What are your criteria on what counts as the same country? Because for example King of Bohemia Ottokar II controled territories on the Adriatic coast for a period of time, so for example Czechia could make the list as well.
"North Macedonia itself has never held a coast"... Neither did the Czech Republic or the political entity which is nowadays called Mali and so on and so on... Seems like you're overly precise in some cases and then not precise at all in other cases, depending if it suits you or not. A good way to clarify how you define your answers would be by specifying your quiz description further.
@UsmmeCntBeBlank It sounds like you are confused about the etymology of North Macedonia. Despite the name, it is not actually a successor to the ancient Macedonia, which was Greek culturally. The Czech Republic, on the other hand, is actually the successor of the old Kingdom of Bohemia.
Well...modern Greeks aren't ancient Greeks culturally. When the Ottoman Empire started to calve and when the Turks started full scale killing and expelling, the Christians went to modern "Greece" and Muslims left modern "Greece", mostly for modern "Turkey". "Turkey" had more of ancient Greece than modern Greece does. Going back too far becomes quite irrelevant to modern inhabitants of the same land. There's been way to much migration and DNA swapping to consider peoples of the same area to be the same after very long.
How about adding which country they lost the coast to and in what year? It would be interesting to learn more about the history behind each of these losses.
I like the idea of this quiz, but the implementation is very questionable. Of the 13 answers, a small fraction (namely Bolivia and Ethiopia and possibly Afghanistan) are a modern nation-state that is clearly the same legal entity as the one that formerly had a coastline.
Some others (such as Austria and Serbia) are rump states of multicultural empires/states that were created as legal entities immediately upon the loss of their foreign territories. However, most of the answers lost their sovereignty entirely for long periods of time before a modern nation-state was created on their territory with a questionable link to the former empire.
In order to address the dissonance that I felt as I took this quiz, I suggest giving for each answer the date on which the coastline was lost AND the name of the country at the time the coastline was lost. This would eliminate much confusion.
Some others (such as Austria and Serbia) are rump states of multicultural empires/states that were created as legal entities immediately upon the loss of their foreign territories. However, most of the answers lost their sovereignty entirely for long periods of time before a modern nation-state was created on their territory with a questionable link to the former empire.
In order to address the dissonance that I felt as I took this quiz, I suggest giving for each answer the date on which the coastline was lost AND the name of the country at the time the coastline was lost. This would eliminate much confusion.
I like the quiz this way very much, because it really makes you think and you need to check your historical knowledge.