The Romans used Syria to refer to areas they controlled in the west and Assyria to refer to areas the Parthians controlled in the east. These territories closely correspond to modern Syria and Iraq.
2:32 Small correction (though really more of a nitpick): 'Iran' isn't the country's modern name. That maybe worldwide, but not by its people or neighboring regions. The Persian people have always referred to their nation as Iran (which you somewhat mentioned, but it goes back further than the 3rd century A.D.). The name ‘Iran’ traces back to the times of Zoroastrianism, around *1,000 B.C.,* and it's pronounced 'E-ron, not 'E-ran'. "Persia" was given to the region by the Greeks simply due to its largest ethnic group; that of course being the Persians.
@@Techtalk2030 That's because the original homeland of PERSIANS was the Pars/Fars/Persis region in modern-day southwestern Iran; the Persians further considered Pars itself to be part of a larger geography, the original homeland of all Iranic peoples, which they called Iran.
@@RedCommunistDragon It isn't always pronounced as "E-ron", that's just the Tehrani dialect and its neighboring cities. Most other dialects pronounce it as "Īrān" with a clear زبر on the ر and that is more popular pronounciation. So he did get it correct.
Well, in ancient Sanskrit literature, the inhabitants were called "Parshavas," which later evolved into "Parasikas," from which the modern term "Parsi" is derived and used now.
Let me tell ya General. I’m almost always thrown off when academic content creators decide to reveal their face. It’s almost never to their advantage, but by golly you have entirely exceeded my expectations! More like General Handsome 🥵
The name 'Iran' has existed since the Sasanian Empire. Reza Shah requested that the world adopt the name 'Iran' because 'Persia' (or 'Pars' in Farsi) referred to a province within Iran, not the entire country.
No im Iranian and it had to do more with not see influence. The original name of Iran during Achaemenid times was Parsa/Persia as it was founded by the Persians.
@@Techtalk2030 It was not called Persia at that time it was simply "The Empire" (Xšāça) as translated. Persia is the Anglicized version of the Greek name Persis, itself taken from the ancient Pars region of Iran now known as Fars. Parsa you are referring to is in fact that exact location in that was in South Western Iran. There were other Iranian areas such as, Partha or Parthia in the North East, Media or Madha in the North West of Iran.
@@javadbahram795 achaemenids called their state Parsa and that was the nation and could be used for the entire empire, its like saying only rome the city was rome and not the whole empire with that logic. Furthermore Persians originally came from west and north Iran, Parsua and Parsumesh. Persian tribes lived all over Iran, not just south.
Here's a cool video idea: Why some nations love a certain color but not use it in there flag? Examples: Kuwait 🇰🇼 with blue China 🇨🇳 with green The Netherlands 🇳🇱 with orange And I believe there's many more
@@thesovereignofdawn9300 Those football national teams have their colour for a reason. Like Italy has this light blue / azure colour because it was the colour of the house of Savoy. Which was the ruler family of the kingodm of Italy. Its also called Savoy Blue for that reason. Same with the Netherlands. The House of Orange-Nassau is the ruler family of that country. Germanys national team plays in white and black. The German Kaiserreich got those colours from the Kingdom of Prussia, which essentially was the most dominant German state at the time. There are also other colours related to countries. Like the FIA - the world motorsports organization - assigned colours for countries, so the spectators could differentiate between the cars. Italy got red. Germany white/silver. France ultrablue. Belgium yellow. The UK got Green (last one was a political statement, in honor of Ireland - therefor saying that Ireland belonged to the Empire), etc.
10:14 Taoyuan (桃園) or "Peach Garden" is a city to the northern part of Taiwan now. The correct historical name of of the island that later transformed into the current name of "Taiwan" is Tayouan (大員) referred to a bay to the sourthen part of Taiwan in currently Tainan City.
I do want to point out that Iran itself did not mean "Land of the Aryans", this is a bit of a misconception. "Iran" is part of the longer name "Īrānšahr" (ايرانشهر) from the older "Ērānšahr" which meant akin to "Realm" or "Territory of the Aryans", however, the suffix "šahr" means city or town in classical and modern Persian, hence why the term had fallen out of favour for about a millennia. And the name "Khorasan" (خراسان) has been used for almost 2 millennium, and I do think that is noteworthy to point it since it does imply that Khorasan is a new name.
@@Mithroun The Sassanids officially called themselves Ērānšahr. Their titles were "Šāhān-i Šāh-i Ērān-o-Anērān". The term "Iran" in of itself did not mean "Land of the Aryans". You can see this from Abū ar-Rayḥān al-Xwārizmī who says: "Ērānšahr is a land that encompasses 'Irāq, and Fārs, and the mountains of Xurāsān, all of which are gathered under this name... and šahr in their [Persian] language means land".
@ishakrahuya well they used it to put gap between their area and romans or turks etc so it is land defying and root word without a doubt is arya so everything checks out
Before Siam, Thailand was also called Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, Thonburi, and Rattanakosin Kingdom. Note: In the beginnings, Sukhothai and Ayutthaya were sorta separate entities, until Sukhothai declined and was absorbed by Ayutthaya
Persia came before Parthia. Persia comes from old Persian Pars/Parsa which came from Parsua and Parsumesh. It is the oldest recorded name for the Persian empires. Parthians also claimed Achaemenid Persian ancestry from Darius the 2nd and Artaxerxes and their language was mutually intelligible with middle Persian, to such an extent both dynasties called their languages Pahlavi often.
Interestingly in ancient Sanskrit, the inhabitants were called "Parshavas," which later evolved into "Parasikas," from which the modern term "Parsi" is derived and used now. Though, its mostly used for people of Zoroastrian faith now.
Great video, just a small thing though, when talking about Parthia -> Persia -> Iran, that is purely from a Western historical perspective, the people there would call it Iran->Iran->Iran
Iranians have never been an ethnic group, they are a national-regional group. parthians, persians, irani-turkomen, medes, lurs, bakhtiaris, balouchis, tabaris, elamites, and many many more ancient Iranian tribes became unified under one empire or another and have always been Iranian. Sometimes one Iranian tribe will rule over the others, sometimes another tribe takes over, but they are always Iranians. Persians ruled during the acheamenid and sassanid dynasties, mede/kurds during the median, azeris during the safavid, and so on. Persian is one Iranian tribe, not all Iranians are persian.
@@Lol-ql3gdiranics are a loteral ethnic group, the elamites didnt call themselves iranian. Most of those people are Iranian peoples you mentioned Persians, Medes etc..
@@okaro6595parthians were Persians and spoke a language mutually intelligible to Persian, they also claimed ancestry from Achaemenid Persians, Darius and Artaxerxes the great Persian kings.
The word Iran was first applied to Persia by the Sassanid dynasty more than 1700 years ago. The word Iran was used more than 1000 years ago in the Shahnameh book, which dates back to 1000 years ago.
Vietnam was given the name because the Chinese emperor did not recognize it as “southern Viet”, which was a short-lived dynasty broke apart from the Qin dynasty. Vietnam is more properly translated as “ the country that exists south of the “southern viet”.
@ Vietnam itself means south of viet. “South viet” was a dynasty that existed shortly and occupied Cantonese region of China as well as what is now known as noerthern Vietnam. When the king of Da viet, aka great viet” united northern Vietnam and “applied” to be a subordinate of the Chinese emperor, this king wanted to name his country south viet, or namviet. Chinese emperor refused to give him this name because the Chinese emperor do want the Vietnam king to think he also has the right to rule south China(used to be known as south viet) as it is already been “reunited” to China by then. I know it’s confusing, and this is the best I can explain. I’d recommend you check out Chinese wiki and perhaps translate it into English as the English wiki does not have the most detailed information.
@@SRJ7798Dai Viet was a direct Chinese province for over a thousand years, while Champa was a territory (think of Puerto Rico to the USA) to the Chinese dynasties.
Westernising Thai flag was not a mistake, western power excuse for colonialism is to modernize the country. Thailand tried their best to modernize their country to avoid being colonized, which was successful.
Here are some fun facts about Sri Lanka names Even though the official name 'Sri Lanka', people generally only use 'Lanka' part to refer to the country, and also the name 'Lanka' was very much in use among the normal citizens even during the 'Ceylon' time before 1948 And yes, we don't use the full name 'Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte' of our capital that often, it's commonly used as just "Ja'Pura". ❤love your videos Hugs from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
The story I always heard about the Thai flag was that one day a merchant had accidentally flown The Elephant Flag upside down. Upon learning about this, The King ordered the flag to be redesigned so that this could never happen again.
6:46 About the Thai flag, you are totally correct. The original design only had red and white color until a royal family member suggested adding blue to it.
Happy New Year, Gil! Fun fact: 2025 is a perfect square year. 2025 being 45 squared. The last perfect square year was 1936 and the next one will be 2116
Great stuff as always. On Jordan and Transjordan: I think it was called Transjordan until the British left their Palestine mandate in 1948, and Transjordan gobbled up the West Bank of the Jordan river. They now had both banks, so it wasn’t “across the Jordan” anymore, just Jordan. When Jordan lost the West Bank to Israel in 67’, they were probably too embarrassed to go back.
Ooooh glad that you mentioned this. I went to Thailand as a part of my study abroad program last year and we went to the historical city. Our tour guides said that Bangkok is practically a one for one copy and I could tell once it was pointed out.
Happy new year! And nice haircut bro.. Funny how Malaysia is still Malaysia even though it's been 60 years since SIA broke away (Singapore). I guess Malaysarabah sounds a bit weird
@allangibson8494 yeah that's partially correct. Lee Kuan Yew actually didn't want Singapore to split but the Tunku had had enough. There was also suspicions that PAP was linked with the communists.
The french used to refer to our part of the world as Malaisie. Also other western force refers it as the Malay Archipelago. So our country’s name definitely has a historial context and history behind it.
Different groups of iranian People back then called themselves er/ir people (whats today known as aryians) and iran/eran means er's in persian instead of s in English we use "ān" like "en" in german (For example "setāre" means star and "setāregān" means stars And historical name of persia is iranshar means ir/er peoples empire Also iran/eran is older than parthian empire also mentioned in avesta and other Zoroastrian religious books
2:45 Actually Aryanem means "of the Aryans" not "land of the Aryans" It's the genitive form of the word Aryan in Old Persian which itself is the plural form of Arya. Aryan became Eran in Middle Persian which was still the name of the people and not the country though it was used in the word Eranshahr (Aryanshahr in Parthian) which was the official name of the Sassanid empire and meant land or empire of Aryans while the name of people was Er (Arya) (singular) and Eran (Aryan) plural. After Islam and the development of new Persian Eran became Iran and changed into the name of the country with the name of the people becoming Irani (plural Iraniyan/Irani-ha)
Can you do one on the various nations that make up modern China? Also the countries that make up modern India, including Sikkim, Assam and Hunza. These are really informative and very well done.
The British were reviviing the old Roman name, Transjordan. They changed the name after seizing much of Palestine in order to lay claim to both sides of the river
and Palestine originally referred to just Gaza - as the Peleset internment / concentration camps established by the Egyptians in 1175BC to contain the “Sea Peoples” after their defeat by Rameses II…
@ That’s not what the Egyptian chronicles say. Gaza was a labor camp where the “Sea People” were interned and forced to make iron implements for the Egyptians.
@samsonsoturian6013 The British under General Allenby only seized the west side of the Jordan with the eastern side remaining under Hashemite rule as the last vestige of the short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria
Although it seems from the comments that you got it all wrong, it still is an interesting video and I like how people here correct stuff. I hope you're not put off by this.
Do Algeria! from Numidia to Ceasarian Mauritania to Middle maghreb to Jazayer bin mizghana and then Algeria when French took over it! Great video by the way.
The Achaemenid kings called themselves "King of Iran and non-Iran". The term Iran is very old. Following the the triumph of the Sassanids, a cadet branch of the royal family of Parthia, the Arsacids, continued to rule Armenia.
Murex wasn't the "only" way we could make purple - plenty of flowers and berries make purple dyes (mulberry set with vinegar, for example); its value was due to being colourfast, waterfast, and that it didn't fade over time. The "coptic" style tapestries found in Egypt, the blue-purple and white ones? Those used to have other colours, but the other dyes faded over time, leaving only those dyed with Murex, or purpura.
The fallacy here is that many of these countries didn't change names at all; the "former names" that you attributed to these countries were only exonyms with which they were known across the Greco-Roman world. The Iranians, for instance, never called their own homeland "Parthia" or "Persia," but always Iran.
@@lambert801 -- Well, c. 1978 before the hostage situation and the lead up, I attended a "cultural" even in DC where we were presented with presentations about Iran. I had a conversation with a young woman and when I referred to the nation as "Iran," she corrected me by say, "Persia." That's my primary data point. OTOH, we have a doctor from Iran who had a long journey to get where he is today. He never called his formal homeland, "Persia."
About Siam's independence: To be considered part of a European empire at the time all you needed was to share a foreign policy so many nations were extremely loosely affiliated with their overlords.
Siam become thailand not just in name but the king westernized the country to make the country seem civilized to the colonial powers, resulting it never being conquered in contrast to everywhere else in asia. it sacrificed its identity in order to survive
Pretty hard, places like France and Britain for example assimilated distinct groups and language cultures like Gaelic, Breton, Occitan and many more. Even Italy and Greece has lots of dialects that can be a bit hard for different localities if they both don't speak their National Standardized Language. Pretty much every country in the world too does this, so countries ironically need to "remove" cultures to maintain the country itself without having too much division and cultural differences causing rifts against the Governing National Gang.
Fact: Iran was named Iran back to 2000 years ago, based on coins founded belong to that time. It named Persia by western countries then internationally. Until 1920 when the shah of Iran fix it.
Interesting video, though I notice more and more videos are showing the creators faces. Is that a Y T thing or is that just a hubris thing were people just want their face on video? Curious as almost all videos previously were without the face of the content creators.
"Parthia" was not just a name change -they were a different people originally from outside the Persian empire but who defeated the Seleucid Greeks and established an empire of their own which covered a lot of the land formerly occupied by the Achaemenids prior to Alexander the Great. They were as different to the Persians as the Romans were to the Greeks and actually their language was more different to Persian as Latin was to Greek. Of course they shared some characteristics like similar religion etcetera but so did the Romans with the Greeks.
@@dapperduncle1972 "Iranic" is an extremely broad term and would include the Scythians and lots of others who inhabited vast territories that were never ever part of either the persian and parthian empires. It's largely a linguistic term.
Abut Iran you’re mistaken that it’s a modern name, Iran used by Iranian as the name of their country for thousands of years. Reza shah only asked the world to call the country with the name that the people of country call it, and one purpose was that Persia only refers to one group of Iranian people which are living in this land but Iran is a general term and includes Turks/Azeris, Lors, Baluchs, Turkmens, Arabs and all other Iranian people living in this land.
Sri Lanka / Ceylon: when I had my first Geography lessons at school (in the mid 90s) I had an atlas that still called the Island Ceylon. And I wonder why so many english speaking people pronounce "Shri" instead of "Sri"
Siam is another pronunciation of champ(vietnam). All Buddhist kingdom. Campaka in malay language mean a type of flower plant (cempaka). An Cambodia also another type of flower in Malay (Kemboja). Even though Malaysia is not a Buddhist country, both flower presents heavily in its culture, poem and overall tradition.
AFAIK: The Cham were a sea people related to Philippine/Polynesian/Madagascar/Hawaiians who took over S Vietnam, then were under the religion of the Hindu traders from India. Buddhism came with the Vietnamese. When Vietnamese took over, the Cham became a tribe on the border between Cambodia and Vietnam. During the Vietnam and Cambodian wars in the 1970-80 they were pretty much wiped out. Kinda a sad ending for a group that lasted longer than the Roman empire.
It's important to remember that almost all of the older names were assigned by historians, and almost all are exomyms. Until fairly recently kingdoms and empires were defined by their rulers, not the other way round, and there was little consistency across the generations.
China has always been the “central nucleus” (misinterpreted as the “Middle Kingdom” in the West) since its feudal founding over 4000 years ago, and further enshrined during its imperial unification 2200 years ago. During its last dynasty (ended 1912) it was known as the “celestial land”, “heaven on earth,” or “center of four oceans.”
In spanish, the palestinian region of West Bank is called Cisjordania. Not sure about the origins but I assume they must be the same as Transjordania or Transjordan in English.
Chams are Austronesians. They are related to modern day Malays, Indonesians and Filipinos. They did try to leverage their Austronesian connection to resist Vietnamese advance. Dai Viet's annals recorded conflicts with the Sultanate of Malacca as the later tried to aid Champa. Hmong is an entire different group hailing from territories that are now parts of China. Their language, Hmoob, belongs to the Sino-Tibetan group. It's further away from Austronesian languages than Vietnamese, an Austro-Asiatic language, is.
6:09 Actually Gia Long Emperor sent a delegation to Peking to ask for the Qing Imperial recognition as a Vessal king( An Nam Quốc Vương or King of Annan Country) and change the Country's name to Nam Việt (Nanyue). But, due to fear of misunderstanding of the imperial edict as recognition of Đại Việt's sovereignty over Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, Jiaqing Emperor switched the name to Việt Nam. Later on Emperor Minh Mạng, the second greatest Emperor in Vietnam's history (After The Saint Emperor of the Lê Dynasty or Lê Thánh Tông Hoàng Đế) changed the country's name to Đại Nam (Great Nation of the South) after his father's death and the annexation of Cambodia as Trấn Tây Thành (Western province) and former Đại Việt Territory given to Luangfrabang principality. And yes, Minh Mạng Emperor ended Panduranga (Chămpa) status as an autonomous region of Đại Nam after The final Jihad.
The name Iraq was definettely used throught the Islamic era, and was mentioned in multiple arabic historic book. There are even famous old family names as far as Morocco of people called "Iraqi"
Indeed, Transjordan renamed themselves to Jordan after annexing the West Bank in 1949/50, since they now controlled land on both sides of the River Jordan (the ''trans'' prefix means ''after'' something). Jordan would lose control of the West Bank in 1967, and abandon their claim to it in 1988, reverting to the old borders of Transjordan, but keep the name Jordan.
@@Markus_Abrach Hi Jordanian here in 1946 we declared independence from the British and changed the name to the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan. The unification between the west bank and Jordan was in the 1950 and we did separate in 1988 based on the decision of the Palastinian people Before 1946, we were as Emerate of Trans Jordan
Isn't Taiwan only the name of the island and not the country? The country itself is still called Republic of China, despite not being recognized by the majority of the counties in the world.
Yeah in Finnish, in English it's called Stinky. Here is more information from Wikipedia: (Stinky: from English, although Swedish also has the verb stinka (to stink) - a criminal by profession, trickster, and a dangerous influence who tempts the Moomin family to do things that are against the law or otherwise cause problems for them for his own entertainment. He has a code of conduct of his own, and is offended when the Moomins want to give him a large sum of money which has been causing them much trouble. Physically, Stinky looks like some sort of furry mammal, whose most characteristic attribute is his constant, unbearable stench. He appears in one book (Villain in the Moominhouse) but mainly in comics and cartoons.
The changes in the Thai flag are actually a pretty large and funny story involving bad omens, floods and a ton of politics, I recommend you research it.
i am currently living here in Thailand, they call their selves here as Khun Thai meaning Thai people. still they call Myanmar people as Bamar with a silent "r", Cambodia as Kampucha and Laos as Lao.
some theories says that Phoenicians were the descendants of the Sea people who'm caused bronze age collapse.. Phoenicians like the Sea people were both seafaring peoples who were pioneers of Naval warfare such mastery were last witness to the rise till the fall of Carthage during the three Punic wars
There was Ayuthayya Kingdom with almost similar to modern borders territories. They changed the name after seizing much of Palestine in order to lay claim to both sides of the river. graet video. good ad baby....!!!😀😀😀
It was called Iranshahr, Latin speakers called it Persia because the founder of Iranshahr, Cyrus was from Parsa but everyone in what we now know as Iran called the region Iranshahr ever since the Achaemenids.
iran is not modern name of country stop spreading falsehood. ppl called themselves aryans for thousands of years and during sasanid era the term eran and aneran were used to distinguish ppl under the sasanid empire rule from ppl outside of the region
Interesting, Lebanon comes for lbn meaning white. Albania shares the same root. That root is found in English even(Scotland was also called Albania), coming through latin, and proposed "albho-" from Proto Indo European. Also the Alps.
Sassanids werent sort of Persian, they were Persians, from Pars province and their ancestry going back to the Achaemenids and kings of Persis. Parthian elites were also of Persian Achaemenid origins.
There was never in history ever an entity called "Mesopotamia" it was a geographical term used by the Greek to refer to the region. The entire video has a mistakes or false info (or misunderstanding) in every part referring to the "middle east" at least (I can only assume the same about other regions but i dont have enough info about the other regions he talked about) please double check your infos and stop drawing conclusions based on wikipedia half ast info.
I can’t believe you left out one of what might be the most interesting- BANGLADESH!!! How could you miss that when you were right next door in Thailand and Myanmar!!!
The problem is it's was historical used by iranians to refer to iran and in case where it was it was because of foreign influence it's what we call an exonym i personally think that Erānshahr is best
if we are talking about the middle then i feel like we should also talk about how israel was used to be called judea which means land of the jews but now it's called israel mostly because of the united kingdom of israel
Mesopotamia never was the "Old" "Name" of the modern state of Iraq the term most likely was a calque of an Aramaic term called Beth Nahrain which only meant an upper region in Iraq trapped between the two rivers (al jazira in Arabic) and this was the original meaning of both terms even in greek initially until it took on the meaning of a more broader geographical area.
Iran was how very old people of the land called themselves which was "eran" this is almost the same as modern german word "ehren" or "honourables" which was what one expects any ancient folk would call themselves.
Haisuli (Finnish name of that creature in the Mumin mug. Haisuli comes from word "haista" - "stinks", meaning that he is creature who stinks, or have strong smell), I believe those bottles he is stealing are alcohol bottles. Today Mumin is often seen as cartoon for children, but it originally clearly isn't. It was not created for such, by Tove Jansson. It was very political comic made for adults. As I know, all the characters are inspired from real world people who Tove knew. Same people, like Tove herself, inspired multiple characters (I think there is three characters made of Tove herself). Original comics made by Tove herself, includes lot of political thoughts, including anti-capitalist ideas, and she herself was lesbian in time where it was not accepted to be such, so there is indirectly about that topic too. Tove was from Swedish speaking minority in Finland, so original language for Mumin is Swedish, despite that she was Finnish. Anyway. China is one with quite mess with names. I also learned recently, that Finland comes from (ancient) Norwegian, "Finnland", where Finn is word for Sámi people, meaning that Finnland is land of Sámi people. (Sámi people are small minority who lives in extreme north, today occupied/colonised by Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia). And as far as I know, no one knows what Rus means, while at least Russia as a name comes from that as well as Belarus ("White Rus"), but I would not be surprised if Prussia has connection to the word too. Some theory been, that there is conenction between Finnish name for Sweden "Ruotsi" and "Russia", but I do not really believe in that (Finnish name for Russia is "Venäjä" which means land of boats - since it is land of great rivers, like Volga).
Not so much a name change per se but an insistence by their governments for people to refer to their countries by their native names. Turkey→Turkiye Cambodia→Kampuchea→Cambodia (Changed back to Cambodia in 1993 as a means of distancing itself from Khmer Rouge connotations.)
Interesting thing is almost all of Assyrias major cities were in Iraq yet Syria got the name.
Have you just started a new conflict in this area?
@@Stefan_W.I think I like when it rains
@@Stefan_W. Perhaps.
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The Romans used Syria to refer to areas they controlled in the west and Assyria to refer to areas the Parthians controlled in the east. These territories closely correspond to modern Syria and Iraq.
2:32 Small correction (though really more of a nitpick):
'Iran' isn't the country's modern name. That maybe worldwide, but not by its people or neighboring regions. The Persian people have always referred to their nation as Iran (which you somewhat mentioned, but it goes back further than the 3rd century A.D.). The name ‘Iran’ traces back to the times of Zoroastrianism, around *1,000 B.C.,* and it's pronounced 'E-ron, not 'E-ran'. "Persia" was given to the region by the Greeks simply due to its largest ethnic group; that of course being the Persians.
The original Persians called their state Pars or Parsa which translates to Persia in latin and greece actually.
@@Techtalk2030 That's because the original homeland of PERSIANS was the Pars/Fars/Persis region in modern-day southwestern Iran; the Persians further considered Pars itself to be part of a larger geography, the original homeland of all Iranic peoples, which they called Iran.
@@lambert801 Persians came from Parsua and Parsumesh originally which was in west and north of Iran
@@RedCommunistDragon It isn't always pronounced as "E-ron", that's just the Tehrani dialect and its neighboring cities. Most other dialects pronounce it as "Īrān" with a clear زبر on the ر and that is more popular pronounciation. So he did get it correct.
Well, in ancient Sanskrit literature, the inhabitants were called "Parshavas," which later evolved into "Parasikas," from which the modern term "Parsi" is derived and used now.
Let me tell ya General. I’m almost always thrown off when academic content creators decide to reveal their face. It’s almost never to their advantage, but by golly you have entirely exceeded my expectations! More like General Handsome 🥵
Real, I'm a straight guy but when I saw his face I was like, daaamn
Focus on the video content, not the content creator's face 😂
Same lmao 😂 He’s gorgeous!
Portuguese men seem to be universally handsome. Something in the water.
@@ferretyluvfr tho, when I found out he was Portuguese I just knew
The name 'Iran' has existed since the Sasanian Empire. Reza Shah requested that the world adopt the name 'Iran' because 'Persia' (or 'Pars' in Farsi) referred to a province within Iran, not the entire country.
Ah, so a bit like the Netherlands often getting called Holland...
exactly officially the country always called Eranshahr ( shahdom of Iran)
No im Iranian and it had to do more with not see influence. The original name of Iran during Achaemenid times was Parsa/Persia as it was founded by the Persians.
@@Techtalk2030 It was not called Persia at that time it was simply "The Empire" (Xšāça) as translated. Persia is the Anglicized version of the Greek name Persis, itself taken from the ancient Pars region of Iran now known as Fars. Parsa you are referring to is in fact that exact location in that was in South Western Iran. There were other Iranian areas such as, Partha or Parthia in the North East, Media or Madha in the North West of Iran.
@@javadbahram795 achaemenids called their state Parsa and that was the nation and could be used for the entire empire, its like saying only rome the city was rome and not the whole empire with that logic. Furthermore Persians originally came from west and north Iran, Parsua and Parsumesh. Persian tribes lived all over Iran, not just south.
Here's a cool video idea:
Why some nations love a certain color but not use it in there flag?
Examples:
Kuwait 🇰🇼 with blue
China 🇨🇳 with green
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 with orange
And I believe there's many more
Italy - light blue
australia with green and gold
Why does it feel like you're all just pointing out their football team colors? (except china)
Mexico, to a certain extent, Pink.
(Yes it’s in the flag but bearly)
@@thesovereignofdawn9300 Those football national teams have their colour for a reason. Like Italy has this light blue / azure colour because it was the colour of the house of Savoy. Which was the ruler family of the kingodm of Italy. Its also called Savoy Blue for that reason. Same with the Netherlands. The House of Orange-Nassau is the ruler family of that country.
Germanys national team plays in white and black. The German Kaiserreich got those colours from the Kingdom of Prussia, which essentially was the most dominant German state at the time.
There are also other colours related to countries. Like the FIA - the world motorsports organization - assigned colours for countries, so the spectators could differentiate between the cars.
Italy got red. Germany white/silver. France ultrablue. Belgium yellow. The UK got Green (last one was a political statement, in honor of Ireland - therefor saying that Ireland belonged to the Empire), etc.
10:14 Taoyuan (桃園) or "Peach Garden" is a city to the northern part of Taiwan now. The correct historical name of of the island that later transformed into the current name of "Taiwan" is Tayouan (大員) referred to a bay to the sourthen part of Taiwan in currently Tainan City.
I didn’t know that the ancient Taiwan aborigines spoke modern Mandarin, in pronouncing “Taoyuan”precisely in its Han character form.
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I have in mind that the country has changed its name to Sri Lanka, but the island still has its old name of Ceylon
It was called Silam, which was Anglicized from Saylan into Ceylon, I think
I do want to point out that Iran itself did not mean "Land of the Aryans", this is a bit of a misconception. "Iran" is part of the longer name "Īrānšahr" (ايرانشهر) from the older "Ērānšahr" which meant akin to "Realm" or "Territory of the Aryans", however, the suffix "šahr" means city or town in classical and modern Persian, hence why the term had fallen out of favour for about a millennia. And the name "Khorasan" (خراسان) has been used for almost 2 millennium, and I do think that is noteworthy to point it since it does imply that Khorasan is a new name.
it indeed meant land of aryans. see the term eran and aneran during sasanid era
@@Mithroun The Sassanids officially called themselves Ērānšahr. Their titles were "Šāhān-i Šāh-i Ērān-o-Anērān". The term "Iran" in of itself did not mean "Land of the Aryans". You can see this from Abū ar-Rayḥān al-Xwārizmī who says:
"Ērānšahr is a land that encompasses 'Irāq, and Fārs, and the mountains of Xurāsān, all of which are gathered under this name... and šahr in their [Persian] language means land".
@ishakrahuya well they used it to put gap between their area and romans or turks etc so it is land defying and root word without a doubt is arya so everything checks out
Before Siam, Thailand was also called Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, Thonburi, and Rattanakosin Kingdom.
Note: In the beginnings, Sukhothai and Ayutthaya were sorta separate entities, until Sukhothai declined and was absorbed by Ayutthaya
Persia came before Parthia. Persia comes from old Persian Pars/Parsa which came from Parsua and Parsumesh. It is the oldest recorded name for the Persian empires. Parthians also claimed Achaemenid Persian ancestry from Darius the 2nd and Artaxerxes and their language was mutually intelligible with middle Persian, to such an extent both dynasties called their languages Pahlavi often.
Interestingly in ancient Sanskrit, the inhabitants were called "Parshavas," which later evolved into "Parasikas," from which the modern term "Parsi" is derived and used now. Though, its mostly used for people of Zoroastrian faith now.
Great video, just a small thing though, when talking about Parthia -> Persia -> Iran, that is purely from a Western historical perspective, the people there would call it Iran->Iran->Iran
No, Partihians were a different people from Persians.
@okaro6595 yes sir, that reinforces my statement. They are not Persians but Iranians
Iranians have never been an ethnic group, they are a national-regional group. parthians, persians, irani-turkomen, medes, lurs, bakhtiaris, balouchis, tabaris, elamites, and many many more ancient Iranian tribes became unified under one empire or another and have always been Iranian. Sometimes one Iranian tribe will rule over the others, sometimes another tribe takes over, but they are always Iranians. Persians ruled during the acheamenid and sassanid dynasties, mede/kurds during the median, azeris during the safavid, and so on. Persian is one Iranian tribe, not all Iranians are persian.
@@Lol-ql3gdiranics are a loteral ethnic group, the elamites didnt call themselves iranian. Most of those people are Iranian peoples you mentioned Persians, Medes etc..
@@okaro6595parthians were Persians and spoke a language mutually intelligible to Persian, they also claimed ancestry from Achaemenid Persians, Darius and Artaxerxes the great Persian kings.
All of Iran's names share a single origin word, and Pheonicia referred to specifically the coastal cities and not just in Lebanon.
The word Iran was first applied to Persia by the Sassanid dynasty more than 1700 years ago. The word Iran was used more than 1000 years ago in the Shahnameh book, which dates back to 1000 years ago.
Vietnam was given the name because the Chinese emperor did not recognize it as “southern Viet”, which was a short-lived dynasty broke apart from the Qin dynasty. Vietnam is more properly translated as “ the country that exists south of the “southern viet”.
So southern Vietnam was contry thet exsisted south of contry thet exsisted south of southern viet
@ Vietnam itself means south of viet. “South viet” was a dynasty that existed shortly and occupied Cantonese region of China as well as what is now known as noerthern Vietnam. When the king of Da viet, aka great viet” united northern Vietnam and “applied” to be a subordinate of the Chinese emperor, this king wanted to name his country south viet, or namviet. Chinese emperor refused to give him this name because the Chinese emperor do want the Vietnam king to think he also has the right to rule south China(used to be known as south viet) as it is already been “reunited” to China by then. I know it’s confusing, and this is the best I can explain. I’d recommend you check out Chinese wiki and perhaps translate it into English as the English wiki does not have the most detailed information.
What about champa? Is there any record of that?
@@SRJ7798Dai Viet was a direct Chinese province for over a thousand years, while Champa was a territory (think of Puerto Rico to the USA) to the Chinese dynasties.
@@kenh758 Why was the culture of champa so different?
Westernising Thai flag was not a mistake, western power excuse for colonialism is to modernize the country. Thailand tried their best to modernize their country to avoid being colonized, which was successful.
And was then colonised by the Japanese instead…
Here are some fun facts about Sri Lanka names
Even though the official name 'Sri Lanka', people generally only use 'Lanka' part to refer to the country, and also the name 'Lanka' was very much in use among the normal citizens even during the 'Ceylon' time before 1948
And yes, we don't use the full name 'Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte' of our capital that often, it's commonly used as just "Ja'Pura".
❤love your videos
Hugs from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
The story I always heard about the Thai flag was that one day a merchant had accidentally flown The Elephant Flag upside down. Upon learning about this, The King ordered the flag to be redesigned so that this could never happen again.
6:46 About the Thai flag, you are totally correct.
The original design only had red and white color until a royal family member suggested adding blue to it.
I like your videos, they are clear, concise and can be used for classes in the Elementary and Middle school level.
Great video.
Happy New Year, Gil!
Fun fact: 2025 is a perfect square year. 2025 being 45 squared. The last perfect square year was 1936 and the next one will be 2116
Great stuff as always. On Jordan and Transjordan: I think it was called Transjordan until the British left their Palestine mandate in 1948, and Transjordan gobbled up the West Bank of the Jordan river. They now had both banks, so it wasn’t “across the Jordan” anymore, just Jordan. When Jordan lost the West Bank to Israel in 67’, they were probably too embarrassed to go back.
I like your content, you have interesting videos.👍👍
Nice to see your face, Didn't expect you to do face reveal tbh
You can go even deeper than Siam. There was Ayuthayya Kingdom with almost similar to modern borders territories
Ooooh glad that you mentioned this. I went to Thailand as a part of my study abroad program last year and we went to the historical city. Our tour guides said that Bangkok is practically a one for one copy and I could tell once it was pointed out.
Ayuthya and Ayodhya are similar
Happy new year! And nice haircut bro..
Funny how Malaysia is still Malaysia even though it's been 60 years since SIA broke away (Singapore). I guess Malaysarabah sounds a bit weird
nah that's not true. there's no evidence suggesting that.
Singapore was expelled because they weren’t Malay enough.
@allangibson8494 yeah that's partially correct. Lee Kuan Yew actually didn't want Singapore to split but the Tunku had had enough. There was also suspicions that PAP was linked with the communists.
more like malayDESH awokwowkw
The french used to refer to our part of the world as Malaisie. Also other western force refers it as the Malay Archipelago. So our country’s name definitely has a historial context and history behind it.
Different groups of iranian People back then called themselves er/ir people (whats today known as aryians) and iran/eran means er's in persian instead of s in English we use "ān" like "en" in german
(For example "setāre" means star and "setāregān" means stars
And historical name of persia is iranshar means ir/er peoples empire
Also iran/eran is older than parthian empire also mentioned in avesta and other Zoroastrian religious books
Huh?
This was awesome. Thank you for your service.
2:45 Actually Aryanem means "of the Aryans" not "land of the Aryans" It's the genitive form of the word Aryan in Old Persian which itself is the plural form of Arya. Aryan became Eran in Middle Persian which was still the name of the people and not the country though it was used in the word Eranshahr (Aryanshahr in Parthian) which was the official name of the Sassanid empire and meant land or empire of Aryans while the name of people was Er (Arya) (singular) and Eran (Aryan) plural.
After Islam and the development of new Persian Eran became Iran and changed into the name of the country with the name of the people becoming Irani (plural Iraniyan/Irani-ha)
Thank you! Somebody finally figured it out! Lol
Can you do one on the various nations that make up modern China? Also the countries that make up modern India, including Sikkim, Assam and Hunza. These are really informative and very well done.
@@hisholinesssriak7618 unified China existed before the concept of a nation (The Treaty of Westphalia).
The British were reviviing the old Roman name, Transjordan. They changed the name after seizing much of Palestine in order to lay claim to both sides of the river
and Palestine originally referred to just Gaza - as the Peleset internment / concentration camps established by the Egyptians in 1175BC to contain the “Sea Peoples” after their defeat by Rameses II…
@allangibson8494 no... They were just sea people settling wherever
@ That’s not what the Egyptian chronicles say. Gaza was a labor camp where the “Sea People” were interned and forced to make iron implements for the Egyptians.
@allangibson8494 put that back up your butt where you got it. No history books exist from that period
@samsonsoturian6013
The British under General Allenby only seized the west side of the Jordan with the eastern side remaining under Hashemite rule as the last vestige of the short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria
Although it seems from the comments that you got it all wrong, it still is an interesting video and I like how people here correct stuff. I hope you're not put off by this.
Do Algeria! from Numidia to Ceasarian Mauritania to Middle maghreb to Jazayer bin mizghana and then Algeria when French took over it! Great video by the way.
Love the new haircut dude, muito lindo! 😎
Thanks for this. Love it. Any chance you might dig into the history and name of Melaka?
I didn't know that you look this soooo good. 😅
Excellent short UA-cam video. 🎉.
The Achaemenid kings called themselves "King of Iran and non-Iran". The term Iran is very old. Following the the triumph of the Sassanids, a cadet branch of the royal family of Parthia, the Arsacids, continued to rule Armenia.
Murex wasn't the "only" way we could make purple - plenty of flowers and berries make purple dyes (mulberry set with vinegar, for example); its value was due to being colourfast, waterfast, and that it didn't fade over time. The "coptic" style tapestries found in Egypt, the blue-purple and white ones? Those used to have other colours, but the other dyes faded over time, leaving only those dyed with Murex, or purpura.
You trying to say “Meung” was very cute 😂
Excellent video. Thank you
Glad you liked it!
Every time you hit your desk, your mic shakes, and it makes a very deep bass in the audio.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll be more careful with my arm movements.
Awe did this free content not meet your standards? Poor baby, come give us a hug and cry about it 😂
@@chrishowson3243calm down man, dudes just letting the creator know so he can improve.
The fallacy here is that many of these countries didn't change names at all; the "former names" that you attributed to these countries were only exonyms with which they were known across the Greco-Roman world. The Iranians, for instance, never called their own homeland "Parthia" or "Persia," but always Iran.
Well, in the last decades of the 20th Century, many "Iranians" did call it Persia.
@GilmerJohn Only to outsiders, since that was the name Iran was internationally known for.
@@lambert801 -- Well, c. 1978 before the hostage situation and the lead up, I attended a "cultural" even in DC where we were presented with presentations about Iran. I had a conversation with a young woman and when I referred to the nation as "Iran," she corrected me by say, "Persia."
That's my primary data point. OTOH, we have a doctor from Iran who had a long journey to get where he is today. He never called his formal homeland, "Persia."
I have had friends of Iranian heritage who have always proudly called themselves Persian.
About Siam's independence: To be considered part of a European empire at the time all you needed was to share a foreign policy so many nations were extremely loosely affiliated with their overlords.
Yes and they were proud of that. Now people tend to overlook.
Siam become thailand not just in name but the king westernized the country to make the country seem civilized to the colonial powers, resulting it never being conquered in contrast to everywhere else in asia.
it sacrificed its identity in order to survive
All Countries must preserve their culture and traditions, religions.
Pretty hard, places like France and Britain for example assimilated distinct groups and language cultures like Gaelic, Breton, Occitan and many more.
Even Italy and Greece has lots of dialects that can be a bit hard for different localities if they both don't speak their National Standardized Language.
Pretty much every country in the world too does this, so countries ironically need to "remove" cultures to maintain the country itself without having too much division and cultural differences causing rifts against the Governing National Gang.
I was hoping you would talk about Syria and Assyria.
Can you redo north and South American borders but in one video?
Fact: Iran was named Iran back to 2000 years ago, based on coins founded belong to that time. It named Persia by western countries then internationally. Until 1920 when the shah of Iran fix it.
Interesting video, though I notice more and more videos are showing the creators faces. Is that a Y T thing or is that just a hubris thing were people just want their face on video? Curious as almost all videos previously were without the face of the content creators.
Nice
What are the coolest ancient sites in Portugal to visit? Like Roman or Celtic sites?
I think there are some pretty cool Roman ruins in Évora!
"Parthia" was not just a name change -they were a different people originally from outside the Persian empire but who defeated the Seleucid Greeks and established an empire of their own which covered a lot of the land formerly occupied by the Achaemenids prior to Alexander the Great. They were as different to the Persians as the Romans were to the Greeks and actually their language was more different to Persian as Latin was to Greek. Of course they shared some characteristics like similar religion etcetera but so did the Romans with the Greeks.
1000% correct
Still an Iranic people
@@dapperduncle1972 "Iranic" is an extremely broad term and would include the Scythians and lots of others who inhabited vast territories that were never ever part of either the persian and parthian empires. It's largely a linguistic term.
So, not that different?
Parthians were north eastern Iranians. Yes, not specifically Persian but Iranic nonetheless. Not as different as you claim.
Abut Iran you’re mistaken that it’s a modern name, Iran used by Iranian as the name of their country for thousands of years. Reza shah only asked the world to call the country with the name that the people of country call it, and one purpose was that Persia only refers to one group of Iranian people which are living in this land but Iran is a general term and includes Turks/Azeris, Lors, Baluchs, Turkmens, Arabs and all other Iranian people living in this land.
Do Africa next if you haven't already :)
Sri Lanka / Ceylon: when I had my first Geography lessons at school (in the mid 90s) I had an atlas that still called the Island Ceylon.
And I wonder why so many english speaking people pronounce "Shri" instead of "Sri"
Siam is another pronunciation of champ(vietnam). All Buddhist kingdom. Campaka in malay language mean a type of flower plant (cempaka). An Cambodia also another type of flower in Malay (Kemboja).
Even though Malaysia is not a Buddhist country, both flower presents heavily in its culture, poem and overall tradition.
Influenced by Sanskrit heavily too.
I knew Champa because of I follow a channel who show every countries' history.
What channel is that?
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Champa was the only name i have never heard
Same.
There are still physical and cultural remnants of the Chams in central Vietnam.
fun fact: it has the oldest-written austronesian language.
Yeah, and weirdly they worshiped some local and some Hindu gods like Shiva. Maybe due to maritime realtions? 🤷
AFAIK: The Cham were a sea people related to Philippine/Polynesian/Madagascar/Hawaiians who took over S Vietnam, then were under the religion of the Hindu traders from India. Buddhism came with the Vietnamese.
When Vietnamese took over, the Cham became a tribe on the border between Cambodia and Vietnam. During the Vietnam and Cambodian wars in the 1970-80 they were pretty much wiped out.
Kinda a sad ending for a group that lasted longer than the Roman empire.
Blessings upon you & yours for 2025🎉
Thanks! Happy New Year
The indigenious names of the Caribbean are interesting
It's important to remember that almost all of the older names were assigned by historians, and almost all are exomyms. Until fairly recently kingdoms and empires were defined by their rulers, not the other way round, and there was little consistency across the generations.
China used to be called Cathay in the olden days, and they still use the name for one of their airlines.
Cathy Pacific is specifically
Hong Kong's 🇭🇰 airline
China has always been the “central nucleus” (misinterpreted as the “Middle Kingdom” in the West) since its feudal founding over 4000 years ago, and further enshrined during its imperial unification 2200 years ago. During its last dynasty (ended 1912) it was known as the “celestial land”, “heaven on earth,” or “center of four oceans.”
In spanish, the palestinian region of West Bank is called Cisjordania. Not sure about the origins but I assume they must be the same as Transjordania or Transjordan in English.
Chams are linguistically different from Vietnamese, perhaps they have different origins, or are those the Hmong?
Chams are Austronesians. They are related to modern day Malays, Indonesians and Filipinos. They did try to leverage their Austronesian connection to resist Vietnamese advance. Dai Viet's annals recorded conflicts with the Sultanate of Malacca as the later tried to aid Champa.
Hmong is an entire different group hailing from territories that are now parts of China. Their language, Hmoob, belongs to the Sino-Tibetan group. It's further away from Austronesian languages than Vietnamese, an Austro-Asiatic language, is.
6:09 Actually Gia Long Emperor sent a delegation to Peking to ask for the Qing Imperial recognition as a Vessal king( An Nam Quốc Vương or King of Annan Country) and change the Country's name to Nam Việt (Nanyue). But, due to fear of misunderstanding of the imperial edict as recognition of Đại Việt's sovereignty over Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, Jiaqing Emperor switched the name to Việt Nam. Later on Emperor Minh Mạng, the second greatest Emperor in Vietnam's history (After The Saint Emperor of the Lê Dynasty or Lê Thánh Tông Hoàng Đế) changed the country's name to Đại Nam (Great Nation of the South) after his father's death and the annexation of Cambodia as Trấn Tây Thành (Western province) and former Đại Việt Territory given to Luangfrabang principality. And yes, Minh Mạng Emperor ended Panduranga (Chămpa) status as an autonomous region of Đại Nam after The final Jihad.
The name Iraq was definettely used throught the Islamic era, and was mentioned in multiple arabic historic book. There are even famous old family names as far as Morocco of people called "Iraqi"
Oh yes, the name Iraq was used for that region since at least 10th century AD.
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As far i know was Transjordan the modern day Jordan *including* the West bank
Indeed, Transjordan renamed themselves to Jordan after annexing the West Bank in 1949/50, since they now controlled land on both sides of the River Jordan (the ''trans'' prefix means ''after'' something). Jordan would lose control of the West Bank in 1967, and abandon their claim to it in 1988, reverting to the old borders of Transjordan, but keep the name Jordan.
@tsumugikotobuki0131
Ok, thanks
@tsumugikotobuki0131Trans is ACROSS not after.
@@Markus_Abrach Hi Jordanian here in 1946 we declared independence from the British and changed the name to the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan. The unification between the west bank and Jordan was in the 1950 and we did separate in 1988 based on the decision of the Palastinian people Before 1946, we were as Emerate of Trans Jordan
Isn't Taiwan only the name of the island and not the country? The country itself is still called Republic of China, despite not being recognized by the majority of the counties in the world.
The guy in mug is called as Haisuli
Yeah in Finnish, in English it's called Stinky. Here is more information from Wikipedia:
(Stinky: from English, although Swedish also has the verb stinka (to stink) - a criminal by profession, trickster, and a dangerous influence who tempts the Moomin family to do things that are against the law or otherwise cause problems for them for his own entertainment. He has a code of conduct of his own, and is offended when the Moomins want to give him a large sum of money which has been causing them much trouble. Physically, Stinky looks like some sort of furry mammal, whose most characteristic attribute is his constant, unbearable stench. He appears in one book (Villain in the Moominhouse) but mainly in comics and cartoons.
The changes in the Thai flag are actually a pretty large and funny story involving bad omens, floods and a ton of politics, I recommend you research it.
i am currently living here in Thailand, they call their selves here as Khun Thai meaning Thai people. still they call Myanmar people as Bamar with a silent "r", Cambodia as Kampucha and Laos as Lao.
The older maps of Jordan included the West Bank too, but I didn't see it.
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13:10 very sneaky of you not to mention trans jordane being part of mandatory Palestine...
Do one for africa - i would Like to See the Aksumites/habeshas
some theories says that Phoenicians were the descendants of the Sea people who'm caused bronze age collapse..
Phoenicians like the Sea people were both seafaring peoples who were pioneers of Naval warfare such mastery were last witness to the rise till the fall of Carthage during the three Punic wars
There was Ayuthayya Kingdom with almost similar to modern borders territories. They changed the name after seizing much of Palestine in order to lay claim to both sides of the river. graet video. good ad baby....!!!😀😀😀
Wait what about the old name Levant
Never referred to a state. It's from the old French meaning "the East" and is not obsolete. The Arabs call the same place al-Sham meaning "the West"
It was called Iranshahr, Latin speakers called it Persia because the founder of Iranshahr, Cyrus was from Parsa but everyone in what we now know as Iran called the region Iranshahr ever since the Achaemenids.
The Persians themselves called it Parsa
@TheNormalFamily Ardashir says otherwise
iran is not modern name of country stop spreading falsehood. ppl called themselves aryans for thousands of years and during sasanid era the term eran and aneran were used to distinguish ppl under the sasanid empire rule from ppl outside of the region
What happened to "the Levant" as the name for Lebanon?
Interesting, Lebanon comes for lbn meaning white. Albania shares the same root. That root is found in English even(Scotland was also called Albania), coming through latin, and proposed "albho-" from Proto Indo European. Also the Alps.
Champa is a flower. These kingdoms were influenced by Hinduism.
What about Ahowaz?
Which one did Nandor come from?
I’ve never seen his face and god damn is he cute.
Notification gang? 🔥
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Sassanids werent sort of Persian, they were Persians, from Pars province and their ancestry going back to the Achaemenids and kings of Persis. Parthian elites were also of Persian Achaemenid origins.
There was never in history ever an entity called "Mesopotamia" it was a geographical term used by the Greek to refer to the region.
The entire video has a mistakes or false info (or misunderstanding) in every part referring to the "middle east" at least (I can only assume the same about other regions but i dont have enough info about the other regions he talked about) please double check your infos and stop drawing conclusions based on wikipedia half ast info.
I can’t believe you left out one of what might be the most interesting- BANGLADESH!!! How could you miss that when you were right next door in Thailand and Myanmar!!!
iran has named in avesta, the religious book of zoroastrian and this religious is so old, arcialogies estimated for it, 3500 years at least
Yemen, that was the Kingdom of Sheba,.it's mentioned in the Holy Bible and some.called it Saba; at times it was connected to Ethiopia
0:45 i so wish Iran to be Persia again sounds much much much better and persia is just iconic historical name
The problem is it's was historical used by iranians to refer to iran and in case where it was it was because of foreign influence it's what we call an exonym i personally think that Erānshahr is best
Iran is the term the I habitants of the country have been using for thousands of years. Only outsiders called it Persia.
@psilicybins_ yeah i know that Iran is more of their name and persia is kinda like Holland for Netherlands but I just like it a lot
if we are talking about the middle then i feel like we should also talk about how israel was used to be called judea which means land of the jews but now it's called israel mostly because of the united kingdom of israel
Mesopotamia never was the "Old" "Name" of the modern state of Iraq the term most likely was a calque of an Aramaic term called Beth Nahrain which only meant an upper region in Iraq trapped between the two rivers (al jazira in Arabic) and this was the original meaning of both terms even in greek initially until it took on the meaning of a more broader geographical area.
Iran was how very old people of the land called themselves which was "eran" this is almost the same as modern german word "ehren" or "honourables" which was what one expects any ancient folk would call themselves.
Haisuli (Finnish name of that creature in the Mumin mug. Haisuli comes from word "haista" - "stinks", meaning that he is creature who stinks, or have strong smell), I believe those bottles he is stealing are alcohol bottles. Today Mumin is often seen as cartoon for children, but it originally clearly isn't. It was not created for such, by Tove Jansson. It was very political comic made for adults. As I know, all the characters are inspired from real world people who Tove knew. Same people, like Tove herself, inspired multiple characters (I think there is three characters made of Tove herself). Original comics made by Tove herself, includes lot of political thoughts, including anti-capitalist ideas, and she herself was lesbian in time where it was not accepted to be such, so there is indirectly about that topic too. Tove was from Swedish speaking minority in Finland, so original language for Mumin is Swedish, despite that she was Finnish.
Anyway. China is one with quite mess with names. I also learned recently, that Finland comes from (ancient) Norwegian, "Finnland", where Finn is word for Sámi people, meaning that Finnland is land of Sámi people. (Sámi people are small minority who lives in extreme north, today occupied/colonised by Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia). And as far as I know, no one knows what Rus means, while at least Russia as a name comes from that as well as Belarus ("White Rus"), but I would not be surprised if Prussia has connection to the word too. Some theory been, that there is conenction between Finnish name for Sweden "Ruotsi" and "Russia", but I do not really believe in that (Finnish name for Russia is "Venäjä" which means land of boats - since it is land of great rivers, like Volga).
You did not include Sumer and Babylon for Iraq
Not so much a name change per se but an insistence by their governments for people to refer to their countries by their native names.
Turkey→Turkiye
Cambodia→Kampuchea→Cambodia (Changed back to Cambodia in 1993 as a means of distancing itself from Khmer Rouge connotations.)