in eastern Germany there is a strong percentage of the element R1a1 that the Slavs brought in in the early Middle Ages. Many city names are former Slavic names, monuments of the Slavic religion, castles etc.
I'm German-American. My Y-DNA is R1B-U106 and I match a lot of people in Czechoslovakia. My DNA type is often called the "Dutch DNA". My mother's DNA is most common in Carpathia Russia and Croatia, but she's German on both sides of her family - clearly there is a lot of overlap with Germanic and Slavs.
Germanization was a ruthless, centuries old practice WWII was just a continuation of controlling Poland, which was the largest Jewish population at the time Look deeper in root cause analysis and original source material when studying your history @@tenbroeck1958
@goran stojanovic More like the other way around since serbs came to the balkans from east germany so that means that serbs are sorbs. Also it's impossible for any serbs from the balkans to know that they're of sorbian heritage since both our languages and our genetics are completely different, also we definitely didn't keep our family records when we came to the balkans.
In parts of Austria you can definately see the Slavic influence. In Vienna, names like Morawec, Sobotka or Dvorak are common. A lot of place names are of Slavic origin too. The culture/food/architecture is also very similar to countries like Czechia or Slovenia, an obvious result of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Its the opposite, countries like czechia and slovnia look much like germanic cities. german craftsman build many slavic citis or constructed it during the habsburg era.
@@hermannarminius7757 it’s not the opposite. Czechia and Slovenia aren’t at all germanic. Sure, they were part of some Germanic states at one point or another, but there isn’t much of a germanic legacy left behind. The fact that some buildings were built by Germans or Austrians doesn’t really mean anything, the architectural style of the cities is just common pan-European architecture, nothing especially Germanic about the cities in either country. And then in terms of culture and genetics, the Slavs have definitely influenced the Germans more than the Germans have influenced the Slavs.
@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 Not in Czechia tho. At least not in east and middle Czech territory. There are also many cultural elements which they share. I would almost consider bavarians being more close to Czechs than to us west Germans who are more French and Dutch influenced.
My mother was Prussian. I‘ve traced her family back to 1700 to the same villages up till ww1. I did a DNA test to see how much German I have... None! I am a Slav! Haha proves your theory!
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@KotBegebot the names are a Coincidence, the old Prussians aren't even Slavic they were Baltic, Northern Belarus was formerly inhabited by Baltic peoples, the Eastern Europeans aren't a single people, they don't all belong to the Same language family, Balto-Slavs and Germans (when I say Germans I mean Germanic tribes) spilt over 4,000 years ago, and Balts and Slavs spilt over 3,000 years ago so they are not the same you are just being ignorant.
Southern China has a lot of Viet or Hmong/Miao or Thai influences. I mean the country has over 50 minorities. There ought to be a lot of non-chinese ancestry in any region.
@@belus6304 Just to correct the small misleading made statement I think you sir meant North east instead of west since there are a minority of Uyghur Turk populations living in that region aka Xinjiang province of China. yeah indeed in the autonomous Manchurian land there are still Koreans and Manchus out there. However both of these are two totally different ethnic groups that shouldn't be confused with each other. Genetically speaking the Korean peoples cluster quite alot with their early Austro Asiatic relatives with O2b haplogroup being the dominant in Korea mostly being found among many of the males. Manchus in the other hand mainly keep C1c3 shared by their other near Tungusic, Mongolic (Altaic speaking neighbors)
@@Spinnradler Zum Beispiel Prasuhn, Kurbjuhn, Kalis, Adomaitis, Orgas, Klaws, Mors, Jagstys, Raukuttis, Hindemitt, Zwegat, Naujoks, Urbat, Asmus, Baltrusch, Klauke, Corell, Dowidat, Kirleis, Tölke. Da das Prußische dem Litauischen sehr ähnlich war, gibt es viele dieser Namen auch dort. Auch wurden viele Litauer und Letten dort angesiedelt. Litauen war ja das letzte heidnische Land Europas. Bevor die Litauer entgültig zum Christentum konvertiert sind waren sie schon einmal vorübergehend Christen. Dann wurden sie wieder heidnisch, und wer Christ bleiben wollte, mußte nach Ostpreußen. Es gibt übrigens viele seltsame deutsch klingende Namen, die prußischen Ursprungs sind. Sie wurden irgend einem deutschen Wort zugeordnet, das so ähnlich klang. Etwa Anhut, Fleischut, Habedank, Gutzeit, Kahlweiß, Tolkien, Trinkaus, Vierkant. Viele Prußen wie auch Slawen hatten ursprünglich gar keine Familiennamen und legten sich erst später einen deutschen Namen zu, meist ihre Berufsbezeichnung.
@@bowlingforroof6878 Classic, germs said the same for France. If you can't conquer someone's territory, just say they are like you and you are the "Masterace" of this European family, and then assimilate them. The jacobin shitters did the same with Occitans and Britons.
You even see that mixture in other parts, for example: the architecture in Saxony looks very Czech and the Saxonian dialects are heavily influenced by Sorbs, Czechs and Polish people. In the Sorbish regions every street name and sign is bilingual and the so called "Umgebindehäuser" in the region are a mixture of slavic block huts and German Fachwerk. Greetings from Leipzig/Lipsk :)
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@evansdrad The celtic nationalist Baltic ancestry is more in the East (East Prussia, Masuria). Slavic ancestry of Eastern Germans starts already in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg etc.
@evansdrad The celtic nationalist It was rather mixed there: Slavs, Balts and German settlers. You can see it on their surnames where they come from. Also worth mentioning: Many expelled East Germans weren't even viewed as real Germans, at least in West Germany.
@@polskiszlachcic3648 lots of germans from East Prussia where mixed with Baltics. After the war all these germans cames to today Germany and brings aswell their mixed heritage. There where a some millions. All got married with other germans. So today lots of germans got a bit Baltic heritage
@@polskiszlachcic3648 it is a complex theme. Many poles becames germans and many germans became poles all over the history. I think someone whose maternal language is polish is a pole and someone whose maternal language is german is german. Especially in the south of east Prussia there lived lot of Masures a mixture predominantly from Masovia. Most of them got assimilated a felt german. After WW1 there was a vote. They got to vote if they want to stay a part of Prussia or became a part of the Polish Republic. 98% voted for Prussia. So we can say that they where germans with Masovian Roots
I‘m from Germany and it‘s great to see this channel giving some publicity to the Sorbs - actually, their language is already severely endangered but there are measures taken against a further decline.
@@Spinnradler Slavs were not alike Romans and other emperors, they were free people with so many different dialects and traditions and that what I still love about us. That we are speaking different languages but we can understand each other.
@@malaxes interesting. But I don't understand what you mean? I spoke about the non-Slavic people of Eastern Europe (Hungarians, Romanians, etc.), not about Roman emperors.
I've seen many autosomal results of east Germans and they are about half Slavic genetically, it's not just paternally or that they have some Slavic ancestry, they are on average about half Slavic genetically. They have massive Slavic ancestry.
Germans are the non-slavs with highest slavic influence (besides non-slavic minorities inside slavic countries. It would be very interesting to find out how germanic czechs and slovenians are as theri culture is often way more influenced by germans than other slavic people.
@Vilém Plaček unfurtunaly that events accoured... but i ofcourse in over 800years germans and czechs mixed quiet a lot. and the slavic people moved there after moost of the germanic people fled from huns... so even when the slavic tribes moved into this regions, there still might have been some germanic tribes left, just like when in early middle ages german people moved towards the east again (my ancestry actually is from silesia, but i hope that in modern days no nationality has to be forceably replaced)
dude he wanted to breed the übermensch by killing the weak, sick or stupid people (+ people they didnt liked) the nazis even imported people from other nations who fitted into the idea of the übermensch they used "good" women and ss soiders for "breeding" (there have been only akademiks in the ss and they had to be heathy...it was a special force) to keep it short the idea they had isnt as crazy as most people think...but the way they did it was pretty fucked up i think some people shouldnt spread there dns for the better good and the idea of creating a extreamly healthy strong and smart human a "übermensch" is kind of fazinating 🤔....
Jay You aren’t lying. My Polish friend’s grandfather would drop a shot of vodka into his soup for dinner lol, that’s got to be the most Slav thing I’ve ever seen.
Carinthians are Germanised Slovenes. You can see Carinthia was over 80% Slovene in the first Austro-Hungarian census. Burgenland saw extensive immigration from Croatia
Most of Southern Austria used to be Slavic. Graz is germanised name of Slavic word Gradec. They were brainwashed by German propaganda over the centuries. They call themselves Windish and they actually hate Slovenes, lol.
@Kristjan Matelic - they developed an inferiority complex and so welcomed Germans accepting them into their ethnicity :( The 19th century race science which saw Germans as superior to Slavs really didn’t help.
Also nearby Venetia is from Slavic Wends, which were trading caste. Milan is so familiar name within Serbs, I dont know is there any Italian guy called Milan, but city there is called Milano ;)
In East Germany you still have many Slavic toponyms can be found, basically anything that ends with -itz, -in or -ow. For example, the German capital Berlin comes from Slavic *brlo which means "swamp". You once had Polabian living around Berlin. Sadly the last Polabian speaker died in the late 17th. Sorbs still exist due to persistence, although they had to face restrictions and discrimination even in the middle ages (Germans forbid them to speak their own language).
It's not about to make them look bad but a matter of truth "the Old Sorbian tribes' loss of independence in the 10th century, the subsequent rural settlement of their territory by the Franks, Thuringians, and Saxons, the expansion of German cities and trade, and the official ban of the Sorbian language that came into effect in the 13th century." That's the reason why Sorbian was steadily replaced by German. That's also why Polabian and Old Prussian went extinct.
@@robertrobski1013 Kinda. Remember that Jews in Eastern Europe often didn't speak the local Slavic languages but a slang based on German called Yiddish. Plus, yeah Germans often view themselves as "God's chosen people", when in reality their superiority came from conquering the Roman Empire xD
I am East German. And basically asked this question: how slavic is my DNA. I know of no Sorbian ancestry of my family, still my grandmother I got tested, received 60 % predominantly Czech and Slovak heritage, much more than German, ~20 %(Ancestry DNA). I will do the test on my other grandparents as well, it's interesting. Oh and, area is Leipzig countryside. Not a sorbi hotspot today
There's has a misconception on "Germanic" or "Celtic" genetics because it has been confused with modern (and ancient) languages and ethnic affiliation. For example the English, Flemish and Southern Dutch are Germanic speaking ethnic groups who have overwhelmingly pre-Celtlc/Celtic DNA.
Your name "Czerni" if it's pronounced correctly sounded like "černý" or "tcherni" (with English pronunciation) in some slavic languages, it means dark or black. Also Leipzig comes from Lipsko which means Linden-tree town. But we all share the same ancestry of PIE - Celts, Germans, Italians, Slavs, just a little mutation here and there...
As a Balkan Serb it is very saddening and concerning to see how the number of Lusatian Serbs (or Sorbs in english) has fallen over the centuries. How they were forcefully assimilated by the Germans, destroying their language and culture. And they werent the only victims of this, there were many other Slavs in todays eastern Germany that were wiped out, such as Pomeranian Slavs. Slava Slovanom
1 correction: Lechitic branch is a subdivision of Western Slavs, that include Poles, Silesians and Kashubians. Czechs, Slovaks and Sorbs are not Lechites.
1:51 "Lechitic" isn't actually synonymous with west Slavic - there are actually three subdivisions of the western branch - Lechitic (Polish, Silesian, Kashubian and the extinct Polabian), Czechoslovak (all Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak dialects) and Lusatian (the upper and lower variations)
Don't you just love how in all videos about Slavs they are always shown as older people, with long white beard, dress in animal coats, with no weapon? And yet this group of old men came from somewhere and spread across half of Europe where tall, strong, brave and young soldiers with huge axes and armors on big horses lived before them…
Fax.Those people defeated the byzantines,mongols and even the vikings just to be called sheep herders this days...Polabian slavs were defeated because they were not united.Unfortunately poland did not help them as they were catholics
So basically, the answer comes down to “how you define Slavic” as in many cases the assimilation happened a long time ago and just in the case of German names and words and folklore we often cannot tell for sure where they originated, it could be Slavic or Germanic. Also, the video made one mistake: It is not just East Germany. Parts of Western Lower Saxony, Northern Bavaria and the entire west German state of Schleswig Holstein also were once settled by Slavic peoples and especially Schleswig Holstein shows that with its many place names.
Slavic is a language group, nothing else. Although there are some genes related to the Slavic origin, its not shared by all population. And I would stress, that following maternal or paternal line doesn't make full picture of your origin, since you are looking on one ancestor from thousands. If we would apply the same to black Americans, almost all of them would be classified as Europeans. There is also another aspect to it. Genes don't always follow the language. Sometimes people adopt the language of invaders. E.g. Hungarians don't belong to the Indo-European family. In fact Indians and Persians are linguistically more related to germans and Slavs then Hungarians. But if you look on Hungarian genetic profile, they perfectly match the neighbouring countries. Or Sometimes people invaded areas and fused with existing population.
Yeah I don't think R1a can be associated with slavic population, it's probably an older haplogroup that was already present in eastern germans before, comming from eastern european hunter gatherer @@puclopuclik4108
The Slavs in Bavaria were rather in the Franconian Region and there are very little remnants from them. Since there have been Celts and Germanics for millenia before them, that is rather logical.
@@suchendnachwahrheit9143 Your point being? The Franconian region is in northern Bavaria, which I already mentioned. So what were you trying to say with this?
I am East German. My paternal grandmother was Silesian. Other than that my whole family were settled in Thuringia as far back as I can tell. By family name I know I have some Hugenotte ancestry. My facial features however are very Baltic.
I'd like to hear about "Just how Slavic are the Hungarians?" I remember reading that when the Magyars arrived in the Pannonian plain, the population they found there was a mixture of Slavs and Iranian Alans. The Magyar rulers eventually assimilated them to speaking Hungarian, but the genes should still show a lot of the people's earlier identity.
@@xboxgamerhr This would mean that Hungarians are actually extinct and all the Hungarian ethnics from the neighboring are something else, but not Hungarians.
Kristoff Bjorgman We might feel that way as Germanic people, but the Poles do not like us and will probably never work with us. They see themselves as Slavs.
@@Wombat_Astronaut Slavic people and Germanic people are both Indo-European peoples living mostly in northern Europe so kinship is guaranteed. When the Lechite Slavs conquered modern day Poland they would of absorbed the remaining Eastern Germanic peoples such as the Rugians. In a similar way, the English are a Germanic people with Celtic heritage, the Poles are a Slavic people with Germanic heritage.
Actually, the root is Slovo, or word. Basically Sloveni, Slaveni etc means people that speak the same language, as opposed to Nemci - the people that can't speak (Germans).
I wrote above: First there were Slavs in Europe (Slavic means "glory", not slave - they are called Francs, Anglo-Saxons, Germans and Vikings, because they enslaved the Slavs and traded with their beautiful wives), so there are so many Slavic nations in Europe - divided Slavic tribes to the eastern, southern and western.
Slava means glory and it has nothing to do with the Latin deregatory word "Slav" describing East-Europeans. Proto east European language was called Sloven (Sloviane) from Slov which means word.
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I'm westgerman living in eastgermany and I often mock them a bit by calling them slavic. It's funny and they always deny. I work in a street " Wendenschlossstrasse" . Proof enough
Berlin, Dresden, Rostock, Lancken-Granitz, Burg Stargard etc all have Slavic origins. For crying out loud, Vorpommern/Pomerania translates to "By the Sea". We Slavs consider Germans our cousins. Even if you are cold and sometimes weird, we still love you.
Brunswick in Lower Saxony has a lot of names pointing to the Wends as well. "Wendentor", "Wendenring", "Wendenstraße", "Wendenmaschstraße", "Wendentorwall", "Wenden" the city quarter for example
@Scp 173 goths, vandals, burgundians, lombards, picts, gauls, polabians, slovincians, white croats, prussians, huns, avars, khazars, pechenegs, dacians, minoans, liburnians, paeonians, messapians, dalmatians, etruscans and their relatives, like a dozen italic peoples that were absorbed by romans...
Scp 173 they were modern humans, if that’s what your asking. Their genetic backgrounds would of course be different from the human populations of today, though.
almost all town names in carinthia and styria have slovenian roots. even as north as southern part upper austria region theres a town "windisch-garsten", and just south of vienna there's "gloggnitz" which is clearly not german. also, big city of Graz comes from Gradec (small castle)
Many towns and cities in Germany have clearly slavic (polabian or lusatian) roots-even Berlin! German have some territorial claims to Poland,but they don't know that those cities also have slavic roots. Szczecin ( Slavic word for hill peak, (Polish: szczyt), or the plant fuller's teasel (Polish: szczeć), or the personal name Szczota) -Stettin in german or Opole ( likely originated from the medieval Slavic term for a group of settlements) and in german-Oppeln. I guess the same situation is in Czech Republic...
@@swietosawagromowadna7957 Of course Germans know about slavic settlements. Just that not the first settlement decides to whom territory belongs. Almost all the cities are founded by the Germans, because Slavs did not live in cities, at that time, of course. And slavs came in the 6th century to these before Germanic homeland. You cannot base a claim on that. Also that slavic settlements were not polish, the inhabitants mixed with Germans and are part of us.
@Ararune Slovenian identity is relativley new... yes, that is actually true! it faded because Carantania seize to exist in 8th century and that was in huge interest of other nations, especialy Germans. but to say alpine slavs instead of Slovenians is just ignorant. And slovenian identity was based on language and nothing else (not religion, or something else). and this is what i call a TRUE nation. not like swiss, bosnians or belgians....
Of course, for example "Berlin" - in the Czech Republic near Prague is "Beroun" - the root "ber" means bear - the Slavs gave many cities names and are located in such a large area because they were the first.
East German from Mecklenburg here, some people still identify as partly Slavic at least. Me too, mainly because I look more Slavic than German and I find more cultural similarities to Poland than I do to Saxony or former West Germany.
I would appreciate a video about the ethnic makeup of great britain, if that doesnt already exist. Specifically the extend of celts and germanics and their intermixing
I can't remember where I read it (history student, but it may have not been an academic paper) but I remember reading something which said that no invading force (including the A-S) have affected the genetic makeup of Britain by more than 5%. Considering one of the modern understandings of the Adventus Saxonum as small groups of warriors who staged coups rather than a 'migration', 'Germanic' people might not make up much of Britains genetics at all
@@cass2239 Yes theres new debates almost monthly to the genetic makeup of britain. Since i have 50% English heritage myself i am really interested if those would be rather celtic or germanic
@Horst Wessel is that just what you believe or is it from a study? As a Brit that seems like manipulation of statistics in order to scaremonger, which we've definitely had our share of these past few years, perhaps it is possible for major cities or if you were to say they had to be fully white in an ancestry test but a lot of rural areas are very much still white and don't receive a lot of immigration especially after the 'hostile environment' policy came in so I'd be very surprised.
Noss Njeppa It still amazes me how one presidents tyranny and neglect of the constitution led to Americas largest ethnic group essentially giving up its culture.
@@ehanoldaccount5893 Woodrow Wilson? I'm not exactly familiar with what he did, I have a vague idea though. But yeah, there was a highly pro Anglo anti German sentiment by 1916/1917. Sucks to see really, there could be millions continuing to speak German today had it not been oppressed, thus learning it could have been easier for me, but alas ill have to start from scratch, same for Italian & Russian.
Noss Njeppa Wilson kinda just violated Americas constitution a bunch and suppressed freedom of speech and religion as well as many other amendments. He’s also responsible for the KKK being reorganized. His policies led to a lot of discrimination, especially against Germans, and got us into a war most Americans objected.
In Polish a German person is called Niemiec which in old slavic means mute, the man who don't speak our language. And that is the whole secret, clash of 2 totally different language groups.
In Romanian there's a better etymology. Neam( tribe)+ tz' phonetics so often heard in German language. Neamtz' A people who talk with a lot of tz'. Same as Sarmatians / Sarmati ( wired) a reference to wire shirts they were dressed in.
@@nikolazuzic You stole basic Romanian words and gave them a ridiculous slavic etymology Plata ( payment) for example. Who on earth would believe that your Plata ( payment) derives from .... textiles.??? due to original payment with such a thing?? We got Plata ( payment) from Spaniards during the Roman empire. Plata means money and silver just like , argent' in French does. Why Plata for money anyway? It's from Latin, platus' ( plat= flat) a reference to how the silver was plated into coins. We also have , arginti' for coins. Your Kopati' ( digging) is from Romanian SAPAT and we also have SAPA ( hoe) while you have , motyka' Your "protoslavic" iti' and , ati is also from Romanian and is a Latin ending met in all Italic languages. Embarrassing, isn't it?
The Question is what exactly is Slavic? I don't think east Europe is 100% Slavic itself, I think the term Slavic is more of ethno linguistic identity rather than a genetic admixture.
@Ian Miles Poles would have something in common with Russians, as Poland used to be more in the East, but it's true that we don't have much in common with South Slavs except for language.
@@polskiszlachcic3648: The South Slav migrated into an area that had a high concentration of Celts and Indo-Aryans (Scythians, Cimmerians). They are mostly an admixture of all of those.
@Crimson - look how many times PLC & HRE troops fought against each other. Look at the religious war in Bohemia (Bohemia VS HRE). West Slavs and Germans have been fighting for ages
Bro ... Very cool. I am Austrian and here most are culturally German and have Slavic ethnicity. I did a DNA test and I am basically 100% Eastern European.
@peter pan; yes, to some extent Slavic but not entirely just like in my Eastern Bavarian home region (Upper Palatinate). By the way Austria was settled by Bajuvarians (Bavarians) and Styra was especially settled by people from my region. Therefore you Austrians speak different variations of Bavarian (or if you prefer: Austro-Bavarian) dialects.
From a genetic and cultural standpoint, the Austrians arguably have more in common with the Czechs than some northern germans, just as the czechs are more closely related to them than the Slovaks. East Germany, Austria, Czechia, Pommerania, Silesia and other regions are the contact zone of the germanic and slavic worlds.
Southern Austria had in the past a significant, if not even a majority, Slavic population (today city of Graz = Gradec, "small city" in Slavic), so it is not a recent development after WW2, but goes to the Early middle ages.
I'm from the Baltic Coast, right on the border between East and West Germany. And around here, we have lots of Slavic village and town names all over the place.
10:21 Here in Brazil, exist Pomerode in Espírito Santo, it's a pomeraniam colionie in Southeast. By the way, many citizens from Pomerode speak the pomeriniam dialect with local linguistc influence. However, in Paraná (South of Country) is famous the so many polish, ukrainian and russian colonies. Amazing video, greetings from RJ, Brazil 😀
@Bruno Jr Há uma colônia de pomerânios no ES que mantêm bastante da cultura pomerana. Se eu não me engano, a cidade leva o mesmo nome de Pomerode. Pfvr, pesquise no Google sobre a colonização de pomerânios no ES.
Thanks, Mason! I just recently found out that my "German" grandfather was one of these Germano-Slavs, his parents being born in German-Poland and Russian-Poland of the late 19th century. I've been very curious about the genetics of these regions and this was very informative! I just wish that I could identify which exact groups of Slavs have lent me their DNA. Next time I'm in Texas I'll have to visit Serbin.
Hi Masaman, my family actually descends from the Sorbs. It took me many years to research this as all I knew was that my grandfather was 5th generation ‘German’ in the Ukraine and my grandmother was ‘3rd generation’ there. My grandfather still fought in WW1 and the family moved westwards over time. Before WW2 my grandparents moved to South America. My grandfather had a strange surname which appeared to be Slavic but my uncles always maintained that they were Germans although the younger siblings were born in the area where the Sorbs came from in Poland/East Germany. With my research I figured that the family on my grandfather’s side was Slavic rather than German. The German side came from my grandmother. I’ve recently taken a DNA test and this confirmed the half German half Slavic descendancy in my family, including some Scandinavian and Balkan, Scandinavian probably having been the influence in the Ukraine. My father came from a Austria where the German, Balkan and even some Celt appeared in my DNA .... truly awesome. Your documentary here sheds further light on the influences and mixtures in this area of Europe over the years. Thank you for a well done research.
Topic is very interesting but it is very week video, it contains small amount of information and you are circling around the topic. First of all Mecklenburg is not Pomerania, You did not mentioned that most of towns and cities in eastern Germany has Slavic derived names; e.g. Stralsund - Strzałów, Wismar- Wyszomierz, Lubeck - Liubice, Potsdam - Podstąpin, Leipzig - Lipsk, Chemmnitz - Kamienica, Cottbus - Chociebuż and many more. Actually there are few hundreds of them. Until XII century area east of Elbe slav. Laba was settled and governed by Slavs; e.g. Jaxa of Köpenick slav. Jaksa z Kopanicy Ruled over the area of Berlin and was Polish vassal, Köpenick is district of Berlin which was also Slavic settlement. You did not mention Limes Sorbicus, Limes Saxoniae, Slavic origin of House of Mecklenburg, ostsiedlung proces. Furthermore it is not controversial topic, it is just general knowledge. PS. I forgot to mention that Boleslaw The grate King of Poland wan the war with HRE over control over Milsko and Lusatia which is west of the Lusatian Neisse.
A few years ago I found on the Deutsche Welle website, an article, since removed, stating that in all of Germany, East and West, only about six percent of the population was really truly Germanic. The rest were pretty evenly divided between Slavic and Celtic origins, with a very significant admixture of Jewish genes. That information was based on extensive genetic studies.
Ironic that Hitler considered Slavs sub-human when most western Europeans have some slavic blood according to DNA samplings. Also, far more Russians than Germans have blond hair and blue eyes, thanks to Viking marauders of 1,000 years ago. So who is the real arian?
Viking marauders, kind of Nazi handbook have you been reading? The blonde hair and blue eye gene comes from modern-day Ukraine many thousands of years ago.
In Ukraine there are several villages with name of Berlyn (Берлин). That old Ukrainian word means "cart" or "wagon". So modern Berlin could be the place were the carts were made or the merchant place where the trade was provided from the carts..
@@TheOlgaSasha, interesting! Never thought of that before. Fits perfectly to what Slavyan golubica mentioned. We have another Berlin too at: 54°02'12.0"N 10°26'39.2"E With lots of originally Slavic place names around it like Plön, Preetz or Schwentine.
Surnames dont really tell much about your origin, my surname is Austrian but I did a DNA test and it showed its of Celtic origin. Surnames were mainly given according to the language in the respective territory where one of your ancestors lived, no matter what his descend was.
I read a 9th century chronicles of how the Germans and Slavs fought each other by Magdeburg. They mentioned that both parties when saw a newborn would steal it and raise them as theirs ;-)
Not very anymore (in 1400 the whole east was germanic) , only in Alsace Lorraine German is the main language there and there nearly all have German ancestry
As a German, I can say that the part east of the Elbe is like 80% Slavic genetics-wise, but culture-wise almost totally part of German culture with some regional specifics due to proximity to Poland and due to socialism. The large exception is a little part of saxony and Brandenburg which has its own Slavic language and is almost entirely catholic in contrast to the atheist surroundings
@@pascalbaryamo4568 Poles and Germans are more similar than both nations would like to admit. Maybe not as much as Czechs but even speaking of architecture, it's clear for me that German influence was much more significant than eastern one. The main difference now is that we are more conservative, due to historical factors.
You have "uper" Luzatia-Cotbus and "lower" Lusatia-Budishin, one of them are chatolic the other are protestants...Once again religion spliting nations😢. Searbs on Balkan are orthodox, Croats chatolics...
There are still Croatian speaking villages in Burgenland in Austria, like Kroatisch Minihof and Kroatisch Geresdorf. Literally whole villages where everyone speaks Croatian, but inside Austria, but the villagers all hold Austrian nationality. Also in Kaernten (Carinthia) there are villages with a Slovenian speaking minority, who are Austrian nationals. Patchwork Europe. They didn't get moved out when Austria's borders were redrawn after WW1. Apart from that, lots of Austrians have Slavic names. I worked for a steel company in Steiermark in the 1990s. One of the Directors' names was Wehsely (Vasily), he was from Vienna, and the training department head was a Herr Wukitschiewitz, who was a local. And a lady in another Sales Office down the corridor from mine was a Frau Zilavec (her husband's surname, as she was married). They were all 100% Austrian German speakers, and didn't know any Slavic languages. They weren't the only ones but they are some of many examples which spring to mind. Others had Hungarian names.
Austria is little less Slavic than East Germany but still is significantly Slavic (except far West, Alpine part). Austrian province Carinthia named after Karantanians (or Xorutanie - as mentioned in Rus' chronicles) - which was original name of current Slovenes. Besides, there were Blaten (or Balaton) Slavic Principality in what-is-now West Hungary and East (near-border) Austria before Hungarian invasion in 890s. Btw, Slovaks differ from Czech and Poles. They have much more I2a1-L621-Y3120 and R1a-Z280-CTS3402, which approaches them to Slovenes, Serbo-Croatians and Ukrainians. And this also remarkable in their accent and language features.
@@rdtgr8 it feels more Slavic to me. My grandmothers last words were in Slovenian and on a bigger scale much of our food and names are clearly from the East. Obviously, we have also a strong Latin influence. All in all, it makes us culturally quite a bit different, but we still speak the same language and look mostly similar, though Slavic and Italian appearance is more prevalent.
R1a1 haplogroup can't be the only fact of Slavic presence in East Germany because: 1) R1a1 belongs not only to Slavs but also to Balts and many other Indo-European groups (including desappeared ones). For example, R1a1 was found among 15% Swedes and approx. 25% of Norwegians, although the Slavs never lived in Scandinavia. Nordics have more ancient markers of R1a which are absent among Slavs. 2) Gubin (Guben) group of Jastorf (Germanic) arch.culture, as well as Pszeworsk (Balto-Slavic and Germanic Vandals) arch. culture, had the mixed processes: some Germanic tribes were slavinizated, but other Slavic tribes were germanizated, both had strong Celtic influence. So it is practically impossible to divide Slavic and Germanic tribes in southern Poland during Przeworsk arch.culture. For example, Vandals were Germanic tribe from Przeworsk arch.culture, although a lot of DNA-tested remains of Vandal warriors had haplogroup R1a
Yes, that is why I chose it. Unlike Ancestry.com, 23andMe tells you your halplogroups as well as your neanderthal DNA% (mine was slightly less than average, surprisingly).
@@TJSakowski I see. I'll certainly get it done. I'm Bengali upper caste Indian, we probably have the highest amount of R1a ZM93 in India. This same haplogroup is common in Pashtuns and Eastern Iranians as well. But lot of Bengalis have R1b as well. Are you R1a ZM93? R1a ZM93 is typically Indo-Iranian.
I'm R-CTS1211 or R-M420 "most common in Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine." So I'm not sure if it lets you know your variant of R1a, R1b, etc. but it seems like it would.
Of course they are. Sorbians still exist and Polabians existed until not long ago. Most will probably disagree because of the modern notion of modern states.
It's not Greek in the slightest. Anatolia was always more developed and densely populated than Greece, so they had much more of an effect on Greeks than the other way around
I strongly disagree with the conclusion of this video. You make a huge mistake in confounding multiple different concepts that have nothing to do with the topic. The current genetic makeup of "East Germany" (Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) has very little to do with the statement that East Germany has strong Slavic genetic influence, since the population there has been interchanged and ethnically cleansed so much since WW1. What you want to do is look at the genetic makeup of Prussian Germans and "East Germans" (i.e. Brandenburg, Pomerania) from the 1800's. One of the easiest ways to do this is through elderly Prussian-German immigrants in America and their offspring. Being someone who's father is one of these offspring, and being heavily into genealogy and genetics, I've studied this is in my own family. My dad's family were all "Germans" from Brandenburg, Prussian Pomerania, East Prussia, Stettin (Szczecin) and Posen (Poznan)-our last name is a Germanized Slavic name (ending in -zow) but is found only in Germans, and not Poles. Everyone else in the family had very "German" names (i.e. Schmidt, Schroder, etc). When they came to America, they settled in rural areas with other Prussian-German populations. Both my Prussian-German grandparents, and my dad, have about half-Slavic genes (according to 23andme and Ancestry DNA). Given that I did our genealogy back to the 1700's and found no obvious Polish ancestors, this should imply that Germans on the eastern front had been mixing with Slavic tribes for a couple hundred years minimum. Even the name "Berlin" itself comes from a Polabian word for "swamp." You implied that these Slavic place names come from post-WWII German repatriation-which makes no sense, since these names have existed for centuries before WWII.
Many East Germans identify more with eastern culture than with western culture. My friend from east Berlin told me in 2018 “here in the east part of Berlin we identify much more with the culture of Moscow than that of London or Paris”
@@guciodestroyer2432 that's the case in every city in Europe. They're like sheeps. Even if Paris falls, they would repeat every single step Paris did, until they too, don't fall. Amazing, right?
There were also slavic nobles ruling in Germany. In Mecklenburg ruled the Obodrites with their headquarter in this castle, where is today the parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweriner_Schloss ...and they had many other dukes and castles: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obodriten_(Adelsgeschlecht) In Pommern ruled the Greifen in this castle in Stettin: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stettiner_Schloss ...and in many other castles. They also ruled in Denmark and in Sweden (Erich der Pommer). de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greifen And in Silesia ruled the silesian Piastes who were an offspring of the polish kings, with many dukes and castles: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlesische_Piasten They were the nobles, who had accepted to turn to be christians. But where the slavs didnt want to become christians and opposed christianisation for about 400 years, like it was in Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen and in Brandenburg, they were finally conquered and the slavic nobles lost their positions to Germans.
I am Ukrainian, with Russian and Ukrainian mother tongues. When I come to Eastern Germany (Jena, Rostock... ) I realize that a big number of toponyms sound understandable for me, because they clearly have Slavic roots.
Interesting tidbit: In eastern Saxony, we say "No" (short o) or "Nu" for yes, completely confusing English speakers. It is thought that this comes from Czech "ano".
"No" (short o) is a common expression of affirmation (well, among other things) in Polish; however, it's considered informal and incorect from the standard Polish point of view (yet everybody, I mean everybody uses that, only to different extent) so it'd best be translated as English "yeah / yep". Unforunately I don't know the exact origins of the Polish "no" (we do have "ano" for i.a. "yes" as the Czechs do, but it's of rare use in Polish). We don't have the "nu" though - that's a Russian expression for what I can tell. What I've found interesting is that some Germans informally use "nee" instead of the standard German "nein", I don't know whether it's common in some parts of Germany only or with a particular group or class of people. With its softened and prolonged e it definitely resembles the Polish "nie" more than it does the Czech "ne" (short and hard e) with all three bearing the same meaning.
For me personally it is sad to see that many slavic and german people, especially in this comment section are still in conflict with each other. We should start to see the future instead of the past and move on.
That's not without a reason. Czechia: They were slowly germanized and had to revive their language. Poland: Partitions and germanization of Old Polish territories like Greater Poland (Poznań and Gniezno). Then WW2 of course. Russia: Many of Russia's inhabitants were killed by Germans during WW2. All in all, Germans pushed into regions which were not natively German, so people got sick of it. And unfortunately still many Germans act like "God's chosen people" which is quite annoying, even here in the comment section. Also, the history of Slavs is often ignored or misinterpreted and most people know little about them.
I am Czech, part German, my ancestors came to Moravia from Baden and Alsace in the eighteenth century. I have relatives in Austria. Our mountains protected us from the German influence for centuries, and this is why we preserved our ethnic identity unlike our neighbours.
Both of my parents immigrated from Germany, my mom from Bavaria, my dad from Westphalia, but with many ancestors coming from the east and from Austria. According to 23andMe, I'm 40% Eastern European, and 35% French/German, with the rest of the ancestry coming from places from which I have no known ancestry, such as the Balkans, Scandinavia, Italy and even Siberia. My haplogroup is the Eastern R1a. Since I'm more Eastern European than anything else while my parents didn't even immigrate from East Germany, there is definitely some truth to the Slavic German theory. Strangely enough, my surname is most common in Britain (I have no British ancestry at all), while it is rare in Germany and somewhat common in Austria. So I think my paternal line goes back to Austria. Like I always say, no one is 100% one heritage. I guess I'm just central/eastern European, as opposed to western European.
Tim Salter Austria is genetically heavily influenced by the neighbouring slavic countries. To simplify, most of Austrian population are germanized slavs.
Pretty much, except for the parts bordering Bavaria, unless Bavarians, too, are Germanized Slavs. But having family in Bavaria and having spent a lot of time there, many see themselves as Germanized Romans, which makes no sense.
Tim Salter Germanized Romans? I have never heard of that. As for Bavarians being germanized slavs - as for the evidence we have this does not appear to be the case. But of course there is always some admixture, as with any ethnic group, ever.
Bavarians are most likely a mix of Germanic peoples from the north, the original inhabitants (probably related to the pre-Indo-European Hallstatt people), and some Eastern European admixture. The 40% Eastern European probably comes mostly from my dad's side. Though he is from Westphalia, much of his family came from the east, as in the 1800s, there was large scale migration of Germans from the east to Westphalia to work in the mines. Bavarians tend to think they are different from and better than other Germans, from what I gather, but just like other Germans, they are the result of several different waves of migration.
The photo at the 5:00 minute mark is Rothenburg OdT... We lived in Katterbach township of Ansbach for almost 7 years. Rothenburg is only a 20 minute drive away. It's in Bayern...
My grandfather's East Prussian is originally from the eastern section of East Prussia. My father's Ancestry DNA Test is mostly Baltic, then Slavic, then Germanic in that order from highest to lowest % for population groups in that area. Our YDNA Haplogroup is N, and it probably was originally from the Varangian Swedes.
Just how Swedish is Southern Finland- quite a lot since the rest of the country are like the Russians with their bears, snow and vodka intake.Don't get me started on the Lada/Volvo Ratio!
The Slavic and Germanic languages come from the same Corded Ware culture, which in the first half of the Bronze Age occupied the whole of northern and eastern Europe. Until now, many common words have been preserved in English and Russian: Day - Den' Night - Noch Stop - Stop Door - Dver Snow - Sneg Water - Voda Sister - Sestra Brother - Brat Daughter - Doch, Docher Son - Syn Mother - Mater, Mat'. You can find hundreds of such words.
The Dominant culture of Canada is Germanic Anglophone and Latin French Slavs are only in minority but they are majority in Canada the largest Slav outside Europe
Next "Just how Germanic is Northern France"
@Deva Rafael just how albanian turkish and slav is greece?
How Serbian is Kosovo
@@enqrbit %2 percent
@Suomalainen sotilas less and less, by the day.
That’s a video I’d want to see
Just how greek is southern italy
This one is good.
@Deva Rafael that one doesn't count
I read the "Italioti" were mostly man who takes wife in south Italy
Bowling for Roof or just how Albanian is greece
Also just how Greek are Greeks in the Middle East
Future archeologists will look at the prevalence of tracksuits to answer this question.
... and ponder the squatting nature of the skeletons
Wearing adidas right now while living in east germany lol
@@musikkritik6316 "Ausländer raus! Ausländer raus!"
@@marmac83
Koreans love to squat too.
Tri poloski!
in eastern Germany there is a strong percentage of the element R1a1 that the Slavs brought in in the early Middle Ages. Many city names are former Slavic names, monuments of the Slavic religion, castles etc.
Even the capital Berlin comes from a Slavic word meaning swamp.
@@modmaker7617 I think it means lake or river something like that.
Judging by the username, probably washing clothes.
Good luck with that 😏
I'm German-American. My Y-DNA is R1B-U106 and I match a lot of people in Czechoslovakia. My DNA type is often called the "Dutch DNA". My mother's DNA is most common in Carpathia Russia and Croatia, but she's German on both sides of her family - clearly there is a lot of overlap with Germanic and Slavs.
Germanization was a ruthless, centuries old practice
WWII was just a continuation of controlling Poland, which was the largest Jewish population at the time
Look deeper in root cause analysis and original source material when studying your history
@@tenbroeck1958
Funny thing is that there are more Serbs living in Germany than there are Sorbs.
Difficult to absorb.
@@tolrem Who exactly, the sorbs or the serbs? 😂
Serbs migrated to the Balkans from Lusatia and Sorbs
@@bolerobolero5668 So both of them, agreed :)
@goran stojanovic More like the other way around since serbs came to the balkans from east germany so that means that serbs are sorbs.
Also it's impossible for any serbs from the balkans to know that they're of sorbian heritage since both our languages and our genetics are completely different, also we definitely didn't keep our family records when we came to the balkans.
In parts of Austria you can definately see the Slavic influence. In Vienna, names like Morawec, Sobotka or Dvorak are common. A lot of place names are of Slavic origin too. The culture/food/architecture is also very similar to countries like Czechia or Slovenia, an obvious result of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Its the opposite, countries like czechia and slovnia look much like germanic cities. german craftsman build many slavic citis or constructed it during the habsburg era.
@Volkstum Yesss.In few words you did a great résumé.Thank you!
@@hermannarminius7757 as an austrian I disagree
@@hermannarminius7757 it’s not the opposite. Czechia and Slovenia aren’t at all germanic. Sure, they were part of some Germanic states at one point or another, but there isn’t much of a germanic legacy left behind. The fact that some buildings were built by Germans or Austrians doesn’t really mean anything, the architectural style of the cities is just common pan-European architecture, nothing especially Germanic about the cities in either country. And then in terms of culture and genetics, the Slavs have definitely influenced the Germans more than the Germans have influenced the Slavs.
@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 Not in Czechia tho. At least not in east and middle Czech territory. There are also many cultural elements which they share. I would almost consider bavarians being more close to Czechs than to us west Germans who are more French and Dutch influenced.
My mother was Prussian. I‘ve traced her family back to 1700 to the same villages up till ww1. I did a DNA test to see how much German I have... None! I am a Slav! Haha proves your theory!
Adopted?
Well Prussia was originally Baltic anyway
Germanization was a ruthless, centuries old practice
WWII was just a continuation of controlling Poland, which was the largest Jewish population at the time
Look deeper in root cause analysis and original source material when studying your history
@@KotBegebot oh my gosh, you talk so much shit, holy crap.
@KotBegebot the names are a Coincidence, the old Prussians aren't even Slavic they were Baltic, Northern Belarus was formerly inhabited by Baltic peoples, the Eastern Europeans aren't a single people, they don't all belong to the Same language family, Balto-Slavs and Germans (when I say Germans I mean Germanic tribes) spilt over 4,000 years ago, and Balts and Slavs spilt over 3,000 years ago so they are not the same you are just being ignorant.
Next: "How Mongolic is Northern China"
pretty much 100%
A LOT. Mandarin is a mongol-manchu pronunciation language that is distant from ancient or Middle Chinese.
Very
Southern China has a lot of Viet or Hmong/Miao or Thai influences. I mean the country has over 50 minorities. There ought to be a lot of non-chinese ancestry in any region.
@@belus6304 Just to correct the small misleading made statement I think you sir meant North east instead of west since there are a minority of Uyghur Turk populations living in that region aka Xinjiang province of China. yeah indeed in the autonomous Manchurian land there are still Koreans and Manchus out there. However both of these are two totally different ethnic groups that shouldn't be confused with each other.
Genetically speaking the Korean peoples cluster quite alot with their early Austro Asiatic relatives with O2b haplogroup being the dominant in Korea mostly being found among many of the males. Manchus in the other hand mainly keep C1c3 shared by their other near Tungusic, Mongolic (Altaic speaking neighbors)
About 30 % of all germans have slavic or prussian familynames, including me, so these people are not distinct. They are simply assimilated.
there are slavic germans with german sur names as well
Can you give an example of Prussian familynames? That would really interest me. (Gerne auch in Deutsch.)
@@Spinnradler
Zum Beispiel Prasuhn, Kurbjuhn, Kalis, Adomaitis, Orgas, Klaws, Mors, Jagstys, Raukuttis, Hindemitt, Zwegat, Naujoks, Urbat, Asmus, Baltrusch, Klauke, Corell, Dowidat, Kirleis, Tölke.
Da das Prußische dem Litauischen sehr ähnlich war, gibt es viele dieser Namen auch dort. Auch wurden viele Litauer und Letten dort angesiedelt. Litauen war ja das letzte heidnische Land Europas. Bevor die Litauer entgültig zum Christentum konvertiert sind waren sie schon einmal vorübergehend Christen. Dann wurden sie wieder heidnisch, und wer Christ bleiben wollte, mußte nach Ostpreußen.
Es gibt übrigens viele seltsame deutsch klingende Namen, die prußischen Ursprungs sind. Sie wurden irgend einem deutschen Wort zugeordnet, das so ähnlich klang. Etwa Anhut, Fleischut, Habedank, Gutzeit, Kahlweiß, Tolkien, Trinkaus, Vierkant.
Viele Prußen wie auch Slawen hatten ursprünglich gar keine Familiennamen und legten sich erst später einen deutschen Namen zu, meist ihre Berufsbezeichnung.
Eastern border has been mixing for centuries
@@sanitar-otti320 Junge laber ma nicht, außer Tölke gibt es keinen dieser Nachnamen
Just how Nordic are russians?
I see you really want to put germans genes everywhere.
Ew.
@Pantoufle Russia was founded by germanics. Its a fact
@@bowlingforroof6878 Classic, germs said the same for France. If you can't conquer someone's territory, just say they are like you and you are the "Masterace" of this European family, and then assimilate them. The jacobin shitters did the same with Occitans and Britons.
@Pantoufle No. Russia means land of the Rus = Vikings. The Russian nation was founded by Rurik
Just how Finnic is Russia?
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You even see that mixture in other parts, for example: the architecture in Saxony looks very Czech and the Saxonian dialects are heavily influenced by Sorbs, Czechs and Polish people. In the Sorbish regions every street name and sign is bilingual and the so called "Umgebindehäuser" in the region are a mixture of slavic block huts and German Fachwerk. Greetings from Leipzig/Lipsk :)
Germanization was a ruthless, centuries old practice
WWII was just a continuation of controlling Poland, which was the largest Jewish population at the time
Look deeper in root cause analysis and original source material when studying your history
Buddy u don’t know what ure talking about
so educate us, what are we wrong about?
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Many Eastern Germans are germanized Slavs. Check out the history of Haus Mecklenburg. Their ancestor was Niklot, a Slavic Polabian lord.
@evansdrad The celtic nationalist Baltic ancestry is more in the East (East Prussia, Masuria). Slavic ancestry of Eastern Germans starts already in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg etc.
@evansdrad The celtic nationalist It was rather mixed there: Slavs, Balts and German settlers. You can see it on their surnames where they come from. Also worth mentioning: Many expelled East Germans weren't even viewed as real Germans, at least in West Germany.
@@polskiszlachcic3648 lots of germans from East Prussia where mixed with Baltics. After the war all these germans cames to today Germany and brings aswell their mixed heritage. There where a some millions. All got married with other germans. So today lots of germans got a bit Baltic heritage
@@polskiszlachcic3648 in upper Silesia today the peoples still are a polish german mixture
@@polskiszlachcic3648 it is a complex theme. Many poles becames germans and many germans became poles all over the history. I think someone whose maternal language is polish is a pole and someone whose maternal language is german is german.
Especially in the south of east Prussia there lived lot of Masures a mixture predominantly from Masovia. Most of them got assimilated a felt german. After WW1 there was a vote. They got to vote if they want to stay a part of Prussia or became a part of the Polish Republic. 98% voted for Prussia. So we can say that they where germans with Masovian Roots
I‘m from Germany and it‘s great to see this channel giving some publicity to the Sorbs - actually, their language is already severely endangered but there are measures taken against a further decline.
Serbołużycki language and Dolnołużycki language both endangered like Irish in just a little enclaves of Ireland
I think that the German language will be endangered soon too, judging by the way things are going.
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@Ryack 63 Please enlighten me, how „things are going“.
Romanians might be the most slavic non-slavs. Not only in language but also in many traditions and life-style.
They are more likely to be dacian
The most slavic, non slavs probably is hungary
@@lucaslevinsky8802 Hungarians, Romanians, East Germans, Austrians, Balts, Fins... for the Slavs we're probably all only some Slavaboos....
@@Spinnradler Slavs were not alike Romans and other emperors, they were free people with so many different dialects and traditions and that what I still love about us. That we are speaking different languages but we can understand each other.
@@malaxes interesting. But I don't understand what you mean? I spoke about the non-Slavic people of Eastern Europe (Hungarians, Romanians, etc.), not about Roman emperors.
@@Spinnradler because they are located in Eastern Europe and Most Eastern Europeans are Slavs and how about a Greeks they are Slavs too
In other words, the Germans absorbed the Sorbs.
I've seen many autosomal results of east Germans and they are about half Slavic genetically, it's not just paternally or that they have some Slavic ancestry, they are on average about half Slavic genetically. They have massive Slavic ancestry.
Interesting!
Less than that
@@dakkossman2063 nope 40-50% slavic on average
@@lionheart5078 source? I can see only data with around 20%
@@dakkossman2063 what data are u looking at?
Germans are the non-slavs with highest slavic influence (besides non-slavic minorities inside slavic countries. It would be very interesting to find out how germanic czechs and slovenians are as theri culture is often way more influenced by germans than other slavic people.
and the stupidest thing is that Hitler wanted a pure race, not realizing how mixed the germans and austrians were
@@nielsqbc4 there is nothing like pure germanic, pure slavic... There are majorities but not 100% pure genetics.
@Vilém Plaček unfurtunaly that events accoured... but i ofcourse in over 800years germans and czechs mixed quiet a lot. and the slavic people moved there after moost of the germanic people fled from huns... so even when the slavic tribes moved into this regions, there still might have been some germanic tribes left, just like when in early middle ages german people moved towards the east again
(my ancestry actually is from silesia, but i hope that in modern days no nationality has to be forceably replaced)
And Hitler was Y-DNA Haplogroup E1B1B... the irony 😄
dude he wanted to breed the übermensch by killing the weak, sick or stupid people (+ people they didnt liked) the nazis even imported people from other nations who fitted into the idea of the übermensch they used "good" women and ss soiders for "breeding" (there have been only akademiks in the ss and they had to be heathy...it was a special force) to keep it short the idea they had isnt as crazy as most people think...but the way they did it was pretty fucked up
i think some people shouldnt spread there dns for the better good and the idea of creating a extreamly healthy strong and smart human a "übermensch" is kind of fazinating 🤔....
They're so Slavic that they substitute vodka for water..
But you see, comrade, vodka IS water. Literally. :P
*Yes, vodka means just that - little water*
They’re so Slavic their favourite brand is Tap-out
And you are substituted to be an idiot
No, it's Uralic
Jay You aren’t lying. My Polish friend’s grandfather would drop a shot of vodka into his soup for dinner lol, that’s got to be the most Slav thing I’ve ever seen.
Carinthians are Germanised Slovenes. You can see Carinthia was over 80% Slovene in the first Austro-Hungarian census. Burgenland saw extensive immigration from Croatia
Cossack Historian Yup
Most of Southern Austria used to be Slavic. Graz is germanised name of Slavic word Gradec. They were brainwashed by German propaganda over the centuries. They call themselves Windish and they actually hate Slovenes, lol.
@Kristjan Matelic - they developed an inferiority complex and so welcomed Germans accepting them into their ethnicity :(
The 19th century race science which saw Germans as superior to Slavs really didn’t help.
Even the german name for Carinthia which is Kärnten comes from Karantania, a Slovene kingdom
Also nearby Venetia is from Slavic Wends, which were trading caste. Milan is so familiar name within Serbs, I dont know is there any Italian guy called Milan, but city there is called Milano ;)
In East Germany you still have many Slavic toponyms can be found, basically anything that ends with -itz, -in or -ow. For example, the German capital Berlin comes from Slavic *brlo which means "swamp". You once had Polabian living around Berlin. Sadly the last Polabian speaker died in the late 17th. Sorbs still exist due to persistence, although they had to face restrictions and discrimination even in the middle ages (Germans forbid them to speak their own language).
@Z Eave
And you're jews of Europe
It's not about to make them look bad but a matter of truth
"the Old Sorbian tribes' loss of independence in the 10th century, the subsequent rural settlement of their territory by the Franks, Thuringians, and Saxons, the expansion of German cities and trade, and the official ban of the Sorbian language that came into effect in the 13th century."
That's the reason why Sorbian was steadily replaced by German. That's also why Polabian and Old Prussian went extinct.
@@robertrobski1013 Kinda. Remember that Jews in Eastern Europe often didn't speak the local Slavic languages but a slang based on German called Yiddish. Plus, yeah Germans often view themselves as "God's chosen people", when in reality their superiority came from conquering the Roman Empire xD
Robert Robski actually the place of Europe that historically has been filled with Jews is Eastern Europe
I am East German. And basically asked this question: how slavic is my DNA. I know of no Sorbian ancestry of my family, still my grandmother I got tested, received 60 % predominantly Czech and Slovak heritage, much more than German, ~20 %(Ancestry DNA). I will do the test on my other grandparents as well, it's interesting. Oh and, area is Leipzig countryside. Not a sorbi hotspot today
Leipzig used to be Sorbian, though.
@@Vitalis94 mhmm. The original form of Leipzig was *Lipsk
There's has a misconception on "Germanic" or "Celtic" genetics because it has been confused with modern (and ancient) languages and ethnic affiliation. For example the English, Flemish and Southern Dutch are Germanic speaking ethnic groups who have overwhelmingly pre-Celtlc/Celtic DNA.
Your name "Czerni" if it's pronounced
correctly sounded like "černý" or "tcherni" (with English pronunciation) in some slavic languages, it means dark or black. Also Leipzig comes from Lipsko which means Linden-tree town. But we all share the same ancestry of PIE - Celts, Germans, Italians, Slavs, just a little mutation here and there...
Lol.Czerni - even your surename is Slavonic. It means black or dark.
As a Balkan Serb it is very saddening and concerning to see how the number of Lusatian Serbs (or Sorbs in english) has fallen over the centuries. How they were forcefully assimilated by the Germans, destroying their language and culture. And they werent the only victims of this, there were many other Slavs in todays eastern Germany that were wiped out, such as Pomeranian Slavs. Slava Slovanom
You see,they wanna be ,sorbs,not Serbs ,but they will find out in the end ....
Not really assimiliation, more like germanisation.
@@nikolazuzic in Polish Sorbs, are called "Serbowie Łużyczcy", so it's weird for me to write it, like westerners do
@@Embrodwe need to help them to survive, after 1000 years of germanisation they still exist
@@nikolazuzic They called themselves Serbs, not Sorbs.
1 correction: Lechitic branch is a subdivision of Western Slavs, that include Poles, Silesians and Kashubians. Czechs, Slovaks and Sorbs are not Lechites.
Lower Sorbian language is more closely related to Polish while Upper Sorbian is more similar to Czech.
Polabians are Lechites, too!
@@pawerysiejko2058 Śląski to dialekt a nie język a zarówno Kaszubi jak i Ślązacy są Polakami.
Silesians were Germanics, already mentioned by the Romans.
@@swietosawagromowadna7957loool you are funny
1:51 "Lechitic" isn't actually synonymous with west Slavic - there are actually three subdivisions of the western branch - Lechitic (Polish, Silesian, Kashubian and the extinct Polabian), Czechoslovak (all Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak dialects) and Lusatian (the upper and lower variations)
Don't you just love how in all videos about Slavs they are always shown as older people, with long white beard, dress in animal coats, with no weapon? And yet this group of old men came from somewhere and spread across half of Europe where tall, strong, brave and young soldiers with huge axes and armors on big horses lived before them…
That wasn't the slavs
Fax.Those people defeated the byzantines,mongols and even the vikings just to be called sheep herders this days...Polabian slavs were defeated because they were not united.Unfortunately poland did not help them as they were catholics
@@feudaljester7581 Poland was young state, with many problems. They tryed to incorporate Weleti tribe but failed.
@@micksmith5123 and who? Anglo - Saxon swamp people?
The better question is just how German is Germany?
100% islam
Germany is Africano-Muslim 😂
@@dymoslaw Fresse
40% islam
40% people who are "smart" but act like fools
10%.....
@@dymoslaw what's with this fascination with Islam that people like you have?
So basically, the answer comes down to “how you define Slavic” as in many cases the assimilation happened a long time ago and just in the case of German names and words and folklore we often cannot tell for sure where they originated, it could be Slavic or Germanic. Also, the video made one mistake: It is not just East Germany. Parts of Western Lower Saxony, Northern Bavaria and the entire west German state of Schleswig Holstein also were once settled by Slavic peoples and especially Schleswig Holstein shows that with its many place names.
Slavic is a language group, nothing else.
Although there are some genes related to the Slavic origin, its not shared by all population. And I would stress, that following maternal or paternal line doesn't make full picture of your origin, since you are looking on one ancestor from thousands. If we would apply the same to black Americans, almost all of them would be classified as Europeans.
There is also another aspect to it. Genes don't always follow the language. Sometimes people adopt the language of invaders.
E.g. Hungarians don't belong to the Indo-European family. In fact Indians and Persians are linguistically more related to germans and Slavs then Hungarians. But if you look on Hungarian genetic profile, they perfectly match the neighbouring countries.
Or Sometimes people invaded areas and fused with existing population.
When you consider that even Slavic countries are very mixed the best definition for identifying Slavs is if they speak a Slavonic language.
Yeah I don't think R1a can be associated with slavic population, it's probably an older haplogroup that was already present in eastern germans before, comming from eastern european hunter gatherer @@puclopuclik4108
The Slavs in Bavaria were rather in the Franconian Region and there are very little remnants from them. Since there have been Celts and Germanics for millenia before them, that is rather logical.
@@suchendnachwahrheit9143 Your point being? The Franconian region is in northern Bavaria, which I already mentioned. So what were you trying to say with this?
I am East German. My paternal grandmother was Silesian. Other than that my whole family were settled in Thuringia as far back as I can tell. By family name I know I have some Hugenotte ancestry. My facial features however are very Baltic.
@Fat Earther latvian lituhanian typical faces
@Fat Earther East Prussian, Lithuanian, Latvian look, except me - I'm too green!
@@Deines7 you adobted
@una Patton in what part of thuringia do u live
I'd like to hear about "Just how Slavic are the Hungarians?" I remember reading that when the Magyars arrived in the Pannonian plain, the population they found there was a mixture of Slavs and Iranian Alans. The Magyar rulers eventually assimilated them to speaking Hungarian, but the genes should still show a lot of the people's earlier identity.
Extremely
Hungarians are almost identical to slovaks and croats in genetics
Aaron Marks < " stupidy rules " ??? ( with your slavic friends ) !!!
@@xboxgamerhr This would mean that Hungarians are actually extinct and all the Hungarian ethnics from the neighboring are something else, but not Hungarians.
Hungarians are slavic (moravian),but they speak Finnish.
@@dowmont6209 Hungarians speak a language related to FInnish.
I think the good question is how German are the Slavs ?
@Cosmic Rift what
@Ian Miles because Russia had Viking kings
@Ian Miles I think most of Russians are Finns or Karelians or something like that
Kristoff Bjorgman We might feel that way as Germanic people, but the Poles do not like us and will probably never work with us. They see themselves as Slavs.
@@Wombat_Astronaut Slavic people and Germanic people are both Indo-European peoples living mostly in northern Europe so kinship is guaranteed. When the Lechite Slavs conquered modern day Poland they would of absorbed the remaining Eastern Germanic peoples such as the Rugians.
In a similar way, the English are a Germanic people with Celtic heritage, the Poles are a Slavic people with Germanic heritage.
Just for you all to know Slavic (slava, sława) means, GLORIOUS in all slavic languages, that's why they pick up so much lands in the past ®
Actually, the root is Slovo, or word. Basically Sloveni, Slaveni etc means people that speak the same language, as opposed to Nemci - the people that can't speak (Germans).
@@zmajooov niemiec - nie miec - nie mieć - nichts haben
I wrote above: First there were Slavs in Europe (Slavic means "glory", not slave - they are called Francs, Anglo-Saxons, Germans and Vikings, because they enslaved the Slavs and traded with their beautiful wives), so there are so many Slavic nations in Europe - divided Slavic tribes to the eastern, southern and western.
Slava means glory and it has nothing to do with the Latin deregatory word "Slav" describing East-Europeans. Proto east European language was called Sloven (Sloviane) from Slov which means word.
tyś sławianian, czy słowianin?
Regarding non-Slavs with Slavic influence, I'd like to hear more about the various Volga Finnic people in Russia.
they're fine. they sing and dance. )))
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Putin has the face of a Finn,which if he actually did originate in St Petersburg mightn't be surprising.
I live in russia and i can say russians are 1/3 finnic
@@slimboyfat9409 Yes,he is veps(finno-ugric tribe),don't slavic
Vanya so, do russians look like finns?
I'm westgerman living in eastgermany and I often mock them a bit by calling them slavic. It's funny and they always deny. I work in a street " Wendenschlossstrasse" . Proof enough
Berlin is a slavic name
Filip Joldzic common misconception
@@comradedoushkin6602 its true. Look it up If you want. I also speak German and serbo-croatian and Berlin has No meaning in the German language.
Berlin, Dresden, Rostock, Lancken-Granitz, Burg Stargard etc all have Slavic origins. For crying out loud, Vorpommern/Pomerania translates to "By the Sea". We Slavs consider Germans our cousins. Even if you are cold and sometimes weird, we still love you.
Brunswick in Lower Saxony has a lot of names pointing to the Wends as well. "Wendentor", "Wendenring", "Wendenstraße", "Wendenmaschstraße", "Wendentorwall", "Wenden" the city quarter for example
Rest In Peace to all the extinct ancient races, tribes, and people's of Europe! There is so many that are gone! 😔
they are not gone, the simply united with other , stronger tribes.
the names are gone but the ppl are still here , even today.
@@Stephanthesearcher That's like saying Neanderthals aren't extinct
@Scp 173 goths, vandals, burgundians, lombards, picts, gauls, polabians, slovincians, white croats, prussians, huns, avars, khazars, pechenegs, dacians, minoans, liburnians, paeonians, messapians, dalmatians, etruscans and their relatives, like a dozen italic peoples that were absorbed by romans...
@Scp 173 We don't know the names of those who were because they didn't have writing back then.
Scp 173 they were modern humans, if that’s what your asking. Their genetic backgrounds would of course be different from the human populations of today, though.
almost all town names in carinthia and styria have slovenian roots. even as north as southern part upper austria region theres a town "windisch-garsten", and just south of vienna there's "gloggnitz" which is clearly not german. also, big city of Graz comes from Gradec (small castle)
Many towns and cities in Germany have clearly slavic (polabian or lusatian) roots-even Berlin! German have some territorial claims to Poland,but they don't know that those cities also have slavic roots. Szczecin ( Slavic word for hill peak, (Polish: szczyt), or the plant fuller's teasel (Polish: szczeć), or the personal name Szczota) -Stettin in german or Opole ( likely originated from the medieval Slavic term for a group of settlements) and in german-Oppeln. I guess the same situation is in Czech Republic...
@@swietosawagromowadna7957 Of course Germans know about slavic settlements.
Just that not the first settlement decides to whom territory belongs. Almost all the cities are founded by the Germans, because Slavs did not live in cities, at that time, of course. And slavs came in the 6th century to these before Germanic homeland. You cannot base a claim on that. Also that slavic settlements were not polish, the inhabitants mixed with Germans and are part of us.
@Ararune it is simple, slovenians are autochthon all across eastern alps., croats are not, they came later. you answered yourself
@Ararune Slovenian identity is relativley new... yes, that is actually true! it faded because Carantania seize to exist in 8th century and that was in huge interest of other nations, especialy Germans. but to say alpine slavs instead of Slovenians is just ignorant. And slovenian identity was based on language and nothing else (not religion, or something else). and this is what i call a TRUE nation. not like swiss, bosnians or belgians....
yes and almost all cities in slovenia have albanian roots..ljubljana literallly means city of the dragon in albanian...
I'm from Germany in East Germany are many cities with Slavic names
Modern Germans=German + Slavic mixed
Of course, for example "Berlin" - in the Czech Republic near Prague is "Beroun" - the root "ber" means bear - the Slavs gave many cities names and are located in such a large area because they were the first.
Next "Just how Turkish is all Germany?"
Kolilo si turcin ti?
3%?
@@TheWeedmate koliko je ti srbin
This ain't gonna be a joke in some years
@@Joao-ms3vb yeah and how do you figure?
East German from Mecklenburg here, some people still identify as partly Slavic at least. Me too, mainly because I look more Slavic than German and I find more cultural similarities to Poland than I do to Saxony or former West Germany.
I would appreciate a video about the ethnic makeup of great britain, if that doesnt already exist. Specifically the extend of celts and germanics and their intermixing
I can't remember where I read it (history student, but it may have not been an academic paper) but I remember reading something which said that no invading force (including the A-S) have affected the genetic makeup of Britain by more than 5%. Considering one of the modern understandings of the Adventus Saxonum as small groups of warriors who staged coups rather than a 'migration', 'Germanic' people might not make up much of Britains genetics at all
@@cass2239 Yes theres new debates almost monthly to the genetic makeup of britain. Since i have 50% English heritage myself i am really interested if those would be rather celtic or germanic
@Horst Wessel is that just what you believe or is it from a study? As a Brit that seems like manipulation of statistics in order to scaremonger, which we've definitely had our share of these past few years, perhaps it is possible for major cities or if you were to say they had to be fully white in an ancestry test but a lot of rural areas are very much still white and don't receive a lot of immigration especially after the 'hostile environment' policy came in so I'd be very surprised.
Caj Newbo not sure but I think masaman has made a video on it before
Horst Wessel
Empty Wessel.
I liked the Texas part. Glad to see I'm rite in the middle of the German area of it. And even our street names are in German here in Boerne Texas
Neat, a lot of the German culture was oppressed in the 1900s so it's lost now
Noss Njeppa It still amazes me how one presidents tyranny and neglect of the constitution led to Americas largest ethnic group essentially giving up its culture.
@@ehanoldaccount5893 Woodrow Wilson? I'm not exactly familiar with what he did, I have a vague idea though. But yeah, there was a highly pro Anglo anti German sentiment by 1916/1917.
Sucks to see really, there could be millions continuing to speak German today had it not been oppressed, thus learning it could have been easier for me, but alas ill have to start from scratch, same for Italian & Russian.
Noss Njeppa Wilson kinda just violated Americas constitution a bunch and suppressed freedom of speech and religion as well as many other amendments. He’s also responsible for the KKK being reorganized. His policies led to a lot of discrimination, especially against Germans, and got us into a war most Americans objected.
In Polish a German person is called Niemiec which in old slavic means mute, the man who don't speak our language. And that is the whole secret, clash of 2 totally different language groups.
In russian too.
And slavic is "slavyanin",because of "slovo" (word.)
In Romanian there's a better etymology.
Neam( tribe)+ tz' phonetics so often heard in German language.
Neamtz'
A people who talk with a lot of tz'.
Same as Sarmatians / Sarmati ( wired) a reference to wire shirts they were dressed in.
Ironically both Indo-European languages though, so a common language ancestor. However different branches. Germanic is Centum. Balto-Slavic is Satem.
@@SauTunSud2025 Romanian language is made around 150-200 years ago right?
@@nikolazuzic
You stole basic Romanian words and gave them a ridiculous slavic etymology
Plata ( payment) for example.
Who on earth would believe that your Plata ( payment) derives from .... textiles.??? due to original payment with such a thing??
We got Plata ( payment) from Spaniards during the Roman empire.
Plata means money and silver just like , argent' in French does.
Why Plata for money anyway?
It's from Latin, platus' ( plat= flat) a reference to how the silver was plated into coins.
We also have , arginti' for coins.
Your Kopati' ( digging) is from Romanian SAPAT and we also have SAPA ( hoe) while you have , motyka'
Your "protoslavic" iti' and , ati is also from Romanian and is a Latin ending met in all Italic languages.
Embarrassing, isn't it?
The Question is what exactly is Slavic? I don't think east Europe is 100% Slavic itself, I think the term Slavic is more of ethno linguistic identity rather than a genetic admixture.
@Henrik Wallin That's a very interesting theory! Do you have a source on that? I would like to read about it.
@Ian Miles Exactly. The people who racialize the Slavs are just continuing the work of 19 century German pseudo-scientists and Nazis themselves.
@Henrik Wallin Yeah, I get that, but I would like to read it nothenless, if you still have that source?
@Ian Miles Poles would have something in common with Russians, as Poland used to be more in the East, but it's true that we don't have much in common with South Slavs except for language.
@@polskiszlachcic3648: The South Slav migrated into an area that had a high concentration of Celts and Indo-Aryans (Scythians, Cimmerians). They are mostly an admixture of all of those.
For anyone wondering “Extensive contact” means extensive war
Not really there was alot of cross border migration and Intermarrige...
That is wrong.
@Crimson - look how many times PLC & HRE troops fought against each other. Look at the religious war in Bohemia (Bohemia VS HRE). West Slavs and Germans have been fighting for ages
@Command_Unit - Have you got any examples of a cross border migration event?
@Yaroslav L - they call the genocide in the Namib an “overseas settlement program”
Greetings from an Rani Slav from Rügen!
@Magik z Leśnej Pantemony Rugia is the fucking polish name. The polabian name is Rana
@@anthemsofeurope2408 "ruyan"
@@dowmont6209 What is ruyan?
@@anthemsofeurope2408 Ruyane=Rani on russian.
@@anthemsofeurope2408 in old Polish it was Rana too
Slavs also settled in part of franconia (bamberg) bavaria (up from dunaj) holstein (lubeck) and thuringia
And get German. I know one
Bro ... Very cool. I am Austrian and here most are culturally German and have Slavic ethnicity. I did a DNA test and I am basically 100% Eastern European.
Do a few more tests, you'll get wildly different results.
Well I don't think at all that Vorarlbergers, Tyrolians, Salzburgers have Slavic ethnicity
@@averinus7706 Did a new one. Turns at out I am half Kenian^^
@@jeanvaljean7266 True. I am just talking about South and East Austria. The areas that were inhabitat by Slavs 1000 years ago.
@peter pan; yes, to some extent Slavic but not entirely just like in my Eastern Bavarian home region (Upper Palatinate). By the way Austria was settled by Bajuvarians (Bavarians) and Styra was especially settled by people from my region. Therefore you Austrians speak different variations of Bavarian (or if you prefer: Austro-Bavarian) dialects.
You should provide the source of your info.
Books. Maps.
To study more.
They are in the description of the video though.
@Manley Nelson Use your pause button.....
@Manley Nelson I know because I want to take screenshots of some of them.
www.eupedia.com/europe/european_y-dna_haplogroups.shtml
Excellent research and presentation. Well done, Masaman
From a genetic and cultural standpoint, the Austrians arguably have more in common with the Czechs than some northern germans, just as the czechs are more closely related to them than the Slovaks. East Germany, Austria, Czechia, Pommerania, Silesia and other regions are the contact zone of the germanic and slavic worlds.
Southern Austria had in the past a significant, if not even a majority, Slavic population (today city of Graz = Gradec, "small city" in Slavic), so it is not a recent development after WW2, but goes to the Early middle ages.
Živili Lužički Srbi!
Živili!
Greetings front Poland :)
@@igor9204 Greetings from Serb Republic!
Pierogi team
Long Live an Independent Lusatia!
I'm from the Baltic Coast, right on the border between East and West Germany. And around here, we have lots of Slavic village and town names all over the place.
Das heißt Ostsee, du Narr.
@@oOSalvadoraxOo Milcz osle! Always Baltic See! Yes, for German Ost See, because they were far West!
There was Bodrići,Ljutići...in past
10:21 Here in Brazil, exist Pomerode in Espírito Santo, it's a pomeraniam colionie in Southeast. By the way, many citizens from Pomerode speak the pomeriniam dialect with local linguistc influence. However, in Paraná (South of Country) is famous the so many polish, ukrainian and russian colonies. Amazing video, greetings from RJ, Brazil 😀
But Pomeranian are the Vikings of the southern Baltic sea
@@robertrobski1013 ??
@Bruno Jr Há uma colônia de pomerânios no ES que mantêm bastante da cultura pomerana. Se eu não me engano, a cidade leva o mesmo nome de Pomerode. Pfvr, pesquise no Google sobre a colonização de pomerânios no ES.
Thanks, Mason! I just recently found out that my "German" grandfather was one of these Germano-Slavs, his parents being born in German-Poland and Russian-Poland of the late 19th century. I've been very curious about the genetics of these regions and this was very informative! I just wish that I could identify which exact groups of Slavs have lent me their DNA. Next time I'm in Texas I'll have to visit Serbin.
Yes you should come visit Texas! It's full of Czech, German,Polish and yes The Sorbs!! And still speak their languages! Just with a Texas accent!!!
I'm Sorbian- have many ancestors and cousins in and around Serbin. My great x3 grandfather helped build the church there.
@@ViragoRiver Word ,,sorb,,means nothing but the word Serb means a lot in history and recently as well .
@@kevinstimelsky673never heard of this fact, pozdrawiam😊
Hi Masaman, my family actually descends from the Sorbs. It took me many years to research this as all I knew was that my grandfather was 5th generation ‘German’ in the Ukraine and my grandmother was ‘3rd generation’ there. My grandfather still fought in WW1 and the family moved westwards over time. Before WW2 my grandparents moved to South America. My grandfather had a strange surname which appeared to be Slavic but my uncles always maintained that they were Germans although the younger siblings were born in the area where the Sorbs came from in Poland/East Germany. With my research I figured that the family on my grandfather’s side was Slavic rather than German. The German side came from my grandmother. I’ve recently taken a DNA test and this confirmed the half German half Slavic descendancy in my family, including some Scandinavian and Balkan, Scandinavian probably having been the influence in the Ukraine. My father came from a Austria where the German, Balkan and even some Celt appeared in my DNA .... truly awesome. Your documentary here sheds further light on the influences and mixtures in this area of Europe over the years. Thank you for a well done research.
Topic is very interesting but it is very week video, it contains small amount of information and you are circling around the topic. First of all Mecklenburg is not Pomerania, You did not mentioned that most of towns and cities in eastern Germany has Slavic derived names; e.g. Stralsund - Strzałów, Wismar- Wyszomierz, Lubeck - Liubice, Potsdam - Podstąpin, Leipzig - Lipsk, Chemmnitz - Kamienica, Cottbus - Chociebuż and many more. Actually there are few hundreds of them. Until XII century area east of Elbe slav. Laba was settled and governed by Slavs; e.g. Jaxa of Köpenick slav. Jaksa z Kopanicy Ruled over the area of Berlin and was Polish vassal, Köpenick is district of Berlin which was also Slavic settlement. You did not mention Limes Sorbicus, Limes Saxoniae, Slavic origin of House of Mecklenburg, ostsiedlung proces. Furthermore it is not controversial topic, it is just general knowledge. PS. I forgot to mention that Boleslaw The grate King of Poland wan the war with HRE over control over Milsko and Lusatia which is west of the Lusatian Neisse.
A few years ago I found on the Deutsche Welle website, an article, since removed, stating that in all of Germany, East and West, only about six percent of the population was really truly Germanic. The rest were pretty evenly divided between Slavic and Celtic origins, with a very significant admixture of Jewish genes. That information was based on extensive genetic studies.
Do you have any idea why it was taken down.
@@841Takis Not really. I can only guess. Political correctness?
Ironic that Hitler considered Slavs sub-human when most western Europeans have some slavic blood according to DNA samplings. Also, far more Russians than Germans have blond hair and blue eyes, thanks to Viking marauders of 1,000 years ago. So who is the real arian?
the true arian is a bitch
But Hitler was a jew
Viking marauders, kind of Nazi handbook have you been reading?
The blonde hair and blue eye gene comes from modern-day Ukraine many thousands of years ago.
How ironic Hitler weas more jew than European basically he wss related to banker Rothschild
Fun fact: Berlin is a Slavic name.
Ano, stejně jako město Beroun (CZ) a jiné...
Check city and village names in east germany, arround 80% Slavic names!
In Ukraine there are several villages with name of Berlyn (Берлин). That old Ukrainian word means "cart" or "wagon". So modern Berlin could be the place were the carts were made or the merchant place where the trade was provided from the carts..
@@TheOlgaSasha, interesting! Never thought of that before. Fits perfectly to what Slavyan golubica mentioned.
We have another Berlin too at: 54°02'12.0"N 10°26'39.2"E
With lots of originally Slavic place names around it like Plön, Preetz or Schwentine.
@@TheOlgaSasha but Berlin is from slavic BRALIN
It is a box mix.
I am of Polish descent, but my last name (which wasnt redacted) has a German and Slavic mix.
Surnames dont really tell much about your origin, my surname is Austrian but I did a DNA test and it showed its of Celtic origin. Surnames were mainly given according to the language in the respective territory where one of your ancestors lived, no matter what his descend was.
I had this subject in school 17 years ago, so your video is a nice refresher.
I read a 9th century chronicles of how the Germans and Slavs fought each other by Magdeburg.
They mentioned that both parties when saw a newborn would steal it and raise them as theirs ;-)
Just how German is France?
100%
(jk)
@@uljeodcikle3058
60% of French are Celtics
@@canopuss296? I was just messing
Not very anymore (in 1400 the whole east was germanic) , only in Alsace Lorraine German is the main language there and there nearly all have German ancestry
if you give me the money and the power they will surrender within one week ...100% german 😂
The Germans are predominantly a mix of DNA groups R1a and R1b, which are actually Slavs and Celts, Germanic I1 is just over 10%.
Kinda correct, but it is greater than 10%. Eupedia.com
I1 is atlanto mediteranean, R1b* is proto germanic (indoeuropean)
I1 is mostly Scandinavians
@@hmcccppCeltic*
As a German, I can say that the part east of the Elbe is like 80% Slavic genetics-wise, but culture-wise almost totally part of German culture with some regional specifics due to proximity to Poland and due to socialism. The large exception is a little part of saxony and Brandenburg which has its own Slavic language and is almost entirely catholic in contrast to the atheist surroundings
You know that name of river elba ,sounds like palabi in latvian language- right side, polabian slavs, what means rightside slavs.
@@dogogang85 didn’t know that, cool! But makes sense given Elbe is Lab or something like that in Czech
@@pascalbaryamo4568 Poles and Germans are more similar than both nations would like to admit. Maybe not as much as Czechs but even speaking of architecture, it's clear for me that German influence was much more significant than eastern one. The main difference now is that we are more conservative, due to historical factors.
Elba-Laba
You have "uper" Luzatia-Cotbus and "lower" Lusatia-Budishin, one of them are chatolic the other are protestants...Once again religion spliting nations😢.
Searbs on Balkan are orthodox, Croats chatolics...
Just how slavic is Austria?
Bavarian settlers divided the Slavic territory (Slovenia and Slovakia), therefore the northeastern and southern parts have the most Slavic ancestry.
AF
There are still Croatian speaking villages in Burgenland in Austria, like Kroatisch Minihof and Kroatisch Geresdorf. Literally whole villages where everyone speaks Croatian, but inside Austria, but the villagers all hold Austrian nationality. Also in Kaernten (Carinthia) there are villages with a Slovenian speaking minority, who are Austrian nationals. Patchwork Europe. They didn't get moved out when Austria's borders were redrawn after WW1.
Apart from that, lots of Austrians have Slavic names. I worked for a steel company in Steiermark in the 1990s. One of the Directors' names was Wehsely (Vasily), he was from Vienna, and the training department head was a Herr Wukitschiewitz, who was a local. And a lady in another Sales Office down the corridor from mine was a Frau Zilavec (her husband's surname, as she was married). They were all 100% Austrian German speakers, and didn't know any Slavic languages. They weren't the only ones but they are some of many examples which spring to mind. Others had Hungarian names.
Austria is little less Slavic than East Germany but still is significantly Slavic (except far West, Alpine part). Austrian province Carinthia named after Karantanians (or Xorutanie - as mentioned in Rus' chronicles) - which was original name of current Slovenes. Besides, there were Blaten (or Balaton) Slavic Principality in what-is-now West Hungary and East (near-border) Austria before Hungarian invasion in 890s. Btw, Slovaks differ from Czech and Poles. They have much more I2a1-L621-Y3120 and R1a-Z280-CTS3402, which approaches them to Slovenes, Serbo-Croatians and Ukrainians. And this also remarkable in their accent and language features.
@@rdtgr8 it feels more Slavic to me. My grandmothers last words were in Slovenian and on a bigger scale much of our food and names are clearly from the East. Obviously, we have also a strong Latin influence. All in all, it makes us culturally quite a bit different, but we still speak the same language and look mostly similar, though Slavic and Italian appearance is more prevalent.
R1a1 haplogroup can't be the only fact of Slavic presence in East Germany because:
1) R1a1 belongs not only to Slavs but also to Balts and many other Indo-European groups (including desappeared ones). For example, R1a1 was found among 15% Swedes and approx. 25% of Norwegians, although the Slavs never lived in Scandinavia. Nordics have more ancient markers of R1a which are absent among Slavs.
2) Gubin (Guben) group of Jastorf (Germanic) arch.culture, as well as Pszeworsk (Balto-Slavic and Germanic Vandals) arch. culture, had the mixed processes: some Germanic tribes were slavinizated, but other Slavic tribes were germanizated, both had strong Celtic influence. So it is practically impossible to divide Slavic and Germanic tribes in southern Poland during Przeworsk arch.culture. For example, Vandals were Germanic tribe from Przeworsk arch.culture, although a lot of DNA-tested remains of Vandal warriors had haplogroup R1a
to add, us Serbs, South Slavs besides predominant R1a1, next two genetic profiles are Norse as second, Teutonic as third. cheers from Belgrade.
We Slavs call Germans-Nemci. Ones who are mute who doesn’t speak our language
Lol yeah
I'm an R1a first generation German-America with a surname that's common in Austria. This is spot on.
Do 23 and me and other ancestry test tell about what haplogroup a person could be? Really curios.
Yes, that is why I chose it. Unlike Ancestry.com, 23andMe tells you your halplogroups as well as your neanderthal DNA% (mine was slightly less than average, surprisingly).
@@TJSakowski I see. I'll certainly get it done. I'm Bengali upper caste Indian, we probably have the highest amount of R1a ZM93 in India. This same haplogroup is common in Pashtuns and Eastern Iranians as well. But lot of Bengalis have R1b as well. Are you R1a ZM93? R1a ZM93 is typically Indo-Iranian.
I'm R-CTS1211 or R-M420 "most common in Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine." So I'm not sure if it lets you know your variant of R1a, R1b, etc. but it seems like it would.
@Isac Slahcup slaves are plebs
"Just how Scandinavian are Northern Germans" would be an interesting topic as well.
scnadinavians are germanic
Of course they are. Sorbians still exist and Polabians existed until not long ago. Most will probably disagree because of the modern notion of modern states.
You are right here. I am a Eastern German. I have about a third oft Slavic DNA and a Slavic family Name.
Congratulations
When non whites take over western Europe you will be allowed to join the Slavic ethnostate
@@PM-im8nq Very well
Finally some background music!! Bach goes great with this
How Greek is Western Anatolia ....Humble Request
Somewhat there's still Mediterraneans in the western and southern coastal areas from what I've heard
It's not Greek in the slightest. Anatolia was always more developed and densely populated than Greece, so they had much more of an effect on Greeks than the other way around
Western Anatolia is not Greek but Albanian.
I strongly disagree with the conclusion of this video. You make a huge mistake in confounding multiple different concepts that have nothing to do with the topic. The current genetic makeup of "East Germany" (Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) has very little to do with the statement that East Germany has strong Slavic genetic influence, since the population there has been interchanged and ethnically cleansed so much since WW1. What you want to do is look at the genetic makeup of Prussian Germans and "East Germans" (i.e. Brandenburg, Pomerania) from the 1800's. One of the easiest ways to do this is through elderly Prussian-German immigrants in America and their offspring.
Being someone who's father is one of these offspring, and being heavily into genealogy and genetics, I've studied this is in my own family. My dad's family were all "Germans" from Brandenburg, Prussian Pomerania, East Prussia, Stettin (Szczecin) and Posen (Poznan)-our last name is a Germanized Slavic name (ending in -zow) but is found only in Germans, and not Poles. Everyone else in the family had very "German" names (i.e. Schmidt, Schroder, etc). When they came to America, they settled in rural areas with other Prussian-German populations. Both my Prussian-German grandparents, and my dad, have about half-Slavic genes (according to 23andme and Ancestry DNA). Given that I did our genealogy back to the 1700's and found no obvious Polish ancestors, this should imply that Germans on the eastern front had been mixing with Slavic tribes for a couple hundred years minimum. Even the name "Berlin" itself comes from a Polabian word for "swamp." You implied that these Slavic place names come from post-WWII German repatriation-which makes no sense, since these names have existed for centuries before WWII.
I'd recommend the documentary Hellstorm for more info on how the Soviets took over east Germany.
Thank you. Very Interesting
@@Masaman Likewise, big fan from Birmingham, England mate.
The documentary is in limited state on youtube looks like someone working at google really hates Germans
@@belstar1128 Exactly.
thats just pure white supremacist propaganda though james
There is also a certain "admixture mechanism" not mentioned there. The red army in 1945
I’ve often wondered how much of an effect that had genetically.
@@lewisham millions raped, it had a big effect that's for sure.
@Amon Ra I've seen east germans get dna tests and they generally have some slavic ancestry, but it is anecdotal
@Amon Ra sure
Not really, abortion was the norm.
Your videos are just great... with so many facts and hard data, in times of so much nonsense... Congrats and thanks.
Many East Germans identify more with eastern culture than with western culture. My friend from east Berlin told me in 2018 “here in the east part of Berlin we identify much more with the culture of Moscow than that of London or Paris”
im from berlin and for most people its not true. Its just that masses of poles and russians migrated here.
Hermann Arminius you’re probably from west arent you?
@@am_languages yes I am
It is funny because in Warsaw people identify much more with London or Paris or even Rome, than with Moscow or Berlin.
@@guciodestroyer2432 that's the case in every city in Europe. They're like sheeps. Even if Paris falls, they would repeat every single step Paris did, until they too, don't fall. Amazing, right?
all lands along the border of the Elbe River and from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea to Venice of Italy are the lands of the Venets (Slavs)
There were also slavic nobles ruling in Germany. In Mecklenburg ruled the Obodrites with their headquarter in this castle, where is today the parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweriner_Schloss
...and they had many other dukes and castles: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obodriten_(Adelsgeschlecht)
In Pommern ruled the Greifen in this castle in Stettin: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stettiner_Schloss
...and in many other castles. They also ruled in Denmark and in Sweden (Erich der Pommer).
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greifen
And in Silesia ruled the silesian Piastes who were an offspring of the polish kings, with many dukes and castles:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlesische_Piasten
They were the nobles, who had accepted to turn to be christians.
But where the slavs didnt want to become christians and opposed christianisation for about 400 years, like it was in Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen and in Brandenburg, they were finally conquered and the slavic nobles lost their positions to Germans.
I am Ukrainian, with Russian and Ukrainian mother tongues. When I come to Eastern Germany (Jena, Rostock... ) I realize that a big number of toponyms sound understandable for me, because they clearly have Slavic roots.
Yeah, we are your lost half-brothers and -sisters 😉 Slava!
Rostock- Rastok
Many place names in eastern Germany, including Berlin, are at least partly of Slavic origin, at least as far as suffixes are concerned.
Interesting tidbit: In eastern Saxony, we say "No" (short o) or "Nu" for yes, completely confusing English speakers. It is thought that this comes from Czech "ano".
Peter Eberhard In Slovenia, we use 'ja' for yes instead of the slavic 'da'. Comes from German probably.
"No" (short o) is a common expression of affirmation (well, among other things) in Polish; however, it's considered informal and incorect from the standard Polish point of view (yet everybody, I mean everybody uses that, only to different extent) so it'd best be translated as English "yeah / yep". Unforunately I don't know the exact origins of the Polish "no" (we do have "ano" for i.a. "yes" as the Czechs do, but it's of rare use in Polish). We don't have the "nu" though - that's a Russian expression for what I can tell.
What I've found interesting is that some Germans informally use "nee" instead of the standard German "nein", I don't know whether it's common in some parts of Germany only or with a particular group or class of people. With its softened and prolonged e it definitely resembles the Polish "nie" more than it does the Czech "ne" (short and hard e) with all three bearing the same meaning.
Czech and Slovak say No as short term of Ano meaning yes
Great video as always. As a german of sorb origin its very refreshing to see a video about the topic for once.
How cool is that, he pronounced even Vojvodina correct :D
Pronounced Österreich horribly though 😂
Das ist ja auch nicht so schwer... Aber toll ist es trotzdem.
Just how slavic austrians are
Another good job masaman. I'm a fan.
For me personally it is sad to see that many slavic and german people, especially in this comment section are still in conflict with each other. We should start to see the future instead of the past and move on.
That's not without a reason.
Czechia: They were slowly germanized and had to revive their language.
Poland: Partitions and germanization of Old Polish territories like Greater Poland (Poznań and Gniezno). Then WW2 of course.
Russia: Many of Russia's inhabitants were killed by Germans during WW2.
All in all, Germans pushed into regions which were not natively German, so people got sick of it. And unfortunately still many Germans act like "God's chosen people" which is quite annoying, even here in the comment section. Also, the history of Slavs is often ignored or misinterpreted and most people know little about them.
@@polskiszlachcic3648 Yes i understand we both fought each other hard and long but those times are over now.
I am Czech, part German, my ancestors came to Moravia from Baden and Alsace in the eighteenth century. I have relatives in Austria. Our mountains protected us from the German influence for centuries, and this is why we preserved our ethnic identity unlike our neighbours.
Your ethnic identity says, that you are between.
Did part of your ancestors assimilated after German expulsion from Czech Republic or are you Sudeten descent
Just how germanic is northern Italy or just how celtic is Iberia
Alexandre Dumont northern Italy is more Celtic than Germanic I think, overall it is mostly Italo-celtic
@@SuperJuvexxx They found that the Irish have alot of DNA from Northern Spain. They are closely related to the Catalina
South Tyrol now Italy was part of Austrian Empire
@@SuperJuvexxx There is no Celtic culture in North Italy Northwest even France is
Both of my parents immigrated from Germany, my mom from Bavaria, my dad from Westphalia, but with many ancestors coming from the east and from Austria. According to 23andMe, I'm 40% Eastern European, and 35% French/German, with the rest of the ancestry coming from places from which I have no known ancestry, such as the Balkans, Scandinavia, Italy and even Siberia. My haplogroup is the Eastern R1a. Since I'm more Eastern European than anything else while my parents didn't even immigrate from East Germany, there is definitely some truth to the Slavic German theory. Strangely enough, my surname is most common in Britain (I have no British ancestry at all), while it is rare in Germany and somewhat common in Austria. So I think my paternal line goes back to Austria. Like I always say, no one is 100% one heritage. I guess I'm just central/eastern European, as opposed to western European.
Tim Salter Austria is genetically heavily influenced by the neighbouring slavic countries. To simplify, most of Austrian population are germanized slavs.
Pretty much, except for the parts bordering Bavaria, unless Bavarians, too, are Germanized Slavs. But having family in Bavaria and having spent a lot of time there, many see themselves as Germanized Romans, which makes no sense.
Tim Salter Germanized Romans? I have never heard of that. As for Bavarians being germanized slavs - as for the evidence we have this does not appear to be the case. But of course there is always some admixture, as with any ethnic group, ever.
Bavarians are most likely a mix of Germanic peoples from the north, the original inhabitants (probably related to the pre-Indo-European Hallstatt people), and some Eastern European admixture. The 40% Eastern European probably comes mostly from my dad's side. Though he is from Westphalia, much of his family came from the east, as in the 1800s, there was large scale migration of Germans from the east to Westphalia to work in the mines. Bavarians tend to think they are different from and better than other Germans, from what I gather, but just like other Germans, they are the result of several different waves of migration.
That is an average estimate for a german according to Ancestry DNA
The photo at the 5:00 minute mark is Rothenburg OdT... We lived in Katterbach township of Ansbach for almost 7 years. Rothenburg is only a 20 minute drive away. It's in Bayern...
My grandfather's East Prussian is originally from the eastern section of East Prussia. My father's Ancestry DNA Test is mostly Baltic, then Slavic, then Germanic in that order from highest to lowest % for population groups in that area. Our YDNA Haplogroup is N, and it probably was originally from the Varangian Swedes.
Just how Swedish is Southern Finland- quite a lot since the rest of the country are like the Russians with their bears, snow and vodka intake.Don't get me started on the Lada/Volvo Ratio!
Helsinki the Capital of Finland is Swedish because it’s locates in Southern Sweden
I always wondered why Himmler looked like Mr. Miyagi
LMAO ikr
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler#/media/Datei:Heinrich_Himmler_as_a_child.jpg
Because he was Khazar jew , asiatic race if you check the Khazarian race befor they convert to Judaism
Do a video about the genetic legacy of the Pannonian Avars in Hungary and Central Europe
The Slavic and Germanic languages come from the same Corded Ware culture, which in the first half of the Bronze Age occupied the whole of northern and eastern Europe. Until now, many common words have been preserved in English and Russian:
Day - Den'
Night - Noch
Stop - Stop
Door - Dver
Snow - Sneg
Water - Voda
Sister - Sestra
Brother - Brat
Daughter - Doch, Docher
Son - Syn
Mother - Mater, Mat'.
You can find hundreds of such words.
Another excellent video. 👍🏴
Well, I guess it’s time to find out how Slavic Canada is!
The Dominant culture of Canada is Germanic Anglophone and Latin French Slavs are only in minority but they are majority in Canada the largest Slav outside Europe