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Did Eastern Europeans( Bulgarians, Poles, Czechs,etc.) ever participate in the colonization and conquest of other continents?
Slav imperialism
Jason James
Nathaniel Phillips
Yes, but only as setlers and mercenaries.
Russia was the only slav empire that had territories outside Europe
Charles Brooks
Bump
Joseph Wood
Bulgarians tried to take Constantinople, if that counts as invading another continent. Czechs didn't have their own state until recently so nothing to comment on there.
Poland tried to conqueror Russia when it was in the middle of civil wars and a famine. I think it included parts of Asia at the time.
Christian Reed
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The sailors of the austro-hungarian imperial navy were all croatians of Dalmatia (and italians of Trieste)
Henry Gray
German poles pretty commonly went to Germany's colonies abroad. Qingdao and Samoa were pretty popular for them.
Angel Hill
Russians conquered and colonized a good chunk of Asia.
They even set foot in Manchuria until the Japs kicked them out.
Tyler Smith
Also i forgot Alaska.
Connor Torres
en.wikipedia.org
Courlande (today Latvia) as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth colonized Tobago in the Caribbeans in 1637 (to 1690) and Banjul in Gambia in 1651 (to 1664)
Jordan White
But as far as I know the courlandish elite were German Balts ( I hope that s the proper english term for Deutschbalten)
Evan Long
I think read something somewhere about Chzech setlers in Rhodesia and South Africa
Can anyone confirm?
Easton Martin
Baltic Germans*
German Balts would be guys like pic related
Jaxon Gray
>Czechs didn't have their own state until recently so nothing to comment on there.
Czechs had own state for 128 years since the discovery of Americas, but you simply can't colonize anything if you are landlocked.
Brayden Ramirez
That's the reason they don't have immigrants
Andrew Bailey
Poles never did.
Hudson Perry
>Poles never did.
Adam Campbell
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Carson Harris
Poles are too subhuman for imperialism.
Jeremiah Carter
>Czechs didn't have their own state until recently so nothing to comment on there.
>bohemia don't real
Jordan Smith
> /pol/
Thomas Robinson
Poland-Lithuania's vassal Courland had a colony in the Carribean
Also at the Versailles Conference some of the Polish delegation wanted a piece of the German colonies