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Can you name the Oldest Countries?
created by
cboudreau
Enter a Country in the box below
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Source:
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Name the oldest countries based on the date they were founded.
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Oldest Countries Quiz
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Created Mar 2, 2010 in
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RS89
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 22:22 GMT
4 points
Might want to check your source or use a different one. Ethiopia is older than all of these.
deej
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Mar 2nd, 2010 at 22:41 GMT
6 points
youre both partially right. you need define the country's age as a function of something verifiable.
Stewart
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 01:47 GMT
8 points
This makes no sense. Why is Bulgaria, which was part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries, on the list but not, say, Japan?
AdamBishop
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 04:19 GMT
3 points
And modern France is certainly not the same entity that existed in 486.
RaspberrySwirl
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 07:27 GMT
3 points
Maybe you should call this the oldest countries of Europe. And either way, Bulgaria shouldn't be included if you're not going to include other countries that were occupied by others for a period of time.
Teary_Ennui
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 10:24 GMT
2 points
Bulgaria was an Ottoman vassal state; I'm sure China has existed under its present borders since about the C.4th. Also Japan and Ethiopia must be this old. Parts of France were part of the Holy Roman Empire I think
Grawk
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 10:38 GMT
1 point
Yeah, this quiz makes no sense at all. I like the idea, but I'd use another source.
Viking
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 12:24 GMT
-1 points
All of these countries have at some point or another been conquered and have had a government imposed upon them by the victorious power(s). Same goes for Japan, China and Ethiopia, by the way (the US, Mongols and Italians, respectively).
mrpotwtf69
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 16:03 GMT
-3 points
What about Israel or Egypt or the countries that were part of the Persian Empire?
pwf7
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 18:44 GMT
0 points
you seem to have forgotten england? Also france is a lot younger than you suggest
RS89
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Mar 3rd, 2010 at 21:37 GMT
5 points
England is not currently a country.
threelovemonkeys
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Mar 4th, 2010 at 00:00 GMT
1 point
I have to disagree about not including Ethiopia. The Italians occupied the country for a few short years - if we didn't include Ethiopia for that reason, we would not include France, Denmark, Portugal at least..
abanazerb
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Apr 6th, 2010 at 13:45 GMT
2 points
An absolutely bizarre quiz. Hardly any of the answers actually stand up to any scrutiny, and there are half a dozen other obvious ones missing.
Korenkiewicz
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May 1st, 2011 at 18:31 GMT
1 point
What about Egypt? It was in existence long before any of these countries. And the Mongol Empire was around for a long time, and now we have Mongolia, which is kind of similar.
giraki
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Jun 9th, 2011 at 13:15 GMT
1 point
Sweden has existed since 975, at the very least.
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