How Is Portugal's Name Roman & Celtic?
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The Celts In Portugal: www4.uwm.edu/celtic/ekeltoi/v...
The Celts - Origin & Background: www.knowth.com/the-celts.htm
List Of Celtic Place Names In Portugal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
A Brief History of Porto: portoloungehostel.com/porto-h...
Etymology Of Portugal: proveportugal.wordpress.com/a...
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Gallaecia: forvo.com/search/Gallaecia/
Galicia: forvo.com/search/Galicia/
Douro: forvo.com/search/douro/
Portus Cale: forvo.com/search/portus%20cale/
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Hello all, I'm in the midst of moving places meaning I am now recording in a new place! If the audio sounds a tad different that would be the reason why. Any feedback on if you like/dislike how this video sounds let me know.
United States?
When you thank the person who suggested the current topic, you usually list one name and then say that "they" will be honored...I understand that some names could be male or female, but Jasmin? I hope you haven't given in to PC gender pronoun nonsense.
You might be the only man to know this but do you think that thanos comes from trynnos the latin for tyrant or is it just a happy acident
Name Explain Portugal in Arabic is the land of oranges
Portuguese Americans often call themselves Luso-Americano since before the Romans the people who lived in Portugal were called Lusitanians. A U-boat did sink the Lusitania in 1915.
"Scotland, Ireland or even the Isle of Mann"
*Screams in Welsh*
Screams in Cornish
Toonimation they’re revived languages tho bc they were only dead for like a few decades
And Cornish and Breton
@@josephpinkston9832 Welsh was never dead.
@@skellagyook I know, it’s like the only one in the family that didn’t really decline
Not sure if anyone is even going to see this but the "Cale" part didn't just disappear. There are two separate cities inside the heavily populated city centre of the Porto district. The city of "Porto" and across the river the city of "Gaia". "Gaia" could very well come from a variation on "Cale", since the name of the country shifted to "portuGAL" from "portuCALE". The place you pointed to at the beginning of the video, the south side of the Douro river is now that very city, Gaia!
I was going to say that!
I was looking for this comment!
Eduardo Santos Gaia is the Greek goddess of the earth
The Perfect Mix They weren’t worshipping Greek goddesses in that part of Iberia at the time.
even the lusitanian did not disappeared, only they language most of its costume remained there is no another people in the world with iberian costume or way of life , its unique
Love to Portugal from Ireland 🇮🇪🇵🇹
Right back at you!
Brothers:)
Wish the same for our brothers, we both are the most humble and welcoming nations in the world!! Keep it simple! :)
Éirinn Gaellican go brach..
Obrigada ❤️🇵🇹
It's funny how in some languages people started using "Portugal" to refere to Oranges, since in the maritime era the Portuguese were the ones that brought Oranges from china to Europe and the Middle East.
Portuguese, the Orange Bringers. I like that.
And Bermudians were called onions,,,same reason.
Logan Leslie
wooohhh I don’t know that 😃
Thanks 👏🏻
oranges have not been brought to Europe by the Portuguese, but by the Arabs - but the portuguese produced lots of oranges of high quality, mainly in the Algarve region, which were exported to many other countries....
@@silveriorebelo8045 we learn that in history 🧍
Actually Cale still exists, it sits on the other bank of the Douro, the city of Gaia
Portus -> Porto
Cale -> Gaia
"Gaia" or "Cale" is the small town (parish/freguesia) near the river and closer to its mouth, where the festivities of St. Peter are held.
Vila Nova is the modern city, that is why it is called "New Town of Gaia/Cale" in counterpoint to its Old Town.
Gaiallecia puerto de galicia o puerto de los galos
porto cale is , and was the best wine the lusitanians produce
@@pablolm9085 yes that is correct
@@danythrinbell1596 northern Portugal is not Lusitania, it's Gallaecia.
Please don't mix those 2.
Us northerns are not of lusitanian origin
Lots of Celtic places had names with "Gal" or "Cal": Gaul, Galicia, Galatia (in Turkey, or what was then called Asia Minor and mentioned in the Bible in the Letter to the Galatians), Caledonia (Scotland). This shows the wide extent of Celtic tribes.
Seeing that name "Caledonia", reminded me that there is a village in Montalegre (Portugal) called "Caladunum"....
I found it when I was searching celtic toponymics in Portugal
Gal- meaning "power" in the several Celtic languages. Makes sense tribes would use it as an ethnonym.
Omg, thank you so much for making this video!!!!! I am extremely honored for being named Patreon Saint of Portugal ^^
Come to our country for free cerveja, pasteis de nata and francesinhas :D
This is surreal. Lol
I'll buy you an imperial.
Come drink and eat to Portugal!
COME TO PORTUGAL, WE WI OFFER YOU EVERYTHING AND WE WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER AND CRY WHEN YOU LEAVE
Been waiting for this video! Portugal's Celtic past isn't appreciated enough.
Curiosity...
- Did you know that European Portuguese despite being a Latin language has kept some Celtic phonology and lexicon?
- The theory is that while the original people from Iberian Peninsula (I'm talking about only Portugal in this case) were adopting Latin as their language, there was substratum interference
@@tatianaoliveira2191 Like in France, where the Gauls adopted Latin but spoke with a Gaulish accent.
Nope. It isnt
@@JohnGone-wl8uo es/ez does not mean "of Zion". It's an ancient Iberian suffix meaning "son of". In Basque the suffix is "-itz".
Cambarcus I am sorry, it is appreciated enough or not? I could not understand :)
Greathings from Portugal.. The Celtic Goddess Cailleach is in the origin of the name Portugal. Many don’t know that represents the big influence of the Celtics in the north of Portugal
According to genetic tests done in the native Portuguese population, the vast majority of people are of Celt descend. The main haplogroup of the Portuguese population is the RB1 which is similar to all Western European population.
Tá bom
I'm from northern portugal and I have 15% celtic dna which is a lot for such a long time period.
Not everyone is a native!
@@anna3046 I'm native for at least 300-400 years. Thats only how far back the papers go.
Exactly!
When I found out being Portuguese i am Celtic with all my Irish friends i got very proud.
is being celtic such a huge accomplishment?
we get it people are celtic, people are gay, this and that, yada yada… but thats not an accomplishment. how can you be proud of that?
@@dotsdot5608 Well in the contrext of his comment he could have meant, he felt proud because he had a special kinship with his Irish friends (he was one of "them").
But it's true some people have these absurd relationships with certain people and descending from this or that people.
Thank you for doing a video on my country,you are a great youtuber!!!
Caralho!
@@GumSkyloard
brasil>>>>
@@Erick-uf9ek só tem um GDP maior, o resto, é tudo o centro da terra
flw
@@samsonmiodek Merda, Caralho, Puta, Foda-se, Filho de 30 putas, so on and so forth.
Also, if you want to use "son of 30 whores/bitches" in regular speech, go ahead pal.
Does this mean I will exclusively refer to Portugal as Port-Port from now on? Yes, of course it does.
Portugal name first theory:
Portus = Port (in Latin)
Cale = Cailleach (Celtic Goddess)
Portus Cale = Port of Cale (Cailleach)
Other theory:
Greeks might have been the first to settle Cale and that the name derives from the Greek word Καλλις (kallis), which means 'beautiful' (referring to the beauty of the Douro valley)
Portus Kallis (which might have envolved to Cale) = Beautiful Port
@@tatianaoliveira2191 I agree with you until you get to the Greek part.
It means Port of Galicia or Port of Gales.
Before Roman invasion everything was written with "C". Then it became "G" after the invasion.
No Greeks got to inhabit the northwestern parts of the Iberian Peninsula, they only dwelled in the south or southeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula.
The hillfort (Castro) of the city of Porto is still there underneath the Sé on the highest hill of the city. They were called the Dragani tribe giving the symbol of the Dragon to the cities Football team FC Porto, also giving us the name we use in English, Portuguese, Spanish, etc... the word Dragon or Dragão, Drago, etc...
@@ricoandra3311 makes sense
Thanks for the correction
@@tatianaoliveira2191 no problem 👍🏾👍🏾
Thanks for showing some history of Portugal (My country)
O meu também. Portugal
Portus = Port / Cale = Cailleach (celtic goddess)
- Cale is today's city, Gaia (Vila Nova de Gaia)
- So basically, Portugal means "Port of Cale (Cailleach)", and not 'Port of Port'
I am portuguese and I learned something new! This is why I love your channel so much
Cool video, but there are a few points I would like to make:
1 -- That picture (minute 0:31) shows the remains of a human settlement typically associated with the Bronze / Iron Ages. Those ancient hamlets are called in both Spain (Galicia) and Portugal "Castros" and were typically built on hilltops, encircled by a stone wall. In Portugal, one can find quite a number of place-names where the word "Castro" appears, thus suggesting the widespread presence of such human dwellings throughout the territory. Throughout the Middle-Ages, many of such hamlets gave way to larger villages, but the principle remained the same, i.e., houses made of granite blocks, with the whole village encircled by a strong defensive wall. Many of such old villages can still be found throughout Portugal, particularly in the North and Centre; and almost always on the top of a hill, inside a castle-like defensive wall. Draw your own conclusions...!
2 -- The Gallaeci/Callaeci (minute 0:54) were not the only people associated with the presence of the Celts in Iberia. Most of the tribesmen the Romans fought in the second century BC, and for nearly 200 years, while trying to establish their dominance in the peninsula, particularly in the Northwest and West, were, in fact, Celts. Amongst those, one can find a variety of names of tribes/peoples associated with the Celts -- the Celtiri/Celtici, in the area south of present-day Lisbon; the Bracari, from which the city of Braga (Bracara Augusta) got its name; the Limiri, living in the area of the river Lima; the Celerini/Coelerini, just north of present-day Porto; the Lusitani (whom even today divide the opinion of the scholars as whether they were Celts or not) and many others. Many of those tribes were referred to by the Roman chroniclers of the time as "Celticum". Such names appear on one of the Ptolemaic maps of the Iberia Peninsula -- I own a facsimile copy of the Clavdii Ptolemaei (Ptolemy) Codex Lat. V -- F. 32, belonging to the National Library, Naples -- clearly written in Roman calligraphy, along with names such as Lusitania, Ispania, Terraconensis, and Betica. On such a map, the name "Arabriga" -- "Temple Hill" (?) -- appears in the area of present-day Lisbon, not near "Alenquer" as the list of Celtic place-names you presented (minute 1:23) seem to suggest. This is not your fault -- I have come across that very same list and, although seemingly correct, for the most part, its author seems to have overlooked that fact (along with the fact that the hills just south of Lisbon are today called "Arrabida", more than likely in reference to that place-name, although that also seem to have escaped many a scholarly mind). Please also note that the suffix "briga" -- Gaelic "bri", (brae) -- appear in vast numbers amongst the toponyms throughout the territory which would form the country of Portugal centuries later, thus denoting (or suggesting, if you prefer) their Celtic origin.
3 -- It is unlikely that the word "Cale" (in Portus Cale) has got anything to do with Greek (minute 1:38). To the best of my knowledge, the Greeks never established themselves that far north and west in Iberia. Their presence was mostly on the east and southern coasts of the peninsula. It is, however, correct, as you have mentioned in this video, that the name "Portugal" comes from "Portus Cale", or more precisely from the County of Portus Cale, established in the IX century, by King Alfonso III of Asturias (one of the few areas of the peninsula which had not been subjugated by the invading Moorish hordes in the VIII century AD). As for the etymology of "Cale", it is quite possible that it means port or harbour, and in that case, it would suggest a connection with one of the present-day languages which have survived the Roman invasion of Western Europe, (in Gaelic, "calafort" and "caladh" means port, harbour) to which Western Iberia had been in that distant past, part of, culturally, genetically, etc., since at least the Late-Neolithic (Bell-Beaker culture), and during the so-called Atlantic Bronze Age. The connection of western Iberia with the Mediterranean was only established via the Romans and, to a much lesser extent, via the Phoenicians and the Greeks, on the east and southern coasts.
There seems to be still a misunderstanding of who the Celts were. Most people seem to believe that they were made of a single ethnic group, a bit like in Nazi-Germany many people thought that they could still invoke a racial "purity" associated with the Aryans. And we all know where that misinterpretation of History led to! The simple fact of the matter is that the movement of peoples throughout Western Europe was something extremely complex, involving many different ethnicities/tribes and clans, and to put it in simplistic terms such as attributing the term "Celts" to one single region of Western Europe is not acceptable anymore.
I hope this somewhat lengthy "exposé" will contribute a small bit to the very long discussion in relation to these matters which I am already anticipating on these threads. This is my opinion, based on many years of interest in the subject; and I don't really want to be drawn into a senseless discussion where the old, deeply-rooted cultural prejudices will try and pitch one against the other. We, old-stock native Europeans, have a lot more in common than some people would like to admit!
Yes we do 👍🏻
@@nancyalexandre you can call me German , Nazi , Irish Spaniard or even french but never ever call me roman
@@danythrinbell1596 what are you talking about??? I'm replying to Miguel agreeing with him on that we Europeans have a lot more in common than we like to admit to, what does your reply to me has anything to do with that?
ha ha ha i was just saying that i'm not in that one of all mix up some do others not , i can be anything but roman gees never never
@@danythrinbell1596 😂 I see, but why not Roman?
I just found out your channel and I'm from Portugal! I loved this video and would love to see more like this from my country 🤗
I'm always learning something new on this channel! I love it!!
Being a lusitanian dark celt. I have been waiting for a video like this. People must not forget this culture of Portus Gale.
The oldest celtic settlements in Northern Portugal are from the bronze age.
From here they spead to other areas of Europe, where the celtic settlements are already from the iron age.
Thank you so much Name Explain, you've made my day!
That was so nice. I'm Brazilian and unfortunately I don't know much about Portugal, but it is nice to know a little of the origen of the people who share some similarities with my people.
Usa CZcams:) e Google
Triste em ler sempre quando um brasileiro diz não saber nada sobre Portugal!
@@Igotyou36 A maioria dos portugueses também não sabem lá muito sobre o Brasil. Rio e São Paulo, praticamente.
I have been curious about this for a while. Thanks for the video. It is interesting how Celts used to dominate the British Isles, Iberia, France, and Belgium. Now the languages the Celts spoke are dying and are only spoken in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and pockets of Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, and Y Wladfa in Argentina.
A celtic language is also spoken in the Brittany region of France.
@@marinnabigh Although interestingly Breton (the Celtic language in Brittany) isn't a continental Celtic language, it came from the Britons who settled there at the end of the Roman period. So the Celtic languages spread from Switzerland/Austria across the continent, to Britain and Ireland, then died out in the mainland, only to then be reintroduced by Britons.
@@Psyk60 Wow, I did not know that. Thank you for the knowledge!
@@Psyk60 Britons are celtic, just farther from the conventional celtic since they diverged earlier
@@tonimontana5875 That's right, I was just saying that Britons reintroduced Celtic language to the European mainland.
And it seems like They maintained that tradition when it came time to name their colony in Southeast Asia, East-Timor, which literally means East-East. And now that I think of it, would you like to do a video on the names of Portugal's colonies, and maybe a few subdivisions of the same?
Learned something new today, great vid
In fact, Galicia considers it self a Celtic Nation. And we have a lot of celtic cultural heritage. Even some words are shared, as the word garda, that means the same in galician and irish.
Cavalo or Cabalo means horse, in Irish it’s Capall. They come from a similar Celtic word, however it was said and now after thousands of years of evolution it’s said and spelled slightly different over these Celtic areas. Fascinating it’s still somewhat similar
@@ntrakstudio Cabalo here in Gallaecia means horse, coming from Latin "Caballus", ultimately coming from Gaulish "Kaballos".
@@nubeirothropic what Gallecia ? there is no such thing Gallecia , ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha poor boys Gallecia ha ha ha ha , that guys are so full of shit
They are the original Celts...
And the birthplace of Portugal and the Portuguese language despite never being a part of Portugal as an independent nation.
Sadly their millenial old identity is fading away victim of a cultural colonization from Madrid.
ha ha ha galiza ? e isto czcams.com/video/ime59UPpKuM/video.html
Some archaeologists say that in the Iron Age there was a sea route connecting the north of the Iberian peninsula to Ireland. The curious thing is that the pronoun "tu" of the Iberian languages is very similar to the "tú" of the Gaelic.
do you speak gaelic?
You missed one part there. Portus-Cale didn't scrap the name "Cale" at all, but the city got split in two. Portus/Porto/Oporto in the northern side of the Douro River, and the south side of the Douro River stands the city of Gaia that came from the word "Cale". The name was divided between the 2 cities. Besides, Porto is a district capital in name only, since Gaia is 3 times bigger and holds most of Porto's district workforce/population. Geography plays a big role here, the Douro River divides these 2 cities, they are not one and the same anymore.
Great job mr. name explain. historycli correct, you get my full respect. Love youre videos, they made my day, everyday ^^ Keep up the good work!
Great video!
Back then the northern part of Portugal was part of Galicia. We were one big country until unfortunately war and separation divided us. In the words of Paulo Braganca - "Sou Galego, da Galiza ate ao Mondego" :)
Arte Kahen and even before that galicia was part of the roman province of Lusitania, before beeing a sperate province. Because galeikos fought togheter with the lusitanians and vettones under viriatus. And galeikos refered themselfes as lusitanians too. We are one race, divided by the spanish imperialism.
who is Paulo Braganca ? , a singer of cha cha ?, he must be galego only in the ass
@George Nathanael are the same branches of people that moved from south at the time the north was not populated , ok all the northern people come from south before roman times gallegos do not hexisted at the time were the callaicos lusitanian
@George Nathanael you right they are same people , but are not descendants of galicians , they are descendants lusitanian and other ancestors , repopulated what ? that areas were already populated with the people , where are you from nathanelio ? what you know about lusitania ?
i say eu sou lusitanian do minho ate ao algarve , who cares about peideiros , that guy probably is from Germanic ancestry I'm more galego than that guy but I'm not consider myself galego I'm Callaico from lusitanian tribes of Lusitania , the galegos are spanish castelani , lusitanian renegades
It never registered before but I have a book of Celtic fiddle music. It's separated by region and one of the regions is Portugal. I don't know why I never wondered why until this neat video.
woah! that is awsome! what is the name of the book?
@@diogonascimento1720 The Celtic Fiddler by Edward Huys Jones. I really like his books, there are a few in the series and they're all a lot of fun.
@@elisabethwestner3953 Thank you! Much love from Portugal! :)
@@diogonascimento1720 you're welcome!! Back when I used to teach violin lessons I used these with my students, but wow how I wished I knew how to pronounce the Portuguese and Welsh song names!
@@elisabethwestner3953 I've seen the book online and its titles, those are some great songs to teach on the violin! Yes i agree, for someone who doesn't know the language they are hard to pronounce. If you are interested in this kind of music i have a Portuguese Folk playlist on my channel. Feel free to grab some inspiration. :)
Humm interesting that in my homeland we have a place called Gaula! Pretty close to Gauls, the name how Celts identified themselves.
I'll be damned! Not only you explain the origun of the name of Portugal you also refer my city. How nice.
My mother's family comes from Portugal and some bloodlines also come from the Galicia region of Spain. And indeed this part of Europe maintains a fair bit of its Celtic roots, there are bagpipe players, redheads and old forest ruins haha very interesting video
bag pipes ? red heads? there is plenty bag pipes in turkey , and red heads too , blondes , ho man it is story telling of cinderela
@@danythrinbell1596 I've heard of Celtic colonisation in Anatolia too!! maybe there's something to do with that
@@leotrnt os celtas nao colonizaram a anatolia eles vieram de la , foram esses povos da anatolia que depois de migrar pra peninsula iberica e misturando se com os povos que estavam la se deu a celtizacao , isto e nasceu uma cultura nova a celta
@damian goys olá, acho que a origem deles não é exatamente na Anatolia (cf. 00:43) mas o resto faz sentido: a Galícia retém bastante cultura celta ainda!
@@leotrnt estuda um pouco as grandes teorias das nossa origens lusitanas e veras que os neo hittitas foram a gente que nos deu o indo european ate porque a escrita konia e um subtrato da deles , os konios do algarve e os lusitanos foram germinados dessa gente e doutros que ja estavam na peninsula iberica do norte de africa o que eles chamam iberos , bascos
Has a Porto native I want to correct one thing:
Porto is the city in the north bank of the Douro river.
Gaia is the city in the south bank of the Douro river.
The city of Cale was Gaia, not Porto.
It’s a common and understandable mistake, specially having in mind that Porto is today the 2nd most important city in Portugal (although I think Gaia has a bigger population than Porto, which is just a small part of the Porto Metropolitan Area- about 2 million people)
the lusitanii was also a celtic people who lived in portugal.
So were the Celtici (Alentejo, Ribatejo), the Turdulians (Beira Litoral, Estremadura) and the Conii (Algarve).
You forgot the Celtici in southern Portugal :P
I was in Porto last month, and I was told by a native old man that the name Portugal originated from putting together Porto and Gaia, wich are the two cities separated by de Douro river.
Cyprus got its name from the word for copper because of the huge huge HUGE amounts of copper on the island I hope you can make a video about it
Northern portugal is a keltic nation, number 1 DNA in portugal is keltic.... Long live our keltic ancestors.
Can you explain now why in most balkan countries orange (mostly fruit but also color) is portocal-portokali-portogal ? Im interestad bc im greek and in greek portugal is portoghallia(πορτογαλλìα) and kids often call it portokalía(orange land ),is it just a coincidence or is it related at all?
Portugal brought the sweet, fleshy orange to Europe, from China.
And since lots of countries (The Balkan nations, S.Arabia) bought the oranges from Portugal, they named it after them.
@@GumSkyloardentao tambem trouxe pro Brasil ne mas acho que para noz seria estranho chamar laranja de portaugal kkkkk
😂 😂 Funny I used to live in an Arabic country most of my life, people used to make fun of me jokingly and call me "bortoqaliah" in Arabic meaning orangey, orange is called "bortoqal" برتقال and Portugal is "bortoghal" برتغال.
@@nancyalexandre tbh that's kinda cute
@@justahermit1172 😂 only the first 100 times.
Even the river Douro comes from a celtic word for river/water [Dur].
WOW............................
Are you sure?
I thought it was named after the Dórios, a tribe who was expelled from Northern Spain and settled in that region.
@@marpagapal3312 Well, I'm not a linguist and didn't actually study any of it. But all sources I could find online give that etymology. But I guess these things are up to debate.
What is certain is that the name the Romans used was "Durius". They most likely used some pre-Roman local name.
There are modern Celtic language which preserved similar forms for "water", as Welsh "dŵr"; Irish "dobhar" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dubros
"Durius" in Latin developed into "douro" in Galician and Portuguese and "Duero" in Castilian.
I tried, but I couldn't find anything about the "Dòrios"
@@desanipt I believe you.
Have never heard that explanation.
It looks logic.
Very true celt culture is everywhere in the north portugal.
Music, instruments, festivities there are a lot to see.
From Douro to Minho and Tras os Montes there are hidden festivities where you can still feel all the celt portuguese culture.
There are also loads of medieval fares literally on all towns in the north it is very common.
The celts in the north and the lusitanian and the roman later and arabs are what Portugal is now.
A great country❤
nice, going to portus cale in two weeks
You should explain Subway
Either the restaurant, the transportation or both.
Really interesting video! I always thought that Portugal's name came from "porto + galo", which is the portuguese for rooster (and the rooster is the national symbol of Portugal!)
I guess I was wrong, but this was fun to learn
My dad has a bunch of thoes roostets
It's not, however it is a excellent substitute 😂😂
The Portuguese are hard working and family oriented and very catholic. Good people.
Not anymore. Alentejo's comunism have fucked up all the country!
Very Catholic? Lol maybe 50 years ago 😂
I'm Portuguese, atheist and profoundly lazy. We're also quite diverse.
@@jorge6207 Impossible!
@@scottanderson8167 Yep, the XVIII century European philosophical tradition apparently rubbed the wrong way on me.
The city of Lugo in Spain is named after the Celtiberian tribe ‘Luggones,’ who in turn, were named after the Celtic god ‘Lugus.’ The regions of Asturias and Cantabria were named of the Celtiberian tribes known as the Astures and Cantabri - who were both immortalized in the last great struggle against Roman hegemony in Iberia (what the Romans called the Astur-Cantabrian Wars). There is a great deal of Celtic heritage in Iberia if one knows where to look.
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Great video! But i think It's a bit simplistic this explanation. The city of Gaia is on the other side of the river from Porto. It might be speculation but Gaia to me is the cale part. You see latin didn't have the letter G for a long time and probably used C to depict a G sound. Cale might have been Gale from the word gal gael or similar to depict celts like in gaul and galicia or walles, also known as Gales, this to me suggests that Porto was the port of Gale and surpassed it as a city. In the beginning it would be named port of cale or gale but when the side of the river in which the port stood became more importante it began to be called the port only.
Curious how the North coast of Portugal and Northwest coast of Spain are so similar to Ireland's and West Britain's, both in shape and climate. Had Celts a preferance for this kind of climate or were they just pushed there, and coincidentiallu the same geological features happened in these regions?
Good question indeed, what i think is that this kind of populations were seafarers that fished and explored the coasts of atlantic Europe and favored places near the ocean associating that kind of scenery with resources/home.
There is a different theory that Celts didn't originate in Austria but way before that, during the Ice age in Atlantic Europe (Northwest Iberia, West France, Brittain and Ireland) because the Atlantic was warm, fertile and rainy while the rest of Europe was cold and dry.
After the ice melted they migrated east all the way to Austria where the Hallstat culture eventually emerged.
In the Irish celtic mythology, their people came from the sea in the south, which is probably a legend but every legend has some true to it.
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You should do a video on Galicia it has so much culture and history
do a video on Canada name explain video
CORRECTION: Cale is still there with the name of “Gaia”. Porto is on one side of the river and Gaia on the other!!!
Yep!
The Port of Gaia.
The occupation of the Suevi also influenced the names and phonology of Portuguese
And culture and genetics too* but do not forget that was only in the Northwest part of the peninsula/Gallaecia, while the rest doesn't have nothing of the Suebi, except some material that they left from the battles.
@@nubeirothropic yes, the northwest has the most Germanic autosomal DNA in Iberia from the Suevi
@@ntrakstudio indeed. 💪🏻
@@nubeirothropic although I have searched repeatedly and it cannot be proven, it is my theory that the phonetics of the Portuguese language is partly influenced by the Suevi. And that is why Portuguese sounds similar to French. There is some sort of Gaulic/Celtic or Germanic influence there
@@ntrakstudio it also depends on what portuguese are you referring to, because there are several portuguese accents and "dialects" (more like languages to me..).
If you're talking about the Northern portuguese accent then yes there are Celto-Germanic influences in phonetics and lexicons like the Galician language, while other regions and parts of the world where portuguese is spoken the accents and dialects sound different due to other influences from the local peoples and their history.
please do a follow up video on Spain's Galicia region! It's got Gal in the name & they play the bag-pipes! BAGPIPES! How are they not Celts too?
You'd be suprised to know that the celts/gauls migrated to most of central Europe and even Turkey
They weren't Gauls, they were Galatians if I'm not mistaken.
I've read a few years ago that the language of the callaeci was being researched in a galician university, although I'm not sure how advanced is that project at this moment. I've also seen some groups starting to use a flag reminiscent of the one of Wales.
The galatians who were celtic had an empire in Anatolia and even from DNA tests some turks & kurds from central Anatolia carry 1-2% celtic blood.
the galatians were related to neo - hittitas and the lusitanian and the konni too
That's because of "Caillegh" Godess. Caillegh = Cale. In fact, PortusCale means "City from The Port of Cale".
Really I though was made by Templars: Por tuo Gral
ah, eu4 music. truly wonderful
Could you do a video about Croatia?
How about making a video about Buenos Aires????
One Galician here!
Pedro T and a distant relative of one.
Que buono :P
Olá, falais galego?
Haha sorry by my bad galician skills
Hi, galego friend.
It's sad that people erased Celtic influence over time and because of that we don't know much about them now
If you are talking about the "Celtic" language that was spoken, then yes, but if you mean tradition, there is still a lot of celtic rooted traditions, specially in the north of Portugal and Notrhwestern Spain. Just look for Pauliteiros dance, the portuguese bagpipe, or the entrudo carnival... those are all remnants of that celtic tradition.
@@diogonascimento1720 The "Caretos" tradition in the North of Portugal are also of Celtic origin, according my research
@@tatianaoliveira2191 i just mentioned a few of those traditions, there are lots of others and yes "The Caretos" is one of them... even the archaeology shows that there were celtic populations like the one in "Castro de Briteiros".
@@miguelpimentel5623 This is just false. Brazilian portuguese is much closer to the Romance languages than European portuguese. Which means that the accent of european portuguese started changing AFTER the brazilian colonization.
Istanbul Region was called Galatia because of Celts. Till today city district Galata remembers the Gauls
Portugal's name is very similar to the Arabic word "Bortuqal" means Orange.
I think it has to do with the spreading of orange ( the fruit ) in the Mediterranean by the Portuguese even thought the fruit isn't from here
It's the other way around, before the XIV century the oranges that existed in Europe were bitter. Portuguese explorers found in their voyages a sweet variant, the ones we use today, and spread the throw Europe and the west. It is not only in Arabic that sweet oranges have Portugal in the name, there are other languages that sill have it or used to have it just to differ from the bitter ones.
And yes, oranges existed in Portugal during moorish rule, but the name Portus and Cale already existed before the moorish conquest.
I certainly see arabs naming oranges that way after portugal not the other eay around, just like tangerines named after tangier in morocco
@@jwolternova1051 bortuqal is a native standard word in Arabic not a loan word
@@sepep6288 It came from Portugal's name, since the Portuguese spread the sweet orange across Europe.
PORTUGAL!!!🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
Wales? Cornwall? Brittany?
Are they Celtic or chopped liver?
Yeah more obvious examples of celts than the bloody isle of man
Yes sadly this dickhead didn't mention the rest of the family group, it also was stupid to include Ireland as a part of the British isles, not so by the Irish for this was used as a way of claim of the island.
Yay! Portugal!
Nice
Very interesting. I did a DNA test and found out that my highest percentage is Portuguese, as well as Northern Spain (Galicia, Asturias, and Basque) and I love learning about our Celtic culture and heritage
Pindamonhangaba - a name of a city in são paulo state - brazil.
I know of a place called Table Mesa.
There are regions in Poland and Turkey named after the Celts
It's always been my assumption that Portugal was simply Latin for "Port Of Gaul" given that it's in or near the region of Europe classically referred to as "Gaul".
Finally Portugal!!! :D
Great vid, but nothing about Lusitania and the Luso prefix to refer to something of portuguese origin?
That comes from the people, and the Roman province named after those people, the Lusithanians/Lusitanina, lived just south of them, in the rest of modern day Portugal (most of the Portuguese territory was inside the provonce pf Lusitania).
@@rafaelmelo2576 actualy lusitania was , all portugal and gallicia in spain the roman invaders devided it they were in fear it revolted , so divided to make it weak
It's good to know how my country's name originated, although I already knew that it was derived from the city of Porto.
In Portuguese, welsh is pronounced Galês, as in Calaeci or Gaelic or Galician.
Also, the city of Portucale or Portport is known as Porto today.
Yep second biggest city in Portugal is simply named, port, no fancy shmancy ruffle baroque nomenclature, just what it was for millennia.
When listing the Celtic nations of your own country you still forget wales
Wales in Portuguese: País de Gales.
Wales doesn't exist
@@robertopinto4513 Cymru
Always happy when Galicia's celtic heritage is noticed
There is also a Galacia is Turkey too! Soo coool.
Alberto Silva
Pergunto eu,e qual é a origem do nome Portucalense? - - - I ask, and what is the origin of the name Portucalense?
Do a video on how st 🇰🇳 kitts got its name please😀😀😀
Cale has derived to Gaia, the souther margin an actual port for Port wine.
Explain why Amino (the social network) is named after acids.
Always wanted to visit Portugal. Mostly been hearing good things about the country and oh boy do they have interesting history!
Not sure what should I see and do during the visit though. Suggestions? Any Portuguese here? Obrigado in advance!
Depends which part you want to visit. If you want history, all mainland will do. If you want great food, all mainland will do. If you want beaches, the Algarve or the southwestern coast will do. If you want colder weather and snow, any part in the northeast and the mountain area is good :). The Azores and Madeira islands are also breathtaking.
@@Leon-os4un So much to do, so little time :) Thank you for your help!
We need a video about swag or something street word ish haha!
My girlfriend was from Galicia in Spain and she is a redhead and looks like an Irish
Galicia (Spain & Poland) Galatia Gaul, the Don and the Danube
Do the name of Wijk bij Duurstede, the Netherlands.
How about Egypt and if that has anything to do with Gypsies?
Nah m8, Gypsies came from India, they even speak an Indo-Aryan language: Romani.
In Chinese Portugal is “Grape tooth” but still sounds like Portugal somewhat
We love our grapes: fresh, dehydtared and fermented. We like them white and black and we can make it into any kind of wine imaginable: Tinto, White, Green, Rosé, Port, Madeira. Morangueiro, etc. Quite apt.
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Good Job, CZcams