Bison, hockey, lots of forests, having a powerful ally while at the same time trying to make the cultural differences clear to the world so they don't think you're that culture... Is Belarus Europe's Canada??
FinzillaPVG That would make Belarus *Russia's Canada.* It's their Great White North-just the same -eh?! ... _uh_ *Great White North* -da. Большая белая Северной- Bol'shaya belaya Severnoy Da.
Lo .Sconosciuto but Rus' isn't Russia, just because the fact that Rus' existed in IX-XIII centuries (and in XI-XIII centuries there were a lot of separated duchies instead of united country). The history of Russia, as a state, begins in the XIV-XV centuries, when the Duchy of Moscow became the most powerful among the other duchies. What depends to our "confederation" with Russia, yes, we have some agreements like The Union state of Russia and Belarus, but the word "confederation" is too big for that. Look at Switzerland - this country is a confederation.
@@andreybofus1817 The majority of the population has been speaking Russian for about last 70 years and during all that time we had been being russificated by the Soviet Union. Russian is in every sphere of our daily life. You can't quickly restore the language that is almost dead already. Not with the Lukashenko goverment opposed to it.
UPDATE!! I am fully aware that YES I forgot to add Croatia to the EU at 8:14 and YES I didn't realize while photomapping the image, I accidentally included Estonia in Russia's borders at 8:53. Oh and I spelled "Duchy" wrong and wrote "Dutchy." Yeesh, This is why I need to hire a motion graphics editor for my videos. I am now accepting applications.
***** Jamoa was founded on my ideals and idea by Cassandra Walden Frey. It is a nation founded on the ideas of Autism pride, Neurodiversity, and Autism loyalty. Currently it has four citizens, almost five, at this point it could have been eight, but that's alternate history. It claims Midscandinavia and a few smaller territories elsewhere, its government is based in Sørumsand but actually managed online, and it has its own culture. plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117927575716856978684
I am trying to figure out if my ancestors were from Belarus or from Poland. They wrote Poland on some census documents but my grandmother used to say her parents were from belarus. Were there parts of Belarus that belonged to Poland but then became part of Russia?
James Asprocolas yea before WW2 the border of Poland included parts of today’s Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. so it’s possible your grandma could have been from today’s Belarus, since parts of it were part of Poland back then.
I`m Belarusian and I`m delighted how detail you`ve studied and presented all the facts about Belarus. 95% of what you`ve told is true, so thanks for the OBJECTIVE story. great job!
brett nichols well if you could speak russian belorussian or polish it would increase your chances and if you had a lithuanian polish or ukraine passport chances would be at 95% but honestly even with my Lithuanian passport i had trouble getting there since my name was written in English format so yeah strict place
@@omaralkayal7598 I dunno why he's still here .-. Somebody says he's the best president, somebody says he sucks and he is a dictator, I'll say I don't know if he's bad or good, cause if I say what I think about Lukashenko, I'll go to jail :))
My dream is to visit this wonderful country. Nature there is a heaven on earth. People are really friendly and peaceful. I am your biggest fan Belarus🇧🇾 Love from Italy 🇮🇹
,,Don't call me Romanian!'' said the Moldovan in Romanian ,,Don't call me Bulgar!'' said the Macedonian in Bulgarian ,,Don't call me Serb!'' said the Bosnian/Montenegrin in Serbian
@@user-bz1od4yc5r Sorry but you are misinformed. We have mostly Slavic and Hungarian origins (in the East where 70% of Austrians live) due to 400 years of common history under the Habsburgs . Besides culturally they are on two ends of the spectrum: low context ("say what I mean" guess who:-) and high context (just hint the main message and leave room for interpretations) within Europe. Jut ask Germans who lived in Austria for a long time and most oft them will tell you that they due to lack of knowledge believed your statement in the first year or so and now being wiser regret having moved there in the first place:-)
I am from Lithuania. I saw protests. I will definitely take part in the Baltic Way from Lithuania to Belarus. We have won freedom, and now it is time to help our brothers and sisters! ❤️
@@thenoobplayz9196 I am not afraid of death. Death is a part of life. I know I am fighting for a noble cause. Some Which citizens of my country think Lukashenko is a hero, but I see a different truth... He is dictator. As I mentioned, we once won freedom and now it’s time to help our brothers and sisters!
illmakeuhowell that gives Belarusians one more proper reason to roll back to the authentic name of this city, doesn’t it? Just call/spell it as Bieraśćie and the problem’s gone.
Belarus is a beautiful country with very friendly people... I did visit it and did like a lot.. Greetings from Austria/Estonia (mixed family, now living in Estonia)
"Рушнік" - это полотенце. Орнамент - это "орнамент", он может быть нанесён в том числе и на рушнікі. Жителей Канады не называют "французами" или "англичанами", как и жителей США не называют "англичанами", таких стран в мире много. Почему же белорусов должны называть "русскими" из-за языка? Насчёт того, что западноевропейцам сложно приехать в страну из-за проблем с визой, думаю не правда. Не слышала о таком. Белорусский язык изучали в школах ВСЕГДА. Я училась в "белорусской" школе, это значит - все учебники кроме русскиго и немецкого языков, были на белорусском. Мои дети учатся в "русской" школе, все предметы кроме белорусского и английского у них преподаются на русском языке. Я прекрасно знаю белорусский язык, но в повседневной жизни говорю на русском. Могу читать на украинском, при разговоре понимаю украинский чуть хуже из-за особенностей произношения людей. Кого-то лучше, кого-то хуже. А в целом было интересно. Спасибо.
@@kotopsina И ? Я в курсе, что "россиянин" это и бурят, и татарин, и даже мой брат-белорус, проживающий уже 25 лет в россии и имеющий гражданство. И что?
О тут я могу ответить, потому что Русские - это не те кто живут в России, а совокупность всех восточных славян. Решение принято нашими предками в далёком 6?7?8? веке и на этом точка. Вы можете не называться Великоросами, потому что вы Белорусы, но все мы Русские.
@@ЕвгенийСтарущенко ? Очень спорно. По вашему таков был ход ЕГО мыслей? Зачем всё так усложнять? Ну ляпнул мужик херню, с кем не бывает. Вы то зачем всю эту чушь пишете? Они что, в 8 веке "русскими" назывались? Тоже словечки не 8 века.
@@_ALEKS Русский - это слово производной от " Рус, Русин, Русич и тд " крч, я к тому, что мы один народ, а мышление аля разные нации приводят только к ненависти. Вот к чему я, не воспринимайте близко к сердцу, это только моё мнение разделённое огромным количеством русских людей по всей нашей необъятной (Украину и Беларусь тоже считаю нашей необъятной). Надеюсь в недалёком будущем, всем мы будем думать о всех наших не привязывая диких идей деления народа на народы, как бы тупо это не звучало. А то так скоро дойдём не до Белорусов Украинцев и Россиян, а до Брестчаненов блять, Москвичей блять, Одесситов, как национальностей, в целях обогочения ручки мудаков которые хотят почувствовать власть.
I hope one day our goverments will stop arguing and polish people and belarusians will talk, work together and visit each other with no problem. Peace 🇵🇱 ⚪🔴⚪( sorry but there isnt white red and white flag od belarus, do i used circles insted of 🇧🇾)
I'm from Belarus and I could say that this video is highly relatable! It was fun to watch XD Still the truth is that in schools the prime language is still russian, and we usually have belarussian classes like 2-3 times in a week. Which is really sad, tbh And, yeah, don't call me russian
The name of your country is literally "White Russia" in almost every European language, including most Slavic languages. I know that some Belorussians consider themselves as Lithuanians or something, but wouldn't they be then speaking a non-Slavic language or be a national minority?
I am Belarusian and this video is good, but not perfect. At first, if I speak Belarusian with people from Russia, they almost can't understand me, so it's better to speak Russian with Russian people (I am a native Belarusian speaker). Also it's kinda weird to call our language "a mixture between Polish and Russian". Then, after Crimea was taken to Russia, Belarus became really neutral (it lead to even more close friendship with Ukraine). And, if to be exact, it's correct to pronounce not "Belarušian", but "Belarusan". Howewer, you may write "Belarusian" and it would be correct. I will write something about the history of the region and Belarus from Grand Dutchy to USSR. During Grutchy of Lithuania Belarus developed its culture and force. Dutches were Belarusian and govermental documents were also made in Ruthenian (Old Belarusian) language, but that Dutchy was really tolerant. All nations (from Tatars to Polish) and all religions (from Heathenism to Islam) in Dutchy were treated the same almost all time before Commonwealth was formed. In the times of Alhierd and Vitaut the Great our Dutchy was a country from the sea to the sea (covering everything between Baltic and Black sea). During the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Belarusians were somehow pressed by Polish. Their influence became really great after 1650s. But Dutchy was still independant in that Commonwealth. Belarusians, Lithuanians etc. were still able to develop their culture freely. After 1790s almost all Dutchy was covered by Russia. Howewer, national cultures of nations from Dutchy were still developing. That time brought Belarusians and Ukrainians (and, of course, Russians) their best poets and authors. In Belarus -- Bahuševič, Kolas, Kupala etc. In Ukraine -- Taras Shevchenko, in Russia -- Pushkin and Lermontov. When Empire fell, national republics started to form (Belarusian People's Republic, Ukrainian People's Republic). But it didn't take long to them to be covered by Soviet Russia (formed is 1917), later USSR (from 1922). I guess later history of the region is well known. Thanks for a great video!
Late comment/addition, but I was under the impression that Belarus before 1900s was the "actual" Lithuania, while the current Lithuania was created by "neo-Lithuanians", a subculture made by Russia to split them away from Poland.
+Yagi Well, current Lithuanians are in fact descendants of the "original Lithuanians" who also inhabited parts of Belarus back in the day, hovewer for most of the history of the Commonwealth they were mainly rural population. Belarus and Lithuania were commonly seen as in fact parts of Poland, "Lithuanians" and "Belarusians" often meant "Polish people form Lithuania/Belarus region" as all the noble families and most cities' and towns' inhabitants were either Poles or native population polonised for centuries.
Antos Sivyh its very beutiful and rare when belarusian (baltarusas) say that lithuanians where very tolerant and that lithuanians inherintly tries to bring western values to its neighbors. Mosly people from further east only claims, that we are somehow fashist rusofobic and ... But in fact we only wish the best for others and we where always the defensive wall against empires
I see alternative historians here. Modern day Lithuanians always were Lithuanians - a Baltic people who split from Slavs centuries before Slavs even divided to Eastern, Western and Southern and scattered all over East European Plane. Belarusians are the Slavs originated from the Eastern Slavic tribes of Dregovichi and Radimichi (both split with Ukraine), and Krivichi (split with Russia). Only when Kievan Rus, the confederation of Eastern Slavic tribes, was desintegrated, a splinter known as Principality of Polotsk which constituted 2/3 of modern Belarus was conqured by Lithuania before Mongols even came and this is where Belarusians started to divergent from Russians and Ukrainians. Latter on Lithuania expanded even more by conquering Kiev from Mongols, ended bloodline of Rus dukes here and Proclaimed itself Grand Duchy, which made the split between Russians and Ukrainians. This way Lithuania ended up with little empire where majority of the population were Slavs but imperial core was Baltic, Lithuanian, so they were forced to conduct a slightly more Slavic friendly policy yet they still were doing usual imperial stuff like forcefull conversion from Eastern Orthodox faith to Roman Catholic, romanization of language an so on. There is still confusion Lithuanians and Belarusians somehow related whereas theyr relationships are similar to Austrians and Hungarians except even the faith and writing system was different and the Slavs were "second class" to Lithuanians. Lithuania did not been part of Poland originally and definitely not the "rural Poles". In fact they and Novgorod were competing for dominance and Rus leftovers in post Mongols Eastern Europe and only rapid rise of Moscow that obsorbed Novgorod forced Lithuania to join unjust Commonwealth dominated by Poland with Poles looking down on this "Eastern peasant" those further downgrading Belarusians to "third class" and eventually handing them to Russians.
Gor Mor balts did not split from slavs. Balts came to europe 3500 B.C and originated directly from proto indo europeans. Slavs originated from sarmatians/schytians 400 AD after huns destroyed rome. Thats why lithuanian language is older then latin,heleonic and probably is older then sansckrit , becouse balts gave birth to "vedas" who came from north to india and gave birth to indian culture
Interesting fact about Belarus: even though almost all of Belarus citizens prefer speaking Russian, and despite russians are the most frequent visitors to Belarus, all the road signs in Belarus are made either in Belarusian or English.
minsk and barysaw are not bad places. they're good at hockey, european handball, and a little bit at soccer. good natural resources and sights, and good law. it's just the mess that ukraine caused and the low wage
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I am from Cephalonia island,Greece.Married to a Belarussian,I had the opportunity to visit the country twice with the usual paperwork you need for a visa to a non-E.U. country.I visited the city of Gomel (my wife's homeland) and thoroughly enjoyed it,it is a very nice place.I recommend visiting the country in early and mid May,it is teeming with green and flowers....and that goes not only for the countryside but for the cities as well....
Random fact: There's also a town in France named Brest. And much like Belarus' Brest, it's the located at the west end of the country (or Metropolitan area to be precise)
I think you need to update this video, especially the Friends Zone part. The way Belarus supported Russia after its invasion on Ukraine makes one doubt if it is still an independent country.
Belarusian is not a mixture of Polish and Russian, nor is it "derived" from Russian as you've stated. It is a language in its very own right, belonging to the East Slavic family-- to which Russian and Ukrainian both also belong. Modern Belarusian developed organically from the same Old East Slavic mother tongue alongside Ukrainian and Russian, while featuring a greater degree of lexical and phonological influence from Polish by virtue of geographical proximity. You wouldn't say that a sister is "derived" from her brother, so saying that the Belarusian language derives from the Russian one is fallacious. Trasyanka is another matter entirely, and is a relaxed, informal dialect which mixes linguistic elements of Belarusian and Russian. It is generally spoken in more comfortable, everyday settings. Very sadly, the pure language is languishing and is increasingly neglected, as it is often associated with rural or less educated people (this is in no small part due to Lukashenko's very pro Russian political stance).
Hm, as a Hong Kong native, I guess this is kind of similar to the fallacious claim I sometimes hear that Cantonese is a dialect of Mandarin? As though Cantonese was actually derived from Mandarin when in fact they both diverged from Middle Chinese with Cantonese being linguistically closer to it? Is that a good comparison?
coming back here to say this was around when i found geography now, its so wild how far this channel has come since this point and ive been glad to be here all the way since then. If it werent for my homeschool at the time featuring the argentina episode i wouldnt have found geography now i dont think. I distinctly remember then checking the rest of the videos this channel made at the time and this being the most recent one at the time. I was like 8 when i found this channel and now im 16 which is awesome how ive grown up with this!
One of your best in a while, Paul. You really should get a sponsor for you to promote at the end of the video so that you can have more money to make these.
I've heard from Montenegrins that they wanted to stay with Serbia, but Djukanović wanted to steal more and because of that they are now their own country. Well, that's what I've heard atleast.
***** LoL, Milo is a dictator there is no denying that. Same logic can be used then for North Korea, Kim Jong Un is not dictator because every other party is for ''South Korea'' and there is no other option, dumb logic. Also ''Montenegrins'' are not a real nationality, they are just regional name for Serbs, difference between Serbs and Montenegrin Serbs is just like difference between Germans and Austrians. Same nationality, different states.
@@ramonaselas1053 I agree about Montenegro, but Macedonia and Slovenia don't belong in this group. It is true that we can also understand a lot from Slovenian and Macedonian, but not as much as the other 4. Macedonian is also written in Cyrillic, so only Serbs and Montenegrins can read it.
Macedonia dose, we Serbs from southern region Understand them around 80%, and they understand Serbian (witch also means Croatian) completely because of large cultural influence we have on them. Since they are like our little brother, who is very proud sometimes 😂
DeathdwarfRising Should a map be for the nationalistic Russian purposes or should it reflect the view of the normal world? Disputed borders can be shown in several different ways anyways.
eksiarvamus You misunderstand the word "accurate". No matter what you think, there is little dispute that like 100,000 Russian and pro-Russian soldiers currently chill in Crimea.
DeathdwarfRising I'm aware of that, but occupied areas aren't often shown as part of the occupying nation in order to degrade the occupying country's nationalistic goals.
I salute you, you pronounced Lithuanian names quite well! I also like how you didn't make the common mistake of calling Lithuanian a slavic language :)
Lithuanians in medival times slavik Belarusian langvich, tiday's letuvis calbos is Zhematian language that was finally edited by Jonas Yablonskis in the 1900.
Ignore this idiot. He comes from a country with no history of its own, as it was always ruled by someone else,for the majority of their time - by Lithuanian dukes and later Polish kings. They try to steal Lithuanian history since they themselves have none :) Let me remind you that the first documents written in Lithuanian were in 1503, so this entire sentence of bullshit is just bullshit.
Lol who has no history?))) We actually already prooved that we colonized your Lands in the 1209, we built fortresses in Samagotia just to protect our lands from Teitonic invation and we occupaid you because we were afraid that you going to invite Teutonic and Livonian Knights like your closest relatives Žemigalis
It's your opinion that Americans are actually English? Is that even the kind of statement that can be considered an opinion? It's like saying, "It's my opinion that 4 + 5 = 9."
Pitruź PL I'm Belarusian and I love Poland with all my heart as well c: Actually, I have some Polish ancestors, probably that's why I feel kinda related to this country.)
Pitruź PL Same here, hope that our relations will emprove a lot. We are the only two nations in this region that dont have any real historical problems with eachother. Oh and half of my family comes from Belarus :)
@@bulgariannationalist1637 Only the correct flag is not RG🇧🇾, but the historical and national WRW (White-red-white) ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ But okay, you didn’t know ♥ ️🇧🇬 Толькі сапраўды флаг не КЗ, а гістарычны нацыянальны БЧБ( бел-чырвона-белы) Але нічога страшнага, бо вы не ведалі:)♥️🇧🇬 На ўсялякі выпадак напісаў па беларуску, бо балгарская мова даволі падобна на беларускую, мо паймеце:)
Dear +Geography Now. Thank you for an overall pretty comprehensive video. I wanted to provide some feedback if you are open to it. Belarus does not mean White Russia, sorry to disappoint the pro-Russian rhetoric. It is derived from the terms Belaja - White , Rus - Ruthenia. Russia likes to claim the name, however, Ruthenia was a different historical multi-ethnic state and does not correspond to the current day Russia - Rossia. The name of the mixed language is Trasianka not Transianka, which is also easier to pronounce. Russians do not understand Belarusan/Belarusian when it's spoken. The only Russians that understand Belarusan language are the ones that studies or have been exposed to if for an extended period of time. I tested this many times, but people just blink, stare and on rare occasion smile. The language was NOT derived from the Russian language but. It was Russified by Russian starting in 1800s as part of the colonization rhetoric. There are a number of features that Belarusan has, which neither Russian nor Polish languages exhibit. So to claim that it's a mix or a dialect is incorrect. There are two different set of grammar and spelling rules for Belarusan language, one predates Russian influence and another one after it. They are called Taraškievica and Narkamaŭka. Taraškievica includes more native words and phonetic spelling. While Narkamaŭka is the result of Russification of the langauge. While the pronunciation is of Belarusian is close enough, it is not technically correct. More exact pronunciation is Beh-lah-roo-see-an and alternative spelling Belarusan - Beh-lah-roo-san. In some shots I also saw the misspelling with 2 s. It's always 1 s as there is only 1 s in the world Belarus. Thanks for your time.
:-) *chuckle* good question. There is definitely plenty of Slavic characteristics in the culture, but there is also many other ethnicities that helped shape Belarusans as they are today.
Belarusian is not derived from Russian, those languages are closely related, with common roots. If Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are sisters like you said, then it's a sister-language to Russian :) In fact the form of "Ruthenian" which become modern Belarusian was a dominant (and for long time official) language of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. There where books printed in this language since early XVI century (like Skaryna's Bible), before first books printed in Russian.
Artur M. it was the dominant written language because Lithuanian was not a written language until the 16th century all our dukes and ethnic Lithuanians spoke Lithuanian belarussian was spoke by the ruthenians lets not fight admit belarus was never GDL its only that our king mindaugas married the princess of polotsk so our history is tied
"Lithuanian was not a written language until the 16th century all our dukes and ethnic Lithuanians spoke Lithuanian belarussian was spoke by the ruthenians" Haha. You can definetly see this by reading Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Ooops. So dukes used not written language while their citizens used written.
Screw Belarus, and not only that, but my country is worst known for having less men than women and it's one of the most s***idal countries according to Google
To my mind it's amazing video about my mothercountry, our people kind and friendly. We always glad to see tourist in our country. Belarusian nature picturesque, cities clean and beautiful. Welcome to Belarus ❤
Indeed! After all, not only was this a historically significant flag (it was used in the 1918-1919 Belarusian Democratic Republic, as well as the early Republic of Belarus from 1991 to 1995), but it also has a contemporary _political_ significance as well: it is popular among the anti-Lukashenko opposition!
Here's a joke I've heard: Russia and Belarus wanted to reestablish the Soviet Union with just the two of them, as a response to the EU, but the plan failed because Putin and Lukashenko couldn't agree which of them will be the president of the union.
***** Because they wanted a common currency/language/flag, and they wanted to expand it...And the flag they wanted was based off the Soviet flag...My country is right next to them, I don't like expansionism...
Name may come from the fact that Belarus was conquered by Lithuanians (and then pretty much became it). But it's not White Russia, it's White Ruthenia.
Angel B Serbia is just a basic slavic Red,Blue and white color, boring and nothing unique. Montengro's color's are not as aggressive and awesome as Albanian's. Albanian flag whatever people think of us is very simple and badass. The color's are perfect.
Belarusians are great people, very friendly when you know them a bit - I wish that our countries had better relationships, coz for me belarusians are like cousins - cheers from poland :)
05:12 You think summer averages of 18°C are "cold" and "below room temperature"? Firstly, how hot are your rooms (!), and secondly, you wait to you see the north of the UK. Summers averages of around 12°C away from the cities (and yes, you _will_ see people in bikinis and speedos!). When you've lived here for a few years (decades?), you get used to it.
Inky Scrolls He lives in Southern California, where it's at least 26.67°C (80°F) 2/3 of the time, and where rain is uncommon (at least in LA and surrounding areas)
"White Russia" can be misleading because it plays into the idea that it is part of the modern country Russia. More accurate is "White Rus' " Russia was adopted as a state name by the Tsardom of Muscovy because they claimed authority over all of Rus' (aka Ruthenia). Rus' is a family of slavic nations including several regions that were named by color. For example, Galicia region was called Red Rus' , and today's Belarus obviously was White Rus'. There was also Kievan Rus' (basically old Ukraine), named after Kiev, and several other Rus' lands. Going back to first sentence, Moscow claimed the right to rule over the whole family of Rus' slavic nations, so they called themselves basically the state of Rus' in general (aka "Russia"). It is like how Saudi Arabia calls itself Arabia because it implies they have right to rule all Arab lands.
milkmn00 You might be right but as an Austrian I can tell you that the German name of Belarus is "Weißrussland", which means exactly "White Russia" (weiß=white, Russland=Russia)
Fredi Miksch True but I want people to understand that doesnt make them modern "Russian". Russland literally means "land of Russ" , or in the common transliteration, "Rus' land". Yes, that is essentially the same meaning as the word "Russia" as well (Ruthenia comes from Latin, Rus' is the common transliteration, Russia comes from the Greek, which is what the Russian Cyrillic alphabet was based on). My point is that Moscow chose the name Russia on purpose because that gives the impression that they control all Rus' (always their idea of 'destiny' , believed even today). You can see it works by how many people think "Belarusians/Ukrainians/etc are actually 'Russians' ". It's different. They are one of the Rus' , but different from Moscow Russians. Just like Navajo and Cherokee are both Native American, they are still different and shouldnt be confused as being the same.
I just wanted to tell you that "White Russia" isn't completely incorrect because many countries use this translation even if it is wrong (I didn't know this before but I guess that you are right). Of course Belarus isn't Russia and I think that many people know that.
"It is like how Saudi Arabia calls itself Arabia because it implies they have right to rule all Arab lands." That's the best explanation I ever heard. And yes, it is correct.
Hey Paul, are you going to do the United Kingdom as one vid or are you going to do england, scotland, wales and northern ireland seperately? You know either way it's gonna get...complicated :P
Jayfive276 I think it's most likely going to be one (probably incredibly long) video on the UK as a whole, as the four separate "countries" aren't actually sovereign states.
james learing The UK isn't *that* diverse culturally, at least compared to other countries in the world like India, Nigeria or even Russia. All 4 'countries' of the UK speak predominantly English, have majority white populations, are mostly secular and have broad support for Liberal values. Plus, we've been unified for centuries and have historically experienced things like the Reformation and Industrial Revolution more or less together. Compare that with somewhere like India, which is far more ethnically, religiously, linguistically and culturally diverse and you cannot justify doing the 'countries' of the UK separately.
Ruthenia was preslavic i'd say. It covers most of the eastern europe and was ruled by Viking dukes. Then they start to fight each other and borders occurs. But Viking dukes ruled very different nations and tribes, some of them was even baltic and Finno-Ugric, not slavic.
King Crabbly But Ruthenia and Rus mean exactly the same, and Ruthenia is a more germanized version of this word. There are many regions that have Rus in their slavic names and translate to Ruthenia in English. eg. pl:"Ruś czerwona" translates to "Red ruthenia" in english or svk:"Podkarpatská Rus" translates to "Carpathian Ruthenia"
What's with the fighter jet droping a bomb on Crimea on 9:17 ? And the term you were looking for is annexation and not invasion. Love your videos btw (subscribed).
Bison, hockey, lots of forests, having a powerful ally while at the same time trying to make the cultural differences clear to the world so they don't think you're that culture...
Is Belarus Europe's Canada??
Malos Kain LOL!!! COMMENT WIN!!!
Malos Kain Yeah! and Russia's practically the U.S. in that regard when it comes to relations.
FinzillaPVG That would make Belarus *Russia's Canada.*
It's their Great White North-just the same -eh?! ... _uh_
*Great White North* -da.
Большая белая Северной-
Bol'shaya belaya Severnoy
Da.
Lo .Sconosciuto Belarus isn't mean "White Russia". It means "White Rus'".
Lo .Sconosciuto but Rus' isn't Russia, just because the fact that Rus' existed in IX-XIII centuries (and in XI-XIII centuries there were a lot of separated duchies instead of united country). The history of Russia, as a state, begins in the XIV-XV centuries, when the Duchy of Moscow became the most powerful among the other duchies.
What depends to our "confederation" with Russia, yes, we have some agreements like The Union state of Russia and Belarus, but the word "confederation" is too big for that. Look at Switzerland - this country is a confederation.
Just wanted to say that the official Pokemon of Belarus is Bulbasaur.
Saddam Hussein ? I thougt they hunged you..
Pokemon is banned in Belarus. Btw
Бульбазавр ))))))))))))
You mast know it, bulba (бульба) translate - potatoes
Saddam Hussein ) but no ball.... by , because bylba
In Arabic Belarus literally means ''without Russians''
Ironic isn't it
Correct
That would be “Bila Rus”
Ur probably lebanese
@@michelleboulanger1361 Works in Iraq too
Well this video needs an updated version soon.
They’ll probably not make an updated version anytime soon (even if the protest work) since all the other outdated episodes never got updated
@@gamermapper Ha-ha "revolution", you mean coup d'état?
Imagine how much update it needs now in July 2022y
when?
1:09 [BREAKING NEWS! ESTONIA GETS ANNEXED BY RUSSIA]
Ohh god...😂😰
1:09 Теперь моя бывшая девушка живёт со своей роднёй в одной стране )
Bro I had to look so hard in the comments to see if anyone else saw that
how did they miss this? this is meant to be geography.
Bass Bass Hardbass Bass Bass Hardbass
It's not an European bison, it's żubr
Yeah, I'm Polish
Yeeah, that's right. Poland
Zubor po slovensky
Let’s go Slavic power, Eastern Europe da best)) 🇷🇺🇸🇰🇸🇮🇵🇱🇧🇾🇺🇦🇨🇿🇭🇷🇧🇦🇲🇪🇷🇸🇧🇬🇲🇰
We are not EASTERN we are CENTRAL. Check Barby´s video about Czech Republic
Zubr is European bison, it’s written on a sign in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha national park
Yeah, I'm Belarusian
You might need to update the Friend Zone section now Barbs. Something tells me that the Slavic sisters aren’t getting along anymore.
Almost all Belarusians know Belarusian but we speak russian.We love our language,and try to save it but it is very hard.
What's the hell stopping you speak your native language if you know it?
Keep your language alive!
@@andreybofus1817 The majority of the population has been speaking Russian for about last 70 years and during all that time we had been being russificated by the Soviet Union. Russian is in every sphere of our daily life.
You can't quickly restore the language that is almost dead already. Not with the Lukashenko goverment opposed to it.
@@addvix5177 So Ireland basically
@@andreybofus1817 what the hell is stopping scotts and welsh?
UPDATE!! I am fully aware that YES I forgot to add Croatia to the EU at 8:14 and YES I didn't realize while photomapping the image, I accidentally included Estonia in Russia's borders at 8:53. Oh and I spelled "Duchy" wrong and wrote "Dutchy." Yeesh, This is why I need to hire a motion graphics editor for my videos. I am now accepting applications.
Geography Now Боже мой! If you make those mistakes, then certainly you do. Too bad, not sending in an application. Best of luck.
***** I am not actually Slavic, I really just used Google Translate. I am actually Jamoan. Not to be confused with Samoan.
***** Despite only having a population of four, it is rather complicated.
1:10. Why Estonia in the Russia?
***** Jamoa was founded on my ideals and idea by Cassandra Walden Frey. It is a nation founded on the ideas of Autism pride, Neurodiversity, and Autism loyalty. Currently it has four citizens, almost five, at this point it could have been eight, but that's alternate history. It claims Midscandinavia and a few smaller territories elsewhere, its government is based in Sørumsand but actually managed online, and it has its own culture. plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117927575716856978684
I’m Polish, i like Belarusians, very nice people, always friendly. Sending much love from Poland 🇵🇱🇧🇾
Edit: Government doesn't define the people!
Likewise)
Long live the winged hussars!
I am trying to figure out if my ancestors were from Belarus or from Poland. They wrote Poland on some census documents but my grandmother used to say her parents were from belarus. Were there parts of Belarus that belonged to Poland but then became part of Russia?
James Asprocolas yea before WW2 the border of Poland included parts of today’s Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. so it’s possible your grandma could have been from today’s Belarus, since parts of it were part
of Poland back then.
😀
I`m Belarusian and I`m delighted how detail you`ve studied and presented all the facts about Belarus. 95% of what you`ve told is true, so thanks for the OBJECTIVE story. great job!
Too bad I can't visit...
He said it's hard to get in there especially since I'm from the United States. You know the whew Cold War that started.
Samir Al-Kayal I'd like to go but I can't any ways lol.
brett nichols well if you could speak russian belorussian or polish it would increase your chances and if you had a lithuanian polish or ukraine passport chances would be at 95% but honestly even with my Lithuanian passport i had trouble getting there since my name was written in English format so yeah strict place
Lietuvos Vyras makes sense Belarus kisses Russia's ass.
2020 upd:
We still have Lukashenko
ᴊᴜsᴛ sɪɴᴏᴋᴏ.
Bruh , why is he still there ? And are you people ok with it ?
@@omaralkayal7598 I dunno why he's still here .-. Somebody says he's the best president, somebody says he sucks and he is a dictator, I'll say I don't know if he's bad or good, cause if I say what I think about Lukashenko, I'll go to jail :))
3020 upd:
We still have Lukashenko
And now we are at the brink of civil war
@@olegpetrovic that's true :'(
My dream is to visit this wonderful country. Nature there is a heaven on earth. People are really friendly and peaceful.
I am your biggest fan Belarus🇧🇾
Love from Italy 🇮🇹
Thank you brother. We respect the Italians! With love from Belarus.
If you ever are going to Brest, I can totally show you the city ;)
Send love to Italy :3
Importante che non dici " BIELORUSSIA"
Is belarus a dictatorship?
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,,Don't call me Romanian!'' said the Moldovan in Romanian
,,Don't call me Bulgar!'' said the Macedonian in Bulgarian
,,Don't call me Serb!'' said the Bosnian/Montenegrin in Serbian
but German is the official language of Austria, and Austrians are ethnically German
@@user-bz1od4yc5r so is belorussian too
... said irishman in english, or african american, or indian, or etc. Belarussian are not russians.
@@user-bz1od4yc5r Sorry but you are misinformed. We have mostly Slavic and Hungarian origins (in the East where 70% of Austrians live) due to 400 years of common history under the Habsburgs . Besides culturally they are on two ends of the spectrum: low context ("say what I mean" guess who:-) and high context (just hint the main message and leave room for interpretations) within Europe. Jut ask Germans who lived in Austria for a long time and most oft them will tell you that they due to lack of knowledge believed your statement in the first year or so and now being wiser regret having moved there in the first place:-)
"Don't call me American" Said the Canadian
Definitely don't. I'm Canadian.
@@NotTodaySatan557 Canadians ARE Americans. So are Mexicans, Brazilians, Argentines, Uruguayans........
...
@@UnitedStatesOfAmerica1776 because were all from the Americas.. har Har HAR haR
No, americans are from the U.S.
Who's here after the protests?
I am from Lithuania. I saw protests. I will definitely take part in the Baltic Way from Lithuania to Belarus. We have won freedom, and now it is time to help our brothers and sisters! ❤️
@@dersilberfuchs good luck and hope you and others get out alive because it is horrific
Me
@@thenoobplayz9196 I am not afraid of death. Death is a part of life. I know I am fighting for a noble cause. Some Which citizens of my country think Lukashenko is a hero, but I see a different truth... He is dictator. As I mentioned, we once won freedom and now it’s time to help our brothers and sisters!
Me. I am Polish and support our Slavic brothers and sisters
that moment when you live in Brest and only now realise what it sounds like
yikes
illmakeuhowell that gives Belarusians one more proper reason to roll back to the authentic name of this city, doesn’t it? Just call/spell it as Bieraśćie and the problem’s gone.
breast isn't problem at all
illmakeuhowell 😂
Bieraśćie sounds like a belarusian city :)
Oof
Belarus is beautiful but so underrated...I really want to visit it. Greetings from a fellow Slavic country, Bosnia.
Damir Imamagic ,welcom!)
Bio sam ja turisticki 2 tjedna. Jako jako cudna drzava, ali preporucio bih definitivno
Bosnia is a shitholes. So is Belarus. They should look at how well Croatia and Czech republic is doing.
@@bigsouth010 shut the fuck up
Opa i nasi ovo gledaju 😂
Lukashenko looks like Dr. Phill...
Josh Stelmack false. Dr. Phil looks like Alexander Lukashenko. Everyone wants to look like handsome Alexander Lukashenko!
Who say he's isn't? I mean you never see both in the same room together 😂😂😂
That was i thinking too
More, like Dr. Egg
Что ты сказал?! (∩`ﾛ´)⊃
Belarus is a beautiful country with very friendly people... I did visit it and did like a lot.. Greetings from Austria/Estonia (mixed family, now living in Estonia)
In 2017 Belarus has cancelled visa requirements for 80+ nationalities worldwide, including all European countries. It's time to visit.
just for short time and for people coming with plane. But still it's progress.
@@timiko4 30days
im going to belarus next week
@@溧水 you are cool people , + recpect
"Рушнік" - это полотенце. Орнамент - это "орнамент", он может быть нанесён в том числе и на рушнікі.
Жителей Канады не называют "французами" или "англичанами", как и жителей США не называют "англичанами", таких стран в мире много. Почему же белорусов должны называть "русскими" из-за языка?
Насчёт того, что западноевропейцам сложно приехать в страну из-за проблем с визой, думаю не правда. Не слышала о таком.
Белорусский язык изучали в школах ВСЕГДА. Я училась в "белорусской" школе, это значит - все учебники кроме русскиго и немецкого языков, были на белорусском. Мои дети учатся в "русской" школе, все предметы кроме белорусского и английского у них преподаются на русском языке. Я прекрасно знаю белорусский язык, но в повседневной жизни говорю на русском. Могу читать на украинском, при разговоре понимаю украинский чуть хуже из-за особенностей произношения людей. Кого-то лучше, кого-то хуже.
А в целом было интересно. Спасибо.
Русский и россиянин - это не одно и тоже.
@@kotopsina
И ?
Я в курсе, что "россиянин" это и бурят, и татарин, и даже мой брат-белорус, проживающий уже 25 лет в россии и имеющий гражданство. И что?
О тут я могу ответить, потому что Русские - это не те кто живут в России, а совокупность всех восточных славян. Решение принято нашими предками в далёком 6?7?8? веке и на этом точка. Вы можете не называться Великоросами, потому что вы Белорусы, но все мы Русские.
@@ЕвгенийСтарущенко ? Очень спорно.
По вашему таков был ход ЕГО мыслей?
Зачем всё так усложнять? Ну ляпнул мужик херню, с кем не бывает. Вы то зачем всю эту чушь пишете? Они что, в 8 веке "русскими" назывались? Тоже словечки не 8 века.
@@_ALEKS Русский - это слово производной от " Рус, Русин, Русич и тд " крч, я к тому, что мы один народ, а мышление аля разные нации приводят только к ненависти. Вот к чему я, не воспринимайте близко к сердцу, это только моё мнение разделённое огромным количеством русских людей по всей нашей необъятной (Украину и Беларусь тоже считаю нашей необъятной). Надеюсь в недалёком будущем, всем мы будем думать о всех наших не привязывая диких идей деления народа на народы, как бы тупо это не звучало. А то так скоро дойдём не до Белорусов Украинцев и Россиян, а до Брестчаненов блять, Москвичей блять, Одесситов, как национальностей, в целях обогочения ручки мудаков которые хотят почувствовать власть.
Belarusians polish people support you. Stay strong and fight for your democracy. 🇵🇱🇧🇾
🇱🇹❤️⚪🔴⚪
You pursue your own goals! You just wanna tear our country apart!!!
I hope one day our goverments will stop arguing and polish people and belarusians will talk, work together and visit each other with no problem. Peace 🇵🇱 ⚪🔴⚪( sorry but there isnt white red and white flag od belarus, do i used circles insted of 🇧🇾)
@Boris Manchev lmao for what? We have democracy and it’s great
@@dersilberfuchs Fuck you.
білоруси - найпозитивніші слов‘яни східної Європи яких я зустрічав! завжди радий зустріти білоруса!
Дзякуй за добрые словы!прывитанне братам -украинцам!!!
Глянь на Україну, шось з нею не те 1:07
ShyTniK_ UA ай справді, від Одеси і Чернівців трохи відрізали! але Крим є 😁
Литвин Литвин дякую за вітання!
Жыве Беларусь! Слава Украине! Привет из Беларуси) Считаю украинцев товарищами по несчастью, только чуть более свободными, чем мы
>video about Belarus
>without jokes about potatoes
0 мешков бульбы/10 Усов бацьки, плохое видео
Бро, это местная тема)
REMOVE LUKASHENKO
REPLACE HIM WITH POTATOES
Сейчас кому-то бульбу в горлышко запихаю (не тебе)
Да как так можно было видос делать? Я каждый день картошку ем и усы вижу, а они эти самые популярные белорусские вещи не упомянули...
i did the math its going to take nearly 16 years to get to my country.
Movidu Mutuwattha And.......what country is that?
srilanka. As long as he posts a video every 2 weeks
Movidu Mutuwattha Oh God. Then the US will be in.......25 years. D:
Movidu Mutuwattha jesus, imagine how long it will take to get to Zimbabwe...
Lol, I am also from Sri Lanka
I'm russian and i have no idea what did he say in the begining
xd
+BeeR the Bear он, сказал:"Каким русским они бы не казались, они всё равно не русские", типо таго
+BeeR the Bear was he speaking belarussian or wtf was that
+BeeR the Bear lmao
He was trying to speak Belarusian of course, but I'm as a Belarusian didn't understand a word either. xD
Playing CS:GO.
Belarus people: Screaming at you in Russian.
Everyone Else: O great..... Russians.... Suka Bylat.
Belarus: More screaming in Russian.
We know english and don't scream like russians, don't mix it up, we're different people
I'm from Belarus and I could say that this video is highly relatable! It was fun to watch XD Still the truth is that in schools the prime language is still russian, and we usually have belarussian classes like 2-3 times in a week. Which is really sad, tbh
And, yeah, don't call me russian
Hello, Russian dude!
*please don't shoot, it's a joke!*
@@Chiaros I'm watching you! (ò_óˇ)ᕤ
is it still hard to enter the country from the border?
The name of your country is literally "White Russia" in almost every European language, including most Slavic languages. I know that some Belorussians consider themselves as Lithuanians or something, but wouldn't they be then speaking a non-Slavic language or be a national minority?
@@Porkeater2610957 Which language do Americans speak?;)
I am Belarusian and this video is good, but not perfect. At first, if I speak Belarusian with people from Russia, they almost can't understand me, so it's better to speak Russian with Russian people (I am a native Belarusian speaker). Also it's kinda weird to call our language "a mixture between Polish and Russian". Then, after Crimea was taken to Russia, Belarus became really neutral (it lead to even more close friendship with Ukraine). And, if to be exact, it's correct to pronounce not "Belarušian", but "Belarusan". Howewer, you may write "Belarusian" and it would be correct.
I will write something about the history of the region and Belarus from Grand Dutchy to USSR.
During Grutchy of Lithuania Belarus developed its culture and force. Dutches were Belarusian and govermental documents were also made in Ruthenian (Old Belarusian) language, but that Dutchy was really tolerant. All nations (from Tatars to Polish) and all religions (from Heathenism to Islam) in Dutchy were treated the same almost all time before Commonwealth was formed. In the times of Alhierd and Vitaut the Great our Dutchy was a country from the sea to the sea (covering everything between Baltic and Black sea).
During the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Belarusians were somehow pressed by Polish. Their influence became really great after 1650s. But Dutchy was still independant in that Commonwealth. Belarusians, Lithuanians etc. were still able to develop their culture freely.
After 1790s almost all Dutchy was covered by Russia. Howewer, national cultures of nations from Dutchy were still developing. That time brought Belarusians and Ukrainians (and, of course, Russians) their best poets and authors. In Belarus -- Bahuševič, Kolas, Kupala etc. In Ukraine -- Taras Shevchenko, in Russia -- Pushkin and Lermontov.
When Empire fell, national republics started to form (Belarusian People's Republic, Ukrainian People's Republic). But it didn't take long to them to be covered by Soviet Russia (formed is 1917), later USSR (from 1922).
I guess later history of the region is well known.
Thanks for a great video!
Late comment/addition, but I was under the impression that Belarus before 1900s was the "actual" Lithuania, while the current Lithuania was created by "neo-Lithuanians", a subculture made by Russia to split them away from Poland.
+Yagi Well, current Lithuanians are in fact descendants of the "original Lithuanians" who also inhabited parts of Belarus back in the day, hovewer for most of the history of the Commonwealth they were mainly rural population. Belarus and Lithuania were commonly seen as in fact parts of Poland, "Lithuanians" and "Belarusians" often meant "Polish people form Lithuania/Belarus region" as all the noble families and most cities' and towns' inhabitants were either Poles or native population polonised for centuries.
Antos Sivyh its very beutiful and rare when belarusian (baltarusas) say that lithuanians where very tolerant and that lithuanians inherintly tries to bring western values to its neighbors. Mosly people from further east only claims, that we are somehow fashist rusofobic and ... But in fact we only wish the best for others and we where always the defensive wall against empires
I see alternative historians here.
Modern day Lithuanians always were Lithuanians - a Baltic people who split from Slavs centuries before Slavs even divided to Eastern, Western and Southern and scattered all over East European Plane.
Belarusians are the Slavs originated from the Eastern Slavic tribes of Dregovichi and Radimichi (both split with Ukraine), and Krivichi (split with Russia).
Only when Kievan Rus, the confederation of Eastern Slavic tribes, was desintegrated, a splinter known as Principality of Polotsk which constituted 2/3 of modern Belarus was conqured by Lithuania before Mongols even came and this is where Belarusians started to divergent from Russians and Ukrainians.
Latter on Lithuania expanded even more by conquering Kiev from Mongols, ended bloodline of Rus dukes here and Proclaimed itself Grand Duchy, which made the split between Russians and Ukrainians.
This way Lithuania ended up with little empire where majority of the population were Slavs but imperial core was Baltic, Lithuanian, so they were forced to conduct a slightly more Slavic friendly policy yet they still were doing usual imperial stuff like forcefull conversion from Eastern Orthodox faith to Roman Catholic, romanization of language an so on. There is still confusion Lithuanians and Belarusians somehow related whereas theyr relationships are similar to Austrians and Hungarians except even the faith and writing system was different and the Slavs were "second class" to Lithuanians.
Lithuania did not been part of Poland originally and definitely not the "rural Poles". In fact they and Novgorod were competing for dominance and Rus leftovers in post Mongols Eastern Europe and only rapid rise of Moscow that obsorbed Novgorod forced Lithuania to join unjust Commonwealth dominated by Poland with Poles looking down on this "Eastern peasant" those further downgrading Belarusians to "third class" and eventually handing them to Russians.
Gor Mor balts did not split from slavs. Balts came to europe 3500 B.C and originated directly from proto indo europeans. Slavs originated from sarmatians/schytians 400 AD after huns destroyed rome. Thats why lithuanian language is older then latin,heleonic and probably is older then sansckrit , becouse balts gave birth to "vedas" who came from north to india and gave birth to indian culture
Interesting fact about Belarus: even though almost all of Belarus citizens prefer speaking Russian, and despite russians are the most frequent visitors to Belarus, all the road signs in Belarus are made either in Belarusian or English.
Technically it's more practical this way. Too many languages cause problems and poles can at least understand our language when they visit.
@@TheArklyte if they can read Cyrillic
@@noobplayer_23 ah, f//ck, we didn't think that one through...
08:58 ,,these three countries understand each other bettter than anyone else in the worl’’ lol this didn’t age well
Belarus is also the only country in Europe to have the death penalty.
Have never used it though
Elisey Ramsey Yes they have.
For instants? TrailBlazer65
3 People were executed in both 2013 and 2014. www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/18/belarus-executes-two-metro-bombing One such example from 2012.
. TrailBlazer65
Most underrated european country ever.
The only safe european country aswell.
+Giedrius911G What about Chernobyl?
+100 subscribers with no videos? do you afraid Chernobyl?
yep
minsk and barysaw are not bad places. they're good at hockey, european handball, and a little bit at soccer. good natural resources and sights, and good law. it's just the mess that ukraine caused and the low wage
In 5:51, they are saying:
Belarusian: ДОБРЫ ДЗЕНЬ
Russian: Я ПОНИМАЮ
Belarusian: Good day
Russian: I understand
in hungary we call belarus "white russia"
No white russia, but white rus, its huge diffrience.
Rus is like name of a region, there is white ruthenia (Belarus is here), red ruthenia (between Poland and Ukraine) and even a black rus and much more.
Also, you have very important person as a avatar and name, so please correct Władisław to Władysław.
Jak ja z Polski.
I think we all know why we are here
Yes Barbie might have to update it now Lukashenko is on his way out.
No I don’t care about the protests I was interested in Belarus way before it was cool
@@gamermapper I have Belarussian ancestry. Which is a pretty big reason in my opinion
Yep
Mother Russia?
Love ❤ to Belarus from Poland
Dzięki ziomek :)
Love 💗 to Poland from Belarus
Z jakiego miasta jesteś?
I'm Polish and i felt in love in Belarus too 😍
@@anauwannaknow mieszkam w Grodnie
UPDATE #2 !!! HEY GEOGRAPEEPS!! Are any of you guys from ICELAND!?!?!
My cameraman Brandon will be there next week and he wants to get footage of YOU guys the Icelandic subscribers!! Hit me up if you'd like to meet up with him and be on GEOGRAPHY NOW! ALSO if you are from BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA or BOTSWANA contact me to help me with those up coming countries!
Hit me up at GeographyLater@gmail.com!
Please drop videos oftenly I can' wait thouse...
How can i help you with Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Geography Now I'm from Iceland
What about Bhutan???????
Keep it up!
I am from Cephalonia island,Greece.Married to a Belarussian,I had the opportunity to visit the country twice with the usual paperwork you need for a visa to a non-E.U. country.I visited the city of Gomel (my wife's homeland) and thoroughly enjoyed it,it is a very nice place.I recommend visiting the country in early and mid May,it is teeming with green and flowers....and that goes not only for the countryside but for the cities as well....
2019 UPDATE: Citizens of most western countries can come to Belarus visa free for 30 days.
Oh that's cool, I was disappointed hearing about the difficulty to travel there
GREAT NEWS
Not anymore! At least for a while.
I believe this only applies to air travel. Train, bus, and car travel is still restricted.
This should be pinned
Random fact: There's also a town in France named Brest. And much like Belarus' Brest, it's the located at the west end of the country (or Metropolitan area to be precise)
yea U r right !!! I'm Afghan and I was confused too about Brest in 2 European countries.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ahaha Brest
It's perfectly normal for there to be 2 Brests.
so a Belarusian can ask a French person: how big is your Brest?.....:D
Greetings from Belarus in Minsk
Brandon Heat My family is from there! But we currently live in Clowne, Grant County, Kansas, USA
I really love Belarus!!!!
Love from Greece❤❤❤
Hi
Brest is also the name of a city of 140.000 inhabitants in western France.
The famous one where Querelle arrived in.
I think you need to update this video, especially the Friends Zone part. The way Belarus supported Russia after its invasion on Ukraine makes one doubt if it is still an independent country.
Ikr, "the slavic sisters" had me dying
In portuguese we say "Belarrússia" which actually means BeautifulRussia 😂
=3 z
In greece we say Λευκορωσία which means White Russia
No Brasil nós chamamos de Bielo-rússia. (Pelo menos eu chamo assim)
No Brasil se chama Bielorrússia depois do acordo ortográfico.
aww shucks. thx
Belarusian is not a mixture of Polish and Russian, nor is it "derived" from Russian as you've stated. It is a language in its very own right, belonging to the East Slavic family-- to which Russian and Ukrainian both also belong. Modern Belarusian developed organically from the same Old East Slavic mother tongue alongside Ukrainian and Russian, while featuring a greater degree of lexical and phonological influence from Polish by virtue of geographical proximity. You wouldn't say that a sister is "derived" from her brother, so saying that the Belarusian language derives from the Russian one is fallacious.
Trasyanka is another matter entirely, and is a relaxed, informal dialect which mixes linguistic elements of Belarusian and Russian. It is generally spoken in more comfortable, everyday settings. Very sadly, the pure language is languishing and is increasingly neglected, as it is often associated with rural or less educated people (this is in no small part due to Lukashenko's very pro Russian political stance).
Then explain how must of Belarusian language vocabulary is either had origin from Polish or Russian
@@gabbya1289 language reform of 1933
@@bluemrpony What about it
Right you are
Hm, as a Hong Kong native, I guess this is kind of similar to the fallacious claim I sometimes hear that Cantonese is a dialect of Mandarin? As though Cantonese was actually derived from Mandarin when in fact they both diverged from Middle Chinese with Cantonese being linguistically closer to it? Is that a good comparison?
Love Belarus from Greece🇬🇷❤️🇧🇾
coming back here to say this was around when i found geography now, its so wild how far this channel has come since this point and ive been glad to be here all the way since then. If it werent for my homeschool at the time featuring the argentina episode i wouldnt have found geography now i dont think. I distinctly remember then checking the rest of the videos this channel made at the time and this being the most recent one at the time. I was like 8 when i found this channel and now im 16 which is awesome how ive grown up with this!
One of your best in a while, Paul. You really should get a sponsor for you to promote at the end of the video so that you can have more money to make these.
Somehow I feel like this video will gain some traction today.
Yes the Belarus election was yesterday
I think that Milo Djukanovic qualifies for a title of last dictator in Europe way more than Lukashenko.
+OldClassicGamer LoL true.
+Aleksa Petrovic pro-western does not mean you can get the green card to not be called a dictator. The Saudi King is a dictator and pro-American.
I've heard from Montenegrins that they wanted to stay with Serbia, but Djukanović wanted to steal more and because of that they are now their own country. Well, that's what I've heard atleast.
***** LoL, Milo is a dictator there is no denying that.
Same logic can be used then for North Korea, Kim Jong Un is not dictator because every other party is for ''South Korea'' and there is no other option, dumb logic.
Also ''Montenegrins'' are not a real nationality, they are just regional name for Serbs, difference between Serbs and Montenegrin Serbs is just like difference between Germans and Austrians.
Same nationality, different states.
Kosta M. just like Kosovo and Albania. Same people different country.
Whos here after protest 2020
I am
yep
Who os here after 2020
I am from Belarus. But seriously don't call me Russian
The Silly pigeon I'm Russian don't call be Belarusian.
What if I am partially both? Or partially all types slav, what then do you call me?
Ur Human Toast Slavic.
alexander rybak
Ok Russian
I'm from Belarus and I am proud of my country.And I'm talking on Belarusian
Владислав Шибалко belarussian is russian dude... thats like saying you speak austrian
Ukraine, Belarus and all baltic states Je Russia
Macedonia Je Greece
Gaza and West Bank Je Israel
Taiwan Je China
Kosovo Je Serbia
How do you say in Belorussian "Russia sucks"?
Tareboss T. Расiя смокча
@@SwaggerT0 No.
"These 3 countries understand each other better than anyone else in the world."
*Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia:* You sure about that?
Serbia,Croatia,Slovenia,Macedonia,Montenegro,Bosnia....
its way more than 3😂
@@ramonaselas1053 I agree about Montenegro, but Macedonia and Slovenia don't belong in this group. It is true that we can also understand a lot from Slovenian and Macedonian, but not as much as the other 4. Macedonian is also written in Cyrillic, so only Serbs and Montenegrins can read it.
Macedonia dose, we Serbs from southern region Understand them around 80%, and they understand Serbian (witch also means Croatian) completely because of large cultural influence we have on them. Since they are like our little brother, who is very proud sometimes 😂
Ребята, я понял всё что вы написали. Наши языки так похожи. Oh wait...
@@JuiKoloshi грустно, что славянам приходится использовать этот заморский язык чтобы общаться друг с другом
this has not aged well...
how
At 1:10 you showed Crimea as part of Ukraine and Estonia as part of Russia.
ProudToBeUkrainian But it's controlled by Russia. You can't deny that.
ProudToBeUkrainian Well, should a map be accurate or please some nationalist sentiments? I believe they should be accurate.
DeathdwarfRising Should a map be for the nationalistic Russian purposes or should it reflect the view of the normal world? Disputed borders can be shown in several different ways anyways.
eksiarvamus You misunderstand the word "accurate". No matter what you think, there is little dispute that like 100,000 Russian and pro-Russian soldiers currently chill in Crimea.
DeathdwarfRising I'm aware of that, but occupied areas aren't often shown as part of the occupying nation in order to degrade the occupying country's nationalistic goals.
I salute you, you pronounced Lithuanian names quite well! I also like how you didn't make the common mistake of calling Lithuanian a slavic language :)
Yeah, I've experienced that far too many times. Greetings from Latvia! :)
Labas brali!
Lithuanians in medival times slavik Belarusian langvich, tiday's letuvis calbos is Zhematian language that was finally edited by Jonas Yablonskis in the 1900.
Ignore this idiot. He comes from a country with no history of its own, as it was always ruled by someone else,for the majority of their time - by Lithuanian dukes and later Polish kings. They try to steal Lithuanian history since they themselves have none :) Let me remind you that the first documents written in Lithuanian were in 1503, so this entire sentence of bullshit is just bullshit.
Lol who has no history?)))
We actually already prooved that we colonized your Lands in the 1209, we built fortresses in Samagotia just to protect our lands from Teitonic invation and we occupaid you because we were afraid that you going to invite Teutonic and Livonian Knights like your closest relatives Žemigalis
You joke about someone saying "Don't call me Russian" in Russian. Meanwhile, you live in the United States and speak English....
USA aqually dosent even have its own ethnic population. Amercians are aqually English people who wanted a country for themselfs.
Americans are actually English. Got it. Glad you were around to put me in my place.
Its my opinion but i kinda stick to it too.
It's your opinion that Americans are actually English? Is that even the kind of statement that can be considered an opinion? It's like saying, "It's my opinion that 4 + 5 = 9."
Eeeh.. IDK.
2021 upd :
EU&UN : DON'T FLY OVER BELARUS AIRSPACE
*cough* Switzerland is not in the EU *cough cough*
+Petrov Theovsk Theoreticly they ain't but practicly they are
So is Kaliningrad of Russia but he added it in too so
*cough* Switzerland is a fake country *cough* *cough*
Been staying in Minsk for a couple of days and it is truly a beautiful city. Lots of love from Germany 🇩🇪
I am a Pole and I just love this country. The best state in Eastern Europe :)
Pitruź PL
Ja naprawdę kocham Polskę,lubię podróżować do was na wakacje)))
pozdrowienia z Białorusi))))
FRANCISK SKARINA Прывітанне з польскіх / Привет из польских!!! :D
Pitruź PL
Dziękuję ze napisał w języku białoruskim)))
Pitruź PL I'm Belarusian and I love Poland with all my heart as well c:
Actually, I have some Polish ancestors, probably that's why I feel kinda related to this country.)
Pitruź PL Same here, hope that our relations will emprove a lot. We are the only two nations in this region that dont have any real historical problems with eachother. Oh and half of my family comes from Belarus :)
They've had the SAME leader since 1994.
@@lurji better late than never😂
They originally had an apparently democratic constitution in 1994 too, but Lukashenko got in power and changed it.
Belarus is a dictatorship. The elections are a joke.
Love Belarus From Bulgaria brothers and sisters 🇧🇬❤️🇧🇾
Free Belarus!⚪🔴⚪ I love Bulgaria!🇧🇬
@@ERROR-hh5os thanks brother 🇧🇬❤️🇧🇾
@@bulgariannationalist1637 Only the correct flag is not RG🇧🇾, but the historical and national WRW (White-red-white)
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But okay, you didn’t know ♥ ️🇧🇬
Толькі сапраўды флаг не КЗ, а гістарычны нацыянальны БЧБ( бел-чырвона-белы)
Але нічога страшнага, бо вы не ведалі:)♥️🇧🇬
На ўсялякі выпадак напісаў па беларуску, бо балгарская мова даволі падобна на беларускую, мо паймеце:)
@@ERROR-hh5os ok брат
@@ERROR-hh5os🇧🇬❤️⚪⚪⚪🔴🔴🔴⚪⚪⚪
Dear +Geography Now.
Thank you for an overall pretty comprehensive video. I wanted to provide some feedback if you are open to it.
Belarus does not mean White Russia, sorry to disappoint the pro-Russian rhetoric. It is derived from the terms Belaja - White , Rus - Ruthenia.
Russia likes to claim the name, however, Ruthenia was a different historical multi-ethnic state and does not correspond to the current day Russia - Rossia.
The name of the mixed language is Trasianka not Transianka, which is also easier to pronounce.
Russians do not understand Belarusan/Belarusian when it's spoken. The only Russians that understand Belarusan language are the ones that studies or have been exposed to if for an extended period of time. I tested this many times, but people just blink, stare and on rare occasion smile.
The language was NOT derived from the Russian language but. It was Russified by Russian starting in 1800s as part of the colonization rhetoric. There are a number of features that Belarusan has, which neither Russian nor Polish languages exhibit. So to claim that it's a mix or a dialect is incorrect. There are two different set of grammar and spelling rules for Belarusan language, one predates Russian influence and another one after it. They are called Taraškievica and Narkamaŭka. Taraškievica includes more native words and phonetic spelling. While Narkamaŭka is the result of Russification of the langauge.
While the pronunciation is of Belarusian is close enough, it is not technically correct. More exact pronunciation is Beh-lah-roo-see-an and alternative spelling Belarusan - Beh-lah-roo-san. In some shots I also saw the misspelling with 2 s. It's always 1 s as there is only 1 s in the world Belarus.
Thanks for your time.
Are Belarusians even slavic ppl?
:-) *chuckle* good question.
There is definitely plenty of Slavic characteristics in the culture, but there is also many other ethnicities that helped shape Belarusans as they are today.
Elizabeth M. the best comment
I’m Belarusian, and all this information is new to me.
Thank you Elizabeth
Belarusian is not derived from Russian, those languages are closely related, with common roots. If Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are sisters like you said, then it's a sister-language to Russian :)
In fact the form of "Ruthenian" which become modern Belarusian was a dominant (and for long time official) language of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. There where books printed in this language since early XVI century (like Skaryna's Bible), before first books printed in Russian.
Artur M. it was the dominant written language because Lithuanian was not a written language until the 16th century all our dukes and ethnic Lithuanians spoke Lithuanian belarussian was spoke by the ruthenians lets not fight admit belarus was never GDL its only that our king mindaugas married the princess of polotsk so our history is tied
Artur M. I thought Ruthenian was an old name for Ukrainians
It was used for both. The terms Belarusian and Ukrainian (in modern mining) got into use in 19th century.
"Lithuanian was not a written language until the 16th century all our dukes and ethnic Lithuanians spoke Lithuanian belarussian was spoke by the ruthenians"
Haha.
You can definetly see this by reading Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Ooops.
So dukes used not written language while their citizens used written.
Love Belarus from USA 🇺🇸♥️🇧🇾
Screw Belarus, and not only that, but my country is worst known for having less men than women and it's one of the most s***idal countries according to Google
@Дэмиан Домаскин You're welcome
@@IanCaponeDrVonoreheimdonzYTBelarus loves Russia
You americans love freedom don't you? Then don't use that flag, it means dictatorship, the true flag looks like this:
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To my mind it's amazing video about my mothercountry, our people kind and friendly. We always glad to see tourist in our country. Belarusian nature picturesque, cities clean and beautiful.
Welcome to Belarus ❤
As a Belorussian, I can say, you did a good job.
Tim70 Nothing makes me happier than when natives of the country I make a video on approve.
@@GeographyNow Hello
I'm from Belarus and this video is very accurate! Great job :)
Belarus means White Rus or White Ruthenia... not Russia
thx
I want to go to Belarus, love from the Netherlands and Norway 🇳🇱🇳🇴 ❤️🇧🇾
No you don't
Hello from Kazakhstan! Thanks for the great video.
Беларусь классная страна)))
As to the flag - I think it's was worth mentioning about the write-red-white flag that war prior to Lukashenko.
Indeed! After all, not only was this a historically significant flag (it was used in the 1918-1919 Belarusian Democratic Republic, as well as the early Republic of Belarus from 1991 to 1995), but it also has a contemporary _political_ significance as well: it is popular among the anti-Lukashenko opposition!
dear people from Belarus. Your are great people and dont deserve a dictator. Pls come to into the Eu.
I'm afraid the EU doesn't work like that.
Устаревшая инфа уже ездят по безвизу к нам
К кому к вам?
@@ВикторНк-з9о в Беларусь
тк видосу 4 года
@@АнтонЛітвінаў А он что написал? Он это и написал, что информация устарела. Или он не прав?
Видос сделали в 2015
Што тут сказаць, Жыве Беларусь!
Μαλακα
Malfaro Malfaro Малако;)
😂😂
Няхай жыве, хай толькi не злуе!
Жыве вечна!
Here's a joke I've heard: Russia and Belarus wanted to reestablish the Soviet Union with just the two of them, as a response to the EU, but the plan failed because Putin and Lukashenko couldn't agree which of them will be the president of the union.
were is the joke ?
+Gamers Combat (Sapis) ikr
Reading about their Union state scared me
***** Because they wanted a common currency/language/flag, and they wanted to expand it...And the flag they wanted was based off the Soviet flag...My country is right next to them, I don't like expansionism...
***** Oh, forgive me. *Sigh*
Thank you for making this video and for sharing it. I really enjoyed it.
In swedish we call it Vitryssland, which if you would translate it to english, it would be: Whiterussia
***** K, but harder to figure out on english. Unless you can speak russia.
Name may come from the fact that Belarus was conquered by Lithuanians (and then pretty much became it). But it's not White Russia, it's White Ruthenia.
In Polish it's "Białoruś"
Belorussian flag is really beautiful, isnt it?
+Kate Senatskaya I prefer prev. from 91-94. "White-red-white"
From Belarusian People's Republic 1918
+Kate Senatskaya It kind of looks like a Christmas sweater.... but it is original.
+Kate Senatskaya Albanian is the best
Angel B Serbia is just a basic slavic Red,Blue and white color, boring and nothing unique.
Montengro's color's are not as aggressive and awesome as Albanian's.
Albanian flag whatever people think of us is very simple and badass. The color's are perfect.
Bhutan has most awesome flag. And Wales. They have dragons
2:44 what's the story behind that little dot that remained belarusian?
As an American of partial Belarusian descent, I found this video quite informative! Subscribed!
Приезжайте в Беларусь, будем рады :)
А вони вже пробовали во 41-ом
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Привет из Германия. Красивые Беларуские девушки.
Belarusians are great people, very friendly when you know them a bit - I wish that our countries had better relationships, coz for me belarusians are like cousins - cheers from poland :)
I am from Belarus and I did not understand what you said at the beginning...
Weird to think that this video is almost a decade old
Я смотрю это видео в 2019 и я живу в Беларуси :'3
Наверно,ты особенная...
Hi from Brest =)
Hi from Minsk :DD
Hi..... I'm from Kyiv.
почему ты пишешь комментарии на английском?
And I'm from Biała Podlaska :)
Because this video and practically all of the comments are in english.
Жыве Беларусь!
you should make an updated episode of belarus, because relaitions with their western neighbors are different now...
05:12 You think summer averages of 18°C are "cold" and "below room temperature"? Firstly, how hot are your rooms (!), and secondly, you wait to you see the north of the UK. Summers averages of around 12°C away from the cities (and yes, you _will_ see people in bikinis and speedos!). When you've lived here for a few years (decades?), you get used to it.
Inky Scrolls He lives in Southern California, where it's at least 26.67°C (80°F) 2/3 of the time, and where rain is uncommon (at least in LA and surrounding areas)
But Belarus is land locked so that's why u don't see bikinis but UK isnt
Why is Estonia a part of Russia? 1:20
"White Russia" can be misleading because it plays into the idea that it is part of the modern country Russia. More accurate is "White Rus' "
Russia was adopted as a state name by the Tsardom of Muscovy because they claimed authority over all of Rus' (aka Ruthenia). Rus' is a family of slavic nations including several regions that were named by color. For example, Galicia region was called Red Rus' , and today's Belarus obviously was White Rus'. There was also Kievan Rus' (basically old Ukraine), named after Kiev, and several other Rus' lands.
Going back to first sentence, Moscow claimed the right to rule over the whole family of Rus' slavic nations, so they called themselves basically the state of Rus' in general (aka "Russia"). It is like how Saudi Arabia calls itself Arabia because it implies they have right to rule all Arab lands.
milkmn00 You might be right but as an Austrian I can tell you that the German name of Belarus is "Weißrussland", which means exactly "White Russia" (weiß=white, Russland=Russia)
Fredi Miksch True but I want people to understand that doesnt make them modern "Russian".
Russland literally means "land of Russ" , or in the common transliteration, "Rus' land". Yes, that is essentially the same meaning as the word "Russia" as well (Ruthenia comes from Latin, Rus' is the common transliteration, Russia comes from the Greek, which is what the Russian Cyrillic alphabet was based on).
My point is that Moscow chose the name Russia on purpose because that gives the impression that they control all Rus' (always their idea of 'destiny' , believed even today). You can see it works by how many people think "Belarusians/Ukrainians/etc are actually 'Russians' ". It's different. They are one of the Rus' , but different from Moscow Russians. Just like Navajo and Cherokee are both Native American, they are still different and shouldnt be confused as being the same.
I just wanted to tell you that "White Russia" isn't completely incorrect because many countries use this translation even if it is wrong (I didn't know this before but I guess that you are right). Of course Belarus isn't Russia and I think that many people know that.
"It is like how Saudi Arabia calls itself Arabia because it implies they have right to rule all Arab lands."
That's the best explanation I ever heard. And yes, it is correct.
First time learning about Belarus, it seems the country is beautiful and clean. I hope one day i can visit Belarus. Greetings from Malaysia.(Asia)
Do you mean Russian Belarus.?
Hey Paul, are you going to do the United Kingdom as one vid or are you going to do england, scotland, wales and northern ireland seperately?
You know either way it's gonna get...complicated :P
Jayfive276 I think it's most likely going to be one (probably incredibly long) video on the UK as a whole, as the four separate "countries" aren't actually sovereign states.
ChubbyBunny217 Ya but they all have there own cultures.
james learing so?
james learing The UK isn't *that* diverse culturally, at least compared to other countries in the world like India, Nigeria or even Russia.
All 4 'countries' of the UK speak predominantly English, have majority white populations, are mostly secular and have broad support for Liberal values. Plus, we've been unified for centuries and have historically experienced things like the Reformation and Industrial Revolution more or less together. Compare that with somewhere like India, which is far more ethnically, religiously, linguistically and culturally diverse and you cannot justify doing the 'countries' of the UK separately.
Jayfive276 Seems like he's only doing independent, sovereign states
Belarus means white Ruthenia rather than white Russia.
Ruthenia was preslavic i'd say. It covers most of the eastern europe and was ruled by Viking dukes. Then they start to fight each other and borders occurs. But Viking dukes ruled very different nations and tribes, some of them was even baltic and Finno-Ugric, not slavic.
King Crabbly But Ruthenia and Rus mean exactly the same, and Ruthenia is a more germanized version of this word. There are many regions that have Rus in their slavic names and translate to Ruthenia in English.
eg. pl:"Ruś czerwona" translates to "Red ruthenia" in english or svk:"Podkarpatská Rus" translates to "Carpathian Ruthenia"
Belo-rus'. White-o-rus'. The modern Russian name for Russia is the Greek version of Russian word (Rus').
In German Belarus is literelly called white Russia
EFFICIENT REMOVER In Danish too
What's with the fighter jet droping a bomb on Crimea on 9:17 ? And the term you were looking for is annexation and not invasion. Love your videos btw (subscribed).
I was born in Belarus and lived there a few years before moving out. Still coming back sometimes to check the family. Cool video