*must've or must have, not must of, this is a common mistake since the pronounication of must've could've should've would've resembles that of must of could of should of would of, but in gramatical terms it is completely wrong, since those are non tense defining auxiliary verbs which must be followed by the main verb or the tense defining auxiliary verb, in the case, the present perfect is used, with have being the tense defining auxiliary verb for the present perfect.
I think guay (or guai in portuguese based writing) is something in Guarani, a indigenous tribe that lives in nowadays Paraguay and some areas in Brazil and lived in all the "Plata region". Im not sure about this information.
Federico Fiammingo I would imagine most names have an interesting story, given the many years we have used language, i just thought that calling someone a waloon sounds like an insult.
An other possible name change is that the whole FYROM controversy is finally fixed, but I think that's just as unlikely as Palestine and Israel working out something any time soon.
Paeonia... that was actually the historical name of the region, but because the Eastern-Roman Empire (or "Romania" as the Greeks called themselves then) named their provinces as "Palestina 1, Palestina 2, and Palestina 3" the province of "Macedonia 2" was created, and then Slavs moved in and adopted the name.
alxxpspqr 2001, ukraine sold us helicopters and planes, bulgaria sold us tanks, we hired special forces from serbia. we payed for all of it you did nothing and stop believing in all nationalistic propaganda. only greeks in south macedonia are those in the casinos
It's the English language that found itself without a single word name for the Czech Republic. There is no such problem in Czech or other languages, especially in the region (like my native Polish).
Artur M. Exactly. I get that his audience is mainly Anglophone, but so many of his videos are about similarities between, or meanings of countries that, in their respective languages, do not pose such problems. It all has to do with English language only.
Artur M. Yeah, in Bulgarian the name of The Czech Republic is Чехия (Chehiya/Czechia), but I think the formal name is Чешка република (Cheshka republika).
Concerning Czechia: the reason most Czechs don't like it is because "Čechy" is Czech for "Bohemia", one of the three constituting regions of the country. Calling it Czechia (essentially just Bohemia) leaves out Moravians and Silesians.
Battlemaster Cin Drallig And what about Česko? Does it include Moravia and Silesia in it? After all, its Czech name for their country. As far as I understand it, its just another way to say Čechy, but could you elaborate on that?
Vitalis I'm not exceptionally qualified to give a real answer. All I know is that I've asked a bunch of Czechs about it in the US and when I was in the Czech Republic, and that's the general answer they told me.
I don't understand. Aren't most Czechs from Bohemia? Why would they bother? Also, why would Czechs think it's ok when other countries call it "Czech Republic" but not ok when they call it "Czechia"? They are both similar to "Čechy".
I’m from Scotland and when you scored out great and said it would just be Britain made me feel superior because as a Scotsman I feel that in sports England tend to be better except rugby and maybe cycling but hearing it wouldn’t be great without Scotland was kinda satisfying so thanks.
Interesting and well-made video! I had no idea that those East African countries were considering merging. Fascinating to follow its development in the future! BTW I do have one nitpicking: Whereas it is true that the Belgian variety of Dutch is often informally and colloquially referred to as "Flemish", its official name in Belgium is still "Dutch". So perhaps you were referring to it a little bit too much as "Flemish" throughout the video. It is actually in a rather complicated situation and the term "Flemish" is rather ambiguous. Most of the dialects spoken in Flanders are crossing the border to the Netherlands, so linguistically, you cannot really separate out Netherlands Dutch from Belgian Dutch like that. On the other hand, there is an intermediate language emerging in Flanders that stands in between the official Dutch and local dialects called "tussentaal". This is often referred to as "Flemish" too. There is a lot more to this, but maybe that is something for an entire video. If you would like some help with it, just let me know!
Belgium is the only country that owes its independence to an opera performance -after Napoleon's defeat the area was incorporated into the kingdom of the Netherlands and the Belgians hated this -in 1830 a performance of Daniel Auber's grand opera MASANIELLO was held at the Brussels opera house(The Monnaie) the theme of this opera was the 17th century uprising of the Neapolitans against their Spanish masters -the audience saw themselves in the same situation as the downtrodden Neapolitans -people rushed out at the end of the peerformance and were so triggered they mounted barricades and fended off the Dutch police -it was the first stage in the granting of independence for Belgium in 1830 under Queen Victoria's uncle Leopold of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty.
Belgium is the only country that owes its independence to an opera performance -after Napoleon's defeat the area was incorporated into the kingdom of the Netherlands and the Belgians hated this -in 1830 a performance of Daniel Auber's grand opera MASANIELLO was held at the Brussels opera house(The Monnaie) the theme of this opera was the 17th century uprising of the Neapolitans against their Spanish masters -the audience saw themselves in the same situation as the downtrodden Neapolitans -people rushed out at the end of the peerformance and were so triggered they mounted barricades and fended off the Dutch police -it was the first stage in the granting of independence for Belgium in 1830 under Queen Victoria's uncle Leopold of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty.
I'm from Kazakhstan. The absurdness of changing our country's name that was brought to our attention in 2014 was off the roof. First of all, Kazakhstan and Kazakh Yeli mean the exact same thing. The "stan" in country's name stands for "land of", e.g. Pakistan = land of the paks, Uzbekistan = land of the uzbeks and Kazakhstan = land of the kazakhs. "stan" is a persian word, however, and "yeli" is kazakh. But still, putting aside the fact that the actual meaning behind the word wouldn't change, the name "kazakh yeli" itself sounds really stupid for foreigners. And idk where you got that people dislike the name "kazachia" because it sounds like "rossia". I don't know anyone who used this argument. It has to do more with the fact that Kazakhstan is a very multi-cultural country and "Kazachia" sounds a bit nationalistic. On the other hand, czech people wanting to change their country's name to "Czhechia" is so logical. Idk about other parts of the world, but in all of the CIS everyone calls their country as "Czechia". No one calls it "the Czech Republic".
Because it is not an episode on countries that might split but an episode on countries that might change names. If Catalonia becomes independent, Spain would not change its name, unlike Belgium, where nothing of the original country would remain if Flanders and Wallonia were to divorce.
I really want the name Czechia more than Czech Republic because it sounds more catchy and it is shorter, love your video because it is very interesting! :)
@@declanmurray7574 one solution would be the creation of a federal Republic of Ireland along the Eire Nua model with devolved powers for ulster, leinster, munster and connacht. That could then appease all parties while still having the island rightfully united. Also there is a growing movement for Welsh independence
I agree, let's make a list in the comments instead. I'll name 3 to start, then you can name 3 or however many you like. 1: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 2: Rhodesia 3: Zaire
This isn’t true, when Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830, Germany didn’t even exist. Germany didn’t exist until 1871. Unless this was a joke that I stupidly missed
Dude in Parliament: Hey Theresa why don't we rename the UK to F.U.K when Scoxit happens? (Scoxit is Scotland Exit XD) Theresa May: RENAME IT TO WHAT?!?!
According to some of my Belgian friends, both Flemish and Walloon, the divide really stems from Wallonia's entitled attitude despite their disproportional contribution to the nation as a whole. It just seems Walloons don't want to put mutual effort into their country.
Romania is an union of 3 principalities: Wallachia (the most important, populated, also in Romanian, the name of Wallachia is "The Romanian Country", this is where the name of Romania came) little parts: Oltenia, Muntenia and Dobrogea (1/3 from Dobrogea is now in Hungary) most time occupied by Turks (even if all principates were, this was the longest time anexed by Ottoman Empire) Moldova, most time occupied by Russia. It's shared between Moldova, Bassarabia, Cetatea Alba (or..idk how to call it), Bucovina and Herta land. Next WW2, to evite a funny annexation by USSR, Romania was supposed to give Northern part of Bucovina, Basarabia, Cetatea Alba and Herta land to it. when USSR broke up, Basarabia+A little part from another land, Transnistria (with a questionable Romanian minority). The rest, got in Ukraine. Transylvania, most time occupied by Hungary and Austrian states (all of them). Shared in: Ardeal, Maramures, Crisana and Banat. Is the newest in Romania. (Wallachia and Moldova got freedom in 1856 (or smth like that) from Ottoman Empire and created Romania. Transylvania couldn't get freedom from Austria-Hungary (or Austrian Empire...idk). In ww1, Romania got Transylvania and the country started the greatest era from it's existence. Transylvania is more diverse at considerably minorities. So, if Moldova Rep. (Basarabia) joins in Romania, there will be no reasons to recall the country "Molmenia" (also this will be very unfair for Transylvanians). Modlova will be just more complete and Romania as well.
As a Transylvanian, I want to ask you, why do you think Wallachia is the most important one? (I don't hate Wallachia, just asking). Because it has the capital? Also, Dobruja is actually its own region, not part of Wallachia. Part of it is in Bulgaria.
As a Transylvanian...idk the capital...but even the name comes from their place, personally, I would like to be "Dacian" and only the Wallachians "Romanians". Dacia is a more neutral name. Even 3 capitals (for equality) Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Bucharest. Or a brand new capital exactly on the border between Wallachia, Transylavnia and Moldova.
The Blue Mapper pff. Bucharest is the biggest city and it has a good economy. I am from Moldova (not the shit one) and I agree with Bucharest as the capital. We are all romanians, and I do not give a shit where the capital is.
While I do like your videos, they are mostly done from Anglophone perspective. For example, Czechia is just English language term, as the native Czech name wouldn't change at all. It's worth remembering that. You made a lot videos explaining names, or why some of them are so similar, but those are questions that only English speaking people would ask. Another example of that would be video explaining differences between Austria and Australia, or Slovenia and Slovakia. In their native languages, people don't have such problems, as names are totally different from each other, or their similarity can be explaining by looking at the words alone. I do of course realize that most of your viewers are Anglophones as well. And don't get me started on the pronounciation... But that, of course has to do with English language itself. It's easier for a non English speaker to pronounce English names, than other way around. Still, it would be nice to pronounce W in Wallonia or Wallachia as a V, because that W sounds so... bad.
Vitalis fun fact the reason why wallonia and wallachia have similar names is because both of them were and still are latin speaking countries and vlach and wallach or whatever are names given by non-latins to latin peoples at their borders
Prince Henry should be the King of Scotland and North Ireland, William can have England and Wales. It'll be like Polish-Lithuania or Austro-Hungary, one but separate.
ChickenBoy225 That Monarchy shit is the one building Civilization all over the world. If you read the history book, all from Ancient China to Mesopotamia have Kings, not Presidents.
Same thing happened in Canada. Quebec (the French part) got to vote whether or not to stay a part of the country, and only narrowly voted to stay. There's still a major divide between French-Canada and English-Canada. I don't blame them for wanting to retain their culture surrounded by English speakers.
Here in Mexico, our former president tried to shorten our official name (from United Mexican States to Mexico). He couldn't. It could sound like a good idea, but all the bureaucracy needed to do so would cost millions.
Erómeon Menos mal que no lo pudo hacer porque en verdad el nombre oficial de México me gusta. ¡Saludos de un colombiano! P.S. En inglés los Estados Unidos Mexicanos no traduce a lo que usted escribió, en verdad traduciría a _the United Mexican States_.
Opiniones de JACC's Opinions Por cierto, eres la primer persona que conozco a la que le gusta el nombre oficial. La mayoría le molesta porque le recuerda al vecino del norte. Con todo, nadie apoyaba el cambio de nombre por caro e innecesario.
Erómeon Creo que eso es precisamente por qué me gusta el nombre oficial, además México no sería el único país en la historia, después de los Estados Unidos de América claro, en usar «Estados Unidos» en alguna parte de su nombre oficial es sólo que esos países ya no usan esa denominación en sus nombres oficiales, como por ejemplo Brasil después de volverse una república se autodenominó la «República de los Estados Unidos del Brasil» por algunos años pero hoy en día eso ya no es cierto. También hay la variación que Argentina usó alguna vez las «Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata».
+Ocrilat Don't ever call my ethnic people like that who are Romanians and the name will stay Romania! Period! I am actually insulted now like a spit in the face. Thanks a lot!
You got Belgium a bit wrong. Belgium has three communities: Dutch speaking, French speaking, German speaking and also three regions: Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels Brussels is not part of Flanders, and even though it's surrounded by what is officially Flanders, the radius of Brussels is larger than the distance you have to travel to get in Wallonia from Brussels. Also, a small majority of Brussels speaks French.
Czechia would spare me so much time spelling the whole long name... on the other hand, most of the western world thinks we are a part of Germany, or still czechoslovakia sooo (and I wont even mention the "chechnya x czechia " incident from US news )
Very very true about Belgium! And I say indeed that I'm Flemish and not Belgian, but I want to be Belgian and I'm proud to be a Belgian, no matter what people say (because most people say that it's a 'fictional country', ofcourse to joke, :p)
I think Molmania is terrible and its sound like a name given if the Mormons made a nation no offence to Mormons. Second I think that if both join they should be called Dacia like how the Roman used to call it
don't forget about Northern Ireland. There has been a recent poll suggesting that 51.9% would like to see a border poll in regards to reuniting with the Republic of Ireland. This is the same percentage of folk that wanted Brexit to happen.
About that czechia thing- the main problem here is, that historically and partially even now the CR consists of three formerly sovern/partially autonomous regions - Czechia, Moravia and Silesia. Calling the whole thing just Czechia simply wouldn't work.
Well, about Moldova and Romania: 1. Molmania is a bad name 2. Moldova has a pro-Russian president (we only elected him last year) 3. Don't forget about Transnistria (also called Pridnestrovie) which is a part of Moldova, but behaves as a separate country now and wants to become a part of Russia later. PS They really don't speak Romanian in there 4. There is also an partly autonomous region in Moldova called Gagauzia (officially Gagauz yeri) where people also almost don't speak Romanian at all 5. Please don't start a 3rd WW in my country. In a unification takes place, Russia will certainly be mad. PS remember Transnistria? Russia has its troops there...
As you're probably aware, Great Britain is the name of the largest of the British isles. The island of Ireland is also known by the name Little Britain for this reason.
john11719 You yanks are such a cancerous plague on this world. The rest of us will celebrate the day your pathetic excuse of a nation self-implodes under the weight of your own greed, arrogance, and stupidity.
You didn't mention the problem of Slovenia and Slovakia. Different countries with similar names. I'm not sure which of both recently had a discussion about changing its name to avoid confusion..... Also you didn't mention FYR Macedonia which seems to change its name in Northern Macedonia quite soon. ;)
The stan names are fine, it's just a place name suffix. We have other place name suffixes and nobody says we should replace them for something else. We have land (England, Scotland, Finland), tlan (Tenochtitlan, Mazatlan), ia (Romania, India), ny (Albany, Brittany), sex (Sussex, Essex, Wessex), sylvania (Pennsylvania, Transylvania, Westsylvania), ique (Mozambique, Martinique), etc.
2:32 I want to say that most of the people in Moldova are Slavic citizens, and they don't want to unite with Romania. I know the situation very well because I personally live in Romania! Oh, I've been to Belgium and in the German part of the country there are still large amounts of people that speak Flemish. Oh wait a minute, I've been to the military place near Mons...
Excuse me, could you explain the origin of Cambodia? The locals call it Kampuchea in Khmer language. Who first called us Cambodia? Is there any relation to Kamboya in India?
Moldova was part of Romania from 1919 to World War II. Also, Moldova is also a region in Romania. Also, most people in Brussels speak French as a first language, despite it being officially bilingual
I don't want to be rude, but im laughing at 2:00 "Rossiya" XD As a russian speaker, I love hearing people try their best to pronounce the words. Btw its "Ra- see - ya " but you roll the "r" . just cuz until he said "the Russian name for Russia" I thought Rossiya was a whole different country.
Belgium is not likely to split. I don't think Wallonia wants it because Wallonia is poorer than flanders and splitting two countries is more difficult than it sounds.
Oh and of course, their independence will be greatly challenged by the neighbour France. That is provided that Wallonia isn't guaranteed their independence or that they fail to survive.
The union between Moldova and Romania can be called Great Romania. The country before the USSR took over Basarabia (mostly now Moldova) and Northern Bukovina (now Ukraine), that country is referred to as "Greater Romania".
Off Topic Question: What's the best way to serve eggs? Scrambled? Fried? Poached?
+Name Explain scrambled of course
Name Explain fried with somo fried potatoes
Poaching Is great, especially if you do it in the microwave, but I gotta go with frying them.
Name Explain Stolen
Name Explain I have a better question. Why isnt the video 6:09 long?
I like the unnecessary long screen time for F.U.K.
Domen Bremec I try to keep my political opinions out of videos but I must of done that subliminally.
So... How would you guys fell about the possibility of becoming "FUKish" natives?
I wouldn't count that as a political opinion, but an ability to do comedy and jokes, which is important in education in every form and on every level
You where probably doing the same i was too much to switch.
That being Laughing (ones) ass off.
*must've or must have, not must of, this is a common mistake since the pronounication of must've could've should've would've resembles that of must of could of should of would of, but in gramatical terms it is completely wrong, since those are non tense defining auxiliary verbs which must be followed by the main verb or the tense defining auxiliary verb, in the case, the present perfect is used, with have being the tense defining auxiliary verb for the present perfect.
I suspect that at least some of the people who suggested renaming the UK to the Formerly United Kingdom did so _because_ of the acronym.
Timothy McLean Also so that Ukip change their name to 'Fukip' XD
F.U.K. is an absolute perfect name for the UK as it is nowadays
Azure Kite Yep they are FUK because they came close to having a literal Marxist as Prime Minister
Azure Kite F.U.K as a name it seems funny
no, There is no way the U.N. will named the .U.K. FUK
And as it's always been.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv no they are FUK because they keep voting in the worst people on earth. Its simple stuff.
Video idea: Why do Uruguay and Paraguay have such similar names (endings)?
Aren't they right next to each other? Because if so, there's your answer!
I think guay (or guai in portuguese based writing) is something in Guarani, a indigenous tribe that lives in nowadays Paraguay and some areas in Brazil and lived in all the "Plata region".
Im not sure about this information.
Well, they don't border each other so still no answer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not asking for explanations, it's just a suggestion for a video. But thx!
The Blue Mapper hey!!! love your vids
East african Federation Knuckles doesnt have the same ring to it.
If Romania and Moldova were to unite the name would stay Romania. And if it would change it wuold be Dacia. ( I think)
More like Great Romania to keep it same as it was with the first unification of the romanian states.
Dacia like the car?
@@klym8_ yes dacia, the car was named after the ancient civilization that occupied part of modern day Romania
sau poate "Republica România" sau "România Unită"
No way it'd be called Dacia.
Too much pride in the Roman heritige we have to get rid of the name
Waloons sounds like an insult :D
Federico Fiammingo I would imagine most names have an interesting story, given the many years we have used language, i just thought that calling someone a waloon sounds like an insult.
Meh I call it Flemish
and that is why Italy is Wlochy in Polish
You're such a Waloon sometimes.
Name Explain I feel like one for starting this language war :D
An other possible name change is that the whole FYROM controversy is finally fixed, but I think that's just as unlikely as Palestine and Israel working out something any time soon.
Paeonia... that was actually the historical name of the region, but because the Eastern-Roman Empire (or "Romania" as the Greeks called themselves then) named their provinces as "Palestina 1, Palestina 2, and Palestina 3" the province of "Macedonia 2" was created, and then Slavs moved in and adopted the name.
alxxpspqr 200 000 greeks in macedonia you on meth?
alxxpspqr 2001, ukraine sold us helicopters and planes, bulgaria sold us tanks, we hired special forces from serbia. we payed for all of it you did nothing and stop believing in all nationalistic propaganda. only greeks in south macedonia are those in the casinos
Vlachs r a different ethnicity u moron
Joris Moorkamp Fakestine doesn't exist.
FUK that's a bad name.
Future United Country & Kingdom
Oh shoot!!
FUK you
@@Cpr1234 F.U.C.K
It's the English language that found itself without a single word name for the Czech Republic. There is no such problem in Czech or other languages, especially in the region (like my native Polish).
Artur M. Exactly. I get that his audience is mainly Anglophone, but so many of his videos are about similarities between, or meanings of countries that, in their respective languages, do not pose such problems. It all has to do with English language only.
Artur M. Yeah, in Bulgarian the name of The Czech Republic is Чехия (Chehiya/Czechia), but I think the formal name is Чешка република (Cheshka republika).
In my language we call it Češka (Cheshka)(single name), and Češka Republika (Cheshka Republica) (prolonged, actual name).
Nah the same problem exists in German too. It has two words for the country 'Tschechien' and 'Tschechische Republik'.
You need a second channel called alternatenaminghub
I say leave that to Cody at Knowledgehub
Concerning Czechia: the reason most Czechs don't like it is because "Čechy" is Czech for "Bohemia", one of the three constituting regions of the country. Calling it Czechia (essentially just Bohemia) leaves out Moravians and Silesians.
Battlemaster Cin Drallig And what about Česko? Does it include Moravia and Silesia in it? After all, its Czech name for their country. As far as I understand it, its just another way to say Čechy, but could you elaborate on that?
Vitalis I'm not exceptionally qualified to give a real answer. All I know is that I've asked a bunch of Czechs about it in the US and when I was in the Czech Republic, and that's the general answer they told me.
Battlemaster Cin Drallig No problem, I just wrongly assumed that you are native Czech speaker.
I don't understand. Aren't most Czechs from Bohemia? Why would they bother? Also, why would Czechs think it's ok when other countries call it "Czech Republic" but not ok when they call it "Czechia"? They are both similar to "Čechy".
Vitalis not a native Czech-speaker, but I have learned quite a bit of it
I’m from Scotland and when you scored out great and said it would just be Britain made me feel superior because as a Scotsman I feel that in sports England tend to be better except rugby and maybe cycling but hearing it wouldn’t be great without Scotland was kinda satisfying so thanks.
Interesting and well-made video! I had no idea that those East African countries were considering merging. Fascinating to follow its development in the future!
BTW I do have one nitpicking: Whereas it is true that the Belgian variety of Dutch is often informally and colloquially referred to as "Flemish", its official name in Belgium is still "Dutch". So perhaps you were referring to it a little bit too much as "Flemish" throughout the video. It is actually in a rather complicated situation and the term "Flemish" is rather ambiguous. Most of the dialects spoken in Flanders are crossing the border to the Netherlands, so linguistically, you cannot really separate out Netherlands Dutch from Belgian Dutch like that. On the other hand, there is an intermediate language emerging in Flanders that stands in between the official Dutch and local dialects called "tussentaal". This is often referred to as "Flemish" too. There is a lot more to this, but maybe that is something for an entire video. If you would like some help with it, just let me know!
EEEEEEE You mentioned the East African Federation!
Erik Nielsen
You from there?
Belgium is the only country that owes its independence to an opera performance -after Napoleon's defeat the area was incorporated into the kingdom of the Netherlands and the Belgians hated this -in 1830 a performance of Daniel Auber's grand opera MASANIELLO was held at the Brussels opera house(The Monnaie) the theme of this opera was the 17th century uprising of the Neapolitans against their Spanish masters -the audience saw themselves in the same situation as the downtrodden Neapolitans -people rushed out at the end of the peerformance and were so triggered they mounted barricades and fended off the Dutch police -it was the first stage in the granting of independence for Belgium in 1830 under Queen Victoria's uncle Leopold of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty.
The day that imperialist dutch people will never forget!
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Belgium is the only country that owes its independence to an opera performance -after Napoleon's defeat the area was incorporated into the kingdom of the Netherlands and the Belgians hated this -in 1830 a performance of Daniel Auber's grand opera MASANIELLO was held at the Brussels opera house(The Monnaie) the theme of this opera was the 17th century uprising of the Neapolitans against their Spanish masters -the audience saw themselves in the same situation as the downtrodden Neapolitans -people rushed out at the end of the peerformance and were so triggered they mounted barricades and fended off the Dutch police -it was the first stage in the granting of independence for Belgium in 1830 under Queen Victoria's uncle Leopold of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty.
I'm from Kazakhstan. The absurdness of changing our country's name that was brought to our attention in 2014 was off the roof. First of all, Kazakhstan and Kazakh Yeli mean the exact same thing. The "stan" in country's name stands for "land of", e.g. Pakistan = land of the paks, Uzbekistan = land of the uzbeks and Kazakhstan = land of the kazakhs. "stan" is a persian word, however, and "yeli" is kazakh. But still, putting aside the fact that the actual meaning behind the word wouldn't change, the name "kazakh yeli" itself sounds really stupid for foreigners.
And idk where you got that people dislike the name "kazachia" because it sounds like "rossia". I don't know anyone who used this argument. It has to do more with the fact that Kazakhstan is a very multi-cultural country and "Kazachia" sounds a bit nationalistic.
On the other hand, czech people wanting to change their country's name to "Czhechia" is so logical. Idk about other parts of the world, but in all of the CIS everyone calls their country as "Czechia". No one calls it "the Czech Republic".
In Romanian we call the country Cehia and the people cehi.Pronounced similar to czech.
Why did you not discuss Catalonia/Spain, since Catalonia may be the most likely region to become independent in the near future?
Because it is not an episode on countries that might split but an episode on countries that might change names. If Catalonia becomes independent, Spain would not change its name, unlike Belgium, where nothing of the original country would remain if Flanders and Wallonia were to divorce.
Good point. Thanks!
I heard about the Catalonia crisis too. It's all over the news nowadays.
Realistically, Catalonia will not gain independence anytime soon
Spain is a false name. It's Castille Plus.
I really want the name Czechia more than Czech Republic because it sounds more catchy and it is shorter, love your video because it is very interesting! :)
Very interesting to know, thanks! :)
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Northern Ireland may join the republic of Ireland too
Have to get rid of too much old baggage. The marching season won't go down well in the south.
We wish
@@declanmurray7574 one solution would be the creation of a federal Republic of Ireland along the Eire Nua model with devolved powers for ulster, leinster, munster and connacht. That could then appease all parties while still having the island rightfully united. Also there is a growing movement for Welsh independence
Renato E its Ireland and Ireland it will be
Eh Northern Ireland isn’t even really Irish anymore it’s British
Next video should be all countries that have changed their names in the past
Almer Akbar it would be hours or even days long
I agree, let's make a list in the comments instead. I'll name 3 to start, then you can name 3 or however many you like.
1: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
2: Rhodesia
3: Zaire
AdrianAtGaming Well it could divided into multiple parts, maybe even a series
There's no way he could list all of them.... Maybe some important ones throughout history would be more likely...
Almer Akbar Zaire Tanganyika west Sudan
Why not the Modern United Kingdom of England Wales and Northern Ireland? M.U.K. so they can all muck in together.
AholeAtheist why can't Ireland be unified?
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scum
you are just a country of filth and _m u c c_
and that's why you dont name it that
Belgium was created for UK and Germany to have a neutral ground where to resolve their differences
(source: Top Gear)
This isn’t true, when Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830, Germany didn’t even exist. Germany didn’t exist until 1871. Unless this was a joke that I stupidly missed
@@joshuajackson4742 th-cam.com/video/hzumXyf2ueA/w-d-xo.html :)
And if Scotland leaves, I think Wales and Northern Ireland will leave as well.
Dude in Parliament: Hey Theresa why don't we rename the UK to F.U.K when Scoxit happens? (Scoxit is Scotland Exit XD)
Theresa May: RENAME IT TO WHAT?!?!
2:40 No... EPIC SAX LAND!
Error 418 Why?Moldavia would still be there.Half of the country is already in Romania and their language is Romanian.Nothing bad will happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Error 418 *half of the Moldavia not country.Sorry for that
He is referring to Epic Sax Guy. The Epic Sax Guy is Moldovan and has participatedin Eurovision twice.
lol that's what i was thinking
Nerd Bot lol
"Oh yeah, I live in the FUK"
- Me after Scotland leaves
"I live in the F***" what?
We officially call the Czech Republic "Tsjekkia" (Czhecia) in Norway
I Sverige heter landet Tjeckien :D
Istanbul should be Constantinople
Teemo6544
*Byzantium
Why did constantinople get the works?
um no
According to some of my Belgian friends, both Flemish and Walloon, the divide really stems from Wallonia's entitled attitude despite their disproportional contribution to the nation as a whole.
It just seems Walloons don't want to put mutual effort into their country.
Romania is an union of 3 principalities:
Wallachia (the most important, populated, also in Romanian, the name of Wallachia is "The Romanian Country", this is where the name of Romania came)
little parts: Oltenia, Muntenia and Dobrogea (1/3 from Dobrogea is now in Hungary) most time occupied by Turks (even if all principates were, this was the longest time anexed by Ottoman Empire)
Moldova, most time occupied by Russia. It's shared between Moldova, Bassarabia, Cetatea Alba (or..idk how to call it), Bucovina and Herta land. Next WW2, to evite a funny annexation by USSR, Romania was supposed to give Northern part of Bucovina, Basarabia, Cetatea Alba and Herta land to it.
when USSR broke up, Basarabia+A little part from another land, Transnistria (with a questionable Romanian minority). The rest, got in Ukraine.
Transylvania, most time occupied by Hungary and Austrian states (all of them). Shared in: Ardeal, Maramures, Crisana and Banat. Is the newest in Romania. (Wallachia and Moldova got freedom in 1856 (or smth like that) from Ottoman Empire and created Romania. Transylvania couldn't get freedom from Austria-Hungary (or Austrian Empire...idk). In ww1, Romania got Transylvania and the country started the greatest era from it's existence. Transylvania is more diverse at considerably minorities.
So, if Moldova Rep. (Basarabia) joins in Romania, there will be no reasons to recall the country "Molmenia" (also this will be very unfair for Transylvanians). Modlova will be just more complete and Romania as well.
As a Transylvanian, I want to ask you, why do you think Wallachia is the most important one? (I don't hate Wallachia, just asking). Because it has the capital?
Also, Dobruja is actually its own region, not part of Wallachia. Part of it is in Bulgaria.
Hah , last time I checked Hungary was sea-closed
As a Transylvanian...idk the capital...but even the name comes from their place, personally, I would like to be "Dacian" and only the Wallachians "Romanians". Dacia is a more neutral name. Even 3 capitals (for equality) Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Bucharest. Or a brand new capital exactly on the border between Wallachia, Transylavnia and Moldova.
Transylvania is Romania's richest region. Idk why Wallachia would be the most important just because we call it ''the Romanian Country''
The Blue Mapper pff. Bucharest is the biggest city and it has a good economy. I am from Moldova (not the shit one) and I agree with Bucharest as the capital. We are all romanians, and I do not give a shit where the capital is.
I love your videos. Your mascot is funny. haha. Subscribed!
“Britain only became great when Scotland got involved.”
Me: *RISE CALODONIA TO YOUR ANCIENT PRAYER, HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL LET OUR STANDARDS BEAR*
Goddamn I just love your animations
While I do like your videos, they are mostly done from Anglophone perspective. For example, Czechia is just English language term, as the native Czech name wouldn't change at all. It's worth remembering that. You made a lot videos explaining names, or why some of them are so similar, but those are questions that only English speaking people would ask. Another example of that would be video explaining differences between Austria and Australia, or Slovenia and Slovakia. In their native languages, people don't have such problems, as names are totally different from each other, or their similarity can be explaining by looking at the words alone.
I do of course realize that most of your viewers are Anglophones as well.
And don't get me started on the pronounciation... But that, of course has to do with English language itself. It's easier for a non English speaker to pronounce English names, than other way around.
Still, it would be nice to pronounce W in Wallonia or Wallachia as a V, because that W sounds so... bad.
Please forgive us Anglophones. Our language is as frustrating as we are stupid.
Vitalis fun fact
the reason why wallonia and wallachia have similar names is because both of them were and still are latin speaking countries and vlach and wallach or whatever are names given by non-latins to latin peoples at their borders
Make your own then in your own language and stop whinging.
@@noahrodriguez293 Speak for yourself.
@@paulburns1333 GOD almighty. Did you really just reply to a 3 year old comment? I had no idea I wrote all of this, Jeez. Give me a break.
I would move down to England if the UK renamed itself to FUK.
American guy: “Yo bro, your accent is so weird, where are you from?”
Me: “Fuck.”
Lewis Herron well it would be a reasonable response if Scotland leaves the UK
Amusing! XD
Actually, five nations are in the U.K. If you count Cornwall.
A. Person obviously that ain't official
Or six if you count the isle of man that unlike Cornwall has it's own parliament
Don't be stupid.
"Where country are you from?" "I`m from F.U.K."
Prince Henry should be the King of Scotland and North Ireland, William can have England and Wales. It'll be like Polish-Lithuania or Austro-Hungary, one but separate.
Northern Ireland would rather stay allied with England ha
Christian Djami no there shouldn't be any princes kings or any if that monarchy shit. Ireland should be united
Scotland had its own kingdom, so I wouldn't mesh it with anyone else
It'll still be one country, only the title of King of Sctotland and Northern Ireland are going to Henry.
ChickenBoy225 That Monarchy shit is the one building Civilization all over the world. If you read the history book, all from Ancient China to Mesopotamia have Kings, not Presidents.
Same thing happened in Canada. Quebec (the French part) got to vote whether or not to stay a part of the country, and only narrowly voted to stay. There's still a major divide between French-Canada and English-Canada. I don't blame them for wanting to retain their culture surrounded by English speakers.
In Romanian we actually do say Cehia. No one uses Republica Cehă.
Out of curiosity does this explain the reason there are 2 separate charts for Flanders and Wallonia in Belgium?
Here in Mexico, our former president tried to shorten our official name (from United Mexican States to Mexico). He couldn't.
It could sound like a good idea, but all the bureaucracy needed to do so would cost millions.
Erómeon
Menos mal que no lo pudo hacer porque en verdad el nombre oficial de México me gusta. ¡Saludos de un colombiano!
P.S.
En inglés los Estados Unidos Mexicanos no traduce a lo que usted escribió, en verdad traduciría a _the United Mexican States_.
Opiniones de JACC's Opinions Tienes razón. No sé qué estaba pensando cuando lo traduje así. Ahora lo cambio.
Opiniones de JACC's Opinions Por cierto, eres la primer persona que conozco a la que le gusta el nombre oficial. La mayoría le molesta porque le recuerda al vecino del norte. Con todo, nadie apoyaba el cambio de nombre por caro e innecesario.
Erómeon
Creo que eso es precisamente por qué me gusta el nombre oficial, además México no sería el único país en la historia, después de los Estados Unidos de América claro, en usar «Estados Unidos» en alguna parte de su nombre oficial es sólo que esos países ya no usan esa denominación en sus nombres oficiales, como por ejemplo Brasil después de volverse una república se autodenominó la «República de los Estados Unidos del Brasil» por algunos años pero hoy en día eso ya no es cierto. También hay la variación que Argentina usó alguna vez las «Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata».
5:47 I was like "Oh fuck." No pun intended.
In Indonesia, we refer Czech Rep. as Ceko.
That's lazy, it's just... "hmmm, Czechoslovakia split into 2... Czecho & Slovakia, there solved".
Haaklong Nguyệt But that's exactly what happened, in both languages it was called Československo and it split into Česko and Slovensko.
Yes, apparently Indonesians figured it out better than the rest of us, props to them
The translation of Czech Republic in Dutch is Tsjechië, which pronunciation is very similar to Czechia.
Molmania? WTF?
Harry Potter what the FuK?
How about Mole Mania! Yay moles!
I think it should be called South Moldavija.
+Ocrilat Don't ever call my ethnic people like that who are Romanians and the name will stay Romania! Period! I am actually insulted now like a spit in the face. Thanks a lot!
BC Chiriac Coleg! Be calm, it is a joke
You got Belgium a bit wrong.
Belgium has three communities: Dutch speaking, French speaking, German speaking
and also three regions: Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels
Brussels is not part of Flanders, and even though it's surrounded by what is officially Flanders, the radius of Brussels is larger than the distance you have to travel to get in Wallonia from Brussels. Also, a small majority of Brussels speaks French.
Kazakhstan mean land of the Kazakhs in Persian
+Bosnian Wolf
duh
What was he trying to say at 4:03?
2020: "Make Britain Great Again."
Here we go again....
Czechia would spare me so much time spelling the whole long name... on the other hand, most of the western world thinks we are a part of Germany, or still czechoslovakia sooo (and I wont even mention the "chechnya x czechia " incident from US news )
czechia is like greek because the czech republik in greek is chehia
AndieCon - KinGamer and in sweden we call it Tjeckien, pronounced similar to czechia
Great video!
Video idea: Why does Indonesia, Poland, and Monaco have such similar flags.
eSwatini and Northern Macedonia :)
An Stereotypic American:Where do you live?
A citizen of Former United Kingdom: I live in FUK
An Elder lady:Don't swear for god's sake.
2:42 that name is stupid af
You should've talked about Portugalicia, a suggested fusion between Portugal, and the autonomous comunity of Galicia, in Spain.
Very very true about Belgium!
And I say indeed that I'm Flemish and not Belgian, but I want to be Belgian and I'm proud to be a Belgian, no matter what people say (because most people say that it's a 'fictional country', ofcourse to joke, :p)
4:56 what about Isle Of Mann ?
I think Molmania is terrible and its sound like a name given if the Mormons made a nation no offence to Mormons. Second I think that if both join they should be called Dacia like how the Roman used to call it
The name of the nation the Mormons made was The State of Deseret
don't forget about Northern Ireland.
There has been a recent poll suggesting that 51.9% would like to see a border poll in regards to reuniting with the Republic of Ireland.
This is the same percentage of folk that wanted Brexit to happen.
Belgium might aswell be renamed Belgianstan
Just like Dearborn Michigan, might as well be Dearbornistan?
Swedistan won't be alone!
About that czechia thing- the main problem here is, that historically and partially even now the CR consists of three formerly sovern/partially autonomous regions - Czechia, Moravia and Silesia. Calling the whole thing just Czechia simply wouldn't work.
Well, about Moldova and Romania:
1. Molmania is a bad name
2. Moldova has a pro-Russian president (we only elected him last year)
3. Don't forget about Transnistria (also called Pridnestrovie) which is a part of Moldova, but behaves as a separate country now and wants to become a part of Russia later. PS They really don't speak Romanian in there
4. There is also an partly autonomous region in Moldova called Gagauzia (officially Gagauz yeri) where people also almost don't speak Romanian at all
5. Please don't start a 3rd WW in my country. In a unification takes place, Russia will certainly be mad. PS remember Transnistria? Russia has its troops there...
As you're probably aware, Great Britain is the name of the largest of the British isles. The island of Ireland is also known by the name Little Britain for this reason.
talks about the UK splitting up but doesn't mention Northern Ireland, ok :|
What about Cypriot unification?
I imagine that would continue under the name of Cyprus however the Turks of the North likely wouldn't be too keen.
*sees thumbnail* bu.... bu... WHY US?
Endhog Cause click bate.
2:45 Molmania is a little too close to the board-game Molmania which is Dutch for Molemania which is a game about moles
The union formerly known as the UK. I really want them to split up. United Ireland, free Scotland, London City State! Do it!
? I just hate the UK. They are the oldest enemies of USA and seeing the queen see her empire crumble is marvelous
john11719 You yanks are such a cancerous plague on this world. The rest of us will celebrate the day your pathetic excuse of a nation self-implodes under the weight of your own greed, arrogance, and stupidity.
+john11719 you make us americans look bad
you're cancer, honestly just fuck off with the shit you're the reason people think so ill of americans and this coming from an american
Unite Ireland agreed🇮🇪Tiocfaidh ár lá! Eire abú
You didn't mention the problem of Slovenia and Slovakia. Different countries with similar names. I'm not sure which of both recently had a discussion about changing its name to avoid confusion.....
Also you didn't mention FYR Macedonia which seems to change its name in Northern Macedonia quite soon. ;)
Basrabia: pământ românesc
Bravo romane
The stan names are fine, it's just a place name suffix. We have other place name suffixes and nobody says we should replace them for something else.
We have land (England, Scotland, Finland), tlan (Tenochtitlan, Mazatlan), ia (Romania, India), ny (Albany, Brittany), sex (Sussex, Essex, Wessex), sylvania (Pennsylvania, Transylvania, Westsylvania), ique (Mozambique, Martinique), etc.
Molmania for the win.
RockismyAir no
heck no
2:32 I want to say that most of the people in Moldova are Slavic citizens, and they don't want to unite with Romania. I know the situation very well because I personally live in Romania! Oh, I've been to Belgium and in the German part of the country there are still large amounts of people that speak Flemish. Oh wait a minute, I've been to the military place near Mons...
Excuse me, could you explain the origin of Cambodia? The locals call it Kampuchea in Khmer language. Who first called us Cambodia? Is there any relation to Kamboya in India?
One Question where does Antarctica get it’s name from
Moldova was part of Romania from 1919 to World War II. Also, Moldova is also a region in Romania. Also, most people in Brussels speak French as a first language, despite it being officially bilingual
2:45 moldova was a part of romania. and i don`t think so
I disagree that that would be a fail. In fact, now I hope Scotland succeeds so we can have this title.
I don't want to be rude, but im laughing at 2:00 "Rossiya" XD As a russian speaker, I love hearing people try their best to pronounce the words.
Btw its "Ra- see - ya " but you roll the "r" . just cuz until he said "the Russian name for Russia" I thought Rossiya was a whole different country.
Oh and I might speak Russian, but I actually grew up in the FUK! :D
Czechia is already the (informal) name for Czech Republic in many languages (Swedish: 'Tjeckien', the same way Australia becomes 'Australien').
Sounded like you choked on your tongue at 4:00... Happens to the best of us lol.
Interesting thing is that in Norway we have always reffered to Czechia as that or (Tsjekkia in norwegian,) since it split from slovakia.
In Norway we call Czech Republic Tsjekkia :)
På svenska är det ”Tjeckien” ;)
the thumbnail had me thinking you were going to suggest that Scotland would change it's name
Belgium is not likely to split. I don't think Wallonia wants it because Wallonia is poorer than flanders and splitting two countries is more difficult than it sounds.
Oh and of course, their independence will be greatly challenged by the neighbour France. That is provided that Wallonia isn't guaranteed their independence or that they fail to survive.
2:12
*Its not It's
Im calling the czech rebuplic czechia because i like it more
1:47 oh my birthday
Nice
Kill me
3:00
You mean that dead meme?
Well, Canada was closer to split up than UK with 49.42 of Québecois voting "yes"(and 50,58 voted "no") in 1995.
The union between Moldova and Romania can be called Great Romania.
The country before the USSR took over Basarabia (mostly now Moldova) and Northern Bukovina (now Ukraine), that country is referred to as "Greater Romania".
No mention of Catalonia?
Teacher: "So, what country do you wanna visit?"
Me: "F.U.K."
There's a School in Kansas (USA) used to be called Friends University of Central Kansas. (F.U.C.K. ) now it's Called F.U. no joke!
What about Bosnia and Herzegovina? Any name news in the news?