Early South Slavic History

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M. Laser History

M. Laser History

5 жыл бұрын

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0:16 There where obviously more towns/cities then just shown on this map.
0:38 Even though the Greek culture and language spread, the Greeks mostly stayed below the line shown before.
1:09 Or any other farmers from the people groups mentioned before.
8:19 Along with some Germanic Farmers like Lombards, Ostrogoths and Franks.
8:47 Even though Carantania would later on become Germanic at this point it was mostly Slavic and there are even records of Slavic farmers staving off Germanic Settlers coming from the West.
10:05 This is not to say that the Huns where Indo-European, this was a pour choice of words on my part. However it is believed that the Huns did control Indo-European tribes whilst in Europe and some of these tribes got then assimilated in to the Bulgar tribes.
12:20 This is just a snapshot of the Bulgar Empire at it's largest expanse, however this doesn't reflect the borders of the Bulgar state throughout most of it's life which where much smaller.
13:56 Boris didn't die in 889, just abdicated, he died in 907.
14:37 The coastal city states shown here under Byzantine control had a very complex political structure and not all of them where under a complete control by the Byzantines but it was simpler to just show them this way on the map.
15:05 It is not completely known whether both where either vassals or part of the empire, but considering the events that followed, I went with the most plausible statement.
15:59 It is still debated if he killed Radoslav or his son Prosigoj.
16:36 With a brief disruption in the middle by the Domagojevic dynasty.
17:40 It is also debated that around the middle 9th century the Serbians may have been forced alias or even vassals of the Bulgars for a while.
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@Cardan011
@Cardan011 3 жыл бұрын
Sheit history of Balkans is like 1000 seasons of game of thrones
@TheWolfDude91
@TheWolfDude91 3 жыл бұрын
bruh, you have no idea :D
@georgegkoumas5026
@georgegkoumas5026 Жыл бұрын
Keep in mind that this is just early south Slav history, this doesn't mention anything about ancient Greece, the Ottoman empire and ofc the Balkan wars. Also the Byzantine empire is briefly mentioned ofc because the point of this video is the Slavs not the Greeks.
@tarkalak
@tarkalak Жыл бұрын
*of Europe
@djsonicc
@djsonicc Жыл бұрын
@@georgegkoumas5026 those could be spin-offs lol
@biff-6603
@biff-6603 2 жыл бұрын
The main reason why Bulgaria was so successful is because Asparuh convinced local Slavs to join him in the battle against the Byzantines. When they won he founded Bulgaria as a country of both Bulgars and Slavs together. Bulgar nobility ruled exclusively for a few generations initially but regarded both peoples equally and they soon merged into one culture. The early rulers practiced genuine nation building in a style reminiscent of Thracian nobility. Thracian scripts may have also been a basis for the Cyrillic script.
@nizam-alem6761
@nizam-alem6761 2 ай бұрын
can you give me sources about the nation building in a style of thracian nobility?
@mza1409
@mza1409 5 жыл бұрын
I wonder if our ancestors also wore Adidas tracksuits?
@timax4114
@timax4114 5 жыл бұрын
Lol, ofcourse they did eating semechki and drink slivovitza
@dacho707
@dacho707 5 жыл бұрын
@@timax4114 the fuck are semechki, south slavs aren't russians you know?
@andrewmorisseau2575
@andrewmorisseau2575 5 жыл бұрын
Haha, I'm not a slav, but I'm living in Macedonia and wearing an Adidas tracksuit right now!
@timax4114
@timax4114 5 жыл бұрын
@@dacho707 semenke?
@dacho707
@dacho707 5 жыл бұрын
@@timax4114 semki
@krupam0
@krupam0 4 жыл бұрын
6:34 "So the Balkans were in this constant flux of uncertain political control by various groups." Huh, and they say history doesn't repeat itself.
@sciolist3109
@sciolist3109 4 жыл бұрын
Said nobody ever The actual saying is that history DOES repeat itself.
@SlimRolla1
@SlimRolla1 3 жыл бұрын
"History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes."
@captainjackpugh6050
@captainjackpugh6050 3 жыл бұрын
Where did you find that information
@mrs.hancock4124
@mrs.hancock4124 2 жыл бұрын
The difference between today and then was the fluxing within ethnic tribes of Europeans.
@99Boiko
@99Boiko 2 жыл бұрын
Yep, especially when history is helped along the way by outside forces.
@Fruzhin5483
@Fruzhin5483 4 жыл бұрын
Correction about Boris 1 of Bulgaria - He didn't die in 889. He abdicated that year to his firstborn son - Vladimir Rasate, who, in turn, got taken down after trying to bring back paganism. In 893 Boris called a concil with which was decided that Boris's third son Simeon would take the throne. Also the map of the ninth century is incorrect on the Serbo-Bulgarian border
@Siapanpeteellis
@Siapanpeteellis 2 жыл бұрын
This was the best explanation of how the Balkans became Slavic that I have encountered. Much better than the many books I have read on the subject and superman myths. Awesome.
@pevajmuziku3235
@pevajmuziku3235 Жыл бұрын
Hahahah
@kaligulajovanovic
@kaligulajovanovic Жыл бұрын
Maybe it is the best, but the problem is that it never happened.
@makavelimaka8035
@makavelimaka8035 10 ай бұрын
Slovenes are natives prior to Roman expansion. Sarmatians that came into Balkans in 7 century assimilated Slovene language to some extent and SerboCroatian was born. That's how they became Slavic.But not all of us.
@miloshp7399
@miloshp7399 6 ай бұрын
​@@kaligulajovanovicYour education never happened 😂
@doomdrake123
@doomdrake123 5 жыл бұрын
Small corection - Boris the First died in 907 not in 887. I see why you may have been cnofused since he abdicated the throne to his firstborn and the thirdborn son (hella of a infighting)
@antegelo8809
@antegelo8809 5 жыл бұрын
Ah that lovely balkan.... The place full of peace and fights, what to say, arguing is in our blood.
@fpsserbia6570
@fpsserbia6570 4 жыл бұрын
well Balkan is cross road for North - South and West - East , we are not strong enough to be able to have our own interest so we follow interest of other Imperial countries that is why there were and still is a lot of wars in the Balkan.
@vladimirjevremovic4449
@vladimirjevremovic4449 3 жыл бұрын
We are never bored... :D
@ivanpetkovic2130
@ivanpetkovic2130 3 жыл бұрын
Najbolja stvar kod nas je to što uvjek znaš ko je pobijedio u argumentu, onaj koji nema sjekiru u lubanji:D
@austenhead5303
@austenhead5303 3 жыл бұрын
Less blood, more geography. Every single empire just has to expand into the Balkans.
@user-gg4dh7yj9l
@user-gg4dh7yj9l 3 жыл бұрын
🖤🇦🇱AUTOCHTONOUS SHQIPTARIA🇦🇱🖤
@tijanagojic1995
@tijanagojic1995 3 жыл бұрын
I had to pause several times so that the narrator could catch breath.
@zzap4922
@zzap4922 2 жыл бұрын
Holy crap. Never even knew the story of the Bulgars and Bulgaria was so interesting. Amazing video. Regards from Lithuania!
@aleksk4151
@aleksk4151 2 жыл бұрын
Cyrillic script is created in Bulgaria and used first by the Bulgarians before ALL other slavs
@GK-fc8bu
@GK-fc8bu 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you zZap! Comments like this always makes me happy.
@kategoried7501
@kategoried7501 Жыл бұрын
@@aleksk4151 serbians says that cyrilic script is created by them :D
@begemod1743
@begemod1743 Жыл бұрын
@@kategoried7501 very common for the serbs Claiming things for them selfs. No Matter who you ask in the Balkans, they will say the Serbs are claiming what their eyes see
@chriskechagias5360
@chriskechagias5360 Жыл бұрын
@@aleksk4151 by whom?
@historyrhymes1701
@historyrhymes1701 5 жыл бұрын
Your channel is simply amazing and very underrated
@nedimistanojen7070
@nedimistanojen7070 5 жыл бұрын
Serbian territory it's a OLD COUNTRY BULGARIA.
@dimiturslavkov231
@dimiturslavkov231 5 жыл бұрын
there is so many versions..
@frankies7468
@frankies7468 5 жыл бұрын
@@kategoried7501 Patria is a greek word
@kategoried7501
@kategoried7501 5 жыл бұрын
@kim a hellens was just a small tribe
@zeljkostanisic4299
@zeljkostanisic4299 4 жыл бұрын
@@nedimistanojen7070 hahahaa Who no that ? History change face Day by Day
@fairextl
@fairextl 4 жыл бұрын
Actually, the origins of the Bulgars are largely unknown. There are sources from Armenian writers telling us Old Bulgarians inhabited the Caucasuses for a period of time and that they had great stoneworking abilities and built stone houses when they migrated to the area. Because of all the evidence there is a newer theory regarding the origins of the Proto-Bulgarians, that states they are from Iranian descent and the Turkic elements we see in their culture were picked up later on, as many Turkic tribes migrated from Asia into the lands inhabited by the Old Bulgarians and vise versa.
@MLaserHistory
@MLaserHistory 4 жыл бұрын
Could be, but I think more research has to be done in to that as the current facts do present a valid argument but not necessarily a closed case.
@fairextl
@fairextl 4 жыл бұрын
@@MLaserHistory That's the case with all theories about Proto-Bulgarian history of origin, sadly. We just don't have the evidence to make some kind of a solid conclusion.
@kategoried7501
@kategoried7501 Жыл бұрын
from river volga i think
@piotrwiara1564
@piotrwiara1564 5 жыл бұрын
Greetings to Slavic brothers from Slovenia Serbia and Croatia. Pozdrowiena dla braci Słowian Słoweńców Serbów i Chorwatów !!!!
@tihi1788
@tihi1788 5 жыл бұрын
pozdrav brate moj
@ricmamaddafakka7248
@ricmamaddafakka7248 5 жыл бұрын
Pozdrav braćo Slovenska svih denominacija, vera i religija. SLOVENI UJEDINIMO SE.
@i1bike
@i1bike 4 жыл бұрын
Nice sense of humor
@Gorrano985
@Gorrano985 4 жыл бұрын
Pozdrav iz Slavonije brate
@roby1251
@roby1251 4 жыл бұрын
Ey dipshit you left out Bosnia and Hercegovina.
@djziomsuper
@djziomsuper 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, never heard that Bulgarian people lived originally in other side of the sea which is called "Great Bulgaria". Really interesting video!
@WindWaker1233
@WindWaker1233 3 жыл бұрын
Those are the bulgarS, just 1 of the 3 main ethnic groups that form what are today the bulgarIANS. they were the political and military elite and were quickly assimilated in the local population, today we have even less than 1% of their dNA (however this is disputed because even the bulgar origin is uncertain, so no need to go deeper)
@99Boiko
@99Boiko 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah but it also causes confusion. One needs to distinguish the proto-Bulgars from the modern day Slavic Bulgarians. In short, the two nations mixed, and got on, and the Empire eventually adopted a Slavic personality due to the fact that the Turkic Bulgars assimilated. However, for one to be a Bulgarian in 2021 does not necessarily spell proto-Bulgar ancestry, while the Bulgars in turn settled across on the lands on both sides of the Adriatic (ex-Yugoslavia and Italy).
@westsidermetalhead4997
@westsidermetalhead4997 Жыл бұрын
Get this, there was a time where 2 Bulgarias existed. This one and Voljka (Volga) Bulgaria. Voljka Bulgaria got destroyed and wiped out by the expanding Horde of Genghis Khan, later transforming into the Golden Horde that also almost wiped out the entirety of the Rus Principalities during the early 1200s.
@neamnervi
@neamnervi Жыл бұрын
Bulgars are NOT TURKISH!!! Bulgrs are from Alano-Persian group! And they are about 90% similar to today's Bulgarians!
@neamnervi
@neamnervi Жыл бұрын
Your maps are not exact
@logansheat6720
@logansheat6720 4 жыл бұрын
Nobody: Alcek: Southern Italy it is!
@hugo57k91
@hugo57k91 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I wonder what happened there
@MarinKarimov
@MarinKarimov 3 жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celle_di_Bulgheria
@Alienhos
@Alienhos 2 жыл бұрын
There's a statue of Alzek in the small city named after the Bulgarians who settled there
@donjon9853
@donjon9853 2 жыл бұрын
It's always a blessing seeing my country Slovenia mentioned anywhere. I know it's corny, but we are always forgotten by everyone.
@Frosty-ky7ci
@Frosty-ky7ci 2 жыл бұрын
Bruh same for macedonia
@00opiumm
@00opiumm 2 жыл бұрын
@@Frosty-ky7ci maybe because your “country” started existing 5 years ago and has been historically always a part of bulgaria yet now you are descendants of alexander from thousnads of years ago
@Frosty-ky7ci
@Frosty-ky7ci 2 жыл бұрын
@@00opiumm 5? Try 100 and also it was occupied by you guys but never urs
@00opiumm
@00opiumm 2 жыл бұрын
@@Frosty-ky7ci yes we are facist occupators
@00opiumm
@00opiumm 2 жыл бұрын
@@Frosty-ky7ci we are also tatars and mongols snd gypsies abd turks
@mmitak
@mmitak Жыл бұрын
Thanks for a great overview! Some details I've pick up for myself over the years I can share for expanded context around what constituted the First Bulgarian state: - The tribe that gave us our Bulgarian name(or at least a tribe by that name) is mentioned in Chinese sources a heck of a long ago in BC times already; that tribe arrived in the moder-ish day lands of Bulgaria with around as little as 100 000 people, 10 000 of them as a cavalry-dominant khan’s army - They integrated with a local populace of ~2-2.5 million people, mostly Slavic tribes but also substantial numbers (maybe up to 40%) are still Thracian tribes and romanized urban populations - It is not exactly clear if that integration was by force or by synergy - Slavic tribes were a predominantly infantry-centered force, and vastly outnumbered the Bulgarians, yet the Bulgarian clans held the succession of titles - Converting to Christianity was a way to both centralize power and unite the populace. The son of Boris when he took over power reverted the change, so old Boris had to step away from the monastery, grab his sword, and have a counter-revolution ending with the blinding of his son.
@mimisor66
@mimisor66 6 ай бұрын
As I understand, the Slavs had a very welcoming society and easily integrated outsiders. This can explain partially the assimilation of the Romanized Thracians still living there. Plus, after the imposition of Old Slavonic as liturgical language of the local Christian church, this helped Slavic language become the prestige language and slowly replace other languages (slowly, because mentions of the Vlachs, a Romance speaking population, appear for centuries after. In fact, only after the apparition of the independent nation states in late 19th century with their nationalistic policies were they thoroughly assimilated).
@InauguralAgate6
@InauguralAgate6 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video! It provides the context for some of the things you mentioned in your western slavic history video while explaining southern slavic settlement in a straightforward way. I look forward to your eastern slavs video!
@Moredread25
@Moredread25 4 жыл бұрын
One thing that I always think is important to mention about ancient settlements in the Balkans is that we have to remember that they didn't have access to the New World vegetables like potatoes which are better suited for mountainous areas. Good presentation. South Slavic history is complicated because of how many people move into and around the area and how political the history is today.
@KingsandGenerals
@KingsandGenerals 5 жыл бұрын
What a great video!
@hugrit4027
@hugrit4027 5 жыл бұрын
Indoeuropean roots. Lot of words has same root, for example: Steel, Stahl, Stal / Iron, Icen, Acero, Acier / Sun, Sonne, Sol, Słońce
@hugrit4027
@hugrit4027 5 жыл бұрын
Actually no, indoeuropean words have a root in common and the use varies in diferent modern languages. An excellent example is the word "wòrd" wich means water, this word become unda in latin and is onda in spanish, onda means wave. You can see that words declinate from the common root
@neilmccauley690
@neilmccauley690 5 жыл бұрын
All this Slavs are one big nation,separate on tribes with diferent names from diferent regions but it was one big nation with same language and dna.There is no migration they just changing names of tribes tru history.
@Dmdm_dm
@Dmdm_dm 5 жыл бұрын
At 13:08 it's inaccurate though. There was no division between Rome and Constantinople in terms of the religious doctrine.
@joshgraham8209
@joshgraham8209 5 жыл бұрын
Your channel is one of the best on YT!
@barbaricvm0
@barbaricvm0 5 жыл бұрын
AHH FINALLY THE DAY HAS COME,I CANNOT WAIT TO WATCH THIS. EDIT : I love you,it was worth waiting more then half a year for this video,and you managed to stay perfectly unbiased.Seriously you deserve a fucking medal for this video.
@filipkralj2618
@filipkralj2618 5 жыл бұрын
7:01 that moment when 2 crazy guys crash the party
@sokolsrna1048
@sokolsrna1048 5 жыл бұрын
true story. Every great europian empire got fucked when that happend.
@ivanpetkovic2130
@ivanpetkovic2130 3 жыл бұрын
We didn’t crash the party we started it
@dusandotlic3713
@dusandotlic3713 3 жыл бұрын
@@ivanpetkovic2130 preach brother
@medarismuhibic5335
@medarismuhibic5335 3 жыл бұрын
@@ivanpetkovic2130 everything was great until two brothers appeared
@ercoleborgiano
@ercoleborgiano 2 жыл бұрын
Eeeey there were just late a couple minutes!
@Fruitekk
@Fruitekk 4 жыл бұрын
You have great videos! Very complicated topic with a lot of missing puzzle pieces, but explained in a very simple and understandable way
@chunkychew6995
@chunkychew6995 4 жыл бұрын
Byzantium: *exists The Entire Known World: GANGBANG
@JoCE2305
@JoCE2305 3 жыл бұрын
You hate to see it
@capulet6669
@capulet6669 3 жыл бұрын
Sadly true
@wankawanka3053
@wankawanka3053 2 жыл бұрын
Byzantium :can i get a break ? World around them :no
@mg4361
@mg4361 4 жыл бұрын
A great video! In the end you say that the slavic Balkans wasn't completely slavicised and that there were a lot of non-slavic speaking groups. This is very true. I know that in Croatia, the dalmatian cities were not fully slavicised until well after the middle ages, with the last speaker of the Dalmatian Romance language having died in 1898. In parallel, many speakers of eastern romance languages lived in the hills and became Vlachs and Morlachs, leading a transhumance pastoralist life. The actual Slavs initially mostly inhabited tha pannonian part of Croatia and the fertile parts of the coast, leaving the cities, the mountains and the smaller islands to the romance speakers. The romance languages later faced a double pressure to assimilate either into slavic speakers or into Venetian/Italian, which accelerated their disapparence.
@trashbockmist9077
@trashbockmist9077 3 жыл бұрын
A great Comment!
@cizma27
@cizma27 3 жыл бұрын
I am really disappointed that Delmat language is dead. It looks like a pretty language
@goranmiljus2664
@goranmiljus2664 2 жыл бұрын
Many were also ETHNICALLY CLEANSED to Italy by the USTASHA.
@zivkovicable
@zivkovicable Жыл бұрын
Substantial remnants of Dalmatian Romance language survive in the dialects of the Dalmatian Islands today, many of which are uninteligable to most mainland Croatians. Some ethnic Italians from Istria & central Dalmatia slavicised their names during the course of the 20th century, my mothers family included.
@Livanz1
@Livanz1 11 ай бұрын
You are absolutely right about the non-slavic speaking groups , there must have been lots of them and the slavic ( then ottoman ) pressure did accelerate their disappearance south of the Danube but look at what happened on the north side ...
@stefanogattoCH
@stefanogattoCH 5 жыл бұрын
your video is great! You cover a period that was totally unknown by me, but actually it helps quite a bit to explain where we stand today. Thank you!
@KraliMishev
@KraliMishev 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Finding a good and unbiased video about the Balkans made by brothers usually goes south real fast.
@bigozimak
@bigozimak 5 жыл бұрын
Honestly, that was the best video on this subject I have ever seen! Congratulations!
@saturnproductions1827
@saturnproductions1827 4 жыл бұрын
Proud to be South Slavic
@elizaiv
@elizaiv 3 жыл бұрын
Dude, I have studied Bulgarian history quite extensively and I still learned new things about our own history, really impressive! Great overview of the region's history, gives great perspective and I love the animations - thank you for the great work!
@kristianangelov3719
@kristianangelov3719 2 жыл бұрын
by accident I found ur channel, with the very first video, you won a subscriber. the way u showed the information is remarkable - very distinctly and accurate, subaltern on facts, no sci-fi, straight on the point.
@gaetano_kojj
@gaetano_kojj 5 жыл бұрын
I really like your videos, everything is presented very clearly and reasonably. I can see the huge ammount of work you put into this. Keep up the great work. Pozdrowienia z Polski! :)
@bulgariangamingbatlefieldb3177
@bulgariangamingbatlefieldb3177 5 жыл бұрын
I really like your videos because they are accurate and you talk about things we actually learn in school
@bigger_mibber6029
@bigger_mibber6029 4 жыл бұрын
@@leckyboy1475 But they are?
@00opiumm
@00opiumm 2 жыл бұрын
@@leckyboy1475 ive seen you comment twice on this video and both times has been about this
@np4653
@np4653 5 жыл бұрын
United we stand, divided we fall.
@damianmatras8568
@damianmatras8568 5 жыл бұрын
I love your animation skills. And I love the use of very detailed map, very very detailed map with detail rivers and mountain heights showed in colours; with such map you can see different layers of history.
@jangelbrich7056
@jangelbrich7056 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for not only painting these maps, but also mentioning what information sources we have, and which we dont have. Also, using the geographic map as underlying base is a very good idea!
@hawke8028
@hawke8028 5 жыл бұрын
Wow, great video! Very detailed and informative, thanks for your work, you earned yourself a new sub :)
@Bra1nSicK
@Bra1nSicK 5 жыл бұрын
Good and accurate video! Keep up the good work and greetings from Bulgaria! :)
@damjanfilipovski5256
@damjanfilipovski5256 5 жыл бұрын
Wow keep up the good work, great vid :)
@StefanMilo
@StefanMilo 5 жыл бұрын
Great video man. Really thorough! Your effort really shows.
@MikeMaris
@MikeMaris 5 жыл бұрын
I know this is unrelated, but how did you make those maps? Also, I love all the detail you put into a subject people tend to generalize!!
@darkopenovski9618
@darkopenovski9618 4 жыл бұрын
Love your channel. Greeings from Sirmium!
@Richardrbhs
@Richardrbhs 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your work in putting these videos together.... I have learned a great deal and look forward to more of your videos Again thank you
@colincbatch
@colincbatch 4 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for your later histories of the Slavs! Молодец!
@user-wn5pv9ng8x
@user-wn5pv9ng8x 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! I wish you do make a video about the bulgarian history . Keep it going !
@puppy5463
@puppy5463 4 жыл бұрын
Great video! Its was surprisingly well actually! One of the best videos on this subject, good job!
@pepperVenge
@pepperVenge 5 жыл бұрын
Great video! Such detail. I really enjoyed this!
@keeganmoonshine7183
@keeganmoonshine7183 4 жыл бұрын
wow you are the first person I've ever seen mention that part about one of the brothers taking his people to modern-day macedonia. very interesting to think about. Always assumed that the Bulgarian migration occurred after this time period when Bulgaria was more established and migrants started to move south.
@IK-so2bm
@IK-so2bm 3 жыл бұрын
One of the brothers settled in today's Italy, hence you have last names such as Bulgaro, Bulgari, Bulgarini, Bulgarelli, etc. and a town in central Italy called Bulgare.
@00opiumm
@00opiumm 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah and macedonians still claim to be descendants of alexander
@chriskechagias5360
@chriskechagias5360 Жыл бұрын
@@00opiumm thanks for your comment xD
@stjepansalopek8600
@stjepansalopek8600 3 жыл бұрын
13:48 The reason for the invention of Cyrillic script may not have been the fact that Glagolitic script was not suitable for Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic, since both Glagolitic and Cyrillic script had had pretty much the same letters (for comparison visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script#Characteristics ), including the Slavic letters such as "Yat". Perhaps the reason was more the fact that Glagolitic script is more difficult to learn / teach / read. That's not to say that Glagolitic script is worse (but it is more difficult). It is arguably one of the most beautiful scripts, similar to the current Georgian script, and also, a lot of the letters that sound the same, e.g. "G" and "H", also have similar looking letters (Ⰳ and Ⱈ), which is not the case in, for example Latin alphabet.
@nikolayhmn
@nikolayhmn 3 жыл бұрын
Good stuff, would love a video more focused on Bulgaria
@godofthegreatkurultaj4302
@godofthegreatkurultaj4302 5 жыл бұрын
A video about the avars would be great. Really liked this video
@tomorkaralliu5282
@tomorkaralliu5282 4 жыл бұрын
Check Bavaria the only name in Europe that has as a root the word Avar. I know the helens say that Albanians are of avarian origin ,and is true that in albania the last name avari exist but that should not confuse us, the name alba, or arvani or arber cannot arrive from the root avar.
@dragomiryankov2461
@dragomiryankov2461 5 жыл бұрын
Great Video...and really accurately presented the Bulgarian part
@bobantheighty6141
@bobantheighty6141 4 жыл бұрын
The truth about Macedonia... There is tons of evidence that almost all the national heroes we have considered to be Macedonians in Republic of Northern Macedonia so far have considered themselves as Bulgarians in one way or another! Even the father of the so called Macedonian nation, philosopher Krustyo Petkov Misirkov is a pure Bulgarian, born in 1926 in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria! He is also often regarded as "the founder of contemporary Macedonian literary language". Gorche Petrov proudly states this in his book "Study Materials about Macedonia". There he writes that the Macedonian population is made up of Bulgarians, Greeks, Turks, Arnauts, Roma and Vlachs, but the Serbs are not mentioned anywhere! All this is described in detail in a literary Bulgarian language in a book with over 700 pages in 1896. The motto of all Bulgarians from the Macedonian region has always been only one ... 🦁FREEDOM OR DEATH🦁
@spiritwildfiregaming1975
@spiritwildfiregaming1975 4 жыл бұрын
@@bobantheighty6141 Actually, in Bulgaria we even joke by calling it "Macedonia Bulgarian (Македония Българска)" Some people that are more serious about history are kinda...pissed at you, but most of us just joke. No offense intended, of course.
@user-ku5br8zc5f
@user-ku5br8zc5f 3 жыл бұрын
@@leckyboy1475 македония е българска.
@jordan9339
@jordan9339 3 жыл бұрын
@@leckyboy1475 Maybe that's because my grand grandfather is from Stip, and my other grand grand father is from Drama region in Greece, which is also Macedonia. And that applies to at least 1/3 of Bulgarian people, because we had close to 1 million refugees after the Balkan Wars and First World War from Aegean and Vardar Macedonia. At that time Bulgaria was less than 4 million. And that is one thing that was hidden for you for many years. Among many other things.
@ercoleborgiano
@ercoleborgiano 2 жыл бұрын
Ah, Bulgarians, the people who assimilated their own conquerors, also took their Turkic name but didn't give a single fuck like a boss lol
@runegold321
@runegold321 4 жыл бұрын
Really good video, my man! Great job, keep it up!
@panikwe
@panikwe 5 жыл бұрын
Very good video! Greetings from Slovenia!
@kauemoura
@kauemoura 5 жыл бұрын
Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro make me think a bit of the Catholic and Protestant Irish. ~Look, we're the same people, our ancestors decided that this tiny difference between us was a reason for us kill each other, so we kept on disliking each other because we've harmed each other in the past.
@hladanbeton3974
@hladanbeton3974 4 жыл бұрын
But the Troubles ended up working out brilliantly for Ireland, unlike our trashy system of banana-republics
@TS-zs4un
@TS-zs4un 3 жыл бұрын
Probably we are not the same people and we have never disliked each other through out the whole history just up until recently, Germanic people are much wilder and aggressive but they were on the right side of the history so because of their interest and interests of the other major powers it was convenient to stick that label of primitive tribes fighting each other to the Balkan people although that couldn't be far away from the truth
@abpast5319
@abpast5319 3 жыл бұрын
We have difrent r1a subclades of slavic haplogrups so no
@PSL_European
@PSL_European Жыл бұрын
Well before the ottomans fucked it all up for us
@bookwyrm4559
@bookwyrm4559 5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely phenomenal video
@raritica8409
@raritica8409 Жыл бұрын
Southern Slavs are so cool to me, love from an Eastern Slav!
@danieliliev5236
@danieliliev5236 5 жыл бұрын
Easily one of the best videos covering such an all-encompassing and impossibly complex topic. I want MOAR!
@velislavlonev196
@velislavlonev196 5 жыл бұрын
You did your homework bro, thats a hard history to follow good job.
@jonatankelu
@jonatankelu 5 жыл бұрын
Well done! Keep it up.
@ivanemilov522
@ivanemilov522 5 жыл бұрын
Great, accurate and unbiased video great job and greetings from Bulgaria!
@bordoenes6217
@bordoenes6217 5 жыл бұрын
This is great content! Would you like to do some on Turkic, Iranic or Uralic(Hungarians mainly) groups next?
@phiszabo2
@phiszabo2 5 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, though i'm of the Danau Swab decent i do carry one line of serbian lineage and my family prior to the US lived in the balkans for several hundred years. Great video thoroughly enjoyed this one!
@antegelo8809
@antegelo8809 3 жыл бұрын
Actually this is a good video dude
@bonefex3000
@bonefex3000 5 жыл бұрын
Good job on the research. As a Bulgarian that is studying currently advanced History of the Balkans I can confirm that most of this is correct keep up the good work.
@bonefex3000
@bonefex3000 5 жыл бұрын
@Solve Everything at the time christianity was key The Russians also Turned Christian from Bisantium And also when we were Christian we were at the peak of our powers
@affentaktik2810
@affentaktik2810 4 жыл бұрын
Red Fox Emperor if you are studying it can you please tell me why or for how long cyril and his brother were exiled in moravia?
@Dian_Borisov_SW
@Dian_Borisov_SW 2 жыл бұрын
Do you agree that the bulgar nomads were of turkic descent? There are many theories and very little evidence
@bonefex3000
@bonefex3000 2 жыл бұрын
@@Dian_Borisov_SW I cannot say for sure since I haven't looked that much into it. But most dynastic clues will lead to Kubrat who was partially turkik in decent. Unfortunately the Bulgars were nomadic trybes that moved across several lands, but they do have traits like pony tails and horse riding much like the later Mongol tribes.
@bonefex3000
@bonefex3000 2 жыл бұрын
@@affentaktik2810 That can very depending on who you ask. We wouldn't have many accounts from back then because writing was still not practiced by many
@hotrodjones74
@hotrodjones74 5 жыл бұрын
Informative and highly interesting. Спасибо большое!
@achelnokov
@achelnokov 3 жыл бұрын
grear job mate, keep it up
@wenqiweiabcd
@wenqiweiabcd 4 жыл бұрын
7:05 Aww, they come to the Balkans holding hands. They are going to make such peaceful neighbours.
@mamaluigi1438
@mamaluigi1438 3 жыл бұрын
Some time later...
@rbereee
@rbereee 3 жыл бұрын
@Јован Јованчевић lol
@Awakeningspirit20
@Awakeningspirit20 3 жыл бұрын
They were the two young bucks who grew up together and thought they'd be best friends forever, think of all the conquering and the wars and the women we will get together!... and then they grow old and turn into the fiercest and worst of enemies. So tragic.
@MrMadRade
@MrMadRade 3 жыл бұрын
We have still a love hate relation. In open there is anymosity, but in the background we sit together in kafana and enjoy eacb other differences and similarities
@Svevladovich
@Svevladovich 2 жыл бұрын
Most of Croats and Serbs hang out besides politics and trying to push bad history and habits away. Hope our future to be better.
@Blalack77
@Blalack77 3 жыл бұрын
These are the places I'm most curious about and would most like to visit - along with Anatolia and the -stan countries. They're fascinating to me since they're kind of like border areas between multiple cultures - at least historically.
@SasafrasYT
@SasafrasYT 3 жыл бұрын
what boris the first did sounds like its strait out of one of the crusader kings games
@intel386DX
@intel386DX 4 жыл бұрын
thanks for the great history video :)
@SatiLord
@SatiLord 5 жыл бұрын
Loved your video! Please make a video about East Slavic History. Thx!
@witalian1
@witalian1 5 жыл бұрын
Will you do a continuation on balkan history?
@Matt_Silverwolf
@Matt_Silverwolf Жыл бұрын
I have learned more about the history of my country from a 19 min youtube video than I have from 4 years of history class in school
@pivo2k
@pivo2k 3 жыл бұрын
How did I live without this channel? 🤩👍👏
@colincbatch
@colincbatch 4 жыл бұрын
Laser, You are great! What detail! Fantastic story/history telling! вообще отлично! я поражён! великолепно!
@mikara518
@mikara518 5 жыл бұрын
Amazing video!
@levilainpetitfanfoue
@levilainpetitfanfoue 2 жыл бұрын
thanks for your work. it's amazing,
@innosanto
@innosanto 5 жыл бұрын
Man great work!! Kudos!
@elite2952
@elite2952 5 жыл бұрын
for an english speaking guy, you are very good at saying Bulgarian names. Normally our languange is hard.
@zvaramartin
@zvaramartin 4 жыл бұрын
He is Slovakian
@elite2952
@elite2952 4 жыл бұрын
@@zvaramartin english speaking
@boristzakov5706
@boristzakov5706 4 жыл бұрын
The author, many errors in the English text.
@jozejerse6777
@jozejerse6777 Жыл бұрын
Good representation of Slovenia. Even Slovenes rarely know of the fact that we have common roots with Czechs and Slovaks. Even though we no longer share national or cultural border, we still have more in common that with our southern neighbours.
@andreman2767
@andreman2767 Жыл бұрын
Anyway all slavs share a lot of common stuff
@Svevladovich
@Svevladovich 10 ай бұрын
@Washing Machine Mine from Czechia.
@stephanmarinovic1180
@stephanmarinovic1180 4 жыл бұрын
Great video. With so much information, I know that it is impossible to mention everything. I do have a couple of small details that were not mentioned as it pertains to Croats settling the area. The first being that there was some kind of treaty or offer of settlement (contingent on Christianizing) from either Rome or Byzantium extended to Croats to settle the region after it was largely vacated due to raids and economic ruin. For the life of me, I can't recall the name of the document or where it can be found. A similar situation may have occurred with Serbs, given that they entered the area around the same and managed to unify the Slavs who were there before them. The other thing I would mention was that the Croatian Kingdom allied with Byzantium during one of their wars with the Bulgarian empire. As such, they were rewarded with Southern Dalmatia, which demographically, had already become largely Slavic any way. The Adriatic coast remained largely Slavic demographically until later Venetian colonization which brought back some Latin populations.
@leopoldivesic4872
@leopoldivesic4872 4 жыл бұрын
Very informative and useful thank you
@tzora6462
@tzora6462 5 жыл бұрын
@m.laser I only wish you added a timeline while you were speaking of all the events
@zmajooov
@zmajooov 5 жыл бұрын
15:54 A-HA! NOW WE FINALLY KNOW WHO STARTED THE WAR! -edit It's amazing how your video is unbiased, easiest sub ever, keep up the good work!
@sokolsrna1048
@sokolsrna1048 5 жыл бұрын
hahaha. Yes. We are sorry for that. For fuck sake we killed him when he got back. Dont belive its bcs of Franks told us shit. My grandpa told me "we killed him for what he did to Serbs" . True story. Ur right. We know we were assholes trough all the history. But its those damn germans and romans... They told us DO IT.. IT WILL BE FUN THEY SAID. But u got your revange in 1990's...U destroyed our country, killed our people.. Yeaaa u did lose war at the end... But u didint want to win it realy, u just had to take ur revange , and enjoy some time.
@indjijatsararmy
@indjijatsararmy 5 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahahahahahaha Exactly, First Blood. Dick move though for anyone.
@vherox3826
@vherox3826 4 жыл бұрын
Werent you liberated by croatia after bulgaria conquared you. Come on we were best friends in the middle ages.
@TotilaTheGoth
@TotilaTheGoth Жыл бұрын
@@vherox3826 Nope. Časlav liberated Serbia after a short Bulgarian occupation as well as Serb lands that were occupied by the Croats in the aftermath of Bulgarian conquest of Serbia.
@golofa4935
@golofa4935 2 жыл бұрын
super cool video, may I ask where the backgound map is from? I would love to put it in gqis for maps of my project... thx
@iliabrus434
@iliabrus434 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video man
@teguy5
@teguy5 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this informative and unbiased presentation.
@warlord970
@warlord970 5 жыл бұрын
Great video :) Thank you for mentioning the situation of us Slovenes and explaining it in a bigger detail.
@99Boiko
@99Boiko 2 жыл бұрын
Nice avetar. If I am not mistaken that was the Slovene flag while part of the SFRJ (looking at the tricolour formation).
@warlord970
@warlord970 2 жыл бұрын
@@99Boiko Thanks. You are correct, this is the flag of SR Slovenia.
@99Boiko
@99Boiko 2 жыл бұрын
@@warlord970 Good man! All Slavs be praised! :)
@TheFiddle101
@TheFiddle101 2 жыл бұрын
Superb presentation. Thank you.
@rickdeckard346
@rickdeckard346 5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video mate! Can you please send a link for the map image you used for this video, I see it is very high quality and depicts all the topography correctly.
@rickdeckard346
@rickdeckard346 5 жыл бұрын
@@MLaserHistory Thank you very much!
@yeste9437
@yeste9437 5 жыл бұрын
i do not belive it i found one civilized discusion in comment section about origins is this real live
@yeste9437
@yeste9437 5 жыл бұрын
its just sad how most of us can understand each other but still fight over something they dont understand i mean most of the people fighting in comments were not even born in the 90s
@arsenvarelis2676
@arsenvarelis2676 3 жыл бұрын
especially about balakans
@hippityhop9522
@hippityhop9522 2 жыл бұрын
Also you forgot to mention Croatian-Bulgarian Wars in which Croatia gained a lot and Raška(aka Serbia) became Byzantine vasal. Byzantine empire sent gifts and land consessions to Croatian Kingdom (Byzantines gave islands in Dalmatia, scepter and a crown to Croat king).
@andrejristic6864
@andrejristic6864 Жыл бұрын
Ne moze da pomene nesto sto se nikada nije desilo .Posalji nam Romejski izvor tvoje tvrdnje ,posto su Romeji sve evidentirali .
@senon4482
@senon4482 4 ай бұрын
ahahahhaha
@tommy-er6hh
@tommy-er6hh 5 жыл бұрын
Looks great! Look forward to the last of the series. are you going to make them a play list? Suggestion - why not do the origins of the norse-germanic, ie the Goths and Vandals and Gepids ending with the Lombards - an show how they moved in the migration period? You might even intertwine the Wends with them.
@herbert4725
@herbert4725 5 жыл бұрын
Great video
@skule7760
@skule7760 4 жыл бұрын
sadly the video didn't go far enough for us to learn how bosnia came to be but still a lovely video about my people and our history!! And ofc i hope you make a part 2 of some sort , i would love that , the slavic history is rarely covered here on youtube
@Kafchuga
@Kafchuga Жыл бұрын
Well judging by what Ive learned,what this video shows and Bosnia's area of birth witch is around the river of Bosna im guessing that other settled south slavic tribes(not serb or croat) and mixed remnants of germanic, avaric, latin, greek and lliryan population gave birth to this duchy.
@LordOfCookies123
@LordOfCookies123 Жыл бұрын
I always thought Bosnia is a meme country declared through some American grapevine for some strategic reason after they broke up the old country. Can easily see it as basis for further conflict.
@goranvuksa1220
@goranvuksa1220 Жыл бұрын
@@Kafchuga That's very unlikely. Before the Ottoman invasion and forced Islamization, Bosnians were always considered as Serbs. The best example would be that the first king of Bosnia, King Tvrtko I Kotromanić had a title "King of Serbs" although his territorial rule was over entire Bosnia, Hum and parts of Dalmatia. If there were other people under his rule, he would have included them in his title without a doubt. Today's Bosnia consists of Croats, Boshniaks and Serbs, but Boshniaks are just Islamized Serbs, there are numerous historical references to confirm this fact. Also, this video makes a lot of modern false assumptions. For example, "Serbo-Croatian" language is a very modern and very absurd idea. Croatian language, dialect of the South Slavic, is Čajkavica, while Serbian is Štokavica. Serbo-Croatian is only Štokavica, meaning only Serbian, which is a digraphic language, and this was used to create a false separation to Serbian and Croatian as part of the nationalistic and political struggles. However, Croatian language is still used in parts of Croatia, although their official language is Serbian, they just call it Croatian, same as in N. Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia, although after the wars of the 1990 they had all renamed the language by the names of these new-founded countries. With these modern assumptions, many errors arise. The first well recorded history of the Serbs is that of the Nemanjić dynasty (they are the center of modern Serbian national identity). Yet they originate from Zeta region/tribe and only after they had united multiple regions and tribes, combined they call themselves Serbs. Also, there is no separate historical record of a single Serbian tribe, this name us always used for larger groups of South Slavic tribes, unlike ex. Croats or Moravians, implying that Serbs are not a single tribe but a group of South Slavic tribes. This further is supported by historians like Mavro Orbini, who for example puts Croatian insignia grouped as part of insignias under the Nemanjić Serbian insignia.
@goranvuksa1220
@goranvuksa1220 Жыл бұрын
@@storymatters7309 I have noticed that way too many people now days miss the difference between region and ethnicity. In middle ages (and before) there was no concept of national state, and people of the same ethnicity were separated in multiple countries/regions that were even often in war with one another. Bosnia was not named by Bosnian people, but by river Bona. Not even today there is a specific Bosnian nation/ethnicity, but Bosnia is a country of three constitutional people: Serbs, Croats and Bošnjaks (named themselves like that in 1993, before just called Muslims). So it is very difficult to say someone was Bosnian. Of course he was Bosnian, but then the founder of Serbian Nemanjić dynasty (from which was that Serbian prices you mentioned) was Zettan (or whatever the English term for people from Zeta is), and later Serbian rulers from the same dynasty were Rasians (people from Raška) and later Macedonians, since these were the lands where they were born and lived. On this same way you could argue that Normans are not French or Bavarians are not German, or that Alexander of Macedonia was not Greek (Helen), or that I am not Serb because I would always proudly call myself Dalmatian. But there was no mention of Tvrtko being the King of Bosnians. His title was "King of Serbs, Bosnia, Costal lands and Hum". If he had ruled over some Bosnian group of people he would make sure to include it in his title. Further more, it is not true that there was a missing hair, Mrnjavčević dynasty was set to replace Nemanjić dynasty and last Serbian tzar Uroš had named Marko Mrnjavčević a young king and gave him a right of succession. Also, there was prince Lazar, who was actually crowned tzar by the patriarch, but was challenged by Tvrtko. Also, Tvrtko did not assert himself as king because "his grandparents from his mother side were Serbs", but because they were from the Nemanjić royal dynasty, which gave him a right of succession. Bosnian bans were very powerful since Kulin Ban, which gave them a lot of de facto independence and sovereignty but they were sill bans, and that's one of the lowest titles that is a title of local lords that are under the rule of some other prince/king/tzar.
@goranvuksa1220
@goranvuksa1220 Жыл бұрын
@@storymatters7309 yes, Bosnian LAND. Just as I had said, as his title says. King of Serbs (people), Bosnia (land), etc.. You have confirmed exacly what I have said. You must take everything in the context, not cherry pick fragments to try to prove a point. Ex, "POVELJA DUBROVČANIMA 1378" To be in Christ Jesus faithful and by God apointed Stephan (Serbian Nemanjić dynasty name), King of Serbs (people) and Bosnia and... (his lands). And then I had started my reighn with God and rebuild the trone of Serbia (here he directly puts Bosnia as a land in Serbia) with wish to erect what was fallen and streighten what was damaged.
@DakuHonoo
@DakuHonoo 5 жыл бұрын
now I want to play a map game, incorporating slovenia into a wendish empire ... i'm thinking eu4
@DakuHonoo
@DakuHonoo 5 жыл бұрын
yeah but i haven't played ck2 yet, i'll give it a try over the weekend, however i've seen part of your AH hoi4 game after this one and decided to play that because i didn't like something you did
@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642
@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642 5 жыл бұрын
Maybe a mod for EU4 that starts at an earlier date?
@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642
@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642 5 жыл бұрын
+M.Laser True. But then again, there are mods to some video games that have so much work put into them that they actually make, if not a good, then at least a decent enough representation of an age before the game for which the mod was made originally is set in. (I could barely wrap around the last sentence, so I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't understand it correctly or at all).
@Miranporedosgitarsmer
@Miranporedosgitarsmer 5 жыл бұрын
Ajde dajte pričat ,govoriti po balkanski bre :) Kje je Karantanija? Slovenija?
@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642
@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642 5 жыл бұрын
+Miran poredoš Da. Te djelovi današnje Austrije, takođe.
@becca7455.
@becca7455. 3 жыл бұрын
GREAT Video..Do you know if there are any vital records from Montego between 1600 and 1800?
@filipkomljenovic8208
@filipkomljenovic8208 2 жыл бұрын
Ive been lookinf for a vid like this
@Veluvian
@Veluvian 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your effort to picture one of the most dynamic areas in the Medieval Europe. Still the origins of the bulgarian ethnic people was under a discussion in science, but there were two independent scientific researches that tried to test all the possible variations. They used bones and teeth for this task. Scientists were barely able to isolate the thracian genome back in 2012 and finally reached to the conclusions that the bulgarians/proto-bulgarians/ have nothing common with turkic / altay ethnic groups. /With all due respect to this culture/. The bulgarian genome is mostly closer to the people from Croatia and Slovakia today. Although I do not accept that we are slavic people, still it is very difficult to state how common we have with the slavs genetically, because slavs tribes used to burn the dead and left no remains and necropolises.
@tomorkaralliu5282
@tomorkaralliu5282 4 жыл бұрын
It is said that croatians are the most slavic people in the balkans, with 65% slavic lineage, the servs are only 50% , what about bulgarians or westbulgarians ?
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