It is an essential part of the history of this area of the world. It is always a pet peeve of mine when historical documentaries use the wrong map for the time period they are discussing.
It annoys me tremendously when they not only get the coastline wrong, but also the whole topography, like where the Rhine used to stream into the sea. Even in the Netherlands kids learn stuff the wrong way. For the Netherlands it's a crucial part. They did a good job on this one. 👍
As somebody from luxembourg i loved this since for once we are not the smallest but you can clearly see that in medieval times the county of luxembourg was actually a powerhouse in the benelux region. (Some mistakes though, luxembourg started way smaller than on this map and only gradually incorporated the regions of arlon, la roche, durbuy and most importantly in 1264 the competing county of vianden).
@@cassu6 the counts of luxembourg owned brandenburg, bohemia, silesia, moravia and later hungary and croatia. 5 luxembourger were german emperors. However, for us luxembourgers it meant that the monarch was not in his homecountry anymore but they lived in prague, neglecting the duchy of luxembourg during this period of time.
Great video. Good detail and I like the choice of representing inner structure over foreign powers. Could you please include all your sources? This would up the usefulness of a video like this massively!
Nice! Only remark is that the borders of the provinces of Belgium changed a little bit during the livetime of the country because of the establishment of the language border in the sixties and the fusion of municipalities in the 70's, and don't forget the absorption of Zwijndrecht by Antwerp in 1923. I wonder where you got the source of the medieval territories.
What a wonderful history lesson of the Low Countries, not to mention the delightful music accompanying the video. I might even have some heritage from there as my gr-gr-grandfather from Ostereistedt, Lower Saxony, some 25 miles east of Bremen, had the given name of Lutje (with an umlaut over the "u"). I've read that Lutje is a Frisian name.
Small mistake: In 2015, the Luxembourgish Government abolished the 3 districts of Diekirch, Luxembourg and Grevenmacher, and made the cantons (subunits of the districts) the new highest administrative unit.
@@martijnkosters9024 It is true but it is the result of geology. The straight border between Groningen en Drenthe is the Hondsrug. The shape of Drenthe mostly follows higher land with sand. Drenthe and Lauwersmeer together split Groningen and Friesland. When you google 'hoogtekaart Nederland' it is very obvious.
He uses the modern borders where they used to be undefined for a long time. This animation could represent these things more accurately, but globally it is correct.
@@pietervoogt the straight border between Groningen and Drenthe is not the Hondsrug. For centuries, it was bogland. It was not until 1615 that the border was defined: the Sems Linie (Sems Line), after the guy who drew the line. The Hondsrug is situated west of the Sems Linie. The border between Groningen (then "Ommelanden") and Friesland was also defined around 1600. Before that, the province Groningen was de facto Frisian, except the city of Groningen.
Many of the other regions have historically shapes going way back as well,. The creators just decided to start the build up from the less developed coastline, rather than from the southern regions.
@@istoppedcaring6209 This was after World War II. The Dutch demanded territories from occupied Germany, significant zones, along the border, with the idea of expelling the German population after. The great powers were against it since they alredy had to deal with about 15 million German refugees from Central Europe, so the Netherlands only got about 70-100 km2 worth of territory, and since it was money they mostly needed they're open to sell it back to West Germany. Except for one hill which remains Dutch to this day.
Quite nice, but missing some details, and I would have preferred if you had consistently used the local names in the local language, but that might have gotten you into trouble. I would have included some more areas outside the modern borders, like French Flanders, OstFriesland, and some parts of the Rheinland.
regarding the rebellion in the 16th century, William was a prominent figure in it but not the defacto leader from the start especially since Flanders and Brabant revolted earlier than the northern netherlands
Very good, although the Frisians actually did reach farther then what you put out, they have been known to from modern day Calais to the Danish WaddenZee islands and the coast next to it.
@@lucasgillis All those peoples in those areas like Henegouwen and Atrecht spoke Dutch, heck even Francia was literally founded by the Dutch (Low Franconian speaking tribes) so don't you dare act as if those Latin speaking frog ass lickers deserve anything more then us.
Really well made ! I just struggle to understand why certain important and powerfull places are not shown on the right side, like Liège (thhought it was because it was a Prince bishopric but Utrecht is shown later) or Hainaut.
Brabant popping up around 840 can’t be right. Brabant started around Brussel and Leuven. Not where North Brabant now is. Land van Ravenstein and other micro states (Megen, Gemert) in north east Brabant are missing.
We were conquered, first by Napoleon, and later other countries like England, France an Austria had a big say in how this region should work. It is hard to be an oppressing monarch in your own country when there is a free republic next door. The argument was that the region was unstable and prone to revolts. So they reverted it back to an monarchy, which shortly after split into two monarchies. A little before we went from being against slavery to slave trading ourselves. Mostly because of influences from trading with the Spanish. Can you imagine?
@@mennovanlavieren3885 That said, the first dutch king was a brother of Napoleon (Louis Bonaparte, his son will be the future french emperor Napoleon III...).
Beautifull. Amazing to see the history of our region in such detail. Diverse for sure, but so much that binds us. A United Low Countries, let's make it happen again! From Artois to the Frisian islands, from Zeeland to Luxembourg. Eendracht maakt macht, l'Union fait la force. Burgundy can join as well, if they want. ;-)
Kind of arbitrary to only focus on regions in the modern Low Countries, when many other regions were strongly associated in the past. East Frisia and Kleve are obvious examples, but showing the wider context of the HRE etc could have helped too, certainly considering colonial possessions were included for some reason
Indeed. Why does the country stop east of the Veluwe? Why aren't shires like Twente or Hamaland included? How come Borculo and Lichtenvoorde are all of a sudden part of Zutphen, while this only happened in 1615, when they were (illegally) annexed by Zutphen?
I love the video, but the Zuiderzee didn’t appear suddenly in 1000ad. It took a few years of robbing peat and trees from the land :) that’s where I live, we have excavations of settlements from the Neolithic age onwards.
Hmm had wel iets maar aandacht kunnen besteden aan het zuiden van de lage landen. Belangrijk moment hier is de opkomst van de Bourgondiers. Ze hadden ons op school wel wat meer daarover mogen leren, cruciaal geweest voor het onstaan van de Nederlandse identiteit. had ook iets consequenter met de namen kunnen zijn. Dus Vlaanderen ipv Flanders, Henegouwen ipv Hainaut, Namen ipv Namur etc.
@@timpauwels3734 Did the locals used the french name back then? Duinkerken for example used to be prominently Dutch speaking, but now most locals speak French. I don't know for sure about the other regions.
After our ancestors burned all the trees to keep warm, when they ran out, they dug up the peat as well, which caused erosion and flooded the land. It became the Zuiderzee.
Can you do something like this but on a region of Germany called the palatinate and I am asking because in the year 1753 in an area that would eventually become part of the modern day German state of Baden Wurttemberg my 6th great grandfather John Andrew Weikert who was from the principality of Wertheim and he secretly left the principality of Wertheim on June 5th of the year 1753 and upon leaving the principality of Wertheim he began a journey that would take him from Dertingen down the river main to the confluence of it and the river Rhine and down the Rhine River to Rotterdam where he boarded a ship called the Neptune for Philadelphia Pennsylvania which at that time was the capital of the British province of Pennsylvania.
where's the margraviate of Antwerp? (Brabant did not exist until the counts of louvain gained the margraviate of Antwerp in the 1100's) also where's all the other regions pre-1000 in the south? waasland and other "pagi" or "gouwen"?
I wonder what's the reasoning behind not mentioning Flanders while Ghent and Bruges already existed and for ignoring Southern Limburg (or whatever it was called at the time) where Tongeren was the first city in the Lowlands!
This is pro-Frisian propaganda! But no in all seriousness you are right, it is weird it takes Frisia as the only starting point when Dutch itself is a Frankish langauge, and cities like Tongeren and Maastricht should be on there much earlier
@@sebe2255 Yeah Maastricht had such an important history and the oldest church of the lowlands in the 6th century and Tongeren ( Atuatuca Tungrorum) was literally (asides from Bagacum apparently but just talking about Belgium and the Netherlands now) here over 15 centuries before Christ so it makes really no fucking sense that these two appear so late at the map when they played such a big part in the early game.
It's taken from an international perspective as a baseline. I started out using more Dutch names before I got a rigid style down, that's why there are some of those still in the end of the timeline. The French names are there because that is what those places are called in English, and monarchs in an international setting go by their Anglified names. Hope this helps :)
Mooi! De overstroming van 1134 en de aanpassing van de grote plassengebieden zou nog een toevoeging kunnen zijn. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormvloed_van_1134
I am surprised the map starts with and works it way from Friesland, and not the at the time further developed and more influential southern parts of the Netherlands. The coastline at the time was mostly marsh and tidal plains with very few people living there and no significant settlements other then Dorestad. It would have made more sense to have started from Maastricht, Nijmegen, Deventer, Luik, Tongeren, Antwerpen, Brugge and Gent, even Utrecht and Middelburg. Charlemagne spoke Dutch and his reign was much more influential on the development of the Low Countries.
@@sebe2255 well, no language we speak today existed 1200 years ago. The Dutch are mostly Frankish, Saxon and Friesian in origin. But thousands of years of migration, mingling, exchange and shifting borders means that no gene is limited to a specific part of Europe.
@@Hadewijch_ No, calling the language Charlemagne spoke Dutch is anachronistic, and obviously Dutch has undergone many changes since the days of old Frankish/Dutch (Dutch being a linguistic term here and not a historical one). Charlemagne spoke the ancestral language of modern Dutch. And that is if we are using broad terms. Standardized languages obviously didn’t exist. He probably spoke the ancestral language of Limburger-Aachener regional languages
It misses one thing: Zevenaar and some of its surroundings were, as being a part of the former Cleves Enclaves, a small district in the Duchy of Cleves.
@@OllieBye Oh wow, it's actually really cool that one of my greatest inspirations for making these types of projects has actually seen my humble video :)
There is a Frankish dialect in Germanic languages. The upper Frankish is German and the lower Frankish is Dutch. Aren't all these dialects the same language? And are these dialects from the Old Frankish Kingdom language?
Iirc the linguistic connection between the German Fraconian and old Frankish is hard to determine. It is more likely that Franconia got its name in the same way France did, as a region conquered by the Franks. Regions of Germany with much clearer connection to the Franks are in NRW, around Cologne-Aachen In terms of which is the closest to Frankish, Dutch is a direct descendant of Salian Frankish, and it has the clearest link to old Frankish (Old Frankish and old Dutch are used interchangeably).
The water was always there, s'not as much bout where it came from, but where it went. See the thing bout holland and windmills is that the big connection the two share isnt just because of image. Using windmills, the dutch pumped away water on mass to connect the landmasses and create "Polders". This land reclamation started as early as the 14th century but really got into swing by the 15th. More refined dike engineering and the pumping away of water, first by windmills later by steam-powered means, means that now-adays 17% of the total amount of land were living on was dredged up artificially.
In reality this happened slightly more gradual. Or in waves. Between 9th and 13th century with the rising sea levels of the North Sea, under influence of the Medieval Warm Period, there were numerous floodings, each opening up the lake more and more until it was more an inland sea than a lake. This sea came to be known as Zuiderzee (southern sea).
@@MaMiEuCompany Some of these floods, although not tsunami's, could still be very significant and disruptive. And overall the story of this lake turned inland sea turned lake again is at the heart of Dutch history. The Dutch Wikipedia on the Zuiderzee names a number of interesting sources, some of which I've read. On top of that I'd highly recommend the impressive work 'Duizend jaar weer, wind, en water in de Lage Landen' by Buisman if you want a real deep dive (pun intended 😅). It's all in Dutch unfortunately, but with the onset of AI we've seen I gather it will become easier and easier to read in different languages.
sea levels were SIGNIFICANTLY higher in the early medieval era. When sea levels started to go down (duinkerkse transgressies)the netherlands became inhabitable.
Just wanted to brag because nowadays it is useless information. My family's origin in the Middle Ages was from Eastergoa, and they joined Henry the First from Brabant in his crusade.
Germany and Fr@nce couldn't behave now we have a frankestien nation as a useless buffer which failed two times which acted as a gate rather than a buffer.
Having grown up in the low countries, I thought I had it all pretty much figured out, but still managed to learn a few things! Great video!!!
I like how you changed the coastline of the Netherlands.
It is an essential part of the history of this area of the world.
It is always a pet peeve of mine when historical documentaries use the wrong map for the time period they are discussing.
Easily my favorite part.
It annoys me tremendously when they not only get the coastline wrong, but also the whole topography, like where the Rhine used to stream into the sea. Even in the Netherlands kids learn stuff the wrong way. For the Netherlands it's a crucial part. They did a good job on this one. 👍
It's crazy how much land they actually reclaimed.
And Flanders ...
This is the best History of the Low countries I've seen so far. Very good research and a splendid animation. Petje af
As somebody from luxembourg i loved this since for once we are not the smallest but you can clearly see that in medieval times the county of luxembourg was actually a powerhouse in the benelux region. (Some mistakes though, luxembourg started way smaller than on this map and only gradually incorporated the regions of arlon, la roche, durbuy and most importantly in 1264 the competing county of vianden).
Wasn't the house of Luxembourg also quite powerful? I remember them owning Bohemia and being Holy Roman Emperors at some point?
@@cassu6 the counts of luxembourg owned brandenburg, bohemia, silesia, moravia and later hungary and croatia. 5 luxembourger were german emperors. However, for us luxembourgers it meant that the monarch was not in his homecountry anymore but they lived in prague, neglecting the duchy of luxembourg during this period of time.
@thierryparte2506 😬🙈
Flemish coast also used to be islands. E.g Oostende was the eastern end of an island and Westende was the westernmost point of the island.
Great video. Good detail and I like the choice of representing inner structure over foreign powers.
Could you please include all your sources? This would up the usefulness of a video like this massively!
belgium became a country, the united belgian states, for one year in 1790
belgium fake country boooo!
Nice! Only remark is that the borders of the provinces of Belgium changed a little bit during the livetime of the country because of the establishment of the language border in the sixties and the fusion of municipalities in the 70's, and don't forget the absorption of Zwijndrecht by Antwerp in 1923.
I wonder where you got the source of the medieval territories.
What a wonderful history lesson of the Low Countries, not to mention the delightful music accompanying the video. I might even have some heritage from there as my gr-gr-grandfather from Ostereistedt, Lower Saxony, some 25 miles east of Bremen, had the given name of Lutje (with an umlaut over the "u"). I've read that Lutje is a Frisian name.
Small mistake: In 2015, the Luxembourgish Government abolished the 3 districts of Diekirch, Luxembourg and Grevenmacher, and made the cantons (subunits of the districts) the new highest administrative unit.
Wow. I didnt realize just how long the Spanish held Belgium
The good times
Interesting how the three northern provinces basically got their shape in the year 820, Groningen even earlier.
I struggle to believe that is true though. The whole region was marshland, I doubt it had a clearly definable border line.
@@martijnkosters9024 It is true but it is the result of geology. The straight border between Groningen en Drenthe is the Hondsrug. The shape of Drenthe mostly follows higher land with sand. Drenthe and Lauwersmeer together split Groningen and Friesland. When you google 'hoogtekaart Nederland' it is very obvious.
He uses the modern borders where they used to be undefined for a long time.
This animation could represent these things more accurately, but globally it is correct.
@@pietervoogt the straight border between Groningen and Drenthe is not the Hondsrug. For centuries, it was bogland. It was not until 1615 that the border was defined: the Sems Linie (Sems Line), after the guy who drew the line. The Hondsrug is situated west of the Sems Linie.
The border between Groningen (then "Ommelanden") and Friesland was also defined around 1600. Before that, the province Groningen was de facto Frisian, except the city of Groningen.
Many of the other regions have historically shapes going way back as well,. The creators just decided to start the build up from the less developed coastline, rather than from the southern regions.
Excellent video. We live in Walcheren; amazing to see how it has survived from the tenth century.
7:04 - The Netherlands gain territory from Germany as war reparations.
7:09 - Germany buys the land back, some fifteen years later.
selling was dumb then, but why did they get it, they didn't even fight in ww1?
@@istoppedcaring6209 that was ww2.
@@istoppedcaring6209 This was after World War II. The Dutch demanded territories from occupied Germany, significant zones, along the border, with the idea of expelling the German population after.
The great powers were against it since they alredy had to deal with about 15 million German refugees from Central Europe, so the Netherlands only got about 70-100 km2 worth of territory, and since it was money they mostly needed they're open to sell it back to West Germany. Except for one
hill which remains Dutch to this day.
@@benjaminkurilla3943 Isn't that "The Devils mountain"?
(De Duivelsberg)
As an Austrian I am used to learn of yet another country Austria once ruled. But that Austria had land here was new to me.
niet verwacht dat je tussen 1830 en 1839 heel limburg als België hebt aangegeven. Mooit detail
Had to watch for a second time to watch all the polders fill up. Excellent video!
Chiny was used to be a big city like Namur and Liege but in reality, it's now a very small town
Namen....Luik....Shame the French names were used..
@@dennisboon6651Well perhaps because it was French dumb^$$?
Quite nice, but missing some details, and I would have preferred if you had consistently used the local names in the local language, but that might have gotten you into trouble.
I would have included some more areas outside the modern borders, like French Flanders, OstFriesland, and some parts of the Rheinland.
regarding the rebellion in the 16th century, William was a prominent figure in it but not the defacto leader from the start especially since Flanders and Brabant revolted earlier than the northern netherlands
I'm curious why you start showing Groningen in 734. An why the Dingspels in Drenthe and the rest of the Frankish kingdom is not shown at the start?
Very good, although the Frisians actually did reach farther then what you put out, they have been known to from modern day Calais to the Danish WaddenZee islands and the coast next to it.
Kales, one of the Flemish cities stolen by the french. Like Duinkerke, Hazebroek, Atrecht.
@@addeenen7684 How is that possible? Clovis's kingdom is France. Therefore, how France can steal what was rightfully its?
@@addeenen7684 They indeed stole a lot. Those bastards.
@@lucasgillis All those peoples in those areas like Henegouwen and Atrecht spoke Dutch, heck even Francia was literally founded by the Dutch (Low Franconian speaking tribes) so don't you dare act as if those Latin speaking frog ass lickers deserve anything more then us.
@@lucasgillis because it actually didn't stretch all that far up north
You forgot the old coastline of Flanders and the united belgian states.
Really well made !
I just struggle to understand why certain important and powerfull places are not shown on the right side, like Liège (thhought it was because it was a Prince bishopric but Utrecht is shown later) or Hainaut.
Brabant popping up around 840 can’t be right. Brabant started around Brussel and Leuven. Not where North Brabant now is.
Land van Ravenstein and other micro states (Megen, Gemert) in north east Brabant are missing.
The Netherlands was one of the first Republics. Somehow we went back to a monarchy for some reason
We were conquered, first by Napoleon, and later other countries like England, France an Austria had a big say in how this region should work. It is hard to be an oppressing monarch in your own country when there is a free republic next door. The argument was that the region was unstable and prone to revolts. So they reverted it back to an monarchy, which shortly after split into two monarchies.
A little before we went from being against slavery to slave trading ourselves. Mostly because of influences from trading with the Spanish. Can you imagine?
@@mennovanlavieren3885 That said, the first dutch king was a brother of Napoleon (Louis Bonaparte, his son will be the future french emperor Napoleon III...).
Beautifull. Amazing to see the history of our region in such detail. Diverse for sure, but so much that binds us. A United Low Countries, let's make it happen again! From Artois to the Frisian islands, from Zeeland to Luxembourg. Eendracht maakt macht, l'Union fait la force. Burgundy can join as well, if they want. ;-)
Brilliant video. Thank you very much. And God bless the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and our beloved Prince Henri.
Great video, and good choice in music.
That's interesting, but Hainaut is way more ancient than the rest, dates back to beginning of 7th century
best timeline 1815 to 1830
Kind of arbitrary to only focus on regions in the modern Low Countries, when many other regions were strongly associated in the past.
East Frisia and Kleve are obvious examples, but showing the wider context of the HRE etc could have helped too, certainly considering colonial possessions were included for some reason
Indeed. Why does the country stop east of the Veluwe? Why aren't shires like Twente or Hamaland included? How come Borculo and Lichtenvoorde are all of a sudden part of Zutphen, while this only happened in 1615, when they were (illegally) annexed by Zutphen?
Very good, educative and entertaining video, well done
This is Amazing!
Also you forgot Cape Colony from 1803 - 1806
Interesting to see how big Zutphen used to be and how small it is nowadays.
I love the video, but the Zuiderzee didn’t appear suddenly in 1000ad. It took a few years of robbing peat and trees from the land :) that’s where I live, we have excavations of settlements from the Neolithic age onwards.
Unite the low countries!
Would be cool, actually
@@applejuices I'd vote in favour of it.
You forgot “vrij steden” like “Vianen ,Lexmond and Culemborg etc “
Hmm had wel iets maar aandacht kunnen besteden aan het zuiden van de lage landen. Belangrijk moment hier is de opkomst van de Bourgondiers. Ze hadden ons op school wel wat meer daarover mogen leren, cruciaal geweest voor het onstaan van de Nederlandse identiteit.
had ook iets consequenter met de namen kunnen zijn. Dus Vlaanderen ipv Flanders, Henegouwen ipv Hainaut, Namen ipv Namur etc.
It’s what the English call those states, so it makes sense to use those names for an English video
@@theotakukaiser7892Moreover, Namur and Hainaut is what people from those places call Namur and Hainaut.
@@timpauwels3734 Did the locals used the french name back then? Duinkerken for example used to be prominently Dutch speaking, but now most locals speak French. I don't know for sure about the other regions.
Just dropping by to mention that this video was suggested to me by the algorithm immediately after watching a Simpsons video. With Flanders in it.
That's hilarious XD
Amazing Work!!!
Amazing video!
My heart always breaks when i see 1258 pop up
@1:06 Flanders: Hidly Ho Neighborino
how is this every year? you skipped the first 700?
Great video!
Surprising to see how big the islands in the north used to be.Must have been a colossal flood that made them so small.Maybe a see rise??
Storms. It's how the Zuiderzee came into existence also. Before that it was a large lake called Almere.
After our ancestors burned all the trees to keep warm, when they ran out, they dug up the peat as well, which caused erosion and flooded the land. It became the Zuiderzee.
Where did all the water come from in 1000bc?
river changed direction i think
Can you do something like this but on a region of Germany called the palatinate and I am asking because in the year 1753 in an area that would eventually become part of the modern day German state of Baden Wurttemberg my 6th great grandfather John Andrew Weikert who was from the principality of Wertheim and he secretly left the principality of Wertheim on June 5th of the year 1753 and upon leaving the principality of Wertheim he began a journey that would take him from Dertingen down the river main to the confluence of it and the river Rhine and down the Rhine River to Rotterdam where he boarded a ship called the Neptune for Philadelphia Pennsylvania which at that time was the capital of the British province of Pennsylvania.
Flanders is from the year 358 and you start from 700?And Tongeren is older than Julius Cesaer…..🤔
where's the margraviate of Antwerp? (Brabant did not exist until the counts of louvain gained the margraviate of Antwerp in the 1100's) also where's all the other regions pre-1000 in the south? waasland and other "pagi" or "gouwen"?
good, needs more views
Thank you :)
I wonder what's the reasoning behind not mentioning Flanders while Ghent and Bruges already existed and for ignoring Southern Limburg (or whatever it was called at the time) where Tongeren was the first city in the Lowlands!
Bagacum is the first city of the Lowlands
This is pro-Frisian propaganda! But no in all seriousness you are right, it is weird it takes Frisia as the only starting point when Dutch itself is a Frankish langauge, and cities like Tongeren and Maastricht should be on there much earlier
And Aardenburg, started by the Romans.
@@sebe2255 Yeah Maastricht had such an important history and the oldest church of the lowlands in the 6th century and Tongeren ( Atuatuca Tungrorum) was literally (asides from Bagacum apparently but just talking about Belgium and the Netherlands now) here over 15 centuries before Christ so it makes really no fucking sense that these two appear so late at the map when they played such a big part in the early game.
Not sure from which viewpoint this is taken? I see English, Dutch and French names? Also Charles I was named here Karel V
It's taken from an international perspective as a baseline. I started out using more Dutch names before I got a rigid style down, that's why there are some of those still in the end of the timeline. The French names are there because that is what those places are called in English, and monarchs in an international setting go by their Anglified names. Hope this helps :)
What about roman times? :(
Why start so late in the year count?
What happened in Limburg?
6:20 so that’s why there’s a Luxembourg inside Belgium
6:30 OK that’s why Luxembourg has a flag that almost looks like Netherlands
Mooi! De overstroming van 1134 en de aanpassing van de grote plassengebieden zou nog een toevoeging kunnen zijn. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormvloed_van_1134
very cool
I am surprised the map starts with and works it way from Friesland, and not the at the time further developed and more influential southern parts of the Netherlands. The coastline at the time was mostly marsh and tidal plains with very few people living there and no significant settlements other then Dorestad.
It would have made more sense to have started from Maastricht, Nijmegen, Deventer, Luik, Tongeren, Antwerpen, Brugge and Gent, even Utrecht and Middelburg. Charlemagne spoke Dutch and his reign was much more influential on the development of the Low Countries.
He spoke a form of Frankish, which would develop into Dutch, not Dutch, but yes you are right, the Dutch are mostly Frankish
@@sebe2255 well, no language we speak today existed 1200 years ago. The Dutch are mostly Frankish, Saxon and Friesian in origin. But thousands of years of migration, mingling, exchange and shifting borders means that no gene is limited to a specific part of Europe.
@@Hadewijch_ No, calling the language Charlemagne spoke Dutch is anachronistic, and obviously Dutch has undergone many changes since the days of old Frankish/Dutch (Dutch being a linguistic term here and not a historical one). Charlemagne spoke the ancestral language of modern Dutch. And that is if we are using broad terms. Standardized languages obviously didn’t exist. He probably spoke the ancestral language of Limburger-Aachener regional languages
Saying Charlemagne spoke Dutch is a lot like saying Ceasar spoke French.
@@ReddoFreddo More like Italian, Caesar did “introduce” the Gauls to Latin though lmao, he may as well be their founding father
It misses one thing: Zevenaar and some of its surroundings were, as being a part of the former Cleves Enclaves, a small district in the Duchy of Cleves.
It's missing the general relevance of the Duchy of Cleves.
Mooi video hoor!
Celon wasn't colonised by ditch entirely they controlled only the coastal areas.
Underrated!
👀
@@OllieBye Oh wow, it's actually really cool that one of my greatest inspirations for making these types of projects has actually seen my humble video :)
There is a Frankish dialect in Germanic languages. The upper Frankish is German and the lower Frankish is Dutch. Aren't all these dialects the same language?
And are these dialects from the Old Frankish Kingdom language?
Iirc the linguistic connection between the German Fraconian and old Frankish is hard to determine. It is more likely that Franconia got its name in the same way France did, as a region conquered by the Franks. Regions of Germany with much clearer connection to the Franks are in NRW, around Cologne-Aachen
In terms of which is the closest to Frankish, Dutch is a direct descendant of Salian Frankish, and it has the clearest link to old Frankish (Old Frankish and old Dutch are used interchangeably).
Very good!
amazing video I subscirbed
what happened in the year 1000? where did all the water come from?
The water was always there, s'not as much bout where it came from, but where it went. See the thing bout holland and windmills is that the big connection the two share isnt just because of image. Using windmills, the dutch pumped away water on mass to connect the landmasses and create "Polders". This land reclamation started as early as the 14th century but really got into swing by the 15th. More refined dike engineering and the pumping away of water, first by windmills later by steam-powered means, means that now-adays 17% of the total amount of land were living on was dredged up artificially.
@@Stevrovich No, they are talking about how the map changes in the year 1000. Its like there was a huge flood or something.
@@LuminaryGames Oh damn, jokes on me for assumin' I guess. Whoops
Guelders is a real place !?!?
where's the Fire Swamp
Good video
1815 is perfect!
Why is the presence of the Romans ignored?
I think it is pretty low to make this a theme for a video!
Willem V was not a "Monarch" ...
Where's Charlemagne?
But the music should have been a klompendans! 😂
Nice !
What caused the rising sea lvl in year 1000?
water!
@@omenelis WHAAAATT!!!???!
For those of you wo didn't know. The artifical harbor called Maasvlakte existed since 1677! (according to this video at least)
Yep, oversight on my part. I forgot to change the coastlines there. I apologize profusely.
Guys why in 1000 AD the coastline changed so much?
In reality this happened slightly more gradual. Or in waves. Between 9th and 13th century with the rising sea levels of the North Sea, under influence of the Medieval Warm Period, there were numerous floodings, each opening up the lake more and more until it was more an inland sea than a lake. This sea came to be known as Zuiderzee (southern sea).
@@JuanHans Thank you very much, as depicted here seemed a Tsunami or something like that
@@MaMiEuCompany Some of these floods, although not tsunami's, could still be very significant and disruptive. And overall the story of this lake turned inland sea turned lake again is at the heart of Dutch history. The Dutch Wikipedia on the Zuiderzee names a number of interesting sources, some of which I've read. On top of that I'd highly recommend the impressive work 'Duizend jaar weer, wind, en water in de Lage Landen' by Buisman if you want a real deep dive (pun intended 😅). It's all in Dutch unfortunately, but with the onset of AI we've seen I gather it will become easier and easier to read in different languages.
sea levels were SIGNIFICANTLY higher in the early medieval era. When sea levels started to go down (duinkerkse transgressies)the netherlands became inhabitable.
@@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo Please cite your sources.
How can you say "every year" and miss the brabant revolution
they sure loved lions in the medieval times
Interesting that most of the borders are still the same in the present day
sorry but very bad history, Brabant should appear much later (after the fall off nether Lothringia) Where is Hamaland... please do this again....
Where is Osuruk
The map is tilted to the right, i.e. north is not at the top.
ooh , The Settlers of Friesland ! sweet .... :p
Knap stukje werk!
Who else stopped at 1444? 🙂
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Just wanted to brag because nowadays it is useless information. My family's origin in the Middle Ages was from Eastergoa, and they joined Henry the First from Brabant in his crusade.
WHAT IN THE FUCK happend at 1000 c.e. to the neatherlands - why is there no explanation how just half of it VANISHED, I need to know
Well, it's this thing the sea does from time to time we call a flood.
@@Quintinohthree ya no shit. Sucks when u live there, thats my point
1832 how Belgium should be ... with a united Limburg.
no limburg belongs to the netherlands
@@dillanschuur8731 there are just two Limburgs now, so what
we already have 3 Brabants and 3 Luxembourgs
@@dillanschuur8731 Most Dutch people think otherwise. and see them as "reserve belgen" .... logically .. because thats what they actually are.
@@supermaximglitchy1 Three Luxembourgs? I know the Grand-Duchy, and the Province of Luxembourg (where I live); where's number 3?
@@jfrancobelge the capital of Luxembourg is another Luxemburg
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Bordergore, as always in HRE.
Germany and Fr@nce couldn't behave now we have a frankestien nation as a useless buffer which failed two times which acted as a gate rather than a buffer.
You two, come back to Spain.
(It's a joke. I dont work for the house of Alba- I'm not Andalusian).
Aahhhmmmmm dutch are even more beautiful with Spanish flags ^^
Huges brothers :D
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