Geography Now - Slovakia | AMERICAN COUPLE REACTION VIDEO

Geography Now - Slovakia | AMERICAN COUPLE REACTION VIDEO
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[@moreamour2869]

I’m Slovak and I have never heard about the edible frog, nor that anyone has eaten it 😂

[@elaundertale]

tbh, I would try it

[@Cherubiiin]

Slovak gang★!

[@platanus1]

🤯

[@timotejantaek412]

Tak čus teda

[@donutgaming88]

Čau​@@timotejantaek412

[@latenightneons]

In 2012 Slovaks voted for the name of a new pedestrian and cycling bridge connecting Slovakia and Austria. The poll won "Chuck Norris bridge" with 74% votes :D Unfortunately, Bratislava regional assembly didn't like the result so they renamed it to "Bridge of Freedom". However, Google and other big companies already published the name to their maps and it's still there. That's how we beated Chuck Norris. We are crossing him daily.

[@LegionnaireScout]

“Unfortunately, Bratislava regional assembly didnt like the results” Yes, democracy and the will of the people is a suggestion, not the rule in Slovakia

[@britblue]

Reminds me of the time here in the Uk when an Antarctic research ship was being built in 2019 the government of the day had a public vote on what to call it . When someone jokingly suggested the name "Boaty Mcboatface" & it won the vote by a landslide. The government ignored it & called the boat The David Attenborough (iconic Natural history presenter) instead !!@@LegionnaireScout

[@snickersik1]

Slovakia and Slovenia are split by Austria and Hungary and dont border each other.

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

For now *starts tanks heading south*

[@kselo6158]

S L O V A K I A

[@user-ut4qv4lb7r]

Oh my God I love you guys!! Hello from Slovakia 🇸🇰

[@uxydra6403]

Slovakia Is poor czechia.

[@user-ut4qv4lb7r]

@@uxydra6403 Bro what 💀

[@uxydra6403]

@@user-ut4qv4lb7r lol just joking.

[@matejmatuska6700]

@@uxydra6403 I hope cau dont mistake us with chechoslovakia and NOTICE us on map we slovaks are so overlooked

[@uxydra6403]

@@matejmatuska6700 idk what you are tryna say here but im from czechia and yes i can spot slovakia on the map

[@polishslovak]

I love this video. Just two corrections - we dont eat frogs :D that is some misinformation. It might be served in special restaurants, but when I was searching for such a restaurant, I have not found any with frog on their menu. :D Fujara, the instrument, we are so proud of is pronounced "fuyara/fooyara" not "fugara". :D Im kinda sad that they have not played a short fujara song. I highly suggest to look it up on KZbin and listen to yourself. Soooo relaxing.

[@quintondekyls9709]

Love these videos. Keep them coming.

[@petrmilota6398]

cloning edible frog? world hunger solved

[@1ivanesku]

I'm from the football pitch/train village lol :) the train is now just a tourist attraction, so it's usually part of the game, or it sometimes even brings the fans

[@martinrusnak1155]

I am sorry Wales, but you are not a sovereign country, just a region of Great Britain, so you can not have a title when it comes to castles and chateaus per capita... When you have some doubt look at your passport...

[@nielsrunhaar2284]

Maybe you can react to Geography Now Suriname? It's an intresting most of the time forgotten nation that has a LOT of diversity with only 400k people.

[@bbcarrypups]

As a slovakian woman i can confirm i get beaten and watered every easter

[@AdamBuris69]

Hungary in the corner: oh my son 😂😂

[@vanillaicecream9126]

Also in Slovakia people love sport ..Summer ..Bike ,hikking ,climbing, swiming.--Winter ..snowboarding, skiing ,climbing, cross county skii

[@rafalkaminski6389]

The carp tradition on christmas is not specifically in slovakia, but it goes in all the central Europe, i guess. Im from Poland and we have that. :)

[@djs3bastianxd945]

I'm from slovakia 🇸🇰 we love hiking

[@robertbretschneider765]

Nice one.

[@jakubondrus6064]

2:02 the mail thing is an old hoax/urban legend/myth haha. It did happen once, in Washington D.C., in the first years of our countries' independence iirc, but doesn't really happen any regularly.

[@jakubondrus6064]

Also 5:21 the track isn't used for regular service, only occassional summer service for tourists served by historical trains, so most of the times games aren't affected haha

[@jakubondrus6064]

And I figured I'd better include all my comments in a single one haha:D 11:10 the frog species isn't eaten nowadays (and I believe it's protected by law). The frogs used to be commonly eaten centuries ago, when people would eat anything that was barely edible, but now we don't really eat frogs and most people don't even know our ancestors used to eat frogs. Fun fact, our ancestors used to also eat ants, tree leaves, snakes, or beechmast. Basically anything that was edible. The past was rough, wasn't it. 13:40 the share of the Romani is estimated to be much higher, about 8-10%, but in censuses, most Romani tend to claim a different ethnicity (Slovak, Hungarian, Rusyn - whichever ethnic group forms a majority in their respective area), because of complicated history and relations with the 'white' majority (Romani are generally considered 'non-white', while all other ethnic groups are generally considered 'white'). Also, the share of the Hungarians and Rusyns is probably a bit higher, because of ethnically mixed families. 15:12 this isn't true, most Rusyns (about 2/3) are Greek Catholics. About 1/3 of Rusyns is Orthodox, but ethnic Ukrainians and Russians (also present in Slovakia) are traditionally Orthodox. 15:22 Andy Warhol is the most famous Rusyn! He was born in the US, but his parents were from a small Rusyn village in modern Northeastern Slovakia. That's why there's a museum (the one mentioned earlier in the videp) dedicated to his work. It's located in Medzilaborce, a town close to Warhol's parents' village. It has the second largest collection of Warhol's original work in the world! 22:16 I'm surprised they mentioned this. It is true but many Slovaks don't really think about it and, in case of Albania, they probably don't even know🤷🏻‍♂️ 22:49 Russia should've been mentioned too. Despite the 20 years of the Soviet occupation, Slovaks are quite a Russo-friendly nation, this positive sentiment dates back to the 19th century. Interestingly enough, when WWII Slovak Republic, as an ally of Nazi Germany, invaded the Soviet Union, many Slovak soldiers deserted and joined the Soviet forces because they simply viewed the Russians and Ukrainians as brothers and refused to fight against them and kill them. Even today, in Slovakia, levels of support and/or positive attitude towards Russia are higher than in most other European countries. 23:14 as for Armenia, Slovakia not only officially recognises the Armenian genocide, but is one of few countries where the genocide denial is punishable by a dedicated law. Just a small fact. 24:36 our borders are actually just a several hundred miles apart, Bratislava and Ljubljana (the two capitals) are located less than 300 mi and less than 5 hours from each other. Though, we're essentially separated by Austria and Hungary.

[@tubekulose]

Frog actually tastes delicious. Imagine chicken wings but even more tender and moist.

[@peterjobovic3406]

Actually Slovakians dont eat frogs.

[@michalglonek6217]

Im from slovakia 🇸🇰❤️

[@iAdam43]

11:10 we have never eaten frogs... and I hever hreard of eadible frog... its just a france thing you know XD

[@antisiq]

Hi from Slovakia

[@michalgreslik3651]

Most of the Orthodox are Ruthenians. But most Ruthenians are Greek Catholics. Slovaks don't know that. It is also symbolic that a Rusyn - Peter Bondra (you probably know him from the NHL) dealt the fatal blow to the Russians in the finals of the 2002 World Hockey Championship. He was born in Ukraine. His goal marked victory over Russia. I'm Rusyn too and that match was a moment worth living for. :)

[@erenaygun4157]

*Geography Now! Kazakhstan & Saudi Arabia 🇰🇿🇸🇦* reactions pls... ❤️🇰🇿🇸🇦

[@milangacik994]

We don´t eat frogs in Slovakia. That´s the thing we leave to French called sometimes here Frogeaters. 🤣🤣🤣

[@RichardWagnerRW]

🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰❤️

[@paulojrneto]

Did you guys already did San Marino?

[@karolinadobisova]

BTS 💜💜 behind you I love it 😍💜

[@Pidalin]

I like how every country in Europe has scientificaly proven that center of europe is in their country. :-)

[@CHRCHTR]

hello. thank you for your video. I'm from Slovakia 🇸🇰... it's a shame they forgot to mention the Slovak parachute inventor Štefan Banič... but otherwise good

[@iAdam43]

please watch PPPeters video about slovakia its very funny and he have great edit

[@Amal-ow7in]

Please it's my request . I am your biggest fan from India

[@oskarhruska6142]

Dobrideň ľudia

[@wwesvk9958]

Train is going through match going on in that video that was training

[@Rust__Game]

21:13 where is Carpathian Rus as a part of the territory of Slovakia/Czechoslovakia?

[@romanc189]

It wasn't part of Czechoslovakia in 1918. They joined in late 1919

[@erikwejsfelt5796]

Can you react on Malmö FF from Sweden??

[@marcominarech9092]

im from slovakia

[@Zapijatko]

I dont get it how they did not mention Petra Vlhova

[@fazeneu]

We dont eat frog

[@Amal-ow7in]

Please react to geography now russia

[@rafalkaminski6389]

The thing that slovakia is so much "the first" per capita should tell you that IT is low populated. ;)

[@spacerunner5049]

That frog is edible but disgusting so you cant eat it

[@miska4658]

im Slovakia

[@augustus8957]

9:01 Yes, that's exactly where I live and I'd kill those rats, they're everywhere!

[@timotejantaek412]

My country full of da watar

[@tilenoblak7304]

Can you react to Slovenia please🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@roberttirpak5447]

PppPeter needs to stop making videos about Slovakia. As a Slovak myself I am ashamed of the way how he speaks about our country. He is "click baiting" people for more views with his videos. Slovakia is not perfect, no country is. We have a rich history, great food, strong alcoholic beverages, beautiful nature and the people are nice. Most of the 20+y old speak English to at least some degree. Don't take my word for it, look up some more information about Slovakia yourself. I bet you will be positively surprised. Have a great day.

[@uncle_matula]

Bratislava, originally called Pozsony, was Hungarian territory for over a thousand years, (as was Kassa) a Hungarian city, and most of the castles shown here are... Interestingly, this was hidden from the video all along...

[@vkdrk]

*occupied by Hungary. Real (ethnic) Hungarians came to Europe from Mongolia, that's where their actual territory is. You forgot to mention that.

[@aumento3069]

This is Geography "now" you stacked Mongolian descendant 😀 wake up finally, it's 2022

[@ejo5336]

Are you sure it was originally called Poszony and how about Wien? Poszony was only hungarian name originally came from latin name Posonium in german it was Pressburg in Slovak Prešporok in greek Istropolis in in 800 it was Bratislav.... also go to pass and ask Roman leaders best Cesar or Celts etc. So go cry to some nazi hungarian forum about your complexs of slovaks and slovakia.

[@peterjobovic3406]

Dear Arpad. Bratislava / Pozsony was built on the old Roman border fortress-Pisonium and was called Uratislaburgium / Wratisslaburgium after the Moravian prince Uratislaus. Devin's castle is even almost 200 years older and was built by the Slavs. Košice / Cassa is a town where the settlement was still in Celtic times. Budapest, on the other hand, is also an old Slavic city. Buda- is a house in Slavic language and Pest is a furnace. Most of the castles and chateaux in Slovakia were built by Germans and Slovak workers. Look at your DNA and you will find that you are just a Hungarian Slav. Ethnically, Hungarian and Slovak are almost the same.

[@benyovszkyistvan408]

They keep it a secret that it was an integral part of the Kingdom of Hungary until June 4, 1920! Felvidék! (The maximum they are willing to take into account is the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.) The ancient Hungarian coat of arms was also stolen. The origin of their anthem is also highly disputed. Certainly the origin of an ancient Hungarian folk song. Unfortunately, the Czechoslovak Benes decrees were not discussed in the program either! Slovakia=🤮

[@luciakallova7687]

the Slovak national anthem was created to the melody of the Slovak folk song Kopala studienku and the words were written by Janko Matuška, unmistakably Slovak, the question is just your surname, which is of Slovak origin, just Hungarized

[@benyovszkyistvan408]

@@luciakallova7687 my surname is Hungarian, as is my heart and identity! He was always Hungarian. All kinds of Slavs are far from me. You are not convincing about the national anthem of the Slovaks! Look at the coat of arms of the Slovaks, there is nothing Slovak (Slav) in it, at most the colors indicate it.

[@benyovszkyistvan408]

@@luciakallova7687 The Triple Mound and Patriarchal Cross in the Coat-of-Arms of Slovakia Veronica Marton After the 1993 dissolution of Czechoslovakia, a patriarchal (dual) cross atop the triple mound, the emblem borrowed in 1848 from the Hungarian Coat-of-Arms, reappeared on the flag and Coat-of-Arms of Slovakia. In the Hungarian Coat-of-Arms, the triple mound is green, and the central, larger mound has a silver-colored patriarchal cross extending up, out of a ducal (tri-peaked) crown, while in the Slovakian, the triple mound is blue, the crown is missing and the dual cross is white. 1. The current Slovak Coat-of-Arms It is completely understandable, that a newly-formed country would create or generate national symbols for itself but less so, that one would use the thousand-year-old symbol of its neighbor. This is a serious insult to the Hungarian Nation. "The affront to the Coat-of-Arms", [or rather the unrightful use of our symbols]has always been regarded as an insult to the owner of the coat-of-arms. The May 26, 1884 order of the Minister of the Interior, article 29.722, regulated the use of the small and mid-sized Hungarian Coats-of-Arms. I would presume that current International Law bans the use of one nation’s symbols by another nation even if the colors are slightly changed. The symbols on coats-of-arms have ancient historical origins; their roots go back to the Middle Ages. In the case of the Hungarian symbols, they reach back to ancient times. "The coat-of-arms is created by the use of shapes and colors following specifically determined rules which . . . states, counties, cities legally use as their respective and immutable emblem, based on ancient right or regal grant. It has identifying symbols and the picture created is incorporated into the shield, so that it becomes accepted as a rightfully worn insignia, inheritable with all its rights. The origins of the coat-of-arms (in Western Europe) can be traced to the age of the Christian Crusades. . . The coat-of-arms was first used on the flag. . . and only around 1180 does it move to the shield. . ." The dual cross and the triple mound that appear on the Slovak Coat-of-Arms differ only in color from the Hungarian. The question arises: how and why did the Hungarian symbols, the dual cross and the triple mound, that developed centuries ago, migrate to the Slovak Coat-of-Arms? The answer to that is based on the history of the development of the dual cross and the triple mound as symbols. The Triple Mound In Europe, the triple mound, as the supporting base for the dual cross, is cited, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, as representing the Hills of Calvary. Throughout the Middle Ages, with the exception of the Holy Crown of Hungary, an angel on either side held up human figures, buildings or objects. The cross was not depicted on a flag but anchored on a base. This kind of base must have been in the shape of the Calvary Hills, the clover arch or a base of steps. From the 10th century on, following the Byzantine design, the single and triple mounds appeared, representing the three hills of Calvary. "As evidenced by our national currency and document seals, the dual cross, since its introduction, has always been placed on the most unique of bases. Since the middle of the 13th century. . . there has been an impetus to provide the cross with a permanent base. . . on the currencies of Béla IV. and Andrew III., for example, the practice was the base of steps." The most frequently used base for the Patriarchal cross is the national orb and crown-like arch. "Our oldest relic is the one dénár coin of Andrew II on which the leaf of the Patriarchal Cross rises from a crown… the crown on Andrew III’s dénár is an open crown of leaves." Some coat of arms researchers explain the transformation of the stepped base of the dual cross or the rounding of the leaves of the crown as the origin of the triple mound. Others attribute it to the Gothic clover arch.

[@benyovszkyistvan408]

@@luciakallova7687 2. The Dual Cross on an Arched Base The base of the above cross appears to be bowed, but closer observation reveals that the darker and lighter shades of the green coloring divide the hill into three parts. It is more obvious on the picture of Steven I in the Képes Krónika where we can see the dual cross, the triple mound and the flag. 3. The dual cross on the first page of the Képes Krónika (The Illustrated Chronicle Byzantine artwork depicting the three hills of Calvary show the base of the cross, first in a single, and later in a triple mound configuration, the barren land with the skull representing the three hills of Calvary, possibly only the skull on currency and on seals, with a step-like structure. According to heraldic references the triple mound in the Hungarian Coat-of-Arms represents neither the Byzantine step configuration nor the hills of Calvary but rather originated from the Gothic clover arch. "During the rule of the Anjous, particularly in the time of King Lajos the Great… in heraldic, numismatic and miniature mementos, its basic form was an artistic pointed clover arch." The motif of the triple mound as a base for the cross appears in the Gothic period (in the seal of Zsigmond), the Renaissance (in the coat-of-arms) and in the Baroque period (the medals of Ferenc Rákóczi II.). On the coats-of-arms of the 19th Century, the triple mound represented the three mountains (Mátra, Fátra, Tátra), suitably represented by a rocky, three pointed, high, mountainous shape. After the Compromise of 1867, "The Hungarian Heraldic and Genealogical Society, in 1884… in an opinion handed down ‘regarding the Coat-of-Arms of Hungary and it’s member nations’ denounces the naturalistic representation of the triple mound ‘…the triple mound is subject to heraldic interpretation, that is, the drawing should not be an effort to depict the natural shape of the mountains. Of the three mounds, the two ends shall be the same height, the center mound rising higher, mightier, which supports the Roman style cross’." … The coat-of-arms attached to it in 1896 already shows this stylized, crowned triple mound, which was even left intact by the 1915 coat-of-arms development. 4. Steven I. with shield and flag The triple mound does reflect the clover leaf but its origin is completely different; the clues lead eastward. In ancient Mesopotamia, in China and in Egypt, the pictograph of three mounds was used to represent the concept of "country".

[@benyovszkyistvan408]

@@luciakallova7687 In Sumer, circa 3400 B.C., the triple mound pictograph (three wedge-shaped symbols in Assyria) meant "country, mountainous country, foreign country". The land beyond Elam, the area between the Caspian Sea and Lake Aral, along with the Tarim Basin belonged to the Scythians. The triple mound represents this mountainous land. It exists in the symbols of nearly every people related to the Scythians, and they all use it to represent "country". One of the founding peoples of the Chaldean-Sumerians, the so called Uruk people, originated from here. (This does not mean, that the other members of the Sumerian people, the al-Ubaid and the Jemdet Nasr peoples, did not belong to the Scythians.) In China the three mounds mean "mountain", in Egypt the meaning is "foreign country", mountainous country occupied by other people. In all probability the triple mound in the Hungarian Coat-of-Arms stands for country, going back to the Chaldean-Sumerian triple mound pictograph meaning land, even if they didn’t depict it with the dual cross. This conclusion is supported by the foreign occurrences and descriptions of the triple mound. The triple mound is commonly used in the coats-of-arms of German cities ending in -berg (=mountain): Triberg, Heidelberg. etc. The foreign sources, therefore, reinforce the original usage of the triple mound to represent mountain, land, and possibly mountainous country. For the most part, in its Hungarian origins, the color of triple mound is green, which also supports the interpretation of mountain and land. The first real example is from Miklós Oláh: "Haec quatuor flumina… cum duplicata cruce alba, e monte viridi enata, insignia sunt Hungariae" (=These four rivers… the white dual cross rising from a green mountain, is the Coat of Arms of Hungary.) Unfortunately he does not mention which four rivers and which mountains it refers to. The comparison of the three mounds to Hungary’s three biggest mountains first appears from Macedo Antonius, a Jesuit Priest from Nagyszombat (1687); unfortunately he does not mention the names of the mountains either. By the 17th century, József Koller refers to Macedo’s description as common knowledge: "Alteram scuti partem Montges Regni praecipui, iique summi insigniunt. Nomen illis: Tatra, Fatra, Matra…" (On the other part of the shield, the largest mountains of the kingdom, were depicted. Their names: Tátra, Fátra, Mátra). This description was widely known and accepted by the 18th and 19th centuries and it is even common knowledge today. Equating the triple mound to Historic Hungary’s three largest mountains is acceptable insofar as the basic meaning really is "mountain". If it occurs in a coat-of-arms, and if the original meaning represents "country", it refers to a mountainous country. This is not contradicted, even by the dual cross described in the Chaldean-Sumerian language as the upper region of the sky because, if the cross is standing on the triple mound which represents country, then the combined meaning of the two: the joining together of country, the land (earth) and the sky (heaven). Therefore the triple mound, meaning country, with the dual cross creating a link to God on top of it, appeared several millennia ago in Chaldean-Sumerian pictographs. Its appearance on flags suggests that the depicted country is God’s country. And Hungary truly is just that, since, before his death, King Steven I. offered our home(land) to the protection of Our Lady of Hungary, the Blessed Virgin.