Origins of the Slavs

[@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😂

[@SlavicAffairs]

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

[@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

[@ВероникаАндожская]

❤

[@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

[@TooGumbica]

Pozdrav vsim slovjanam, hrånite vaš duh, slava rodu 💪

[@ЛескаЛеска]

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

[@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.

[@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.😢

[@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.

[@АндрейДегтярёв-т4р]

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.

[@vladislav89ify]

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

[@MondiDoda]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@addischekol4295]

Slavs are my favorite Europeans who has zero role in exploiting or colonizing Africa.❤

[@mihailodjokic1467]

We made a great mistake...

[@blazejflorkiewicz9698]

thanks :) thats nice to hear :)

[@larryzigler6812]

💙💙💛💛

[@MondiDoda]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@frediisufi6306]

Lucky you i wish you never meet them

[@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.

[@gimi5383]

God bless you are a true Slav my brother. I 2 wish that all Slavs would think like this because there is nothing better waiting for us on the other side! “Sunce tuđeg neba neće vas grijati kao ovo”

[@gkone6722]

I am Slovak too and I believe that all of the slavic countries and people should come together to create a country called Slavia. Slava Rodu💪

[@Tygydyk17]

We do not need to unite as a one country but we can definitely live as brotherly countries and nations that respect each other traditions and customs. Many things would be necessary like shaking off globalists, EU and ”small hats” influence that are hell bent on erasing those values replacing them with ”rainbow debauchery”, atheism and cultural relativism. Their expansionism powered by NATO have resulted in unnecessary and tragic war in Ukraine with hundreds of thousands deaths. It all could have been avoided if Ukraine was let to be neutral and not led to coup d etat in 2014.

[@gkone6722]

@@Tygydyk17 We are all the same people and I think that the ultimate goal should be to finally reunite so that all the Slavic people can experience and contribute to the great country that it would be.

[@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.

[@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

[@gkone6722]

Slava Rodu💪

[@mnemonicpie]

Do a DNA test, you're a freaking German

[@davidhavranek1232]

Pozdrav všem bratrským národům a mír pro všechny. 🇨🇿

[@shalevedna]

Amen

[@slavicaminic6801]

🙏AMEN 🙏

[@terezahs77]

Ktož sú Boží bojovníci …. ❤

[@jozefmalik8443]

Vivat Ruská Federácia ! 👍🇸🇰👍🇨🇿👍🇵🇱👍🇷🇸👍🇷🇺👍

[@jozefmalik8443]

Vivat Ruská Federácia! 👍🇸🇰👍🇨🇿👍🇵🇱👍🇷🇸👍🇷🇺👍

[@zoranjuras6777]

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

[@francestomic2772]

Croatian born in America. Good day to you

[@zoranjuras6777]

@@francestomic2772 Dobar dan i tebi, seko!

[@gkone6722]

Slava Rodu💪

[@carmilla2690]

Greetings from Russia, slava rodu

[@gkone6722]

@@carmilla2690 Slava Rossii. Slava Rodu💪🤝💪🤝

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 😅

[@gr84all]

Greetings, to all my fellow Slavs!

[@ronalddunne3413]

Slava Rossiya, tovarishch! Dobrovo zdorovia! 😊

[@pawelsz007locp]

@@ronalddunne3413nie nie, rosje to jebać akurat

[@brtcone]

A Gentleman i see, greetings as well!

[@voskreglavincevska7080]

@irenajeinkova151 The worse thing in unification is that people don't assimilate in the name of unity . It was supposed all Slav nation to become Soviets over there in the East making togetherness not Rusofobia . Like in Yugoslavia federation we used to become Yugoslavians ( one single nation ) not Serbian nation as a biggest entity ! Every single unity were called Republics under Federative order , and they had own parliament and the top federal parliament in which there was general stipulation , republics to be free if they want to step out of that federation . Nothing was wrong for the units to become one Nation , Yugoslavian Nation , taking comparative advantage of that unity . It was very dangerous to act as separatist among unity of these Yugo ( South ) Slavians ! It was called etatizam and separatism when you like to favorite your entity ( your Republic ) !

[@darioburatovich2240]

Gracias,che, te espero con un asado con malbec...🤣🇦🇷

[@as-ovietechonda6101]

Nova Slavija . We neede to unite again all Slavic People. Orthodox and Catholics ❤❤❤

[@natasacuk3851]

We are not able, we are always fighting among us 😢

[@dr.umarjohnson2453]

No we tried that 3 times in yugoslavia

[@miovicdina7706]

Da. 💪📈

[@miovicdina7706]

​@@dr.umarjohnson2453Let's try three more until we succeed.😊

[@Nobody32990]

​@@natasacuk3851 what did you expect? Slavs have long and rich history of slaughtering each other and pretending nothing happened.

[@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

[@DonkeyBongzilla]

​@@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

[@Amadeus_2061]

As a Pole, I want to thank you for this beautiful presentation of us Slavic people. You made me tear up at the end when you mentioned our brotherhood. I grew up in Canada, and I love this country dearly , but as I get older my Slavic roots are calling me back to the land of my ancestors. Maybe one day, I will be able to bounce back and forth between both sides of the Atlantic.

[@case2696]

As do my roots call me...Montenegro, Czech and further back bronze age Kazakhstan and Tagar ethnicity. I want to spend time in Eastern Europe and the steppe. Has called to me all my life. Even went to Mongolia 20 years ago...wasn't sure why I was pulled there. But always felt a pull from that region.

[@Amadeus_2061]

@@case2696 Amazing how the memory of our lands seems ingrained in our blood. Even when we have never been to a place, we seem to remember it anyway.

[@Drjibtbik]

kzbin.infos3IFZONObuE?si=yFeViKpy9e_fY5J7

[@BlaineEdwards-z8c]

How many Polacks does it take to screw in light bulb?

[@fritula6200]

​​@@case2696..... YES.... GO home !!! THE HEART HAS NO PEACE.❤ WE IMMIGRANTS ARE A LOST PEOPLE: W E MUST ACCEPT THIS. MY RESPECT TO ❤...

[@amnbvcxz8650]

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

[@Nefylym]

looks comfy! :)

[@thegroovee]

This is cognate with the Portuguese word “Banho” (IPA = ˈbɐ.ɲu). It has a meaning of emerging in water, having a bath, take a shower, go into a body of water, and etc…

[@Neonvolendam]

Yeah, but mostly among northern and eastern Slavs. In south Slavic states they're more akin to Roman baths.

[@witty-M]

From Slovenia 🙋 we are everywhere but we are one ❤️

[@AnneMarieNicol]

Really !

[@bigdallyc]

Someone please tell that to Russia. Oh, wait, don't do that!

[@spaljenimaslacak7663]

We sure as fuck have a lot of wars among us for being one xD

[@adk5997]

We north Slavs were separated from you by Germans and Hungarians and Turks. We used to be the same 😊

[@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.

[@insertname11]

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

[@nataliedjurdjevic4905]

This video needs to be a series. So much information!

[@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).

[@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.

[@SuperIronicTBH]

It would work out, but not with Russians😂

[@zaliznyak1]

Sadly, russians exist

[@rockyk1950]

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.

[@IllyrianChad3542]

Yes, they're the last hope to destroy the fucking world

[@adk5997]

I agree, not being the EU and US in the mix, there possibly be no war.

[@Karla18777]

I think Slavic/easterneurope countries are the most in Europe who hate each other unnecessarily💀

[@stefantrajkovic7157]

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

[@Gaming101-r9o]

"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

[@ТатьянаРуднева-в1щ]

@@adamroodog1718On the scale of the Anglosphere, any resident of Serbia is a Serb. In everyday life it would be strange to operate with concepts of a planetary scale. In fact, a resident of Serbia can be either a Serb, a Bulgarian, a Macedonian, a Croat, or a Muslim Kosovar or Albanian. These peoples are not the same and do not want to be like each other. It seems to me that if a person avoids problems, he does not show ignorance in such sensitive issues. This always leads to bloody conflicts.

[@markobajt9261]

Problem is that we slavs are "cursed" as we kill each other frequently and are our worst enemies between ourselves. Less so our Western brethren Czech, Slovaks, Poles, but our eastern bretherns, and especially we southern (I'm Croatian) seemingly can't wait to get at each others throats.

[@Cool-yr8go]

Original crotian is not slave but ILIRIAN 😂 for this WE are not happy together 😂

[@gkone6722]

This only happened because of the greatest evil in the world, America.

[@ile1237]

​@@Cool-yr8goThat theory was disproven like a century ago, wtf are you talking about.

[@Cool-yr8go]

@@ile1237 from who 🧐

[@carolinecerovski7358]

Maybe some Slavs are still quite pagan, that’s the reason why. I’m Croatian also and I study the Bible. Jesus said, “Love your neighbour as yourself.”

[@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.

[@kathywolf4558]

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

[@rreid3990]

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

[@believeinpeace]

It’s so complicated, excellent, Thank you.

[@FreeziFrozenFrosti]

I don't have any ancestral or cultural connection to the Slavic people but what an amazing culture and history! I can see why so many of them have a great pride in their culture and autonomy

[@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

[@cimerej]

Pozdrav svim Slovenima !!

[@darioburatovich2240]

I Paraguayci isto....😂🇦🇷

[@milisabesiris8014]

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

[@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 :)

[@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

[@ronaldbobeck9636]

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

[@ShinyGolduck5]

Slava Sestram in Bratom Slovanskih narodov, gretings from Slovenia

[@achintyavenkateshart]

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 :)

[@barnaerdelyi1]

@@greendalf123 we don't have slavic dns. our R1a marker was already on the steppe in the Bronze Age. may be of Scythian heritage. The R1a marker was already spread all the way to Mongolia in the Bronze Age, where Slavs never visited!

[@BakerVS]

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!

[@gimi5383]

Slava in Serbian Lenguage and the region is a celebration of the Holy Saint the protector of the house. Every family has they own Saint that protects they home. Slava or slaviti also means to celebrate.

[@someguy2744]

Slava is also very close to "slovo" which in Serbo-Croatian means letter (a, b, c, d...), while in most other Slavic languages it means word. The Serbo-Croatian word for word is "riječ" - "reči" is to say . "Sveto slovo" is also kind of a fixed phrase literally translated as "Holy Letter/Word".

[@justaplainspokengirl]

SLAVA UKRAYINI!! is how it is transliterated. With the yi sound in the middle. SLAVA Ukra YI ne (Glory to Ukraine! Heroyam Slava!) 💙💙💛💛🦾🔱🔱

[@kellyprice1024]

I married a Croatian, his Father was Slovenian with Hungarian roots. So my children are Heins 57 with my Scottish heritage.

[@jake-qn3tl]

Nope, they are pure bred Europeans

[@jacksonblaze423]

I lost you on Heins 57 - did you mean Heinz 57 the steak sauce?

[@brianlove8413]

@@jacksonblaze423 Heinz 57, the 57 was the different varieties that Heinz made.

[@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.

[@mirjanaobednikovska7661]

@@kiresarkovski traitor macedonian unfortenatly

[@danielm81]

What a wonderful documentary! Thank you! ❤

[@MondiDoda]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@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.

[@Gaming101-r9o]

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.

[@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

[@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.

[@WorldlyBudget]

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

[@unbeatable_all]

​@@WorldlyBudget???

[@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.

[@katherinemarkva7552]

Truly appreciated.

[@polka23dot70]

13:28 "Vistula is the river which runs primarily through the middle of Poland." I lived near Vistula for over 50 years. As a matter of fact, Vistula is 100% Polish river. It does not flow through other countries.

[@Majestic351]

ok, very important detail.

[@miriamnagy2034]

Big thank you from Slovak family 🙏🏻

[@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

[@АлексейЛеонов-ю5ф]

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]

@@АлексейЛеонов-ю5фСрпски 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.

[@BakerVS]

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.

[@Forloa]

Thank you for this great vid. Sláva Rodu!

[@gkone6722]

Slava Rodu💪💪

[@JosefJoseph-t1w]

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

[@gkone6722]

Exactly! Slava Rodu💪💪

[@ikutiap5923]

Great work, lot of efforts went into making such an extensive "research".

[@matelula8424]

nice video, cheers from Croatia

[@francestomic2772]

Greetings from the US. Croatian by ancestry

[@matelula8424]

@@francestomic2772 ty my brother, Tomić is here very popular last name where I live in Trogir on Dalmatian coast.

[@HellMollyHolly]

Thank you, sir. Love how you pronounced sobaka😄

[@DeplorableSlav-jo3vu]

It’s a Persian loan word though, Slavic words is p’yos (пес).

[@firstal3799]

Great documentary.

[@BistraStoimenova]

As a native Bulgarian, I feel sorry for you twisting your tongue with all those names... Great documentary!

[@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 😀

[@-RONNIE]

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

[@MondiDoda]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@r1000-r2c]

The end if your monologue was really strong. Поздрави и почитания от София, България!

[@Xianne027]

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

[@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?

[@Den-z8z]

​@@makavelimaka8035Great Slovakia.Or Slovenia.

[@MondiDoda]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MondiDoda]

​@@makavelimaka8035😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@michamajewski8180]

Unfortunately, I fear that the plans of the Anglo-Saxon globalists are completely different.

[@Justahappysoul007]

Slavic people are blessed with intelligence, beauty, kindness, many, many talents. Amongs Slavs there are great sports players, amazing musicians, scientists, writers also Slavic people learn foreign language very easy. An amazing history, tradition, culture. Slava rodu brothers and sisters ❤

[@MondiDoda]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@zoricacov8690]

@@MondiDoda🤔💁‍♀️

[@UbermenschOst]

They are africans of Europe.

[@tyv7364]

@@UbermenschOst tHeY aRe aFRiCaNs oF eUroPE

[@tzmn696]

In Germany there are LUZICIAN SERBS . In Germany there is also CAPE ARCONA with old Slavic Temples. In fact in Bavaria there are the number of old Slavic settlements. Much of Germany belongs to Slavs and Slavic tribes.

[@Sophie-x8b2d]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXO6XqJtgKmhm6csi=zWGozRtKVzXPpyVY

[@mip4839]

You see, although we all know and have read from multiple sources that these same Wendi, Wenedi, are exactly named as Sorabi, Servoi, or however the author was by nationality, the Author is constantly ignoring the word Serb and the influence of Serbian in all the ancient Slavic tribes. If they only checked the Serbian Ornamentics and Heraldics all around the Eastern German cities, Dresden as the main one, all would become better aware who founded Germany and why did Hitler first order to bomb the old National Library on 06.04.1941 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and flatten it with the soil.

[@demoxcro786]

May you expand on that or provide some usefull links? Im genuinely curious ,thank you ​@mip4839

[@HippasosofMetapontum]

Exacty proofs that there was never a boarder between Slavic and Germanic tribes - just far Eastern and mid barbarians being different after some time and mixing regulary Check out Langobards, Goths etc. Not a proof that something was Slavic or Germanic ;)

[@WOTgameplaychorantauluka]

Serbs today are more turks than slavs......😂

[@holdinmuhl4959]

Some years ago I was in Serbia with my family to visit the famous Guča Brass Festival. My hosts had organized two girls to help us to understand them translating their speech into English. But, oh wonder, I could understand everything and didn't need their help. I have to say that I am fluent in Russian and a bit in Czech. But I didn't expect the languages being so close. I understood them but they barely understood me. For them Russian sounded to strange. Once I was in Bulgaria in Plovdiv to see friends. In the evening we were sitting together and in the TV they showed a Swedish film with Bulgarian subtitles. My hosts asked me: Do you understand what they say? I had to deny. I understood nothing. The were wondering, "How can it be? It is your language(I am German)!" We were speaking Russian all the time. They said that they easily understand everything. Slavic languages are much closer to each other than Germanic.

[@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.

[@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

[@К9Джа]

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

[@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 🤣🤣🤣

[@АлексейЛеонов-ю5ф]

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

[@metanoian965]

@@АлексейЛеонов-ю5ф kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZWomZWuZ69_d9E - @ 2' 10" - CC = in your language

[@believeinpeace]

Thanks!

[@FortressofLugh]

Thank you so much!

[@delaguitara]

Thank you very much, I thoroughly enjoyed that. It is very true that Slavs care for travellers and wayfarers. I have personally experienced that hospitality and warmth in Republika Srpska (Serbian Republic) of Bosnia even though I was an enemy soldier that served with the Nato Forces (SFOR). And despite the bad press and reputation, I hope that one day the world sees the truth about the Serbs and Serbia. "Ziveli Srbi i Srbija!" With love and respect from a Pacific Islander from Fiji. xxx

[@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.

[@lanakovic-kp7iz]

German military strateg said 100 years ago: you can concar Slavs only if you turn them against each other and that is what they do these days to. It is sad that Slavs killing Slavs. Instead we can unite. Slava Rodu

[@gerardpiatek]

look who is governing Ukraine...

[@mhickler]

Many thanks for making this amazing brief history!

[@matykafka]

10:27 In Czech, the word for Germany is Německo and Němec/Němci is the singular/plural of the word used for a German as in a person from Germany. Up until this day I have never thought about the similarity between that word and the word němý, which describes someone who is mute. Otherwise amazing video! Greetings from Czech Republic to all slavic brothers!

[@ko0151]

When I was a child my grandma used to say me "Ajde ne pravi se Njemac - Don't pretend to be Njemac- Nijem-and it was a point that word Njemac and Njemačka come from Nem/Nijem/njem or deaf and our tribes couldn't understand what they are saying so they called me Njemačka/Njemci

[@dashulikkarandashulik]

I am from Russia and in Russian we use the similar word «nemtsy» (немцы) for Germany citizens too. Female form is «nemka» (немка) and male is «nemets» (немец)

[@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.

[@ТатьянаРуднева-в1щ]

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

[@ghost21501]

One of the most concise and beautiful videos of my people I've even watched. Thank you. I'm continuing the Slavic tradition of migration by living in the US. I'm mixed myself of a variety of Slavs. I'm half Ukrainian, 1/4 Polish, and 1/4 not quite sure. Most likely a Tatar mixture with Russian. I was born in Moldova as a 3rd generation Moldovan, yet have 0 Moldovan blood.

[@kariannecrysler640]

Very well done. Thank you.

[@tamjansan1154]

18:25 That is how "Albanians" became part of Balkans in 1040s when they came as mercienries, lost war, Bysantine didn’t want them, so Serbs gave the Troyan Horse hospitality, after beeing imprisoned for a while.

[@IllyrianChad3542]

According to your uncle, right?

[@MondiDoda]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Fhkky]

​@@IllyrianChad3542Siptarski kurtoni 😂

[@FeHearts]

30:11 Two Slavic tribes, the Melingoi & Ezeritai settled in the Laconia region of the Peloponnesian peninsula. We have historical records of them still speaking a Slavic language as late as the 15th century.

[@NikojNisto-bd4to]

Yep ancestors of macedonian slavs

[@mirjanaobednikovska7661]

hahahaha

[@marvelchuruk7052]

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

[@godwor848]

An Update : " For some of the rulers of Bulgaria today, these words probably do not mean anything special. I assume that for them, the map of Europe from the end of the 9th century should include the traditional "great" powers France, Germany, England, Russia, etc. In practice, when the Slavic (understand - the Old Bulgarian!) script was created, the political picture has nothing to do with it. Then, for example, there is still only legendary information about Kievan Rus, and Moscow will become a city only after 500 years. France is missing from the map of the Old Continent, which was formed as an insignificant kingdom in the vicinity of Paris until the Capetians at the end of the 10th century. There are a dozen small kingdoms on the territory of England, constantly harassed by Viking invasions. Germany in its present form did not appear until the 19th century, but as a date of creation many suggest February 2, 962, when the East Frankish king Otto I was elected emperor in Rome and this was the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire of the German people. This early medieval state is only one of the successors of the vast Frankish Empire, founded by Charlemagne in 800. It was this empire spanning Western Europe that bordered Bulgaria in the second half of the 9th century right in the middle of today's capital of Hungary, Budapest. The Bulgarian Empire began from there, stretching between the Dnieper and the middle course of the Danube, as well as from the Carpathians almost to the foot of Constantinople. And it was precisely there that the border with the third largest state of early medieval Europe - the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium - passed. This is what Mrs. Mitrofanova (now the Russian ambassador to Bulgaria) brilliantly understood when she spoke about the era of the First Bulgarian Kingdom, in which Cyril and Methodius lived (Bulgarians, creators of the Cyrillic alphabet, which soon spread to the lands of Russia) and their students. Someone who ran in history classes will say - but it is a "kingdom", not an "empire". In 1930, the book of one of the greatest English historians, Sir Stephen Runciman, was published in London under the title "History of the First Bulgarian Empire". He does not make the common mistake in foreign language translations where the title "king" is rendered as "king." Historians know perfectly well that the correct translation of this title is imperator, empereur, Kaiser. This concept is a Slavicized form of the Latin word caesar (lat. "Caesar", "Caesar", Greek "Caesar"), which denotes the dignity and autocracy of the Roman emperors. According to the Arabic author of the 10th century, Ibn Khordadbeh, with the Greek transcription "Caesar" in Byzantium, the people called the emperors. In the Slavic literary tradition, Roman and Byzantine emperors were referred to as "Caesars" or "Kings". That is why the title "tsar" created by the Bulgarians directly means "emperor" and it defined the Bulgarian rulers until the end of the 14th century. But in the 10th century, the mighty Tsar Simeon directly accepted the title "vasilevs" - the Greek term for the all-powerful autocrator of the Roman Empire. covered the entire then civilized world. And when, in the 16th century under Ivan the Terrible, the Russian rulers finally reached the title of king, it would be equivalent to the imperial title for all of Europe.

[@ctiradperunovic]

Cool video. It's just a pitty that you didn't mention Samo's Empire, which was the first Slavic tribal union in the 7th century which existed in the territory of today's Czechia and Slovakia, one of the most important events that formed the future foundations of the Czech nation.

[@funtecstudiovideos4102]

State supposed to be created by some random merchant ?

[@holextv5595]

​@@funtecstudiovideos4102by Frankish merchant samo, he unify Slavic tribes and fight Avars even Frankish army.

[@funtecstudiovideos4102]

@@holextv5595 Merchant leading armies and creating states... Fascinating. Must be some mistake in translation or guy was freaking genius

[@holextv5595]

@@funtecstudiovideos4102 well he had trade in Slavic lands very often for several years , he obviously known about "political situation" in those lands and Avars, as he knew how to speak Slavic language could mean he was (probably) half Slav, so he just wanted revolt or take advantage to became leader in those land's, (he could even probably be set by Frankish ruler) but just secure it for himself and betrayed him, there's so many options, but no "mistake in translation" as the sources was written in Latin.

[@MyNatureIsh]

Yes, in early medieval times, a big chunk of modern Germany wasn't German. Frankish trader Samo, who brought together the Slavs, beat the Franks many times, stopping them from going further east.

[@Kuasarakyat2]

Slovenia. Slavs!❤

[@mikeutube7888]

Slavonic myths and art images of the old are so badass in a natural way

[@kennethcarney5874]

Wroclaw is indeed quite the nice town. This due to the poles getting it back after WW2 and setting about restoring it magnificently. If the Germans had retained Wrocław this would not have happened as they preferred to tear down damaged buildings and put up new ugly modern ones instead

[@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..

[@bjarkiengelsson]

Perfect timing, just sat down with a cup of coffee

[@jeremyhorne5252]

You bet, I liked, shared, and subscribed. This is the most informative video I ever have seen on Eastern European history/Slavs. I would like to see a timeline of history, and I suspect it would be complicated/very detailed. Thanks for uploading! I look forward to your other history presentations. As to Slovenia and Bulgaria, when I was visiting there, I literally almost tossed my US passport, preferring to stay over there. I still think about it with longing.

[@Ah0jtadyHanka]

Hi, I'm from Czechia and my hobby is to search anything about the early west slavs, great moravia etc. You missed so much about this topic, so if you would like to, we can dive into this together. I have none to talk about it unfortunetely and I think I've done petty cool research. plus so much about this topic is only in czech, so would like to share it! btw. the video it self is reaaaally great!

[@jake-qn3tl]

I love it. My great grandparents were from Kosice and I'd love to know more about west Slavic history as well.

[@MondiDoda]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@elizabethunderwood8879]

Russia is east and Poland is west at min. 3:17--3:25

[@tommyboy9680]

EXACTLY 😂😂😂

[@kris8165]

Interesting 🤔 Greetings from Croatia from Kris 😎

[@Nefylym]

Siemanko, Kris! Mieszko tu z Polski 😚

[@kris8165]

@@Nefylym hey!😁

[@francestomic2772]

Hi there, I am Croatian born in America

[@kris8165]

@@francestomic2772 Hello!🙂 Greetings from Kris from Croatia 😎

[@Cool-yr8go]

Im Albanian croatian 😅

[@ewabarbarajagiellostrumill475]

Slavs are brave, hospitable people. Poles are one of the largest ethnic groups of Slavs. I am proud to be Polish.

[@as-ovietechonda6101]

Slavic united❤ from. SERBIA

[@user-ks5cg5cd7m]

Thank you. My father’s family immigrated from Georgia, Ukraine, and Poland to the US in the early 1900’s. I have wondered often about their ancient origins.

[@greendalf123]

Georgians aren't Slavic

[@Obserwator99]

​@@greendalf123dawniej Ukraina to była Polska potem Rosja i wreszcie już obecnie jako Ukraina