The Names Of Iberia Explained

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[@NameExplain]

Where from Iberia are you watching from?

[@brandypritchard6279]

I'm watching canada

[@Bluey]

i'm watching from central/southeast france wikipedia says a bit of france is in iberia

[@deviladvocate21]

The Great Iberian region of the UK.

[@keiramastersxo6455]

United Kingdom x

[@slamwall9057]

North north Iberia (North of France, which is north of Iberia) And yes I got that from Bace Bulgarian Mapper when he referred to Romania as North Bulgaria

[@Liam-cj5kh]

Iberia: certainly NOT to be confused with Siberia.

[@greenja_]

Iberia? you mean Siberia- right?

[@pipe2devnull]

I'm thinking of all the Russian prisoners sent there by a defective typewriter.

[@porguinturtle3854]

Not to be confused with Serbia

[@squeaky9715]

@steven trollface so when did you make your channel? Me gusta meme year

[@turtles10]

Liam I heard Liberia so many times

[@RinaMasuda]

Love to Spain & Portugal from Mongolia❤❤

[@RinaMasuda]

Jk im not even from Mongolia ._.

[@luismarques9280]

Thanks from Lisbon

[@ThrE3-GeS]

Love back, wherever you are, it dosn't matter. I know one race: human and one nation: earth

[@RinaMasuda]

@@ThrE3-GeS that's true

[@Betico129]

Arriba españa

[@nindele6611]

Andorra la Vella doesn't mean "Andorra the town" but "Andorra the Old"

[@davidramos5559]

Facts

[@nadie516]

That's catalonyan? Because i thought its name was andorra la vieja

[@nindele6611]

@@nadie516 Catalonian is the official language of Andorra, so I think it's official name it's "La Vella"

[@arcane_glimmer]

I thought so too (indeed, "vella" does mean "old" in Catalan), but according to Wikipedia (both the English and Catalan editions) here "Vella" actually comes from the latin word "villa". L'Enciclopèdia Catalana ho confirma, per cert :)

[@nindele6611]

@@arcane_glimmer The official spanish name is "Andorra la Vieja" as someone stated here earlier

[@thoriginalmadd]

The Cale part wasn't dropped Porto Cale became two cities divided by the Douro river, one named Porto and the other went from Cale to its modern name of Gaia.

[@JV-ithc]

Always thought that Gaia was named after Gaia the myth

[@unm0vedm0ver]

@@JV-ithc Nope, Gaia comes from Cale which was pronounced Gale. This stems from the Celtic root "Gal" meaning "power".

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Do you still have the word cala in portuguese, because we do in Spanish

[@GumSkyloard]

@@alejandroojeda1572 Well, cala in Portuguese is just "shut (without the up)" in Portuguese.

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@alejandroojeda1572 Não, "cala" também é uma baía recôndita.

[@Kurtlane]

Here is another curious bit: Hyraxes are mentioned in the Bible. So when Martin Luther was translating the Bible, he stumbled across this word. He didn't know what it was, so he translated it as ... rabbits!

[@pearspeedruns]

That’s actually really interesting

[@k-dogg9086]

He wasn't far off.. dassies or rock rabbits small herbivores looking like big guinea pigs rodents and rabbits. Living in Mid East and Africa.

[@slamwall9057]

Last time I was this early the Reconquista was still an idea

[@nicosmind3]

Well it happened so its more good history than a good idea

[@dlakodlak]

It actually wasn't an idea. It was a process that took several centuries and only retrospectvely seems like a planned effort.

[@k-dogg9086]

It's happening now again all over Europe, the Hell are you talking about???

[@adonistouriarte4842]

Fun fact: Portugal named east timor as timor-leste meaning east-east

[@GumSkyloard]

And when the Indonesians invaded Timor-Leste, it was called "Timor Timur".

[@7TPdwCzolgu]

And it called Brazil Brazil because of the Brazilwood, an wood with red ink

[@ThrE3-GeS]

Yes, they did that, so we where not allone with port-port

[@MaSsiVeGaming1]

Port-port, east-east.

[@suwinkhamchaiwong8382]

I spit’d saying that

[@Nordisk11]

Celtic was never a single language. It's a language family. The languages that were spoken in Portugal prior to Latin were Gallaecian, Lusitanian, and Celtiberian.

[@marpagapal3312]

there were at least 17 languages in the iberian peninsula with different writing systems prior to the Roman colonization. Gallaecian, Lusitanian, and Celtiberian mean nothing. as celts mean nothing. they were inventions of historians with pieces of informations trying to make sense of the little info they had.

[@gugagakhokidze5524]

Hello from Kingdom of Iberia (Georgia) 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

That Ironic coment about the U.K being technically also in Iberia, implying the British climate to be outlandishly different from Iberia is quite simplistic. Because iberia itself is massively diverse. Galicia and Northern Portugal have as much rainfall as Ireland or Wales, Leon and Burgos have winter temperatures similar to Scotland or Yorkshire and Asturias and Viscaya have as much sunshine and summer temperatures as Essex or East Anglia. Iberia isn't just Andalucia and Algarve.

[@franciscocastillomata9786]

Increíblemente, los Brits parecen creer que toda España es todo el año como la Costa del Sol en verano. Eso sí, cuando se jubilan ninguno se equivoca y fija su residencia en Burgos, Leon o Siberia-Gasteiz! 😄. Por cierto, no sé ni si en Escocía habrán alcanzado el registro histórico de -30ºC de Calamocha en los años ‘60.

[@simaozinho37]

I live in the north of Portugal and it rains alot, in fact it´s raining right now since 5:00 and it´s 18:00 already and haven´t stopped, and during the winter it´s about -10 degrees here, many brits come to my city and say it looks like york because of the medieval briges,castle and the river passing by and due to the grey days rain and fog, we keep our Celtic traditions alive we do rituals and we have a Celtic village here people normally thing that just the the british isles have celtic roots/culture , even the people from the Northern Iberia are more white than the southern ones, due to the lack of sunlight. I think I only saw the sunlight 5 times since the beggining of September.

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

@@simaozinho37 I'm guessing Montalegre?

[@Eu-Abreu]

I'm from Porto and had a Scottish teacher that teached me English at my house, he said to me once that in Northern Portugal it rains as much as England but is much more of a torrential rain but with more Intermittent periods

[@simaozinho37]

@@FaithfulOfBrigantia Barcelos-Braga

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

Catalunya declares independence, is immediately annexed by Andorra instead.

[@mattwilll]

When was the last time a country expanded so quickly?

[@su_morenito_1948]

Trujillo 2020 One of them is a fiscal paradise though

[@azaria_phd]

@@mattwilll I guess when Spain discovered America.

[@mattwilll]

@@azaria_phd I guess so

[@jonsauca]

@Trujillo 2020 and both spain and caalonia speak castillian, so should be good the same.

[@hugoleonardoamaral586]

"Their logo was designed by Salvador Dali" WTF

[@andrewrobinson2565]

"Gig economy" gone mad!

[@theregalbeagle8855]

@@andrewrobinson2565 lol

[@joseperez1308]

This is the first time I hear a native English speaker pronounce "España" correctly! Especially the "ñ" sound

[@izabelabudzynska7818]

I watched this part of the video to listen carrefully and make sure if I pronounce it right :) (And I wish I were advanced enough in español that I could write this comment in this language)

[@kipdude1]

Really?!? I speak to English people in Spanish all the time and they have no problem with the Ñ. It exists in English too. The Rr however is another story...

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis]

Even though it's so easy.. its just a "nie"

[@simoncopar2512]

Some other words, however, are quite butchered - Utrecht, Chupa Chups,...

[@an_impasse]

kipdude1 In Australian English, people tend to pronounce ‘new’ more like ‘nyew’ or /njuː/ in IPA. We consider it two separate sounds - an English-like ‘n’ and English-like ‘y’, while Spanish considers it as just the one as Hispanic ‘ñ’ - just because it may be less common or not really characteristic of a language at all, it doesn’t mean speakers of said language can’t or are automatically shit at pronouncing it, (AHEM, to that person further up in the comment section, not you kip, saying Anglophones can’t pronounce ‘ñ’ properly...what a fucking joke. -_-). I think that is a case-to-case basis at most because in my experience, I’ve heard maaaany Anglophones pronounce Spanish ‘ñ’ _just fine..._ so IDK what the commotion is about. On the IPA chart, it does have a singular symbol that represents the ‘ñ’ sound, which is /ɳ/ and besides Spanish I think this phoneme is also found in Indonesian. I’ve also heard a number of Anglophones pronounce what you described ‘rr’, lol, fluently enough - and I don’t mean a few, but I’ve also met and come across people who have trouble with it. This is also known as an alveolar trill, which is represented by /r/ on the IPA chart. For a long time, I also had trouble with it and whatever advice or videos I watched, I still failed but after deciding to just teach myself in my somewhat oversimplified and (maybe) unconventional way, I learned to finally trill more or less well enough. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Fun fact: There's a municipality named "Andorra" in the province of Teruel about as old as the country of the same name.

[@franciscocastillomata9786]

Yo, de crío, pasando las vacaciones con mis tíos en un pueblo de Teruel. Mi tío dice : “ nos vamos a Andorra “, y yo me tiré de cabeza al interior de su Simca 1200 con toda la ilusión, por el viaje y por ir al extranjero. A los 10 minutos llegamos a Andorra 😫😫😫 🤣

[@NecroGangster]

Just as a fun fact, even after the fall of Rome the entire Iberia kept being referred to as Spain and its inhabitants as spanish for most of the middle ages. There were many spanish kings who titled themselves "Emperor of all of Spain" but it wasn't until Castille official changed its name to Spain that the name Iberia became more common as a name for the peninsula, since Spain doesn't actually own all of Spain.

[@ThrE3-GeS]

NecroGangster im pretty sure that we call the peninsula iberia because the portuguese refused to call it........You know what im saying?

[@pepeespanol5662]

leandro rodrigues ''Falai de castelhanos e portugueses porque todos somos espanhóis'' Luís de Camões

[@Omerath9]

@@pepeespanol5662 Sim, de Hispânia, não de Espanha!

[@marpagapal3312]

fun fact, Hispanic means someone from Hispania. meaning has born in the Iberian peninsula. However it defines someone who has born in another continent.

[@pepeespanol5662]

Omerath9 O nome 'España' vem do nome 'Hispania' que significa 'terra de coelhos'.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Most of my ancestry is from Spain and Portugal so it’s cool to learn more about Iberia

[@jk-gb4et]

K

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis]

Interesting profilepic

[@GumSkyloard]

Herois do maar, nobre pooovoo..

[@jk-gb4et]

@Phil Mitchell you are not everyone

[@jwolternova1051]

youre even here?? omg

[@Mayeko]

I'm Georgian and read somewhere while researching Georgian history that both the peninsula and part of Georgia were called Iberia because of a forgotten people that populated the European coasts of the Mediterranean in ancient times. As the centuries progressed their lands were conquered and divided but they still share some cultural similarities to this day, which I can kinda see, but chalk up to similar histories of Islamic conquest and European trade. It's a romantic notion but the similar names probably come down to human error.

[@luismarques9280]

Didn't know that....

[@CDPF5]

There is this theory about the old Iberian language sharing similarities with the Georgian language. The alphabet looks pretty Greek to me, according to the scripts that I've seen, but I'm no expert... in fact, there are a lot of theories around this Western Iberia - Eastern Iberia connection, but there's no solid proof on anything that could connect both places.

[@frien_d]

Also "Mantua" is an italian city full of water, built on water, on three huge islands.

[@FairyCRat]

The name of Andorra's capital did confuse me at first, since in French we call it "Andorre-la-vieille" or "Andorra the old". I looked it up on Wikipedia, and apparently it now means the same thing in Catalan and Spanish, but at the time it did indeed stand for "Andorra the town".

[@framegrace1]

In catalan "Villa" and "Vella" are very similar, so it may be possible.

[@ralkai]

"They aren't quite the powerful things I had in mind" Some knights had that same thought and it didn't ended too well for them...

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

The Lord did grin, and the people did feast, though.

[@smultronpojke4010]

I'm not qualified to speak on Catalonian independence, but I'd like to bring up one anecdote from when I was in Calella, Catalonia a few weeks ago. I learnt just a teensy bit of Catalan in preparation for the trip, just enough so that I could greet people and order things in Catalan. And they loved it. People's faces lit up and some even told their coworkers that there was a Catalan speaker present. This went beyond your average tourism sector worker reacting to a tourist speaking their native language, I was treated as if I were a unicorn. All that for saying some words that took me 5 minutes to learn. If nothing else, this is a testament to how important the Catalan identity is to its citizens

[@kikebautista2110]

@Finn MickCool Ignorant talking without any complex. Wellcome to KZbin.

[@DClifeMr]

I want to visit Port-Port!

[@luismarques9280]

Ahah, you should!

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Yeah, you totally should. Beautiful city.

[@DClifeMr]

Thank you for the support guys! Someday i will :)

[@jorge6207]

No worries, we have air-Port, we have sea-Port and even land-Port. Working on a stargate Port.

[@misseli1]

I'm very interested in the ancient Iberians and Celtiberians

[@ArkadiBolschek]

It's a bummer, because we don't really know that much about them :c

[@josebessadasilva199]

Iberians lived in the eastern coast of the peninsula and celtiberians in the centre of it (a mix between iberians and celts). The western coast was inhabited by celts. That is pretty much it.

[@ThrE3-GeS]

They where legend's in battle. They gave the hardest fights to the roman. No province took ever so long to conquer. Over hundreds of years. Gaul was taken in a few years in comparson. The Lusitanians where the bravest of them all, led by viriathus they give them romans defeat after defeat. They send one general after another. But suddenly like everything good needs to end in tragic, viriathus was murdered, betrayed by his allies with roman gold. And the establishment of a roman province was only a matter of time. If viriathus wouldnt be killed. I wouldnt speak a latin language today that's for sure

[@josebessadasilva199]

@@ThrE3-GeS , none of the tribes you mention are iberian or celtiberian. Lusitanian i.e. were celtic ou pre-celtic with a celtic culture.

[@jorge6207]

Should check the Cynetes or Conii, lived in the southern part of what is today Portugal and Andalucia, were pre-Celtic and had their own writing system, perhaps the oldest in usage in the peninsula, outside of the phoenicians.

[@KowledgeWind]

In 8:51, the Arabic word al-durra means the great pearl. It's NOT used in Arabic to mean the jungle nor forest. You may have gotten it either from a mistaken source, or misspelled and mispronounced it. In 10:03, the More gave it the name of "Jebel Tarek" without "El" . However it's a great video. Thanks for the effort.

[@unm0vedm0ver]

In classical Latin C could be pronounced as either K or G. I'm of the impression that Portucale had always been pronounced as Portugale. "Gal" is a Celtic root meaning "power", similar to the "Gal" in Galicia (Gallaecia), in reference the the powerful tribes living there.

[@GumSkyloard]

The city of Cale is still a thing, it's Vila Nova de Gaia.

[@unm0vedm0ver]

@@GumSkyloard indeed, lends more credence to the "Gal" over "Cal" theory.

[@josebessadasilva199]

Actually the Callaecian tribe was not from what is now "Galiza" but from Cale, in Portugal. It was the romans that used tge name of tge particular celtic tribe to describe the entire region, which had it's capital in Braga, also part of what is now Portugal.

[@jonsauca]

@@josebessadasilva199 But "Gal" was something also in GAelic. That is whay portuGAL, GALicia, GALia (france), GALes (Wales), GALatia (Turkey). But I dont know very well.

[@Mutxarra]

Adorra la Vella means Andorra the Old in Catalan, not town, which is Vila. Nice video nevertheless, though!

Etymology is your friend. The name of the town has nothing to do with being old. Two different words can accidentally have or acquire the same spelling over time. there are plenty of examples of it. In this same video one of them is given: "Iberia."

[@UncontrolledJibe]

So, now I'm curious about the origin of "conejo"

[@arcane_glimmer]

"Conejo" comes from the Latin word "cuniculus", which also became "conill" (Catalan), "coniglio" (Italian) and coelho (Portuguese), among others.

[@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606]

El conejo malo

[@UncontrolledJibe]

@@arcane_glimmer these parallel paths words take can be fascinating. Rabbits, hares and coneys are generally considered the same animal. We've dropped coney from usage in English and don't recognize the relationship to conejo because of that. The origin of Hispania might be another lost word for the same animal. Now, eating a Coney refers to a sausage on a bun.

[@solangelamas767]

Miguel Aguilar conejo malo 😂

[@retwerd]

Another place named after rabbits: Coney Island.

[@vovacat1797]

"Reclaiming the rock" sounds like you're talking about a whole planet on some interstellar border

[@krunchykarim]

The two Iberia's have the same name because when they were named they were the ends of the Greek Known World. They were confused with one another. But then Colchis was "discovered"

[@MeMySkirtandI]

You greatly underestimate how terrifying rabbits can be... With their big sharp pointy teeth.

[@ArkadiBolschek]

They got a vicious streak a mile wide!

[@kabochaVA]

7:24 Wait... Why is it called "Andorra" on this map? That's clearly the country of Taured!

[@V1C.T0R]

Wrong universe.

[@ThrE3-GeS]

Got back in your plane, where you came from ;)

[@kabochaVA]

@@ThrE3-GeS I think I'll simply vanish without a trace... :-P

[@orphan961]

I love these videos because I love the facts they display,it's very interesting,please keep making these videos.

[@sohopedeco]

I had my lunch ready in front of me waiting for you to post today's video.

[@keiramastersxo6455]

I’m from Selsey academy you came and saw for careers day, your a magician!

[@RichO1701e]

*you're, a contraction of you are. Y-O-U-R means your, kzbin.info/www/bejne/enycZqVnhpKHosk

[@bigpeenerpeen]

Rich O fuck off

[@g.s.8393]

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Iberia divided into two regions by the Romans. As in Hispania for the Eastern and Middle part and Lusitania for Portugal and Galicia?

[@endo4137]

Iberia was divided into three provinces: Lusitania was roughly Portugal without the Area above the Douro river, plus Salamanca and Merida ; baetica, which was southern Spain, and everything else was Tarraconensis

[@framegrace1]

Hispania/Iberia for Romans was a geographical name, refering to the peninsula. Like "Great Britain". But yes as the previous comment says, it was divided in Lusitania, Baetica and Tarraconensis. ( Named afer: Baeto -> Guadalquivir River , Tarraco -> Tarragona city, Lusitani -> A tribe living there)

[@alejandroojeda1572]

"Luso" in Spanish is another way to say portuguese

[@endo4137]

@@alejandroojeda1572 not just in Spanish. In portuguese, like saying, for example, anglo-spanish, we say luso-espanhol, or luso-americano...

[@endo4137]

@C R Yes, those are the regions, but the provincial system didnt have Gallaecia and cartaginensis. They just divided Iberia into the other three provinces

[@redl1ner170]

"Iberia" was the name that greeks gave to the Iberian Peninsula, the romans also used this name in the beginning, later they started using the word "Hispania". The origin of the name Hispania remains unknow, btw, some says its from phoenician origin and some others say its from euskeric (basque) origin. But nothing have been proved.

[@duchi882]

*Next Video:* Name of Name Explained Explained

[@RichO1701e]

it's fairly self explanatory

[@dickyadhadyanto4986]

i find it interesting the word "name" is almost similiar all around the world, even with a language that is not in the same language family at all. like "namae" in japanese, "nama" in Indonesian, "name" in english, "nom" in french etc.

[@claram5482]

@@dickyadhadyanto4986 it's "vardas" in Lithuanian and "imiya" (or "nazvaniye") in Russian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@dickyadhadyanto4986]

@@claram5482 yes, but in those languages (that i said) it is the case. i want to know how did that happened.

[@theahmedshow4794]

6:03 i didn't know about the Celtic origin of Portugal i though it's name was originated from the arbic world alburtuqal that means the orange in Arabic because we call it like that in Arabic alburtughal which is quit the same because when the arabs conquered Iberia the arabs named the reign of Portugal alburtughal because it has alot of oranges I think the two storys make and the similarities are just a consequence because the two storys are different

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Fun fact: the Persian and Arabic words for orange (the fruit, not the color) is /port-e-ghal/, likely through Moorish.

[@ShrekOwO]

And in Greek, to say the fruit orange it’s portokali (πορτοκαλί)

[@ConorMcgregor322]

And in Romanian as well: portocale

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Oranges come from India, so it's the other way around, india-persian-arab-europe

[@ConorMcgregor322]

@@alejandroojeda1572 Did I dispute that?

[@KanBig]

It was the Portuguese who brought oranges to Europe and their colonies from their travels. That's why oranges are called portugal in some places.

[@diogodavid3557]

other things about Portugal: >Porto Cale didn't turn into Porto. It separated into the cities of Porto and Gaia. >The Roman name of the city of Braga is "Bracara Augusta". Augusta is in homage to the the imperator Augustus. The Romans called it Bracara because people there wore a kind of pants called Brácaras and the Romans found it weird.

[@k-dogg9086]

The Romans were weird

[@RichMitch]

Iberico meat is the finest pig I've ever had

[@luismarques9280]

Ahahah

[@tarasdubenskyy508]

Sounds like Portugal phenomenon is a pleonasm, anyway in Spain they have "valle de Arán" (with "arán" in Arabic standing for valley, what we've got is literally a valley of the Valley). It's such a paradox that not being familiar with the meaning of some foreign word leads to a merger and a creation of a third variant.

[@misha130]

From De Administrando Imperio 10th century text from Byzantium: Whence is the name Spain? From Hispanus, a giant so called. The Spains are two provinces of Italy: one is large, the other small. The country is referred to by Charax in ‘Chronicles’, X: “In Little, or Outer, Spain the Lusitanians again revolted, and the Romans sent against them their general Quintus.” And, of the two provinces together, the same author writes: “Quintus, the Roman commander-in-chief in both the Spains. He was defeated by Viriathus and made a truce with him.” He says the country is called Iberia, in ‘Greek History’, III: “Spain the Greeks originally called Iberia, not yet having learnt the title of the whole nation but calling it all after that part of the country which is near the river Iber and derives its name therefrom.” Afterwards, they say, the name was changed to Spain.

[@ThrE3-GeS]

Misha you will never, ever hear a portuguese call the peninsula hispana. It will allways come peninsula ibera out of our mouths. Take that as a note.

[@pepeespanol5662]

leandro rodrigues Yeah, but Ibera doesn’t make sense because it comes from Iber (Ebro) and the river Ebro is not in the whole Peninsula.

[@ms.mittenz]

portport yeah, that makes sense in portugal

[@soko-ban]

0:43 I totally expected you to say "Spain" there

[@blinkingberry9591]

Haha no.

[@eu.co.5627]

Ah yes Portugal the nation of Port-Port, home of the wolf Moon Moon

[@josebessadasilva199]

His mistake. Cale is a reference to the celtic winter godess Cailleach. Therefore Portugal means "Port of Cailleach".

[@joaogomescampos2144]

Cheers from Portucale, i am Portucalense, i am Portuguese

[@ianmoone705]

Why didnt you go into the origin of the name Barcelona and Zaragoza? Zaragoza was literally Cesar Augusta in Roman times. How cool is that? Also Catalonia is spain

[@autisticspaceman9397]

You mean Catalonia is *IN* Spain, right?

[@bvraeqvete]

Why not include etymology of Zaragoza? The most interesting one that came from Caesaraugusta... Pity... Ave Caesar!

[@Aadrian7]

Another thing worth mentioning about Portugal is that the word "portocale" or some variant of it is used to mean "orange" in a bunch of languages like Romanian, Greek and Turkish. Likely a result of Arabic influence

[@GumSkyloard]

It's actually the reverse. Portugal brought the sweet orange to the Old world, and various nations named the orange after Portugal.

[@Aadrian7]

@@GumSkyloard Yes, sorry, my comment is a bit confusing now that I look at it. I never meant to imply that the term didn't come from Portugal, but I was assuming that various Arabic nations spread the word to Turkey, Greece and so on since it also exists in Arabic but doesn't in any Western European language as far as I know.

[@luismarques9280]

Nope, it's the result of portuguese discoveries and trade, Portuguese back them were everywere, they had a lot oranges....

[@SamAronow]

“Isle of Hyraxes” is “I Shfan” in Hebrew, the closest language to Punic. So it checks out.

[@shanicehunt9548]

I’m 19% Iberian and I didn’t know what that meant thanks for this video!

[@ThrE3-GeS]

I think UK should keep Gibralter, as long as the spaniards are keeping olivenÇa

[@antoniodasilva1230]

True

[@LennyCash777]

Indeed.

[@rubenrelvamoniz]

A possible etymology for the cale part of portugal could come not from Celtic but rather Greek.the word kalos from what I read means beautiful.

[@GumSkyloard]

Portokalos.. Portocale.. Portugalle.. Portugal.. Makes sense.

[@josebessadasilva199]

Nop. Greeks never came to Portugal. Tgere are no factual evidence of tgeir arrival. Celts on tge other hand, were the only inhabitants of our territory before pheonecians arrived.

[@marpagapal3312]

the calle would have a phenecian origin meaning white or pretty. but its Portu Gaelle. the people who lived in that region of the peninsula.

[@josebessadasilva199]

@@marpagapal3312 , it is Cale. Cale comes from the celtuc godess Cailleach, also called Beira, which is the name of the region just below Cale (Gaia). The Callaecians were that tribe and they mainly venerated Cailleach, thus their name. The change from C to G is a roman influence as C and G were read the same way in Latin.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Andorra? When I last got off a plane, it was Taured. LOL.

[@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606]

As a Spanish speaking person. I though Andorra la bella meant. Andorra the beautiful.

[@framegrace1]

Is la "vella" not "bella", which means "old".

[@Carewolf]

@@framegrace1 the village.

[@pedroluis758]

Actually, "velha" in portuguese, means old.

[@anna3046]

The vast majority of the Portuguese population are still Celtic descent. The Romans left a very small genetic imprint. The vast majority of the population have 0% Roman genetic imprint, only some people have it and it can be up to 4%.

[@egutiguti3337]

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[@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606]

Damn Man you could do an hour episode on Spain, Asturias Navarre Cataluña Valencia Granada Galicia islas Canarias islas Baleares países vascos etc......

[@GumSkyloard]

Same with Portugal. Azores, Madeira, Beira, Alentejo, Algarve, so on..

[@GumSkyloard]

@C R True.

[@eastpavilion-er6081]

3 comments and 70 views? That's the earliest I've been on a name explain vid!

[@RichO1701e]

LATE!!!

[@ConnorMorgans]

I never often comment, but just to give you all the support possible I wish you all the best. Keep up the good work!

[@ganjafi59]

9:35 Treaty of Ut/rekt

[@thespaceram2879]

The Romans back in 218 b.c. named the whole Iberian peninsula Hispania. Hispania is where Spain's name comes from. The natives there even kept the name after the Roman empire. It is still Spain pretty much now. It is Portugal , Gibraltar, Andorra, and part of its border now belonging to France which aren't part of Spain anymore. It has happened to other countries as well over time.

[@Dr_V]

In Romanian "Portocale" literally means oranges (same spelling and pronunciation) and even the current name of Portugal as pronounced in Romanian closely resembles the word for orange, so many young children here think Portugal means something like "the land of oranges".

[@AntonioSousa98]

That is the case in Romanian and some other languages as it was the Portuguese people who introduced orange in a lot of places including eastern Europe, and so the name for the fruit comes from the name of the country which introduced it: Portugal!

[@derfinsterling]

There’s an old sea shanty called Fathom the bowl that includes the line “Sweet Apples and Oranges from Portugal come” - because that where the oranges came in from the New World.

[@alihashemi8863]

strangely , That's same in persian language

[@AQWOMAR9]

@@AntonioSousa98 And it was the arabs who introduced orange to Europe.

[@niklimnat1061]

in greek france is called gallia and portugal is portogallia this is fine in greek but when you go to cyprus, porto is a word for fart (i have no clear where i comes from) so portugal is fart france (or france fart) also in greek orange is portokali so yeah (the fruit and the colour)

[@silverstar8868]

Specifically, many people in Gibraltar speak Llanito

[@realhawaii5o]

*Scandinavia only includes Norway, Sweden and a part of Finland. Denmark is in Jutland.

[@dirtygiraffe]

If I don't misremember, the Scandinavian Peninsula consist of Norway, Sweden, part of Finland and a tiny part of Russia, while the cultural region of Scandinavia consist of Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

[@paulhanck1123]

That is the Scandinavian peninsula. Denmark is culturally scandanavian so it is included normally included

[@iberiangeorgian2018]

I'm Iberian too from west Europe. my ancistors were Iberians and i proud that

[@kylepickus5712]

Interesting thing about Andorra is that it is a monarchy ran as a principality. The French President and the Bishop of Urgell in Spain and technically the princes that lead the country, even though the royal families don’t necessarily exist in their home country anymore.

[@lalunasweet]

YOU are wonderful! Besides hilariously glib in your well researched, totally interesting, comical articulation~ I admire greatly. Sincerely, Thank-you. Signed the 13% Iberian 🌎

[@batistab-ii5658]

And Andorra comes from Basque, “River of Stones” .

[@jonsauca]

uhm what?

[@zerolesy]

Thanks for the Lesson!!!!!! Needed it to explain some recently discovered Ancestorial History!

[@unm0vedm0ver]

I favor the theory that Hispania is related to the Basque word "Ezpaina", pronounced virtually the same, meaning "edge" as in the edge of their world, literally a peninsula surrounded by water.

[@theregalbeagle8855]

Same here. An indigenous name makes more sense to me over the theory about rabbits and whatnot.

[@lauramartins5953]

Some people keep wanting to conflate us with the Moors; they're always looking to associate us with them, so we sound more exotic or wth. I don't know why they feel the need to do that. There are many things that have Iberian, Celtic, Roman and Germanic origins and they are claimed as Moorish by foreigners... They separate us from our actual origins, constantly.

[@theregalbeagle8855]

@@lauramartins5953 Yeah, I've noticed there are people obsessed with doing that. Many even go into historical revisionism. It's frankly kind of pathetic that some people want to steal Iberian accomplishments and history. Sometimes it's non-Europeans claiming Moorish origins for Iberian things but often, it's also people of European origins that are obsessed with the concept of "diversity" for the sake of it.

[@marpagapal3312]

Hispania means Hispania. the name is older than any language in use. the old greeks used it as a name, not a word. it has a Indo-European origin and it shares his roots with the word sphere. it meant something like world or globe.

[@theregalbeagle8855]

@@marpagapal3312 That's the more likely explanation but where's the fun in that if you can't add dIveRsItY to the origin history? I'm joking, I agree with what you're saying.

[@joshadams8761]

As an American, I have to listen carefully to understand you accent, which appears to be in the Cockney-to-Estuary continuum. As an accent connoisseur, I am grateful for KZbin and the broader Internet.

[@creely123]

Viva Portugal, Castilla , Aragon y Navarra! Viva todos los pueblos de la Hispania!

[@sohopedeco]

Portuguese people be like: "keep us out of that!"

[@KIJIKLIPS]

@@sohopedeco yeah I am, you can't wish longevity upon Portugal in Spanish.

[@creely123]

@@KIJIKLIPS I mean't Hispania as Iberia. No Espanha. Hispania is the old name which the Romans gave to the Iberian Peninsula.

[@eliasfer4009]

Arriba España y viva el imperio Español donde nunca se pone el sol!!

[@KIJIKLIPS]

@@creely123 yeah I know what you meant, no misunderstanding.

[@MrAdamski66]

Portucale means oranges in romanian

[@jorge6207]

Yep, also in Turkish and most of the Arab world, it seems

[@spiritusIRATUS]

In greek too, both the fruit and the colour

[@veggiet2009]

I've heard the name Scandinavia, I've heard the name Ibiza, I've heard the names Gibraltar, Portugal, and Spain. I've heard the Spanish Hispania.... But I don't think in all my 32 years I've ever heard the name Iberia! How???

[@ab9840]

@veggiet2009 - Now you know why Spains major airline is called "Iberia".

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Well, there's a first time for everything.

[@leternz9819]

so portogulal is "portport"?

[@vitorjpereira2547]

Portugal name: Porto (Latin) mean port. Cale (celtic) mean port. Port port.

[@LennyCash777]

Double the pleasure, double the fun.

[@spychiatrist3045]

The Milesians, who occupied Hispania before they emigrated to Ireland were Scythians, and I wonder if they maybe hailed from the Iberia in the Caucasus.

[@iammaxhammer]

I have been busting my brain open the past few weeks on this subject. Then there's the "Ivri" (Hebrew) etymological connection. It's an easy step from "Ivri" to Iberia. Where to begin? I'm trying to condense all these theories into my own video. Tubal, Japeth's son (Noah's Grandson) supposedly migrated there too, his son being named Ibar.

[@MrRostit]

Ok, Andorra la Vella means the "old" not the village that would be "villa"

[@cassauable]

You got right about the water being the origine of Madrid's name, but not because of the river manzanares but because of the underground waters that allows the city to enjoy a very good tap water.

[@WhirligigStudios]

I'm surprised you mentioned the verb "chupar" meaning "to suck" but didn't connect it to the legendary beast "chupacabras," which means "goat-sucker."

[@bareit98]

Congratulations on over a quarter million subs!

[@inievezi]

Who else is watching this from Spain?

[@Nedlop1]

Neus Iglésies Camprubí no but I wish I was the weather is nicer there

[@kipdude1]

I am English, but watching from Albacete.

[@GumSkyloard]

I'm watching from the Algarve.

[@luismarques9280]

Nope, Lisbon, Portugal

[@StreetPeter]

I'm watching from Texas.

[@highpath4776]

Celtic - Lisbon in Portugal and Lisburn in Ireland ?

[@Fukoda]

UK should not give the island back, not until Spain gives back part of north Africa back to Morocco. Spanish hypocrites

[@skidadle3071]

As a english I think we should keep it. As it says forever it should be in British hands, also the people who live there believe they are more British than Spanish and prefer British rule

[@skidadle3071]

Finn MickCool have family there they class as British

[@howtubeable]

It's a serious sign of decline in a language when basic units of speech like pronouns are reduced in number. Please bring back gender-specific pronouns (like "he" and "she") when referring to a person whose gender is known.

[@JanRullmann1997]

An English speaker complaining about "decline"... Please bring back declination, while you're at it.

[@airconditioner130]

Al-Dorra means the pearl in arabic not the forrest. However Dirra means a lot of milk and andorra produced a lot of dairy products. Could be why it called that, however i don't know I'm not a historian.

[@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606]

# MAKE SPAIN BUNNY RABBIT AGAIN

[@raiseyourhornstriple9]

Agree. They need more children

[@benthomason3307]

Fun fact: Andorra is ruled by two "Co-Princes," each seat of which is actually an extension of the duties of someone from a neighboring nation. One Co-prince is the President of France, the other is the Catholic Bishop of Spain. (note: I'm not from Andorra, I'm American. I just stumbled across them on the internet one day.)

[@Nilguiri]

The Iberian peninsular is not called "Iberia", in Spain, at least. It's called "la península ibérica". Never "Iberia"; that is the Spanish airline.

[@danporti3942]

Iberia is a known name for it, the one used by ancient greeks, romans lately named it Hispania.

[@Nilguiri]

@@danporti3942 Yeah, I know, but that wasn't my point. cheers.

[@tunistick8044]

another theory about andora's name it is from the arabic word an-nudra الندرة meaning "rarety" and my proof is that the penghrips call andorra til this day "Annúdra"

[@edulopez9043]

Andorra la Vella means literally "Andorra the old", not "the city"

[@lucasvp]

Vella means Old (not Vila, which is city or village). In Portuguese the name becomes fully translated to Andorra-a-velha and in Spanish Andorra La Vieja.

[@bluesquadron8667]

We aint even gonna talk about Castille?

[@michaelweiske702]

The kingdom of Castille or the provinces with the name Castille? The kingdom of Castille was one of 5 kingdoms that would reconquer Hispania, and would be one of the 4 kingdoms that form the kingdom of Spain. The provinces with the name Castille are where Castille used to be. The name Castille is believed to come from Castillo, land of castles.

[@bluesquadron8667]

@@michaelweiske702 it cool sounding

[@GumSkyloard]

What about Algarve?

[@miguelpadeiro762]

@@GumSkyloard Al-Gharb, the Arabic version of Algarve, means the west

[@miguelpadeiro762]

@@michaelweiske702 Idk about Spanish but at least in Portuguese, Castille is Castela, which is one letter away from the word castle, Castelo.

[@dead-ishchannel6212]

3:20 Australia: You might wanna rethink that statement

[@josebabilbao7759]

Catalonia and the Basque Country should be independent! Gora Euskadi!

[@salvat3735]

No.

[@hollawar1391]

Dude why u post ur political thoughts here.. Por cierto no todos en Catalunya queremos la independencia..

[@salvat3735]

@@hollawar1391 La minoria.

[@salvat3735]

@@ManofSteel4910 why though?

[@hollawar1391]

@@salvat3735 la minoría? La mitad, y para intentar fundar un nuevo país con sólo una mitad de la población de acuerdo..

[@xepiconex]

At the start, I though Name Explain was going as deep as VSauce. Michael: You called?!