This is how Europe's borders have changed over 1,000 years
[2024-01-05 13:47:11]
The crisis of Europe and refugees, the feasibility of the Schengen agreement and the British fight against the future of the Union, perhaps it is worth noting how much the African continent experienced in its turbulent history.
This 3 - minute video from LiveLeak has guided us through more than a thousand years of history and, as it did, highlights the degree of rejuvenation in contemporary European concepts.
Pay attention to the ebullary east boundary boundary, the speed of its central change, and the relatively late arrival of Germany at the end of the 19th century.
The map begins in most areas of Central Europe and is part of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by Islam.
Eventually the Mongol empire appeared in the northeast, the Ottoman empire gradually covered most of the southeast. Along with changes in the region and the border, central Europe experienced seemingly infinite change.
After 1500 years, Russia we know today is on the map, Germany also appeared in the latter half of the 19th century.
The two world wars and the Cold War brought more territorial turmoil before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia collapsed and the EU began to expand east.
The map covers the period until 2012, but even in later years, Russia experienced further changes in the consolidation of the Crimea.
There may be more changes than now - this time it is related to the Schengen agreement. Schengen covers 26 European countries from Spain to Sweden, allowing for free movement within this region and essentially removing the border for those traveling in the continent.
This region includes four countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The six EU countries do not belong to this area - they are opting out of the contract or are still waiting to be accepted
In 2017, 439,505 people were denied access to the EU's foreign border. As of June 26, more than 43,000 people endanger the lives in Europe by 2018, and more than 1,000 people are worried about drowning. In the Mediterranean but still fatal is that 3,139 people died or disappeared in 2017 compared to 5,096 in 2016. In 2015, 2.2 million people in the EU proved illegal. By 2017, this number has decreased to more than 600,000 people. "Illegal existence" may mean that individuals did not register properly, or that Member States are responsible for processing asylum applications.
Isa Hassan, a member of a 35 year old desert residence, is about 1,000 kilometers south of Tripoli, standing at the end of the cartelon road. "Why is Europe still not close to the borderline," he asked. Every day he watches Toyota cars from Agades in Northern Niger and is carrying 30 men aboard the loading platform of his truck to Libya. Catalun remodels the car after crossing the Sahara desert and is one of the gateways to central Europe in central North Africa. Hassan wants to be a political scientist before he knocks down Muammar Gaddafi and becomes a militia. I do not know why Europe want to waste billions of dollars to fight immigrants. . "With 500 people and a little aviation, you can control five reachable access points in the Sahara of Libya - this is a situation in the Gaddafi era," Hassan said.
8th year old Shaharzad Hassan from Aleppo, Syria, took a picture at the northern border station of Idomeni on Friday, 11th March 2016. In Greece, the artificial refugee camp at the Macedonian border, Shahrzad Hassan, 8 years old, has photographed the painful event of her life in the past 18 months. The title on the right is "boundary of hope". Friday, March 11, 2016, an 8 - year - old Aleppo born Shaharzad Hassan explained about the Greek navy 's immigration and rescue operations at the Idomeni border station in northern Greece. Among the crowded refugees, the eight-year-old Shaharzad Hassan painted a painful event of her life in the past 18 months at the campsite of the Greek and Macedonian border. Picture of Aleppo's hometown, Syria death and a dangerous journey to her Eu