Friesland is basically the whole southern coast of the North Sea. Northern Friesland being on the half isle of Jütland (Denmark and Germany), East Friesland is the part roughly between the rivers Weser and Ems in Germany, West Friesland belongs to the Netherlands. There are still many cultural similarities in those regions. Actually, an East Frisian probably has a lot more in common with their Dutch neighbors than with, say, a Bavarian, including language.
7:05 To be exact, the language was called theodisca lingua by the Franks = speaking like the people (in contrast to Latin, the language of the lords, priests and scholars), which latinized the Old Germanic thiudisc = belonging to the people. This became then depending on the regional dialect "dütsch", "deutsch", "daitsch" or "dutch". 10:10 The Latin version is actually older than the endonym - at Caesar's time the Germanic tribes had no word for "German" at all, because they did not see themselves as one people. There were many tribes, some collaborating with the Romans, some plundering Roman settlements, some not in direct contact with Romans at all. Some of those tribes belonged to bigger groups like the Suebians, but later many formed alliances outside of those groups - the Franks (the free), the Alemanni ("all together"), the Saxons (named after their preferred weapon, the Sax, a short sword). It is not clear where "Germani" came from. There is a Latin noun "germanus", but that means "brother" or as adjective "true, natural, authentic" or "brotherly". There is also a Germanic word "ger" for a type of spear, but that was actually not (yet) used at the time. And there are Gaulish or Celtic word stems which could either mean "neighbor" or "loud shouting". (15:00 The Italians call the country Germania, but the people Tedesci and the language tedesco.) 16:00 The Alemannic kingdom was the first conquest of the Franks to the East. (The second were the Thuringians, for which they allied with the Saxons, before conquering the Saxons as the third major realm east of the Rhine.) They renamed Alamannia later as duchy of Swabia (refering to the Suebi or Suevi group, of which a part had at the time already moved to today Galicia and Portugal to establish there a Suebian kingdom), which together with the duchy of the Franks, the duchy of the Saxons, the duchy of Bavaria and the landgraviate of Thuringia then formed East Francia. So it weren't the Gauls who introduced the name "Allemagne", but the western Franks who had conquered the Roman provinces of Gallia (except for Gallia Cisalpina, which had been conquered by the Langobards = long beards and it is therefore nowadays known as Lombardy). 20:50 The word "Slavic" presumably goes back to "slovo" = word, speech, so it refers to the ones you could speak to. Fun fact: Many slavic people moved after the period of the Germanic migration west into regions abandoned by Germanic tribes like the Goths, Burgundians and Vandals, so an interpretation as "the silent ones" could become a somewhat creepy reference to the former inhabitants and neighbors ...
also many confuse Dutch with Deutsch, while long long time ago, Dutch was called Neder-Diets/Neder Duits (Duits is German for Netherlands) the British/English picked this Diets up as Dutch, and hence this why The Netherlands language is called Dutch by English speaking countries. French call it Pay-Bas (low-lands) while Dutch has North-east Saxon influences and south-east more franconian. Before Dutch, the Frissian was more dominant, yet the "Hollanders raising up from the south-west (we still have North and South Holland) rose up and forced their dominance when it comes to the language, (North-Easten provinces, have a more Saxon/Lower-German accent, while the other Eastern more High-germanic) Anglo-Frissian makes Old English and Old Dutch sound very familiar, compared to Modern English. most English people here have less trouble understand Frissian compared to Dutch. (only 3 regions left where a variant of Frissian and West Frissian is an official 2nd language in the Netherlands spoken in 1 of the 12 provinces)
The Angles sounds like English because they invaded the British Isles together with the neighbouring tribes the Jutes and the Saxons. And became the Anglo-Saxons.
I live in Norfolk (England/ UK) the larger area is still called East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire) Was it's own Kingdom around a thousand years ago.
it was a little bit different the Brits ask for help against the Picts after the Romans leave there province Brittania, the contact was easy all coast living germanic tribes have done what there nordic brothers, from christian people called vikings 4-5 centuries later have done
It is still possible that Gauls used the term "Germani," as it probably means "neighbors." When they told Caesar about their neighbors, Caesar may have mistakenly taken the word as the name of this people. I think this variant is very likely.
@@ItsCharlieVestCharlie, I saw an excellent video yesterday that will show you all the genetic DNA of our ancestors, and believe me, we go back very far into the past, I'll put the link on the patreon 😉
@@ItsCharlieVest The Faroe Islands were discovered by the Irish, about 200 years later Vikings came to the islands. Most of today's population has Viking roots.
There is another theory that the word that the Gauls used does not mean the neighbors but the screaming ones. So we would have the opposite of the mute ones.
Charlemagne's Empire did not appear on the map as if by magic, the Frankish kingdom, "Francia", had already existed in Gaul for 3 centuries. This is why the name Francia remained in France, but not in the territories conquered by Charlemagne (Italy, Germany). France was founded by Clovis 1500 years ago, in Gaul, over the remains of the Western Roman Empire.
"The Franks" were btw also a tribe like the saxons or angles (wzho mixed together in britain hence anglosaxons) the franks are a southern - central german tribe, where to this day a small part of northern bavaria is called frankia also i cant blame the romans for naming the entire region the same either - while there were different germanic tribes all with different clothing and hairstyles, customs and architecture, they all spoke more orless the same language, used the same military tactics, and had the same religion (with emphasis on a tribe specific god, as examlpe for the saxons it was Saxnot) so for an outsider briefly visiting, it seemed like those were one people. yet the divide between tribes of germanic people can still be seen TODAY with various small regions in germany still having their own traditions, clothing styles, foods, architecture and thick dialect. meanwhile "the celts" had their own set of gods, customs, clothing and language vlearly different from the germanii. As for the name - the most commonly acknowledged source is that the ancient germanic tribes had a specialised weapon called a "Ger" which was basicly a mix between a throwing spear and a long stabby spear that could be used in war and for hunting very well. Its said that roman soldiers who traded with germanic people, often bought these weapons and thus learned that these tribespeople called those "ger" and thus decided to name the people after the weapon so like "hey markus whats that weapon its cool" "Thanks, the natives call it a "ger"" "which natives" "uhm you know the ger people" and people in proto german is also a word we still use in english "man" so the people of the ger would be ger-man. A similiar thing we see in the tribe of the marcomanni - "marc" meaning "Border" and manni - men. so the border-men are the marcomanni living on the border to the roman empire
In Germany also is a region calld Frankonia. Its in the north of Bavaria. I have a friend from that region. If I would say to him, he is Bavarian, he is nearly insulted and says, that he is a Frank.
Yeah, and people from Luxembourg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Alsace (or at least in parts of these regions) speak (linguistically) Franconian dialects. So linguistically spoken, the dialect of a person native to Nuremberg (Franconia in Bavaria) is closer to a Luxembourgian than to a Person from Munich.
I learnded, that the weapon of the people of the north was named GER. When the Romans first came across those blond and tall men, they named themselves GER-MAN. Hope I wrote this right with google translater *lol Nice channel. Greetings from Germany
There's still a region here in Germany where people specify that they're from the frankish region of Bavaria. They don't wanna be called bavarians and pretty much insist that they're from Oberfranken (Upper franks), Mittelfranken (Middle franks) or Unterfranken (Lower franks)
Just to be a know-it-all, Japan should be green on that map at 1:30 ^^ The pronunciation is difference but both (or all three) names come from the same characters and mean the same thing.
Before Hungary, there was Big Moravia, so that is why they have some "things" similar to Slavs (even some genes and so). And fun fact: The name Slavs (or Slované, Slovaní...depends on a Slavic language) comes from word SLOVO which means WORD.
I always thought, that the name "german" means "people of (or with) the spear. Because the germanic name of a spear was "ger". Like the saxons got their name from the "sax"...a kind of big knife
a verry importent part that i found missing in this discription and that might be the biggest reason everrybody had this different names for germany is that the names were given hundrets if not thousands of years ago ,but Deutschland as a unefied entety only exists for not even 200 years now , and were douzends of smaller staats if not even city staats befor and due to wars and allianzes the entyre area was in a constant flow of change
In German the word Germanen ist used to refer to the ancient tribes, because the are known through ancient Latin sources. The last larger one, the saxons was beaten by the Franks under Karl dem Großen. Who was of course a German an not a Frenchman ;-)
And don't forget that Germany wasn't a unified territory until 1871. This is a big reason for the "Dutch mixup" in English. Until Germany unified, the Netherlands were also one of the countless countries that could be considered part of the German/Deutsch/Dutch region. Had Germany unified a couple of decades earlier or later, we could have ended up with the Netherlands and Austria in, but Prussia and Alsace-Lorraine as a separate countries instead the other way round.
Taking into account theword "slave" (English) and "Sklave" (German) come from the slavic people, you could explain that as "not talking" / "only communicating by war cry".
this small island over the UK is Faroe Islands and its beautifull there they have problems with trees because of oceanic climate and sea salt that goes on the islands because of the wind but its gorgeous place. When it comes to the country itself i mean they are semi-sovereign i would say because officiall info is that its under Danish control but they have their own passports i think but not sure they ahve their national team in various sports and stuff
In the old Slavic language, "němъ" (nemy) means "to mumble" or "to be unintelligible" not "to be silent". I think it's obvious why they called Germans like that.
The strange thing is that in Italian it's called 'Germania', but the (modern) Germans are called 'tedeschi' (pronounced tedeski). Somebody told me that 'Allemagne' comes from the name of emperor Charlemagne
The Gauls (of Gaul) were the native people of ancient France under the Roman prior to the migration period when the Germanic tribes overrun and controlled it and given birth to what is now known today as France (France didn't exist back then until the period when the Germanic tribes, the Franks, controlled the land of the Gauls after the western Roman Empire's fall).
there has been a pretty comon name for all those 1000 german nations prior to germany ... that was dutch ...for everybody who spoke german was called dutch ( deutsch ) back then today only the netherlands are called speaking dutch for there need to be another name for that new formed state
Additions: 1. Russian only calls the land "Germanija" but the people "Nemcy" like the other Slavic languages. 2. In the same way Italian calls us "Tedesci", probably after yet again another German tribe or it is the Italianized version of "diutisc".
6:00 _"...and speaking of the Franks, Germans and Italians were also Franks. There were the Frankish Empire was the whole almost the whole of Europe or at least that big section there between Germany Italy and France and it was all the Frankish Empire. It split up, uh, into the three by like was it three brothers maybe or something I don't know, so then there was three Frankish Empires. The France is just the one that took the name from that, you know what I mean? But uh, the Germans a lot of Germans I believe and Italians and all that there there's descended from like a Frankish ancestry as well"_ I'm no historian but I know that this is wrong.. There were the Gauls (Netherlands & Belgium), the Franks (France), the Germanic people (Germany), the Helvetii (Switzerland) the Picts (Scotland) and a couple of other Celtic tribes/clans. But Germanic people were never a sub-tribe/clan in these old times.
@@ItsCharlieVest Italians are not Franks. Frankish land are the Rhineland and Franconia in Germany, Belgium minus Ardennes, Southern part of the Netherlands, parts of Northern France. No Franks in Italy. Most Frankish counties are Flanders, Brabant and the Northern Rhineland. Currently depending on how you count 20-30 million people.
It all goes back to Charlemagne, or Karl der Große, as the Germans call him, in the 9th century. To make a long story short, he united a big part of western Europe (by modern standards with questionable methods) to become the Emperor of the Franconian Empire. His three sons inherited that Empire and, yes, split it up, and that basically was the end of the Franconian Empire. His son Louis the Pious, who got the western part, was a little more successful than his brothers, and his descendents basically kept their territory togethers. That's why France is called France. Continental European history is fascinating, but it's a mess with the almost yearly changing dynasties and territories.😂
don't mistake Dutch (from Netherlands) and Deutsch (from Deutschland/Germany). Not only Germany, but all countries are given different names, in different languages. Same thing for the city names : London is called Londres in French ! But Berlin is just called Berlin...
Fun fact is that after over 1000 years of neiborhood,we Slavic people still have problems in communication with Germans on human level.They just dont want to talk.
his explanation only goes to the roots of those exonyms, but another point of the why so many names actually remained in use is simply because german people / a german region as a united concept is very young in history compared to other nations. All these different german tribes / regions stayed fractured and that simply prevented that outsiders would recognize all of it as one people/region over time and therefor they had no reason to switch to a common name in their interactions. And ofc the people from all those fractured german tribes certainly didnt go around spreading a singular name as they interacted with others, even long after the communication across europe was fairly well established through trade, migration and wars. If there is no common unity for most of history then there is ofc no reason to settle with one common exonym across foreign nations.
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It was no "misconception" that the Germans were called Dutch in the US. The term Dutch was originally the English term for "Germans" for over 1000 years derived from "Old English" and is therefore a "germanic term" and therefore was in English centuries longer in use "for Germans" than the Latin rooted term "German" for Germans which is in place for just the last round over 350 years in England/UK and round over 250 years in the US.. The change to call Germans "Germans" in English happened in the 17th century in England and way later in the US where it happened in the 18th century and at that point the "Pennsylvanian Dutch" were already in Pennsylvania for almost a century and so was to call them "Dutch" already established for a century because it meant "Germans" at that point in time. and it stayed that way because the Pennsylavian Dutch called and are calling themselves "Deitsch" which sounds very similiar as like "Dutch" anyway. The reason for that change of terms was the independency of the province Holland from the Holy Roman Empire in 1648 because from that point on - actually from 1652 on (=the first Anglo- Dutch War) the English had to distinguish = so they kept the term Dutch from 1652 on - exclusively - for the new founded "Republic of Holland" probably because those were "the Germans" they had to deal with the most during all those centuries due to trading with them because those are located just near by across the channel AND because those became at that point in time their "bitter rivals" at sea in behalf of the spice trade and in behalf of colonisation so they went to war against the Republic of Holland 4 times = Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652-54, 1665-67, 1672-74, 1780-84 For the "remaining Dutch of the Holy Roman Empire" - in order to distinguish friend and foe - the English came up with the Latin rooted term "Germans" from now on because it was simply then suitable "to go with Latin" for "the Dutch of the Holy ROMAN Empire" by calling them "Germans" from now on.. To put it simple "today´s Dutch" are "ethnic Germans" speaking their own "Low German Language" and their local dialects are Low German dialects = Lower Saxon + Lower Franconian + Frisian + Flemish and other variations of those same dialects are spoken in Germany as well unless Flemish which is too far west for having that in today´s Germany as well.. But "today´s Dutch" are no "Germans by nationality" as like as "the Austrians" are no "Germans by nationalty" as well but also "ethnic Germans" and the same is to say about the "German speaking Swiss" who are "ethnic Germans" but no "Germans by nationality" the Swiss were actually the very first who splitted from the Holy Roman Empire and founded their own state and their own national identity which happened in 1291
In 1291 the Swiss did not split from the HRE and it was also not a state in the modern sense for a long time after. The Old Swiss Confederacy was for a long time an alliance of territories. Over time additional associates were added by further alliances and also some land was conquered and became subject territories of some of the alliance members. Still all these territories were part of the HRE. Only at the end of the 15th century the Swiss became de facto independent from the HRE and the formal independence came even later in 1648 (Peace of Westphalia). This complex system of alliances also continued after the independence and was only changed when Napoleon conquered Switzerland. Much like the HRE the Old Swiss Confederacy was not revived after the Napoleonic wars but was replaced with what became the modern Switzerland.
The map he showed was nonsense by the way. As an example, both Austria and Österreich are unambiguously derived from old high German Ostarrihhi, meaning "eastern realm". Likewise, China is derived from the state of Qin. The only reason the Chinese don't use that name anymore despite their entire national founding myth being based on the empire of Qin is that they think they're better than everyone and the center of the world, hence why they call themselves "the people's republic of the middle kingdom". Weirdos.
I always thought "Germany" did come from the old german word for it`s main wapon the "Ger" (the spear) and "Mann" (man) - so it`s the men with the spear
That's how it is... The Celts have very little to do with the naming. And the name "Deutschland" is also reflected very nicely in the naturally closely related Nordic languages, just like in the Frisian brothers in the northwest.
No, almost no Germans and Italians have Frankish ancesters. Germania and Northern Italy were just part of the Frankish Empire for a while. That's like saying Indians presumably have English ancesters because India was part of the British Empire. 😉
@@tubekulose It's not that easy. Franks were a Germanic tribe, not a Gaulic tribe. They came from modern Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, but (mostly) *not* from modern France. This area was still dominated by Gauls, but later conquered by the Franks. Only leaders, soldiers and court servants moved to modern day France, the vast majority of tribe of the Franks stayed where they were - in modern day Germany, Belgium, Netherlands etc. (ok, the region of Elsace is a different entity). Just like later northern Italy still has more original Italian people, mixed with Lombards and almost no Frankish, even though they were controlled by the Franks for some time.
1. The anabaptist Mennonite movement was founded by Mennon Simons, a Dutch priest. 2. Where it says Frisiavons is the part of Zeeland called Zuid-Beveland, in the Netherlands. 3. Germans, and other N. Europeans, aren't talkative in general and are perceived as aloof, distant and even rude. We just ignore you.
German here. The most important name for Germany wasn't even mentioned in the video. If it's related to anything football (or soccer for you americans) we just call it "Schland". Which would make the people "Schländer" i guess 🙂
Friesland is basically the whole southern coast of the North Sea. Northern Friesland being on the half isle of Jütland (Denmark and Germany), East Friesland is the part roughly between the rivers Weser and Ems in Germany, West Friesland belongs to the Netherlands. There are still many cultural similarities in those regions. Actually, an East Frisian probably has a lot more in common with their Dutch neighbors than with, say, a Bavarian, including language.
7:05 To be exact, the language was called theodisca lingua by the Franks = speaking like the people (in contrast to Latin, the language of the lords, priests and scholars), which latinized the Old Germanic thiudisc = belonging to the people. This became then depending on the regional dialect "dütsch", "deutsch", "daitsch" or "dutch".
10:10 The Latin version is actually older than the endonym - at Caesar's time the Germanic tribes had no word for "German" at all, because they did not see themselves as one people. There were many tribes, some collaborating with the Romans, some plundering Roman settlements, some not in direct contact with Romans at all. Some of those tribes belonged to bigger groups like the Suebians, but later many formed alliances outside of those groups - the Franks (the free), the Alemanni ("all together"), the Saxons (named after their preferred weapon, the Sax, a short sword). It is not clear where "Germani" came from. There is a Latin noun "germanus", but that means "brother" or as adjective "true, natural, authentic" or "brotherly". There is also a Germanic word "ger" for a type of spear, but that was actually not (yet) used at the time. And there are Gaulish or Celtic word stems which could either mean "neighbor" or "loud shouting".
(15:00 The Italians call the country Germania, but the people Tedesci and the language tedesco.)
16:00 The Alemannic kingdom was the first conquest of the Franks to the East. (The second were the Thuringians, for which they allied with the Saxons, before conquering the Saxons as the third major realm east of the Rhine.) They renamed Alamannia later as duchy of Swabia (refering to the Suebi or Suevi group, of which a part had at the time already moved to today Galicia and Portugal to establish there a Suebian kingdom), which together with the duchy of the Franks, the duchy of the Saxons, the duchy of Bavaria and the landgraviate of Thuringia then formed East Francia. So it weren't the Gauls who introduced the name "Allemagne", but the western Franks who had conquered the Roman provinces of Gallia (except for Gallia Cisalpina, which had been conquered by the Langobards = long beards and it is therefore nowadays known as Lombardy).
20:50 The word "Slavic" presumably goes back to "slovo" = word, speech, so it refers to the ones you could speak to. Fun fact: Many slavic people moved after the period of the Germanic migration west into regions abandoned by Germanic tribes like the Goths, Burgundians and Vandals, so an interpretation as "the silent ones" could become a somewhat creepy reference to the former inhabitants and neighbors ...
also many confuse Dutch with Deutsch, while long long time ago, Dutch was called Neder-Diets/Neder Duits (Duits is German for Netherlands) the British/English picked this Diets up as Dutch, and hence this why The Netherlands language is called Dutch by English speaking countries. French call it Pay-Bas (low-lands) while Dutch has North-east Saxon influences and south-east more franconian. Before Dutch, the Frissian was more dominant, yet the "Hollanders raising up from the south-west (we still have North and South Holland) rose up and forced their dominance when it comes to the language, (North-Easten provinces, have a more Saxon/Lower-German accent, while the other Eastern more High-germanic) Anglo-Frissian makes Old English and Old Dutch sound very familiar, compared to Modern English. most English people here have less trouble understand Frissian compared to Dutch. (only 3 regions left where a variant of Frissian and West Frissian is an official 2nd language in the Netherlands spoken in 1 of the 12 provinces)
The Angles sounds like English because they invaded the British Isles together with the neighbouring tribes the Jutes and the Saxons. And became the Anglo-Saxons.
ok that makes sense
@@ItsCharlieVestthat’s also one of the reasons for WW1 > english , german and Russian kings /czar/kaiser have been more or less cousins >> family .
the name england even comes from those people there where diferent saxonys and diferent anglias on the british iles
I live in Norfolk (England/ UK) the larger area is still called East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire)
Was it's own Kingdom around a thousand years ago.
it was a little bit different the Brits ask for help against the Picts after the Romans leave there province Brittania, the contact was easy all coast living germanic tribes have done what there nordic brothers, from christian people called vikings 4-5 centuries later have done
It is still possible that Gauls used the term "Germani," as it probably means "neighbors." When they told Caesar about their neighbors, Caesar may have mistakenly taken the word as the name of this people. I think this variant is very likely.
the islands above scotland are the Färör islands wich belongs to denmark
did it have something to do with the vikings?
@@ItsCharlieVestCharlie, I saw an excellent video yesterday that will show you all the genetic DNA of our ancestors, and believe me, we go back very far into the past, I'll put the link on the patreon 😉
@@ItsCharlieVest The Faroe Islands were discovered by the Irish, about 200 years later Vikings came to the islands. Most of today's population has Viking roots.
12:52 it's Zeeland but at that time the Frisian when they were over the Dutch coast. Your are correct about the Frisians.
There is another theory that the word that the Gauls used does not mean the neighbors but the screaming ones. So we would have the opposite of the mute ones.
Charlemagne's Empire did not appear on the map as if by magic, the Frankish kingdom, "Francia", had already existed in Gaul for 3 centuries. This is why the name Francia remained in France, but not in the territories conquered by Charlemagne (Italy, Germany). France was founded by Clovis 1500 years ago, in Gaul, over the remains of the Western Roman Empire.
"The Franks" were btw also a tribe like the saxons or angles (wzho mixed together in britain hence anglosaxons) the franks are a southern - central german tribe, where to this day a small part of northern bavaria is called frankia
also i cant blame the romans for naming the entire region the same either - while there were different germanic tribes all with different clothing and hairstyles, customs and architecture, they all spoke more orless the same language, used the same military tactics, and had the same religion (with emphasis on a tribe specific god, as examlpe for the saxons it was Saxnot)
so for an outsider briefly visiting, it seemed like those were one people. yet the divide between tribes of germanic people can still be seen TODAY with various small regions in germany still having their own traditions, clothing styles, foods, architecture and thick dialect.
meanwhile "the celts" had their own set of gods, customs, clothing and language vlearly different from the germanii.
As for the name - the most commonly acknowledged source is that the ancient germanic tribes had a specialised weapon called a "Ger" which was basicly a mix between a throwing spear and a long stabby spear that could be used in war and for hunting very well. Its said that roman soldiers who traded with germanic people, often bought these weapons and thus learned that these tribespeople called those "ger" and thus decided to name the people after the weapon so like "hey markus whats that weapon its cool" "Thanks, the natives call it a "ger"" "which natives" "uhm you know the ger people" and people in proto german is also a word we still use in english "man" so the people of the ger would be ger-man. A similiar thing we see in the tribe of the marcomanni - "marc" meaning "Border" and manni - men. so the border-men are the marcomanni living on the border to the roman empire
In Germany also is a region calld Frankonia. Its in the north of Bavaria. I have a friend from that region. If I would say to him, he is Bavarian, he is nearly insulted and says, that he is a Frank.
Franconia region, yes!
Yeah, and people from Luxembourg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Alsace (or at least in parts of these regions) speak (linguistically) Franconian dialects. So linguistically spoken, the dialect of a person native to Nuremberg (Franconia in Bavaria) is closer to a Luxembourgian than to a Person from Munich.
I learnded, that the weapon of the people of the north was named GER.
When the Romans first came across those blond and tall men, they named themselves GER-MAN. Hope I wrote this right with google translater *lol
Nice channel. Greetings from Germany
There's still a region here in Germany where people specify that they're from the frankish region of Bavaria. They don't wanna be called bavarians and pretty much insist that they're from Oberfranken (Upper franks), Mittelfranken (Middle franks) or Unterfranken (Lower franks)
Just to be a know-it-all, Japan should be green on that map at 1:30 ^^
The pronunciation is difference but both (or all three) names come from the same characters and mean the same thing.
Before Hungary, there was Big Moravia, so that is why they have some "things" similar to Slavs (even some genes and so).
And fun fact: The name Slavs (or Slované, Slovaní...depends on a Slavic language) comes from word SLOVO which means WORD.
I always thought, that the name "german" means "people of (or with) the spear.
Because the germanic name of a spear was "ger".
Like the saxons got their name from the "sax"...a kind of big knife
I agree.
a verry importent part that i found missing in this discription and that might be the biggest reason everrybody had this different names for germany is that the names were given hundrets if not thousands of years ago ,but Deutschland as a unefied entety only exists for not even 200 years now , and were douzends of smaller staats if not even city staats befor and due to wars and allianzes the entyre area was in a constant flow of change
In German the word Germanen ist used to refer to the ancient tribes, because the are known through ancient Latin sources. The last larger one, the saxons was beaten by the Franks under Karl dem Großen. Who was of course a German an not a Frenchman ;-)
And don't forget that Germany wasn't a unified territory until 1871. This is a big reason for the "Dutch mixup" in English. Until Germany unified, the Netherlands were also one of the countless countries that could be considered part of the German/Deutsch/Dutch region. Had Germany unified a couple of decades earlier or later, we could have ended up with the Netherlands and Austria in, but Prussia and Alsace-Lorraine as a separate countries instead the other way round.
Taking into account theword "slave" (English) and "Sklave" (German) come from the slavic people, you could explain that as "not talking" / "only communicating by war cry".
this small island over the UK is Faroe Islands and its beautifull there they have problems with trees because of oceanic climate and sea salt that goes on the islands because of the wind but its gorgeous place. When it comes to the country itself i mean they are semi-sovereign i would say because officiall info is that its under Danish control but they have their own passports i think but not sure they ahve their national team in various sports and stuff
the name from the Lithuanians might also come from the tribe called "Voketier", a tribe that lived south of germany in the swiss region
In the old Slavic language, "němъ" (nemy) means "to mumble" or "to be unintelligible" not "to be silent". I think it's obvious why they called Germans like that.
The strange thing is that in Italian it's called 'Germania',
but the (modern) Germans are called 'tedeschi' (pronounced tedeski).
Somebody told me that 'Allemagne' comes from the name of emperor Charlemagne
Lithuanian is a very old language, the oldest in Europe. And it is one of the oldest in the world. Now it's hard to say why Voketija
The guys who invaded India 3500 years were old-Lithuanian speakers.
@@roodborstkalf9664 yeah :) With Sanskrit brothers. But not genetically
The Lithuanian language is not ancient at all, it is just that due to its geographical location it has remained unchanged
@@AmonRa-z8w yeah write. All are old. But they changed. Lithuanian and Sanskrit oldest archaic PIE language.
What is the name of a language that is older than ancient Greek?
Bar bar bar I think it was beer beer beer! 😂
The Gauls (of Gaul) were the native people of ancient France under the Roman prior to the migration period when the Germanic tribes overrun and controlled it and given birth to what is now known today as France (France didn't exist back then until the period when the Germanic tribes, the Franks, controlled the land of the Gauls after the western Roman Empire's fall).
It's for the french révolution vidéo 🇫🇷😉
there has been a pretty comon name for all those 1000 german nations prior to germany ... that was dutch ...for everybody who spoke german was called dutch ( deutsch ) back then today only the netherlands are called speaking dutch for there need to be another name for that new formed state
Additions:
1. Russian only calls the land "Germanija" but the people "Nemcy" like the other Slavic languages.
2. In the same way Italian calls us "Tedesci", probably after yet again another German tribe or it is the Italianized version of "diutisc".
6:00 _"...and speaking of the Franks, Germans and Italians were also Franks. There were the Frankish Empire was the whole almost the whole of Europe or at least that big section there between Germany Italy and France and it was all the Frankish Empire. It split up, uh, into the three by like was it three brothers maybe or something I don't know, so then there was three
Frankish Empires. The France is just the one that took the name from that, you know what I mean? But uh, the Germans a lot of Germans I believe and Italians and all that there there's descended from like a Frankish ancestry as well"_
I'm no historian but I know that this is wrong..
There were the Gauls (Netherlands & Belgium), the Franks (France), the Germanic people (Germany), the Helvetii (Switzerland) the Picts (Scotland) and a couple of other Celtic tribes/clans.
But Germanic people were never a sub-tribe/clan in these old times.
im interested to see what others say to this, im just going by a video i saw about Clovis i think, maybe his sons or something split it up
@@ItsCharlieVest Italians are not Franks. Frankish land are the Rhineland and Franconia in Germany, Belgium minus Ardennes, Southern part of the Netherlands, parts of Northern France. No Franks in Italy. Most Frankish counties are Flanders, Brabant and the Northern Rhineland. Currently depending on how you count 20-30 million people.
@Rudi: You are correct in saying he is wrong, but you are also wrong.
It all goes back to Charlemagne, or Karl der Große, as the Germans call him, in the 9th century. To make a long story short, he united a big part of western Europe (by modern standards with questionable methods) to become the Emperor of the Franconian Empire. His three sons inherited that Empire and, yes, split it up, and that basically was the end of the Franconian Empire.
His son Louis the Pious, who got the western part, was a little more successful than his brothers, and his descendents basically kept their territory togethers. That's why France is called France.
Continental European history is fascinating, but it's a mess with the almost yearly changing dynasties and territories.😂
don't mistake Dutch (from Netherlands) and Deutsch (from Deutschland/Germany).
Not only Germany, but all countries are given different names, in different languages.
Same thing for the city names : London is called Londres in French !
But Berlin is just called Berlin...
Fun fact is that after over 1000 years of neiborhood,we Slavic people still have problems in communication with Germans on human level.They just dont want to talk.
his explanation only goes to the roots of those exonyms, but another point of the why so many names actually remained in use is simply because german people / a german region as a united concept is very young in history compared to other nations. All these different german tribes / regions stayed fractured and that simply prevented that outsiders would recognize all of it as one people/region over time and therefor they had no reason to switch to a common name in their interactions.
And ofc the people from all those fractured german tribes certainly didnt go around spreading a singular name as they interacted with others, even long after the communication across europe was fairly well established through trade, migration and wars.
If there is no common unity for most of history then there is ofc no reason to settle with one common exonym across foreign nations.
There's no need to keep the ad reads in. You don't get paid for them. The original channel doesn't get paid for it (they get paid based on their own view counter). The only one that benefits is the advertiser who gets free advertisement.
General knowledge is a very good channel! Do you know, where the USA get their name from?
Deutschland is Duitsland just the Dutch translation.
Fun Fact: "General Knowledge" is portuguese. 😉
It was no "misconception" that the Germans were called Dutch in the US.
The term Dutch was originally the English term for "Germans" for over 1000 years derived from "Old English" and is therefore a "germanic term" and therefore was in English centuries longer in use "for Germans" than the Latin rooted term "German" for Germans which is in place for just the last round over 350 years in England/UK and round over 250 years in the US..
The change to call Germans "Germans" in English happened in the 17th century in England and way later in the US where it happened in the 18th century and at that point the "Pennsylvanian Dutch" were already in Pennsylvania for almost a century and so was to call them "Dutch" already established for a century because it meant "Germans" at that point in time. and it stayed that way because the Pennsylavian Dutch called and are calling themselves "Deitsch" which sounds very similiar as like "Dutch" anyway.
The reason for that change of terms was the independency of the province Holland from the Holy Roman Empire in 1648 because from that point on - actually from 1652 on (=the first Anglo- Dutch War) the English had to distinguish = so they kept the term Dutch from 1652 on - exclusively - for the new founded "Republic of Holland" probably because those were "the Germans" they had to deal with the most during all those centuries due to trading with them because those are located just near by across the channel AND because those became at that point in time their "bitter rivals" at sea in behalf of the spice trade and in behalf of colonisation so they went to war against the Republic of Holland 4 times = Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652-54, 1665-67, 1672-74, 1780-84
For the "remaining Dutch of the Holy Roman Empire" - in order to distinguish friend and foe - the English came up with the Latin rooted term "Germans" from now on because it was simply then suitable "to go with Latin" for "the Dutch of the Holy ROMAN Empire" by calling them "Germans" from now on..
To put it simple "today´s Dutch" are "ethnic Germans" speaking their own "Low German Language" and their local dialects are Low German dialects = Lower Saxon + Lower Franconian + Frisian + Flemish and other variations of those same dialects are spoken in Germany as well unless Flemish which is too far west for having that in today´s Germany as well..
But "today´s Dutch" are no "Germans by nationality" as like as "the Austrians" are no "Germans by nationalty" as well but also "ethnic Germans" and the same is to say about the "German speaking Swiss" who are "ethnic Germans" but no "Germans by nationality" the Swiss were actually the very first who splitted from the Holy Roman Empire and founded their own state and their own national identity which happened in 1291
In 1291 the Swiss did not split from the HRE and it was also not a state in the modern sense for a long time after. The Old Swiss Confederacy was for a long time an alliance of territories. Over time additional associates were added by further alliances and also some land was conquered and became subject territories of some of the alliance members. Still all these territories were part of the HRE. Only at the end of the 15th century the Swiss became de facto independent from the HRE and the formal independence came even later in 1648 (Peace of Westphalia). This complex system of alliances also continued after the independence and was only changed when Napoleon conquered Switzerland. Much like the HRE the Old Swiss Confederacy was not revived after the Napoleonic wars but was replaced with what became the modern Switzerland.
The map he showed was nonsense by the way. As an example, both Austria and Österreich are unambiguously derived from old high German Ostarrihhi, meaning "eastern realm". Likewise, China is derived from the state of Qin. The only reason the Chinese don't use that name anymore despite their entire national founding myth being based on the empire of Qin is that they think they're better than everyone and the center of the world, hence why they call themselves "the people's republic of the middle kingdom". Weirdos.
watch some videos about poland oder Warsaw or the polish military ;)
I always thought "Germany" did come from the old german word for it`s main wapon the "Ger" (the spear) and "Mann" (man) - so it`s the men with the spear
i bet it has something to do with it
I like that story, ik know from history, there where though fighters, but also farmers
That's how it is... The Celts have very little to do with the naming. And the name "Deutschland" is also reflected very nicely in the naturally closely related Nordic languages, just like in the Frisian brothers in the northwest.
This is also what i got taught, but i love the 'Sons of the woods'
Wir sind Kinder des Waldes. :)
Why do the Italian call us germans tedesco?
No, almost no Germans and Italians have Frankish ancesters. Germania and Northern Italy were just part of the Frankish Empire for a while.
That's like saying Indians presumably have English ancesters because India was part of the British Empire. 😉
You are correct about Italy, wrong about Germany.
@@roodborstkalf9664 Well, I said 'almost'.
And of course there are German states still named after the Franks. 🙂
@@tubekulose It's not that easy. Franks were a Germanic tribe, not a Gaulic tribe. They came from modern Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, but (mostly) *not* from modern France. This area was still dominated by Gauls, but later conquered by the Franks. Only leaders, soldiers and court servants moved to modern day France, the vast majority of tribe of the Franks stayed where they were - in modern day Germany, Belgium, Netherlands etc. (ok, the region of Elsace is a different entity). Just like later northern Italy still has more original Italian people, mixed with Lombards and almost no Frankish, even though they were controlled by the Franks for some time.
1. The anabaptist Mennonite movement was founded by Mennon Simons, a Dutch priest. 2. Where it says Frisiavons is the part of Zeeland called Zuid-Beveland, in the Netherlands. 3. Germans, and other N. Europeans, aren't talkative in general and are perceived as aloof, distant and even rude. We just ignore you.
Deutschland has only one name "Deutschland". The USA has many names... Amerika, Verenigde staten, etc...
German here. The most important name for Germany wasn't even mentioned in the video. If it's related to anything football (or soccer for you americans) we just call it "Schland". Which would make the people "Schländer" i guess 🙂
lol🤣