GREECE - The Hellenic Nation That Changed the World
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Greece is a country that has had a tremendous impact on the world. Well, that doesn't specifically mean the modern nation state of Greece, but rather the Hellenic civilization that stretches back to ancient times. It's considered the cradle of Western Civilization and the birthplace of democracy, and the culture from which some of the most influential titans of philosophy and mathematics arose. Today, visitors are attracted to Greece in large part to see the remnants and ruins of the ancient Greek city states.
Travelers may also associate Greece with the Greek islands and their stunning Mediterranean beaches. But 80% of the Greek landscape is actually mountainous, including the Pindus Mountain range, which is part of the Dinaric Alps which extend through much of the Balkan Peninsula. Greece borders Balkan countries to the north, as well as Turkey to the east.
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thing is i live in greece and i hate it here
@@loukendioS why
@@skyline3230 just sucks here
@@loukendioS what do you mean? The fires?
Well I olso live in Greece, its amazing. BUT AT GERAKA THERE'S SO MUCH TRASH!
Hello to my Greek brothers. Respect from IRAN🇮🇷🇬🇷
Thank you sir
Hello to all of our Iranian friends
And our respect to you!
It is mind boggling to think the constant clash between Greece/Byzantine Empire and Persia/Sassanid Empire weakened them to the point that the Arabs could explode and create the caliphate allowing the Ottomans to come in and basically cause the Age of Discovery and shape the modern world.
I think Iran might be one of the most respected countries in Greece precisely due to its extremely long history and deep culture.
Thousands of years of coexisting civilizations, Brothers forever
I'm Greek and I want people to know that there are a lot of beautiful islands besides Santorini and Mykonos
Yes!
Not to mention the beautiful mainland.
exactly
It's sad that people know only a handful of places in Greece when there are so many places to visit
i would rather say that almost every Island in greece is beautiful ❤️
Im not from Greece, but Ive been living here for the past two months. One thing that has to be shared is how kind, welcoming and nice greeks are
@Daniel Fittipaldi Yep. Just like the movie _My Big Fat Greek Wedding_ ... the locals are very friendly, kind, warm and don't mind inviting you for a big traditional Greek lunch etc. I know people who have had such fortunate encounters, when visiting the Chalkidiki region, or the islands of Crete, Rhodos and Santorini etc.
Yes I agree!
@@dvchel please stop referencing that movie , this movie depicts how would Greek Americans would behave in the 50's
@@karadanos2883 I totally agree with you✌️😎
Don't worry we are peaceful people we will always welcome you to our lovely country
I study ancient greek at school, so I can read and write the alphabet and I can assure you that it’s just beautiful, love to Greece from Italy🇮🇹🇬🇷
you have learned fairytale books from propaganda fake modern Greek
Una faca una ratsa brother .! Greetings to our cousins in Italy from Greece 🇬🇷🇮🇹
@@birdhno5882 We are not brothers
rude@@supermavro6072
There are many pronunciation differences between ancient and modern Greek.
As Greek from Macedonia I thank you for mentioning our region since it isn't as popular as the island or other regions in Greece and the neighboring country of the north doesn't help much with that. Macedonia is Greek and it's history is Greek and not Slavic as our neighbors want the world to think 🇬🇷
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Hello. What do you mean that Macedonia isn't as popular? It literally is our most visited region?
@@UhDUUUHlol obviously the people that go to Macedonia go only to halkidiki and Thessaloniki and not the rest of Macedonia that's why I said it isn't visited much
@@user-tv4oi2xv6b not really bro a great amount of tourists visit pella and vergina and naousa and even pozar and panagia soumela !
@@user-tv4oi2xv6b You forgot Kavala and yes where exactly do you want them to go to? Kilkis? 99% of our tourism is summer/beach tourism.
Greece the small country that influence the whole planet.
Thank you for everything 🇬🇷🙏🏻
Greece wasn't so small when was the influence of world. But anyway, you are welcome
The Grecce isn't small! :/
@@user-qz5db8vn2q it is ! It’s the 95th biggest country. You can say it’s average. I’m from Greece too🇬🇷
@@athaofficial4219 what a pity! Something wrong with you! Propably you aren't original!
@@user-rs6mt1zt5k from Athens to Thessaloniki is like 6 hours, 5 hours.In America to travel from Washington to Florida is like 2 days.
North Macedonia has a slavic population, Hellas has a Hellenic one. The Slavic peoples didn’t move anywhere near Hellas until much later. Ancient Hellenic Civilization is Hellenic, not Slavic, by birth (DNA), language, history, politics and culture. Great video, I appreciate the climate information, people assume Hellas is always hot and dry, it isn’t.
Please learn what is DNA and don't write stupid things.
@@lefteris.p η γυναίκα είχε απόλυτο δίκιο δεν κατάλαβα που διαφωνείς?
They called Skopje or vardaska not even north Macedonian. Macedonia is greece. Word Macedonian is greek. Mega Alexander was greek not slav.
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@@prasinosforever480 bro δεν καταλαβαινουν γιατι βλεπουν μονο το ονομα αντι να ψαξουν
God bless the Greeks of all generations 👍
this sentence doesn't make sense!!
@@costaliberta5969 screw you, nobody has ever said god bless me so I'll take it.
@@costaliberta5969 it does, you just didnt read it right i guess
Thanks. Stay safe.✌️.
@@cristygr7025
which god
bless... like...how...??
of "all' generations? as in thousands of years? good luck blessing the dead.
Cyrene is Libyan historic city , it is in the eastern of Libya 🇱🇾,which there’s Apollo and aziz temple,a lot of Libyan are from Greece origin and they are called greetly related to Greece 🇬🇷,much ❤️ from Libya to Greece 🇬🇷
so true !!!
Especially in Soussa town, there are many Greco-Libyans comming from Crete, maybe from the population exchanges between Greece & Turkey.
Cretan muslims went that epoch to Libya and Syria.
Maybe between the Cyrene Libyans, there are also ancestors with more ancient greek roots.
Peace & eternal happines to your beautiful multicultural country!! 🇬🇷❤️🇱🇾
Fun fact: Africa used to be called Libya before the Roman conquest it was named such by greeks who colonized what's now Libya (Cyrene) so greeks gave your countries name
All the love to these two beautiful countries from Iraq 🇬🇷❤️🇱🇾
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Tripoli also :D
Love from neighbouring Mediterranean neighbours! Historical rivals and besties! 🇱🇧❤️🇬🇷
love lebanon from greece! btw i hear there is a large number of greeks live there and also i hope your country will recover from the last years of war! :)
@@someonethatlikesyou7713 thanks
@@anthony.m5432 no problem ;)
🇬🇷❤️🇱🇧
Ι ve been in Beirut and I loved it👌
Regards to the beautifull Lebanon🇬🇷❤️🇱🇧
As a Greek I have to say that our cuisine is among the most underrated in the world…also a lot of the focus of tourists goes towards the islands but mainland Greece has some truly spectacular places to visit
And despite that being very underrated its in the taste Atlas 2022 fighting for the number 1 spot out of 195 countries for the tastiest cuisine in the world leaving tge rest of the cuisines well behind and also out of the 50 best cheeses in the world 13 being Greek (number 1), 11 being Italian and 6 being French.
You can check it out with a simple google search.
And yet still Greek cuisine is underrated because I still meet a percentage of people who havent tried a whole tsunami worth of wonderful dishes. Greece has over 20 regional cuisines and then the Politiki Kouzina which is the Greek byzantine legacy of the cities of Constantinople and Thessaloniki worth thousands of dishes by its own. Let alone the other regional cuisines on top of that
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Εγώ το παραδέχομαι. Είναι Οθωμανική Κουζίνα. Δεν είναι Ελληνική. Μαζί με Πολύ από την μουσική μας. Είναι Μεσανατολικά αυτά τα κομμάτια και τραγούδια, πολλά από τα φαγητά μας. Έχουμε καθαρά Ελληνική κουζίνα, ΑΥΤΗ είναι “underrated”! Όχι τα Τουρκικά!
@@user-Prometheus Βασικά θα έλεγα ότι η κουζίνα μας είναι βυζαντινή/μεσανατολητικη…και μεταξύ βυζαντινής και οθομανικης αυτοκρατορίας έχει υπάρξει πολύ πάρε δώσε
@@user-Prometheus λάθος. Η μικρασιατική κουζίνα έχει στοιχεία οθωμανικά, τα οποία είναι μετεξέλιξη της βυζαντινής κουζίνας. Μην ξεχνάς ότι η Ρωμανία διήρκησε έντεκα αιώνες κ ήταν πολύ μπροστά κ από την Δυτική Ρωμαϊκή Αυτοκρατορία, όχι μόνο στρατιωτικά αλλά κ σε θέματα καθημερινης κουλτούρας , πχ χρήση πηρουνιου. Η ελληνική κουζίνα έχει μεγάλη ποικιλοτητα- όπως κ η γεωγραφία της, κ η ανθρωποκοινωνιολογια της. Ηπειρώτικη, κυκλαδίτικη, κρητική, επτανησια, αθηναϊκή κλπ. Ενετικές επιρροές βρίσκουμε στην Επτανησια κουζίνα, παρόλα αυτά δεν μπουκαρουν Ιταλοί να γραψουνμ@@ες όπως κάποιοι Τουρκαλαδες εδώ μεσα. Γιατι δεν είναι κομπλεξικοι
Greece is 80% mountainous with breathtaking landscapes and views around every corner. 20% of all of europes Ultra peak mountains lies in Greece. Ultra peak mountains are mountains that rise atleast 1500 meters above its lowest surrounding point.
Meaning the real visual height of a mountain. Greece has 19 Ultra peak mountains.
For reference. Switzerland has 8, Austria 12, Croatia 0, Spain 4 on its land territory. Meaning Greece is a tremendously mountainous country with truly spectacular scenery that most people dont know.
Greece has also 400 wetlands another thing most people are not aware of. with Greeces 80% mountains and 16.000 km of the most crystal clear waters, there are also a lot of rivers and deltas and and so on from the mountains towards the sea. For comparison. A country the size of Turkey has only 110 wetlands.
So it comes to give an idea of how wetland rich Greece is.
Also Greece has 800 natural hotsprings which is some of the most in the world.
Also 15.000 caves. A whole arch of many volcanos. Among which Santorini is the largest sea volcano in the world
Another thing. Greece lies on 4 tectonic earthplates which gives Greece its immensely diverse mountains, landscpses, geology, immensely diverse geography and topography.
Greece lies on the European, African and Asian plate which comes together inside Greece. And the 4th one is the one that got crushed inbetween the other 3
Continueing from what I wrote in my initial comment. For even just incredible mountains all throughout Greece you can check out
- Epirus (incredible prefecture full with stunning mountains)
- Zagori
- Pindus mountains,
- Vikos gorge (one of 3 deepest gorges in the world and the deepest regarding width-depth ratio
- Tzoumerka mountains, and it's many waterfalls
- Aoos gorge
- Timfristos mountain,
- Aoos river
- Acheron river
- Mount Olympus, rising 2918m meters straight out of the sea and is one of the 10 most prominent mountains in all of Europe
- Tymfi mountain with the incredible dragonlake on top of it
- Taygetus mountain a wonderful mountain that rises also 2400+ meters out of the sea close to the coast which gives dramatic views on both sides of the mountain
- Kremasta lake among many other mountain lakes with incredible scenery around and incredible water colors in various parts
-Rhodope mountains, one of the least degraded forests in all of Europe. there is a very good 1 hour documentary on the Greek part of the Rhodope mountains on CZcams
- Koronisia an incredible polynesian group in the Ambracian gulf which was many wetlands too rich with birds
- Plastira lake another wonderful mountain lake
- Smolikas mountain with a dragon lake and outlook on the mount Tymfi
- Acheloos valley with an incredible river delta and scenery very unknown to people
- Voidomatis river together with the Archeron river and Aoos river one of the cleanest waters in all of Europe and even the world
- Prespes lakes, also is incredible and different, it has less than 3 people per km2 and the scenery reminds of Mongolian scenery
- Mount Giona, Mount Vardousia, are both mountains opposite from eachother 2500m
- Evrytania region is another incredible mountain region with one of the most untouched mountain areas like Agrafa mountains
- Meteora, a perfect geological paradise among many other lesser known and plenty geological paradises
- Mornos lake
- Kerkini lake which is 1 of the 2 most important birding places in all of Europe
- Amvraikos gulf
- Methana and Methana volcano
- Parnassos mountain,
- Dirfi mountain on Evia
- Aoos lake,
- Mesolonghi wetland
- Lake Doxa between mountains
- Mount Chelidona,
- Pelion mountain of the centaurs
- Lichadonisia another wonderful polynesian island group
- Mount Aroania,
- Athos holy mountain, the only monastic state in the world. the mountain rises 2034m straight out of the sea. Incredible views like all the mountains in Greece
and so on and so on.
One thing people have to understand is.
1. ALL of Greece's mountains truly rise from sealevel. What I mean is. The mount Olympus rises almost 3000m from the sea 0. So the real mountain height is 3000m.
2. When you are inside Central Asia you see a mountain of 3800m. But you are standing on flat land that stretched hundreds of kilometers and this land is on 2100m. Then the mountain you see infron of you is not 3800m but 1700m. THAT is the real height of the mountain. In other words the prominence of a mountain. And if a mountain rises more than 1500m above it's lowest point then it's called a Ultra peak mountain. Greece therefor with 19 Ultra peak mountains is truly a mountain heaven
Actually Turkey had a lot more Wetlands. But they were reclaimed for agriculture and to reduce diseases caused by mosqoitos.
@@thekraken1173 The same for Greece, but have a rich amount of 400 till date. Which is only logical given its immensely diverse landscape with 80% mountains, with wonderful immensely crystal clear rivers but all rivers being non navigable due to the diverse mountain terrain over which the rivers flow down to towards the sea. And with over 300 mountains covering 80% and Greece having 20% of all of Europes Ultra peak mountain as a testimony to its mountain paradise, Greece has therefore the immense potential of Wetlands which it thus also has. It is a high culmination and density of beauties of any kind.
In every corner and every spot of the country you can find wonderful mountains in the vicinity, wonderful coastlines of any kind with the most crystal clear seas in the vicinity, immense gorges like the longest gorge in Europe (Samaria) and one of the 3 deepest gorges in the world (Vikos), 15.000 caves, wetlands, rivers and lakes anywhere in the neighborhood, 800 natural hotsprings which is a huge amount too found and scattered over the lands, at least 5 archaeological sites withon a 3 mile range almost anywhere in the country (Greece has over 18.000 registered sites in the database). And immense biodiversity also due to the isolation that gets created by Greece's immensely diverse geography and topography, islands and mountains.
So much in fact that Greece has one of the most bee species in the world amounting to 1100 species about, only matched or surpassed by 3 or 4 other continent sized countries like USA, Brasil, China.
Anyway. Greece is a paradise for nature lovers, hikers, botanists, herbologists, canyoneers, but also bird lovers, geologists, food lovers and history buffs alike.
The most special thing of the country is that in a single day you can do all of it. You can easily be in the mountains in the morning, stumble across historical sites completely untouched even, be in the forests, lakes and rivers and end your afternoon with a dip in the sea and eat dinner after in incredibly picturesce towns and villages dotted around the country with a wonderful sunset over the sea highlighting the many layers of mountains, other parts of the mainland and islands on the horizon.
Which is yet another special thing in Greece. When you are in Spain you look out to sea and see nothing. Its 1 simple shape on the map. In greece looking out over the seas anywhere is a treat to behold at any time of day. One of the many things not thought of but comes to mind when carefully analizing geography.
But yes. In Greece you dont have to travel 500 km fo the first mountains, 300 km for the first sea, 250 km for archseological sites. Its everywhere in gorgeous abundances
@@Ptolemy336VV thanks for the to-do lists! I am moving to Greece in five days having just received my long term visa!! Yasou!! 😁🇬🇷💙✈️
@@Buttercup697 Where will you live in Greece?
I love it
Love from 🇮🇶 ❤️🇬🇷
Noooo 🇬🇷🖤🇹🇯
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Dont say 'Macedonia claimed by the 2 countries' . North Macedonia has slavic identity , and the people there came to these lands much later in time. They claimed it for economic reasons. No offense to North Macedonians.
FACTS 💯
He does say that but I think that based on the information and maps he gives, he almost certainly believes Greece is on the right.
FACTS💯
δεν ειναι Βορειοι Μακεδονες.
North Macednoians as well as most of the people of those countries, i.e. bulgaria etc, are both Athenian and Slav descendants. But what you said is true.
Hey, a Greek here! Just wanna say that if you plan on visiting cool places in Greece besides the islands or coast, a very beautiful place I recommend is the Meteora! It has very unique mountain formations and a very nice view!
Thanks for the recommendation!
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I am from Greek too αδελφέ μου τι κάνεις
@@user-fr2wl3xo7n Καλά είμαι φιλαράκι ✌️
hey also a greek here! just go to an island in the cyclades or ionian regions, preferably!
I live in a very mountainous part of Greece, I think they are underrated. It is amazingly beautiful.
C'est là où tout a commencé, que nous le voulions ou non !!
Όλα από εδώ ξεκίνησαν , είτε κάποιοι τό θέλουν ,είτε όχι.
Αγαπημένη Πατρίδα !!!
@ Διρφωσσός 'Αγράφιος Όπως βλέπω την πορεία των πραγμάτων, με Μητσοτάκη "πρωθυπουργό", και με έναν λαό αποβλακωμένο, σύντομα όλα θα τελειώσουν εδώ, όπως ξεκίνησαν!
Η χώρα είναι εδώ καί δεκαετίες σέ παρακμή , σέ ελεύθερη πτώση θά έλεγα. Η κατηφόρα δέν προέκυψε επί πρωθυπουργίας Μητσοτάκη , προϋπήρχε.
Η απομάκρυνση από τίς πατρώες αρχές καί ο άκρατος ευδαιμονισμός ευθύνονται κατά μείζονα λόγο γιά τό πολυεπίπεδο αδιέξοδο που βιώνουμε ως έθνος.
Οι προοπτικές είναι-κακά τά ψέματα- δυσοίωνες καί όποιος λέγει το αντίθετο νομίζω ότι εθελοτυφλεί.
@@user-ft1jr9cw2j Συμφωνώ! Είναι ακριβώς όπως τα λες! Ο Μητσοτάκης, απλώς, θα αποτελέσει το τελευταίο καρφί στην κάσσα!
τι κρίμα που όλα εδώ έχουν τελειώσει, είτε κάποιοι το θέλουν είτε όχι
ΠΟΥ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΜΑΣ ΠΛΗΓΩΝΕΙ!
As Greek, what makes me really sad is the fact that we have such a beautiful country, with amazing landscape, food etc, but the salaries are so low and the cost of living so high, that we are forced to immigrate to other countries :/
Greece is a failed project even from the begining
It seems to me you always hit the nail. It's often forgotten that the eastern Roman Empire was in fact Greek.
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Hence the New Testament in the Koine Greek language :)
It slowly "became" Greek, sure the population in Balkan and West Asia Minor was mostly Hellenic, up until the 20th century. But the culture, the language, the way of life, was 100% Greek (Hellenic).
The East Roman Empire she born Roman, she grow Roman-Greek, she developed Greek-Roman and she died Greek
1.
Greece has the largest merchant fleet in the world, representing more than 20% of the global fleet and 58% of the EU fleet (2021): 30.25% of the world tanker fleet, 14.64% of the world chemical and product tankers, 15.58% of the global LNG / LPG carriers, 20.04% of the world bulk carriers, 9.53% of the world containerships. Most of the Greek shipowners trace their origins from the Greek islands.
2.
Creece's coastline length is 15,000km, holding the 9th place in the world right below Australia and the US
Europe's coastline length is 68,000km ---> 22% of which is in Greece
Africa's coastline length is 30,000km
Beautiful video. Greece is so interesting. I'd love to visit someday.
Yes, I would love to see more of Greece too. 👍🏻
It should be on your bucket list! Not that I am biased in any way,being Greek but from abroad, but it truly has a lot of beauty.
It's definatelly a place that even if you go souly sightseeing, one trip is not enough.
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I am from greece and is very welcoming u really should try it out!
I have already learnt 60% of Greek language thanks to physics and mathematics
Well... Time to visit us also for the remaining 40% 😛
Well put! I mean, considering that the remaining 40% is trully vast
oh as greek its so much more its too much actually also we had 3 different languages ancient greek,greek and now we have modern greek
@@bebemaster8355 οχι ειναι αρχαια ελληνικα βυζαντινα και νεα. κ υπαρχουν πολλοι διαλεκτοι
sorry dear unknown friend, but whatever you learned about the Hellenic language from physics and mathematics is only 5% from the treasure of uncountable high mental meanings that exist in Hellenic language.
Our language has a holly power by itself; the ability to make the human brain start thinking!
For example, everyone talk about democracy, but try to find how many countries have the name «Δήμος(=people)+Κράτος(=power)» in their official name. Almost none! The used name is «Republic», which means (from Latin «rēs+pūblica») "the public thing", in contrast with the word «ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ» (in its original Hellenic form) which actually means "the power to the people"!
No jokes, Greeks are everywhere, Our Greeks taught us to be more Human! It doesn't matter if some people like German and Türks don't want to understand. More Greece than New World Order.
Now that escalated quickly to racism and antisemitism in just three sentences. Shame on you!
Some facts about the dispute over the name of Macedonia that most people might not know…
01. Slavic Tribes arrived at the region of the NORTHERN PART of ANCIENT GREEK MACEDONIAN LAND
(North Macedonia today), approximately 900 years AFTER!!! …the death of Alexander The Great! 😂
And AFTER, THE FALL of ROMAN EMPIRE.
🏛 Greek Empire was BEFORE!!! Roman Empire’s existence
Thus they can’t be linked as “Macedonians”.
Slavic tribes came from the East North to today’s “Macedonia” but they just step on it, that’s all. Nothing common with Greek ancestors or Alexander the Great. They just step on A PART of a northern land, of the old Greek kingdom of Macedonia. Alexander’s Macedonia was stretched from West -Southern Balkans, Northern Greece to Eastern Bulgaria. Today’s “Northern Macedonians” just grabbed the advantage of the history of another nation, and try to confuse the world, that might not care or don’t know about history. But we Greeks had enough of this joke. And Bulgarians too.
02. Macedonia was an Ancient GREEK kingdom and Alexander was speaking ANCIENT GREEK Macedonian. Macedonians were a A GREEK TRIBE.
Ancient Macedonian language was an Ancient Greek DIALECT coming from the Greek DORIAN dialect. Not to be confused with the “modern” Slavo-Macedonski or simply Macedonski as it is today in NORTHERN MACEDONIA. Which is a Slavo Bulgarian dialect.
03. Even after centuries during Turkish Ottoman Empire where Greece was enslaved and occupied by Turkey for 400 years, (Balkans for 500 years), THERE WERE NO ETHNIC GROUPS like MACEDONIANS to both regions of the 2 today’s countries, (Greece and North Macedonia), according to the Ottoman archives.
There were Greeks, Turkish, Jews, Bulgarians, Slavs, Roma
04. People of North Macedonia today may falsely consider themselves as Macedonians but in reality they are an ethnic group of Bulgaria
Their language is an Eastern B dialect of Bulgarian with some slavic elements in it.
All this fuzz about the name is the Stalino-communist propaganda creation of Yugoslavia leader, named Tito.
North Macedonians were mostly Bulgarian tribes. But Tito would loose so much land territory. The south part of Yugoslavia. So half of them were killed because they didn’t want to change their ethnic identity as Bulgarians, but the rest of them were convinced that they were a slavic Macedonian individual ethnic group. Cause they weren’t 100% Yugoslavians. They were speaking Bulgarian in a Yugoslavian land. So Tito wouldn’t dare to say you are Bulgarians.
During that time Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were at war. It’s like he would surrender the whole south part of Yugoslavia to Bulgaria.
So it was inevitable that future generations would be raised as Macedonians through the years in today’s N.Macedonia. And then claim our Greek history and Alexander the Great and the Vergina Sun symbol on their flag. Northern Macedonians nowadays, and their language HAVE NOTHING TO DO with Greek language or Greek ethnicity. They just stole this name to have sth to grab at, during these troubled Balkan territories, back at the time. An identity. Even if it is fake
That’s why until nowadays BULGARIA was putting VETO for EU MEMBERSHIP on today’s NORTHERN MACEDONIA. Because of their identity.
“Bulgaria invoked its veto power on negotiations with would-be members in 2020 to block North Macedonia's candidacy based on accusations that the Macedonian language was simply Bulgarian by another name and Skopje was disrespecting its shared cultural and historic ties to Bulgarians”. From the link below 👇
www.rferl.org/amp/macedonia-eu-bulgaria-veto/31910319.html
Just a few days ago BULGARIA lifted the Veto under European pressure (Europe is afraid of the Balkans to be in Russia’s influence again after the Ukranian invasion), but BULGARIA has some terms. History is being written while we speak. We’ll see how this goes
www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/06/24/bulgarian-approves-lifting-veto-on-north-macedonia-joining-eu_5987878_4.html
EARLY SLAVS:
The early Slavs were a diverse group of tribal societies who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately the 5th to the 10th centuries) A.D. in Central and Eastern Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the High Middle Ages.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Slavs
ALEXANDER THE GREAT:
If you scroll down on the link and look for Alexander’s Dynasty ethnic origin group, you can see he is from the
ARGEAD dynasty. An ancient Macedonian ROYAL house (House of Argos) of GREEK DORIAN provenance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argead_dynasty
They had as a symbol the VERGINA SUN (that today’s Northern Macedonia has stolen as a symbol in their national flag).
As we said the Macedonian language was an Ancient Greek DIALECT. The main language DIALECT groups were ATTIC, IONIC, AEOLIC, and DORIC many of them with several submissions such as Ancient Macedonian (Dorian dialect). The ATTIC dialect was considered more sophisticated/ educated and was used widely afterwards, during Alexander’s education.
DORIANS (ΔΩΡΙΕΙΣ)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorians
Dorians were 1 of the 4 major ANCIENT GREEK TRIBES during classical Greece era, along with Aeolians, Achaeans and Ionians.
AEOLIANS: (ΑΙΩΛΟΙ)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolians
ACHAEANS: (ΑΧΑΙΟΙ)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeans_(tribe)
IONIANS: (ΙΩΝΕΣ)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionians
Until the age of 16, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle
ALEXANDER THE GREAT EDUCATION LINK:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#Education
ARISTOTLE:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
Thank you bro for your light
Bravo, poli kala ta eipes
well , i tryed to speak with a guy from FYROM on this matter.. and he just told me , " i dont like politics"..
But its not fcking politics its HISTORY.
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HISTORY
I didn't know how to explain all this exactly but I'm Greek (from Macedonia) and those guys are stealing my name, my language, my culture, my history. 😥😥😥
In the 2018 Prespa Agreement North Macedonia officially renounced any claims/heritage stemming from the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia and thus also Alexander the Great. There is no reason to be diplomatically equidistant on a matter that has already been successfully resolved.
For me the best idea would have been to not mention the topic at all. Especially now that it has officially been resolved, it only prolongs the drama even further
@@msicvbes4977 I agree with you. I get annoyed when North Macedonia gets mentioned.
@@olbiomoiros Yeah there was no reason for it in this video :/
Successfully resolved ? Τι λες ρε ;
@@olbiomoiros same here,big time.
My husband is Greek and I really appreciate seeing something about the country - although of course my family taught me most of your videos content anyway :-)
Grecia es un país muy interesante! Me encantó conocerlo el verano pasado.
Un video muy completo y del que se puede aprender un montón!! Gracias Paul!
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@@johnog9817 iq 4
@@user-fz6jj2qu9s τον εχει φαει το χορτο!! ΜΥΑΛΟ ΤΕΦΡΑ
I am from Greece and i am so proud of my country
Proud to be a Hellenic-American!
@@ewadawid8473 Are you implying that if she went, it would change her opinion? Because I grew up there and I am equally proud if not more...
@@ewadawid8473 άστο κοπελιά, μείνε στις διακοπές μόνο, άσε τις υπηκοότητες, θα χτυπάς το κεφάλι σου σε δύο μηνες
@@ewadawid8473 But both of your names are not Greek. Is this a coincidence or do you just have also other roots than just Greek?
@@ewadawid8473 So, just to clarify, your parents are both Greeks? Your citizenship is Polish but your Ethnicity is Greek, with no other roots?
@@PlanetIscandar there are a lot of fakers out there
The main reason many cities in Hellas, like Athena, don’t have beautiful architecture was the destructive earthquake in 1954, which destroyed many lovely neoclassical buildings. The cities had to be quickly rebuilt and many cheap, modern buildings had to be built to house the population. That era wasn’t a great one for architecture in any place affected by WWII, Europe and other parts of the world were economically devastated.
I have never heard of this being a reason as no one earthquake destroyed all those buildings in the same year. I would say it was the huge influx of people from the country migrating into the cities after both WW11 and the Civil War and before that the people exchange that took place in the 1920's, that needed urgent housing,and probably prevented any proper town planning being made that was the outcome we have today. I have heard people who had land or a house gave it to a contractor as 'antiparochi' meaning in exchange for 2-3 apartments in a new block that would be built on his land so big ugly and more modern looking apartment blocks were built to house this massive growth. Neo classical architecture was out of style by then.Athens was a village 1834 once it became the capital of modern Greece. Unfortunately many beautiful mansions were demolished, some due to progress, some due to the war or and others because of bad workmanship.I wish the Aktaion Hotel still existed.I would have loved to see this in person. That would have been one of the grandest buildings in Athens.
@@passionatesingle Yes your comment is very accurate. spot on! Athens (and Greece in general) was very late to grow because of WW II and the civil war which followed and internal conflict. So there was a rush to cope with western standards for political reasons and the transition from an agricultural rural society to a modern western one was very rapid and overwhelming with little to no central planning. The phenomenon of "astiphilia" (αστυφιλία ---> αστυ=city + φιλία=to like) which caused 'antiparochi' destroyed wonderful buildings not only of neo-classical style but also modernist residences from the 20's and 30's.
@@passionatesingle After World War II most of Europe was destroyed including Greece. Through the American Marshall plan most of Europe been rebuilt with dollars and industrial machinery, to boost Europe’s economy. Greeks been neglected and the compensation they received for their effort in the war, was used clothing from America.
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@ Kimberly Perrotis Dear friend the only deadly earthquake that has been recorded during the early 1950's, was the one in the Ionian islands which were completely devastated and had many victims. Almost all villages were raised to the ground. That was in 1953, not 1954! As far as Athens is concerned, the only true "earthquake" was the one that happened in 1955! This "earthquake" was nothing more that a famous and wretched politician (Konstantinos Karamanlis) who at the time he was Prime Minister. At some point, being the mastermind of the fast industrialization of Greece and in order to "modernise" Greece and especially Athens, wanting to give a "european" character to the city, he demolished most of the neoclassical buildings that had existed since mid 19th century. In their place he built repulsive huge buildings of concrete, glass and metal. Monstrous architecture, as you can imagine! As a result, Athens lost its beauty. For example, the neoclassical buildings that remain around Plaka and Monastiraki are only a tiny fragment of what once existed!
And of course as a city, since then, it has become a disgrace due to lack of urban planning. A sprawling city!
Since ancient times, three beautiful rivers were flowing through the athenian plain : Ilisos, Heridanus and Keefisos. All three rivers were buried, in the context of modernization. They are all under rubble. Unfortunately, Athens, is the only city in Europe that is not a river capital. Each river had its own rich flora and fauna! Now it's all gone! All this destruction started in the 1950's.
We need part 2... Θέλουμε κ'αλλο, φιλιά απ τη Θεσσαλία!!! 😘🇬🇷
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yeah, let's make a part 2 on... why you shouldn't visit greece! just to shake things up.
@@johnog9817 ...in english??
Ελλας ή τέφρα = Greece or ash...
@@zakasw.4292 nai to ksero auto gia auto to eipa
Wonderful video. As a Greek living abroad since half a century, what stuns me every time I visit my home country is how quickly the landscape changes and how many different architectural styles exist in such a small place. Sometimes you just drive ten kilometres and then you take a turn and everything changes.
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I am related to what you saying I live in America and travel for thousands of miles in the Eastern states of America they, all look the same.
@ Gerassimos Fourlanos Don't worry! The afro-asiatic muslim illegal immigrants who flooded Greece, will take care so that the "changes" you see, become permanent! Next time when you visit Greece you will be considered as the "greek minority"... Until then, Salam Alekoum! (Γκέγκε;;;)
@@aigleroyal3941 Spare us the toxicity, you will find plenty of other channels to express your beautiful thoughs.
@@gerassimos.fourlanos Ως καθεύδων δεν είστε σε θέση να αντιληφθείτε την πραγματικότητα η οποία περισφίγγει την καθημερινότητά μας. Κακό του κεφαλιού σας! Να ξέρετε όμως, ότι πολύ σύντομα θα κληθείτε να πληρώσετε το τίμημα που αναλογεί στο μέγεθος της ηλιθιότητάς σας! Τις αντιλήψεις σας περί "toxicity" σάς τις επιστρέφω και σας καλώ να τις χώσετε εκεί που νομίζετε καλλίτερα! Δεν δέχομαι υποδείξεις από Γραικύλους!
Greece is not only a summer destination. It is an underrated place for winter vacations too as it is mainly a mountainous country: just few examples: Ioannina - Metsovo - Zagorochoria, Arachova, Pelion, Kalavryta, Trikala, Karpenisi
Hello my neighbor
Arachova is very beautiful
Greece is a fascinating country, which has given the Free World so much. The ancient sites, and the scenery, are second to none. Greece also has great indigenous music, rebetika, which began to be recorded in the 1930s.
Modern Greece (formed in 1822) has nothing to do with the ancient Greeks and has never given anything to the world: Gutenbergs press, steam machine, telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, internet, nothing. And that "indigenous music" came from Turkey with the Greco-Turkish population exchange in 1923. Note that the exchange was based on religion, not on ethnicity, so many of the newcomers were not even ethnic Greeks. They were counted as such just because they adhered to the religion of greek orthodoxy. They brought that new music to Greece. And the musical instrument bouzouki comes from the turkish and arabic bozuk.
I’m currently learning Greek after being inspired by LangFocus’ videos on the language. It’s absolutely fascinating, along with the culture that speaks it. One day I hope to travel and possibly live there and meet new people. It is a beautiful region.
Where r u from ?
Omg we Greeks are very grateful for your appreciation of our country😍
@@vickytauf5440 I am from Mexico. There is a lot of love between both nations! 🇲🇽❤️🇬🇷
@@niawithguitar Greeks are all great people. Every time I’ve met one, they’ve invited me to their homes or out for a meal. They’re very hospitable.
It is so beautiful and wholesome to see people from so far away taking an interest in your place, especially people from as fascinating lands as Mexico.
Just found this channel last week
I was rly hoping to see one on Greece and it came right away
Couln't be happier, great video!
Good timing! :) I'm glad you found this channel. I see you subscribe to Langfocus as well, so thanks for watching both of them!
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Fun fact : Greece has the largest coast line in mediterenian and the 11th place worldwide, our coastline is even longer than the one from Brazil... (love to Exotic Brazil)... so Greece is far from being called a small country !!!
Brazil only has 10 islands off its coast
In addition to Olympics, Marathon race also started in Greece. Great video
As a greek i appreciate the effort you put into the pronunciation of the greek words, its quite rare to see hellas etc pronounced correctly! Liked.
Thanks for your nice video essay! Greetings from Hellas! 🇬🇷
At last, a guy that pronounce Greek names correct. Great video. Epirus and Ionian Islands are also very beautiful.
ive been living in greece my whole life, seeing someone from another country respecting us is surprising as i didnt think people cared for a small country like greece.
I am albanian of kosovo ( ancient dardania )
Respect to Greece ( Hellas) , you have a rich history
I am Greek and I would like you to know that Greek mythology has a great relationship with prehistory, studying mythology is like studying the stone age..
Great work. Thank you. As Greek I would suggest the mention of the country "North Macedonia" as "a country that tries to steal the history of Macedonia although it is a small state with no more than 60 years of existence. Secondly, I would recommend the mention that Greece was the county that stood against Germans for 219 days, the highest duration of resistance in Second World War of all the countries by far (Norway was the second with 61 days).
219 days probably includes the fight against Italians... Germany occupied Greece in about three weeks. Germans took Crete about two weeks later; English and other allies were protecting the Greek Islands. We are not talking about the partisan war. Greece is a beautiful place, full of history and culture. Greek food is the best in the world.
Happy to hear something about my country 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷!!! Awesome and be sure that Greece is even better from every single perspective! Very good video!!!
One fact that anyone should know. Asia Minor (today’s Turkey) was Greek homeland for thousands of years (it goes back even further than the Trojan war (the Trojans were also Greeks by the way)). The Turks invaded 1071 ad and assimilated the Greeks of Asia Minor by force to the Islamic and Turkic culture. Many today’s Turks are the descendants of these Asia Minor Greeks that got assimilated with force by the centuries.
1453 ! is the the darkest date for modern Greece when the Mongols, as they were called back then, invaded Konstantinopolis, and not 1071..., what are you trying to do show that they have been there for almost 1000 years?
@@valxydi what are you talking about ?
@@valxydi τό 2071 Βάλια έγινε η αρχή του τέλους για τον βυζαντινό ελληνισμό με τήν μάχη του Μαντζικέρτ αν το λέω σωστά με τήν συντριβή του αυτοκράτορικου στρατού από τους σελτζουκους Τούρκους που τους έδωσε το δικαίωμα μετά να μείνουν και νά εγκαταστάθουν στην Μίκρα Ασία.
@@valxydi Μήν ξεχνάς τήν Δ' σταυροφορία και τήν κατάληψη από τους Φράγκους κυρίως τής Κωνσταντινούπολης το 1204 όλα αυτά και άλλα φυσικά έφτασαν στο σημείο νά μείνει μόνη τής η βασιλεύουσα και να πέσει το 1453...
I'm Greek living in Greece...you were spot on on everything you mentioned. Santorini and Mykonos are beautiful islands but other islands are just as beautiful and some even more beautiful than these two mentioned.
im from Greece and im proud of the country :)
I am albanian of kosovo ( ancient dardania )
Respect to Greece, you have a rich history
Salaries are low but it's still nice to live here.
@@milotfokusi2124 It is very sad that we, 2 local aborigine nations can't be together....You prefer turks but not us.Remember that Greeks and Ilirians are cousins...
@@user-me5vf3bq1q myself i don't prefer Turks. I will say you what i think. Albanians and Greeks should be more friends than others.
What maked anymosity btw Albanians and Greeks is that the Greek Orthodox Church did "banned and cursed " the albanian language because it wanted that all Albanians to assimilate in Greek language.
As for Albanian christians many of them prefer Greeks to Turks, and Albanian muslims prefer Turks to Greeks but not all. Also Albanians are sad what happened to the expulsion of Cham Albanian muslims in WW2. So don't think that "all albanians" prefer Turks, that's not true.
Greeks also prefer in majority Slavic-Serbs to Albanains, but i know also some Greeks that prefer Albanians.
Peace bro
@@user-me5vf3bq1q so what did mostly divide Albanians and Greeks is sadly religion. Most of Albanians are muslim and most of Greeks are Orthodox Christians. Me as Albanian muslim stil admire and like Greek History.
These videos are great, becoming a very welcome alternative to Geography Now
The focus on history is something Barbs really doesn’t do, and the calmer, less frenetic and more educational style of presenting here is nice as well
Thanks! I’ve never seen a video from his channel (on purpose, so that my videos will have their own style), but I know his channel is really popular. Different presenters resonate with different people, I would guess. It’s good to have variety.
@@GEOfocusChannel hey Paul, both your channels are great. Geography Now is more oriented to young people I feel and he has a staff of 4-5 others that do various segments. One thing he covers that you don't (unless I've missed it in other videos) are famous people and culture. Your approaches are very different and I don't think he would influence you at all, but if you I think it might and don't want to watch for that reason I understand.
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I agree!
Selamlar Tűrkiyeden 🇹🇷
Arkadaşlar
Many greetings to anyone..
hello komsu
@@GP189 nasil sen iyı??
@@vegpvegsn6934 Ben iyiyim çok teşekkür ederim
@@GP189 zafer içinde vatanimizin
@@GP189 biz tűrkler
I am impressed for your information about my country!
Thanks!
The fact that you decided to write Alexander’s name in a Slavic language instead of just Greek is disturbing. Please his name couldn’t be more Greek and he aimed to spread Greek or Hellenic civilisation, as we call it, especially the Greek language all over the world. He would have been offended. Also the people of North Macedonia do not have any historic or legal right to claim any part of Macedonian ancient history as they reached the region far later. They should focus on their own history and prospective instead of creating false judgments with no scientific evidence.
Well, I don’t support their claim. My video editor added the Cyrillic script, and I decided it was fine because it represents the North Macedonian point of view, but that doesn’t mean I believe in their claim.
@@GEOfocusChannel There is no point of view here, there is only history and you cannot rewrite history.
@@johnnylazer83 I understand.
Based
@@johnnylazer83 fr
Love ❤️ from South Sudan 🇸🇸 to Greece 🇬🇷
Skopians(not macedonians) are connected with alexander the same way brazilians are connected with maradona
Actually Brazilians are more connected to Maradona than skopians to Alexander the Great 😂🤣🤣
That's too funny. I was just learning about ancient Greece in my 8th grade world history class. It's really interesting. Now we're on ancient china. But I think it's really interesting how a lot of our geometry that we learned today comes from ancient greece. Thanks to people like Euklid.
Fun fact, Chinese and Greek and Israelite identity were born roughly at the same time: late 2nd millennium, early 1st millennium bce
Even the word comes from along with many more
Bravo for spelling Euklid the Hellenic way!
@@kimberlyperrotis8962 my guess is he has germanic roots. You'd be surprised how many words germans kept in their greek form in comparison to other europeans that adopted the latin conversion of the greek word.
@@johnsmith-ir1ne
Time to make the Confederation of the Old Nations (COTON): Greece - Iran - Israel - India - China
wait...
Hello from Greece and Athens specifically
Hi! I hope you liked the video 👍🏻
@@GEOfocusChannel It was great
Maravilloso vídeo. Muchas gracias Paul 🙂
Hello, Paul. Thank you for this high-quality video!
It's my pleasure, Phil Lee! I'm glad you like it. :)
I just discovered you and I have to say, your channel is amazing. Also, your greek accent is fantastic! Keep up the good work. Thank you for showing people how incredible country Greece is.
I'm hoping to visit Crete, Santorini and some of the other islands, some day. :-)
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Don't go to Santorini, it's too expensive and an overrated island. I have been there and it ain't even they good, there are many other islands that are more beautiful. Crete has many landscapes, islands like Corfu, Lefkada etc have beautiful landscapes and beaches.
@@SketoThanos bro proidopoueise ton gia mikono
@@johnog9817 isxyei
Also stay away from Mykonos. That's the worst island. You pay for everything with their weight in gold.
the correct pronunciation of the words is very much appreciated !!! much love
Greece is the best country in the planet
Yes she is🌏❤🇬🇷🌍❤🇬🇷🌎❤🇬🇷🇺🇲❤🇬🇷
I'm From Greece and I'm VERY HAPPY
Thank you very much for separating North Macedonia from Greek Macedonia. People nowadays are not aware of this huge difference.
I agree man
It is the Greek government's fault for allowing name recognition as North Macedonia. Skpoje (Scupi) was not part of Ancient Macedonia; I have seen the AGT in Pella, and the one that Slavic People in Skopje have erected is bigger than the one in Macedonia (GR). I have friends who are from FYROM, and they all of a sudden became "Macedonian" although they speak no Greek. People along the border might have some Macedonian DNA, but FYROM people are Slavic people just like Serbs and Bulgarians - there is no shame at that, but trying to appropriate history and culture that they do not belong to is a incomprehensible; now their entire population are just like in a mass hallucination about being "Macedonian"... and they Speak Bulgarian, which now they call "Macedonian". Their Macedonian is just a dialect of Bulgarian; and it is easier for a Bulgarian and a Slavic "Macedonian" to understand one another than a Greek from the island understanding another Greek for the continent, if they speak their own dialect. So, NM people hate Bulgaria, although some NM people take Bulgarian passports because of EU privileges.
@@HK-pp9ig φίλε τα ξέρω όλα αυτά, Έλληνας είμαι. Και για την ακρίβεια ο όρος Μακεδονία υπάρχει ΜΟΝΟ εντός ελλαδικού χώρου. Ο κ. Ιωάννης Μαζης έχει δηλώσει ανοιχτά ότι η συμφωνία αυτή ήταν και είναι παράνομη. Ας νομίζουν ότι θέλουν οι Σκοπιανοί. Όταν έρθει η ώρα τους θα κάνουμε λογαριασμο, τους περιμένουν άλλωστε και οι Σέρβοι στη γωνία.
@@george_K91 I thought Skopje people are Bulgarians...? yes, Serbia ruled the place for some time; Serbs even had Skopje as their capital under Tsar Dusan or some other Tsar that ruled over the entire Peninsula in the Medieval times.
Hello from Greece!An excellent presentation!!
im from greece and im really proud of my country!
According to the "Agreement of Prespa", signed between Greece and North Macedonia in 2018, the modern citizens of the country are recognised as people of slavic origins and do not claim to have any type of connections to the ancient hellenic civilization that inhabited the northern parts of Greece.
I know most people try to keep a neutral position, so as not to hurt any viewers, but the issue concerning the national identity of the country's population is officially resolved.
Exactly.
@@paok4paok459 If we had the right government from the startwe wouldnt accept turkish speaking Christians from turkey in 1922 or people in thrace who speak Bulgarian but say they are turks.Things would be better from the start.
Not exacly. Greeks have kept their part of the deal while North Macedonians still label their country as The Macedonia and still protest on the streets to "claim back" numberous part of lands they never owned or had any relationship with.
@@cloudshifter Unfortunately the population of this country has gone through so much propaganda over the past decades that they have the nerve to keep supporting their unhistorical views and geographical claims in the land of neighbor countries.
@@msicvbes4977 I wouldn't say propaganda per say, but definatelly foolishly continuing to uphold the deal when the other part completely shits on it. Now North Macedonia is arguing with the country they stole their language from.
*The GEOfocus Channel* This is the best and more accurate short video about Greece i ever saw. You did great job!
Thank you! I'm happy to hear that.
I just love this video, thank you so much Paul. I always learn so much!
It’s my pleasure as always, Inez! I’m really glad you love the video. 🙂
There is ONE Macedonia, if Slavic people want some of the greatness of Hellenism, I understand it. However, do not be ridiculous, you have no genetic, linguistic, cultural relationship with the ancient civilizations of the greater Mediterranean. You are Slavs, Bulgarians to be exact.
Outer Macedonia was Hellenized culturally as all Europe was either directly or indirectly. So there is a historically proven connection and a real Hellenide heritage.
@@user-qz4br8hy5t There is one Macedonia, part of the great Hellenic civilization. We will protect Slavs from your Albanian enemies however do not puss it.
@@evankant277 I‘m not pushing anything. And I don’t see Albanians as enemies by definition. These are your petty Balkan insights. My name is by the way a joke.
@@user-qz4br8hy5t Balance of hard power is not a Balkan peculiarity but omnipresent reality. Hellas, Israel and so many other nations have to live under the anxiety of violence.
@@evankant277 I understand that in reference to Turkey to a degree due to their huge military build up in the Cold War. But Israel-Palestine is a whole different thing.
If you ask anybody on this planet to close their eyes and to think of a beautiful man or woman they will all think of an ancient Greek statue... Because Greeks gave the world the concept of beauty and harmony... Even to this day!
Nice video, thanks!
It's amazing how much you can learn in an 11 minutes video on CZcams while my teachers tried to teach me the same things for years in school.
LONG LIVE YOU TUBE! Now learning is FREE ANYWHERE ANYTIME!
I am greek and this is very nice to see people making videos for it also there are lots of other islands that people visit
I'm from Greece and its perfect here!
Greece is beautiful 🇬🇷❤️
Thank for the love and the respect that you show about my country
Estupendo vídeo, muy descriptivo. 👍
¡Gracias! Thanks :)
Great video Paul. I love all your channels! Congratulations!
Thank you for your video!!!! It is so much appreciated ✨✨✨greetings from Greece!!
When Aristotle went around Greece he encountered hundreds of different political systems. That as well with the fact that thousands of distinct philosophies, ways of life and thinking lived throughout Greece shows that this nation had a wide variety and aspects of life, it's not just Athens and Sparta, there are Naxos, Samos, Epirus etc. Where the people thought differently from the others. Philosophies that if many read them they'd believe that Greece has actually many things in common with the far east as well (China, Japan etc.).
(...Venezuela, Iceland, Pakistan, Uganda etc)
I will add that Greece has great biodiversity, lots of endemic and rare species and amazing nature sites
Great video, thanks
I'm from Greece and i love your vids!
Wouldn’t call the Byzantine Empire a successor. It simply is the Roman Empire. (Not really an error though I know it’s just convention)
There are some books by Greek Byzantine historians that are pretty interesting in regard to Roman and Greek identity. Essentially even after the rise of the Greek national identity, the Rumelian Greeks left living outside of the Nation-State still called themselves primarily Romans as opposed to Hellenes. (Though by then they obviously knew their history and that they are essentially a part of the same broader people unlike the average medieval Greek peasant)
Greco Roman identity fusion.... Reminds me of Turko Mongolic fusion
Well they were a Greek empire more than a Roman one, they couldn’t understand their Romanian northern neighbors anymore, their culture, language and society was more greek influenced, they divided their empire in thermas and used the old alliance system to control the sassanid persian empire in their favour
@@danymann95 The culture and social organization of what most people are comfortable with calling the Roman Empire's also changed heavily multiple times over the course of its existence. Those specific times are pointed out through use of periodization. The Principate, Dominate, more specific periods of massive change in between the two, so on. Also I don't know if I agree with "more Greek influenced" as the vast majority of people in the Empire knew nothing of classical Greece during the middle ages. In the sense that the people who dominated every aspect of society were Greek speaking that is definitely true, but we have to remember these Greek speakers simply identified themselves as Roman Christians even if they didn't literally speak a Romance language and all of their unique cultural elements grew out of that and not a pre-Roman Greek world that would have been the illusory pagan past to commoners.
@@johnsmith-ir1ne I'm sure there are tons of examples like this really.
@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes indeed.
The earliest fusion in recorded history is sumero Akkadian fusion
im from greece and i want for people of other countries to know that : being polite and well manared is the secret to getting along with people here! youll be in good terms with mostly everyone as long as you dont insult anyone\anything and you remain respectful to everything ; ]
yeah just don't go to any tourist destination! or athens! or at the wrong parts of greece! or
Great video, very informative, thank you! Greetings to beautiful Greece from Wales!
great video.thank you
Hey guys! Well I'm Greek and I'm so happy that people love as a country Greece! Thank you really much!
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WOW!! It's nice to see someone know and explain so well my country's histrory/geography!!! Your Greek accent is amazing too!! Thank you for making this great video!!
Great video, so on point! Thank you so much!
My pleasure!
Medieval Greece ie Byzantium had an equally enormous impact on the western world as it saved much of the ancient knowledge and stopped many invasions notably muslim. As for modern Greece some of its unknown accomplishments is the fact that many Greeks enlisted to the US Marine corps when it was founded and 50 Greek gunmen fought at the famous Derna battle along with US troops as there were still under the Sultans and favored the West which promised freedom and a modern way of to the autocracy and tyranny of the east...
I am Albanian and I appreciate the little touch on the map, where you accurately name Illyria(even though Illyrian tribes extend all the way to modern day Croatia) and Croatians rightfully they too have a right to claim kinship to the ancient Illyrians . They(Illyrians) were not as advanced as the Hellenic tribes even though they probably all shared a common ancestor. To this day many Albanians when they do the DNA test, we come out as Greeks or having Greek haplogroups, which means we Balkan people no mater how much we do not like each other and of course we are very different, we still have a lot in common. I would love to visit Greece one day, Santorini baby! Peace love and Hope from USA!!!
We have so much in common with Albanians- also culturally. Albanians that live in Greece blend into Greek society perfectly- and most of us have very good Albanian friends. Btw, if you visit Santorini (which is spectacular), don't do it during the summer, as it will be crowded and expensive. There are also tons of other really beautiful places that are worth visiting
We get more than modern geeks too..
@@arold4928 Greece was never about blood. We are a mixture of many many different ancient races. It is about culture, language and unfortunately religion, though that tends to change lately. The rest is nationalistic games from populist parties that want to cultivate such feelings.
@@chriskalogrias926 ik bro, trust me I’m not trying to be racist or anything, Albania and Greece shouldn’t be enemies but instead the closets of friends, for example most of the heroes who fought for that land against the ottomans were arvanite orthodox Albanians.
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Thanks for taking the time to dedicate a video on my Country
Thank you this was really informative!!
As A Greek, this video makes me proud.😀
I'm Greek and thank you for this beautiful video!
I am albanian of kosovo ( ancient dardania )
Respect to Greece, you have a rich history