How Did The Capitals Of Europe Get Their Names?

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List Of European Countries By Area: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Tirana: www.worldmayor.com/worldmayor_...
Andorra: www.worldatlas.com/articles/h...
Yerevan: traveltoarmenia.am/history-of-...
Vienna: www.etymonline.com/word/vienna
Baku: www.window2baku.com/eng/9002to...
Minsk: minsksssf.blogspot.com/2013/07...
Brussels: www.etymonline.com/word/brussels
Sarajevo: www.sarajevotimes.com/read-ho...
Sofia: www.etymonline.com/word/sofia
Zagreb: www.croatiaweek.com/how-croat...
Nicosia: kypros.org/Cyprus/nicosia.html
Prague: www.etymonline.com/word/prague
Copenhagen: www.etymonline.com/word/Copen...
Tallinn: www.etymonline.com/word/Talli...
Helsinki: www.newworldencyclopedia.org/...
Paris: www.etymonline.com/word/paris
Tbilisi: geohistory.today/tbilisi/
Berlin: www.etymonline.com/word/Berli...
Athens: www.etymonline.com/word/Athen...
Budapest: www.etymonline.com/word/Budap...
Reykjavik: www.etymonline.com/word/Reykj...
Dublin: www.etymonline.com/word/Dubli...
Rome: www.etymonline.com/word/Rome#...
Nur-Sultan: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia...
Pristina: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina
Riga: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga
Vaduz: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Vilnius: regionai.stat.gov.lt/en/vilnia...
Luxembourg City: www.etymonline.com/word/luxem...
Valletta: mymalta.guide/other-landmarks/...
Chișinău: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%...
Monaco City: www.worldatlas.com/articles/h...
Podgorica: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podgorica
Amsterdam: www.etymonline.com/word/Amste...
Hague: www.etymonline.com/word/Hague...
Skopje: www.britannica.com/place/Nort...
Oslo: www.etymonline.com/word/oslo
Warsaw: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw#...
Lisbon: www.lisbon-guide.info/about/hi...
Bucharest: www.fareaway.com/2009/02/bucha...
Moscow: www.etymonline.com/word/Mosco...
San Marino: catholicexchange.com/st-marinus
Belgrade: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
Bratislava: www.etymonline.com/word/brati...
Ljubljana: izi.travel/en/5a08-the-origin...
Madrid: theculturetrip.com/europe/spa...
Stockholm: www.etymonline.com/word/Stock...
Bern: www.etymonline.com/word/Bern#...
Ankara: linguistics.stackexchange.com...
Kiev: www.etymonline.com/word/Kiev#...
London: • How Did The Boroughs O...
Vatican: www.etymonline.com/word/Vatic...

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@eliasstenman3710 4 года назад

I see why you did this specifically on this day.

@cromania100 4 года назад

Why?

@michaelheeheejackson7255 4 года назад

Vajled brexit

@cromania100 4 года назад

@@michaelheeheejackson7255 Oh I thought that was tomorrow

@Johnstone_Studios 4 года назад

Is this going to be your only video with a sponsorship?

@eliasstenman3710 4 года назад

Jude Johnstone He has already made sponsored videos before.

@sussekind9717 4 года назад

Berlin wasn't just marshy a long time ago, it is still marshy today. Especially for a European city. A lot of areas have been drained to allow for construction, but there are many places, especially in the parks where you can walk along the ground and feel it's spongy nature from peat moss build-up over centuries. Flooding in the city, is not uncommon either.

@Arlae_Nova 4 года назад

"especially marshy for a European city". *Laughs in Dutch*

@sussekind9717 4 года назад

@@Arlae_Nova Salt marshes and reclaimed ocean. Not the same.

@lurogtheblack 4 года назад

Old Slavonic for Berlin iz Brljin, which means marshlands.

@hedgehog3180 4 года назад

It also explains something that puzzled me every time I visited the city, why you sometimes see pipes running above ground at street level and at the level of power lines. It's because in some parts of the city digging them down like is common elsewhere is either not possible or to difficult to do right now. It's also why much of Berlin's metro is actually at ground level and then everything above it is built one level higher.

@noelleggett5368 3 года назад

I thought Berlin was named after a jam donut! So many German towns seem to be named after food. 😜

@jobda1211 4 года назад

Fun fact: In Poland exists legend explaining name of Warsaw (pl. Warszawa) it says that fisherman Wars fell in love in syren Sawa. That was a fact, now comes the fun part: Both Wars and Sawa are male names. It is common misconception because all female names end with -a, but some of uncommon male names also end with -a.

@joechill9747 4 года назад

Ha sound gay

@mrcocoloco7200 4 года назад

Gay!

@hugo57k91 4 года назад

Sava is a female name here

@jobda1211 4 года назад

@@hugo57k91 where? In Poland is definitely male (except of course the legend of Wars and Sawa😉)

@hugo57k91 4 года назад

@@jobda1211 Bosnia and Herzegovina.

@clasqm 4 года назад

European capitals: Mostly they mean "Yet another piece of useless swampland". Can't farm on that so we might as well build a city on it.

@sirBrouwer 4 года назад

Well that was the case for most cities in general. all bigger cities are not do to the swamp but do to the river feeding that swamp. Water has always been the major factor for a town to be build and grow bigger.

@Vanalovan 4 года назад

They said I was daft to build a city in a swamp but I built it all the same just to show them!

@mikitz 3 года назад

Say hi to New York for me.

@rad2310 4 года назад

"Over in North Macedonia we have the nation of Skopje". Certified bruh moment.

@Rubycek 4 года назад

He also had Baku wrong. It's on the coast.

@davidmihailovski5264 4 года назад

Kopje (in Skopje) in Maceodnian means spear 😊

@rad2310 4 года назад

@@davidmihailovski5264 Yeah I know, the had a bit about it on Zlatna Bubamara though I can't remember what year it was. It was legendary though.

@jasoni4090 4 года назад

Did he skip Montenegro?

@rad2310 4 года назад

@@jasoni4090 possibly

@daniellanctot6548 4 года назад

I played the "shots" game every time the origins of a capital name was unknown or unsure: I did not make it to the end of the video.

@lambda6564 4 года назад

Also many slavic cities have different names in German. They were ruled for a long time by Prussia/Germany and Austria. Bratislava for example was called Preßburg and Königsberg became Kaliningrad. Maybe you could do a video about these German/Slavic mixture names. Their names could have interesting stories behind them. Greetings from Germany :)

@radio8029 4 года назад

I´m interested in that too. There are so many cities wich names got changed.

@if6814 4 года назад

Mangobonbon For example Berlin is a typical Slavic name

@ramunc2261 4 года назад

well that is true for many more languages,for example,the germans call Transylvania Siebenburgen and the Hungarians call it Erdely.

@caferustwat 4 года назад

Zagreb-Agram, all of the Polish cities have a German name.

@ramunc2261 4 года назад

@@caferustwat of course,since most of them have been under their ocupation for many,many years

@matej_grega 4 года назад

"c" in Slavic names is pronounced like "ts"

@yh7247 4 года назад

Eric Hawes and in West Flemish as a h

@NameExplain 4 года назад

How many of these cities have you been to? I think I've only been to 9. London, Dublin, Paris, Reykjavik, Berlin, Stockholm, Riga, Rome, and Amsterdam.

@cd1051 4 года назад

Dublin, Paris, Warsaw and Cork (only Irish people will get the last one) mup the people’s republic of Cork

@Gulitize 4 года назад

@Name Explain I couldn't find the name origin for Bern you claimed to be the same for Berlin. Berlin comes from the slavic berlo (swamp and so on) and Bern comes from the celtic berna (ravine, slit) none of them have germanic roots like you claimed. It would also be really strange for a city in the alps to have a slavic derived name.

@_Mr.Tuvok_ 4 года назад

I heard, compared to us Yanks, Europeans leave their home country-vacation, business trips, etc.-much more often. True?

@Strav9 4 года назад

Lisbon Madrid Paris London Helsinki Stockholm Tallin Sarajevo Beograd

@astridw4737 4 года назад

I have only been to London and Rome on class trips, not even Berlin, even though I spent my entire life living in Germany

@joellund761 4 года назад

Another name for Helsinki is Helsingfors. "Helsing" means someone from Hälsingland and "fors" means river in Swedish :)

@harripursiainen5420 3 года назад

Actually it means rapid in Swedish, not river.

@TheLatokuivaaja 3 года назад

And the rapids being referred to are located in the Vantaa river where it meets the Vanhankaupunginlahti (lit. Old City Bay) where Helsinki was originally founded in 1550.

@monkofmayhem1373 Год назад

Is Helsingfors the official name for Helsinki? I was there last year for a few weeks and seem to remember it on a lot of signs.

@hysterikole1 3 месяца назад

@@monkofmayhem1373 Its the Swedish name for Helsinki (they use both Swedish and Finnish there)

@mambojambo4870 4 года назад

I hate to be that guy, but German "Bär" is pronounced nearly exactly like English "Bear". Love your videos, keep up the good work :)

@BurnBird1 3 года назад

pfft, you think those dots mean anything? All those foreign dots and lines are just European nonsense, done to make it look foreign. /s

@happytofu5 3 года назад

for maximum confusion: you can write the letter ä also as ae, if you don't have the key on your keyboard. which means that you can write "bär" as "baer" in german ;-p

@Dragoneye2828 4 года назад

Polish capital Warsaw, Warszawa in Polish, has a legend behind it. According to the legend the city was founded by 2 brothers Wars and Sawa and the city was named by joining their names together. Yes I know, not the most exciting legend but still an explenation!

@Dian_Borisov_SW 4 года назад

It's a great legend. It's like the slavic version of Romulus and Remus but with more brotherhood.

@karoljarocki4581 4 года назад

I was tought the reason why it is called Warszawa is because of Mermaid Szawa and a guy called War, which they maried and forming city of Warszawa

@lourencoalmada1305 4 года назад

So Rome but with less fratricide

@Ussurin 4 года назад

Yeah, the mermaid version was also the one I was taught in school. War found a mermaid Szawa on an isle on Vistula, fell in love and married her, then they build their house in the spot. Over time a village was created around this house and later city.

@DogDogGodFog 2 года назад

I was taught the mermaid version but with the guy being named Wars, not War

@_M_o_n_k_e 4 года назад

"A proud European citizen" *Hmmmmmmmm* You have 2 hours left *cough*

@gretep 4 года назад

Europe doesn’t equal the EU though. Norway isn’t in the EU, it’s still an European country

@tacosmexicanstyle7846 4 года назад

Grete Pihlak The EU calls its people ‘European citizens’. Europe outside the union is not a political entity; it doesn’t have citizens.

@tacosmexicanstyle7846 4 года назад

Brax09 I didn’t come here to argue about what the EU is intending to do. Your fear mongering uninformed opinion is of absolutely no interest whatsoever to me.

@LovelyAngel. 4 года назад

Brax09 What are you if not a European country? What continent do you belong to? What makes you not European? I think most of people in the world associate a lot of British stuff even as "the only thing they know about Europe", like the monarchy, the architecture, the etiquette, traditions, etc.

@elimalinsky7069 4 года назад

@Brax09 By your logic Japan isn't in Asia, and the Japanese are not Asians. The UK and Ireland are definitely European countries by every single criteria (apart from not actually being on the continent, but then again, Europe isn't really a continent in the geographic sense).

@rezance9843 4 года назад

Belgrade is called Beograd in serbian and literally means Whitecity

@MartinMizner 3 года назад

-Grad, -Hrad it sometimes means fortress, sometimes city. Well most of the cities were found near well fortified places and that explains it.

@SidBlackheart 2 года назад

@@MartinMizner In Serbo-Croatian, 'grad' can only mean 'city' or 'town'.

@noelvyhnanek5951 4 года назад

Bratislava sounds a lot like "brothers' glory" or something with honoring brother(s) in Slovak. If it's really the name of a leader, his name would most likely just be Bratislav.

@rafalch5530 4 года назад

I'm Polish and to me it sounds like something along the lines of "Slavic Brothers" Brati-Slava

@noelvyhnanek5951 4 года назад

That's definitely an option. How did I never notice that?

@MartinMizner 3 года назад

To be corect: It should be named Bratislav's town, but Bratislava is shortened and sounds better.

@nadieloves6627 3 года назад

When I visited Bratislava, I believe the tour guide said it was named after the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius, known as the "Apostles to the Slavs".

@noelvyhnanek5951 3 года назад

Boy I'm out here learning more about my city's name in the comments of a youtube video than years and years of living here :D

@walker_andrej 4 года назад

I went to Belgrade the other day, apparently, back in the days, there was a massive castle near River Danube. The castle walls were white, so when the sun was shining it was a bit blinding for people going to the city.

@mihailodiklic 4 года назад

I think you are talking about Kalemegdan 🇷🇸

@Ognjen20. 2 года назад

I'm from Belgrade and every time I go to that kalemegdan castle I get lost hahahah

@boriszakharin3189 4 года назад

Fun fact: in Russian the word saraj means "shed" and the suffix "-evo" is often used for naming a village named after a person or an object of some sort. From that perspective it always sounded funny to have the capital of Bosnia/Herzegovina be a village named after a shed, especially since a number of villages with that name actually exist in Russia.

@alejandroojeda1572 4 года назад

Why wouldn't cyprus be in Europe if you include Armenia...😓

@hailgiratinathetruegod7564 4 года назад

Because the defination of europe. Europe border is defined by the caucasus mountains (even though I would say Armenia, unlike Georgia and Azerbaijan, it doesnt qualified). When while is Cyprus 100% part of asia. It is not only closest to asia, but on the same contiental shelf. (Which is how it is defiened to which continent Islands belong)

@sababugs1125 4 года назад

@@hailgiratinathetruegod7564 if we go with the Caucasus detention Georgia and Azerbaijan still have some European territories

@hailgiratinathetruegod7564 4 года назад

@@sababugs1125 yes, I only said Armenia does't fit in that defination

@sohaibnassar7059 4 года назад

Its also part of the eu

@seneca983 4 года назад

Armenia at the very least borders Europe, unlike Cyprus.

@Tryphara 4 года назад

btw fun fact: the German "bär" is pronounced almost the same as the English "bear" :) when I was in elementary school I always pronounced "bear" like "beer" but this lil fact helped me

@Fauntleroy. 4 года назад

Well-timed and well-played, sir. Kudos from America.

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 года назад

Very nice, I've always been curious as to how London and Berlin got its name

@BinglesP 2 года назад

Wow a comment from JSGwaM that doesn’t have thousands of likes

@lurji 2 года назад

get a life

@neville1311 4 года назад

Kazakhstan's capital was named Astana before they changed to Nur-Sultan Astana is kazakh for Capital City

@Can-vw1cb 4 года назад

From what I know as an ankarian (I live in Ankara :D) I heard the name Ankara comes from the ancient place of Ankyria which was a farming state or kind of country. Ankara doesn’t have any access to sea so anchor isn’t really a good guess lol

@Grunk111 4 года назад

Isn't it in ancient Galatia as well, which was founded by migrating celts? Ankara/ankyra might be older than Galatia though.

@emrecanarduc4378 4 года назад

@@Grunk111 galats were the tribe's name. Ankara's name comes from Angora - - >Ancyra-->Ankara

@emrecanarduc4378 4 года назад

But also it may Come from Ankruwa which is mean Temple of Anka (in Hittite)(most possiable one because this name is written in ancient Hittite tablet) . By the way Angora comes from Sun Language Theorem and it says name is originally comes form Altay area (in middle Asia)

@akinoz 4 года назад

Emrecan Arduç Sun language theory isn’t a scientific term.

@vbucci6894 4 года назад

Serbian viewers seeing this: *angry typing*

@strevortni 3 года назад

yeah he didn't talk about the lore behind the name pretty offended lol

@Gulitize 4 года назад

The map shown for Baku doesn't even include the location of the city.

@NameExplain 4 года назад

The maps and the locations of the cities within them are just for display purposes. Not very accurate at all I'm afraid.

@Gulitize 4 года назад

@@NameExplain I could also not find the name origin for Bern you claimed to be the same for Berlin. Berlin comes from the slavic berlo (swamp and so on) and Bern comes from the celtic berna (ravine, slit) none of them have germanic roots like you claimed. It would also be really strange for a city in the alps to have a slavic derived name.

@Grunk111 4 года назад

@@Gulitize Sneaky Mountain Slavs?

@QemeH 4 года назад

@@Gulitize There are about a million towns in the alps named after different words for ravine or crevice. I once lived in an area of austria where there were 4 towns called "Feistritz" within a one hour travel distance alone. This comes from the slavic "Bystrica", quite literally meaning "white water" (= rapids). In other countries this name got changed to Beszterce (Hungary), Wistritz (Silesia) or Bistritza (Czech Republic).

@aniratac19 4 года назад

@@NameExplain Also, why is the arrow pointing to Porto, in Portugal, and not to Lisbon? It´s slightly misleading... :-/

@shibolinemress8913 Год назад

You should probably mention where the English names for capital cities differ from their names in the language of their countries. Vienna, for example, is actually Wien in German. A video on how English got it's names for foreign cities would be interesting!

@1258-Eckhart Год назад

Vienna reached the English language via Romance-speaking merchants who had inculturated the word from the Germanic "Wenia" into "Vienna", so a vowel-shift forwards. So it's actually the same word.

@LodiJP 4 года назад

Well done !!

@matthewmccallion3311 4 года назад

Great video as usual, Patrick! Unfortunately, at 7:02 you've included the Inishowen peninsula in Northern Ireland. It's in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.

@henrikl.w.4058 4 года назад

7:28 The old name of the Kazakh capital was Astana. In Kazakh "Astana" means "Capital".

@teratoph 4 года назад

I'm gonna tell you a legend about Skopje! The city itself has seven exits, much like the seven orphaces of a human head. It's said that a legendary hero wielding a spear killed a giant monster and where its skull lay the hero laid down to die too. He became the mountain of Vodno right next to Skopje and the name comes from "with a spear" - so kopje

@hanytelfah7069 4 года назад

Always creative with your video ideas. I got one. How about the city of Damascus. It is pretty old so it should prove challenging.

@JovanLemon 4 года назад

The podgorica one actually mazed me, I actually can't believe that I didn't realise that until now.

@standooostandooo9195 4 года назад

As far as I know Bratislava was called Prešporok before ww1 which derives from german Preßburg. After colapse of Austria-Hungary Slovaks just made new name for cit. Bratislava name is probably just a combination of 2 words Brat - brother Sláva/Slovan - Glory/Slavic

@comradesam3382 4 года назад

Could it also be brother and glory? I know that in my language slava is glory

@standooostandooo9195 4 года назад

Yeah, it could be a “Brothers Glory” or “Slavic Glory”...

@anxietyattaxk 4 года назад

Bratislava is called ‘Pozsony’ in Hungarian, who ruled above the city for a long-long time.

@standooostandooo9195 4 года назад

Well, the name “Pozsony” as you suggest was just another name of city enforced by hungarian politics during national suppresion of nations libing in Hungary (hungarization/magyarizatio) The name itself was just a derification of Preßburg or in slovak Prešporok. I did a little research and found out that apart greek/latin name Istropolis the name of city come from slavic “Braslavъ” (written in 9. century reconstructed medieval slavic/slovak form) from which the name Bratislava may come from...

@standooostandooo9195 4 года назад

Polish Hero Witold Pilecki what are you talking about?

@ilvibos3512 4 года назад

Hey, Name Explain I’ll help you with the East Slavic capital names. Belarus- Minsk; The common Slavic “isk” suffix is basically the same as English “ish” and designates affiliation. The affiliation is to the river it stands on, “Menya” which comes from the protobaltoslavic root for little. The English cognate would be “Mini”. It was named so because it’s a smaller tributary branch of the Ptich River. Russia- Moscow Basically carries the name of the river it stands on, the Moscow River. The word Moscow is most likely from protobaltoslavic origin as well, from “Muzg” meaning damp, wet, bogy place. The English cognate is probably “marsh” Ukraine- Kiev Either the legend is true and it literally named after a legendary tribal chieftain Kiy, making it literally “Kiys (town/settlement/place)” If true then in that sense Kiy is an ancient word for Staff/Rod. If legend is not true then it can come from the Ukrainian word “Kyiava” meaning steep hill. Hope than answered the unknowns

@thelist3253 4 года назад

So, to simplify Minsk means Little-ish Moscow means Marsh Kiev is literally Kie’s Kie means staff Right?

@ilvibos3512 4 года назад

The List, Yes exactly

@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 4 года назад

I do wish he'd reach out to his subscribers more rather than trying to guess the pronunciations himself.

@ilvibos3512 4 года назад

Just Beyond The Corner Productions yeah! Usually I like his stuff but I felt this one was poorly researched. Belgrade means white fort/city not white ford. Bratislava is not named after a chief but it was renamed to Bratislava after Slovakia separated from Austria. It’s literally two words put together Brothers + Slav. And there’s more in Slavic Etymology I feel he got wrong

@dushmanmardom 4 года назад

I've read that Minsk could come from old slavic root, that nowadays transformed into menyat(sa) meaning to trade, as it was a place of trade, but dunno.

@forregom 4 года назад

4:02 why did you take away Bosnia's coast?

@mrcocoloco7200 4 года назад

Because ahhhhh :] I don't know.

@Fauntleroy. 4 года назад

Was Bosnia even using it, though?

@hugo57k91 4 года назад

@@Fauntleroy. it's the only coastal city and is huge for tourism. So yes

@mrcocoloco7200 4 года назад

@@Fauntleroy. Yeah I'm pretty sure they do. You know for the Beaches and Tourism.

@Grunk111 4 года назад

Your coastline is unfortunately within the margin of error.

@davidroman4780 4 года назад

Bratislava is a new name. It was given to the city when Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart in 1918 and Czechoslovakia was born with Slovaks regaining statehood after a millenia of being part of Hungary, at the time many cities, towns and villages changed names. Bratislav is an actual human name, though barely used. Brat- brother , Slava -glory/fame , this applies to both Bratislav and Bratislava. When it comes to original name of Bratislava it depends on who you ask. Germans called it Preßburg, Hungarians called it Pozsony and Slovaks called it Prešporok. If i remember correctly both Pozsony and Prešporok are names that originate from a person, that is still not confirmed if even existed. That being a Great Moravian prince who lived in 10th century. He was 3rd son of King Svätopluk and brother to Mojmír II. and Svätopluk II. . When Svätopluk I. died his sons split Great Moravia between each other with Predslav gaining land of Prešporok/Pozsony for himself with the city bearing his name. Again this is disputable , as we cannot know for sure if Predslav even existed. Unfortunarely i dont know where does Preßburg come from with my best guess being that its the name Germans gave it based on the names Prešporok and Pozsony.

@MarioAtheonio 4 года назад

All the names that the city has had over the years could be a video of itself.

@kaloarepo288 4 года назад

A lot of Hungarian royalty is buried in Bratislava =and weren't the Hungarian kings crowned here at one stage?

@MarioAtheonio 4 года назад

Kalo Arepo I know Maria Theresa and a bunch of other Habsburgs were crowned there.

@kaloarepo288 4 года назад

@@MarioAtheonio I'm talking about the medieval Hungarian kings and not the time when Hungary was incorporated into the Habsburg Empire.It was one of their capitals then.

@davidroman4780 4 года назад

Kingdom of Hungary was formed by Magyars who conquered Duchy of Nitra (see Hungarian Coat of Arms, stripes - magyars , double cross - nitra) and Prešporok/Pozsony was indeed a coronational city, but Pest was always the capital , and Ostrihom/Ezstergom was the seat of the Arcbishop

@grry02 4 года назад

Great video as always! Love to see your notification across the screen. I am early, does Name Explain reply? :3

@OrtegaDani885 4 года назад

You made a mistake: Vella is not town, it's Old, so it's not Andorra thw town, it's Andorra the old.

@ivanmacias9603 4 года назад

Actually, it does mean Andorra The Town. The problem is, in Catalan, the terms evolved over time so now people think it means Andorra The Old, but that "Vella" used to mean "Town" back in the days, like "Villa" today.

@TeshnosFire 4 года назад

9:21 That arrow is pointing to Ahrnem? x'D This is hilarious to me since I used to constantly switch up The Hague and Ahrnem as a child.

@circeismyspirit 4 года назад

The name Riga comes from a river that used to flow through old Riga called "rīdze".

@uatvprograms505 4 года назад

Kyiv is short for "Kyiv hrad", meaning "Kyi's town", where Kyi is the legendary founder.

@DogDogGodFog 2 года назад

In Polish it's 'Kijów' and that means either 'The town of the long sticks' or 'The town that belongs to the Kijs' or 'The town that belongs to the long sticks' lol

@brunog3768 4 года назад

Hi Patrick!

@BOIZADAS 4 года назад

nice mate, obrigado

@alejandroghysbrecht6428 4 года назад

You should do a video like this on other continents, like South America or Asia

@galiciangladiator5857 4 года назад

So much for Name Explain saying in the Americas video he had never once referred to himself as European.

@winstonc.6951 4 года назад

Fake European "nationalism" at it's worst. It's cringy and takes so much away from the amazing individual cultures of Europe.

@LordDim1 4 года назад

Winston C. But who wouldn’t feel nationalism and pride towards faceless bureaucrats in Brussels? They’re so inspiring!

@realhawaii5o 4 года назад

9:45 "Over in Macedonia we have the nation of Skopje"?

@Teoishere777 4 года назад

Hawaii 5O !!! correction !!! “Over in south Serbia we have the nation of Skopje” 😁

@sskspartan 4 года назад

@@Teoishere777 Bulgaria *

@davidmihailovski5264 4 года назад

Theodore Papagiannidis Nemoj se blamirat, molim te 🙄!

@davidmihailovski5264 4 года назад

sskspartan Мoля, спрете наистина 🙄

@davidmihailovski5264 4 года назад

Btw, Kopje (in Skopje) in Macedonian means spear 😊

@mihoraboteg9034 4 года назад

I love your pronounciation of word zagrabi (Im Croat) and the legend goes a bit diffrently...One day a knight came back from war, he traveld a long way and was very thirsty.He asked a girlif she could give him some water so he can drikn it.She came down to very small lake and zagrabila water into the bucket..Her name was Marina or Martina and the fountain which is now standing on that same place has her name.Great video

@sophievandermeij866 3 года назад

Love the way you tried to pronounce S'gravenhage

@liamolaoghaire 4 года назад

Cyprus is in both Europe and Asia but it is in the EU and Eurozone so I’d count it, as a country it feels more European then Asian personally

@maxpuente6291 4 года назад

andorra la vella is pronounced as andorra la "veya" rather then "vela" and it acc means "andorra the old one"

@PRDreams 4 года назад

Does the rr makes a single r sound, a "Spanish" double r sound, or a different sound altogether? Always wanted to ask.

@maxpuente6291 4 года назад

@@PRDreams strong sound. in catalan when r goes alone it makes a subtle sound similar to english one even subtler but when r is at the beginning of the word or is doubled rr it makes strong "spanish" sound

@PRDreams 4 года назад

@@maxpuente6291 thanks!

@ericveneto1593 4 года назад

Fun video! PLEASE do the same video for Asia and Africa!

@Atlantjan 4 года назад

In Maltese the capital Valletta (spelt with two Ls unlike in the video) is simply referred to as il-belt (the city) 😊

@olekx9148 4 года назад

About Kyiv, Ukraine: According to a legend, East Slavs founded Kyiv in the 5th century. The legend of Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv speaks of a founder-family consisting of a Slavic tribal leader Kyi, the eldest, his brothers Schek and Khoriv, and also their sister Lybid, who founded the city. Kyiv is translated as "belonging to Kyi" or as "Kyi's place".

@torbjornlekberg7756 4 года назад

As for Stockholm, the stakes were put in the bay, used for defense against pirates and as a way to collect toll.

@reptilezsweden 4 года назад

Tripple meaning: Stock = Log (tree trunk) 1. Logriders used this area to transport timber "stockar" 2. Stakes made from "stock" was put in the waterbed in a defensiv measure 3. A lot of the islands were expanded by also putting "stockar" in the waterbed and filling in the areas in between (this being the modern official reason for the name Stockholm I believe)

@ByddinRhyddidCymru 4 года назад

Think this is the first time anyone has called Blackpool interesting, also, Wales capital Cardiff, comes from the Welsh ‘caer’ meaning fort & ‘taf’ meaning river, as the city was founded when Cardiff Castle was built next to the river that runs through the area

@lelandunruh7896 4 года назад

I am from Round Rock. There is a large round rock in the creek in the middle of town. Round Rock is called the "Sports Capital of Texas". You can all sleep easy now with this important knowledge.

@JPPJustPerfectPlayers 4 года назад

As always awesome video! Love your content! Only one small, but important correction that I would like to suggest as a Ukrainian. You missplled Kyiv. A bit of insight, it is actually somewhat of a controversial topic since Kiev is the Russian version of our city's name, while Kyiv is in Ukrainian, but since we are not on really good terms with Russia nowadays, it's much more respected to write Kyiv and that 's the official name of our city since Ukrainian is the only official language in Ukraine. Besides that, you are indeed correct, I would say you could have been 100% certain about the origin of this name since your "probable version" is true, it indeed derives from the name of one of the founders of the city and his name was Kyi. (Кий) of course nobody knows for sure, but it's the most accepted version. Again, awesome video I understand that you are probably not aware of every tiny detail and controversy of each European state, so no worries.

@AudibleAnarchist1 4 года назад

9:46 - I'm not sure is calling Skopje a nation is a mistake or just you acknowledging it for the city-state that it is.

@AudibleAnarchist1 4 года назад

10:54 - also 'Bratislava' basically means something the slavic version of 'the town of brotherly love'.

@Rubycek 4 года назад

@@AudibleAnarchist1 but slav could also be the origin. It just recently clicked for me "Slovan" Is from word slovo (word), I just never thought about it before. And other countries calling our slavs is probably our name often end in slav, It along with our languages is our most common trait. (Jaroslav, Miroslav, Stanislav, Desislav, Boleslav, ... Thats literally all I can think of in Czech? Wow

@kilvesx7924 4 года назад

So glad to see you're doing more fast-paced videos with lots of content for a change. You could have made 30 10 minute videos blabbering about one city at a time like you usually do, but you didn't. I really appreciate it.

@R3stor 4 года назад

Bratislava was called this way after Czechoslovakia's foundation back in 1918. To that day it was called Poszony (in Hungarian) or Pressburg in German. It had many presses for wine, so maybe it was called after that. The name Bratislava was created because we wanted everything to be cut from the former monarchy and thus we created this slavic name. In fact back in 9 or 10 century one of the first settlements in this area was called Braslav after some slavic ruler Braslav. In Greek, it is also called Istropolis, like Istro = Danube and polis = city

@luizfellipe3291 4 года назад

3:28 "🎼In the way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me🎼" Bohimian Raphsody-Queen

@SlobodanKunst 4 года назад

10:45 Belgrade doesn't mean white fort, it means white city.

@angeloreyes1951 4 года назад

That is not correct, the original meaning of the old slavic word grad means fort/fortress, which makes sense because cities back then were essencially just forts with or without markets outside of it, I am also a serb so don't @ me saying I don't know shit. Later on it changed its meaning from fort to city. en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gord%D1%8A

@SlobodanKunst 4 года назад

@@angeloreyes1951 *gȏrdъ m[1][2][3] fortification, castle town, city Your source says it also means town, city. I'm from Belgrade. All of my life I've only heard that it refers to the word City, not Fort. The name of the Belgrade fort is Kalemegdan.

@seneca983 4 года назад

@@SlobodanKunst: "All of my life I've only heard that it refers to the word City, not Fort." I guess it could be semantic drift meaning it may have been used to mean "fort" far in the past but now has the meaning "city".

@angeloreyes1951 4 года назад

@@seneca983 yep, that's what I said, old meaning: fort; new meaning:city Whether or not mr.Kunst only heard it as in the context of meaning "city" is irrelevant, since most people are not linguists, kalemegdan is the turkish name for the fort which is alsp irrelevant since the fort existed ( although rebuilt multiple times ) long before the turks even saw Belgrade. Belgrade bore this name long before mass migration, even before the city had 20.000 people, so the term grad most likely refered to a fort rather than a city.

@Rubycek 4 года назад

In Russian город means town, крепость means fort. In Czech hrad is fort and město means town.

@kaloarepo288 4 года назад

In the past I have tried to ascertain the etymology of the city of Rome -Roma.One theory and it sounds plausible is that it comes from STROMA -referring to the river(Tiber)on which it is built and from the root word rhe which means to flow and is related to such words as stream and strom and indeed to rheumatism,diarrhoea and to names of other European rivers like the Rhine,Rhone,the Reno(Bologna) and the Strymon in Greece.

@anniesearle6181 4 года назад

Tallinn is a very beautiful city that's very much worth a visit. Spent a week there last summer and it was really fun

@aG-td2uu 4 года назад

Finally, someone actually including the Caucasus when talking about Europe

@Patryk128pl 4 года назад

10:01 WHAT!? The name of "Warszawa" comes from the fisherman named "Wars" and mermaid named "Sawa" who fell in love and married living happily and long. Around their home small fishing village arose named "Warszawa" (Warsaw in English, because apparently Polish "sz" being identical to English "sh" was too hard to keep with English crazy spelling, or something.), which later grew "a little". Then was almost completely destroyed by Germans, but eventually rebuilt. Yeah, I know the history of Wars and Sawa is a legend, but the same is a history of Romulus and Remus!

@Patryk128pl 4 года назад

Also "war" in Polish is "wojna". I know in English you can split Warsaw into "war saw", but in Polish it would be "wojenna piła", or "wojna widziana", so it doesn't make any freaking sense.

@chloroplast8611 4 года назад

@@Patryk128pl YEAH!!! HE PRONOUNCED BUDAPEST WRONG TOO!!!! HUNGARIAN AND POLISH BROTHERS UNITE!!!!!

@azuregriffin1116 4 года назад

@@Patryk128pl I love Polish, as a language. And also, us Brits are given almost no worthwhile foreign language education, so we're not used to re-thinking how we should pronounce stuff. German, in my opinion, is fairly simple, yet most Brits would cringe away from trying to pronounce Mädchen because it looks weird, when it is simple 'maid' (in a Yorkshire accent), h as in 'human', and a simple 'un' sound as in "station" or "vacation." English phonetics are stupid.

@stoferb876 3 года назад

The wooden stakes in stockholm were not used "throughout the city". They were a kind of underwater contraptions for naval defense of the city and used throughout the surrounding archipelago and it's many waterways.

@iHatePlasticBags 4 года назад

Good job at pronunciating Ljubljana!

@warrenlehmkuhleii8472 4 года назад

I suspect a little treason.

@legerarts 4 года назад

Rome is probably not named after Romulus, he's most likely named after the city to explain it's origin. The origins of the name are unclear, but may derive from the Greek (ῥώμη, meaning 'strength'), the Etruscan (𐌓𐌖𐌌𐌀, meaning 'teat') or the word Rumon/Ruman (which is an old name for the river Tiber).

@jaojao1768 4 года назад

11:20 stock can also mean log, and there is also a legend about the name. Supposedly some people hid their treasure in a log that they let float away after Sweden's old capital Sigtuna was destroyed, and then they found the log again and decided to found a city there

@aninditasakti 4 года назад

How about creating videos about history of cities name in each European Countries. You can make it into series...

@havedalDK 4 года назад

It would be nice if you pronounced Copenhagen in either English or Danish. Not German please. I can hear you've tried to pronounce the capitals closest to their native language, but the way you pronounced Copenhagen was in German, like this: Kopenhagen, when in Danish it is this: København. København is not even close to Kopenhagen (in terms of pronunciation). I'm only writing this comment, because I know there is a chance you'll read it, and not do the same thing in the future. A friendly reminder from a Dane. We aren't Germans.

@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 4 года назад

Hey, he's mispronounced Irish place names before. I know how you feel.

@havedalDK 4 года назад

@@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 Yeah, but but at least he didn't pronounce it in another language that isn't English

@mikelitorous5570 4 года назад

I don’t get why people say they are proud to be European or they say that they are European before being British for example. I’ve never understood that, the only thing that I would say is European about me is my race. But even then that means nothing.

@xboxgamerhr 4 года назад

Family nation race others That's obviously how it goes From most important to least

@DarwinskiYT 4 года назад

10:00 I’m polish and Theres a polish legend that Warsaw was named after some dude called Wars (vars) and a mermaid called Sawa (Sava) who he found in the Vistula river and married, hence the polish name for the city Warszawa

@HotelPapa100 4 года назад

Bern being called after a marsh is rather improbable. The city sits on a high rocky promontory in a loop of the river Aare. Still might be called after the land below, of course.

@esior8284 4 года назад

Warsaw has this legend about Wars and Sawa from whose names the city's name was created. There are two versions of this legend, one where Wars and Sawa, a fisherman and his wife found, saved and allowed lost prince to sleep in their house. In the morning he said that land near their house should be called "Warszawa". Secon version (less believable tho) is about Wars, young fisherman who had caught mermaid called Sawa.

@MrFredrikWolf 4 года назад

00:50 "The nation of europe"

@davidmihailovski5264 4 года назад

Fredrik Wolf And the "nation" of Skopje as well 😂

@SiqueScarface 2 года назад

In Eastern Germany, town names ending -in, -itz, -ig, and -ow most often have Slavic roots, like Leipzig (from lipa, lime tree), and the -in ending often was shifted to -en like Dresden.

@e1123581321345589144 4 года назад

10:47 It probably had white limestone walls in the medieval times. There's a city in Romania with a similar etymology to it's name: Alba Iulia. It's medieval name was Bâlgrad, meaning white fort in old Slavonic, due to the white walls of the city(built out of nearby white limestone). This was translated to Alba, meaning white in Romanian with the second part of the name coming from a roman settlement present on that location in antiquity

@user-if4hk5mk4i 4 года назад

Andorra la vella doesnt mean andorra the town, it means andorra the old

@KingsleyIII 4 года назад

Skip to 2:03.

@slavenarkaimovski3897 3 года назад

Rome has get his name from slavic word Ruma,it stands for the place of residece,the 'english word' room comes from slavic word ruma,and slavic word for basement is Podrum,or room under the room.Ruma is also city in serbia.

@reinismartinsons 4 года назад

Riga comes from Rīdzene/Rīdziņa, a river that used to run through the old city.

@Dragoninja26 3 года назад

Replying to this mainly for a futile effort to get this up higher (reason I went to comments was to look for a comment like this, only found 2, disappointingly this one had no likes, the other was less accurate but had 2), but also to add that (from what I've learned about this) at the time people didn't know what the consequences would be, so the river was filled with trash and became smelly and disgusting, that's why it was gotten rid of, always thought it was really unfortunate this happened to the river

@rigaskl8325 4 года назад

Do How did the capitals of Asia got their names

@ijmillares9005 4 года назад

rigas KL can be by parts since asia is a huge continent

@David-qq9bk 4 года назад

Fairy of Oz asia has about the same number of countries as europe

@ijmillares9005 4 года назад

My bad, you're right crazy to think a small continent like Europe has roughly the same number of countries as asia

@David-qq9bk 4 года назад

Fairy of Oz yeah, cause european countries are REALLY small when compared to asian countries.

@lurogtheblack 4 года назад

9:11 you pronounced it podgoriKa, actually it's, podgoriTZa, theres Ts like in pizza

@jorgefortes6674 3 года назад

Lisboa (Lisbon), according to some later studies, probably came from the accadian phoenician) "alis ubo" meaning "pleasant bay" as the large estuary of the river Tejo (Thagus) presents excelent conditions for harbouring,,

@HUNdAntae 4 года назад

Happy Independence Day Patrick! Also the biggest mistery in etymology is how come that in completely unrelated languages (some of which are archaic/isolated) the word for "outsider" is insanely similar: Hebrew: goj(im) Japanese: gaijin Lovari gypsy/Romungro: gádzsó/gádzsi(m/f) Latino-Spanish: gringo ...feel free to add more if you can... My only explanation is that the original version of these words is probably one of the oldest words to exist, and were created along with the vert concept of language.

@emizerri 4 года назад

Thanks for the video but 11:50 really bro? "Ancarla" Please stop trying to pronounce tapped r's

@Stakker 4 года назад

Pemze same with Tirana. Sure he said Tilana

@tinyupes 4 года назад

There are going to be hate comments saying the UK is not part of Europe

@jaspervankruijssen4916 4 года назад

But it is.. The EU and Europe are two different things.

@tinyupes 4 года назад

No because the UK is on an island

@middler5 4 года назад

What continent is it in then?

@jaspervankruijssen4916 4 года назад

@@tinyupes by that logic Ireland and Iceland aren't part of Europe either. Nor would Indonesia and japan be in Asia. And whole Oceania are basically just a bunch of islands

@turkoositerapsidi 4 года назад

@@jaspervankruijssen4916 +

@bucketofcereal3711 2 года назад

The Slovakian capital of Bratislava was named after a village which used to exist under the castle. The village was called Braslava, named after its ruler, which lived in the castle, Braslav

@zack4915 4 года назад

Actually, Budapest isnt only made up of Buda and Pest, its also Óbuda, which is old Buda

@herbert4725 4 года назад

You kind of blueballed macedonians and hungarians you just said buda+pest=budapest and about skopje you said it comes from skupi

@deadlive3212 4 года назад

He has a whole Video about Budapest.

@herbert4725 4 года назад

@@deadlive3212 yeah I just used that as an example he still dodnt explain skopje

@davidmihailovski5264 4 года назад

In Macedonian, Kopje (in Skopje) means spear. I think that's the name's origin. 😊

@nickpaschentis5284 4 года назад

It come from the Greek word for seeing guard,It happened that Greeks considered the Area just below the city as the Border between Greek lands and Paionia lands. So a fort was built there as a Guard.

@emmettobrien1421 4 года назад

Pointing to Porto on the map when talking about Lisbon 😐

@hiccuphufflepuff176 Год назад

I wonder if there's a parallel universe in which the capital of Italy is "Reme."

@TheNIK10000 4 года назад

About Skopje, in Greece we use the words σκοπός (skopós) which means Guard and σκοπιά (skopià) which means guard post.

@nickpaschentis5284 4 года назад

Please my friend find my comment and post that to help me.

@lEGOBOT2565 4 года назад

Proud European citizen until Midnight UTC+1, then you'll be a proud British citizen

@turkoositerapsidi 4 года назад

Britain still europe even if its not EU, doesnt matter EU isnot same as Europ.

@letnjiznoj 4 года назад

@@turkoositerapsidi woooosh

@turkoositerapsidi 4 года назад

@@letnjiznoj jooooogh

@letnjiznoj 4 года назад

@@turkoositerapsidi you fell for the joke and later are telling me I missed the joke ??????

@turkoositerapsidi 4 года назад

@@letnjiznoj You didnt get it?

@komocity269 4 года назад

European Capitals name etymology : Roman Greek German and slavic languages .. :D

@RazvanMaioru 3 года назад

And celtic too... so literally every category of language there is in europe: latin, germanic, celtic, slavic, and also greek which doesn't really fit in well, has been used to name something. Not really a surprise, is it?