUROPE
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Jun 20 09:37:13 2008 #
Review by: anon Rating: --
Scotland has never been fully invaded by the english!
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Jun 29 18:54:52 2008 #
Review by: João Pinto Rating: 3
I could see that many people claim is own country as the oldest... No one claim PORTUGAL. There is a difference to be one kingdom and one countrie. PORTUGAL become independent country in 1143 from the Galiza kingdom (one part of Spain). So if the general persons say that Spain is the oldest i must say that is a wrong sentence, PORTUGAL is the Nr 1.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Jul 15 01:01:29 2008 #
Review by: kiko Rating: 3
Portugal as his borders since 1297 "tratado de alcanizes".
Portugal is the oldest country because never changed his borders or name.
Denmark (the oldest): early historical evidence talk
Sweden: there are indications
France: the country with approximately same borders
San Marino some claim its existence
Not one 100% ccertain that the country existed with the actual format (name and border).
Before that we had the Lusitania, people from the Iberian peninsula come from that people. you know what if you are Portuguese just check those links below.
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Jul 15 01:06:12 2008 #
Review by: anonymous Rating: 10
Sorry to say but all of you guy/girls are wrong. I guess the question is oldest country in the world?? Not countries that donot exist no more or or countries that were re-established. The oldest country in the world is Ethiopia.
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Jul 31 02:09:56 2008 #
Review by: scipii Rating: 10
east roman empire
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Aug 4 19:11:10 2008 #
Review by: scipii Rating: 10
if i might ad
if we are talking about country's that still exist.
more than half the country's that all of you have named
were completely controlled by the ottoman empire less then 200 years ago
this includes Egypt and Greece
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Aug 4 19:24:44 2008 #
Review by: reza Rating: --
IRAN=PERSIA is the oldest country.
Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Armenia, Georgia, and…. were part of Iran (Persia) were captured during past 200 years.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Aug 9 06:24:29 2008 #
Review by: abee Rating: --
=>Mesopotamia (6000 BC - 1100 BC)
=>Indus Valley Civilization (3300 BC - 1300 BC)
=>Old Kingdom (Egypt, 3000 BC - 2000 BC)
=>Middle Kingdom (Egypt, 2000 BC - 1300 BC)
=>Shang Dynasty (China 1800 BC - 1200 BC)
According to "Wikipedia" these are the facts pls update if anyone can & first of all can anyone pls define a "Country"
-Postet on: (GMT) Sat Aug 16 18:51:38 2008 #
Review by: Borislav Rating: 10
1- Bulgaria 120 AD
2- San Marino -01 AD
3- France 406 AD
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Aug 20 01:47:39 2008 #
Review by: Borislav Rating: 10
1- Bulgaria 120 AD
2- San Marino -201 AD
3- France 406 AD
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Aug 20 01:49:16 2008 #
Review by: V Rating: --
The oldest country whose borders have not changed from their current borders is Andorra. Portugal's current borders were defined after Andorra. And the only other real contender is San Marino. However, even though it was founded in 301, its borders changed to its present borders in 1463.
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Aug 24 10:11:03 2008 #
Review by: anonymous Rating: 1
This is useless. Can't you see it's being hijacked as a vehicle for islamic supremicism?
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Aug 25 13:55:34 2008 #
Review by: wikipedia Rating: 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_date_of_independence
-Postet on: (GMT) Sun Aug 31 06:39:44 2008 #
Review by: radomir Rating: 10
BULGARIA is the oldest country without a doubt ppl.its a fact.
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Sep 11 14:06:22 2008 #
Review by: terz Rating: --
I.T I.S. B.U.L.G.A.R.I.A! get over it. i could talk for ages. just think a little look it up and shut up!deep ainside you kno its true... all you arogant pround wastes of skin !
-Postet on: (GMT) Thu Sep 25 18:56:00 2008 #
Review by: Bob Sidlinger Rating: --
I am no expert but I know that neighboring Syria, Egypt, Ethiopia and Persia (Iraq-Iran)have Biblical references and it is entertaining to surmise that as the continents separated over time, this could well have been the "cradle of civilization" or "Eden".
-Postet on: (GMT) Wed Oct 8 10:59:57 2008 #
Review by: alex Rating: 9
The fact that bulgaria was under turkish rule doesnt mean anything. It was sitll Bulgaria. It is the oldest country in europe with the Thracians pre dating the greeks. this question is flawed anyway thought so chyeah
-Postet on: (GMT) Mon Oct 13 16:43:10 2008 #
Review by: know it all dude Rating: 6
i think it is chine, which is currently about 4078 years old
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Oct 24 08:03:50 2008 #
Review by: know it all dude Rating: 6
for anyone who says otherwise, when chine was unified again in 221bc it was after a civil war, and the dynsaties went backa lot further (thats what i meant by the 4078 (ish) years old)
-Postet on: (GMT) Fri Oct 24 08:08:27 2008 #
Review by: laura Rating: 10
CHINA
2200BC The Hsia Dynasty was founded in China, with domesticated horses, and cultivation of rice and millet, it was the first recorded dynasty
-Postet on: (GMT) Tue Nov 4 10:42:44 2008 #
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