Post-script comments: - Some people in the comments pointed out that I mistakingly referred to the tribe of Krivics as Finnic whilst they were Slavic. Please note that I am unable to edit these videos after they've been uploaded, the best thing I can do is make these post-script comments. - I get a few comments on this video and others pushing a narrative that because the modern word "Slave" stems from "Slav", this means that Eastern Europeans were enslaved by vikings. It is true that eastern europeans were taken as thralls to Scandinavia(along with Celts, Southern Europeans), and sold as slaves to the Caliphate. This is not where the modern word "Slave" comes from. It comes from Venetians buying Slavic prisoners from the Balkans and Bohemia and selling them as slaves to the Muslims. In this period and even later, it was common to refer to slaves by their ethnic identity. "I bought a group of Slavs", "I bought a group of negroes", etc. Because Slavs made up the majority of Venetian-sold slaves, the word became synonymous with "indentured servant" in the western world. It has nothing to do with the vikings and their trade with the muslims, who didn't really distinguish between any fair-skinned slaves, referring to anyone from Francia to Rus' as "Saqaliba". The word Slav itself seems to be Slavic in origin and seems to mean "glory" among other things.

@leotka

2 ай бұрын

Slava means Glory. Not a Slave. This is a reason for greeting Slava to Ukraine and answer Slava to the Heroes.

@HBon111

2 ай бұрын

Saqaliba is derived from Slav though...

@kentchamberlain5720

2 ай бұрын

I wonder if "Saqaliba" implies some kind of connection between the Slavs and the Scythians, and for that matter maybe even the Saxons. Lots of dudes related to proto-Indo-Europeans started having words with "S" and "K" meaning bladed weapons in their names all at the same time and I have to wonder if.

@williammkydde

2 ай бұрын

@1 Saqaliba sounds like derived from the Latin "Sclavus". This is where the -q- sound comes from.

@williammkydde

2 ай бұрын

Does the term "Salawiya" used by muslim travelers refer then to the Slavs, as opposed to the "Rus", who were most likely Scandinavians? I read a description of a raid on Constantinople, where the raiding was made of the Rus AND the Slavs as 2 distinct components. BTW, while "slava" does mean glory, "slovo" means "word", and in most Slavic languages the self-name for "Slav" is spelled with an -o-: e.g. Slovenia; Slovakia; "Sloveni" (serbian and croatian for "Slavs"), slowianie (Polish). slovjany (ukrainian). It makes more sense that the Slavs would describe themselves as "people of the word/speech", bc they spoke an "intelligible language", unlike the surrounding (Germanic or other), who spoke "unintelligible languages" and were called "Nemci" ("mute / dumb ones"). The stem "-slav-" is proper only to the Russian and the Bulgarian languages. The "glory" version, based PERHAPS on the Russian-Muscovian pronunciation, may be a later ideological rationalization - especially to push back against the Western/Latin equation between "Slav" (sclavus) and "Slave" (sclavus).

I will never understand why people are always surprised by the interactions between Turks, Slavs and Norse. They are literal neighbors living side by side since forever! Stop acting like Turks came from outer space all of a sudden.

@RabidPancakeDisorder

Ай бұрын

It's because most people put an imaginary border between them. Turks are closer to Mongols, China, Ottomans, Abbasids, etc. than they are to Scandinavians, Balkaners, Eastern and Southern Europeans, all of this is just in most people's heads and not reality. People put this imaginary ocean between them. In reality all of these people mixed. Its poor schooling.

Im Swedish. We still have places here named after the Rus. Example Roslagen witch is a place here. It means The Rus law. So they are from here close to stockholm

@daneaxe6465

2 ай бұрын

In my years of part time study, I found a short account of how Vikings/Norse from Bornholm, Oland, Gotland and plus more from the Swedish coast and north German coast, gathered together to move into Slavic land to govern them. I have strong roots from Bornholm and Skane so the story seemed to made sense why I had have remnants of DNA in the Ukraine, especially Kiev and western Ukraine.

@Manuka-px2pe

2 ай бұрын

İf the ancient Rus were swedish tribes, which tribe are the current swedes from, which germanic tribes?

@magnusnilsson9792

2 ай бұрын

@@Manuka-px2peSome of the Rus returned to Sweden knows as Svear(returners) Svear founded Svealand and allied/conquered västra(west) & öster(east) -götaland. Hence the 3 crowns the hockeyteam and a castle wields. Sweden is in Swedish "Sverige" which is short for "Svea Rike" (=Kingdom of Svea)

@alexzero3736

Ай бұрын

The word Ros just means Red, not Rus. In opposite the word Rus derived from Ros. Rusy/Russkiy are basically Red people. ( color of skin).

@magnusnilsson9792

Ай бұрын

@@alexzero3736depends on how you divide the word: Ro-slagen (slog sig till ro = settled to calmness) ro = row /stillness/peace/calm. Ros-lagen = Law of the rose.

Turkic and Nordic runes are also similar. Also İlmen (the lake) is a Turkish word. İlmen literally means shiny (and flat like a glass).

@VladislavKobzarev

Ай бұрын

Actually it is very interesting topic. I studied the turkic runes a bit, espescially Orkhon-Yenisey script, and as far as I know, there is no actual connection between it and the germanic runes. There are actually more differences between them, then simularities. Their similar angular shape is simply explained by the fact that they were both carved in stone. And if we're talking about the word "ilmen", I know turkish language, but I have found only one questionable source in turkish language with your information. Other "ilmen" words that I found were of arabic origin and had completely different meaning. Anyway, none of the popular etymologies of the İlmen lake connects the origin of the word with the Turkic languages.

@yuzemir

20 күн бұрын

@@VladislavKobzarev Look at that coincidence, I know both Turkish and Arabic. Arabic is a language that absorbs the words of foreign languages. Just because this word is used in Arabic does not mean that it is Arabic. Also, there is no original Arabic vowel "i" What you wrote didn't make sense to me and I started researching. For example, the Uighurs living in Xinjiang, China, are of Turkish origin and use Arabic letters even today. The use of Arabic letters may also cause you to think it is Arabic. This is the case in Ottoman Turkish; Turkish words are actually written in Arabic. This may be why you think that what you find in the texts is Arabic. ایلمن is the Arabic writing form of this word. And it only appeared in an Ottoman source. (I couldn't read what it meant in the Ottoman source). The word (ﻋﻠﻤﺎً) is completely Arabic and means knowledge and science. The pronunciations seem to be the same, but they are not. The reason why it is read like this is Turkish sources. Turks can read and write the letter 'ع' like the letters "a,ı,i". For example, the name 'ali' is originally an Arabic word. It does not start with 'ا', which corresponds to the letter 'a'. As it seems, it starts with the letter 'ع' in Arabic, and in fact, even its pronunciations are completely different.

@veronicalogotheti1162

7 күн бұрын

Runes are greek

Rus is also described as short term for "men that rows", used by the Finns to describe Sweden "Routsi", Sweden also stems for the word "Svear" which means returners. Roslagen (a place in Sweden) is therefore the probable place for were theses returners (Svear) came ashore.

@user-yi7fl3br7u

Ай бұрын

Still, it's very strange, let's call ourselves rowers, or even more so the Finns call us rowers, let's redo this word into Rus

I listened to lectures by a Russian historian who adheres to the Nordic version of the emergence of Rus'. To describe it briefly, it indicates that somewhere near Novgorod, there was a trading city where Slavs, Finns and Nords lived, they had no division into Slavs, etc., they lived together and the main way of earning money was trade. Mainly with the Persians and Greeks, since they had silver. They mainly sold furs and slaves, even some of their own. Naturally, they knew how to fight and could be mercenaries. So, the professor believes that the name Rus came from this particular piece of land. The surviving names of Finns and Swedes for rowers indirectly confirm this, as far as I understand. Sorry if my english is bad im Russian. He told many more interesting things, but I can't rewrite the whole lecture. For example about how the Slavs and Finns were similar in life and faith and that they could live with each other without fighting, so they mixed in the northern part of Russia and, according to DNA, this is still the case. That there was a ritual of twinning, where people drank from a horse-shaped vessel where they mixed blood with honey. Both the Slavs and Finns had the horse as a totem. I think the Nords also had such a ritual. This also easily explains why Rurik was summoned, although he is not *ours*. Because the people who lived there did not divide into Swedes and Slavs, Rurik was their own, familiar to them. And the tradition of conscription itself is purely Slavic. In short, this is its essence. In times of peace, the oldest and wisest became the leader. And in times of war, the warrior with the largest squad became the main one. More precisely, he was hired for a while, he was paid for it. But why should he give power back? Or maybe the war simply never ended. It is worth understanding that in the old days the Slavs, although they spoke the same language, lived first in families, then in tribes, then in principalities. and they did not have a single state and everyone could fight against each other.

@dennisburt4614

Ай бұрын

Thanks i always enjoy learning from people that have not been forcefed the western indoctranation of history

Very interesting! Your videos are so well researched and the information is put together in a very understandable and easy to listen way, it's alway well worth the wait and a great joy to notice that new one has came up! Thank You!

Great video, thank you for sharing.

The Krivichi tribe was not Finnic, but Slavic. To this day the Russians are called Krievs in Latvian language.

@krono5el

Ай бұрын

i still think they're all the same from iberia to the black sea : P

@user-ik6oc2un7r

Ай бұрын

Krivichi most likely were baltic tribe in the early medieval but later became balto-slavic mix

Great timing, I just checked if you'd uploaded anything👍

@balticempire7244

2 ай бұрын

welcome welcome please enjoy

Thanks for the video, keep making content

@balticempire7244

2 ай бұрын

thank you lighthouse man will do

My new favorite history youtuber.

Very interesting video! This(Rus origins)has been my new favorite ancient history topic of the moment, so i really enjoyed watching

@TTFerdinand

Ай бұрын

If you're interested, keep on digging. In Estonia we've discovered several Viking sites and it's becoming ever more clear that we were also Vikings although it's not widely known. Maybe you've heard of the Varangian Guard, the Viking elite guard of the Byzantine emperors. The Middle Latin term for the Vikings was "varangus". We have places that go at least a thousand years back, named "Varangu". Coincidence? Not likely.

excellent content

There was a route from Dnipro to Azov via tributaries There are pretty tough white waters on the lower Dnipro

Wow great video, had no idea about this

Great idea to make another dedicated video

When did the Krivichi become a Finnish tribe?The Krivichi have always been a Slavic tribe.

@uncleobscurenobody8861

2 ай бұрын

Oh yeah? Were you there?

@leotka

2 ай бұрын

Russian anthropologists recognized Krivich people as slavinised Finns. There was enough info on Internet about this, same as Vyatich tribe.

@imperskiikulak446

2 ай бұрын

@@leotka Ну тебе то с Окраины это лучше знать.

@leotka

2 ай бұрын

@@imperskiikulak446 Окраина у финов - райна, край, граница. В украинском языке ака руськом, нет такого слова. У нас окраина это Кресы или Кордон. Только московиты используют чужие языки, потому что своего нет. Финские и тюркские племена выучили старо-болгарский язык, но не до конца, потому что значение многих слов не поняли. Во всех славянских языках, например, урода значит красота, а у вас прямо противоположное, вместо око - глаз, и т.д.

@imperskiikulak446

2 ай бұрын

@@leotka А у Поляков от куда взялось такое слово?Причем несущее такой же смысл.Вы там у себя на Оркаине совсем умом тронулись.Причем слово Кордон у нас в России тоже используется до сих пор,и это слово ни просто взято от куда то,а употреблялось к примеру моим дедом лет тридцать назад в деревне.

It’s curious to me that I don’t know about the eastern Vikings until a couple years ago.

@balticempire7244

2 ай бұрын

yes very underrated his

@Lasstpak

2 ай бұрын

Movie The Northman kind of describes the connection between Rus' and Vikings. Also great movie (IMHO)

@uranusismightybig5111

2 ай бұрын

Nothing in school?

@neloglass

2 ай бұрын

@@uranusismightybig5111 everything you her lately are inventions. They really do not have any documentation on all they talk about.

@davidstevenson9517

Ай бұрын

In the 1970s, New Zealand state schools NEVER taught History. Back then, I could only learn via public libraries (since 1974, aged of 10).

"With a sprinkle of bullcrap," how scholarly...

Very good. Thank you .

im boosted, here's my comment :3 bra jävla content broder

Отличный разбор! Я удивлён качеству.

7:29 have heard this name indicates they were river rowers, as in a norweigan seafarer enterprise that went continental. There are stories of this type

Great video. My grandfather on my mother's side was Haitian -Creole, never knew exactly what the term entails but now I do.

Many historians call the Russian khaganate a "historiographical phantom". Neither Russians nor Bulgars or Alans have ever called themselves Kagans. Kagan (Khaan) is a Turkic-Mongolian word that appeared after the invasion of the Mongol Oghuzes in the Slavic lands. Russians called their rulers Tsar, Knyaz or Voivode. The Mongol Oghuzes had no analogues to these words, except for the word kagan, so the word kagan sometimes appears in the Golden Horde chronicles in relation to the rulers of Russians, Finno-Ugrians or Scandinavians. In general, in the early Byzantine annals, the Tauroscythians were often called Russes, even before the arrival of the Vikings in these territories.

@ponos8632

Ай бұрын

Yes, also "vladyka" or ruler

@OKay-ox3kh

Ай бұрын

Exactly

@theblueskyisstolensunlight

Ай бұрын

Oghuzes are Turkic, not Mongolian, though

Love the incorporation of TES soundtrack!

can you do an episode of their relations with italian merchant republics?

@daneaxe6465

2 ай бұрын

When the Norse figured out how to get to the Black Sea and then to Constantinople I'm sure they met traders from the Med Sea region. The Venetians would be a strong candidate for contact with Italian and Adriatic Sea sea traders.

I am glad to meet such a high-quality video on KZread. This is the best and most balanced essay about rus and ancient Russia. Our (Russian) historical scientists, I do not know for what reasons, very strongly and, in my opinion, with little justification, prove that the Russians are Normans. I will keep silent about Western researchers. They have not yet figured out how Austria differs from Australia, and the Czech Republic from Chechnya :). Today, genetics and paleogenetics provide a lot. A huge contribution to the substantiation of the polyethnicity of rus. I recommend paying attention to such a phenomenon as Cossacks. I think it's a very close analogy. From mistakes. Fix the krivichs ones. This is a Slavic tribe, although perhaps with a significant contribution from the Balts. The Finno-Ugric contribution according to craniology is likely in the Ilmen Slovenes. Like and subscribe.

@BGeezy4sheezy

2 ай бұрын

Excellent point about Cossacks- it’s an adopted cultural identity where ethnicity is not a particularly important qualification

@VoldemarPr

2 ай бұрын

You are moscovite. Accept it

@robertohlen4980

2 ай бұрын

Russian historians really say they where Normans? From Normandy? Did they employ time travel? Makes Putin sound like a genius historian.

@christiankalinkina239

2 ай бұрын

​@@robertohlen4980 Normans is meant has Scandinavians in Russia not exclusively french Normans

@kindlingking

2 ай бұрын

​@@robertohlen4980you didn't even try to explore the topic, yet you already made your conclusions based on your political bias. You should be ashamed if yourself.

6:53 I would imagine that the "Kuyabah" are the Kievans, "Salawiyah" means "Slav," and "Arthaniya" means "Ruthenian."

you make gold and gunpowder too, right?

Amazing and informative video.

In the books of L.N.Gumilyev, an expert on nomadic tribes, the author sternly distinguishes between khan and khagan, the first being the ruler by blood (just as Turkic Ashina family), the second, a ruler elected by his men (as in Kara Khitai khaganate). So, the first Rus´ khagans could also be elected.

@Manuka-px2pe

2 ай бұрын

No actually the term khagan are derivrd from Turkic meaning king ruler. Its disturbing to see norse germanic descent savages role playing as Turkic khagans.

"Suioni" in Gens Suioni sounds eerily similar to how Finland is pronounced in Finnish, "Suomi" Coincidence!? Probably

@sportsfisher9677

2 ай бұрын

no coincidence. Rurik dynasty carried a Fino-Ugric male haplotype Y DNA.

@Dantto92

2 ай бұрын

We was kings...

@ZiggyBoon

2 ай бұрын

Another interesting theory I’ve read is that the origin of the word Rus could be related to the Finnish word for Sweden; Ruotsi.

@keysersoze377

Ай бұрын

Finland has old names for countries carried over from middle ages like modern russia is called Venäjä Based on old slavic venedi tribes, germany is called saksa Based on saxons

Sources with questions. Add some Morrowind OST and we got a great vid

@balticempire7244

2 ай бұрын

thank you very much

Was the Rus finnish, swedish or slavic? The Rus was swedish. By one fact and one fact only. Sweden have alot of runestones talking about the varangians. According to the 12th-century Primary Chronicle, there was a group of varangians called rus.

You are wrong! Kagan means Kaan which is 5th Gen Turkish Fighter Jet!

The Eastern Slavs were connected with the Vikings and even mixed with each other

I didnt understand if Roslagen had something to do with anything, did Roslagen have to do with anything?

@joepaddy7239

17 күн бұрын

It’s believed “Rurik” came from Roslagen but the sad part is, is we don’t actually know who rurik was, some think he’s Finnish, some think he’s a Wend, we sadly will never know.

@The_swede_from_Svealand7948

17 күн бұрын

​@@joepaddy7239 Lets hope he whas from Roslagen

@joepaddy7239

17 күн бұрын

@@The_swede_from_Svealand7948 well never know, I do think he was a “Swedish Viking” but the reality is Vikings was a job Slavic peoples were too Vikings, for example wends, pomeranians, poles (too a small extent) and of course Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians.

@The_swede_from_Svealand7948

17 күн бұрын

​@@joepaddy7239 Yes that is true, but it would have been cool if the semi region of Roslagen had such interesting history, lile founding the worlds largest country Russia

@joepaddy7239

16 күн бұрын

@@The_swede_from_Svealand7948 It most certainly still can hold the title as being the ancestral name of the Russian state.

similar voice like the guy from Let’s talk religion… it just the Swedish accent?

Some people show Turkic and Germanic runes' similarity as a proof of interaction but those two scripts are just coincidentially similar, since both were first carved on wood and later stone, and you can only make certain sharp shapes on wood against the grain. The similarity of Nordic and Turkic "shamanism"(The shamans' attire, rituals, similarity of the pantheon and myths) would be a more solid proof for Oghur Turkic - Scandinavian Germanic interaction IMHO. But this can very well be due to all of them being interacted from Siberian shamanistic traditions convergently.

These were the Normans from Kiev who collected tribute from the Slavs, but at that time they had to pay tribute to their larger neighbors, the Khazars. That's why when these two visited the Frankish state, they said that their ruler was a kagan. Easy

I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong but I've always liked the idea that Rus stemmed from 'Rutsje' - the modern word we use for 'slide' in Denmark and likely our Northern neighbours have a variation of it. 'De er Rutsjere' /'they're sliders'. Asked how they brought their ships between the rivers or over land passed the rapids (portage) to get to the Black Sea, the answer would be akin to 'vi rutsjer'. The 't' is silent. "Rus" could just have meant, from the Byzantine perspective, those who jumped between rivers from the North to get to the Black Sea trade. The remnants of the Western Empire couldn't make the journey North on those rivers but these crazy bastids were making the trip South and manhandling them back North. Gotta appreciate the whole 'I'm not even mad' approach they took to these hairy-arsed Northerners in Constantinople though (just to cover another variations..).

@balticempire7244

Ай бұрын

you never know

@martinseptimryden7272

Ай бұрын

@@balticempire7244 rutschkana?

The Origins of the Rus is not uncertain.

I also live in a viking named area, Middlesbrough, ❤

In the sagas they write about attila Is just they went there before You can see the chinese in scandinavia

I love the Morrowind music!

A better theory in Turkic history is that rus were Scandinavian nomads who were employed as guardians and warriors in the court of Turkic khaganates. Over the time , they learnt statesmanship and government from their Turkic overlords and took over the dynasty and later khazar empire. Ibn Fadlan, the Arab historian , writes about his encounter with Russian merchants in Idi, today’s Kazan, and that the rus had blue eyes and yellow hair and that could have group sex, something uncivilized. Later Russians manipulated this historical observation and replaced the word “Rus” with “Turk” . To be fair , i am from South Azerbaijan, today’s Iran, and have dark eyes and hair, but my siblings and their kids have blue/green eyes … especially their kids start with blue/green eyes and blonde hairs but over years turn to brown …

thank u!🇹🇷🐎🌎

@Manuka-px2pe

2 ай бұрын

The swedish rus copied Turkic rulership and titles, after the desteoyed the khazar khaganate. They even call modern day Mantı, as pelmeni, they aldo call bashlir horde, akhal tekee horses as russian horses. 😂 delusional migrants, need to get butt 🦵 out of euroasia.

Im only even more convinced they were mainly known as Scandinavians. I hold the Roðen/Ruotsi/Rootsi belief from the origin name of the Rus’. Orosz and Urus seems farfetch’d imo

@benwinter2420

2 ай бұрын

The word Slav is old Swedish for slave I believe

@leotka

2 ай бұрын

@@benwinter2420 Word Slava means Glory. People of Glory. For Russie nobility Slava was more desirable then gold. This is why Rus was so fierce in battles and old sentence was that it is better to die then loose honor. In old traditions all inheritance go to daughters and sons inherited swords only. They must gain Glory and gold by sword.

@Sviareik

2 ай бұрын

@ter2420 No, Slav comes from Sclaveni (Greek name of a tribe), Slava (Glory) or Slovo (people of the language). Slave however possibly comes from the word for Slavs. Old Swedish word for "slave" was träl, then much much later "slav" became the common word

@williammkydde

2 ай бұрын

@@leotka More likely, the warlike Scandinavian invaders turned the Slavic peasants into slaves to sell them to the Greeks and Muslims. The "glory" hypothesis is a later rationalization, bc nobody likes to be identified as "slave". A Scandinavian would never identify himself as a Slav. Vladimir the Great was an illegitimate son of a Scandinavian prince and a domestic Slave girl. This reflects the socio-ethnic structure of that time: the Slavs were the lower class, while Norse were the military elite and the rulers. They assimilated only a few generations later.

@leotka

2 ай бұрын

@@Sviareik Rusyns aka Ukrainians have no idea about word Sclaveni. But Glory-Slava everywhere - in mentality, legends and names. Many kings had name Slava-Glory as part of the name - Svytoslav (Holy Glory), Rostislav (Growing Glory), Vladislav (Holding Glory), Miroslav (Glory of the World), Predislava, etc. In family all this names come just Slava, Slavik.

It is possible to have a nation without capitol. Only fortresses and fortified villages with jarls and few soldiers.

The homeland of the Rus is the modern Karelian Isthmus. In Arab sources(Ahmad ibn Rustah) it was called the island of the Rus.

6:47 aRTHa артха The consonant cluster "RTH" is NOT a common consonant cluster in Slavic languages. It is more typical in languages like English (oRTHography, fuRTHer, NoRTHmen, woRTH).

@Illustrate_it

2 ай бұрын

Parthia From Latin Parthia, from Ancient Greek Παρθία (Parthía), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 (Parθava) (or another Old Iranian language). Dutch: Parthen Finnish: Parthia French: Parthie German: Parthien Icelandic: Parþía Scots: Parthie Urdu: parthiya

@SkyeSage17

2 ай бұрын

English language was hacked. Double speak with double meanings. Con-founding, con-fusing and con-troling the narrative. Be discerning and learn truths. 🪄

@SkyeSage17

2 ай бұрын

English language was hacked by double speak with double meanings to con-trol,con- found and khan-cocked.

Kiev was much better location to control the rus khaganate than Aldeigjuborg or Holmgard. Kiev was by Dnepr but Holmgard and Aldeigjuborg were by Volkhov and ships had to be pulled on land twice to get to Dnepr and Black sea. However the great rapids south of Kiev were stopping all Byzantine ships from entering Kiev.

Rus means - Red/blond. In latvian we have word - rūsa which means- rust in english.

Magius/ Magog(red devil) people waged war on Gog

“Source? I made it up.” -Arab Historian

@senolatasoy3236

Ай бұрын

Kudurma kuduz dog

11:16 "Krivics" (actually Krivichs or Kriviches) were not a Finnic tribe. They were east Slavic tribe of disputed origin which migrated from south-east direction. Their setlements stretched from south-west Belarus up to Ilmen lake in the lands inhabited by Finnic tribes.. The archaeological culture of Kriviches shows both Slavic and Baltic features which leads to speculations that they were Balts assimilated by newcomers of Slavic origin.

@extraditori6604

2 ай бұрын

I think Lithuanians or Latvians call Russia - Krievija

khagan - shogun...?

Denmark-Skagen? 4:30

200 rus ships attacking on Constantinople sounds exaggerated. It also may have been some actual ships and many dugout canoes which could have passed the great chain protecting the golden horn. No ship with mast was able to cross the chain.

@balticempire7244

2 ай бұрын

the "ships" were most likely small and light boats with detachable masts, the sort used in sweden and russia since before the viking age and after, some even slavic canoes as you mentioned(called monoxyla in a byzantine source), all of them designed to be easily portaged over land areas(answering your other statement about kiev as the capital). Kiev appears to have become the capital after the Rus and Byzantines signed a treaty in 911, making the southern trade route more important, whereas in the 9th century the trade route to the Caspian sea through the Khazars was the important one

Scandinavians are definitely Turkic people. They are descendent of White Huns from Siberia. They are Odin's Turkish folk. Gray Wolf greetings from Khazakistan.

America was named after John Americ not Amerigo Vespucci. Famous map maker, got his way.

18:08 Based

AUTHOR, are you aware that the word "urus" is still referred to Russian people. It just has a bad connotation. Howeverthe name Rus ppl of 9th century isnt related to urus

@PseudonymsAreGovno

Ай бұрын

No he isn't, because this word is only used by Banderastani people only. The reason for it was an attempt at usurpation of the legacy of Kievan Rus by far-right Ukrainian nationalists. Their idea of history of KR differs from original one because they present KR as the state what began in Kiev while Novgorod or other terretories doesn't exist for them. Also they try to prove "non-existence" of Slavs in Novgorod by the fact what "the earliest Slavic writing is dated XI century". The fact what Slavs haven't a writing system before Christianity and what Christianity came to the KR in 988 AD doesn't bother them.

@PseudonymsAreGovno

Ай бұрын

Also, you are obviously Russophonic but you are trying to hide this fact. I guess you are either banderostani, zmagar or bsb person.

There's no proof that this state has ever existed, to begin with, the Rurikids never made mention of it in any of the Rus-Roman treaties and the PC, and neither are there remains of it. Furthermore, "warlike aristocracy of violent, river-bound merchants"? The Rus/Rurikids were hereditary tribal nobility that subsided from taxation, governing, and warfare, not craftsmen plying trades, the traders and the swords-for-hire were the Varangians, not the Rus.

Thank You! 💙💙💙💙💙🦩✨✨✨✨

This is the coolest part of Russian history; Vikings who cosplay as Mongols, who become the Russian Nobility

@user-dl3nc4jx7k

2 ай бұрын

The author is right in one thing, Russia is a conglomeration of tribes from Slavic tribes, Finno-Ugric, which were later joined by Turkic peoples, Which is why Russia has existed for more than 1000 years.This is a union with equal rights, but of course with the dominance of the Orthodox faith after the baptism of Russia and up to the First World War, the Civil War and the seizure of power by communism. After the collapse of the Golden Horde, the Turkic nobility was added to the Slavic nobility, including from the descendants of Genghis Khan, who began to serve the Grand Duke of Moscow, then he became Сzar (Caesar).Under Peter the Great, the Ostsee German barons joined the Russian Aristocracy, and many migrant aristocrats from Europe from Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Denmark, and France. For example, the famous Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov was a descendant of a Scottish mercenary. George Lermont, who entered the Russian service at the beginning of the 17th century, was probably in turn a descendant of Thomas Lermont, a famous Scotsman of the 13th century. Later, under Catherine 2, many German nobility moved to Russia and became Russian nobility.

@bertrecht913

2 ай бұрын

Even before Catherine came to power many germans already lived in Russia. The relationship between the Rus and their Germanic and other Indo European brothers are much deeper and older than with tatars. Turks and Mongols came as intruders much later.

@Manuka-px2pe

2 ай бұрын

😂 mongols are turks are indigenous to öoscow and russia

@metanoian965

Ай бұрын

@@bertrecht913 number the'' many'' = . . . . . ?

@bertrecht913

Ай бұрын

@@Manuka-px2pe Nope 😅

In the Serbian language, RUS means - those who have blond/red hair. Greetings to our Russian brothers and sisters.

@leotka

2 ай бұрын

Russians were Major Ross from 1721 till 1930th. Before 1721 they were Moscovits, before Moscovites they were called Ordyntsy (People of Hord). Even those days Udmurt people call them Djuch - people of Djuchi Ulus. And before Ordyntsy they were called as merya, ves, golyad, cheremis, etc. All those Finnish tribes, also part of them were Bulgars, Ugric, Tartars. So I have a question who from this tribes are your brothers, mate? Turks or Finns? As I know Serbs and Croats are Slavic nations. What connects Serbs and Russians is Old Bulgarian language. Language of Orthodox Christianity. Serbia was a part of Bulgarian Empire so old Bulgarian language is common for both Serbs and Russians. Modern Russian language on 55% common to Old Bulgarian. This is more then Modern Bulgarian. So we can say that Russian language this is dialect of Old Bulgarian language.

@user-th1ci7rx9g

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the information, it's always good to have different opinions in the conversation. I will follow up on your comment with logical facts that are easily verifiable. The Slavic peoples are easily identified in the Serbian language - Russians (I have already explained RUS) and I will take as an example the Poles (a people who live in a field - from the word POLJE). Although the Hungarians and Bulgarians are basically Slavic peoples, they took on the identity of the Asian peoples who settled in those areas during the course of history. An excellent indicator is again the Serbian language because we use names for them that they brought with them from Asia, which means that they did not always live in the Balkans and Eastern Europe among us. Therefore, it will be more likely that today's Bulgarians use the Serbian/Slavic language because it is clear that Serbs do not use Asian (Old Bulgarian) languages. Today's DNA analyzes show well who is who in Europe. So Russians and Finns have nothing in common because Finns have haplogroups characteristic of Scandinavia and North Asia, while Russians have Eastern European and old Danubian-Balkan haplogroups.

@leotka

2 ай бұрын

@@user-th1ci7rx9g Hungarian and Bulgarian are Turks, but both came on territories populated by Slavic people. Difference is that Bulgars have been assimilated between various Slavic tribes, accepted their culture and language, but Hungarian assimilated Slavic and implemented on them their culture and language. In all countries around Ukraine there is Ukrainian population, but not in Hungary. In XIX century Hungarian government forced Ukrainians use Hungarian language, culture and religion. Now they are all Hungarians.

@wetrix2119

2 ай бұрын

@@leotka Russians never called themlselves "Moscovits", it's an exonym. And no one ever called Russians "Ordyntsy", because that's what Russians called the Mongols, specifically the Golden Horde.

@leotka

2 ай бұрын

@@wetrix2119 Есть документы, где вы сами себя зовете Московским государством и москалями. Побегать по интернету и найдёте. Залесская орда тоже пробегало. Читайте больше, просвящайтесь.

Great video! I was thinking of the comparison to America before you said it. It seems to me that every people is either the result of an offshoot from another group or from a joining together of different groups.

Khagan is what the Khazar rulers were called.

Why khagan?

@SabinaDaitbeghanova

Ай бұрын

От Аварского Каганата им это перешло ведь Славяне входили в Аварский Каганат

Thank you for this fascinating video, looking at the history of Kyivan Rus from this eastern (rather than northern) angle was very insightful! I was very surprised when you used the word "khagan" for Rus' rulers - it turned out to be even more successful clickbait than "eastern vikings", haha :) And even more surprised after googling and checking that it did, indeed, replace the title of "knyaz" in this period, or at least in foreign affairs. The more you know.

@morriganmhor5078

2 ай бұрын

Look into the books of Russian historian L.N.Gumilyev, you find it there.

@neloglass

2 ай бұрын

I know where the word Kneaz comes from, but it is a long story. Everything is wrong in this video. I am flabbergasted by the insane take over of the Turks being everything East of Black Sea, by the Western scholars and historians. The word and title of Kagan, or the real words being Ka Khan are not Turkish. They are Romanian words. KA meant "head". KA KHAN meant "head of heads". In Romanian KA is KAP KA KHAN is KAPUL KAPILOR. The Mongols were not Turks. They were related to they Huns, and the Huns were Romanian ancestors. There still is the city of HUNEDOARA which means "city of Huns". It is insane how these scholars claim that there were Turks everywhere while there are Romanians all over those places now. Where did all the Romanians came from suddenly, and replaced the Turks???.......when did they do that??? Huns, Sarmati, Avars, Tatar Golden Horde, Goths, were all Romanian ancestors, and Mongols of Genghis Khan were close cousins. Procopius, Priscus and Ana Comnena reveal al these information. The Secret History of the Mongols does it as well. Am I the only one who studied all these books???

@TUNC66

2 ай бұрын

The word Khagan is a completely Turkish word.

@neloglass

2 ай бұрын

@@TUNC66 Explain the meaning of it!!!

@TUNC66

2 ай бұрын

@ass Of course I can explain, the meaning of Khagan is (Leader of leaders).

The Byzantines proselytized up to today's Berlin at least. That's how Church Glagolithic/ Slavonic spread.

Two coins don't indicate a strong influence.

So if Khagan is a bit like Emperor and Rus or Turk something like Roman. Could it be that other kings and nations tried to claim legitimacy by using title Khagan and nation like Rus or Turk, even though they might be a conqueror. We see it with the Roman Empire being claimed by Russian Zar and German King and even Ottoman Empire. Just thinking that we might have lost the old identity of some eastern tribes or nations in this way.

@Manuka-px2pe

2 ай бұрын

You are right, the rus are seedes copying and role playing as Turkic khagans, kings

Somebody send this to the Rus Kağan Vlad Putin!

Sweden had a great influence on Russia about 1000-1200 years ago. It was common that in the elite of Kyiv-Rus or Novgorod -Rus that they had one, two or more swedish ancestors/relatives. As late as 14th c icelandic scribes called Rus area for "The great/big Sweden". Common cultural features still exists. F.ex. in eastern Sweden when older people see a black cat they still spit three times over left shoulder to stop misfortunes to happen, exactly what they do in Russia...Other similarites is a sacrifice to Tomte/Nisse or farmspirit, in Russia it´s called Domevoi. Both people used to put steel in cradle or threshold to stop Trolls or Lezji(treepeople) to steal the children...

@djendeta

Ай бұрын

Southern Slavs do all those things as well.

@hakanliljeberg790

Ай бұрын

@@djendeta They do? I had no idea... Maybe Sweden also was influenced by Russia...

@djendeta

Ай бұрын

​@@hakanliljeberg790 oh yes, but i wouldnt tie those customs to any particular people. i think that is something that is done across Europe and imho predates both Russians and Swedes. In some cultures such customs are kept more than in others.

Casually sprinkled in the myth of "Great" (it's old) Moravia , with that fake map.

Morrowind ambiente

yeah, yeah, everything is scandinavian, germanic, and event turkic, very fashionable

A remarkable job in laying out the uncertainties and complexities of the matter. And very fun to watch. More questions than answers is always fun. I am sharing this with every Finn, Scandinavian, Turk and Ukrainian I know. (I don't don't talk to Russians until next order.) By the way, what you call "Byzantines" called themselves Romans, as I am sure you know.

@onurorlun3203

Ай бұрын

Brokrasi greek Empire ,lejyon,international roman

@dionthrakianus181

Ай бұрын

@@onurorlun3203 Incomprehensible!

They werent brothers

Home of the Kurgan.

Khagan/Khan/ Kağan is a Turkish title.

@Survival87

2 ай бұрын

It's Turkic and Mongolic, not Turkish, the later ones were an divergent culture, ethnicity, made up mostly of the Middle Easterners and Balkan peoples including Slavic peoples and Greeks, the real Turks were a different story.

@kursad4965

Ай бұрын

​@@Survival87 and you are nobody to talk about Turks at all , '' later ones were an divergent culture '' who are you to tell this ? a nobody - Hun Burials - early Seljuk Burials - Scythian Burials all proves that modern Turks were just like their ancestors , its your western thing to claim Turks to be looking asiatic to begin with , mind your own buisness about things you have no information about find another subject to write about , this subjects are strongly supported by an ideology that not even your entire nation can handle

These guys come from China . R1a heplogroup aka sloves built the China wall to keep the hohn Chinese from migrating north after the cultivation of rice . After the cultivation of rice there was a population explosion by heplogroup O by what is now hong Kong . These guys got overwhelmed and migrated west through the Eurasian steppe .

@user-dl3nc4jx7k

2 ай бұрын

Stop writing nonsense, haplogroup R1a, originally from the Hindustan peninsula, like all Indo-European peoples, There is still a large group with this haplogroup of blood in India and it is mainly the Brahmin caste.then a lot of people migrated from Hindustan to Iran (Persia), where this haplogroup is also present in large numbers, and Iran is the Arias

@Downey-2000

2 ай бұрын

@@user-dl3nc4jx7k I don't think so pal .

@xanshen9011

2 ай бұрын

Bro creating his own fanfiction

Old Kazan is said to have been founded by the Volga Bulgars in 1000 AD, but was destroyed by the invasion of the Golden Horde in the 13th century and lost its independence. The new Kazan Khanate, according to official history, was said to have emerged in 1393 and existed as a political entity from Moscow or another russian state, even until the mid-16th century then it was conquered by the half tatar Ivan the terrible... yes some rus, even some nobles mingled with tatars but that doesn't mean that the rus were a turkic people and ethnic origin is never insignificant for understanding its true origin and meaning. Some information is distorted here and safe and trustworthy sources are not mentioned. I think that some of these Arabic scholars equated tatars with russians and that much of the history of the pre christianization of the europeans was destroyed or manipulated by the churches, yet Slavs, Germanic peoples and other Indo-European peoples are not Turks or Mongols and never became the domains of the christian orthodox Rus referred as Khaganates. For the very nearby Turkic people of the Kipchaks, for example, things looking completely different.

"treacherous" That part does not make sense. A culture that unreliable simply cannot generate such a trade network as DID happen. Not to mention, it could barely function at all. And the "viking" culture most certainly DID function. Arguably quite well even. And we know from the old laws of Scandinavia that theft or criminality overall was dealt with severely. But we also have decently strong indications that there was not actually much need for the rulings of law(or at least, not much compared to what you would expect from the populations involved). The "ting" meetings, which were yearly at most, appears to have rarely taken up more than a few days to resolve a whole year worth of legal/criminal issues that needed official treatment. And this is completely contradictory to the idea of the viking culture being that totally internally unreliable. I think it is much more likely that those kinds of precautions were taken because they were in foreign lands, not against themselves. While i DO think there was "infighting" to some degree, i think it is more likely to have been something closer to that of the N.American indians semi-ritualised raiding and combat. More showing off than "i want to steal and murder everything and everyone in my sight".

The Vandals/Wendlas/Wends did some Vikinging too.

@wahcks1142

2 ай бұрын

I thought wends were Slavs like Samo the Frank’s state. Sorry if I’m wrong though

@dittmannrudolfrohr2149

2 ай бұрын

@@wahcks1142 That's how it's taught. The teaching says: The Vandals moved to Africa and the Wends came. Now the Old Saxon “wendlas” refers to the Vandals. There was also correspondence between those who remained at home and the Vandals in Carthage regarding the farms of those who had left. As with the Goths, some moved to the Roman Empire and some came under Hun rule.

@KohaAlbert

2 ай бұрын

It's thought that Estonians and Finns got their ethnonym for Russians (venelased) from there

Russia referring to Turkic is not true yes maybe some Russian are Turkic because of invasion from the east specially the mongols but ancient Russians are vikings and Slavic origin in fact modern day Hungary and Finland are the real Turkic origin beacuse their ancestors and culture were from Siberia or center Asia in modern far east Russia and by the way many vikings legends settle in rus and later invade Britain rus and Scandinavian have strong connection which history ignores. My god why are you alienating Russia like some eastern turks😂

@user-dl3nc4jx7k

2 ай бұрын

Russia was originally a union of about two dozen Slavic tribes and several Finno-Ugric, There are many versions about Rurik, including that he came from Western Slavs, not Scandinavians (the current German lands of Mecklenburg and Pomerania, Slavs used to live there).The Scandinavians played a big role in the formation of the Russian state, including numerous dynastic marriages in both directions among the ruling nobility.Later, Turkic tribes joined this alliance., there were also numerous marriages among the nobility (with the Polovtsians).Marriages usually secured peace agreements and trade partnerships and the entry of tribes into the union.

Kiev were living other people Indoeuropeans

Vladamir Putin brought me here 😂

@dittmannrudolfrohr2149

2 ай бұрын

Waldemar.

@raritica8409

2 ай бұрын

Vladtimur

@jarimhkuosma

2 ай бұрын

Vlad is Veps

@az694

2 ай бұрын

Tucker Carlson brought me here!

@abrahamcollier

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely incredible slapdown of VP’s history without ever once mentioning his name, just days after the infamous interview which will likely be forgotten long after the ideas summarized by this video become part of the shared subconscious.

BULGARIAN CIVILIZATION

Like to hear more about the jews interactions back then - tired of ppl trying to stop anyone from talking about religion, ethnicity history etc the influence of Persian Jews on Khazaria and the west spread of jewish traders

Rus ros the greeks called them

They are sueves Scandinavians

both Kağan Kaghan and Hakan Hakon are turkish names given to their princes,chiefs and leader...so the early rus,as well as other kaghanates,or hakans,were turks...but even the names ala refer to ancient turkic cities,or a mixture of turks with slavs

@bertrecht913

2 ай бұрын

Rus were never turks. Please don't spread missinformations. The originaly Rus society were a mix of germanic, slavic and fino ugrisch people and not tatars. Tatars and Mongols were our Nemesis. 😅

@nukhetyavuz

2 ай бұрын

@@bertrecht913 u wont like it,but they mixed with turks😖 ... almost every rus has 2% turkic ancestry,just check out daniel tabins poster on xioung nu scythian sarmatian turkic ancestry

@nukhetyavuz

2 ай бұрын

about spreading misinformation...i came to a conclusion because of certain titles and names,geography and titles tell a lot as well as archeology and dna

@bertrecht913

2 ай бұрын

@@nukhetyavuz Russian DNA is mostly R1B or R1A and some have I1A like scandinavians. Turks and Rus have totally different origin and DNA. Of course over the time people mingled with each others but the culturaly and ethnic differences is too big as if you could way they are brothers or the Rus were turks. That is absolutely not true it's like to say the germans and turks were brother nations. Real brother nations are firstly the other slavic, especially the east slavic people like Ukrainian and Belarus and after that, the other european nations - not turks! ;)

@bertrecht913

2 ай бұрын

@@nukhetyavuz If you meant Tatars from Russia, that is definitely correct, but not russians...

Not Rus Khaganate, but rather Rus Haakonate.

You forgot 1, very important, tribe