Would love to know if anyone is watching from Hayastan/Armenia!

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The two names derive from the two early tribes, Hayks and Armens, that converged to form them Armenian civilization. To refer to an Armenian as Hay or Armenian are both correct, and can be used interchangeably. Hayk Nahabed, who battled King Bel of Babylonia, is considered the founder of the Armenian nation. For that reason, when speaking our mother tongue, we say Hayastan or Hay when referring to the country and people respectively. The proto-Armenian civilization of Urartu, from which the name Ararat derives, dates back to as early as the 13th century BC, if not earlier. I hope this helped.

Armenians used word Hayq before the arabic/persian conquests of Armenia. This "k/q" was used to call other countries too. Huynq - Greece Virk - Georgia Honk - Huns Parsq - Persia. E.t.c

Almost every Armenian I meet is an educated, highly motivated person who excels in whatever they're doing

About the stan countries part if you speak persian basically a big chunk of the world becomes the stan countries as even Patrick the Name Explainer's country ends with stan in persian being Englestan

I am an Armenian and I want to explain why we call it Hayastan. Hayastan is written հայաստան in Armenian. տան simply means house in Armenian, and հայ means Armenian. So if we merge both of these words, we get հայաստան, or simply the house of Armenians. Hayastan is simply the name of the country in English letters. Hope this clarifies the origin of the name.

Thank you, I’ve been wondering this for so long

Somkheti actually comes from the Georgian word Samkhreti meaning south

half Armenian from the Syrian Diaspora :)) thank you for making this

As a colombian, I wonder why the capital city of the Quindío department (administrative division similar to a province) is called Armenia aswell as the country in the caucasus mountains, even though there's no clear relationship between the two...

"The Hitties" are the Hittites, I guess.

Please do why is Shqipëria called Albania in English :))

I’ve always wanted to visit Armenia and the surrounding region so terrible what is going on over there at moment. My friends over there really trying to get through it all. Sadly I think some family of theirs is conscripted to fight in Artsakh region.

Armenian American here, thank you for making this vid, most people don't even know we exist

Now we just need their neighbors to stop bullying them

Thanks for your research ... i am an Armenian and i learned some history from your hard work .....High FIVE

We really don't have to stray outside the Armenian language to understand the naming. Using Armenian we can explain with etymology. Armenia - Ar(Sun/God) - Men (people) hence people of the Sun or God. Ar was the ancient Armenian Sun God. Hayastan - Hay(Haky or Hayasa ancient tribe in the region) and Tun(house). So House of Hayk or Hous of Hays or Hayas.

You may be high, but you're not as Haiastan.

My favorite country, I want to met someone from this country. From Philippines.

Side note: You correctly wrote the Slovak name "Arménsko" but you managed to pronounce [ar-me-NE-sko]. Extra vowels often slip in for EN/FR/?? native speakers when trying to pronounce Slavic languages but this one caught me off-guard! :D Should simply read [ar-me:n-sko]. Nice vid tho, thx!

Might as well ask why Zhōngguó is called China if you haven't already

Can you do Egypt and morocco next? They're called Masr (egypt) and Maghrib (morocco) in arabic Algeria is also a shout out but they're similar Al-Djzaer (algeria is just romanized of al djzaer)

Good one.

Thanks for this. I once had an elementry school friend in Detroit who said he was Armenian. I had no idea where that was but after visiting an Armenian grocery store stocked with sheep’s head I concluded it was a long ways away.

imagine being named after your country😌

Thx for the video.. My name is Armen and I was born in Yerevan... I had heard tales from frnds and relatives in Armenia back in the 90s when i was in my early teens right before i moved to California. They would tell me about how during the times of Hayk The Great after he conquered Babylon, he, his ppl and all those whom he set free, including the Israelite.. After the fall of Babylon they traveled north to go back and settle in The Land of Ararat which they called Ararat/Urartu,, So for sometime after that, for some reason there were now 2 groups of people, one calling themselves "hayas" and the other "armen" as scholoars like to use "azzi" insteadof armen, not sure why... but they both shared there ancestral roots to Ararat and those lands... It is very hard to find any information even referernecing these 2 different groups who share so much as if they are of the same ethnicity "Ancient Armenian" but differ not in DNA or ancestral roots but diifer in something that is more spiritual.. and one being more negative, like soomething came into the dna line and slowly the corruption spread... idk... it might sound crazy but, dont get me wrong Armenians are some of the nicest and more honest and care ppl youll meet.. But we Armenians even speak about this stuff.. That for some reason Armenians are not as nice to each other, and others seeming like infiltrators posing as Armenians desecrating our name and roots, e.x Kim Kardashian" and even on Armenian TV programs spreading lies and Turkey propaganda... They show and parade that trash to rep armenians but not the world class chess masters, musicians, engineers, artists, architects, inventor which have effected in huge degrees to modern living... But never a word of those amazing ppl.. just Kim K and w.e.... And how the own of the MGM in Vegas was Mr. Krikoryan and being as rich as he was, tried to make a movie for theaters tellling the Armenians Genocide in a Drama film.. Turkish influence wouldnt allow him to playit anywherer... Remembber this was the owner of the MGM in VEGAS.. and he still ran into dead ends.. His dieing wish was to get it all done and screened at theateer all across the world.. He died right before he was able to watch his dream finally finished... An immigrant after the Armenian Genocide becomes the ownedd of the MGM in Vegas... Thats why they do not allow true Armenians and Armenia prosper... Im tellin ya... Its there if you have eyes to see.. And unfortunetly my fellow Armenians are to trusting, trying to see the best in ppl.... God Bless

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When I think of Armenia I think of System of a down's song Holy Mountains which is about their genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

3:04 - -stan doesn't mean place or country of, that implies forieign places. The -stan suffix comes from _ostan_ which is Persian for state, province, county, oblast, etc. That is, they used to be administrative territories of the Persian empire.

I used to work at a car dealership on the west coast, my employer was an Armenian. He made me employee of the month once, but my co-worker thought it was an elaborate joke.

Thanks for the video 🇦🇲💪

Why Bharat call India in English and European or sound-like names in other languages like Hindustan in Persian, Inde in French, Indō in Korean and Japanese, Ấn Độ in Vietnamese, al-hind in Arabic, Yìndù in Chinese (used to call Tianzhu)?

Name explain your channel name for the next episode. We want to know the history of your channel.

Thank you for your video it was informative, here is some additional information which was missing: In Armenian history we learn that the 3 tribes who resided in ancient Armenia were called Haya, Armen, Nayrian. As you mentioned the name Nayiri is used often in patriotic poems and songs. The names Hayastan means house of Hayas and Armenia comes from Armen which is one of the 3 original tribes.

I always thought thats a rare phenomenon since we got the same thing in germany... but by the coomments it seems actually quite common with many countrys.

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Thanks for the video! btw Hayk (the name of Hayk the Great) and Hayq (how armenians called Armenia in the ancient times) are not being pronounced the same way and mean different things.The "Q" ending in armenian means plurality."Du (doo) means you(singular),DuQ - you(plural).Hay means armenian and HayQ - "the armenian nation" or "a state of armenian people".Ancient armenian state - Armenia Maior (The Greater Armenia) in armenian was called Mets(Big) Hayq.

Georgia / Sakartvelo Armenia / Hayastan Azerbaijan / Azərbaycan Why is Azerbaijan the only Caucasus country that has the pretty much the same name in English & the native language?

Ararat is allso a name of the mountain across the border in turkey where alegedly noas arck stoped

I saw some comment saying that only Azerbaijan has its name in English similar to its native name (in the Caucasus). And that is a good point cuz it is not just Georgia and Armenia with the opposite. Most Caucasus places, in fact: Ossetia is actually Ir'ston (Ирыстон) Abkhazia is Apsua (I don't have one of the required Cyrillic letters) or sth like that Chechnya is also sth diffefent, I think connected with "Nakh" Ingushetia is Ğalğai (ГІалгıай).... Karabakh is Artsakh (Արցախ) and funny enough the Azeri name Qarabağ is again the similar one to English So yeah, most places in the Caucasus have different names in English apart from their native ones

In Armenian lots of countries have stan. Russia rusastan India hundkastan Georgia verastan China chinastan ( I didn't make it up) And the stans in English

While you're at the fad of obscure country names in languages, in Hebrew we call France and Spain Tsarfat and Sfarad respectively, and as far as I know no other language (not even ones related to Hebrew, like Arabic) even remotely calls them this way. Sounds like an idea for a video or at least part of one 😃

I'm Armenian and wanted to say that the word "Hay" means Armenian, the ethnicity and the name "Hay" or "Hayer" (plural) could be from Hayasa or Hayk, as in Armenian Greater Armenia is called "Mets Hayk" or "Greater Hayk"

I'm Armenian. I like the name Armenia. It might not be the name I use when speaking Armenian. But I'm still content with it. So it doesn't bother me at all.

Greece Finland, most of East Asian country have different name in English

The other interesting thing about the -stan ending is that it's related etymologically to the verb 'stand' in English, and also to the verb meaning 'to be' (such as the Spanish 'estar') in many European languages.

I am an Armenian and I love this

Hayastan sounds like a central Asian country where everyone knows Kung Fu. Haaayyyyahh!!!

So this must be where Link is from since he screams HIYAH so often

Just heard the new SOAD song. Fuck yes!

Do the mystery of the name/rodney!

There's a LARGE Armenian population in the Central Valley area of California in the US, and sometimes throughout school, we would call them Haya's. Now I know why.

Nagorno-Karabakh is Armenian.

A famous bearer of the name Armen these days is Armen Keteyian, who has been a TV/sports journalist in the US.

3:19 the Name of the First Armenien has Haik

I mean there are Sirbistan, Hrvatistan, Bulgaristan and Yunanistan that are away from the Caspian Sea but these are all in Turkish

1:40 Anybody else notice how the -stan countries together look like a mushroom cloud?

8:44 The Balk-lands?

Thank you for the video, great job trying to inform the world on national names and their historical context. I would like to clear something up, as a researcher of Armenian history of many years, Hayastan is not the native name for our land. The original name of Armenia is Hay(q), Hayas(tan) was later derived from Irano-Aryan influence, (Hay) denotes the people and (s'tan) means (home of). In contrast with (Hayq), Hay refers to the people, and the (q) make the word plural, and Armenians would use this suffix to name other neighboring countries as well. Georgia as Vir(q) and Caucasian Albania was Aghwan(q). Also, the (ian) suffix to Armenian surnames is also a Persian influence, originally it was (Ouni/Douni) which means (house of). I speculate that the change happened after Armenians and Iranians co-existed for thousands of years and Iranian being the dominant civilization, influenced Armenian. Tan/Tun/Dun is pretty much the same word, and it originates from Armeno/Irano/Aryan.

Thank you making this video. A fun fact about us Armenians. We are called the Descendants of Noah since the Ark landed on Mount Ararat, and Noah’s grandson settled in the area. Armenians are considered the children of Japheth, Noah’s grandson, making us descendants of Noah. Sadly there are more Armenians outside of Armenia, like I live in the US, but I love when people bring up the uniqueness of Armenia. We are a small country with an ancient culture 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

It's always interesting to find out why a country is called a different name by its native people. Armenia/Hayastan has such a history!

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Greets From 🇦🇲 Armenia! Thanks

sounds like a david and goliath story

Would you do a video on “the origins of presidents names”? So like explain the origins of Washington, Lincoln, Trump, etc... last names.

Thanks for the Video , it was really interesting even for Armenians and Im proud to be ՀԱՅ it’s mean Hay - Armenian.🇦🇲❤️ good Job 👏🏻

Hayastan how are you. 😂🤣😂🤣🤣

Just like Hellas is called the Greece root almost everywhere else.

Thank you! ❤️💙🧡🇦🇲

We had same problem with Saxons,they use to call iran as Persia so in 1935 we asked all world to call us Iran,now they call us "eye-ran" instead "Iran/E-ran" . They also stopped calling our language as "Persian" they call it "farsi" as we say our language.

This is something similar to Finland being called Suomi in Finnish

Hayastan could mean "land of the modest". Haya means modesty in Arabic/Farsi/Urdu. It is also used as a feminine name.

thank you for explaining the Armenian history! the turkic people want to destroy our history so these videos are very important :)

Bel the Giant? Hey, is there a connection between this historical character and Belias the Gigas from Final Fantasy XII?

I think the hitties are actually called hittites, or am I mistaken?

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So you need to do Sakratvelo now

Hai=life, Ya=God, stan=land. Land of the living God.

Straight facts most ancient people on this planet Armenians

Finland is the same also Artsakh is Armenia!!

I renamed Hayastan to Armenia in Ck3 thinking it was a glitch giving it an ARab name since they were a vassal of a muslim nation. Today i Learn.

By the way, Armenian was once called „mets hayk“, which means big/great hayk…

I'm pretty sure that the "Haya" part means "Armenian," since in armenian itself, Armenians are "Hayer"

0:16 Kəlbəcər is beautiful

Well Georgia calls armenia "somxeti"

What a horrible situation unfolding there

I heard hayastan and immediately thought *hayato*

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Azerbaijan be like: History?? Ancient?? NATIVE?? What!? Also love to see a video about Azerbaijan name, the name that was stolen from Persian (Atropatene) and then later stole native lands from Armenians Naxijevan if we look at the Armenian language “Nakhchivan” is the phonetic translation from Armenian “Nakhijevan” to Azerbaijani now let’s break “Nakhijevan” down “Nax/նախ” means the prefix “Pre” or “before” “ij/իջ” means “down/south/rest” but in this context it is used as “inn” (where Persian travelers rested) “e/ե” means “‘s” (ownership marker) and “van” means the same as “burg” in Germanic languages (Hamburg, Svendborg ext.) so all put together “Nakhchivan” means “preinnsburg” the last part Persian travels passed before resting in Armenia, Gəncə (Gandzak) means “of the treasure” so someone educate them on their own history it’ll take 5 minutes not much to cover

Im armenian and i learned a lot from this lol

Ah yes, The Balklands, my favorite peninsula

Do Kekistan!

Hayastan, Pakistan, Kurdistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan etc...... The world is just one big Stan

Great and informative video 🇦🇲❤️

I thought thte name related to army somehow

Armenia will win🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

Oldest book in Armenian is dated in 17th century. what an old country :)

Great wine country

I was born in Armenia