I was surprised by that ludicrous comment too 😂 Even most educated Americans know what it means. Öster=Eastern, Reich=Realm. Eastern Realm. One of the oldest states in Europe.
7:45 Speaking of the origin of Germany's name, it is quite obvious that the romans were immensely proud of creating it, since there are many people and titles of the Roman world with the name of Germania. For example, Emperor Caligula tried to rename the month of September as Germanicus (after his father), but he couldn't make it happen. Who did manage to rename September as Germanicus was Domitian, in honor of his presumed victories in Germania, maintaining said name change until his assassination. Imagine visiting Germany in Germanicus...
@@protoenchen42 Deutschland developed from an old highgerman word - I think it was tuicctsh or something like that 😅 And it basically means "Volk" or "People" in english. So the name Deutschland means something similar like "land of the people" ✌️
Germany was a name the romans gave germany from Germanen which was one of many tribes in that area. French now germans as allemane from the tribe Alemannen. And so one. Germanicus had his name from his tribal ancestry same as Arminius.
Holland and The Netherlands are most definitely NOT the same thing. Holland refers to two provinces (North Holland and South Holland), while The Netherlands refers to the entire country. That is the same as saying that USA is equal to Dakota or Carolina. Loved the video for the rest though!
Podkarpatská Rus / Země Zakarpatskoukrajinská, no? It was an autonomous part Czechoslovakia. Then following the Slovak proclamation of independence declared it's own as Samostatná Karpatská Ukrajina and in short war was occupied by Hungary. Now it's part of modern-day Ukraine.
Ukraine etymology is a bit contested. It's mostly commonly thought to be like 'borderland' of Rus states. So given the current war it's now a politically uncomfortable to put that on.
Ukraine has a very direct translation from Ukrainian In (U) Land (Kraina) definatly one of most simplest name. Russians think that this means borderland (because you know, you read foreign names in a different language and this determines their essence, and not what the locals call it), but who cares about Russians??
A quick note on Herceg - it's not an "old" world for Duke. The English word Duke is derived from the French Duc, which itself is based on the Latin word dux (leader). The word herceg is also found in Hungarian, and also in German the title is Herzog. All these go back to the Germanic word herizogo, which originally means "army leader" (the Germanic word heri/her/heer/... originally means "many" and is (still) used for Army). TL;DR - not old, just Germanic origin vs. Roman origin.
Saying Germany comes from Germania doesn't really tell us the origin. Saying that a country is named after a tribe with the same name (e.g. Serbia named after the Serbs) also doesn't tell us anything. Cyprus/Kypros (pronounced koopros) is related to "copper" because copper is named after it. Its origin is much older and is disputed. "Dutch" doesn't come from Old English, it comes from an older Germanic word that's related to Old English thiod/theod and is also the source of the German "Deutsch" which means German. It originally meant "people." The Greek name for Ireland wasn't Lerna, it was Ierne. Ierne, Hibernia (Latin), and Eriu (Old Irish) come from a much older word that has been reconstructed as *Iveriu, which probably meant something like "abundant land." You should probably consult someone with a background in historical linguistics before producing videos like this.
Germany is a weird one to me. It was called Germania in antiquity by Roma prior to Germany developing a collective identity, but once they did they've called the area Deutschland for the past 1200 years. The name apparently never caught on internationally though since nobody outside of Germany seems to call it that.
Worst thing is when you look at how people call germany in other languages. Allemagne in french njemacki in serbi-croatian, or even in japanese, it just doesn't make sense
Yeah and in Italian Germany is “Germania” all other Latin/Romance languages call it some variation of Aleman. (expect Romania who call it Germania as well). Tedesco is what you call Germans in Italian. I never understood that.
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You posted this a minute after they uploaded? How did you watch at least half of it in that time? Better yet how could this be you’re favourite while only watching a minute of it?
When Pytheas of Massala around 325BCE he asked the inhabitants what they called the island they said 'Alba' (the Scottish still do) The people of Alba were the Prytani which later Latin scholars like Strabo added a 'B' so becoming Britannia, Alba became Albion.
@@apro3702---Nope. But I figure their will be. You can't cover all the countries of the world in one video. Because Mexico and Canada weren't mentioned either in this video.
word Finland is something that english speakers called it. In my country Lithuania we call Finland - Suomija. the proper way 😂 we also call Georgia - Gruzija....but recently they started also using Sakartvel. which is sort of related to their group of languages which are Kartvelian type. thing is, the english version of those names sometimes dont make no sense. for example, my country is called LIETUVA in reality, which kind of means "rainy place"...but in english version its LITHUANIA. which has no meaning.
In Finland we call your country "Liettua" (and have our own names for Baltic cities, e.g. Riika) which seems to also be closer to the literal word as in your word Suomija
You are wrong about the origin of the Portugal name. The name Portugal indeed came from the word “Portus Cale” which in latin means “hot harbor” and that name was the name given to a city we have here, which is currently named “Porto” and this city is divided by a river, the Douro River and on the other side of it, there is the currently the city of “Vila Nova de Gaia” which it had a river named “Cale”, so if you join the two you get, “Portus Cale” and then Portucale and then Portugal.
Great, video as always. Just some additional information about Bulgaria, the name derives from the name of the river Volga ( where initially the Bulgars came from ) !
russia has no relation to the Rus. The Kyivan Rus was located on the territories of modern Ukraine, Poland and Belarussia with it's capital in Kyiv, hense the name. The people of Moscow - muscovites have started to call themself russians only under the rule of Piotr I when he decided that "borrowing" the Rus' history would make a good political "buff"
Moscow was part of the Kievian Rus and the realm of Muscovy is a successor state of the Kievian Rus. The Grand Princes and later tsars have claimed to be rulers of "all of Rus" long before Peter the Great (or as you poles call him "Pytor I" ). Also the first capital of the Rus even before Kiev was in Novgorod which is in modern day Russia.
I'm not even Russian and I cringe on the PC history some people try to promulgate. Just because Russia is the aggressor in the current conflict, there's no need to alter history
@@narutomgmBoy, are you moskovian? I would not be impressed. Succession from Kievan Rus by Moskovia is only their decision to claim it to them, no legitimacy, as well as for Tsars to claim all Rus theirs. Kievan Rus is considered created 882 when was when some southern tribes were conquered by Oleg and capital placed in Kyiv. Before it was no Rus at all
Funny how Chinese named countries. China: Middle country UK: Handsome country US: Beautiful country Germany: Virtuous country France: Lawful country Japan: Based on the sun Korea: shares same name as an ancient war hero Vietnam: far south
Nice video, but may i ask when will you make another 100 days of alien invasion? I'm really looking forward to it... Props to the guy that writes the script for that
Bro ukraine wasn’t part of czechoslovakia, it was only region called Podkarpatská Rus settled by Russyn people, which now happened to be part of ukraine
Caesar got Germania from the Gauls, originally thought to come from a Gaulic word for "neighbour". Also, Germans don't call it Germany but Deutschland meaning "country of the people" from "diutisc" meaning "of the people", specifically of the people speaking a Germanic language. Basically, an oversimplified summary of the etymology is "German" -> our neighbours that speak a different group of languages, while "Deutsch" -> we here who speak our group of languages... most Slavic countries also have a similar logic to their name for Germany with most of them coming from "Nemets" (or variations thereof) meaning mute or can't speak, but it's mostly believed that when the name came into existence it had the meaning "can't speak our language". Then there are the countries that have names for Germany based on "Alemanni" which was a self-descriptor (meaning "all men") of a tribal coalition that settled around the upper Rhine during the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Lithuania name comes from word: [lietus] = rain. Or lithium. Basically a country where it always rains. Smth similar to hidden rain village in Naruto, country has similar story as well being attacked by bigger neighboring countries
Liechtenstein means bare rock Licht doesn't always means light, but bleak/bare in this case and Stein is german for Stone and often used for isolated rock formations ....but yeah, a castle was also there and the country's name is based on it.....or the nobles who were named after this castle...
The title should have been "origin of each European Country name in ENGLISH". Greece is from the tribe of Graeans (from Graea/Γραία a city-state in Euboea) who established the first Greek colony in Italy. The first Latin speaking people who made contact with them, called them Graeci. The Greek endonym is Ελλάς or Ελλάδα, recognised as Hellas by the non-Greek speakers. Its origin is unknown. Could be related to the priestly tribe of Σελλοί/Selloi in Epirus who served at the most ancient oracle in Greece, the oracle of Dodona dedicated to Zeus. From there the name Σελλασία/Sellasia spread initially to Thessaly, it was debuccalised to Ἑλλάς Hellas and became synonymous with the area of the Greek speaking tribes. The name Σελλοί/Σελλασία is probably related to the name of glow, σέλας/sélas hence σελήνη selḗnē for the moon
11:14 Completely inaccurate. When Greeks refer to the word «Macedonia» they mean the region of Macedonia (which is Greek). The region of Macedonia is named Macedonia because of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia (which was Greek). Citizens of Macedonia are called Macedonians and they are Greeks. P.S. Citizens of the country which shares borders with Greece and wants to be called Macedonia, are not really Macedonians...
Scotland, as well as also being known as Caledonia, is also called Alba (in Scottish Gaelic). And you didn't actually mention from where Scotland got its name! You could perhaps have also included the Faroe Islands in the video. They have a football team.
Although I think the history of kazakhstan is very interesting, it doesn’t quite fit in that list since it’s clearly a central asian country. Also Russia is debatable since it has a lot to do with european history but isn’t strictly speaking a european national state but rather (at least de facto) still an empire inhabited by many ethnicities not just by slavs or the decedents of the Rus, that is why the imperialist mentality is still very strong there. Also where is Ukraine and Malta?
another thing is moscowia has had its own political and societal tradition since..forever. like, actually, forever. and Novgorod Rus' origin(-s) got nothin' to do with it. anyone trying to prove otherwise would be just teachcin' pukin's pseudo-historic bs. no cap, lol
and surely, they've just been tryin' to steal the proto-Ukrainian history of Kyiv Rus', too, for ages )) in order for their historic narratives to be more compatible with t' empire wanna-be political bubble, moscowites love immensely and always have )
You can't make up continental lines by means of ethnicity or religion, else you would have Swiss cheese all over the world, so the old geographical lines are defined by some landmarks like seas and mountain ranges albeit we all know that Europe itself is just subcontinent of Eurasia. Russia's European side is west of Ural mountains and Kazakhstan's European side is west of Ural river. Greater Caucasian mountain range includes parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Czech Republic: Surely not from ceta (četa) it's modern term and it means platoon (military unit) and real from figure of Grand father Čech from which came name of his people Češi. Czech Republic is made of 3 main regions Čechy, Morava and Slezsko and they are occupied by people of same name.
The English name for Wales originates from the Germanic word Walha, meaning "stranger" or "foreigner", the actual name for Wales is cymru meaning fellow countrymen
Old english word norþweg is old norse in origin. It's still similar in modern scandinavian languages "nordväg" swedish, "nordvei" norwegian, "nordvej" danish & "norður vegur" in icelandic. Norway is not based on old english but rather old Norse. So again, the old english word for north way is influenced by old Norse along with a multitude of other english words. There is a reason scandinavian languages are so similar in structure and words to english apart from all having germanic roots. That's due to the vikings setteling what is now parts of UK.
Armenia is not European! We're a middle eastern country. Let's be honest if we were actually European or white y'all wouldn't allow Azerbaijan attempts to genocide us again for the last two years. Side note really weird that both my peoples went back to back, Armenia(even though it's not European) and Austria.
Albania in English, is correct, as mentioned in the video. Although another theory is it means snowy mountain caps, and derives from Alba, similar to Scotlands native name. But in Albanian the modern name is far from Albania, it’s Shqiperia, the land of Eagles. Other forms of indigenous Albanian names for Albania include Arberia, which Italo-Albanians the Arbereshe still use today.
For Greeks, we still call our country in Greek HELLAS. The word Greece is of foreign origin and we do not have a word like that in our vocabulary. In ancient Greek it was Ελλάς and in Neo-greek Ελλάδα which is the same with and end.
as a lithuanian im proud to say that one of our prime ministers said:lie-va-tu which means "you are lame"(girl) its actually supposed to be lie-tu-va, and atleast in my region its believed to be that way since king Mindaugas, just killed his friend in order to make the country, and it was raining as heavily as he was crying
GERMANI. The Germans invaded Roman Italy about 100 BC. The war against them lasted years. The word "Germanus" was probably from a negotiation where a Roman asked them for their identity and they said "Germans" which became "Germani". Around 1600 Englishmen ambiguously referred to the Hollanders and the Deutsch as "Dutch". Shakespeare revived the old Latin term. So what does it mean? Gewehr in modern German means defense. Related words are guardia in Italian and garde in French and war in English (Old English cwarre). So a negotiator answering "We are the Germans" could have meant 'We are the defenders" or "We are the warriors." Or..... gar is the name of a fish. It is from an Old English word gar meaning spear. So "We are the Germans" could have meant "We are the spearmen."
3:07 The thing is the name Azerbaijan was always given to the region in northwestern Iran and what is now the republic of Azerbaijan was never called by that name. Atropat and his domain were also in the actual Azerbaijan. In 1918, the republic in Baku and seceded from Russia and called itself "Azerbaijan".
3:34 about Belarus. In Russian "bela" means white, most likely the country is named Belarus because theres a lot of birch trees in the country. (which are white)
The Germans themselves call their country "Deutschland". "Land" simply means "land" or "country". And "deutsch" has its origins in the Germanic word "diu", which means "people". "Deutschland“ therefore means "land of the people".
dutchie here, Holland and The Netherlands are not the same thing. calling The Netherlands holland is like calling The united states Florida, or California. Holland is 2 of the 12 provinces we have in our country. please just call us The Netherlands.
@@evastapaard2462 hij zegt dat holland een deel in the west of the country is, maar dat veel mensen de namen synoniem gebruiken. Dat klopt ook. Groetjes uit Fryslân
Explanation of "Bulgaria" is quite outdated. The whole turkic hypothesis and meaning of a "mixed, troublesome" is heavily biased. Modern scientists conclude the word "bulg/bolg" has thracian roots and means "bright" or "shiny".
Turkey recently had a name changing back in December 2021, the process of renaming the country began in December 2021, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a statement saying, "The word 'Turkiye' represents and expresses the culture, civilisation, and values of the Turkish nation in the best way." And so Turkey is now Turkiye. Türkiye is pronounced tur-key-YAY in English and will now be used universally. Have fun with that.
Germany has many names, "Germany" is just the english one. Most Countries call it something like Alemania and the Germans call it Deutschland ( ~ Land of Deutsch )
Its not really 'Land of Deutsch' more like 'land of the people' or 'peoples land' as it comes from 'diutisc' in old high german witch means people inside the culture group
Word for Slavs (Sloveni) comes from 'slovo', which means 'to speak'. It was in contrasts with 'Nemci' (mute people), who speak some grunt based language, therefore not able to speak. 'Nemci' means 'Germans' in Slavic.
@@a.m.6719 For once, I wasn't trying to get political, just looking at the realities that Armenia, Azerbaijan & Georgia are treated as, or wish to be treated as, European nations. As for NATO, looking in isolation at the countries of Ukraine, the Baltic countries, Finland, Sweden and Belarus (if it was a democracy), and not their location wrt Russia, why shouldn't they be in NATO? Poland is in NATO, and Ukraine would like to be treated just like Poland and the other NATO countries. It's easy living in a NATO country like the US or UK, and getting the benefits of such, and then saying that democratic countries bordering, or near, Russia shouldn't join NATO. Aggressors need to be stood up against IMO. Anyway, the Caucuses are treated as being in Europe for the purposes of football / soccer !! And should any of the regions in this area attain independence from the Russian Federation, then they may well too fall into being treated as European wrt football etc.
@@JustTheDabster one way of looking at it. Ethnically the people of the Caucasus are more similar to middle eastern people than slavs or Europeans. They should be respected as such.
@@a.m.6719 Yeah, yeah. Wasn't trying to lump them in as being Europeans. It's just with respect to sport they're not allocated to being Asian. I would think Georgia in general views itself as European, but I've no idea with Armenia & Azerbaijan.
Funny thing with France is that it used to be called the kingdom of francs. Franc now means someone honest/telling the truth in French. Nice way to give ourselves a good image.
Not sure why this episode claims that Americans have difficulty understanding the United Kingdom… my guess is the writers of this episode are projecting their ignorance onto the viewers. Second, England refers to the Angles who lived there and thus anglo-land. Not the Albion gibberish. Anglo-Saxons… ever heard of them?
Probably everyone in Austria knows the meaning "Eastern land", since it literally is named that in many European countries, including Austria.
Eastern of Bayern
Österreich or eastern empire
I was surprised by that ludicrous comment too 😂 Even most educated Americans know what it means. Öster=Eastern, Reich=Realm. Eastern Realm. One of the oldest states in Europe.
Where is Malta?! 😢😢😢😢 Malta is very much Europe!!! And Ukraine, too. My
Little geographic heart is broken.
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LOL, sure you are, buddy... sure you are.
How isn't Malta on this list? There are countries smaller than Malta that are still included.
Right? But they did include Kazachstan. That isnt even european. 😂 just borders Russia and is culturally and linguistically totally different
@@agirlinabasementofyourdaddyI think it was on here because a small portion of it is technically in Europe because of the weird Europe-Asia border
Truuuue - yet, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia were mentioned, even though they're all Asian
in lithuanian malta literally means "mushed" just like it got mushed in this video
Malta is arabic
Finland: U said the northern region is called Suomi. That's wrong. It's called Lappi or Lapland. "Suomi" is the finnish word for our whole country.
7:45 Speaking of the origin of Germany's name, it is quite obvious that the romans were immensely proud of creating it, since there are many people and titles of the Roman world with the name of Germania. For example, Emperor Caligula tried to rename the month of September as Germanicus (after his father), but he couldn't make it happen. Who did manage to rename September as Germanicus was Domitian, in honor of his presumed victories in Germania, maintaining said name change until his assassination. Imagine visiting Germany in Germanicus...
But how come, that germany translates to Deutschland which is in no case silar to germany/germania/germanicus. So where does Deutschland comes from?
Lol 😂
@@protoenchen42From Uber Alles obviously 🤷🏼♂️🤓😎✌🏻
@@protoenchen42 Deutschland developed from an old highgerman word - I think it was tuicctsh or something like that 😅
And it basically means "Volk" or "People" in english.
So the name Deutschland means something similar like "land of the people" ✌️
Germany was a name the romans gave germany from Germanen which was one of many tribes in that area. French now germans as allemane from the tribe Alemannen. And so one. Germanicus had his name from his tribal ancestry same as Arminius.
Holland and The Netherlands are most definitely NOT the same thing. Holland refers to two provinces (North Holland and South Holland), while The Netherlands refers to the entire country. That is the same as saying that USA is equal to Dakota or Carolina.
Loved the video for the rest though!
we will still call your country holland :)
@@SejeSteen and we'll keep educating you on the difference.
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Maybe you'll be surprised to know that you are, indeed, Holland in many many languages.... Hate to break it to you... But you *are* the same
@@archimedesamazonas5379 and maybe you'll be suprised that that is just wrong.
15:27 Ukraine was never a part of Czechoslovakia. It was part of USSR at the time and earlier it was part of the Russian Empire.
Podkarpatská Rus / Země Zakarpatskoukrajinská, no? It was an autonomous part Czechoslovakia. Then following the Slovak proclamation of independence declared it's own as Samostatná Karpatská Ukrajina and in short war was occupied by Hungary. Now it's part of modern-day Ukraine.
@@discopanzer4169 Well, you can say that Poland was also part of Czechoslovakia, because Zaolzie
Remind me again, since when is Kazachstan in Europe?
And also you forget Ukraine...
Matla is missing too
The part of Kazakhstan west of the Ural River is technically in Europe
@@in5minutes556 i know, but not whole country... Ukraine and Malta on the other hand... 😅
@@matejnagy8956 Jewkraine lead by Jewlensky is not a real country. It's Zionist puppet state used against Russia and European civilization
This is the kind of history that makes people like learning about history.
You do know that Ukraine is European, right? Did I just miss them between Turkiye and the UK?
Ukraine etymology is a bit contested. It's mostly commonly thought to be like 'borderland' of Rus states. So given the current war it's now a politically uncomfortable to put that on.
Ukraine has a very direct translation from Ukrainian In (U) Land (Kraina) definatly one of most simplest name. Russians think that this means borderland (because you know, you read foreign names in a different language and this determines their essence, and not what the locals call it), but who cares about Russians??
A quick note on Herceg - it's not an "old" world for Duke. The English word Duke is derived from the French Duc, which itself is based on the Latin word dux (leader). The word herceg is also found in Hungarian, and also in German the title is Herzog. All these go back to the Germanic word herizogo, which originally means "army leader" (the Germanic word heri/her/heer/... originally means "many" and is (still) used for Army). TL;DR - not old, just Germanic origin vs. Roman origin.
Cool
Svaka cast
In Dutch Hertog means Duke.
I wonder if Ukraine and Malta was missed
Maybe it translates to 'drop a nuke here'
Saying Germany comes from Germania doesn't really tell us the origin. Saying that a country is named after a tribe with the same name (e.g. Serbia named after the Serbs) also doesn't tell us anything. Cyprus/Kypros (pronounced koopros) is related to "copper" because copper is named after it. Its origin is much older and is disputed. "Dutch" doesn't come from Old English, it comes from an older Germanic word that's related to Old English thiod/theod and is also the source of the German "Deutsch" which means German. It originally meant "people." The Greek name for Ireland wasn't Lerna, it was Ierne. Ierne, Hibernia (Latin), and Eriu (Old Irish) come from a much older word that has been reconstructed as *Iveriu, which probably meant something like "abundant land." You should probably consult someone with a background in historical linguistics before producing videos like this.
came here to say this
Where is Ukraine?
Germany is a weird one to me. It was called Germania in antiquity by Roma prior to Germany developing a collective identity, but once they did they've called the area Deutschland for the past 1200 years. The name apparently never caught on internationally though since nobody outside of Germany seems to call it that.
Worst thing is when you look at how people call germany in other languages. Allemagne in french njemacki in serbi-croatian, or even in japanese, it just doesn't make sense
@@ahouais5620 Japan gets quite close to "Deutschland" with "ドイツ" (Doitsu) though.
Yeah and in Italian Germany is “Germania” all other Latin/Romance languages call it some variation of Aleman. (expect Romania who call it Germania as well). Tedesco is what you call Germans in Italian. I never understood that.
The Dutch call it Duitsland. pretty much the same so your info is not completely correct.
Funny you say that because as an American I refer to it as that lol
Any particular reason why you omitted Ukraine and provided very politically correct and distorted version for Russia?
What about Malta and Ukraine? 🇲🇹 🇺🇦
The Wilhelm scream and spring sounds got me
The "land of Ire" is pretty accurate as an Irish Man 😂
Love the humour and love your country! 😊
lol fully agree. And if you put on 'e' you'll get 'Eire' of course. 😀
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@@bhgtree hahaha nice one
@@accalya271 Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, GB Shaw and Brendan Behan.
I think everyone in Austria knows where the name might come from. Since they don't call it Austria but Österreich. It is literally in the name...
Americans attempts at showing their intelligence backfires spectacularly
Exactly. It's in modern freaking German!
In Dutch you are also Oostenrijk
@@linkin543210 so where does the name Austria come from?
@@lk7195 tell me you didn’t watch the video without telling me you didn’t watch the video
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Yo, I'll check out your channel bro!
watching ur first video now!
You posted this a minute after they uploaded? How did you watch at least half of it in that time? Better yet how could this be you’re favourite while only watching a minute of it?
@@rotisseriechicken4492 my guy is a time traveller
@@rotisseriechicken4492 its a bot
1:51 was a great sound effect
... Why Ukraine isn't here?
When Pytheas of Massala around 325BCE he asked the inhabitants what they called the island they said 'Alba' (the Scottish still do) The people of Alba were the Prytani which later Latin scholars like Strabo added a 'B' so becoming Britannia, Alba became Albion.
Love the new sound effects. They're a bit loud at times. the jet @7:24 for example.
7:14 Georgia is actually called "Sakartvelo" in Georgian, Georgia is just the English name of it
Why?
@@Augfordpdoggie I believe the English name comes from the Russian word for Georgia which is Gruziya
A great an informative video. I liked it when this video talked about Finland. Part of my background comes from that country.
he forgot malta
@@apro3702---he probably forgot a few other places too. But that's what a second video is for.
@@brokenbridge6316 tterese a second vid
@@apro3702---Nope. But I figure their will be. You can't cover all the countries of the world in one video. Because Mexico and Canada weren't mentioned either in this video.
I'm seriously impressed by how the narrator announces foreign names with such ease.
word Finland is something that english speakers called it. In my country Lithuania we call Finland - Suomija. the proper way 😂 we also call Georgia - Gruzija....but recently they started also using Sakartvel. which is sort of related to their group of languages which are Kartvelian type.
thing is, the english version of those names sometimes dont make no sense. for example, my country is called LIETUVA in reality, which kind of means "rainy place"...but in english version its LITHUANIA. which has no meaning.
In Finland we call your country "Liettua" (and have our own names for Baltic cities, e.g. Riika) which seems to also be closer to the literal word as in your word Suomija
Pfft
Me waiting for Malta, then it being skipped 😔
Also Ukraine was skipped, someone needs to do better job and check which counries are part of Europe 😀
Don't worry guys... we had Kazakhstan in the list xDDD
Why no Ukraine? 👀
No Russia either. 🙃
Ukraine was from a farmer that saw a bird in his field and asked it: You Crane?
@@FuckedUpGenius be did Russia
Do this for every continent
You are wrong about the origin of the Portugal name.
The name Portugal indeed came from the word “Portus Cale” which in latin means “hot harbor” and that name was the name given to a city we have here, which is currently named “Porto” and this city is divided by a river, the Douro River and on the other side of it, there is the currently the city of “Vila Nova de Gaia” which it had a river named “Cale”, so if you join the two you get, “Portus Cale” and then Portucale and then Portugal.
Macedonia is Hellas, is Hellenic and can never be compromised.
Video about Europe, first thing you can't resist by talking about USA.
Great, video as always. Just some additional information about Bulgaria, the name derives from the name of the river Volga ( where initially the Bulgars came from ) !
The Czechoslovakia did not contain the whole Ukraine as it was shown in the video but only a very small part of it near the Slovakian boarders.
"Netherlands and Holland mean the same thing".
So, you've chosen war.
I disliked this one!
russia has no relation to the Rus. The Kyivan Rus was located on the territories of modern Ukraine, Poland and Belarussia with it's capital in Kyiv, hense the name. The people of Moscow - muscovites have started to call themself russians only under the rule of Piotr I when he decided that "borrowing" the Rus' history would make a good political "buff"
That’s right!
Moscow was part of the Kievian Rus and the realm of Muscovy is a successor state of the Kievian Rus.
The Grand Princes and later tsars have claimed to be rulers of "all of Rus" long before Peter the Great (or as you poles call him "Pytor I" ).
Also the first capital of the Rus even before Kiev was in Novgorod which is in modern day Russia.
@@narutomgm No, we don't call him Pytor, there is no such word in our language
I'm not even Russian and I cringe on the PC history some people try to promulgate. Just because Russia is the aggressor in the current conflict, there's no need to alter history
@@narutomgmBoy, are you moskovian? I would not be impressed. Succession from Kievan Rus by Moskovia is only their decision to claim it to them, no legitimacy, as well as for Tsars to claim all Rus theirs. Kievan Rus is considered created 882 when was when some southern tribes were conquered by Oleg and capital placed in Kyiv. Before it was no Rus at all
Funny how Chinese named countries.
China: Middle country
UK: Handsome country
US: Beautiful country
Germany: Virtuous country
France: Lawful country
Japan: Based on the sun
Korea: shares same name as an ancient war hero
Vietnam: far south
Nice video, but may i ask when will you make another 100 days of alien invasion? I'm really looking forward to it... Props to the guy that writes the script for that
as a dutchman i can say that not everyone likes it when you call our country holland the area of holland is only a small area of the whole country
I hate it.
I don't really care tbh. I live in the province Zeeland but I don't mind either name
I can only imagine how proud those that live in actual Holland must feel whenever the nation itself is called Holland
This was a very fun and educational video. It may not all be 100% true but I love the theories behind some of them 😄
13:55 “mixing in with the local Top G’s.”
Bro ukraine wasn’t part of czechoslovakia, it was only region called Podkarpatská Rus settled by Russyn people, which now happened to be part of ukraine
Really??? rUSSIA and bELORUSSIA , but no Ukraine🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦….. No words…
Some sources suggest Caledonia the Latin name for Scotland came from the Gaelic coille dùn forested heights or hill(s) or alternatively a wooden fort.
Caesar got Germania from the Gauls, originally thought to come from a Gaulic word for "neighbour". Also, Germans don't call it Germany but Deutschland meaning "country of the people" from "diutisc" meaning "of the people", specifically of the people speaking a Germanic language. Basically, an oversimplified summary of the etymology is "German" -> our neighbours that speak a different group of languages, while "Deutsch" -> we here who speak our group of languages... most Slavic countries also have a similar logic to their name for Germany with most of them coming from "Nemets" (or variations thereof) meaning mute or can't speak, but it's mostly believed that when the name came into existence it had the meaning "can't speak our language". Then there are the countries that have names for Germany based on "Alemanni" which was a self-descriptor (meaning "all men") of a tribal coalition that settled around the upper Rhine during the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
12:48 the whale sound effect gave me flashbacks to the Dahmer series on Netflix lol
Lithuania name comes from word: [lietus] = rain. Or lithium. Basically a country where it always rains. Smth similar to hidden rain village in Naruto, country has similar story as well being attacked by bigger neighboring countries
Liechtenstein means bare rock
Licht doesn't always means light, but bleak/bare in this case
and Stein is german for Stone and often used for isolated rock formations
....but yeah, a castle was also there and the country's name is based on it.....or the nobles who were named after this castle...
The title should have been "origin of each European Country name in ENGLISH".
Greece is from the tribe of Graeans (from Graea/Γραία a city-state in Euboea) who established the first Greek colony in Italy. The first Latin speaking people who made contact with them, called them Graeci. The Greek endonym is Ελλάς or Ελλάδα, recognised as Hellas by the non-Greek speakers. Its origin is unknown. Could be related to the priestly tribe of Σελλοί/Selloi in Epirus who served at the most ancient oracle in Greece, the oracle of Dodona dedicated to Zeus. From there the name Σελλασία/Sellasia spread initially to Thessaly, it was debuccalised to Ἑλλάς Hellas and became synonymous with the area of the Greek speaking tribes. The name Σελλοί/Σελλασία is probably related to the name of glow, σέλας/sélas hence σελήνη selḗnē for the moon
Latins and Greeks naming half of Europe before it even becomes a thing
11:14 Completely inaccurate. When Greeks refer to the word «Macedonia» they mean the region of Macedonia (which is Greek). The region of Macedonia is named Macedonia because of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia (which was Greek). Citizens of Macedonia are called Macedonians and they are Greeks.
P.S. Citizens of the country which shares borders with Greece and wants to be called Macedonia, are not really Macedonians...
Uh in America there was already people here
Scotland, as well as also being known as Caledonia, is also called Alba (in Scottish Gaelic). And you didn't actually mention from where Scotland got its name!
You could perhaps have also included the Faroe Islands in the video. They have a football team.
Scotland got its name from the Irish Scotti tribe
Although I think the history of kazakhstan is very interesting, it doesn’t quite fit in that list since it’s clearly a central asian country. Also Russia is debatable since it has a lot to do with european history but isn’t strictly speaking a european national state but rather (at least de facto) still an empire inhabited by many ethnicities not just by slavs or the decedents of the Rus, that is why the imperialist mentality is still very strong there. Also where is Ukraine and Malta?
another thing is moscowia has had its own political and societal tradition since..forever. like, actually, forever. and Novgorod Rus' origin(-s) got nothin' to do with it. anyone trying to prove otherwise would be just teachcin' pukin's pseudo-historic bs. no cap, lol
and surely, they've just been tryin' to steal the proto-Ukrainian history of Kyiv Rus', too, for ages )) in order for their historic narratives to be more compatible with t' empire wanna-be political bubble, moscowites love immensely and always have
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You can't make up continental lines by means of ethnicity or religion, else you would have Swiss cheese all over the world, so the old geographical lines are defined by some landmarks like seas and mountain ranges albeit we all know that Europe itself is just subcontinent of Eurasia. Russia's European side is west of Ural mountains and Kazakhstan's European side is west of Ural river. Greater Caucasian mountain range includes parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan.
The Netherlands aint the same as Holland, Holland are 2 places in the Netherlands Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland those 2 make Holland.
Dat zegt hij ook
Finally a video thats not a 10th version of a video you've already made
The second video of yours I'm watching tonight .. thank you...
Czech Republic: Surely not from ceta (četa) it's modern term and it means platoon (military unit) and real from figure of Grand father Čech from which came name of his people Češi. Czech Republic is made of 3 main regions Čechy, Morava and Slezsko and they are occupied by people of same name.
The English name for Wales originates from the Germanic word Walha, meaning "stranger" or "foreigner", the actual name for Wales is cymru meaning fellow countrymen
Old english word norþweg is old norse in origin. It's still similar in modern scandinavian languages "nordväg" swedish, "nordvei" norwegian, "nordvej" danish & "norður vegur" in icelandic.
Norway is not based on old english but rather old Norse. So again, the old english word for north way is influenced by old Norse along with a multitude of other english words.
There is a reason scandinavian languages are so similar in structure and words to english apart from all having germanic roots. That's due to the vikings setteling what is now parts of UK.
Armenia is not European! We're a middle eastern country. Let's be honest if we were actually European or white y'all wouldn't allow Azerbaijan attempts to genocide us again for the last two years.
Side note really weird that both my peoples went back to back, Armenia(even though it's not European) and Austria.
Montenegro is called "Crna Gora" in Montenegrin/Serbian language, which actually means "Black Forest", since Gora means Forest.
Albania in English, is correct, as mentioned in the video. Although another theory is it means snowy mountain caps, and derives from Alba, similar to Scotlands native name. But in Albanian the modern name is far from Albania, it’s Shqiperia, the land of Eagles. Other forms of indigenous Albanian names for Albania include Arberia, which Italo-Albanians the Arbereshe still use today.
Correct!
Malta and Ukraine?
Thanks for adding Kosova!!!
For Greeks, we still call our country in Greek HELLAS. The word Greece is of foreign origin and we do not have a word like that in our vocabulary. In ancient Greek it was Ελλάς and in Neo-greek Ελλάδα which is the same with and end.
as a lithuanian im proud to say that one of our prime ministers said:lie-va-tu which means "you are lame"(girl)
its actually supposed to be lie-tu-va, and atleast in my region its believed to be that way since king Mindaugas, just killed his friend in order to make the country, and it was raining as heavily as he was crying
The word finland came from fenni a word from the Roman's that means beautiful, because they were alot cleaner than their neighbors because of saunas.
GERMANI. The Germans invaded Roman Italy about 100 BC. The war against them lasted years. The word "Germanus" was probably from a negotiation where a Roman asked them for their identity and they said "Germans" which became "Germani". Around 1600 Englishmen ambiguously referred to the Hollanders and the Deutsch as "Dutch". Shakespeare revived the old Latin term. So what does it mean?
Gewehr in modern German means defense. Related words are guardia in Italian and garde in French and war in English (Old English cwarre). So a negotiator answering "We are the Germans" could have meant 'We are the defenders" or "We are the warriors."
Or..... gar is the name of a fish. It is from an Old English word gar meaning spear. So "We are the Germans" could have meant "We are the spearmen."
Crusader Kings 3 taught me a few of these 😂 great video as always
3:07 The thing is the name Azerbaijan was always given to the region in northwestern Iran and what is now the republic of Azerbaijan was never called by that name. Atropat and his domain were also in the actual Azerbaijan. In 1918, the republic in Baku and seceded from Russia and called itself "Azerbaijan".
7:27 Not (only) Georgia - it is can be Sakartvello sometimes.
My mother and grandma is from Yugoslavia! They can still speak it
This guy really said it's fine to say Holland is the same as the Netherlands
Still better than what the Japanese call the Netherlands (They call it Oranda, like Orange)
It is
I like how Hungary has food displayed on the screen!
It's to make u Hungary
3:34 about Belarus.
In Russian "bela" means white, most likely the country is named Belarus because theres a lot of birch trees in the country. (which are white)
Portugal's is not right, Cale was a population not a woman
The Germans themselves call their country "Deutschland". "Land" simply means "land" or "country". And "deutsch" has its origins in the Germanic word "diu", which means "people". "Deutschland“ therefore means "land of the people".
if you don't include every European country on the list, you shouldn't have named the video "each European country"
Its a little sad and fleeting how origins are forgotten over the ages.
And there is a point that it is so lost that the meaning stops being a significant concept, it becames just a place.
France: "fierce and brave" wellllllllll history wants to have a word with you
Have you ever heard of napoleon?
Wow, it must be luck that I started watching this 1 minute after it got uploaded.
dutchie here, Holland and The Netherlands are not the same thing. calling The Netherlands holland is like calling The united states Florida, or California. Holland is 2 of the 12 provinces we have in our country. please just call us The Netherlands.
Dat zegt hij toch ook
@@rutgerb hij zegt dat het alletwee goed is. fout dus.
@@evastapaard2462 hij zegt dat holland een deel in the west of the country is, maar dat veel mensen de namen synoniem gebruiken.
Dat klopt ook. Groetjes uit Fryslân
1:11 I laughed so hard when i heard SHIKAPJP FOR ALBANA
Lol same... wtf dude?!
Explanation of "Bulgaria" is quite outdated. The whole turkic hypothesis and meaning of a "mixed, troublesome" is heavily biased. Modern scientists conclude the word "bulg/bolg" has thracian roots and means "bright" or "shiny".
So the Italians named Greece and the Greeks named Italy. 🤔
Interesting.
But greeks don't use the name Greece like Italy(ilalia), greeks call themselves Ελλάς/Hellas or Ελλάδα/Ellada
Turkey recently had a name changing back in December 2021, the process of renaming the country began in December 2021, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a statement saying, "The word 'Turkiye' represents and expresses the culture, civilisation, and values of the Turkish nation in the best way."
And so Turkey is now Turkiye. Türkiye is pronounced tur-key-YAY in English and will now be used universally. Have fun with that.
wdym, latvia doesnt exist
Germany has many names, "Germany" is just the english one. Most Countries call it something like Alemania and the Germans call it Deutschland ( ~ Land of Deutsch )
Its not really 'Land of Deutsch' more like 'land of the people' or 'peoples land' as it comes from 'diutisc' in old high german witch means people inside the culture group
I prefer Teutonics from Teutonia...🤕
Check again your information about Bulgaria - one of the oldest countries in Europe with more than 1300 years of history.
Why are there a good chunk of West Asian countries in Europe themed video 😅
Word for Slavs (Sloveni) comes from 'slovo', which means 'to speak'. It was in contrasts with 'Nemci' (mute people), who speak some grunt based language, therefore not able to speak. 'Nemci' means 'Germans' in Slavic.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia are not European countries. They are west Asian countries. They are closer to Isreal than even Greece.
They're often included in the European countries. In football, they play in the European zone, not Asian.
@@JustTheDabster yup. This is NATO trying to surround Russia. The same post cold War trauma that Obama was afflicted with.
@@a.m.6719 For once, I wasn't trying to get political, just looking at the realities that Armenia, Azerbaijan & Georgia are treated as, or wish to be treated as, European nations. As for NATO, looking in isolation at the countries of Ukraine, the Baltic countries, Finland, Sweden and Belarus (if it was a democracy), and not their location wrt Russia, why shouldn't they be in NATO? Poland is in NATO, and Ukraine would like to be treated just like Poland and the other NATO countries. It's easy living in a NATO country like the US or UK, and getting the benefits of such, and then saying that democratic countries bordering, or near, Russia shouldn't join NATO. Aggressors need to be stood up against IMO. Anyway, the Caucuses are treated as being in Europe for the purposes of football / soccer !! And should any of the regions in this area attain independence from the Russian Federation, then they may well too fall into being treated as European wrt football etc.
@@JustTheDabster one way of looking at it. Ethnically the people of the Caucasus are more similar to middle eastern people than slavs or Europeans. They should be respected as such.
@@a.m.6719 Yeah, yeah. Wasn't trying to lump them in as being Europeans. It's just with respect to sport they're not allocated to being Asian. I would think Georgia in general views itself as European, but I've no idea with Armenia & Azerbaijan.
Funny thing with France is that it used to be called the kingdom of francs. Franc now means someone honest/telling the truth in French.
Nice way to give ourselves a good image.
like in English, "frankly" or in Hungarian "frankon". Its kinda funny, yesD
16:45 Anatolia has been called Turkey since the 12th century, not since 1923.
you left out Flevoland!!
Not sure why this episode claims that Americans have difficulty understanding the United Kingdom… my guess is the writers of this episode are projecting their ignorance onto the viewers.
Second, England refers to the Angles who lived there and thus anglo-land. Not the Albion gibberish.
Anglo-Saxons… ever heard of them?