Watch thousands of documentaries for FREE on CuriosityStream: curiositystream.thld.co/knowledgiaoct Use this code "knowledgia" to get a 30-day free trial! Also, we made a mistake. We edited some maps for so many times and firstly we wanted to Refer to Poland-Lithuania as The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and then switched back to Poland-Lithuania, but unfortunately, we combined those 2 names in the one that you will see in the video: Polish-Lithuania... 🙄 Dumb things are happening sometimes. We are sorry for this. Thank you so much for watching our videos!
Your videos are good, but the amount of ads within them are ridiculous. You have 1 full minute of sponsorship + minimum 6 ads to watch and they are so awefully placed that it breaks the rhythm of the video, it's personally a huge drawback for me.
One sad fact : it's estimated one third of the belorussian population was killed and 80 percent of town had been destroyed in WW2. Hardly to imagine how this forever changed a country and a nation.
Killed one third Chechen population 1994-2003, supported Serbia and killed 15% of Bosnians 1994-1996, killed half of the Chechen population another time in 1944 and exiled the entire population. Not to mention the staggering Murder of 90% of circassians in late 1800’s.
@@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477 don't trust the waffle guys ... it will make your government go into perpetual collapse and indecisiveness ... he's right in that it is not poisoned ... but it will make you hallucinate that you are a real country all the while you turn schizophrenic and start speaking two different languages. Here have some dutch fries instead 😂
I'm from Belarus (stress on the last syllable by the way) and there are too many things wrong in the video. From the initial tribes that inhabited the area and the Duchy of Polotsk (stress on the first syllable) to history during the 1st World War, proclamation of independence and current anti-dictatorship movement. It really looks like the video really lacks research. Maybe someone will prove me wrong.
To be honest - biggest mistake of this video is that Belarus was under control Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth. Its stupid because Belarus is true historical Lithuania and todays Lithuania was historical ,,Żmudź". Biggest magnats and aristocratic familys (like for example Radziwiłłowie) was Lithuanians (Belarussians). Idk why mainstream history type is like that like in film. Russian propaganda?xd
@@aliyaser7698 It's question for you. First of all what's that: Russians? What you mean when you use this word? All slavs? Or maybe inhabitants of the principality which was created by no-slavs? Whcich slavs tribes you can call Russians? Where is that border? Russians have strange point of view for history of slavs what I cant understand.
@@TheBard1999 Ruthenia and Russia mean the same thing aka "Land of the Rus"... Rossiya(Russia) is "land of the Rus" but in greek, while Ruthenia is "Land of the Rus" In Latin.
Command_Unit Ruthenia is usually referred to the lands of Belarussia and Ukraine under Lithuanian/Polish control. The Rus/Slavs there where calling themselves Rusyn before. Russia itself wasn’t “Russia” in the beginning and later adopted it as a official name of the country. I don’t like when Russians act as if everything evolved and diverged from “them”. The split already happened with the Rus Princess. If they are just eastern slavic dialects then why did they need translators between muscovite crown and cossacks in the Ukraine during 16-,17- and 18th century as a example. Belarussian and Ukrainian languages are distinct from Russian. And throughout systematic methods they where banned, frowned upon and regarded as lesser languages. If they where the same and just dialects, then why ban them? Different terminologies about who and what can be argued without an end. Modern Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians have the same roots. And no one originated from the other ( language, culture, nationality)
This video doesn’t explain the development of national identity of the Belarus people during the existence of Lithuanian Kingdom. Not an interesting content, very basic.
Exactly, the answer to the question is the distinct identity of the people which the video does not address at all. The first half is just irrelevant information about the history of the land that has nothing to do with the modern country.
@@EugenethePhilostopher 1253-1263 there was Lithuanian kingdom when duke Mindaugas got baptized from the Pope and got the crown. After he died Lithuaniana became a dutchy once more
@@mantas22 it is highly controversial, I would say (we don't even know the date or place of the coronation etc., and the aftermath is very suspicious), but I agree that many historians believe that to be the case.
Earth is a planet because it meets the criteria to be classified as a planet. To be more specific, because of gravity pulling particles together to form larger and larger objects until they can be called planets. The grass is Green because cloraphil is green, grass is made up largely of cloraphil, which is the best colour to absorb enough sunlight to create energy for the plant. The Sky is blue because of the way light refracts through the atmosphere.
Is it just me or does it seem that the incorrect pronunciation of the names of places and people seem to be the signature mark of this channel? Seriously, just from the huge volume of feedback you receive from the audience about this issue, one would think you would make sure to get pronunciation right. Other than that, this is solid content and much better than I could produce personally.
I agree 100%. The content of the channel is great, but I really don't understand the routine mispronunciation of names. They aren't event arguable. Nobody pronounces Belarus the way this guy is pronouncing it. I actually did a comprehensive search and got audio from people all around the world, and basically everyone pronounces it the same way, albeit with slightly different accents. It would be nice if they did a pronunciation check before putting all this work into videos
People around the world pronounce countries differently. For example, Iran. In the UK, we say the I like the word igloo... i-ran. In USA, they say the I like the word eye... eye-ran. According to the soundbite on the Wikipedia page, the British say it right, but that doesn't mean we get everything right. We say Belarus like Bella-roos, not Bell-aruss. But we say Bella-Russian, not Bella-roosen. I have no idea if we get it right. We pronounce the S at the end of Paris, while the French don't. I just can't bring myself to say Pa-ree. Point being, there's lots of ways to pronounce places, and it varies around the world.
Well we're so sorry!!!!!!! Us Westerners don't know how to pronounce different things. Its the same with learning English, things are pronounced differently because its diverse.
This program misses the most important reason why Belarus is a separate nation. In 1569, when the unified Polish-Lithuanian kingdom was established, the territory of the present day Belarus and the territory of Lithuania retained the full autonomy within the Polish Kingdom and it retained the name "Grand Duchy of Lithuania". The local dialect of the original language called "Ruski" (predecessor of modern Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian) evolved into a separate language that differed from both Great Russian spoken to the east and Polish language that eventually became the official language of the Duchy of Lithuania. Therefore the Belarussian nation with it's own language was born. Later on, especially under the Soviet rule and partly due to horrendous loss of population in the II world war, the russification of Belarus ensued and most population switched to Russian. To summarize; the Belorussian nation is hundreds of years old and deserves it's own state.
So the language of Belarus is “ruski”? Do you understand that that actually means Russian? Which means Belarussians are not a separate nation at all, they are Russians.
@@matija5134 Not quite. The true and original meaning of "Ruski" refers to the slavic language of Kievan Rus. Ruski was the base language for three separate East Slavic languages, similarly to Latin being a base for Romance languages in Europe. The part of Kievan Rus that remained free from Mongol rule eventually fell under the rule of the Grand Duchy pf Lithuania.(GDL) and the "Ruski" remained the language of the state until Polish took over. In 1569 GDL was reduced to it's northern reaches and remained a separate, autonomic part of the Kingdom of Poland and in that form existed for over 200 years, time long enough to local "Ruski" to evolve into a language diferent from "Ruski" spoken in Ukraine and in Muscovy. The word "Ruski" was used in the Kingdom of Poland for both Belorussian and Ukrainian until the modern meaning of Belorussian and Ukrainian took hold. The official language of Russian Empire appropriated the name "Russki" together with the imperial notion that it is the proper "Russki". The fact that Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian existed as separate languages was even recognized in the census of the Czarist Russia. The russification proceses in the course of the 20th century significantly reduced the extent of use and importance of both Balorussian annd Ukrainian.
I like Knowledgia but this guy always seems to pronounce stuff weirdly or change how he says it. That along with the obvious edits are really annoying tbf
@@raptor4840 yeah, they often mispronounce words that are not hard to pronounce of switch pronunciation in the same video. Maybe it’s a joke? Regarding the edits, any examples you remember? I haven’t noticed them or didn’t know they were edits
As far as Im concerned, the name Belarus comes from Ruthenia (White Ruthenia). In Polish we call it Białoruś (White Rus) and there is no Russia in here. Ruthenia and Russia were completely different countries. I guess around 17th century, Russia started to claim Ruthenian lands (illegaly of course).
History lesson for you. Belarussians speak Russian, very few actually use the Belarussian language. They were entirely built by Russia. So now you know.
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I'm from Belarus, thank you so much to for this video. I wish that less people in this world would ask this question, we are nation that totally deserved to be independed, we were and keep firghting for that. Belarus Freedom!
Hi! I am a Lithuanian and I just want to ask a question: how do you guys feel ahout Ukraine? After all, you are both ethnically Ruthenian, so wouldn't you want to be a singlevcountry?
@@saulgoodman5451 you're aware that ruthenian just means rus, which is a term for all east slavic people? Which means Russia, Belarus and Ukraine... Also to answer the question: Just about nobody would want to be part of Ukraine right now, people are leaving that country whenever they can. I have had many friends in Ukraine, but now there's only one who still lives there, though he does so because his family can't afford to leave. So given their current situation, i don't think anyone would want them. That aside, they were in the same state for almost 1000 years already, so i don't see why it couldn't work again.
I recall learning that there are no border control facilities on the roads between Russia and Belarus, which means only Russians and Belarusians can legally travel directly between the countries by land; foreigners have fly or pass through a third country.
Live of Vseslav the seer is really fun to read about. For example, Vseslav actually didnt rule Polotsk for 70 years straight, since there was one time when he was imprisoned by the prince of Kiev, but then said prince was overthrown and people of the city named Vseslav their new prince. He didnt rule there for long and soon returned to Polotsk, but it still was epic.
Moldova actually has no reason to exist whatsoever, other than for the expansionist desires of the Russian Empire and later Soviet Union Modern Moldova (country) is but a part of historical Moldova (around half of which is part of Romania already) and the people living there are essentially just Romanians + Slavs that were resettled there during Union times
What do you mean by alive? Biologically “why do we function” or colloquial terms like “why do we do stuff” or metaphysical “what is the bigger purpose of humanity”?
The voice overs for this channel are so weird. The grammar and overall English isn't exactly bad or anything, but every video there are several words mispronounced, and it's not like the words are niche or anything. Why in the Hell would you say Belarus like Bel-are-us???
He recorded the full audio of this video pronouncing Belarus incorrectly. Then went back and spliced in audio for each time he said Belarus. Obviously he missed many of them lol. Whether fair or not, I can’t take this seriously.
Nice video, but pls research the pronunciation of 'Kiev' and 'Dnieper.' Also, your (English) pronunciation of the country Belarus was correct from the start, why did you turn to BeLArus from the second half on.
I’m Belarusian and I can’t stand your wrong pronunciation. I get it when you say the wrong sounds but you could have at least googled which vowel is stressed
Great stuff! Never heard much about Belarus in other history videos. Always hear about Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, etc. before Belarus!
If it would be correct information it would be OK, but this video is a total nonsense and shameful lies about Belarus, like A russian propaganda troll has written it, I Am disgusted full stop
... and further Belorussians for allegedly denying "Russian propaganda" (whilst this video is just a diletant work) push their own propaganda of Lithuanian state allegedly belonging to them. @@hollymolly4036
You know, Belarusians themselves are somewhat suspiciously intimidating if the topic "why Belarus exists" but it is even forgetable to see how foreigners think.
understanding the history of eastern european countries is really complicated.i have the difficulty of digesting the information but exciting at the same time.anyway,thanks for the information.
Beautiful country, beautiful people. However Lukashenko should not be part of the equation, his maintenance in power is an abnormality. Wishes for a great future for Belarusians , we wait for them to be part of the West, where they will have democracy, human rights and of course a higher standard of life
7:01, while commenting White Rusland, map sometimes forgets situation of Baltic States, so as after 1 WW part of it got its independence, for example Estonia. At that map that region reminds a colony of Russia. Graphics were beautiful and whole setting of storytelling actualy well readable, we should value the fact that someone is producing content.
Took me some time to realize that what sounded like "Dolores" with an opening B, was in fact Belarus... Please, note: Beh-lah-roos is the correct English pronunciation.
Very American. " I am going to do a documentary on something somewhere outside the USA, I am not going to study too hard as it obviously isn't important, so I will guess the pronunciation, not one way, but several because I don't really care". Sad isn't it...?
There are several counties in North-Western Bielorussia with the majority of Poles. Most of them can receive "Karta Polaka" special permission to live, work and visit Poland without a visa. The requirement is that they have to prove their Polish heritage. At the turn of the XVIII century, the Polish language was the lingua franca ( a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different). Polish was a common language among educated people even in Moscow at that time.
I just wish there were inset borders of treaties and/or reorganized territories, even if just for a second. It would've been better than a hashed line shading showing occupied territory.
Wrong. Formally it appeared in 1918. Then 4 years later willingly joined the USSR. Or my knowledge as to the then Belorussia's possible occupation by Soviets is still be improved.
"It doesn't change the fact that the people of Bel-are-us need my help" "I believe it's Bela-roos, Jesus" "It very well may be, if we don't do something now" - from South Park th-cam.com/video/jpfQt2VQ67Q/w-d-xo.html
In this video you claim that the Nazi invasion of Poland “provoked” the USSR to enter Poland from the East. Are you claiming that the USSR was in a defensive posture vis a vis Poland? Surely you jest, or haven’t a scintilla of historical knowledge. Shameful.
We can also assume that you have *zero* knowledge of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, yes? Man. You are a black eye on TH-cam and an education of any kind.
But they are not correct with Grand Dutchy of Lithuania... basically Lithuanians are number one of these lands rights. Second the most biggest mistake in history was kaliningrad oblast handing over to russia after ww2. Its insane future problem and reason to next map changes in east europe..
We have a lot polish population in west Belarus in the other days. But after WW2 USSR transferred all poles to Poland. There were left just mixed families. My granny stayed, but all her sisters went to Poland
Why do Westerners especially Bris and Yanks pronounce KIEV as (KEEV) thats a Russian pronunciation. There are two vowel sounds in Ukrainian. It is pronounced (kee uhv) slight accent on the "uhv" Just saying. At 4:53, did you really say the modern state of "bell AR us". Luhblin is pronounced LOOB- lin What's the point of making educational videos that misinforms people?
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Also, we made a mistake. We edited some maps for so many times and firstly we wanted to Refer to Poland-Lithuania as The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and then switched back to Poland-Lithuania, but unfortunately, we combined those 2 names in the one that you will see in the video: Polish-Lithuania... 🙄 Dumb things are happening sometimes. We are sorry for this. Thank you so much for watching our videos!
I'd kinda like to visit Belarus someday. Also, you should do a video on the smaller countries!🇦🇩🇱🇮🇲🇨🇸🇲🇻🇦🇲🇹
Knowledgia where are you from ?
@@alexl9012 knowdelgia is form romania
@@rubensebastianstoinoiu1970 Ok Mersi
Your videos are good, but the amount of ads within them are ridiculous. You have 1 full minute of sponsorship + minimum 6 ads to watch and they are so awefully placed that it breaks the rhythm of the video, it's personally a huge drawback for me.
It's very interesting how you pronounce Belarus three different ways in one sentence.
My favourite was “Bolaris”.
@@user-wu7ug4ly3v That one's my favourite too.
Aurora bolaris
hes confused
@@denvermeddleton999 But does he have the spirit?
One sad fact : it's estimated one third of the belorussian population was killed and 80 percent of town had been destroyed in WW2. Hardly to imagine how this forever changed a country and a nation.
I went there in 88 and you could still see and feel it everywhere. Sad
Russia did worse
Killed one third Chechen population 1994-2003, supported Serbia and killed 15% of Bosnians 1994-1996, killed half of the Chechen population another time in 1944 and exiled the entire population. Not to mention the staggering Murder of 90% of circassians in late 1800’s.
@@TheBallinCat43IsReal yes, it’s documented. The Soviets killed far more.
My girlfriend told me about this and I'm so shaken by it. I can't imagine how exactly I'll react when I visit her and see that memorials for myself.
"Why Belarus is a country?"
Belgium: First time?
prussia, austria and russia: Why is poland a country? you know the rest
@@lorenzodocx4021 cause Poland is better than em all
@𝙀𝙕𝙀𝘾𝙍𝙄𝙎305 you're on to something deep. Beware of the authorities, they don't want you to get to the bottom of this conspiracy!
Me a belgian: here have some free not poisonous waffle
@@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477 don't trust the waffle guys ... it will make your government go into perpetual collapse and indecisiveness ... he's right in that it is not poisoned ... but it will make you hallucinate that you are a real country all the while you turn schizophrenic and start speaking two different languages.
Here have some dutch fries instead 😂
Why does the narrator call Belarus as "Bolaris" 😂😂
@delavalled and dolores sounds like dolor meaning pain, ironically
@@weetbix4497 brilliant yes buy my man is a slow as a snail, he speaks so slowly
@delavalled barbarian Dolores is Spanish name
Half Life 3 confirmed?
Bell ar rus is how you pronounce the tractor that is made there, spelt the same
I'm from Belarus (stress on the last syllable by the way) and there are too many things wrong in the video. From the initial tribes that inhabited the area and the Duchy of Polotsk (stress on the first syllable) to history during the 1st World War, proclamation of independence and current anti-dictatorship movement. It really looks like the video really lacks research. Maybe someone will prove me wrong.
To be honest - biggest mistake of this video is that Belarus was under control Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth. Its stupid because Belarus is true historical Lithuania and todays Lithuania was historical ,,Żmudź". Biggest magnats and aristocratic familys (like for example Radziwiłłowie) was Lithuanians (Belarussians). Idk why mainstream history type is like that like in film. Russian propaganda?xd
@@maciektak8863 The Russians were in control of this land before the establishment of Poland
@@aliyaser7698 Yea. Russians controlled the whole world before it even existed. Everybody knows that.
@@maciektak8863 My friend, the Goths, the Bulgarians, and the Magyars, all of them left Russia. Are these Russians?
@@aliyaser7698 It's question for you. First of all what's that: Russians? What you mean when you use this word? All slavs? Or maybe inhabitants of the principality which was created by no-slavs? Whcich slavs tribes you can call Russians? Where is that border? Russians have strange point of view for history of slavs what I cant understand.
"Why is Belarus a country?"
Russia and Poland: we ask this same question everyday
I mean, I always saw Belarussians as descendants of Ruthenian population part of Dutchy of Lithuania.
Lithuania: hold my Duchy!!
@@TheBard1999 well, yes
@@TheBard1999 Ruthenia and Russia mean the same thing aka "Land of the Rus"...
Rossiya(Russia) is "land of the Rus" but in greek, while Ruthenia is "Land of the Rus" In Latin.
Command_Unit Ruthenia is usually referred to the lands of Belarussia and Ukraine under Lithuanian/Polish control. The Rus/Slavs there where calling themselves Rusyn before. Russia itself wasn’t “Russia” in the beginning and later adopted it as a official name of the country. I don’t like when Russians act as if everything evolved and diverged from “them”. The split already happened with the Rus Princess. If they are just eastern slavic dialects then why did they need translators between muscovite crown and cossacks in the Ukraine during 16-,17- and 18th century as a example. Belarussian and Ukrainian languages are distinct from Russian. And throughout systematic methods they where banned, frowned upon and regarded as lesser languages. If they where the same and just dialects, then why ban them? Different terminologies about who and what can be argued without an end. Modern Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians have the same roots. And no one originated from the other ( language, culture, nationality)
This video doesn’t explain the development of national identity of the Belarus people during the existence of Lithuanian Kingdom. Not an interesting content, very basic.
Exactly, the answer to the question is the distinct identity of the people which the video does not address at all. The first half is just irrelevant information about the history of the land that has nothing to do with the modern country.
Technically, there was no Lithuanian kingdom (except for a few months during the turmoil of 1918). It was a grand duchy.
@@EugenethePhilostopher 1253-1263 there was Lithuanian kingdom when duke Mindaugas got baptized from the Pope and got the crown. After he died Lithuaniana became a dutchy once more
@@mantas22 it is highly controversial, I would say (we don't even know the date or place of the coronation etc., and the aftermath is very suspicious), but I agree that many historians believe that to be the case.
@@EugenethePhilostopher not the point I was making, but whatever.
Why Belarus is a country?
Why Earth is a planet?
Why grass is green ,or sky is blue?
Hussar Why do bears shit in the woods? Why is the Pope catholic?
Those are all video worthy questions🤓
Earth is a planet because it meets the criteria to be classified as a planet. To be more specific, because of gravity pulling particles together to form larger and larger objects until they can be called planets.
The grass is Green because cloraphil is green, grass is made up largely of cloraphil, which is the best colour to absorb enough sunlight to create energy for the plant.
The Sky is blue because of the way light refracts through the atmosphere.
@Republic of Antoria So that Polan can into space easier.
Last one is pretty hard and requires much knowledge of physics to answer
Is it just me or does it seem that the incorrect pronunciation of the names of places and people seem to be the signature mark of this channel? Seriously, just from the huge volume of feedback you receive from the audience about this issue, one would think you would make sure to get pronunciation right. Other than that, this is solid content and much better than I could produce personally.
Also I didn’t realize people didn’t know how to pronounce Belarus
I agree 100%. The content of the channel is great, but I really don't understand the routine mispronunciation of names. They aren't event arguable. Nobody pronounces Belarus the way this guy is pronouncing it. I actually did a comprehensive search and got audio from people all around the world, and basically everyone pronounces it the same way, albeit with slightly different accents.
It would be nice if they did a pronunciation check before putting all this work into videos
@@deananderson2571 They are using an artificial voice generator. The narrator isn't human, its just an AI that is reading a script
If it's a real person, it's a tactic to generate comments and drive the algorithm. I've seen tons of comments that otherwise wouldn't be made.
People around the world pronounce countries differently. For example, Iran. In the UK, we say the I like the word igloo... i-ran. In USA, they say the I like the word eye... eye-ran. According to the soundbite on the Wikipedia page, the British say it right, but that doesn't mean we get everything right.
We say Belarus like Bella-roos, not Bell-aruss. But we say Bella-Russian, not Bella-roosen. I have no idea if we get it right.
We pronounce the S at the end of Paris, while the French don't. I just can't bring myself to say Pa-ree.
Point being, there's lots of ways to pronounce places, and it varies around the world.
Can't even pronounce Belarus correctly
Was looking for this comment.
bel-ah-roos
My thoughts exactly.
Yes! It annoyed me the whole video
Well we're so sorry!!!!!!! Us Westerners don't know how to pronounce different things. Its the same with learning English, things are pronounced differently because its diverse.
Belorussians be like: “What do you mean, ‘why are we a country?’!?” 😤
I was born in Belarus and I think nothing like that
@@CR7GOATofFootball Sorry... it was just a joke
Gleb Zhyglov Belarussians and Russians are the same
Honestly as a dutchman. I get not wanting to be a part of a larger cousin state right next to you. Jusy because the langauges sound the same.
**Belarusians
Ah the Soviet Union, they were a very helpful ally of ours
Kim can you teach me how to dance
An ally of OURS
Cccp for the past, ccp for the present😉
ㅑㅐㄱ ㅇ혀 ㅑㅍ뎌ㅏㅣㅛㄱ 뎌ㅑㅛㄹ ㅕㅁㅍㄱ ㅏㄱ!
I dunno what was that but eh
I'm seeing this kim guy alot in other vedio
Belorrusians are wondering ''Why Russia is a country?''
**Belarusians
We are more interested in why Russia is STILL a country.
@@tutejsyja7198 YES
Why macedonia is not part of Bulgaria?
Based
This program misses the most important reason why Belarus is a separate nation. In 1569, when the unified Polish-Lithuanian kingdom was established, the territory of the present day Belarus and the territory of Lithuania retained the full autonomy within the Polish Kingdom and it retained the name "Grand Duchy of Lithuania". The local dialect of the original language called "Ruski" (predecessor of modern Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian) evolved into a separate language that differed from both Great Russian spoken to the east and Polish language that eventually became the official language of the Duchy of Lithuania. Therefore the Belarussian nation with it's own language was born. Later on, especially under the Soviet rule and partly due to horrendous loss of population in the II world war, the russification of Belarus ensued and most population switched to Russian. To summarize; the Belorussian nation is hundreds of years old and deserves it's own state.
Honestly Belorussian history is a book of 3 pages 😂
So the language of Belarus is “ruski”? Do you understand that that actually means Russian? Which means Belarussians are not a separate nation at all, they are Russians.
@@matija5134 Not quite. The true and original meaning of "Ruski" refers to the slavic language of Kievan Rus. Ruski was the base language for three separate East Slavic languages, similarly to Latin being a base for Romance languages in Europe. The part of Kievan Rus that remained free from Mongol rule eventually fell under the rule of the Grand Duchy pf Lithuania.(GDL) and the "Ruski" remained the language of the state until Polish took over. In 1569 GDL was reduced to it's northern reaches and remained a separate, autonomic part of the Kingdom of Poland and in that form existed for over 200 years, time long enough to local "Ruski" to evolve into a language diferent from "Ruski" spoken in Ukraine and in Muscovy. The word "Ruski" was used in the Kingdom of Poland for both Belorussian and Ukrainian until the modern meaning of Belorussian and Ukrainian took hold. The official language of Russian Empire appropriated the name "Russki" together with the imperial notion that it is the proper "Russki". The fact that Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian existed as separate languages was even recognized in the census of the Czarist Russia. The russification proceses in the course of the 20th century significantly reduced the extent of use and importance of both Balorussian annd Ukrainian.
How about we Unite all Slavs North East and South under a Slavic Union?
@@goransvraka3171 isn’t this what the soviets kind of achieved? I don’t think most slavic nations were happy there...
Why two different pronunciations of Belarus? Bel-ah-rus and Be-la-rus.
I like Knowledgia but this guy always seems to pronounce stuff weirdly or change how he says it. That along with the obvious edits are really annoying tbf
@@raptor4840 yeah, they often mispronounce words that are not hard to pronounce of switch pronunciation in the same video. Maybe it’s a joke?
Regarding the edits, any examples you remember? I haven’t noticed them or didn’t know they were edits
I've been there, they pronounce it "Bell-oh-rus," and Rus as in Rooster.
The latter is correct. Pronunciation is obviously a challenge for the narrator.
I'm belarussian. We say Be-la-rus 😉
People: nooo it's pronounced Bela-roos because it's short for white Russia-
Dude: belarhus
Planet Belaris.
Its not short for white russia tho.
Rus =/ Russia
We call Byelorussia north west Russia and Ukraina Polishnize Russia
As far as Im concerned, the name Belarus comes from Ruthenia (White Ruthenia). In Polish we call it Białoruś (White Rus) and there is no Russia in here. Ruthenia and Russia were completely different countries. I guess around 17th century, Russia started to claim Ruthenian lands (illegaly of course).
@@deusgiff you watch Lithuanian Mapper too why does he heart you in his videos but I don’t
Unfortunately, this overly simplified the situation, and overlooked a lot of major issues.
Exactly!
Belarus: **exists**
Knowledgia: _Why tho?_
History lesson for you. Belarussians speak Russian, very few actually use the Belarussian language. They were entirely built by Russia. So now you know.
Finally, a video about the country I was born In.
"BELLA - ROOS" is how we say it in Australia. "bella" like beautiful in Italian and "roo" like kangaroo the animal in our country.
BELA means WHITE (WHITE RUSSIA)
U funny🧢
And that is based on a true principle!
So do Belarussians. Thanks James.
The exact prounounce is Byelarus(i)
It is weird how many different ways he pronounced Belarus 🇧🇾 😳
That's a good sign you're watching an AI video.
Belarusians love their potatoes. They have potato blood in their veins
farina brotherhood
They are brothers With the Irish and ohionians
You love to be everywhere in comments
@@cuculan1978 O H I O
Its avery the cuban american
Putin: I can change this for you.
⚪️⚪️🔴🔴⚪️⚪️ With cost of “black gold” at 15-23 dollars per barrel, the USSR economy collapsed, and the sovok itself collapsed, and the "golden" horde ("russia") budget can only be fulfilled only with oil price at $ 42.4 and higher
putin can change its shitty ass, but not this. Belarus is an independent country
@ahmet özkan I think many people on the streets protesting since summer will not agree with you
people of belarus: no, you can't :P
Let's hope he wouldn't.
I'm from Belarus, thank you so much to for this video. I wish that less people in this world would ask this question, we are nation that totally deserved to be independed, we were and keep firghting for that. Belarus Freedom!
Hi! I am a Lithuanian and I just want to ask a question: how do you guys feel ahout Ukraine? After all, you are both ethnically Ruthenian, so wouldn't you want to be a singlevcountry?
@@saulgoodman5451 you're aware that ruthenian just means rus, which is a term for all east slavic people? Which means Russia, Belarus and Ukraine...
Also to answer the question: Just about nobody would want to be part of Ukraine right now, people are leaving that country whenever they can. I have had many friends in Ukraine, but now there's only one who still lives there, though he does so because his family can't afford to leave. So given their current situation, i don't think anyone would want them. That aside, they were in the same state for almost 1000 years already, so i don't see why it couldn't work again.
@@saulgoodman5451 Hey I am from Belarus and I can easily say that we love our Ukranian, Lithuanian and Polish brothers!
too bad you dont speak belarusian anymore
@Byelorussian Pole well. Ukrainians understand it at least
I recall learning that there are no border control facilities on the roads between Russia and Belarus, which means only Russians and Belarusians can legally travel directly between the countries by land; foreigners have fly or pass through a third country.
If there is no border control between the two, one could fly to one of them and drive across the border to the other one.
Live of Vseslav the seer is really fun to read about. For example, Vseslav actually didnt rule Polotsk for 70 years straight, since there was one time when he was imprisoned by the prince of Kiev, but then said prince was overthrown and people of the city named Vseslav their new prince. He didnt rule there for long and soon returned to Polotsk, but it still was epic.
Welcome to another episode of "topics we didn't asked but needed answers anyways."
I have an idea for next video
Why is Moldova/Moldavia a country
Because you had to separate the poorest of the poor somehow.
Moldova actually has no reason to exist whatsoever, other than for the expansionist desires of the Russian Empire and later Soviet Union
Modern Moldova (country) is but a part of historical Moldova (around half of which is part of Romania already) and the people living there are essentially just Romanians + Slavs that were resettled there during Union times
@@anonymousbloke1 Transnistria?
No. Besarabia. Transnistria is Soviet product, created just before the USSR lapsed. @@joshuataylor3550
*Omg ”Bolarez” like it’s some latin dictator* ☠️☠️☠️
Why are we alive
Just to suffer
To pray and love
to experience being alive
What do you mean by alive? Biologically “why do we function” or colloquial terms like “why do we do stuff” or metaphysical “what is the bigger purpose of humanity”?
I dont have an idea
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Belarus: exists
Knowledgia: but why?
"Why is Belarus a country"
Kosovo, Bosnia, Belgium, North Macedonia, Moldova: first time?
Bosnia is the oldest West Balkan country. Don't speak nonsense.
@@aton9755 shiiiieet homie we wuz kangz
@@simecki4222 Cepove u usi, da promaha ne mlati kroz glavu.
Жыве Беларусь
The voice overs for this channel are so weird. The grammar and overall English isn't exactly bad or anything, but every video there are several words mispronounced, and it's not like the words are niche or anything. Why in the Hell would you say Belarus like Bel-are-us???
🅱️olaris
Regional variation.
All I know is Lukašenko is ruling for far too long and people are sick of him.
Should he be more funny, as the comedians? Would that be satisfying? Well sir, be little more serious please.
too sick
Pronounce Belarus, Kiev, and Dnieper correctly please. You pronounce Belarusian correctly but not Belarus lol
It always amazes me when someone puts this much time into a history video and fucks up such basic things like checking pronunciation.
Kyiv is correct, not Kiev
4:52 "modern day Balarus"
He recorded the full audio of this video pronouncing Belarus incorrectly. Then went back and spliced in audio for each time he said Belarus. Obviously he missed many of them lol. Whether fair or not, I can’t take this seriously.
We Wish to feature about Chiang Kai-Shek's Northern Expedition in China
Thank you for the video. The pronunciation is rather BElarus instead of BelArus. Thank you again.
Nice video, but pls research the pronunciation of 'Kiev' and 'Dnieper.' Also, your (English) pronunciation of the country Belarus was correct from the start, why did you turn to BeLArus from the second half on.
Called knowledia but cannot pronounce any of the European nations. lol
oh cry me a river, just be happy that we a atleast get a video about eastern europe that is not about putin, soviet union or the russian empire
I thought it was a feature? You know since regular Europeans have an endearing habit of making multiple pronunciations for place names
Why does Belarus exist?
Putin: Now your asking the hard hitting questions. Yes why do they exist?
I’m Belarusian and I can’t stand your wrong pronunciation. I get it when you say the wrong sounds but you could have at least googled which vowel is stressed
hey man, im a big fan and i was wondering, how do you do your videos? do you use geolayers? im really curious, keep it up!
Great stuff! Never heard much about Belarus in other history videos. Always hear about Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, etc. before Belarus!
If it would be correct information it would be OK, but this video is a total nonsense and shameful lies about Belarus, like A russian propaganda troll has written it, I Am disgusted full stop
@@hollymolly4036 propaganda
... and further Belorussians for allegedly denying "Russian propaganda" (whilst this video is just a diletant work) push their own propaganda of Lithuanian state allegedly belonging to them.
@@hollymolly4036
Its a pretty new country. For most of history, most of Belarus was called "Lithuania."
the way you say belarus hurts me.. deeply
I think that a brief discussion about the Belarusian language is an unfortunate omission in this video. How does it relate to Ukrainian, for instance.
You know, Belarusians themselves are somewhat suspiciously intimidating if the topic "why Belarus exists" but it is even forgetable to see how foreigners think.
BelarUs
We've suffered so long, we deserve to be a happy nation
Long Live Belarus under the White-Red-White flag
Wait what? How does the sufferings have anything to do with the particular flag?
Greetings, Litvins, from the Ukrainian country Rus!
@@vitaliygalganets8943 ты помесь хазар, а не славян
Because it has its own culture and language
understanding the history of eastern european countries is really complicated.i have the difficulty of digesting the information but exciting at the same time.anyway,thanks for the information.
Beautiful country, beautiful people. However Lukashenko should not be part of the equation, his maintenance in power is an abnormality. Wishes for a great future for Belarusians , we wait for them to be part of the West, where they will have democracy, human rights and of course a higher standard of life
great info
Belarus is is pronounced BEL a roos. Not bel AH ris. ?!?? Where does he get these off-the-wall pronunciations. Very odd.
"It is possible or even likely that Polotsk was originally a possession of the duchy of Novgorod" - that's stupid, didn't watch further.
Support your claim. Just crying
I watched all video but I cringed very much, theres a lot of skips of the important parts of history of Belarus
You should watch those videos you shill for. You might hear the way these countries names are pronounced…
7:01, while commenting White Rusland, map sometimes forgets situation of Baltic States, so as after 1 WW part of it got its independence, for example Estonia. At that map that region reminds a colony of Russia. Graphics were beautiful and whole setting of storytelling actualy well readable, we should value the fact that someone is producing content.
Took me some time to realize that what sounded like "Dolores" with an opening B, was in fact Belarus... Please, note: Beh-lah-roos is the correct English pronunciation.
Very American. " I am going to do a documentary on something somewhere outside the USA, I am not going to study too hard as it obviously isn't important, so I will guess the pronunciation, not one way, but several because I don't really care". Sad isn't it...?
History is so complicated...makes my head spin
poland is also slavic and belarus neighbour in fact polish and belarusians are the most closely related slavic nations
and Russia is not slavic,Russia is mongolish with some Russians being slavs
I've noticed nobody covering Belarusian history talks about the government in exile
the amount of times the pronunciations were switched up...
Nice video... I like to know how nations are formed
He misspelled Belarus so much times I got annoyed
Make video about Ukraine's history!
Shortest video on TH-cam
I’m sorry, but the ukraine has no history whatsoever
@@ИльяЖданов-к4ц WTF?!
@@takod323 WTF?!
@@ИльяЖданов-к4цwhat is kievan rus then?
There are several counties in North-Western Bielorussia with the majority of Poles. Most of them can receive "Karta Polaka" special permission to live, work and visit Poland without a visa. The requirement is that they have to prove their Polish heritage. At the turn of the XVIII century, the Polish language was the lingua franca ( a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different). Polish was a common language among educated people even in Moscow at that time.
I learned much about country of Bell-Aris ;)
I just wish there were inset borders of treaties and/or reorganized territories, even if just for a second. It would've been better than a hashed line shading showing occupied territory.
Belarus is NOT a country, it's an invention. Belarus was never an independent state before 1991.
Wrong. Formally it appeared in 1918. Then 4 years later willingly joined the USSR. Or my knowledge as to the then Belorussia's possible occupation by Soviets is still be improved.
"It doesn't change the fact that the people of Bel-are-us need my help"
"I believe it's Bela-roos, Jesus"
"It very well may be, if we don't do something now"
- from South Park
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Rogvolod is the belarussian pronunciation for the old swedish name Ragnvald
And why Belarus a country
In few words?
After watching video still don't get it.
In this video you claim that the Nazi invasion of Poland “provoked” the USSR to enter Poland from the East. Are you claiming that the USSR was in a defensive posture vis a vis Poland? Surely you jest, or haven’t a scintilla of historical knowledge.
Shameful.
We can also assume that you have *zero* knowledge of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, yes?
Man. You are a black eye on TH-cam and an education of any kind.
Bro since when did he say provoked lmao. Honestly this video is perfectly fine others then wrong pronunciation in some areas.
Love Belarus from Bangladesh
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Correction for 2:53 : It should be Kyiv, not Kiev.
:-))))))
And it should be "v Ukraine", not "na Ukraine"? :-D
@@Sant2409 Of course, as well as any other country. But I see you already know it.
Today I learned I was pronouncing "Knowledgia" wrongly all along.
Dude pls learn the pronunciations. 'Blarrus' sounds like something completely different. It really hurts your credibility imo.
This isnt the first time. All his narrations are like that
And he said Slavs weird too, it bothers me
Where do you get all these amazing maps?
I am working a few hours on them
But they are not correct with Grand Dutchy of Lithuania... basically Lithuanians are number one of these lands rights. Second the most biggest mistake in history was kaliningrad oblast handing over to russia after ww2. Its insane future problem and reason to next map changes in east europe..
The river that runs through is the "daugava" not the devina
It is called Dzvina
Latvians call it Daugava
@@SERGEYBY ah makes sence
Anyone remember when Belarus tried to conquer Russia?
My man that was Poland or the Kievian Rus ,Belarus wasn’t a nation back then
@@fatiazizi8825 I'm referring to the 1990s, yes.
@@fatiazizi8825 Grand Dutchy of Lithuania literally was Belarus with different name
@@iacorianus LOL what?
@@fatiazizi8825 The medieval name of Belarus was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania!
Russia every single year after WW2:
Good plug!
You have lost credibility in my eyes when you can't even say the country's name correctly.
woah a bit too edgy there
The narrator sucks yea but he isn’t the same guy who makes the videos
@@MintyLime703 not very knowledgeable when you can't even get that right.
7:10 slight mixing up of terminology there. The belarussian people's republic was communist. It was seized by Russia.
My father was born in Belarus and he is buried there in Demidovichi village.
We have a lot polish population in west Belarus in the other days. But after WW2 USSR transferred all poles to Poland. There were left just mixed families. My granny stayed, but all her sisters went to Poland
the video starts at 1:40
Belarus isn’t a country , it’s a state of Russia
I mean how things are right now in Ukraine it is.
Random video on TH-cam:
Why does Belarus exist?
Me:
*Outraged belarusian noises*
haha, thought of the same thing :)
Kiev pronounced Keev 🤣🤣🤣
You Americans are living up to your reputation
Really interesting. Thx
At the beginning of the video, he pronounces Belarus correctly. Then something happens and he just can't get it right anymore LOL
Я не думал что я живу в "России"
Why do Westerners especially Bris and Yanks pronounce KIEV as (KEEV) thats a Russian pronunciation.
There are two vowel sounds in Ukrainian. It is pronounced (kee uhv) slight accent on the "uhv"
Just saying.
At 4:53, did you really say the modern state of "bell AR us".
Luhblin is pronounced LOOB- lin
What's the point of making educational videos that misinforms people?
Curious as to why you left out the Mongol invasion of the area. That was the death blow to the Kievan Rus.
pretty sure it was Death blow for everybody LOL
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