A Super Quick History of Latvia

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#Latvia #history

[@GuncaFromlv]

You're the only channel that features small countries like mine. Thank you for that brother!

[@simplifier_]

I love Latvia from Ukraine

[@ungobungou]

Geography Now?

[@samuelraymond2076]

@@simplifier_ my last visit to Latvia was amazing

[@czargreg8368]

I hate Lithuanians brother

[@el_scapoo]

@@czargreg8368 why? :(

[@roombussr5676]

Finally a TH-camr who covers Latvia, an Often just skimmed Over Nation, Me Being Latvian This Just Gives me A Massive Flush Of Happiness

[@WolfzRuffianLV]

Piekrītu, man arī

[@fendipxx]

Same

[@claudiao7743]

This channel is perfect for people with short attention spans.

[@chi0coed318]

Our brothers are growing:)
Hello from Lithuania 🇱🇹

[@WolfzRuffianLV]

Greetings from Latvia :D

[@user-je1wu7mc7h]

Finally, someone acknowledges latvia

[@RespectTheLogos3]

Latvia has been through so much pain. I feel bad for that poor country.
Next is Lebanon! 🇱🇧

[@samuelraymond2076]

Is so painful

[@chasesstuff6010]

Thanks from Latvia 🇱🇻

[@samuelraymond2076]

@@chasesstuff6010 your are welcome

[@chasesstuff6010]

@@samuelraymond2076 I meant the commenter but ok

[@samuelraymond2076]

@@chasesstuff6010 are you also from Latvia?

[@LOLLIPOPandCHOCO]

So sad to see what Latvia has been through. Greetings from Greece

[@Sa4ry6]

OOO PALDIES MILULĪTI

[@rezz77s]

Greetings from australia

[@simplyramble9660]

It is still very visible how much all of this affected and still affects Latvia today in our daily lives, from traditions, even to how people act.
It is so amazing seeing my country being recognised more, Latvia's culture and history is rich and beautiful

[@bobpimza]

@@simplyramble9660 also from latvia :)

[@explosive_koala1]

Hi from Latvia! (Sveiki no Latvijas!)

[@Nispark]

Have been to latvia a few times and have been lucky to meet so many amazing people that have welcomed me into their homes and showed me their traditions,hopefully be back next year again.greetings from Ireland

[@SloveLDK]

Love Latvia from Lithuania 🇱🇹🤝🇱🇻

[@yoda1151]

im latvian i live in latvia i heard storys from my grandpa about how harsh it was but now we are happy, and chillin

[@WolfzRuffianLV]

Cerams, ka tā arī paliks, tagad nav zināms kā būs ar šo visu putina iebrukumu .-.

[@yoda1151]

@@WolfzRuffianLV nu tagad nav zināms kas notiks

[@WolfzRuffianLV]

@@yoda1151 Diemžēl, jā. Turamies kopā, vienmēr kā tauta esam izturējuši sliktus laikus, krievu uzbrukumus un iebrukumus, izturēsim arī tagad!

[@GodModeLord]

jā

[@mr.chicken1017]

Greetings from Lithuania!

[@thenewpogitaly]

This is one of my favourite History Channel rn

[@hill_side]

here is latvias history summerised: Latvia; RUSSIA COULD U NOT ATTACK ME FOR 2SEC?

[@WolfzRuffianLV]

Yeah, sick of 'em

[@ruthmaryrose]

My brother married a woman from Latvia so I’m trying to find out about her country. Thanks for this. It’s nice to get a quick painless overview of Latvia’s history. That’s always helpful before digging deeper. 🙂

[@MattiasFen]

Awesome video, great to see smaller countries being taught about on TH-cam.

[@Renaldesre]

you are one of the youtubers that featured a whole video for latvia. Thank ya pal

[@jackmyers8687]

Started watching these kind of vids because my new roommate is from Latvia and I I want to understand her culture better 🇱🇻

[@donataspilibas314]

Just notice: last map which you showed is of Lithuania (3:53 min.), not Latvia. Anyway, like your work :)

[@JohnHenryEden2277]

And the text is in Estonian :D

[@EdwardOberon]

Well done Latvia. Beautiful country

[@markusssakalis1458]

Rich isn't a word I'd use to call Latvia, unless it's like somewhat meant culturally.

[@Respear]

As a Latvian, I think only Riga is rich because in Daugavpils everything sucks.

[@drerri]

When compared to the rest of the world it is a rich country.

[@dreamthedream8929]

​@@Respearit's rich even daugavpils compared to perhaps the majority of the world

[@patrick2001fly]

pasaule ir 195 valstis, latvija ir 48 bagātākā, viss ir perspektīvā :)

[@christophernakhoul3472]

Excited for the video on Lebanon! Could you please add the the mount Lebanon emirate into the video?

[@pauliustamosiunas]

3:56 - speaking about Latvia, showing a map of Lithuania, and calling the exiles "märtsiküüditamine" - Estonian term (March Exiles). Could it be more mixed up?

[@jovydaskniuipys3898]

dude..... you put in lithanian map in Latvian video....

[@BuddhaL0rd]

Thank you buddy everything I needed to know.

[@ashlinellis5923]

Just found out my great grandpa came from Latvia in the 1950s got an ancestry test can’t wait to see if I have any

[@hunterball902]

You should have some ancestry, he is your ancestor, you inherit some of his genes via his descendants

[@Lay-Man]

How was it?

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

Praise to the great Latvian bobsledder Janis Kipurs!

[@kartupelu_pankucinas]

Yess as well as our basketball and hockey leagues:)

[@mightymagnus]

When Tsar Peter took Latvia (Livonia) and Estonia from Sweden, he noticed that everything was in extreme order, apparently the Swedes spent a lot on that which confused him.

[@klm8721]

In mai 2024 I will visit Latvia for the first time..

[@DRAGONISSUS]

in the old part of Riga, there is a building where a cat faced its butt on a building which was an enemy business or smth i forgot i saw it a long time ago

[@agritakarklina8677]

Hello from Latvia plus u sayed all the latvian words and names super perfectly not bad

[@WolfzRuffianLV]

Jep. Man patika ''Kārlis Ūūlmanis'' XD

[@rayanlaghmich8962]

Nice video! You should get more views

[@seanturner7]

Latvian jokes are my favorite!

[@ioan_jivan]

I just like how the name Latvia sounds

[@sachikovl.5600]

3:53
Thats not Latvia

[@Feardracus]

Yeap, thats Lithuania.

[@deepderp8483]

Now it is

[@venomtailOG]

Kingdom of Jersika is a bit wrong. Maybe after the Christian crusades it might have been heavily subjugated by Orthodox Christian but it was a fully Baltic tribe, Pagan. In fact the last Pagan kingdom to hold out and fall to the Chrisitans.

[@zird_]

Hello from Latvia! Now I know more stuff my history teacher about Latvia.

[@bendors97]

Nav paveicies ar vēstures učuku

[@zird_]

@@bendors97 učene

[@wolfsbaneandnightshade2166]

My great uncle disapeared in the night to siberia from Riga

[@siviweslara1023]

A country I would mos Def like to visit

[@braineurons]

Hello from Kyrgyzstan.

[@chingading957]

Very good

[@turulszervac1714]

I know this is meant to be super simplified but this seemed extremely simple even for that. How do you not mention the Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogiste and its colonies? Or anything about the Livonians? Or how a Latvian invented jeans?

[@NotCoolSnowball]

Great video! But i am kinda sad that you did not mention the short lived latvian colonies

[@ievabertasiute-grosbaha6001]

I'm Latvian and Lithuanian thank you very much for this video

[@double-dyed]

🙂

[@girtskazmins5154]

where did you get your info on Jersika from - its wrong.

[@Not_Evil_]

I ve recently become very interested in Baltic countries after I ve found out 40% my Genes are from Prussian Region and 33% Baltic the Rest Scandinavian

[@WolfzRuffianLV]

Oo, nice

[@terroristiga]

Jesus! Who are you? 😂👍

[@WolfzRuffianLV]

@@terroristiga No visa pa drusciņam XD

[@dynamonyr1927]

Haha I found out I am 57% Latvian!

[@Kvassman69]

3:23 you almost speled it perfectly

[@Heroismblackinfant]

Can you do Trinidad and Tobago

[@131alexa]

He'll get to it one day: he's going in alphabetical order

[@davislucins4865]

Hello, good viddeo

[@Omnigreen]

Great as alwaya!

[@liyuzq]

I’m from there!

[@PakBallandSami]

"bad joke incoming" nah man it is good joke

[@JaViTjOk]

Rich peaceful nation, made me chuckle :D

[@BruceWayne-pm6co]

Kristaps Porzingis

[@zekcide]

🦄

[@slaptukass]

This human does not spend time in vain

[@zalamysup6831]

well the history of my country is very painfull and rich

[@officialneverfar]

Can you do a video on serbia

[@131alexa]

He'll get to it one day: he's going in alphabetical order

[@officialneverfar]

@@131alexa ok

[@linasvalutkevicius5676]

Braliukas Latvija

[@hoyinching9313]

Painful history. Let's hope their future is prosperous.

[@janispaeglis4797]

Not bad, not bad at all. 👍

[@matiss_f1]

Paldies

[@soumiks4975]

'They liked them a LAT'
The captions:
'They liked them a lot'
UTTER BLASPHEMY!

[@eimantaspovilaitis130]

Says Latvia and displays Lithuanian map ;D 3:53

[@ballsballs129]

I’m Latvian

[@user-mg2ip8cr8z]

So u basically ignore how a Finnic country was taken over by Balys .This was Livonia ,its people were Finnic Livonians not Baltic Latvians

[@double-dyed]

Take a nap, lad

[@janisennitis2876]

I am Latvian thanks

[@heyimlithuanian1003]

the baltic life B)

[@die4satana590]

dievs sveti Latviju, viss ko es zinu dzivo 15 gadi Latvijā

[@swatsaw6]

3:56 map of lithuania and text pretty sure in estonian

[@double-dyed]

🤭

[@danieleliyahu3014]

Damn, latvian jews....have to pay them respect when i visit latvia

[@gdlcltu3392]

Now do lithuania ._.

[@131alexa]

He's on the letter L so pretty soon!

[@JaydenNunez-oz7ll]

4:05 4:16

[@Sa4ry6]

Well i'm latvian
I realised what happened in latvia
I was born in 2013 so i'm only 9
So
PALDIES MĪLULĪTI BUČAS NO LATVIAS! ♡♡

[@svenssipols953]

I am sick to see this coming again in Europe. We are going to suffer again. =(

[@aldiskalcenaus]

I am latvija čau kā iet?

[@SloveLDK]

As a Lithuanian. I can almost understand this.

[@Norg1]

cool history i hope the lats can leave in peace with all its neighbors ...but sadly one day the russians prob will return ...but i doubt they could ever hold the balts
but i think the russians just wants to end nato and not the baltics i think they really want to join the european union and have no nato or no USA involved and just be europe on its own

[@enyaskoromnova5487]

Students solved things out even Russia not invaded 😯

[@lakshmipraveen8734]

Taiwan Please!!!

[@131alexa]

He'll get to it one day: he's going in alphabetical order

[@venusspeechless8990]

i'm going to marry someone from Latvia is it a good choice? pls someone tell me should i do or not.

[@drerri]

You talk like it's an arranged marriage?

[@double-dyed]

Go for it 🤭

[@kartupelu_pankucinas]

In 1991, civillians stopped the invaders by blocking the streets with tractors, scrap metal and trucks and sat by them with weapons. In lithuania they tried the same, but resorted to blocking the streets with people. Far too many were killed. In latvia many were shot as well, including children going home from school

[@double-dyed]

Oh please

[@SimtsDnD]

4:25 "rich nation" ... yeah no sorry bud we are poor and hella in debts

[@simplyramble9660]

Rich in Traditions and history tho!

[@SimtsDnD]

@@simplyramble9660 yeah you're not wrong about our history being rich.. first time in history records one of our cities was mentioned in early year 1200's

[@forestl7758]

Bro, we ain't poor, and do you know what national debt even means?

[@dreamthedream8929]

​@@SimtsDnDof course latvia is a rich country compared to the majority of the world

[@SimtsDnD]

@@dreamthedream8929 what gives u that impression?

[@kartupelu_pankucinas]

OMG SOMEONE REMEMBERED US

[@enyaskoromnova5487]

😯they renounce their citizenship because Latvia ☮️ country 😯 German didn't invaded because of french half brothers 😯

[@janka4820]

calling us rich is a wild exudation of our economic standing

[@double-dyed]

😂

[@sinpinborgerman520]

Jā kā tad bagāti

[@renks7112]

DAY 2 OF ASKING FOR A DISCORD SERVER

[@MrLeviaFUN]

Now it's a rich, happy country? What bull droppings is this?! 😅

[@double-dyed]

Probably relatively speaking…

[@nandiabatsaikhan922]

next mongolia please ☺️👌🏻🇲🇳

[@131alexa]

He's going in alphabetical order so coming quite soon!

[@user-qp5zs2sq5c]

Phh.. stop Russian theater called Latvia..

[@King_Julien771]

you mean touch you say it like this chow learn your Latvian and Russian

[@grounded9623]

PUTINS coming for you. - LOL

[@refresh1989]

there's no history in latvia

[@dreamthedream8929]

What does that mean?

[@double-dyed]

Да ладно, вам, одноглазый

[@blackchrysler]

Latvia today is a second world country... people aren't hesitating to abandon their country and it's population is shrinking rapidly, joining the EU only hastened that and made it easier for people to leave the country. Not to mention the racist and nationalistic Latvians that sadly are also in the government.

[@yourmum69_420]

second world means communist

[@manometras]

@@yourmum69_420 Latvia is not communist, and not the second world country, but some love to whine about it. They could better leave Latvia and go to live to their beloved Russia instead.

[@WolfzRuffianLV]

Yes, it is sad how many Latvians leave their Fatherland.
And, unfortunately, it doesn't seem like our government is very Nationalistic.

[@dreamthedream8929]

​@@WolfzRuffianLVactually some Latvians don't leave a nice impression. Seem to be nationalistic and racist. Which is evident in the comments that Latvians leave, especially under lv ziņu kanāla video. Just feels really bad

[@LUDYNAKYIV]

Make Ukraine 🇺🇦