Poland & The Borders Which Constantly Change

[@arisolight]

List of things that you can do in three countries at once: 1: Swim 2: Drown 3: Start a fire 4: Get arrested

[@bigbobey1680]

Ariso Light 5. Watch ibx2cat videos

[@nob2243]

That's my bucket list from now on, thanks

[@Nugcon]

nice

[@Nugcon]

i'll try this later

[@michaelhaywood8262]

You could go to the centre of the river in a rowing boat.

[@MickSadowsky]

Interesting fact about Białystok: Creation of the Esperanto language was inspired by the multicultural demographics in the city of Białystok. L. L. Zamenhof (Dr. Esperanto) grew up there and because of how many languages were spoken there, he came up with an idea to create this one universal language.

[@petegruszek]

Mick Sadowsky I didn't know Zamenhof was Białystok native .

[@patrikszabo7966]

He didn't do a great job at it. The language includes a whole lot of phonemes that come naturally for people speaking Slavic languages but not to others. No wonder it hasn't become too popular.

[@user-bz1od4yc5r]

@@patrikszabo7966 bruh its the biggest conlang in the world, with 2 million speakers. sure, that isnt much compared to other languages, but thats a huge acomplishment in all fairness. (also its not really too slavic imo, so much as it is too eurocentric, and that is probably a big reason for why it isnt bigger)

[@WindowsDrawer]

Is't in białystok only Polish and Belarusian spoken there?

[@Aldmeris]

Love to Poland from Iceland!

[@johnmonrow9981]

Thank you for being one of the few countries that did not invade us ;)

[@matiz-lifeisbrutal3095]

Iceland Rulez Long Life for U

[@orjhyu3v2ehv3h]

Love to Iceland from Poland!

[@maciejn5920]

Thanks

[@LesRealLlama]

Thx from poland to iceland

[@beckography]

Am I the only one who still has no idea what his first channel is but watches every second channel video

[@ibx2cat]

me too

[@bigbobey1680]

I think it's a gaming channel

[@Vat19Nvjds]

Same

[@alfief.293]

Same

[@TransportGeekery]

First channel don't care

[@Kuba-0040]

Welcome to Poland: W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie. (If You live outside of Poland than type this into Google Translate. Then try to say it. Good luck!)

[@joshuamunson7844]

I tried.

[@trolololo720]

@@joshuamunson7844 How did it go?

[@nikodemsanecki5414]

Bruh I'm polish and I know polish but I've always lived in the UK so that just made my brain just freeze

[@LesRealLlama]

@@nikodemsanecki5414 lol same here

[@filipkogut8533]

Polish would be much easier for English speaking people to read if the digraphs "sz", "cz", "rz", "ch" were written as "sh", "ch", "zh", "h".

[@burikinodance]

People: P-L Commonwealth Toycat, an intellectual: *_P o l i s h e m p i r e_*

[@FrostAwx]

Eh, that works too

[@Domce-fw1qu]

Oi, Poland! Can we stop playing around and re-create our comonwealth? pls?

[@tomek10m]

Yes

[@oskarslazyk8875]

LithuanianKid i agree. (Poland)

[@tomek10m]

He was born in Belarus, spoke in Polish and wrote about Lithuania, not Žemaitija ;)

[@KasiaWesoek]

LithuanianKid Jesteście śmieszni 😂

[@bjornfinkelburgensteinski4629]

Yessssss

[@maslanyowca8279]

There is city of Cieszyn split in half between Poland and Czechia.

[@michalk1487]

wtf is czechia ? is czech republic mule

[@ghorshy]

ostatnio zmienili anglojęzyczną nazwe na czechia

[@PolskiHetman]

Michal K the Czechs want to change their country’s name.

[@foreverTM]

Mroczny Dark Czechia jest poprawna angielska nazwa od kilku lat, wejdz na angielskie google maps

[@bwda666]

Mas---- When the Nazis ate the Sudetenland & then Bohemia & Moravia at start WW2 Didnt Poland also take some of Czechoslovakia? Part of Cieszyn. & then as we all know---Germany attacked Poland!! "What goes around-comes around"-as we say in english!!

[@brosisjk3993]

You should play GeoGuessr. It drops you in a random place on the google map and you have to figure out where in the world you are, then you pin the location you think you are at on a mini map and it tells you how close you were. You can move around in street view but you can't actually view the map.

[@wilhelmskovly2084]

A friend of mine actually spawned at his uncle's house.

[@Hollywood2021]

I’ve become an addict after reading this

[@dazza2350]

You have to pay for it now

[@ChillDudelD]

Gdańsk has been under Polish control for 700+ years , while under Teutonic/Prussian/German control around 300 years. Search in Wikipedia for: *History of Gdańsk & Timeline of Gdańsk* P.S. Its names in order: urbs Gyddanyzc (997), Kdanzk (1148), Gdanzc (1188), Danceke (1228), Gdansk (1236), Danzc (1263), Danczk (1311), Danczik (1399), Danczig (1414), Gdąnsk (1656), Danzig (1772), Free City of Danzig (1920), Gdańsk (1945).

[@eaglewhite0]

THE FACTS ABOUT GDANSK or DANZIG............ Early on the area of the later town was populated by the now extinct tribe of Baltic people known as the Old Prussians in English...... A name later stolen by the Teutonic Knights............ Later in 997 - Gdansk becomes capital of Duchy of Pomerania. (approximate date)..... 1308 - November 13:Teutonic Knights takeover of Gdansk...... 1455 - City ceded to Kingdom of Poland...... 1569 - City becomes part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...... 1772 - City separated from Poland...... 1793 - City becomes part of Prussia...... 1871 - City becomes part of German Empire...... 1919 - Free City of Danzig created by Treaty of Versailles (not Polish and not German)...... 1939 - October 8: City occupied by Nazi Germany in WW2..... 1952 - City becomes part of Poland again.

[@naturlicheweltordnung2609]

ChillDudeID A city can be under a nation's control and still be inhabited by other ethnicities. For example Triest in northern Italy used to be under control of Austria-Hungary but was populated by an Italian majority. So saying Danzig (or any other city/region) has been governed by Poland longer than by Germany doesn't prove that it's rightfully Polish.

[@ChillDudelD]

Also not only has Gdańsk been 700+ years within Poland, but it was also founded in 997 by Slavs (Poles) in Poland. Never forget that Germans in Gdańsk were really guest migrants. Allowing Germans to settle was a mistake in the end.

[@naturlicheweltordnung2609]

For Land Well, ethnically speaking Dutch people are nothing other than dissimilated Germans. In any case, Danzig's architecture isn't typically Polish. Poles would never be capable of designing a city like that. Your logic is that Danzig was created by Poles because some "Slavs" settled there like 800 years ago before the city as we know it today even existed - while Poles had almost no participation in Danzig's historic evolution, neither physically (>German Hansa,...) nor spiritually (>authors like Schopenhauer,...). About which genocide are you talking btw? You seriously think the Teutonic order massacred millions of Poles and replaced them with ethnic Germans? Their primary goal was to christianize the remaining pagans in Europe and not to exterminate or expel people. Most German settlers who (re-)migrated to these lands had nothing to do with the Teutonic order whatsoever. They were mostly peaceful, hard-working people - often attracted by Polish monarchs themselves. Regions like Pomerania were extremely sparsely populated and had practically no infrastructure before the German settlers came. There was no need for violence to get in possession of these lands because back then Poles weren't really interested in having them.

[@Woolfix1]

It doesn't matter what you say, the city belongs to Poland and Polish are the major ethnic group there. If you want to look at history, the original inhabitants of the region were Balts and Pomeranian Slavs, not Germans. The city was erected by Poles and was inhabited by Poles and Kaszubians. In 13th century Teutonic Knights commited a massacre and replaced dead Poles with German settlers. That is how Germans installed themselves in this city and the whole region. If you consider this as a legit foundation for your "Danzig should be German" statement, then you are not much better than Nazis during WWII.

[@814325]

I Love it when people talk about such specific topics in such minute detail. Congratulations. I've been to Poland many times and fell in love with its language and history. Greetings from a Brazilian living in Greece.

[@DeePScharge]

Considering that Gdańsk was established in 997 by Poles, in it's 1020 years it was 645 years under Polish rule, 282 years under German rule (that includs 146 years of Teutonic order, 103 under Kingdom of Prussia, Nazi rule, Waimar Republic rule, Empire of Germany rule and 13 year war), 19 years under League of Nations as a free city, 7 years under the French Empire as a free city, 67 years under Soverign Kingdom of Pomerania (under Danish rule): We can safely conclude that the name of this city is Gdańsk, it's a Polish city, and that Germans can't keep a port city if their life depended on it.

[@autotuna3805]

"Considering that Gdańsk was established in 997 by Poles, in it's 1020 years it was 645 years under Polish rule, 282 years under German rule" Totally wrong. Gdansk was established in the 10th century by a Danish king. It remained Danish until Poland eventually took it when the kingdom was established. And as it was ruled by Teutonic order and later the Prussian kingdom, it was not ruled by Poland for 645 years. Most of the buildings in the city were built by Germans, in German-influenced times, with German architecture. I have seen almost all Hansa cities in my life. The real old Danzig is a German city which was simply annexed.

[@DeePScharge]

I think that you've mistaken the time under Sovereign Kingdom of Pomerania which it was indeed under Danish rule between 1227-1294 which i also mentioned. Also i sincerely doubt that you ever been to Gdańsk considering your claim that the architecture is German. After Gdańsk was burned to the ground by soviets the communists have ordered to rebuilt Gdańsk's old town by dismantling buildings in Elbląg and recounstructing them in Gdańsk so you clearly can't distinguish between Polish and German architecture, that plus the Saint Maries Church, Saint Kate's Church, Saint Brigida's, The Karemlite's Monastery and The old Town Hall are sporting very distinctly Polish spires. While on the other hand i happned to be born, raised and still live in Gdańsk.

[@frisianmouve]

That city was so weird to me, if geoguessr dropped me in the centre of Gdansk i would've guessed somewhere in the Netherlands or Flanders. But yeah Hanze influence, i know

[@autotuna3805]

"I think that you've mistaken the time under Sovereign Kingdom of Pomerania which it was indeed under Danish rule between 1227-1294 which i also mentioned." 1. The city was found by the Danish before the Piasty even existed. 2. It remained Danish until it became a part of Pomerania and later Poland for a few years. "Also i sincerely doubt that you ever been to Gdańsk considering your claim that the architecture is German." I have been to Gdansk, Torun, Szczecin, Warsaw, Krakow, Lwow and I have been to all the German Hansa cities: Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck, Wismar, Stralsund. And there is some clear differences in the way a German influenced city like Hamburg, Szczecin and Gdansk and a city that has always been under Polish rule since its foundation like Warsaw or Krakow. If you say that most of the old buildings in Danzig are of Polish architecture, you are either blind or haven't got a single clue about architecture. Especially the town hall and many of the old churches are clearly German influenced architecture. You only find such town halls in the old German hansa cities.

[@DeePScharge]

1. The oldest ever excavated remnant's of Gdańsk are from 980. Any previous settlements were Polish tribes and their grods. The oldest mentions of Gdańsk is from saint Adalbert's journal. 2. I know quite a bit about archtecture, being a graduate of fine arts academy and what not. Especially considering my home town. You say that you know about architecture but fail to see the distinct polish mix of Gothic and Renaissance in the oldest buildings in Gdańsk such as the Town Hall. The reason for this is that Poles were always late when it comes to trends in arts and architecture, often mixing them in their own blend, which is why those buildings facades are less ornate then their German counterparts also bear red bricks instead of plaster. Also The town hall is taller and much more compact in case of the town hall it was because it was expanded threw nearly 2 centuries. Germans preferred smaller wider, and longer buildings. Also the tower is finished with a long multilevel spire and each corners of the tower sport smaller spires. Which is also a distinctly polish feature. The St. Mary's Church is especially interesting because even tho it's a gothic cathedral the main tower has a flat top lacking a spire and the whole body is more reminiscent of the older romanesque style, which you could have mistaken it for if it weren't for the 2 smaller spires at the back and huge ornate, arced stain glass windows. As for the smaller houses in old town as i said they were lifted from Elbląg, most of the city looked similar to Krakow before world war 2 if you look at the old pre war photos and drawings. “I've been there and they look slightly different” is not an argument good sir. I'm a Polish-Kashebian citizen of Gdańsk and i can guarantee you that you are talking out of your own ass. Sorry.I don't know if you're German, or have German ancestors but their claim on Gdańsk is weak at best. But there are nods to brief periods of Prussian rule and the hansatic, cosmopolitan nature of the city, one of the buildings on a plaza next to St. Mary's Church has a very distinctly german plaster faced with wooden ribs. You cant miss it, sticks out like a sore thumb. There is also the “English House” where english traders slept and traded but Poles couldn't help themselves and also've put their elongated spire on top of it. looks kinda silly but thats where the graphic design department of fine arts academy is so i had to look at it for 5 years.

[@Melly_Mel0dy]

This is honestly the first time I've seen someone call the Czeck Republic "Czechia", I really got confused for a while, only to discover that it's just another way of calling the country.

[@TheEgglet]

pierrotboy13 i call it just "czech"

[@notaweebANIMATIONNGAMING]

czechiaslovakia

[@xXx_Baba-Smoker_xXx]

In german it's "Tschechien" so "czechia" doesn't sound wrong to me at all

[@wilmattree2004]

It's pretty normal though

[@WorldofWarcraftValai]

Fun fuct about us, Poles - we love when foreigners try to pronounce our names and words. We laugh but we appreciate every try :)

[@WorldofWarcraftValai]

Broxbhoy Bri and I'm in absolute love with Scotland and your accent!!!

[@bahadrozturk2086]

Broxbhoy Bri i really like scottish accent because i like things that i dont understand

[@oofoof5334]

Polish Tsar hello, fellow pole. As a fellow pole myself my last name is.... Well..... I don't want someone to hack me, so let's just say it's hard to pronounce

[@WorldofWarcraftValai]

Poland Ball Oh please, my name is constantly mispronounced by our nation, even though for example teachers have seen me for many many years and they still do the same mistake lol

[@TheCriminalViolin]

When I heard Keralis, who is technically Polish explain how Lodz was enunciated - I just about exploded. How in the heck a word as simple as that is said so long and extremely different than it's spelling and accents I cannot begin grasp haha. South Slavic, German, Russian and some Scandinavian influence throughout Poland's history has definitely created one truly unique, and extremely complicated and confusing language haha

[@lewist7576]

Is it bad that I am genuinely considering becoming the first human being to drown in 3 countries at the same time?

[@lemao_squash4486]

Lewis T yes. Seek help

[@lewist7576]

Believe it or not, you're not the first person to tell me that.

[@EPMTUNES]

Who would deal with the body?

[@lewist7576]

SSJB Jason I like your way of thinking...

[@saoz3]

I would actually do that. I wonder who could legally take the body and into which country.

[@wedrownysowianin9387]

One thing you should note about the Polish-German border and even Poland's current shape is that roughly represents Poland as it existed around the year 1000. Poland even extended into parts of eastern Germany where the Sorb people live. Poland has a right to Śląsk and Pomorze historically.

[@michawrzosek5417]

One little correction: Świnoujście and Bogatynia are towns, not villages

[@deldarel]

Call it whatever I want? Alright, I'll call Gdansk 'Constantinople'

[@st0ox]

or Byzántion or Bizantion or Byzantium

[@Frikiman_H]

Checkmate.

[@KitsuneRogue]

I prefer Tzargrad. :p

[@LIBERTASetVERITA5]

Always will be *DANZIG!*

[@y0urs03pic]

East Hamburg

[@zacvenomm]

Slovaks, Poles and Czechs can understand each other very well.

[@rustyJake_]

I walked around the Czech-Polish border for a while and as a Polak i could not tell the difference between us and the Czechs. We do come from the same people after all.

[@tenrevilo]

I don't understand polish, i am from czechia

[@Peter_B.]

Well, I'm Slovak and besides understanding and speaking Czech as it was my native language, I get most of southern-polish dialects. I'm not used to read Polish, as there are many letter combinations that are unnatural for me, but I can say that if I watched Polish cartoons, movies and listened to spoken Polish as a child instead of being in contact with Czech all the time, I would definitely be able to speak Polish nearly as a native speaker. Slovak, Czech and Polish are really similar, but you have to be confronted with those languages since childhood and then I believe you can communicate on really decent level.

[@KendrixTermina]

My mom is part Czech and my siblings and I have been friends with a number of Polish kids in grade school. Mom says that she can understand them as long as they don't speak too fast.

[@Monika-qu3ls]

I think it's not only the language similarities between Poles, Czechs and Slovaks, but also similar mentality/mindset that makes communication easier.

[@astroksiezyc1700]

Polish history and borders are complicated xD

[@kamiljaroszewski6356]

a kogo my tu mamy

[@yukaii0]

Adam. Stop copying this everywhere. It doesnt even have anything to do with the comment.

[@yukaii0]

Astro Księżyć Yeah. not as much as our language tho. hehe.

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

Lwów was Polish city for centuries. How long was it Ukrainian? I heard Ukraine as a country exists since I world war, right? Yes, it's obviously Ukrainian now, but saying like it's indigenously Ukrainian city is retarded.

[@swietosawagromowadna7957]

Poles didn't occupied Ukraine and oles didn't killed Ukrainians. I think that Soviet Russia was worst than Poland. Poles actually didn't do Holodomor.

[@michaelfisher9267]

A train trip from Görlitz, Germany to Zittau, Germany goes makes one stop in Poland opposite Ostritz, Germany. A train trip from Zittau to Liberec, Czech Republic goes for a couple of kilometres through Poland without stopping in Poland. The train moves very slowly through Poland.

[@kyre4189]

There were 3 partitions, and you're right with the countries that did it, but you forgot about Prussia

[@SamJonesMediaHUD]

My Grandad was born in Stalavichy, which is quite a fair way inside Belarus, but at the time it was Poland. Always called himself Polish.

[@molexi6537]

Once there was a little Polish boy on the beach, then he walked into Russia. The End.

[@prod.domino]

omg

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

The Russian part of the beach is a minefield. Don't go there.

[@molexi6537]

Like I said, *The End.*

[@dovahkaaz9001]

true story

[@HAL-kd7ve]

the lost poem of king salomon

[@wysysaczkrwi2312]

You know the video is good when you learn so much about your's country borders

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

As a German I find it hard to talk about this border especially because my own maternal grandpa was born in 1904 in a part of Poland that was then occupied by Germany which made him a German citizen but he also spoke Polish. I was born in 1992 and I know that there are still some family members in current Poland but I never met any of them, but my grandpa had four children there with his first wife and all of them stayed there and became polish citizens.

[@WizardToby]

I like Poland. My great grandparents came over from there in the 1920's :P

[@rakzparkingu2353]

Were they Jews?

[@prod.domino]

My grandparents live and grew up in Poland. My mom was born and raised in Nowy Sacz, Poland!

[@WizardToby]

Cool. My great grandparents came from southern Poland. I don't remember the town. But they left when Russia and Germany were threatening to invade.

[@rakzparkingu2353]

Dominik Klemetsrud I live near this town

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

Wizard - Well , they were smart people.

[@y0urs03pic]

You live in an *ISLAND* ?! whaat?!! how can you *NOT KNOW* how to swim?? I live in middle of the US-Mexican border desert (El Paso) and I KNOW HOW TO SWIM !! :O

[@nintenjoe38]

s1r_dr2g0n The waters around the British Isles are freezing though.

[@jonahmordhaim2705]

The Nintendo Fan 957 yeah they are frozed all the year yeah that makes sense wtf are you talking about?

[@benghazi8054]

I come from Sweden. My waters are colder, and still I know how to swim. Please learn if you don't know. It may very well save your life.

[@Damo2690]

Ben Ghazi Or just don't swim in the sea haha

[@benghazi8054]

Damo. And falling down a channel in Amsterdam never happens. Just one example of a million that doesn't involve going for a swim in the sea. Go and have a look on liveleak. You will see many drown unnecessarily, especially kids.

[@m.ostrowski2031]

*Three countries Austria, Russia and Prussia

[@mdhookey]

I used to live right next to the Czech-Polish border in Náchod, and I frequently went over to its sister town across the river (Kudowa-Zdrój). Absolutely love the border area there--lots of rolling hills, forests, meadows, and friendly people.

[@CookieMaster16]

Very cool video, but you forgot one thing about PL-UKR/Former USSR border. In 1951 there was a territorial exchange because Poland discovered coal in the region, so soviets took it and gave them a bit of the carpathian.

[@duwang8499]

Well, i see that many people complain on the modern western polish border and that the polish have the fault, but it was actually Stalin that moved the borders to extreme, and disposed millions of people from their home. The actual polish government in london only wanted parts of upper silesia, east prussia with danzig and small parts of pomerania. Of Course I'm as a german a little bit sad that these regions are forever gone, but the polish also had it bad. And after these 70 years i think that the polish have rights to this land now, i mean they even build the cities and towns almost identical (not like the Russians)

[@tst2363]

PingiMan Ne , müssen wir zurückhaben. Die können ja ihre Kriegsschulden bezahlt bekommen

[@rustyJake_]

It was Polish for way longer than it was German. Accept your defeat and don't cause another tragedy on your already destroyed nation.

[@duwang8499]

Did you wrote that to me or b d?

[@tst2363]

Jake N.I.E.

[@randomdude2026]

Jake Das hasse ich an Polen im Internet. Sie sind extrem beleidigend und auch noch extrem nationalistisch und fremdenfeindlich. Wirklich, 98% der Polen die ich im Internet treffe sind so. Ich als Deutscher kann diesen übertrieben Nationalismus nicht verstehen. Patriotismus ist ja schön und gut und auch wünschenswert, aber das? Mich macht es so sauer ständig von irgendwelchen Polen beleidigt zu werden. Und wenn ich mich wehre kommt dann die Nazikeule. Bah! Ich weiß man darf nicht verallgemeinern. Tatsächlich ist einer meiner besten Kumpel im RL Pole, aber diese Polen im Internet gehen mir so auf den Sack!

[@lukas6974]

Polish people have suffered a lot throughout the history

[@kasiam9742]

于希嘉 Yes 😰

[@Bruno-gj4jj]

Many Countrys suffered a lot in europe not only Poland . for example Portugal,Spain,Italy,the most Balkan Countries,Ukraine,Russia,the Baltics ,the Netherlands and especially Germany

[@The_Yosh]

Irish people too

[@kamilchrostowski6842]

@H S I PO I SLD w takim razie tez

[@MorningStar-hb4mi]

Gdansk for the vast majority of its history has been part of Poland and should be considered as such.

[@HAL-kd7ve]

Yeah. Its Orginal name was "Kodan". And once, it was a Polish Capital

[@EzoPlay]

lol 800 years with a majority german population and it should be considered a part of poland? brainwashed

[@HAL-kd7ve]

GIVE ME PROOFS for your silly opinion. There are none

[@Dozeji]

German language was indeed present in Gdańsk, mostly because the city was a vital trade port... and a lot of people there used Gerrman out of convienience... Still, the city has been owned by Poland for most of it's existance. The protoplast of Germany, Prussia/Teutonic Order, took it over in 1792 in the II Partition of Poland. Since then, it's been +/- 140 years, untill Gdańsk returned to Polish direct rule. So not brainwashed, but based on actual historical evidence.

[@henningbartels6245]

I wonder what is more important for a city's history: to have a Polish king or to have German inhabitants?!?

[@nicktullett8023]

Would love to see a border video on Cyprus

[@henri8286]

Nick Tullett thats actually a great idea

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

Nick Tullett Or Iceland.

[@bigbobey1680]

Conway79 Cyprus has borders. He's not being sarcastic.

[@nicktullett8023]

I think it was meant as a joke

[@bigbobey1680]

Nick Tullett oh I thought you were serious cause Cyprus does have some really interesting borders

[@trelala789]

I just want to point out, that some of the weird borders, where it follows river is actually problem with Google maps. If you look at different map, which are drawn more preciously, you will see, that border actually does follow the river. Google maps are great on global scale, but often not very good with details, like in this case, they are using different data set for drawing rivers and for drawing borders and coordinates don't always fit.

[@InternationalSongs]

March, march, Dąbrowski, To Poland from the Italian land. Under your command We shall rejoin the nation!

[@iameuropean5301]

InternationalSongs Italian land? What?!

[@InternationalSongs]

That's the main part of the Polish national anthem! :)

[@qwertylello]

Thank you Poland! We also homage your country in the longest form of the national anthem: “Il sangue d’Italia Il sangue polacco Bevé col Cosacco Ma il cor le bruciò” Translation: (Referring to Austria) Together with the Cossacks, it drank both the Polish and the Italian blood, but it burnt its heart

[@kontrrewolucjonista8240]

The Commander Of The Official Army Of Antarctica Italian land, because in 1797 Napoleon was conquering Italy, and at the same time Poland was partitioned, so a lot of Poles thought that Napoleon can help them in reconquering homeland, so general leutant Dąbrowski and general Zajączek created Polish Legions in Italy. Those Legions were helping Napoleon in conquering Italy. Later on, when italian campaign finished, some Poles left army, some joined French one and later on some joined army of Duchy of Warsaw.

[@phoneix0074]

InternationalSongs that doesn't sound as good as in Polish :/

[@migoreng7789]

my mom grew up right by poland and now slovakia border in a mountain area. people would go for a hike and disappear just to re-surface weeks later. in most cases they were caught by border guards suspecting they are trying to flee from poland, however usually those people accidentally went on the other side. it wasn't hard because the area was 95% mountains and woods then. also smuggling as side hustle was super common back there in 70/80s 🤭

[@kwaobenti]

Yes it is unfortunate for Germany that millions of ethnic Germans were expelled from Silesia, Pomerania, and East Prussia. But this is far more the fault of Stalin, than of the Poles. Shortly after Hitler invaded Poland from the west, the Soviets invaded Poland from the east and grabbed a big chunk of Poland. And when WW2 was over, Stalin certainly wasn't going to give it back! But at the same time it would have looked very bad if Poland had come out of the war suffering severe territorial losses, since in theory the allies declared war on Germany for the sake of Poland! So to compensate Poland, they were given lands largely populated by Germans, and the Germans living there were thrown out! And by this stage it was easy to make Germany pay the price because who would feel sorry for all these displaced Germans after what Hitler did to Germany's neighbours? There is absolutely zero prospect these lands will ever be returned, millions of Poles live there now! The German government and the great majority of Germans have quite sensibly accepted the reality of the situation! These days it's a good thing that relations between Germany and Poland are quite cordial. And what price did the Soviets pay for their invasion of eastern Poland? They were rewarded for it by being allowed to keep the big chunk of Poland they had captured at the start of the war! The Poles living there were eventually made to move to the lands captured from Germany, after the Germans had been expelled! In the long run Russia itself has hardly benefited, as after the break up of the Soviet Union, the lands the Soviets took from Poland are now parts of Belarus, Ukraine, or Lithuania, with only the Kaliningrad enclave being part of Russia.

[@astroksiezyc1700]

Alex Silesia and Pomerania were polish lands from X to XIII century

[@bigbobey1680]

Alex actually, before that it was Baltic, not polish

[@waszkreslem9306]

Alex Pomerania was originally Slavic in X century. After the HRE policy of assimilating west Slavic lands (including Pomerania) it eventually become a german princedom in HRE. Polish and Czechs somehow remain their national identity (especially Polish because Czechs were nearly assimilated till XIX when huge wave of nationalism woke up).

[@Alaryk111]

@Big Bobey Baltic settlement zone ended on Vistula river. Coastal regions between Vistula and Elba Was settled by west slavic tribes.

[@kwaobenti]

+Alex I did not refer to "German lands", I referred to "lands largely populated by Germans", and "lands captured from Germany". And nowhere in my comment do I talk of "stealing"! If anything I have written is factually incorrect then please point it out, but kindly don't misquote me!

[@Makrelacz]

I think the city of Těšín/Cieszin is worth mentioning as half of it lies in Poland and half in Czechia.

[@menel1368]

My grandfather lived near Białystok. In one village but in five countries.

[@adamurbacka3161]

I'd say you missed one more point on the Polish-Czech border at Cieszyn/Český Těšín. It used to be a disputed area between the two countries, and now it is one city split into two parts by a river.

[@kestrel4e371]

5:47 'try to pronounce it' Me: laughs in polish

[@toffeeFairy]

My grandmother actually came from east prussia, the grave of her brothers are actually still there, she even visited back in like 1995

[@Chazcam_Gaming]

0:32 the polish empire *POLISH* *EMPIRE* *Angry Lithuanian noises*

[@michaelfisher9267]

The rail line between Görlitz and Zittau (Germany) actually cuts through Poland with one passenger stop at Krzewina Zgorzelecka/Ostritz inside Poland.

[@zararule427]

"You can make jokes about, 'Oh the police..' anyway" Comedy Gold.

[@AbelMaganaAvalos]

Love to Poland from Tuvalu

[@naoeroo]

wow ur from tuvaku love to tuvalu!

[@haystackdmilith]

Poland is very stubborn nation ;) Many have tried to invade us.. and we're still here ;)

[@atamanwielkopolski1576]

Żydo komuna

[@PeliSotilas]

Eh.. Poland isnt really an exception.

[@gamerguy9729]

Except for all the times you were annexed

[@idiotagupek5219]

@@PeliSotilas Which nations do you mean. I would love to know.

[@PeliSotilas]

@@idiotagupek5219 Wdym

[@rczedar]

actually the wheel changing happens in Przemyśl, Poland ;) we have both wide and normal tracks in our city.

[@wakatui2646]

Been binge watching this stuff, learned a lot of stuff with a few laughs on the way

[@benjaminblok3833]

you can drown in 3 countries at once and set a forest on fire in three countries at once

[@TheWalrusWasDanny]

Another interesting one...I took a train in 1994 from Poland to Lithuania...and the only way to get there (and they did the track change/wheel thing you talk about) was through Belarus...a tiny bit of Belarus...the train stopped at Grodney...it's on your video map...and the Belarus police went through the train picking up westerners and dragging them off the train (quite aggressively)..then they charged us 50 US dollars for a transit visa..had to be in dollars...it was really really heavy...back on the train...and 10 mins later hello Lithuania. Danny

[@Hyperventilacion]

Nice video, I'll spend some months in Lodz next year, I can't wait to visit Gdansk, Wroclaw, and other places!

[@legendbauer5249]

Omar Adrián Nuño Íñiguez you mean litzmannstadt Danzig and Breslau

[@Hyperventilacion]

Polish names sound better.

[@legendbauer5249]

Alexander van Maaßtricht yeah normal xD

[@SimonS44]

Danzig and Breslau might be the “normal” German names for Gdańsk and Wrocław, just like Köln is Cologne in English or Leipzig is Lipsk in Polish, but Litzmannstadt was a name given Łódź by the Nazis. Normally, you use the Polish name or the “Germanised” (in terms of spelling, mind you) versions Lodz or Lodsch.

[@jigbizzer]

I went on holiday to some mountain range in Slovakia and me and my polish cousin went to play volleyball. There was a Hungarian Czech and Slovak there, we all somehow managed to understand each other.

[@xaverlustig3581]

Question: Has anyone been to the Baltic Sea beach at the Polish/Russian border? Can you go swimming into Russian waters? What happens if you climb over the fence or swim around it to the Russian side of the beach? Do you risk being arrested? On the photo it looks abandoned ...

[@mumin84]

It's not. Electronic surveillance everywhere. Every now and then I hear about tourist getting "lost" there and being arrested.

[@xaverlustig3581]

That doesn't sound so good. Can you see Russian people on the other beach?

[@Xtrems]

Kaliningrad is a one huge military base. Almost no russian civilians live there. My father is a truck driver who used to visit that place regularly, it's an uncanny, or even scary place.

[@Xtrems]

Yeah. It's a shame that giving back Kaliningrad to germany would create a very unstable region. Exclaves always want to be connected, connecting it to germany would cut off poland from the sea, this would make poland largely dependent on germany, things would get bad. As a polish guy i think that it would be the best to give it to lithuania - a country that hates poland, but when you look on the map it is very reasonable.

[@Xtrems]

Alexander van Maaßtricht that would require forcing massive amounts of people to move east. If you don't want to risk riots, that is. And wouldn't really be beneficial for anyone, as belarus would disappear, ukraine would get smaller, poland would not have anything except for polish farms (belarus and ukraine do not use most of their land, its in terrible state), half od Lithuania would go to Poland, almost all of polish coal and industries in general would go to germany, an already industrialised country. Which means that Germany wouldn't gain anything except for historical cities, and poland would become much poorer. Nobody would agree to such deal.

[@814325]

In Poland I always stay in a city in Poland called Kleszczele that lies just 14km from.the Belarusian border. As a Brazilian, I need no Visa whatsoever to enter the country but the Poles that live right nearby have to go through a lot of burocracy to go there.

[@graf]

siema kto pl

[@kievskyyyy]

ja

[@adamkaniowski]

POLSKA!!

[@rydwanik1312]

"siema kto pl" ja pierdole jaki plebs...

[@graf]

baited

[@chickenstudiotv648]

graf tutaj XD

[@cherrybon_]

Its really cool seeing someone not Polish embrace the fascinating history of the country omg

[@Dejy-subscribegoal200]

*i need some space*

[@EfraimSules]

dude, that's like the best youtube video about Polands borders and even history. Thank you!

[@zilvawas2885]

lithuania next maybe ???

[@orjhyu3v2ehv3h]

ZilvaWas yes

[@amalgama2000]

Gdansk was originally a part of Poland Kingdom. It was taken by Germans (Teutonic Orden) in 1308. They've committed a massacre in the city (around 10.000 victims) and burned half of the city itself. So originally it was Gdansk, no Danzig

[@piotrwojdelko1150]

Gdansk is the historical polish translation of Danzing ,but Kaliningrad the name derived from Russian( General or Captain) who died there during the siege of Königsberg in WW2 . Polish historical tranlation of Königsberg is Krolewiec . In old books when you are looking for information you will find Königsberg or Krolewiec .Russia were too far name has been changed completelly and randomely.

[@novesspl5061]

Very nice video. I actually learned a lot things about my country and it's borders. Thanks!

[@MasterLagoz]

Poland stronk.

[@Green_Turle]

MasterLagoz Strong* Orto

[@darkoris8992]

^ its meme bro

[@arturkowalczyk2133]

zluzuj majtasy

[@TheWalrusWasDanny]

Back in 1987 I visited Poland and took a train from Zagorsk to Przemysil...it was a top tip to buy the ticket at Zagorsk station..the train went over the border of what was then Poland/USSR to go between the two towns...it was amazing...armed guards on board the train to ensure that you didn't escape from Poland to the USSR...and Vice Versa (and in 87 this was all behind the Iron Curtain)....the border was massive barbed wire fences...the train went over sand which guards brushed over after the train went through...so as to have evidence of any possible footprints...we waved at future Ukraine nationals as we rode to Shemist (Przemysil)!!!! Danny

[@imienazwisko4219]

Sorry but calling Gdańsk, Danzig is quite offensive

[@ulaonn]

just check from the curiosity as you few times repeat example of Bialystok as a city which change the country many times - in fact not counting 123 years where this part of Poland was under Russian occupation and not counting WWII this city was always Polish, settled in 15th centuries by polish settlers and always inhibited majority by polish or polish-jewish citizens... (according to Wikipedia at least), just saying for the sake of historical correctness

[@dickbison]

This was pretty educational for me and I'm Polish, good job.

[@mclurr3197]

That is a town not a village

[@matthewwiszowaty653]

McLurr it’s synonymous

[@TheCursedCat1927]

Town and Village are technically synonymous, so they can be used together.

[@muzyquest]

Linguistic fun fact related to Polish-German border: you know where from the literal meaning of the word for the Germans (nation/people) in Polish come from? (actually in most of Slavic languages as well) - "Niemcy" = "THE MUTES" - "the ones that cannot speak (an intelligible, Slavic language)"

[@avegromek]

poles like a little bit of action. ww1, ww2, there is always something interesting going on in here. come and visit.

[@Vladd0r]

On our Trip to Italy we stayed overnight in a german Town called "Weil am Rhein". Where you can jump to France and Switzerland in a Heartbeat :)

[@antga70]

My family's polish

[@TheBrickCapital]

Keep doing what you're doing, man. Love your videos

[@schmidt5464]

Do you play grand strategy games like crusader kings 2?

[@dovahkaaz9001]

aha in CK2 slavic borders go to Berlin .

[@Kristof1]

Just searching for some hungarian saying: I see Poland in recommended, i click, i like.

[@eaglewhite0]

SILESIA...... A historical region that is now in southwestern poland......... By the 9th century Silesia was exclusively inhabited by Slavic peoples: the Dziadoszanie and the Bobrzanie in the north and the Ślęzanie (from whom it got its name), the Opolanie, and the Golensicowie in the south........ Silesia was later a Polish province, which became a possession of the Bohemian crown in 1335.......... It was passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526....... It was taken by Prussia (Later known as Germany) in 1742........ In 1945, at the end ofWorld War 2, Silesia was one of the regions of German territory that was granted to Poland by the Soviet Union....

[@autotuna3805]

Oh nice another Polish history falsification.

[@eaglewhite0]

WHAT is false or Fake about the above information ?????......Please state what is wrong and give your idea of the truth....

[@leolinox]

Julian Penczek In the second half of the 2nd millennium B.C. (late Bronze Age) Silesia belonged to the Lusatian culture. About 500 BC Scyths arrived, and later Celts in the South and Southwest.[1]During the 1st century BC Silingi and other Germanic people settled in Silesia. For this period we have written reports of antique authors who included the area. Slavs arrived in this territory around the 6th century. Straight from Wikipedia, as you can see the first settlers who could be identified as Germanic or Slavic where Germanic, with Slavs only arriving 500 years later, so its actually German

[@HAL-kd7ve]

Archeological cultures ~ are not nations. Scyths, Szczytowie (lat. Scithae) ~ Means as much as steppe-Slavs. Likewise, Archeological "Celts" (18th century etiquette, not a name) are nothing less than a newly-invented name based on a wrong identification of a specific type of burials witch originally belongs to; "Sarmatians", Suromatowie/ Sarmaci, who were European - Mainland- Slavs ~ *IN FACT* Those, you call : "Germanc peoples" just like the most "celts", etc. belong in more than 80% cases to the Lengyel, Lugii, culture, the " Łużycka" familly whitch means they are in fact ethnic Slavs. Suebii, Suevii, Suebes (Also D: Schwaben) have nothing in common with "german" nor "celtic", origins but rather stand for latin-roman cases of the word Sławianie (ang. Slavs). "German" is just another latin-roman word (not name) and it stands for the english word "neighbour" in Latin (or rather: highlender (peoples)~ from behind the Alps), there are no historic names like this, no nation had such name (like Celt/German), nor even a single tribe had such a name. Just like the pseudogerman "Vandals" who are simply; Weneden - Wenedi - Wenetowie - Wandalowie. "Wandalici" who come from the Slavic "Wołochy" (lat. Vandalorum, glag. Vallahia) confederation. Next: Goths? Gethae? Goethi - Getowie. "Li ' Geci!" Łaci or Lachy from Ługia/Legia "Lechia". All middle-eastern Europe was Slavic, with the (changing) border on the Rhine (Ren) and Donau (Istra). You will NOT FIND ANY TRACES OF "Celts" in Silesia. "Lusatian Culture"(Kultura Łużycka) is a scientific archeological nick-name for the territory in which cultural and material leftovers (ex. graves) typical to the "Liga Ługijska" or "Związek Ługijski" Slavic confederation can be found. SlAVIC PEOPLES are European autochtones, and they were around for much longer, long before the first Nords arrived (on Gallic lands and the continental mainland ofc).. Slavs are those, who carry the R1A1 haplotype. Which means they lived around and shaped Europe for tens of thousands of years ~ since *at least 10 000 years B.C.* also since., well... forever. Myster Julian was right, he described roughly few specific Silesian (Also regional) tribes, of which - ALL ~ are indeed Slavic. In both means: ethnicity AND culture. You on the other hand - haven't described one damn thing. 1. Do not trust Wikipedia, nor the German 18-19'th century pseudo-science and its history falsifications. 2. Before you talk about history You have to Pre-Define ~ a specific time- spawn AND: whether you talk about material culture and a specific civilization, migrations of peoples and their material/cultural impact,, geographical names, or the actual peoples and their names, given by themselves - or - specific groups of people, who can be traced back by their origin and ethnicity. You messed-up the whole terminology and mixed it with some long-ago debunked, fairy-tale based thesis. Pseudohistory in one word. Greetz

[@HAL-kd7ve]

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[@AhimtarHoN]

The dam on the Polish-Slovak border actually caused some controversy among Slovak people living there, as tourism for traditional rafting (sailing a plť / tratwa) is very popular on the Dunajec river for both Poles and Slovaks, but now Poles have complete control over the river there. I was on one such raft last summer and the "raft navigator" was slightly salty about it :D But nothing too big of course, just a fun fact!

[@deldarel]

hmm, I could go for some Szczecin sauce. Will it return next year with the live action Mulan?

[@cheezycrackers8677]

Sceczeczeczzczcin vs Stettin One is obviously quite easier for civilized people's to pronounce. Also if eastern Germany is Slavic then why was there a commission after WWII to make up names for the German towns and cities Poland had just been assigned?

[@lostindigital2546]

Szczecin have a kind of meanning (close meanning to area is placed). What about Stettin? And... Niemcy (Polish for German) means closely "Somebody who can`t speak". No suprised they couldn`t pronounce Szczecin, so Stettin in simplier version for Szczecin. Like most of translations of cities names. Romes comming from far away distanses given their versions of citties names they found but it doesn`t mean they are proper names. Are they? BTW. Your comment was cheezy anyway possible...

[@lostindigital2546]

even if you write something "szczcceuuczzin" it won`t make your comment less "cheeky". even it makes it more cheeky... ;-)

[@lostindigital2546]

And.. one more. What is your definition for civilization in word you used "civilized"? did you mean something like you written as your interpretation of Szczecin as "scezerecsscc"? wow then... wow!!! hahaha

[@lostindigital2546]

And... PArt of your question about Slavic east of German.. I know you not Slavic so you don`t care what you know but tring to "show off".. please then check.. Bavaria Slavica, Germania Slavica... plenty available in internet even in your barbarian language of civilized nations.. but... as far as know "more civilized, more blind on truth"...

[@kokojambo4944]

Another fact about it, Poland's border with Lithuania is one of only "conditionally" recognised borders. since 1990s Poland recognises the current border with Lithuania however if Lithuanians for example start the persecute the Polish population which is still a majority in many parts of the old Wilno province, the agreement is or can be, depend ending on who you ask, nullified reverting the border back to 1939 including the current capital of Lithuania.

[@kokojambo4944]

In addition, according to a treaty from the 1940s, Czechia is obliged since 2015 to give Poland about 25-40km squared (can't remember) of territory at any point Poland chooses, however it has not been enforced due to a lack of interest.

[@vaktmesterdrip9006]

very interesting videos

[@sertaki]

Kinda hoped you go over the historical borders and how they looked at different times in more detail judging from the title of the video.

[@therealronniej]

Toy cat or IBX2cat?

[@americanexcursions3542]

There is also Polish train between Przemyśl and Kostrzenko that travels through Ukraine. In the Soviet era Soviet soldiers would guard it so nobody could exit or enter the train. Sometimes it would take hoooooooours to travel those 50 or so km...

[@michaelfisher9267]

The rail line between Zittau (Germany) and Hrádek nad Nisou (Czech Republic) runs through Poland. There is no passenger stop in Poland.

[@randomcommenter395]

Avoid these comments like the cancer they are. +1 to warn the others.

[@HAL-kd7ve]

Yeah. Take LSD instead

[@damianwyrebiak8143]

HAL 9000 No, it wouldn't be enough

[@TooGumbica]

Following rivers is perfect as long as you don't want your borders to last. Cro-Serbian border war written waaaaaaaay back in the day and at fall of ExYugo, borders were set at "The river" but not specifically "this days river" or "The river". So Croatia recognises the old river as the border and Serbia the new river as the border (river changed). So rivers aren't that good

[@ashikurrahaman1869]

Is it difficult to get a job in Poland as a student???

[@Majkel2207]

Getting a job isn't hard, but it might be badly paid

[@Xtrems]

Depends where. In Gdańsk or Warsaw knowing english and another foreign language will get you a good job in an instant, since both have a huge amount of foreign companies. I know people who have learnt norwegian and they get 8000zł for the same job that in purely polish (or polish-english) company they'd have like a half of that amount.

[@kubacakagoomba]

Getting a job is easy, although you'd have a tough time finding it.

[@mf7430]

der fliegende Hut Well the foreign name is Gdańsk. As the comment before me said, Its a nickname from the Teutonic cancer.

[@НавсегдаТвой]

*der fliegende Hut* Gdańsk has never been purely German. And it's been founded by Poles. * flies away *

[@antoniplebanski1119]

Bro, huge respect for trying:) But of course it was just a brief explanation but anyway, respect - nothing in Poland is easy to understand, especially the history. Cheers!

[@mihuhih2186]

Nie będzie Niemiec pluł nam w twarz, Ni dzieci nam germanił. Orężny wstanie hufiec nasz, Duch będzie nam hetmanił!

[@kpc211]

About the trains, you have the same situation at the French-Spanish border. And on the Sweden-Finland one too. On the Polish-Ukrainian border, there are also Ukrainian trains, which you can board on the Polish side in the town of Przemyśl, which is reached by the eastern standard wide tracks. Then you don't waste 2 hours for the change of wheels. The documents checking takes place on the train. Meanwhile, Lithuanians have recently built 100 km of western standard tracks, so the train from Poland can reach Kaunas which is one of the biggest cities in the country. The "train station" points right at the borders are no real stations where the train stops, they are only to determine where the responsibility of the railway operator of one country ends and of another starts and where one ticket system ends and another starts. This is the last point, to which e.g. Polish railways can sell a domestic ticket (you can buy a ticket to such a border point, although it is done in rare cases only, e.g. if you have an unlimited ticket for the other country; it's usually made difficult or impossible to buy such a ticket in other cases, so that you would buy a more expensive international ticket instead of two domestic ones). The documents check usually takes place either on a station at one or both sides of the border (and there are two versions: either you must leave the train and check in, or the inspectors enter the train and check your documents, the train departs after they leave), or on the train - the inspectors enter on one side of the border and leave on the other.

[@shoulders-of-giants]

"Sh-chechin"

[@theodorkorner1497]

To all polish people here in the comments don't be afraid you can keep your territories, just appreciate the german and polish influences on them over the centuries. I just wanna say that the only thing that we want back is Königsberg! I guess we can agree upon that?

[@Radek494]

Fine by me, we don't need to border Russia.

[@jeidun]

Europe's weird lol

[@bwda666]

Jay-----YES IT IS!!! lol

[@PeliSotilas]

Thats what you get for having hundreds of years of evolution and civilization... So much history...

[@shonaguthrie848]

I walked across the bridge at Frankfurt (Oder) to Poland for a few hours in 2013.

[@KendrixTermina]

This whole train situation really makes me appreciate the EU.

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

Before Poland joined EU the situation with the tracks was exectly the same. It's not like EU built proper railway tracks for Poland. I think the tracks in Poland were always different than behind eastern border. Even during Communist time.

[@Schmuni]

@11:45 nah you were right the first time, the languages are VERY understandable. Not the same, but a pole and a czech can talk in their native tongue to each other and should get like 90%+ of what is being said, the biggest problem is verbal false friends. (for example, what means crunchy/fresh buns in polish means stone hard old buns in czech.)

[@mclurr3197]

Btw toycat i live in Szczecin xD

[@ibx2cat]

Ah, a lot of people where I'm from go there frequently it seems :)

[@mclurr3197]

If you ever visit Szczecin let me know ill show you every interesting place around my city ;). Well i think that you will like this fact. We have a hill thats named after napoleon, it was created by french soliders during napolionic wars becouse they conquered szczecin using only cavalery :). Later germans renamed that hill to "german hill" but right not its back to "hill of napoleon". If you want more info google " Wzgórze Napoleona" :)

[@lukaszspychaj9210]

I was born in Szczecin :D

[@tst2363]

Stettin* :)

[@tylerbozinovski4624]

@@xL4RG0x Szczczczczczczczczczczecin = Stetttttttttttttttttttttin.

[@darreljones8645]

Gdansk is also where Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement began.