Thanks for liking our country. Here are some links regarding the history of Greece through time : th-cam.com/video/Y_B0bh7MXgI/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/7LZbSbatwSg/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/dhsMg7C8WTc/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/muK7iDXR7J4/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/-pcY9b3dasg/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/wPX5cfLZgP4/w-d-xo.html
"`I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but I realized that it would have been indeed Greek to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions only Greek words". Kyrie, It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic. In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics. The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers." Prof. Xenofon Zolotas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon_Zolotas
The Greek word "filotimo" (φιλότιμο) is a complex and deeply-rooted concept that is difficult to translate into a single English word. It is derived from two Greek words: "filos" meaning "friend" or "loving," and "timi" meaning "honor" or "respect." Together, "filotimo" encompasses a range of interconnected values and virtues that are highly regarded in Greek culture. At its core, filotimo is a deep sense of personal pride, dignity, and honor. It involves a strong commitment to integrity, selflessness, and doing what is right. It is a concept that emphasizes the importance of fulfilling one's responsibilities and obligations to family, friends, community, and society as a whole. Filotimo is often associated with acts of selfless generosity, hospitality, and compassion towards others, even in the face of personal sacrifice. It embodies a spirit of loyalty, duty, and mutual respect. It encourages individuals to strive for excellence, to take pride in their actions, and to act with honor and integrity in all aspects of life. Filotimo also encompasses a strong connection to one's cultural heritage, traditions, and values. It is a collective mindset that places great importance on the well-being and reputation of the community, often promoting a sense of unity and solidarity. While filotimo is deeply ingrained in Greek culture, it is a concept that can be challenging to fully comprehend or define. It is more than just a word; it is a guiding principle that shapes the behavior and character of individuals, fostering a sense of personal and communal responsibility, honor, and respect. That's what's missing in our world today. The word filotimo was written from the beginning of democracy. It is sort of some rules but can be applied to many other things. That is why we are always friendly towards tourists and people of all culture. Communal responsability, honor and respect will get you a long way here. We don't like lazy people but we still wont leave them behind, although we wont look at them at the same way as all the points above. Which in a way will cause some shame to that person and he will most of the cases understand and become a better version of himself. So in a way it is a hierarchy in our society on how people should act. That's why Greeks are hard to break and divide. Religion is seperated from politics, I go on and on about the word filotimo and I can imagine if you read this you can come up of stuff too
Actually we celebrate birthdays too. If you are a child in Greece you are lucky. You get 4 gifts a year. Birthday name day Christmas and Easter. And also we don’t need a special occasion to party. 😁
I guess he was referring to the traditional dresses etc. At some point, most of modern day Greece was part of Bulgaria (I believe around the 15th century), so it makes sense that some part of their culture stayed with us. This, of course, doesn't have anything to do with our roots as the majority of has no slavic ancestry at all
@@j.vasileiou there were many rises and falls of the byzantine empire. at around 930 AD most of the mainland except for Attica, Chalkidiki and Peloponese was under Bulgarian command and it stayed like that for the next 40 years. This guy here ( th-cam.com/video/IpKqCu6RcdI/w-d-xo.html ) has done a great job showing the map of Europe with dates and rulers over the span of 2400 years. If you check between the 8th and the 15th centuries, you will find that parts of Greece changed hands between Byzantines and Bulgarians all the time.
@@j.vasileiou same here with a better view (countries instead of rulers and known world instead of just europe) th-cam.com/video/ymI5Uv5cGU4/w-d-xo.html You can't expect that none of the culture has been left behind after that many changes. For example the traditional hat we have is the same across most of the balkan countries' traditional dresses as it was part of the ottoman military uniform. Same for the fustanella. Albanians even claim to have introduced it to greeks around the 14th century, though it is not quite clear.
Actually, Turkey's archaelogical sites are also Greek, either of the ancient times (Asia Minor and Pontos where Greeks had been living from 1.100 B.C. up until the early 1900s when they where slaughtered by the Neoturks, or of the Byzantine Era. for example in Constantinople (now Instabul).
@@elizaandreadaki9942 no not really bcs Alexander the great brought the Greek culture along with constructions as you can imagine almost until india. So you are incorrect :D
@@wegoup_with_nct80 I know about Alexander the great but there aren't that many monuments he left there. He spread culture and the language but he didn't build any temples. That's why I said only in Asia minor because Greeks lived there WAY before Alexander the Great
@@elizaandreadaki9942 No you are mistaken. Even the greek kingdoms of Bactria (nowadays the states of Kirgistan, ouzbekistan) and India built temples and monuments. That fact even caused quite an impression to the chinese emperor at that time, because it was his first and last time he learned about Greeks.
@@elizaandreadaki9942 This is actually true, not many people know about Bactria, Menander etc. Do a small wiki read on Bactria, even most Greeks have no knowledge of this kingdom. You can also find articles of how Christianity and Buddhism were connected in some places later on.
@МАКЕДОНИЈА MAKEDONIA MACEDONIA Well, you are probably drunk. Greek museums and museums in the rest of Europe are full of artifacts of Ancient Greece. You are Slavs. Your language is Slavic. Trust me. I live in Macedonia and Philip's II grave is 10km away from me. I've been in his grave many times. Every thing in the grave is written in greek. Our language is one of the oldest in the world. Don't try to turn me wrong, you will fail.
@ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ is МАКЕДОНИЈА without hate or anything, the fact that you have to refer to a video to express your opinion does not make more believable. What guys are talking about is our (Greece's) ancient history and the one after the Greek revolution against the Ottoman empire.
When asking a question like "when you have these many thousand islands, do you really need that one?" . The answer is YES - we sure do. Would you ask a family of 12, if they need all their children? Every single island, and every single rock in this country is part of our civilization & heritage. If you take into account that we have been brutally kicked out from our land (Constantinople & Asia Minor) in the past , it is the least that we can do (to support even the smallest island that is Greek). No wound is yet closed.
Of course, Greece is part of Balkan peninsula... It's like saying Miami is not part of Florida peninsula. And another thing, as a Serb it is us Slavs who were influenced by Greece not other way around. When Slavs started to migrate to Balkans Greeks were already running mighty east Roman empire. Even majority of Slavic countries went from Slavic Pagan religion to Christianity because of them and stayed loyal to Constantinople instead of Rome during the schism. Hence why majority of Slavic countries belong to Orthodox Catholic Church.
The greek name for the peninsula is Aimos. Before the arrival of the Balkans- Slavs. So, no Balkan peninsula but Aimos peninsula just because we predate that stuff!!!
@@mrbig3386 best meal I had was in Crete in a small village near Heraklion were they had a big spread for a bunch of turists. Everything was homegrown and cooked. Besides the food and wine the best part was the dancing on the tables with the locals.
Very interesting reaction. To help you clear out some things: we do celebrate both birthdays and name days, we are not Slavic just because we are located in the Balkans, Mount Athos is a monastic state where only monks live and the reason women are not allowed is because they are considered a temptation for the monks, our financial situation is much better but i don't know what is gonna happen now with the virus...that's pretty much it!
Δεν είναι για να μην μπαίνουν σε πειρασμό οι μοναχοί... Η θρησκεία λέει ότι στην περιοχή εκει είχε τον κήπο της η Παναγία και πως δεν επιτρέπεται να πηγαίνουν οι γυναίκες γιατί καμία δεν είναι όσο Αγία ήταν η Παναγία κ θα σπιλωθει η περιοχή...
Actually you do need the 2 "more" islands cause they define the country's continental shelf under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (which Turkey apparently doesn't recognize, see Turkey and Libya's internationally recognised government signed Maritime Boundary Treaty in order to establish an Exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean Sea, which means that they can claim rights to ocean bed resources, ignoring the presence of Crete between the Turkish-Libyan coasts). Turkey also complains about Greece's legal territorial waters, airspace and the executive economic zones.
Both of our National days, we celebrate the start of a war for freedom and justice and not the End or the Victory!!! The Greek=Hellenic flag it have 9 strips, it symbols the meaning, Freedom or Death......Ε - ΛΕΥ - ΘΕ - ΡΙ - Α - Ή - ΘΑ - ΝΑ -ΤΟΣ= 9 syllable( ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ Ή ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ)Freedom in Greeks also has 9 letters
That thing about army on 16 years of age does not happen . Greek boys get their Army Papers to serve the country at the age of 18-19 but most of them don't join the military until they finish with their colleges and universities . So unless a kid decides that he wants to join army and work ( have it as a job ) he probably goes at 24-25
If parents allow them they can join the army at 16 but it rarely happens and usually are kids from the rural countryside everybody else usually joins the army between 20 to 30 years old in some cases like people studying medical professions or law they can end up join at 35! But one thing is for sure, if you have a Greek citizenship you can't avoid it even if you are living in a foreign country the moment you return to Greece you are going to serve " mommy " motherland 😊
He was right tho. He didn’t say that all greeks had to do it at the age of 16. He said as early as 16 (that true). My dad went when he was 17. And we live in sweden.
I’ll explain to you the thing about Greece fighting with Turkey over islands. Before the ottomans ( today’s Turks) came in the area of modern day Turkey, it was half Greek (there were also Kurds, Armenians and Assyrians) since very very ancient times (3.000-2.000 BC). When the ottomans came, we were under their rule for 400 years also they took our land and formed modern day Turkey by making sure to get all the Greeks out of their homeland or kill them. When they managed to get rid of all the Greeks (out of one of the places where Greece started) they burned down and completely destroyed all the towns where Greeks lived which were beautiful and very rich towns( like capadocia and smirni/Izmir). So we have a very painful history with Turkey the wars, the oppression and the general violence that’s why we don’t want them taking our islands too. Also Greece and Turkey fight till this day almost on the daily about those problems to the point where every 1-2 years people think there’s gonna be a war. Don’t get me wrong the younger generations, including me, have nothing working against each other and we really like each other as we’re exactly the same people but history is history and the facts should be taught and never forgotten.
Kostas Miliarakis you forgot that Albania and Romania is also in the Balkans and are also not Slavic. Romania they speak Latin aka Romance language and the Eastern Coast along the Black Sea is considered part of the Balkans.
you all forgot that slavic was created by two greeks send there by the byzantine emperor to give them the basics. the two brothers gave them the slavic alphabet and orthodontics church. also albania was created at 1928 from the EU for their personal gains after the first ww. also latins are created from ancient greek and the todays italian are based on latin. so no matter what you say slavic and italian are based on greece. Just go back to history around 2κ BC and tell me what civilization existed expect the tree big ones(Greek Egyptian and Chinese)
@Tall T.S.S Κατα λάθός έσβησα το σχόλιο που έκανα. Τελός παντων αυτο που λες ειναι πολιτικός προσδιορισμός αν και δεν ξέρω κατα πόσο μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ορθός. Γεωγραφικά η Τουρκία ανήκει στα Βαλκάνια απο την στιγμή που έχει την αν. θράκη. Γενικά μπορεί να θεωρηθεί Ευρωπαική και Ασιατική χώρα απο την στιγμη που εχει εδάφη και στις 2 ηπέιρους
Yes!! Even if you have 400 island you definitely need those two because according to international treaties a nation's boarders as well as exclusive economic zones are defined by your coasts INCLUDING the island that the Turks so much wish not to. Also being neighbors with Turks we know first hand that you do not give them even a granule of sand because they will claim not only all of your sand but your hand as well that you used to give them that granule in the first place
Another thing is that we are able to speak English fluently(most of the time every child in Greece learns English for about 8 years in a private school)and that's because English is required in the majority of the jobs because of the huge number of tourists that visit!!!
Also the English langues is based in Latin, and the Latin is one of the 27 topic langues in Greece. Latin for example is from the village xalkida, in the island of Evia. Most science words is Greek too, because they start from Greek people and we used them for so many years in medicine, music, mathematics, astronomy, biology..... th-cam.com/video/dkCPuRqqs2Y/w-d-xo.html
@@BrianVelez No, the Greek name was Haemus, based on the same mountain range that gave name to the peninsula. However nowadays they term is more of a political one, as only Albania, Greece and South Bulgaria could be considered to be on a peninsula.
@@newreast3904 the new researches show that modern Greeks have the same DNA with the greeks who lived in the Aegean Islands 3000 years before....so how are we Turks again ? Turks are a mix of Greeks, Armenians and Kurds...are you mad now ?
shhh, Alexander is not greek he's definetelly fucking Skopje right? since the naame Alexander and Philip is 100% slavic name KEKW (σαρκασμος παρεπιπτοντως)
@@libre1245 let it go my friend.. Skopje is a new created country from Albania 30%, Bulgaria 50% and Greece 20%... They want to make their own history by stealing Greek history.
@the Achaean Im a girl. Im greek. I was born in greece. I've been living in greece for 27 years. Everyone in Greece celabrates their birthday even men. But yeah i probably know nothing about my own country. Where are you from again?
@the Achaean where in greece do you live then? XD the sentence you wrote is not normal modern greek, noone i greece speaks like that. Ο μόνος "κάπως" εδώ μέσα είσαι εσύ. Νομίζεις ότι γνωρίζεις μια χωρα, στην οποία δεν ζεις καν, καλύτερα από αυτούς που μένουν εκεί όλη τους την ζωή. Πίσω στην σπηλιά σου λοιπόν.
@the Achaean μάλλον εσύ και οι παρέα σου ανήκετε σε αυτούς τους "κάπως" (εννοώ διαφορετικοί από τους άλλους γενικά) γιατί όλοι οι υπόλοιποι τα γιορτάζουν κανονικότατα και τα γενέθλια και τη γιορτή. Κάπου έχεις μπερδευτεί ή βρίσκεσαι σε κανα περίεργο χωριό. Δεν εξηγείται αλλιώς
A friend, a German diplomat bought a house in Greece. He says it’s the only place in the world (and he has been around) where he can be at a beautiful beach and a ski resort in a matter of a few hours (or less).
13:32 that's actually how it is (in greece) we celebrate our birthday and our nameday. Also yes the video is kinda outdated the economy in greece kinda recovered and it's actually pretty good. Also no, we are not slavic, greeks are a seperate group of people living in the balkans
@@icantthinkausername1136 Να μαντέψω...ψήφισες Μητσοτάκη έτσι; Όπως και να έχει φίλε ψάξε λίγο παραπάνω γιατί αν περιμένεις ότι θα ακούσεις αντικειμενικά πράγματα στα δελτία ειδήσεων σου έχω νέα... Σου πετάνε 1 καλό νέο και αποκρύπτουν άλλα 100... Οι μισθοί πέσανε ακόμη περισσότερο και θα δούμε και χειρότερα. Αλλά μέχρι εδώ γράφω δεν πρόκειται να ασχοληθώ παραπάνω με το αν εσύ φοράς παρωπίδες ή όχι, αν είσαι ευτυχισμένος έτσι, γιατί να σε ξυπνήσουμε;
@@Anonymous-ev3rl EU=European Union=Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση. Η Ελλάδα μπήκε το '81. Το 2001 μπήκε στη νομισματική Ένωση. Τωρα οι Αμερικάνοι τα μπερδεύουν (ούτε και εμείς πάμε πίσω)....
Greece is the most underrated country. Our country is BEAUTIFUL UNIQUE and HISTORICAL. Almost EVERYTHING'S BASED IN GREECE. Also almost if not all phobias or medical words (?) are greek eg agorophobia arachnophobia
I've been to Halkidiki and took a little cruise around mount athos, very beautiful. And yes, the food was absolutely amazing, especially in contrast to what they sell as "greek food" here in germany most of the time.
@Brian Velez Greece is on the peninsula of Aimos [H'Emos] that's the original name of the Balkan peninsula (Balkan is the Turkish equivalent). Secondly, Greece affected Romans and their great civilization (Romans came to be at least 1.000 years after the proto-Greek), because even though the Romans conquered Greece, there would not be a Roman civilization if it weren't based on the Greek one. One the famous Roman lyric poets, Quintus Horace Flaccis said "Captive Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit" - meaning "Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror", and that he acknowledged the impactful contribution that the Greeks had to the Romans.(One of which was the influence of the Latin language, which although unique, is considered historically and linguistically a child of Greek language with lots and lots of grandchildren.) Thirdly the Greeks (in our language Hellenes, the inhabitants of Hellas) are our own nation. Unique language(Hellenic), unique culture(Hellenic) and unique history and idiosyncrasy (Hellenic). The only connection between us and the Slavic ethnological groups (that appeared around the 5th-6th century AD), is that for many years we were under Ottoman Rule. Meaning that during the Byzantine Times(4th Century till 15th century) we were allies and foes, but especially after the "Christening" of them(Slavic groups, such as Bulgarians, Croat-Serbs, Russians etc) by the Byzantines, we were better tied..but still very different. With some of them Greece is still considered a great friend (Serbia). Lastly the Ottoman times started from the capturing of the capital of the Byzantine empire, Constantinople (now known as Istanbul) by the Ottomans at 1453. From then until 1821 the Greeks(and the rest of the peninsula of H'emos) were under Ottoman Rule (today Turkey) and mostly treated as conquered slaves, paying high taxes and getting our children taken away from their families so as to fight for the Sultan. Most of the Empire was divided into Milliets, (Areas designed, according to the religion of the majority of the people living in) and Villaets (administrative regions under a subject ruler to obey the Sultan, a sub-Sultan if you like). P.S. the video doesn't refer to the Greek battles against the Axis In WW2 which is by far our greatest accomplishment in recent history. Some of the quotes written or spoken by historical figures of that time: -"Greece is the symbol of the tortured, bloodied but live Europe. Never a defeat was so honorable for those who suffered it." _Maurice Schumann, Minister of the exterior of France 1969-1973, member of the French Academy 1974 (From a message of his he addressed from the BBC of London to the enslaved peoples of Europe on 28 April 1941, the day Hitler occupied Athens after a 6-month war against Mussolini and six weeks against Hitler). -"For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death." _Adolph Hitler (From a speech he gave at the Reichstag, 4 May 1941) after his previously unbeaten storm troopers suffered tremendous casualties in their battle for Greece. -"The word heroism I am afraid does not render the least of those acts of self-sacrifice of the Greeks, which were the defining factor in the victorious outcome of the common struggle of the nations, during World War II, for the human freedom and dignity. If it were not for the bravery of the Greeks and their courage, the outcome of World War II would be undetermined." _Winston Churchill (speech to British Parliament, 24 April 1941 -"You fought unarmed and won, small against big. We owe you gratitude, because you gave us time to defend ourselves. As Russians and as people we thank you." _Moscow, Radio Station when Hitler attacked the U.S.S.R -"If the Russian people managed to raise resistance at the doors of Moscow to halt and reverse the German torrent, they owe it to the Greek People, who delayed the German divisions during the time they could bring us to our knees." _Georgy Constantinovich Zhoukov (Field Marshal of the Soviet Army: Quote from his memoirs on WWII) -"I am unable to give the proper breadth of gratitude I feel for the heroic resistance of the People and the leaders of Greece." -Charles de Gaul (From a speech of his to the French Parliament after the end of WWII).
We celebrate both of them actually, for the older generations the name day was more important and some times the birthday was non existing but for young people usually the opposite thing applies, the name day is an Orthodox Cristian type of thing which makes it more formal and means that we do not actually celebrate it by a party or something, in that day people just give you blessings and you give sweats usually to your family and sometimes coliges.
omg u dont know how good i felt when u said u wanna visit greece ...if u will visit greece u have to visit thessaloniki and eat mpougatsa....its the best thing ever
Brian Velez It’s because of religion actually, but nowadays it’s become an "everyday" thing and I think people don’t think about the religion part anymore just the name day to celebrate 🎉😂
@@BrianVelez The nameday is the day devoted to the saint from whom you took your name, according to the orthodox Christian church. For example my name is Eleni(Helen) and I celebrate in May 21th.
Omg... I absolutely loved his reaction... I'm so glad that in the video he saw the guy was talking about our mountains or rivers and not only the islands and the sun... I know that most of the people already know about greece's amazing sea... But it is also so beautiful for tourists at winter too... 💜
"So we owe the world to Greeks"..The moment you realized that you earned my respect 🙏🙏🙏.Come and visit Greece. You are going not to want leave that place
The interesting thing isn't about our architectures is that our architectures are almost 3000 years old . Btw if you search on the internet how many English words are Greek you will be surprised .
I am a Greek Macedonian (North Greece) and the similarities of our traditional clothing with Slavic traditional clothing are many. In some cases I couldn't differentiate between Greek and Slavic.
Thanks for the video. i really enjoyed it but! we are not slavic m8 :) we are greeks and greeks were in the region way earlier than the slavic tribes descended (thats tha major disagreement with the, now known as "North Macedonia". Also yes in language every scientific and a lots of everyday words come or have roots in greek language. Fun fact: search for the english speach given by Xenofon Zolotas. Its in english but compiled from only greek words. cheers
A fun fact about Greeks. We tend to get very flattered when someone learns to say even few words in Greek 😁 and almost always everyone will try to teach you some more 😁😁😁
«Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Oecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is charateristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to your Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Ampitctyony and the gastronomic symposia».... Xenophon Zolotas (greek politician).... a whole speech in english with greek words....
@@nikosntirlis8981 There 's a thing called internet. You can check the words yourself😛. If the average person understands them or not isn't an important matter. Most Greeks don't know even the basest of words (i.e what tekmirio actually means, and they even fucking pay every year a great deal of taxes cuz of them) or useful grammar (like Dative in nouns, chich can rid you of having to use a whole sentence) too.
The only way to actually try out traditional greek food is by coming to Greece. I have been in many countries and the greek food outside Greece has nothing to do with the actual greek food. Ohh and by the way we do celebrate both our name day and bitrhday. I am really happy you liked Greece and I hope you will come visit in a point❤️
Slavs came to the Balkan peninsula in the 5th century AD. They remained outside the borders of the Byzantine Empire together with the Bulgars but there were periods of tension. When the Ottoman Turks conquered the Balkans, they forced the local populations to co-exist. Greeks were able to get along with most (mostly because they were in favour of commerce and education, so many became invaluable to the ottoman administration), though there were always issues with the Bulgars even to this day (see WW2). You don't see slavic influence in Greek traditions, you see an amalgamation of two traditions (but very few Greeks will actually admit it, because of our pride - yes, the same pride that led Achilles away from the battle or the same pride that gave birth to Μολών λαβέ, that is "Come and get it", Leonidas' line from 300).
I am greek and even I haven't visited every island or every part of my country but I assure you it's soooo worth it. And the food here oh my god it's the best. That's why now in quarantine I gained 5 kilos but don't tell anyone!! :))))
We don't have 400 islands,but 6000 (2.000 big or "big" and 4000 smaller). The 117 of them are populated. :) IMIA IS GREEK ALSO! Actually the most part of Turkey was greek before 1453.
A very interesting video. Before i didnt were pretty interested in Greek but now... Maybe we go there for the next holidays after Corona ;-) keep it up Brian
we DO celebrate both birthdays and name days, a small precentage of really older greeks dont do both (by the way the word "name"has its origin from the greek word "onoma ")
1957 I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized that it would have been indeed "Greek" to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words. Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a Panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.
1959 Kyrie, it is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been anti-economic. In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not hyper-antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymus organizations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies. Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.
Actually we do celebrate both, he got that wrong😂 and btw Slavic culture derives from the Byzantine or Greek empire where two monks named “kyrillos” and “methodios” were sent to preach about Christianity to the Slavs. Nice vid tho!
You should totally visit Greece some time and try our every traditional dish!! You look amazed by learning such stuff about Greece but wait till you see it for real with your eyes!!! Even better than imagined!!
actually both countries have a problem. turkey wants back what they stole from us after they took the byzantine empire and greece wants back what turkey stole from us at the byzantine empier. also revenge for the millions that lost their lives in theirs hands when they killed every single person that wasnot turk. so both countries have a problem. the once is its huge ego of power and the others is the justice of millions
What you saw is not even half of Greek's sightsees we have both archeological and natural eye-catching sightsees like Parthenon it's kyons' are not in same high
I would like to point that Ioannis Kapodistrias didn't lead the Greek Revolution, he was the first Prime Minister. And we celebrate birthdays, too. We're lucky we get presents for our birthdays, our name days, Christmas and Easter. And yes, we do need two more islands, they are Greek. We are NOT Slavs by the way. We've been here before them.
If you decide to visit Greece please do a vlog! (I 'm from Greece = )) Greek food is amazing!!! Eat pitogyro!!!! ( Pie with meat, potatoes and everything you want! IT'S JUST AMAZIIING!!! )
We are not slightly Slavic the Slavs got influence from us when it comes to ethnic or traditional dancing garments. We are Greeks aka Hellenes is who we are racially from DNA not Slavic at all but Slavic nations are most Balkan nations north of us or Western and Eastern Slavic nations witch are further away. We actually created the first Slavic text that later influenced the creation of Cyrillic alphabet by 2 Greek Monks who lived in Constantinople they are now to the Slavs seen as the Apostles of the Slavs. Early Russia 1000 years ago Kievan Rus were allies with Byzantines aka Eastern Romans exedra I cba go all day talking about history from Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Greece all Greek words. Then Civilisation 3200BC all the way to modern Greece cya later. 👍
@Tall T.S.S Φίλε κάνεις ένα λάθος που σε οδηγεί σε λάθος άλμα λογικής. Οι σλάβοι δεν ήταν το 20% με τίποτα. Πριν από τους σλάβους που λες ότι πήγαν μέχρι Πελοπόννησο οι Έλληνες πήγαν μέχρι Γαλλία και Βρετανία και έφτιαξαν πόλεις ολόκληρες. Άρα το Ελληνικό DNA πήγε πρώτο εκεί και αναμείχθηκε σε μεγαλύτερο βαθμό. Άρα αυτοί οι "σλάβοι" που ήρθαν είχαν ήδη Ελληνικό DNA σε ποσοστό μέσα τους. Οπότε το σλάβικο ποσοστό είναι ακόμα μικρότερο. Δεν είναι ικανό να αλλιώσει το Ελληνικό σε μεγάλο βαθμό. Επίσης το σημερινό DNA των Ελλήνων είναι πάνω από 90% το ίδιο με της αρχαίας Ελλάδας βάση ερευνών.
@Tall T.S.S Σε ποιό κομμάτι ακριβώς διαφωνείς; Φυσικά εννοείται ότι όταν μιλάμε για DNA εννοούμε το ποσοστό που είναι μεγαλύτερο. Μπορεί να έχω 99 πρόγονους μου Έλληνες και 1 Κινέζο. Αυτό δεν με κάνει Κινέζο όμως. Το ποσοστό που ανέφερα ήταν επί του πληθυσμού όχι επί του ποσοστού του DNA. Δηλαδή 90% του πληθυσμού έχει μέγιστο ποσοστό κοντινό στο αρχαίο Ελληνικό. Το αν είναι 51% ή 30% ή 99% δεν το ξέρω φυσικά.
There are NO grey areas as to which islands belong to Greece. The turks are trying to muddy the waters in order to try and extend their presence in the eastern Aegean Sea. Also the turks invaded and occupied about a third of Cyprus calling it an independent state, but it is recognized only by turkey.
Amazing video! I am not going to repeat that Greece is not at all a Slavic country, but, just for keeping it real and updated, I suggest that you should check out the history of both the Saints Cyril and Methodius, who actually provided Slavs with an alphabet, a religion and culture as a consequence... (Yes, they were both Greek too!) Slavs are our neighbours, our family and friends, but so are all the people of the world, no matter the continent they live, no matter the colour of their skin, no matter what they believe, and so on... Lots of love from a tiny yet loud spot right on the center of the universal map :D
During the Ottoman times and the rise of the Ottoman empire ( today's Turkey) Greece was occupied. The occupation lasted for 400 years until 1821 when the Greeks began their revolution for independence. Hence the bad blood between the two countries.
@@BrianVelez Yes, the Greek alphabet of Kimi was transferred to Southern Italy, by immigrants from Kimi of Evia. From this alphabet came the Latin alphabet
I really like that video nice job and ofcourse we celebrate both, name and birthday (the most)! Everything here in Greece is an excuse for celebration! We have a lot of western influence but we keep tradition alive. You're welcome in Greece!
lpor sts America didn’t exist until 1492 so there are many differences between an almost 5000 year old country and a 600 year old country. This also goes for some important European countries not only America.
Make sure you do some research before you visit Mount Athos. It is a sacret place for Greek people and the monks and others living there. It will be a really eye opening experience for you if you let yourself fully in, whether you are religious or not. My uncle was a monk there for 15 years, and I never got to visit him as I am a girl but I have loads of stories from him to say. I am glad you got to learn more about Greek history and culture and I hope you can motivate more people to question misconceptions about our country and visit Greece to support us in this time of need. More love people! Thank you for the awesome content. 🙏😊
Tropea. An other Greek word means Trophies and an ancient Greek Colony from people originated from the ancient Greek city Tropea in Arcadia, Peloponnese region
@@georgekoul From what i've heard from people living in tropaia (yes that's how its named not tropea) the place was named like that because the greeks won a battle that took place there and they named it as if its a trophy
Hey man, the fact that Greeks live in the Balkan Peninsula does not make them Slavic. Not everyone in the Balkan peninsula is Slavic. Wrong conclusion!
Mount Athos is the Holy land of Greece!Also we DO celebrate both our nameday(take our friends at bars)&our birthdays(cake with a question mark for >29).Also search Meteora,Olympus area,Mycenes,Sparta(indeed exists).Slavs came to the area WAY later in history.Known Greek(better say Hellenic history) is at least 5000years old.......
Hello from Thessaloniki Greece. Great Vid. Just to clarify, we are ethnically Greek, not Slavic or Latin. We do have influences (food music cultural dress etc) from the Slavs and Turks, we are neighbors with them and we do like sharing, (and of course we were under the Ottoman “Turkish” occupation for 400 years so gaining a few influences over that time period is expected). Keep up the great work and definitely come visit Thessaloniki and Chalkidhiki.
although a very good and informative video it has some inaccuracies.first we do celebrate our birthday.greek kids are actually lucky because we get presents four times a year.second the earthquakes. we do get some mild ones but not all of them are mild or in the sea.there's a good amount of dangerous fault lines in mainland that are responsible for hundreds of dead due to collapsed buildings(search the 1999 athens earthquake) second we do have big ones above 7 in the richter scale and even 8...(fan fact scientist speculate that an above 7 earthquake was responsible for the collapse of the colossus in the harbour of rodes) and we have volcanoes....we boast about the olive oil because even though the other countries like spain and italy do produce more we actually have 4 different species of olive trees which gives us the upper hand in a manner of speaking.also we didn't join the eu in 2001 but in 1981 with the maastricht treaty. In 2001 we joined in the common currency the euro...as for what he said yeah they did lie about the financial statements lol....
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Yea... Well some mistakes we arent slavic (we are something ourselves) and we celebrate both name day and birth day
@Renato right.
Thanks for liking our country. Here are some links regarding the history of Greece through time :
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"`I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but I realized that it would have been indeed Greek to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions only Greek words".
Kyrie,
It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.
It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices.
Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria.
Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic.
In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists.
Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme.
A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic.
Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.
These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic.
The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics. The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them.
I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology.
In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers."
Prof. Xenofon Zolotas
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The Greek word "filotimo" (φιλότιμο) is a complex and deeply-rooted concept that is difficult to translate into a single English word. It is derived from two Greek words: "filos" meaning "friend" or "loving," and "timi" meaning "honor" or "respect." Together, "filotimo" encompasses a range of interconnected values and virtues that are highly regarded in Greek culture.
At its core, filotimo is a deep sense of personal pride, dignity, and honor. It involves a strong commitment to integrity, selflessness, and doing what is right. It is a concept that emphasizes the importance of fulfilling one's responsibilities and obligations to family, friends, community, and society as a whole.
Filotimo is often associated with acts of selfless generosity, hospitality, and compassion towards others, even in the face of personal sacrifice. It embodies a spirit of loyalty, duty, and mutual respect. It encourages individuals to strive for excellence, to take pride in their actions, and to act with honor and integrity in all aspects of life.
Filotimo also encompasses a strong connection to one's cultural heritage, traditions, and values. It is a collective mindset that places great importance on the well-being and reputation of the community, often promoting a sense of unity and solidarity.
While filotimo is deeply ingrained in Greek culture, it is a concept that can be challenging to fully comprehend or define. It is more than just a word; it is a guiding principle that shapes the behavior and character of individuals, fostering a sense of personal and communal responsibility, honor, and respect.
That's what's missing in our world today. The word filotimo was written from the beginning of democracy. It is sort of some rules but can be applied to many other things. That is why we are always friendly towards tourists and people of all culture. Communal responsability, honor and respect will get you a long way here. We don't like lazy people but we still wont leave them behind, although we wont look at them at the same way as all the points above. Which in a way will cause some shame to that person and he will most of the cases understand and become a better version of himself. So in a way it is a hierarchy in our society on how people should act. That's why Greeks are hard to break and divide. Religion is seperated from politics, I go on and on about the word filotimo and I can imagine if you read this you can come up of stuff too
Actually we celebrate birthdays too. If you are a child in Greece you are lucky. You get 4 gifts a year. Birthday name day Christmas and Easter. And also we don’t need a special occasion to party. 😁
True, I lived in Greece and received six presents a year (for Christmas, for Easter, for my birthday, for the birthday of my two sisters) xd
Life here may be not perfect. But it’s really good. 🇬🇷😊
unless your parents are assholes (my case)
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Undercover s or unlucky enough to have your birthday at Christmas and be named Vasilis (name day at Christmas) 😂
Irianna ok that may be unlucky, or your parents don’t like you so much. 😂 ότι χειρότερο!!!
Greeks are not Slavic nor Latin we are our own thing.
I guess he was referring to the traditional dresses etc. At some point, most of modern day Greece was part of Bulgaria (I believe around the 15th century), so it makes sense that some part of their culture stayed with us. This, of course, doesn't have anything to do with our roots as the majority of has no slavic ancestry at all
@@morpheas1234 not true just at some point the byzantine empire was colapsing and a part of thrace was under bulgarian control
@@j.vasileiou there were many rises and falls of the byzantine empire. at around 930 AD most of the mainland except for Attica, Chalkidiki and Peloponese was under Bulgarian command and it stayed like that for the next 40 years.
This guy here ( th-cam.com/video/IpKqCu6RcdI/w-d-xo.html ) has done a great job showing the map of Europe with dates and rulers over the span of 2400 years. If you check between the 8th and the 15th centuries, you will find that parts of Greece changed hands between Byzantines and Bulgarians all the time.
@@j.vasileiou same here with a better view (countries instead of rulers and known world instead of just europe) th-cam.com/video/ymI5Uv5cGU4/w-d-xo.html
You can't expect that none of the culture has been left behind after that many changes. For example the traditional hat we have is the same across most of the balkan countries' traditional dresses as it was part of the ottoman military uniform. Same for the fustanella. Albanians even claim to have introduced it to greeks around the 14th century, though it is not quite clear.
Ναι!
this guy: greeks are slightly slavic
greeks: so you have chosen death
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Yeah we kinda overreact some times 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Pavlos_Charalambous εμενα μου λες
@@YTaccNo3 Ναι μωρέεε όσο πατάει ο ελέφαντας 😄
Not even close to Slavic ...
Actually, Turkey's archaelogical sites are also Greek, either of the ancient times (Asia Minor and Pontos where Greeks had been living from 1.100 B.C. up until the early 1900s when they where slaughtered by the Neoturks, or of the Byzantine Era. for example in Constantinople (now Instabul).
Only in Asia Minor though
@@elizaandreadaki9942 no not really bcs Alexander the great brought the Greek culture along with constructions as you can imagine almost until india. So you are incorrect :D
@@wegoup_with_nct80 I know about Alexander the great but there aren't that many monuments he left there. He spread culture and the language but he didn't build any temples. That's why I said only in Asia minor because Greeks lived there WAY before Alexander the Great
@@elizaandreadaki9942 No you are mistaken. Even the greek kingdoms of Bactria (nowadays the states of Kirgistan, ouzbekistan) and India built temples and monuments. That fact even caused quite an impression to the chinese emperor at that time, because it was his first and last time he learned about Greeks.
@@elizaandreadaki9942 This is actually true, not many people know about Bactria, Menander etc. Do a small wiki read on Bactria, even most Greeks have no knowledge of this kingdom. You can also find articles of how Christianity and Buddhism were connected in some places later on.
This just makes me proud to be Greek... actually I am Cypriot but its the same thing 😁🇨🇾🇬🇷
True, we are the hellenic rase the master race 🇬🇷💙🇨🇾
@МАКЕДОНИЈА MAKEDONIA MACEDONIA Well, you are probably drunk. Greek museums and museums in the rest of Europe are full of artifacts of Ancient Greece. You are Slavs. Your language is Slavic. Trust me. I live in Macedonia and Philip's II grave is 10km away from me. I've been in his grave many times. Every thing in the grave is written in greek. Our language is one of the oldest in the world. Don't try to turn me wrong, you will fail.
@МАКЕДОНИЈА MAKEDONIA MACEDONIA Our history is almost 4,000 years and more. Yours is like 30 years. Educate yourself.
@ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ is МАКЕДОНИЈА without hate or anything, the fact that you have to refer to a video to express your opinion does not make more believable.
What guys are talking about is our (Greece's) ancient history and the one after the Greek revolution against the Ottoman empire.
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When asking a question like "when you have these many thousand islands, do you really need that one?" . The answer is YES - we sure do. Would you ask a family of 12, if they need all their children? Every single island, and every single rock in this country is part of our civilization & heritage. If you take into account that we have been brutally kicked out from our land (Constantinople & Asia Minor) in the past , it is the least that we can do (to support even the smallest island that is Greek). No wound is yet closed.
Ωραία απάντηση! Bravo efi
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Of course, Greece is part of Balkan peninsula... It's like saying Miami is not part of Florida peninsula.
And another thing, as a Serb it is us Slavs who were influenced by Greece not other way around.
When Slavs started to migrate to Balkans Greeks were already running mighty east Roman empire. Even majority of Slavic countries went from Slavic Pagan religion to Christianity because of them and stayed loyal to Constantinople instead of Rome during the schism. Hence why majority of Slavic countries belong to Orthodox Catholic Church.
That's why we are orthodox brothers
@@Enorasi1977 I would say that Greece is thefather and Slavic is the son
The greek name for the peninsula is Aimos. Before the arrival of the Balkans- Slavs. So, no Balkan peninsula but Aimos peninsula just because we predate that stuff!!!
@@shreivox Yes! I wish we restored that name and have it instead of Balkan. Balkan is Persian/Turkic term.
We're not friends with anyone in the Balkans.
Except Serbia!!! Brothers forever. God bless us and our country's !!!!!
In English we use more than 6000 greek words!
50,000
150,000*
@@prodbyfaith0n what??? No...
@@akidacorporation ik its mad, you are a google away from the answer!
instead of saying a number, there is channel in yt that says it is about 6% to 12% of the english vocabulary
The Cyrillic alphabet was made by a Greek (Cyrillus) so actually slavic nations got influenced by Greece
you've never had greek food until you actually have it there. It is amazing!
Cristian Kohut-Galla agreed! Been to lotsa greek restaurants all over the world and only a few are up to par with the local greek ones.
@@mrbig3386 best meal I had was in Crete in a small village near Heraklion were they had a big spread for a bunch of turists. Everything was homegrown and cooked. Besides the food and wine the best part was the dancing on the tables with the locals.
Not from tourists shops
I eat greek food every day ezzzzzzz
@@tuhok near Herakleion???? Maybe Agios Nikolaos
He said today there is no tension between Turkey and Greece, oh no no no they don't know
Between civilians there isn't tho
Alex yes there is, people all around greece hates turks. Burn the turkish flag and demostrait against them
@@neoklispapadopoulos3086 far right fascists aren’t the majority of the population.
@@stefanosgeorgakopoulos1293 you have to be a fascist to react on the hostility and aggression against your nation?
@@marshallc.t.2554 burning the turkish flag isn’t reacting in a civilised way
Very interesting reaction. To help you clear out some things: we do celebrate both birthdays and name days, we are not Slavic just because we are located in the Balkans, Mount Athos is a monastic state where only monks live and the reason women are not allowed is because they are considered a temptation for the monks, our financial situation is much better but i don't know what is gonna happen now with the virus...that's pretty much it!
And most importantly!!!!:
We joined the EU in 1981!!!!
@@Kouistfv ναι, ατο 2001 αντικαταστάθηκε η δραχμή
ANDREAS MPAIKOUSIS στην Αμερική μπερδεύουν την ευρωπαϊκή ένωση με την ευρωζώνη.
@@giorgossoudianos9866 όντως το έχω δει και αλλού
Δεν είναι για να μην μπαίνουν σε πειρασμό οι μοναχοί... Η θρησκεία λέει ότι στην περιοχή εκει είχε τον κήπο της η Παναγία και πως δεν επιτρέπεται να πηγαίνουν οι γυναίκες γιατί καμία δεν είναι όσο Αγία ήταν η Παναγία κ θα σπιλωθει η περιοχή...
Actually you do need the 2 "more" islands cause they define the country's continental shelf under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (which Turkey apparently doesn't recognize, see Turkey and Libya's internationally recognised government signed Maritime Boundary Treaty in order to establish an Exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean Sea, which means that they can claim rights to ocean bed resources, ignoring the presence of Crete between the Turkish-Libyan coasts). Turkey also complains about Greece's legal territorial waters, airspace and the executive economic zones.
correct.
And something more, we are the only country in the world that we celebrate the start of war for freedom on our national days and not the end
Both of our National days, we celebrate the start of a war for freedom and justice and not the End or the Victory!!!
The Greek=Hellenic flag it have 9 strips, it symbols the meaning, Freedom or Death......Ε - ΛΕΥ - ΘΕ - ΡΙ - Α - Ή - ΘΑ - ΝΑ -ΤΟΣ= 9 syllable( ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ Ή ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ)Freedom in Greeks also has 9 letters
We celebrate the start of the fight for freedom not the start of the war.
Αυτο συμβαινει γιατι καθε φορα μετα το τελος ενος πολεμου, ξεκινουσαμε εναν εμφυλιο..
That thing about army on 16 years of age does not happen . Greek boys get their Army Papers to serve the country at the age of 18-19 but most of them don't join the military until they finish with their colleges and universities . So unless a kid decides that he wants to join army and work ( have it as a job ) he probably goes at 24-25
Ohhhh! So I would probably be in the military right now if I was Greek. 🤔
If parents allow them they can join the army at 16 but it rarely happens and usually are kids from the rural countryside everybody else usually joins the army between 20 to 30 years old in some cases like people studying medical professions or law they can end up join at 35!
But one thing is for sure, if you have a Greek citizenship you can't avoid it even if you are living in a foreign country the moment you return to Greece you are going to serve " mommy " motherland 😊
If they decide to not go to high school and their parents consent, they can get in the army at 16
He was right tho. He didn’t say that all greeks had to do it at the age of 16. He said as early as 16 (that true). My dad went when he was 17. And we live in sweden.
But we are greeks
I’ll explain to you the thing about Greece fighting with Turkey over islands. Before the ottomans ( today’s Turks) came in the area of modern day Turkey, it was half Greek (there were also Kurds, Armenians and Assyrians) since very very ancient times (3.000-2.000 BC). When the ottomans came, we were under their rule for 400 years also they took our land and formed modern day Turkey by making sure to get all the Greeks out of their homeland or kill them. When they managed to get rid of all the Greeks (out of one of the places where Greece started) they burned down and completely destroyed all the towns where Greeks lived which were beautiful and very rich towns( like capadocia and smirni/Izmir). So we have a very painful history with Turkey the wars, the oppression and the general violence that’s why we don’t want them taking our islands too. Also Greece and Turkey fight till this day almost on the daily about those problems to the point where every 1-2 years people think there’s gonna be a war. Don’t get me wrong the younger generations, including me, have nothing working against each other and we really like each other as we’re exactly the same people but history is history and the facts should be taught and never forgotten.
Greece is the only non-Slavic-speaking country in the Balkans
Kostas Miliarakis you forgot that Albania and Romania is also in the Balkans and are also not Slavic.
Romania they speak Latin aka Romance language and the Eastern Coast along the Black Sea is considered part of the Balkans.
@@mariopanago2870 η φάση που απαντάς στον Έλληνα στα αγγλικά 😂😂😂
you all forgot that slavic was created by two greeks send there by the byzantine emperor to give them the basics. the two brothers gave them the slavic alphabet and orthodontics church. also albania was created at 1928 from the EU for their personal gains after the first ww. also latins are created from ancient greek and the todays italian are based on latin. so no matter what you say slavic and italian are based on greece. Just go back to history around 2κ BC and tell me what civilization existed expect the tree big ones(Greek Egyptian and Chinese)
@Tall T.S.S Κατα λάθός έσβησα το σχόλιο που έκανα. Τελός παντων αυτο που λες ειναι πολιτικός προσδιορισμός αν και δεν ξέρω κατα πόσο μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ορθός. Γεωγραφικά η Τουρκία ανήκει στα Βαλκάνια απο την στιγμή που έχει την αν. θράκη. Γενικά μπορεί να θεωρηθεί Ευρωπαική και Ασιατική χώρα απο την στιγμη που εχει εδάφη και στις 2 ηπέιρους
@@FIRE-zt6vw slavic wasn't "created" by Greeks they created an alphabet for the already existing language.
Yes!! Even if you have 400 island you definitely need those two because according to international treaties a nation's boarders as well as exclusive economic zones are defined by your coasts INCLUDING the island that the Turks so much wish not to. Also being neighbors with Turks we know first hand that you do not give them even a granule of sand because they will claim not only all of your sand but your hand as well that you used to give them that granule in the first place
Don't you ever say a Greek person slightly Slavic cause we are NOT Slavic.
Cute video, but the Greeks aren't Slavs, lol.
Maaaaaybe just a little bit....
Sure, but only in the same way anyone could be a little bit of anything over the centuries.
not quiet the same way...dont lie to yourself.
@@newreast3904 I don't understand where you're getting at lol. Are you okay?
of course i am not ok.
i am your conscience theodooorraaaaa
You learnt one thing from this video
Macedonia is greek🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Correcttttt
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Μην παραχαράσσεται την ιστοριααα η μακεδονια ειναι μιαα
Hello from Greece 🇬🇷🇺🇸✌
I think you are not in Greece because if you were, we would have found your body until now Alexander the Great
@@topaz1756 You're right no one knows where it is, not even me
@@ValorVisionaries hahahaha
Σισε. Ελινας
@@gpalaiologos Ναι 🙃
Another thing is that we are able to speak English fluently(most of the time every child in Greece learns English for about 8 years in a private school)and that's because English is required in the majority of the jobs because of the huge number of tourists that visit!!!
Also the English langues is based in Latin, and the Latin is one of the 27 topic langues in Greece. Latin for example is from the village xalkida, in the island of Evia.
Most science words is Greek too, because they start from Greek people and we used them for so many years in medicine, music, mathematics, astronomy, biology.....
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I wouldn't say fluently. Just that most of us can have a decent conversation to kinda understand someone speaking English :D
Είσαι σίγουρη για αυτό? που πεθαίνουν 10 εγκαιφαλικα κύτταρα όταν ακούω Έλληνα να μιλάει αγγλικά
@@apostolissteriotis9998 Και εμένα πέθαναν πολλά όταν είδα πως έγραψες την λέξη εγκεφαλικά*.
@@alexandrossapounakis7737 έχεις και ένα δίκιο 😂😂😂
This guy: “Greeks are slightly slavic”
Greeks: “We had been here for 2 millennia before slavs appeared in Europe” :))
We are not latin or slightly slavic, but the other way around. They got influenced by the greek culture.
I just heard that Balkan is of Greek origin!
turk.
@@BrianVelez
No, the Greek name was Haemus, based on the same mountain range that gave name to the peninsula. However nowadays they term is more of a political one, as only Albania, Greece and South Bulgaria could be considered to be on a peninsula.
@@newreast3904 the new researches show that modern Greeks have the same DNA with the greeks who lived in the Aegean Islands 3000 years before....so how are we Turks again ? Turks are a mix of Greeks, Armenians and Kurds...are you mad now ?
@@olgapapadopoulpou1142 vre sy...o oros ''Balkan'' einai turk. oxi o kosmakhs....exeis kamia muga k mugiazesai?
In greece we have also the grave of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great! Ιn Vergina.
shhh, Alexander is not greek he's definetelly fucking Skopje right? since the naame Alexander and Philip is 100% slavic name KEKW (σαρκασμος παρεπιπτοντως)
@@libre1245 let it go my friend.. Skopje is a new created country from Albania 30%, Bulgaria 50% and Greece 20%... They want to make their own history by stealing Greek history.
We Greeks celebrate names days and birthdays
@the Achaean ummm no.
@the Achaean Im a girl. Im greek. I was born in greece. I've been living in greece for 27 years. Everyone in Greece celabrates their birthday even men. But yeah i probably know nothing about my own country. Where are you from again?
@the Achaean lol you are obviously not greek. xD go troll someone else dude
@the Achaean where in greece do you live then? XD the sentence you wrote is not normal modern greek, noone i greece speaks like that. Ο μόνος "κάπως" εδώ μέσα είσαι εσύ. Νομίζεις ότι γνωρίζεις μια χωρα, στην οποία δεν ζεις καν, καλύτερα από αυτούς που μένουν εκεί όλη τους την ζωή. Πίσω στην σπηλιά σου λοιπόν.
@the Achaean μάλλον εσύ και οι παρέα σου ανήκετε σε αυτούς τους "κάπως" (εννοώ διαφορετικοί από τους άλλους γενικά) γιατί όλοι οι υπόλοιποι τα γιορτάζουν κανονικότατα και τα γενέθλια και τη γιορτή. Κάπου έχεις μπερδευτεί ή βρίσκεσαι σε κανα περίεργο χωριό. Δεν εξηγείται αλλιώς
A friend, a German diplomat bought a house in Greece. He says it’s the only place in the world (and he has been around) where he can be at a beautiful beach and a ski resort in a matter of a few hours (or less).
Seli and Voras are like less than three hours away from Halkidiki, for example.
My guess is that he lives in Crete !!
13:32 that's actually how it is (in greece) we celebrate our birthday and our nameday. Also yes the video is kinda outdated the economy in greece kinda recovered and it's actually pretty good. Also no, we are not slavic, greeks are a seperate group of people living in the balkans
George007 που ζεις εσυ. Η οικονομια παει απ το κακο στο χειροτερο.
@@stargazer6850 εσύ που ζείς ρε μαλάκα; έχεις μείνει στο 2013;
@@icantthinkausername1136 Να μαντέψω...ψήφισες Μητσοτάκη έτσι; Όπως και να έχει φίλε ψάξε λίγο παραπάνω γιατί αν περιμένεις ότι θα ακούσεις αντικειμενικά πράγματα στα δελτία ειδήσεων σου έχω νέα... Σου πετάνε 1 καλό νέο και αποκρύπτουν άλλα 100... Οι μισθοί πέσανε ακόμη περισσότερο και θα δούμε και χειρότερα. Αλλά μέχρι εδώ γράφω δεν πρόκειται να ασχοληθώ παραπάνω με το αν εσύ φοράς παρωπίδες ή όχι, αν είσαι ευτυχισμένος έτσι, γιατί να σε ξυπνήσουμε;
Greece joined the EU in 1981 actually!!!
We started using euros insyead of drachmas in late 2001 though. I think that's what the video meant
@@Anonymous-ev3rl EU=European Union=Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση. Η Ελλάδα μπήκε το '81.
Το 2001 μπήκε στη νομισματική Ένωση. Τωρα οι Αμερικάνοι τα μπερδεύουν (ούτε και εμείς πάμε πίσω)....
@@Kouistfv ναι ξερω οτι το ειπε λαθος αλλα σου ειπα τι εννοουσε με αυτο που ειπε
@@Anonymous-ev3rl το ξέρω. Αυτό λέω, ότι οι Αμερικάνοι τα μπερδεύουν
Greece is the most underrated country. Our country is BEAUTIFUL UNIQUE and HISTORICAL. Almost EVERYTHING'S BASED IN GREECE. Also almost if not all phobias or medical words (?) are greek eg agorophobia arachnophobia
Seems like it’s underrated for sure! We all owe a lot to the Greeks! 😄
I've been to Halkidiki and took a little cruise around mount athos, very beautiful. And yes, the food was absolutely amazing, especially in contrast to what they sell as "greek food" here in germany most of the time.
Halkidiki is so beautiful.✌️
@@electra1920It doesn't have anything like Halkidiki 😂
3:48 the archaeological sites in "one of those countries" are actually Greek.
@Brian Velez
Greece is on the peninsula of Aimos [H'Emos] that's the original name of the Balkan peninsula (Balkan is the Turkish equivalent).
Secondly, Greece affected Romans and their great civilization (Romans came to be at least 1.000 years after the proto-Greek), because even though the Romans conquered Greece, there would not be a Roman civilization if it weren't based on the Greek one. One the famous Roman lyric poets, Quintus Horace Flaccis said
"Captive Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit" - meaning "Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror", and that he acknowledged the impactful contribution that the Greeks had to the Romans.(One of which was the influence of the Latin language, which although unique, is considered historically and linguistically a child of Greek language with lots and lots of grandchildren.)
Thirdly the Greeks (in our language Hellenes, the inhabitants of Hellas) are our own nation. Unique language(Hellenic), unique culture(Hellenic) and unique history and idiosyncrasy (Hellenic). The only connection between us and the Slavic ethnological groups (that appeared around the 5th-6th century AD), is that for many years we were under Ottoman Rule. Meaning that during the Byzantine Times(4th Century till 15th century) we were allies and foes, but especially after the "Christening" of them(Slavic groups, such as Bulgarians, Croat-Serbs, Russians etc) by the Byzantines, we were better tied..but still very different. With some of them Greece is still considered a great friend (Serbia).
Lastly the Ottoman times started from the capturing of the capital of the Byzantine empire, Constantinople (now known as Istanbul) by the Ottomans at 1453. From then until 1821 the Greeks(and the rest of the peninsula of H'emos) were under Ottoman Rule (today Turkey) and mostly treated as conquered slaves, paying high taxes and getting our children taken away from their families so as to fight for the Sultan. Most of the Empire was divided into Milliets, (Areas designed, according to the religion of the majority of the people living in) and Villaets (administrative regions under a subject ruler to obey the Sultan, a sub-Sultan if you like).
P.S. the video doesn't refer to the Greek battles against the Axis In WW2 which is by far our greatest accomplishment in recent history. Some of the quotes written or spoken by historical figures of that time:
-"Greece is the symbol of the tortured, bloodied but live Europe. Never a defeat was so honorable for those who suffered it." _Maurice Schumann, Minister of the exterior of France 1969-1973, member of the French Academy 1974 (From a message of his he addressed from the BBC of London to the enslaved peoples of Europe on 28 April 1941, the day Hitler occupied Athens after a 6-month war against Mussolini and six weeks against Hitler).
-"For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death."
_Adolph Hitler (From a speech he gave at the Reichstag, 4 May 1941) after his previously unbeaten storm troopers suffered tremendous casualties in their battle for Greece.
-"The word heroism I am afraid does not render the least of those acts of self-sacrifice of the Greeks, which were the defining factor in the victorious outcome of the common struggle of the nations, during World War II, for the human freedom and dignity. If it were not for the bravery of the Greeks and their courage, the outcome of World War II would be undetermined."
_Winston Churchill (speech to British Parliament, 24 April 1941
-"You fought unarmed and won, small against big. We owe you gratitude, because you gave us time to defend ourselves. As Russians and as people we thank you."
_Moscow, Radio Station when Hitler attacked the U.S.S.R
-"If the Russian people managed to raise resistance at the doors of Moscow to halt and reverse the German torrent, they owe it to the Greek People, who delayed the German divisions during the time they could bring us to our knees."
_Georgy Constantinovich Zhoukov (Field Marshal of the Soviet Army: Quote from his memoirs on WWII)
-"I am unable to give the proper breadth of gratitude I feel for the heroic resistance of the People and the leaders of Greece."
-Charles de Gaul (From a speech of his to the French Parliament after the end of WWII).
We celebrate both of them actually, for the older generations the name day was more important and some times the birthday was non existing but for young people usually the opposite thing applies, the name day is an Orthodox Cristian type of thing which makes it more formal and means that we do not actually celebrate it by a party or something, in that day people just give you blessings and you give sweats usually to your family and sometimes coliges.
You can also checkout Xenofon Zolotas speech in English using only greek words . It's really mindblowing 😃
There is one littlr mistake...Greece has not Slavian origin.They are not the same
Greeks are not Slavs....
I'm actually from Greece and this is so beautiful
You really have to learn about greek mythology!!
omg u dont know how good i felt when u said u wanna visit greece ...if u will visit greece u have to visit thessaloniki and eat mpougatsa....its the best thing ever
This part was wrong, we actually celebrate our birthday and name day every year ☺️
Ouuuu! So not due to a religion? Just because it’s awesomeness 😆?
Brian Velez It’s because of religion actually, but nowadays it’s become an "everyday" thing and I think people don’t think about the religion part anymore just the name day to celebrate 🎉😂
@@BrianVelez The nameday is the day devoted to the saint from whom you took your name, according to the orthodox Christian church. For example my name is Eleni(Helen) and I celebrate in May 21th.
Omg... I absolutely loved his reaction... I'm so glad that in the video he saw the guy was talking about our mountains or rivers and not only the islands and the sun... I know that most of the people already know about greece's amazing sea... But it is also so beautiful for tourists at winter too... 💜
love your name
@@0Annou0 thanks so much 💜I love yours too
"So we owe the world to Greeks"..The moment you realized that you earned my respect 🙏🙏🙏.Come and visit Greece. You are going not to want leave that place
The interesting thing isn't about our architectures is that our architectures are almost 3000 years old . Btw if you search on the internet how many English words are Greek you will be surprised .
As a Greek this video brings tears to my eyes
The Slavic traditional dress is rooted in Greek culture.Not the other way arould...Or one would say Byzantine culture and dress.
The traditional cloths have zero similarities to Slavic ones.
you silly dog....
of course they do....
@@newreast3904 No you stupid cow
I am a Greek Macedonian (North Greece) and the similarities of our traditional clothing with Slavic traditional clothing are many. In some cases I couldn't differentiate between Greek and Slavic.
Thanks for the video. i really enjoyed it but! we are not slavic m8 :) we are greeks and greeks were in the region way earlier than the slavic tribes descended (thats tha major disagreement with the, now known as "North Macedonia". Also yes in language every scientific and a lots of everyday words come or have roots in greek language. Fun fact: search for the english speach given by Xenofon Zolotas. Its in english but compiled from only greek words. cheers
Fun Fact! Around word it's 60 towns named Athens and 29 of them are in USA!! Respect from GReece!
A fun fact about Greeks.
We tend to get very flattered when someone learns to say even few words in Greek 😁 and almost always everyone will try to teach you some more 😁😁😁
«Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Oecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is charateristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to your Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Ampitctyony and the gastronomic symposia»....
Xenophon Zolotas (greek politician).... a whole speech in english with greek words....
I bet nobody really can understand this English.
@@nikosntirlis8981 yes.. there is a reason why this is considered academic English..
@@nikosntirlis8981 There 's a thing called internet. You can check the words yourself😛. If the average person understands them or not isn't an important matter. Most Greeks don't know even the basest of words (i.e what tekmirio actually means, and they even fucking pay every year a great deal of taxes cuz of them) or useful grammar (like Dative in nouns, chich can rid you of having to use a whole sentence) too.
The only way to actually try out traditional greek food is by coming to Greece. I have been in many countries and the greek food outside Greece has nothing to do with the actual greek food. Ohh and by the way we do celebrate both our name day and bitrhday. I am really happy you liked Greece and I hope you will come visit in a point❤️
It’s ironic because I have only heard that! 😆 Everyone suggest only in Greece. Super happy to hear you guys are celebrating both! 😄
You: I want to go to Greece.
Covid-19: Not yet (🥺)
Yes! You have to come to Greece!!!! 🇬🇷
08:59 - In Hungary, we actually celebrate both our birthdays AND name's days. It's like having 2 birthdays every year. Its amazing.
Slavs came to the Balkan peninsula in the 5th century AD. They remained outside the borders of the Byzantine Empire together with the Bulgars but there were periods of tension. When the Ottoman Turks conquered the Balkans, they forced the local populations to co-exist. Greeks were able to get along with most (mostly because they were in favour of commerce and education, so many became invaluable to the ottoman administration), though there were always issues with the Bulgars even to this day (see WW2). You don't see slavic influence in Greek traditions, you see an amalgamation of two traditions (but very few Greeks will actually admit it, because of our pride - yes, the same pride that led Achilles away from the battle or the same pride that gave birth to Μολών λαβέ, that is "Come and get it", Leonidas' line from 300).
I am greek and even I haven't visited every island or every part of my country but I assure you it's soooo worth it. And the food here oh my god it's the best. That's why now in quarantine I gained 5 kilos but don't tell anyone!! :))))
Hahahaha I’ll have to try it for myself! I keep hearing nothing but amazing things about the food 😆 I’ll keep my mouth zipped 🤐
Greece!!!Thanks for doing these videos because on this way more and more people learn about our country...I appreciate that!
I am from Greece fun fact kostantinoupoli is greek
We don't have 400 islands,but 6000 (2.000 big or "big" and 4000 smaller). The 117 of them are populated. :) IMIA IS GREEK ALSO! Actually the most part of Turkey was greek before 1453.
Something that has not been heard and I think is remarkable is that the Greek language is the oldest spoken language on earth.
Greek and agypt I think are the most old countries in the world
To be honest...some dialects in china are equally old! Oh...and I am Greek....:)
Το φοινικικό αλφάβητο δημιουργήθηκε πριν το ελληνικό και ήταν η έμπνευση για το ελληνικό. Γιατί το ξέρω αυτό? Έλα ντε 😂
@@katerinak.01 άαα οκ 😂
@@Cheetomelito Το αντιθετο συνεβη.Ο προγονος της αρχαιας Ελληνικής ειναι η Γραμμική Α και Β. Ο Φοίνικας ηταν ο γιος του Καδμου. 😉😉
If you liked Greece then…HI AM FROM GREECE THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS REACTION IT MEANS SO MUCH FOR ME AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
A very interesting video. Before i didnt were pretty interested in Greek but now... Maybe we go there for the next holidays after Corona ;-) keep it up Brian
we DO celebrate both birthdays and name days, a small precentage of really older greeks dont do both (by the way the word "name"has its origin from the greek word "onoma ")
2:34 : Yes its your land and you must protect it.
Greece is one of the most ancient civilizations and most of the theories about philosophy and politics that exist today established here in my country
Have you seen the Greek Music REVIEW? 🤔
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Actually we celebrate and name day and birthday so we get double presents 😜
1957
I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized that it would have been indeed "Greek" to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words.
Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a Panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.
1959
Kyrie, it is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been anti-economic. In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not hyper-antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymus organizations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies. Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.
There is no Slavic tradition in the dressing bro this is 100% Greek
Ναι γεια σας
I feel so proud right now! 🇬🇷❤️🇨🇾
I was born and lived in Greece ten years (in Athens), now I live in Poland
Actually we do celebrate both, he got that wrong😂 and btw Slavic culture derives from the Byzantine or Greek empire where two monks named “kyrillos” and “methodios” were sent to preach about Christianity to the Slavs. Nice vid tho!
He didn't say that in Greece gum comes from trees!!! Honestly!!! Only in one island of Greece and the only spot in the world island Chios!!!
You should totally visit Greece some time and try our every traditional dish!! You look amazed by learning such stuff about Greece but wait till you see it for real with your eyes!!! Even better than imagined!!
Well we kinda have a big problem with Turkey actually 😂
No, it's Turkey that has a problem with us.
actually both countries have a problem. turkey wants back what they stole from us after they took the byzantine empire and greece wants back what turkey stole from us at the byzantine empier. also revenge for the millions that lost their lives in theirs hands when they killed every single person that wasnot turk. so both countries have a problem. the once is its huge ego of power and the others is the justice of millions
Baklava is our dessert
You should take a trip to Greece, and if you want relaxation go to Skopelos or Skiathos. Their very beautiful and quite.
What you saw is not even half of Greek's sightsees we have both archeological and natural eye-catching sightsees like Parthenon it's kyons' are not in same high
Actually we do celebrate birthdays and they are very important to us.Im so glad that more and more people learn about Greece and how special it is.🇬🇷
I would like to point that Ioannis Kapodistrias didn't lead the Greek Revolution, he was the first Prime Minister. And we celebrate birthdays, too. We're lucky we get presents for our birthdays, our name days, Christmas and Easter. And yes, we do need two more islands, they are Greek. We are NOT Slavs by the way. We've been here before them.
If you decide to visit Greece please do a vlog! (I 'm from Greece = )) Greek food is amazing!!! Eat pitogyro!!!! ( Pie with meat, potatoes and everything you want! IT'S JUST AMAZIIING!!! )
We are not slightly Slavic the Slavs got influence from us when it comes to ethnic or traditional dancing garments.
We are Greeks aka Hellenes is who we are racially from DNA not Slavic at all but Slavic nations are most Balkan nations north of us or Western and Eastern Slavic nations witch are further away.
We actually created the first Slavic text that later influenced the creation of Cyrillic alphabet by 2 Greek Monks who lived in Constantinople they are now to the Slavs seen as the Apostles of the Slavs.
Early Russia 1000 years ago Kievan Rus were allies with Byzantines aka Eastern Romans exedra I cba go all day talking about history from Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Greece all Greek words. Then Civilisation 3200BC all the way to modern Greece cya later. 👍
@Tall T.S.S Φίλε και οπτικά να το δεις δεν μοιάζουμε και τόσο με τους σλάβους.
@Tall T.S.S I know but we are still racially different.
@Tall T.S.S Φίλε κάνεις ένα λάθος που σε οδηγεί σε λάθος άλμα λογικής. Οι σλάβοι δεν ήταν το 20% με τίποτα. Πριν από τους σλάβους που λες ότι πήγαν μέχρι Πελοπόννησο οι Έλληνες πήγαν μέχρι Γαλλία και Βρετανία και έφτιαξαν πόλεις ολόκληρες. Άρα το Ελληνικό DNA πήγε πρώτο εκεί και αναμείχθηκε σε μεγαλύτερο βαθμό. Άρα αυτοί οι "σλάβοι" που ήρθαν είχαν ήδη Ελληνικό DNA σε ποσοστό μέσα τους. Οπότε το σλάβικο ποσοστό είναι ακόμα μικρότερο. Δεν είναι ικανό να αλλιώσει το Ελληνικό σε μεγάλο βαθμό.
Επίσης το σημερινό DNA των Ελλήνων είναι πάνω από 90% το ίδιο με της αρχαίας Ελλάδας βάση ερευνών.
@Tall T.S.S Σε ποιό κομμάτι ακριβώς διαφωνείς;
Φυσικά εννοείται ότι όταν μιλάμε για DNA εννοούμε το ποσοστό που είναι μεγαλύτερο. Μπορεί να έχω 99 πρόγονους μου Έλληνες και 1 Κινέζο. Αυτό δεν με κάνει Κινέζο όμως. Το ποσοστό που ανέφερα ήταν επί του πληθυσμού όχι επί του ποσοστού του DNA. Δηλαδή 90% του πληθυσμού έχει μέγιστο ποσοστό κοντινό στο αρχαίο Ελληνικό. Το αν είναι 51% ή 30% ή 99% δεν το ξέρω φυσικά.
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There are NO grey areas as to which islands belong to Greece. The turks are trying to muddy the waters in order to try and extend their presence in the eastern Aegean Sea. Also the turks invaded and occupied about a third of Cyprus calling it an independent state, but it is recognized only by turkey.
Actually geography now make a mistake we go to the military at the age of 18. Because we don't have the best relationship with Turkey
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Amazing video! I am not going to repeat that Greece is not at all a Slavic country, but, just for keeping it real and updated, I suggest that you should check out the history of both the Saints Cyril and Methodius, who actually provided Slavs with an alphabet, a religion and culture as a consequence... (Yes, they were both Greek too!) Slavs are our neighbours, our family and friends, but so are all the people of the world, no matter the continent they live, no matter the colour of their skin, no matter what they believe, and so on... Lots of love from a tiny yet loud spot right on the center of the universal map :D
Are you telling Greeks to"live a little"? Hahaha, my sweet boy!!!😘
🤷🏻♂️ I hear there is more celebrations now! 🤣
@@BrianVelez hahaha more celebrations? everyday/night is celebretion in Greece..
During the Ottoman times and the rise of the Ottoman empire ( today's Turkey) Greece was occupied. The occupation lasted for 400 years until 1821 when the Greeks began their revolution for independence. Hence the bad blood between the two countries.
and also btw latin came from ancient greek language so basicly most of the europian languages based upon latin soo yeah
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@@BrianVelez Yes, the Greek alphabet of Kimi was transferred to Southern Italy, by immigrants from Kimi of Evia.
From this alphabet came the Latin alphabet
I really enjoyed your video. One correction though, Greeks pre-existed the Romans by ~1000 years, and the Slavs by ~ 2300 years.
I'm really proud of my country !!
I really like that video nice job and ofcourse we celebrate both, name and birthday (the most)! Everything here in Greece is an excuse for celebration! We have a lot of western influence but we keep tradition alive. You're welcome in Greece!
When Greeks built Parthenon the whole Europe lived in CAVES
True but when Europe was making factory's the 18th and 19th century we were fighting turkey sr Othman empire so..........
Nobody lived in caves. Like ever.
lpor sts America didn’t exist until 1492 so there are many differences between an almost 5000 year old country and a 600 year old country. This also goes for some important European countries not only America.
@@filip1097 ναι ξέρω αλλά και πάλι ήμασταν αρκετά πίσω τότε ναι είμαστε σημαντικος πολιτισμός το ξέρω αλλά και πάλι
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Make sure you do some research before you visit Mount Athos. It is a sacret place for Greek people and the monks and others living there. It will be a really eye opening experience for you if you let yourself fully in, whether you are religious or not. My uncle was a monk there for 15 years, and I never got to visit him as I am a girl but I have loads of stories from him to say. I am glad you got to learn more about Greek history and culture and I hope you can motivate more people to question misconceptions about our country and visit Greece to support us in this time of need. More love people! Thank you for the awesome content. 🙏😊
This video is old and many things have changed from when the video was recorded ,so a good Idea would be to find a newer version of this
We get gifts at:Christmas,name day,birthday,Easter,and one for the happy new year😃
The 1st "Corfu" picture is Tropea in Italy and also Greece joined EU in the 80s
Tropea. An other Greek word means Trophies and an ancient Greek Colony from people originated from the ancient Greek city Tropea in Arcadia, Peloponnese region
@@georgekoul From what i've heard from people living in tropaia (yes that's how its named not tropea) the place was named like that because the greeks won a battle that took place there and they named it as if its a trophy
Everyone celebrates their birthday, come on😂😂 We just celebrate our name day too.
Hey man, the fact that Greeks live in the Balkan Peninsula does not make them Slavic. Not everyone in the Balkan peninsula is Slavic. Wrong conclusion!
Mount Athos is the Holy land of Greece!Also we DO celebrate both our nameday(take our friends at bars)&our birthdays(cake with a question mark for >29).Also search Meteora,Olympus area,Mycenes,Sparta(indeed exists).Slavs came to the area WAY later in history.Known Greek(better say Hellenic history) is at least 5000years old.......
Hello from Thessaloniki Greece. Great Vid. Just to clarify, we are ethnically Greek, not Slavic or Latin. We do have influences (food music cultural dress etc) from the Slavs and Turks, we are neighbors with them and we do like sharing, (and of course we were under the Ottoman “Turkish” occupation for 400 years so gaining a few influences over that time period is expected). Keep up the great work and definitely come visit Thessaloniki and Chalkidhiki.
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although a very good and informative video it has some inaccuracies.first we do celebrate our birthday.greek kids are actually lucky because we get presents four times a year.second the earthquakes. we do get some mild ones but not all of them are mild or in the sea.there's a good amount of dangerous fault lines in mainland that are responsible for hundreds of dead due to collapsed buildings(search the 1999 athens earthquake) second we do have big ones above 7 in the richter scale and even 8...(fan fact scientist speculate that an above 7 earthquake was responsible for the collapse of the colossus in the harbour of rodes) and we have volcanoes....we boast about the olive oil because even though the other countries like spain and italy do produce more we actually have 4 different species of olive trees which gives us the upper hand in a manner of speaking.also we didn't join the eu in 2001 but in 1981 with the maastricht treaty. In 2001 we joined in the common currency the euro...as for what he said yeah they did lie about the financial statements lol....