This video isn't very good and has mistakes, please go check out my recent video on the Slavs that addresses all the problems and is basically far better than this video. • The Slavic Venetic Con...
This video isn't very good and has some mistakes, please go check out my recent video on the Slavs that addresses all the problems and is basically far better than this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eLrMjNtAy8M.html
Actually all those name were imported with introduction of Greece Byzanthine christianity. Before that we would have names like Yaroslav, Svetoslav, Kelogost
New evidence suggests that early Slavs would actually rest by standing with their knees bent and their backs hunched. This was before they learned to squat.
I am so proud of my Croatian language. Faust Vrančić (my fellow citizen from ŠIBENIK, his uncle Antun has a grave in the cathedral in BRATISLAVA) wrote the first multilingual dictionary with five main languages in Europe five hundred years ago ❤️
Very interesting video on a topic that deserves more exploration. I personally am very curious to see what caused the Polish and Czech-Slovak cultures to diverge in the west slavic group.
I am german. My ancestors lived in prussia / now eastern poland emigrated to northern germany before 1930. I have a rare slavic lastname, and am trying to puzzle together where the name comes from. Since there's only 5 living people in the world with that name it's a bit difficult. But it's interesting to learn about the slavs and history of indo germanic tribes... unfortunately I don't speak any slavic language or polish so it's awesome to find videos like yours! ty! :)
First of all, make sure this last name is really Slavic and not Baltic. Since you say it is very rare it suggests the latter. In Poland there are many Baltic names either Lithuanian or Prussian/Sudovian. And do not take the -ski/-cki ending as the proof of being Slavic/Polish, as the root of the name may be Baltic (or even of whatever other origin)
What’s you’re last name? I also have a somewhat rare Slavic last name.(It’s not the one used for this profile). I totally understand your struggle though, it’s been the same for me.
East Prussia has a restless history. Originally settled by Balts, possibly also some Scandinavians. Then largely wiped out or culturally absorbed by German crusaders by the 14th century. There could have been some Slavs moving in while the area was dominated by the Poles from the 15th century or thereabouts. Would be useful to know where the other families with your rare name are located.
@@matthewchicago5288 - The name of the Bohemians comes from the ancient Boii. Like many tribes living between the Carpathians and the Black Sea it’s not always clear if they were Germanic or Celtic or an amalgam of the two. Another example is the Bastarnae, famous as some of the most vicious warriors of their era.
4:22, didnt know that this was found in Žrnovnica. Its a place very close to where i live. Cool. Btw here in Croatia we are celebrating old slavic Pagan ritual which hasnt been diminished with arrival of Christianity. Its a regular Western Carnival, but people have old Pagan custom of dressing as Zvončari(bellmen) to scare away evil spirits. Its really cool that it survived all these years. Also fun fact is that there is one Mountain in Bosnia which was named after slavic god of thunder. And when Christianity came, they had to convert nearby tribes into being Christians, so the peak of the mountain (mountain name is Žaba) in Bosnia was renamed into peak of saint Elliah (vrh svetog Ilije). And everytime when i was kid, if there was a thunder in my area, my grandma used to say Elliah is rolling the barrels (Ilija bacve valja) 😁
"Celtic" is pretty much synonymous with mainstream/mainland European culture. Why we now think of Ireland etc is because the traditions survived there the longest.
The reason why the traditions endured the longest there might be because Celts from mainland Europe colonized Ireland. If you look at history, colonized regions mostly preserve tradition for longer then their place of origin.
Wow this is so damn interesting!! Thanks for this video. Very well done. Do a video on the origins of the germanic tribes. I am from Austria and due to some unfortunate events 80 years ago topics like ethnicity and the germanic peoples are not taught in school very extensively.
Since ur from Austria i hope you know that first slavic country named Carantania (today Slovenia) was on ur territory until germans started germanizing it (that´s how Austria was born).
I would like to point out that the Slavs did wear armor,i mean they had to either wear some armor or they were really good at evading arrows,stones,bolts and at the end of the day swords and spears.Historical sources love to generalize and i agree with E N about how slavs are a mixture of proto baltic and scythian culture that later developed itself in its own culture,and so i defenedly would say that if slavs wore armor they would be wearing scythian style helmets,scale armor if they had the chance to get it,square shields that are painted,and that sort of stuff(this is obviously a generalization by me,they would wear any armor they could get their hands on like anybody in the time)Remeber that the proto slavs and even the 3 main slavic groups were swamp people,lived in swamps and forests that they could easly defend and their religion was very nature oriented,it was about forest spirits ( Leshnik/Lesnik or Leshen in English),a god of Thunder wielding a axe made of stone ( Perun/Kresnik),it had all these drowned women that lived in ponds in the forest (Rusalka) that would pull you in the water if they manage to seduce you with their beauty etc.So it all makes sense to me to act in this way of prefering gurella warfare,so ambushing in those swamps i mentioned because they knew the area,they would easly ambush people like Romans.And there is evidence the slavs managed to beat a commander from constantinopole when he went on a military campaign north of the Danube,I forgot his name. Anyways,just some things about Slavs i wanted to share with you all.Great video M.Laser !
The idea that Slavs were ‘swamp people’ seems a bit odd. Perhaps goes back to the somewhat hostile 19th century theory spawned in Germany that they originated in the Pripet marshes (now in Belarus). Certainly large regions of current Slav settlement were heavily forested until the 16th century.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 Interesting information, I dont know, i read somewhere that slavs used to live near swamps where they would easly ambush enemies with gurerella tactics... Of course not all slavs lived in swamps obviously but some certainly used swamps as an advantage for ambushing from what i know.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 Haha, I just found a bit of a source for slavs and ambushing, Maurice's Strategikon mentions how they live like bandits and love ambishing their foes in dense woods, steep terrain and around watery surfaces. The same Strategikon mentions Slavic use of reeds for breathing under water while waiting in ambush for their enemies. They could apparently wait for hours in the water until their enemies finally arrive and get ambushed.
I don't know as much as I'd like about Eastern Europe, but I am genuinely interested in stuff like this. The interactions between Celts and early Slavs is very interesting. I'd love to know more about Celtic movements across ancient Europe.
The only important thing is to differ celts from irish. These are britonic or whatever they classified. Its a common mistake made by nationalists, fascist-like people. Romans did not differ any people except their friends. So a gaulish were generic celtic untill they, gaulish, became friends to romans, even if they were closely related to romans in language. Celtic could be the generic term for europeans in indoeuropean family. While gaulish was an italic language, same family of latin. Somehow like english speakers listening to a saxon or frisian
Oh get out o' here with that crap - automatically lumping nationalists with fascists. It's getting so tiring. Celtic is also used to determine the language group and to my knowledge Gaulish language is celtic, not Italic.@@freesbee5326
Thank you for an awesome video. Love your channel. A minor notice though. Zarubinets and Chernyakhov are not tribes, but contemporary name of cultures.
great video, it's really refreshing to see this subject treated both seriously and at the same time without nationalistic presupposed answers. there is a lot we don't know and historically this subject was continously percieved through nationalstic lenses, first to prove slavic inferiority and now to prove superiority, so it is great to see slav trying to see it objectively instead of using it politically. I am curious what's your opinion about issue of settlement continuity in general. I know consensus on this subject went back and forth, but I am guessing with genetics we should have a bit clearer answer to that. I mean to what degree culture changed and people remained in given area. Clearly not all people move, but then again it could be that vast majority does. You mention this issue briefly in video.
so, would you say that it's more cultural assimilation? obviously linguistic don't fallow strictly genetics as people can adopt language. also we know that germanic tribes that settled in Roman territory where relatively small populations compared to locals. Sure this was settled population vs semi-nomadic tribes so difference in numbers can be explained by this. however we can't really tell how many people simply stayed behind and later over centuries adopted to new dominant culture. I guess what I am getting at, that there might be indeed a permanent local population that simply assimilates to whatever new culture take over given territory. 'Take over' here being a simplification, as this would be more cohabitation, we have kind of well documented example of such situation from medieval times with Bavarian Slavs.
@@daPawlak The diference between generics and culture and language are miniscule. Slavs clearly are all members of an anchient no longer existing nation.
I wonder how to interprate this 1:07 Is he talking about us being driven from an actual lost continent/island yet to be found? Or maybe about us coming from another continent that wasn't mapped then? *America? Or does the author maybe reffer to the giant snakes as the ancient Chinese people? Indicating an Asiatic origin/Far Eastern? After all the legendary/semi historic rulers of Ancient China were said to be twins with a snake like body? Interesting
*Another fact, which is not fully known to the general public, the dominant position of the Slovak language to the other Slavic nations. In this context, we mention the work of American linguist and scientist prof. Price's, which considered the Slovak language as " the key to all Slavic language" and for the media to an understanding with other Slavs. (John D. Price, The Key to all Slavonic languages, SHF, Columbia University, New York, Dec. 15, 1943, 9 p.). Professor J. Price this idea expressed at the Congress of Slavists in Warsaw. The Polish delegation came out with a proposal that was approved by the definition of the first Slavic language in which the decisive point is Slovak. In addition to the Czech delegation, everyone voted for the Polish proposal: "the Slovak language is the oldest and according to him is then created other Slavic languages" (Canadian Slovak, Slovak, the oldest Slavic language, Toronto, March 23, 1989).
Risposta al sIg.J.Comper, di tutte le lingue SLAVE tra le piu vecchie e la lingua SLOVENA -Slovenski jezik e la sola che porta il nome SLOVENIJA ,li primi brani scritti in antico sloveno sono i "BREZINSKI SPOMENIKI" del IX secolo,la lingua slovacca e la piu simile al SLOVENO i slovacchi chiamano la loro terra SLOVENSKO. I sloveni chiamano la propia terra SLOVENIJA..
In Slovak language; Slovo, Slovník, Slovenčina (Slovenský jazyk) Sloven, Slovenka, Slovensko, Sloveni. Slovania, Slovanských ľudí a Slovanské národy je výraz pre všetkých ostatných Slovanov. In English language; Word, Dictionary, Slovak language, Slovak man, Slovak woman, Slovakia, Slovaks. Slavs, Slavic people and Slavic peoples is the expression for all other Slavs.@@verakrusic2231
3:56 Volga-Kama region has been inhabited by Finno-Ugric tribes for thousands of years. Highly unlikely that slavs ever lived there before Russian colonisation since linguistic evidence points to the fact that the only Indo-European neighbours we had were Indo-Iranians (i.e scythians), not slavs. E.g the word for "slave", as in Finnish "orja", Estonian "ori", and Erzya "uŕe" is most likely from the Proto-Indo-Iranian word for "Aryan". Proto-Finnic later had very heavy contact with Baltic-speaking peoples. 4:45 The picture is kinda misleading. The quote refers to the fact that all Slavs literally spoke the same language up until the 9th century.
But those Baltic-speaking people may have been Balto-Slavic speaking people. The eastern Baltic people were something quite different than the western Balts.
Slavic people are of Scytho-Sarmatian origins. The sanscript of the Aryan linguistic shows that the most similar to it is Slavic language as a whole. The Scythians where the first people to ride on horses and it is shown that Slavic people used to do it long time ago. The Slavic gene R1a can be traced in the regions between todays Poland and ural as far as 8000 bc. TODAY, after all the wars where the Nazis destroyed documents and tried to make everyone to think Slavs where wild animals living in the forest and came to Europe 400-500 ad. Which we know is bullshit. Many places and have been found in todays east Germany,Poland and Ukraine that where thought to be of Celtic origin but later shown to be Slavic, with towns or so called "Gród(-s)/Grody" dated back as far as over 4000 years. The first wheel discovered in the world where also in one of those places (in todays Poland)
Hey dude, i am historian and I love your videos. Is one of the best that I found here in youtube, you use sources and reference of classical authors. May you put some of the bibliography in the description box? It will be so useful. About the video, you should say that the region of Ukraine was ruled by the germanic goths until the invasion of the huns in the IV century. Maybe the germanic rules over the slavs of the region and other region that have the material culture of Przeworsk and Černajov. I dont think that this culture can be defined by slav because there was in a moment that the germanic tribes rule this area and the migration of the germans to the west make that cultures dissappear. I think because that was a culture produced to the germanic elite. Also sorry for my bad English!
I didn't realize Balts and Slavs shared a common ancestry. I speak pretty basic Serbian and I used to live with a Lithuanian guy and they are don't seem similar at all now.
M.Laser Good to know, next time I see him I'll call him a proto-slav, just to see his reaction. He won't be pleased lol. Great channel man. I love seeing this side of European history. I'll be following it for sure!
Stefan Milo I knew a czech girl who was pointing out to a group of Lithuanian guys some czech slovak and polish words which were similar to the Lithuanian word, and these dudes were actually getting pretty pissed off. Of course this was just a couple of years after the end of the Soviet Union so maybe they've calmed down a bit by now😊.
@@kyriljordanov2086 hard to imagine nowdays that Lithuanians would be angry with that..and I think, those people who were angry, they probably not the best historians in Lithuania 😆 how can we not have similarities if we lived in one country for years and years... always loved Poland and Czech personally. been there since childhood many many times, my father was Lithuanian, but he spoke flueny Czech and Polish.... but "russki mir" and USSR? for sure yes we dont like to be part of that 😅
the Slavs lived in the area between the Bug and the Dnieper already in the 5th century BC and did not have contact with the celts which were assimilated by german in the territories of present-day western Poland, the Przeworsk culture and the remaining ones are not Celtic but Slavic cultures.
@Griffith Taka You do know that, germanics, italics, greeks, balts, keltics, where not in europe first? We conquered all of Europe form people that do not exist anymore like the Glasgons, Truskans, Basks, Picts, Dacians, and many more most we dont even know about. So if you acuse slavics of stealing land ...... dont, brotherhood among eurpian peoples is what we need right now not more wars among ourselves.
@@zlocish Slavs and germans come form the same place but bough took diffrent paths to where they are now. Germanics have been to Scandinave but dont originate from it.
Ancient Roman and Greek authors assigned ethnicity to various people based on the location of their lands... for example for Ceasar everyone living to the west and south of Rhine was Gauls and everyone living to the north and east to Rhine was Germanic. It is important to take anything written by anyone in ancient times with huge pile of salt unless he physically traveled there (like arabian and jewish traders did few centuries later).
the area that’s blank when showing divisions on the slavs encompasses romania and hungary. what ethnic group would historians use to describe the people from these countries before their modern borders? is Romania just Latin?
I think that I've read somwhere that the original medieval Wallachians and Moldovans were of Slavic descend, but when they moved south they mixed with Balkan Thracians and Dacians who were at the time fully latinized neolitic Europeans. Thus the Romanian culture and heritage is somewhat mixed between Roman and Slavic. They speak a Romanic language, while having a lot of Slavic loanwords, while their culture, folclore and traditional clothing is very much Slavic.
@KK the earliest bulgarians or moreover people who lived there were thracian/dacian their roots arent very well known but the greeks described them as red haired and tall, one can assume that they were a split off celtic tribe but that's as far as we know. As for the "turkic" bulgarians which are bulgars they resided inside of early the early slavic zone and spoke a language that was kind of a mix between hungarian and old slavic, they later expanded Into the ukrainian steppe which split the original tribe and the language became non existant as it was probably gradually replaced by the slavic tongue before moving to bulgaria. Then during medieval times the slavs that came to bulgaria arrived through dobrogea coming south from ukraine. By this time the thracian tribes were either numbered or non existant, so in short bulgaria is mostly comprised of slavs although theres probably a good 5-10% of the original thracian genetics around in the average bulgarian
A friendly tip buddy: you could have easily made the video 10 min long with same content, where you would explain the things more clearly and slower, then it would be easier for the watcher of the video to understand!
Короч, пацаны, учим, как будет по-славянски "Добро пожаловать, здравствуйте, мы вам очень рады" и прочие приветственные выражения. Улыбаться при этом не надо - славяне этого не любят.
Oh no, the Zarubiniets culture was not located in south-western Poland. It was located in north-central Ukraine/eastern Byelarus, on the middle Dnieper River. It was the direct predecessor of the Kiev culture, which was truly proto-Slavic.
This video is funny, i must correct you by saying that first mentioning of Slavs comes from 1. century from Roman historian Tacit in his book ,,Germania " , he talks there about Veneti,Vandi ,Vendi ,Sorbi ,Tribaldi .... also to say this mark on Vandal shield was same on Serbian /Sorbian which proves its hereditary. Tacit lived in 1.century and he wrotte what he saw in his lifetime .
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@@t.r.8386 Mentally, Croats are certainly closer to Ukrainians than Western Slavs. That's right right.Poles have always been part of the Latin civilization and the structure of European wspultons. Ukraine and Croats part of Byzantium, Ottomans,. They are two different civilizations and mentalities.
"Not really religious, rather democratic, tall, brown hair, smells like shit" Man... is it about me? :DDD but I'm not fighting naked... at least I think I'm not xD (They are partly my ancestors when I'm Czech, right?)
Slavs are not descedants of Scythians. Scythians were Eurasian nomadic, half-mongols and they were mostly probably R1a-Z93 by a lot scholars. (This type of R1a is not common for Slavs.)
Because the migration that came from the Caucuses were not Slavic. They were about as Slavic as the Magyars or Khazars. I agree though, they fully assimilated and now are Slavic.
Man I said Bulgarians "now are Slavic". The Bulgars weren't when they first settled in Bulgaria. Also to your point, the Franks were once Germanic but they became Romanized when they settled in France.
They have been - the Seven Slavic Tribes. They had been in the Balkans before the Turkic proto-Bulgars. The Bulgars arrived later and dominated them, but by the 9th century have been assimilated by the more numerous Slavs. The core proto-Bulgar area was in today's north-eastern Bulgaria around Pliska and Pereyaslav.
Yeah Slavs have been sold, bought, traded, given as gifts, presents, packages, tributes, chattel, cargo, or and other forms of like property by many kinds of groups
Maybe schytians and neuri were just celtic, if for celtic we mean the european (westmost) indoeuropean linguistic continum. Just celtic. Then came the huns and mixed with celtic and the result was a squatting slav
the "proto slavic " lands are between danube, dnestr, dniepr, don ....that's why the serbs have the 4 S as their symbol...anybody who says differently either doesn't know or has a different agenda
this is really hard to follow. after you say a point, talk about it a little. dont just say A, B, C, D...say A, then talk about it a little, B, C, D, talk about it a little. spacing, cadence, timing pls
"balto-slavic" label actually makes no sense. Baltic and Slavic are completely different languages, like not even similar in the slightest. A slavic person could not understand a single original baltic word and vice versa, so how can they be from same "root"?? The only similarities they have is some scarce loan words adopted in the period from 1000-2000, because of wars, trade and politics, but not much else.
Even though some linguists still reject a genetic relationship, most scholars accept that Baltic and Slavic languages experienced a period of common development.
Yes, it makes sense. They are more closely related to each other than to Germanic languages for example. And yes, Slavic person could understand many original Baltic word if they are cognates.
+Martin Šriber No they would not understand anything. I tried it with my russian friends. Just because some word starts with same letter, does not mean you can understand it at all.
+Clevor Trevor I am Slav. I understand something. I also know something about linguistics. Also what does look retarded about baltic-slavic category? Are you aware of indo-european language family?
Is this a serious question? Jesus Christ was not born on the 25th of Devember. That is irrelevant. The forces change of AD & BC to CE & BCE is an moronic attempt to alter language and history. The fact remains that year 1 is based on what waa perceived to be the birth of Jesus Christ when the calendar was created. I am an atheist, so to me this is not some religious thing. I can see this stupid bastardization of language now everywhere with this insane "woke" idiology. By the way, Christianity is a foreign religion and I would much prefer to have indigenous people follow their native religions. That does not change the fact that it has been AD and BC for hundreds of years.
As a man married to a woman whose Grandfather was a Ukrainian Nationalist from Lviv, I can tell you that most Ukrainians don't like to be generalised in a group with Russia. Слава Україні, слава героям!!🇧🇧🇧🇧
