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DeroVolk's Blog is the official Blog of the YouTube channel "DeroVolk".

This blog was created in May of 2020 and aspires to be a place dedicated to the community that has grown around the channel. The content published in this blog goes from national anthems to history in general.

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Countries with similar National Anthems

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Countries with the same anthem? The variety of anthems is really unique. Each country has a song that tries to represent its national identity in one song. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, national anthems vary greatly in musical merit, and the verse or text, like the music, has not in every case been written by a national of the country concerned. Also, there are some cases in which specific anthems have certain things in common. In this post we will take a look at various examples of national anthems which share many characteristics. Source: Pixabay The Same Anthem Greece and Cyprus : Both countries use exactly the same national anthem, Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν. The music was composed by Nikolaos Mantzaros and the lyrics written by Dionysios Solomos. It was adopted by Greece in 1865, and 1966 by Cyprus.     Turkey and Northern Cyprus : Although the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is only recognised by Turkey, both countries share the same national anthem: İstikl
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Marcha Real: The National Anthem of Spain

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An Anthem without lyrics... The Spanish "Royal March" (Marcha Real) was one of the most watched videos in the original channel of DeroVolk, and even today in the backup watch it has thousands of views. There was a certain month in which many versions of the anthem were uploaded to the channel, each one as the anthem of a Spanish colony (e.g.: Spanish Sahara, Spanish Guinea, etc.) and this was subject of many jokes due to the overload of Marcha Real versions that flooded the channel during those days. This was done in order to show the many varieties in terms of instrumental and vocal version that this anthem has. Today, the Marcha Real is the national anthem of Spain, and it is one of the oldest anthems of the world. Even though the official anthem does not have any lyrics, there have been many unofficial versions during all these years. Source: Pixabay The anthem was composed during the XVIII Century and it appears with the name "Marcha Granadera" (Grenadier'
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Similarities in National Anthems

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 I recognize that! It is known that some countries use or have used, in the past, the same melody (even the same lyrics) of the national anthem of other country as their own. Even today there are some territories that use exactly the same national anthem of other country. For example, both France and French Guiana use "La Marseillaise" as their national anthem. This is seen specially with non-independent territories. In other cases, one country just borrows the music of the other, just like Liechtenstein with “Oben am Jungen Rhein” which uses the melody of “God Save the Queen” from England. However, in some cases, we can see that certain national anthems are different, but somehow similar in some notes or lyrics.  SURINAME & SOUTH AFRICA The old national anthem of South Africa (Die Stem van Suid Afrika) shares similar notes with the national anthem of Suriname, which is older than the South African one. "God zij met ons Suriname" was composed by Johannes Cor
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