Im a scot with irish grandparents, so im a celt ive always loved the Italian arts seen, architecture, sculptures and paintings etc ive never been to Italy but will definitely change this. Theres a lot of Italians in Scotland also amd we've always been great brothers together. Much love from Scotland 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹
@thomas anderson Thank you, we love you too. Persia was a great civilization, we Italians have respect for Iranians. The colors of our flags are the same. :)
I'm Persian and I love Italy too. Iran (Persia) and Italy have given the world many scientists, poets, philosophers, etc, etc. Drawing on historical and archaeological evidence, this fascinating documentary film by prominent European, American, Persian, etc, historians and archaeologists reconstruct 7,000 years of Persian/Iranian history : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1vMPgVmR8xU.html
I am from Algeria. My little brother loves Iran, because Prince of Persia game ,He jumps everywhere😂, He wants to go to Iran and He thinks that Prince of Persia is there and lives in iran lol😂
@@massinissaziriamazigh8122 Very interesting :) Your brother always welcome! Persia (Iran) has a great civilization, history, rich mythology and culture. Persians gave to the world many great scientists, poets, and philosophers, like khayyam, Rhazes, Avicenna, Khwarizmi, Nasir Tusi, Fakhruddin Razi, Abd Rahman Sufi, Jamshid Kashani, Ferdowsi, Hafez, Saadi, Attar, Qutb Din Shirazi, etc, they are among the best scientists of human history. Many things in this world are invented by Persians 1. Sulfuric acid by Rhazes 2. Computation of 2π by Jamshid Kashani, the Persian astronomer, and mathematician. 3. The first practical windmills for the first time in the history of the world were in Iran. 4. Ethanol by Rhazes 5. A mechanical planetary computer by Jamshid Kashani 6. An ancient type of evaporative cooler and refrigerator was in Iran. 7. Ice Cream 8. Rosewater 9. The art of tile-work was invented and perfected in Iran. 10. The first time that cake was used in a birthday party was by Darius the Great 11. Qanat, 12. Polo 13. Algebra by Khwarizmi 14. Post system, 15. Fork, spoons and many different invents. There are some Persian words from ancient times in the English language like Paradise, Magic, Bazaar, etc. Rhazes was a Persian (Iranian) polymath, physician, alchemist, philosopher, and important figure in the history of medicine. Rhazes is considered the father of psychology and psychotherapy, the father of pediatrics, a pioneer in ophthalmology, making leading contributions in inorganic and organic chemistry, also he is the author of several philosophical works, and also first to categorize the Hospital dept as well. Many scholars consider Rhazes one of the greatest medical doctor. Persians in 500 BC used gold forks and spoons and special gold cups at their dinner tables. The cutlery discovered in Pasargadae in Iran appears to pre-date the Greco-Roman cutlery by almost 1000 years. Cyrus the Great wrote the first Human Rights Charter. United Nations uses the Cyrus Cylinder as a pillar of one the earliest declaration of human rights. In Persia, in Persepolis palace female workers even had paid maternity leave. Persians were also known for having women take part in high governmental positions such as in Construction, Administration, Politics, etc as evident by the record-keeping clay tablets throughout Persepolis in Iran. This is something that would not be seen until at least many centuries after.
I'm albanian and just loved Italy since i can remember even though i lived in Northern Europe for over 30 years now. Honestly i love all mediterranian Europe. The azure sea is stunning, beautiful mountainous landscape, delicious food and good weather in general. Somehow i feel home every time im on vacation, wether i visit Italy, Albania, Greece or Turkey. Cheers for mediterranean culture ❤
And on top of the humankind facts, the thing to know that this little tiny Peninsula holds the biggest biodiversity ratio of the entire world or hosts more than 55 UNESCO sites Is really mind blowing! Fantastica Italia ❤️
I'm biracial black/irish. I find Italians very attractive. Such a rich culture. Passionate....love the food.....Some of the Greatest Artists of all time come from this culture. I'm appreciative of the contributions our great nation has benifited from this culture even though it was not appreciated in the earlier part of the century. I've had the pleasure of visiting Italy when I was 14 with my mom. I was blown away. So much history. We were in Rome, Venice, Naples. My life was transformed after that trip It gave me a greater understanding and appreciation for other cultures outside of my own. Viva Italiano ...Love & Light
I'm an Italianophile,loved this.Such a talented people who gave so much to the entire world.And for the record,I don't have any Italian in me.100% Viking background,so I'm gonna plunder Sicily for the espressos.
A/X you can disagree all you want bro. But it’s history it’s apart of MY FAMILY history. I’m actual proof Mexicans and Italians are one in the same almost
Eros Delorenzi the food is not similar cuz we have Indian in us but the music sound similar to Italian. Even the language we have is similar y’all speak ladino and we do too. Within your Italian population there’s a group of people who are similar to my group of people because countries with bordered don’t make you it’s your history and where you come from that does. So while you say Mexicans and Italian are not the same I have to disagree
Sort of off topic, but my family is Irish and Italian. But guess what? We started taking taekwondo and my bio father fuckn LOVES Mexico. The food, the music, the language. How ironic!
Hi Masaman. I'm a Portuguese descendant living in Brazil. It's true that Italian culture is very strong here, specially in the south and southeastern regions of the country. They did really influence our brazilian-portuguese language. The facts exposed are correct. Congrats. There are still some small villages and towns that speak Italian, specially the dialects from the northern parts of Italy, from where the majority of italian immigrants originally came to Brazil. They came to work mainly in coffee farms as freemen as a substitute for slaves after the prohibition of the slave trade. After that, they largely contributed to our industrialization process. It's said that most of the Italians that came to south america are from Italy's northern parts, in opposition to north america where the majority went from the Italian south. I wonder, if that's the case, why did it happen this way. Maybe that's why Brazil has never had a real problem with the italian mobs.
@@lenase7396 My country has a lot of problems. I won't deny. I was just pointing at the immigrational impact the Italians had in our society. I don't know where you're from, but I meant no harm in my comments. I don't really wanna talk about Bolsonaro. He's just at the beginning of his government. Our citizens voted for him and he represents the bigger part of our society. I respect him as the chosen president and hope he turns into a great one.
The history of Islam in Sicily and Southern Italy began with the first Arab settlement in Sicily, at Mazara, which was captured in 827.[1] The subsequent rule of Sicily and Malta started in the 10th century.[2] The Emirate of Sicily lasted from 831 until 1061, and controlled the whole island by 902. Though Sicily was the primary Muslim stronghold in Italy, some temporary footholds, the most substantial of which was the port city of Bari (occupied from 847 until 871), were established on the mainland peninsula, especially in mainland Southern Italy, though Muslim raids, mainly those of Muhammad I ibn al-Aghlab, reached as far north as Naples, Rome and the northern region of Piedmont. The Arab raids were part of a larger struggle for power in Italy and Europe, with Christian Byzantine, Frankish, Norman and local Italian forces also competing for control. Arabs were sometimes sought as allies by various Christian factions against other factions.
Im a greatgrandson of italian immigrants frtom the Vèneto region, and here the italian immigrants came for a different occupation. The immigrants that worked in coffee farms were only the ones that arrived in Sao Paulo and Espirito Santo. In the southern part of Brazil, especially Rio Grande do Sul, they came with the promise of land and work, many indeed were granted pieces of land and established little farmlands with corn, beans, pigs and chickens and later established new communities and cities in the "colonias" region of central-northeastern Rio Grande do Sul and western Santa Catarina. As for the speaking communities of veneto, talian and other italian dialects, its still strong among families (my grandparents learned portuguese when they were about 20 yo) and with some slangs and common words borrowed from italian (like blasphemies for cursing - porco dio, dio cane, porca madonna, etc - popular sayings and words that originally were from italian dialects and now are understood by practically anyone living in these regions - ciuco/tchuco, baùco, furbo, voia, etc) into the now standard "dialect" of portuguese spoken in some parts of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.
I am italo-brazilian and we developed a great italian based culture here, with external influences too. I admire the contributions made by italians, doesn´t matter the subject, i would hear a lot in classes about Italy and italians in history, math, physics, biology and now on medicine too.
Finally a non-stereotyped video about Italian history! The other videos on RU-vid about this topic are just like: "Ahhh, Italian history is so rich...we have Rome and the Coliseum, then we have Romans, the Coliseum and Rome...and of course the Roman Coliseum". You're one of the few ones that mentioned the strong genetic affinity between Greeks and southern Italians, and you also mentioned the ancestral language of Salento and Calabria: GRIKO! Thank you!
@@giovanniacuto2688 "Hoi polloi" is a slang referred to the lower classes, so I don't get the point of your question, I'm sorry. Calabrians (and Salentini too) are ethnically Greeks just like the Greeks of Greece, the only difference is that Italian government forced the Calabrians and Salentini to speak Italian. This is probably the saddest part of Italian history: the assassination of regional languages and cultures, and nobody can deny that, it's history bro.
I'd be prouder when Italians were less arlequins at all levels: politicians, tax evaders not prosecuted, judges and so forth. The world despices us. This is the sour reality believe it or not.
@@bt-bv5tj tu sei un comunista e quindi un fascista rosso ...mi dispiace per te ma non sei italiano ma un traditore della patria di cui sei cittadino . Buona vita...
I am half Sicilian, living in America as the first generation in my bloodline to speak English from from birth (or soon after). I do speak what my family calls Italian, but when I went to Italy they said that I spoke like I was from 100 years ago from "the South". In fact, upon occasion, in a more rustic Northern Italian crowd, they said I was an "African". But I am very proud of my Sicilian Heritage - and I plan to learn more and more of my Sicilian Dialect as I bone up on my Italian. Sicily has a great History. And Within the Sicilian Culture and Language are the Hidden Gems of Early Europe.
Vindexproeliator I don’t know if you’re being facetious but I’m sure he means the United States a lot of the Americans (United statians? Lol) call the states america when all of North America, central and South America is the America’s
Sicilian language worth to be studied for sure, but for the culture, not for the use. Like in every italian area, there isn't a single language. I could call it dialect as well, it wouldn't be an issue to me (I love and respect it anyway), because there's no official Sicilian, unlike Italian (and that's why so many argues about language vs dialect, just because official italian does exist, and people use to forget that fundamental thing). For you it's good to communicate with your relatives, but sicilian is a land-based language. To get it useful, you should live where that kind of Sicilian is spoken. Don't get me wrong, you may still be able to understand other Sicilian variants, but if there's no Sicilian language classes, have to be a reason! Hugs from Italy.
@@Alexeon The funny thing is that English is the official language of the US, a nation that seems to forget that the US is not the whole of America. Argentina is also part of an America. The people the US simply calls Americans are definitely North Americans, but how to distinguish them from Canadians, who also live in North America (and a larger area for more)? Oh yes, they are THE Americans, not even North Americans, everyone else is something else, like a frame. I am European, but if you are tired enough of that, I am tired enough of feeling disrespectful to other people living in the Americas, who are just American as much as you are. And for sure, they don't waste the planet's resources as US people do. I was forgetting… in Italian actually there is a demonym for US: Statunitensi. It's a matter of respect.
I've been to Italy twice and enjoyed it very much. My mother's family came from the region of Italy called Abruzzo. According to a DNA test I have taken I am of Iberian, Greek and West Asian on my mother's side. On my dad's side I am Scandinavian.
West asia mean arabs The history of Islam in Sicily and Southern Italy began with the first Arab settlement in Sicily, at Mazara, which was captured in 827.[1] The subsequent rule of Sicily and Malta started in the 10th century.[2] The Emirate of Sicily lasted from 831 until 1061, and controlled the whole island by 902. Though Sicily was the primary Muslim stronghold in Italy, some temporary footholds, the most substantial of which was the port city of Bari (occupied from 847 until 871), were established on the mainland peninsula, especially in mainland Southern Italy, though Muslim raids, mainly those of Muhammad I ibn al-Aghlab, reached as far north as Naples, Rome and the northern region of Piedmont. The Arab raids were part of a larger struggle for power in Italy and Europe, with Christian Byzantine, Frankish, Norman and local Italian forces also competing for control. Arabs were sometimes sought as allies by various Christian factions against other factions.
PLEASE STOP WITH THE BARBERSHOPPE QUARTETS...FIND SOME AUTHENTIC ITALIAN BAKINGS CAN'T HEAR YOU EITHER. Ana Marie Ceuca sings Lynda Faye's "One Enchanted Evening I Found an Old Friend" in Italia
@Lynda Faye Hey Lynda Faye, 👋 Thanks 4 mentioning Ana Marie Ceuca, Honestly I have never heard of her, I checked her out on RU-vid, she has a Lovely 😍 Voice I think I am a Fan now 😀 Thanks 4 Turning me on to her, I was once stationed in Vicenza Italia, 1981- 84 w/ the Army Paratroopers 🪂 I love everything Italian 🇺🇲🇮🇹😍 Blessings 2 you & yours ! 💥 Lynda.
Yes, but this guy talks TOO FAST; PLEASE STOP WITH THE BARBERSHOPPE QUARTETS...FIND SOME AUTHENTIC ITALIAN BAKINGS CAN'T HEAR YOU EITHER. Ana Marie Ceuca sings Lynda Faye's "One Enchanted Evening I Found an Old Friend" in Italian
@Sperm Worm I Consider Italians as Italians, because, well..Their in Italy, and even though they might be related to the arabs, They are still Italians. Similar to the Normans and England.
@Sperm Worm Do you realize that only in the south exists Arab dna amd it's very few? Do you realize northern Italians are 100% European and similar to southern French? Do you realize that Arabs are Caucasian too?
Fun fact: the so called Kingdom of Sardinia had Turin as capital city, and the Savoy dinasty as monarchs. Sardinia was acquired by the Savoy ( the Dukes of Turin) after the Treaty of the Hague, in 1720. Basically, we Sardinians had little to no political influence in the kingdom named after our island.
More embarrassing is that after the War Of Spanish Succession the Duchy of Savoy acquired Sicily and became the Kingdom of Sicily. However the Savoy bureaucracy who mostly came from Piedmont (Piemonte) the region around Turin, pissed off the Sicilians (and still do today). So Sicily was taken away from the Dukes of Savoy and they were given Sardinia as a sort of consolation prize. The royal family did actual live in exile on Sardinia during the Napoleonic wars when mainland Savoy (Savoie in France) and Piedmont were under French occupation.
@@adelasia1119 Giuanne Maria Angioy was betrayed and exiled by the same guy who helped him raise the rebellion.... curious that "Su patriotu sardu a sos feudatarios" the hymn of the rebellion is now the official anthem of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia.
Luis Galo My mother’s great grandfather referred to himself as Italian but he was Sicilian apparently from Palermo. He stated he was referred to as a Wop.
Hey Italians, Greetings from Germany :) Many Germans love Italy for its food and beauty. Not so much playing against them in Football competitions, though... :D
@DefCon1Shooter and we Italians admire Germany for your Discipline and Industriousness, and the best Beer Makers in the world :D We only have one favor to ask you though, is if you will please resurrect the Prussian Empire!?!? :D Germany needs a new Kaiser these days!
I just recently had a genetic DNA test done (Im from Madrid in Spain), and it turns out Im 75% Iberian and 25% Italian. Guess some of my ancestors were Roman Soldiers when they conquered the peninsula. Hail Caesar!!!
@@sir.fuentes7642 that's my married name lol my husband is Puerto Rican. My maiden name is Beaulieu which is my French side but my mother's last name is malarsie and her mother's maiden name was errico
I'm not italian but what made me click on the video was the beauty of these 3 ladies. Dark brown curly hair and dark brown eyes. They even have that Mediterranean brow arch, one that I have as well, passed down to me from my grandmother... I feel so incredibly lucky and blessed to be from Southern Europe, one of the most beautiful places on earth! Not to mention the history! Baci💋 dalla Grecia🇬🇷🇮🇹
the mediterrenean people are similar each other... what do you expect to see? subsaharian africans, chinese, steppe people or scandinavians? basic characteristics are the same just like you.
@Invicta yes i mean in generall not in details.. i know that there were many tribes in the anient past but the basic ethnic groups are the same. like italians, the old italics. it was not only romans. italian paninsula had many italian origin native populations. all were the same. they were not different. of course except greeks and punes. all the others are native people of the italian peninsula. i talked her like that because there are not basic differences between many people close to our lands. it was a bit ironic. not true.
@Invicta sure.. i am sorry.. maybe you could not understand the irony because of the english way... i mean that of course phoenician people as she is saying would be much closer than the chinese or the steppe people of course. that is what i could try to say. sure all are different just like you said. greetings to italy from an east peninsula neighbor :P :P
I'm 15% Italian, but I've always been most fascinated with Italian culture than any other culture. You could spend a lifetime studying Italian history.
@Galderik dude you are hilarious. At least you have a strong sense of pride for your ethnicity and culture and defend it with Hyperbolic statements. Italians make the most joyful and beautiful cars in the world to drive. My Alfa Quadrifoglio is a work of art.
Absolutely brilliant video, mate. Exquisitely researched and presented. As a person of full Italian (Calabrese) descent living in Australia, I am pleased you made this video so the one million Australians of Italian descent can learn more about their racial heritage. Well done
@@roccoa6818 Ciao Rocco, un grande piacere. Most of the people in Adelaide (capital of South Australia) that are Calabrese come from just one paese, Caulonia (sulla costa Ionica) nella Provincia di RC. This is where my family come from and where many of us make visits over the Australian winter, when its summer in Italy. Thanks for replying mate. Hope you’re safe over there in America.
Yes, but this guy talks TOO FAST; PLEASE STOP WITH THE BARBERSHOPPE QUARTETS...FIND SOME AUTHENTIC ITALIAN BAKINGS CAN'T HEAR YOU EITHER. Ana Marie Ceuca sings Lynda Faye's "One Enchanted Evening I Found an Old Friend" in Italian
Bravo Masaman! You've done a good job/quick synopsis of Italy. My family came from Sicily and I will tell you that the cultural influences just across Sicily are absolutely extraordinary. I believe it is accurate that the dialectical density in Italy is either the greatest, or amongst the greatest anywhere in the world----the flipside of this of course is....nobody could understand anybody from outside their "paese"/village. Again " Complimenti"!
As Ligurian with half Piedmontese acestry we could say that I can understand North Western Italian dialects in some way, the Southern Italian dialects are much more complex to understand, but since we all speak Tuscan, with just different accents, no linguistic problem at all!
I never knew I was Italian till I was in the 6th grade. According to my DNA info I have gotten from 2 different sites I'm portugese/Spaniard, Italian, French, English/Irish, Scottish, Welch, and South American (very small percentage) The Italian people, food, culture is so beautiful 😍 I'm so proud
As we say in greece and italy:una faccia una razza (μια φάτσα μια ράτσα )as (south) italians have almost identical face characteristics with the greeks .You can not tell them apart
As a Sicilian I know the connection with Greece, but I feel much more in common with the Spanish. The Greek language is MUCH different than Italian, the writing is much different, the Religion is different, the food is different. The first time I heard Spanish I could understand most of it, Greek zero. Spanish and Italians share the Catholic religion. Greeks are Christians but their religion looks like what the Russians have.
Hi there this maps are to old and the name of greece or greegs it didn’t exist at all until two hundred years ago the name of greece was Rumelia.The people of Greece part of it come from micro-Asia,from Egypt and dhe biggest number of population are the Arbans which they call it arvanits this is the truth in the base of istory.Now if you are same race with the people of south Italy they have been there about five hundred years because the Turkish emperor was to the other side in Albania.The Albanian fighters settled in Italy from Tuscany to the Sicely.This lovely people are(Arberesh) who speaking until today their language and italian language.👍
Yes, but this guy talks TOO FAST; PLEASE STOP WITH THE BARBERSHOPPE QUARTETS...FIND SOME AUTHENTIC ITALIAN BAKINGS CAN'T HEAR YOU EITHER. Ana Marie Ceuca sings Lynda Faye's "One Enchanted Evening I Found an Old Friend" in Italian
A comprehensive, accessible presentation of Italy and her people around the world, summarizing 4000 years in less than 12 minutes. Impressive, and with much gratitude.
thank you for this little saying. Many times that is true for me. I can get a couple of latin words and figurer out the sentence but cant answer. Do you know a group called Il Volo? They sing in Italian and Spanish.
@@lindacanaday1440 I was born in Venezuela but I never Learned Italian as a kid, just now that I am old enough to practice for myself I have a conversational level. I know that group, my family likes it. I would like to learn more about Italian culture by visiting.
love my people I miss Italia proud to be a Italian miss my beautiful country lived there for 10 years in Toscana and learned where I come from, it was definitely the best 10yrs of my life. Viva L`Italia.
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@@robindesblings7419 SICILIANS WITH ORIGINE ALBANIANS.....books.google.it/books?id=_XH9vaKJk04C&pg=PA54&dq=I%20Siculi%20e%20l%27origine%20illirica&hl=it&sa=X&ei=VyuNVa28EsWsU7eQgegI&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ&fbclid=IwAR1g_rM0YinL3FysYl98zYH2prYRPDKdeU08uAO3kSW6ZYkO7EPMBYjVsME#v=onepage&q=I%20Siculi%20e%20l'origine%20illirica&f=false
Lived and worked in Italia couple of years . Really great people full of love and respect for foreigners . Got a lot of friends too . Love Italy as Albania!! No difference at all
That ending made me emotional. Thats beautiful how much influence italy had over us westerners, even globally. Man. This channel makes me wanna get a dna test.
My ancestry of Italian history is Calabrese, Naples and Bari . I am half Italian from my father's side of the family. Grazie mille, questo e buono. Thank you.
There is no such a thing as being "Half Italian". Being Italian is not a race although Italians are generally Caucasians. Italian is a nationality/culture.
@@gaetanoquintiliani170 Don't try to teach me my history. No, there was only one Latin group in Italy and they were located in the region of Lazio (Latium in Latin). They were incorporated by the Romans who adopted their Latin Language. No, they were not wiped out. There is no specific "Italian" DNA. We are a mix of all the groups living in Italy in pre-Roman time and those who entered Italy from other parts of Europe after the Roman Empire ceased but we are proud Italians by history, culture and traditions and of course Roman Catholicism. This is why we all look different from each other because of the different Caucasian origins. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jyAjG4hPckA.html
I am an American who lived and worked in Caracas, Venezuela for one year. I was surprised at the number of Italians living there. Some were taxi drivers with the best old cars on the road - vintage vehicles from the 1950s in excellent shape. The Italian restaurants were the best in terms of cleanliness and quality of food and service. I will always be grateful to Italians all over the world who share and spread their concepts of good living with us all.
Italians and Nazis moved there and other parts of South America after they got their ass kick in WW2. To escape trials for the war crimes they committed.
Great video. Thanks. My 4 grandparents were from Italy. Two from Agrigento and two from Matera, both extremely old towns. Matera has been settled on and off for 10 millennia. My DNA is Italian, Balkan, Greek and West Asian. This is so interesting to read and hear about. Cheers.
Matera is a greek name, it means "mother" in dorian greek dialect. The greek colonies in south italy were all founded by dorian greeks emigrating mainly from peloponese. They probably named matera after "mother city", as it was one of the first greek colonies in italy. Your dna test makes complete sense in regards to your greek results.
Yes, but this guy talks TOO FAST; PLEASE STOP WITH THE BARBERSHOPPE QUARTETS...FIND SOME AUTHENTIC ITALIAN BAKINGS CAN'T HEAR YOU EITHER. Ana Marie Ceuca sings Lynda Faye's "One Enchanted Evening I Found an Old Friend" in Italian
Very proud of my Italian nationality from Reggio Calabria . Both parents were born there and I believe it was the first region to be called Italia. Anthony Joseph Lucchese
Very similar cultures. I’m Italian American and when I went to Mexico one summer the people were amazing, awesome food, and the family structure is similar.
Yes, but this guy talks TOO FAST; PLEASE STOP WITH THE BARBERSHOPPE QUARTETS...FIND SOME AUTHENTIC ITALIAN BAKINGS CAN'T HEAR YOU EITHER. Ana Marie Ceuca sings Lynda Faye's "One Enchanted Evening I Found an Old Friend" in Italian
@Derek Chauvin what do you call a half rotten apple?, a good apple to eat? I call apples are those ones who don't have a half rotten part, the rotten one are apples but have lesser Valor, indeed nobody buys rotten apples
If I can make a remark, it's not only the languages you cited that are mutually unintelligible with Italian, but also many other "dialects" even if they're not officially recognized as languages. Even the "same" dialect family can feature mutually unintelligible dialects: take Lombard. Often grouped in just one pot, it's actually harder than that. As a Milanese/western lombard speaker you could hardly understand dialects from the Bergamo and Brescia areas. And I say this by experience. And sure an italian-only speaker would have a tough time understanding most "dialects".
To those who argued about the past. The past gave us great artists like Michelangelo and da vinci. Singers like pavarotti and many other Italian icons. We must honor those who came before us no matter who we are.Viva Italia!
All the regions of modern Italia are really great and very unique !!!! I lived in Italy for almost 4 years mostly in Rome, where my son was born, then Regione di Lazio e poco, and later on in the surroundings of Napoli e Caseta (Capua). What I have got .... only good memories. Thank you Italians from all over the World, especially those from Rome and Capua, and also these from Montreal North, for being so much supportive to my family in case of emergency with my little son, after my arrival from Fiumicino to Montreal, during my first weeks presence in Quebec !!!!
Italy was the centre modern science and gave this world many discoveries based on which the modern world developed many of its present technologies. Further, Italy has given this world many cuisines. The only dark period of Italy was when it passed into fascism under Mussolini. Italy is today a very respectable nation in the comity of modern nations.
@@1venom74 Yes, we know and you don't have to bring it up! America is the European name for The US section of North America. You don't have to see offense and racism in everything. Give us break, pleeez?! Your safe space is missing you!
@@kelrogers8480One plus one just equals two...nothing emotional about that..just facts...I am not "racist" I don't have the power the oppress a specific ethnicity based on prejudice....try understanding the venacular first, before you attempt to make what you consider is a point...there is nothing deragatory about my statement of fact, which obviously you aware of and it's the Americas...not just N America....also a fact that Mansa Musa traveled here as far as 1380 smart guy...so fuck Amerigo Vaspuci
@@1venom74 No idea what you're talking about, except that you're rude and ill-mannered, and that your comments are racist and unnecessary. Don't know who Munsa is, and frankly, I don't care. I looked for decency and found he wasn't home. I have no wish to interact with you any further.
@@kelrogers8480 sorry your but hurt😘...I know you don't know what I'm speaking about...if you did you. would have never stated that America is a European for ANYTHING much less a section of anything..point is ..I"m not letting you give your ancestors credit for our accomplishments...CHECKMATE Mr Pinkman
I have Italian family with your last name haha. I'm quarter Italian, the rest is ukrainian, irish and jewish but i'm the closest to my Italian side. My mom and her siblings were solely raised by my Italian grandmother who lives through my mother. Her memory and spirit is strong in all of her children and grandchildren.
I am from the south Pacific. In my humble opinion and from my considerable reading of History, Italy contributed more to Human civilization than any other nation
Nonsense. The Scots have created and invented so much more than the Italians and have practically invented the 21st century. Today's technological and scientific advancements are mostly due to Scots inventors.
@@MetalGearTenno The majority of those inventions have been supplanted by typically German, Chinese, or American automated systems; their accounts are still to this day, tabulated through double-entry accounting ledgers, which go back to late medieval/early Renaissance Italy. 😉
the end of the video made me genuinely smile... I don't recall a time when i did smile for my country, maybe due too bad politics or other stuff we italians are also worldwide famous for. You reminded me what it means to be italian, and that means following the piety and honor of the ancestors who travelled, studied, built tremendously beautiful churches and palaces, thus making themselves the column of Europe. A nation that never was one politically, and never will be in my opinion, but was one in spirit. A constant political disaster, but that created much beauty. Maybe because it looked not to men to find the truth, but looked up to the divine, not being distracted by the worldly matters of politics that in other modern nations were places where solutions to the big problems of humanity were to be found. "A nation of poets, of artists, of heroes, of saints, of thinkers, of scientists, of navigators, of transmigrators"
South Italy was part of Magna Grecia, later by spanish in the Kingdom of two Sicilies. Lazio was Latin, Sabin and Etruscan. Tuscany was etruscan, but later suffered with french and Austrian invasions. Veneto, Trentino and Friulia are very germanic with some slavic on east. Lombardia and Piemonte were celtic and germanic. Milan and Turin are very "frenchized". Love Italia.
in tempi antichi il sud italia non era popolato da soli greci. vi erano: Osci in campania, Sanniti nel molise e nel beneventano, Peligni in Abruzzo, Messapi e Iapigi in Puglia, Bruzzi in Calabria, Lucani in Basilicata e Siculi ed Elimi in Sicilia.
Allora. Osar dire che piemonte e Lombardia sono "francesizzati" è una bestemmia che non posso tollerare, il Friuli non è influenzato ne dai tedeschi ne dagli slavi..al massimo la VENEZIA GIULIA che è una regione completamente a sè geopoliticamente parlando.
Hai descritto le invasioni che quei territori hanno subito, ma lì vivevano già altre popolazioni come sopra hanno fatto notare. A nord i veneti e i liguri erano due popoli importanti quanto latini ed etruschi.
Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma! Tu pure, oh Principessa Nella tua fredda stanza Guardi le stelle che tremano D'amore e di speranza Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me Il nome mio nessun saprà No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò Quando la luce splenderà Ed il mio bacio scioglierà Il silenzio che ti fa mia (ll nome suo nessun saprà E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir) Dilegua, oh notte Tramontate, stelle Tramontate, stelle All'alba vincerò Vincerà Vincerò Sorry I don’t speak Italian. I only sing it.
Il Sud Italia è di origine Italica (i nativi del posto) con successive influenze greche (limitate per lo più ad alcune città costiere), ma per lo più Romane , dato che la cultura e i dialetti meridionali sono quelli più vicini alla civiltà Greca e Romana ed inoltre conservano caratteristiche immutate nel tempo che erano tipiche degli antichi Italici. Il Centro è Etrusco-Italico anche se gli Etruschi sono stati anche al Sud in Campania e al Nord in Lombardia ed Emilia Romagna. Il Nord è gallo-italico, cioè un misto tra i nativi Italici che erano stanziati da millenni e di qualche gallo che si è stanziato in Nord-Italia nel corso dei 200 anni di dominazione nel Nord-Italia. Dire che i barbari germani sono stati solo al Nord è scorretto dato che i popoli Germanici si sono stanziati in tutta la penisola, non a caso gli aplogruppi dei barbari li si ritrova in tutta la penisola, dato che tutta l'Italia è stata invasa dalle stesse tribù germaniche (Goti, Vandali, Suebi, Longobardi, ect....). Quelle che hanno lasciato maggiori influenze da un punto di vista genetico e culturale sono stati i Longobardi, diffusi in tutta Italia fino alla Calabria e i Normanni, i quali fondarono il regno di Napoli e di Sicilia (non a caso le loro tracce genetiche si trovano solo al Sud). I genetisti e gli antropologi concordano, con dati dei test genetici alla mano, che le invasioni barbariche non hanno lasciato una così evidente traccia genetica nel sangue degli Italiani, dato che si ipotizza che i barbari discesi nel nostro paese dovevano essere poco meno di 200.000 individui, i quali erano in netta minoranza rispetto a 7 milioni di Italici (rispetto ai quali i Celti e i Greci erano in netta minoranza) che quindi costituivano l'etnia dominante nella penisola...
@@Daniele87pox Well under that definition all of Europe is since all Europeans have this Neolithic component ----- Sardinians are the purest surviving modern example Anatolian Farmers that spread out throughout Europe. No European is without some percentage of it as it's a large component of what it means to be "European" . It's highest in Sardinia (perhaps @95%), pretty high in Southern Europe, middling say in England but smallest in Northeastern Europe (like Latvia, Estonia, northern Russia etc where it usually measured below 20% - there the percentage is dwarfed by the Indo-European or "Yamnaya" culture people, another component of modern "Europeaness" )
@@baileyi594 England for sure...but not like Italy. You can almost say that Italy has had a lot of influence on England and NOT vice versa. The Romans conquered England 2000 years ago and pretty much put their stamp on that nation. Good argument for England, though.
Salute to all Italians brothers! ✨🙏 I love Italians people , culinary, culture, history .. my wife grandmother is daughter of Italy man .. I from Brazil so many people had Italian decent.😌😌👏👏👏
I'm Argentine, descendant from Italians. We have inherited many traits from Italians, not only the obvious physical appearance, but also the gestures, lexicon, and phonetic features we have transferred to Spanish. As someone once said, "Argentines are Italians who speak Spanish and believe they are French." haha
Well, actually it's very simple to change your mind (which is very closed and limited, as I can see). True Latins are only in the Latium region. The rest of Italy was already inhabited by other peoples before the Roman expansion. The fact that they were CONQUERED by Romans doesn't mean nothing. What if Chinese would conquer Scotland? Would this make Scots Chinese? It doesn't make any sense. This means that you didn't watch the video or maybe you didn't pay attention to the pre-Roman history of Italy.
Rize Grike Well that’s your perspective of looking at it, which is wrong. One thing you don’t understand, Latium is a region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire. Basically the foundation of Latin Italy today , so yes , Italy is a Latin country, the capital of Italy is Rome.
@@johnpietro1782 I don't need any approval from you We know our family history My Grandmother came from many generations of goat farmers, Traced back to the year of 1435!
Thank you for making this video, people should really know more about Italy, its incredible culture, the magnificent treasures that it still keeps and preserves and its enormous contribution to modern civilisation.
PLEASE STOP WITH THE BARBERSHOPPE QUARTETS...FIND SOME AUTHENTIC ITALIAN BAKINGS CAN'T HEAR YOU EITHER. Ana Marie Ceuca sings Lynda Faye's "One Enchanted Evening I Found an Old Friend" in Italia
I used to live in the ruins of Cuma, north of Naples. There was what I assumed to be a tomb, that I always thought was Etruscan for some reason, and at some point in your video, I think I caught a glimpse of those people down in that area, but I had always considered them Norther people, north of Rome. Frankly, I think there is something of actual magic with the Italians, and the peninsula, even as diverse as they are, and the geography is. Just the area of Naples alone presents enough for a lifetime of beauty and fascination! BTW, I don't find the tomb on Google maps or Earth, but my old house is...the basement of which was 2,600 years old according to my Tuffs U. archaeology prof. friend. I miss those nights wandering among the Cumaean Sybil's haunts.
My family on my dad's side hails from Calabria in southern Italy and I recently did one of those 23 and Me DNA tests and it turns out I'm also around 1/8 Balkan. I initially thought it might be from the former Yugoslavia since I also have Eastern European ancestry but I'm inclined to think it's Greek since they ruled that part of Italy for hundreds of years back in the day as one of the maps in this video illustrates. Fascinating stuff and keep it up!
@@eduardocofrancesco4373 a parte le ovvie battute, è indubbio che la commedia sia nata in Italia, probabilmente i greci l'hanno conosciuta arrivando al sud, quando colonizzarono parte dell'Italia
One thing I wanted to add was that their was a big wave of Italian migrants to Australia , on a per capita basis probably the largest migrant groups in Australia at the time .
@Valerie Mac Fair true, not to mention the french, english and spanish. it's laughable, western euros might be the most migrating happy populations on earth. and it's fine as long as they don't start crying when some other people want to migrate out of their poor countries where they have no future.
Soy español, nací en Sevilla a 2 km de la antigua ciudad de Itálica donde nacieron los grandes emperadores romanos Trajano y Adriano. La influencia romana es grande en este lugar de España. VIVA ITALIA Y ESPAÑA!!!!
Italians conquered the world from a ethnic, cultural and political point of view. The people of this nation can be proud to be one of the greatest civilization in the world. They civilized Europe since Roman empire and also influenced other european cultures with their creativity, their art, their intelligence and with the greatest geniuses of humanity (Giotto, Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Galileo who was the father of Modern Science, Michelangelo, Raphael, Antonio Meucci, ect .. ..). As their ancestors even now Italians are influencing the world....
You forgot music -Italians created the language of music -that's why musical terms are mainly in Italian and of course they invented opera -the greatest art form by a million light years!The greatest composers Monteverdi,Palestrina,Vivaldi,Rossini,Donizetti,Bellini,Verdi and Puccini and many of the greatest singers-Caruso,Gigli,Cecilia Bartoli.
@@dahooper2118 Typical stupid philistine remark!Opera is Italy's greatest gift to the world it has had such a profound effect on world culture -even movies derive from the idea of opera -a story with musical backing.Try having some intelligence at least.I bet your knowledge of other art forms is about zero as well -comes from lack of education.
I thought you were going to have a bar chart of how Italic, Germanic, and Afro-asiatic, Greek or maybe even Iron Age Celtic, each region of Italy is...
He said this in the description “What are the origins and history of the Italians? In order to look at the ethnogenesis of the Italian nation and larger Latin realm we must first delve into the ancient history of the Italian peninsula” he is just teaching us the history of Italy before he gets into the ethnogenesis of Italy. He will do that in a future video.
He didn't said that because most of modern Italians have Italic backgrounds. Most of them have Italic DNA, while only a minority has Celtic or Germanic origins. Italians have Latin origins but almost of them have some genetic influences from Greek, Celtic and Germanic DNA. There is no Arab-African DNA in modern Italians: there is only a little percantage of 3-5% Punic and Arab genetic influence in modern Sicilians and Sardinians, but the Italians who live in the peninsula have no African or Semitic origins....
