Just how Slavic is East Germany?
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Published 2019-05-13
Believe it or not, there may actually be more truth to this claim than one may think and there is a plethora of historic, genetic and linguistic evidence for the influence of old Slavic tribes on various groups of German-speaking people, and the modern Slavic peoples who still live within the borders of Germany and other Germanic countries to this day. Thanks for watching!
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cogniarchae.com/2016/09/06/forgotten-history-of-po…
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www.dnatribes.com/sample-results/dnatribes-global-…
brilliantmaps.com/the-genetic-map-of-europe/
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All Comments (21)
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Next "Just how Germanic is Northern France"
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Just how greek is southern italy
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in eastern Germany there is a strong percentage of the element R1a1 that the Slavs brought in in the early Middle Ages. Many city names are former Slavic names, monuments of the Slavic religion, castles etc.
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Future archeologists will look at the prevalence of tracksuits to answer this question.
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My mother was Prussian. I‘ve traced her family back to 1700 to the same villages up till ww1. I did a DNA test to see how much German I have... None! I am a Slav! Haha proves your theory!
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In parts of Austria you can definately see the Slavic influence. In Vienna, names like Morawec, Sobotka or Dvorak are common. A lot of place names are of Slavic origin too. The culture/food/architecture is also very similar to countries like Czechia or Slovenia, an obvious result of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Funny thing is that there are more Serbs living in Germany than there are Sorbs.
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About 30 % of all germans have slavic or prussian familynames, including me, so these people are not distinct. They are simply assimilated.
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Next: "How Mongolic is Northern China"
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As a Balkan Serb it is very saddening and concerning to see how the number of Lusatian Serbs (or Sorbs in english) has fallen over the centuries. How they were forcefully assimilated by the Germans, destroying their language and culture. And they werent the only victims of this, there were many other Slavs in todays eastern Germany that were wiped out, such as Pomeranian Slavs. Slava Slovanom
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Romanians might be the most slavic non-slavs. Not only in language but also in many traditions and life-style.
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Just how Nordic are russians?
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In other words, the Germans absorbed the Sorbs.
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You even see that mixture in other parts, for example: the architecture in Saxony looks very Czech and the Saxonian dialects are heavily influenced by Sorbs, Czechs and Polish people. In the Sorbish regions every street name and sign is bilingual and the so called "Umgebindehäuser" in the region are a mixture of slavic block huts and German Fachwerk. Greetings from Leipzig/Lipsk :)
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We Slavs call Germans-Nemci. Ones who are mute who doesn’t speak our language
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In East Germany you still have many Slavic toponyms can be found, basically anything that ends with -itz, -in or -ow. For example, the German capital Berlin comes from Slavic *brlo which means "swamp". You once had Polabian living around Berlin. Sadly the last Polabian speaker died in the late 17th. Sorbs still exist due to persistence, although they had to face restrictions and discrimination even in the middle ages (Germans forbid them to speak their own language).
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I‘m from Germany and it‘s great to see this channel giving some publicity to the Sorbs — actually, their language is already severely endangered but there are measures taken against a further decline.
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Just for you all to know Slavic (slava, sława) means, GLORIOUS in all slavic languages, that's why they pick up so much lands in the past ®
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Many Eastern Germans are germanized Slavs. Check out the history of Haus Mecklenburg. Their ancestor was Niklot, a Slavic Polabian lord.
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East German from Mecklenburg here, some people still identify as partly Slavic at least. Me too, mainly because I look more Slavic than German and I find more cultural similarities to Poland than I do to Saxony or former West Germany.
