History of the Italians 

+mercutiana iam a libyan and you dont need to say that to me lol

+juzores and what's the history of libya? romans, arabs, ottomans and italians lol

PS Italy deletes history

@Manny Belgrano No qua il traditore sei te

mercutiana I'm Italian and I confirm that there are a lot of ignorant people in Italy...

byHelper. Love Spanish people, we are brothers :)😚❤

Do spanish and italians eat octupus in mayonaise....

Helper We're brothers because we derive by the Romans...!

And Italy loves Spain

Helper we are latin brothers

One face one race🇮🇹🇬🇷

Una faccia una razza

Nice job Ollie.

+EmperorTigerstar Job nice Ollie.

+EmperorTigerstar cNei bjo liOle

+KudSD nollie nob jice

Job nice Ollie

Thenblk9 I’m Italian but you guys have a great culture too and country history.

Thenblk9. Love Spain and spanish people from Italy. We are brothers ❤

Spain loves Italy. Rome is our mother.

Hi latin brother

Thenblk9 Spain has a great culture, too

🇮🇹🇬🇷 💛

WWII doesn't like your comment

Ak Ak 🇮🇹🇬🇷❤️ we are the world's culture.

@Berserkelion stfu

More like brothers our DNA is so mixed together that Geneticists have a hard time telling us apart, but honestly it's from the South of Italy and not the North.

a significant Greek genetic pool can be found only in Southern Italy especially Sicily and Calabria, forget about Central and Northern Italy.

Spain can be south Italy

@@radiantsvn "forget about" lol no. Northern Italians have higher percentages of Eastern blood (j2) than Germanic haplogroups. There were also Greek colonies in Genoa, in Emilia Romagna (land owned by the Byzantines), and let's not forget that Venice had influence in the Greek islands and absorbed different cultures from the east.

​@@radiantsvnwrong. byzantium fetched a lot of Greco-Roman lineage apart from south italy in the region of Pentapolis and Ravenna exarchate i.e Rome , Marche, Ravenna etc. Liguria has the highest Greek lineages outside of the south as it was founded by ancient Greek colonists

+Izzo Mapping when i see that ollie has done "history of the italians" I thought: someone remember that we exist. he most beatiful thing of italy is that you could make a video only for a city like milan or florence and also smaller city while for another nation (like the usa) you can't tell for examples the history of philadelphia without the history of USA

+Francesco Azzoni To be honest if you count the roman empire i would say that italy has been the most influential empire to ever exist surpassing america, franc and Britain. You guys had the roman empire and you jump started the renaissance. Hell it was your ancient history which the Entirety of america is based of. that doesn't even include the vatican.

You're Italian?

Italian Mapper no hes roman

+MAGIK MANN Roman?

And Albania in the 1930s

Maybe you meant Otranto

+François Calvaresi Albania 1939, not 1930 (?).

+François Calvaresi 1939 in personal union, until 1943

Lol you didn't conquerred western Anatolia

Marcello Durazzo was a dipshit

Corsica was always only a problem for genoese, becouse it was full of rebel (and even now is in this way). Sorry for my bad english. Greetings from Genoa

Dario Toselli Io so che la Corsica ora come ora è divisa tra pro-Italiani e pro-indipendentisti

Dudu Channel eh infatti anche all'epoca era sempre in rivolta (anche per propaganda anti genovese operata dai Savoia) e così i genovesi preferirono togliersela dalle scatole piuttosto che dover continuare a sprecare uomini e risorse per mantenerla sotto il proprio dominio.

Dario Toselli Interessante, dove l'hai sentito?

How do you make these maps? I really enjoy this and want to take a crack at it

good video the font is good. i would like to see the history of the war of araucania. is just a suggestion

Mr.AlienMask For a 10k subs special, I will run through how to make them.

+Ollie Bye (History) I think the new font is fine, But I think it should only be used for history of videos and not war videos.

+Ollie Bye (History) Can you make the history of Romania?

DMihajlovic correct, we have Also relationship with half countries of europe

Who has the best cheese and wine?

@@elocriativa both have the best cheese and wine ( france wins :D )

@@razielthesniper9241 france wins the cheese because they have more varieties, but italian wine is unbeatable

@@manuelcampi8956 Well not completely true. French cheese, which I absolutely love, are very similar They have better cow milk hard cheese, but Italy has more variety if you include products as the Mozzarella, Ricotta, Scamorza ecc...

byzantium was greek italy has nothing to do with byzantium

@@TheHunterOfYharnam Italy was a part of byzantine empire

@@neyougogo9923 only for a while

Ed inoltre ti sei dimenticato che i greci avevano colonizzato parte dell' Italia chiamandola magna(grande)Grecia e che i Fenici avevano conquistato parte della Sardegna e sicilia

@@TheHunterOfYharnam Byzantum Assimilated of The Greek But. They are Latin origin

It's existed since the 1600's in colonial form.

GiMel6666 and Roman is nothing compare to pharaoh long history xD

ァ イャ but true 😁

@@abdelrhmanemira2480 Not really ;)

Nettus Are you turkish?

@Nettus discord.gg/Ub5Vb9N

Thanks for the 4th Crusade!

Kek

Niks995 anche io fiero di essere milanese, ci facevamo la guerra fra di noi poi finalmente abbiamo capito che l'unione fa la forza

Francy germi Eccerto dopo averlo preso in culo dal 476 in poi da tutta Europa era ora :).

Amo l'Italia!

Leopoldus Carniolus Malta was a British base, we were at war with The Brits , Not with Malta

Leopoldus Carniolus and the brits bombed italy, and the americans threw on our towns and countryside mines after our armistice, you know the ones that look like toys, and the Germans occupied our land and slaughtered our civilians. Still we get along now, the war is over since 1945, we aren't even the exact same state these days (People tende to forget that we changed a lot of stuff after a civil war). Or we can just start and unborrow facts long gone, lite that would do any good to anyone EH?

Leopoldus Carniolus Fuck you. Malta should belongs to Italy

Do you really believe the shits you are saying? the italic peoples speaking the italic languages and the celts in the north probably came from the same livestock, since dutch researches on DNA showed a great similarity among the italians(www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/science/13visual.html?_r=0), including today venetians, what means that the celts and italic were really similar or that you are wrong and Rome did was successful into spreading italic DNA in the north. Since you said that you ancestors spoke an italian language, you has ancestry on the barbarians you hate so much, not an ethnic slovenian, btw, get a DNA test.

rofl

so?

nicola 03 I love Poland from Italy

Polska jet jedyna wielka katolicka, niejakiejś tam włochy

Nicola03 Italy and Poland have one thing in common, are invade many times

The south of Italy was rich but with the introduction of the single currency the production moved to the north, by that time the gap was never bridged.

Il Monte dei Paschi è solo la banca più antica ancora esistente (1472) ma la prima banca moderna al mondo ad essere stata mai creata è il Banco di San Giorgio a Genova (1407) che fu poi sciolto nel 1805 da Napoleone quando la Liguria fu annessa all'impero francese. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Saint_George

+CaSSi Miei sorry but that's not what happened, Naples was one of the 3 richest cities in the world. after the Italian military slaughtered over one million neapolitans and sicilians a d then raped the land and took industrial machinery then unified italy, they left Naples in the gutter for the following 150 years and taught the bullshit in schools that you are now spouting. italy fucked the south over and noa make out the south drag the north down. give us our money back and split away from us.

As someone who studies economics I am interested in what happened to south of Italy economically, as far as I know the kingdom of two siciles had economic problems on it's own.

+Tyler Pierce forgot a British leadership they left! Im glad u're happy to be dominated by the same country that was nazist...

il veneto è stato, referendum del 2014: 2.102.969 voti a favore del SI

Angus 12345678 io sono italiano :)

Centesimo like

Da carrara zio

@@andreasalvador8715 l'idea di diventare autonomi e/o di seoatrsi dallo stato italiano, è anacronistico. Piuttosto fate pressioni sui politici perché facciano qualcosa di serio e efficace per migliorare il sud.

Raziel thesniper Quite true! But I would add some other european powers like Russia, Germany, England or France. Between conquests, research, art, social movements or diplomatic moves, they made a stroke for history.

Baba Bugmann Not the same , nothing comes close to the Greeks and the Italics , ROME and ATHENS these two shaped the world we are living in.

Raziel thesniper what about china, India and Greece?

Spain has more history but yeah italians too 🇪🇸❤️🇮🇹

Leviathan TM yes, preety identical yes, the moors, the asturians, the castilians the aragonese, the navarrans, the unification of spain the reyes catolicos, the conquest of napoles, flandes, and the new world, also the betrayed of napoleon and the war of independence of france.

No italy is greek land

@@rickyyacine4818 no

Zanzao-1 Ps3 ma sei italiano o... qualcos altro?

Andrea Marino Perchè un francese scriverebbe una cosa del genere?

Zanzao-1 Ps3 scusa

Zanzao-1 Ps3 scusa, non ho capito, puoi scrivere in inglese plis?

Oui.

Manny Belgrano Italy was Roman territory, but Rome fell... well not all of it. Byzantine (East-Roman Empire) was all of what was left of the Roman Empire, even if they spoke Greek. They tried to unite the old empire which Italy was part of, but sadly as Black space pictured above, it didn't go so well

+Manny Belgrano Well, yeah you could say it like that too. But it really doesn't matter because they were all doomed to fall one day. Old Roman Empire, Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire.

Stef Dasca Everyone knows that Byzantine sucks... No one is interested in their culture and history. United and Western Roman Empire were great.

Darwaxion, the western Roman Empire was garbage, they achieved nothing but corruption and weak rulers. The Byzantines achieved 10 times more things than the wre ever did.

Darwaxion, also people's interest in the Byzantines has enter a renaissance, their one of the most popular civilizations on the internet.

Under the great Naples capital

@Vred si si la droga

@Vred discord.gg/Ub5Vb9N

Average Chaotic North Fan versus Average Peaceful South Enjoyer/Chad

@@OltreILVero09 what about Byzantine Italy 😢😢

Not really, the Romans were more latinised, Italy still has remnants from the Romans, but it was basically built off the Lombards.

Roman empire=italian Byzantine empire= greeks

@@ace_amello-yt5939 The lombards were assimilated into OUR italian culture. Not the other way around. When they came into the peninsula they numbered 100,000-150,000 while the native population was around 4,000,000-6,000,000. There is a reason why we have the second closest language to Latin under sardinian. Edit: Also, what makes the Italians less latin? We speak the second closest language to it (first closest in terms of languages that are widely spoken), our architecture is similar (that is inevitable to change due to technology), the gene pool was not shifted after the germanic invasions due to the native population vastly outnumbering the invaders, so I honestly dont get why people say that we aren't Latin. It's like saying the greeks aren't as hellenic as the ancient greeks just because their culture evolved.

Italy should be called Romania after the citizens of Rome and not Romania in Eastern Europe. It should be called Dacia.

@@bcchiriac4512 I agree, Italy had a chance of being called a roman republic after the pope was overthrown in 1849. However the french put this short lived republic down and put the pope back in power.

+Ragnar Pallebasse Most people were

Ragnar Pallebasse Yes

Si, siamo un popolo che avrà pure radici nel nobile impero Romano ma pure noi dobbiamo molto alle dominazioni barbare, credimi (oltre al fatto che negli ultimi secoli di dominazione romana eravamo già mischiati con "popoli invasori"). Come direbbe un personaggio che non stimo:"STUDIA!"

Ragnar Pallebasse L'impero Romano non si è diviso tanto per invasioni barbariche tanto per problemi interni a livello politico. Il potere degli imperatori era diminuito e questi venivano anche fatti fuori molto spesso da congiure. Quelli che chiami barbari sono semplicemente popoli che hanno la nostra stessa origine. Comunque sia, di certo non è colpa loro se l'Italia si è unificata solo nel 1861..

Sullo Stato Papale ti do pienamente ragione ma i barbari non sono l'unica causa della mancata unità nel corso dei secoli..

What do you think that thin, pink state labelled "Republic of Genoa" was?

Ollie Bye "and it's pretty big domains"

Daniele Sencio "completely forgot"

You won! :)

Daniele Sencio :D

We Conquered North Italy :3 (Holy Roman empire)

Together we can remake the Holy Roman Empire

salian dynasty had Italian heritage too so your name fits.

Hahaha e parli L’italiano? Io ho famiglia italiana anche ma so moltissime cose su Italia, parlo L’italiano e so cos’è di la cultura Italiana, perché se non so niente no serve di niente avere famiglia italiana...

Alessio Lepe.......Si. Y de donde eres?

Actually Napoleon did, in the end ;)

Yeah and given to Austria in 1797

Tho Venice has a great history :)

Except the Turks..

Ancient-Rhino Wang Venice was conquered in 1799 by France Don't be an ediot separatist

Lol......so u don't know much history ? Do u ?

Naz Dhillon Lol are you serious? Ok self-righteous tool, what country has a more interesting, vibrant history than Italy?

+Ain't no Slice I think you are right, 1 year lived in Italy and the rich history they have is still present.

I do think italy has a great history for the soul reason - Roman Empire, because its extremely well organised and advanced society.

+Jayden R definitely by far Italy has the most interesting history followed closely by Egypt

es:Italia

With "GERMANY" it's much funnier :-D

HU: Olaszorszag

Germany: it alien

Romania:Italia

Okay then call it Eastern Rome, didn't stop the Turks from coming down with the Mongols and taking literally all of it for themselves.

TheRoyalPirate 44 GIVE ME FIUME

WE WANT OUR CITY OF FIUME!!!!

Vu Vu Rijeka

"we want fiume :(( boohoo" Come and get it then, spaghetti boys

Croatian and italian are not Friends booo

Venice not only outlasted the Italian republics , but it was also one of Europe's great powers for quite a while. It had the biggest navy in the Mediteranean and it was swimming in cash because it was an important trade hub and shipbuilder. It started to decline however once the Americas were discovered and the Ottoman Empire started kicking it back.

+chauncy primm So does Rome for that matter...but oh well.

+chauncy primm They fucked over Byzantine Empire, so screw them.

BlazingMagpie what was so good about the Byzantines?

chauncy primm They preserved classical knowledge, protected Europe from Islam, built great cities and monuments while the western europeans were still living in wooden huts etc.

Delicious country*

sadiq2008 Bad history? *coff coff* ROME *coff coff* RENAISSANCE *coff coff*

Ah and of course SPAGHETTI

Ooookaayyy 😕

Thanks , fascinating but also painful .

do you lik byzantium?

byzantium was greek man

Έλληνας Εθνικιστής Byzantium was a roman city of the Roman Empire. In the first centuries after the fall of the western empire the eastern empire had managed to keep it's roman culture and use of latin. Only later did it slowly convert to a greek culture and started the use of greek within the empire. So while its correct that greek culture and language had a enormous affect on the society of the enpire, (especially in its later years), it was still an empire with roman origins.

@@ProfessorPotatoPhD rome itself was founded by greeks and romans had greek origins they weren't just italic peoples but mixed the eastern roman empire even before 600 ad when hellenization started it was still part of greece's heritage because we were the people that defended the empire,ruled it and managed it even after the latins destroyed byzantium in the 4th crusade the greeks were the only ones who fought to recreate it even today modern day greece is the successor state of the byzantine empire and the reason we created it was to recreate the byzantine empire once again also byzantium wasn't a roman city but a greek ancient colony (city state) on top of which constantinople was founded hence the name byzantine empire to differentiate the latin west from the greek east the italian from the greek empire

@@TheHunterOfYharnam I already responded to you in a different comment, but I would also like to add that the last successor state to Byzantiun (epirus) had an italian dynasty for the last 94 years of it's life.

call the Roman empire as byzantine empire, is an offence to the roman culture and to my italian culture.....damn byzantine empire is a nonsense name created by modern envious historians to discredit the enormous culture of rome

@@lucacastellaro1615 byzantium is a greek empire

@@TheHunterOfYharnam AHAHHAHAHA

@@lucacastellaro1615 italians are NOT romans..

​@Vred I make it short: the Venetian Republic, which for centuries and centuries has been a bridge between the Italian peninsula (formerly the territories of the Western Roman Empire) and Byzantium (the Eastern Roman Empire).

Syd Storm True

Normans, Franks, Aragonese, Catalans & Castillans saved the entire South!

Sanctus Fides et Phālanga, without the normans the byzantines would have successfully re conquered Sicily and not be driven out of italy.

Thank god for our European brothers Norman and Spain

Helena Haper, actually your wrong the Byzantines tried to reconquer sicily 4 times and the fourth time in the 1030s they were extremely close to success, imperial politics is why the invasion was a failure, and the normans are why another invasion was not launched.

Actually Venice first got screwed by the Portuguese and later the Dutch.Venice had the monopoly on the spice trade up to around 1500 when the Portuguese opened new colonies in the East Indies and brought the spices directly to Europe.The Portuguese first discovered Australia.After 1700 Venice went into a steady decline.

Greece (as a region) had no Adriatic coast.

Robert Corbell protestants never fought off the turks, it was catholics and even orthodox the ones that fought off turks, protestants even allied with them, calvinist dutch and lutheran germans are examples of that, the first saying they would rather wear a turbant that being catholics.

don't be catholic its not good watch 10 reasons why the Catholic Church is satanic@@luisrincon7819

Cunku bizim disimizda adam gibi yemek yapan ve bize diger ulkelere nispeten daha cok benzeyen bir ulke ondan olabilir

@Doc M turks came from south Siberia and central Asia

@GiMel6666 Turkmenistan is a country, Turkmen is someone from Turkmenistan. Turk is a general term. People from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Turkey are Turks. There is a distinction however. If you say Turkish you only mean someone from Turkey, if you say Turkic you mean all the turkic people. All Turkish are Turkic but not all Turkic are Turkish. For example somenone from Kazakhstan would be Turkic but not Turkish he/she would be Kazakh. It is like German and Germanic. Someone from Sweeden is not a German but he/she is Germanic. And finally there are Turkmens in syria and iraq. They are not from Turkmenistan they just use the name Turkmen. Just for fun i will write all Turkic people groups name: Altai, Azerbaijan, Balkars, Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Crimean Karaites, Crimean Tatars, Dolgans, Gagauz, Karachays, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Khakas, Krymchaks, Kumyks, Kyrgyz, Nogais, Qashqai, Tatars, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbeks,Volga Bulgars Yakuts.

@GiMel6666 Thats wrong turks probably originated in altai mountains in mongolia.

@@user-jh9nx6tl1n Whats wrong with being a asian? Or coming from asia

Mehmet Barak france is not that much more rich and powerful than italy

@@tentifr I respect your opinion but I disagree. France has the most powerfull economy after Germany and UK. The population of it is more than Italy. Investments on army are important.

Mehmet Barak yeah, it is more powerful, again.. but italy is just behind it, if there was a war between italy and france, and either couldnt get any help from other countries or use nukes, it would be very close (but still france would win)

@οὐτόπος sorry, from Spain xD

@οὐτόπος look it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e2-LYq4gz0Y.html

¡Nobody expects the propaganda!

Rome...... wait nope that’s all really to note... no wait maybe Carthage

Yeah, but before Rome (that wasn't Italy) there were just tribes and peoples who weren't organized in states

@GiMel6666 Turks think italians make the real food like turkish food they my mum loves to watch italian food making tutorials thats why they love (I think)

@GiMel6666 I didnt say they are familar I said good and original

@GiMel6666 No problem

There are a lot of elements in the "risorgimento" that decides to try this: the middle class in the north, students and intellectuals expecially. The Piedmont Sardinia kingdom, at the behinning, wanted just to expand his territory. The south, expecially Sicily, didn't feel this, and wanted just to be free from theyr stupid monarcs. The Pope, the cause of Italy's no-union for centuries, was inglobated expecially thanks to the defeat of France against Prussia. Really summarized, hope you'll complain

+marcolino269 hope you'll complain? That's odd ^^

+YangSing1 They didn't, it was imposed. The historical background is that the kingdom of Piedmont was facing bankruptcy and sought expansion in northern Italy. The kingdom of Two Sicilies was by far the richest portion of the peninsula at the time thus, sponsored by external powers like France and England, Giuseppe Garibaldi conquered it and gave it to the king of Italy. The last part of the country, Lombary-Venetia, was annexed 5 years later after Prussia won a war against Austria-Hungary that was forced to cede it.

2 sicilies richest country in italy? What, man? Retry economy and poor resources, they just exported men and some agricolture product. Statal economy old of decades

By rich I meant that the state owned a lot of gold, way more than any other italian country did at the time

Sfortunatamente invece all'italia appartiene il Friuli e il Trentino.

Don Peppe si invece, nella costituzione c'è scritto che l'italia è una e indivisibile!

+Don Peppe ci fu una rivolta friulana anti-italiana nel 1947 ma che il governo italiano represse e poi molti giovani friulani furono reclutati nell'esercito Autroungarico! Anche gli italiani sono dei senza palle visto che non si ribellano a sto governo di merda!

Che hanno il 4° presidente non eletto dal popolo e che si preoccupano solo di calcio e Barbara D'Urso, Isola dei Famosi etc... quindi è l'intero sistema italia che deve essere cambiato!

guys, you don't know what mess corsica is...As a French, I would like to give it back to you, the corsicans just waste our money (like the Sicilians kinda do with your money). let's do a deal, we give corsica and you give us French speaking and occitan parts of Piedmont ok?:)

cuorecomando VOGLIAMO FIUME DIO CANE

I know your comment is old, but as I'm from Croatia, I'm curious if Italy would be willing to share Istria 50 - 50. Greetings from Croatia. I love Italy

cuorecomando I know that but you know that Istria was half Italians and half Croats

cuorecomando that's true. it should be

cuorecomando I agree

AODL xShockz eurocentric much?

I'm listing the countries with the most interesting documented history in my opinion. I'm not biased to European countries just because they're European. I've read up on many historical countries and China, India, Japan, and even today's Iraq were in consideration.

My Countries with the most interesting history: 5.China 4.Japan 3.Russia 2.Germany 1.Middle East (okay i know the middle east isn't a country but modern middle eastern states have no equivalent in history (except maybe iran) before 1918 so i can't choose one country since middle eastern history involved states that no longer exist)

AODL xShockz Africa

Delores Davis Africa has so much hidden history as well as destroyed history

+Domy Silv parla per te, amico

+Domy Silv Il Duce.

+JustYourAverageRetro ^^^ Just shitty fascists

+Domy Silv non lo auguro a nessuno ma se vi aggrada, prego..visto che qui state chiaramente compiendo l'illegale, con l'apologia di fascismo..un augurio di poterlo emulare e ottenere gli stessi meriti..a testa in giù; e spisciacchiati dalla gente, proprio come è accaduto a quello!

Non capisci niente non sai proprio nulla di tutto ciò che ha fatto per rendere grande l'italia

We Italians would like to have Corsica as an our land... Corsica being in France is simply absurd PS: where are you from?

Francy germi I’m from the U.S. though I love history, culture and geography. So this channel is right up my alley. :)

@@Chase1493 we are fine in France. Thank you

Guys I can't believe I have the audacity to suggest this but..how about the Corsicans decide where the hell they live? Between you guys and Argentina this is so damn annoying.

I am quite sure, that Corsicans don’t want to be Italian and prefer to stay French. Even if they are some separatists.

I was going to, but I ran out of time. I have to upload within seven days of the last video, you see.

I was going to, but I ran out of time. I have to upload within seven days of the last video, you see.

+Ollie Bye (History) What was so important about the time?

da man I need to upload weekly.

+Ollie Bye (History) A man keeps his word.

*AlterX.Deh "terra rossa terra istriana. terra mia terra italiana!!"

IP C Istria and Dalmatia were always Italian,and after WW1 Croatia shoud be Italian,not Serbian(Yugoslavian).

TheConquistador Greetings from Italy, Spanish brother! :D

Spain and Italy Brothers!!

la so lunga WTF? I'm Sardinian and here people love Spain, we have more to spare with Spanish culture than with italians...

guarda una delle discussioni in cima e ti sentirai un po meno fiero leggendo di quei cretini

Purtroppo mi sono fatto un'idea della gente che c'è in circolazione. Comunque io sono fiero delle nostre immense origini. I romani ci hanno dato tantissimo.

are you going holidays at the beach i heard their beach is nice

@@FraLoddo98 guarda che la nostra cultura ormai ha poco a che fare con quella romana

yep

Megale Hellas 🇬🇷🇮🇹 Many greethings from neapolis

@@italianpatriot6345 Una faza una raza!!! Greetings from your neighbors!

@@Antonis108 southern Italians are greek DNA Apulian kampanian Calabrian and siciliana (kalispera adelfois

This is because the Romans after dominating the Greeks for centuries gave them Roman citizenship, and the Greeks called themselves Romans. During the Byzantine era it was forbidden to call oneself "Hellenes" as a synonym for pagans.

***** ?

+Stefano Cavallari First: You need to improve that English. Second: Aragonese rule, Spanish rule and later, Hapsburg Spain and Directly Hapsburg rules were the betters on the Italian peninsula. So don't act like a fool, please.

Bob Fisher tus muertos

Bob Fisher pues la verdad es que no, soy español.

that time naples was rich

Mr Sinister p0bcçbbbçbbbbbbhhhhhhhohhhoii88ii88g8.

Because the Lombards became Italianized and mixed with the population of the peninsula.

WRONG, Romans and Italians are two different things: the culture, traditions, dialects of modern italians are based on medieval/rennaisance Italy.

No! You are wrong! The ethnicity is the same, the identity of the people of Italy is recognized in this, the culture is the same, which developed from the Arcaic Age of pre-Roman Italy through the native cultures, the Villanovans and Italics ones then to continue to evolve and to assume their own characteristics,it is from these that the romance culture of the modern Neolatin-speaking states derives its origins, and of course in the course of the history it has had different cultural influences that have consequently brought variations of different kinds to what it was the basic cultural element of the origins,as in fact happens to every nation that, going ahead in the history,comes into contact with other worlds and therefore has received certain cultural aspects of these(depending on how events develop). Throughout its historical and cultural path,the Latin culture has undergone various cultural influences which have introduced new elements that have contributed to the its development,the most significant among them was the Greek one,which at least since the 3rd century (B.C.E.),this exerted an ever more prevalent influence in the Roman world. When the Roman Empire first split into two trunks and then collapsed under the shots of the barbarians of the northern Europe, the unity that bound its peoples broke and there were no direct links between them,which, while expressing themselves in the same language (with its variants) and recognizing itself in the same basic cultural identity,They developed by assuming their own (both cultural and linguistic) aspects,articulating independently of each other and giving way to the cultures of modern Neolatin-speaking states,different from each other but having the same cultural matrix from which they are linked, that is the archaic one Latin culture.As far as the Italian language is concerned, it derives from an evolution of vulgar Latin,which was the talk of the plebeians, middle classes and poor people of society,this Latin was quite distinct from the Latin spoken by the Roman elite. When the nobility gradually lost its power because of the barbarian invasions,the language of the low and middle-low classes took over,and the division of the Italian peninsula facilitated the development of dialects.The Italian language, like the other Romance languages, is nothing more than an evolution of the Latin language.

Francesco Laruffa Romans were white, Italians are not white......

southeners are the "darkest" but a vast majority of people from the northern part of Italy have white skin

Well... some populations lived in Italy before romans.

Calling yourself a Roman doesn't make you Roman. That's valid for Ostrogoths and Odoacer of course (they could hardly know how to write), but also for Byzantines who were deeply Greek cultured.

napoleonnss The 'Roman Empire' of the 6th century that you refer to differed so much from its Latin ancestor, that historians have agreed to call it the 'Byzantine' empire to avoid confusion. :)

Tavi The Roman Empire was evolving from 100 BC. There was no change in the official regime though, from 31 BC and the Imperio to 1204 (or 1453). Historic periods are characterized as "Late" instead, e.g. Late Hellenistic. Some refer to the term "Byzantine" starting at 330 AD, others 620 AD and some at 1054 AD or 1204. Rather an unsubstantiated alias causing more confusion than clarity.

napoleonnss Thanks for giving me a bunch of dates surrounded by rather poorly backed statements. That really contributed a multum to our discussion. Anyway "certain books" is quite an understatement. Name me even one respected historian who is referring to the Byzantine empire as the 'Roman Empire' anywhere after Justinian I. Of course the Byzantines called themselves Romans right until the 1453 as far as I'm aware. Also, to understand better why we say Byzantine rather than Roman Empire, I suggest a quick read of the top few paragraphs in the Wikipedia article on the Byzantine Empire :) Hint: Official language changed to Greek, religion changed to Christianity, Capital changed to Constantinople :)

New Rome (Constantinople) and Christianity were status quo far before Justinian. When historians as you mentioned, consider Roman Empire and not Byzantine. It is not easy to recall a state that changed it's official language (620 AD) and is assumed a different one. Most of the historians until the 20th century accepted 'East Roman Empire' . Allow for arguments on that ground.

NO LOL, TF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT D::

qwertylello time to say goodbye 🎼😂

Imagine if Corsica stayed under Italy for 20 more years Napoleon might have studied in Genoa instead of Paris and who knows how world history could have changed

Dan Castel actually Corsica was indépendant between 1954 and 1969, there was an error in his research...

@@Akaki1999 with some "if", it doesn't work, And surely that if Corsica was still Italian, Napoléon wouldn't have finish where he did in France

No it doesnt

Italian people never went anywhere. They just politically reunited under the irredentist cause. They've been one one people since Rome. Germans followed suit as well afterwards and serbs tried to.

FreeTube, I know emirate is a nation or state that has something to do with Islam but what does it mean? Also Sicily was Islamic at one point!

I never would have thought any where in 🇮🇹 would have been an Islamic nation ,considering it being the seat of the catholic church

Nathan Livingston Oh Emirate basically means a Land in Arabic under the rule of an Emir(Ruler). And yeah Sicily was under Muslim rule for few centuries, and it's capital was Palermo with a population of 360,000 people making it the second most populous city in Europe after Cordoba.

after constantinople right??

JohnTheGreek No after Islamic Cordoba in Al andalus(Muslim Spain) but Constantinople was the largest city in Europe at one point but due to famine and civil war it was declining.

+Syndel È stato veneziano, quindi conta come terra irredenta XD Scherzi a parte, fino agli anni '60 c'era veramente una larga comunità italiana a Cipro :P

Yes but you are Latin and I am Slav who my ancestors founded Trieste. Give Trieste back to Austria- they are 50% Slavs.

Non puoi contare Cipro se è stata veneziana, in quanto i Veneti non sono Italiani

Andrea Salvador e allora perchè parli italiano? 🙃

Alessandro 'El Tizio' parole sacre

Francesco Telmon and south tyrol is austria 😍❤🇦🇹

They were part of Venice so they weren't part of Italy

Riccardo Noce Only way for Istria to not be Croatian is to join Independent state of Venice. What the hell do Italians have to do anything with it? Plus, let's not forget all the crimes against Croats in WW2...... If you didn't have such a disabled army you would have Istria and Dalmatia now...... Italians are the only ones to blame for "fascist" and "nazi" loss in WW2.

Riccardo Noce But it's not historically Italian...... It's Venice. I'm not blaming Italy for crimes, but just the fact your army couldn't do anything, it was basically disabled, just like in WW1...... Yugoslavia after the war just did what Italy was doing during it, ethnically cleaning one area.......

Riccardo Noce I'm not saying Venice should be independent I'm just saying it's stupid from you Italians to want Istria and Dalmatia when Italy itself never controlled it(except in WW2)..... Venice being Italian doesn't change anything. Plus Italians are now minority in both of those regions. They never really were a majority, it was always around 50/50 in terms of population. Italians were just higher class, while Croats were lower class, this was because Venice controlled those areas, of course...... The only way you COULD take Istria from us would be war.....

shouldn't you hate us? we tried to conquer your country for 50 years....

Tenente Rorke they get freedom

Oh sorry

Frogface, your Mussolini really really tried that and we hanged him upside down in the middle of his birth city...lol It was a wonderful sight I want it to be reputed again.

what are you on about fuck face? Better than who...? what...?

bravo

NikMan yes, an italian state was created only in 1861

Yes, Italy has lived only 150 years but they think that these 150 years can delete the previous cultures.

@rana negromante fuck off traditore

carthage Mapper. I love Tunisia from Italy❤

@@soniaroma6750 discord.gg/Ub5Vb9N

My friend was in prison in spain...And he said he saw a spaniard fucking a cat...Shame on you Spaniards..

fuori friuli e sudtirol voi non siete italiani!

supercojon34 fuori tutto il friuli venezia giulia e anche la campania!

ahah, ma vaccagare xD

supercojon34 sono più italiani gli abitanti di ajaccio di voi!

quando pubblichi un libro sull'identità inconfondibile della nazione italiana linkamelo qua sotto!