Origins of the Slavs

Slavic is the largest linguistic group in Europe, but what are the origins of the Slavic language and people? Where did they come from and how did they come to have such a prominent place in Europe? Looking at ancient history, archaeology, linguistics and genetics we investigate the origins of the Slavic people and how they came to possess the lands they now hold.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:20 Chapter I - From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Slavic
07:44 Chapter II - Earliest Historical Slavs
12:45 Chapter III - Proto-Slavic Culture
23:09 Chapter IV - The Slavic Expansion
32:21 Chapter V - Aftermath and Results
Music:
1) Druidic Dreams - Adrian von Ziegler
2) Dark Ambient Water - Marko Maksimovic
3) Ásgarðr - Adrian von Ziegler
4) Blóð ok Dýrð - Adrian von Ziegler
5) Ornu - Adrian von Ziegler
6) Pantheon - Scorewizards
7) Ótroðinn - Adrian von Ziegler
8) Rúnatýr - Adrian von Ziegler
9) Ambient Darkness - Marko Maksimovic
10) Elfenreigen - Adrian von Ziegler
11) To the Strong - Michael Vignola
12) Ásgarðr - Adrian von Ziegler
13 Ambient Cave - Marko Maksimovic
14 Cinematic Melancholy Accention - Connor de Borhegyi

[@FortressofLugh]

Note: When I say "Westward into Russia and Eastward into Poland"it should be understood as "Western Russia and Eastern Poland" - just one of those slip ups.

[@anem0nia]

You had me questioning everything I knew for a minute

[@death-istic9586]

Love your videos!💚😊

[@bluebird3281]

Don't worry no internet documentary watchers will notice.....

[@jurgenjung4302]

KZbin:ROBERT SEPHER mit "The Origins of the First EUROPEANS" 👋 👋 👋

[@richardblackman1285]

Amidst their flaw lol😂

[@TooGumbica]

Pozdrav vsim slovjanam, hrånite vaš duh, slava rodu 💪

[@user-jf6fj7rc5n]

Slava Rodu !🇷🇸

[@DonHrvato]

Bravo

[@bobilaforce8252]

СЛАВА РОДУ! Љубав вама свима из Србије. ❤❤❤

[@panklet8347]

Přesně chlapče, přesně

[@amnbvcxz8650]

Why do I understand everything, which language is that? :o

[@endurofly]

Be proud of your Slav heritage brothers and sisters Slovenian

[@ctwentysevenj6531]

Young Slovenian folk dancers kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2qZiZeLiZWAe5Isi=gt-TQG3EeTQ_Fj3e

[@makavelimaka8035]

I can't be proud of some Slavic bullies, but the rest of them are fine!

[@kristinaencheva2933]

Yes my brother....with love from Bulgaria

[@Tensh1n]

even after a thousand years all Slavs can understand the phrase Slava Rodu

[@aresares9548]

Слава роду.

[@brtcone]

Slava Rodu!

[@hobbitsodomizer7301]

Slava rodu našemu :-)

[@gordanageczy834]

Slava Rodu❤

[@MsMoonlightlily]

Слава Роду! Нет войне! Прости Господи грехи наши и что не ведаем мы, что творим.😢

[@zoranjuras6777]

I love you, all my Slavic brothers and sisters! Sve vas volim, braćo i sestre moje slavenske! Pozdrav iz Hrvatske!

[@bobilaforce8252]

СЛАВА РОДУ! Вечна љубав свим Словенима из Србије.

[@BalkanCrusader]

I Hrvatima?

[@definitelynotvepar6019]

@@BalkanCrusader da, cak i hrvatima

[@BalkanCrusader]

@@definitelynotvepar6019 Ovaj na ćirilici i dalje ne odgovara,al živio ti meni sto godina..

[@kaficmaxx591]

Njih je 12% a dinarskog tipa ima preko 40% i sta sada? To slava rodu je skoro izmisljeno i na primer Ukrajinci ga vole kao nove ustase... Cela prica onarikevkim vedama laž

[@superelectric8834]

I hope now you understand better your selfs. Funny is that you came to Albania and claim we came after you but you know we know who is living in stolen history and identity.

[@ivandebarcanec639]

Sending love to all Slavic people around the globe from Macedonia -Bog da gi cuva site Sloveni

[@elizluv]

I’m glad you’re realizing you’re Slav and not from the Hellenistic era Be proud who you are!

[@yorgos19681]

You mean from north macedonia.because if you are sending greetings from Macedonia then you are not Slavic you are Greek. as you understood in the Balkans you came in the sixth century after Christ while the Greek Macedonians and Alexander the Great died in 323 BC that is at least 800 years before the Slavic tribes came to the Balkans so what do you have to do with Macedonia you are Slavic From a country called north macelonia.

[@HippasosofMetapontum]

Makedonians are as much slavic as they are Turkic xD - think again

[@user-fu9hk5bz6v]

​@@elizluv nobody is saying we are hellenic... we carry the name Macedonia of our country.. the territory we live on.. we are proud slavs but nobody is denying that many different nations went through this territory and left a seed:) in the end every country is a mixture of nations in the past

[@zanternator]

@@yorgos19681 what do we have to do with Macedonia????? You are brain washed we are macedonians and you are greeks, Greek Macedonians???? what a extreme stupidity!! You start that theory when you realize that Yugoslavia is coming to the end and that a country named Macedonia will appeared. Your politics is making facts there where is no facts at all, you're remaking the history in the way you like to be. Macedonia is small country and there is no interest in the world to hear the true story. I'm not saying that our ancestors are ancient macedonians, but they are not greek ancestors also. Alexander III the Great was no greek he conquered Greece and ancient greeks went to war against him. 1 more thing if ancient macedonians were greeks why the ancestor of Alexander III the Great, Alexander I of Macedon was known among the greeks as Alexander the Philhellene?? Philhellene = friend of the greeks/helens. If he's a greek why friend of greeks?? And remember this.... you can't say who m I and where I come from, if you want to know ho we are, just ask us and everyone will give you the same answer, we are MACEDONIANS

[@loushark6722]

I'm Irish and I love these people. They seem familiar to me. No coincidence that Irish and slav people melt together very well.

[@jake-qn3tl]

Why do you think that is?

[@hydratejsn]

Yeah, why do you think so?

[@peka003]

im serbian and i always felt some kind of special bond with irish and scottish peoples,i dont know why exactly,while i feel hostility towards other west europeans like english germans and french.Might be our connection through celts who lived at balkans in old times

[@user-fs2vx4zx4j]

❤

[@Andrei-ev7du]

@@peka003Celts not have est european culture o genes, celtic culture and mentality is similar to germanic than to est european, celts aslo lived in south Germany with germanic peoples and copy the germanic style of living, aslo majority of french peoples are of gaul origin, germanic french peoples live much in borders with other germanic countries not in rest of France, germanics,balts and greeks civilized slavs, slavs just destroy the european culture and mentality with their pagan culture, they need go to Asia

[@leahzaloudek6978]

My DNA test just came back. My family lore was right. I am slovak! What wonderful timing for this video. Thank you!

[@matejsebechlebsky12]

Zaloudek sounds Czech to me. Probably some czech DNA in you as well

[@noraheist]

ehmmm, just saying that dna testing can be faulty and is actually quite inaccurate so I wouldn't take it too seriously before you adapt a whole identity you only perceive from an idealised outside point of view

[@Noone.05]

I am Hungarian, and I also made a DNA test (which is accurate because it showed that one of my third cousin has a DNA match with me), and I have a lot of slavic ancestors. It is known in my family that the largest part of it is from the historical Hungarian Kingdom's northern part (called Felvidék, this territory is nowadays Slovakia), but it was a bit surprising that I have also czech, polish, and a few Eastern-European relations.

[@jankatinkakristinka9165]

I am also Slovak

[@noraheist]

@@Noone.05 of course sometimes it's accurate but we have to keep in mind that these ancestry testing organisations are business and they aren't 100% correct in most cases. There was an investigation not long ago when a pair of identical twins tested separately from each other at 3 different ancestry testing organisation and in their results came back completely different from each other. So goes to show.

[@cimerej]

Pozdrav svim Slovenima !!

[@darioburatovich2240]

I Paraguayci isto....😂🇦🇷

[@aightimmaheadout3573]

i have mostly germanic ancestry but still carry a very old slavic last name from the 10th century that i’m also very proud of ‼️

[@ForageGardener]

Berlin is a slavic place name

[@marcusaurelius4941]

Nietzsche moment

[@grandmastersreaction1267]

I’m mostly of Slavic ancestry but I carry a very old Germanic name from the 4th century. 😊

[@metanoian965]

@@ForageGardener Lubeck / Stettin, etc

[@frostflower5555]

Germans are half Slavs. Maybe your name is Sorb.

[@Nefylym]

I thought it was so badass that we held hospitality in such high regard that we would throw down with anyone who threatened our guest's safe passage. Made me feel pretty proud of my heritage right there. Thank you for this eye opening history lesson.

[@greendalf123]

It seems to have been an Indo-European tradition too. It was similar among Germanic and Greek people to show hospitality. In the Norse saga “Thors visit to Jotunheim” Thor and Loki call for hospitality from a farmer and his family who must feed them as honoured guests. These traditions may go back to before our languages even separated.

[@ZokiDobrojevic]

To nas je i upropastilo . Pročuo se glas da postoji narod koji je gostoprimljiv , a pored toga i bogat (metal , tkanine , staklo i boje). Tako su u Evropu nagrnuli narodi kojima je u mentalitetu : pljačka , otimanje , razbojništvo . Kad su se dočepali metalnih sekira i mačeva , kola i zaprega , kasnije su se iz Evrope raširili po celom svetu . Otimanje , istrebljavanje , robovlasništvo , iskorišćavanje naroda i njihove imovine ; njihovo je glavno zanimanje do danas .

[@Nefylym]

@@greendalf123 Ha! Nice to run into you here, old friend. I think you're right. I also read some time ago that hospitality was a huge deal in ancient arabian days, like before Islam ancient. I can see how it could help avoid military conflicts between neighbors or strangers too. Thanks for clueing me into the Norse view of it, as I have a particular fondness for the old norse myths, especially where Freya is concerned.

[@premiumbackgroundmusic]

One of the possible reasons for this hospitality is that according to legend, the god Perun would often assume the form of a traveler and walk amongst his people to see how they conducted themselves. And if you refused him hospitality, you would be punished or cursed. So people assumed that a traveler might be their top god in disguise and spared no expense in accommodating them.

[@greendalf123]

@@premiumbackgroundmusic Could be, but it's probably due to real life situations. Remember, helping one another was always a positive for a social species. In Greek myth, there is a story where Zeus goes to a village, expecting hospitality. All the village but the last couple deny him it. In turn, Zeus tells the hospitable couple to flee and not look back, while he floods the village. (at least that's my recollection of the story).

[@Gubbe51]

The Slavs were not the last tribes of Europeans that accepted Christianity. Actually this process began in the VIII century in the south, and by the year 1000 all Slavic rulers were baptized. The last to be christened were Lithuanians, which happened gradually in the XIV century, and was fulfilled by the baptizing of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila who became the king of Poland and established the Polish Lithuanian Union. The pesants, however resisted christianization in a long time, as was also the case of Celtic and Germanic tribes.

[@antonlavrentiev5249]

Christianization of Perm started in middle of XV century, ended around XVI century. Some people on a border of Europe and Asia (hanty, mansi) follow their religion to this day. As for Slavic tribes, vyatichi were probably the last to become Christians.

[@MyNatureIsh]

Indeed, it is accurate; nevertheless, during that period, Lithuania had a predominantly Ruthenian population, leading to the presumption that they were baptized by Lithuanian elites, hence not entirely incorrect.

[@avatarion]

Even later were the Samis. Christianization of Lappland happened between the 1600's and 1900's.

[@MyNatureIsh]

@@avatarion This is actually cool, I haven't think about it but it makes sense. Sami people are really interesting and would love to see more of their culture in mainstream :)

[@Gubbe51]

@MyNatureIsh You are confusing the Lithuanian tribes with the Lithuanian realm, which consisted of annexed territories. Lithuania proper was not inhabited by Christian Ruthenians.

[@jimmydean123123]

PROTOSLAV sounds like an ancient powerful myth man. Protoslav...THE PROGENITOR OF ALL SLAVS

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

Maybe he should return and bring peace between Ukraine and Russia!

[@dittmannrudolfrohr2149]

Slavicize a people, a tribe, a clan and you have Slavs.

[@georgiykireev9678]

Protoslav Gigachadovich

[@CamiloGaetePuga]

@@georgiykireev9678 lmao

[@oreradivojevic837]

Prvoslav is legit name. It means same.

[@g84all]

Greetings, to all my fellow Slavs!

[@ronalddunne3413]

Slava Rossiya, tovarishch! Dobrovo zdorovia! 😊

[@pawelsz007locp]

@@ronalddunne3413nie nie, rosje to jebać akurat

[@irenajeinkova151]

@g84all Greetings from a Tsjechisch woman! Lang leve the Slavs!

[@vanjamenadzer]

I hope one day Slavs will unite in a single economic entity such as EU is. Slavic Union. The west can stay sick and perverted, we need to nurture our values and culture.

[@irenajeinkova151]

@@vanjamenadzer Slavs unite is a good idea, but not in the form of EU. But I agree, a unite based at our values is an excellent idee. / I have lived in Tsjechoslowakie in the period of Soviet Unie, I have mine experience with to live in a small country overrule by a large one. Although Russia is not Soviet Unie, is a risico to be to close in the economic vieuw as a small country. But, the EU now is much worse than the years of to be a satelit of SSSR! Have a nice evening!

[@user-oi1tu5cu1w]

You forgot to mention about the crusades against the Slavs, starting with the Venedian campaign of 1147. Then the pagan Slavs, who lived from the coast of modern Denmark to Prussia and on the Baltic islands, were destroyed or fled or were assimilated by the Germans. No fewer crusaders took part in these campaigns than in the Middle East.

[@richardaubrecht2822]

He did not mentioned any history after the teth century, so why should he specifically talk about the crusades?

[@MP-wi4dx]

The Crusades in the North are rarely talked about. I do not understand why. As far as I know, wars have been fought for a couple of centuries. What I can say is that when learning about the Crusades, at least in Serbia, all attention is focused on the Middle East. A big shame.

[@vadimpm1290]

After being Christianized, They, as it often happens with neophytes, had been almost immeduately involved into Crusades against Balts and Estonians.

[@MyNatureIsh]

The Northern Crusades, in terms of scale, were even larger than those for Jerusalem when considering the sheer number of warriors involved, a fact that is not widely known. Moreover, the atrocities committed by the Germans during the northern crusades served as just a prelude to the subsequent history of the region.

[@jaxn13]

All Slavs were pagan before Christianity.

[@SlavicAffairs]

Very interesting and informative video, and I absolutely love the ending. Thank you! Slava Slovjanom!

[@revert6417]

For Perun, and the KZbin algorithms. Glory to the Slavs!

[@2MinuteHockey]

He forgot to mention the crusades against the Slavs, starting with the Venedian campaign of 1147. Then the pagan Slavs, who lived from the coast of modern Denmark to Polish lands given to Prussia and on the Baltic islands, were destroyed or fled or were assimilated by the Germans. No fewer crusaders took part in these campaigns than in the Middle East.

[@Horribilus]

Glory to Kievan Rus!! May Perun save the country of my blood.

[@Nefylym]

@@Horribilus spoko spoko, Piorun u nas tesz byl znany bracie

[@0hn0haha]

Слава только Богу! Не Украине, не Россий, не Сербий не Польше. Пусть лучше мы отдадим славу Богу, а он за это благословит наш Славянский род! Он верен! Слава Богу!

[@Player-gx1eo]

All of sudden you are pagans now?

[@alpachino7659]

"Bobr, kurwa" is uniting Slavs these days 😂😂😂

[@notrobert8284]

САША ЭТО БОБЁР

[@OtherlingQueen]

KURWA TO JE FAJN BOBR

[@alpachino7659]

@@OtherlingQueen Gryzie, kurwa 😁

[@babrakoberma673]

@@alpachino7659 Bobor, je to čo má žena medzi nohami, keď sa neupravuje. :-D

[@stoyantodorov2133]

@@babrakoberma673Idk what this language is but as a Bulgarian I understood every single word 😅

[@silversun7830]

Slavs are unique group. They had linguistic influences from germanics and iranic sarmatians but they were different. Slavs were called in Greek Sklaveni or Venedi. They are mention to live far north . They were tall and well built and looks were greeks were skinny and small comparing to them more tan too. Us Greeks considered them trustworthy and great warriors very brave too and fearless

[@mladenkorstic]

both sarmatians and germanics are a branch of indo eruopean so we didn't have influence from germanics or sarmatians our languages are just based on one older language hence the similarities

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

Skinny and small? On the contrary, the Slavs are taller and larger than the Greeks. Northerners are longer than southerners. This is an axiom

[@silversun7830]

@@Anonymous-qj3sf yes greeks are skinny and small but slavs are tall and bulky you look like big gymnastic men and we look tiny geeks

[@mladenkorstic]

@@Anonymous-qj3sf Mainly the Slavs that carry high amount of I2a-Slavic are the tall ones

[@user-rb1ok6kn6u]

Сарматы - не иранцы. По Птоломею , Балтийское море - сарматский океан!!! Какие греки?? Которые низкие и черные?..славяне высокие белые!!! Сильные!!!

[@Ekcelent]

My brother, THIS, is one of the MOST IMPORTANT documentaries for all of us Slavs, or in our language "pre nás Slovanov"! You have no idea. Our history has been actively suppressed, at least here in Slovakia. After all the information collected in this video, I can see why. Our ancestors were hardy, tough and intelligent people, who valued freedom, friendship and family above all. Such cultures are hard to control for any empire or ruling entity. May one day all Slavs unite, stop with the wars among brothers on behalf of the emperors from the West and usher in a new era of Freedom and Prosperity! Sláva Rodu!

[@josfol]

I agree completely with you. I remember what German chancellor Otto von Bismarck said once "If you want to get rid of all Slavs try to separate Ukraine from Russia and turn them against each other. The slavs are the only ethnics in Europe who can destroy each other". Considering what happen in Ukraine just now he was right. Many of slavic countries hate Russians and are ready to join the West and go to war against them. The biggest haters seems to be Poles and Ukrainians.

[@bakerzermatt]

Minor correction for the use of the word 'slava': As you said, it means glory, but to get the meaning 'glory to', the next word needs the dativ case. So 'glory to god' is 'slava bogu'. 'Slava boga', on the other hand, means someting like 'glory of god' (in Russian at least). For 'Glory to Ukraine', it should be 'slava Ukraini' in Ukrainian (in Russian it would be 'slava Ukrainye'). 'Slava Ukraina' just means 'Glory Ukraine', which doesn't really mean anything. Good video!

[@amnbvcxz8650]

The Banja bathing tradition is still alive, despite how old it is, didn’t know it was so old

[@Nefylym]

looks comfy! :)

[@rreid3990]

Thanks for the video! I had searched for something like this previously and never really found anything! Bardzo dobrze!

[@insertname11]

Brooo this is exactly what I've been looking for. This exact topic made by a legit channel. Perfect timing lol

[@kathywolf4558]

Very well done. Glad to see you again. thank you very much for this video and all of them!

[@kathleenmccrory9883]

My brother has visited Poland twice, he said it's his favorite country that he's visited. He's traveled extensively in Europe and some in Asia. He sent me pictures from Wroclaw, where they have gnome statues everywhere. It looks pretty awesome.

[@dittmannrudolfrohr2149]

My great-grandparents come from Breslau. It's a very nice German city with so much history!

[@TK-hb1tg]

I am from wrocław and the gnome statues are pretty funny

[@christiankalinkina239]

There real

[@walterjurewicz1567]

@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 Its a Polish city. Next time don't invade and you can hold on to more territory.

[@dittmannrudolfrohr2149]

@@walterjurewicz1567 In 1241, the city, which had several thousand inhabitants, was burned down and exterminated by the Mongol invasion. Afterwards, the reconstruction was left in the hands of colonists from the German Empire who made the city independent with their own, so-called German, city rights (1262). The Times (London) reported on 27th October 1945: "The Polish authorities in Breslau today demolished one of the few remaining German monuments in the city, that of Kaiser Wilhelm I, and announced that the remaining 200,000 Germans still in Breslau would be expelled to Allied-controlled Germany. The new Polish city president, Stanislac Gosniej, declared in a speech before the monument, that 4,000 Germans were being expelled every week and within six months Wroclaw (Breslau) will be the second city of Poland [...] its population replaced by Polish settlers. It remains under Polish occupation.

[@danielm81]

What a wonderful documentary! Thank you! ❤

[@dexdressler82]

Just imagine what great power will be if ALL Slavics united?

[@romankuchevskiy250]

It’s impossible because of to imperialistic nations pols and russians they must always rule 😂 end they never learn 🤷‍♂️ and they get there ass kicked all the time 🤔

[@Undertaker257]

Thats why they can never let it happen ^^

[@MarkaNgamer]

Greatest in the world. Ironically.

[@rolas2700]

It would work out, but not with Russians😂

[@zaliznyak1]

Sadly, russians exist

[@HellMollyHolly]

Thank you, sir. Love how you pronounced sobaka😄

[@lanakovic-kp7iz]

Vinca pismo, 10000-6000 BC old, is origin of Slavic writing, 80 % the same as today, oldest writing in the world, Vinca and Lepenski Vir are oldest civilisation in Europe, that where Slavs originated. They spread from there East to Asia and West to Europe. Kljosov genetic research proved this.

[@asanaziri5168]

Aaaahaha 😅😂😅

[@korana6308]

Current theory is that Slavs originated somewhere at the border of modern day ukr. and Russia. However I must say, that there's an unspoken history which was known not so long ago. That the city of Great Novgorod, where Rurik established Russia, was originally called "Slovensk" and that original city was built there by Slavs around 5 thousand or so years ago.

[@-RONNIE]

Thank you so much for sharing the culture with people who do not know anything about it 👍🏻

[@katherinemarkva7552]

Truly appreciated.

[@BaneRain]

I was wondering when youd do one on slavs. I found your channel 2 days ago, and lo and behold a slav video. Krasny :)

[@1The1Sun1Teacher1]

Thank you for making this video.

[@Forloa]

Thank you for this great vid. Sláva Rodu!

[@bjarkiengelsson]

Perfect timing, just sat down with a cup of coffee

[@achintya.venkatesh]

Phenomenal video! Learnt so much about the peopling of the Slavic folk that I had no idea about and informs my travels to Serbia and Hungary all the more.

[@greendalf123]

Hungarians aren’t Slavs btw (I mean yes they have partly Slavic dna, but they didn’t maintain a Slavic language or identity. They were overcome by steppe nomads).

[@Nefylym]

@@greendalf123 they sure sent those steppe nomads back to mongolia when they came around later on tho

[@greendalf123]

@@Nefylym Haha facts. Though to be fair they had a lot of help :P

[@Nefylym]

@@greendalf123 I know, I'm Polish, we still say of the Hungarians because of those days that: Braci do szabli i do szklanki, which loosely means, Brothers of the blade and the cup, meaning guys you can fight beside and then go drinking with after :)

[@ryangreen1588]

Just donated, have received much value from your many great works. Thanks Kevin, and be well!

[@milisabesiris8014]

I appreciate this information. Thank you for sharing it with us.😊

[@vizualnihistorie]

This was very nice - No mumbo Jambo about Slaves and Slavs etc.

[@holextv5595]

The Slavic slave trade was mostly practiced by other Slavs , Czechs was in 10th century one of the biggest slave trader Wich was stopped by Adalbert of Prague, so it would be weird because Slavs enslaved other Slavs.

[@vizualnihistorie]

@@holextv5595 Of course there were slaves, no point in arguing about that, but it literally makes zero sense to make Slav into Slave since all this similarity between Sclaveni/Sloveni etc.

[@holextv5595]

@@vizualnihistorie yes I didn't meant that exactly.

[@greendalf123]

Right? It’s so tiring that the west only thinks of that when they think of us. There were hundreds of Slavic tribes, who fought and enslaved one another, as did foreign peoples. Many were sold into slavery, but it’s far from our identity.

[@Nefylym]

@@greendalf123 slavery is all they know of this world, so that is all they choose to see in us

[@niutus5685]

I literally discovered your channel today and I ALREADY have a new documentary on my people. This must be a sign!

[@MadHeadzOz]

It is! It is a sign of successful algorithm. The next sign will be the remarkable coincidence of product offers on item you may not have realised you wanted.. otherwise known as targeted advertising.

[@niutus5685]

@@MadHeadzOz I discovered the channel before the video released.

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

​@@MadHeadzOzwith your kind of thinking you'll find your self in the Burning Lake when it's your time!

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

​@@niutus5685beware! You were talking to an atheist!!

[@Robothuck]

@@niutus5685 the marketing companies have discovered the secret of future sight

[@kariannecrysler640]

Very well done. Thank you.

[@believeinpeace]

It’s so complicated, excellent, Thank you.

[@matelula8424]

nice video, cheers from Croatia

[@kris8165]

Interesting 🤔 Greetings from Croatia from Kris 😎

[@Nefylym]

Siemanko, Kris! Mieszko tu z Polski 😚

[@kris8165]

@@Nefylym hey!😁

[@siberianfastfood]

Excellent video ! Keep on the good work.

[@investigatelife8281]

Great vid, thanks..

[@tomshandytools3115]

Слава свим Словенима! Нека сви Словени живе у једној великој држави! Без мржње и братоубилаштва. Поздрав из Србије!

[@makavelimaka8035]

Great Russia or great Serbia? Which one?

[@robertkalas1921]

God bless the Slavic people. They are the last hope of the world. Eastern Europe is hopefully the future. Peace. No wars. Do not force Slavs to fight sllavs

[@almeu433]

😂😂😂😂

[@dr.strangelove9815]

Well said, no more brother wars.

[@someperson1829]

Great video. And great choice of music, Adrian von Ziegler is a great composer, felt like I was listening to my everyday playlist :D

[@dc8029]

Very good job. TY so much!

[@Gubbe51]

Swamps (until recently) mostly occured in Polesie, which is treated as the plausible cradle of the Slavic People. The other Slavic countries were not swampy, but covered with forests (Poland) or steppes (southern Ukraine).

[@frostflower5555]

In the Serbo-Croatian language the word for forest is Šuma (shooma). And the Bohemian Forest in Czech is called Šumava.

[@YouTube_Enjoyerlol]

He said some of the last to adopt Christianity not THE last

[@unbeatable_all]

​@@KZbin_Enjoyerlol???

[@Jarmylo]

@@frostflower5555 We ukrainians have this word 'шум' (shum) too. It means 'noise' now. But in old days one of its meaning was a forest. For forest we have a dozen of words like ліс, діброва, бір, пуща, гай etc.

[@mCURIOS1893]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@Jarmyloin Bulgarian also shum (шум) is noise, shuma (шума) are the dry, fallen leaves from the trees, and forest is gora (гора) , dubriva (дъбрива), branishte (бранище), gustalak (гъсталак), shumak(шумак) and les(лес) is big, old forest.

[@stefantrajkovic7157]

0:40 A "Serbian" is an inhabitant of Serbia. We preffer to use term "Serb".

[@peggy21022]

То је за њих наука 😂

[@user-dl8xm4kz4i]

"serbian" could still be used as belonging to serbs, for example the serbian language or serbian culture. serbs is a word for the ethnic group or the people, its original being "srbi".

[@stefanovicigor]

And Serbs in today germany renamed to Sorbs, even though they call themselves Serbs as well

[@harbinger200]

@@stefanovicigorOf course they renamed Serbs in the middle of Serbia, bombed Serb national library both in ww1 and in ww2. Germany wants Serb history erased.

[@adamroodog1718]

whats the difference? doesnt serbian mean 'of serbia'. wouldnt that describe you just as well in english? im not trying to be a dick im just curious

[@geraldinehughes4490]

Spectacular I learned much, beautifully produced, riveting. Thank you Sir. GH

[@Xianne027]

An excellent video! Thanks for giving me more background on my Slavic roots!

[@giuseppersa2391]

I am from the region of Veneto whose capital is Venezia. And we still call ourselves Veneti. ✌️🌹

[@nestingherit7012]

That's from "veniti"( those who came)

[@metanoian965]

Etruscans have an ancient connection with Slavic People. The Etruscan language was considered undecipherable by Germans. However, an Italian scholar who travelled in Poland and learned Polish, discovered that he could translate the mystery. Sebastiano Ciampi, 1830: "Viaggio in Polonia"

[@nestingherit7012]

@@metanoian965 🤣🤣🤣

[@user-yz9gg5dq1t]

​@@metanoian965Опять, выступают на арене цирка псевдоисторики🤦‍♂️

[@metanoian965]

@@user-yz9gg5dq1t kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZWomZWuZ69_d9E - @ 2' 10" - CC = in your language

[@ZS-rw4qq]

2:38 to my knowledge Sobaka is only in Eastern Slavic, the rest of us say Pas/pes

[@amnbvcxz8650]

sobaka is female or male dog, pes/pios is male dog in easterb slavic

[@user-yz9gg5dq1t]

В русском языке есть слово пес(собака мужского рода), псина (большая злая собака), пёсик (собака маленького размера, например пекинес), а есть Котопес 😆😆😆(мультипликационный волшебный зверь) 😃.

[@harbinger200]

@@user-yz9gg5dq1tСрпски исто - Пас, Псина, Псето, Џукела, Куче, Кучка.

[@jacksonblaze423]

In Polish a dog is "pies" while a female dog is "suka" Hence "son of a bitch" is "sukisyn" in Polish.

[@bakerzermatt]

Eastern Slavic (Russian in particular) has a bunch of non slavic words that exist in parallel with slavic words. Sobaka is aparently Iranian, but pes also exists in Russian. Same thing with loshad (horse) instead of kon'. Loshad (I think) is Mongol or Turkish in origin.

[@giuseppersa2391]

A brilliant day with a new video ✌️😎🌹😊

[@ArcherdaNerd]

Looking forward to this! Can tell it will be good :)

[@maciejniedzielski7496]

I listen and watch with most interest even if I am already advanced in that subject. Thanks for vidéo in English for larger diffusion

[@Hollylivengood]

Most of us would never know the history of the areas he talks about, if it weren't for this channel. Love how he always shows respect at the end, and calls for peace.

[@KellyBell1]

There is a “Wendish” museum about 120 mi from where I live. I’m going to have to go visit that the next time I pass by it. I had not really heard the term Wends until I saw there sign for this museum.

[@natashatoskovic344]

I wish that,too! Anyhow,it’s a very informative video! Thanks

[@tastyjuice23]

Extrem gutes Video sehr informativ und lustig sehr sehr gute Arbeit

[@petravazanska5707]

Slavs dont like much to travel, we all meet 1 x year in Croatia😊

[@perunperunovic4741]

I u Crnoj Gori.

[@igorcovic3787]

Dobro došli!

[@petravazanska5707]

Jadran❤

[@XYZOxyz]

No, definitely not all of us. The rest of us go to Greece.

[@mCURIOS1893]

If you want to see many different Slavs all together come in summer to the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, it’s full of Russians, Ukrainens and Polish people 😀

[@jacksonblaze423]

Being Polish, I have no doubts that "slavs" was based on the word "slowo" which means "word" vs the name for the Germans or "Niemcy" those who can't talk. Additionally Swiatowid (main god of the Slavs) means one who sees (widzi) the world (swiat). That is why he is portrayed looking in four directions.

[@sand-glass]

I am Russian, for me the word "slavs" always associated with "slava" - glory. But I may be mistaken.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

Slaveny Vs Slovany. One would be Glory the other Words. Most commonly or the Word part that makes any historic sense. This is the same thing as with Mir which in most Slavic languages simply means peace... In eastern ones, especially Russian, it also means Land... But no one knows why. Plus Russians are... How to put it. Russian is the least mutually understandable Slavic language by the rest. There are even more similar parties between Ukrainian and Polish than there are between Ukrainian and Russian. So... Russian is not exactly the best language to pick for deep diving into Slavism and Slavic similarities. (Hence why you also use Germania for Germany rather than Nemci like the rest).

[@tomasvrabec1845]

Additionally. In the old times between the first centuries BC and 500 As, Germanic people's and Slavic peoples lived and inhabited many similar areas with nuclear borders. To highlight that one Spoke and one didn't speak the same tongue would make far more sense. Although there is a chance the word Slovo and Slava are of common origin, where the fact that you speak makes you "glorious" and not some military battles.

[@user-dl8xm4kz4i]

yes that makes much more sense, since we are called in serbian "sloveni" and the word is called "slovo". who knows whats the truth really, since recorded history about the slavs is not that far spread when it comes to our origin. we do say "nemci" for germans which for us does derive from the word "nem", meaning "mute" or in this case people who are mute.

[@sand-glass]

@@tomasvrabec1845 русский такой же славянский язык как и другие. Может украинский и похож больше на польский, но русский похож больше, например, на белорусский. Да и на украинский с польским тоже похож. Additionally. Хоть мы и называем Германию Германией, но слово "немцы" у нас тоже есть. Вообще странно по одному слову судить о степени родства языков.

[@dragondreamjln]

Love the video, love your choice in the music of Adrian Von Ziegler ^_^

[@lanakovic-kp7iz]

We respected guests so much because we believe they are ancestors spirits coming to test as, we still have the same hospitality in our villages.

[@IvanMiticPlus]

All respect to this video. Slavs are the most underestimated group of people in Europe even though they represent the half of Europe and it's a shame that the world just started to get familiar with them. The most underestimated among them are the Southern Slavs on the Balkans. Even though we - the Southern Slavs are about 50% Slavs and 50% the old Europeans, we are among the first who adopted Christianity. There are many evidences the the first apostles had spreaded Christianity on the Balkans and the early Christians built the first churches there. Constantine The Great - Byzantine (Roman) emperor, born in the city of Niš (Serbia), was the one who made Christianity legal in the empire (4th century) and we can find a number of evidences of early Christianity all around Serbia and other Balkans countries. That's the reason why Serbian medieval kings and rulers were so devoted to faith and many of them became saints after they died. So it is very wrong to look for the roots of Christianity in Russia and or any other East European countries other then Serbia and Bulgaria and claiming how Slavs adopted Christianity later then Western European peoples. My advice - start making efforts in researching more about the history and pre-history of the Balkans, open your mind and stop listening to the British propaganda. You will be pleasantly surprised and find out that the whole history of Europe and European languages and its secrets lays here - in the Balkans that represents the true cradle of Europe. (The first permanent settlements in Europe, the first metallurgy, the first agriculture, the first alphabet, the first urban planning... many of those before the first known from the Middle East).

[@gideonros2705]

They still kowtow to the German superiority. Putin is the best example. They may claim to be proud of their heritage but it all has to go through the Western ears and mouth to be approved for thinking. What a joke.

[@Undertaker257]

They dont umderestimate us, they are so scared of us that they are trying to devide us, undermine us, destroy our heritage because they lost/sold out theirs, they have been trying throughout the history many times. But they may never succeed, forgive, never forget!

[@GladysOakville]

I wouldn't say underestimated...we were purposefully divided so that we would not be united and powerful! Just imagine if we were united...the most populous group in Europe!

[@rodoljubmutavdzic1386]

SRB SRBI SERBI VENDI VENETI OD SRBA POSTAJU SVI SLOVENI.

[@ninamaar406]

thank you

[@jennaforesti]

Are there links to some of the genetics studies you mentioned that you'd be willing to share?

[@user-gw7dv1ru9w]

VERY INTERESTING..THANKYOU

[@jimmarkstein4603]

this channel and gnostic informant are brilliant

[@shaolindreams]

I'm half Polish, Family from SE Poland. I have a mix of Polish, Magyar, Rus, Swedish and Ostrogoth.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

How did you uncover Ostrogothic ancestry? That's crazy to trace to the 7th century.

[@iljajaskin2661]

Ostrogoth ?

[@shaolindreams]

​@@noahtylerpritchett2682 I did answer you already but my comment appears to have been deleted maybe thought i was advertising. All i said was i uploaded to some 'other website' and they match with ancient samples. Then you're matched with certain ancient populations. Loads of other features that can gives clues too. Maygars had interactions with the Ostrogoths so definitely plausable.

[@shaolindreams]

@@iljajaskin2661 Eastern Goths, yes.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

@@shaolindreams ah I know your website. Mytrueancestry

[@user-qr4pu1tt7y]

Slava Rodu vsem slovanum! WE are all brothers and sisters by language, culture , history and struggler for our survival. Keep it that way!!!!!!!

[@greendalf123]

Just have to say this was an amazing documentary, incredibly well done! A lot of the info of the early Slavs here comes from the Byzantine interactions with the Sklavenians (proto-South Slavs). Very comprehensively done.

[@wallylkonstanty7734]

Well crafted

[@alexcitron5159]

Fascinating! This sheds light on my own lands of origin (not biological since Jewish, but a connection nonetheless). Also, as a classical musician, I recognized many of the terms and places: Scythian ,Czech, Slavic, many others.

[@Kuasarakyat2]

Slovenia..

[@dragonzeye7]

Most Czechs (myself included) don't use the new shortened name, Czechia. Instead using longer name: the Czech Republic. Unless the Czech government has made any further changes, Czechia, is only used for branding purposes, where as, the Czech Republic, is used for government documents and legal correspondence.

[@Kuasarakyat2]

Our goverment is a lap dog of the Usa!!

[@vladislav89ify]

We are so proud to be Slavic. Thank you for the great video. Слава 💙

[@13thmoons]

I highly recommend watching this in 1.5x speed, I don’t know why but it’s nice. Also, I love your deep dive into Slavic history

[@hardver8855]

I am a Slav, southern Slav from Bosnia and Herzegovina. We all understand words such as ČOVJEK ZEMLJA VODA ZRAK SLAVA RODU, RAZUM, KURVA, SKITNICA and many more. Even when i listen to other slavic people and languages i understand 70 percent. I see the roots in those words.

[@Nefylym]

cholera, wlasnie czytam i doskonalo rozumiem cie :) po polsku: ČOVJEK = czlowiek ZEMLJA = ziemia VODA = woda ZRAK = znak? SLAVA RODU = slawa narodu RAZUM = rozum KURVA = kurwa SKITNICA = skutnica?

[@sonarbangla8711]

It is great to know that the Slavs are united, even after US/Anglican onslaught and under the leadership of Putin on their prosperity and development.

[@brunodrivel2487]

Being a greek with fair skin and green eyes and my DNA clearly stating easten european at 70% i celibrate my Slavic routes more than my hellenic.

[@prateekmahapatra1789]

yet Hellenistic society was the first to "civilize " .

[@gandolfthorstefn1780]

Scientists say that the more diluted a substance is the more it's molecules try to imprint their own characteristics on the surrounding atoms. With this in mind it is not uncommon for people to gravitate or incline to take interest or even preference to the culture with the smallest percentage of their D.N.A. I saw one guy on KZbin about D.N.A testimonies say he was surprised at his 1% Italian D.N.A as he had always loved Italian food and culture. For me this was no surprise and is why I'm watching this video with 1.8% Slavic D.N.A. Before I had my D.N.A done I use to do Cossack dancing and my favorite drink was Vodka. Most of friends in my early years were Polish. 🤔

[@kiresarkovski]

You are Macedonian!

[@brunodrivel2487]

@@kiresarkovski i am more Slav than helline. Dna. Plus my mother is greek Ukranian (Odesa)and father maniot greek (just south of Sparti). So definatly a proud Slavic Greek/Rus.

[@andreibretan4646]

Excellent!

[@robertkachur6073]

I enjoyed the video

[@benimtelefoncaliyor1dk]

It can easily be imagined that Cucuten > Trypillian people became assimilated by the Yamna neighbours and that they spread as a minority lineage alongside haplogroups R1a and R1b as they advanced toward the Baltic with the Corded Ware expansion. Alternatively, I2-L621 lineages could have lived in relative isolation from the mainstream Proto-Indo-European society somewhere around Ukraine, Poland or Belarus, then as the centuries and millennia passed, would have blended with the predominantly R1a populations around them. The resulting amalgam would have become the ancestors of the Proto-Slavs.

[@dittmannrudolfrohr2149]

Slavs, then as Sclavenoi were first mentioned in the 8. century.

[@user-db5un2mz9u]

All this is very interesting and wonderful about the haplogroups of the Trypillian-Cucuteni population. Especially when you consider that 99% of the few known burials are cremations, and DNA cannot be extracted from ashes and coals. What is absolutely certain is that they were not Indo-Europeans and cultural continuity with the subsequent population is not archaeologically confirmed.

[@metanoian965]

@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 The Slavic tribes of Poland are named after one tribe. However, they are Ethnic Lechs. In many parts of the world they are still called Lechians, [or equivalent].

[@dittmannrudolfrohr2149]

@@metanoian965 The Slavicized peoples in what is now Poland were named after the Polans. Germanic "po" means on, at, by Germanic "lan" means land, plain There were also the Pomeranians (po+mera), who lived by the sea. The Silinger in Silesia... All three were Vandal people. Chrobry (is derived from the Germanic word “Hrouber” which means robber) made rich booty and kidnapped several thousand people in order to settle them at the border castles. As he retreated, he plundered and burned numerous towns and villages. Before his death in 1025, he was crowned king of his country with the help of the pope for the stolen pagan land, which he Christianized with fire and sword with the brutality of the Middle Ages. Until his grave slab in Posen Cathedral was destroyed in 1422, the inscription could be read: “Regnum Sclavorum, Gothorum sive Polonorum” = Kingship of the Sclavi (pagans), Goths or Polans.

[@metanoian965]

@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 get a German dictionary stop making up stories

[@SuperThisishowwedo]

Hello brothers

[@miriamnagy2034]

Big thank you from Slovak family 🙏🏻

[@marvelchuruk7052]

A BIG like for not forgetting to mention all the slavic nations!! 🙏 Thank you!

[@ronaldbobeck9636]

966 AD. For Poland. my grandparents came to America in 1898.

[@Kuasarakyat2]

Slovenia. Slavs!❤

[@CaApa]

I liked how it was said "no one knows what the romanian population was doing during all of this" yes ..they fought bravely and held to their tradition and history with their teeth

[@Princip_1989]

It's my city on 36:20 ,thank you man ❤💙🤍

[@revliszallirog4967]

Can't believe he forgot Bosnia & Hercegovina

[@aleksanderbernat6447]

🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦💪

[@kajjebre]

He didn’t forget them. He mentioned Croats and serbs. The third are Turkish. Are Turks Slavs ?

[@greendalf123]

@@kajjebreplease don’t be that guy

[@zt8417]

He didn't mention country , he talked about first people who were the Slavs . After the Turks occupied Balkan ,many Serbians and Croatians accepted the Islam religion .

[@m.n7601]

@@kajjebre😐😐😐😐😐

[@Wojewoda.]

Slavs are indoeuropeans who didn't move much from the cradle. We just moved to the woods from the steppe

[@marcusaurelius4941]

Still a pretty big jump in terms of change of lifestyle and customs. People dismiss it today because those are all either Russian or Ukrainian steppes settled in the same way as in the rest of these countries, but back in the day the steppe-to-non-steppe is pretty much a natural boundary

[@Wojewoda.]

@@marcusaurelius4941 I know. Wе ukrainians rеturnеd to thosе stеppеs anyway

[@nikolaforzane2285]

As a Serbian, I can confirm I love forests. And we do currently have a Khazarian problem.

[@Wojewoda.]

@@nikolaforzane2285 Who are you khazars now?

[@nikolaforzane2285]

@@Wojewoda. : I'm a financial analyst born in the west. I have studied corporate histories of Fortune 500 companies. There is a network there. The root cause is studying history. Not perfect, but good documentary explain majority: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6jFnKx7r751fqs

[@Hippiechick11]

What you are talking about matches up with my genetic make up perfectly. I do have Alpine Celts and Coptic Egyptian.

[@metanoian965]

what are you talking about ? You look like a Nigerian + Congolese mixture.

[@karinanalbandyan3009]

Thank you for this excellent video on Slavs. It was very well done with respect to the Slavic people, for which I thank you. It’s very tragic that there is a war between Russia and Ukraine. I am Russian on my mother’s side, born and raised in Russia, and I happened to be very against war between Slavic nations. I think ancient history of Slavic people is very murky. Officially Slavic people emerged in the fifth century, and the origins of Slavic people is debated even now it’s always some mystery, lack of sources, lack of evidence they say, but the first human settlement on the territory of Russia dates back to the Oldowan period in the early Lower Paleolithic. I am referring to settlement of Sungir carbon dating to about 30,000 years old. It consisted of a large Upper Paleolithic settlement and a cemetery with a number of well-preserved burials. Another interesting detail has to do with my birth place, Rostov-on-Don, the river Don was once called Tanais, and according to official information Rostov-on-Don was an ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, called the Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity. I don’t remember exactly what source, but someone connected the mythological Amazon female warriors to the area of Rostov on Don. I know it sounds ridiculous, because we all think that the Amazon female fighters were in Greece, but it’s not so ridiculous when you learn that Rostov-on-Don is a hotbed for archaeologists. There has been many burials discovered in that area of female warriors. One place even had three generations of such female warriors buried along with their horses, weapons and garments. The female warriors resembled something Scythians or Sarmatians, and I believe it has connection with the fact that this is also the place of the Don Cossacks who were also a horse warrior people. My mother comes from generations of Don Cossacks

[@SwordQuake2]

Would you consider making a video about the ancient Bulgars, old great Bulgaria, and their transformation into Bulgarians? Perhaps combine this with other tribes as it's quite niche.

[@almeu433]

Bolgars are Turks😂

[@SwordQuake2]

@@almeu433 no such word

[@hunnid17]

​​@@almeu433 theyre closer to iranian than turkish

[@user-xt6mf1wk8w]

Greetings from Serbia👋

[@jolantasaracin]

❤ Greetings from Poland to all my Slavik Brothers and Sisters ❤

[@TheCimmerian6]

Thanks!

[@FortressofLugh]

Thank you very much.