Origins of the Slavs 

Note: When I say "Westward into Russia and Eastward into Poland"it should be understood as "Western Russia and Eastern Poland" - just one of those slip ups.

Be proud of your Slav heritage brothers and sisters Slovenian

Pozdrav vsim slovjanam, hrånite vaš duh, slava rodu 💪

even after a thousand years all Slavs can understand the phrase Slava Rodu

СЛАВА РОДУ! Вечна љубав свим Словенима из Србије.

Greetings, to all my fellow Slavs!

I'm Irish and I love these people. They seem familiar to me. No coincidence that Irish and slav people melt together very well.

My DNA test just came back. My family lore was right. I am slovak! What wonderful timing for this video. Thank you!

Very interesting and informative video, and I absolutely love the ending. Thank you! Slava Slovjanom!

I love you, all my Slavic brothers and sisters! Sve vas volim, braćo i sestre moje slavenske! Pozdrav iz Hrvatske!

I thought it was so badass that we held hospitality in such high regard that we would throw down with anyone who threatened our guest's safe passage. Made me feel pretty proud of my heritage right there. Thank you for this eye opening history lesson.

You forgot to mention about the crusades against the Slavs, starting with the Venedian campaign of 1147. Then the pagan Slavs, who lived from the coast of modern Denmark to Prussia and on the Baltic islands, were destroyed or fled or were assimilated by the Germans. No fewer crusaders took part in these campaigns than in the Middle East.

"Bobr, kurwa" is uniting Slavs these days 😂😂😂

The Slavs were not the last tribes of Europeans that accepted Christianity. Actually this process began in the VIII century in the south, and by the year 1000 all Slavic rulers were baptized. The last to be christened were Lithuanians, which happened gradually in the XIV century, and was fulfilled by the baptizing of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila who became the king of Poland and established the Polish Lithuanian Union. The pesants, however resisted christianization in a long time, as was also the case of Celtic and Germanic tribes.

i have mostly germanic ancestry but still carry a very old slavic last name from the 10th century that i’m also very proud of ‼️

My brother, THIS, is one of the MOST IMPORTANT documentaries for all of us Slavs, or in our language "pre nás Slovanov"! You have no idea. Our history has been actively suppressed, at least here in Slovakia. After all the information collected in this video, I can see why. Our ancestors were hardy, tough and intelligent people, who valued freedom, friendship and family above all. Such cultures are hard to control for any empire or ruling entity. May one day all Slavs unite, stop with the wars among brothers on behalf of the emperors from the West and usher in a new era of Freedom and Prosperity! Sláva Rodu!

PROTOSLAV sounds like an ancient powerful myth man. Protoslav...THE PROGENITOR OF ALL SLAVS

Minor correction for the use of the word 'slava': As you said, it means glory, but to get the meaning 'glory to', the next word needs the dativ case. So 'glory to god' is 'slava bogu'. 'Slava boga', on the other hand, means someting like 'glory of god' (in Russian at least). For 'Glory to Ukraine', it should be 'slava Ukraini' in Ukrainian (in Russian it would be 'slava Ukrainye'). 'Slava Ukraina' just means 'Glory Ukraine', which doesn't really mean anything. Good video!

For Perun, and the RU-vid algorithms. Glory to the Slavs!

The Banja bathing tradition is still alive, despite how old it is, didn’t know it was so old

Sending love to all Slavic people around the globe from Macedonia -Bog da gi cuva site Sloveni

Thanks for the video! I had searched for something like this previously and never really found anything! Bardzo dobrze!

My brother has visited Poland twice, he said it's his favorite country that he's visited. He's traveled extensively in Europe and some in Asia. He sent me pictures from Wroclaw, where they have gnome statues everywhere. It looks pretty awesome.

Brooo this is exactly what I've been looking for. This exact topic made by a legit channel. Perfect timing lol

Very well done. Glad to see you again. thank you very much for this video and all of them!

Thank you for this great vid. Sláva Rodu!

Phenomenal video! Learnt so much about the peopling of the Slavic folk that I had no idea about and informs my travels to Serbia and Hungary all the more.

What a wonderful documentary! Thank you! ❤

Thank you so much for sharing the culture with people who do not know anything about it 👍🏻

Thank you, sir. Love how you pronounced sobaka😄

I appreciate this information. Thank you for sharing it with us.😊

Just donated, have received much value from your many great works. Thanks Kevin, and be well!

This was very nice - No mumbo Jambo about Slaves and Slavs etc.

Truly appreciated.

I literally discovered your channel today and I ALREADY have a new documentary on my people. This must be a sign!

It’s so complicated, excellent, Thank you.

I was wondering when youd do one on slavs. I found your channel 2 days ago, and lo and behold a slav video. Krasny :)

Pozdrav svim Slovenima !!

Thank you for making this video.

Perfect timing, just sat down with a cup of coffee

Swamps (until recently) mostly occured in Polesie, which is treated as the plausible cradle of the Slavic People. The other Slavic countries were not swampy, but covered with forests (Poland) or steppes (southern Ukraine).

Слава свим Словенима! Нека сви Словени живе у једној великој држави! Без мржње и братоубилаштва. Поздрав из Србије!

This video needs to be a series. So much information!

An excellent video! Thanks for giving me more background on my Slavic roots!

Problem is that we slavs are "cursed" as we kill each other frequently and are our worst enemies between ourselves. Less so our Western brethren Czech, Slovaks, Poles, but our eastern bretherns, and especially we southern (I'm Croatian) seemingly can't wait to get at each others throats.

Just imagine what great power will be if ALL Slavics united?

Looking forward to this! Can tell it will be good :)

Spectacular I learned much, beautifully produced, riveting. Thank you Sir. GH

Interesting 🤔 Greetings from Croatia from Kris 😎

2:38 to my knowledge Sobaka is only in Eastern Slavic, the rest of us say Pas/pes

Very well done. Thank you.

I wish that,too! Anyhow,it’s a very informative video! Thanks

I listen and watch with most interest even if I am already advanced in that subject. Thanks for vidéo in English for larger diffusion

Are there links to some of the genetics studies you mentioned that you'd be willing to share?

Great video. And great choice of music, Adrian von Ziegler is a great composer, felt like I was listening to my everyday playlist :D

Excellent video ! Keep on the good work.

There is a “Wendish” museum about 120 mi from where I live. I’m going to have to go visit that the next time I pass by it. I had not really heard the term Wends until I saw there sign for this museum.

Slavs are unique group. They had linguistic influences from germanics and iranic sarmatians but they were different. Slavs were called in Greek Sklaveni or Venedi. They are mention to live far north . They were tall and well built and looks were greeks were skinny and small comparing to them more tan too. Us Greeks considered them trustworthy and great warriors very brave too and fearless

Extrem gutes Video sehr informativ und lustig sehr sehr gute Arbeit

A brilliant day with a new video ✌️😎🌹😊

0:40 A "Serbian" is an inhabitant of Serbia. We preffer to use term "Serb".

I am from the region of Veneto whose capital is Venezia. And we still call ourselves Veneti. ✌️🌹

Very good job. TY so much!

Just have to say this was an amazing documentary, incredibly well done! A lot of the info of the early Slavs here comes from the Byzantine interactions with the Sklavenians (proto-South Slavs). Very comprehensively done.

Fascinating! This sheds light on my own lands of origin (not biological since Jewish, but a connection nonetheless). Also, as a classical musician, I recognized many of the terms and places: Scythian ,Czech, Slavic, many others.

32:55 the Moscow region is mistakenly mentioned, because at that time it had not yet been founded, Moscow did not exist yet. There are also many mentions of Venedi, but the Antes would deserve significant attention if we were talking about such old times.

Great vid, thanks..

We respected guests so much because we believe they are ancestors spirits coming to test as, we still have the same hospitality in our villages.

I'm half Polish, Family from SE Poland. I have a mix of Polish, Magyar, Rus, Swedish and Ostrogoth.

All respect to this video. Slavs are the most underestimated group of people in Europe even though they represent the half of Europe and it's a shame that the world just started to get familiar with them. The most underestimated among them are the Southern Slavs on the Balkans. Even though we - the Southern Slavs are about 50% Slavs and 50% the old Europeans, we are among the first who adopted Christianity. There are many evidences the the first apostles had spreaded Christianity on the Balkans and the early Christians built the first churches there. Constantine The Great - Byzantine (Roman) emperor, born in the city of Niš (Serbia), was the one who made Christianity legal in the empire (4th century) and we can find a number of evidences of early Christianity all around Serbia and other Balkans countries. That's the reason why Serbian medieval kings and rulers were so devoted to faith and many of them became saints after they died. So it is very wrong to look for the roots of Christianity in Russia and or any other East European countries other then Serbia and Bulgaria and claiming how Slavs adopted Christianity later then Western European peoples. My advice - start making efforts in researching more about the history and pre-history of the Balkans, open your mind and stop listening to the British propaganda. You will be pleasantly surprised and find out that the whole history of Europe and European languages and its secrets lays here - in the Balkans that represents the true cradle of Europe. (The first permanent settlements in Europe, the first metallurgy, the first agriculture, the first alphabet, the first urban planning... many of those before the first known from the Middle East).

We are so proud to be Slavic. Thank you for the great video. Слава 💙

this channel and gnostic informant are brilliant

Slavs dont like much to travel, we all meet 1 x year in Croatia😊

Slava Rodu vsem slovanum! WE are all brothers and sisters by language, culture , history and struggler for our survival. Keep it that way!!!!!!!

Love the video, love your choice in the music of Adrian Von Ziegler ^_^

I highly recommend watching this in 1.5x speed, I don’t know why but it’s nice. Also, I love your deep dive into Slavic history

nice video, cheers from Croatia

North Macedonians???? o please...the nation name is Macedonians (or North Macedonian Citizens - but they are not all citizens Slavs), and the name of the country is North Macedonia ...this is under the Agreement signed with Greece ... but good that you have discovered a new Slavic nation 😀

Big thank you from Slovak family 🙏🏻

A BIG like for not forgetting to mention all the slavic nations!! 🙏 Thank you!

Would you consider making a video about the ancient Bulgars, old great Bulgaria, and their transformation into Bulgarians? Perhaps combine this with other tribes as it's quite niche.

I am a Slav, southern Slav from Bosnia and Herzegovina. We all understand words such as ČOVJEK ZEMLJA VODA ZRAK SLAVA RODU, RAZUM, KURVA, SKITNICA and many more. Even when i listen to other slavic people and languages i understand 70 percent. I see the roots in those words.

VERY INTERESTING..THANKYOU

What you are talking about matches up with my genetic make up perfectly. I do have Alpine Celts and Coptic Egyptian.

Thank you. My father’s family immigrated from Georgia, Ukraine, and Poland to the US in the early 1900’s. I have wondered often about their ancient origins.

The end if your monologue was really strong. Поздрави и почитания от София, България!

Thank you for this excellent video on Slavs. It was very well done with respect to the Slavic people, for which I thank you. It’s very tragic that there is a war between Russia and Ukraine. I am Russian on my mother’s side, born and raised in Russia, and I happened to be very against war between Slavic nations. I think ancient history of Slavic people is very murky. Officially Slavic people emerged in the fifth century, and the origins of Slavic people is debated even now it’s always some mystery, lack of sources, lack of evidence they say, but the first human settlement on the territory of Russia dates back to the Oldowan period in the early Lower Paleolithic. I am referring to settlement of Sungir carbon dating to about 30,000 years old. It consisted of a large Upper Paleolithic settlement and a cemetery with a number of well-preserved burials. Another interesting detail has to do with my birth place, Rostov-on-Don, the river Don was once called Tanais, and according to official information Rostov-on-Don was an ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, called the Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity. I don’t remember exactly what source, but someone connected the mythological Amazon female warriors to the area of Rostov on Don. I know it sounds ridiculous, because we all think that the Amazon female fighters were in Greece, but it’s not so ridiculous when you learn that Rostov-on-Don is a hotbed for archaeologists. There has been many burials discovered in that area of female warriors. One place even had three generations of such female warriors buried along with their horses, weapons and garments. The female warriors resembled something Scythians or Sarmatians, and I believe it has connection with the fact that this is also the place of the Don Cossacks who were also a horse warrior people. My mother comes from generations of Don Cossacks

From totally the other side of the world it's great to learn about history of other people's, not just of the west. I had no idea about nearly anything on this video Thank you. I'd love to learn more

Being Polish, I have no doubts that "slavs" was based on the word "slowo" which means "word" vs the name for the Germans or "Niemcy" those who can't talk. Additionally Swiatowid (main god of the Slavs) means one who sees (widzi) the world (swiat). That is why he is portrayed looking in four directions.

Most Czechs (myself included) don't use the new shortened name, Czechia. Instead using longer name: the Czech Republic. Unless the Czech government has made any further changes, Czechia, is only used for branding purposes, where as, the Czech Republic, is used for government documents and legal correspondence.

❤ Greetings from Poland to all my Slavik Brothers and Sisters ❤

Excellent ♥️🙏 I am one of them 🥰 My father also taught me lots about Slavs history. Very strong and unbreakable culture ⭐️

It can easily be imagined that Cucuten > Trypillian people became assimilated by the Yamna neighbours and that they spread as a minority lineage alongside haplogroups R1a and R1b as they advanced toward the Baltic with the Corded Ware expansion. Alternatively, I2-L621 lineages could have lived in relative isolation from the mainstream Proto-Indo-European society somewhere around Ukraine, Poland or Belarus, then as the centuries and millennia passed, would have blended with the predominantly R1a populations around them. The resulting amalgam would have become the ancestors of the Proto-Slavs.

Pozdrav všem bratrským národům a mír pro všechny. 🇨🇿

An outstandingly well-written introduction to the transition from Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Slavic in Chapter I. This intricate historical shift came to life because to the thorough study and crystal clear presentation. What a fascinating look into the ancient Slavs in Chapter II! It is really impressive how you can incorporate historical details into captivating narratives. Section III: The exploration of Proto-Slavic culture was absolutely enthralling! Your elucidation of the intricate web of their religious and social lives is truly remarkable. The account of the Slavic expansion in Chapter IV was riveting. The geographical and strategic details provided a wealth of information about the time. Excellent job! Chapter V - The consequences and fallout of the Slavic invasion were described with remarkable insight and planning. Seeing the effects of these events in the long run explained in such a logical way is astounding.

Real common Slavic term for "King" is another borrowing from Germanic - "Knyaz", "Knes", etc.,: - cf. Gothic "cyningas"- Protoslavs are believed to pass the period of subjugation to early Gothic state. "Kral" is seemingly a late borrowing, and, more likely, was initially used in the meaning of the "Great Ruler", "the Emperor" (Charlemagne).

Greetings from Serbia👋

Thank you, wonderful! And wonderful people!

It's my city on 36:20 ,thank you man ❤💙🤍

God bless the Slavic people. They are the last hope of the world. Eastern Europe is hopefully the future. Peace. No wars. Do not force Slavs to fight sllavs