Did I get any country's meaning wrong? A few of them didn't have that much information available online

The fact that you can't pronounce "Montenegro" because of youtube censorship is scandalous

In Greek, France is still called Gallia.

No one:: The Greeks single handedly naming most of the countries in Europe:

1:25 The idea that a place could be named "Port Port" (each half derived from a different language) is surprisingly plausible. There are many places with names like that. The Sahara Desert is one example (sahara means "desert" in Arabic). Tom Scott discussed the phenomenon in one of his videos while visiting a place that could reasonably be translated as "Hill Hill Hill Hill."

"home of the Boii" god bless our ancestors.

The n-word: *is literally the word for a very common color in many languages* UKposts: "You can't say that."

For Bulgaria, there may be another explanation. In Greek, the second letter of the alphabet had phonetic value B, but later transitioned to V. Several words in south-eastern Europe can trace origin to this transition; for example, the city of Bethlehem is named in some old songs as Vitlaim. And bulgars use Cyrillic writing, derived from the Greek alphabet. So their name might very well be coming from the Volga River, where they were known to live before their migration to the Balkans.

It's worth noting that "Cymru" in Welsh is not pronounced like "simru" but "kummri". Also the term "Scotland" is (or was originally) an exonym. The name for Scotland in Scottish Gaelic is "Alba", which derives from Old Irish "Albu" or "Albain", which is believed to have been used to describe the lands of the Picts and and other Celtic territory of what is now Scotland.

"port port" makes total sense in geography, trust me

"It could mean Port Port, but that makes no sense." _Lake Chad visibly fuming_

About the name 'Belarus'. The name Ruscia Alba (Ruthenia Alba) was first mentioned in the 1250s in an anonymous geographical treatise originating in Ireland. Most likely, this name was not known in Rus' itself (the name Rus' itself had just begun to take hold in the territories from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea). Therefore, it is most likely that the name White was added to Rus by medieval European cartographers. Many regions were given the name of White Ruthenia by cartographers, but it's funny, the Novgorod Republic was called White Ruthenia the most. Over time, cartographers began to come up with new names, such as Red Ruthenia, the territory of modern Ukraine, and Black Ruthenia, the land of the Balts. And here again, the same tradition of medieval cartography was at work: whichever name I want to give it and wherever place I want to put it, I do it. In 1470, the Novgorod Republic was conquered by the Moscow principality, and after that Moscovia was called White Ruthenia. To put it quite simply, Novgorod, Moscow, and the Polotsk principality were called White Ruthenia, although no one knew of any White Ruthenia in these lands. In the second half of the 16th century, maps became more and more detailed, and the term finally settled on the lands of modern Belarus. This was facilitated by the appearance of historical chronicles by Marcin Kromer, Maciej Stryjkowski, and others. This was also influenced by the Livonian War, when in 1563 the Muscovy captured Polotsk, and since Muscovy was often called White Ruthenia, and news of this war spread throughout Europe, Polotsk also began to be called White Ruthenia. In 1579 Stefan Batory expelled the Muscovites from Polotsk, but the name remained and from the end of the 16th century Belarus began to be called the land with a predominantly Orthodox population, which had previously been simply called Ruthenia or Lithuanian Ruthenia. In the early 17th century, the name Belarus became widely accepted, for example, in 1632, King Wladyslaw 4 restored the Orthodox diocese in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and it was called White Ruthenian. At the same time, in the official documents of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the term white Ruthenia was increasingly used to refer to the lands of modern Belarus. Despite the fact that the state that included the lands of White Ruthenia was called Lithuania, Muscovy began to use the term White Rus more and more often, referring to the lands of Belarus and rarely Ukraine. Because, in their view, Ruthenia is theirs and they need to capture it. It didn't take long; in 1654, Muscovy troops under the leadership of Alexei Mikhailovich attacked the Belarusian lands of the GDL in order to "defend the Orthodox population," and he resumed his title of Tsar and Grand Duke of Great, Little, and White Russia. In the 18th century, the name Belarus became an authoritative term. The Belarusian nobility originating from Polotsk or Mogilev called themselves Belarusian, Jewish qahals in the east were called Belarusian synagogues, the National Education Commission had 2 districts, Lithuanian and Belarusian, and the word Belarus was often caricatured in the administrative division of representatives of Catholic institutions. As part of the Russian Empire, the Belarusian lands began to be referred to as the Northwestern Krai. In the 19th century, the name Belarus finally spread to all the lands of modern Belarus. This was facilitated by the growth of nationalism in Europe (due to the idea that every nation should have a language, land, religion, and of course, a name). Because before that, despite the fact that they spoke the same language, they often called themselves Litvins (not Lithuanians, but residents of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania), Poles (mostly Catholics), Rusyns (residents of the Rus), but most often simply Tuteishya. Why was the name Belarus chosen when Belarus was created, and not, for example, Lithuania? First of all, this name was more often used in reference to the szlachta, but the Belarusian szlachta did not care about the restoration of the Litvin state and identity, they helped Poland to advocate statehood and increasingly called themselves Poles. And the Baltic peoples, who were experiencing a rise in nationalism at the time, appropriated the name Lithuanians, and this word was already taken. As a result, the term Litva ceased to be used and was completely replaced by Belarus, first as the name of the language spoken by the Tuteishya, and then as the name of the people. There were attempts to spread the name of the language as Kryvitskaya, the people as Kryvichs, and the name of the state as Kryvia, but this name did not catch on. Only Belarus caught on. It's a good word that unites Belarus with the history of the ancient Rus, while separating us from it with the word White :)

"The origin of the word slavic is unknown" there is literally a word SŁOWO meaning WORD in polish. And all polish know that the SŁOWIANIE (slavs) means "those who speak(are understood)" in the opposite to NIEMCY (germans) which means "the unspeaking ones".

In Greek we call Portugal “Porto-Gallia” and France is “Gallia”, so it literally translates to Port of the Gauls, aligning with the third theory more

21:43 As a Slovene, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

I can add that the region of Scandinavia got it's name from Sweden's southernmost province Scania (thought to be an island by the romans), because this was the place settlers first arrived to the region. The name is possibly derived from the Germanic root Skaðin-awjã, which appears in Old Norse as Skáney. The Germanic stem can be reconstructed as Skaðan- meaning "danger" or "damage" (English scathing, German Schaden, Swedish skada). The second segment of the name has been reconstructed as awjō, meaning "land on the water" or "island". The name Scandinavia would then mean "dangerous island", which is considered to refer to the treacherous sandbanks surrounding Scania.

Bulgaria has many other meanings that you definitely miss bro. BULG/VOLG according to some derrives from the river VOLGA or VULGUS/VULGAR or FOLK in Latin means People. (In Bulgarian meaning VULK (Wolf), White or Bright) & Aria (Arian simply reffering to Arian race, Tall or also Aristocratic). Another meaning is Five Arrows but nobody knows its origin couse it's very ancient. In other words nothing to do with the turkic meaning Mixed let alone with Revolt or Disorder. :D

UKposts seriously can't handle "Montenegro"?? FFS, a beginner level programmer could code an exception for that in the algorithm. It's a whole damn country.

It's funny the fact that Greeks use many "original" country names (such as "Scotia", "Hispania", "Helbetia") and not their subsequent versions

I appreciate your hard work and a clear, warm presentation. I love geography, history and language so this hit all my sweet spots.

Netherlands are named this way not because they are below the sea level, rather because the lands are at the lower flow of "the rivers" (Maas and Schelde, and Rhein, by extension) where the deltas of the revirs meet the North Sea.

Gotta love the meaning behind Bohemia "home of the boii". Me and the boiis going to czechia

General Knowledge: puts "Slovakia" instead of "Slovenia" on screen when talking about Slovenia Me: Not you too 😩😩💀

"Slavs" comes probably from the slavic word for... "word" :) "Słowo", "Slovo" etc. "Słowianin" (slav) meant - "someone who speaks our tongue", "The user of the words". On the same basis many slavic languages call Germans "Niemcy", "Nijemci", "Nemci" etc. which is derived from the word "niemy" - "mute", "Someone who doesn't speak our tongue". For a long time it was a general term for any non-slavic people/foreigners.

Greece is actually a totally ancient greek word, from the word Graikos (Γραικος), which means The son of the old lady in ancient greek. Caesar just used the word, but didnt created it. Beautiful video, i subscribed 👌

Not to be pedantic, but "Portus Cale" meaning "port port" actually makes sense; Romans often asked the locals what the name of their native places were, and the locals often responded by just mentioning the common name of the place indicated; that's why in England there are multiple "River Avon", "Avon" meaning "river" in ancient English. So that's why "port - port" could be an actual origin for the name.

Fun fact: In Polish we use the word "republika" for all the countries that have "republic" in their names but for Poland and only Poland we use word "rzeczpospolita" instead.

Crazy to see just how much influence the Romans and the Greeks had on the majority of Europe’s modern country names.

As a Hungarian, I finally know what my country's name means! Really well made video, the research must've been crazy interesting!

In Greek, Switzerland is still called Elvetia, and as already mentioned from a fellow Greek, France is still called Gallia.

Interesting fact, when Sweden and Denmark play against each other. It is Swe:den, the remaining letters are Den:mark.

More on Iceland: Icelands first name was probably Thule, then, when the papar monks came they possibly used another name, it is unknown to us. After that, Naddóður came and called the island Snæland (Snowland). Still later, a swedish man named Garðar, came and called the island after himself, Garðarshólmi (the islet of Garðar). Still later, the Norwegian Flóki Vilgerðarson came along with others, we only (I think) the names of farmers Þórólfur and Herjólfur). Flóki climbed a mountain in the Western fjords and saw hafís (sea ice) filling a fjord nearby. He then called our country Ísland (Iceland). Flóki himself is called Hrafna-Flóki in Iceland as he used three ravens to find the way to Ísland (Iceland).

Im sorry but the way you pronounced Cymru had me dying 😂😂 Reminded me of all the times I've said a word wrong because I learned it by reading and had never heard anyone say it lol.

When mentioning Slovakia, you were actually talking about Slovenia. They are two completely different countries, but often get mixed up.

Absolutely hilarious that you wrote Slovakia for Slovenia. Did you know their embassy’s actually arrange to meet to exchange letters that have been addressed to the wrong country because this is so common. So don’t be too hard on yourself.

Great video :) Cymru is pronounced 'cum-ree' in Welsh and I was always taught it meant 'countrymen', although maybe it was once used to mean friends too

The example of calling the Netherlands Holland being like calling England London I think is slightly inaccurate it’s more like the very real thing of calling the entire UK England

"Port Port" is not as unreasonable a name as you might think. There's a lot of places in England that had similar things happen. Torpenhow Hill is probably the most notable, which means Hill-hill-hill Hill in their respective languages over time.

Me- Where are you from Ronaldo- Port Port

Fantastic video!!!

Dutch is coming from the people living in the Netherlands, part of northern Germany, Denmark and a small part east of Denmark in Germany. It was a language spoken by them, Dietsch, Deutsch, which became by the Brits naming those people Dutch.

I love all these "river river", "hill hill", and "port port" names, but nothing beats the Yucatan peninsula which roughly means "I don't know what you're saying" in old Mayan.

There are English rivers named Avon, which is the Celtic word for river. So Avon River simply means River River. So it could be Harbour Harbour as well.

Correction: the low countries were not called that, because of their lowness relative to the sea level, but because the lie in the north of the HRE. Also see this with the german state lower Saxony and Saxony or with the german state of Bavaria lower Bavaria and higher Bavaria each time the north south divide.

Another origin for the origin or Helllas (Greece): Hel (Έλ) + las (λας) = Helios (as in, the Sun, or the Greek God of the Sun), and Stone(λασ) (λασπη = mud being a derivative). This all means Land (Stone, ground) of the Bright/ Brightness. That was meant for both the actual area, due to it being sunny, and for the people who were very "bright", smart and (usually) welcoming. That however is still heavily debated as these words, especially λας, come from a veeery old fersion o Ancient Greek, that was spoken by the ealiest of Mainland Greeks, the Pelasgian tribes. Pelasgos (Pelasgian person), Πελασγός, is said to be derived by Πέλας (Πέλαγος = Sea), and Γος, (Γη, meaning Earth), as in the person that lived both on land and sea and was characterised by those two.

21:47 As a proud Slovenian, i am extremly triggered.

It's really interesting, like nowadays countries names are just names, but in the beginning they were probably just normal words that they associated with these places

Not necessarily wrong, but an alternate explanation for Iceland and Hungary. According to recent historical and archaelogical research, Iceland might've been named as such due to the Norse settlers first encountering the coastal fjords as well as something of a fumble story: apparently the first settlers in Iceland had such an easy time hunting game - since the local animals were not accustomed to humans being a threat - that they didn't harvest any hay for their livestock and when winter came, said livestock died off due to starvation. From these two factors, the settlers returning to Scandinavia gave something of a bad rep to the island calling it a land of ice and snow: which is ironic since the whole island is a volcano and geothermical hot spot. It's also hypothesized that Greenland was named for the similar reasons but opposite aim, to attract more settlers into the area. And in reality it looked like what they said Iceland to look like. As for Hungary, more specifically the native term Magyarország: according to folklore and mythology - most of it written down first in the 19th century to cement a sense of nationalism, but long present in the oral tradition - the two forefathers of the Hun and Magyar tribes were two brothers, Hunor and Magor, the sons of the Babylonian king Nimrod. You can obviously guess which tribe comes from which. And it is said that when the Hungarian tribes moved into the Carpathean basin in the late 9th century, in their own language named it Magyarország after the mythological figure of Magor (alternatively spelled as Magyar) so in that sense the name would mean rather "Land/Country of Magor (Magyar/Magor országa)" which later became a single word, than "Land of the Magyars". Of course that isn't to say that your explanation is wrong, but I felt like it'd be a fun fact to expand it with the mythology/folklore based version since you saw it fit to include that aspect in the case of other coutries such as Ireland.

You seem to have mixed up Slovakia (to the East of Czech Republic) with Slovenia (between Italy and Croatia, with around 25 km of coast on the Adriatic Sea

"Slav" - (or slov) in many slavic languages means "word" or "speech", so slavics name themselves this way cuz they use similar language. Also in some slavic languages germans are called "nemchy" (немцы), that mean "voiceless" cuz germans had different language, so they cant speek to slavs.

"I thought Europe was a country" - Many Americans

15:00 didn't actually say why we call it that, so to clarify - a legend says that our land was named after a man called praotec Čech (pater senior or old father Čech), who was a leader of a tribe who settled here as first inhabitants, but the name itself comes from old slavic word Čexъ which means younger man with hair and beard.

Poland has been set on 966 ( name Polonorum was first time written on 1112 - 150 years later) -> Older names : Wends , Vistula Veneti , Lehistan , Lenkija, Lachestan , etc . Word "Pole" -field comes from Word "Lęda" which means the same - land from burn and slash farming cultivation - the place created for farming after burning forest in the result of "Polana" - clearing ,".Lęda" came to the English under world "LAND" . Lęda also comes from tribe Lędzianie/ Lendzenoi which were known across entire Europe, from Greece to Rome , and from Kiev to Stockholm, also in Iran , Georgia and Turkey. Slavs name comes from tribe Sklavinoi not from slovo.

The origin of word slav is from old slavic "slovo" - "a word". Basicly slavs are different tribes that can understand each other. Their neighbours are germanic tribes, called ' nemtsi, nemeth" by the slavs. That means silent, dumb.

15:22 wow as a Polish i didn't know that we have kalingrad 😏

i honestly thought Denmark (or Danmark as we natives call it) was from the danish words "Dan", which means "to create" or "establish" and "Mark" which means Field, where you grow crops

France got its name further back in time actually. France started existing through the Franks, a germanic tribe that invaded Gaule, and with Clovis making himself King, and the influence of latin language over the time, the newly created Frankish kingdom became more known as "France" depending on the language you spoke back then

It's also interesting, that Poland in Hungarian is Lengyelország. While most nations made contact with the Polanie tribe, Hungarians met the Lędzianie tribe, and named country after them.

"White Russia" is how I learned the country name as a kid in Germany: Weißrussland I totally missed when it happened but nowadays all official sources call it "Belarus" in german too.

In the case for Denmark 🇩🇰 Mark also means ground, territory, land, etc. in Scandinavian languages.

Spain being the land of rabbits in roman times actually makes a lot of sense. Rabbits used to be only native to the iberian peninsula and were introduced to the rest of europe by the romans. It's also possible that "spania" originally meant "hyrax" in carthaginian and later got applied to rabbits because they look somewhat similar. Also for the germany one: A better translation for "diutisc" would be "someone that belongs to our people" or "someone that speaks our language". Both meant the same in medieval times because speaking a west germanic language was the big thing the infamously fragmented germanic regions had in common.

Missing on purpose the “negro” from Montenegro is actually very alarming about the conformism that we live in today. You should be an absolute idiot to relate this with the history of enslavement of African people by the colonial powers in the past. Montenegro is a slavic country with absolutely nothing related in their history with African slaves… Banning words because you want to express your empathy is actually not doing anything. This is another nonsense that white people came up with to show how progressive and forward thinking they are, but in fact it does not solve any issue, exactly the opposite - creates a bigger issue - censorship and conformism.

You missed an important theory on Finland. Finland had an abundance of swamps and marshes, and "Suo" means swamp in Finnish. So "Suomi" could very possibly get its name from there.

Just letting you know that the Welsh pronunciation of 'Cymru' (Wales) is more like "kum-reeh" (not "sim-roo"), like you almost want to switch the Y with the U, & make it a hard C.

The origin of Switzerland listed here is wrong. "Switzerland" comes from the ancient germanic word “swidz”, which means “mountainous woodland”.

"Port port would not make sense" - There is a Town in Australia called Townsville which means town's town, and there is a hill in England called Torpenhow Hill - derived from Norse, Welsh, Saxon and finally modern English this literally means hill hill hill hill. Got to love names :)

"Cale" may refer to the Arabic word "qalea" whitch means "fortress", since the long time arabic rule of that peninsula.

Great video, clearly wherever you had reliable sources you did your research well, and you generally give a good overview in cases where the situation is less clear. That said, you fell for the silliest piece of folk etymology I've ever read or heard, about Moldova the river. European river names ALL are thousands of years old, they traverse multitudes of countries through millenia. The Moldova was already named one variety or other a long time before a local aristocrat of little consequence _to other countries_ along the river lost his poor dog. If at all then the dog was named after the river, not the other way around.

"Port port" isn't so strange. In the US, flat top mountains or buttes are sometimes named "Table Mesa." Since "mesa" means "table " in Spanish, the feature is then actually called "Table table." But a lot of English speakers, especially the early settlers, didn't realize that when naming a flat-topped mountain.

14:53 Boiiii

I don't know if it's right but i always knew that Bulgarians, in greek Vulgaree (Βούλγαροι). The people who came from the river Volgas. Volgary=Vulgary=Bulgary=Bulgaria.

Italia was the greek name of the extreme sourhern part of the peninsula Probably from the greek Αιθαλεια, menaing (smoky) , as there were a lot of smoke along the shores reached by greek sailors, because of many active volcanoes there (one of them named Vulcano, that gave the name to alla the volcanoes of the World)

Just a point on Portugal's name potentially meaning "port port", that's actually incredibly common through history for different groups to essentially use two words that mean the same thing.

Portus Cale meaning Port Port does make sense. Stuff like this happens all the time. It did happen a fair bit when the romans settled new areas, and that makes sense. If the area was called 'Cale', and the romans knew it as such without generally recognizing its meaning, they could promptly add 'Portus'. That's because they would see 'Cale' as a proper noun on itself, therefore, it would make sense for them.

I think alot of these names get their names from different blends of the different ideas you proposed. I.e. they pronounce it “xyz” in one culture and “xxz” in another etc… These things were addressed as a multitude of things globally and probably merged and blended especially in the territories themselves. In sum, i think alot of these names didnt come from one specific place, but alot of places and converged.

Hard C on Cymru. The u at the end can also be pronounced as a y and sometimes depending on which version of Welsh.you use, it can be spelt with a G instead of a C.

I'm pretty sure to have learned that France is called "Frankreich" in German because a part of the "Franks", a Germanic tribe, went over to back then "Gallia" and conquered most of the land. They would also be the first kings of France. Hence they named their empire after their tribe. The original natives of France were the Gauls which is why it was called Gallia during the reign of the Roman Empire. So I find this explanation very plausible and a bit more concrete than that it's just called France because of the word "franc". I feel like this way the origin makes a lot more sense. But I haven't any research. This is just the left-overs of my history classes.

I love how every other country has countless theories and opinions about the name origins, while Romania is like : "yep, the Roman Empire, Rome... so Romania it is🤷🏻"

Latvian here, yeah our name derives from ancient Baltic tribe the Latgallians who still live in the Latgale region or southeastern part of Latvija. But there’s another variation for our name that I just wanted to tell just because our nation doesn’t just consist of Latgallians but also with Curonians, Selonians and Semigallians), which formed the ethnic core of modern Latvians together with the Finnic Livonians. So another belief of where our name came from is the literal translation which means “forest clearer”, because that was the main thing which the ancient tribes of our people did alongside seafaring. Overall great video, it was nice to learn about other countries meanings to, I didn’t know most of this. Cheers.

Frankfurt (Francfort - in french), a german town (today) may have also been an origin for the name of the "francs" - invaders from east ; per present-day France. You did a good job w/ your explanation of countries like Greece & United Kingdom / Ireland ! ! Bravo. Rob't. D. - from colorado ( "color red" in spanish ) Voila' tout!

"Port Port" actually makes the most sense to me for Portugal. After all, tautological names originally deriving from translation confusion are relatively common.

"Port Port" makes perfect sense when you consider that Sahara means "desert" and Avon means "river."

Germania comes from the roman words Gere Man, which means people from abroad and it focused to all people from abroad of the Roman Empire, also the Slavs. That is why there are many misunderstandings, which was German and what Slavic. In addition, Germans are called differently in different languages, depending on where the name was called out.

"Franc" isn't actually old fench. It is still used, meaning, well, "frank", but the meaning "free" is obsolete.

Fun fact: the reason Norwegian has two writing systems is because when Norway decided to develop its own writing system rather than using danish, two people started work on it. One person named Knut Knudsen decided to norwegianify the danish language, while Ivar Aasen decided to go around the entire county and turn the dialects into a written form

10:15 "This would be the same as calling England, London" ... Funny you should say that. That's actually the same as calling the UK, England.

The reason Norway has two writing systems is that they essentially write like Danish. So to distance their written language from Danish more they made an new system, apparently that hasn't taken hold universally in Norway for some reason.

i never thought about it but yeah osten is the german word for east so öster is just a morphed form of that with vowels often turning to umlauten in german when you do something with the word while richi just transformed with the word to reich, the problem is just that it really doesn't feels east of anything

if some american find the meaning port-port for portugal strange, "ville" is the french word for "town" or "city" so townsville in Lousiana means basicly towntown

Every Country: Has a historic and old reson for their name San Marino and Liechtenstein: "It's a Family!"

Voce tem videos em portugues?

I recently read that one of the tribes of Isreal, Dan, was a seafaring tribe. Although I have not done much research on it, it may seem that they travelled and populated parts of Scandinavia. When I saw the meaning of Denmark has to do with the tribe of Dani, it made me think of this.

15:14 The word Slav comes from "slovo", which means "word" in slavic languages. The Slavs are those, who can speak words (understandable for other slavs), while "niemec" ("German") means "the dumb one", i. e. one who can't speak a Slavic language.

Greeks: "Stop calling us Greece!" Norway: "Got your back, Hellas"

Hungarian here. So Magyar ( Hungarian) comes from the name of one of the brothers of the pair: Hunor and Magor. They were brothers. Hunor was the forefather of the Huns, Magor was the forefather of the Magyars. This " myth" is written down in our oldest chronicles the Chronicon Pictum ( képes krónika). According to myth, they both chased a magical deer. This deer symbol can be found in old Hungarian burials, and also in pre Hungarian burial grounds of the avars of pannonia..before the Hungarians came to the region. This is why we believe that we are also in connection with avars, and the huns, as they used the very same bows, and artifacts .. such as the magical deer, the turul bird... the bows...just search avar burial deer or hun burial deer, it is the very same artifact. 😅

little correction for Bulgaria (as a bulgarian myself), that it does NOT come from turkish words nor from Asia. Infact the first ever records where found in the Old Great Bulgaria, which was literally where Ukraine is today (mostly) (but this also doesnt mean we are ukrainian), which also came from the slavs, the word "bulgar" (as in our history) means "warrior" (somewhat). The articles you have read probably from Wikipedia are not correct enough. We know our history more but we are a few to tell it. And the thing that it came from Asia or the Turkic people is not right because we were one of the slavic tribes before we migrated to the Dunabe Bulgaria, thats why we had so much beefs with Byzantium, Ottoman empire and Turkey partially. if someone else thats bulgarian too, edit me if something is wrong

This is just a video about how influential the Romans were

Both in German and in Dutch, Belarus is still called white russia. "Port port" would honestly not be particularly surprising. Happens a lot when outsiders name things based on local names. For example, in the UK there's the river avon. Where "avon" is old welsh for "river". So it's "river river". I think it's mildly amusing, but also kinda obvious, that a lot of countries are basically called "our land" in same ancient tongue. Although there's also a lot that base it off the latin name for the local tribe, which also makes sense, given how much people idolized the romans in the past (and still kinda do).

Mons Vaticanum were the place where very ancient tribes (that later confedereted to make Rome) had their "vaticinii" A "vaticinium" is a "prophecy", a "forseight", a "prediction", from the words "vates" (diviner/forecaster) and the verb "cano" (to chant/sing/spell). This makes that hill alteady sacred thousands of years before the popes eventually went there

damn i love your videos but i still wonder why such a big channel has no one checkreading the text ... spelling errors should really be a nono and wrong borders are also always there (uk) but then maybe you do it knowingly to get more comments