How Did The Provinces Of The Roman Empire Get Their Names?
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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
Roman Provinces: www.britannica.com/topic/prov...
Baetica: www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text
Lusitania: www.britannica.com/topic/Lusi...
Terraconensis: everything-everywhere.com/arc...
Aquitania: www.etymonline.com/word/aquit...
Narbonensis: www.britannica.com/place/Narb...
Lugdunensis: lugdunum.grandlyon.com/en/Dis...
Belgica: israel.diplomatie.belgium.be/...
Britannia: www.these-islands.co.uk/publi...
Germania: www.oktoberfesthaus.com/blogs...
Alps: www.etymonline.com/word/alps
Raetia: www.definitions.net/definitio...
Noricum: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Noricum
Italia: www.etymonline.com/word/Italy
Corsica: www.etymonline.com/word/Corsica
Sicilia: www.etymonline.com/word/Sicil...
Pannonia: web.archive.org/web/201106122...
Dalmatia: www.pedalandseaadventures.com...
Dacia: www.etymonline.com/word/dacian
Moesi: www.britannica.com/place/Moesia
Regnum Bospori: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bospora...
Thracia: www.etymonline.com/word/thrace
Macedonia: www.etymonline.com/word/maced...
Epirus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epirus
Achaia: www.greekmythology.com/Myths/...
Bithynia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bithynia
Pontus: www.etymonline.com/word/pontus
Asia: www.etymonline.com/word/Asia
Galatia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatia
Lycia: www.etymonline.com/word/lycia
Pamphylia: www.etymonline.com/word/pamph...
Cilicia: www.etymonline.com/word/cilicia
Cyprus: www.etymonline.com/word/Cyprus
Cappadocia: www.kayakapi.com/cappadocia
Armenia: www.etymonline.com/word/armenia
Assyria: www.etymonline.com/word/assyria
Mesopotamia: www.etymonline.com/word/Mesop...
Syria: www.etymonline.com/word/Syria
Iudea: www.etymonline.com/word/judea
Arabia Petraea: www.etymonline.com/word/arabian
Aegyptus: places.behindthename.com/name...
Cyrenaica: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrene,...
Creta: www.etymonline.com/word/crete
Africa: www.etymonline.com/word/africa
Mauretania: www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikis...
@NameExplain 2 жыл бұрын
Which province are you watching from?
@hoangkimviet8545 2 жыл бұрын
I even watch this video when I come from an South East Asian country.
@belkaisbetterthanosea5490 2 жыл бұрын
Pennsylvania
@wurzelgnom5760 2 жыл бұрын
Germany
@aaronodonoghue1791 2 жыл бұрын
Hibernia (not a Roman province I know, but still the name the Romans used for it)
@massialim4996 2 жыл бұрын
Somewhere between Africa and Mauretania caesariensis
@IONATVS 2 жыл бұрын
“Superior” and “Inferior” don’t mean “Greater” and “Lesser” in Latin, they mean “Upper” and “Lower”. Generally referring to elevation ie Highlands vs Lowlands or parts of a river system. “Major” and “Minor” are “Greater/Larger” and “Lesser/Smaller” respectively.
@MisterJang0 2 жыл бұрын
Latin didn't have the letter 'J'; "major" would actually be "maior".
@IONATVS 2 жыл бұрын
@@MisterJang0 J and U began as a graphical variants of I and V (named ‘u’) and only became recognized as their own letters SPECIFICALLY to disambiguate the consonant I and V from the vowel I and V, IN Renaissance-era Latin text. All evidences shows there was a clear difference between the consonant and vowel versions of the letters even as early as the Roman Republican era, so there is no reason to NOT use J and U for that purpose when writing Latin with modernized grammar and capitalization rules. If writing in period style, sure, but “major” is a perfectly valid way to graphically present the word and makes it more intuitive to understand that the ‘i’ in the word is a consonant, not the vowel they’d otherwise expect. If you insist on writing all ‘J’s as ‘I’ you should be writing all ‘U’s as ‘V’ too.
@MisterJang0 2 жыл бұрын
@@IONATVS I know about the history, but 'J' has one specific sound to English speakers, and so it would be more accurate to switch it with 'I' in the context of writing Latin words that are meant to be read authentically. 'J' makes a "y" sound in IPA and a lot of European languages, which is generally how 'I' sounded in classical Latin in consonant form, but that's not the case for 'J' in English, and English speakers would be the ones reading what you have to say.
@IONATVS 2 жыл бұрын
@@MisterJang0 But to an English speaker "maior" is no better--English "i" is nearly always a vowel, suggesting a difficult tripthong, succession of a monophthong and diphthong with no clear indication which is which, or even the trisyllable "ma-ee-or." In either case to intuit the correct pronunciation you need to have some knowledge about the language or comparative linguistics beyond the English surface level, but the I personally feel it is easier for English speakers to parse "major" with a simple tip of "In Latin 'J' is pronounced like an English 'Y' " than to use "maior" and have to explain the difference between consonantal and vowel 'I' and building the intuition required to tell which is which. Using 'J' removes an ambiguity for beginners because that's what it was DESIGNED to do from the very beginning. And same goes for 'V', which I will point out has the exact same intuition problem, since the Latin Consonantal V makes a modern English W sound, not a V sound in Classical Latin: so your choices are (a) use the two variants and just say "but 'V' makes a 'W' sound" or (b) make both the same and have to teach a bunch of intuition about when it's a consonant an when it's a vowel. I'd choose the former any day for teaching the casually interested, and for those who want to dive deeper you can train that intuition and go over the orthographic history of the language at any later time. And as a choral singer, I have had to teach people Latin pronunciation (both classical AND ecclesiastical) at a casual level a LOT. And that's not to mention that the main concern with my original post was making clear the etymology of the English words DESCENDED from Latin, and how 'superior' and 'inferior' are kinda false cognates because of the modern English association of 'higher' with 'better' and 'better' with 'bigger'. And showing them in contrast to 'major'/'minor', the words that actually mean 'bigger'/'smaller' in Latin just demonstrates that connection more transparently than 'maior'.
@MisterJang0 2 жыл бұрын
@@IONATVS Someone trying to sound out "maior" with the triphthong would naturally make a "y" sound when transitioning between "i" and "o". You were trying to give out a small', surface-level, Latin lesson anyway without going into the role of "J", and there was no "J" in classical Latin, so "I", I think, would've been a simple but effective substitution. I mean, you're trying to teach real Latin words, after all, not their English descendents, am I right?
@achmedaan 2 жыл бұрын
When he said his Latin pronunciation wasn't good, I was expecting him to use very anglicized pronunciations. I would have been happy had that been the case, instead of just skipping and swapping entire letters like he actually did.
@Valentina-rj7pf 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah lmao, it was kinda really bad
@johnfelixable 2 жыл бұрын
Noricum is also named after a Celtic tribe, the Noricans. Raetia is more located in modern Bavaria than Switzerland. Superior/inferior doesn't refer to the province size, but to it's location. Upper/lower Germania is located at the upper/lower Rhine respectively. (Watching from Austria/Noricum, btw)
@Kameliius 2 жыл бұрын
Schöne Grüße aus der Steiermark!
@jordinagel1184 2 жыл бұрын
Clarification so that some people don’t get confused: “upper and lower” doesn’t refer to “northern and southern,” but rather the altitude (so the Upper Rhine is actually in the south, and the Lower Rhine in the north). Same with Upper and Lower Egypt.
@myrddinemrys1332 2 жыл бұрын
Cyprus *may* relate to the cypress tree, however it is unlikely and we can only really relate it with any certainty to the Ancient Greek word Kúpros meaning Copper due to the large copper deposits that exist(ed) on the island.
@irmaosmatos4026 2 жыл бұрын
latin cuprum and cyprus? With a similar pronouncing? It seems possible
@myrddinemrys1332 2 жыл бұрын
@@irmaosmatos4026 Probably because Cuprum is borrowed from Kúpros.
@IONATVS 2 жыл бұрын
Cyprus had THE largest copper mines in the Bronze Age world, and as such was a colossally central trade center for the major empires of the area. It’s likely that Cyprus was named for some other ancient culture’s word for copper, but EQUALLY likely that copper is named FOR THE ISLAND. The two really were inseparable in the imagination of the ancient world.
@myrddinemrys1332 2 жыл бұрын
@@IONATVS Indeed. That's actually how the Latin word relates to the Greek name for copper, Cuprum meaning the Metal of Cyprus. It is unlikely to be named after the Cypress tree though. We might be able to be more certain on its origin if we could read Linear A as we can see the word that became Cypriot in Linear B.
@irmaosmatos4026 2 жыл бұрын
As I thought, it is also possible that the cypress tree comes from the island of Cyprus, were the tree was abundant. It seems like the three words are tied to each other.
@isaac_aren 2 жыл бұрын
I know you're bad with pronunciation, but this time was worse than normal :P C'mon Mauritania is a modern day country!
@RadenWA 2 жыл бұрын
It’s really funny seeing native English speakers struggle with phonetic languages like literally every letter’s supposed to sound the same and pronounced but they keep guessing which ones should sound different and which ones should be silent Like I heard every C in latin is supposed to be K but we keep confusing it with Ch and S but idk I’m not an expert in Latin
@samuelalexandrovich6330 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah he also pronounced Crimean Bosphorus as Camarin Bospor
@unioneitaliana7107 2 жыл бұрын
You have no idea how American kill Italian words when they pronounce our food!
@ramacandra4554 2 жыл бұрын
@@RadenWA classical latin have the K sound and ecclesiastic latin have the ch sound.
@SenorDexSat 2 жыл бұрын
I KNOW, right? I've barely watched the beginning, but hearing him pronounce the "rr" in "Tarragona" as a fucking L killed me. That and calling the province "terra" instead of "tarra". It's like he's not prepared the video at all
@khalilmokhtar5122 2 жыл бұрын
Hello! I'm from the Roman province of Africa (aka Tunisia) and I would like to point out that the name Africa most likely comes from the name of an Amazigh tribe (native people of North Africa) called Afri and I personally don't think it comes from an Arabic word because Arabs only came to North Africa after centuries of Roman rule. This is a very informative and an excellent video nonetheless!
@khalilmokhtar5122 Жыл бұрын
@Leonard Lutinies I am an Amazigh too and what you said is true. (TN❤MA)
@losisansgaming2628 Жыл бұрын
Ah a carthagenian
@lennito5 2 жыл бұрын
Your research is extremely poor. The Inferior/Superior in the two Germanic provinces refers to their position on the Rhine river, not their size. A good translation would be something like Upper and Lower Germania. And the 'Germani' weren't a tribe. Rather the Romans called all the tribes originating from the other side of the Rhine 'Germanic peoples'.
@John-pk9rw Жыл бұрын
I lost it when he said Africa and Mauritania come from Arabic words, 1000 years before Arabs invaded North Africa😂
@cooper8515 2 жыл бұрын
I know you’re bad at pronunciation but if you were to look on Wikipedia and just pronounce things the way the IPA suggest they be pronounced, or just read over the word thoroughly I think it would greatly improve these videos
@samwill7259 2 жыл бұрын
You might have mentioned that eventually the province of Iudea had it's name changed to Syria Palestina after the Jewish Revolt and the Jewish community's forced exodus from the area. It was an odd name change that was very intentionally crafted by the Romans for political and demographic purposes so it might be interesting to examine.
@RadenWA 2 жыл бұрын
So apparently we can blame all the way to the Romans for whatever happens in Palestine/Israel rn
@thadeusgaspar224 2 жыл бұрын
@@RadenWA doesn't really have anything to do with it.
@joshtobin1014 2 жыл бұрын
@@thadeusgaspar224 I mean, it absolutely does. That's why the Jewish diaspora occurred and subsequently zionism. If the Romans had never expelled the Jews then Isreal would likely have been a far more continuous nation.
@kl6544 2 жыл бұрын
@@joshtobin1014 continous what? What broke the continuity was the jews coming from egypt and expelling the canaanites, ancient palestinians, forming their kingdom there.
@benahiezer2295 2 жыл бұрын
Bro there is no such thing as aincent palestiniens wtf😂
@alex_9950 2 жыл бұрын
5:41: Meaning of the latter parts of the name: -Alpes Poeninae: pre-romanan ligurian word "pen" (meaning "mountain"). Today the name evolved in "Alpi Pennine" in Italian, and "Penninische Alpen" in German. -Alpes Cottiae: named after Ligurian/Celtic king "Marcus Julius Cottius". His son, Donnus negotiated with the Romans to make his territory an autonomous province. Today the named evolved in "Alpi Cozie" in Italian, and "Alpes Cottiennes" in French. -"Alpes Maritimae": In latin mean "close/next to the sea" ("Mare"="Sea"), as it is the part of the Alps closest to the Mediterranean Sea. Today the name evolved in "Alpi Marittime" in Italian, and "Alpes Maritimes" in French Source: 1) & 2) From the Wikipedia page (in Italian). 3) I'm a native Italian speaker, and the meaning was pretty clear to me. Checked the etymology anyway to confirm it wasn't a false friend.
@Whurlpuul 2 жыл бұрын
Hi, unrelated, but can you educate me on how Roman pronunciation is different to modern Italian pronunciation of "Ci"? Is it similar? Or not? I am reading roman history currently and I would like to know, for when I read it in my head.
@alex_9950 2 жыл бұрын
@@Whurlpuul In Italian the "c" assumes different sounds based on the vowel following it: -If followed by "i" or "e" it makes a soft c sound. (Similar to the "ch" in "church") -If followed by "a", "o" or "u", it makes an hard c sound (basically the k in English) -The phoneme "ch" in Italian makes a "k" sound and is always used before the vowels "i" or "e" (example: "chiesa") -The phoneme "sc" follows the same rules as the letter "c" (If soft is similar to the "sh" in "shovel", if hard, similar to the "sk" in "skate") Regarding Latin, I've never studied it, so take this with a grain of salt: to my vague understanding, Latin almost exclusively used the hard c no matter what vowel followed, and the soft c came into prominence with vulgar Latin, which was then passed down to almost all romance languages.
@creeproot 2 жыл бұрын
@@alex_9950 almost everything was correct, however the palatalisation of /k/ into /tʃ/ in Italian was mostly due to French influence. source - i’m italian too
@unioneitaliana7107 2 жыл бұрын
@@Whurlpuul I can reply since I studied Latin five years in high school. In classical Latin "ci" was pronounced as "kee", so "civis" (citizen) sounded like "kee-oo-ees". Later this pronounciation changed with the collapse of the Roman empire and Latin spoken in the middle age, and used by the Roman church, was different: "ci" and "ce" became "chee" and "tchay". I attended the Latin mass for a while an so I know which pronounciation was used by the Roman church. If you have other question about the pronounciation, write me. Greetings.
@wivota3350 2 жыл бұрын
As far as I know the name Cyprus is related to the Latin word Cuprum meaning copper, because Cyprus was known in antiquity for its copper deposits
@dnkal2875 2 жыл бұрын
Not really.
@wivota3350 2 жыл бұрын
@@dnkal2875 well, it is one suggestion tho on where the name Cyprus comes from
@GazilionPT 2 жыл бұрын
I think most historians think it's the other way around: copper was called Kypros in Greek because that metal was abundant in the island.
@IONATVS 2 жыл бұрын
@@dnkal2875 It was the single largest Copper mining center in the ancient world. The question isn’t if the words Cyprus and the Greek & Roman words for Copper are related, it’s which was named for the other, the island for the metal it was famous for or the metal for the island half the ancient world’s supply originated from.
@BananLord 11 ай бұрын
@@dnkal2875you say that because you think of the English pronunciation. In Romanian Cyprus is pronounced as chi-proo (written as Cipru), not so different from cupru (coo-proo) meaning copper. Romanian is a romance/latin language.
@GazilionPT 2 жыл бұрын
5:31 Inferior and Superior (following Germania, but also Moesia and Panonia) has nothing to do with the respective sizes of the provinces (*), but with their elevation: Germania Superior was at a higher elevation than Germania Inferior. Today we would call them Upper Germania and Lower Germania. And in terms of languages we still talk about High German (Hochdeutsch) and Low German (Plattdeutsch). (*) In the case of Moesia, Moesia Superior was quite smaller than Moesia Inferior, thus disproving the idea that Inferior/Superior was in any way related with their relative sizes.
@Flunzia 2 жыл бұрын
The amount of incorrect information (Such as Africa coming from Arabic, despite Arabic being in its infancy in the Arabic Peninsula) or the incorrect pronounciation of stuff, made this video really, really hard to watch.
@zobilnik6970 2 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ man check the pronounciations of these words before recording, its geniunly cringe to listen to you butchering some of these names...
@rft9776 2 жыл бұрын
Wow you butchered every one of the names 😵
@theodorevogiatzis874 2 жыл бұрын
The name of the province of Lycia could very well be derived from the ancient people of Lukka who used to inhabit the area since the bronze age.
@gj1234567899999 2 жыл бұрын
Assyria was an ancient kingdom that conquered almost all the Middle East. However the empire shrunk to that province. There are still Assyrians around and they are a small ethnic group in Iraq in the same area.
@fabiosahadewabrigida9053 2 жыл бұрын
"Sirancia et crita" Bruh
@yidir6778 2 жыл бұрын
Hi, the word Africa comes from the berber word ifri which means cave, when latinized became ifriqiya. Your claim that it comes from Arabic is ridiculous because the Arabs back then were still in Arabia
@sabrina1380m 2 жыл бұрын
There are several theories Ifri also supposedly was a punic diety The name apparently also was based on a Berber tribe
@Flunzia 2 жыл бұрын
Literally what I was thinking, what he just said makes no absolute sense whatsoever...
@mooshinu 2 жыл бұрын
@@sabrina1380m Yes, it may have derived from the amazigh goddess "Ifri", an important deity of merchants and fetility.
@John-pk9rw Жыл бұрын
Sprry to disappoint you but the province was called Africa, not ifriqiya. That’s an Arabic pronounciation lol.
@ronmaximilian6953 2 жыл бұрын
The Cimmerian Bosporus has a fairly straightforward etymology. Bosporus is the name of the straight between Anatolia and Thrace. And then there is the tribe known to the Greeks as the Cimmerians. And Celts aren't from West Europe. The earliest Celtic artifacts come from what is now Austria.
@gianrc2992 2 жыл бұрын
I thought Celts were from central Anatolia and eventually got to western europe
@bluesquadron8667 2 жыл бұрын
The word bosporus means cow crossing, most likely referring to Europa's journeys across the world
@Coolducky2 2 жыл бұрын
A boot shaped country that's basically just the lower part of a leg ending up being called calfland if transferred into English is like some unimportant nonsensical cosmic joke playing out and finally landing
@unioneitaliana7107 2 жыл бұрын
Italia < Vitalia < (land of) Vituli = little cows. In English there is the word Veal with the same meaning reffered to their meat.
@johnsarkissian5519 2 жыл бұрын
Why should we accept your apology for your mispronunciation of the Latin and other names? All you need to do is to look up the pronunciations before making this video. Besides, if you are clearly misreading a word like Lusitania or Cilicia simply because of carelessness, I wonder why anyone should put any trust into the rest of your “research” that you have put into this video. It’s not that this video is live. You have ample time on your hands to edit it and make all the necessary corrections.
@Luyspa13 2 жыл бұрын
I can usually get past your pronunciation of foreign words but this video I couldn't finish. Every time you mangled an easy Latin word I couldn't help but think "if he can't be bothered to rehearse these for a couple of takes I don't want to know what kind of effort went into actual research for this." The "superior and inferior refers to size" bit confirmed those fears. You have a nice channel, but given your audience's size you really should do better.
@thebenevolentsun6575 7 ай бұрын
They weren't even pronounced how like English. He pronounced Cilicia as Silia. Mauretania as Maurentia.
@hoangkimviet8545 2 жыл бұрын
When many modern countries end with -ia, we can think that Romans have more provinces than they had.
@jettmclachlan1804 2 жыл бұрын
Normally that's because of Roman influence or the idea of Rome giving future nations and such something to link to, or just European influence. Like Russia for example, since they used the idea of the past Rome as their reason to be an empire that succeeds them.
@mingtheoofer4101 2 жыл бұрын
The Romans made their way to Colombia by that logic
@irmaosmatos4026 2 жыл бұрын
-IA is just a suffyx that means land of-
@Hikaeme-od3zq 2 жыл бұрын
@@mingtheoofer4101 Well of course not, but where does the name come from? Get it?
@BasicallyIKilledTheCat 2 жыл бұрын
@@irmaosmatos4026 yes, we get it from Latin and I’m no genius but Rome definitely wasn’t known for speaking Russian
@jonathancurran5366 2 жыл бұрын
According to what I read in Stephen Fry's series on Greek Mythology, Bosporus means something like Oxford as that's where Io crossed when she was turned into a cow.
@sidetracker3496 2 жыл бұрын
ngl the Lusitania one hurt me, since Lu-ZI-tania is what makes part of the modern descriptor of what it means to be someone who speaks portuguese aka a Lusophone
@sidonie6Gamer 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah... Syria and Assyria is not the same thing Syrians and Assyrians are not the same modern people either.
@KaiserFranzJosefI 2 жыл бұрын
Syria and Assyria were used interchangeably by the Greeks who give those regions their names for the West
@liravesnovaya242 2 жыл бұрын
@@KaiserFranzJosefI can it be because the prefix as- like in modern Arabic just means "the" and ancient syrian was close to arabic?
@gr1mmd 2 жыл бұрын
@@liravesnovaya242 hell no
@og_hapsburg7189 2 жыл бұрын
it literally doesn’t make sense for the roman word to have come from the arabic maghreb. arabs weren’t in control of that area for like a few hundred years after the collapse of the western empire.
@hamzahammami22 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah it comes from Punic, not Arabic but they're both semetic languages so I can see the confusion
@mooshinu 2 жыл бұрын
@@hamzahammami22 Not Punic, but Amazigh.
@John-pk9rw Жыл бұрын
@@hamzahammami22 Punic? Any source for that?
@Tusiriakest 2 жыл бұрын
And even today, portuguese speaking peoples are called "Lusophones"
@ahscott2001 2 жыл бұрын
This is like the sequel to every time “that’s just what the Romans named it 2000 years ago” is used as the endpoint of a place name meaning.
@theidioticbgilson1466 2 жыл бұрын
15:00 but wasn't a major language during the roman times
@aribari2434 2 жыл бұрын
mauretania means “land of the mauri” or moors, which are the indigenous amazigh people of north africa ! watching from mauretania tingitana :)
@smiedranokatirova5987 2 жыл бұрын
Fake history made by amazigh propagandas
@pedro24051998 2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Arab peoples and their Islamic empires wouldn't expend to these lands until at least the mid 7th century... Showing an Arab etymology for a Roman province thousands of kilometers (and hundreds of years) away from actual Arabic peoples is actually kind of irresponsible...
@ashwinnmyburgh9364 Жыл бұрын
Yup.
@invictidomini6846 2 жыл бұрын
Yes have been wanting for this for a long time
@paddaydaddy 2 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@laser8389 2 жыл бұрын
Korsis is clearly a corruption of the Dov word Krosis, meaning sorrow/regret
@ashwinnmyburgh9364 Жыл бұрын
Drem yol lok joor.
@makouras 2 жыл бұрын
Isn't it safe to say that the Crimean Bosporus is named in reference to the actual Bosporus?
@libriosquare 2 жыл бұрын
it's just that both Bosporuses are straits
@BrazilianImperialist 2 жыл бұрын
It is
@talknight2 2 жыл бұрын
Not Crimean, Cimmerian. Kimmerios Bosporos.
@t.a.k.palfrey3882 2 жыл бұрын
Before hurling yourself into Latin (and Greek) names, I suggest you try to obtain at least a hint of the rules of these languages pronunciation rules. An otherwise quite informative video has been totally destroyed by this lack of basic effort. Sorry to be so critical.
@balonkita185 2 жыл бұрын
He didn't even bother trying. He just used the "sorry I might mispronounce some words" and proceeded to completely trample over the words, skip syllables, etc
@Omouja 2 жыл бұрын
I agree. At least the 5 vowels pronunciation rules, it's not that difficult to memorize
@felicepompa1702 2 жыл бұрын
Even the anglo pronounciation is decent enough (for example tarragona would be pronounced correctly in english while he said talacona)
@Whurlpuul 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting that you included south cisalpine gaul in italica on the map, I would have thought you would talk about the province before it was incorporated into Rome
@cooper8515 2 жыл бұрын
Cisalpine Gaul was incorporated into Italia before the empire, Julius Caesar did it, it was only a province for like 80 years
@SharpieLEET 2 жыл бұрын
right up my alley
@lianagheorma92 2 жыл бұрын
Pronounciation for Dacia is not with a SH sound, but the Italian pronounciation of CI like in dolci aka chi in English as in Chai.
@Omouja 2 жыл бұрын
Or as a "K"
@druf2 2 жыл бұрын
Actually "dah-kee-ah" with the C doing a K sound. This is kind weird from nowadays languages perspective, but the letter C in Latin always had a K sound and it's pronounciation started to change in the middle ages as new languages were been formed.
@jovanweismiller7114 2 жыл бұрын
Cyprus may also come from the abundance of copper ore on the island, vitally important during the Copper and Bronze Ages. It has been suggested, for example, that it has roots in the Sumerian word for copper (zubar) or for bronze (kubar), from the large deposits of copper ore found on the island. Through overseas trade, the island has given its name to the Classical Latin word for copper through the phrase aes Cyprium, "metal of Cyprus", later shortened to Cuprum.
@flavinhodopneu8645 2 жыл бұрын
Cool video
@DaviusMelleisiusFelix 2 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry mate, but your pronunciation is killing me. I've noticed this issue in some of your other videos as well. For a channel that talks about words and their origins, I really think it would help if you were to do a bit more research on pronunciation.
@xylerian 2 жыл бұрын
It’s quite ironic. If you are going to run a channel about name origins at least make an effort to properly pronounce said names.
@vitorjpereira2547 2 жыл бұрын
Lusitania Mean Portugal Still Today. And The Portuguese People Are Called "Lusitanians". Great Video.
@bubastis6306 2 жыл бұрын
The name 'Portugal' also comes from the Roman name for the city of Porto, which was called 'Portus', and Villa Nova de Gaia, which was called 'Cale'. Eventually the two cities became one name 'Portus Cale', which turned into 'Portugal'.
@vitorjpereira2547 2 жыл бұрын
@@bubastis6306 Portugal Is One Roman-Celtic Name. ;) Portu (Latin) Gal (Celtic)
@sparvieronero2473 2 жыл бұрын
4:14 in the portuguese language we still call "belgium" as Bélgica.
@stefanomartello3786 2 жыл бұрын
Superior and inferior is not related to the size but to the rivers that flows through those regions. Like for upper and lower Egypt, superior means upper and inferior means lower. Upper means "toward the spring" and lower means "toward the sea" which also corresponds to the medium height of the lands, lower near the sea.
@thadeusgaspar224 2 жыл бұрын
for some reason you gave the etymology of "Maghreb" at the end instead of Mauretania, it doesn't have the same origin.
@mooshinu 2 жыл бұрын
The only similarity between those two words is that they start with an "m"... That's it. This guy has no idea about he's talking about, I don't know why he keeps on making videos if he goes his way butchering all the names and insert false informations with everything he says.
@Kolious_Thrace 2 жыл бұрын
1/3 of the names you said have an explanation in Hellenic or they are written in Hellenic in a way of what we heard the natives’ name when we went there with our ships! 10:20 When that area was named Makedonia (the Bulgarians and other Slavic tribes were back to what is known today as Russia) So, there’s no connection between of the Bulgarians that they live today in Skopje and the ancient Hellenic tribe of Makedonia! Also, the term Makedonia is Hellenic🇬🇷 But you forgot to mention that… Herodotus named these people Μακεδνούς / Makednoùs that in Hellenic means tall. 11:10 Minor Asia because even if it was on the continent of Asia it wasn’t inhabited by Asians but by us🇬🇷 It was like the path to go ti Asia. Παμφυλία / Pamfía Λυκία / Lycía Κιλικία / Kilikía All have Hellenic origin. Mesopotamia literally means between two rivers. 14:05 Aegyptos is also a Hellenic term. Nowadays it is called Misr by the Arab people. Aegyptos means: Aegean + yptios Aegean + under = the county under the Aegean Sea.
@gr1mmd 2 жыл бұрын
Αἴγυπτος - From Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”), referring to Ptah’s temple in the important city of Memphis.
@gabriellavedier9650 2 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't that her the maritime alps, being somehow connected to water? Also, I washed out of Latin in secondary school but I still remember how to say the letters. At the time æ was still pronounced like eye. And all Cs were hard. It's easy to remember 90% of pronunciation if you keep in mind Cæsar = Kaiser almost exactly minus that the e is, of course, an a. See... half the Legion loyalists in Fallout New Vegas, like Ulysses.
@diegone080 2 жыл бұрын
The a in latin is pronounced a.
@thetrain47539 2 жыл бұрын
Hello! Great video, but I just want to leave my two cents behind! The name "Britain" (Coming from Britannia) actually only refers to modern day England and Wales! Scotland and the British Islands are part of *Great* Britain!
@talknight2 2 жыл бұрын
He did say that
@thetrain47539 2 жыл бұрын
@@talknight2 He didn't, lol.
@raoufduc1441 2 жыл бұрын
you are wrong about africa is comes from the name ifri/afri a name of a berber amazigh tribe that lived and still lives theire
@omargerardolopez3294 2 жыл бұрын
Your spanish pronunciation may be ass(for now), but you totally nailed the pronunciation of Guadalquivir, keep up the good work fam, you are getting better and better
@IONATVS 2 жыл бұрын
Poeniae = Of the Punics (ie the Carthaginians, I’d presume basically meaning “the part of the alps Hannibal crossed”) Cottiae = Of King Cottius (either of a short dynasty of kings in Northern Italy whose personal kingdom was originally a Protectorate of Rome, not a province. The elder was a good bud of Augustus in the Social Wars, the Younger died during the Reign of Nero, who reorganized it into a province soon afterwards, but named the province after these staunch allies whose kingdom he was “benevolently annexing”) Maritima = Maritime (ie Coastal, because it’s on the Coast)
@monarchistheadcrab8819 2 жыл бұрын
Video idea: how did the "sātrāp"s of the Achaemenid empire get their names?
@Jerry694111 2 жыл бұрын
Video starts at 2:08.
@Hikaeme-od3zq 2 жыл бұрын
Damn you butchered almost ALL of the names lol, just use a translator online next time hahaha you can find a few for latin (if you use the google translator one just remember it has ecclesiastical pronunciation and not the classical one).
@skippern666 5 ай бұрын
Cypres was named after the mineral resource making it an important region from pre-roman time and long into the roman empire, Copper. Cypres trees are named after the island, not the other way around.
@areamusicale 2 жыл бұрын
12:16 Cyprus or Cypress ??? Do you the band Cyprus Hill? 🤣
@longschlongsilver7628 2 жыл бұрын
Alpes Poeniae sounds a lot like the mountain range in England, the Pennines. I wonder if they have any etymological connection with each other
@xylerian 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting. There’s also a mountain range in Italy called the Apennines. There might be a connection indeed.
@rathersane 2 жыл бұрын
Now why were the provinces of Africa and Mauritania getting Arabic names before the Arabic speaking people got there? I don’t recall any mention of Muhammad’s army mastering time travel in any source I’ve examined.
@xylerian 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that’s just one of many errors in the video.
@ekn_38 2 ай бұрын
As pointed out by others there are many many mistakes in both the pronunciation and the Research of the names. One I will point out is the fact that "Bosphorus" means "Cattle Passage" or "Ox passage". Wikipedia has this to say: The name of the strait comes from the Ancient Greek Βόσπορος (Bósporos), which was folk-etymologised as βοὸς πόρος, i.e. "cattle strait" (or "Ox-ford"), from the genitive of boûs βοῦς 'ox, cattle' + poros πόρος 'passage', thus meaning 'cattle-passage', or 'cow passage'. This is a reference to the Greek mythological story of Io, who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the Earth until she crossed the Bosporus, where she met the Titan Prometheus, who comforted her by telling her that she would be restored to human form by Zeus and become the ancestor of the greatest of all heroes, Heracles (Hercules).
@tseantan 2 жыл бұрын
That Lusitania pronunciation…..
@Omouja 2 жыл бұрын
"listuani"
@nazarenosoto3557 2 жыл бұрын
I wasn´t expecting the pronunciation to be this bad...
@Oriki14 2 жыл бұрын
Judah was not the leader of the tribe, but it's mythical father 💙
@MishapTrap 2 жыл бұрын
fun fact, the C in all these names was pronounced like a K.
@klausjackklaus 2 жыл бұрын
With Cyprus it's believed to come from the word for copper in Latin (cuprum, Cu on periodic table) as the Greeks traded with the Assyrians through the copper/tin sea route during the Bronze Age (bronze=90% copper/ 10% tin) that Cyprus sat in the middle. Y originally was and still is in certain languages a very fronted u, moreso than ü
@annazarifopoulou9580 2 жыл бұрын
About the word Bosporus, i think it comes from the greek (Βους / Vous + πέρας/ peras ) => passage of the male cow, as it was described in the myth of Jason and the Argo
@LarsOfMars. 2 жыл бұрын
That's an... interesting list of sources 🤭
@alonefromhere 2 жыл бұрын
I will volunteer pro bono to pronounce words for you
@moccus3466 2 жыл бұрын
Just looking at the comments it seems the common consensus with this video is that 1. You did hardly any research. 2. Instead of simply having bad Latin pronounciation, you're literally swapping around/inserting/removing *entire* vowels and letters. If you're really having a hard time pronouncing this it wouldn't hurt to spend 10 minutes or so looking over the IPA guide on wikipedia and then referrencing the phonetic pronounciation often given next to the name of the word you're describing. Please, your channel is called "Name Explain" this is embarrassing if you can't do the bare minimum.
@truecerium4924 Жыл бұрын
The name Germani for a tribe stems from two words: Ger (meaning spear in old german) and man (of course man), that tribe was named after their weapon similar to the Franks
@IronWolf123 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe there was Assyria and Syria based on the peoples of the lands that were culturally divided by the Egyptians/Greeks on the modern day Syrian side and the Babylons/Persians on the Iraqi side. With the melting pots there, the names might have changed but still kept the same meaning but with different names. It is like Modern day Guinea and historic Guinea.
@KaiserFranzJosefI 2 жыл бұрын
We know why Syria and Assyria are similar and its because of the Assyrian use of the Aramaic language caused the Greeks to conflate them and use both interchangeably while referring to the same entity - the Neo-Assyrian Empire
@SvAwesomeness94 2 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure that's a 4th/early 5th century map at the beginning no? The "Prefecure" names kind of give it away.
@Enric. 2 жыл бұрын
8:09 did he say Australia?
@nikolaynikolov2429 2 жыл бұрын
Learned new things today. Most important, Homer was a writer, please give source.
@GaryFerrao 2 жыл бұрын
what's so hard to pronounce in Latin? it's literally written the way it was pronounced. 😅
@rodrib9136 2 жыл бұрын
I've seen there is a quite debate about the superior and inferior provinces. There's barely XIXth century interpretations like the measures of the province or their elevations. But nowadays we come to the most probably either more surely answer and it's related to the distance of the province to the city of Rome, being the superior the closer and the infirior the farther away. For example the Germania Inferior or Germania Minor, is the province who is located in the current Low Countries, meanwhile the Germania Superior is located in the zone of Alsacia and part of the modern Switzerland which are far closer to Rome than the other. That patrón could be followed in the test of the province whith these names like Moesia and Panonia. Also, and this topic is commonly not addressed, the territory of Hispania was firstly divided in to Hispania Citerior (which could be traslated as Superior and closer to Rome, being these one the province of Tarraconesis) and Hispania Ulterior (which could be traslated as Inferior, which would be the province of Baetica and Lusitania, being them further away then the Citerior).
@Emperor_Oshron Жыл бұрын
this is a late reply, and i wouldn't be surprised if it's been mentioned before, but iirc "Thracia" comes from the mythical founder of that country/tribe in Greek mythology, Thrax (in Greek, it would've been pronounced with a hard C and therefore they'd be "Thrakians")
@miguelpimentel5623 2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: luso/lusitan is still a name used to refer to the portuguese ethnicity
@paeshooter7132 2 жыл бұрын
9:59 Man, I wonder what went down here in the year 776.
@turcorumtabul9524 Жыл бұрын
Alpes Maritimae, is that one closest to the sea because I think maybe it comes from the word Maritima it is about like the topic of sea, about Poeniae I think that Hannibal and Carthaginian army have passed this area in Second Punic War Poenia means Punic, that's why maybe it got this word and province from them about Cottiae I don't know about this can someone explain and help for me?
@roscoehilton8091 Жыл бұрын
Cyprus (Kupros) comes from ''copper'' which was mined there?
@alokinrainborn Жыл бұрын
Aquitania was named after many rivers snaking across the flat fields.
@Sovi59 2 жыл бұрын
hello
@moroccannerd35 5 ай бұрын
Mauritania wasn't named after the Arabic word "Maghreb", since the Arabs didn't even use it to describe the land until the Islamic conquests of the 7th-8th centuries CE. It actually comes from the Kingdom of Mauretania, founded in modern-day Morocco by the 3rd century BCE.
@shadhinov 2 жыл бұрын
Hahah I see the comments section has expressed their irritation on my behalf
@kaisy5826 2 жыл бұрын
Shocked you didn't mention that Africus is the Latin name for the south wind
@yin-yang3751 2 жыл бұрын
This is a new video
@shaggythewriter8185 2 жыл бұрын
Moesia was named for 90s TV character Moesha Mitchell...
@milosstamenkovic5941 2 жыл бұрын
You forgot Moesia Superior is was in modern day Serbia.
@Crawedfish 2 жыл бұрын
"Italia" Supposedly came from a guy named Italius
@osamintv6135 2 жыл бұрын
Mauritania is the land of the Mauri the inhabitants of today's Morocco and what people now call moors. It's like you know nothing about the subject
@radarbug5390 2 жыл бұрын
Come on most of these words aren’t hard to say you need to practice your pronunciation before making a video absolutely embarrassing
@erikheddergott5514 4 ай бұрын
Superior means Upriver and Inferior means Downriver. It has nothing to do with bigger or smaller Areas. Who told you that?
@andremaster1752 2 ай бұрын
Im not going to say this is true. But possibly for Armenia i learned at a certain time traders and foreigners refered to the area as Armenia because a certain king had a similar name which adapted later on to Armenia used but Armenians claim they call themselves Hayastan which dervixes from the king Hayk . That could be false
@hankwilliams150 2 жыл бұрын
I had always heard that the word Cyprus came from the Greek word for copper.
@thebenevolentsun6575 7 ай бұрын
Yeah it does. In Greek it's pronounced kipro. Nowhere near Cypress
@areamusicale 2 жыл бұрын
BIGUS DICUS 🤣
@BananLord 11 ай бұрын
Cyprus is most probably named after the large amount of copper they had. Yeah, while it's pronounced with an "s" "c" sound in English, maybe looking at Italian or Romanian would help. In Romanian Cyprus is written as Cipru and is pronounced as "chi-proo", not so different from copper which is written as cupru and pronounced as "koo-proo".
@thebenevolentsun6575 7 ай бұрын
In Greek it is pronounced Kypro. Very close to the greek word for copper.