@@Art-ey7xj The Red and Blue color came from the Flag of Paris while the White came from the flag of Kingdom of France and color of its monarchy. The Red and Blue color sandwiching the the White color means the People of Paris (or the French People) taking over the monarchy.
I don't recall if Finland is one of them, but yeah. There are a surprising number of relatively obscure steppe groups that made their way onto the flag iirc
@@petemagnuson7357 They may be obscure to us today, but these central Asian khanates were the successor states ti the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan. The defeat of these khanates is quite important in Russian history; in particular, the defeat of the Khanate of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible cemented Moscow as the predominant Russian state (as opposed to Kiev or Novogorod), and the victory was commemorated with the building of the Church of the Intercession of the Theotokos (St Basil's Cathedral) is Red Square. The defeat of Kazan, and later Astrakhan, represented the reversal of the power relationship between the Russians and the Tatars, the latter of which dominated the former for the 300 or so years between the Mongol invasions and Ivan the Terrible' time. It also represented the triumph of Christianity over Islam, as both Kazan and Astrakhan had become Muslim by the time of Ivan IV.
@@bertjanspeedfight2 Inclusief mijn staat, Republik Indonesia 🇮🇩 (Republiek Indonesië), de voormalige kolonie en het voormalige kostbaarste bezit en ook de voormalige gordel van smaragd van de Koninkrijk der Nederlanden 🇳🇱, d.w.z. Kolonie Nederlandsch-Indië
@Leander Herman Inclusief mijn staat, Republik Indonesia 🇮🇩 (Republiek Indonesië), de voormalige kolonie en het voormalige kostbaarste bezit en ook de voormalige gordel van smaragd van de Koninkrijk der Nederlanden 🇳🇱, d.w.z. Kolonie Nederlandsch-Indië
This is why you see *three* crowns above the double-headed eagle: Moscow is the "Third Rome," after Rome and Constantinople, "and there will be no fourth."
@Theodore Macewko i would say: Lets do a movie about it, i would say, you are a better claimant to the micronation: Russian Empire (made by Anton Bakov) i would say, i would want to know more more and more. Are you Russian to this day thou?
@Theodore Macewko Islamic prophecy mentions the conquest of Constantinople towards the end of time, but, it does appear that in this approaching end of time conquest that occurs just before the appearance of the anti - Christ in the Middle East (rather than the one that has already occurred under the Ottomans), miraculous aid will be given to the Muslims which will mean that they will overcome the city's defences. N.B. The above, by default, then means that Muslims, at some point, will lose control of the city and will only regain control of it just before the anti - Christ appears. (There is an independent minded Muslim scholar who has many, many clips on RUclips about this subject matter. In fact, Imran Hosein (the scholar's name) has had lots of discussions with very eminent Orthodox priests about end time prophecy: the conclusion being that they have a lot that they agree on.
But more importantly - Are the Dutch so tall because being 2m or taller is considered a significant evolutionary survival advantage since most of the country is barely above the waterline?
@Lukas Engel in the middle ages noblemen apparently had very pale skin because they didnt work outdoors in the fields so you could easily see their veins, which are blue, so some claimed to have blue blood, hence the expression
@obama soooo....a nations flag should be based on a four year olds drawing skills? Also, they just keep using the same colors over and over so they get kinda confuseing due to all looking VERY much the same.
@obama yeah but with most flags around being red, white and blue stripes in a way that confuses most adults: tricolours have been used to the point of defeating their own point
@obama take the triangular palm tree on white background Kanem Bornu flag, the main predecessor to Chad: impose that over a modern rectangular flag with blue for Lake Chad in the remaining space: boom you've got white triangle with blue corners/background and a palm tree. Immediately distinct and represents the history and culture of the people there, instead of looking almost identical to the one of a neighboring colonial power famous for stealing hands. But politicians don't care about this shit like culture or humans, just want something quick when they send the soldiers in to start their dictatorship
I don't know if this has been answered yet, but will the video glitches and artifacting ever get fixed? it gets really annoying when you post a video about tricolor flags and the bottom third of the flag doesn't load into the video.
6:14 There is a very simple explanation of Rus. Rus is the Latin word like the English word rustic, meaning "countryside" or "rural", which is a translation of the Polish and Russian "pole" meaning a field, from which we get the name for Poland. Thus, Russia and Poland mean essentially the same thing in the Latin and Slavic languages respectively. Rus (Pole) refers to the open plains/fields inhabited by the Slavs, who are thus called plains-dwellers, as opposed to the ecumene of the Roman world. There is a similar Greek word Georgian, which means farmer, that refers to the people living east of the Greeks in the Caucasus. So the Latin Rus, Slavic Pole, and Greek Georgian is meant to refer to the rural peoples to the east of the Greco-Roman world.
@@nieboniebieskie3502 You are welcome. I worked this one out myself, but there can be no doubt it is correct because Pole and Rus mean the same thing in Polish/Russian and Latin respectively. This also explains why the Georgians are called Georgians at least by the West. It has nothing to do with St George, but follows the same principle above. It is from the Greek this time for farmer. The Greco-Roman world distinguished the ecumene (or inhabited world) of the Roman empire from that of the steppes. Rus is therefore an appropriate name for all the peoples (especially the Slavs) from Poland eastwards.
humm, looks like a German flag copycat, but i guess the contemporary German flag was different to what it is today. In that case the Germans copied off that flag.
Totally, looks much better. If they want, they can still honour their Dutch and communist past by putting a red chevron on it, maybe even with a blue eagle in that bit.
@@sushanalone no copy case by anyone. Germany uses red instead of white. At that time there was no "German" flag, because they was no unified germany, however the flag that is used today was first used around 1813-1815 by forces fighting against the french occupation of German lands, thus it became a symbol for German patriotism and the striving for a united Germany.
And the colours white, blue and red (in unknown order) were used for the flag of the ship "Oryol" in that very 1669. How can it be influenced by orange-white-blue Dutch flag thirty years later?
Apart from technical knowledge on shipbuilding and the like, many Dutch nautical terms were brought to Russia. Still, much of Russian nautical terminology are Dutch words.
Saint-Petersburg, a new founded city by Peter the Great was written in Dutch manner at first, but it changed to German one eventually. Sankt-Piterburkh vs Sankt-Peterburg
I believe the white blue red white flag was peter the great ideas based on the dutch republic aka the Netherlands because he admired them and most of western europe and reform russia culture to be more western. He is the most loved but is criticized for obsessing over western Europe than respecting the original culture and old traditions of russia and while he was praised for his reforms and changes the biggest complaint was it changing to much on their culture.
Fun-fact: Did you know in the russian monarchy flag the meaning of the horseman and the black dragon refers to the russian victory of Tartary(probably another term for the mongol empire), this is true since the flag of tartary is a dragon figure similar to the dragon figure in the russian monarchy flag
@@markgreen950 Pahonia? Yeah, that's because they used to all be one country. Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus (even parts of Ukraine) were all in one Commonwealth; this is why it's the same symbol that Belarus and Lithuania can both claim.
As a vexillophile and supporter of democracy, I would agree! In the event that the Belarusian protests succeed (which, of course, would change Lukashenko's flag out for the white-red-white flag, which looks better in the first place), I plan on making my own video about Belarusian flags! I already have a series on my channel, _Sigillum_ _Multarum._ All I need is for regime change (and by extension, flag change) to occur in Belarus, and I might do a video about the flag of Belarus: white, red, and white. For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus#White-red-white_flag en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Belarus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_protests en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_democracy_movement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_Council
The vikings calles ”rus” are calles like that because they came from the region of ”roslagen” in Sweden, ros in swedish is kind of pronounced like rus. At least thats what I have heard
This is a very interesting video, but it could have gone further. The flags of the Holy Roman and Austrian Empires had a similar design and the imperial flags, eagle on gold are so close a vexillologist might be required to tell the difference that went unnoticed by the general public.
Hilbert's family is from the Dutch province of Fryslân, and guess what, they have some nice red leaves (Pompeblêd) in their flag. Now who else was it that has a big red leaf in their flag... Strange people that make a boring leaf their national symbol instead of something exciting like a double-headed eagle;-)
Hi Hilbert, since you like the Frisian and Russian theme, you might want to check the history of Rurik of Friesland, who was the founder of the ruling dynasty in Rus and later Russia from 9th to 17th century.
Yeah and check Kievan Rus also known as Kyivan Rus. Then you know why former capital was named Kiev and now is part of Ukraine and Rusland came from his last name.
@@einarmar7445 The origins of Rus and the foundation of Kyivan Rus have sparked a centuries-long debate that continues to this day. Scholars have debated whether Kyivan Rus was created by the political self-organization of East Slavic tribes or if they invited outsiders, the Varangian Rus people (a group of Vikings) from Scandinavia, to come and create it for them. Most of our knowledge of the period comes from the Primary Chronicle, written by the Kyivan monk Nestor at the beginning of the 12th century. Some of its details are questionable, having been written much later after the events. The Primary Chronicle tells of the first of several powerful East Slavic tribes, most notably the Polianians. According to the Primary Chronicle, their chief, Kyi, built a town along with his brothers Shchek and Khoryv and sister Lybid in the fifth century and called it Kyiv. According to the chronicle's version of events, around the mid-ninth century, groups of East Slavic and Finnic tribes, at the time vassals of the Varangians, had set out to rule themselves. Failing to do so peacefully, they sent an invitation to Varangian Rus nobles to rule over their lands. How Russia has attempted to erase Ukrainian language, culture throughout centuries The Primary Chronicle says that upon receiving the invitation, the Rus' sent three brothers, Rurik, Sineus, and Truvor, to govern Staraya Ladoga (another chronicle calls it Novgorod), Beloozero, and Izborsk-all located in modern-day Russia. After his brothers' deaths, Rurik moved to Novgorod. As the story goes, two of Rurik's boyars, Askold and Dir, were sent to Constantinople and, on their way, stopped in Kyiv. Along with other Varangians, they managed to establish control over the city. In the late ninth century, the new Varangian ruler of Novgorod, Oleh, came to Kyiv, killed Askold and Dir, and united the northern and southern lands, proclaiming Kyiv the capital and the mother of Rus cities, thus establishing the state that would later come to be known as Kyivan Rus. "Although one can and should question many details of (the Primary Chronicle)...the legend probably echoes the actual consolidation of power by one group of Vikings in the forested regions of eastern Europe between present-day Velikii Novgorod and Kyiv," Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy points out in his book on Ukrainian history titled The Gates of Europe. Kyivan Rus was from 9th up to 13th century preceded by: Ilmen Slavs, Krivichs, Chud, Volga Finns, Dregoviches, Radimichs, Eastern Polans, Severians, Drevlians, Vyatichi, Volhynians, White Croatia, Tivertsi, Ulichs Succeeded by :Principality of Kiev, Novgorod Republic, Principality of Chernigov, Principality of Pereyaslavl, Vladimir-Suzdal, Principality of Volhynia, Principality of Halych, Principality of Polotsk, Principality of Smolensk, Principality of Ryazan, Mongol Empire
There is a marvelous quote from memoirs of the French ambassador (M. Palèologue?) in St Petersburg at the start of the First World War, as how the three Allied flags (UK, France, Russia) were flying together, in harmony and symmetry of their colors, portended well for their future war cooperation. I remember reading it at a 10 year old, in Nicholas and Alexandra, a book I now keep in storage. But here it is from his memoirs online: "The flags of the three nations blend very eloquently. Composed of the same colours, blue, white and red, they are a very picturesque and striking expression of the interdependence of the three nations of the coalition."
4:10 oh, that's a long history of red being for the people. I'm guessing often it also stood for the blood of those that fell for the country? That were often 'the people'. So that makes sense.
While it's true the Romans loved their eagles, the two-headed eagle was formerly an old Anatolian symbol later adopted by the ERE and merged with their loved of eagles. Later of course it is used as a symbol of Imperium (e.g. HRE).
the Bolsheviks used flags with the writing: Long live the Red terror. They were nasty commie rats, what else can you expect other nasty symbols of death and destruction
Great Video as usual but the only „issue“ I would like to bring attention to would be that at 5:58 the Abbassids replaced the Ummayads and not the other way around :)
It so strange to hear the word Tsar in English. You should make a video about the origin of that term. Correct would be csar short for caesar and it's also roman influence.
So I was a bit disappointed that you did not mention the actual symbolism of the two-headed eagle (as far as I know, the Western Romans, the earlier ones, never used it, only the single-headed eagle, but I could be wrong). The two-headed eagle in the East Roman, or "Byzantine" Empire, represents the two powers of the state and the Church, theoretically equal, and existing in a "symphonia". The Russians tried to emulate this in their own polity, but it seems that state came to dominate, not unlike NW European after the Reformation. Prior to that, in the West, the Church actually dominated, possibly largely because there was but one Church, centered in Rome, and many, often many, many states. Thus, it is likely that for the Russians, the HRE, and others who used the two-headed eagle, the main thing was to demonstrate the alleged continuity with the (East) Roman Empire. This brings me to another issue: in the video it is implied that Constantinople is no longer the center of Orthodox Christianity. Well, that is what the Russians would like to be the case. However, regardless of the fact that first the Ottomans and then, the Turks, have ruled for many centuries what was once the Byzantine Empire (now, at least in terms of Anatolia), the Ecumenical Patriarchate still exists and remains in Constantinople, now called Istanbul. The Ecumenical Patriarch is the "first among equals" among Eastern Orthodox bishops, not the "Orthodox Pope." However, the Russians have long considered Moscow "the Third Rome" and the Patriarchate of Moscow, not to mention the Putin regime, indeed have papal pretensions. This has been manifested most recently when the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew, granted independent (autocephalous) status to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The OCU had long been part of the Russian Orthodox Church and because of this action on the part of the EP, Moscow has broken communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Churches in communion with it, most notably the Greek Orthodox Churches throughout the world. Other national Orthodox Churches have also broken communion with the EP, following Moscow's lead, thus producing a rupture in world-wide Eastern Orthodoxy. Again, the Patriarch of Moscow would like to be the Eastern Orthodox pope, and Putin wouldn't mind that either. Actually, come to think of it, the Patriarch of Moscow no doubt would like to be THE Pope (and again, Putin would not object). Very little chance of that happening, however.
The Sultanate of Ternate and the sultanate of Bima have the symbol of a double-headed eagle. The Sultanate of Ternate and the Sultanate of Bima have now become part of the Republic of Indonesia since August 17, 1945
You missed to mention the cross flags of the 17th century. Check it out, please. There was also an early version of the tricolor flag in the form of a cross flag - a blue cross and red and white corners.
Actually the Soviet flag was not the russian flag. Soviet Union and Russia are being conflated; Soviet Union was made up of many republics which each had their own flag, one of which was the russian Republic, which actually had a blue stripe at the left hand side of the flag. The one with just the red and hammer and sickle and star was the flag of the Union of the republics.
Vladimir did not choose between the Orthodox church and the Catholic church because at the time they were the same Church. Vladimir chose between Church rites one being Latin based and the other being Greek based. Vladimir Chose the Greek based rite because Byzantium was nearer and their were nearer social ties. The Greek based liturgy was then translated into Slavonic by Saint Cyril and Methodius for the slavs to use. They are accepted as Saints both in the Orthodox and Catholic churches as they preceded the schism of 1054. The double headed eagle was used by Prussia, Russia, Poland, Germany, Austria, and even in small cities in Great Britain eg Salisbury. This is most clearly seen in the commerative china in Salisbury for the 1887 and 1897 Jubilees for Queen Victoria. Also on the City of Salisbury/ New Sarum silver wear held in the Guild Hall in Salisbury. Keep making the interesting videos.
8:35 Vlasov did not use the white-blue-red flag. The Russian St. Andrew's flag was officially used. The use of white-blue-red was a private initiative of people who opposed the Bolsheviks.
I thought that black eagle was German couldn’t the change from gold to black for the eagle be related to the taking over of Russia by Holstein gotorp who married into the Romanov family?
So the double-headed eagle was descendent from the aquila? Specifically through the Byzantines? I wonder if that means the "double head" part is because of the split of the Roman Empire into two.
I'm not sure you a correct about the genesis of the double-headed eagle in Russia. While Vladimir the Great of Kiev did marry a "born in the purple" Byzantine princess, he didn't adopt the double-headed eagle. The isn't even good evidence that the Romans themselves were using it at the time (they were using either the Chi-Rho standard of Constantine pr the Cross with 4 sigmas flag). Rather the adoption of the Byzantine eagle is a 16th Century event coinciding with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. The fall of "The City" meant that the "second Rome" was gone, and after Ivan the Terrible's roughly contemporaneous defeat of the Islamic Khanates that were born out of the Gold Horde, Moscow, of which Ivan was Grand Prince, became the "third Rome." The adoption of the Byzantine eagle was a declaration that Russia was now the head of Christendom (since the first Rome - Rome - wandered off into the heresy of Catholicism and its successors, and the second Rome - Constantinople - fell to the Muslims).
You probably confuse two different Ivans and different events. Ivan III is the one, who witnessed the fall of Constantinople and started using the eagle because he was married to Sophia Paleologina, while Paleologi dynasty was the ruling dynasty in Byzantium and was using the two headed eagle. Ivan IV (the terrible) was his grandson and the first to start consistently using the Tsar (Ceasar) title.
@@daniilfedotov8922 Oh. You are right. Oops. Nevertheless, it was still Ivan III, not Vladimir the great of Kiev, who both adopted the double-headed eagle and advanced the idea of the Third Rome.
It is believed the Rus mainly hailed from the region of Roslagen, which would make their demonym in old swedish "Ros" and plural "Roser" (pronunced "roos" and "rooser")
@JGW Yes because "lag" is an old word for an area, it was named Roslagen after the Rus. The danish viking rule in England is known as "Danelagen" as well
Very interresting! I would have liked to know what the justification was to go back to a flag that symbolises the monarchy (with the white=god, blue= king/tsar and red=people with god on top, and the king ruling over the people) after the self determination of russia. I felt like your video was comming towards this most recent change back to the old and it... stopped.
0:21 I really hate those tricolors I think they should at least have some kind of emblem in the middle something that looks like it belongs to the respective nation
NOT Bijzantium: Bi-zantium. It is not of Latin root bi (double). Y is Ygreque or Ypsilon = 'thin i' and was long indistinguishable from normal i = iota. Thanks for reading.
can the eagle also have meaning because the natives used to worship big birds before christianity gained speed? i doubt it is purely because of the romans, especially since it has 2 heads
The real meaning of the double headed eagle is that Russia (as well as the Bizantine Empire) was an empire not only looking to expand westwards, but eastwards; hence depicting the eurasian character of these empires.
I dunno if my answer is revelant after more than one year, but actually no. Conquest of Siberia began during Ivan the Terrible ( more accurate translation would be Ivan the Formidable, but The Terrible is more commonly used in English), and the two-headed eagle was adopted by Ivan the Great, more than 80 years before. Actual reason was his marriage with Sofia Paleologe, and the adoption of this coat of arms symbolized Moscow's descendancy of Byzantium
Re the 1991 and 1993 flags, the Russian language has different words for different shades of blue. The 1991 flag was "goluboy" sky blue, and Yabloko and other new, democratic movements preferred it to the color of the Imperial Russian flags. But the Russian Federation settled on the original "siniy" dark blue, associated with more conservative, nationalistic political forces -- at least since the 1990s.
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 Are you sure? It's pretty well-established that light blue is associated with liberalism and reform. In Greece, for example (and culturally close to Russia), liberals display the Greek national flag in light blue and white, while conservatives adopted dark blue and white in response. You can differentiate a Greek political march's political orientation in a glance. And look at photos of early Nineties Russian demos.
@@jaykaufman9782 The proportions of the flag also followed Soviet standard. The yellow green red Lithuanian flag also had the same proportions around this time.
'can i copy your flag?'
'sure, but don't make it look obvious!'
*flips the colours and slaps an eagle on it*
Then the French: *make lines vertical instead of horizontal*
@@Art-ey7xj Yes, my comment was just a joke.
•Leonardo DiCaprio Smart Laugh•
@@Art-ey7xj The Red and Blue color came from the Flag of Paris while the White came from the flag of Kingdom of France and color of its monarchy. The Red and Blue color sandwiching the the White color means the People of Paris (or the French People) taking over the monarchy.
Czechs (and Slovaks): "Put the blue in a wedge! And in the tricolour, put the red in the middle!"
Tsar was visiting Netherlands. Saw dominance of the Dutch. Thought, Wilhelmus gud.
Dutch: This our fleet, and how we use them.
Tsar: Forget about the ships! Tell me about the flag!
Had some spices. Couldn't remember what his flag looked like. Opted for something simpler.
@@Rhymael Spices: *Exists*
Dutch people: 😍
well you know what they say "if it ain't Dutch it ain't much"
@@RiddermarkMarshal But Spice isn't Dutch.
7:50 .Fun fact: these smaller emblems are representing parts of Russian Empire like Poland, Finland etc.
I don't recall if Finland is one of them, but yeah. There are a surprising number of relatively obscure steppe groups that made their way onto the flag iirc
@@petemagnuson7357 They may be obscure to us today, but these central Asian khanates were the successor states ti the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan. The defeat of these khanates is quite important in Russian history; in particular, the defeat of the Khanate of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible cemented Moscow as the predominant Russian state (as opposed to Kiev or Novogorod), and the victory was commemorated with the building of the Church of the Intercession of the Theotokos (St Basil's Cathedral) is Red Square. The defeat of Kazan, and later Astrakhan, represented the reversal of the power relationship between the Russians and the Tatars, the latter of which dominated the former for the 300 or so years between the Mongol invasions and Ivan the Terrible' time. It also represented the triumph of Christianity over Islam, as both Kazan and Astrakhan had become Muslim by the time of Ivan IV.
@BxxDxx Hoodoo I don't understand your question. Tartatria? I've never heard of it before.
Kazan, Poland, Chersones(Ukraine), Novgorod-Kiev-Vladimir, Finland, Georgia, Siberia, Astrakhan
Our man literally never fails to include the Dutch anthem in these videos 😂
Imagine how mutch influence such a small nation had on the world back than
@@bertjanspeedfight2
Inclusief mijn staat, Republik Indonesia 🇮🇩 (Republiek Indonesië), de voormalige kolonie en het voormalige kostbaarste bezit en ook de voormalige gordel van smaragd van de Koninkrijk der Nederlanden 🇳🇱, d.w.z. Kolonie Nederlandsch-Indië
@Leander Herman
Inclusief mijn staat, Republik Indonesia 🇮🇩 (Republiek Indonesië), de voormalige kolonie en het voormalige kostbaarste bezit en ook de voormalige gordel van smaragd van de Koninkrijk der Nederlanden 🇳🇱, d.w.z. Kolonie Nederlandsch-Indië
@@bertjanspeedfight2 imagine how much influence such small nation of England had back then
This is why you see *three* crowns above the double-headed eagle: Moscow is the "Third Rome," after Rome and Constantinople, "and there will be no fourth."
Number 3 is a sacred numba!
@Theodore Macewko descendant of Nikolay II Romanov?
@Theodore Macewko i would say: Lets do a movie about it, i would say, you are a better claimant to the micronation: Russian Empire (made by Anton Bakov) i would say, i would want to know more more and more.
Are you Russian to this day thou?
@Theodore Macewko Islamic prophecy mentions the conquest of Constantinople towards the end of time, but, it does appear that in this approaching end of time conquest that occurs just before the appearance of the anti - Christ in the Middle East (rather than the one that has already occurred under the Ottomans), miraculous aid will be given to the Muslims which will mean that they will overcome the city's defences.
N.B. The above, by default, then means that Muslims, at some point, will lose control of the city and will only regain control of it just before the anti - Christ appears. (There is an independent minded Muslim scholar who has many, many clips on RUclips about this subject matter. In fact, Imran Hosein (the scholar's name) has had lots of discussions with very eminent Orthodox priests about end time prophecy: the conclusion being that they have a lot that they agree on.
@Theodore Macewko bro you are delusional
But more importantly -
Are the Dutch so tall because being 2m or taller is considered a significant evolutionary survival advantage since most of the country is barely above the waterline?
Idk
Weet ik niet.
But in all seriousness, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I live in the Netherlands and don't know, I'm 2.01M and it's cool
@@calibvr hello fellow Nederland
@@Axluratt gjello
0:14 As a person who knows TNO, that flag (right) looks very *very* familiar...
0:45 As well as that face...
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haha i wanted to comment the exact same thing 😂
btw, check your clock 😳😳😳
The Regent endures...
when you meet a guy at his place for the first time and he has the old Soviet banner on the wall, well that is a big red flag!
Hah good one!
I'm using it today on my work Skype call
"Red was for the people"
*soviet anthem intensifies*
Red was for the people? I though Red was for the blood spill for the Russian home land.
@@someguy9293 to be honest over the years there were made so much interpretations so the original one became hard to find
@@someguy9293 god is in the sky, the King has blue blood and the peasants red blood
@Lukas Engel in the middle ages noblemen apparently had very pale skin because they didnt work outdoors in the fields so you could easily see their veins, which are blue, so some claimed to have blue blood, hence the expression
comunists are against people
5:57 its the other way around the Abasids repalced the Umayyads
The black, gold and white flag just looks like a desaturated German flag.
no
you mean Holy Roman Empire
maybe
Like former Austrian flag but added the white band below
The history of the black white and red is actually quite similar with that of the black yellow white one.
Tricolors are overrated, this comment was brought to you by #NotTriColorGang
I blame the French
Canada here, anyone like leaves?
@obama soooo....a nations flag should be based on a four year olds drawing skills? Also, they just keep using the same colors over and over so they get kinda confuseing due to all looking VERY much the same.
@obama yeah but with most flags around being red, white and blue stripes in a way that confuses most adults: tricolours have been used to the point of defeating their own point
@obama take the triangular palm tree on white background Kanem Bornu flag, the main predecessor to Chad: impose that over a modern rectangular flag with blue for Lake Chad in the remaining space: boom you've got white triangle with blue corners/background and a palm tree. Immediately distinct and represents the history and culture of the people there, instead of looking almost identical to the one of a neighboring colonial power famous for stealing hands. But politicians don't care about this shit like culture or humans, just want something quick when they send the soldiers in to start their dictatorship
He watched too much Hilbert, that he Wilhelmus-ed himself
Napoleon? At you suppose to be on Island of Staint Helena?
I love the flag of the HRE so I also like the Russian eagle flag
If you are interested in this flags. I have videos about them on my channel)
Hilbert's fascination witht the Dutch (flag) comes around ;)
Isn't Hilbert Dutch him self, tho?
@@someguy9293 He is i believe from Frisia as well. Definitly from the Netherlands
@@alandia764 Either way, he must love spices.
@@someguy9293 All true.
@@historywithhilbert Friesland Gang
I don't know if this has been answered yet, but will the video glitches and artifacting ever get fixed? it gets really annoying when you post a video about tricolor flags and the bottom third of the flag doesn't load into the video.
5:57 the Abbasid empire came after the Umayad, not the other way around.
I am glad I wasn't the only one who noticed this!
6:14 There is a very simple explanation of Rus.
Rus is the Latin word like the English word rustic, meaning "countryside" or "rural", which is a translation of the Polish and Russian "pole" meaning a field, from which we get the name for Poland.
Thus, Russia and Poland mean essentially the same thing in the Latin and Slavic languages respectively.
Rus (Pole) refers to the open plains/fields inhabited by the Slavs, who are thus called plains-dwellers, as opposed to the ecumene of the Roman world.
There is a similar Greek word Georgian, which means farmer, that refers to the people living east of the Greeks in the Caucasus.
So the Latin Rus, Slavic Pole, and Greek Georgian is meant to refer to the rural peoples to the east of the Greco-Roman world.
interesting. I have never heard of such an etymology of Russia before
@@nieboniebieskie3502 You are welcome.
I worked this one out myself, but there can be no doubt it is correct because Pole and Rus mean the same thing in Polish/Russian and Latin respectively.
This also explains why the Georgians are called Georgians at least by the West. It has nothing to do with St George, but follows the same principle above. It is from the Greek this time for farmer.
The Greco-Roman world distinguished the ecumene (or inhabited world) of the Roman empire from that of the steppes.
Rus is therefore an appropriate name for all the peoples (especially the Slavs) from Poland eastwards.
I prefer the black, gold and white flag. Looks more unique/distinguishable from the current one.
humm, looks like a German flag copycat, but i guess the contemporary German flag was different to what it is today. In that case the Germans copied
off that flag.
Totally, looks much better. If they want, they can still honour their Dutch and communist past by putting a red chevron on it, maybe even with a blue eagle in that bit.
@obama Yeah...but we're not "all Russians", or the majority, or even leadership - what's to say what they want?
@@sushanalone no copy case by anyone.
Germany uses red instead of white.
At that time there was no "German" flag, because they was no unified germany, however the flag that is used today was first used around 1813-1815 by forces fighting against the french occupation of German lands, thus it became a symbol for German patriotism and the striving for a united Germany.
Dutch: *Creats Tri-Color flag with Red, Blue, and White*
France, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Ireland: It's free estate!
And the colours white, blue and red (in unknown order) were used for the flag of the ship "Oryol" in that very 1669. How can it be influenced by orange-white-blue Dutch flag thirty years later?
Apart from technical knowledge on shipbuilding and the like, many Dutch nautical terms were brought to Russia. Still, much of Russian nautical terminology are Dutch words.
Saint-Petersburg, a new founded city by Peter the Great was written in Dutch manner at first, but it changed to German one eventually. Sankt-Piterburkh vs Sankt-Peterburg
I believe the white blue red white flag was peter the great ideas based on the dutch republic aka the Netherlands because he admired them and most of western europe and reform russia culture to be more western. He is the most loved but is criticized for obsessing over western Europe than respecting the original culture and old traditions of russia and while he was praised for his reforms and changes the biggest complaint was it changing to much on their culture.
This was a great video Hilbert. Looking forward to the next
Fun-fact: Did you know in the russian monarchy flag the meaning of the horseman and the black dragon refers to the russian victory of Tartary(probably another term for the mongol empire), this is true since the flag of tartary is a dragon figure similar to the dragon figure in the russian monarchy flag
Fingers crossed for a video about the Belarusian flags to be next!
Seconded. I'm curious about the mounted character, reminds me of the old Polish-Lithuanian symbol.
@@markgreen950 Pahonia? Yeah, that's because they used to all be one country. Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus (even parts of Ukraine) were all in one Commonwealth; this is why it's the same symbol that Belarus and Lithuania can both claim.
As a vexillophile and supporter of democracy, I would agree! In the event that the Belarusian protests succeed (which, of course, would change Lukashenko's flag out for the white-red-white flag, which looks better in the first place), I plan on making my own video about Belarusian flags! I already have a series on my channel, _Sigillum_ _Multarum._ All I need is for regime change (and by extension, flag change) to occur in Belarus, and I might do a video about the flag of Belarus: white, red, and white.
For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus#White-red-white_flag en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Belarus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_protests en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_democracy_movement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_Council
same but for A ByeloRussian flags video
Belarussians are russians who got invaded by poles and lithuanians. They are russians as well as ukrainians
Super interesting. I always thought the White, Blue, Red stood for the Belarussians, Ukranians and Russians, respectively.
It could mean everything you want there's no official meaning to colors or smth
The vikings calles ”rus” are calles like that because they came from the region of ”roslagen” in Sweden, ros in swedish is kind of pronounced like rus.
At least thats what I have heard
Rus means rowers
3:30 except that, as seen on the image, the colour is not red but orange (as corresponding to the ruling Dutch Orange dynasty...)
This is a very interesting video, but it could have gone further. The flags of the Holy Roman and Austrian Empires had a similar design and the imperial flags, eagle on gold are so close a vexillologist might be required to tell the difference that went unnoticed by the general public.
Can Hilbert do Canada's flag? I am dying to see how he can connect it to the Dutch flag. Half points for connecting it to ANYTHING Dutch. :-)
Hilbert's family is from the Dutch province of Fryslân, and guess what, they have some nice red leaves (Pompeblêd) in their flag. Now who else was it that has a big red leaf in their flag... Strange people that make a boring leaf their national symbol instead of something exciting like a double-headed eagle;-)
Hi Hilbert, since you like the Frisian and Russian theme, you might want to check the history of Rurik of Friesland, who was the founder of the ruling dynasty in Rus and later Russia from 9th to 17th century.
Yeah and check Kievan Rus also known as Kyivan Rus. Then you know why former capital was named Kiev and now is part of Ukraine and Rusland came from his last name.
@@marlonmaastricht it was never "kyivan Rus" the old slavic name is just rus and the original capital was novgorod until they conquered kiev.
@@einarmar7445
The origins of Rus and the foundation of Kyivan Rus have sparked a centuries-long debate that continues to this day.
Scholars have debated whether Kyivan Rus was created by the political self-organization of East Slavic tribes or if they invited outsiders, the Varangian Rus people (a group of Vikings) from Scandinavia, to come and create it for them.
Most of our knowledge of the period comes from the Primary Chronicle, written by the Kyivan monk Nestor at the beginning of the 12th century. Some of its details are questionable, having been written much later after the events.
The Primary Chronicle tells of the first of several powerful East Slavic tribes, most notably the Polianians. According to the Primary Chronicle, their chief, Kyi, built a town along with his brothers Shchek and Khoryv and sister Lybid in the fifth century and called it Kyiv.
According to the chronicle's version of events, around the mid-ninth century, groups of East Slavic and Finnic tribes, at the time vassals of the Varangians, had set out to rule themselves.
Failing to do so peacefully, they sent an invitation to Varangian Rus nobles to rule over their lands.
How Russia has attempted to erase Ukrainian language, culture throughout centuries
The Primary Chronicle says that upon receiving the invitation, the Rus' sent three brothers, Rurik, Sineus, and Truvor, to govern Staraya Ladoga (another chronicle calls it Novgorod), Beloozero, and Izborsk-all located in modern-day Russia. After his brothers' deaths, Rurik moved to Novgorod.
As the story goes, two of Rurik's boyars, Askold and Dir, were sent to Constantinople and, on their way, stopped in Kyiv. Along with other Varangians, they managed to establish control over the city.
In the late ninth century, the new Varangian ruler of Novgorod, Oleh, came to Kyiv, killed Askold and Dir, and united the northern and southern lands, proclaiming Kyiv the capital and the mother of Rus cities, thus establishing the state that would later come to be known as Kyivan Rus.
"Although one can and should question many details of (the Primary Chronicle)...the legend probably echoes the actual consolidation of power by one group of Vikings in the forested regions of eastern Europe between present-day Velikii Novgorod and Kyiv," Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy points out in his book on Ukrainian history titled The Gates of Europe.
Kyivan Rus was from 9th up to 13th century preceded by: Ilmen Slavs, Krivichs, Chud, Volga Finns, Dregoviches, Radimichs, Eastern Polans, Severians, Drevlians, Vyatichi, Volhynians, White Croatia, Tivertsi, Ulichs
Succeeded by :Principality of Kiev, Novgorod Republic, Principality of Chernigov, Principality of Pereyaslavl, Vladimir-Suzdal, Principality of Volhynia, Principality of Halych, Principality of Polotsk, Principality of Smolensk, Principality of Ryazan, Mongol Empire
@@marlonmaastrichtKievan Rus is a modern Russian Termin lmao.
There is a marvelous quote from memoirs of the French ambassador (M. Palèologue?) in St Petersburg at the start of the First World War, as how the three Allied flags (UK, France, Russia) were flying together, in harmony and symmetry of their colors, portended well for their future war cooperation. I remember reading it at a 10 year old, in Nicholas and Alexandra, a book I now keep in storage. But here it is from his memoirs online:
"The flags of the three nations blend very eloquently. Composed of the same colours, blue, white and red, they are a very picturesque and striking expression of the interdependence of the three nations of the coalition."
Good job, Hilbert. always entertaining and informative videos.. plus, the Dutch rule the seas (1700 version) 😎😎👍
"And under the tri-colour Russian flag, the [Drozdovsky] regiment gained its fame!"
4:10 oh, that's a long history of red being for the people. I'm guessing often it also stood for the blood of those that fell for the country? That were often 'the people'. So that makes sense.
Ruthenia and Rossiya(Russia) both mean the same thing 'Rus' but in Latin and Greek repsectivly.
Didnt the Two Headed Eagle come from the Byzantines?
The Black Gold and White flag is my favorite of all of Russia's flags
In Amsterdam there is the czaar Peter straat
Or the tsar Peter street.
IDK thought that was neet little fact
While it's true the Romans loved their eagles, the two-headed eagle was formerly an old Anatolian symbol later adopted by the ERE and merged with their loved of eagles. Later of course it is used as a symbol of Imperium (e.g. HRE).
8:14 "why skulls though?"
maybe they're the skulls of our enemies?
This is a version of the "Totenkopf". Ancient christian symbol
Ru - "Адамова голова" - Adam's head
the Bolsheviks used flags with the writing: Long live the Red terror. They were nasty commie rats, what else can you expect other nasty symbols of death and destruction
There is also origin story of it being colors from Muscovy coat of arms,white knight,blue Cape, red shield.
The flag of "A Grande Familia Globo" is the best
Agreed
whats that
Entendi a referência
That sounds like the flag of Brazil, I'm guessing the Empire one
@@VictorBillordo almost
Just a note. Peter the Great was not a tsar in 1669. It was his father Alexei, who was known to have the eagle, so that part is correct
Wait, what happened to the choral recording of the Wilhelmus?
i like these flag series
Great Video as usual but the only „issue“ I would like to bring attention to would be that at 5:58 the Abbassids replaced the Ummayads and not the other way around :)
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It so strange to hear the word Tsar in English. You should make a video about the origin of that term. Correct would be csar short for caesar and it's also roman influence.
Very good video!!!
So I was a bit disappointed that you did not mention the actual symbolism of the two-headed eagle (as far as I know, the Western Romans, the earlier ones, never used it, only the single-headed eagle, but I could be wrong). The two-headed eagle in the East Roman, or "Byzantine" Empire, represents the two powers of the state and the Church, theoretically equal, and existing in a "symphonia". The Russians tried to emulate this in their own polity, but it seems that state came to dominate, not unlike NW European after the Reformation. Prior to that, in the West, the Church actually dominated, possibly largely because there was but one Church, centered in Rome, and many, often many, many states. Thus, it is likely that for the Russians, the HRE, and others who used the two-headed eagle, the main thing was to demonstrate the alleged continuity with the (East) Roman Empire.
This brings me to another issue: in the video it is implied that Constantinople is no longer the center of Orthodox Christianity. Well, that is what the Russians would like to be the case. However, regardless of the fact that first the Ottomans and then, the Turks, have ruled for many centuries what was once the Byzantine Empire (now, at least in terms of Anatolia), the Ecumenical Patriarchate still exists and remains in Constantinople, now called Istanbul. The Ecumenical Patriarch is the "first among equals" among Eastern Orthodox bishops, not the "Orthodox Pope."
However, the Russians have long considered Moscow "the Third Rome" and the Patriarchate of Moscow, not to mention the Putin regime, indeed have papal pretensions. This has been manifested most recently when the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew, granted independent (autocephalous) status to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The OCU had long been part of the Russian Orthodox Church and because of this action on the part of the EP, Moscow has broken communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Churches in communion with it, most notably the Greek Orthodox Churches throughout the world. Other national Orthodox Churches have also broken communion with the EP, following Moscow's lead, thus producing a rupture in world-wide Eastern Orthodoxy. Again, the Patriarch of Moscow would like to be the Eastern Orthodox pope, and Putin wouldn't mind that either. Actually, come to think of it, the Patriarch of Moscow no doubt would like to be THE Pope (and again, Putin would not object). Very little chance of that happening, however.
The Sultanate of Ternate and the sultanate of Bima have the symbol of a double-headed eagle. The Sultanate of Ternate and the Sultanate of Bima have now become part of the Republic of Indonesia since August 17, 1945
5:58 didn't the abbasids replace the umayyads, not the opposite?
What font are you using with shadow? It looks dope.
The SSR of Russia had it's own red flag with a blue strip.
I want to see the Frysland double-headed eagle. Where is it please?
4:19 *Belka intensifies*
You missed to mention the cross flags of the 17th century. Check it out, please. There was also an early version of the tricolor flag in the form of a cross flag - a blue cross and red and white corners.
Actually the Soviet flag was not the russian flag. Soviet Union and Russia are being conflated; Soviet Union was made up of many republics which each had their own flag, one of which was the russian Republic, which actually had a blue stripe at the left hand side of the flag. The one with just the red and hammer and sickle and star was the flag of the Union of the republics.
Why did you say "Hello" right at the end? Pronunciation was good, but that confused me.
Why is no one talking about the Calvary man piercing the dragon with the spear?
That's St. George the Victorious
@@Roman_Megatenovsky what is it symbolically representing?
@@philipseabrook8533 I don't know much, go search him up
Vladimir did not choose between the Orthodox church and the Catholic church because at the time they were the same Church. Vladimir chose between Church rites one being Latin based and the other being Greek based. Vladimir Chose the Greek based rite because Byzantium was nearer and their were nearer social ties. The Greek based liturgy was then translated into Slavonic by Saint Cyril and Methodius for the slavs to use. They are accepted as Saints both in the Orthodox and Catholic churches as they preceded the schism of 1054.
The double headed eagle was used by Prussia, Russia, Poland, Germany, Austria, and even in small cities in Great Britain eg Salisbury. This is most clearly seen in the commerative china in Salisbury for the 1887 and 1897 Jubilees for Queen Victoria. Also on the City of Salisbury/ New Sarum silver wear held in the Guild Hall in Salisbury. Keep making the interesting videos.
1000 = Russia becomes Orthodox
2000 = Everyone is afraid of Y2K
What happened to the fun?
8:35
Vlasov did not use the white-blue-red flag. The Russian St. Andrew's flag was officially used. The use of white-blue-red was a private initiative of people who opposed the Bolsheviks.
01:00 In 1669 Peter I had not been even born yet.
at 6:00 it was the Abbasids who replaced the Umayyads, just sayin' I love the vid nonetheless. Well done!
I thought that black eagle was German couldn’t the change from gold to black for the eagle be related to the taking over of Russia by Holstein gotorp who married into the Romanov family?
1:00 you meant to write 1689 - Peter's coronation. Peter was born in 1672, way before 1669.
So the double-headed eagle was descendent from the aquila? Specifically through the Byzantines? I wonder if that means the "double head" part is because of the split of the Roman Empire into two.
It goes back to the serpent bloodline vs the eagle bloodline
I'm not sure you a correct about the genesis of the double-headed eagle in Russia. While Vladimir the Great of Kiev did marry a "born in the purple" Byzantine princess, he didn't adopt the double-headed eagle. The isn't even good evidence that the Romans themselves were using it at the time (they were using either the Chi-Rho standard of Constantine pr the Cross with 4 sigmas flag). Rather the adoption of the Byzantine eagle is a 16th Century event coinciding with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. The fall of "The City" meant that the "second Rome" was gone, and after Ivan the Terrible's roughly contemporaneous defeat of the Islamic Khanates that were born out of the Gold Horde, Moscow, of which Ivan was Grand Prince, became the "third Rome." The adoption of the Byzantine eagle was a declaration that Russia was now the head of Christendom (since the first Rome - Rome - wandered off into the heresy of Catholicism and its successors, and the second Rome - Constantinople - fell to the Muslims).
You probably confuse two different Ivans and different events. Ivan III is the one, who witnessed the fall of Constantinople and started using the eagle because he was married to Sophia Paleologina, while Paleologi dynasty was the ruling dynasty in Byzantium and was using the two headed eagle. Ivan IV (the terrible) was his grandson and the first to start consistently using the Tsar (Ceasar) title.
@@daniilfedotov8922 Oh. You are right. Oops. Nevertheless, it was still Ivan III, not Vladimir the great of Kiev, who both adopted the double-headed eagle and advanced the idea of the Third Rome.
ok so i don't know why you didn't mention tsar alexis mikhailovich
I prefer the light blue stripe flag and it's aspect proportions used officially from about 1990 to the end of 1993.
It is believed the Rus mainly hailed from the region of Roslagen, which would make their demonym in old swedish "Ros" and plural "Roser" (pronunced "roos" and "rooser")
@JGW Yes because "lag" is an old word for an area, it was named Roslagen after the Rus. The danish viking rule in England is known as "Danelagen" as well
@@zvidanyatvetski8081 Here in modern Britain, and by the Saxons back then, the term used is the Danelaw
@@DraigBlackCat danelaw is the english translation of danelagen.
Can you make a video explaining the dutch anthem?
The part about the vikings is interesting as Russia in Danish is literally Rusland
Rus could also be from the Swedish region of Roslagen
You forgot to mention that all the three color national flags today, come from the Dutch flag via the French flag which was also copied from the Dutch
Very interresting!
I would have liked to know what the justification was to go back to a flag that symbolises the monarchy (with the white=god, blue= king/tsar and red=people with god on top, and the king ruling over the people) after the self determination of russia.
I felt like your video was comming towards this most recent change back to the old and it... stopped.
that eagle flag and those two early flags were a mess, the tricolors are way better
Changed 👀
Do the video about what happen to the old philippine flag
I just think of Austin Power’s father whenever I see the Dutch running gag, “The Dutch”.
Can you please do a video on the Norse-Gaels? (particularly the Norse-Irish or Hiberno-Norwegians)
why is vsync off
The Black-Gold-White one is the best
You refer to the city of Byzantium which was the ancient name but Constantine the Great renamed it Constantinople in 324 CE.
Didn't it have to do with the dutch and peter the great in a sense thanking them for helping with his navy?
@Jonathan Soko i commented on it the minute it came out bro
The last time I was this early the winged hussars hadn't arrived yet
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
0:21 I really hate those tricolors I think they should at least have some kind of emblem in the middle something that looks like it belongs to the respective nation
4:58 - first world war maybe?
almost every flag has red, white or blue.
The Jamaican flag doesn't!
Most slavic countries use red white and blur in some fashion.
NOT Bijzantium: Bi-zantium. It is not of Latin root bi (double). Y is Ygreque or Ypsilon = 'thin i' and was long indistinguishable from normal i = iota.
Thanks for reading.
can the eagle also have meaning because the natives used to worship big birds before christianity gained speed?
i doubt it is purely because of the romans, especially since it has 2 heads
the eagle is the coat of arms of the old russian empire and the eagle on yellow is the battle flag i think
The real meaning of the double headed eagle is that Russia (as well as the Bizantine Empire) was an empire not only looking to expand westwards, but eastwards; hence depicting the eurasian character of these empires.
I dunno if my answer is revelant after more than one year, but actually no. Conquest of Siberia began during Ivan the Terrible ( more accurate translation would be Ivan the Formidable, but The Terrible is more commonly used in English), and the two-headed eagle was adopted by Ivan the Great, more than 80 years before. Actual reason was his marriage with Sofia Paleologe, and the adoption of this coat of arms symbolized Moscow's descendancy of Byzantium
Re the 1991 and 1993 flags, the Russian language has different words for different shades of blue. The 1991 flag was "goluboy" sky blue, and Yabloko and other new, democratic movements preferred it to the color of the Imperial Russian flags. But the Russian Federation settled on the original "siniy" dark blue, associated with more conservative, nationalistic political forces -- at least since the 1990s.
No. The light blue was simply the same colour as the vertical stripe on the previous RSFSR flag.
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 Are you sure? It's pretty well-established that light blue is associated with liberalism and reform. In Greece, for example (and culturally close to Russia), liberals display the Greek national flag in light blue and white, while conservatives adopted dark blue and white in response. You can differentiate a Greek political march's political orientation in a glance. And look at photos of early Nineties Russian demos.
@@jaykaufman9782 The proportions of the flag also followed Soviet standard. The yellow green red Lithuanian flag also had the same proportions around this time.
1:02 nice
Russia has had so many flags throughout history
1669??? but peter the great born on 1672
Hilbert likes the Dutch flag