which european nation has the most genocidal history?

Question

over the last 10,000 years not tha last 100

Answer 1

How would we know? Written history exists only for about 3500 years in Europe.
History is always written by the winners, so how reliable are reports from ancient times if we have nothing else to verify them.
The most extensive genocide in history has undoubtedly been the extinction of indigenous Americans, both the one perpetrated in what's now the US and Canada, and the other in South America by the Spaniards and Portuguese. That one is still going on in Brazil.
The 5 or 6 million Jews and Gypsies the Germans killed are nothing against that.

Answer 2

Even though it is not a European nation ,since it has often conquered and destroyed parts of Europe i would have to say it is Turkey.
The Turks have been systematically slaughtering everybody they got in contact with.They have been committing genocides all over the Balkans ,killing and moving non muslim people ,so they would make room for muslims.Kossovo is an example of this.They destroyed the native christian Serb population and they gave the area to the muslim Albanians.
They have slaughtered millions of people in all the areas they have conquered.In recent years it still goes on.We have the Armenian genocide -1925-1917- millions of people killed,25 concentration camps etc.
We have the Greek genocide and displacement of millions of people -1922.Right now they are slaughtering the Kurds.
What makes the Turks the worst of all is not only the millions they killed but the fact that they have been doing it systematically for the past 600 years ,trying to "clean" every country they have occupied from it's native people.

Mac
A European

Answer 3

All the nations have done atrocities in the past. From Athens exterminating Troy, to Rome vs Carthago.

I, as an spaniard, think that Spain commited several atrocities during the XV century. Next I think the baton passed to the english, with the mass murders in Africa, then the belgians in Congo, etc.

Isn't history beatiful?

Answer 4

The Black plague of the Middle Age takes the cake as over 1/3 European died, but do we count rats or germs as European nation? :)

Answer 5

Most likely the Balkan countries. They have been killing each other for centuries and are still doing it. Milosevic was giving "pay-back" to the muslims, who had been killing Christians in the area for centuries. Probably the only time they weren't killing each other was when Tito was in power under communism.

Answer 6

the former Yugoslavian countries