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  • Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024

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  • @GeographyNow
    @GeographyNow  3 года назад +423

    Come for the Bryndzové halušky, stay for the Kapurková. Mom joins for this episode of FAN FRIDAY! ENJOY!

    • @odinn8169
      @odinn8169 3 года назад +4

      yes

    • @muzz444
      @muzz444 3 года назад +1

      Ok

    • @yaboi494
      @yaboi494 3 года назад +2

      Hi, Geography Now! Is there any way I can contact you to tell you a bit about my country South Africa? 🇿🇦

    • @andrefarfan4372
      @andrefarfan4372 3 года назад

      Ok

    • @meowpoosaymeow
      @meowpoosaymeow 3 года назад +2

      Meow i am a dog

  • @samuelkovac6439
    @samuelkovac6439 3 года назад +532

    Its not that we used Czech flag while we were Czechoslovakia , its just that the Czechs kept the Czechosloavkian flag when we split and didnt get a new one.

    • @MissSlovakia2
      @MissSlovakia2 3 года назад +71

      They kept Czechoslovak flag, because the original Czech flag looked exactly the same like the Polish one.

    • @AB8511
      @AB8511 3 года назад +72

      @@MissSlovakia2 Indeed, but fun fact is that technically speaking Czechs are under czech legal system not allowed to use their current flag. Constitutional law, which divided Czechoslovakia clearly states, that none of the states is allowed to use state symbols of Czechoslovakia.

    • @petrp5121
      @petrp5121 3 года назад +6

      @@AB8511 We dont care. Get over it.

    • @bossiadam1
      @bossiadam1 3 года назад +56

      @@AB8511 I mean legally they should be in clear because they shortened the flag a little and said that the meaning of blue is no longer Slovakia, but Moravia even though historical colours of Moravia are yellow and red. I personally still think their move was very shitty and disrespectful, but what can you do almost 30 years later..

    • @AB8511
      @AB8511 3 года назад +10

      @@petrp5121 US neither. Thats historical fact, but does not really matter to anyone in Slovakia. No issue here....

  • @tannerwilson4843
    @tannerwilson4843 3 года назад +460

    We began 2020 with a Slavic Nation (🇷🇺),
    end 2020 with a Slavic nation ( 🇸🇰)
    Will begin 2021 with another Slavic Nation (🇸🇮).

    • @makiki
      @makiki 3 года назад +63

      so the last video in 2021 will be Ukraine

    • @Rabid_Nationalist
      @Rabid_Nationalist 3 года назад +37

      SLAVIC PRIDE!

    • @LordBackuro
      @LordBackuro 3 года назад +13

      Slavic pride

    • @beskarium7224
      @beskarium7224 3 года назад +4

      @@makiki Finnaly ive been waiting since belarus

    • @erenyeager3829
      @erenyeager3829 3 года назад +5

      Ukraine? I'm just scared for when the USA rolls around...

  • @CocoTaveras8975
    @CocoTaveras8975 3 года назад +247

    Slovakia is highly underrated! Love and cheers from USA.
    🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇸🇰

    • @martinkojda2924
      @martinkojda2924 3 года назад +14

      Pozdravujem zo Slovenska! (Greetings from Slovakia!)

    • @Nib___Nib
      @Nib___Nib 3 года назад +11

      Greetings from the uk

    • @diskom1no
      @diskom1no 3 года назад +8

      Ďakujemeeee (thank youuuu) ♥️

    • @ivanlukes9882
      @ivanlukes9882 3 года назад +13

      Milujeme Ameriku!
      We love America!

    • @Majkl.
      @Majkl. 3 года назад +1

      @@martinkojda2924 čau

  • @enrik9475
    @enrik9475 3 года назад +75

    2:40 No, It's Czech Republic using Czechoslovak flag, not the other way around

  • @johanpeturdam
    @johanpeturdam 3 года назад +206

    Two quick things that weren’t mentioned: first when hung on the side, the CoA is kept facing the way it is normally, so two different flags depending on how you fly them. 2nd: “during Czechoslovakia they pretty much used the Czech flag”, this is technically incorrect; when they made the Czechoslovak flag, they took the white and red Bohemian (Čechy, so Czech) flag and added the blue triangle to symbolise Slovakia, since the symbolic colour of Slovakia is blue. Actually, Czechia using this flag is technically breaking the “divorce settlement” between Slovakia and Czechia, and at the same time it ignores the other half of the Czech Republic which is Moravia (Morava) and whose traditional colour is yellow. But yeah, great video still.

    • @branoe1
      @branoe1 3 года назад +10

      Great explanation, very correct!

    • @daydreamer7518
      @daydreamer7518 3 года назад +6

      Also Matra is not in Slovakia. These mistakes dont make it great video imho

    • @branoe1
      @branoe1 3 года назад +14

      @@daydreamer7518 if you look at the map and know a bit of history, then you know that the three mountain ranges roughly/symbolically define the heartland of Slovakia before the Huns invaded. You can refer to the national mountain of Armenia, Mt Ararat being in Turkey, cause, you know, history happened.

    • @branoe1
      @branoe1 3 года назад +8

      @@daydreamer7518 plus consider the amount of information Barbs has to chew through. Such mistakes are understandable. A bigger mistake than Matra being a few dozen kms from the border is saying that Slovakia used the Czech flag during Czechoslovakia times, while it was the other way around: Czechia uses Czechoslovakia flag as ita own against the treaties signed before the split of the federation.

    • @dobryden.6241
      @dobryden.6241 3 года назад +2

      Also football tennis is not from Slovakia, but Czechia.

  • @dzejkej1337
    @dzejkej1337 3 года назад +89

    2:38 We didn't use the Czech flag. That was the flag of Czechoslovakia. Red and White represented Czechia and Moravia, and Blue represented Slovakia. After we split up, there was an agreement (unfortunately not officially signed) that neither Czechs, nor Slovaks will use any state emblems/symbols, or the flag of former Czechoslovakia. But Czechs kept the flag anyway.

    • @Rabid_Nationalist
      @Rabid_Nationalist 3 года назад

      Oh really??

    • @bossiadam1
      @bossiadam1 3 года назад +13

      @@Rabid_Nationalist yep, this is quote straight out of Wikipedia: "From 1990 to 1992, the red and white flag of Bohemia (differing from the Polish flag only by the proportion of the colours) officially served as the flag of the Czech Republic. Eventually, after a search for new symbols, the Czech Republic unilaterally decided to ignore the constitutional law on the dissolution of Czechoslovakia (Article 3 of Law 542/1992 stated that the "Czech Republic and Slovak Republic shall not use the national symbols of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic after its dissolution.") and to keep the Czechoslovak flag, with an altered meaning. Slovakia, meanwhile, adopted its traditional flag; however, just before independence, on 3 September 1992, the coat of arms was added to prevent confusion with the similar flags of Russia and Slovenia."

    • @acceleratedsloth
      @acceleratedsloth 3 года назад +4

      No, blue never represented Slovakia

    • @dzejkej1337
      @dzejkej1337 3 года назад +11

      @@acceleratedsloth Yes it has, literally look it up. The standard Czech flag was never supposed to have blue in it.

    • @tajoszlav
      @tajoszlav 3 года назад +5

      @@acceleratedsloth Please, stop spreading dissinformations accross this comment section. Show us you sources.

  • @samuelmiklovic7142
    @samuelmiklovic7142 3 года назад +97

    Small but very important funfackt, For Czechoslovakia we did not use the Czech flag it was the official flag of the Czechoslovak Republic and after the split there was an official agreement that neither Slovakia nor the Czech Republic wouldn't use it anymore so the "Czech" flag is kind of illegal but it all doesn't matter.

    • @denisrichter4921
      @denisrichter4921 3 года назад +16

      Exactly and the blue triangle stands for Slovakia (it was meant to symbolise us), so yeah its Czechoslovak flag used by Czechs.

    • @hatza3342
      @hatza3342 3 года назад +7

      Yeah, to get around it the czech flag is a little bit shorter

    • @bossiadam1
      @bossiadam1 3 года назад +4

      @@hatza3342 and they said that from now on the blue part represents Moravia, not Slovakia. But it was still a POS move, that pretty much described why many Slovaks wanted Dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

    • @dobryden.6241
      @dobryden.6241 3 года назад +2

      A další chyba, nohejbal nepochází ze Slovenska.

    • @evzenvarga9707
      @evzenvarga9707 3 года назад

      To že používáme tuhle vlajku je lepší, jinak bychom měli stejnou vlajku jako Polsko.

  • @samuelsokol60
    @samuelsokol60 3 года назад +106

    OCHTINSKÁ ARAGONITOVA JASKYŇA - only a few caves in the world containing aragonite. One is in Slovakia.

    • @fyrhunter_svk
      @fyrhunter_svk 3 года назад +7

      Yup, I think basically the only one in Europe and eastern hemisphere, since the other two are in Mexico and Argentina.

    • @mmmgi6763
      @mmmgi6763 3 года назад

      @@fyrhunter_svk I believe there is an aragonite cave in Croatia.
      Pls correct me if I'm wrong guys.

    • @fyrhunter_svk
      @fyrhunter_svk 3 года назад

      @@mmmgi6763 Nope, I checked it, there are three in the world.

  • @samnunes
    @samnunes 3 года назад +102

    Hey Barbs, greetings from Brazil. Actually that money sent to you from Brazil is not 500 "Reais", but 500 "Cruzados", which it used to be our old currency before the introduction of the "Real". Nowadays, 500 Cruzados is the same as 10 Reais ;)

    • @rafaelprietobruckner8459
      @rafaelprietobruckner8459 3 года назад +12

      this banknote surely had the same purchasing power that 10 reais have today, but because they became very rare, if you try to get one, you're gonna pay much more, and probably that's why the guy that send the note told it's value was 183 dollars. I've found a store that sells rare banknotes and coins for collectors and in some cases prices were this high.

    • @sohopedeco
      @sohopedeco 3 года назад +5

      Barbs thought he stroke it rich. Hahahaha

    • @Alex-fv2qs
      @Alex-fv2qs 3 года назад

      @@rafaelprietobruckner8459
      Yeah no, there are tons and tons of cruzado banknotes

    • @joaohmendonca
      @joaohmendonca 3 года назад

      Let's be clear that it has no value other than of being a collectible. It's not a valid currency.

    • @NandiCollector
      @NandiCollector 3 года назад

      *Yep! Iv'e explained to him in his pinned comment. ;)*

  • @vanditkhanna7477
    @vanditkhanna7477 3 года назад +28

    Loved your Mum's voice, calm and soothing 😌

  • @ralffe3465
    @ralffe3465 3 года назад +175

    Imagine during the football match, when the train is going through, the ball flies into the train and the train just leaves.

    • @bossiadam1
      @bossiadam1 3 года назад +4

      He was putting a little too much emphasis on that fact lol. It's not like Slovaks know about it, but it's funny nonetheless

    • @MarioAtheonio
      @MarioAtheonio 3 года назад +5

      It's a heritage railway (as you can probably see), not a regular passenger line. They would probably just stop the train and get the ball.

    • @ralffe3465
      @ralffe3465 3 года назад +11

      @@MarioAtheonio I mean. It would be funnier of the train just continued with the ball and the whole field started chasing the train.

    • @amenyonas3865
      @amenyonas3865 3 года назад

      I swear to god i was just thinking that

    • @peterGu895
      @peterGu895 3 года назад

      They’ve gotta have extra balls.

  • @blackcosnersabbath
    @blackcosnersabbath 3 года назад +39

    Just a quick disclaimer, fellas!
    The Brazilian currency shown here is no longer in use. In Brazil, now we have "Real" (which the plural is Reais). The currency that Barbs shows on this video it was used between 1986 and 1989, and it was called "Cruzado" (plural: Cruzados).
    I thought it was a good idea to mention that before Barbs tries to use it in Brazil and everyone makes fun of him lol
    Thank you for this great video!
    Cheers!

    • @JoaoPessoa86
      @JoaoPessoa86 3 года назад +2

      I work for an airline and was working a flight to Brazil when we got a last minute replacement pilot who hadn't worked a flight to Brazil in over 20 years. He asked me where he would change his money and pulled out a *FISTFULL* near pristine Cruzeiros. 😂 I had to break it to him that it wasn't money anymore but I was shocked that he even had any

    • @NandiCollector
      @NandiCollector 3 года назад

      *True! ;) I've explained to Barbs in his pinned comment.*

  • @martintancer7723
    @martintancer7723 3 года назад +284

    Actually, the Matra mountains are not even in Slovakia, they are in northern Hungary, but we kind of aren't too bothered about that :D

    • @andrefarfan4372
      @andrefarfan4372 3 года назад +2

      Lmao

    • @miriam7779
      @miriam7779 3 года назад +50

      It's not like we had a choice, with only two mountains it would look like ... you know.

    • @zerindkonkoly4116
      @zerindkonkoly4116 3 года назад +22

      Yeah, and we still have the Tatra and Fatra mountains on the hungarian one, but as everyone can see nobody cares :P

    • @adriano_2492
      @adriano_2492 3 года назад +4

      @@miriam7779 top comment😂

    • @liltinglullaby3282
      @liltinglullaby3282 3 года назад +10

      I mean we have the same thing here, 2 of our 3 mountains on the CoA are not in modern Hungary, but we don't care either.

  • @cones914
    @cones914 3 года назад +37

    2:37 im pretty sure czechia used the czechoslovak flag.

  • @mienfu9824
    @mienfu9824 3 года назад +151

    Slovakia also has the best cyclist in the world Peter Sagan and the best ski racer in the world Petra Vlhová.

    • @aleksa525
      @aleksa525 3 года назад +18

      Pogačar is better 😉

    • @neres5795
      @neres5795 3 года назад +1

      I smell some czech.

    • @QuinlanLJ
      @QuinlanLJ 3 года назад +14

      I'm pretty sure two best cyclists right now are both Slovenian so ... yeah :D Honest mistake to make.

    • @cones914
      @cones914 3 года назад

      @@neres5795 no because you have Corona.

    • @samuelsurmik8018
      @samuelsurmik8018 3 года назад +8

      @@QuinlanLJ according to multiple lists, none of the racers ranked before Peter are Slovenian therefore rendering your comment incorrect. Peter has been ranked as the 4th best racer.

  • @9EscFan5
    @9EscFan5 3 года назад +30

    The North Korean shirt is from the FIFA World Cup 2010

    • @robertnino8997
      @robertnino8997 3 года назад +6

      I looked him up he a Japanese born north korean soccer player he made a few key play in the 2010 world cup he also played in japan and germany

  • @pedrolofrano4128
    @pedrolofrano4128 3 года назад +39

    I remember when I met the most perfect girl in the world, she was from Slovakia. Blue eyes, beautiful smile and super nice and intelligent. Unfortunately I was just a young dumb and broke and I lost her.
    Anyway, Slovakia looks amazing, one day I wanna visit and who knows lives there.

    • @PROVOCATEURSK
      @PROVOCATEURSK 3 года назад +8

      We are waiting for you ;)

    • @MrBlablablabla13
      @MrBlablablabla13 3 года назад +5

      Dude I totally get you. I love some countries just bcz i met some girl. :)

    • @emo_girlbymgk8181
      @emo_girlbymgk8181 3 года назад +4

      @@MrBlablablabla13 simp? Simp.

    • @romanzitnansky9578
      @romanzitnansky9578 3 года назад +7

      Some people say we (Slovaks) have the most beautiful girls in Europe... Probably something to do with the mixture of cultures and genes...

    • @LordBackuro
      @LordBackuro 3 года назад +3

      I dated a girl three year ago she was half polish and s quarter slovak and she was hot and had a great personality, very rare nowadays.

  • @StefanValica
    @StefanValica 3 года назад +16

    Hi, I am from Slovakia too, thanks a lot for this beautiful episode, I appreciate your effort a lot

  • @izimations
    @izimations 3 года назад +71

    8:05
    Barbs mom who has south Korean heritage: *sees North Korean uniform*
    * *Confused, triggered, excited, happy, shocked , konglish noises* *

    • @Rabid_Nationalist
      @Rabid_Nationalist 3 года назад

      Hehe yea

    • @themostrandombird
      @themostrandombird 3 года назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I should buy some shoes to go with the camal socks what size shoe she is

  • @tajoszlav
    @tajoszlav 3 года назад +67

    Little correction - Czechoslovakian flag was never a "Czech" flag. It is just nowadays Czech republic still uses the Czechoslovakian flag (it was created for Czechoslovakia with blue triangle representing Slovaks). After split only Slovakia adopted new one.

    • @ghregoryk4830
      @ghregoryk4830 3 года назад +3

      Amen xD

    • @commanderadam1835
      @commanderadam1835 3 года назад +2

      Well i get from someine that blue triangle is symbol of Moravia and white and red are falg of Bohemia so if u put it togheter u get czech flag and they just shared it with slovakia but idk btw im from slovakia

    • @acceleratedsloth
      @acceleratedsloth 3 года назад +1

      Not really. It was designed as a flag only for Czechia even before it was decided that that Slovakia would join the flag.

    • @acceleratedsloth
      @acceleratedsloth 3 года назад +2

      The blue triangle does NOT represent Slovaks. That is a complete lie that is against historical facts. It was created from Czech Slavic colours even before Slovakia was meant to join Czechoslovakia.

    • @bossiadam1
      @bossiadam1 3 года назад +9

      @@acceleratedsloth that still does not make it right or for that matter legal. It was complete disrespect towards Slovakia and it's people. This form of Czech attitude towards Slovaks was one of the main reasons why lots of Slovaks wanted dissolution of Czechoslovakia ;)

  • @thenicolascage4355
    @thenicolascage4355 3 года назад +96

    PPPeters humor is, he doesn't hold back? :D
    Ts ts ts ... poor child of mine. Little do you know about Slovak humor. Young you are and much there is to be discovered.

    • @IndustrialParrot2816
      @IndustrialParrot2816 3 года назад +1

      um what aabout slovak humor?

    • @thenicolascage4355
      @thenicolascage4355 3 года назад +19

      @@IndustrialParrot2816
      Well,
      Slovaks got their own kind of dark or black humor. Sure different from British humor. Sometimes even darker, yet that kind of. But many jokes can‘t be translated. The cultural gap is too big. Peter is awesome. Like the style of his videos. Yet, ... I think in many ways, he is holding back. Of course, also to appeal to a western audience. Think he found the perfect balance between eastern and western humor.

    • @Rusty9017
      @Rusty9017 3 года назад +20

      @@IndustrialParrot2816 Do you know how there is a rule about jokes, how they can be offensive until they are funny? Well in Slovakia, offensive is funny, which means our humor is basicaly challenge to how offended you can get people by it. Good stuff, not for everybody, but thats the intention anyway.

  • @Rafirafael.1
    @Rafirafael.1 3 года назад +28

    0:51 you call American football football even though it doesn’t involve your feet or a ball so who knows

    • @atenachos6282
      @atenachos6282 3 года назад +1

      What's really in a name? It's whats fascinating with in the various sport that counts.

    • @frigginjerk
      @frigginjerk 3 года назад

      They call it "hockey," but it doesn't involve any hockeys. ...I think. ...I don't know what a hockey is.

    • @belland_dog8235
      @belland_dog8235 3 года назад

      Look up how the name was made dude, it's not that hard.

    • @professionalgamesplayer7403
      @professionalgamesplayer7403 3 года назад

      Just one thing. American football can never be real football. Here's why: We can say that real football is the one that was made first. That's football (soccer) which was made from rugby. Or, we can say that the real football is the most popular one. Again, it's football ( soccer ) which is popular more than American one in all world except America itself.

  • @martinsvoboda2907
    @martinsvoboda2907 3 года назад +6

    Football tennis (nohejbal) was actually invented in the Czech Republic...

  • @EchelonIV
    @EchelonIV 3 года назад +9

    Hmm. I thought Elizabeth Bathory was Hungarian at least judging from hear "real" name (Erszébet Báthory). Cheers from a Finn living in Norway, great to have the country videos coming up again! Happy 2021!

    • @BBanzaj
      @BBanzaj 3 года назад

      She was, but she spent most of her life (even her last years) in todays slovakia. Even her crimes were commited there.

    • @illesvelkei7714
      @illesvelkei7714 3 года назад

      @@BBanzaj back then it was hungary. So she was 100% hungarian. Like Hudini spent 90% of his life in the Usa. But he is still hungarian

    • @BBanzaj
      @BBanzaj 3 года назад

      @@illesvelkei7714 back then it was kingdom too, so the only people who can claim that record were the nobels, since peasents like u and me owned and ruled nothing

  • @rydernigguh1703
    @rydernigguh1703 3 года назад +20

    Saying Byzatine, and showing a Hungarian ruler lmfai Im dead.

  • @drewmalihan
    @drewmalihan 3 года назад +3

    8:02 That Jong Tae-se football jersey unwrapping was LOL. Maybe the sender got that from South Africa haha.

  • @WiseToTheLies
    @WiseToTheLies 3 года назад +1

    WOW big shout out to Geography Now for giving shout outs to small businesses - You guys are really good people, thank you!

  • @roatskm2337
    @roatskm2337 3 года назад +7

    Love Slovakia from Bulgaria! ;)

  • @turkishmapper07
    @turkishmapper07 3 года назад +4

    Love Slovakia from Turkey 🇹🇷❤️🇸🇰

    • @turkishmapper07
      @turkishmapper07 3 года назад

      @sehhi vooty Love Uruguay from Turkey 🇹🇷❤️🇺🇾

  • @Bribridude130
    @Bribridude130 3 года назад +3

    0:46 Although Elizabeth Bathory owned land in what is present-day Slovakia, Bathory was Hungarian, not ethnically Slovak. What is present-day Slovakia was under the Kingdom of Hungary (or some form of Hungarians) from 1000 to 1918.

  • @rhodesbauer
    @rhodesbauer 3 года назад +15

    Actualy you got a note of 500 Cruzados.
    not reais...
    Old currency... Reais were introduced in 1994...
    The higher bank not for Reais is 200.

    • @JoaoPessoa86
      @JoaoPessoa86 3 года назад

      I was about to say. It didn't look familiar, I only dealt with the Cruzeiro before the Real

  • @maxor360
    @maxor360 3 года назад +31

    You had the mistake at the beginning of the episode. Slovakia in slovak is Slovensko no Slovenski.

  • @adriano_2492
    @adriano_2492 3 года назад +19

    Elizabeth Bathory was a hungarian

    • @rydernigguh1703
      @rydernigguh1703 3 года назад +1

      @Alex Croton and?

    • @vkdrk
      @vkdrk 3 года назад

      You're right, she was Hungarian and most Slovaks will refer to her as a Hungarian because she represents Hungarians so well. Came to Slovakia to kill people

    • @adriano_2492
      @adriano_2492 3 года назад +1

      @@vkdrk WHAT!? No I will not, I love Slovakia and it's people. You have one of the beautifulest country in the world.♥️

    • @vkdrk
      @vkdrk 3 года назад

      @@adriano_2492 then why are Hungarians so proud to claim her? 😅 most people in Slovakia call her Hungarian

    • @vkdrk
      @vkdrk 3 года назад +1

      @@adriano_2492 we love Hungary too! Especially your food. You can find it in every grocery shop in Slovakia. It's always great 😋

  • @BBanzaj
    @BBanzaj 3 года назад +6

    Fun fact: the Tatra, Matra and Fatra mountains are called that way because in the language of some tribe that predates, slav migration, Tatra means "the white mountain". Fatra means "the red mountain" and Matra means "the blue mountain". This helps to explain the colors in our flag.

  • @QuinlanLJ
    @QuinlanLJ 3 года назад +39

    It still amazes me how Slovenia and Slovakia have such similar flags without both flags having anything in common with each other (in terms of origins or meaning).

    • @bigbumer5719
      @bigbumer5719 3 года назад +6

      Wdym, both flags use colors of Pan-slavism

    • @QuinlanLJ
      @QuinlanLJ 3 года назад +7

      @@bigbumer5719Actually no. Slovenia's colours have nothing to do with Pan-Slavism. Slovenia uses the flag and the colour scheme of the Duchy of Carniola.

    • @bigbumer5719
      @bigbumer5719 3 года назад +4

      @@QuinlanLJ That is actually not true, originally Duchy of Carniola didnt have a flag, only a coat of arms. Later it used white-blue bicolor. White-blue-red was first raised in 1848 during springtime of nations, same time pan-slavism started gaining traction

    • @QuinlanLJ
      @QuinlanLJ 3 года назад +7

      @@bigbumer5719 "In 1836 Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria restored the original white color to the shield and recognized the white-blue-red combination as the official Carniolan color scheme."
      Still has nothing to do with Pan-Slavism. The colours are taken directly from the Carniolan coat of arms that has existed long before Pan-Slavism was an idea.

    • @valentintapata2268
      @valentintapata2268 3 года назад +1

      Original Carniolan coat of arms was blue and white, but there were several changes made to it, they added red and gold (crown) elements to it. But this is more of a lucky coincidence, in 1848 they adapted pan-Slavic tricolour. Medieval Carniolan flag would probably be white and blue whit small red and gold elements in a coat of arms. In high medieval era there probably was a Carniolan flag, but the flag itself (in medieval times) was not very important, the coat of arms was. The flag was used to show the coat of arms or a motive from a coat of arms, with time the flags became more developed and more important. Modern Carniolan flag has a pan-Slavic tricolor, we could say that they fused Carniolan and Slavic colours together, this flag was however contaminated by Slovenian quislings in 2ww.
      Edit: all ancient and medieval states originally only had a symbol/coat of arms. Original flags were just a background for a sigil/coat of arms. Flags of today are a modern thing.

  • @darioborisevic566
    @darioborisevic566 3 года назад +31

    When i see your mom i immediately hit that like button

  • @thedownfallparodist1145
    @thedownfallparodist1145 3 года назад +7

    Love Slovakia from Croatia

  • @kristoffer-2614
    @kristoffer-2614 3 года назад +12

    0:41 But wasnt she ethnically Hungarian?

  • @kylechauvette9121
    @kylechauvette9121 3 года назад +5

    As a proud Rhode Islander, I’m glad nobody told him about the Big Blue Bug

  • @pecellosi
    @pecellosi 3 года назад +5

    Hahh 2:03 Saint Laszló, King of Hungary... but yes, you get it right they stole this as well, like so much other stuff.
    Greetings from Serbia

  • @manne420blazeit
    @manne420blazeit 3 года назад +1

    Glad you are uploading again in these times

  • @ayeletg943
    @ayeletg943 3 года назад +9

    I so happy you came back!!!!

  • @devinallen6824
    @devinallen6824 3 года назад +6

    Happy new years! Hopefully 2021 will be better

  • @radimgabaj4263
    @radimgabaj4263 3 года назад +6

    2:00 note: Matra is in Hungary actually.😉

  • @shubhb0608
    @shubhb0608 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for your devotion to educate and make us smile because of these light hearted videos!!

  • @otaksir1911
    @otaksir1911 3 года назад +3

    flag fun fact, after the split with the Czech Republic, they agreed that neither will use the Czechoslovakian flag but CZ kinda kept on using it lol

  • @kingdedede584
    @kingdedede584 3 года назад +8

    I love you man! You R an big inspiration 4 me ❤❤❤❤🇧🇦love from bosnia

  • @Zolega89
    @Zolega89 3 года назад +16

    Basicly what Slovaks do, we Hungarians do too!

    • @mrandorex7495
      @mrandorex7495 3 года назад +4

      Örülök hogy vannak itt magyarok!

    • @Zolega89
      @Zolega89 3 года назад +4

      @@mrandorex7495 Lesznek is!

    • @kalyptro123
      @kalyptro123 3 года назад +15

      @@Zolega89 we are practically the same people speaking different language.

    • @MarioAtheonio
      @MarioAtheonio 3 года назад +3

      Populism and corruption, for instance...

    • @MarioAtheonio
      @MarioAtheonio 3 года назад

      @Alex Croton Well, I'm Western, and I don't feel very similar to Eastern Slovaks :)

  • @radoslavciernik244
    @radoslavciernik244 3 года назад

    One thing we have also Peter Sagan (cyclist) he was three-time world champion, 6 or 7 times won green jersey, and one of our favourite sports are skiing. We have Petra Vlhova she was the world champion in giant slalom. btw very good video
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  • @filipmikulasikk1197
    @filipmikulasikk1197 3 года назад +3

    I'm from Slovakia (Nitra) 🇸🇰 and I love 🇨🇿

  • @michaels2007
    @michaels2007 3 года назад +2

    Been watching since the Estonia episode. Keep up the great work man. Love your vids.

  • @kristianbudik9721
    @kristianbudik9721 3 года назад +15

    Hi barb just quick fact Elisabeth Bathory is actualy Hungarian she was born in Nyírbátor.

    • @kristianbudik9721
      @kristianbudik9721 3 года назад +1

      @Alex Croton But she wasn't slovakian.Just because she died in Slovakia doesn't mean she is slovak.

    • @grongar22
      @grongar22 3 года назад

      She was Austrian.

    • @kristianbudik9721
      @kristianbudik9721 3 года назад

      @@grongar22 She was born in Nyírbátor in the Austria-Hungary Empire

  • @susancarolinesk
    @susancarolinesk 3 года назад

    I have been waiting for this episode literally for 4 years ! And It was worth It. Thanks! :)

  • @jancin_
    @jancin_ 3 года назад +10

    I've got a notification while watching the serbian fan friday and waiting for Slovakian😂

  • @maksrossi576
    @maksrossi576 3 года назад +1

    The age-old question of what's so interesting on the right-hand side that Paul is looking at all the time

  • @liltinglullaby3282
    @liltinglullaby3282 3 года назад +16

    1) Elizabeth Bathory was a Hungarian noblewoman, nothing to do with Slovakia, so that record actually goes to Hungary.
    2) 2:03 That is a picture of Saint Stephen I of Hungary, Hungary's first and most important king, founder of the Kingdom of Hungary and patron saint of Hungary and the Hungarian nation.
    3) 2:33 The Coat of Arms of the 2nd flag is a Hungarian coat of arms.

    • @tajoszlav
      @tajoszlav 3 года назад +7

      This is exactly, why Kingdom of Hungary did not survived 20th century. Because you still thinks, that Kingdom of Hungary was full of Hungarians, everything was Hungarian, only Hungarians did everything etc.

    • @liltinglullaby3282
      @liltinglullaby3282 3 года назад +2

      @@tajoszlav um... There are Slovaks in this very comment section saying that Elizabeth Bathory was Hungarian. You can literally google it. lol

    • @tajoszlav
      @tajoszlav 3 года назад +1

      @@liltinglullaby3282 It is like when Hungarians in comments section somewhere esle saying, that Slovak anthem is a Hungarian song. Every nation has these "historicians".

    • @liltinglullaby3282
      @liltinglullaby3282 3 года назад +3

      @@tajoszlav But dude. Other Slovaks are saying in this same comment section that Bathory was Hungarian. It's not my word against yours, it's Slovaks' word against yours.

    • @tajoszlav
      @tajoszlav 3 года назад

      @@liltinglullaby3282 I know and accept that she was a Hungarian, so what is the problem? 😅

  • @LawNOrderHumanRightsUnit
    @LawNOrderHumanRightsUnit 3 года назад +1

    Matra Mountains are in Hungary, yet they appear in both the Slovak and Hungarian COA. Great flag video and great Slovakia Episode! I tend to think of Slovakia, formerly Upper Hungary, as the Central European Lake Tahoe-type country.

  • @daydreamer7518
    @daydreamer7518 3 года назад +6

    There was no such thing as “Czech” flag in Czecho-Slovakia. It was a combined flag where blue triangle symbolised Slovakia and white and red stripes Czech lands. After dissolution, Czechs kept using the flag without Slovak approval and changed the narrative about the blue triangle. (Their excuse for using it was that they didn’t need to obey this federal request anymore, since the federation ceased to exist) Nowadays it symbolises land of Moravia.
    Also about the tree hilltops Tatra, Fatra and Matra. Matra lies in Hungary not Slovakia. We just kept it in our coat of arms for historical reasons.

    • @peto1986
      @peto1986 3 года назад +1

      Exactly. Some mistakes were easily avoided just by doing simple research on Wikipedia:)

  • @DerekWitt
    @DerekWitt 3 года назад

    I once got an East Caribbean quarter as change from a vending machine. It makes a different sound when dropped. I think it’s made out of aluminum.
    I think I still have a 200 Colombian peso in a drawer.
    I also found a 100 Spanish peseta many years ago. It was a 1968 coin, so it had Francisco Franco on it. I don’t know if I still have it. Very fascinating from a historical standpoint.

  • @oliverracz8092
    @oliverracz8092 3 года назад +3

    Tatra Fatra and Matra are not all in Slovakia, Mátra (spelled correctly) is in Hungary and always have been.

  • @bruntelesus3028
    @bruntelesus3028 3 года назад +1

    2:00 Matra is actually not in Slovakia but in Hungary, same mountains are on the coat of arms of Hungary.

  • @H0ll0w_S4mur4i
    @H0ll0w_S4mur4i 3 года назад +22

    🇭🇺 ❤️ 🇸🇰

  • @CaeserOct
    @CaeserOct 3 года назад +1

    Would love to see all this stuff that’s been sent in curated in a museum style exhibition and/or scanned / photographed online.

  • @andrijherasymenko
    @andrijherasymenko 3 года назад +5

    Your mom is hilarious in this episode 😂😂😂

  • @alexbanana9521
    @alexbanana9521 3 года назад +1

    I realy hoped you would mention the fact that the Spiš castle is the biggest castle complex in the central europe.

  • @brianoconnor1721
    @brianoconnor1721 3 года назад +14

    "Slovakia is the biggest I don't give a f**k country" lmao

  • @JennRighter
    @JennRighter 3 года назад +2

    Couldn't be cuter than the puppy, Barbs' mom and Barbs. Just a triforce of cuteness (sorry, Zelda nerd).

  • @szeklergeneral4266
    @szeklergeneral4266 3 года назад +14

    Elizabeth Bathory is hungarian though

    • @vkdrk
      @vkdrk 3 года назад +1

      You can take her. She really represents Hungarians

    • @szeklergeneral4266
      @szeklergeneral4266 3 года назад +2

      @@vkdrk you can also give us back our territory..

    • @grongar22
      @grongar22 3 года назад +1

      @@szeklergeneral4266 and you can go back to your country

    • @szeklergeneral4266
      @szeklergeneral4266 3 года назад

      @@grongar22 i'm not from slovakia

    • @vkdrk
      @vkdrk 3 года назад +2

      @@szeklergeneral4266 there is no such thing as "your territory" . Nothing to give "back".
      Hungarian government signed agreements that they will never claim any former territory because they accept the fact that it never belonged to them.
      It was never yours and I'm glad your government finally accepted it (in 90s).

  • @MacMilly707
    @MacMilly707 3 года назад +2

    Great video/content brotha! Keep up the good work.

  • @kristofnemet2130
    @kristofnemet2130 3 года назад +6

    Btw Elizabeth Barhory was hungarian

  • @CaeserOct
    @CaeserOct 3 года назад +1

    Foundry Distilling started making alcohol spray during the pandemic last year - its the brand I use. Bet their whiskey tastes good too.

  • @mrzsakos585
    @mrzsakos585 3 года назад +8

    Fun(sad)fact:The hills and the cross on the crest are the same what is on the Hungarian crest.☹️

    • @Apollo9791
      @Apollo9791 3 года назад +1

      I don't think so, I believe Slovaks used the double cross since the arrival of Cyril and Methodius, which happened before the ancestors of Hungarians came here. I know this is a very sensitive topic for us Slovaks and also for Hungarians, so please let me know if I'm incorrect.

    • @tajoszlav
      @tajoszlav 3 года назад +2

      First correction: The hills are - Tatra, Matra and Fatra. Only Matra is located in modern Hungary and a lot of Slovaks lived in that area (3 hills represented mountainos/upper part of Kingdom of Hungary = nowadays Slovakia) Hills were added to the coat of arms by Wenceslaus III., Slavic king.
      Second correction: Red shield and double-cross are from (Slavic) Nitra principality, used also by Stephen I. who has a connection with Nitra.
      It is old heritage and of course it was (and still is) on Hungarian coat of arms, because Slovaks were part of Kingdom of Hungary.

    • @mrzsakos585
      @mrzsakos585 3 года назад +1

      @Apollo9791,@Tajoslav
      I think you are right but I deliberately exaggerated a bit about how beautiful places poor Hungarians lost.

    • @pavolkocis7456
      @pavolkocis7456 3 года назад

      Oh well guys seriously?! Is it matter what where and how. Looking at our countries and it's the same shite as it was 30 years ago. Don't know about Hungary question about the wages but in Slovakia 2021 hourly rate is 3.33€! And we are part of the EU nearly 17 years! Common what does it tells you. This is my priority and not some kind a coat of arms or Bathory and whatever. We are colonies of the west sad but true.

  • @nubscrub1840
    @nubscrub1840 3 года назад

    This is the first video I've watched that came out in 2021! What an honorable position

  • @kakukbalazs
    @kakukbalazs 3 года назад +11

    Elizabeth Bathory was hungarian lol. She had some properties and died there but she born in hungary.

    • @peto1986
      @peto1986 3 года назад +1

      Does it really matter tho? In that age everything was hungarian as we didn't even have a proper name, but she lived on this land.

    • @kakukbalazs
      @kakukbalazs 3 года назад

      @@peto1986 True. She is more like a disgrace so doesn't really matter. I just don't like when someone is historically inaccurate

    • @peto1986
      @peto1986 3 года назад

      @@kakukbalazs there are a lot of mistakes in these types of videos, which baffles me a lot too, not only Geography Now but in general. That's why people should not take them seriously but just as an entertainment.

    • @Mattows
      @Mattows 3 года назад

      Really interesting,fighting over who has the biggest female mass murderer/psychopath born in their country.

    • @kakukbalazs
      @kakukbalazs 3 года назад

      @@Mattows Her story is acctualy fake just someone made it up to get her money. In hungary we learn it in school that she was not a mass murderer its just fake

  • @martinnovak8374
    @martinnovak8374 3 года назад +1

    What a beautiful country Slovakia is... I really miss one thing in previous video about SVK - Slovakia have one of the most beautiful and gorgeous women in world! I would also mention more inventors from past, more open air museums and definetly there should be Petra Vlhova, one of the best skier ever! Famous is also big rivalry among Slovaks and Czechs in almost every sport. Although Slovak beer is not so good, we have many good vineyards and very good homemade strong alcohol (spirits), but Tatra tea (which have so many types from 17 to 72%, everyone has different wonderful bottle) is the best :) Though we are small country, we have so many regions with so many differences between them - concerns accent/dialect, culture, behaviour, history, nature... But everywhere people like fun, party, barbecue, celebrations... and everywhere you go, there must be alcohol, Slovaks are wery hospitable.

  • @stayhappylittlemermaid
    @stayhappylittlemermaid 3 года назад +11

    Success comes to those who are honest and confident in their endeavour.

  • @Edumt91
    @Edumt91 3 года назад +1

    7:20 Lol that's old Brazilian currency (Cruzados). It was probably worth cents when it was discontinued due to hyperinflation. The current currency Real (pl. reais) doesn't have a 500 bill. Reis are an extremely old currency.

  • @DudiMr
    @DudiMr 3 года назад +7

    But Báthory was Hungarian

  • @2dimitropolis370
    @2dimitropolis370 3 года назад +1

    Oh we in Serbia love your mom.
    Love for Slovak brothers

  • @maksgrudnik1707
    @maksgrudnik1707 3 года назад +3

    SLOVENIA NEXT YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

  • @xp_studios7804
    @xp_studios7804 3 года назад

    The lower bar on the cross is the one with the arms and nails, and the top one is the sign that Pilate said to put on

  • @felipemilian4000
    @felipemilian4000 3 года назад +12

    Who else wants to see more of barb's mom?

  • @ujjwalbhandari3284
    @ujjwalbhandari3284 3 года назад +1

    She is sooo sweet. Lots of love auntie 😍

  • @TurtleChad1
    @TurtleChad1 3 года назад +8

    A Turtle approved Fan Flag Friday

  • @the_doomcliff
    @the_doomcliff 3 года назад

    Thanks for mentioning Odesa region! Glad you noticed that!

  • @gregweatherup9596
    @gregweatherup9596 3 года назад +1

    It seems Momma B is gradually getting more comfortable being on camera.
    That pronunciation of “Visalia” though, 😂.

  • @mercyaspirast.agbayani477
    @mercyaspirast.agbayani477 3 года назад +8

    Remember everyone: Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia and Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia

  • @Ty_barkley2300
    @Ty_barkley2300 3 года назад

    Happy 2021 everyone

  • @rydernigguh1703
    @rydernigguh1703 3 года назад +3

    BATHORY WAS HUNGARIAN!

    • @BBanzaj
      @BBanzaj 3 года назад

      Didnt she live in present day slovakia tho?

    • @rydernigguh1703
      @rydernigguh1703 3 года назад +1

      @@BBanzaj Yeah but its still doesnt make sense? If im born in a stable, am i going to be a horse?

    • @BBanzaj
      @BBanzaj 3 года назад

      @@rydernigguh1703 I think it's more about the fact that most girls that were killed by the red baroness were also slovak

    • @rydernigguh1703
      @rydernigguh1703 3 года назад +3

      @@BBanzaj slovak doesnt have identity back then.

    • @BBanzaj
      @BBanzaj 3 года назад +1

      @@rydernigguh1703 ethnicity always existed

  • @CHAR0N_19
    @CHAR0N_19 3 года назад +1

    Also, Barbs, I admire how much effort you and your crew put into these videos. I have my own channel as a one man project and I can somehow tell that you put a crazy amount of time and effort into what you believe into and what fulfills you. I would love to see some behind the scenes episode (maybe also to learn some tricks from you guys, or at least see how the proper set looks like).
    I am kind of broke, barelly survived the covid with my reserves before I found a new paying job and had to cancel my patreon support, but I would definitelly back that one episode.
    See you in the better days and keep u this great work. It gets better and better by every episode. XX

  • @hafsaabdi3062
    @hafsaabdi3062 3 года назад +3

    When is the Somalia vid coming?
    Shoutout to my Somali Walalos out there!!!😍😍😍🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴

  • @darreljones8645
    @darreljones8645 3 года назад

    @2:16: Cyril and Methodius, by tradition, also developed the Cyrillic alphabet used to write many Eastern European languages (particularly Russian).

  • @nonantecinq
    @nonantecinq 3 года назад +4

    "She has a name but eh" BYE SJDJDJDK

  • @TheB657
    @TheB657 3 года назад

    Since childhood for me back in Bharat (India) , my parents always took the name : "Czechoslovakia" - and I learnt about Prague from the Indiana Jones video game ! Came to know only after few years the countries were separated to become the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
    My Professor for Power Electronics is from Slovakia and a Slovak German !
    Love the nation, wishing to visit now since I live in the EU.

  • @tuzarichard7605
    @tuzarichard7605 3 года назад +8

    First of all, I would like to point out, that I am a huge fan of the channel. There is just one major problem. Elisabeth Bathory, or Báthory Erzsébet had nothing to do with today's Slovakia. She was a Hungarian noblewoman, just like all nobles from Upper Hungary (now Slovakia). At that time this land, was an integral part of the Kingdom of Hungary. Like it or not, these are the facts. Even the Hungarian capital was in the territory of today's Slovakia. It is Pozsony, or Bratislava as the slovaks call it. Even to this day, there is a huge ethnicly Hungarian part of Slovakia.
    I understand that the Slovaks learn that Bathory was Slovak, and their territory was always Slovak, etc.., I also understand that their government want to legitimize the country's "history". Which is a very tought work, when your nation is one of the youngest, if not THE youngest in Europe. So claiming that everything before the creation of Czechoslovakia was already Slovakian in this territory, even the Hungarian historical figures (such as Bathory) is more than problematic. You can belive it, but for this reason you can also believe in the Easter bunny.
    All in all, in a land, where Hungarians and Slovakians live next to each other, and their relationship is sometimes very problematic, these type of misinformation can create tensions between the two nation and can easily turn them against each other again.

    • @kalyptro123
      @kalyptro123 3 года назад +5

      We don't learn she was Slovak. Even from the name it is clear to all native Slovaks that it's a Hungarian name don't worry.

    • @MrTomro
      @MrTomro 3 года назад +3

      "when your nation is one of the youngest, if not THE youngest in Europe" - yeah, if we're talking about the country itself, but Slovaks (Slavs) have been living here for a longer time than Hungarians. Hungarians came to Europe in the 9th century.

    • @adriano_2492
      @adriano_2492 3 года назад +2

      @@kalyptro123 it's not a problem, we have a common past, there will always be a few misunderstandings

    • @Apollo9791
      @Apollo9791 3 года назад +3

      I completely agree with you that this is a very sensitive topic which can turn neighbors into enemies, but I have to disagree on that "slovaks are trying to legitimize their history" part. Slovaks are not a new nation, they've been here for ages and at no point in time were they Hungarians. The fact that we share our history doesn't make us the same.

    • @kalyptro123
      @kalyptro123 3 года назад +1

      @@Apollo9791 but it does. Our genes are identical because our ancestors didn't differentiate between Slavs and Hungarians, all were just people from the same kingdom. If you dig really deep into your family tree you would find Hungarians as well as Slovaks there. We are really the same people just speaking different language.

  • @jakub78383
    @jakub78383 3 года назад +1

    It's so sad you didn't pay more attention to Slovakian Nature & historical sites. It's worth the whole episode. Our contry is amazing because in it's small terrirory, you can found a lot of geomorphological variety. Therefore we had amazing mountains, castles on a hills and even old volcanoes :)
    Barbs, when you want to come to Slovakia, we could connect and I will take you on a trip through our contry. You would be amazed.
    I'm a studied geographer so I know what I'm talking about ;)

    • @dobryden.6241
      @dobryden.6241 3 года назад

      Ale chyba tam byla, nohejbal není slovenský.

  • @zephyrna6249
    @zephyrna6249 3 года назад +6

    Elizabeth Bathory was Hungarian. The slovak coat of arms is also nearly identical to the Hungarian Coat of arms that pre dates Slovakia even being a concept. With the exclusion of the Sacred Crown of Hungary, and the Red and White stripes standing for the Arpad Dynasty. Also the origins for the double cross is from the Hungarian symbol of the World Tree. A symbol which was later christianized. It upsets me how low quality the Hungarian episode was. When the episodes of the countries that only exist because of trianon and the neutering of Hungary are given much better attention, and are attributed to things that were actually Hungarian. The least you could do is clarify why these countries exist, and where most of their history comes from.

    • @szeklergeneral4266
      @szeklergeneral4266 3 года назад +3

      i agree on the quality. it would be best if old EP's can get a remake to the current quality standard.

    • @davidbarath1
      @davidbarath1 3 года назад

      It is the truth!

  • @PC_Simo
    @PC_Simo 3 года назад +2

    2:04 That’s actually a picture of Stephen I of Hungary; so, neither Slovakian nor Byzantine. 🇭🇺

    • @pb_8206
      @pb_8206 3 года назад +2

      the double cross is byzantine and used in nitra principality in 800.

  • @samuelballa772
    @samuelballa772 3 года назад +3

    Anyone from Slovakia or Czech republic ? 😃🇸🇰🇨🇿