Is there a historical example of a nation carrying on under the same name with none of its original territory that's not Eastern Rome?

[RybenZ999]

The original homeland of the Serbs was in Kosovo until the 1500s but thanks to the Turks and NATO they have been ethnically cleansed.

There was NATO in the 1500s?

 

[Return of the Freaker]

haha peepeepoopoo rape benis

 

[Hokuriku]

The Kaliningrad exclave was the original homeland of Prussia before the 'core' of Prussia drifted westward throughout the 18th-19th centuries. In late/post-WWII the region was politically/ethnically detached from its Prussian roots to the point that after the collapse of the USSR Germany didn't see any purpose in reclaiming it.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

I'm surprised nobody brought up Pakistan yet. It literally moved hundreds of miles.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Both Poland and Lithuania have moved around a lot over the centuries, but I don't know if they were ever 100% outside the modern borders.

Kind of. The medieval Lithuanians were one Baltic tribe who conquered a few other Baltic tribes and then conquered a fuckton of Slavs who culturally assimilated them. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was basically just "medieval Russia led by pagan and then Catholic Lithuanians" since most of their administration and citizens were Orthodox Russians before the 1600s or so. Modern "Lithuania" is a product of 19th century nationalist nonsense, basically other Baltic tribes were convinced they too were Lithuanians and made up stories how medieval Lithuania was glorious Baltic state and not just a Lithuanian dynasty of Russia like the Normans were a French dynasty of England. They even erased all the medieval Lithuanian symbols beside the coat of arms because they hated both Poland and Russia.

But "Lithuania" always included the same core territory even if it was mostly divided between people speaking Russian, Polish, and "Lithuanian" (plus Yiddish lol) before World War I.

There was NATO in the 1500s?

Kosovo was ethnically cleansed between the beginning of Ottoman rule and the early 00s which gave rise to the fraudulent nation of Kosovo.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

Kosovo was ethnically cleansed between the beginning of Ottoman rule and the early 00s which gave rise to the fraudulent nation of Kosovo.

If only the rest of serbia was fully ethnically cleansed as well.

 

[NevskyProspekt]

I'm surprised nobody brought up Pakistan yet. It literally moved hundreds of miles.

There was also that whack-ass post-partition arrangement of Pakistan technically straddling both sides of the Indian subcontinent, before East Pakistan skedaddled and became Bangladesh (after a ludicrously violent and rapey genocide of Hindus that seems to be largely ignored in history books and the popular consciousness).

 

[Seventh Star]

Macedonia of course.

 

[Whitney Houston On Crack]

I think Old Bulgaria was not in the Balkans, but somewhere in the Ukraine, in like the 4th century or whatever.

 

[BigUUUU]

Ethiopia