Why Every Former Yugoslavia Country Is Shrinking Except For Slovenia

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Yugoslavia broke up over 30 years ago. But despite so much time passing, every independent country that makes up the region is shrinking in population, except for one: Slovenia. And this has to do with a unique combination of history, physical geography, and economic circumstances that has helped propel Slovenia while Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and North Macedonia all continue to lose population.
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@yankochoynev652 2 месяца назад

Bulgaria had no war, EU member for 20 years, no regional tensions. How did we go from 9 to 6 million then? I think that's the more interesting topic.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

But Bulgaria was a Warsaw pact member.

@apollonasplxr2848 2 месяца назад

Becouse you have shit economy, simple

@chrism1990 2 месяца назад

Low birth rate is a huge factor.

@danielkuleshov5876 2 месяца назад

no popular domestic made movies too

@kaylidington 2 месяца назад

Work opportunities elsewhere in the EU paying massively more.

@filipbih 2 месяца назад

Slovenias population is just growing because of people from ex-Yugoslavia (mostly Bosnians and Kosovars) are moving to Slovenia for a search for the better life. Only reason. Otherwise it would be in decline.

@ambrozoblak7371 2 месяца назад

Velenje mala Bosna

@dzonikg28 2 месяца назад

Yes, so many people from Bosnia in Slovenia that is not even funny

@filipbih 2 месяца назад

@@ambrozoblak7371 Hahahahah živel sem v Velenju. Vala je mala Bosna

@ambrozoblak7371 2 месяца назад

@@filipbih par km bek sm, hodim u sredno taj, najace mesto

@filipbih 2 месяца назад

@@ambrozoblak7371 Js sm se preselil iz Velenja v Postojno v Junu 2022. Velenje mi tolk manjka. Postojna ni za pol kurca💀

@miliba 2 месяца назад

Slovenia is without doubt one of the best European countries Ive visited and totally underrated. Lake Bled, Ljubljana, Piran, Postojna Caves and the Triglav were some of the many picturesque spots

@Giga16216 2 месяца назад

I agree. My home Croatia has some beauties, but Slovenia is much more interesting.

@kcpcvideo 2 месяца назад

I’m from slovenija thx😀😀😀

@miliba 2 месяца назад

@@kcpcvideo My former flatmate is Slovenian too. You guys are awesome

@miliba 2 месяца назад

@@Giga16216 Bruh I loved cruising the Croatian coast, especially Split and Dubrovnik. There were just too many tourists but that was because of the GoT hype

@Giga16216 2 месяца назад

@@miliba yes me too

@Slay-Skypra-Here 2 месяца назад

Slovenian being near Western Europe along with Croatia has has a lot of help from the eu plus staying out of the yougoslav drama helps

@tarikmehmedika2754 2 месяца назад

Yeah but still both like to dip their fingers in Yugoslav drama even today and especially Croatia.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

And yet Croatia along with Bulgaria are one of the worst countries when it comes to population decline in the European Union. 🤔

@talesferreiralimadossantos8806 2 месяца назад

@@JmKrokY Do you know why is there a massive population decline in these two countries? It started after the Cold War ended, it seems, is that a coincidence?

@HladniSjeverniVjetar 2 месяца назад

@@talesferreiralimadossantos8806 it started before WW1 due to agrarian crisis, specially due to Peronospora epidemic in Dalmatia, and overall poverty in the country due to agrarian crisis. And it didn't stop since then...

@talesferreiralimadossantos8806 2 месяца назад

@@HladniSjeverniVjetar And what did Austria-Hungary do to minimize the efects of the epidemic and farm crisis?

@sandytesch2029 2 месяца назад

Very interesting video. I have Slovenian ancestory my Grandfather came to U.S. to work in taconite mines. I will be making traditional Potica bread next week for Easter.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

Cool

@bojanbukovski1995 2 месяца назад

Pozdrav iz Slovenije. 😊

@Viidarr13 29 дней назад

Dober tek in pozdrav iz Slovenije❤

@simonmarini766 28 дней назад

Sorry, but Potica isn't a uniquely Slovenian specialty. Almost all European nations know potica; the differences lie only in the use of ingredients.

19 дней назад

@@simonmarini766 Different ingredients ... not "potica". Would you say - pizza is not Italian, every Mediterranean country has some kind of flat bread with topping. And by the way, we have a couple of non "potica" varieties also with Slovenian heritage: "prekmurska gibanica", "gubana" from Beneška Slovenije (Slavia Veneta, now in Italy), both get their name from Slovenian "guba" -fold. And the Presnitz from Trieste made for Sissi also comes from "presnica", original recipe from Kostanjevica na Krasu. Every region and state has some culinary specialties, why do you feel the need to negate it to Slovenia?

@crsx1861 2 месяца назад

You forgot to mention that Slovenians are far less migratory than other people in the region. For instance, Croats have historical ethnic communities as far east as Romania, whereas Slovenia’s historical ethnic communities do not extent further than just the immediate areas beyond its borders. Slovenia is in fact unique in this aspect, compared to all other Central and Eastern European ethnic groups.

@dzonikg 2 месяца назад

Even during Yugoslavia in 60s and 70s many from Croatia and Serbia went to Germany to work and stay there while from Slovenia almost no one

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

Half of ethnic Croats live outside of Croatia which is kinda insane (I think it's similar for Serbs).

@BH-yk5cn 2 месяца назад

Slovenia does have historical claims and that is Italy. Long live a truly united Italy.

@BoboSLO1 2 месяца назад

Southern Austria and eastern italy was always Slovenian national land..

@Luka-lf2cz 2 месяца назад

@@BoboSLO1 But, Slovenian national land is rebranded Croatian land. Trst je naš. 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷

@igorsajn6246 2 месяца назад

Slovenia has negative natality for decades, so surplus comes (after joining EU) from imigrants, esp. from other ex-Yu republics. Well after all - it is a very nice place on the sunny side of the Alps.

@zer0neverer098 2 месяца назад

Someone mentioned here, that slovenians are less migratory than others, however this has more with the fact that, only with Celovec region (Klagenfurt,Austria) and some Istria including Trst (Trieste), the Slovenian Republic is basically at it's ethno-territorial zenith. And staying on the issue, it does help that Slovenia had a sizeable industrial base at the time of the dissolution of Yugoslavia, on top of being the first to declare independence alongside Croatia, yet only fighting for 10 days with little relative costs compared to all other participants in the balkan wars.

@SaadAliArts 2 месяца назад

I think it is shrinking because of former Yugoslavia and conflicts erupting after breakup of Yugoslavia. Slovenia managed to overcome the affects by being close to Western Europe compared to other former Yugoslavian States and joining European Union along with Croatia

@josephtrudel1816 2 месяца назад

Total lies...always is...now & forever

@nicholasharvey1232 2 месяца назад

Slovenia's proximity to Western Europe certainly couldn't have hurt its chances at becoming the most successful post-Yugoslav state.

@MacedonianBro 2 месяца назад

Why , from perspective of Macedonian, this is why Slovenia is better ? Near the classic West Europe, near Italy and Austria, same healthcare system,free education, EU benefits , similar languages .....

@sgrant9814 2 месяца назад

I remember visiting Yugoslavia in the 80s it was a very nice country with friendly folk Sadly they all let religion and ethnicity get in the way and destroyed themself...a cautionary tale for other nations

@nicholasharvey1232 2 месяца назад

@@sgrant9814 Well there are going to be winners and losers whenever a country breaks up into smaller ones. Compare Estonia to Moldova or better yet, Turkmenistan. Likewise, Slovenia and Croatia are generally going to be bigger players on the world stage than Bosnia or North Macedonia. The breakups of both the USSR and Yugoslavia were good news for some republics but bad news for others. Also Czech Republic arguably came out better than Slovakia after the Velvet Divorce, owing to the former's larger economy and proximity to the West.

@jenniferf1518 2 месяца назад

Good video Geoff but you really have to work on your pronunciation of some words. CRO-at, not "croat".

@B715 2 месяца назад

Isn't it also the DANube river, not the d'nube?

@anthonykaiser974 2 месяца назад

@@B715true, but in Latin, Danubius (or Danuvius) the emphasis would be on the second syllable, so it's understandable. Note there are zero English speaking nations on the Donau/Dunaj/Dunărea /Dunav.

@frankdalton2492 2 месяца назад

Moreover, there is no i before the final a in "Herzegovina" and "Vojvodina". Also, the pronunciation of Slovenia is a bit odd.

@mitchyoung93 2 месяца назад

It's actually Hrvat. Roll that 'R'.

@matejb2 2 месяца назад

Here are the simplest reasons why slovenia population is growing: - the country has always been richer than the rest of the balkan region, because of the proximity to Austria and it's territory has been part of many different rich states: the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Carolingian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Illyrian Provinces of Napoleon's First French Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. - the country has been less affected by Turkish invaders and have never lived under Ottoman rule. It has also been less affected by Yugoslav wars - it had better political stability and it's population were more educated, so it got more foreign investment - it had more job opportunities and better quality of life, so higher immigration, mostly from the former Yugoslav countries

@MrDrowranger87 2 месяца назад

Romans and Austrians have build like it's their own, at the other hand Ottomans raped and plundered for centuries and bring their religion to divide the population. at last 500 years border have changed here like 10 times

@David-kf9no 2 месяца назад

Slovenian native citizens are shrinking in population equally with other balkans and eastern europeans. All of that that you wrote cannot change the fact that in the last decades Slovenians dont want to have kids and keep population number only thanks to balkan immigrants. Slovenia has good economy but fertility mentality of any other balkan and european country.

@HeroManNick132 2 месяца назад

However Slovenia still has border disputes with Croatia.

@geoffgero6081 2 месяца назад

Usually your videos are very good, this one not so much. Google pronunciation before you record next time. The history had simultaneously too much and not enough. If you're gonna do a full deep dive you need to explain the ethnic and religious differences and the historical reasons for animosity between them. If you're not doing a deep dive then cut out all the unnecessary rambling. Also, not focusing on Slovenia's borders with Austria and Italy and the wealth that comes from trade is pretty silly.

@indigobaloon8091 2 месяца назад

Bit N Macedonia borders Greece(old eu) yet it doesnt matter.

@ronwinkles2601 2 месяца назад

More people of Slovenian ancestry live in America than any other country. They are wonderful, industrious people and a true asset to our Nation.

@asstaco 2 месяца назад

thank you for having such appreciation for our people, god bess you.

@jernejfunkl8300 4 дня назад

It's a shame that not enough people know the qualities of our nation... The former "southerners" will slowly eat us up :( Greetings from Slovenia.

@richardmccarley281 2 месяца назад

Do you mean the Danube? DAN-yube

@jenniferf1518 2 месяца назад

Yup. Not the first time he's mispronounced this.

@jeremywhite92 2 месяца назад

DAN-yube. I realize I'm repeating it, but it feels worth repeating.

@davidwest2880 2 месяца назад

Like that famous waltz, blue danoob!

@dayros2023 2 месяца назад

Well the reason is simple. Slovenia borders rich countries like Italy and Austria and got investments and tourists from them, also it was already the richest part of yugoslavia and it was the first of the balkan countries to join the EU, and that boosted its economy. Being richer than the others it attracts immigration. I visited it and it was full of bosnians and especially albanians. So the population is growing a little. The other balkan countries are poorer so they attract less migrants and have very high rates of emigration, especially of the young. Those factors, coupled with a low fertility rate will lead to a population collapse n the balkans.

@Astuga 2 месяца назад

Croatia is also an important tourist destination. I believe your second point is the relevant one. Slovenia, due to it's history and place in the region, is attractive for migrants from neighbouring countries. Also it's a small nation, it has only slightly more inhabitants then fe. the city of Vienna. Such small nations often have their own dynamic that is difficult to compare with those of larger or even just somewhat larger nations.

@churblefurbles 2 месяца назад

Unlike Italy they haven't taken in many disruptive migrants.

@zionistkillingmachine 2 месяца назад

Slovenia contributed 27% of GDP of Jugoslavia-enough said!@@Astuga

@andrewrogers3067 2 месяца назад

Slovenia was the richest in Yugoslavia? Thought it was Croatia.

@dzonikg28 2 месяца назад

Italy is for sure not rich, even during Yugoslavia Slovenia looked so much better, yes Italy has tourist sites but just walk pass them and is totally different story.

@slavchomarinov9909 2 месяца назад

Bit of a pronounciation lesson: 1.Slovinia 2. Cróats not Crouts 3. Dánube not the nube 4. Bosnia and Hercegóvina

@lost_porkchop 2 месяца назад

Cut him some slack, his name is Geoff but pronounced Jeff

@massafelipe8063 2 месяца назад

Slovenia is pronounced correctly, as locals do.

@RemetaD 2 месяца назад

At least he didn't say Monteafricanamerican, like some other american youtube "influencers".

@TheSandkastenverbot 2 месяца назад

@@RemetaD We're not interested in anti-woke hysterics, thank you

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

Slovenia*

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

0:08 Kosovo is not a UN member.

@dusanmilosavljevic258 2 месяца назад

Kosovo is Serbia

@kdexter2690 2 месяца назад

@@dusanmilosavljevic258 Kosovo is independent nation

@Ag-kt3je 2 месяца назад

@@kdexter2690 it’s not 🏳️‍🌈🇽🇰

@kdexter2690 2 месяца назад

@@Ag-kt3je yes it is

@dzonikg28 2 месяца назад

@@kdexter2690 9 od 10 biggest country's in the world don't recognize Kosovo, basically USA and USA puppets. It has USA military base and that US only reason USA want it's fake independence. If you drive try Kosovo you will see that 99. 9 % off flags are flags off Albania

@8rlx0 2 месяца назад

Slovenia had a nice big buffer of Croatia during the breakup of Yugoslavia, so it was able to separate more easily than others. And it was mostly ethnically Slovene.

@valentintapata2268 2 месяца назад

There was an alliance between Slovenia and Croatia at the beginning, thank god Croatians immediately broke it by letting the JNA tanks cross unopposed.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

@@valentintapata2268 Why?

@valentintapata2268 2 месяца назад

@@JmKrokY Because by doing this the alliance ended and Slovenia was not required to military assist Croatia any further.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

@@valentintapata2268 That's not good, both sides should have kept the alliance.

@valentintapata2268 2 месяца назад

@@JmKrokY In that case Slovenia would be fighting in Croatia (Vukovar, Dubrovnik,...) and we would have a lot higher casualties. Idealism is one thing, realism another. Alliance was broken by Croatia not Slovenia.

@littlemaridee 2 месяца назад

I always love how the music in his videos is used so perfectly. It's at the right volume, but also the right vibe and tempo. It's edited great so that it accents the content, but you barely notice it when he's talking. I hate when I'm distracted by the music.

@couchsofa2977 2 месяца назад

Crote? seriously

@sabrinarodrigues629 2 месяца назад

BWAHAHAHAHHAHA

@Wemzii0 2 месяца назад

You made that promised Alaska video (podcast)!!!! You mentioned it in the Kentucky v tennessee video comments after I jokingly asked why Tennessee was so different from Alaska

@judithkoveleskie7476 2 месяца назад

My paternal grandparents came from Slovenia around 1900. They always had a strong sense of national identity and never thought of themselves as Yugoslavian.

@annonannon6712 2 месяца назад

New hair looks great man!

@spiritworldu 2 месяца назад

misleading title as you really only discuss the video topic for about 1 minute. also, not sure where you got your pronunciations, but it’s bizarre and very distracting. “Herzegoviña,” “Slo-vane-ia,” “Crotes,” … i know it’s difficult to cover foreign cultures but it’s just bizarre as you seem to have gone out of your way to add different pronunciations for no reason.

@davidv89955 Месяц назад

also this video could be just 1min long, but he goes to rant about everything else, explaining nothing

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

I really wonder why a highly developed nation with no wars is gaining population...

@massafelipe8063 2 месяца назад

Since 2023. Croatia is growing population wise, fuelled by a huge migratory spike from foreign workers. Since many people left there was a great shortage of workers in some areas.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

Nice

@temistogen 2 месяца назад

Not even a biblical wave of people would help croats at this point.

@dzonikg28 2 месяца назад

If you consider people from Nepal natives then yes

@ivonacindric6417 6 дней назад

These people from Asia ( recently coming for a temporary jobs) are not integrated at all...They live in a parallel world.

@JmKrokY 6 дней назад

@@temistogen How so? Statistics show that the country is developing nicely (depends on the are though).

@moden321 2 месяца назад

Geoff: Talks about topography for 3 minutes. Also Geoff: Absolutely refuses to use a topographic map.

@__Bepis 2 месяца назад

damn man i haven't checked in on the channel in a long while, and I'm happy to see you popped off, good stuff 👍

@LibraDiCaprio 2 месяца назад

still don’t know how to pronounce anything

@Tj1212__ 2 месяца назад

The problem with slovenia is that we slovenians constantly complain about everything and we never have a stable goverment we should be glad we have it so well we are litterally on par with germany and austria when it comes to standar of living and we have a higher gdp per capita then spain

@Azax0 2 месяца назад

Slovenia was a developed country in Yugoslavia already. The main thing why Slovenia started independence was because it was financing Serbia and Beograd since it was the capital of Yugoslavia. All the main prosperous factories were located in Slovenia. At one point Beograd wanted to slow down Slovenian factory development untill Serbian factories can get up to date with Slovenian higher standard. So the main reason Slovenia quit it was sending large cash flows into capital city of Yugoslavia.

@nikgracanin6180 2 месяца назад

I'm 100% certain this whole script for the video was written by AI. This is what "content" has become.

@T0m0zuki 2 месяца назад

My grand grand mother came from Pennsylvania ... with her parents of course. She was born there, but her parents migrated there in 1870's. Then they came back somewhere around 1912. They lived in Pittsburgh and then returned to Prekmurje to maintain a farm which a relative left behind. But those are not the only folks from my family. From mother's side, some of her ancestors lived in Iowa. Still do, tho. But I've lost their Address. 🫣 Most Slovenian minorities live in Austria and Italy, because our lands shrunk a bit during World war 1 and 2.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

🤔

@user-xj3ve7wt8k 2 месяца назад

Low birth rate has long since become normal in Europe, which is not surprising when a certain level of economic prosperity is reached. Poor nations in Africa, Middle East, Asia, South America "produce" much more children than Europe and North America, which in the end they are used as "cheap work force" by Europe and North America.

@joshgh8844 2 месяца назад

Well, "cheap work force" is not correct... as they are mostly very expensive burden

@MarcHarder 2 месяца назад

Some pronunciation tips: Slovenia - slo-vee-nee-a Herzegovina - herts-ay-go-vee-na Croat - cro-at Broz - broz Vojvodina - voy-vo-dee-na Danube - dan-yoob

@matijamaksan4344 17 дней назад

He actually pronounce Slovenia how Slovene would. Of course its not correct in English.

@fvaraschin 2 месяца назад

Incredible!

@JordanDinRI 2 месяца назад

Geoff, bože moj… its pronounced “CRO-ats”

@spiritworldu 2 месяца назад

lol i talked about this in my comment as well. pronunciation is all over the place

@JordanDinRI 2 месяца назад

@@spiritworldu 😂 yeah, Geoff needed some assistance with this video!

@Luka_menorykee 2 месяца назад

Yeah, but most of those names are relatively obscure to international audiences. But Croatia and Crots is so obvious that it makes you wonder if he did any research at all or just asked AI to make him a video

@nummer3357 2 месяца назад

@@Luka_menorykeeNo sovereign country is 'obscure' to anyone with a basic education. Knowing the countries of the world is like knowing every number or every letter in the alphabet that your language uses.

@Luka_menorykee 2 месяца назад

@@nummer3357 did you even watch the video? If you did, you'd know I'm not talking about countries.

@bigbadwulf5785 2 месяца назад

Economic unstability has never been a factor to birthrates, see example Africa or parts of the middle east etc.

@jasonjayalap 2 месяца назад

Africa could be having kids _because of_ economic unstability; Could be _despite_ economic unstability; Could be unrelated. How do you know which?

@Bleilock1 2 месяца назад

This is glueater comment

@NullHand 2 месяца назад

Birthrates fall when your young people LEAVE for a better life elsewhere. If they cannot leave, for poverty, linguistic, or "papers" reasons, AND they have no access to family planning... well... Then you get Nigeria.

@fluidice1656 2 месяца назад

It's more about the development and incentives related to it than about stability. Most countries in Africa are underdeveloped and their investment in human resources is very modest, which means that there is little incentive to send children onto highly specialized education paths that would require high financial investment. (A degree in contract law won't be as useful as in highly developed societies.) Countries of Eastern, Central Europe and the Balkans, may be poorer than their Western neighbors (although this is changing fast) but they still have relatively highly developed institutions, including education. This makes having children relatively more costly than in African countries. That's just one factor though. Other factors include social security for old folks, which is often non-existent in developing countries. This makes having many children who could take care of you once you can't work anymore much more important.

@Kintabl 2 месяца назад

Because they don't have birth controls and abortions. So, when people f**k, babies are born.

@bosniangamesms8957 2 месяца назад

why does he keep naming the countries like 5 times

@johnlabus7359 2 месяца назад

Looks like Geoff got a new camera.

@xerooxpro199 2 месяца назад

Other balkan nations are migrating to Slovenia in mass. And its getting bad.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

But, migration is a good thing. I wish more people migrated to my home country of Croatia (too bad we are quite efficient when it comes to getting rid of large chunks of our population).

@joshgh8844 2 месяца назад

@@JmKrokY - It depends on what kind of people immigrate!

@whiteguardist 2 месяца назад

Well the 100,000 surplus versus 2018 in Slovenija aren't native people, we should have been marked red as well.

@engertejada6930 2 месяца назад

Idea for next video: Why is Argentina so unpopulated?

@Illumisepoolist 2 месяца назад

Can you do North and South Korea?

@patentleatherkicks 2 месяца назад

Dude I can't deal with how you pronounce "Croats." 😂

@SeverityOne 2 месяца назад

You keep calling it Herzegovinia, even though you spell it correctly (Herzegovina). There are roughly 5000 Serbs living in Malta. That doesn't sound like much, but it's almost 1% of the total population. I've several Serbian (former) colleagues and friends. Although nowadays, they are not as prominent as they once were, also because of a large influx of Asians over the past 10 years. Many of these will never go back. In some cases, because there's nothing to go back to. Like one of them told me: 'Other people now live in my old house.' Really nice guy, too. I still find his remark difficult.

@HUNVilly 2 месяца назад

the way you pronounce Croats is disturbing. It's not Herzegovinia, but Herzegovina

@gordonpi8674 2 месяца назад

It’s not just the “shared geography “ that connects these countries. Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro speak the SAME language, which means the6 are same people divided culturally. The industry was once one whole for all of them and it’s still connected. The economy is connected too, and most of all, the sport and cultural events are common for all of them, just like in ex Yugoslavia.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

No?

@gordonpi8674 2 месяца назад

@@JmKrokY no?

@DrakesdenChannel 4 дня назад

The Croatian standard language should not be mistaken for the spoken language. Only about half the country speaks Shtokavian are a primary language day-to-day, except in official or legal use.

@JordanDinRI 2 месяца назад

Two of my favorite topics; geography and the coast of Hrvatska 🇭🇷 can’t wait to watch!

@vivocanada 2 месяца назад

Okay, pronunciation lesson: SloVEEEEEnia NOT SloVANEia Croh-at, not Crote rhyming with goat Bosnia and HerzogoVEEEnia DANyoub, NOT DenOOB. The first syllable is stressed.

@ronwinkles2601 2 месяца назад

You got it bud! I've been there three times, and it is my favorite country along with the Czech Republic.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

Nothing wrong with that pronounciation of Slovenia.

@vivocanada 2 месяца назад

@@JmKrokY Nope. The English pronunciation of Slovenia is as I indicated. His brain is mixing it up with Slovakia.

@kj134 2 месяца назад

@@vivocanada His pronunciation is closer to Slovenian pronunciation of Slovenia😉. Both are completely fine as long as you don’t mistake us for Slovakia.

@therocketman4494 2 месяца назад

i love it when every basic geography channel starts its history after ww1, slovenia spent almost its entire history as a part of diffrent central european empires and was already vastly more educated and richer from the balkan states.

@IsabelJones69 2 месяца назад

I'm going to the Balkans in late July, early August and I am so happy to see that Slovenia is growing because even though I haven't been yet, it looks like a beautiful country.

@68404 2 месяца назад

Hire a bicycle and ride around Lake Bled. Watch out for flashers though.

@timprex317 2 месяца назад

Slovenia is the switzerland of the slavic world. Economically and nature wise.

@crsx1861 2 месяца назад

@@timprex317 It’s neither neutral nor a tax haven

@timprex317 2 месяца назад

@@crsx1861 i ment the highest salaries and the highest alps lol.

@crsx1861 2 месяца назад

@@timprex317 Bulgaria and Russia have higher mountains in fact

@darrynmilanmedjeri 2 месяца назад

With all due respect, I’m sure this Video has some great points, but I couldn’t listen to the whole thing due to the mispronunciations of countries, people and nationalities… Sorry, it’s a massive trigger for those of us from the region 😂

@radiouckaistra1256 21 день назад

I am from Istra region, one of the Croatian northwester regions. I simply love Slovenia the best of the best. I adore slovenian culture, language, heritage, people, girls ❤. Simply I love Slovenia. Hej Slovenci pozzz iz Istre

@JmKrokY 19 дней назад

Istarska županija 🥶

@timbieYT 2 месяца назад

nice

@xxtheuniversalmemexx1563 2 месяца назад

¿What is Slovenia doing right? being as far away of the rest of the Balkans as possible.

@joshgh8844 2 месяца назад

@xxtheuniversalmemexx1563 - It didn't work, Balkan flooded Slovenia after "independence"… and now flood continues by those from TW

@53cconadailee46 Месяц назад

The REST of the balkans? Just the balkans. Slovenia is not a part of the balkans.

@mariocerin4105 2 месяца назад

Judging by this video, Geography By Geoff is dumb geography. Like, counting Slovenia and Croatia into ''western Balkans''?!

@crsx1861 2 месяца назад

They are both.

@joshx555 2 месяца назад

Thanks for teaching me things man. :)... I would say your just as good and important as the "infograph show " " real life lore" "warograpics" "jonny harris". . . Granted most of those channels I just named are geo politic Style channels.. . But you do a good job at giving me information of the lay of the land. .in said places that I learned from other channels.

@johnthesaint4132 23 дня назад

Slovenia was the only one that did not border aggressive Serbia, and that saved us.

@nolex1 2 месяца назад

They are not Crots, capital mistake out there. Croats!!!! Croats- Croat- Croatia.. is that so hard to understand

@lovellesokan9107 2 месяца назад

All geopo...they shouldn't have broken up ..united we stand ,divided we fall..Live , and love thy neighbors as thyself.Brothers, do not allowed outsiders let you to fight amongst yourselves for their own interest. All that Balkan stuff, when were growing up just a waste of huma resources etc.. That is why !!!. You met this world as is ,and will leave it as it was..This place is a beautiful playground, not a battlefield homosapiens..!!!!! Cheyoooo

@travismcnamara8919 2 месяца назад

I love this comment - I couldn't agree more with the sentiment. Love is the meaning of life and I hope and pray that more wake up to this crucial reality!

@Tony_417 2 месяца назад

You sound batshit crazy. Your nonsensical rambling and run on sentences make me question your mental health

@SeverityOne 2 месяца назад

Yugoslavia was one of the countries that were created by treaty after a pan-European war. Other examples are Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (comprising present-day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg). Neither of these still exists. Other that were created and still exist had a more or less homogenous ethnic composition. And when they didn't, some good old ethnic cleansing after WW2 took care of that.

@sebastianSIo 2 дня назад

Ka se bunite kak govori, ded se je potrudu pa kvalitetn video o balkanu skup spravu, svaka čast majstor! Good video, dont mind people correncting you, even i could not give proper pronounciation of certain places(; great work and thank you!

@fisniksijarina5155 2 месяца назад

The population numbers might be much lower than the official numbers released.

@shreenilodedra5725 2 месяца назад

I thought Slovenia is the richest Yugoslavian state , hence it's growth

@ronwinkles2601 2 месяца назад

Slovenia was Tito's mother's home. She influenced Tito to allow the small farmer's who earned 50 acres or less to retain their family farms. The rest of Yugoslavia was forced to collectivise their farms into state farms. This created a wealth disparity.

@fluidice1656 2 месяца назад

@@ronwinkles2601 The agriculture has been a very minor contributor to the economic growth in Slovenia - about 5%. Also, pretty much all of the development happened after the independence and especially after joining the EU. The disparity between it and all other ex-Yu nations is now much greater than during the Tito's regime. So your hypothesis is false.

@dzonikg 2 месяца назад

.In 1980 SLovenia had 198% off Yugoslav GDP ,Croatia 126% ,Serbia 101% ,Bosnia 66%,MOntenegro 77%,Macedonia 67%

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

@@fluidice1656 The past impacts the future.

@fluidice1656 2 месяца назад

@@JmKrokY I'm not suggesting that it doesn't. But you can't reduce the past to a single factor, such as agricultural advantages, especially where, as I pointed out, agriculture has not been playing a major role in the growth of the country.

@goranmiljus2664 2 месяца назад

Slovenia was never really "Balkan", .... They were always more Industrious / Austrian / Western /Liberals.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

Balkan is a geographical term used to describe basically everything east of the Italian peninsula and south of the Pannonian basin, it is not a cultural term.

@crsx1861 2 месяца назад

That’s false. Before Yugoslavia, Slovenia was always one of the poorest and most backward parts of Europe

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

@@crsx1861 When you become the most developed area of a country, it is easy to keep being the most wealthy by buying cheap resources and reselling refined versions of those same resources with huge profit margins.

@goranmiljus2664 2 месяца назад

Maybe Europe....but by Yugoslavian Gypsie standards....they were blue eyed blonde Germans.@@crsx1861

@goranmiljus2664 2 месяца назад

It is if you come from there.There is a "Balkan Mentality"....Unfortunately Balkan means FOREST in Turkish.That area was dominated by Turkey for hundreds of years........and that "Middle Eastern " mentality survives. Lebanon and Bosnia are VERY SIMILAR countries politically / Socially UNFORTUNATELY @@JmKrokY

@mitchyoung93 2 месяца назад

Since everyone is bagging on pronunciation, the second 'e' in Neretva river is pronounced somewhere between the 'a' in pay and the 'e' in bed, and definitely not like 'ee' in neat. Kotor is stressed on the first syllable KO-tor. The 'h' in Ohrid isn't silent, but makes that sound we Enlish speakers have a hard time with, the 'ch' in the Scottish loch. Och-rid.

@Sacto1654 Месяц назад

Well, Slovenia is also next to Italy and Austria. That really helps in terms of economic potential in that country.

@ronwinkles2601 2 месяца назад

Slovenia fought fiercely in 1991 for its independence with every male from 16 to 70 years of age coming to its defense and in two weeks they defeated all invaders. No attack was ever launched against Slovenia after such a tremendous defense. For me who spend 30 years traveling and living in Europe, I think the most beautiful place in all of Europe is Lake Bled in Slovenia. It is an absolute fairy tale from its crystal clear alpine lake, to its 1000 year old castle perched high above the lake, to its ancient church on a small island in the lake to the background of the Triglava snow capped mountains in the background. It is no wonder the church hosts more weddings than any other place in Europe.

@kj134 2 месяца назад

Good observation! I also don’t like it when people downgrade the Slovenian war of independence. Today, almost every Slovenian men over 50 years old, participated in the war as either a soldier or a civilian. The national defense didn’t have enough equipment for everyone who volunteered. We can only thank God that the war was short and without many casualties. But family members of the fallen defenders feel no less sorrow than others with similar experience …

@MisterJovke 2 месяца назад

Slovenians are a gay nation. Ethnic Slovenians make up only 1.4m of Slovenia's population, and the remaining 700,000 inhabitants are immigrants. Mostly from Bosnia.

@_petrovic179 2 месяца назад

What!? ''...in 2 weeks defeated all invaders...!!! '' What invaders? J.N.A (Yugoslav People's Army) was not invader, and the soldiers were not given ANY ammunition! However, Slovenian bandits (yes, bandits, irregulars and so called Civil defense'') attacked non-armed soldiers, killing many! What a bravery! Not a bravery, but war crimes! Yet, supported by Germany who wanted Yugoslavia to break up, they succeeded and never pay back all the credits received and invested to Slovenia from former Yugoslav federation. What a way to become ''independent'' ! There was no real war in Slovenia. Soldiers of Yugoslav army were highly outnumbered, surrounded and many killed. War crimes of killing non-armed soldiers were never accepted. Instead, just transparent nazi propaganda of ''Yugoslav attack on small Slovenia''' - which is very hidden all these years. All around former Yugoslavia, Slovenians are considered to be cowards and pro-German traitors.

@Azax0 2 месяца назад

@@MisterJovke I guess other ex-yugo immigrants loves gays so they are coming to Slovenia to find some.

@mojaslovenija9903 2 месяца назад

Regarding the term Balkan... I am a professional geographer as my competence to my remark...: Balkan is mot a geographical term but relict and historical for European territory dominated by Osmani empire. It originis from mountain Stara gora in nowadays Bulgaria. It was wrongly used by German geographers in mid 19th century to oppose French geographers terminology. Nowadays it is used only as a folclore or a drunken talk term or local jokes. Geography congress two decades ago suggested use the term South East Europe, Central Europen countries are seperate area. Using term West Balkams means the west part of European territory of Turkye nowadays. The term is wrong used inplrmented by ignorant US joirnalists and politics.

@valentintapata2268 2 месяца назад

The term South East Europe was first suggested by Jernej Kopitar (1780-1844) a Slovene linguist and philologist (also Imperial censor for Slovene literature).

@nylixneylix8785 2 месяца назад

Southern Europe is good enough, don't complicate things.

@user-mg2ip8cr8z 2 месяца назад

Bosnia used to have 2 coasts , the one at Neum & another at Sutorina which was latter given to Montenegro

@tyronetb3 2 месяца назад

I would have never even known of this place. I need to visit.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

How

@petemitchell9996 2 месяца назад

Kosovo is Serbia. There is no former Yugoslav republic of Kosovo. It was a province. Why do people who make these videos about Balkans never actually do proper research? You're a channel about geography you should know the basics.

@nikolinmarku4020 2 месяца назад

Serbia has committed genocide twice and I repeat, twice! In Kosovo in 1999 and before that in Bosnia and Herzegovina!!! It hasn't been too long but it doesn't seem to matter. The Albanian people have suffered too much. Now enough I would say!!!

@HeroManNick132 2 месяца назад

Serbian chauvinist is coping.

@demasiadissimo 2 месяца назад

Hard to take anyone seriously who calls Croats “Crotes”. Does not convey credibility. Do proper research first.

@davidv89955 Месяц назад

also bosnia and hercegovinya?? the is no Y sound. this is not spanish ñ

@obalasmora4192 2 месяца назад

Improved after breakup? Do we talk about the same Yugoslavia? We cannot even paint everything that Yugoslavia built here...

@noodengr3three825 2 месяца назад

I got to visit Croatia , Bosnia and Montenegro in Sept 2013. Fell in love with the area and people. This September i have tickets booked to go to Kosovo N Macedonia Albania and Serbia. Slovenia is high on my wish list

@user-pc2jp2yr3c 2 месяца назад

Bosnia and Herzegovina was Central Croatia in the past. The current borders were loosely taken from the Croatian war borders with the Ottoman Turkish Empire from the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699 AD.

@redhidinghood9337 2 месяца назад

Bosnia was an independent state since the High Middle Ages centered around current central bosnia. Its borders changed over time (at point including parts of modern south croatia), but that nucleus was always Bosnia. Krajina for example was a part of Croatia until the date you mentioned, but couldn't the same be said about Istria and countless Dalmatian cities being a part of Italy for much longer than they were croatian? I think such historical arguments about territory are pointless and harmful. Why do you want land, if your own ethnicity isn't living there? Even the economy doesn't improve from land acquisition as we aren't agricultural societies anymore. Let's focus on our own societies and how we can improve them, instead of trying to play strategy empire-building games in real life and political discourse.

@user-pc2jp2yr3c 2 месяца назад

@@redhidinghood9337 Bosnia was 100% populated by Croats before the Ottoman Turkish invasion of 1463 AD , for example, Grand Duke Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (1350 to 1416 AD) who founded Jajce castle in what is now Central Bosnia and was the biggest Bosnian feudal landowner.

@user-pc2jp2yr3c 2 месяца назад

@@redhidinghood9337 Italy was only created for the first time in 1861 without Venice or Rome.

@sergej23kv 2 месяца назад

You started with incorrect info. Kosovo is not a country. Tara canyon is the deepest canyon in Europe and second deepest in the world, after Grand Canyon. One would expect that you would do better preparation for making this video. And you didn't get a single thing right about political situation there.

@pripri632 2 месяца назад

Go and check over there 🤣🤣🤣 Huuh, just don't forget your personal documents, if you want to visit the Independent State of Dardanian Kasua🇦🇱

@HeroManNick132 2 месяца назад

Russian is coping.

@anthonyminimum 2 месяца назад

Now make a video of New Jersey

@jonnyminogue 2 месяца назад

I love learning about Alaska…especially Alaska 5000

@ajstanton7081 2 месяца назад

A few months ago, I talked with a couple of drunk Croatian guys on Omegle. We had a nice, long discussion about our different cultures and what our living conditions were like. But when I asked about their odd borders with Bosnia and Herzegovina, they weren’t able to explain it very well. This video really helped me get a better understanding! Thanks so much!

@9and7 2 месяца назад

That doesn't explain it at all...

@dzonikg 2 месяца назад

Reason is simple,it was land where Serbs and Croats lived ruled by different Croatian and Serb feudalist until Otomans came ,they created muslims by giving them more rights then non muslims

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

@@dzonikg True

@mtljbc6568 2 месяца назад

@@dzonikg trebo si malo vise slusati u skoli, i povezivati stvari pa bi znao

@nemanjaprvulovic2728 2 месяца назад

This video isn't your best work. Speaking as someone from this region.

@deanpruit4216 2 месяца назад

Slovenia actually has an economy on par with western nations. That probably attracts migrants.

@PolecanePC 2 месяца назад

Just a small thing... There are differences in words Bosnia, Macedonia, with words Vojvodina , Hercegovina etc. Pretty sure people from Slavic countries smiled a bit when you read all of them in same way

@Staniele 2 месяца назад

As a Slovenian, I think it’s because we have always been the richest out of there. Six mental illnesses I mean, countries of Yugoslavia. And we have always tried to be a second Switzerland, so it might be something to do with that. We just try?

@bedri1 2 месяца назад

what is herzogovin-J-a? what is vojvodin-J-a?

@BosnianBornBeast 2 месяца назад

About time someone made a video of saying these countries have shrinking populations (other than Slovenia). I'm tired of nationalists on all sides saying their country is better but failed to look at the shrinking population due to young people moving out it...

@amarillorose7810 2 месяца назад

Slovenia actually has a demographic problem, so this video is not completely accurate, its demographics were filled by Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, Albanians who moved there, so the picture looks better, but the number of native Slovenians is decreasing even faster than in other former Yugoslav countries. Slovenia also has its own fare share of problems.

@BosnianBornBeast 2 месяца назад

@@amarillorose7810 they always had a small population compared to the others tbh and they always had a language problem as well because they are the only group that uses Slovenian as their language in this world while Bosnians, Serbians, Croatians and Montenegrins can for the most part understand each other.

@EJavierPaniaguaLaconich 2 месяца назад

FFS Bosnia- Herzegovina, not HerzegoviNIA. If you don't even know the name of the country to begin with...

@simonrajh 2 месяца назад

Its logical that English speaker cant say it properly... why are you beign hostile AF?

@elvenrights2428 Месяц назад

Croatia is mostly about tourism for Slovenes and Western Europans, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia are mostly about upbringing expats for working and living on the west (not specifically in Slovenia). Croatia's tourism is main reason it's Adriatic coast is so huge.

@MrUneTeube 2 месяца назад

The kingdom is more a result of the Triple Entente winning the war in 1918 than a consequence of some kind of national pan-slav movement. France and England needed a buffer to counter the interests of Germany and Austria in central Europe. That's why the state that became Yugoslavia was coined. That is also why it imploded.

@JaPakaj 2 месяца назад

Slovenia is not part of the Western Balkans, which is a geopolitical term for the current non-EU Balkan countries. As for Yugoslavia.. we have a very different history, up until 1918, than most of the ex-Yu area. Slovenia was for centuries inside what used to be "Inner Austria", which made it much more advanced compared to countries who had to fight or live under the Ottomans. It also lies between Trieste, a very important port for the Habsburgs, and Vienna the imperial capital. There are many other reasons as well, like for example not having a catastrophic war on our soil in the 90s. I don't think it is a fair comparison, and we mostly or chase Austria and Germany anyways. Yugoslavia was ok in the 60s and 70s, not great not terrible, and it is the reason why we are still grouped together in many topics today. Culturally and historically tho, we have more in common with Austria, northern Croatia and Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italy. With the Balkans, not so much, tho there is still some nostalgia among some people. Mostly older people who miss being young.

@milansimonovic8267 2 месяца назад

What the F u talking about, Kingdom of Serbia had 600km of rail while Slivenia had zero, then they begged Aleksandar to let them in then Tito plunderd Serbia and took all the factorise to Slovenia. Even today Serbs who work for Slovenians say that they are thifes, because they dont know any better.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

@@milansimonovic8267Do you have evidence to back your claims up?

@milansimonovic8267 2 месяца назад

@@JmKrokY ask the Slovenians they will tell you, or you should justgoogle it

@valentintapata2268 2 месяца назад

@@milansimonovic8267 Southern railroad - built between Vienna and Trieste in 1839-1857,... Only predecessor company of TAM in Maribor and one very small company in Kranj were transfered to Slovenia, others went mostly in Bosnia. Before the division of the Free Territory of Trieste (1947-1954), huge quantities of vehicles, boats, machinery and other things were taken and transfered mostly to Croatia - never to be returned neither to Italians or Slovenes (a few people did get some small change as "compensation"). And how much money did went from Slovenia to Beograd?

@milansimonovic8267 2 месяца назад

@@valentintapata2268 well ok there was 50km of rail. Built by Austrians. And the money that went to Beograd is called taxes every country has them. And all the upper eshalons in Belgrade were abolished Croats and Slovenians. But that is not even close what was stolen from Serbia.

@AuoraWolf5911 2 месяца назад

0:08 this video is now banned in Serbia

@antoninomassimovadala7431 2 месяца назад

Slovenia's population is growing,however the birth-rate of actual Slovenes is also negative,there are about 86% pure Slovenes living in Slovenia

@ro.stan.4115 2 месяца назад

Relevant source? Last year 9,4% were foreigners. Add slovenian citizens that are not ethnic slovenians. The number of ethnic slovenians is probably around 80% or even less.

@antoninomassimovadala7431 2 месяца назад

I got the info from a geography book that I had about 3 years ago,so its probably outdated by now

@darkogrgic2507 2 месяца назад

Nice and neutral wiew of crossroads of europe. Thank You! All solution for Europe is to find Key How to controll this region. Maybe to set few cameras and send some tickets?

@CaptainFSU 2 месяца назад

WTF is the Eastern Balkans?

@Bleilock1 2 месяца назад

Bulgaria and romania, even moldova

@parkependleton6453 2 месяца назад

I love your videos Geoff, but your historical analysis of what led to the political conditions existing now in the Western Balkins was ill advised and inadequate. The situation is infinitely more complicated, going back over twelve hundred years.

@grgotreci3 2 месяца назад

Even in the eighties many Bosnians were working in Slovenia because of better salary

@stefandrakche 2 месяца назад

Watch weight of chains ⛓️ to learn about what and why

@Socika14 2 месяца назад

I'll tell you exactly what Slovenia is doing. We're giving anyone who comes here free place to live and free allowance for them and each kid they bring with them. The Slovenian birthrate is shrinking faster than the other countries, but Albanian and Kosovan population is moving to Slovenia and exponentially increasing in size. Walking down the street in any major city in Slovenia you don't hear Slovenian language anymore. You can hear some Serbian, but mostly it's Albanian/Kosovarian.

@JmKrokY 2 месяца назад

🗿

@HeroManNick132 2 месяца назад

In fact you are the only Slavic country who recognised the same sex marriage so I'm not surprised.

@bubee8123 2 месяца назад

It would be nice if u mentioned that territory of Bosnia was once part of Croatia taken by Ottoman empire. They had their grip on population for to long so after their collapse Bosnia became a country. That is a main reason for the boarder we have today. Serbia also lays claims on the Bosnia but Serbia historically had their land on modern day Montenegro, Kosovo and part of the Albania.

@southepirote7676 2 месяца назад

Hahahahaha yeah right, keep dreaming. You are slavic settlers, nothing more 😂

@unknownuser412_ 2 месяца назад

the concept isn’t “they are progressing but losing population” but “they are progressing AND losing population”. It’s not weird, it’s a normal trend for developed and developing countries to have lower birth rates as they grow economically.