I love looking at Przemyśl from a different perspective, thank you for your kind words about this city and I hope you can back to this town again! Greetings from Przemyśl 😁
@@TravelwithMrJon really cool to hear. The history is kinda insane for such a small city. You have to ready Darda books about Przmysl (its fiction with some elements of history). PS. I grew up on the Soviet Union side of the city😊 Well, luckily it was years after.
Przemyśl is the second-oldest city (after Kraków) in southern Poland, dating back to the 8th century.[4] It was the site of a fortified gord belonging to the Ledzianie (Lendians),[5] a West Slavic tribe. In the 9th century, the fortified settlement and the surrounding region became part of Great Moravia. Most likely, the city's name dates back to the Moravian period. Jan Długosz states that the founder of the city was Prince Przemysław and the name of the city comes from his name. According to legend, the prince went hunting and in the place where he hunted the bear founded a settlement with a bear in the coat of arms.
I've been there twice helping W.C.K. make food for, & feed, Ukrainian Refugees. Both Kraow & Przemyśl are BEAUTIFUL!!! The underground tunnel, the bunkers, the history, scenery, fog in the mornings off the river after rain, so much history & beauty. Citizens are very hospitable. Police, not so so much. But worth a visit. I miss being there.
Przemyśl held a strategic significance over the years. The history of this city and its fort is amazingly and overwhelmingly juicy and then some.. Thank you for showing this beautiful town Jon. Cheers man! Respect! :)
@presentalinkwalterbak2426 you are most welcome. Thanks for watching. I did a second vlog just walking around the fort and to the mound. History alone the city is a great place to visit.
Hello Jonathan, Thank you for this video about my „beloved Home”! I was born and had lived in this city for 18 years. I’m living in Canada now, in Ontario (33 years!) and I’m always home sick! Your knowledge of the polish history is amazing! Your interest in this subject is worth of the great admiration! I’m so happy that person from other ends of the earth found this “Subcarpathian pearl”! This city, is over one thousand years old with very interesting history, is dearest to my heart! I’ve spent many years in Warsaw (Warszawa), and many others: polish and in other countries, but I’m proud of being “native Przemyślanka”, my last time in Home was in 2019. I want to go there one more time in my life… I’m glad you have shown many beautiful churches; Przemyśl is also know as “ little Krakow”, because of the amount of the churches…. The world is really very small , this polish proverb is very true! All the the best! Christie
@ABC-20 Thanks Christie for your comments. I am glad you found this video. I actually did four from the city to show more of it off. I wouldn't even compare the city to Krakow, as I liked it much more...there's something about the history of the city and the energy that is very pleasant for me. Will definitely go back again in the future. and hope you are able to do that same.
@lalka555 as you saw in this video plenty of churches and I only showed the ones in the center. I made a few other Przemysl with another church sighting and an entire cemetery tour :) Let me know what you think. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OsHmhU6giR0.html
Thank you for valuable and informative vlog. You looked so happy visiting Przemyśl. I've seen other vlog and subtitles said "shemash" and I thought it can be Przemyśl so not that bad...😉🌷
@@TravelwithMrJon Thanks, be good to go then staying at Krakow first then going there. Yes I bet, looked nice in photos we got from my girlfriends mum.
Hi Johnathan! It is real pleasure to see that someone from the other end of the world can come here and appreciate our painful history and all the places that are our silent witnesses to what has happend in here.... While so many people try to dissort our history, every brave person that is not afraid to say loud and clear the truth, is very valuable to us. Therefore please accept our gratitude! We appreciate very much your time and effort to make other people to see the whole picture, and the beauty of our town.! ❤️ May Good bless you and your love ones! Best regards Aga
@agnesjaroch1 thank you for your kind words. Poland is a must visit for me and really should be for others. It's more than just food and culture, but has such a rich history. I agree with you, it's important for others to know the truth. Can't wait to get back to Poland next week.
Not really. Proper translation of "Think about it/that" would be "Pomyśl o (tym)" not "przemyśl" alone. Besides "Przemyśl (to)" is more "Think it (over)" not "think about (it/that)". In the case of "think about (that/it)" Polish "Pomyśl (o tym)" would be closer.
@@VoidCosmonaut but still they would need to think it over, ie the name. As they didn't have any names, this one stuck. At least that was one legend about the origin of the naming.
@@TravelwithMrJon Yeah. Polish is wierd to comprehend by anglophones. Not impossible to though. As a Pole i can naturally see the difference before Pomyśl and Przemyśl. Really there is a huge difference between those two. "Pomyśl" ie in "Pomyśl o mnie"... (keep my bussines in mind) is totally different from "Przemyśl to" (as You get an offer and i ask youe to think about it through)
"Jan Długosz reports that the founder of the city was Prince Przemyslaw and the name of the city comes from his name. According to legend, the prince went hunting and in the place where he hunted the bear he founded a settlement with a bear in the coat of arms." So no, Przemyśl does not mean anything in polish. It came from dukes' name "Przemysław".
I've just read one of the comments under your last episode from Przemyśl and someone correctly pointed out that "przemyśl" means "think it through" in polish. As a someone who lives here, i always forget about that 😅
@@TravelwithMrJon Hariy Muff Jon but I don't think it's fair to sell a far better picture of somewhere than what it really is. It could cost people a lot of time & money to get there. And as you can see in the video, there's not much more to see. If people think Przemysl is an amazing place, then wow, just wow!
If you are already in Poland, it's worth a look. I've been there three times. I'm not saying if you are in the USA hop on the plane and visit. Then again we all have different tastes and interests. @@elliottdefoe9615
@@TravelwithMrJon It is the name of the main character of the novel "The adventures of the good soldier Švejk" by the famous Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek. One of these adventures takes place in Przemyśl during a troop transport to the Eastern Front of WW1.
Hi Jon, In direct translation name Przemyśl means think over mostly in reference to the behavior, thoughts or words, used wrongly either intentionally or unintentionally. Hope that will help understand it little bit better.
@@TravelwithMrJon yes it is. Perhaps there was once a village and she was telling that to the attackers by trying to prevent from being attacked and while repeating over and over could be successful and so that's how the name of future town was created. Just a thought of my luxuriant imagination😁. Are you currently in Poland? If not when are you planning to be there again?
Not currently in Poland, sadly. It looks like right now will be back in Poland either end of December for holidays or mid February. My school year starts now in USA@@kris_toff
@@TravelwithMrJon I also travel between US and Poland, usually 2-3 times a year, sometimes 4 if I'm lucky 😁. I'm going again Dec. 18th but possibly in September for a few weeks too. Maybe we could meet there one day. I'm usually staying in woj. podlaskie, about 30km North of Białystok.
4 times would be lucky. I'm still working on dates for my next trip over. Can't decide yet on end of December or February. I don't know about you but I feel bad going just for a week so I'm trying to maximize time. 30km of Bilaystok, wow, that sounds exciting.@@kris_toff
