The Origin of Eastern Europe Explained
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The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires. The ancient Greek and Roman empires knew the importance of Eastern Europe for trade and settlement. Later, during the Migration Period, also known as the “Barbarian Invasions,” Eastern Europe became the stomping grounds for many people groups. The Visigoths, Huns, Slavs, and central Asian Turkic tribes like the Avars and Khazars all made their way into Eastern Europe.
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Hungary, Slovakia, Czech, Austria lived 400 years together as one state, one goverment. But Austria is now West and rest is East. Despite the fact that Vienna is much eastern than e.g. Prag. All this east-west concept is just relict of Cold war.
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Not a single country I would say more like many countries that the Habsburgs owned
This is a very, very oversimplified, awkward and disjointed attempt at summarizing an enormous topic. And of course you had to propagate the notion that Rus' = Russia, among many other smaller and greater inaccuracies and omissions. Despite all that I'm glad that you are taking interest in the region and hope you'll continue making videos about it, focusing on more specific topics and improving.
Are you aware that your very profile picture is a depiction of Polish Legions on Haiti, by Polish painter (born in modern-day Belarus) - January Suchodolski?
BTW Most Poles will take offense to being called "Eastern European" and insist that we are "Central". Personally, I don't care either way. I think that this attitude is a misguided reaction to the negative stereotipization and ignorance about this region and its history, treated as something separate from the _proper_ European history.
I mean rus in greek was russia so its somehow the same but yet different
Zivela rusija I srbija 🇷🇺🇷🇸
Rus is NOT Russia, the modern name of Russia was taken in order to appropriate the history of Belarus, Ukraine and other principalities occupied by Moscovy (Novgorod, Ryazan etc). Muscovy is the only correct name. Moscow is in no way related to the golden age of Kyivan Rus.
@@Hello-xh3rx Rus in greek was not Russia. russia stole this name from greek, who called Rus [Rosja] (in russian Russia in Rosya). They took this name to appropriate the history of Rus’ principalities
@@br1ognloid Bruh am Russian, so I know how my country is called lol, how exactly can you appropriate them if they are already yours? Rostov-Suzdal principality? Or the Vladimir when it became the capital of Rus for sometime where later Moscow began to form, so stop the propaganda please
This is very simplified, you didn't even mention the Napielonic wars, this video was pretty much just about Poland and Russia
The summary of Cyril and Methodius is somewhat inaccurate. They didn't form old church Slavonic. They did create the glagolitic alphabet but it wasn't popular. It wasn't until their students developed the Cyrillic alphabet in the First Bulgarian Empire that a common script for eastern slavs becomes reality. What is now referred as Old Church Slavonic finds it's beginnings in the initial writings from the First Bulgarian Empire (although the language was already the common tongue among slavs in the region, only the script was new). You should have mentioned the First Bulgarian Empire in connection to the Cyrillic alphabet as it's a well known fact in history. The then Bulgarian monarchy's and church contribution to popularizing Cyrillic is undeniable.
Yeah, them 'forming' Old Church Slavonic is pretty inaccurate. Forming a script (based on Greek) was a cool deed, but it was created for an already existing language
True fact,Yoan Alexander. Thank you 🙏
I am afraid it's not the Eastern Europe in any sense, neither the Eastern Bloc.
There is nothing like a history of Eastern Europe.
There is no way you did a video on Eastern Europe without any mention of Dacia and Thracia. Watch "The Thracians : a Hidden History" and "Decebalus and the Dacian wars" (Daco-Roman wars)
Awesome, thanks for a new history video!🙏
I love how you skip the schism of 1054
If I were ever to visit that’s where I would go. Greece, Bulgaria
I have not read the book but when I saw how much of Bulgarian history was cut from the ignore that cyril and methodius came to bulgaria making it the first country to spread the cyrilic missing the whole medieval history with cherry on top being you not saying Bulgarians in the first Balkan war even tho we created the union I am just curious is it om purpose or just lack of knowledge
This was a great video. May have omitted some info as others say but when summarizing you kinda have to. Looking forward to more of your work. Thanks
Nice 🎉
Baltic states are in Northern Europe
Basically the whole video was Poland being shit on
Well done. You showed how eastern europe is a constant opressed and war ridden region because it is in between big powers geographically. This is simplified what you did but the main message came across very well even if it was an objective video. I liked watching it. Thank you very much
No mention of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Macedonia, Albania, and Kosovo?
He mentioned Belarus
13:10 "prevent sharing power" he occupied the land. Many many countries occupied the regions of eastern europe. Even to this day in 2022.
The map at 11:52 is wrong, there was no "Moldova" after WW1, Bessarabia united with Romania in 1918.
7:45 Not true, it was not a republic but monarchy (Kingdom)
Great Video... Thanks for Sharing. It Really help a person to understand why our World Wars happened.
Scandinavia was under giant piece of ice. There was large glacier.
Not even once in mentioning poland there was a note to it being polish-lithuanian commonwealth.
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Have You missed the ancient era in Eastern Europa../ Thracians& Geto-dacians for instance... From the 4 th century BC to 1 st century AD!?
Hungary, polland, chzechia and slovakia are central european
Eastern*
I'm polish and central Europe sounds like nonsense to me.
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@@Cvpid_xx OK. I'm taking it back.
Poland is Eastern Europe. Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia is Central.
@@thecatsari9217 only Poland
Q why did Alexander go to the east instead of the west
A because there was nothing to plunder in the west
Flickering over all the pictures is very off-putting.
You massively skipped the inter political relationships that led up to ww2
WTF? Eastern Europe Brief? Where the hell is Poland-USSR war (1919-1921) with "The Eighteenth Decisive Battle of the World: Battle of Warsaw 1920". It is pretty huge gap. instead of that you again back to Germany history with Hitler and stuff... which is well know.
This is superficial. And it makes me laught because I can't imagine some of the stuff. I am for geographic view when we talk about anything that's related to it. The borders are only political. This part of Europe is not homogenous. Each area has own culture, views and history. By the way If I were you, I would go deeper and studied the topic and as someone from Saxony, I would add Saxony...
You really haven't a clue at how complex it really was.
Poland was never eastern Eurooean country. That term from cold war have always been wrong. Poland adopted christianity from Latin western world in 966 AD and had nothing in common with Eastern Europe
We had nothing in common with Eastern Europe? Not even during the multiple centuries when the multiethnic and multiconfessional Polish-Lithuanian union (I'm counting since before the formation of _Rzeczpospolita_ in 1569) stretched as far east as Smolensk and beyond Kyiv?
I think that the problem is not being called "Eastern Europe" but the fact that this "Eastern Europe" is being imagined as something lesser and somehow magically separate from the rest of Europe.
@@Artur_M. Może wy tam na wschodzie. Ja jestem ze Śląska, rodzina ma polsko niemieckie korzenie i nigdy nie pałaliśmy miłością do wschodniaków ani wschodniej tradycji Rzeczypospolitej, ani nie czuliśmy sie częścią Europy wschodniej.
@@pawelnowak9440 Jestem z Łodzi, niby nie tak daleko na wschód ale zawsze Kongresówka. Mamy wielki pomnik takiego jednego spolonizowanego "Litwina" z Białorusi - Kościuszki, a w szkole kazali czytać dzieła następnego, jakiegoś Mickiewicza. Po prostu wschodnia dzicz. 😉
A prawda jest taka, że dla większości ludzi z "zachodu" wszyscy Słowianie są "wschodni" i to nie zaczęło się z zimną wojną. Już Mozart jadąc z Wiednia do Pragi pisał, że jedzie na wschód, mimo że było odwrotnie. Może lepiej walczyć z negatywną stereotypizacją "wschodu" i podkreślać, że cała Europa jest wzajemnie powiązaną całością, niż zarzekać się że wcale nie jesteśmy "wschodni"?
@@saccount-z3 of course, since everyone thinks of Eastern Europe as an Eastern bloc.
Anyone who considers Slovenia and Czechia as Eastern Europe is just ignorant.
Central Europe is in reality Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Croatia. Because they're not like western not even Eastern Europe
Those flashy lights while showing pictures are very annoying and simply unnecessary.
A very simple and inaccurate video with a great deal of arrogance at the end. Beast in Cage ... omg. What is simply called Eastern Europe is divided into 3 parts which are different. Central Europe (German influence), Balkans (Greek and Turkish influence) and Eastern Europe (Russian influence). These territories are culturally, religiously and historically different.
beast in cage is ok. Eastern europeans are trapped between big powers. It was germans/austrians, russia and turks and still is to this day. They're the beasts and one day one of them will attack. Now it's russia. Sad.. war in 2022...
Cimmerians were in Crimea or Cimeria.
I do not agree with some statements, historically some developments in human society have come from the east
Where is Dresden? Where is Saxony? You dare to put there Czech republic but not Saxony?
its about eastern europe
@@robert4598 Yes, and the Czech lands are as much a part of Eastern Europe as Saxony or East Berlin.
@@vermull19 they're central europe
@@robert4598 And that's the point.
@@vermull19 then why say otherwise
Good summary but too much focus on russia
I think you don’t know geography.
Let me remind you: The European continent has its eastern limit to the Caucasus mountains and its western limit to the Atlantic Ocean.
Take now a map of Europe and a ruler, place it on the map in the east-west direction and look where Romania is...
Surprise, it is in the middle of Europe !
Put the same ruler in the north-south direction and see where Romania is...
Wow, it’s still at the heart of Europe !
Do you see how easily we accept false/fanciful things without thinking with our minds ?
Someone once said, “If you don’t use your mind, others will use it.”
Yes, impregnate it with all sorts of fakes, lies and misled theories.
Unfortunately, this is happening all over the world today...
The Center of Europe is the border post at Lithuania, Belarus and Poland
Never watching American history videos again
This video is so historically wrong. You didn’t mention a lot of facts and countries that shaped the Eastern European culture to this day. There’s countries that are older than Kievska Rus.
This fertility wave needs to happen here if y'all insist on dragging out this conflict .
No mentions of the Indo Europeans or Scythians in the discussion of the history of Eastern Europe is shameful and criminal.
You should be boycotted.
Seriously? There are ancient civilizations like the Dacians and the Thracians that lived in the area long before the Slavs. This is a very, very weird, selective version of history that doesn't explain Central Eastern Europe's identity and cultural diversity at all.
0:26 just curious for anyone smart, aren't 🇫🇮Finland, 🇨🇾Cyprus, 🇹🇷Turkey, 🇦🇲Armenia, 🇦🇿Azerbaijan, 🇬🇪Georgia & 🇰🇿Kazakhstan considered 'Eastern European' too?
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No not really, they all belong into diffrent groups, maybe with the exception of Armenia and Georgia but those also lay in a region between europe and asia.
Not really, Finland is considered Northern Europe/Scandinavia with Cyprus and Turkey often in a grey area where they’re Southern European but also not. As for the other ones they’re considered in Asia with the exception of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia being considered in Asia under the Caucus terminology
Your right Finland is europe
Finland 🇫🇮 is a Nordic and western country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸 politically, economically, religiously, culturally and geographically. They all are prosperous countries with high standard of living.
None of them never were under communism. Never parts of Soviet union and never eastern bloc countries. Also they all are members of Nordic council.
And the countries have quite rich history. You are using their inventions and words every day. You wouldn't be probably alive without their existence. We are all talking trought Hungarian-Turing machines.
The actual concept of eastern Europe derives from the UNO, Headquarter in New York.
The west demands his superiorty in defining what "the east" is and how he is to be treated. See Treaties after WW1 or the Yalta conference 1945.
This attitude is rooted in the ancient Greeks and in the Roman Empire, feeling superior.😢 There is no understanding without speaking or at least understanding the elaborated "eastern" languages east of England, France and Italy. Up to this day, only few westerns do so. willing to do so. It is simply an arrogant, politically an imperialistic attitude.
Term eastern Europe was only use for Kievan Rus trough the history and during cold war it was use for other countries under Communism, beacuse many countries like Poland, Czechia, Hungary etc. Was through the history called central Europe beacuse of HRE, or austrian empire
Kind of missed the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth hard to miss but I’m guessing you know your history from US so I can’t blame you
@@saccount-z3 Where it is always just divided into smaller state units as it was before 1800 and together they are part of a larger whole just like before 1800 only back then it was called the Holy Roman Empire and today the EU which includes slightly larger states, I'm deliberately not saying more because there were quite a few German states in their time.
Just here for Poland, Romania, Russia etc are central Europe bla bla bla
Rus and Russian are not the same thing. Rus are the predecessors of Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians. It's like saying the the Romans and Romanians are the same thing.
this explains nothing, because it misses the point. eastern europe as a some sort of monolith with anything in common exists only in the minds of western people who do not know or care about the history before world war II and yalta conference, which drew the line. for some reason, eastern germany gets the free pass, though, and does not count.
anyway. I am a czech and czech history has a lot more in common with a history of germany (because czech kingdom was in the holy roman empire) and austria (because habsburgs) than with russia (weird country far afar, the only thing common is a similar language).
East Germany is German and in the picture as presented by the Frankfurt Schul version of all History in West Europe and US.
Among Czech and other Slavic intellectuals and politicans, panslavism was quite popular in the 1800s. That meant in the end to cut off almost all ties with
Germany and Austria-Habsburg, especially by the expulsions and genocide against the German minorities from late 1944 on.
It took the harsh rule of Sovjetunion Union in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Riga, to teach
these nations that slavic brotherhood had been just wishful thinking.
@@rudolfkraffzick642 panslavism as an idea during the national revival, yes. shared history with russia, no.
So about my country there was only twice the name of the country, although each time different but that's all.
And the need to reduce UN fees.
This is one of the worst videos on the topic. It jumps from a few thousand years BC to the Middle Ages (forgetting about the Greeks and Romans). There are lots of stock pictures but very little in terms of maps or regional context. Don't waste your time with this video.
Sir you Joke ignoret Bulgaria 🇧🇬 one of tre Super Europen Powers 8-10 half century in Europe.was Bulgatlria have Empire half today Europe is Tribals.
Wrong
And what is the use of such an unreliable and biased film?
This is very inaccurate and shalowly researched. Every 10yo kid in Europe has bigger knowledge than creator of this video.
Starting with the fact that Europeans arrived not from glacier in Scandinavia, try live in a glacier in the ice age...
We came from a land where people can survive - Anatolia, and entered Europe c.a. 4000BC from Ukrainian steppe.
12:03 wtf? Dude you are totally misinformed even in such recent events as IWW!?
I'm totally disappointed with this video, this is simply huge accumulation of lack of knowledge and avoiding any elementary-school-level research.
Shout out Poland!
Say what you will about The East I believe they have the more beautiful ladys