Yes, the pronounciation of "Bär" is not too far from the english "bear", but very far from "bar" as you said it.

Not any I’ve noticed. People are saying you used a map of the Soviet Union for when you were explaining Moscow. 13:39 But I can’t tell.

Riga is the capital of Latvia

Its Kyiv, not Kiev

@@DarthVader161195 There both correct.

Its would be interesting video 👍 But i bet he is going to say wrong year for my countrys oldest 😂

Ohrid is for sure for North Macedonia 🇲🇰

That would be interesting.

Now that is a good idea

@@-wayter-8913 From what I could find, the oldest continually inhabited city in North Macedonia is Bitola, which was founded in the 4th century BCE as Heraclea Lyncestis.

Water has always been importent for living and transport in some ways, so that is only naturaly!

Funnily enough if you look at Inverness and Aberdeen, Inver and Aber have practically the same meaning - place where river meets sea- and Ness and Deen just happen to be the names of.... Nearby rivers. A lot of places in Scotland have similar phenomenon in Gaidhlig too. Thurso, the English name of a small Scottish village/town, is called Inbhir Thurso is Gaidhligh. Inbhir being the word for Inver in Gaidhligh and meaning the same, and funnily enough Thurso has a river named Thurso nearby running into the sea by the town.

Right😂

And if you knew weather it was a river/swamp name or just "the city around that castle" you'd even get quite a good score :D

Rivers are quite often named after thtowns. Pleace name etymologists call them Back Formations.

I wasn't aware potatoes could make sounds, sad or otherwise. Local inside joke?

@@irishgirlintexas Local inside joke. The joke is that we love and have a lot of potatoes. (which is true)

Are you a mutant that can make the sound of potato? Also I thought the Irish were the ones with the Potato

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 The potato thing is just a joke about us Latvians loving potatoes. And yes the whole potato thing is Irish, but basically the entire region of Eastern Europe love and eat potatoes probably more than the Irish.

@@dzilna5040 If i remember the vodka, which is very very old was made out of potato, before the Spanish brought back from Peru

The fuck???

igaunis pupi pupi

Same, wtf.

That was painful to listen to🥲

They swapped so you folks get Talinn now.

In Indonesian we call it Wina from German name Wien.

Stimmt!

@Safwaan It's Latin. That's also what he said

@Safwaan Are you talking about Vienna cuz I’m pretty sure it’s Austrian not Italian

in croatia we call it Beč (Bech) lol

Хахахахаххахаха 😅

Not after, but behind hill :) Nije poslije brda nego za bregom.

Medvednica? Bearland?

On the contrary, Bern is the formal capital where the government institutions are located. The actual most important city would be Zürich or Geneva for the Romands.

@@thecandlemaker1329 that would still make it the de facto capital, not the de jure capital

Ikr, Makes me sad he didnt mention that.

Even though it's a pile of crap as an origin story. Name Warsaw is dated back to the Vršovci noble family from Czech that seeked sanctuary in Poland after they were hunted down in their own country.

hmm he isn't wrong actually - it's true that after formation of Czechoslovakia they were searching for some slavic name for the city. And they found "Braťislava", used by followers of Ľudovít Štúr (creator of Slovak language) in 1800s. The name was partly coming from very old (~900) names Brezalauspurch, Uratislaburgium, Brecisburg and Braslav. And also Pavol Jozef Šafárik (a poet) called the city "Břetislav". They (Štúr followers) were very slavic oriented and were trying to push the idea of slavic-hood among the people so they took the name Břetislav and created "Braťislava" - i.e. "brother-glory" because it sounded slavic, mystical and people at the time would understand the name. Where the "by mistake" comes from is - Šafárik called the city Břetislav based on the name Brecisburg. He thought that this is just german version of Bracislaw/Brecislaw and that the city was maybe founded by czech ruler Břetislav I. But he was wrong

i think he got the ethymologies confused, what he said was the origin of the name pressburg iirc, which was named after svatopluk's son "preslav" (hence the czech bretislav). as in "preslav's castle" > preslavburg > presburg

This. Bratislava was a Hungarian town called Pozsony which was even the capital for a while after the Ottoman invasion. When they took it after WW1 they renamed it "Slavic brotherhood" specifically to add insult to injury to the Hungarians and Germans still living there.

@@19Szabolcs91 Not really. In slavic languages there is difference between medieval Hungarian kingdom (Uhorsko) and modern Hungary - and for reason. Old kingdom was multicultural state with only a third of population wih hungarian origin. Pressburg / Poszony / Prešporok was similar with population roughly divided by hungarians, germans and slovaks, what was totaly ordinary before 1900. In times when Czechoslovakia was formed many germans and hungarians left and town became slovak by most of population. They renamed it after first known slavic chieftain braslau /preslau - and first known name of place presalauspurch. Which is in fact still the same. Bratislava, Prešporok, Pressburg, Poszony came from same origin, but in other form. Thinking that its just to make hungarians suffer for some reason is childish.

@@19Szabolcs91 Do Hungarians as yourself really sit there in their houses believing other countries care so much about them when really nobody really gives 2 s**ts about them? This is hilarious 😂 . We all know you were just puppets of the Germans, the true masters of that empire so calm down. Nobody takes you serious. You are the clowns of Europe.

Thank you for watching! :)

Greece is so old!

Wouldn’t this be the coloniser friendly one since Greece wants Cyprus back.

@@aaronboucher60 Cyprus is Greek. Read history.

@@arolemaprarath3248 I mean I did say ‘back’, but being ethnic Greek doesn’t mean they should be part of the country and it also ignores the Turkish north but I already had this debate on TikTok and aren’t doing it again. Nicosia is the capital and Greek change to that is simply incorrect, that’s not an opinion.

@@aaronboucher60 we call it Lefkoşa in Turkish too. Nicosia is just a made up name. Go away with your British empricist nonsense.

In Pannonia have lived before Hungarian Slavs. Mostly Slovenci and Slovenci, nowadays Slovacs nad Slovenians. Buda was before forth Vode - Boden, because was under the Danube river. Pest or Pešta is new part of city on the plain place.

I agree on both points and Pesht has to come from Peshtera, Cave.

Appreciate it!

@@chronikhiles Thanks

San Marino flag is wrong

@@Nomen_Nescio_YT Thanks for pointing the mistake. Note it's correct now.

Thank you so much

Same in Denmark, though it might have changed recently. It is a long time since I heard anyone call it helsingfors

Indeed. And I fun it little funny that Sweden, Denmark & Finland each have a city with the part "Helsing" in the start of its name. Helsingborg (Swe), Helsingör (Den), Helsingfors (Fin).

@@thefallenangel5190 Helsingør and Helsingborg is just in front of each other and used to both be danish. The names is very old and comes from halsen = neck because it was the most narrow place (and very strategically important). Helsingør = neck beach. Helsingborg = neck castle. It is probably unrelated to Helsingfors.

@@thefallenangel5190 Helsingør, Helsinborg, Helsinki, and don’t forget Hellsing Ultimate

@@-_pi_- Helsinki is originally the finnish name of the city, not just english.

Thanks!

@@General.Knowledge Turkey is Asian!

@@arolemaprarath3248 not all. Istanbul is spliting Europe snd Asia so a Istanbul is in Europe

@@bjornreal4952 Yes but Turkey culturally is Arab not European.

btw Switzerland has no capital

he's not from England, so he knows those are countries as well ;)

@@ruicorreia6373 they're all "English" or "British" to us.

Thanks!

Szeged or Seged ( Polish speakers )

They do it because they dont care. They dont take time to know the right way, just say whatever comes to mind and expect us to recognize the word.

@@beak3669 Szeged

And every other time he pronounces them wrong. English speakers are absolutely uncapable of saying Slavic names. They ALWAYS put the stress wrong. Including VLADimir instead of VladEEmir.

@@AndreiBerezin - That would be true if he was a native English speaker but he's not, he's portuguese. ; )

Ironically, when writing "tc" you also confused the Latin "c" with the Cyrillic "c". "tc" would be "тк" in Cyrillic; what you need to express "ц" is "ts".

Thanks, Romance languages, for coming up with this extremely contrived way of using C and QU just to avoid using the letter K And then there are the Celtics, who use C for /k/ everywhere

@@frtzkng You have a very teleocentric view of history and language. Nobody came up with this. It's the result of what used to be the Latin [kw] consonant (articulated together) simplifying to [k] in speech, while the QU spelling remained. This happened regardless of the following vowel in France and Romania, to a lesser extent in Spain, and to an even lesser extent in Italy. Even earlier, [k] followed by [i] or [e] changed to the cheese-sound. For a while after this process took hold, people were experimenting with using different methods to represent [k] followed by [i] or [e]. Sometimes they used K, sometimes QU, and sometimes CH. In Italy and Romania the latter spelling won out, and in Spain and France the middle one. Sardinian escaped the cheese-sound shift so it has a lot of [k] compared to all other Romance languages. But it still doesn't have a standard orthography and some people use K in words like _ki_ "who" and _kentu_ "hundred" while others use CH (and Medieval Sardinian mainly used QU). And the reason Latin used QU instead of CU to spell [kw] because it ultimately received the alphabet from Phoenician, and in Phoenician C and Q and K represented three different sounds, which were all pronounced the same in Latin, but with different vowels after them: [ke:], [ku:] and [ka:]. Since writing was traditional to the point of being mnemonic, they kept on using three different letters depending on which vowel was part of the letter name. Eventually they realised the KA thing was stupid but kept QU to represent the single consonant [kw] as opposed to CU [ku]. The Celts didn't have the [kw] consonant so eventually they dropped Q altogether.

same with other western slavic languages (nemci in sk/cz) the story says, that when the OG slavs met the germans they couldnt understand a word being said, so they thought the germans were deaf/mute

@@MurkoTheCat It's exactly the same in Russian, "not us/can't speak" two words sounding the same, and we call german people "nemci".

Unfortunately we don't have a cool name for Poland in German, it's just "Polen" so basically the same. Aren't the names if Sweden and Switzerland really similar in Polish?

@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz625 yeah they are

@@MurkoTheCat Not just western but also south Slavs. Nemci or Njemci.

Would make sence since English is a Germanic language!

you forgot Antarctica

Dude you forgot the Martian countries

No

Wdym Istanbul. It's holy Sophia from Constantinople.

That famous Chinese wall

@@ekosh6266 it’s İstanbul now buddy :) 🥵🇹🇷

or swamp

He also did explain it for the Uk provinces, so it's just fair.

@@dragonlord1225 Province has had meaning of state in Roman empire. Empire was collection of states. Same as in Austro-Hungarian empire. Emperior has titled also as king of Chech, Lombardian, Hungarian, Slavonian etc.

lolwut? The German ä sounds close to the "ai" in fair. The English e sound is the same as the German i, which is not at all anything like ä.

@@littlerave86 I meant it as it's close to the english word for Bear. Plus the e and a in english can make the same sound sometimes.

@@someguysomeone3543 Well, you didn't mention bear. With English you have to be very precise with your examples because it has no rules for pronunciation whatsoever. Just replace the b with an f and the pronunciation of "ea" becomes e instead of ä. Or, worse case, you don't even have to do anything, i.e. verb tear (tare) vs. noun tear (teer).

@@littlerave86 ain't English a bitch? LOL. must drive foreigners mad. It's hard even for us. that's why spelling bees are so interesting.

@@voxveritas333 Oh, well ... every language has it's bitchy sides.

He still lives in the 80s

@@Admin-gm3lc 1922

That thing made me unsubscribe

Yeah sure, this is a coincidence that there's a river Mienka and the city on that river is called Miensk.

@@muchamad613 How did the river get the name?

@@herbertherbertic6223 we're talking about lord knows how long before the writing systems developed in the region. It could be derived from Indo-European *min-, with meaning 'to pass (by)'. It could be from the root *men- (small, junior), as there is 'menkas' in Lithuanian with the same meaning, and 'minus' in Latin.

Athens already existed in the Mycenaean period, centuries before Homer... and I don't think that the Odyssey is the most relevant work for the matter, I'm pretty sure that Athens is mentioned in the Iliad by the way.

You could make an argument for every settlement in europe that people have been using sites since the ice age; people settle in places where the land is favourable, especially near rivers

Yea, it is also called ´Andorra la Vieja´ in Castillian

Are you Alsacien?

Well spotted. It _was_ known as _Lū̆tētia_ (Parīsiōrum) "swampland of the Parisii" in Latin, but the "swampland" part didn't survive - who knows, maybe the locals had already drained their swamp by the middle ages? 🙂Since it's the name of the tribe that survives, the interesting part is where that comes from. It looks like ot comes from Gaulish _*parios_ "cauldron", so basically Parisians were gourmets already in prehistoric times, but everybody else thought them and their cutlery weird, and so called them "cauldron-folk" 😃

Fun fact: Latvia is said Letónia in Portuguese, so sometimes Letónia e Estónia gets mixed in brain...

King Stefan I around the year 1000 issued coins with the inscription PRESLAVA CIV - STEPHANUS REX. The name Bratislava was a return to the oldest known names - Preslava - Breslava - Brezalauspurc. ...

3:51

And yet there's the joke of Portuguese being spanish with a slavic accent

@@AgentTasmania That is a phonetic coincidence because Standard European Portuguese is a stress-timed language (and I say "Standard" because that actually depends a lot on your regional dialect), therefore some syllables are reduced and, because of that, when Portuguese speak fast they seem using consonant clusters (a.k.a. Slavic). Portuguese also has some phonetic similarities with Russian or Polish like the rolling "r" or nasal sounds. However, there is a huge difference. Portuguese is a vowel language, just like any other Romance language, and it has 14 different vowel sounds and 22 consonant sounds (less than the 26 of English). However, Slavic languages are consonant languages, with very few vowel sounds and lots of consonant sounds, as well as consonant clusters. That's why the prononciation of foreign languages from a Portuguese person doesn't sound Slavic at all...

Try pronouncing Portuguese cities correctly bruv. If it's not your native language then it's gonna be hard.

@@radomirkwasniewski7745 You're right. But that's not my point. A simple google search is enough to let you know that the "c" i Podgorica is pronounced "ts". Like I said, he's been doing this for quite some time. It is thus expected that some efforts have been made.

@@AgentTasmania also heard of Portuguese being referred to as "Russian-accented Spanish".

Balaton was also called Blatnograd what in slavic languages means mud castle - Balaton Principality. Esztergom is from Slavic word ostrigat what means cut hair. Buda and Pest in slavic languages means waking fist. In Hungary are 6000 slavic names of rivers, cities mountains. Just to clarify, during old times under Slavic principalities.

I remember when our maps called it Moldavia.

I live in croatia in city Karlovac which has 4 rivers

Not in Macedonian though. We have many towns that have rivers go through them and they don't end with "-va", exception being the town Gostivar, which the river Vardar goes through (and the source of the river is close to the town).

@@DacLMK that’s not what he’s saying though. He didn’t say “Every place that has a river ends in -va,” he said “Every place that ends in -va has a river.” You haven’t actually contradicted his point in any way.

not true... "va" can also have possessive meaning (that town or the original settlement that evolved into that city was owned by someone)

@@jordinagel1184 maybe that is because vast majority of settlements that evolved into cities were build on river banks?

We in Serbia call your capital "Prag". In Serbian word "prag" is still in use meaning doorstep.

Rather, I think that the name of the Czech capital comes from the same root as the Polish verb 'prażyć' or dialectal 'próżyć' which means 'to burn', 'to bake', 'to toast' or the Polish adjective 'próżny' which means 'empty' (such as after the trees have been burnt). In the past, in Poland, the word 'praga' or 'praha' meant an area devoid of trees by means of fire.

sarcasm is overrated even tho i do it riga is not estonian but latvivan

Officially until the first Estonian independence in 1918, but both names have coexisted for a very long time, not even completely separated by the language.

I agree, not often you hear a story about a mermaid far inland

@@madmatt2028 well, he was a fisherman

Eh ... 4

@@europhile6548 "other three" implying one has already been done, 1+3 =4

The same applies to languages which have adapted these letters to represent the same sounds, like Swedish and Finnish (Ä, Ö), Estonian (Ä, Ö, Ü) and Turkish (Ö, Ü).

Agreed, almost none of these had a definitive answer!

Imagine using bitcoin in 2021 This post was made by dogecoin gang

@@rexyjp1237 no, don't own dogecoin or bitcoin, just a regular joe

Berlin has Sorbian name. From nation in Lusathia.

I was unaware that the bronze age Picts had a language that wasn't Celtic... I just assumed they were a Celtic tribe and thus spoke a Celtic language but your statement made me look into it and for that I thank you.

Polje koje se ljubi, zemlja koja se voli - Grad koji se voli.

I always thought the name derived from the slavic meaning ”being loved” in feminine form. Ljubav, lubic, ljublju, she is loved, ona je ”ljubljana” but I suppose I got it all wrong.

@@jonatanborowicz not all wrong...is not person, woman ...is the land, city who loved here

@@borivojetravica569 Pole, kdo bo tebe lubil? Zemla, katero imam rad, mesto katerega imam rad. Ne turi svojih Balkanskih štosov. Srbske hegemonije je konec.

@@jonatanborowicz Yes at all. In origin is name Lublana, what means town under the rounded hill (obel hrib). Also in Russia have a lot of such names with the same meaning. lj and nj combination were Serbs ambition to united all nation of south Slavs in one nation. Of course Serbian. We have more in common with western Slavs.

He also forgot Gibraltar.

@@Halal_Lettuce That’s a British Territory. Not a capital city.

@@lolacullingham6020 It’s more complicated than a territory, if Cardiff and Edinburgh was included under British capitals, then Gibraltar should’ve been included, it even has its own flag (🇬🇮).

@@Halal_Lettuce it’s not consider as a capital city.