Largest country Conquered?

Cook

Banned
Not really. The Sennar region was considered part of (titularly) Ottoman Egypt, Darfur was an independent Sultanate, etc.

Well that’s at least as valid as the Confederacy, which were just a few states in rebellion after all. The Mahdi ruled Sudan independently for 15 years prior to the British invasion, that’s three times as long as the Confederacy survived.
 

Thande

Donor
Well that’s at least as valid as the Confederacy, which were just a few states in rebellion after all. The Mahdi ruled Sudan independently for 15 years prior to the British invasion, that’s three times as long as the Confederacy survived.
OK, fair enough, that puts it on about the same level of legitimacy as the CSA or Taiping China.
 
I would question China inclusion with the question 'Did the Mongols conquer China or did China conquer the Mongols?'. Did the invading Mongol forces actually occupy all of China or did they just replace the head?

Also, the Mongols didn't conquer China as one block. It took them several decades; first they conquered the northern Jin Dynasty first and then the southern Song Dynasty, a division that had been in place for over a century. This is compared to the Manchus who conquered most of China in about two decades, or even the Ming conquest of China, which took about a decade to prevail over the rest of the competing post-Yuan factions. So I guess if we look at time frames, that could be significant too.
 
Then there was the conquest of the Third Reich in WW2, which ruled most of Europe at its height, for about as long as the CSA lasted.
 
The Kingdom of Hawaii would fit somewhere on this list if we established parameters of being 'conquered' and what is a 'country'.

The problem with the Third Reich is that while the various nations, particularly of the Low Countries, were conquered and occupied they were not integrated in any meaningful political or economic sense.
 

Cook

Banned
The Kingdom of Hawaii would fit somewhere on this list if we established parameters of being 'conquered' and what is a 'country'.

It was a country and it was conquered, but it is only 28,000 sq. km, so not a significant territory. Matabeleland was bigger, as was Zululand.
 
Speaking of conquests of part of but not the whole of a nation, where would the Arab conquest/s of the Roman/Byzantine empire fit? Do they count at all, or is it too many multiple wars?

Looking at the first century of Byzantine-Arab war here.

Pretty sure its not as huge as some, but it might count for something.
 
Would the Arab conquest fo Visigoth Hispania in a single campaign count? The (future) Kingdom of Asturias survived to recover the nation, but while they, and their sucessors states, claimed they were the heirs of the visigoths, I'm not sure it that counts as "the nation survived a huge territorial conquest"
 
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