Awesome Maps - The Great Polish Map of Scotland

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  • Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
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    Back in the 1970s, a Polish war veteran who lived in Scotland decided to make the biggest map of Scotland he could.
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    Sources:
    - www.baronycastle.com/
    - www.mapascotland.org/
    - www.peebles-theroyalburgh.info...
    Music used:
    "Opportunity Walks" and "Celtic Impulse" by Kevin MacLeod
    found at www.incompetech.com

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  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar  21 день назад +30

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    • @Cannon530YTOO
      @Cannon530YTOO 15 дней назад

      New Awesome Maps series? That sounds... *_AWESOME!!!_*

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  • @Elongated_Muskrat
    @Elongated_Muskrat 21 день назад +216

    Can’t wait for the rise of the Polish-Scottish Commonwealth

    • @stanislawrutkowski6456
      @stanislawrutkowski6456 21 день назад +18

      Union swap for england and poland XD

    • @kolega_muffin
      @kolega_muffin 21 день назад +22

      @@stanislawrutkowski6456 England-Lithuania?

    • @stanislawrutkowski6456
      @stanislawrutkowski6456 21 день назад +8

      @@kolega_muffin yup, sounds interesting

    • @TikkiYT
      @TikkiYT 20 дней назад +12

      I think most Scots would prefer this over the United Kingdom 😂

    • @k-techpl7222
      @k-techpl7222 17 дней назад +4

      After the death of Poland's John III, the King of Scotland (and England as well) in exile James IV was actually given the opportunity to becoke the King of Poland as well.
      So yes, a Polish-Scottish personal union was a possibility, although it would require a Jacobite victory back in Scotland to actually be a De Facto personal union.

  • @00700A
    @00700A 21 день назад +172

    Fun fact in one of Tomasik's hotel bars as bartender works one old man , This old man in the past was general of the first polish armour brigade where Tomasik served.

    • @theprezydent6250
      @theprezydent6250 21 день назад +17

      This would deserve its own video

    • @CharlieMile
      @CharlieMile 20 дней назад +8

      There is a video on the Mark Felton Channel about Polish generals who lived their lives out in Britain

    • @Artur_M.
      @Artur_M. 19 дней назад +10

      Just a small correction: it was a division (the 1st Polish Armoured Division, precisely) itself consisting of two brigades plus some smaller units.
      BTW, the general's name was Stanisław Maczek.

  • @scotandiamapping4549
    @scotandiamapping4549 21 день назад +256

    As a Scot, thanks for the cool map Mr.Tomasik

    • @germanyballwork5301
      @germanyballwork5301 21 день назад

      Scotland is not a real country. You are just skirt loving Englishmen.

  • @Lord_Lambert
    @Lord_Lambert 21 день назад +106

    This was, in fact, an awesome map.

  • @adams8584
    @adams8584 21 день назад +108

    Great video!
    This map is a perfect example of a quote attributed to Napoleon: "Leave it to the Poles. There's nothing impossible for them.", which he supposedly said after the victory of the polish cavalry in the battle of Somosierra during the Peninsular War.

    • @DrunklikeaPole
      @DrunklikeaPole 17 дней назад +6

      Yes, or in other versions he is claimed to have said « Il fallait être saoul comme un Polonais pour accomplir cela » which translates as "To accomplish this, one ought to be drunk like a Pole" . This is the origin of the popular French saying "Drunk like a Pole", « Soûl comme un Polonais » which describes someone capable of maintaining a cool head despite adversity (or in this case intoxication). It is the origin of my channel name. Cheers from Kraków! :)

  • @Tytoalba777
    @Tytoalba777 21 день назад +35

    Going into this video, I was thinking that this was going to be about those WWII maps of Britain where city names were transliterated phonetically into Polish so that Polish soldiers could pronounce the cities as close as possible to their actual names.

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. 21 день назад +46

    The second I saw the notification, I knew I'm going to love this video. Great map choice! And you nailed the pronunciation of Jan Tomasik. 😀
    While in Edinburgh, you could potentially stumble upon the commemorative bench with a statue of the commanding officer of Jan Tomasik - gen. Stanisław Maczek, who lived in the city after the war. He also worked as a bartender there, until very old age, because he was denied any retirement benefits by both the British government and the communist regime in Poland, which stripped him of citizenship. Thankfully the Dutch eventually learned about his difficult situation and stepped in to help, as the Polish 1st Armoured Division is fondly remembered in the Netherlands, especially in Breda.

    • @ballisticvole
      @ballisticvole 21 день назад +12

      Stanisław Maczek also managed to live to 102 and so outlasted the communist regime and was awarded Poland's highest state decoration before he died.

    • @Artur_M.
      @Artur_M. 21 день назад +2

      @@ballisticvole Indeed.

    • @joannacrisantos236
      @joannacrisantos236 20 дней назад +2

      @@ballisticvolethat is nice to read

  • @ScottishProductions0001
    @ScottishProductions0001 20 дней назад +16

    As a Scot, I thank Mr Tomasik profusely as he brought his skill and craftsmanship into our country. Long live the polish Scottish relationship 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤🇵🇱

  • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
    @Hand-in-Shot_Productions 21 день назад +33

    I didn't know about this map! I find this an excellent way to start the series: a Polish veteran in Scotland making a big map of Scotland for a hotel. Jan Tomasik must have loved his adopted country so much, if he spent all this time making a large map of it.
    Thanks for the video! I'm looking forward to seeing the next episode!

  • @BurroDiablo
    @BurroDiablo 21 день назад +15

    Man the Poles really loved it here, Polish 1st and 2nd armoured regiments used to train near where I grew up, Żagań gifted the local town an awesome statue of Wojtek the bear.

  • @Harukonnichiwa
    @Harukonnichiwa 21 день назад +45

    GREAT SCOT!

  • @QingChina1
    @QingChina1 21 день назад +92

    I'd love to hear you butcher Polish names! You should upload a second version of the video where you *try to* pronounce them.

    • @technician122
      @technician122 21 день назад +9

      That'd be funny. Maybe even an extra for channel members or patrons.

  • @thevoidlookspretty7079
    @thevoidlookspretty7079 21 день назад +22

    Horrible Maps was funny. Awesome Maps is so much better.

  • @taffingtonboathouse5754
    @taffingtonboathouse5754 21 день назад +13

    6:35 is that a Scotland for ants?

    • @sokjeong-ho7033
      @sokjeong-ho7033 20 дней назад +4

      The real Scotland must be at least three times that size!

    • @TikkiYT
      @TikkiYT 20 дней назад +1

      @@sokjeong-ho7033this is funny cos it’s true 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @dimethylhexane
    @dimethylhexane 21 день назад +2

    Obviously someone should add another lake at the top with Orkney and Shetland in. Any Scottish Poles with a bunch of spare concrete want a project?

  • @tobiebrown3756
    @tobiebrown3756 19 дней назад +3

    This video was much funner to watch than the last few horrible map videos. It's all this time spent on one map, going into detail about its history and what makes it unique. One of my favorite quotes about anything creative: "Art gets so much better when it's made from a place of appreciation"

  • @polishcosmonaut6324
    @polishcosmonaut6324 15 дней назад +1

    I have no idea how its happening but allways when there is history about Scotts and Poles doing something together they get along extremly well in both.
    Like you can still see obelisk in Belgium that was placed as sign of Polish-Scott friendship as they fought there together.
    Its the think in ficion also, in last part of last book of one polish noblist book trilogy which is (considered Polish National Epic) Polish and Scottish officers Wołodyjowski and Ketling sacrifice themselves together.

  • @Imperiused
    @Imperiused 20 дней назад +2

    I was excited to see this video in my feed - had been looking forward to the new series since you mentioned the idea of doing it!

  • @Nalrats
    @Nalrats 20 дней назад +1

    This was amazing! Please make more of these!

  • @skysthelimitvideos
    @skysthelimitvideos 21 день назад +2

    Great episode for this new series

  • @sakuuuto
    @sakuuuto 21 день назад +3

    I'd love to see this made into a series of Awesome Maps!

  • @theodorangelos9392
    @theodorangelos9392 20 дней назад +1

    Looking forward to see more Awesome Maps.

  • @LordShadrach
    @LordShadrach 9 дней назад

    Ah incredible new series, TigerStar!

  • @Comrade725
    @Comrade725 21 день назад +4

    New tigerstar video lets goooo

  • @Dragonite_Tom
    @Dragonite_Tom 20 дней назад +1

    the details are insane

  • @TrenchReynolds
    @TrenchReynolds 21 день назад +2

    Great video.

  • @modmaker7617
    @modmaker7617 20 дней назад +2

    Wow, I'm a Pole who grew-up till lives in Scotland.

  • @sciencealltheway
    @sciencealltheway 21 день назад +2

    I drive past this map every day on my way to and from work. I will need to go and take a look one day.

  • @explodingwolfgaming8024
    @explodingwolfgaming8024 21 день назад +7

    It would've been incredible if, after giving the disclaimer about your Polish friend saying the Polish names, you had them say 'Poland' in your next sentencd 0:17

  • @nickahlbach5064
    @nickahlbach5064 6 часов назад

    I love how the war also added great friendships between people. Scotland and Polan, Canada and the Netherlands... what else comes to mind?

  • @Fyreshield
    @Fyreshield 20 дней назад

    I've never heard of this map before but now I absolutely want to visit it myself.
    I really love the idea of an awesome maps series! I don't know if it fits the theme you're looking for, but if you're short on ideas for this, maybe you could talk about that map at Phil's Fish Market in Moss Landing where visitors can place a pin wherever in the world they're from

  • @milomoya12
    @milomoya12 20 дней назад +1

    I've been here, basically no one else and in a pretty forest, definitely worth a visit

  • @businesscat25
    @businesscat25 21 день назад +2

    The polish imprisoned scotland 😔

  • @miloszbaczak3690
    @miloszbaczak3690 21 день назад +1

    Never knew this existed thanks for telling me

  • @Simon-ki8wq
    @Simon-ki8wq 21 день назад +1

    A good Maps series with Maps of this Kind would be s cool Idea after the end of the Bad Maps one

  • @CharlesIsMyName
    @CharlesIsMyName 18 дней назад +1

    Bro I am from and have never left Edinburgh, all the government is doing now is building student flats that clash with the building around them. Honestly I hate what Edinburgh has become. But the rest of Scotland is nice though.

  • @ZetaFuzzMachine
    @ZetaFuzzMachine 20 дней назад +1

    Awesome map indeed!

  • @goldenfiberwheat238
    @goldenfiberwheat238 21 день назад +2

    Love how it has a bit of England in it but it has no detail lmao

  • @armenianmapper3168
    @armenianmapper3168 21 день назад +2

    This remindedcme about the big physical map of Kingdom of Armenia , that is on the wall inside the National Museum of Armenia .
    I like the map of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @nathan-iz2bq
    @nathan-iz2bq 21 день назад +2

    i live in the town where this map is! cool to see in a video

  • @JerryP7a
    @JerryP7a 21 день назад

    very nice

  • @Glockas
    @Glockas 19 дней назад +2

    Poor Orkney and Shetland.

  • @timmccarthy9917
    @timmccarthy9917 21 день назад

    Ooh you should do the Guaremala Relief Map next. Which of course pretends that Belize is part of Guatemala, which is interesting too.

  • @pedromenchik1961
    @pedromenchik1961 21 день назад +3

    Ah, what a relief 😅

  • @decam5329
    @decam5329 21 день назад

    The street you walked was the Royal Mile.

  • @natheriver8910
    @natheriver8910 20 дней назад

    Wonderful 👏 🔥 👏 🔥

  • @tofuholland6145
    @tofuholland6145 15 дней назад

    oo i gotta go here

  • @ArakkoaChronicles
    @ArakkoaChronicles 18 дней назад +1

    What if I, being Polish, enjoy hearing English speakers try to pronounce Polish words?

  • @welcometonebalia
    @welcometonebalia 20 дней назад

    Thank you.

  • @hollin220
    @hollin220 20 дней назад

    I lived in Stirling Scotland. Wonderful time. I was at the foothills of the dramatic Highlands. Good times

    • @hollin220
      @hollin220 20 дней назад

      PS Edinburgh is beautiful

  • @spacebadger21
    @spacebadger21 20 дней назад

    The bad thing about Edinburgh is if you aren't on the easy sloped main road, you pretty much have to climb to get to it lol

  • @bothewolf3466
    @bothewolf3466 21 день назад +2

    Neat, but being Scottish, needs more unicorns.

  • @mosquito7307
    @mosquito7307 21 день назад +1

    yay, awesome maps I

  • @dimitartrpenoski5999
    @dimitartrpenoski5999 18 дней назад

    Will you ever do a history of africa video

  • @kylezdancewicz7346
    @kylezdancewicz7346 14 дней назад

    I can relate to polish names being hard to pronounce

  • @DeeSchnutzinger-Mauph
    @DeeSchnutzinger-Mauph 21 день назад +2

    Please make awesome maps into a new series to replace horrible maps!!!

    • @globuscola
      @globuscola 21 день назад +5

      Tigerstar said that that was the plan.

    • @SpartanStick
      @SpartanStick 21 день назад +1

      He is going to

  • @Adam_GamesHD
    @Adam_GamesHD 20 дней назад

    What a coincidence, I was just looking for this a few days ago. Lol

  • @arekzawistowski2609
    @arekzawistowski2609 18 дней назад

    I appreciate seting start of WW2 to 39.09.01 but it's only start of WW2 in Europe. It started earlier in Asia

  • @-JBYT-
    @-JBYT- 21 день назад +1

    Yo nice

  • @tiberiustomasik4143
    @tiberiustomasik4143 13 дней назад

    If you could only imagine my surprise when the guy behind this map turned out to be called exactly the same as my great-grandfather 😮

  • @hebanczarny84
    @hebanczarny84 20 дней назад +1

    As a Pole, how we did that?

  • @janhumiecki2827
    @janhumiecki2827 21 день назад +3

    Polska gurom ❤

  • @primiera1484
    @primiera1484 19 дней назад +1

    scotland mentioned🎉🎉

  • @42isEverywhere
    @42isEverywhere 18 дней назад

    Love this video! You describe the history of it so passionately it's hard to not get emotionally involved. I wish I had known about this when my wife and I honeymooned in Scotland!
    Minor critique though: I know you gotta eat and all, but today's sponsorship felt a little jarring. Like "Here's a story about a soldier forced from his home by destruction and war. Now here's a game glorifying destructive war machines!"

  • @MrThePsychologist
    @MrThePsychologist 20 дней назад

    you need to make the map of the war of whatifaltist

  • @jayfreechavez0000
    @jayfreechavez0000 19 дней назад

  • @KartvelArca
    @KartvelArca 21 день назад

    Check the black sea pool out in turkey

  • @kacperzwolanowski1830
    @kacperzwolanowski1830 19 дней назад +1

    As a Pole i clicked on the video just to hear you butcher Polish names.
    But the video is great anyway.

  • @christianhoej1562
    @christianhoej1562 21 день назад +1

    perhaps the to scale map of the solar system in sweden?

  • @NapoleanBlown-aparte
    @NapoleanBlown-aparte 21 день назад

    Wonder, gedonder.

  • @Wikkid124
    @Wikkid124 14 дней назад

    Homie wheres our Australian elections

  • @maciek_k.cichon
    @maciek_k.cichon 21 день назад

    I wouldn't mind another video from map aficionado and butcher of Polish onomastics.

  • @bobmantheawesome
    @bobmantheawesome 20 дней назад

    Missing St. Kilda, 0/10

  • @konplayz
    @konplayz 21 день назад +1

    Don’t see what is so polish about it…

    • @MrGoldfish8
      @MrGoldfish8 21 день назад +9

      Then watch the video.

    • @konplayz
      @konplayz 20 дней назад

      @@MrGoldfish8 still not polish whatsoever. the hermitage museum is not german just because a german architect built it.

  • @PattPlays
    @PattPlays 21 день назад

    wt....rly...

  • @LegendFoxakamrsnek
    @LegendFoxakamrsnek 21 день назад +1

    Togerstor

  • @JPPAS
    @JPPAS 21 день назад +1

    720 views in 20 minutes, bro fell off 😢😢😢

    • @globuscola
      @globuscola 21 день назад

      ruclips.net/video/BLUkgRAy_Vo/видео.htmlsi=QLbDLfQntt7LHWQW

  • @bigbootros4362
    @bigbootros4362 20 дней назад

    Wales is nicer