The Origins and History of the Polabian Slavs

Not all of history’s tales have a happy ending. In fact, most of them are rife with sad fates and great turmoil, with the ruthless passage of time erasing entire nations.
One of these tales it that of the Polabian Slavs . Westernmost of all Slavic tribes, these warriors and traders struggled for survival through their entire existence.
Known also as the Pomeranians or the Baltic Slavs, they were fundamental in the historical development of western and central Europe, and the emergence of Germany, from whom they suffered centuries of competition.
Join us as we uncovered the history of these diverse Slavic tribes about whose ethnogenesis there is a wealth of information and who remain a subject of active research to this day. What was the fate of these tribes? And, what have they left behind? The truth can be easier to discover than you might think.
Original Article: The Polabian Slavs: A History of a Vanquished People by ALEKSA VUČKOVIĆ
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[@arekarek1991]

German hate slavs with terror germanize them like they were doing it in Poland.

[@vorgotheon9227]

The legendary Slavic origins of northeast Germany are fascinating. Great video.

[@Lechoslaw8546]

Not only northeastern, but entire territory of Germany has Slavic origin and this is not a legend but a fact. Slavs are original stock of vast majority of Germans and they live there for 11 thousand years.

[@prezthebutton8876]

@@Lechoslaw8546 Do you have more info or sources? Thanks.

[@Lechoslaw8546]

@@prezthebutton8876 This video contains absurd and preposterous theory of the alleged Slavic appearance in Central Europe in VI century AD, unfortunately it is predominant in present day "science", yet it has been countered by the theory called autochtonic, which is much older and has way stronger evidence. The VI th century migratory theory is being enforced due to political reasons. Certainly there is numerous evidence to autochtonic theory that can be sorted int1. toponomastics /etymology of survives names of settlementa, mountains, rivers and lakes/. 2. ancient written sources. 3.comparative linguistics 4.fossil genetics. In my next comment I will show you some examples of toponomastic evidence that stretch way out west and south of Elbe and Saale limit. Last but not least there is a long list of scientists that support the autochtonic theory.

[@vasilijeglusica7472]

@@Lechoslaw8546 can you give me some channel about this type of history

[@Lechoslaw8546]

@@vasilijeglusica7472 My knowledge is based on number scientific research done throughout centuries. We can go back as far as to Greek historian Herodotus 484-426 BC. I read mostly in Polish, in our yard I can point out to Jan Potocki 1761-1815 who used French in his writings, Walenty Skrochód Majewski, 1764-1835 a Sanskrit researcher, O Sławianach i ich pobratymcach, 1816, Rozkład y treść dzieła o początku licznych Sławiańskich Narodów, tudzież każdego w szczególności we IV. Tomach… (Warszawa 1818). Then such authors as Ignacy Pietraszewski, Tadeusz Wolański, Edward Bogusławski, Wilhelm Bogusławski, author of 14-volume "History of Western Slavs - all of them XIX century authors. Then Teofil Tomicki author: Slavic Rivers of Europe, 1920, Józef Kostrzewski, professor of Archeology, Poznań University. Mikołaj Rudnicki, linguist, Anatoly Klyosov, Russian native, a Harvard scholar of genetics. Presently one can find some info in Cz.Białczyński channel, not exlusively limited to Slavic issues, though. Tomasz Kosiński, author. time permitted I may provide you some online info later.

[@milica9925]

We have a montain called Rujan (Rigen) in sothern Serbia near city Bujanovac (Bujan- legendary Island near Rujan Island). This city has more Albanians then Slavs today.

[@ekaterinaandreichyk7678]

Выгнать всех албанцев нужно.

[@jonasfischer878]

I live like 200m away from the river Elbe, right behind the border of Germany/ Czech republic... It is a beautiful place (just Google Saxony Switzerland), I can understand why one would like to settle here, after all we jokingly call ourselves "border slavs" because the Slavic echo in this region is still strong in whole eastern Germany

[@nova-nigermapping5535]

@@nestingherit7012 berlin comes from Br'lo meaning swamp. Leipzig comes from "Lepnicze" a sorbian name which i dont know what it means

[@malaxes]

@@nova-nigermapping5535 Leipzing is a Lipsk in Polish probably from „Lipa” tree.

[@AkakaDomenjer]

​@@nova-nigermapping5535 😂😂😂

[@AkakaDomenjer]

​@@malaxes 😂😂😂

[@KeiViolet]

It's from Lipa (a tree) and it's Serbian, not sorbian@@nova-nigermapping5535

[@Sixty_Five_Pronghorn]

I'm just starting to research my genealogy, and it turns out my very ancient ancestors were almost all Polabian Slavs, most commonly part of the Obotrite tribes. I wasn't expecting my familiar history to be so rich, yet here I am

[@MikaSerbian]

I m a Serb and i did dna test im I2a pure Balkan Serb 💪😎

[@SunIsLost]

Nice to meet you Polabian 🙂

[@SunIsLost]

@@MikaSerbian yes

[@ginaibisi777]

​@@MikaSerbian guess what there is no such a thing as pure Balkans Serbs or any other nations because everybody came to Balkan from somewhere and Serbs came to Balkan at the end 6 and beginning of 7th century.

[@MikaSerbian]

@@ginaibisi777 there is Dinaric type in Bosnia they manage to have diferent genetic then others around its small cluster since roman times they used to be called Ilyrians back then,very strong tall people dark hair

[@notyou6950]

They roamed the land 1000 years before "Germany" became a thing.

[@paulj.elliott2112]

My great-grandfather’s family emigrated from Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Not only the names of most of the towns Slavic, but also some of the surnames of related families in the Seenplatte.

[@AkakaDomenjer]

😂😂😂

[@LiezAllLiez]

Berlin used to be a slavic settlement. Just noting a fact.

[@Rugia-ox7hx]

In addition, Dresden and Leipzig were founded by Slavs. Original names were Drezno (people of the forest) and Lipsk (place of linden trees).

[@12SPASTIC12]

Chemnitz = "Stony brook" in Sorbian. A few towns in Slavic countries share the same name origin: Kamienica (Poland), Kamenica (Slovakia), Kamenice nad Lipou (Czech Republic).

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

Lipa is tree that "leipzig"was named after,but i don't know english word for Lipa,can you tell me?Talking about the stolen slavic towns,have you take a look at german Slavenisheberg page?People like to write lies about slavs,that we have invaded europe in 7th century,but we live in europe since 12000BC or Cucuteni Tripoli bronze age civilization.Our truth is also,that all ancient people of the europe are slavic people,and we must fight for slavic truth to be heard.

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

@@nestingherit7012 You realy do yours best to be the dumbest,eh partner.For yours information 'german town'Leipzeg is germanised slavic town Lipcig,which is named after Lipa tree.And since you have been sleeping on yours history class,i should remaind you.That in 'east germany'their have been found 700 ancient slavic towns,with theirs names perserved and untuched.And that 'east germany'is full of the slavic toponims,wich bring us to the conclusion,that germans have stole everything from the slavs,and make it look as germans.All of this is truth,and you can see this on slavenischeberg page.One more thing i should mention,and that is that their are stolen slavic lands,and they are.1.Albania.2.Greece.3.Romania.4.Hungary.5.Austria.6.Germany.7.Litvija.8.Latvija.9.Estonia.Just 1420 years ago,this nations didn't existed,they have been invented by the vatican,and so are theirs languages was invented,for theirs loyal fanatical slav hateing alies.And before them,slavs have lived in all europe since 12000BC.This is the real truth that has been hidden from the people for centuries,and its real and uninvoidable.

[@SunIsLost]

@@12SPASTIC12 yes

[@amanb8698]

​@@slavenarkaimovski3897 Linden tree. In English the Lipa/Lipsk that Leipzig comes from is called a Linden Tree. In German it is also Linden. Hence the area in Berlin, Under den Linden/Under the Linden (trees). It is a cognate with with Lipetsk in Russia and Liepaja in Latvia. Leipzig comes from the Slavic Lipsk. The area was originally inhabited by Slavic Polabian and Sorbian (Wendish) peoples, and then was gradually Germanized. However the word itself in it's original Slavic form, Germanized form, and German form is all related ultimately. Now we can see Linden, Lipa/Lipsk, and Liepaja all share a common Indo-European root, as a lot of nature stuff does in Indo-European languages. The ancient people who brought in the majority of European languages, weren't Slavic at that time, nor were they Germanic, Celtic, Baltic, Latin, Greek, Albanian....etc., as Indo-Europeans hadn't broken into distinct groups yet, and so spoke Proto-Indo-European, the Indo-European language bringers however shared the main Haplogroup of most Slavs and some Balts R1a, and some were also R1b which is more common in Germanics, Celts, and Latins. The R1b group was more prominent in the West, whereas the closer to the Yamnaya homeland you get the more R1a you see. This original Proto-Indo-European group were called the Yamnaya and their original homeland was located in present day Ukraine and around the steppes of Russia.

[@karinanalbandyan3009]

Thank you so much for this educational video. I am half Slavic/Russian on my mother’s side, half Armenian on my father’s side, though I mainly identify with my Slavic heritage due to the fact that I was born and raised in Russia Rostov-on-Don, and I speak the Russian language. So thank you for sharing this. I can learn more about my heritage.

[@decem_sagittae]

How is this your heritage? You're not Polabian

[@user-xr4wu4rp2r]

@@decem_sagittae In Russian historical science, the dispute about the origin of "Rus", which founded the state of "Rus" in the 9th century, does not subside. One part of the experts claims that they were Scandinavians. Another part considers them Polabian Slavs. Or rather, Rugii from Rügen and the surrounding area. Residents of the Novgorod Republic know for sure that they were descendants of immigrants from the western part of the Baltic States from the lands of the Polabian Slavs. After the forced Christianization, a huge number of Polabian Slavs went to Russia.

[@mordegardglezgorv2216]

Красивая и еще историей интересуется. Женщина-мечта

[@karinanalbandyan3009]

@@mordegardglezgorv2216 Благодарю за комплимент!

[@vilisveidis]

Perhaps a similar video on the origins of the Baltic peoples, from Prussia to Latvia, is in order? Would much appreciate it!

[@josefdolnik7862]

Prussia is born on germano-slavic ancestor,this is older story then,Prussians come to Latvia

[@adamme8369]

Min 7.30 says it all. After a thousands of years Slavs are still being turn against each other by external powers! Why? Because they know how powerful they would be if they unite! Sad!

[@berserk9085]

ais of germanics and celts were always united you simpleton.

[@masterofreality5528]

Fun facts:First Rani tribe ruler is name Viseslav. First Serbian ruler in Balkan is also name Viseslav. Radgast or Radgost god is used today in Serbia when you wanna say that someone is who is your guest is your good guest or when your joyful bcs he is your guest(something like that, my english is bad but you get the point)

[@hanginluze]

Proud to be Slavic!

[@Artur_M.]

Did somebody say Wast Slavic history? Heck yeah!

[@niewinnny]

Serbia speaks so for my stepson brother in my Polish language. Serb is simply a brother for us Poles, Croat is also a brother

[@ferahsudenazulusoy4553]

And Bosnian. Why do you exclude them?

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

@@ferahsudenazulusoy4553 because they are fake, it is like naming syrmians or hercegovinians as separate nations.

[@jakovsandrovcan3471]

White Croatia our catholic slav brothers Poland 🇭🇷✝️🇵🇱

[@jakovsandrovcan3471]

@@ferahsudenazulusoy4553 Bosnia is basically turkish Croatia at the beginning you were part of Croatia you didn't even exist when Croats walked on this territory later you were violated by turks then serbs so yeah he included Bosnia indirectly it's historical correct and you can't deny it

[@hoticeparty]

@@ferahsudenazulusoy4553 politics.

[@xenacv393]

Thank you for all of these videos! They really are great!

[@olgased4161]

Excellent material, hard to find in video format. Thank you very much!

[@jonathanlandrey4117]

I am one quarter Sorb, living in America. It is very difficult to find decent videos on our history. This one is pretty good, though I would appreciate some citations of scholarly and primary sources. Perhaps it is helpful to not that, while the Catholic Church was greatly interested in converting the Slavs in the Northern Crusades (The first of which is the Wendish Crusade of 1147), rank-and-file crusaders and the Saxons and Danes more generally did not care whether or not their neighbors were Christian or Pagan. While Bernard of Clairvaux preached hellfire, those actually on campaign were more interested in territory and tribute. For firsthand accounts of the medieval western Slavs, see Adam of Bremen's History of the Archbishops of Haburg-Bremen, Helmold of Bosau's Chronicle of the Slavs, and Thietmar of Merseburg's Chronicon. All around, a good video. Thank you.

[@srdjan5847]

Sorab is german pronunciation of Srbin - Serb. Wends are Serbs as well.

[@heatherhere]

I’m a descendant of Wendish immigrants to Texas in the mid 1800’s.

[@ing.respekt1862]

This video is better than I expected. It really warms my heart and touches my soul. Thank you so much for this great video.

[@bintamirfreeland4159]

Loving ur topics lately

[@dmalcan8401]

As a reserection... THANKS Go Polabian SLAAAVVVSSSSSSSSS

[@filopuk]

7:12 the colour of the horse was probably related to a worshiped god. The white horses were related to the 'overworld' deities (e.g. Svatevit, who is a god of abundance and war), and the black horses were related to the 'underworld' deities (e.g. Triglav, who by some scholars is associated with Veles, a god of waters, underworld, magic and oaths). The overworld and underworld are not the best terms here, but they are simple enough to get the sense of it. Also, some scholars think the Slavic priests of Arkona were purposefully covering the white stallion's legs with mud every single night, to prove Svatevit was riding his horse and fighting the evil spirits during the night 😄 Thank you for the video, I loved it. It contained a lot of well-researched information. I hope there will be more videos about the early Slavs from you in the future ☺️

[@tomasvrabec1845]

Um. That's why Poland has a white eagle. It's Perun.

[@czyz.]

Thanks for the film, much appreciated

[@joskojansa1235]

Europe is half slavs people. Not germanic, not frankish, not galic, not latin, and not greek. Its just we dont press other rases in through history as not today. Its how we are. Dont thread on us.

[@elliotterker4813]

What do you mean?

[@sandroschmitt5660]

Isn't rare to find some Slavic surnames in the German cemiteries here, in Rio Grande do Sul. The Pomeranian still is spoken in some rural comunities here !

[@sodinc]

oh, it is cool!

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

You should record it with translation

[@sandroschmitt5660]

@@BaltimoresBerzerker I don't speak Pomeranian !

[@meldondglord7930]

Pomeranian language? Do you mean Kashubian language? There is Kashubian minority in Poland, nowadays they rather using polish language.

[@sodinc]

@@meldondglord7930 kashubian is east pomeranian, there were also west pomeranian languages (maybe dialects of a language), not sure if somebody uses western pomeranian now.

[@feudaljester7581]

The obodrities(a single small slavic confederation managed to defeat the saxons and raze important cities such as the famous viking city called Hedeby

[@bxhohrjh3132]

Many Osten Germans Have Slavic ancestry reflects in their Slavic family names

[@bertjafn]

Many Western Germans, too. Inherited from their polish ancestors, who migrated for work in the 19th century (examples: Schimanski, Koslowski). It isn't that easy. There was also a huge influx of refugees from today's Czech Republic during the early 18th century (similar to the one from France), and the resettlements after WW2 mixed up a lot, too. In Germany family names started to emerge in the 12th century. That's about the same time when Germany cleared out the last pockets of slavic resistance in today's Eastern Germany. In most of those areas, slavic languages fell out of use during the 15th or 16th century (except for Lusatia). Therefor most of the familiy names that you would point a finger at and identify them as "clearly slavic" are either of Polish or Czech, and for a very minor degree of Lusatian origin.

[@kaybrown4010]

@bxho hrjh Indeed. My great-grandfather came from Berlin and his name ended in “ow”, pronounced “off” or “ov”. If that isn’t Slavic, I don’t know what is.

[@srdjan5847]

The capital of Germani Berlin was estabilished by Slavs and original name was Brljin (svamp place). Even today around Berlin are present swamps.

[@deltabravo9903]

thank you

[@erichamilton3373]

The inhabitants of eastern (former GDR) Germany along with parts of Schleswig-Holstein, and Lower Saxony, and Bavaria are Germans. However, to be German in these regions generally means to be of Slavic descent at some point. All European nations have a mythology. The German origin mythology has left the Slavs out, but they are part of German origin.

[@overlord165]

Rather say Germans are of Slavic origin

[@BigRedRaider]

We were here before the Germania tribes.

[@erichamilton3373]

@@BigRedRaider You have maintained your culture, language and identity, which is great and commendable. However, your German neighbors also descend from Sorbs to varying degrees.

[@BigRedRaider]

@@erichamilton3373 undoubtedly, I wish you could convince them of this.

[@erichamilton3373]

@@BigRedRaider Well, how they feel is a whole other issue. Hopefully they would embrace it.

[@OchotaJack]

For many scholars in Poland the biggest west slavian mystery is question who were so called White Croats in todays southern Poland (but elsewhere too)

[@milebobic3458]

There are many serbian toponyms in Poland aswell. Pozdrav

[@mg4361]

It's funny to think that there were Serbs and Croats already back then. I imagine the feistier ones moved south while the calmer ones remained.

[@Valentyna_kvitka]

Most possibly White Croats were the tribal federation and not a single tribe. They originated in Western Ukraine (Galicia) and spread to the west on both sides of Carpathians - as west as Northern Czechia. White Serbs (ancestors of Sorbs) were their neighbours and the closest relatives - they lived more to the west in Eastern Germany. It is disputed whether Vistulians were the part of White Croat federation or Vistulians moved south and separated White Croats into two parts. White Croats might have their own state. They had two huge cities in Western Ukraine - Stilsko (possibly meant Stolny grad - the capital) and Plisnesko (the main Slavic sacred place in the region). Their counry was under influence of Great Moravia. Most possibly Hungarian resettlment significantly weakend White Croats - Hungarians captured their land to the South of Carpathians and made raids on their remaining territory. Poles from the west also tried to subdue them. But finally Rus' subdued them from the East. Recent linguistic studies unexpectedly show that there are many similar features in Ukrainian and Upper Sorbian (Ukrainan share more similar features with Upper Sorbian than with Polish and even with Belarusian) - we talk here not about lexics, but about specific morphological and phonetical features - e.g. only in Upper Sorbian and in Ukrainian the development of prothetic consonant -v happened in exactly the same place before pronouns - she (wona UpSrb vs wona Ukr), he (wón UpSrb vs win Ukr). And this is just one among many examples. This shows that there was an ancient White Serb - White Croat language continuum from Eastern Germany through Southern Poland (Upper Silesia, Lesser Poland, there are old maps were "Chrobatia" is shown in Poland near Lublin) into Western Ukraine (Galicia, Transcarpathia, Bucovina) but later territories were separated by Lechitic tribes and western part of that continuum developed West Slavic features while eastern part developed East Slavic features. You can read more about it here: www.quora.com/What-do-Ukrainians-Polish-Czechs-and-Slovaks-think-about-the-White-Croatia

[@zbigniewhaczek5575]

@@Valentyna_kvitka Genetyka i archeologia pozostawila po sobie zupelnie inne slady slowian w centralnej Europie znajdzieszje w tych linkach jak powstali zachodni slowianie: The Civilization of Old Europe & the World of the Goddess Wielkie odkrycie życia sprzed 7000 lat. Wykopaliska w gminie Moryń Demic vs. cultural diffusion and patrilineal Megalithic societies

[@tomasvrabec1845]

​@@mg4361 not really. Slavs prior to 8th century were already diversified due to the culture of Rod/Clan. Which is why you have so many types of Slavs in Poland, even Czechia having Moravians and Bohemian tribe, and Slovaks were already mentioned back then too as a tribe.

[@wach9191]

Same happened with Prussians later, Germans also stole their name..

[@salonez91]

It would be interesting to study how many Slavs all around the Europe lost their identity and became germanized or madjarized. Most of them had sad fate because didnt unite and had no stomack for conquest like Germans.

[@Sofia-0001]

Also how many Slavs were in fact anything indigenous but Slavs, before were culturally assimilated by the Slavic speakers expand, from their homeland in north east of Europe and beyond the Ural before, only after 5 century AD onward.

[@salonez91]

@@Sofia-0001 well in that case include germans as well. It is well known celtic people were living in the western part of Europe and now got replaced by germans completely. But eastern Europe and Balkans was always more diverse and it still is even tho slavic culture took over.

[@salonez91]

@@Sofia-0001 one of the most interesting facts about DNA is study that shows south Slavs are more so.ething else the slavs. That something else is eather illyrians or some other ancient tribes that lived there.

[@TibijskiZadymiarz]

Nemeč/Niemiec = Dumb/Mute suits them well since they can't learn any other languages + are dumb since they caused so many wars yet they still claim to be good

[@ericknight5014]

Great.

[@alehhandro1]

GDR had deep historic roots. But once again, West Germans prevailed. Can’t escape it’s geography I guess. I do hope that one day old manuscripts in Polabian dialects will be found somewhere for us to marvel at. Hej, Słowjany!

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

If europeans dreams of europeans super state,then they all can imigrate to africa and north america,their is pleanty of land overthere,that can be renamed into europe.PS:They should change name a bit,since in latin word europe means east land,and east land is from balkan to the ural.

[@milenaidzi4049]

@@slavenarkaimovski3897 Could you give the source that 'Europe' in latin latinuage means 'east'? I can't find it. I would be grateful.

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

@@milenaidzi4049 Eur=East,Pars or Pa is part,their for Europe is east part.That is how vatican has called slavic lands from balkan to ural,but i have find this on Drevnik youtube chanel.That was in episode Sustina Nastanka Europe I Njezinih Pohoda Na Istok,or in translation Esence of europe's creation and hers conquest to the east.PS:Europe is full of the fake names,that vatican has fabricated in order to erase traces of slavic civilization.One of the dumbest names that vatican has fabricated is Portugal,what is actually a combination of the word Port and Gaul,and under port i mean a place for ships to dock.

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

The name of german derives from latin mistranslation of the slavic name jarovit/yarovit to gerovit,that is how word german was created.But 50% of germany is not german,but slavic.You can se that on the germanies web page Slawenischeburg,where 705 ancient slavic settlements was found,meaning that in 7th century east germany was populated atleast with 1.400.000 slavs.Most 'german town names' are slavic town names germanised,for example the slavic town that was named after lipa tree was called lipceg,and german version of the same name is liptzig,berlin is actually brljin and it was a name for houses build from branches and mud.

[@berserk9085]

in your dreams. before Slavs eastern Europe was germanic and the vikings founded Russia.

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

@@berserk9085 That is historian falsification written by the nordic school,'Vikings' are not germans,thouse are slavs.Take a closer look at the slavic symbols,decorations,myths,and deities,and you will notice that they all are slavic.One big proof of cultural theft comited by the scandinavians is god Odin,whos name comes from slavic word Rodin,mening i give birth.The truth is out there,and you won't be able to run and hide from it any more.

[@berserk9085]

@@slavenarkaimovski3897 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣my heritage is so beloved that even blacks try to claim it. I'm very flattered by your lies. that only proves that your own culture insignificant. odin =rodin🤣🤣🤣 odin spelled oden comes from common germanic woden. some blacks also claimed that woden comes from the west African God vodun. wich is equally stupid🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣rus were vikings and vikings werent Slavs neither were the arkaim people. I already know your ideology. you must be fake neopagan who believes in Slavic vedas🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

@@berserk9085 And you must be a neonazi that belives to nordic historical school,the bigest history falsefyers.God "Odin",or should i call him,god with bird wings on its helmet,is a god from serbian and slavic culture.Take a look at the serbian and slavic gods on google,and you will notice that some of them have bird wings on helmet.And yours 'analasis'of my profile is so wrong,that it can show only how poor is yours jugdement of people.I'm not deluded person,i'm well informed person,their is a difference.I know truth about vedas,vedas are secret knowledge written by the slavic people.And do you want to know how i know that?Its becouse words Veda and Eda comes from slavic word Propoveda,and Veda is also letter V in slavic glagoljica alphabet.Same i can confirm about Sanskrit scripture,which by the way is identical to the russian Ka'Runa script,their is book on google called Slavic Way so take a look.The Ka'Runa script can be found in google articall named Kupala slavic ritual,the Ka'Runa script is ingraved into wooden sword so pay attention.Sanskrit is not indian creation its slavic creation,since its name comes from two slavic words,San=Dream,Skriti=Hide.And for Arkaim we know,that its the oldest slavic town builded in 12000BC,as a star observatory,bronze smelting,and religious center.AND ITS ALL TRUE

[@berserk9085]

@@slavenarkaimovski3897 your movement is full of neonazis. you are jealous of the Norse. nothing more or less. official Russian histography didn't deny anymore the viking heritage of the rus. you are like nationalistic hindus who arr denying that the aryans were Europeans from the Russian steppes. they claim that British invented it to justify their rule. so why you don't believing that the vedas didn't came from Europe? if west europeans falsify history than that means that the vedas don't come from outside. you are just an racist hypocrite.

[@dori25t]

Interesting facts 😉

[@Kasey1405]

The assimilation of various ethnic communities was happening throughout all all Europe and is happening to this day. The examples are too numerous to list here. It was not so long ago that, even in France, pupils in southern France, whose native tongue was not French were punished for not using French and in classrooms banners "Parlez français-soyez propres" were dispayed to remind about that. Another example is Corsica, where French did not exist just 200 years ago and is now used by 2/3 of poipulation.

[@OlSkunGun]

I've heard that Slavic minorities are getting back their original town and villages names in east-north Germany. The signs are double languaged now. When it comes to Germans, I see what they did on polish soil. Especially Upper Silesia. You look at XI century and up, Silesia was part of polish monarchy and Silesians were considered subpolish slavic tribe Over centuries region got owned by Czech. Czech got owned by austrian dynasty. And in the end Silesia ended up in Prussia and last in Germany. Did Poles just simply parrished? I've heard of some german aristocrat from Silesia that have found of his polish roots and turned into true Pole, but that's only trace I got onto.

[@lauritoerni2080]

Not in the north east, the dual town names are in lusatia region, for example cottbus chóśebuz or senftenberg zły komorow

[@bnasc9670]

It is also rumored that silesia in current Poland has their own dialect of Polish German that Polish or German people dont truly understand.

[@guleet75]

Silesia was the home a Germanic People's called the Siling$ !

[@suchendnachwahrheit9143]

If you go like that, the Germanic peoples were there before the Slavic ones. Silesia is neither entirely Polish nor entirely German.

[@marekbosak7508]

​@@lauritoerni2080polish name it's Chociebuż

[@jonkore2024]

Great

[@user-we5dt9wi3o]

As I know the name of German city Dresden is derived from Slavic word drezdy means inhabitants of flooded forest.

[@roybatty-]

Slavs are the largest group inhabiting Europe. Slavs should stick together, always.

[@swatkabombonica4103]

We are too stupid for something like that. And, as we can hear, always were, on top have today's examples of that stupidity. And they would never allow us to be untied. Serbs were trying that over and over again, are still dreaming about it, but with greed, inherited stupidity...it could not work. Those in charge are scared of that unity. It's a large territory, a lot of people, alll stubborn...hard crowd to control if united. Franks would attack one tribe, others would gather and kick their buttocks. Then they would made a deal with one tribe, benifits, all that, and others would back down, go fight Danish. Once we were doing all together, and were sticking for each other. Now we hate each other, because...money, of course

[@przemyslawpodbielski1620]

Thanks for this video.Finally someone didn't call us Germans. According to most of scientists Wandals were germanic tribes.

[@borzmir9326]

@@benjaminchooby6760 not 100% truth

[@berserk9085]

@@borzmir9326 Vandals were germanic.

[@borzmir9326]

@@berserk9085 some historians described them as proto-slavs or half germanic and half slavic. many people in history called slavs like vends, venedians, etc

[@borzmir9326]

@@berserk9085 All the western slavic tribes were on the begining called Wends, Vinds or even Vandals because lived on the territories on which earlier lived germanic tribe Vandals (however there are theories that Vandals were not germanic but proto-slavic tribes). Before the 10th century part of them formed new european states and early nations of Bohemians and Poles what was the effect of christianisation of their rulers while the rest which was living between the rivers Elbe/Łaba and Oder/Odra remained pagan until their final conquest by all their neighbours: Germans, Danes and Poles. For many centuries the wendish tribes were able to scucesfuly resist all the attempts of conquests and christianisation attempted by neighbouring states until the 13th century when their own civil wars made them unable to defend themselves anymore. The Wends were eager raiders who were the nightmare to all their neighbours especially to Germans and Scandinavians, to less extent to the Poles with whom the shared both language, customs and for long also the same religion. They were also making alliances with all their enemies against other enemies (with Germans against Poles, with Danes against Germans, with Poles against Germans, with Poles against Czechs, with Czechs against Poles, with Czechs against Germans). Their tribes were sometimes forming federations and confederations which acted together but usually when one of the tribes was winning dominating position in their federation the rest was revolting against it and this what could have ended in the formation of new state and new european nation was ending in bloody civil war. It looks like that Wends were neglecting agriculture and because of that were forced to raid their neighbours both on land and on the sea for plunder. In fact they have dominated baltic sea and their wendish long boats were looking for the Scandinavian vikings returning home with boats full of loots and slaves. If it wasnt enough they were also raiding Denmark and Sweden to such extent that many areas on the scandinavian shores were completelly depopulated. For long time the whole baltic sea was called Wendish Sea or Rugian Sea (Mare Rugianorum) after pirate slavic tribe of Rugii who lived on the island Rugen. For the Wends the good leader was a such who was sucesfuly plundering other countries. Chronicler Saxo Grammaticus complained about Wendish pirates raiding Denmark and for long time to the Danes the good king was a such who could have defend the country from Wendish raids. When the Wends couldnt find better loot they were taking prisoners into slavery and selling such slaves on their own but also foreign markets (eg. Truso, Hedeby, Birka). Slavs also burned few times hamburg and upsala also konungrahela

[@borzmir9326]

@@berserk9085 In the book The Viking Art Of War (Chapter 'The Vikings and their neighbours), Paddy Griffith writes: "To the south-east of Denmark lay the Wends (Vends) or the Slav tribes, who were in many ways just as effective raiders and traders as the Vikings themselves". "The Slavs were always under threat of attack from the Vikings as well as the Franks." "They also gave as good as they got , in military terms, sacking Hedeby in 1000 and harrying Denmark, Gotland , Oland and southern Sweden to such an extent that the Western Baltic was sometimes called Mare Rugianorum after the Slavic pirates of Rugen and Western Slavic lands . The prevalence of treasure-hoarding in southern Sweden during the 1000s has led modern archeologists to believe that the threat was indeed a very serious one, and the Icelandic sagas themselves often seem to assume that "Vikings" in the purely piratical sense were almost as likely to be Wends (Vends) as Scandinavians.

[@PlanetarneUFO]

Polabian Language sounded almost identical like Old Polish Language !

[@petebeingrenewed5731]

Where can I hear these languages

[@PlanetarneUFO]

@@petebeingrenewed5731 The Kashubian language sounds like old Polish !

[@piotrmichaowski3549]

@@PlanetarneUFO Yes , because Kashubian is dialect of Polish language. Kashubians are Pomeranian tribe and Pomeranians are main Polish tribe same as Polans, Vistulans, Silesians , Mazovians and Lendians

[@marekbosak7508]

​@@petebeingrenewed5731well, you can meet Kaszubian in the region of Northern Poland. it's similar to Polish. There are trying to preserve the language but it's slowly dying out(something like Welsh for instance)

[@user-oi1tu5cu1w]

The Slavic and Germanic languages ​​come from the same Corded Ware culture, which in the first half of the Bronze Age occupied the whole of northern and eastern Europe. Until now, many common words have been preserved in English and Russian: Day - Den' Night - Noch Stop - Stop Door - Dver Snow - Sneg Water - Voda Sister - Sestra Brother - Brat Daughter - Doch, Docher Son - Syn Mother - Mater, Mat'. You can find hundreds of such words.

[@VensteRec]

Proud to be half Polabian

[@heather737]

Does anyone know where the Polabian Slavs (more specific to my interest would be the Veleti or any tribe that was known to be most easterly within Pomerania/Prussia; from what I've been able to find so far in my Ancestry research, this is mainly where a number of my people originated from, so I'm trying to trace it back as far as I'm able to) migrated from BEFORE their recorded presence in Meck-Pomm? I can't seem to find any info online, nor is it addressed much in this video, which starts to address it a tad there in the beginning, but then sorta just brushes past it. Specifically I'm wondering if they migrated down from southern Norway and Sweden pre-6th century. (I have reason to believe this is the case, but am looking for some sort of confirmation of this.)

[@theChaosKe]

Polabian slavs split off from other west slavs like poles and czech, which split off from proto slavs. The proto slavs are believed to have originated from around ukraine, belarus and eastern edges of poland. Norway and sweden would have been were the germanic tribes came from like the goths. Pomerania would also not really be polabian anymore but rather beginning kashubian.

[@ivlipak]

Slava Slovjanima! Slava polabskim pretkima! Bude dien došl kogda se slovjani budut došli po naše stare zemje! Ale ovi put vsi sglasno, da ne imate nikakove šansi s nami!

[@milebobic3458]

Serbians being unruly since wayback when LOL... Also in modern day Serbia there is the river Lab. Pozdrav svima

[@Dodo-ym8cc]

Serbs and Sorbs have genetically nothing in common. Serbs are of the dinaric phenotype (race). Have a look at the first christian Roman emperor, Constantine, he is from Nis and he looks exactly like a Serb. Most Serbs do not look like eastern Slavs, we are a mixture like most European peoples are.

[@milebobic3458]

@@Dodo-ym8cc Serbs are exactly that: a mixture of our ancient slavic forefathers whose language and name we carry and the proto-balkan peoples who lived the land that we settled on and absorbed them. Saying that Serbs have nothing to do with Sorbs is tottaly wrong even though they are bit blonder on average than their southern cousins. Also it's germanic supremacy thinker's (think of Bismark) worst nightmare: having ALL Slavic peoples united and fully aware of their common roots.

[@Dodo-ym8cc]

There is an ancient town called Servia near Thessaloniki, rumored to be named after the people that settled there. There is also Roman town called Serbinum at the location of Gradiska in Bosnia. Coincidence? The French language is a Romance language but that does not mean the French people came from Italy.

[@milebobic3458]

@@Dodo-ym8cc yeah.. ok so 20% of Sebians having R1a haplogroup means what?

[@serbianstallion8321]

@@milebobic3458 R1a + I2a + some branches of I1 came with Slavs and that's basically 60% of Serbian y-dna rest is native Balkan obviously.

[@dmalcan8401]

дякую...

[@tomasvrabec1845]

Damn those place names were spooky. Eg. Kamenica... There is Kremnica in Slovakia (a mining and money making tows- yes, money making as a Mint and a printer - for all of EU and even US) Plus several more are akin to Czech places like Ľubica.

[@josefdolnik7862]

Česká Kamenice,severozápadní Čechy...

[@borisdemovic4904]

Why Kremnica? We have even Kamenica - nad Cirochou - and also Kamenica nad Hronom. Also we have Dargov and Dargow is in Germany as well.

[@johnotm]

slavic Greece would also be an interesting topic

[@eleftheriosiliopoulos8796]

It will be a good idea to investigate how many greeks exist in Skopia....

[@Sk0lzky]

*insert my dad* "Berlin was pretty much Slavic lmao"

[@MarkVrem]

I saw a map of Slavic Berlin. If I remember correctly Berlin was like an area surrounded by like 3 lakes or something. Like a marshland that had bridges leading to the city. Somewhat similar as the Aztec Tenochtitlan. IN ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSIVE STRUCTURES ONLY. lol.. besides that it had the classic Slavic earthen and wooden fort (GORD).

[@Sk0lzky]

@@MarkVrem yeah polabians loved their lake/river forts lol

[@rtod4]

German Slav Russian are all from the same basic R y-DNA that migrated from the steppes, or up along the Caucasian mountains. Most ethnic groups in that part of the world are descendants of the R y-DNA. This is my best take at the moment, if I say anything erroneous, please correct

[@rtod4]

@Hirquiticke Meldrop Thank you! Pardon me if I ask another question and then ponder a bit. I've since found (current experts' opinions) that R-z92 is not Germanic, but pre-Russian, so they may not have followed the Germanic migrations? That's why I was thinking Caucasus, or from the eastern steppes. Pondering: All the science on DNA is still a bit wonky, but modern dating puts R-z92 around 4,000+- ybp. That's some old DNA. How does it last 4,000 years without significant mutations? My mtDNA from Britain, K1b1b, is 12,000 ybp, +- 4k. Pre-Celtic, possibly indigenous, and possibly considered Black Irish due to olive skin and jet black hair. How do people end up with such ancient DNA? I would have thought it would be admixed by now. FWIW, the R-z92 and K1b1b make up 99.8% of my DNA. Between my 4k Y-DNA and my 12k mtDNA it freaks me out that my basic DNA was there before Christ, snd and even before the pyramids were built. Some say my Y-DNA is really R1a-z92, but 23 verified that my R was M207 so not R1a.

[@internetowihusarze]

First people here was slavic - is monument in berlin

[@paulaaugust1]

Slavs lived on present day territory of Germany for long time. Romans called all the tribes "Germans" like all the people behind the mountains, in the North (gera/gora/hora -mountain). In 19 century when Germany as a country was becoming to be created, nationalist erased Slavs altogether, fortunately not for long. Fun fact 1/4 of Eastern Germans have R1a.

[@hermannarminius7757]

Completly wrong. Slavs moved into germanic land and assimilated the rest that stayed. Oldest findings in east germany are germanic. East germans are germanic not slavic. West slavs also have germanic admixture

[@kritikalmess5907]

@@hermannarminius7757 Haplogroups I2a and R1a were found all over Europe from Vinca to Switzerland long before R1b came into the picture.

[@hermannarminius7757]

@@kritikalmess5907 first of all, haplogroups do not equal ethnicity and second R1a is present in baltic, slavic, germanic kurgan and indo iranian population. It also didnt contradicts what I said before

[@georgekashuba1656]

Germany is a Greek word meaning strong.

[@AkakaDomenjer]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

The old argument between the Deutsch and the Slawa began with them.

[@orzelmorze5586]

I know another etymology of Obodriti: Obodriti comes from "obrzydzać" / "olbrzymiać" - to disgust / to make giant; from root "obr" - "a giant", which you can also meet in word "obora" - "a building for cows". "Obr"/"obrzyd"/"olbrzym" - "a giant" was suppousedly a warrior-caste of Venedi/Suavi/Slavs that was breed with cows, eating raw meat and drinking blood (tatar-style) of young bulls to get heromones and steroids. Which isn't that far from the first of etymologies you read. Possibly connected one to another with your being original, ie. first it was word for "brave", then become "giant", then became "disgusting" and "cows' building".

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

Obara in serbo croatian means To nockdown,as to nockdown the tree,or other opstical.

[@balsazarkovic4884]

Obodrites has a very simple etymology, Bod- verb to stab sr bosti, ja bodem. and Rog, horn. The name is kept in modern Serbian surname Bodroža and Bodiroga

[@srdjan5847]

You got it wrong. Check when our brothers Polish people added Z in language. OBODRITI comes from serbian BODRITI which means to give support.

[@nestingherit7012]

And "mosque" from "mosquito" rabi from "rabit", ...😅

[@bakimc4722]

That's who the East Germans are, Serbia is eternal as long as its children are faithful to it.

[@bakimc4722]

@@benjaminchooby6760 Well, when they declare themselves like that, but they are not by blood, they are Germanized Slavs.

[@andreajanota6258]

My last name is most common in Poland and Slovakia, however I met a woman with my last name but she was German.

[@marekbosak7508]

Many present German surnames have Slavic origin, janota sounds polish

[@andreajanota6258]

@@marekbosak7508 It is Polish as my great grandparents were all Polish speakers

[@annajohansson7116]

Didn't know Radegast was s god. Makes me think of Tolkiens Radagast the Brown, must be inspired by this god.

[@saintlybeginnings6296]

I have Slavic ancestry, and I can assure you that we didn’t lose our identity. Nor is being baptized into Christianity a sad or bad thing. It is a very, very good thing. ✌🏾

[@tomasvrabec1845]

You obviously have no clue about what the pre Christian Slavs were like to say that.

[@baileygregory9192]

This makes me sad

[@valentinstoyanov304]

Leipzig - Lipiska Chemnitz - Kamenitsa Pommern - Pomorje... And I would also argue that Schlesien and Schleswig stem from the Slavic "slez", which has to do with "plain"...

[@218philip]

My ancestry includes Kashubian

[@andisdzirkals7371]

Castle in video is Livonian( today Latvian)

[@BigRedRaider]

We still exist, even outside of Europe.

[@KristinaTurnerAquarius]

I am half Czechoslovakian and Polish. Balkan and Baltic.

[@tonyu5985]

Czechoslovakian I think that is 1/3 Bohemian, 1/3 Moravian and 1/3 Slovak.

[@KristinaTurnerAquarius]

@@tonyu5985 According to the DNA tests, Czechoslovakia was settled by Italians and Greeks and Balkans going back farther to when it was Austro-Hungaria and the Roman and Greek Empires and Celts.

[@robertrobski1013]

What about Tollense valley battle founded in east Germany which is 4000 years old 98% of DNA of this place are very similar to people who live in Poland this days

[@cehaem2]

DNA samples show that groups of people which died were heterogenic.

[@niewinnny]

Im from NordPoland Bałtyk

[@Zongo3000]

9:30 in the mid 900s not 1900s :) - interesting video!

[@jiritichy7967]

Just a couple of German cities with Slavic names: Leipzig (Lipsko), Dresden (Drazdany). It is possible that East Germans are genetically to a great deal Slavs.

[@balsazarkovic4884]

50 % percent probably, check R1a haplogroup

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

700 ancient slavic towns were unearthed in germany,and beside that,their are manny slavic tooponyms in germany.So we dont speak about few slavic names in germany,but all slavic names in germany.

[@jml732]

I know that in Berlin, most settlements build by German colonists outnumbered the wends by far. Only 20-40% of historic (pre-industrial) localities in Berlin are traced back to slavic settlements, 2 of wich based on proper "grods" (slavic fortifications - Berlin-Köpenick and Berlin-Spandau), and the others where agrarian-/fishing villages. Most of these settlements where re-reintrgrated into "Kietze" (slavic parishes outside of German settlements) or completely abandoned/resettled and only a handful of slavic settlements continued 'untouched', (I.e. Berlin-Schmöckwitz or Berlin-Kladow) wich over the centuries became germanised. Berlin itself was founded by German merchants with the help of the wendish natives, to witch the polabian name ("Birlin" -> swampy place) is based on.

[@slavenarkaimovski3897]

@@jml732 Its proven,that name Berlin comes from Brljin,meaning huts made of straw,mud,and sticks.And i can tell you also,that name of german comes from latin mistranslation of slavic god yarovit to gerovit,and then to german.And i have get one intresting text from youtube visitor,who has sed that name of german has come from slavic word gorani,meaning mountain people.In the time of 5 years how much i'm following slavic history videos,i have learned that their was 61 slavic tribes in europe,and that slavs lives in europe since 12000BC.Their is long list of slavic acomplishments,and even longer list of books and videos that tells real slavic history,and the size of it its mindblowing.But i can tell you this,that name of celts comes from slavic word kelci,meaning blacksmith in slovakian.And that name of etruscan comes from russian eto ruski,meaning here russian.And that name of vargians comes from slavic god svarog,who's followers were called svarogijci.As i sed,its loooong story.PS:But i perfere neverending story

[@jml732]

​@@slavenarkaimovski3897 Thanks but it is not right to say that "it is proven" as we don't know for sure because no documents to Berlin's name exists (except Kölln for "Colony" from Berlin-Kölln), but the polabian origin is the prfered origin by most most linguistic experts of the Polabian languages and by most historians... and the latter hypothesis of Germans being of slavic origin is sorry to say - just gibberish, and completely out of context.

[@lilmee7469]

Sorben and Wenden are well and alive in Germany. They celebrate their language and culture and are the most Catholic people in Germany. Sorry to say that. I for one, can't tell them apart from the rest of the people around them. But they are so fiercely proud, they'll let you know. Half of my genes are most likely slavic in origin as my mom hails from Silesia. Ask me if I care? Not a smidgen. Why would I?

[@danakaleb4882]

We don’t care about it either.

[@orzelmorze5586]

1. What are evidences of the gap between migration period and alleged arrival of Slavs? 2. Weren't Suavi and Boii the westernmost Slavic tribes? 3. Weren't Slavs (and Balts) just a branch of Veneti (Vendi, Vengiones, people of queen Wanda from XIIc. BC), a branch that dwelled, developed and became a distinct one in North from Danube, South-West from Catpathians, East from Bodensee; in period between 1200 BC when their ancestors arrived from Lech River and Lechhausen area, till 500BC when after Sarmatian raid most of previous culture settlements in Vistula were burnt? or till 250-400AD when with the help of the Huns they pushed Burgundes, Longobards and Goths colonizing parts of modern Poland and Brandenburg since Ceasar Augustus (and pushed germanized Veneti, aka Vandals with them) ? 4. What about toponyms: Biel, Bielefeld, (white, in Slavic) Brest-Brescia-Breskens-Brześć, Munchen-Mnichov, Lechhausen (house of Lech), Torino-Toruń, Verona-Wrona, Venetia-Venti-queen Wanda, Ravensburg-Raba-Rabka (same meaning as Krakow) Tollense-Dołęża-Tolouse ?

[@g-rexsaurus794]

Stop pushing your propaganda.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

Um... Wanda is a recorded Polish/Lechtic princess from 6-8th century after Christ. Wends were a Slavic branch, not the other way around. She even has a mound grave in Poland. Plus, Slavs and Balto-Slavs are recorded as older than Germanic people's.. which were vandals.

[@cehaem2]

@@tomasvrabec1845 No such person ever existed. Her mention in Kadlubek's Chroicle is purely fictional and serves the purpose of exemplification of virtues.

[@nestingherit7012]

​@@g-rexsaurus794They won't stop.

[@niewinnny]

Hamburg? Bukowiec Berlin? Bralin mean we take.even districts in Berlin have Polish names PANKOW

[@cehaem2]

Neither Berlin nor Hamburg are Slavic names. Pankow is a hydronym, named after the creek Panke, which, in turn, most likely is of Slavic origin. The place ifself was founded by German settlers in 1230 "in complete wilderness".

[@Shandina1]

Slava Swjatovidu Slava Srbinu 🌞

[@marchurley4895]

Dude at the end with the emphasizing hand gestures... for literally... every.... word....

[@demaskatorr]

Niestety ... :-(

[@numenoreaneternity6682]

They were the bane of Northeuropean seas, would raze Konungahella, Hamburg, Hedeby, and Roskilde, depopulate southern Scandinavia, and would split the Holy Roman Empire in two during and after the Great Slav Rising, thus putting the Germanization of Europe to a pause for more than two centuries. The last great pagan bulwark in Europe.

[@numenoreaneternity6682]

Modern Western interpretations of medieval sources would indicate the Slavic area as being the main reservoir of slaves in the whole period of the Early Middle Ages, beginning probably in the 6th century, and with a peak around the 10th. This preference for slaves of Slavic origin - so strong as to make Slavs the slaves by antonomasia - has been easily explained: in that period Slavic people were the only ones who were still pagan, and this detail is most important as it explains why, by choosing them, early medieval slave traders - mostly Venetian, Genoese and Jewish - did not violate the new principles of the “Societas Christiana”, introduced by Pope Gregory the Great at the end of the 6th century, according to which baptized people must be excluded from slavery. What should be noted is that aside from this being a mere theory, it is also historically and etymologically inaccurate, and unconvincing. After all, the Medieval Latin words for “Slav” and “Slave” are not etymologically related. The Medieval Latin word for “slave”, and with it, its root as well, predates the first sightings and contact of mainland European civilization with the Slavs. The evolution of the name of Slavs "Sloveni/ Slaveni" comes from PIE *klew (to hear) evolving into proto-Slavic *slovo/ *slava (word/ fame), finally evolving into Sloveni/ Slaveni (those glorious/ those who understand each other). Meanwhile, the English word for "slave" comes from the Latin word "clavis/ clavus" (a key/ nail), which bore the Latin word "inclavare" (to lock in), ultimately giving rise to the word "sclavus" (slave - "a locked one"), which most likely entered the English language, along with a major portion of Romance words, with the Norman invasion. In 1881, a proper etymology was expressed, according to which the Greek word Σκλάβινοι does not stem from the self-name of the Slavs, but from the Greek verb σκυλεύο - "to extract spoils of war", and resonates in the manner in which Slavs and other ethnicities were enslaved - as prisoners of war. The aforementioned etymologies are free of politicization, are accurate, and are firmly rooted in history and linguistics. Based on this, the self-name of the Slavs and their Modern Helleno-Latin name coincided phonetically purely accidentally (F. Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache 1881/1989/2002), and the thesis where the modern word for “Slave” is not rooted in the self-name of the Slavs, and is refuted.” (Gerhard Kobler - Deutsches Etymologisches Wörterbuch 1995, Korth Georg - Zur Etymologie des Wortes 'Slavus' (Sklave) 1970, and Daniel Scholten - Deutsch für Dichter und Denker: Unsere Muttersprache in neuem Licht, 2020). The aforementioned theory and etymology are furthered by Korth Georg, Friedrich Kluge, Gerhard Kobler, and Daniel Scholten (and Grimm’s German Dictionary). Further on, the cognate with Sloveni/Slaveni is the word Sclavinii/ Slabini, a Latin that denotes Slavic ethnic groups. From a purely historical perspective, Greece and Gaul were Rome’s main reservoir of slaves for centuries, while the Irish were the main reservoir of slaves for their Normano-English oppressors for more than half a millennium, and before them, to Norsemen as well. Dublin was the largest slave market in Western Europe. Its main sources of supply were the Irish hinterland, Wales and Scotland, while in the Far and the Middle East, the Turkmen tribes would supply the largest portion of Eurasia with innumerable slaves for nearly a millennium. Aside from that, just during the earliest stage of the Slavic invasion of Roman territory south of the Danube (6th century), a fifth of a million Roman citizens (Procopius) were enslaved by the Sclavenes (early South Slavs) in just one Roman province, and just during a single raid, the number of their slaves kept growing as more and more provinces and their capitals fell to the aforementioned Slavs. In reality, the majority of slaves in the 6th and 7th centuries were the Christian Romans, not their Slavic captors. Granted the Slavs didn't enslave their enemies permanently, but they've enslaved them nonetheless, and in numbers that are substantially greater than the number of Slavs who were enslaved by non-Slavs during the entirety of the middle ages, and it renders the aforementioned non-Slavs as being more fitting to have their ethnonyms made “synonymous” with slavery The Western terminology for "slave", to a certain extent, is similar in form to the self-designation of the Slavs ("Sloven", "Slavjan" etc.) Their existence served as the basis for numerous anti-Slavic statements, theories, and consecutive waves of propaganda, which have sometimes acquired the scope of genuine mythologies. Moreover, these ideas were even given an academic platform. As it happened more than once, when “not entirely” adequate premises gained an academic platform and were entrenched there since. The premise of "Slavs" is the root of words for "slaves" found a permanent foothold in Western Academia, giving rise to a series of pseudoscientific, inform, but questionable, in essence, representations and statements. The essence of these premises is that these words are related to the ethnonym of the Slavs, allegedly, "due to the fact that in the Early Middle Ages, the Slavs became objects of the slave trade, which led to the use of their ethnonym as a designation for slaves." Sometimes, it was even argued that Western Europeans, whose languages contain these words, directly, massively, and regularly turned the Slavs into slaves, and in general, other far-reaching conclusions were made, such as that the "Slavs are slaves" and the Western Europeans are "their masters." Moreover, in the 18-19th century in Western European journalism, the idea was persistently exaggerated that even the word "Slav" itself comes from the Latin or Greek word for "slave". This was the “think tank” of an 18th-century French historian and publicist. Polemics regarding this myth and premise are found even in Dostoevsky’s "Diary of a Writer". As for the idea of the origin of the word "Slav" coming from the word for slaves - at the present time, it is not considered scientific and has long been recognized as erroneous, or even deliberately Slavophobic. The birthplace of this terminology is the ERE. In the Early Middle Ages, in the so-called Medieval Greek, the word "σκλάβος" (read as "sklavos" - "slave") appeared. Further - from the ERE and Medieval Greek, this word found its way to Medieval Latin (and from there to Medieval French) - the official, as well as international legal, political, commercial, and scientific language of Western Europe. Moreover, in different languages, it appears in different timelines. In accordance with Webster's Dictionary, the word appears in English only in the 14th century, while Webster gives an etymological origin of the basis of the premise of this stream of Slavic slaves dating back to the 10th century, specifically during the reign of Henry the Fowler and Otto I, therefore moot and chronologically off by several centuries. Thus, the direct appearance of these words in Western European languages, for reasons allegedly of the abundant trade in Slavic slaves, is excluded. Since the word has a clearly traceable and understandable history. And it did not arise in the West, but in ERE. The word for “slave” in Medieval Greek derives from the Greek verb skyleúo - meaning “to get spoils of war”, the first-person singular of which looks like skyláo. This etymology is established thanks to the following sources: F. Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache. 1881/1989/2002, siehe Sklave: “... zu gr. skyleuein, skylan, V. zu gr. Skylon ", Gerhard Köbler, Deutsches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, 1995, Sektion "Slaven" and Daniel Scholten, Deutsch für Dichter und Denker: Unsere Muttersprache in neuem Licht, Sklave und Slawe “. Thus, it is proven that the Greek word "sklav", "slave" - comes from the abovementioned Med. Greek word, the original meaning of which was "seized in war".This etymology, and Georg Korth’s "Zur Etymologie des Wortes 'Slavus' (Sklave)" refutes the premise that the Med. Greek and modern Western word for “slave” derived from the self-name of the Slavs. This etymology is furthered by Korth Georg, Friedrich Kluge, Gerhard Kobler, and Daniel Scholten (and Grimm’s German Dictionary). Furthermore, it turns out that the "Slavs" and all these numerous Western European "sklavas" are only homonyms. There are innumerable examples of such consonant coincidences (both within the same languages, and between words from different languages). This is a fairly common occurrence, especially among Indo-European languages. Thus, in the ERE, a new word was found and associated with the verb that means "to seize trophies of war", which was from then on used to denote slaves. At the same time, the previous word for slave, which previously meant slaves, was repurposed to denote indentured serfs attached to the land they’ve toiled..

[@feudaljester7581]

@@numenoreaneternity6682 Harold's blouetooth soldiers were slavic(half of them)since he had merceneries from jomsborg(wolin).Slavic names can also be found in viking raids proving that slavs had close contact with the norse.Also the most famous viking city hedeby was razed by the obodrites

[@feudaljester7581]

@@numenoreaneternity6682 On the wikipedian page.Just search about obodrites and you will proably find it

[@niewinnny]

History is history but who likes toWAR like us? Only the Slavs

[@joshaklese4969]

Not bad.

[@GrandeSalvatore96]

9:32 when?!?! 🤣

[@gosl847]

Berlin= Brlja-Brljin( Mud in English, Blato in SerboSlavic)

[@paulhunt505]

The narrator sounds just like an audiobook version of one of the dunk and egg stories

[@DWDraffin]

Narrator here. Help me get the reference. I’m missing out. Or on the wrong career path...

[@TD-np6ze]

I think you would make a GREAT Audiobook Narrator!! The Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled -- or, even private audiobooks

[@stevicapopovic1412]

His name was Deorg Bmit from dity of Bondon on tontinent of Deurope, his bife Bamantha bas bom Pramse city of Dadis, bith gwo ghildren Bamuel and Bike. WTF

[@jonkore2024]

Scthyians

[@rtod4]

Well, given that all ancient people are now dead.... I bet they were R1a or R1b. In other words, newcomers.

[@gotfridrozenkrojc9040]

Balto/Slavs..N+R1a Slavs............I2+R1a

[@blomman43]

Other than Wikipedia what are your sources?

[@RLLE-dl3oy]

Slawonic toponyms feature ‹c› - this is never pronounced /k/, but always /ts/, other than in Spanish.

[@bojanradic9954]

According to the recent DNA research 15-16% of Serbs descend in male line from Baltic Slavs and Poles, about 35% from Slavs from Ukraine and another half from slavicized Celts, Ilyrians, Germans, Greeks. Rather high percentage of Germanic DNA originate from Saxon miners who were invited by Serbian and Bosnian rulers to dig ore. Anyway, the tribal name of Serbs originate from present Eastern Germany.

[@masterofreality5528]

That is based on dna research of 2000 people. That's not enough

[@bojanradic9954]

@@masterofreality5528 No, much more people were tested over the years.

[@marekbosak7508]

Serbs and Croats most likely came to Balkans from so called White Croatia which existed somewhere I southern Poland or Northern Chechia

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

There were people living there

[@friskydingo2961]

I think the guy that got fake stabbed at 14:10 really died rolling down the hill🤪

[@piotrmichaowski3549]

Polabians were Polish ( Lechites) tribe. If someone dont know - Lechia is old name of Poland. They still use Polands old name in some countries ( Lehistan, Lahestan, Lenkija etc... ) Unfortunately, the Połabians did not unite with other Polish tribes. Over time, they were conquered and Germanized. It is history now and they are part of Germany and the only thing that connects us now is the Polish blood of our ancestors.

[@robertab929]

There were some lost opportunities in early time. Great Moravia could reach Baltic see and unify all West Slavic tribes, but Hungarians destroyed this country. Great Moravians had settlements even close to Łęczyca... Other lost opportunity was not being to able for Polish kings to continue territorial gains by Bolesław Chrobry in 1003. Polish ruler controlled Lusatia, Czechia, Moravia and Slovakia. Veleti and Obotrites could be next. And probably the last chance was in 1300 when Wacław II controlled Czechia and most Poland.

[@jml732]

Poles are one out of many Lechitic tribes, the Poles happened to be the most dominant or persistent

[@piotrmichaowski3549]

@@jml732 What nonsense you are writing. Poles are a nation consisting of all Polish (Lechitic) tribes. Silezians, Vistulans, Mazovians, Pomeranians, Polans, Lendians are all Polish tribes. Lechia is the old name of Poland, as if you didn't know. Polabians were also our ancestors but we were unable to unite with them. And now this is part of Germany.

[@piotrmichaowski3549]

@@jml732 I think you meant Polans!? Poles(Poland) are a nation and Polans is one of the main Polish tribes.

[@jml732]

@@piotrmichaowski3549 Where are the other tribes, were have they gone - if what you said where true Poland would be a federation of some sorts of multiple peoples. In reality Polans absorbed all lesser tribes into their own. Where are the Lusatians of Poland? What you write is a ethno-nationalistic myth wich doesn't need any further debate.

[@AntiChannel1]

6:08 sounds like Persian.

[@grandmastersreaction1267]

This is not an accident. There are many similarities between Slavic and Indo-Aryan.

[@Pandzikizlasu80]

Because those names are twice butchered. Once by a medieval scribe, then by the author of the video. Ruyani are Rani or Ranowie, from the Polabian name of theirs island Rana. Use the Google translator or something for a correct pronunciation, the closest language to Polabian is Polish there, however Kashubian would be even better, among alive languages. Ruyani name is rather not probable because the root word ruja [ruya] means oestrus, heat period for animals.

[@niewinnny]

not true, I speak and understand all Slavs and we don't die just like that.

[@Anton37-wc9sh]

Abodrites was dwellers of Abdera city

[@marekbosak7508]

Obodryci

[@melpannack8245]

No mention of the Sorbs!!!

[@theChaosKe]

Technically the term polabian refers only to the slavs in the northern part east of the elbe river which are part of the lechitic family (like polish) the sorbs in the south, east of the saale river are not lechitic but rather a third west slavic group distinct from lechitic and czecko-slovak. Thats why its not wrong to say that polabian is extinct even though sorbian is still spoken.

[@zaklinakovace6792]

Are those Sorbi?

[@masterofreality5528]

Sorbs(Serbs) lived there with other slavic tribes. Sorbs and Serbs are the same tribe who segregated in6th century. One part of tribe gone to Balkan. Fun fact:First ruler of Rani tribe was named Viseslav and first Serbian ruler in Balkan was also named Viseslav

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

Slav actually means slave and comes from the old Norse slave, which we still use in modern day Norwegian. Because especially the Swedish Vikings raided, pillaged, looted, raped and killed all over Eastern Europe. Slavery was a huge business. Before that they traded Celtic/Britonic or Irish slaves.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

No... Wtf. Such common, usually American, false information. Slave... Came from Slavs. Slavs did not come from the word Slave. You have the whole thing flipped... Slavs comes from Slava and Slovo... Meaning Glory and Word. The people of the Words... Means Slavs. Germans are Nemec- meaning Mutes and those who do not speak... I

[@masterofreality5528]

Slav does not mean that. It comes from words slovo and slava. Sloven means one who can speak, and slava/slaviti means glory and to glorify. Slovo in slavic languages means word and letter. Sloviti means to speak. Slavs at Arkona were so powerful that even Danes pay them to leave them alone, then other slavic tribes joined with danes and destroyed them

[@arkimas1137]

Saxons are called that because they saxondeeznuts

[@TheOlgaSasha]

You are extremely wrong. Because Slavs were called Vends (Venden) in old Germanic languages (from the word "Venedi"). Tacitus and other admitted that Sklaveni and Anti (2 greatest Slavic unions which invaded to East Rome Empire) told that they had originated from one tribe - Venedi.

[@masterofreality5528]

@@TheOlgaSasha This guy watched too many Vikings series😀. Sclaveni caught some Byzantine general or someone in high rank and they skinned him alive and then burned him bcs he bettayed them, and before that Byzantines didn't fight them and gave them land in exchange for protection if someone else invades the empire. Shows you how powerful they were. Vikings wouldn't dare to fight with Byzantines

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

These people were the huns The celts are germanic were there

[@VilmaMare]

Balto-Slavic is a product of assimilation. Do separate Baltic / Aisti culture from Slavic. Languages are very different except for some borrowed words on both sides...

[@robertal760]

Slavic people are ancestry of the Russian and the Polish...., Anglo-Saxon land expanded from Switzerland Thr Germany, France... Possible the more you go back in history they have same ancestry...

[@thorspoczta4436]

No dude. Ancestry of polish and rus. Not russian. Russia is not Ruś. Same as UK is not USA. Brit is no Sioux, Gaul is not Inuit. Same here.