I see why you did this specifically on this day.

@cromania100

4 жыл бұрын

Why?

@michaelheeheejackson7255

4 жыл бұрын

Vajled brexit

@cromania100

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelheeheejackson7255 Oh I thought that was tomorrow

@Johnstone_Studios

4 жыл бұрын

Is this going to be your only video with a sponsorship?

@eliasstenman3710

4 жыл бұрын

Jude Johnstone He has already made sponsored videos before.

Berlin wasn't just marshy a long time ago, it is still marshy today. Especially for a European city. A lot of areas have been drained to allow for construction, but there are many places, especially in the parks where you can walk along the ground and feel it's spongy nature from peat moss build-up over centuries. Flooding in the city, is not uncommon either.

@Arlae_Nova

4 жыл бұрын

"especially marshy for a European city". *Laughs in Dutch*

@sussekind9717

4 жыл бұрын

@@Arlae_Nova Salt marshes and reclaimed ocean. Not the same.

@lurogtheblack

4 жыл бұрын

Old Slavonic for Berlin iz Brljin, which means marshlands.

@hedgehog3180

4 жыл бұрын

It also explains something that puzzled me every time I visited the city, why you sometimes see pipes running above ground at street level and at the level of power lines. It's because in some parts of the city digging them down like is common elsewhere is either not possible or to difficult to do right now. It's also why much of Berlin's metro is actually at ground level and then everything above it is built one level higher.

@noelleggett5368

3 жыл бұрын

I thought Berlin was named after a jam donut! So many German towns seem to be named after food. 😜

Fun fact: In Poland exists legend explaining name of Warsaw (pl. Warszawa) it says that fisherman Wars fell in love in syren Sawa. That was a fact, now comes the fun part: Both Wars and Sawa are male names. It is common misconception because all female names end with -a, but some of uncommon male names also end with -a.

@joechill9747

4 жыл бұрын

Ha sound gay

@mrcocoloco7200

4 жыл бұрын

Gay!

@hugo57k91

4 жыл бұрын

Sava is a female name here

@jobda1211

4 жыл бұрын

@@hugo57k91 where? In Poland is definitely male (except of course the legend of Wars and Sawa😉)

@hugo57k91

4 жыл бұрын

@@jobda1211 Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"Over in North Macedonia we have the nation of Skopje". Certified bruh moment.

@Rubycek

4 жыл бұрын

He also had Baku wrong. It's on the coast.

@davidmihailovski5264

4 жыл бұрын

Kopje (in Skopje) in Maceodnian means spear 😊

@rad2310

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidmihailovski5264 Yeah I know, the had a bit about it on Zlatna Bubamara though I can't remember what year it was. It was legendary though.

@jasoni4090

4 жыл бұрын

Did he skip Montenegro?

@rad2310

4 жыл бұрын

@@jasoni4090 possibly

European capitals: Mostly they mean "Yet another piece of useless swampland". Can't farm on that so we might as well build a city on it.

@sirBrouwer

4 жыл бұрын

Well that was the case for most cities in general. all bigger cities are not do to the swamp but do to the river feeding that swamp. Water has always been the major factor for a town to be build and grow bigger.

@Vanalovan

4 жыл бұрын

They said I was daft to build a city in a swamp but I built it all the same just to show them!

@mikitz

3 жыл бұрын

Say hi to New York for me.

I played the "shots" game every time the origins of a capital name was unknown or unsure: I did not make it to the end of the video.

"c" in Slavic names is pronounced like "ts"

@yh7247

4 жыл бұрын

Eric Hawes and in West Flemish as a h

Also many slavic cities have different names in German. They were ruled for a long time by Prussia/Germany and Austria. Bratislava for example was called Preßburg and Königsberg became Kaliningrad. Maybe you could do a video about these German/Slavic mixture names. Their names could have interesting stories behind them. Greetings from Germany :)

@radio8029

4 жыл бұрын

I´m interested in that too. There are so many cities wich names got changed.

@if6814

4 жыл бұрын

Mangobonbon For example Berlin is a typical Slavic name

@ramunc2261

4 жыл бұрын

well that is true for many more languages,for example,the germans call Transylvania Siebenburgen and the Hungarians call it Erdely.

@caferustwat

4 жыл бұрын

Zagreb-Agram, all of the Polish cities have a German name.

@ramunc2261

4 жыл бұрын

@@caferustwat of course,since most of them have been under their ocupation for many,many years

Polish capital Warsaw, Warszawa in Polish, has a legend behind it. According to the legend the city was founded by 2 brothers Wars and Sawa and the city was named by joining their names together. Yes I know, not the most exciting legend but still an explenation!

@Dian_Borisov_SW

4 жыл бұрын

It's a great legend. It's like the slavic version of Romulus and Remus but with more brotherhood.

@karoljarocki4581

4 жыл бұрын

I was tought the reason why it is called Warszawa is because of Mermaid Szawa and a guy called War, which they maried and forming city of Warszawa

@lourencoalmada1305

4 жыл бұрын

So Rome but with less fratricide

@Ussurin

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the mermaid version was also the one I was taught in school. War found a mermaid Szawa on an isle on Vistula, fell in love and married her, then they build their house in the spot. Over time a village was created around this house and later city.

@DogDogGodFog

2 жыл бұрын

I was taught the mermaid version but with the guy being named Wars, not War

Another name for Helsinki is Helsingfors. "Helsing" means someone from Hälsingland and "fors" means river in Swedish :)

@harripursiainen5420

3 жыл бұрын

Actually it means rapid in Swedish, not river.

@TheLatokuivaaja

3 жыл бұрын

And the rapids being referred to are located in the Vantaa river where it meets the Vanhankaupunginlahti (lit. Old City Bay) where Helsinki was originally founded in 1550.

@monkofmayhem1373

Жыл бұрын

Is Helsingfors the official name for Helsinki? I was there last year for a few weeks and seem to remember it on a lot of signs.

@hysterikole1

2 ай бұрын

@@monkofmayhem1373 Its the Swedish name for Helsinki (they use both Swedish and Finnish there)

I hate to be that guy, but German "Bär" is pronounced nearly exactly like English "Bear". Love your videos, keep up the good work :)

@BurnBird1

3 жыл бұрын

pfft, you think those dots mean anything? All those foreign dots and lines are just European nonsense, done to make it look foreign. /s

@happytofu5

3 жыл бұрын

for maximum confusion: you can write the letter ä also as ae, if you don't have the key on your keyboard. which means that you can write "bär" as "baer" in german ;-p

How many of these cities have you been to? I think I've only been to 9. London, Dublin, Paris, Reykjavik, Berlin, Stockholm, Riga, Rome, and Amsterdam.

@cd1051

4 жыл бұрын

Dublin, Paris, Warsaw and Cork (only Irish people will get the last one) mup the people’s republic of Cork

@Gulitize

4 жыл бұрын

@Name Explain I couldn't find the name origin for Bern you claimed to be the same for Berlin. Berlin comes from the slavic berlo (swamp and so on) and Bern comes from the celtic berna (ravine, slit) none of them have germanic roots like you claimed. It would also be really strange for a city in the alps to have a slavic derived name.

@_Mr.Tuvok_

4 жыл бұрын

I heard, compared to us Yanks, Europeans leave their home country-vacation, business trips, etc.-much more often. True?

@Strav9

4 жыл бұрын

Lisbon Madrid Paris London Helsinki Stockholm Tallin Sarajevo Beograd

@astridw4737

4 жыл бұрын

I have only been to London and Rome on class trips, not even Berlin, even though I spent my entire life living in Germany

"A proud European citizen" *Hmmmmmmmm* You have 2 hours left *cough*

@gretep

4 жыл бұрын

Europe doesn’t equal the EU though. Norway isn’t in the EU, it’s still an European country

@tacosmexicanstyle7846

4 жыл бұрын

Grete Pihlak The EU calls its people ‘European citizens’. Europe outside the union is not a political entity; it doesn’t have citizens.

@tacosmexicanstyle7846

4 жыл бұрын

Brax09 I didn’t come here to argue about what the EU is intending to do. Your fear mongering uninformed opinion is of absolutely no interest whatsoever to me.

@LovelyAngel.

4 жыл бұрын

Brax09 What are you if not a European country? What continent do you belong to? What makes you not European? I think most of people in the world associate a lot of British stuff even as "the only thing they know about Europe", like the monarchy, the architecture, the etiquette, traditions, etc.

@elimalinsky7069

4 жыл бұрын

@Brax09 By your logic Japan isn't in Asia, and the Japanese are not Asians. The UK and Ireland are definitely European countries by every single criteria (apart from not actually being on the continent, but then again, Europe isn't really a continent in the geographic sense).

I went to Belgrade the other day, apparently, back in the days, there was a massive castle near River Danube. The castle walls were white, so when the sun was shining it was a bit blinding for people going to the city.

@mihailodiklic

4 жыл бұрын

I think you are talking about Kalemegdan 🇷🇸

@Ognjen20.

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Belgrade and every time I go to that kalemegdan castle I get lost hahahah

Bratislava sounds a lot like "brothers' glory" or something with honoring brother(s) in Slovak. If it's really the name of a leader, his name would most likely just be Bratislav.

@rafalch5530

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Polish and to me it sounds like something along the lines of "Slavic Brothers" Brati-Slava

@noelvyhnanek5951

4 жыл бұрын

That's definitely an option. How did I never notice that?

@MartinMizner

3 жыл бұрын

To be corect: It should be named Bratislav's town, but Bratislava is shortened and sounds better.

@nadieloves6627

3 жыл бұрын

When I visited Bratislava, I believe the tour guide said it was named after the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius, known as the "Apostles to the Slavs".

@noelvyhnanek5951

3 жыл бұрын

Boy I'm out here learning more about my city's name in the comments of a youtube video than years and years of living here :D

Belgrade is called Beograd in serbian and literally means Whitecity

@MartinMizner

3 жыл бұрын

-Grad, -Hrad it sometimes means fortress, sometimes city. Well most of the cities were found near well fortified places and that explains it.

@SidBlackheart

2 жыл бұрын

@@MartinMizner In Serbo-Croatian, 'grad' can only mean 'city' or 'town'.

Fun fact: in Russian the word saraj means "shed" and the suffix "-evo" is often used for naming a village named after a person or an object of some sort. From that perspective it always sounded funny to have the capital of Bosnia/Herzegovina be a village named after a shed, especially since a number of villages with that name actually exist in Russia.

btw fun fact: the German "bär" is pronounced almost the same as the English "bear" :) when I was in elementary school I always pronounced "bear" like "beer" but this lil fact helped me

Kazakhstan's capital was named Astana before they changed to Nur-Sultan Astana is kazakh for Capital City

Serbian viewers seeing this: *angry typing*

@strevortni

3 жыл бұрын

yeah he didn't talk about the lore behind the name pretty offended lol

Why wouldn't cyprus be in Europe if you include Armenia...😓

@hailgiratinathetruegod7564

4 жыл бұрын

Because the defination of europe. Europe border is defined by the caucasus mountains (even though I would say Armenia, unlike Georgia and Azerbaijan, it doesnt qualified). When while is Cyprus 100% part of asia. It is not only closest to asia, but on the same contiental shelf. (Which is how it is defiened to which continent Islands belong)

@sababugs1125

4 жыл бұрын

@@hailgiratinathetruegod7564 if we go with the Caucasus detention Georgia and Azerbaijan still have some European territories

@hailgiratinathetruegod7564

4 жыл бұрын

@@sababugs1125 yes, I only said Armenia does't fit in that defination

@sohaibnassar7059

4 жыл бұрын

Its also part of the eu

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

Armenia at the very least borders Europe, unlike Cyprus.

You should probably mention where the English names for capital cities differ from their names in the language of their countries. Vienna, for example, is actually Wien in German. A video on how English got it's names for foreign cities would be interesting!

@1258-Eckhart

Жыл бұрын

Vienna reached the English language via Romance-speaking merchants who had inculturated the word from the Germanic "Wenia" into "Vienna", so a vowel-shift forwards. So it's actually the same word.

Well-timed and well-played, sir. Kudos from America.

The map shown for Baku doesn't even include the location of the city.

@NameExplain

4 жыл бұрын

The maps and the locations of the cities within them are just for display purposes. Not very accurate at all I'm afraid.

@Gulitize

4 жыл бұрын

@@NameExplain I could also not find the name origin for Bern you claimed to be the same for Berlin. Berlin comes from the slavic berlo (swamp and so on) and Bern comes from the celtic berna (ravine, slit) none of them have germanic roots like you claimed. It would also be really strange for a city in the alps to have a slavic derived name.

@Grunk111

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gulitize Sneaky Mountain Slavs?

@QemeH

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gulitize There are about a million towns in the alps named after different words for ravine or crevice. I once lived in an area of austria where there were 4 towns called "Feistritz" within a one hour travel distance alone. This comes from the slavic "Bystrica", quite literally meaning "white water" (= rapids). In other countries this name got changed to Beszterce (Hungary), Wistritz (Silesia) or Bistritza (Czech Republic).

@aniratac19

4 жыл бұрын

@@NameExplain Also, why is the arrow pointing to Porto, in Portugal, and not to Lisbon? It´s slightly misleading... :-/

Great video as always! Love to see your notification across the screen. I am early, does Name Explain reply? :3

Very nice, I've always been curious as to how London and Berlin got its name

@BinglesP

2 жыл бұрын

Wow a comment from JSGwaM that doesn’t have thousands of likes

@lurji

2 жыл бұрын

get a life

7:28 The old name of the Kazakh capital was Astana. In Kazakh "Astana" means "Capital".

Bratislava is a new name. It was given to the city when Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart in 1918 and Czechoslovakia was born with Slovaks regaining statehood after a millenia of being part of Hungary, at the time many cities, towns and villages changed names. Bratislav is an actual human name, though barely used. Brat- brother , Slava -glory/fame , this applies to both Bratislav and Bratislava. When it comes to original name of Bratislava it depends on who you ask. Germans called it Preßburg, Hungarians called it Pozsony and Slovaks called it Prešporok. If i remember correctly both Pozsony and Prešporok are names that originate from a person, that is still not confirmed if even existed. That being a Great Moravian prince who lived in 10th century. He was 3rd son of King Svätopluk and brother to Mojmír II. and Svätopluk II. . When Svätopluk I. died his sons split Great Moravia between each other with Predslav gaining land of Prešporok/Pozsony for himself with the city bearing his name. Again this is disputable , as we cannot know for sure if Predslav even existed. Unfortunarely i dont know where does Preßburg come from with my best guess being that its the name Germans gave it based on the names Prešporok and Pozsony.

@MarioAtheonio

4 жыл бұрын

All the names that the city has had over the years could be a video of itself.

@kaloarepo288

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of Hungarian royalty is buried in Bratislava =and weren't the Hungarian kings crowned here at one stage?

@MarioAtheonio

4 жыл бұрын

Kalo Arepo I know Maria Theresa and a bunch of other Habsburgs were crowned there.

@kaloarepo288

4 жыл бұрын

@@MarioAtheonio I'm talking about the medieval Hungarian kings and not the time when Hungary was incorporated into the Habsburg Empire.It was one of their capitals then.

@davidroman4780

4 жыл бұрын

Kingdom of Hungary was formed by Magyars who conquered Duchy of Nitra (see Hungarian Coat of Arms, stripes - magyars , double cross - nitra) and Prešporok/Pozsony was indeed a coronational city, but Pest was always the capital , and Ostrihom/Ezstergom was the seat of the Arcbishop

I'm gonna tell you a legend about Skopje! The city itself has seven exits, much like the seven orphaces of a human head. It's said that a legendary hero wielding a spear killed a giant monster and where its skull lay the hero laid down to die too. He became the mountain of Vodno right next to Skopje and the name comes from "with a spear" - so kopje

From what I know as an ankarian (I live in Ankara :D) I heard the name Ankara comes from the ancient place of Ankyria which was a farming state or kind of country. Ankara doesn’t have any access to sea so anchor isn’t really a good guess lol

@Grunk111

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't it in ancient Galatia as well, which was founded by migrating celts? Ankara/ankyra might be older than Galatia though.

@emrecanarduc4378

4 жыл бұрын

@@Grunk111 galats were the tribe's name. Ankara's name comes from Angora - - >Ancyra-->Ankara

@emrecanarduc4378

4 жыл бұрын

But also it may Come from Ankruwa which is mean Temple of Anka (in Hittite)(most possiable one because this name is written in ancient Hittite tablet) . By the way Angora comes from Sun Language Theorem and it says name is originally comes form Altay area (in middle Asia)

@akinoz

4 жыл бұрын

Emrecan Arduç Sun language theory isn’t a scientific term.

Great video as usual, Patrick! Unfortunately, at 7:02 you've included the Inishowen peninsula in Northern Ireland. It's in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.

Well done !!

As far as I know Bratislava was called Prešporok before ww1 which derives from german Preßburg. After colapse of Austria-Hungary Slovaks just made new name for cit. Bratislava name is probably just a combination of 2 words Brat - brother Sláva/Slovan - Glory/Slavic

@comradesam3382

4 жыл бұрын

Could it also be brother and glory? I know that in my language slava is glory

@standooostandooo9195

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it could be a “Brothers Glory” or “Slavic Glory”...

@anxietyattaxk

4 жыл бұрын

Bratislava is called ‘Pozsony’ in Hungarian, who ruled above the city for a long-long time.

@standooostandooo9195

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the name “Pozsony” as you suggest was just another name of city enforced by hungarian politics during national suppresion of nations libing in Hungary (hungarization/magyarizatio) The name itself was just a derification of Preßburg or in slovak Prešporok. I did a little research and found out that apart greek/latin name Istropolis the name of city come from slavic “Braslavъ” (written in 9. century reconstructed medieval slavic/slovak form) from which the name Bratislava may come from...

@standooostandooo9195

4 жыл бұрын

Polish Hero Witold Pilecki what are you talking about?

Hey, Name Explain I’ll help you with the East Slavic capital names. Belarus- Minsk; The common Slavic “isk” suffix is basically the same as English “ish” and designates affiliation. The affiliation is to the river it stands on, “Menya” which comes from the protobaltoslavic root for little. The English cognate would be “Mini”. It was named so because it’s a smaller tributary branch of the Ptich River. Russia- Moscow Basically carries the name of the river it stands on, the Moscow River. The word Moscow is most likely from protobaltoslavic origin as well, from “Muzg” meaning damp, wet, bogy place. The English cognate is probably “marsh” Ukraine- Kiev Either the legend is true and it literally named after a legendary tribal chieftain Kiy, making it literally “Kiys (town/settlement/place)” If true then in that sense Kiy is an ancient word for Staff/Rod. If legend is not true then it can come from the Ukrainian word “Kyiava” meaning steep hill. Hope than answered the unknowns

@thelist3253

4 жыл бұрын

So, to simplify Minsk means Little-ish Moscow means Marsh Kiev is literally Kie’s Kie means staff Right?

@ilvibos3512

4 жыл бұрын

The List, Yes exactly

@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540

4 жыл бұрын

I do wish he'd reach out to his subscribers more rather than trying to guess the pronunciations himself.

@ilvibos3512

4 жыл бұрын

Just Beyond The Corner Productions yeah! Usually I like his stuff but I felt this one was poorly researched. Belgrade means white fort/city not white ford. Bratislava is not named after a chief but it was renamed to Bratislava after Slovakia separated from Austria. It’s literally two words put together Brothers + Slav. And there’s more in Slavic Etymology I feel he got wrong

@dushmanmardom

4 жыл бұрын

I've read that Minsk could come from old slavic root, that nowadays transformed into menyat(sa) meaning to trade, as it was a place of trade, but dunno.

The name Riga comes from a river that used to flow through old Riga called "rīdze".

Always creative with your video ideas. I got one. How about the city of Damascus. It is pretty old so it should prove challenging.

Kyiv is short for "Kyiv hrad", meaning "Kyi's town", where Kyi is the legendary founder.

@DogDogGodFog

2 жыл бұрын

In Polish it's 'Kijów' and that means either 'The town of the long sticks' or 'The town that belongs to the Kijs' or 'The town that belongs to the long sticks' lol

You made a mistake: Vella is not town, it's Old, so it's not Andorra thw town, it's Andorra the old.

@ivanmacias9603

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, it does mean Andorra The Town. The problem is, in Catalan, the terms evolved over time so now people think it means Andorra The Old, but that "Vella" used to mean "Town" back in the days, like "Villa" today.

The podgorica one actually mazed me, I actually can't believe that I didn't realise that until now.

So much for Name Explain saying in the Americas video he had never once referred to himself as European.

@winstonc.6951

4 жыл бұрын

Fake European "nationalism" at it's worst. It's cringy and takes so much away from the amazing individual cultures of Europe.

@LordDim1

4 жыл бұрын

Winston C. But who wouldn’t feel nationalism and pride towards faceless bureaucrats in Brussels? They’re so inspiring!

4:02 why did you take away Bosnia's coast?

@mrcocoloco7200

4 жыл бұрын

Because ahhhhh :] I don't know.

@Fauntleroy.

4 жыл бұрын

Was Bosnia even using it, though?

@hugo57k91

4 жыл бұрын

@@Fauntleroy. it's the only coastal city and is huge for tourism. So yes

@mrcocoloco7200

4 жыл бұрын

@@Fauntleroy. Yeah I'm pretty sure they do. You know for the Beaches and Tourism.

@Grunk111

4 жыл бұрын

Your coastline is unfortunately within the margin of error.

Hi Patrick!

About Kyiv, Ukraine: According to a legend, East Slavs founded Kyiv in the 5th century. The legend of Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv speaks of a founder-family consisting of a Slavic tribal leader Kyi, the eldest, his brothers Schek and Khoriv, and also their sister Lybid, who founded the city. Kyiv is translated as "belonging to Kyi" or as "Kyi's place".

9:21 That arrow is pointing to Ahrnem? x'D This is hilarious to me since I used to constantly switch up The Hague and Ahrnem as a child.

9:45 "Over in Macedonia we have the nation of Skopje"?

@Teoishere777

4 жыл бұрын

Hawaii 5O !!! correction !!! “Over in south Serbia we have the nation of Skopje” 😁

@sskspartan

4 жыл бұрын

@@Teoishere777 Bulgaria *

@davidmihailovski5264

4 жыл бұрын

Theodore Papagiannidis Nemoj se blamirat, molim te 🙄!

@davidmihailovski5264

4 жыл бұрын

sskspartan Мoля, спрете наистина 🙄

@davidmihailovski5264

4 жыл бұрын

Btw, Kopje (in Skopje) in Macedonian means spear 😊

Cyprus is in both Europe and Asia but it is in the EU and Eurozone so I’d count it, as a country it feels more European then Asian personally

Bratislava was called this way after Czechoslovakia's foundation back in 1918. To that day it was called Poszony (in Hungarian) or Pressburg in German. It had many presses for wine, so maybe it was called after that. The name Bratislava was created because we wanted everything to be cut from the former monarchy and thus we created this slavic name. In fact back in 9 or 10 century one of the first settlements in this area was called Braslav after some slavic ruler Braslav. In Greek, it is also called Istropolis, like Istro = Danube and polis = city

nice mate, obrigado

andorra la vella is pronounced as andorra la "veya" rather then "vela" and it acc means "andorra the old one"

@PRDreams

4 жыл бұрын

Does the rr makes a single r sound, a "Spanish" double r sound, or a different sound altogether? Always wanted to ask.

@maxpuente6291

4 жыл бұрын

@@PRDreams strong sound. in catalan when r goes alone it makes a subtle sound similar to english one even subtler but when r is at the beginning of the word or is doubled rr it makes strong "spanish" sound

@PRDreams

4 жыл бұрын

@@maxpuente6291 thanks!

I suspect a little treason.

I love your pronounciation of word zagrabi (Im Croat) and the legend goes a bit diffrently...One day a knight came back from war, he traveld a long way and was very thirsty.He asked a girlif she could give him some water so he can drikn it.She came down to very small lake and zagrabila water into the bucket..Her name was Marina or Martina and the fountain which is now standing on that same place has her name.Great video

In Maltese the capital Valletta (spelt with two Ls unlike in the video) is simply referred to as il-belt (the city) 😊

10:01 WHAT!? The name of "Warszawa" comes from the fisherman named "Wars" and mermaid named "Sawa" who fell in love and married living happily and long. Around their home small fishing village arose named "Warszawa" (Warsaw in English, because apparently Polish "sz" being identical to English "sh" was too hard to keep with English crazy spelling, or something.), which later grew "a little". Then was almost completely destroyed by Germans, but eventually rebuilt. Yeah, I know the history of Wars and Sawa is a legend, but the same is a history of Romulus and Remus!

@Patryk128pl

4 жыл бұрын

Also "war" in Polish is "wojna". I know in English you can split Warsaw into "war saw", but in Polish it would be "wojenna piła", or "wojna widziana", so it doesn't make any freaking sense.

@chloroplast8611

4 жыл бұрын

@@Patryk128pl YEAH!!! HE PRONOUNCED BUDAPEST WRONG TOO!!!! HUNGARIAN AND POLISH BROTHERS UNITE!!!!!

@azuregriffin1116

4 жыл бұрын

@@Patryk128pl I love Polish, as a language. And also, us Brits are given almost no worthwhile foreign language education, so we're not used to re-thinking how we should pronounce stuff. German, in my opinion, is fairly simple, yet most Brits would cringe away from trying to pronounce Mädchen because it looks weird, when it is simple 'maid' (in a Yorkshire accent), h as in 'human', and a simple 'un' sound as in "station" or "vacation." English phonetics are stupid.

Finally, someone actually including the Caucasus when talking about Europe

Fun video! PLEASE do the same video for Asia and Africa!

Actually, Budapest isnt only made up of Buda and Pest, its also Óbuda, which is old Buda

As for Stockholm, the stakes were put in the bay, used for defense against pirates and as a way to collect toll.

@reptilezsweden

4 жыл бұрын

Tripple meaning: Stock = Log (tree trunk) 1. Logriders used this area to transport timber "stockar" 2. Stakes made from "stock" was put in the waterbed in a defensiv measure 3. A lot of the islands were expanded by also putting "stockar" in the waterbed and filling in the areas in between (this being the modern official reason for the name Stockholm I believe)

3:28 "🎼In the way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me🎼" Bohimian Raphsody-Queen

Tallinn is a very beautiful city that's very much worth a visit. Spent a week there last summer and it was really fun

You should do a video like this on other continents, like South America or Asia

As always awesome video! Love your content! Only one small, but important correction that I would like to suggest as a Ukrainian. You missplled Kyiv. A bit of insight, it is actually somewhat of a controversial topic since Kiev is the Russian version of our city's name, while Kyiv is in Ukrainian, but since we are not on really good terms with Russia nowadays, it's much more respected to write Kyiv and that 's the official name of our city since Ukrainian is the only official language in Ukraine. Besides that, you are indeed correct, I would say you could have been 100% certain about the origin of this name since your "probable version" is true, it indeed derives from the name of one of the founders of the city and his name was Kyi. (Кий) of course nobody knows for sure, but it's the most accepted version. Again, awesome video I understand that you are probably not aware of every tiny detail and controversy of each European state, so no worries.

There are going to be hate comments saying the UK is not part of Europe

@jaspervankruijssen4916

4 жыл бұрын

But it is.. The EU and Europe are two different things.

@tinyupes

4 жыл бұрын

No because the UK is on an island

@middler5

4 жыл бұрын

What continent is it in then?

@jaspervankruijssen4916

4 жыл бұрын

@@tinyupes by that logic Ireland and Iceland aren't part of Europe either. Nor would Indonesia and japan be in Asia. And whole Oceania are basically just a bunch of islands

@turkoositerapsidi

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaspervankruijssen4916 +

I am from Round Rock. There is a large round rock in the creek in the middle of town. Round Rock is called the "Sports Capital of Texas". You can all sleep easy now with this important knowledge.

In the past I have tried to ascertain the etymology of the city of Rome -Roma.One theory and it sounds plausible is that it comes from STROMA -referring to the river(Tiber)on which it is built and from the root word rhe which means to flow and is related to such words as stream and strom and indeed to rheumatism,diarrhoea and to names of other European rivers like the Rhine,Rhone,the Reno(Bologna) and the Strymon in Greece.

10:45 Belgrade doesn't mean white fort, it means white city.

@angeloreyes1951

4 жыл бұрын

That is not correct, the original meaning of the old slavic word grad means fort/fortress, which makes sense because cities back then were essencially just forts with or without markets outside of it, I am also a serb so don't @ me saying I don't know shit. Later on it changed its meaning from fort to city. en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gord%D1%8A

@SlobodanKunst

4 жыл бұрын

@@angeloreyes1951 *gȏrdъ m[1][2][3] fortification, castle town, city Your source says it also means town, city. I'm from Belgrade. All of my life I've only heard that it refers to the word City, not Fort. The name of the Belgrade fort is Kalemegdan.

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

@@SlobodanKunst: "All of my life I've only heard that it refers to the word City, not Fort." I guess it could be semantic drift meaning it may have been used to mean "fort" far in the past but now has the meaning "city".

@angeloreyes1951

4 жыл бұрын

@@seneca983 yep, that's what I said, old meaning: fort; new meaning:city Whether or not mr.Kunst only heard it as in the context of meaning "city" is irrelevant, since most people are not linguists, kalemegdan is the turkish name for the fort which is alsp irrelevant since the fort existed ( although rebuilt multiple times ) long before the turks even saw Belgrade. Belgrade bore this name long before mass migration, even before the city had 20.000 people, so the term grad most likely refered to a fort rather than a city.

@Rubycek

4 жыл бұрын

In Russian город means town, крепость means fort. In Czech hrad is fort and město means town.

Andorra la vella doesnt mean andorra the town, it means andorra the old

Think this is the first time anyone has called Blackpool interesting, also, Wales capital Cardiff, comes from the Welsh ‘caer’ meaning fort & ‘taf’ meaning river, as the city was founded when Cardiff Castle was built next to the river that runs through the area

So glad to see you're doing more fast-paced videos with lots of content for a change. You could have made 30 10 minute videos blabbering about one city at a time like you usually do, but you didn't. I really appreciate it.

9:46 - I'm not sure is calling Skopje a nation is a mistake or just you acknowledging it for the city-state that it is.

@AudibleAnarchist1

4 жыл бұрын

10:54 - also 'Bratislava' basically means something the slavic version of 'the town of brotherly love'.

@Rubycek

4 жыл бұрын

@@AudibleAnarchist1 but slav could also be the origin. It just recently clicked for me "Slovan" Is from word slovo (word), I just never thought about it before. And other countries calling our slavs is probably our name often end in slav, It along with our languages is our most common trait. (Jaroslav, Miroslav, Stanislav, Desislav, Boleslav, ... Thats literally all I can think of in Czech? Wow

00:50 "The nation of europe"

@davidmihailovski5264

4 жыл бұрын

Fredrik Wolf And the "nation" of Skopje as well 😂

Love the way you tried to pronounce S'gravenhage

Riga comes from Rīdzene/Rīdziņa, a river that used to run through the old city.

@Dragoninja26

2 жыл бұрын

Replying to this mainly for a futile effort to get this up higher (reason I went to comments was to look for a comment like this, only found 2, disappointingly this one had no likes, the other was less accurate but had 2), but also to add that (from what I've learned about this) at the time people didn't know what the consequences would be, so the river was filled with trash and became smelly and disgusting, that's why it was gotten rid of, always thought it was really unfortunate this happened to the river

I don’t get why people say they are proud to be European or they say that they are European before being British for example. I’ve never understood that, the only thing that I would say is European about me is my race. But even then that means nothing.

@xboxgamerhr

4 жыл бұрын

Family nation race others That's obviously how it goes From most important to least

Rome is probably not named after Romulus, he's most likely named after the city to explain it's origin. The origins of the name are unclear, but may derive from the Greek (ῥώμη, meaning 'strength'), the Etruscan (𐌓𐌖𐌌𐌀, meaning 'teat') or the word Rumon/Ruman (which is an old name for the river Tiber).

The wooden stakes in stockholm were not used "throughout the city". They were a kind of underwater contraptions for naval defense of the city and used throughout the surrounding archipelago and it's many waterways.

6:56 it was from the Steamed clams they're having!

Skip to 2:03.

It would be nice if you pronounced Copenhagen in either English or Danish. Not German please. I can hear you've tried to pronounce the capitals closest to their native language, but the way you pronounced Copenhagen was in German, like this: Kopenhagen, when in Danish it is this: København. København is not even close to Kopenhagen (in terms of pronunciation). I'm only writing this comment, because I know there is a chance you'll read it, and not do the same thing in the future. A friendly reminder from a Dane. We aren't Germans.

@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, he's mispronounced Irish place names before. I know how you feel.

@havedalDK

4 жыл бұрын

@@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 Yeah, but but at least he didn't pronounce it in another language that isn't English

10:00 I’m polish and Theres a polish legend that Warsaw was named after some dude called Wars (vars) and a mermaid called Sawa (Sava) who he found in the Vistula river and married, hence the polish name for the city Warszawa

Actually the reason why Polands Capital is called Warszawa(Warsaw) because of the legends were a guy called War, and he has fallen in love with a mermaid called Szawa and started making their or city called Warszawa

Do How did the capitals of Asia got their names

@ijmillares9005

4 жыл бұрын

rigas KL can be by parts since asia is a huge continent

@David-qq9bk

4 жыл бұрын

Fairy of Oz asia has about the same number of countries as europe

@ijmillares9005

4 жыл бұрын

My bad, you're right crazy to think a small continent like Europe has roughly the same number of countries as asia

@David-qq9bk

4 жыл бұрын

Fairy of Oz yeah, cause european countries are REALLY small when compared to asian countries.

Warsaw has this legend about Wars and Sawa from whose names the city's name was created. There are two versions of this legend, one where Wars and Sawa, a fisherman and his wife found, saved and allowed lost prince to sleep in their house. In the morning he said that land near their house should be called "Warszawa". Secon version (less believable tho) is about Wars, young fisherman who had caught mermaid called Sawa.

Bern being called after a marsh is rather improbable. The city sits on a high rocky promontory in a loop of the river Aare. Still might be called after the land below, of course.

10:47 It probably had white limestone walls in the medieval times. There's a city in Romania with a similar etymology to it's name: Alba Iulia. It's medieval name was Bâlgrad, meaning white fort in old Slavonic, due to the white walls of the city(built out of nearby white limestone). This was translated to Alba, meaning white in Romanian with the second part of the name coming from a roman settlement present on that location in antiquity

9:11 you pronounced it podgoriKa, actually it's, podgoriTZa, theres Ts like in pizza

Proud European citizen until Midnight UTC+1, then you'll be a proud British citizen

@turkoositerapsidi

4 жыл бұрын

Britain still europe even if its not EU, doesnt matter EU isnot same as Europ.

@letnjiznoj

4 жыл бұрын

@@turkoositerapsidi woooosh

@turkoositerapsidi

4 жыл бұрын

@@letnjiznoj jooooogh

@letnjiznoj

4 жыл бұрын

@@turkoositerapsidi you fell for the joke and later are telling me I missed the joke ??????

@turkoositerapsidi

4 жыл бұрын

@@letnjiznoj You didnt get it?

How about creating videos about history of cities name in each European Countries. You can make it into series...

The Slovakian capital of Bratislava was named after a village which used to exist under the castle. The village was called Braslava, named after its ruler, which lived in the castle, Braslav

Pointing to Porto on the map when talking about Lisbon 😐

Thanks for the video but 11:50 really bro? "Ancarla" Please stop trying to pronounce tapped r's

@Stakker

4 жыл бұрын

Pemze same with Tirana. Sure he said Tilana

11:20 stock can also mean log, and there is also a legend about the name. Supposedly some people hid their treasure in a log that they let float away after Sweden's old capital Sigtuna was destroyed, and then they found the log again and decided to found a city there

Good job at pronunciating Ljubljana!

The Netherlands do NOT have two capitals. They just have one: Amsterdam

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

The Hague is a de facto capital in the sense that the government is located there.

@semboersen2632

4 жыл бұрын

@@seneca983 never heared anyone ever mentioning den hague as a "kind of" capitail or anywhere close to thay...

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

@@semboersen2632: I've often seen descriptions like that. When people talk about capital cities, generally they think of a city that functions as the seat of the government and not merely a city that's given an arbitrary legal label without much practical implications.

@QemeH

4 жыл бұрын

The Hague is the seat of the dutch king, the supreme court, the cabinet and many more important institutions both dutch and international (e.g. EUROPOL) - however, technically (and do we not love nitpicks here?) it's not even a city. The difference between towns and cities is obsolete in the Netherlands for a looong time now, but before it became irrelevant "Den Haag" did not recieve city status. I don't know if this is the reason for it not being the capital, but the dutch constitution specifically names Amsterdam the capital city of the kingdom.

There are government institutions in Bonn so technically Germany has two capitals.

@parmentier7457

4 жыл бұрын

《Delta》 While in Amsterdam there are no political institutions at all. The Dutch parliament, supreme court, royal family and foreign embassies are all located in The Hague.

@SantomPh

4 жыл бұрын

there is no "technical". The official capital is Berlin.

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the government functions had already been moved to Berlin.

Interesting enough. Dublin is named after the Irish Dubh Linn but Dublin in Irish is actually Baile Átha Cliath (something along the lines of shield town)

Might say this wrong but lets do this Legend goes that one day a fisherman named war was fishing in the Vistula river and while fishing he encountered a mermaid named szawa in which they fell in love with each other and decided to found a city? (don't really know in that part) named warszawa

"Lisbon" *points at southern part of Oporto*

@legrandpastille1127

4 жыл бұрын

"tomai todos e comei" xD

@MajBe

4 жыл бұрын

@@legrandpastille1127 what?

British: i’m a proud European citizen Liberals: how dare you

In the Netherlands we don't view The Hague as one of two capitals of the country (it is the capital city of the province South-Holland though), but just as a city that happened to be the seat of government. Amsterdam is, by constitution, our one and only national capital. Article 32 of the Dutch constitution mentions that "the King shall be sworn in and inaugurated as soon as possible in the capital city, Amsterdam"

It's funny how Gustovo's word typo from Big Time Rush on Brussels and brussel sprouts came out after watching this. XD