😂😂Muscovites are not Slavs. "Russians" - a superficially Slavinized mixture of Ugro-Finns and Tatars with a share of Mongols, to whom the Church Slavonic language of the Bible was imposed, which over time began to be called Russian. The Slavicization of this mixture occurred primarily due to the occupied Rus'-Ukraine and the Rusyns (Ukrainians), Litvins (Belarusians, who are Balts by origin), Poles and Balts. The Muscovy occupation of not only Rus'-Ukraine, but also the Belarusian (Lithuanian) lands of the Pskov region, Smolensk region, Kalug region, Bryansk region, the southwestern parts of Voronezhshchena (Ukrainian population), Kursk region (Ukrainian population), Belgorod region (Ukrainian population) played a huge role in the formation of the “Russian” population), not to mention the occupation of the Novgorod Republic by Muscovy. Politically and spiritually, Muscovy arose from the Golden Horde of the Tatars and Mongols. Well, plus more than three centuries of becoming relatives of the Rusyns (Ukrainians) and Rus'-Ukraine and Litvins (Belarusians) with the endlessly deceitful propaganda of Muscovy about the existence of “Russians” as Slavs. In fact, Russians are a Slavicized hodgepodge and their whole “Slavicness” is a three-hundred-year-old myth without any basis for it.
Absolutely beautiful work as always Vasilis! I’m proud of being Bulgarian, and I’m proud of my Southern Slavic heritage. We Bulgarians aren’t and never were Tatars or Mongols. Whoever says that doesn’t know Bulgarian history. Scholars have found the Bulgarian people to be descendants of Slavs, Thracians, and Eastern Iranians (Persians). Peace and love to all Slavic nations and I hope and pray for this war in Ukraine to end soon 🇧🇬❤️🇷🇸❤️🇭🇷❤️🇸🇮❤️🇲🇰❤️🇲🇪❤️🇧🇦❤️🇸🇰❤️🇨🇿❤️🇵🇱❤️🇺🇦❤️🇧🇾 ❤️🇷🇺
I totally agree with you, I don't know why you people are being called Tatars or Mongols. I feel totally embarrassed and ashamed to read such comments, especially from Serbs being Serbian myself. Bulgarians are Slavic people, yes at first they were a Turkic(NOT Turkish, Turkic) tribe of Bulgars from the East but soon after became Slavs mixed with Thracians and so on. You should be proud of your heritage, greetings from 🇷🇸.
Let us recall the words of the great politician and president of France in the 20th century, Mr. Francois Mitterrand, who said: “The Bulgarian people are one of the creators of civilization on our planet. The Bogomils create the European Revival!" Reminder: Bulgaria has always meant: good food, pure nature, mineral springs, golden sands, quality wines, ski resorts, beautiful women and strong men. A piece of paradise in a shape of a lion! Sofia, the pearl of Bulgaria Link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jGc7fDe8su0.html The magical Black Sea Link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qqr6MgLVf9w.html 🍀🚙🏞️🏂⛲🚤🚵🚡🏖️🍷💃🏋️♂️ 👑 ☦️🦁🇧🇬
Oh, who you think you are depends on your political situation. Cossacks also like to write themselves down as Turks, only the Turks themselves are not happy with such brothers. But there are also enough Cossacks loyal to their Slavic identity. And these Cossacks gave freedom to Transnistria.
Thanks for your performance dude 👏Anytime I watch your performance, I feel better and relaxed. It is a high quality content rarely seen in RU-vid. I hope you get what you deserve 🍀
Dziękuję za tańce polskie! Za czeskie pieśniczki - tak dobrze mi znane. Za słowiańszczyznę zza Buga, tańce, melodie i śpiewy, urywające łeb. Jesteś prawdziwym skarbem dla miłośników folkloru narodów, nacji i grup społecznych! Oooch! :-))
Thank you for the video Vasilis!❤And apologies for my fellow "unbrainwashed" countryman who dares to speak on behalf of every Bulgarian and denies our Slavic heritage while spamming your comment section with nonsense 🙃 Love from Bulgaria! ❤
@@bgbest5790 Firstly our language is literally Slavic with the difference that we have some proto-Balkan influence in grammar and vocabulary but so do all South Slavic languages. Secondly modern day Bulgarian DNA is mainly a mix of Balkan (Thracian, Greek, Illyrian, Dacian) and Slavic genetics, like all other Balkan countries. There's barely any pure ethnicity in the modern day world and I assure you that especially on the Balkans everyone is so mixed that we're almost the same, so I don't know why you are getting so pumped up about that. Thirdly Old Church Slavonic (which was based on Bulgarian in the Middle Ages) might have had influence on Slavic languages with the spread of the Orthodox church in Eastern Europe, that doesn't mean that Slavic languages are based on Bulgarian, Slavs had a language before that but no alphabet. Bulgaria being included in the video doesn't mean that we're just Slavic, it means that our culture is a beautiful mixture of different cultures and traditions who influenced each other for thousands of years. 🙂
@@bgbest5790 Dude this is my last comment towards you and I hope you stop as well. You said many things that are so wrong but I can't address all so I'll just name a few. Let's start with the fact that you don't even know your own language (which might be the root of the problem). "Slav" doesn't originate from "slave" , it's the other way round since many Slavic people were taken as slaves in the Roman and Byzantine empire. "Slava" means "glory" in Bulgarian and all Slavic languages (oh wow what a surprise). You keep contradicting yourself by saying that Slavs didn't exist but then go on and say that "Old Church Slavonic IS old Bulgarian but spread to Slavs especially during the 9th century" - how did a language spread among people that according to you didn't exist? I suggest you look up the spread of Slavic languages because they were spoken long before Bulgaria was created and in theritory far from the Balkans (look up "Spread of the Indo-European Languages in Eurasia" here on youtube, or anywhere really...). Old Church Slavonic was used in the CHURCH, in the everyday life people were speaking their own dialect of a Slavic language. Also no one is denying that Bulgarians are closer to Romanians and Mediterranean people, I already stated that we're with a high admixtures of paleo-Balkan genetics, obviously we'll be closer to them than to other European ethnicities. And lastly I have no idea what DNA test you or the people you know took but if you really take yourself as an informed person with large knowledge of history and genetics apparently, you should know that modern day ethnicities are not the same as those 1000 years ago, so your friends being 95% Bulgarian most certainly means that they match the genetics of the people living in Bulgaria today + these tests are extremely flawed and you should research how they get their data before claiming anything. And don't question my ethnic background just because I don't agree with your "facts". Лека вечер :)
@Bg Best @UCfYEEzWPkUdtf7R39DK0QvQ except you're citing one fringe theory that fails to hold up under the elementary scientific scrutiny. The word never existed in Greek until the arrival of Slavs and was specifically used to describe the peoples before it had any other meaning. It's an established consensus the word most likely comes from Proto-Slavic. Claiming anything else right now is pure crackpottery akin to the flat-earthers or Putin's delusions of superiority of his failed nation and designed purely to disparage everyone in here. It doesn't deserve any further reaction.
@@esi4603 As a Macedonian I can say that Bulgarians, and especially Macedonians, have about the same amount of Slavic admixture as Albanians or northern Greeks do. Linguistically we are Slavic, genetically, historically, traditionally, and culturally we are not. Cant speak for any other Balkan countries though, but generally no country in the Balkans has anywhere close to even half of their DNA being Slavic. The way we in Macedonia think of it is we influenced the Slavic world by us giving them religion and the alphabet and Old Church Slavonic and they influenced us by giving us their language, but we are not the same. Same as how Egyptians speak the same language as Syrians but are not the same nor do they originate form the same people or group genetically.
@@samraosmanovska4077 of course we're not only Slavic and have less Slavic genetics than Eastern and Western Slavs for example, but that doesn't erase the Slavic heritage we have, which the commenter implied by saying "we have nothing Slavic in us or our culture" he even said Slavs don't exist (now the comments are deleted btw)
молодец! Белоруссия, Украина, Россия - в одной кепке танцует. 7:42 ещё "Z" показал! Отлично! Успехов! красиво славянские танцы показал! у ансамбля им. Александрова конечно надо поучиться.
Da bas je brat. Kaci kola sa ''Kosova'' i naravno albanska. Puste te price brat i slicno, kakva crna braca. Pored takve brace nama nepirjatelji ne trebaju
Not Slavic, but Canadian here. You do a very great job at representing the dances and cultures you showcase in every video of yours. Here’s to more excellent videos :] 🍻
@@VasilisDance DA POSLE POKOLJA U SREBRENICI KOI SU VASI OCEVI NAPRAVILI A VI TO NE PRIZNAJETE I PLUS TOGA POKUSAVATE IZAZIVATI RAT U BOSNI PSETA SRPSKA DOSTA JE VASE LAZE COSIC JE ISTINU REKAO DA STE SVI LAZOVI
Splendid video, our dear friend Vasilis! 👌🏼😍👏 Greetings from Belgrade!👋🇷🇸 All the best to all Slavic nations!!! Love and respect each other, because the enemy is out of us...
The anti-conservative western men! The traditionalists shall prevail against the Civilization out there! God sun(дажьбог) bless you all 🙏🏻☀️💛,my slavic brothers🇷🇺
@@bgbest5790 Dude just shut up and stop embarrassing us :) Historically we're a mix of Thracians, Proto-Bulgarians and Slavs nowadays a mixture of everything so I don't know why you're causing trouble in the comment section. This is about showing different cultures and it seems you felt like you had to present your DNA result..? Vasilis did a great job presenting our culture and dances and I respect that :)
@@bgbest5790 Can you stop speaking on behalf of every Bulgarian and stop embarrassing us? Our language IS Slavic. No one is denying that majority of our culture and genetics are proto-Balkan, that doesn't erase the Slavic part... Stop spamming your opinion on every comment, you got your point across already 🙄
@@bgbest5790 Bulgaria is in this situation because of people with God complex like you who would believe anything that puts them above everyone else. We have many things to be proud of as a nation, no need to be making up stuff...
@@bgbest5790 As a trained linguist, your ignorance pains me greatly and I have secondhand embarrassment just from reading your bullshit takes. While it's true that language spread doesn't necessarily correlate to genetic spread (of which I recommend research paper number 26332464 from the National Center for Biotechnology Information NCIB's website) or vice versa, Bulgarian is indeed a Slavic language. Your skewed personal belief does not trump scientific evidence.
You are one of a kind, Vasilis, and I appreciate that you go against erasure of the Serbian identity outside of Serbia. The transitions, lyrics and imagery for the Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro parts in particular made me incredibly happy. Thanks for this quality and keep it up.
Vasilis, you have done a great job, still, one Slavic nation is missing in your list here: the Sorbs in Saxony, Germany. Very few left at present, but still here, despite the adverse fate.
Some facts about Ukraine 🇺🇦 Few people know that the Bulgarians are in the basis for the creation of Kievan Rus/Old Rissia & Ukraine and their rescue from the hordes of Genghis Khan - The Mongols. After the fierce battle with a significantly smaller number, but brave Bulgarians, according to some sources, about 4,000 Mongols survive. According to others, the Volga Bulgarians killed all the Mongols! The Bulgar tribes during the rule of Khan Kubrat/Хан Кубрат, before coming to the Balkans had a country named Old Bulgaria - Volga Bulgaria/Волжка България (7th -13th centuries) and fought against Western Turkic Khaganate. Ibn Fadlan refers to Volga Bulgaria as Saqaliba, a general Arabic term for Slavic people. Other researches tie the term to the ethnic name Scythian (or Saka in Persian). The Ukraine capital Kyiv/Kiev/Киев is named of Shambat Kie/Шамбат Кий, also known with the short name Kyi. He was the founder of Kyiv and the Kyi dynasty, and the Prince (Knyaz) of Polans. Shambat Kie is actually a brother of the First Bulgarian Ruler named Kubrat/Кубрат, (the Bulgarian professional heavyweight boxer Kubrat Pulev/Кубрат Пулев is named after the ancient Bulgarian ruler) who had established a spacious state - "Great Bulgaria" in the steppes of modern Ukraine in ca. 632. He was also uncle of The Great Khan Asparukh, а ruler of Bulgars in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 681, an alliance between the ruling Bulgars and the numerous slavs in the area, and their South Slavic Language, the Old Church Slavonic, became the main and official language of the empire in 864. Asparukh/Аспарух is a Middle Iranian male name, attested in ancient Georgia and early medieval Bulgaria. It is a compound with the two elements: "aspa" (horse) and "rauk" (shine), meaning "he who has shining horses". Some other researchers claim that the name is derived from "aspa" (horse) and "rah" (soul), meaning "one with a soul of a horse". Bulgarians are also the First Slavic Nation to accept Orthodox Christianity after the Armenians and Greeks. They use the title Tcar/King/Цар six centuries before the Russians started to use it. The Bulgarian Church became the First Independent Church in Europe in 927. The first Metropolitan of Kiev was a Bulgarian - Saint Cyprian/Свети Киприян, Metropolitan of Moscow, Kiev and all Russians. Gregory Tsimbalak/Григорий Цамблак - Metropolitan of Kiev and Lithuanian is also Bulgarian. Some interesting facts about Ukraine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nO8MWvX8f3c.html PS: 🇬🇧 Glory Of Ukraine! 🇧🇬 Слава на Украйна! 🇷🇺 Слава Украине! 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇫🇷 Gloire de l'Ukraine! 🇪🇸 ¡Gloria de Ucrania! ☦️🦁🇧🇬💕☦️🗽🇺🇦
Love it! I was wondering how you'd deal with Czech Republic, considering we have mostly couple dances, but it was great as always (even if it would've been lovely to see Moravia included more, I know first hand how hard it is to find *anything*, so I'm really happy we were included as much as we were). And your karička genuinely made me laugh, in a good way.
Знаете, хоть и не везде он чувствовала, что видела что-то похожее. Спасибо вам за, что напоминаете нам нам о нашем родстве в такое время. Мира всей Восточной Европе, и пусть все войны и разногласия останутся в прошлом.
So rich and different and so near at the same time! You give a very good example how one can keep his identity and be open enough at the same time to accept and embrace all the peoples. All the dances here are great! And you make us feel proud to be Bulgarians. ❤️ Greek music, dance and language.
Well Done Vasilis!!! It pleases me very much that you made a video representing all Slavs!!! There are a couple of Serbian Dances that have the wrong techniques, but SO WHAT. That's just scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to nitpicking. Representing different dances outside of your Nationality is not only impressive but carries so much honour. As well as putting in a lot of work into it. Greetings from a Serbian Canadian Folk Dancer! *I hope I did not seem like a wise prick in the middle
Hello Vasilis, I am really taken aback by the way you have shown Polish dances: our polonais from Andrzej Wajda's movie 'Pan Tadeusz' (based on our national poem written by Mickiewicz), our highlanders' dances , Masovian District presented our Midlands and the South - Cracow great job, thanks a lot. In spite of our folklore I like the way you have shown Czech, Slovakia and Ukraine. Lovely Balkan music!
Nice idea!:)) This particular video is about the 13 Slavic countries, so no minorities unfortunately. However, they can be added in other videos as well, I want to include everyone at some point. Rusyn folklore, for instance. :))
For me the Slavic dances , are of two kinds, The western Slavic , Poland and Danubia countries, ( Slovakia, Slovenia,Czech Repúblic, Hungary and Eastern Áustria) and on other hand, Rússia, Belarus, Ukraine and Balkans( Bulgária, Croatia, Albânia,, Macedónia, Romania and Serbia)!
You are right. That is why (because of cultural, historic, genetic and linguistic differences) Slavs are divided into 3 groups: Western, Eastern (both are often considered as Northern group) and Southern ones. Slavs live from Germany to Japan and from Norway to Greece, so differences are great.
Interresting. Some czech songs sound like austrian folklore and dances too. Yes, they are neighbors. By the was, in Burgenland, former Hungary and now a Region of Austria, there are some citizens with hungarian and croatian origin. There are also several dance groups for their own traditional music and dance.
The Slavic language spread over millennia to many parts of Europe, North and South, East and West, but you can see in the variety of dances and costumes the underlining different histories of these quite different peoples.. fascinating
You are the best dancer. It’s incredible your talent. I love all your videos. I also admire how you are so clearly in touch with your own masculine and feminine aspects in order to perform these dances so phenomenally.
This man's dancing skills evince real talent.....in my mind's eye I can just see people having a village dance to celebrate a wedding, a harvest, or the visit of some important official........he should found his own dance academy!
To me you are a genius, Vasilis! I appreciate your accuracy and attention to detail in each post. I am very glad that I found your dances, this „vein” of cultural gold. I feel richer when I follow your exceptional achievements. It is not just about dances, it is also a historical, social and cultural retrospective. Now I understand better the way we influence each other and that we learn from each other how we can live beautifully and together. Congratulations from ROMANIA! ❣👋🤩
Ruthenians (called Lemkos by Ukrainians) are Ukrainians (as well as all Ukrainians in Rzecz Pospolita and in Austrian Empire were called Ruthenians (Ruthens or Rusyns). Polabians do not exist anymore (they were assimilated by Germans). Only Lusatians (Sorbs) fight for survival...
We Gorals are at 1:40 💪🌄,Bóg zapłoć,ôd sýtkik Góroli:) PS, could you change Oberek to Ôberek since that's how it would be spelt in the dialect where it comes from.
Спасибо. Очень интересно наблюдать "перетекание" движений от одних народов к другим, а также влияние танцев соседей на славян. Только один вопрос. Почему фоном для всех, кроме русских, выбраны летние пейзажи? Мы как-бы на одном континенте живем 😁.
En plena plandemia 2.020 conocí a Marijan Zlobec de Eslovenia 🇸🇮 habla esloveno, inglés, italiano, español. Todo un personaje y buena persona, viaja por el mundo a sus 73 años y es de la Peninsula de los Balcanes. Donde esté le deseo lo mejor.... Saludos 👋🏽 desde Cuenca-Ecuador South America a todos los balcanes: Albaneses, bosnios-herzegovinos, serbios, croatas, griegos, eslovacos, kosovares, macedonios, montenegrinos, rumanos, búlgaros, turcos, eslovenos 😊
Thank you!! I believe those who are closest to Greece, like Serbia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria. The dances are almost common in the regions of Thrace and Macedonia. :))
Hello, Greetings from Czech Republic, I am proud to be Slav. I think, you are dancing like a professional. It is impossible not to love your style!😀👍🏻🇨🇿 Jarda B.
