What is the oldest current coutry?
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Traitorfish
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However, Denmark was occupied by Germany during WW2, which may or may not disqualify it. We never really did decide what does or does not qualify as a suitably grand break in continuity to disqualify a competitor.
Fourth, actually- Sweden is only a few years behind Denmark. (And, if we count Scotland and England separately, you'd only be fifth.If it wasn't for Cromwell and his pesky interruption, we would beat Denmark into third place.
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I'm certain that there's some obscure village in Siberia that was forgotten about due to an error in the imperial bureaucracy's paperwork, and hasn't had contact with the rest of Russia in two centuries. They still think the Romanovs are in charge.
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Even setting aside Alfred the Great, doesn't Aethelstan in the mid 10th Century count for England?Fourth, actually- Sweden is only a few years behind Denmark. (And, if we count Scotland and England separately, you'd only be fifth.
Traitorfish
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Sure it does. But you're still behind Scotland, which goes back to at least 889, when Donald II was the first monarch crowned as Rí Alban or "King of Scotland", or to the reign of Kenneth I (843-858), supposedly the first monarch to rule over both the Pitcish Kingdom of Alba and the Gaelic Kingdom of Dalriada.Even setting aside Alfred the Great, doesn't Aethelstan in the mid 10th Century count for England?
Not long ago I was traveling through rural Australia and I stopped at a cattle station where I had dinner with the owner. He owned neither a television set nor a radio, so we just sat around the campfire talking for hours.
After a while I said to him: "Oh, yes, and we won the war too."
He replied; "Good. I never liked those damn Boers."
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I wouldn't be surprised by the Romanov thing. As tk mentioned, the Red Guard famously found a village where people were still convinced the Qing ruled.
After a while I said to him: "Oh, yes, and we won the war too."
He replied; "Good. I never liked those damn Boers."
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I wouldn't be surprised by the Romanov thing. As tk mentioned, the Red Guard famously found a village where people were still convinced the Qing ruled.
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That's extremely fascinating if the person was genuinely serious.
It's an old Aussie joke, LS. I'd be surprised if my fellow Australians haven't heard it.
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Oh. I'm not Australian. I suppose the American equivalent would be the recurring legend of the woodsman hunter that thinks the American Civil War hasn't ended yet.
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I though Ethiopia might have qualified, although its current constitution dates back to dusty old 1995; it was (according to tradition) founded in 980 BC.
Tradition is a fickle baitch.
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