The History Of The Traditional Croatian Tattoos 

As it should be

Did she have a turkey phenotype? You need to think about.

I am a Bosnia and have never heard of this

@@ismihana5241 You just prove my point - Religion is there to seperate and divide us in times of war. ( No I do not have anything against you or your religion - nor am I insulted about mine)

Lol in Romania if someone doesn't understand something ,people ask him like: "are you a Turk?" (which usually means "are you dumb?" or "can't you understand me?")

Thank you for telling your Grandma's story.

My grandmother had also these tattoos

I now make these designs in henna as a tribute to my Croatian ancestors.

Bocanje(poking) or Sićanje(remembering) not sicanje(cutting)....they didn't cut themselves,they poked themselves with homemade ink,so they could remember who they are,if they would be stolen by Turks and sent into Turkey,to be brainwashed and to become muslims or janitsarries,a soldiers of Turkish army,so the tattos would remember them that they are Catholics,Croats! They even today steal and kidnap kids,Albanians and Turks,but it isn't spoken publicly,because of fear,that they might kill the victims. Same thing is going worldwide,where ever is radical islam,from Boko Haram,ISIS,to Hamas,they kidnap and torment people,who aren't muslims. It's a religion which is far more dangerous and vicious then Nazis or Communists were and it should be completly stopped!

Bocanje(poking) or Sićanje(remembering) not sicanje(cutting)....they didn't cut themselves,they poked themselves with homemade ink,so they could remember who they are,if they would be stolen by Turks and sent into Turkey,to be brainwashed and to become muslims or janitsarries,a soldiers of Turkish army,so the tattos would remember them that they are Catholics,Croats! They even today steal and kidnap kids,Albanians and Turks,but it isn't spoken publicly,because of fear,that they might kill the victims. Same thing is going worldwide,where ever is radical islam,from Boko Haram,ISIS,to Hamas,they kidnap and torment people,who aren't muslims. It's a religion which is far more dangerous and vicious then Nazis or Communists were and it should be completly stopped!

I ja sam iz Hrvatske

E dobro pogledajte ovo nekadasnja braco nasa , gde ste bili i ko ste bili i kako je bilo a gde su vas Hazburzi odveli , kuku "nama" i sada vec "vama", valjda se promeni nesto u blizoj buducnosti pa da se odreknete kolektivno tog zla koje ste navukli .. Pozdrav

@@zenit2415 Hahaha brate srpski, aj ne seri i pristani uzimat tu drogu ili to šta uzimaš. Sve zapadno od rijeke Drine je hrvatsko, a pravoslavci hrvatskih zemalja su Hrvati pravoslavne vjere. Njihovi preci nikad nisu bili Srbi. Sva politička zbivanja što se tiče njih - to je jednostavno rezultat djelovanje vaše SPC. Ali bili i ostali su Hrvati! Pozdrav

@@drina8677 A sudeći po tvom imenu ti si sve samo me rvat

@@drina8677 tako da ne brukaj sebe niti korene svoje x2

@@Michael-dx5ky objasni iztrazujem?

@@Michael-dx5ky bahahahaha

@@Michael-dx5ky hahaha yes yes yes they were martians and they came to bosnia to invade holy turkish lands 😂 😂 😂

@@filipskalic3376 Are you stupid? Any Balkaner who loves Turkey has stockholm syndrome. But Croats are a Slavic tribe. Those tattoos arent Slavic at all.. the name Bosna has been in Balkans for longer than the term "Hrvat" has. Same w the tattoos, they been there longer than Hrvati have as well.. So you tell me how they could be Croatian. Sound stupid or what?

@@Michael-dx5ky Dalmatia has been longer around too, but Dalmatians are Croats. I don't really understand why you compare a territory with a people group, in the end it doesn't make sense because people during history often used to move while territory names rarely changed. That being said, Croats settled on the territory on today's B&H during the 7th century and stayed there. You have Greeks, Bulgarians and Hungarians who wrote about Croats back in the day when nobody was talking about "bosnians"

Are you Eric's son Eric Ericson?

@@adamknight5089 Yes i am.

Eric Ericson I thought you were Sony Ericsson

@@MrDextrator i am also the Ceo of Sony

This is mostly from Croatians from Bosnia.

its not a croatian custom but a bosnian one. And in fact both Bosnian Croats and Vlachs practiced it

Well, you can start from children concentration camps in Independent state of Croatia, during ww2.

@@user-lj5mx2nm2q found the serb

@@user-lj5mx2nm2q malo se klalo prio a ti si dokaz

Do you know the artist name or do they have some social media presence? Would be much appreciated. Hvala 😊

@@dunjamaracic2080 theyre operating in gentle soul art studio, so you can find them through their instagram! They probably have their own but im not sure what it is, sorry

I understand you perfectly!!

You mixed a lot of unconnected things: Croats arent Ilyrians and never were. Croats were and still are Slavs. Also Bosnians arent Croats either they were esentially Vlach and Morlachs driven into mountains by Romans and latter Avars before being slavicized. Also those tattoos have nothing authentic Slavic about them. Its as if you said that you are a manufactuerer if Toyota just because you drive one. In all fairness you threw up there a bunch of silly statements just to make a video and collect views. Very pathetic.

Slavic Affairs is relaying the identity crisis that has taken hold within the confines of the jugo-slav states.

я на русских субтитрах смотрел

@@slavenskazajednica7912 The Illyrians are the old name for the southern Slavs.

@Pureblood Tartarian LOL my father is Mescalero Apache

these are not croatian haha.

Bro why are you so hurt these are Croatian tattoos done on Croatian people with Croatian culture lmao😂. You should embrace it because you know Bosnia was always Croatian land and you're croatian yourself

@@arthurmorgan3243 😂

Bosno moja zemljo mila🇭🇷

these are definitely not croatian.

Whole bosnia is croatian🇭🇷

@@keno2285 tvore turski tvoji preci su nekad bili hrvati al eto nažalost sad sebe nazivate bošnjacima izmišljenim narodom

@@keno2285 ti ocito imas problem hahahha

@@peterouspensky7794 ya mother

What "Croatan" means on their nativ language? I'm Croat and I think that that is a coincidence, or maybe they change name of the tribe when they met some Croat immigrants in 19th century. That would be realy interesting to know!

You have articles on that.. There was a boat crash, and that Croatians staied to live with native people.. Simillar story in New Zeland where Croatian imigrants staied to live with native people..

croats are great sailors for thousands of years, croats were also in spain in 10th century and there is story about croats who arived in north america like vikings , much before england ships

@@domagojmijobetin9157 I definitely find it believable that many Native American tribes could have European ancestry.

@@domagojmijobetin9157 lmao

Go and do more...meet your relatives

@@balkanhajduk they both serven in nam and the twin has sadly never been the same

Also North albanian, only catholics, has those tattoo too.

@@MsMirditori i never heard of this any pictures of their tatoos?

not true, because many Serbs Catholic had those tattoos. Serbs Catholics existed until late XIX century, when they were assimilated to Croats.

@@user-lj5mx2nm2q there were no Serb catholics. Serb rulers persecuted catholics. Ther were catholics only in Croatia and Bosnia

@@kristijangrgic9841 dont forget north Albania we are moslty catholic, and my region, Mirdite,all of us. Even kosovo was catholic before of their mass convertation in XVII cen., Mostly of them know the exact period of the islamisation of their family or their catholic surname too. Fortunaly, most of them have conservate the tipic catholic albanian surname, like Kelmendi (sant klement) etc.

😂😂😂😂😂

@@keno2285 sinko opet, ja cu ti se pridruzit

@@peterouspensky7794 😂

bravo

Yes. But on the other hand. Lot of women had kolovrats tattooed. We are mixed by blood but love our heritage.

@@user-lj5mx2nm2q how is this so

@@user-lj5mx2nm2q so Serbs invented everything, like the Greeks 😂😂💖. Who knows anymore? We're all one

​@@veez_vee9573 What? No. But, speaking of which, Serbs and Greeks did alone liberated themselves and gained independence alone, in wars and battles...... while other states in Balkan are bitch states, created and liberated by foreign forces (Great Powers). Just facts :)

My grandmother has these tattoos. Hello from biq and one Kûrdıstan ❤️

Why do you mix these things?

@@zrecvelesa6012 because I respect the Native tribes of my country and I am of Scottish and Irish heritage as well as Slavic on my mother's side.

Get a Kolovrat. You can use my avatar as a template.

Fox Buck Then it loses all meaning. You will look like a UN meeting LOL, of no tradition and no origin. Heritage should be respect by your customs in your life and home, not by tattooing all these very different cultures on your body. At least thats my interpretation and Velesuv Im guessing,

@@MrDextrator in my world view all people are my brothers and sisters. Borders are imaginary lines drawn for selfish political reasons. I have traveled as far as Palestine. I have been across much of Canada and the U.S.. People are people where ever you go. Most are good hearted and just want to be left alone and allowed to live their lives in peace.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8Mym1eFXnnY.html. you will enjoy this then..

niđe veze s hrvatskom 😂😂😂😂

Some of these tattoos are ancient symbols that predates Christianity or even Slavic arrival to Balkans. Illiryan connection.

Today Turks lie about history to stay united! There is a proposition Turks say and that's "If you're happy being Turkish then you're Turk!" that's says a lot about their propaganda and their need to keep and extend these kind of beliefs since ottomans.

@@OrganicaShadows The same example can be seen with the Serbs, the apple does not fall far from the tree

@@aloesinaloe9586 Agree! just for the clarification I don't blame people in Turkey though! I thought a lot about this. when you look to the history of that region with all of the wars, before and after the fall of Babylon until today, that makes sense that such an idea grows there to make people united. People everywhere just want safety and prosperity and it went to the wrong direction after Muslims took them! So, I don't blame people but I blame the action of "war". War never brought any benefit to humans when you look at it in the bigger scale! That's why I do not like religions, and ideologies, or cults! they are products of war and they are the creator of war! the results are always death and put cultural manifestations to die! Same issue with the black community! I'm so disagree with people like Jordan Peterson in regards to Christianity. First of all Christianity has not been peaceful vs Islam, or whatever, and both of them mascaraed about same amount of poor people. Yes in the west we might need Christianity to stay united and be better people, as he thinks! but we can be way better people than that and stay united! with kindness, understanding, honesty, clean education, not cooperate education! and people know it! support the prosperity and you guarantee the best results in a land! long live Indo-Europeans! Im not saying because I think we are better!!, Im saying this because I know my history and culture! I wish the best for anybody else on earth! Cheers!

Yeah i wish I could see it. 🤙🏼 I have Moldovan friends. Sława from Polska to you fine Moldovan girl. 🌺

Did you get it by accident online or was it traditional?

Just for the record, you can post a link with a photo in the comment :)

Its not the SAME! Croatian Babuskas are not like greeks / romanians/ Bulgarians !

first time that croats or croatian name is mentioned, is befor 5000 years in west india and east persia. that means we, croats, are originaly from that region

Baba je govorila kako su se kod njih sokice tetovirala, ali ne zna zasto

Can you tell me what part of Croatia is she from? I would love to get a traditional one

@@MrDextrator this tradition is today alive only in small parts of Bosnia,where Croats lived.. I think there's a region called Rama,where this tradition still exist..

@@croatianwarmaster7872 it's the same country.

european culture is from adriatic sea spread to north

@@domagojmijobetin9157 "dria" "darya" "daria" "adria" "adrian" all means sea and great in all IE languages.

of course, those are Balkan tattoos, existing in all ethnic groups of Balkan..... just Croats like to steal and put prefix "croatian" instead.

i also heard that Kurds are genetically related to Slavs, i heard that "Gordi" means "proud" in kurdish language, in slavic "Gorod" is town or a fortress, "Gorostas" also means "a giant", "Gradi" means "to build"...

@@zivkosmrtic7373 false cognates

@@cbv7207 yeah i did a mistake, kurdi means proud, not gordi

I have seen men have them in pictures online! These are very ancient symbols and reflect some similar art in cultures from around the world, I think it is fine if you get this tattoo if it has meaning for you!

I saw a Croat captured in Mariupol. He looked like Arab.

@@petarn2204 he is a serb from croatia who pretend to be servian...just look at cedomir jovanovic or servian football team not a single one is white...because servants are turks and arabs

hre's some information for you - these tattoos are not croatian, they're bosnian-catholic.

Mix of Slavs and ancient Balkan peoples. Nothing new. In the North is more Slavic influence present, but in the mountainous south is more Illiryan or even Vlach (Morlach, Wallach, Wales).

so why are you scared to do DNA Y chromosome test...?? after 1000 years dominated by foreigners :) croats have smallest DNA base in entire Southern Europe.... LOL

@@petarn2204 everyone knows that croats have pure slavic dna (I2) while smrdians have over 60% african and asian dna (E1b1b & J)....

I saw a Croat captured in Mariupol. He looked like Arab. Maybe because Croats were gang-banged by Turks, HungariANS, MONGOLS, Avars, Italians, Serbs, Austrians for long 1000 years....:) LOL

@@petarn2204 He is a serb from croatia who pretended himself as croat...thats why... just look at any servian football player not a single one is white...unlike croatian because serbian girls get gang-bgd by turks, arabs, berber, chechens, mongols, avars etc. for 1000 years... why every serb look like cedomir jovanovic?

Big percentage of Croatians don't have clue about this. Its mostly tradition of Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and parts of South Croatia

@@gipsybulldog3286 Most of the Europeans don't have a clue about their culture, it's sad.

@@gipsybulldog3286 southern croatia doesn’t do this. these are old traditions done by vlachs who passed this on to bosnians which you can see on stećci.

@@keno2285 no, ilirians had same style of tattooing, just different motives

@@keno2285 found the turk

Malo orjentisan ka Hrvatima..mada wikipedia kaze da su Srbi to cinili

@@balkanhajduk Сигуран сам да јесу, само сад нема ни код једних ни код других, а девојке лете за странцима поготово ако имају мало више пара...

@@user-tg7ox8de1y Ima još u Hercegovini se to radi, pretežito u Hrvatskim naseljima jer je se tu običaj zadrža od doba Turaka kao šta je objašnjeno u videu a možda i dosta ranije. hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicanje

Nemaju srbi nikakve veze s ovin, ne mišajte se niko van nije zva

The tattoos arent Slavic

@@Michael-dx5ky excuse my ignorance. What are they?

@@nilsolofleif8886 Its okay bro. This video gives misinformation anyways. Slavs love to claim everything

@@Michael-dx5ky ok! I'm Swedish and I just try to learn about other cultures.

@@nilsolofleif8886 the other comment was being disingenuous. Bosnians aren't exclusively Illyrians, or Slavs, or Goths, etc. They (and all peoples in the Balkans and in fact all peoples in Europe) are a mixed group. Bosnians, Croats, Serbs, Albanians, etc etc all have a large mix of genes which are Slavic, Illyrians, Greek, Latin, even Celtic. Some people don't like this reality tho and choose to ignore it. The truth is that all Europeans are a mix of the same gene pool with just different ratios

Yes..boys perhaps. I'm not sure. As they would take boy's to become Janissaries. Please let me know when u find out

Yes there was. Look in the comment section I posted about it. Basically this Croatian tattoo tradition started in and around Kosovo after Ottoman invasion. It was done mainly to boys in that area because of the jannisarie tax, but mainly to girls in Croatia because of them being abducted

Man had this tattoos too, but not on fists or foreheads etc. Because they worked on Turkish vasal fields or similar.

This tradition actually originated amongst males to protect themselves from being taken as janissaries. I posted a comment about it in the main section of you want more info

Yes. Males had them but mostly on upper arm or chest, not so visible.

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Interesting. Greetings to all catholic Albanians!

these are not croatian.

@@keno2285 bahahahha evo ga