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Ridiculous History

Have you heard of Andorra?

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

While it may be unfamiliar to many folks outside the region, the 6th-smallest country in Europe has a fascinating history all its own. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the strange origin story of Andorra, from its ancient past to the modern day.

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1:39.4

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2:07.4

Welcome back to the show, Radiculous historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in. Let's kick it off with a special thanks to our super producer and research associate for this episode, Mr. Max Williams.

2:20.4

I guess the oolulation indeed they call me Ben Noel today, we're talking about one of my favorite things, tiny nations micro even right.

2:37.4

Yeah, this yeah, this like a micro nation, it is definitely one of the smallest nations in the world that is still considered a nation as a matter of fact, if you are based in the US, you might not have heard of a little old place called and Dora.

2:56.4

And I like the way Max, I like the way you were playing with the researcher, the title of this research and I don't know if we need to bleep this part is what the hell is and Dora.

3:06.4

I mean, what is that I never heard of this? I've heard of some micro nations, but I'm like, I have never heard of this one and I started researching. I'm like, where is this one?

3:14.4

I know where these two other countries are, but I've never heard of this one.

3:17.4

Yeah, it's a, it's a tiny independent thing called a co principality in Europe. If you look at a map, you'll see that it's, it's kind of plop there in the southern peaks of the Pyrenees.

3:35.4

It is bordered by France on the north and east and by Spain to the south and west. So it's kind of like imagine what's a good familiar border. Okay, imagine the border of the United States and Mexico, right? That's a just straight shot across the continent.

3:54.4

What if there was another little place there and it was called, I'm just thinking it was called Tex Mexico. It was, it was tiny and the people who live there spoke maybe English or Spanish, whatever their lingual fronque is, but it's still a different place.

4:12.4

And the rivers flow with Texas, Mogheritas, Keso and chips land is made out of salsa indeed. It's fine. Andora, I only ever really was aware of it because of the name of a really great album by the artist, Caribu, which is sort of like a one of several projects by the Canadian musician Dan Steff.

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