"Θά 'ρθεις σαν αστραπή" - Greek Song About The Fall of Constantinople

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  • Опубликовано: 21 дек 2024

Комментарии • 36 тыс.

  • @sebastianuslupex6884
    @sebastianuslupex6884 4 года назад +17709

    Roman glory:
    >Started in a single city
    >Ended in a single city

    • @radziwill7193
      @radziwill7193 4 года назад +1377

      >Started with Roman catapults .
      >Finished with Roman catapults .

    • @hlgthewall94
      @hlgthewall94 4 года назад +416

      @@radziwill7193 How about no. Take your inferior siege engine somewhere else

    • @radziwill7193
      @radziwill7193 4 года назад +200

      @Jonathan Williams They bought cannons from Venice. And there were very few of them, even in relation to their small army.

    • @nouser6541
      @nouser6541 4 года назад +200

      @@radziwill7193 they used cannons in seiges as far back as the late 12th century, they were some of the earliest to use cannons in seiges

    • @giogio51592
      @giogio51592 4 года назад +410

      >ended
      glory of Rome never ends

  • @guam5250
    @guam5250 3 года назад +4928

    This day 568 years ago. This was the true end of Rome.

    • @nathanpangilinan4397
      @nathanpangilinan4397 3 года назад +245

      All good things must come to an end.

    • @mrfakelomenos3325
      @mrfakelomenos3325 3 года назад +91

      *BYZANTIUM

    • @guam5250
      @guam5250 3 года назад +463

      @@mrfakelomenos3325 Byzantium succeeded the roman empire after the east-west split. the western roman empire was basically France and Byzantium was the true successor. the fall of Constantinople meant the end of Rome, forever.

    • @anima4101
      @anima4101 3 года назад +7

      NICE

    • @guam5250
      @guam5250 3 года назад +8

      @Cpt.Frost what

  • @aokiaoki4238
    @aokiaoki4238 4 года назад +7363

    "No emperor should outlive his empire."
    Constantine XI Palaiologos.

    • @МаркоПетков-к8к
      @МаркоПетков-к8к 4 года назад +397

      Imagine how frustrating it was for him, for ,unlike Napoleon for example, his fight was almost certain to be lost, while French emperor had many options for his country, but were swallowed by his pride. Sad day for the whole world. .

    • @akshaymishra3674
      @akshaymishra3674 4 года назад +268

      @@МаркоПетков-к8к thing is Napoleons France actually lived ( in beliefs and governance) even after his death ................. Byzantium died.

    • @laynethebreadlord7373
      @laynethebreadlord7373 4 года назад +212

      @@akshaymishra3674 it lives in our hearts along with the Roman Empire itself.

    • @akshaymishra3674
      @akshaymishra3674 4 года назад +30

      @@laynethebreadlord7373 i mean ofcourse .

    • @jhroomy
      @jhroomy 4 года назад +53

      Tell that to the Kaiser.

  • @pixelatedcrusader8107
    @pixelatedcrusader8107 4 месяца назад +945

    for anyone still listening to this, us Greeks have a little myth.
    It is said that Constantinos is stuck in one of the walls of Constantinople with a sword and its case (forgot the name). They say that the time where he finally draws the sword out of the case, then the Greeks will get Constantinople and all of the Greeks will be there to witness him emerging from the wall and he will rule for many more years to come.
    It is also said that some priests, that were doing a liturgy while the Turks were attacking the Eternal City, are stuck in the walls of Hagia Sofia and when Constantinople is retaken by the Greeks, the liturgy will continue with all Greeks attending as it is not allowed for a liturgy not to end in the Orthodox Church.

    • @Randomalpharius-
      @Randomalpharius- 4 месяца назад +47

      Very cool myth! Love from Italy 🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷

    • @uzidragon2093
      @uzidragon2093 4 месяца назад +74

      Don’t we actually believe that an angel turned him into marble and placed him beneath the Golden Gate and that now he awaits a call from God to restore Constantinople?

    • @pixelatedcrusader8107
      @pixelatedcrusader8107 4 месяца назад +19

      @@uzidragon2093 there are many variations, ive not heard of that before tho
      thanks for sharing it!

    • @pixelatedcrusader8107
      @pixelatedcrusader8107 4 месяца назад +2

      @@Randomalpharius- love italy, cheers!

    • @shongalitzky9686
      @shongalitzky9686 3 месяца назад +4

      man! that's a cool one! 🇮🇱❤

  • @BeryAb
    @BeryAb 4 года назад +9963

    "As my city falls, I will fall with it".
    -Constantine XI

    • @officialzji1828
      @officialzji1828 4 года назад +279

      True words

    • @unclesam5230
      @unclesam5230 4 года назад +858

      “No Emperor shall outlive his Empire” Constantine XI 1453.

    • @BeryAb
      @BeryAb 4 года назад +28

      @ULTRA CHINESE BAT MAPPING Dayum

    • @gespenst650
      @gespenst650 4 года назад +107

      @@BeryAb That troll is ruining this comment section

    • @anpd5e
      @anpd5e 4 года назад +13

      @@ByZHellas ikr

  • @elqueobserva7663
    @elqueobserva7663 4 года назад +3325

    "The city has fallen!, The city has fallen!"
    Man...

    • @azizithelethargic9229
      @azizithelethargic9229 4 года назад +321

      I'm neither Turkish or Christian, but that line make me want to tear up a bit. I can feel their sorrow, when they thought God abandoned them.

    • @elqueobserva7663
      @elqueobserva7663 4 года назад +244

      @@azizithelethargic9229
      It's pretty sad that line.
      It simply makes you put yourself in their shoes watching their city fall, the despair and hopelessness they must have felt ...

    • @azizithelethargic9229
      @azizithelethargic9229 4 года назад +32

      @@elqueobserva7663 agreed!

    • @-xnnybimb-9398
      @-xnnybimb-9398 3 года назад +129

      @@elqueobserva7663 especially when you consider that this would be the end of the Greeks greatness in the world

    • @ikris-chan727
      @ikris-chan727 3 года назад +39

      @@azizithelethargic9229
      Greeks when they realise that God never was on their side: 👁👄👁

  • @alx1138
    @alx1138 4 года назад +7156

    My grandfather a pontic Greek still calls Greeks Romans, "Ρωμαίοι". It was the only name he knew for his people. I find it kinda fascinating that I can call myself a Roman, when many people think that the Roman empire is ancient history.

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 4 года назад +921

      Well, Κωνσταντίνος ὁ ΙΑ' Δραγάτσης-Παλαιολόγος (Constantine the XI, Dragatsis-Palaiologos), the last emperor of the Roman Greeks, called his people "the rightful descendants of the Romans and the Hellenes". So hey, you can be both! Hellas is out fatherland, our nation, music, language and tradition. Rome is our politeia, our laws of freedom and justice, the one everlasting empire, destined to bring the entire cosmos to Glory, and our Christian faith. 👍

    • @ByZHellas
      @ByZHellas 4 года назад +62

      @ULTRA CHINESE BAT MAPPING What?

    • @scerling4083
      @scerling4083 4 года назад +21

      @@alx1138 Is he still living in Kazakhstan ?

    • @batukurtluoglu845
      @batukurtluoglu845 4 года назад +89

      You are not alone brother, crimean tatars and circissians had same fate too

    • @ByZHellas
      @ByZHellas 4 года назад +125

      @@alx1138 Yeah, he's a stupid troll, respect to your grandfather who went through hell for his family. A truly respectable man!

  • @orangensafttee4598
    @orangensafttee4598 6 месяцев назад +1958

    571 years today

    • @italianguy1273
      @italianguy1273 6 месяцев назад +116

      The day in which all true men cry...

    • @kamilitas4578
      @kamilitas4578 6 месяцев назад +35

      Así es, Constantinopla y Hagia Sophia todavía duelen como ayer

    • @jordanplays-transitandgame1690
      @jordanplays-transitandgame1690 6 месяцев назад +52

      Us Turks were partying 571 years ago today 💪💪💪🐺🐺🐺

    • @ardazhy
      @ardazhy 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@kamilitas4578 History is full of pain and victories

    • @velocity_productions_mapping
      @velocity_productions_mapping 6 месяцев назад +65

      @jordanplays-transitandgame1690 If ancient greeks hadn’t built the Byzantium as a colony you’d be still constructing Istanbul today.

  • @motsuwu
    @motsuwu 3 года назад +8069

    "God forbid that I should live as an Emperor without an Empire. As my city falls, I will fall with it. Whosoever wishes to escape, let him save himself if he can, and whoever is ready to face death, let him follow me." -Constantine XI Palailogos Last Roman Emperor

    • @piscator13optimus
      @piscator13optimus 3 года назад +793

      "As to surrendering the city to you, it is not for me to decide or for anyone else of its citizens; for all of us have reached the mutual decision to die of our own free will, without any regard for our lives."
      Constantine Palaiologos

    • @EtruscanTURK-fs9nn
      @EtruscanTURK-fs9nn 3 года назад +52

      Greetings From Etruscans 🇹🇷:)

    • @bcchiriac4512
      @bcchiriac4512 3 года назад +346

      @@piscator13optimus Yes and we choose not only to die to defend the Byzantine Empire but to defend not only the Orthodox religion but to defend every denominations of Christianity. Because we are one and united we are strong! ✝️☦️🙏

    • @rockyblackdog5393
      @rockyblackdog5393 3 года назад +323

      @@EtruscanTURK-fs9nn Deus Vult
      Instambul one Day will be Constatinopla Again Wait For It

    • @nazeerkhot3651
      @nazeerkhot3651 3 года назад +73

      @@rockyblackdog5393 i dont think that will happen because greece is in debt and in recession. look i dont have against the greek but yall are wayy too nationalist to think turkey will give up a strategic city which helps them intervene in balkan politics as they are the part of nato.

  • @eddiearentz5083
    @eddiearentz5083 3 года назад +2400

    Her: "He's probably looking at porn"
    Me: (holding back tears for the emperor)

    • @cant8160
      @cant8160 3 года назад +6

      Lol

    • @cristhianramirez6939
      @cristhianramirez6939 3 года назад +150

      This is better than porn

    • @lorddoof3370
      @lorddoof3370 3 года назад +97

      @@cristhianramirez6939 Porn is a demonic force which wars against Orthodoxy, most things are better than porn.

    • @cristhianramirez6939
      @cristhianramirez6939 3 года назад +59

      @@lorddoof3370 But is highly addictive, i suffer from it

    • @altrightgut1765
      @altrightgut1765 3 года назад +7

      @@lorddoof3370 religions are nonsense, atheism is the future

  • @Rhomaion78
    @Rhomaion78 4 года назад +10548

    Constantine XI is an example of a true ruler. He didn't run away from the city, he didn't hide behind his soldiers. He's like a real warrior rushing into battle with his soldiers. Eternal memory of the hero!

    • @franz_vlogs8864
      @franz_vlogs8864 3 года назад +94

      100th like

    • @jonsnow1055
      @jonsnow1055 3 года назад +578

      @@kuroschin8204 Sultan Mehmet treated the city much better than the Crusaders did in 1203. He made it the capital and resoected Hagia Sophia as a holy place unlike the Latin Emperors.

    • @piscator13optimus
      @piscator13optimus 3 года назад +129

      @@ΓάιοςἸούλιοςΚαῖσαρ Ave Caesar amate gloriae! Ego unus piscator humilis saluto te! Ita enim vero! Vivat Imperium Romanum!

    • @spike_spgl
      @spike_spgl 3 года назад +26

      Shinzou wo sasageyo

    • @josephgoldstein3878
      @josephgoldstein3878 3 года назад +215

      @@jonsnow1055 We turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque, a move neither ordered by Quran nor Islam.

  • @antonionapolione5788
    @antonionapolione5788 29 дней назад +53

    "The city has fallen, the city has fallen" hits so hard ...

  • @GentlemanGhost1
    @GentlemanGhost1 3 года назад +5970

    When many Catholic leaders refused to rush to the aid of the great city, Giovanni Giustiniani, the famed Genoes mercenary captain and 700 of his men (paid for out of his own pocket) arrived at Constantinople to aid it's defence. A highly charismatic and talented commander he managed to hold his own against Mehmed's till he was struck by shrapnel which resulted in many of the city's defenders, who were raw recruites, to break and flee. His men though, managed to ferry him away as the city fell but he died of his wounds within a few days. A sad but powerful true story the deserves to be a movie or historical fiction.

    • @mariosathens1
      @mariosathens1 3 года назад +593

      true, we the Greeks know about Giustiniani's help to Constantinople. We learn about him in our school books. His name is written in our History for ever.

    • @scipioafricanus1346
      @scipioafricanus1346 3 года назад +165

      Great warrior he was 💪💪💪

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +99

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men).

    • @rodrigofranca9787
      @rodrigofranca9787 3 года назад +96

      The schism cost Constatinople, we Christians must be united again to retake Constatinople

    • @nonames9935
      @nonames9935 3 года назад +30

      @@Universal.. ur gay. u didnt defend (bad-hygiene icecream makers)

  • @orth9960
    @orth9960 4 года назад +5126

    Orthodox or not, we all cried here.

    • @orthodoxy6470
      @orthodoxy6470 4 года назад +404

      Yes but dont worry we will get it back one day

    • @alikarakoc8371
      @alikarakoc8371 4 года назад +95

      No, we didn't cry! Never cried. 😏 Because we are very very happy about conquest of constantinople. Why did we cry? ✌

    • @alikarakoc8371
      @alikarakoc8371 4 года назад +49

      Constantinople was NOT GREEK! It was Roman before conquest of Turks. And again it is NOT GREEK, it's TURK. NEVER GREEK!

    • @unknownexplorer6232
      @unknownexplorer6232 4 года назад +315

      You dumb? The people who lived in the city were ethnic greeks. They may have still called themselves Romans but genetically they were greek until the turks took over.

    • @alikarakoc8371
      @alikarakoc8371 4 года назад +62

      @@unknownexplorer6232 You dumb? Eastern Roman Empire not Greek. Because, the empire was Latin... Did you understand? Roman... Roman! Not Greek! Ok!

  • @konstantinosdoukaslaskaris2528
    @konstantinosdoukaslaskaris2528 3 года назад +3979

    If the Roman Empire is to fall tonight, let it do so by fighting !
    -Constantine XI Palaiologos

    • @plebisMaximus
      @plebisMaximus 3 года назад +147

      Ave Imperator!

    • @byzantium0086
      @byzantium0086 3 года назад +116

      Today not only Roman empire fallen but the entire western Europe is about to fall to Islam soon.

    • @theturkish1373
      @theturkish1373 3 года назад +168

      @@byzantium0086 What the hell are you talking about?

    • @bayonetta857
      @bayonetta857 3 года назад +25

      @krips237 I think by that point muslims likely won't have to migrate anymore.

    • @konstantinosdoukaslaskaris2528
      @konstantinosdoukaslaskaris2528 3 года назад +161

      @krips237 So my friends, let's defend Christendom, let's defend Western civilization!

  • @skyline3230
    @skyline3230 6 месяцев назад +182

    I am so sorry, Greece...this day 570 years ago...a magnificent city fell...
    Long live Greece
    Πότε ξανά(Greeks, I hope it's okay that I added, "Πότε ξανά" at the end)

    • @skyline3230
      @skyline3230 6 месяцев назад +1

      @ataturkjugend why? And don't make it political...this is about your neighbor...not Turkey

    • @berkay6947
      @berkay6947 6 месяцев назад +6

      Still a magnificent city.

    • @okaloperdis7187
      @okaloperdis7187 5 месяцев назад +3

      You have the right to write in any language man you don't need our permission.(I'm Greek btw)

    • @skyline3230
      @skyline3230 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@okaloperdis7187 I love Greeks

    • @okaloperdis7187
      @okaloperdis7187 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@skyline3230 thanks I love Greeks too 👍

  • @taboritskygaming7841
    @taboritskygaming7841 3 года назад +6166

    "He didn't cry at all during Titanic! Do men even have feelings?"
    Men:

    • @minerva31
      @minerva31 3 года назад +158

      Clearly then women cry for both

    • @a.gallardo4321
      @a.gallardo4321 3 года назад +36

      where can I get your pfp?

    • @pataynasiboni
      @pataynasiboni 3 года назад +75

      it's the funny clock man!!!

    • @AmHA_Official
      @AmHA_Official 3 года назад +59

      Better spit in the face of communism gamers cuz Taboritsky is here!

    • @natedash11
      @natedash11 3 года назад +120

      Titanic was about a less than worthless aristocratic socialite woman who took men for all they were worth. This song, on the other hand, is about true love and sacrifice. In Hoc Signo Vinces.

  • @restitutororbis1216
    @restitutororbis1216 3 года назад +9257

    Never forget.

    • @oogaleeboogalee6522
      @oogaleeboogalee6522 3 года назад +914

      NEVER FORGIVE

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +357

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @Noker1071
      @Noker1071 3 года назад +163

      @@jasoncoreas9432 dream

    • @EmonglerGrimaldus
      @EmonglerGrimaldus 3 года назад +196

      @@jasoncoreas9432 It will be Roman again

    • @Noker1071
      @Noker1071 3 года назад +285

      @@EmonglerGrimaldus No in Rome or Byzantium. Istanbul is the city of Turks. stop living in a dream

  • @clementiuspoplicola5825
    @clementiuspoplicola5825 3 года назад +538

    He died on 29 May 1453, the day the city fell. His last recorded words were: "The city is fallen and I am still alive", and then he tore off his imperial ornaments so as to let nothing distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.

    • @tanishavnishsingh5198
      @tanishavnishsingh5198 2 года назад +46

      He was such a brave man! RIP

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 2 года назад +9

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) ..

    • @user-bm4ot3lc4v
      @user-bm4ot3lc4v 2 года назад +81

      ​@@Universal.. Literally nobody asked tho

    • @thelandofkamarda6875
      @thelandofkamarda6875 2 года назад

      @@Universal.. nobody cares

    • @childreninmybasement1
      @childreninmybasement1 2 года назад +12

      it was yesterday when he died

  • @KamalUddin-zd4cw
    @KamalUddin-zd4cw 6 месяцев назад +848

    Rome died 571 years ago this day.

    • @bigboss34231
      @bigboss34231 6 месяцев назад +31

      Yes. Greetings from İstanbul ;)

    • @sagirikohaku6230
      @sagirikohaku6230 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@bigboss34231 Greetings for what? Nobody cares what you Anatolian descendants of Greek blood who recognise ‘Turkic bandits’ as their ancestors and are followers of ‘Erdoganism’ think.

    • @italodoesstuff2720
      @italodoesstuff2720 6 месяцев назад +128

      @@bigboss34231 Constantinople* :)

    • @bigboss34231
      @bigboss34231 6 месяцев назад +22

      @@italodoesstuff2720 İstanbul* :)

    • @italodoesstuff2720
      @italodoesstuff2720 6 месяцев назад +87

      @@bigboss34231 Constantinople* :)

  • @ttq3661
    @ttq3661 Год назад +1921

    I'm not even Greek, but I cried at the end. It's so powerful

  • @robertoronco9355
    @robertoronco9355 4 года назад +4842

    As an Italian, I am proud of how the Greeks continued, and continue still the Roman legacy. I salute you!

    • @thisissparta7014
      @thisissparta7014 4 года назад +516

      Brothers🇬🇷♥️🇮🇹

    • @ΑθανάσιοςΡαφαήλΜπαλτάς
      @ΑθανάσιοςΡαφαήλΜπαλτάς 4 года назад +220

      Fratelli per sempre

    • @walterhartwellwhite6482
      @walterhartwellwhite6482 4 года назад +166

      @Kerem Dzukljan bruh

    • @ottogreece6173
      @ottogreece6173 4 года назад +192

      @IMPERIAL GANGLANDIA we are Romans. Rome inspired the idea of a united Europe. That's the point Latin Hellenic and Germanic people together. And also no Romans did not kill Greeks they loved Greeks

    • @Corsicus
      @Corsicus 4 года назад +154

      Una faccia una razza 🇬🇷♥️🇮🇹

  • @BlueFan99
    @BlueFan99 3 года назад +246

    For some context:
    Constantine was the last Christian ruler of Constantinople, which alongside his bravery at the city's fall cemented him as a near-legendary figure in later histories and Greek folklore. Some saw the foundation of Constantinople (the New Rome) under Constantine the Great and its loss under another Constantine as the fulfillment of the city's destiny, just as Old Rome had been founded by a Romulus and lost under another, Romulus Augustulus.
    He became known in later Greek folklore as the Marble Emperor reflecting a popular legend which endured for centuries that Constantine had not actually died, but had been rescued by an angel and turned into marble, hidden beneath the Golden Gate of Constantinople awaiting a call from God to be restored to life and reconquer both the city and the old empire.
    King of Kings, help the King!

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +1

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) ..

    • @Byzant1453
      @Byzant1453 3 года назад +13

      @@Universal.. 1 you not Lilyrian you Alvania in politics the litlle brother of Turkey and ofc you Muslims.
      2 Lilyrians was Greeks you as Alvanians you exist at least 250 years only you have no history.
      3 all this you said are cheap Alvanian propagandas by fake historians Alvania paif to told all that propagandas.
      4 you land is actualy Greek and lot of true historians said that even Italian.
      You have never been Romain you insult as Greeks and Italians ether.
      And you hate Greece deadly because you cant win as.
      In all wars you help our enemy and you fake news sayx you help as brw.
      Nice tried with those ptopagandas but no one believes you with out proof and this is not words only , sorry.

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад

      @@Byzant1453 Before I start, I would like to remind you that my sources are not even Albanian, so this is not Albanian propaganda.
      Then my sources are sources studied by the greatest historian, anthropologist, linguists (etc.) from the four corners of the world (French, Canadian, English, Italian, American, German etc ...)
      And the Illyrians were not Greeks for the simple and good reason that they were considered as Barbaros which means NOT-GREC (different language etc). See Thucydides etc.

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад

      @@Byzant1453 First of all I open a parenthesis about the name of Albania or Albanians quoted by Strabo (around 58-21/25) in the 1st century BC and Claudius Ptolemy (around 100 - 170 AD) in the 2nd century AD.
      It derives from the name of an Illyrian tribe, the Albanoi, which was located around the city of Albanopolis (now Zgërdhesh located in the region of Krujë).
      Moreover, even today, a region of Albania, from the north of Tirana (between the rivers Mat and Erzen), is called Albëni (gheg dialect) or Arbëri (tosk dialect).
      But this name Albanoi with its various variants (Arbanites, Arvanites, Arvanitis, Arvanos, Arban, Arbani, Arbanon, Arnavuts, Arnauts, Arbëri, Arbër, Arbëni, Arbën, Albën, Albanois, or Albanians) really began to spread when the Albanian territories became a field of hostility and a buffer zone between Byzantines and the new Slavic invaders (Serbs, Croats etc.. ...) towards the beginning of the seventh century AD.
      Several writers of the eleventh century, including Michel Attaliate and Jean Skyltzes, have recounted this kind of confrontation and widely spoken of these Albanian mountain tribes.
      It is the Angevin chancelleries (Charles I of Anjou, brother of St Louis, proclaimed himself king of Albania in 1272) which, in the 13th century, conveyed the name of Albanian or Albanians, which spread rapidly, like wildfire, throughout Europe.
      It should be noted that the Albanians never use this name (Albanian) to designate their own ethnic group: they call themselves Shqiptar, that is to say son or child of the eagle.
      Source : Albanais: histoire du Moyen Age au XXe s, P.54, Mathieu AREF (Histoire et langue) ou l'incroyable Odyssée d'un peuple préhellénique

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад

      @@Byzant1453 "What we can say with reasonable certainty is that there is no evidence that the Albanians immigrated to their land from anywhere else. It is therefore safe to assume that they are indigenous to the region, unlike their Slavic neighbors who invaded the Balkans from the north in the sixth and seventh centuries.
      Source: Elsie, Robert.(🇨🇦) "Albanian Literature: A Short History". Dr. Elsie has written over sixty books on Albanian studies.
      "After World War II, but especially since the serious riots in Kosovo in 1981, Serbian archaeologists have been at pains to disprove the theory of Illyrian ethnic origins of the Albanians."
      Source: Vickers, Miranda.(🇬🇧) "Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo."
      The father of the Serbian nation Dobrica Cosic considers the ability to lie and lying to be the
      moral virtue of the Serbian people and the foundation of Serbian
      foundation of Serbian pride.
      Here is a direct quote from Dobrica Cosic: "Lying is the
      greatest virtue of the Serbian people".
      Dobrica Cosic continues and says: "We lie to deceive ourselves...
      To console others, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our misery...
      Lying is a trait of our
      patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence.
      We lie creatively, imaginatively and inventively".
      Source: Deobe book.

  • @mrk9093
    @mrk9093 5 месяцев назад +67

    At the “Basileus, Basileus, help us”, thats where I cried. Such a powerful song…

    • @KrzysztofTomecki
      @KrzysztofTomecki 3 месяца назад +2

      Królu, królu...
      Pomóż!

    • @bvillafuerte179
      @bvillafuerte179 2 месяца назад +1

      @@KrzysztofTomecki Felipe VI of Spain, by the grace of God, emperor of the Romans.

    • @funnywarnerbox300
      @funnywarnerbox300 Месяц назад +3

      It said "King of Kings, help the king"

  • @atillanandorfuri3343
    @atillanandorfuri3343 3 года назад +2286

    Constantine XI was one of the rare monarchs who didn't only enjoy the benefits of power, but also took on the responsibilities that should come with it.
    Rest in peace king

    • @g1u2y345
      @g1u2y345 3 года назад +70

      Id imagine it would be pretty hard for him to sit back and enjoy the power when he was constantly under threat and was desperately trying to not be the last emperor of the Romans.

    • @atillanandorfuri3343
      @atillanandorfuri3343 3 года назад +248

      @@g1u2y345 he could have very well left to Spain or something, taking the imperial treasury with him and lived out his life as an honored guest in almost any European court.
      But he didn't.
      He stayed in his failing city, and looked certain death in the eye like a true emperor.

    • @icxcnika1823
      @icxcnika1823 3 года назад +73

      @@atillanandorfuri3343 Yes Atilla , the great EMPEROR died as an Emperor should, in the thick of battle defending his people . Rest in peace honoured KING 👑

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +9

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @icxcnika1823
      @icxcnika1823 3 года назад +8

      @@Universal.. Yes ,so they did .!

  • @cooperation2212
    @cooperation2212 Год назад +2060

    "The city is fallen and I am still alive."
    "Is there no Christian here who will take my head?"
    -Constantine XI's last words on record

    • @loizosnicolaou2914
      @loizosnicolaou2914 9 месяцев назад +106

      A true Emperor☦️

    • @danishdude_
      @danishdude_ 9 месяцев назад +6

      wait howd he die??

    • @Adriaticus
      @Adriaticus 9 месяцев назад +199

      @@danishdude_ He died fighting for the city alongside his men, truly the last of the Romans

    • @ozan7427
      @ozan7427 9 месяцев назад +28

      @@Adriaticus he died fighting while he escaped to the boats he got faced by ottoman army members. Source is a literal ottoman soldiers while other sources are literal greek political figures that didnt partipicated in war. Its all on wiki.

    • @Kaoru_Nakamura
      @Kaoru_Nakamura 8 месяцев назад +151

      @@ozan7427 ofc a ottoman wrote about it and lied bout how he "escaped", he was killed at the city when the walls broke down and the ottoman killed him

  • @perseusjackson3637
    @perseusjackson3637 3 года назад +3260

    As an Italian, this makes me sad. Byzantium may have been a Greek Empire, but it was still a clear successor of Rome. This marked the end of Rome in the east, and the fall of the Christian Cross for hundreds of years.

    • @byJessCh
      @byJessCh 3 года назад +113

      the eastern roman empire got split from the west very early. the cultural differences were too many. rome didnt care when byzantium fall.

    • @anastsi6767
      @anastsi6767 3 года назад +407

      @@byJessCh you are wrong,east and west were always connected,byzantines even until 11th century they had lands in italy and they always wanted to liberate italian peninsula and restore again the rome as justinian did in 6th century.After 11th century this goal stopped because byzantium was weakened and lost most of the lands in anatolia,north balkans and italy.

    • @Francescomonti60
      @Francescomonti60 3 года назад +3

      @Jiraiya Sennin why is that?

    • @Francescomonti60
      @Francescomonti60 3 года назад +8

      @Jiraiya Sennin I still don't get the point of your comment. Are you trying to say that the western and the eastern Roman empire never were close or something like that? And also, you can't call someone hypocrite because you blame him for something that happened hundreds of years ago and something he didn't do personally. Also you can't put shame on a country for something that our ancestors did. I mean you can do it but if you do it you're just a jerk.

    • @Francescomonti60
      @Francescomonti60 3 года назад +8

      @Jiraiya Sennin that's the point! We, or at least I, don't blame the turks of today but the ones of that time. If you pay attention to the comments you'll notice that no one is insulting modern turks, instead, the talk is about the ones that needed two months to conquer a city when they had almost twenty times the number of the troops of the byzantine and had better technology. So again, no one blames you're people (as opposed to what you are doing) but they blame your ancestors.

  • @Ldjdjdnejeww
    @Ldjdjdnejeww 9 дней назад +12

    Greec never ended it live in every part of civilization forever be alive and be powerful mother of humanity respect from iran

  • @chadus9939
    @chadus9939 3 года назад +372

    "the city was the key to all of Rome"
    *Cries*

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 года назад +13

      It's wrong translation, it says Ρωμανία= Roman Empire

    • @Arguingpit93
      @Arguingpit93 3 года назад +7

      Well, that's worse

    • @EtruscanTURK-fs9nn
      @EtruscanTURK-fs9nn 3 года назад +2

      Greetings From Etruscans 🇹🇷:)

    • @muharremtgt1588
      @muharremtgt1588 3 года назад

      @@EtruscanTURK-fs9nn Neresi oluyo la orası?

    • @AlexAlex-bz6cp
      @AlexAlex-bz6cp 3 года назад +1

      Crying too from Ukraine((((

  • @ivansalamon7028
    @ivansalamon7028 3 года назад +138

    This is breathtaking. Greek is something else. The majesty this is sung with, I don't know.. I love it

    • @yourfavlibra04
      @yourfavlibra04 3 года назад +1

      turkish is beautiful language too. and i suggested for you some turkish songs.
      1.Istanbul’da Sonbahar-Teoman
      2.Istanbul-Pamela
      3.Istanbul-Sertab Erener
      4.Istanbul Beyefendisi-Yasli Amca
      5.Istanbul-Duman
      6.Istanbul (not constantinople)-they might be giants
      have a good dayyy from ISTANBUL,TURKEY🇹🇷

    • @ivansalamon7028
      @ivansalamon7028 3 года назад +3

      @@yourfavlibra04 I'll check them out. I actually have tremendous respect and liking of both cultures, for different reasons. But seeing similarities rather than differences between them sometimes is also nice.

    • @yourfavlibra04
      @yourfavlibra04 3 года назад

      @@ivansalamon7028 yeah it’s all true

    • @yourfavlibra04
      @yourfavlibra04 3 года назад

      @@ivansalamon7028 are you a greek btw

    • @ivansalamon7028
      @ivansalamon7028 3 года назад +1

      @@yourfavlibra04 No, I am a Croat. :)

  • @georgegkagka1773
    @georgegkagka1773 3 года назад +855

    As a Greek ive read so much about the Eastern Roman Empire and especially the fall of Costantinople. And i cant help holding my tears back while listening to this hymn. Constantine was such a tragic figure. He knew he was gonna be the last emperor and he still didnt give out a single piece of land without a fight. He is the equivelant of a medieval Leonidas

    • @SP19NC
      @SP19NC 3 года назад +46

      Θα την πάρουμε πίσω την Πόλη! Πολύ σύντομα! Σε όσους το λέω, γελάνε! Αλλά δεν πειράζει! Καλύτερα γελάει αυτός που γελάει τελευταίος!
      🇬🇷❤️🇨🇾

    • @muharremtgt1588
      @muharremtgt1588 3 года назад +7

      Can you understand all lyrics? Because old Greek was different from Todays Greek.

    • @georgegkagka1773
      @georgegkagka1773 3 года назад +51

      @@muharremtgt1588 The song is written in medieval Greek which is very closely related to the kind of Greek we speak today. So yeah even if some words arent used anymore i can understand the entire thing.

    • @billaras21aek
      @billaras21aek 3 года назад +1

      @@SP19NC 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @SP19NC
      @SP19NC 3 года назад +15

      @@billaras21aek
      Γέλα, γέλα...

  • @ZarblixPhantom
    @ZarblixPhantom 5 месяцев назад +72

    I deeply regret the fall of the Byzantine Empire, a civilization that enlightened the world for more than a thousand years with its culture, science, art and spirituality. The preservation of classical knowledge, architectural innovations like the Hagia Sophia, and the development of law with the Code of Justinian are just a few of the many invaluable contributions we received from the Byzantines. We owe immense gratitude for all the legacy they left for humanity. I also pay tribute to the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, whose courage and dedication until the end represent the resilience and greatness of this great empire.

    • @surinam911
      @surinam911 4 месяца назад +2

      @bvillafuerte765 ROME

    • @CuauhtemocMaldonadoOfficial
      @CuauhtemocMaldonadoOfficial 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@surinam911It's not Rome empire. Rome was for the first 150 years when Greek and Italy where one. And when Italy left from Greece because of Orthodox and Catholic we named it Byzantine and for 1.200+ years. So yeah its Byzantine and only Greece defend there and it's 100/100 Greek.

  • @nathanpangilinan4397
    @nathanpangilinan4397 3 года назад +436

    When Odoacer broke through Ravenna's gates, he didn't find the all-powerful Emperor of the civilized world, two Consuls protecting the Republic, not even a King leading his people into prosperity but a weak and frightened child unable to protect himself, much less the people he nominally ruled. When Mehmed the Conqueror broke through Constantinople's walls, he found an Emperor who fought to the death and refused to live as an Emperor without an Empire.

    • @ZephLodwick
      @ZephLodwick 3 года назад +42

      In defense of Romulus, he was twelve or something. Sygarius, duke of Gaul, fled his rump state after being defeated in the Battle of Soissons. Julius Nepos was betrayed by his own men.

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +3

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @alfatejpblind6498
      @alfatejpblind6498 3 года назад +9

      @@Universal.. Aurelian was a serb 🇷🇸🇷🇸

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +5

      @@alfatejpblind6498 Aurelian was as being a native of Illyricum.
      Several of the most-outstanding emperors of the late Roman Empire were of Illyrian (🇦🇱) origin, including Claudius II Gothicus, AURELIAN, Diocletian, and Constantine the Great, most of whom were chosen by their own troops on the battlefield and later acclaimed by the Senate.
      Source : Illyria
      historical region, Europe,
      Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    • @alfatejpblind6498
      @alfatejpblind6498 3 года назад +11

      @@Universal.. Alright, for real this time. You’re right, they were illyrians, but showing the albanian flag as a symbol for them is not accurate. The amount of admixture that has happened in the balkans means that all of the ethnicities there have their fair share of illyrian DNA, even if the albanians are the only ones who’ve retained the language.

  • @therealmr.goat123
    @therealmr.goat123 4 года назад +203

    I can't stop listening to Greek music, It's the most beautiful language i have ever heard!

    • @SP19NC
      @SP19NC 3 года назад +12

      Thank you for saying that!
      Σ’ ευχαριστώ πολύ! 🇬🇷❤️🇨🇾

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 3 года назад +2

      You think so? Να 'σαι καλά φίλε, καλή σου μέρα!

    • @piscator13optimus
      @piscator13optimus 3 года назад +2

      The composer is
      Stamatis Spanoudakis
      Other great greek composers are Vangelis, Yani, Theodorakis

    • @chfrqn4dl
      @chfrqn4dl 3 года назад +1

      @Darkstanball Animations nothing wrong about learning about greek history. the more u learn, when it be about the good or bad times in greek history, the more u know.

    • @kostakis5084
      @kostakis5084 3 года назад +2

      Thank you Mr Goat, we aporeciate the love you have for our language !

  • @Theophan123
    @Theophan123 2 года назад +126

    It's that time of the year again brethren.
    Man, the pain

    • @CostantinoVercetti
      @CostantinoVercetti 2 года назад +3

      No pain. Only Glory.

    • @zhaw4821
      @zhaw4821 2 года назад +3

      🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

  • @patskats4859
    @patskats4859 9 дней назад +10

    A depiction of him was probably just found. A historic moment

  • @mileschristi3061
    @mileschristi3061 Год назад +2101

    As a Roman Catholic I have a deep respect for the history of Constantinople and my Orthodox Brothers...I'm from Puglia in Southern Italy that remained a Byzantine dominion until 1071 and we still have deep traces of that heritage

    • @Maharlikan_Federal_Empire
      @Maharlikan_Federal_Empire Год назад +44

      Do you agree to build a new Hagia Sophia Church someday?

    • @CatholicCrusader__30
      @CatholicCrusader__30 Год назад +170

      ​@@Maharlikan_Federal_Empire Of course, theirs nothing to build. Just remove the minarets surrounding the Church.

    • @jebbush2527
      @jebbush2527 Год назад +55

      Constantine XI was a Catholic who supported the union of Florence, which is from an ecumenical council the schismatic easterners rejected shortly after the fall of Constantinople when the Turks replaced the patriarch with Scholarius and created the modern ‘Orthodox’ Church. I respect deeply the eastern tradition, and even respect the modern Orthodox Church generally, but these are just the facts! John Bekkos, Constantine XI, Cdl. Bessarion, Cdl. Isodore of Kiev, Ora pro nobis

    • @kritikosofara
      @kritikosofara Год назад +26

      Hello Italian brother.

    • @montecristo6389
      @montecristo6389 Год назад +31

      I am Albanian
      (Arber) Catholic and I am a good connoisseur of history. My soul aches for Constantinople because my ancestors were also part of Byzantium at that time. If Gjergj Kastrioti *Scanderbeg* was in charge of Byzantium, it would never have been conquered by the Ottoman monogols.-Milan Shufly

  • @typicalperson6389
    @typicalperson6389 2 года назад +284

    You will not be forgotten, defenders of Christianity

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 2 года назад +1

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source📜: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @aurexify
      @aurexify 2 года назад +1

      @@Universal.. Are you illiterate?

    • @lowrhyan567
      @lowrhyan567 2 года назад

      Defenders of Christianity? They were(and still are) a bunch of heretics that betrayed the church that Jesus founded because an Emperor disagreed with the Pope, just like Protestantism and Anglicanism.

    • @kappakar6833
      @kappakar6833 2 года назад +8

      @@Universal.. for gods sake stop spamming

    • @kostasperdikis2256
      @kostasperdikis2256 2 года назад +3

      @@Universal.. lol

  • @Espingol
    @Espingol 3 года назад +321

    Love from Denmark
    🇩🇰🤝🇬🇷

    • @mufa6315
      @mufa6315 3 года назад

      🖤🇦🇿🇵🇰🇰🇿🇹🇷🇹🇲🇹🇳🇺🇿🇵🇸 🤍noob greek🇧🇲🇭🇰🇨🇾🇨🇳🇧🇾🇧🇻🇧🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧🇬🇷🇮🇷🇮🇶🇰🇷🇸🇦🇵🇹🇮🇱🇧🇬🇦🇫🇦🇲🇦🇷🇩🇿🇪🇹🇪🇸🇱🇧🇺🇦🇹🇩🇰🇵🇰🇷🇲🇫🇲🇬🇺🇸🇺🇾🇾🇪 noobs 🤓

    • @curran8878
      @curran8878 3 года назад +1

      🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

    • @coloneltroll4595
      @coloneltroll4595 3 года назад +4

      Thanks a lot, brother.

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +1

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @Theodoros_Kolokotronis
      @Theodoros_Kolokotronis 9 дней назад

      Miklagard 🇬🇷 ❤️ 🇩🇰

  • @selina7172
    @selina7172 10 месяцев назад +56

    The Thing about this song is it Doesn't curse or hate any Rivals Here. Just Remembering the City that was belonged to them once

  • @beehive9496
    @beehive9496 3 года назад +397

    Greetings from Poland to Great Greece 🇵🇱🇬🇷

    • @warthunderenjoyer8542
      @warthunderenjoyer8542 3 года назад +21

      Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷♥️🇵🇱

    • @حيدرحيدر-ظ1و6ذ
      @حيدرحيدر-ظ1و6ذ 3 года назад +7

      🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

    • @crete1882
      @crete1882 3 года назад +19

      @@حيدرحيدر-ظ1و6ذ if you ask me, if someone gave me a Turkish flag I wouldn’t burn it or disrespect it. I hate the Turkish Government but for the flag to be disrespected that is a insult to all Turks good as well. I see you are Pro-Turkey and I don’t blame you since it is your country most likely. All I ask is that you be respectful to Greeks especially if they don’t attack/harass you.

    • @crete1882
      @crete1882 3 года назад +5

      @@sir8204 ones a checkered flag and the rest is flag of the country Finland. And Difference was spelled wrong.

    • @crete1882
      @crete1882 3 года назад +7

      @@sir8204 I was trying to avoid Finnish flag since I knew what you would probably say and I said the word was spelled wrong in case that was the difference as well.

  • @Greik1821
    @Greik1821 4 года назад +2745

    They fought till the end. they didn’t surrender

    • @bakouchberber2530
      @bakouchberber2530 4 года назад +231

      The Romans never surrender

    • @Hasan.2136
      @Hasan.2136 4 года назад +8

      @@q9wgyo73 he speak turkish

    • @Averagepoetrylover
      @Averagepoetrylover 4 года назад +1

      They did though but it was to a turkey

    • @oxo_oxdox
      @oxo_oxdox 4 года назад +1

      @@q9wgyo73 kaynak derken? Tam olarak ne dediğini hatirliyor musunuz? Eğer bana yazarsaniz yardimci olurum...

    • @affangundem8836
      @affangundem8836 4 года назад +12

      @@bakouchberber2530 nope they surrendered

  • @sidneyjoerelleutod5489
    @sidneyjoerelleutod5489 3 года назад +711

    I cried listening this, my ancestors existed from Constantinople, i felt bad, because one of them witnessed the Fall of Constantinople, saying "All is chaos, all is death" so listening this makes me sad... 🇬🇷

    • @g1u2y345
      @g1u2y345 3 года назад +38

      Greeks must have felt the exact same way during the Istanbul Pogrom in the 1950s, when they finally left the city for good.

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +3

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @justinianthegreatandnerd6377
      @justinianthegreatandnerd6377 3 года назад +64

      @@Universal.. stop spamming that

    • @joska923
      @joska923 3 года назад +29

      @@Universal.. look, i found a spambot

    • @AixlaachenPax1801
      @AixlaachenPax1801 3 года назад +31

      I cried too my friend, and if something ever happens to Greece I'm ready to die to take Constantinople back as Europe wouldn't exist without Greece. Love Greece from France
      🇫🇷✝🤝☦🇬🇷

  • @GiangHo-wr5up
    @GiangHo-wr5up 9 месяцев назад +74

    As a Vietnamese Catholic, after listening to this song, even though I do not speak or understand Greek, the name Constantinople still resonates with me. Now, the Byzantine people are in Heaven enjoying peace and joy with God. We shall be reunited with them. Amen

    • @RkBOR2
      @RkBOR2 9 месяцев назад +5

      Η Κωνσταντινούπολη θα πάρει κάποια στιγμή της θέση που τις αξίζει, χαιρετισμούς στην Βραζιλία από την Ελλάδα

  • @digenhsakritas1337
    @digenhsakritas1337 4 года назад +2868

    "As my city falls,I will fall with it."

    • @vasjrgatsis13
      @vasjrgatsis13 4 года назад +134

      @@mikaildeniz1673 and I'll drink my wine on your dictation skills.

    • @digenhsakritas1337
      @digenhsakritas1337 4 года назад +44

      @@mikaildeniz1673 Cheers!

    • @danielwoods3896
      @danielwoods3896 4 года назад +111

      @@mikaildeniz1673 you have no right to get anywhere near Thessaloniki. Go back to central asia from whence you came

    • @enoppp167
      @enoppp167 4 года назад +55

      @@mikaildeniz1673 No army will ever surpass Italian soldiers in valor and courage
      Erwinn Rommel

    • @enoppp167
      @enoppp167 4 года назад +8

      @@mikaildeniz1673 otranto 1480

  • @vulcanjoe8258
    @vulcanjoe8258 3 года назад +613

    Girls at Gym: “I wonder what his listening to, his getting really emotional”
    Me:

    • @nakoamechi
      @nakoamechi 3 года назад +13

      @Ethan Pintar why are you preaching about this in the internet of all places.

    • @YSagala8BallPool
      @YSagala8BallPool 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/24y_q8dwxDs/видео.html

    • @todayssubject7055
      @todayssubject7055 3 года назад +4

      @Ethan Pintar Show me a girl. Then i'll stop

    • @Crusader-im7lh
      @Crusader-im7lh 3 года назад

      @@todayssubject7055 go find one

    • @todayssubject7055
      @todayssubject7055 3 года назад

      @@Crusader-im7lh I mean a girl like listening this

  • @giuse2289
    @giuse2289 3 года назад +833

    this song sounds so nostalgic somehow i didn't know greek was such a sweet language.
    🇮🇹♥️🇬🇷

    • @mufa6315
      @mufa6315 3 года назад +1

      🖤🇦🇿🇵🇰🇹🇷🇹🇲🇹🇳🇺🇿🇵🇸 🤍noob greek🇧🇲🇧🇾🇧🇻🇧🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧🇬🇷🇮🇷🇮🇶🇰🇷🇸🇦🇵🇹🇮🇱🇧🇬🇦🇫🇦🇲🇦🇷🇩🇿🇪🇹🇪🇸🇱🇧🇺🇦🇹🇩🇺🇸🇺🇾🇾🇪 noobs 🤓

    • @davidbrignolo9708
      @davidbrignolo9708 3 года назад +44

      @@mufa6315 what?

    • @aristsav6833
      @aristsav6833 3 года назад +18

      Where do you think Latin Got it from 😅😁

    • @davidbrignolo9708
      @davidbrignolo9708 3 года назад +19

      Una faccia, una razza!

    • @ΓιάννηςΜπέης-λ9φ
      @ΓιάννηςΜπέης-λ9φ 3 года назад +32

      I know right im greek and took Italian in high school as a secondary language. Started from scratch but they seemed pretty easy to understand. Alas, love from greece 🇬🇷♥️🇮🇹

  • @giannissergis5940
    @giannissergis5940 9 месяцев назад +1101

    As a Greek, i'm really surprised and honoured to see so many foreign people listening to this song , so strange. Thank you all!

    • @MadPagan03
      @MadPagan03 9 месяцев назад +36

      Remember, Hagia Sophia looks like this, not this

    • @galilelollel9658
      @galilelollel9658 8 месяцев назад +79

      We are not foreigns. Everyone belongs to the Roman Empire and the byzantines were a part ones too and still are. Also im german italian sooooo yeah. Lets retake it shall we?

    • @blasius-1492
      @blasius-1492 8 месяцев назад +43

      Todos somos Romanos, por sangre, tradición, y derecho.

    • @TheTibMutant
      @TheTibMutant 7 месяцев назад

      Bruddah, I'm a straight up Redneck from the Midwest in the United States, and I listen to this when I work out and imagine it's my boss fight theme music.

    • @TFYGE
      @TFYGE 7 месяцев назад +43

      Москва, Константинополь, РИМ 🇷🇺🤝🇬🇷

  • @LeoErwin
    @LeoErwin 4 года назад +202

    Respect to you christian brothers from Finland🇫🇮

    • @cristiman2179
      @cristiman2179 4 года назад +5

      @@mikaildeniz1673 says a turk

    • @antonishedsp2036
      @antonishedsp2036 4 года назад +6

      @@cristiman2179 says a fortnite boy.

    • @antonishedsp2036
      @antonishedsp2036 4 года назад +1

      Make Balkan to Ottoman again, make North Africa to Ottoman again, make Europe to Barbarian again. Alright.

    • @antonishedsp2036
      @antonishedsp2036 4 года назад +1

      @@mikaildeniz1673 😂😂😂😂

    • @Onio_
      @Onio_ 4 года назад +1

      @@antonishedsp2036 May you continue dreaming.

  • @Anonimka338
    @Anonimka338 2 года назад +4343

    I am not Crying, WE are crying
    P.S. As a Georgian, I Cannot explain how catastrophic this event was. In our History Chronicles Book, Called "Life of Kartli", there is written : "Since Constantinople has been fallen, The Sun Never rose again".

    • @EmirahnMerhaba
      @EmirahnMerhaba 2 года назад +66

      Accept It.

    • @tuplat5107
      @tuplat5107 2 года назад +348

      Real men don't cry...
      Apparently I am not a real man

    • @NewfoundMapping
      @NewfoundMapping 2 года назад +393

      @@EmirahnMerhaba How about you accept some women into your life. Not like you could anyways, the only thing you do all day is eat McDonald’s.

    • @dissapointingopinions4877
      @dissapointingopinions4877 2 года назад

      @@EmirahnMerhaba accept losing your economy.

    • @Reservemercedesdriver
      @Reservemercedesdriver 2 года назад +17

      @@NewfoundMapping what did emirahn type in the comments

  • @drboyo7680
    @drboyo7680 2 года назад +1361

    For all of my Byzantine Empire fans who want to sing this banger, here is the transliteration:
    (Dth is pronounced like th in the IPA: ð)
    (Gh is pronounced like the y in yee or a voiced version of h in hue IPA: ɣ)
    (H is pronounced like h in hue IPA: x)
    (Verbs with ‘ between are pronounced as one syllable, e.g ki’aghelos is kYAghelos)
    (Accent marks is where the stress is)
    Thá rthis san astrapí
    Thá hi i hóra ghiortí
    Thálassa ghi ke uranós
    Sto dthikó su fos
    Tha dithó sta lefká
    Na s’agixo xaná
    Fos, esí ke kardthiá mu’eghó
    Póso s’aghapó
    Chorus
    Vasilévs, Vasiléon, Vasilí voíthi
    Éleos, éleos, epuránie The’é
    Konstantínos Dthraghátsis Paleológhos
    Éleo Theú
    Aftokrátor ton Roméon
    Stin píli tu’aghíu Romanú
    Kavaliká tin fára tu
    Tin aspropodtharátin
    Téssera víta
    Éleos, Éleos, Marmarás
    Vósporos ke Mávri Tríti
    Fríxon ílie, sténaxon ghi:
    Eálo í pòli, Eálo í póli!
    Vasilévusa, píli hrisí
    Ki’o porfiroghénnitos
    Stin kókkili miliá
    I póli ítan to spathí
    I póli to kodári
    I póli ítan to klidthi tis Romanías ólis
    Sópase, Kirá Dthéspina
    Ke min polidthakrízis
    Páli me hrónia me kerús
    Páli dthiká su thá’ne
    Stin píli tu Romanú
    Éfighes ghia’allú
    Ki’ághelos tha se féri’edthó
    Ston sostó keró
    Mes tin Ághia Sofiá
    Tha vrethúme xaná
    Liturghía mellontikí
    I Éllines mazí
    Chorus
    Vasilévs, Vasiléon, Vasilí voíthi
    Éleos, éleos, epuránie The’é
    Konstantínos Dthraghátsis Paleológhos
    Éleo Theú
    Aftokrátor ton Roméon
    Stin píli tu’aghíu Romanú
    Kavaliká tin fára tu
    Tin aspropodtharátin
    Téssera víta
    Éleos, Éleos, Marmarás
    Vósporos ke Mávri Tríti
    Fríxon ílie, sténaxon ghi:
    Eálo í pòli, Eálo í póli!
    Vasilévusa, píli hrisí
    Ki’o porfiroghénnitos
    Stin kókkili miliá
    I póli ítan to spathí
    I póli to kodári
    I póli ítan to klidthi tis Romanías ólis
    Sópase, Kirá Dthéspina
    Ke min polidthakrízis
    Páli me hrónia me kerús
    Páli dthiká su thá’ne
    Thá rthis san astrapí
    Thá hi i hóra ghiortí
    Thálassa ghi ke uranós
    Sto dthikó su fos
    Mes tin Ághia Sofiá
    Tha vrethúme xaná
    Liturghía mellontikí
    I Éllines mazí
    Konstantínos..
    Dthraghátsis..
    Paleológhos!
    Edit: Please tell me if I’m wrong

    • @hannahquintua
      @hannahquintua 2 года назад +45

      THANK YOU

    • @Salibascored
      @Salibascored 2 года назад +41

      Underated cooment

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 2 года назад +27

      Why did you have œ? They're read just as a simple o. Also, I think that writing dth for the th sound was a bit too much, but if it's consistent, it's fine. Thanks for taking the time to do all this.

    • @drboyo7680
      @drboyo7680 2 года назад +11

      @@georgios_5342 Thanks for giving me the advice.

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 2 года назад +9

      @@drboyo7680 no problem. Also, mafri should be mavri, and vasilefusa should be vasilevusa. Really nicely done overall

  • @davidchen9772
    @davidchen9772 9 месяцев назад +981

    "Is there no Christian here who will take my head?"
    He said.
    Then he dropped his crown and purple cloak, and fearlessly rushed to the numerous turks.

    • @Entrophy23
      @Entrophy23 8 месяцев назад +12

      @@Cosmo_Hunter777Constantinople fell in 1453 it’s been over 500 years

    • @davidchen9772
      @davidchen9772 7 месяцев назад +26

      @Hello_everyone552
      *_“Then out spake brave Horatius,_*
      *_The Captain of the gate:_*
      *_‘To every man upon this earth_*
      *_Death cometh soon or late._*
      *_And how can man die better_*
      *_Than facing fearful odds,_*
      *_For the ashes of his fathers,_*
      *_And the temples of his Gods,_*
      *_‘And for the tender mother_*
      *_Who dandled him to rest,_*
      *_And for the wife who nurses_*
      *_His baby at her breast,_*
      *_And for the holy maidens_*
      *_Who feed the eternal flame,_*
      *_To save them from false Sextus_*
      *_That wrought the deed of shame?"_*
      ---- Thomas Babington Macaulay, *_Horatius_*
      This is the spirit of Roman ancestors, and you never realize it.

    • @salemsalem-jb1bg
      @salemsalem-jb1bg 7 месяцев назад +26

      @Read_my_profile_descriptionimpossible to win Turks??
      Egyptians won against Turks in 1832, and 1840
      Russians won against Turks in 1877, they reached Yeshil Koy.
      Bulgarians, Greeks, Serbs won in 1913.
      England, France, Greece won in 1919z
      What are you talking about??

    • @Panamanamodernday
      @Panamanamodernday 6 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@salemsalem-jb1bgyeah and later Turkey won alone in 1919-1922

    • @malaprinceza100
      @malaprinceza100 6 месяцев назад +6

      Serbian blood in him...

  • @elf3995
    @elf3995 3 года назад +9326

    Where a real man cries

    • @Leo-dt5ic
      @Leo-dt5ic 3 года назад +102

      @Manuel Elia Barsoum based

    • @SumDumGai5
      @SumDumGai5 3 года назад +19

      @Manuel Elia Barsoum Turkey owns you. Get over it.

    • @hurriyetperver5272
      @hurriyetperver5272 3 года назад +124

      It is a day of happines not a day of crying

    • @nearhos3106
      @nearhos3106 3 года назад +372

      @@hurriyetperver5272 what did you just say?

    • @hurriyetperver5272
      @hurriyetperver5272 3 года назад +87

      @@nearhos3106
      I said it is a day of happiness not a day of crying

  • @hotsyep5880
    @hotsyep5880 3 года назад +3792

    As an Italian, this is the one thing that Italians and Greeks can come together for the common good. For the Glory of Rome.

    • @serious460
      @serious460 3 года назад +188

      Tell that to the pope lol

    • @antmiralgeneralaladeen
      @antmiralgeneralaladeen 3 года назад +239

      Sorry my friend I realy like you Italians but the east Hellenistic and Orthodox part of the Roman empire is completely different from the Latin Catholic west part.Especially after the 6-7th century.Keep the Glory of Rome for you, we have our own glory.Actually maybe this is the only thing that we Greeks and Italians can't come together xaxa.Love from Greece!

    • @twiddlerat9920
      @twiddlerat9920 3 года назад +129

      @@antmiralgeneralaladeen No, because the entire hellenic roman empires territory was conquered by latin rome, latin rome is the only reason the hellenic roman empire existed

    • @antmiralgeneralaladeen
      @antmiralgeneralaladeen 3 года назад +189

      @@twiddlerat9920 The Roman empire simply couldn't dominate Greek civilization of the east part.Romans only conquered land.Culturally is more like we conquered them.Because of that strong culture Byzantium survived for more than 1000 years.

    • @twiddlerat9920
      @twiddlerat9920 3 года назад +39

      @@antmiralgeneralaladeen Culture didn't preserve byzantium, it was competent rulers and generals

  • @Al-waqwaq
    @Al-waqwaq 2 года назад +1763

    I’m Japanese
    When I was high school student, I studied Fall of Constantinople and Kōnstantinos XI.
    I think he is one of the most courageous rulers.

    • @slayride136
      @slayride136 2 года назад

      @Mustafa Karaca (Anatolian, Hajji)🇹🇷 cursed?

    • @Islamitisch
      @Islamitisch 2 года назад +17

      @Mustafa Karaca (Anatolian, Hajji)🇹🇷 ASDFGHJHKL

    • @deimosok2003
      @deimosok2003 2 года назад +114

      Α true GreekRoman HERO. A TRUE LEADER.
      Greeks and Italians should feel proud for Byzantium

    • @halilbeyaz6359
      @halilbeyaz6359 2 года назад +1

      @@deimosok2003 :)

    • @deimosok2003
      @deimosok2003 2 года назад +56

      @@halilbeyaz6359 He died gloriously in battle he didn't kneel nor weep.

  • @mrx656
    @mrx656 6 месяцев назад +141

    Constantinople will never be forgotten!!!

    • @euphoria598
      @euphoria598 5 месяцев назад +4

      Where is it😂😂😂

    • @turcisiaball5901
      @turcisiaball5901 5 месяцев назад +8

      probably you tried to mention Istanbul

    • @Crimeann
      @Crimeann 5 месяцев назад +5

      İstanbul

    • @VioletPistols
      @VioletPistols 4 месяца назад +4

      ⁠​⁠​⁠Constantinople is better than Istanbul
      Not even just because the Greeks were more badass with that city, Istanbul just sounds nasty

    • @VioletPistols
      @VioletPistols 4 месяца назад +1

      @@emre_iris Ok, Constantinople still sounds way cooler

  • @greatexpectations6577
    @greatexpectations6577 2 года назад +1596

    I am an Ethiopian and this song touched my heart so deeply that I wept like one who lost his mother. The fall of Constantinople is truly the saddest thing that happened to Christendom.

    • @Emir0709
      @Emir0709 2 года назад +89

      Roses are red violets are blue visit the Ottoman Empire before it visits you

    • @phoneowner2664
      @phoneowner2664 2 года назад

      I think the sadder thing for christiendom is the corruption of their faith. Pedo priests, money hungry popes and the like.

    • @russkayaimperiya4918
      @russkayaimperiya4918 2 года назад +1

      @General Knight The Ottomans went on their knees and sucked us dry, just like those savages had done that day. In the end we had the last laugh, not the Ottomans.

    • @zhaw4821
      @zhaw4821 2 года назад +69

      It's probably genetic memory. Your ancestors maybe lived in the city

    • @konstaa5091
      @konstaa5091 2 года назад +36

      @@zhaw4821 no its larp😂😂

  • @killerqueen1820
    @killerqueen1820 Год назад +147

    570 лет, с того ужасного дня.
    Многие не до конца понимают значимость этого события, но оно несёт одну из важнейших ролей в истории всего человечества.
    Ведь если бы этого трагичного дня не случилось мы жили в совершенно другом мире

    • @giyosbekashirboyev7123
      @giyosbekashirboyev7123 Год назад +8

      Glory to Türkiye😅😅😅

    • @dapizzasnake8462
      @dapizzasnake8462 Год назад +5

      Literally this event ended the medieval period.

    • @bud5464
      @bud5464 Год назад +17

      killer queen Государство было и так обречено. Внутренние распри и военные провалы и так оставили ромеев в отчаянном положении. Рано или поздно, свеча империи угасла бы. Она могла угаснуть и раньше, но из-за прихода Тимура в Анатолию, планы османов сорвались. Нет вечных государств и Восточный Рим это не исключение. В нём нет чего-то незаменимого, государства приходят и уходят

    • @killerqueen1820
      @killerqueen1820 Год назад +11

      @@bud5464, полностью с вами согласен, но все таки я считаю это событие очень значимым. Я понимаю, что Византия была в ужасном состоянии к тому моменту, и её распад был неминуем. Однако это событие несёт в себе больше значенимости, чем исчезновения Восточного Рима, как минимум эта дата считается концом средневековья, и началом нового времени. Можно, даже символично выделить то, что город удалось взять не только из-за слабой обороны, но и потому, что вооружение Османов было в разы лучше и современней чем у Византийцев.

    • @bud5464
      @bud5464 Год назад +14

      @@killerqueen1820 Совершенно верно, согласен с Вашими мыслями. Город действительно имел большое значение и в культуре,и в истории. Но вот знаете, проблема в нео-империалистах которые спят и видят сны о давно угасшей империи. Те же крестоносцы(которые между прочим разграбили и повредили город до неузнаваемости) перевернули город с ног на голову и нанесли Константинополю тяжелейший ущерб, который город прочувствовал во второй раз на себе после Юстиниановой Чумы. Но надеюсь люди смогут прийти к согласию и позабыть о старых и потерявщих огоньки Османской или Восточно-Римской империй , и начать жить процветающе

  • @TheMiniMaestroMan
    @TheMiniMaestroMan 3 года назад +109

    Whenever Greek pops up on an ancestry test, this should be the background music.

    • @phph4457
      @phph4457 3 года назад +2

      Hello im 30% greek from my grand-grandfather

    • @docm7583
      @docm7583 3 года назад +1

      @Kerem Gümüş well most of western turkish people have greek ancestry

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) ..

  • @Laconic-Spartan-GR
    @Laconic-Spartan-GR 6 дней назад +6

    In spite Greeks & Italians have had their shenanigans since the Greco-Roman epoch up until WWII, they still remained best friends. Una Faccia Una Razza!
    By the way, at the part of the song which says, "at a new service, the Greeks together" -I shed a tear or two. Marvelous!

  • @ronnieman87
    @ronnieman87 3 года назад +510

    Im American, never been to Greece, Don't know a lick of Greek and yet everytime i hear this song something resonates in my soul and my heart breaks, my eyes tear up and im left wondering what could have been. Why is this?

    • @vasileiosskritzovalis6451
      @vasileiosskritzovalis6451 3 года назад +72

      You probably can tell the pain they went through and how much they still hope they can get back what they lost even though they very much know thats how the map will be shaped for a while.

    • @AlexTheDominator1453
      @AlexTheDominator1453 3 года назад +13

      @@vasileiosskritzovalis6451 nice words fellow Greek

    • @helenp.s95
      @helenp.s95 3 года назад +30

      @@vasileiosskritzovalis6451 Man, I am an Indian protestant Christian and I feel devastated at seeing Hagia sophia in Muslim hands.If there is a war to convert the mosque to a church, I promise I will be the first to join it

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +2

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men).

    • @noelday3901
      @noelday3901 3 года назад +4

      @@helenp.s95 Some random Indian(!) wants his ass streched for Hagia Sophia lol. Happy to oblige here sir!

  • @chichinabero
    @chichinabero 3 года назад +2402

    As Spaniard I feel nothing but respect and reverence for the feats of the Greeks and the Italians. Hail Southern Europe 🇪🇸🇵🇹🇮🇹🇬🇷

    • @moisuomi
      @moisuomi 3 года назад +206

      Honestly, Southern Europe is the prime defender of all of Europe. I respect that.

    • @dealyzz1558
      @dealyzz1558 3 года назад +149

      @@moisuomi the French and the bulgarians are honorable mention for stopping the caliphate

    • @kaiser7013
      @kaiser7013 3 года назад +97

      We 4 are the Romans, I hope we will realize it one day

    • @dealyzz1558
      @dealyzz1558 3 года назад +34

      @@kaiser7013 everybody knows that don't worry

    • @kaiser7013
      @kaiser7013 3 года назад +30

      @@dealyzz1558 They know it, but they don't realize it

  • @Frieza000
    @Frieza000 3 года назад +133

    This song the most beautiful in this Chanel! I love it! Listening every day!!
    Respect from hungary 🇭🇺🇬🇷

    • @Ok-im8ey
      @Ok-im8ey 3 года назад +9

      Lmao im from greece and i listen to hungarian songs every day

    • @mrantipatia1872
      @mrantipatia1872 3 года назад +2

      Respect because of Hit as pic :)
      Dragon Ball Super impera

    • @Ok-im8ey
      @Ok-im8ey 3 года назад +1

      @Iustus Eques so?

    • @hungarymagyarorszag826
      @hungarymagyarorszag826 3 года назад +4

      Long live Greece from Hungary! 🇭🇺❤️🇬🇷

    • @hungarymagyarorszag826
      @hungarymagyarorszag826 3 года назад +1

      @@Ok-im8ey That's very good for you! ❤️❤️🕊️🕊️

  • @georgestefatos9594
    @georgestefatos9594 8 месяцев назад +22

    Αναπαυσου εν ειρήνη, άξιε βασιλέα! Η θυσία σου η παρακαταθήκη μας!

  • @gogamovie1144
    @gogamovie1144 3 года назад +157

    I really did cry when i read last words of Constantine XI

    • @piscator13optimus
      @piscator13optimus 3 года назад +27

      "As to surrendering the city to you, it is not for me to decide or for anyone else of its citizens; for all of us have reached the mutual decision to die of our own free will, without any regard for our lives."

    • @toucanmasterx
      @toucanmasterx 3 года назад +1

      @CALEB ALVAREZ i am Muslim but Byzantine empire was a chad empire

  • @tonyshortjohnn6446
    @tonyshortjohnn6446 3 года назад +298

    The composers name is " STAMATIS SPANOUDAKIS"... he has also wrote amazing songs about Alexander the great !!!

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +2

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) ..

    • @mattiacoglianese1906
      @mattiacoglianese1906 3 года назад +26

      @@Universal.. albanese aren't illyrians man...

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад

      @@mattiacoglianese1906 The greatest scientific authorities of the world have pronounced themselves on the INDIGENOUS and Illyrian origin of the Albanians.
      I will quote among others:
      - 🇩🇪 Gottfried Leibniz
      - 🇸🇪 Johann Thunmann
      - 🇩🇪 Ritter von Xilander
      - 🇩🇪 Franz Bopp
      - 🇩🇪 Jakob Fallmerayer
      - 🇩🇪 J, von Hahn
      - 🇩🇪 Paul Kretschner
      - 🇦🇹 Norbert Jokl
      - 🇦🇹Maximilian Lambertz
      - 🇬🇧 William Leak
      - 🇬🇧 Stewart Mann
      - 🇬🇧 Dane Holger Pedersen
      - 🇮🇹 Angelo Masci
      - 🇦🇹 G. Mayer, H. Olberg
      - 🇦🇹 R. Solta
      - 🇨🇵 A. Ducellier
      - 🇭🇷 Milan Šufflay
      - 🇭🇷 Radoslav. Katicic
      Etc ...

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад

      @@mattiacoglianese1906 From the beginning of the Paleolithic the territory of Illyria (formerly, from the two banks of the Danube to Epirus) was occupied by men as proven by numerous discoveries of which the Karprina caves dating from approximately 160.000 years (currently in Croatia), the Gjatan cave (in Albania near Shkodër), etc. .
      Eugene Pittard (🇫🇷) affirmed in 1916: "I have already said elsewhere that Albania seems to me to contain the most important archaeological and anthropological documents for what concerns the origins of the MOST ANCIENT POPULATIONS OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA; populations that, at the dawn of history, we see appear under the name of Illyrians!
      Sources : (The peoples of the Balkans, antropological sketches, Neuchâtel / Paris)

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад

      @@mattiacoglianese1906 Albanian tribal society has retained the ancient Illyrian social structure based on tribal units.
      Source:
      1 - Michael L. Galaty (2002). "Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System.
      Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs." In William A. Parkinson (ed.). The Archaeology of Tribal Societies.
      The remains of pre-Christian Albanian culture show that Albanian mythology and folklore are of Paleo-Balkan (Thraco-Illyrian) origin and that almost all their elements are pagan.
      Source: Bonefoy, Yves (1993). American, African and Old European Mythologies. University of Chicago Press. p. 253.

  • @matzeknodel11
    @matzeknodel11 3 года назад +577

    This legit gives chills.

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +5

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @ledoyedo5483
      @ledoyedo5483 3 года назад +35

      @@Universal.. don't forget Napoleon he was albanian also

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +3

      @@ledoyedo5483 In my list they are all Illyrians. (I gave you the source)
      Several of the most-outstanding emperors of the late Roman Empire were of Illyrian (🇦🇱) origin, including Claudius II Gothicus, AURELIAN, Diocletian, and Constantine the Great, most of whom were chosen by their own troops on the battlefield and later acclaimed by the Senate.
      Source : Illyria
      historical region, Europe,
      Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    • @peepeepoopoomyguy7457
      @peepeepoopoomyguy7457 3 года назад +2

      @@Universal.. aren't they from Rome,or shit like that.

    • @hxx214
      @hxx214 2 года назад

      @@Universal.. reported have fun making another account

  • @1chleuh
    @1chleuh 4 месяца назад +13

    big love and big respect, from France

  • @sir_weepi6549
    @sir_weepi6549 2 года назад +5665

    “As my city falls, I fall with it” -Κωνσταντίνος XI

    • @justinianthegreatandnerd6377
      @justinianthegreatandnerd6377 2 года назад +205

      @@Universal.. cap
      edit: ratio'd

    • @zacharybasil
      @zacharybasil 2 года назад +231

      A last emperor of romans dress like normal soldier because want enemy see him as soldiers not emperor. What a honourable ending for Romans. I can guarantee there are most leader will run away in that situation, but he brave enough to stay for his city

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 2 года назад +10

      @@LefYakuza In my list they are all Illyrians. (I gave you the source)
      Several of the most-outstanding emperors of the late Roman Empire were of Illyrian (🇦🇱) origin, including Claudius II Gothicus, AURELIAN, Diocletian, and Constantine the Great, most of whom were chosen by their own troops on the battlefield and later acclaimed by the Senate.
      Source 📜: Illyria
      historical region, Europe,
      Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 2 года назад +8

      The Illyrians are the ancestors of the current Albanians.
      The greatest scientific authorities of the world have pronounced themselves on the INDIGENOUS and Illyrian origin of the Albanians.
      I will quote among others:
      - 🇩🇪 Gottfried Leibniz
      - 🇸🇪 Johann Thunmann
      - 🇩🇪 Ritter von Xilander
      - 🇩🇪 Franz Bopp
      - 🇩🇪 Jakob Fallmerayer
      - 🇩🇪 J, von Hahn
      - 🇩🇪 Paul Kretschner
      - 🇦🇹 Norbert Jokl
      - 🇦🇹Maximilian Lambertz
      - 🇬🇧 William Leak
      - 🇬🇧 Stewart Mann
      - 🇬🇧 Dane Holger Pedersen
      - 🇮🇹 Angelo Masci
      - 🇦🇹 G. Mayer, H. Olberg
      - 🇦🇹 R. Solta
      - 🇨🇵 A. Ducellier
      - 🇭🇷 Milan Šufflay
      - 🇭🇷 Radoslav. Katicic
      Etc ...
      From the beginning of the Paleolithic the territory of Illyria (formerly, from the two banks of the Danube to Epirus) was occupied by men as proven by numerous discoveries of which the Karprina caves dating from approximately 160.000 years (currently in Croatia), the Gjatan cave (in Albania near Shkodër), etc. .
      Eugene Pittard (🇫🇷) affirmed in 1916: "I have already said elsewhere that Albania seems to me to contain the most important archaeological and anthropological documents for what concerns the origins of the MOST ANCIENT POPULATIONS OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA; populations that, at the dawn of history, we see appear under the name of Illyrians!
      Sources 📜 : (The peoples of the Balkans, antropological sketches, Neuchâtel / Paris)

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 2 года назад +4

      First of all I open a parenthesis about the name of Albania or Albanians quoted by Strabo (around 58-21/25) in the 1st century BC and Claudius Ptolemy (around 100 - 170 AD) in the 2nd century AD.
      It derives from the name of an Illyrian tribe, the Albanoi, which was located around the city of Albanopolis (now Zgërdhesh located in the region of Krujë).
      Moreover, even today, a region of Albania, from the north of Tirana (between the rivers Mat and Erzen), is called Albëni (gheg dialect) or Arbëri (tosk dialect).
      But this name Albanoi with its various variants (Arbanites, Arvanites, Arvanitis, Arvanos, Arban, Arbani, Arbanon, Arnavuts, Arnauts, Arbëri, Arbër, Arbëni, Arbën, Albën, Albanois, or Albanians) really began to spread when the Albanian territories became a field of hostility and a buffer zone between Byzantines and the new Slavic invaders (Serbs, Croats etc.. ...) towards the beginning of the seventh century AD.
      Several writers of the eleventh century, including Michel Attaliate and Jean Skyltzes, have recounted this kind of confrontation and widely spoken of these Albanian mountain tribes.
      It is the Angevin chancelleries (Charles I of Anjou, brother of St Louis, proclaimed himself king of Albania in 1272) which, in the 13th century, conveyed the name of Albanian or Albanians, which spread rapidly, like wildfire, throughout Europe.
      It should be noted that the Albanians never use this name (Albanian) to designate their own ethnic group: they call themselves Shqiptar, that is to say son or child of the eagle.
      Source📜 : Albanais: histoire du Moyen Age au XXe s, P.54, Mathieu AREF (Histoire et langue) ou l'incroyable Odyssée d'un peuple préhellénique.

  • @Raantas
    @Raantas 3 года назад +1312

    I've listened to this for like 5 hours now

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 4 года назад +115

    It's actually an anthem to the last Βασιλεῖ, αὐτοκράτορι τῶν Ῥωμαίων. (Basileus, emperor of the Romans). This really brings back memories from the happy times of primary school. Thanks man 👍

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 4 года назад +2

      @@angelmapping6086 Ορίστε;

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 4 года назад +6

      @@angelmapping6086 Well, Κωνσταντίνος ὁ ΙΑ' Δραγάτσης-Παλαιολόγος (Constantine the XI, Dragatsis-Palaiologos), the last emperor of the Roman Greeks, called his people "the rightful descendants of the Romans and the Hellenes". So hey, you can be both! Hellas is out fatherland, our nation, music, language and tradition. Rome is our politeia, our laws of freedom and justice, the one everlasting empire, destined to bring the entire cosmos to Glory, and our Christian faith. 👍

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 4 года назад +3

      @UCDVzvvljr9PkxFu-dD-suQg Αυτή είναι η αντιγεγραμμένη απάντηση που έδωσα σε άλλον όταν είπε κάτι παρόμοιο. Δεν "εξισώνω", ούτε "υποτιμώ" κανέναν. Είμαι υπέρ της Και του ελληνικού πολιτισμού και έθνους, σε όποια του παρελθοντική, και εύχομαι μελλοντική μορφή. Απλώς, η "Ρώμη" είναι ένας τίτλος, ένα πρεστίζ που είχαμε ακόμη και μέχρι μέρος του περασμένου αιώνα. Μην πετάς την ιστορία μας όπου αυτή μπορεί να μην σου αρέσει. Εγώ αγαπώ τον ελληνισμό ακόμη και υπό άλλο όνομα. Γι'αυτό άλλωστε και δεν ντρέπομαι ποτέ όταν ακούω για τον Μέγα Αλέξανδρο τον Μακεδόνα και τις μεγάλες του εκστρατείες. Γιατί αποτέλεσε και αυτό ένα ένδοξο κεφάλαιο της ιστορίας μας, ακόμη και υπό άλλο όνομα.
      Δεν νομίζω πως διαφωνούμε με κάτι το ουσιαστικό. Ίσα ίσα, θα έλεγα πως ταυτιζόμαστε κάπως ιδεολογικά. Μην δημιουργείς έριδες εκ του μη όντως με τους συμμάχους σου για λεπτομέρειες.

    • @georgios_5342
      @georgios_5342 4 года назад +8

      @@angelmapping6086 Άρα, αποτάσσεσαι παντός του βυζαντινού/ρωμαϊκού μας παρελθόντος;
      Όχι, δεν θεωρώ πως οι Έλληνες είναι ο ανώτερος λαός. Κάνουμε κι εμείς τα λάθη μας άλλωστε. Και, αν ήμασταν όντως ο υπέρτατος λαός, δεν θα είχαμε κατακτηθεί ξανά και ξανά. Σέβομαι κάθε έθνος, αλλά με τον σεβασμό που απορρέει από αυτήν την θέση, ως Έλληνας, θα υπερασπιστώ μέχρι θανάτου το ελληνικό, την επιβίωσή του, και την πρόοδο και ευημερία αυτού.

    • @alx1138
      @alx1138 4 года назад +3

      @@angelmapping6086 Δεν μπορώ να πάρω στα σοβαρά άνθρωπο που μιλάει για ανωτερότητα ενός λαού υπέρ των άλλων. Τι ανώτερο έχουμε οι Έλληνες; Λες και επιστημονική και κοινωνική εξέλιξη δεν υπήρξε πέρα από τον ελλαδικό χώρο. Οι ίδιοι οι Έλληνες καταγράφουν των θαυμασμό τους για την Αίγυπτο, την Περσία, την Ρώμη. Η τελευταία ήταν ίσως η πιο λαμπρή αυτοκρατορία που υπήρξε, για αυτό και οι Έλληνες ήταν περήφανοι πολίτες της. Επειδή δεν ήταν υπόδουλοι μα γίναν αξιότιμα μέλη της. Για αυτό εμείς οι Έλληνες πρέπει να είμαστε περήφανοι για την ελληνορωμαϊκή παράδοση μας, η οποία είναι η βάση του σύγχρονου κόσμου. Άσε που είναι τελείως ανόητο να μιλάμε για Έλληνες με αμετάβλητο γενετικό κώδικα.

  • @Nordsan
    @Nordsan 4 месяца назад +11

    This is the most epic song I have ever heard, so much emotion and passion. Long live Constantinople, sister of Rome

  • @epicmansteingaming452
    @epicmansteingaming452 2 года назад +4369

    I’m not even Greek, but this makes me patriotic towards Greece.

    • @Eazy-ERyder
      @Eazy-ERyder 2 года назад +73

      Me too!

    • @arelishidden
      @arelishidden 2 года назад +275

      Bro I'm a Turkish dude and this even makes me patriotic towards greece

    • @ozguraydn8407
      @ozguraydn8407 2 года назад +18

      @@arelishidden Allah Ayasofyanin cami ye çevrilmesini göremeden ölen dedene sabır versin

    • @arelishidden
      @arelishidden 2 года назад +32

      @@ozguraydn8407 bu kötü bişeymiydi yoksa iyimi?

    • @EtruscanTURK-fs9nn
      @EtruscanTURK-fs9nn 2 года назад +15

      Don’t cry my brothers
      Because Istanbul Still Roman Hands from Turks 👑
      Etruscans 🇹🇷
      Founder of Rome 🇹🇷
      Latin Alfhabet Etruscan Origin 🇹🇷☺️
      First Civilization 🇹🇷
      Etruscan King Tarkhon 🇹🇷 (Tarkan) 😉
      3 Roman Kings Etruscan Origin 🇹🇷Turkish Rome Kings 👑
      Lucius Tarquinius Priscus 🇹🇷
      Lucius Tarquinius Superbus 🇹🇷
      And Servius Tullius 🇹🇷
      Aeneas 🇹🇷
      And Hector 🇹🇷 also Turkish 👑
      In 2004, all the facts were revealed with the dna test conducted by Italian Professors 🇮🇹 . Etruscan 🇹🇷 skeletons completely matched with Anatolian Turkish people 🇹🇷
      The alphabet used by the whole world today is the Latin alphabet of Etruscan origin 🇹🇷 (this is civilization, my Greek brothers 😉)
      The asphalt roads in Italy, where our Italian brothers travel today, are a source of pride for us.
      Do you know why Turks make the most beautiful music? 🎧 Because we Master Music artists are descendants of Etruscans. 🇹🇷🔥😉

  • @someoneintheworld4671
    @someoneintheworld4671 3 года назад +822

    This song makes me question why Sabaton still hasn't made a song about the fall of Constantinople.

    • @DASagent
      @DASagent 3 года назад +89

      They haven't even made a song about Rome. Civil war have one Rome is falling. Turisas have a lot of songs about the Byzantine período, like March of the varangian guard.

    • @PyrusTitaniumDragonoid
      @PyrusTitaniumDragonoid 3 года назад +46

      bcz they like singing about ww2 more but you are right this event deserves song or songs :)

    • @salociin7887
      @salociin7887 3 года назад +83

      In all honesty, probably because they're concerned about being banned from Turkey due to the Erdogan government.

    • @DarkPsychoMessiah
      @DarkPsychoMessiah 3 года назад +20

      They are barely scratching the surface of WW2

    • @psychoperxtor
      @psychoperxtor 3 года назад +14

      @@DASagent Turisas also has a song about the fall of Constantinople

  • @icefishing6592
    @icefishing6592 Год назад +522

    Very moving song making me cry. As a Chinese, with huge respect to Greek culture and history, wish the best for the Greek people.

    • @SpartanLeonidas1821
      @SpartanLeonidas1821 Год назад +39

      🇬🇷❤️🇨🇳 Greetings from distant Xila!

    • @SimgeZaim
      @SimgeZaim 10 месяцев назад +8

      Free uyghur 💙💙💙

    • @helioslegigantosaure6939
      @helioslegigantosaure6939 10 месяцев назад +15

      ​@@SimgeZaimnah

    • @HallingtonA
      @HallingtonA 9 месяцев назад +11

      do you gotta say that everytime someone mentions they're chinese? @@SimgeZaim

    • @fayHoran
      @fayHoran 9 месяцев назад +21

      ​@@SimgeZaimfree Constantinople and Cyprus

  • @zaranski1889
    @zaranski1889 9 месяцев назад +362

    He chose to fight till his death together with his army than run away with a ship. True emperor 🇬🇷❤️🇧🇷

    • @Nagvanshieus
      @Nagvanshieus 5 месяцев назад

      Big L😂

    • @zaranski1889
      @zaranski1889 5 месяцев назад

      @@Nagvanshieus L stands for what? Lick your German boss balls?

    • @naevithekittycat
      @naevithekittycat 4 месяца назад +17

      @Nagvanshieus, kid, not like you could even board a ship 💀

    • @josefstalin4526
      @josefstalin4526 3 месяца назад

      Brazil is not white

    • @BesiktasSevdalisi187
      @BesiktasSevdalisi187 2 месяца назад +3

      Bir korkak gibi ölmektense kahraman olarak ölmeyi tercih etti

  • @alinazari9272
    @alinazari9272 2 года назад +2512

    I am Iranian and despite the fact that Greeks and Iranians fought from the beginning this is so sad.
    Rest in peace to Constantine XI, one of the greatest chads in history.
    I wish Greeks a great future

    • @dunyamkucuk9193
      @dunyamkucuk9193 2 года назад +33

      Dear my neighbor Ali are you sad for fighting Turks?

    • @alinazari9272
      @alinazari9272 2 года назад +148

      @@dunyamkucuk9193 I don't get it. Iran had its fair share of Turkic sultans who were persianized and helped unifying Iran but genetically they were still Turks. Ottomans were a different story though. They attacked Iran and Iranians defended their lands against them. But that's been long past.
      So if you consider us friends we shall consider you friends too.

    • @dunyamkucuk9193
      @dunyamkucuk9193 2 года назад +36

      @@alinazari9272understood. Sometimes I pray to the Ottomans, who take care of our Bosnian brothers and help them convert to Islam. Muslims should not treat each other badly.

    • @ersinduygu3387
      @ersinduygu3387 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/oV_E3heEN1E/видео.html

    • @thelandofkamarda6875
      @thelandofkamarda6875 2 года назад +44

      @@dunyamkucuk9193 I am Bosniak Muslim Inshallah long live islam

  • @ИгорьПак-т9б
    @ИгорьПак-т9б 2 года назад +881

    Greece is the last place where the Roman spirit still lingers on, for that alone this country deserves my respect.

    • @nurgulsen2590
      @nurgulsen2590 2 года назад +4

      dont forvet turkey >:))))))

    • @josephstalin325
      @josephstalin325 2 года назад +156

      When i went to Greece he byzantine flag was literally everywhere

    • @g1u2y345
      @g1u2y345 2 года назад +93

      @@nurgulsen2590 😂🤣

    • @xKingBilly_
      @xKingBilly_ 2 года назад

      @@nurgulsen2590 You are as much Romans as Germans are Chinese -> 0

    • @Pyotr-j7e
      @Pyotr-j7e 2 года назад +44

      @@nurgulsen2590 good one buddy

  • @brucewayne1405
    @brucewayne1405 3 года назад +2558

    When - during the greek revolution - a british naval commander named Cordington suggested to Kolokotronis that the greeks should come to terms with the Turks, Kolokotronis replied: "Our king did not come to terms."
    This was Constantine's legacy.
    No surrender

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +25

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @fortified6778
      @fortified6778 3 года назад +213

      @@Universal.. we wuz illyrians, byzantines, romans,pelasgians, epirotes, ottomans n shieet

    • @generalalexandrospapagos325
      @generalalexandrospapagos325 3 года назад +194

      @@Universal.. Bro you've got 1k+ comments on this channel, most are you just trying to spread fake lies about Greeks 😂😂 Go get a life my man.

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 3 года назад +7

      @@generalalexandrospapagos325 I am not lying because I give you the main sources of these emperors.
      In my list they are all Illyrians. (I gave you the source)
      Several of the most-outstanding emperors of the late Roman Empire were of Illyrian (🇦🇱) origin, including Claudius II Gothicus, Aurelian, Diocletian, and Constantine the Great, most of whom were chosen by their own troops on the battlefield and later acclaimed by the Senate.
      Source : Illyria
      historical region, Europe,
      Encyclopaedia Britannica.
      You're just jealous.
      (No wonder because most Greeks are jealous of the ancestors of the Albanians)

    • @SuperStriker7US
      @SuperStriker7US 3 года назад +43

      ​@@Universal.. Maybe, but regardless modern Albania has been turned into a barbaric nation by the Ottomans, which is Islamic and fights against the rest of proper western civilization. Albania gay Skanderbeg rolling in his grave rn :C

  • @soulofsouthernvietnam
    @soulofsouthernvietnam 19 дней назад +2

    01:35 "Ακούγοντας το 'Θά 'ρθεις σαν αστραπή' αισθάνθηκα τη δύναμη και τη μελαγχολία που αποτυπώνει τόσο όμορφα την πτώση της Κωνσταντινούπολης. Οι στίχοι και η μελωδία συνδυάζονται υπέροχα, δημιουργώντας μια συγκινητική και ιστορική εμπειρία. Συγχαρητήρια για την εξαιρετική σας δουλειά! 🇬🇷✨"

  • @foreverkid2930
    @foreverkid2930 3 года назад +3930

    Most people don't understand that because Constantine fought till the end with his soldiers, he made himself a beacon of hope for Greeks throughout the ottoman empire's rule. This was one of the reasons 1821 war of independence happened as also and the previous attempts.
    Honestly, as a Greek the feels you get when you realize that are unspeakable.
    Edit: after many months I see that my comment started many extremely controversial topics. I remined everyone that we do not choose how we feel in life but we can choose what emotions we embrace. Firstly, I am half Arbanitis which for ME and personally means I'm like a lost brother from Albanians. Secondly, If my country told me we are going to conquer Istanbul I would not join. Why would I want to kill people? Don't take it wrong It's not that I don't love my country it's that I don't hate any country. Past is the past. You can observe in languages, in customs, in clothes, in religion, even in the movement of our hands that what unites us is stronger than what divides us. Adiós!

    • @papahairy5315
      @papahairy5315 3 года назад +227

      Even now, the legend of the marble emperor lives on.

    • @keyos1955
      @keyos1955 3 года назад +77

      Byzantines were not Greeks, they were Romans

    • @theodiscusgaming3909
      @theodiscusgaming3909 3 года назад +190

      @@keyos1955 same difference

    • @MAGNUS15Pros
      @MAGNUS15Pros 3 года назад +231

      @@keyos1955 at that point they were basically Greeks

    • @keyos1955
      @keyos1955 3 года назад +21

      @@MAGNUS15Pros They never became Greeks, it's only a old fairytale someone taught yoi

  • @tobinfreeman51
    @tobinfreeman51 3 года назад +310

    Constantinople isn’t dead it’s in our hearts

    • @naser766
      @naser766 3 года назад +12

      BLAH BLAH BLAH

    • @alexsifounas3005
      @alexsifounas3005 3 года назад +31

      The greek myth say ''The king is sleeping and we waiting for him to wake''

    • @CglravgHRjsksgS
      @CglravgHRjsksgS 3 года назад +9

      And it will be free again soon...God will destroy the conquerors. Their time has come...

    • @vadimsickomode3925
      @vadimsickomode3925 3 года назад +18

      @@naser766 turk offended :3

    • @jewelsoup4110
      @jewelsoup4110 3 года назад +2

      I think you mean Istanbul

  • @vejtil5769
    @vejtil5769 2 года назад +2180

    As a Chinese, I really respect Greeks for having such splendid history. I wish Greeks can have a great future.

    • @bongokingbull8910
      @bongokingbull8910 2 года назад +1

      @masterdolphin356 shut up, western roman was roman not eastern (byzantine) eastern was greek

    • @Usera2324dfre
      @Usera2324dfre Год назад +30

      @masterdolphin 35 and then you woke up

    • @GreeceHist
      @GreeceHist Год назад +66

      Thank you from Greece :))

    • @sgourkon8742
      @sgourkon8742 Год назад +10

      ​@masterdolphin 35 Roman only in name!

    • @mrantipatia1872
      @mrantipatia1872 Год назад +36

      we say in Italy.
      Glory to China and its humble though wonderful people

  • @JonathanBresnihan77
    @JonathanBresnihan77 10 месяцев назад +13

  • @khosrownasiri5261
    @khosrownasiri5261 2 года назад +1396

    As an Iranian I'm sorrowful for what happened to our ancient archrival
    Greatest respect from a Persian guy

    • @dunyamkucuk9193
      @dunyamkucuk9193 2 года назад +19

      Don't worry Truth hath come vanished away 🇹🇷❤🇮🇷

    • @AnakinSkywaIkr
      @AnakinSkywaIkr 2 года назад +133

      We love Iran 🇬🇷♥️🇮🇷

    • @ioannis7744
      @ioannis7744 2 года назад +80

      We respect the ancient and glorious Persian people. According to mythology the first king of Persia was Perseus , son of Zeus.

    • @GCarty80
      @GCarty80 2 года назад +6

      Who was it who said that the Byzantine emperors owed more to Xerxes than to Pericles?

    • @SpartanLeonidas1821
      @SpartanLeonidas1821 2 года назад +53

      Greetings Persian Friend! We Greeks respect your culture & civilization! Truly a worthy adversary in all fields! 🇬🇷🇮🇷

  • @eliehoue
    @eliehoue 3 года назад +148

    "The city has fallen ! The city has fallen !" Man that hurts !

    • @shelleymaria2850
      @shelleymaria2850 3 года назад +2

      I know, it's extremely sad

    • @C4shaRaM4
      @C4shaRaM4 3 года назад +3

      @hiOOxkr magkis keep larping pagan

    • @MrZZooh
      @MrZZooh 3 года назад

      As it should.

    • @tk5gqj514
      @tk5gqj514 3 года назад +1

      Not if you are a Turk :)

    • @xavierrealmadrid7420
      @xavierrealmadrid7420 3 года назад +1

      the continent has fallen!, our discoveries and routes are fallen!! (many spaniards watching how his creations fall). so... istanbul is greek and the whole american continent is spanish

  • @karlzzzyzz
    @karlzzzyzz 3 года назад +2086

    I'm not even Greek or orthodox , but this song Hit me harder than a Truck

    • @HatterTobias
      @HatterTobias 3 года назад +18

      are you an indonesian? your name sounds like you're a guy from a batak descent

    • @theduckmuchim7023
      @theduckmuchim7023 3 года назад +60

      Yea, also harder than turk

    • @karlzzzyzz
      @karlzzzyzz 3 года назад +8

      @@HatterTobias yep , 100% Batak

    • @karlzzzyzz
      @karlzzzyzz 3 года назад +4

      @@HatterTobias are you a Batak ?

    • @HatterTobias
      @HatterTobias 3 года назад +3

      @@karlzzzyzz yeah

  • @MarcelliusEgnatiusVII
    @MarcelliusEgnatiusVII 18 дней назад +19

    Fun fact to the people who chant "Istanbul": Constantinople was never called such until the 1930's, a few years after the Ottoman Empire collapsed. From 1453-1930, the city was referred to by the Otto's and briefly the Turkish Republic as Konstantiniyye. Even then, the name Istanbul comes from the Greek phrase stim poli (στην Πόλι), which means "in the city".

    • @adrianarivoltella5940
      @adrianarivoltella5940 17 дней назад +4

      Quindi non è sbagliato chiamarla ancora Costantinopoli.

    • @ugifr9538
      @ugifr9538 15 дней назад +2

      Ottomans kept calling the city konstantinniye out of respect to the empire and emperror, it was only chanced when western forces pushed and funded greece towards making claims on a city conquered 500 years ago. Also this is not the only example where ottomans kept the name of the city, for example, Ankara (the capital) comes from the word anchorra, anchor. It was not chanced because there were no need to unlike Istanbul.

    • @MarcelliusEgnatiusVII
      @MarcelliusEgnatiusVII 13 дней назад

      @@ugifr9538Ankara was previously called Ancyra, meaning anchor in Greek/Latin.

    • @DochiKnowi
      @DochiKnowi 11 дней назад +1

      ​@@ugifr9538
      >City conquered 500 years ago
      Which still had a ton of greeks

  • @commonwealthrealm
    @commonwealthrealm 3 года назад +2179

    I hope Dovahhatty ends his Unbiased Rome + Byzantium series when reaching 1453 and the Fall of Constantinople with this song. Would be such an epic end to ROME. The greatest empire in the history of humanity. From where we got our modern civilized world!

    • @lordvermillion7722
      @lordvermillion7722 3 года назад +45

      That would be Epic

    • @Normal_Boii
      @Normal_Boii 3 года назад +69

      Based

    • @zersky495
      @zersky495 3 года назад +19

      I thought about that exact thing too

    • @fakehesap1731
      @fakehesap1731 3 года назад +76

      >historical
      >unbiased
      pick one

    • @twiddlerat9920
      @twiddlerat9920 3 года назад +108

      can't, hell be deleted off youtube for portraying anything islamic in a negative manner

  • @cpegg5840
    @cpegg5840 4 года назад +311

    Little known fact: There were 2 or 3 Turkish princes who had been raised as hostages in Constantinople that fought for Byzantines; Mehmed executed them as traitors

    • @guneso4783
      @guneso4783 4 года назад +31

      As Turk that we learn it as that they were brothers and they would fight for throne when he escaped to constontinapole and instabilizing the goverment they were gonna die anyways

    • @varangiangaming7178
      @varangiangaming7178 4 года назад +11

      Glory to those fallen heroes long may they rest in eternal peace

    • @empireofsealand1865
      @empireofsealand1865 4 года назад +7

      they are real reason of Fall/Conquest of Constantinople. Constantin asked more money for them and Mehmed refused then attacked them

    • @kikieleutheriadou1661
      @kikieleutheriadou1661 4 года назад

      @@varangiangaming7178 discord.com/invite/xV7fMRT

    • @kikieleutheriadou1661
      @kikieleutheriadou1661 4 года назад

      @@guneso4783 discord.com/invite/xV7fMRT

  • @AlreadyTakenTag
    @AlreadyTakenTag 3 года назад +2545

    How to make a historian cry:
    *plays this*

    • @ferdinand8994
      @ferdinand8994 3 года назад +9

      Unrelated, what map is that ?

    • @AlreadyTakenTag
      @AlreadyTakenTag 3 года назад +97

      @@ferdinand8994 that's the map of the city of constantinople hundreds of years ago

    • @ferdinand8994
      @ferdinand8994 3 года назад +7

      @@AlreadyTakenTag thx

    • @unknown-qx8yq
      @unknown-qx8yq 3 года назад +18

      Christian*

    • @orthodoxouwatje4632
      @orthodoxouwatje4632 3 года назад +52

      @@unknown-qx8yq nope, just an educated historian.

  • @PabloCeldran
    @PabloCeldran 6 месяцев назад +130

    As every year I come back to show my respects to Constantinople (330-1453)

    • @mihai7872
      @mihai7872 6 месяцев назад +10

      ​@ataturkjugendnahh its just the saddest day in history

    • @AverageRomaboo
      @AverageRomaboo 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@mihai7872real

  • @markcana2917
    @markcana2917 3 года назад +3443

    Catholics: lets take jerusalem
    Orthodox: let's take constantinople

    • @utubrGaming
      @utubrGaming 3 года назад +530

      Coptics: We'll take Alexandria.
      Assyrians: We'll take Antioch.
      All of them: We'll take Jerusalem

    • @davidphills3719
      @davidphills3719 3 года назад +51

      Yeah because Jerusalem holds more important moron. Especially to God's people.

    • @arnavkumar907
      @arnavkumar907 3 года назад +260

      Protestants : let's take vatican

    • @pixistypses5406
      @pixistypses5406 3 года назад +97

      shia muslims:we'll take mecca and medina

    • @docm7583
      @docm7583 3 года назад +24

      ✡🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

  • @lordvermillion7722
    @lordvermillion7722 3 года назад +3312

    Being a Greek with Roots from Asia Minor this song slaps harder than my father's belt

    • @christosgiannopoulos828
      @christosgiannopoulos828 3 года назад +168

      Bro that's double sad

    • @cypriotguy2217
      @cypriotguy2217 3 года назад +167

      I have roots from Σμήρνη "izmir"

    • @lordvermillion7722
      @lordvermillion7722 3 года назад +145

      @@cypriotguy2217 I have from Αϊδίνιο "Aydin"

    • @chuck_norris42
      @chuck_norris42 3 года назад +304

      Hello from Turkey. If you want to come Aydın. We are happy about it. Every land is belong humanity. I always wanted Hagia Sophia to stay as it is.
      This is my governments mistake. I hope we can be friends one day.

    • @cypriotguy2217
      @cypriotguy2217 3 года назад +117

      @@chuck_norris42 man what anyone of my family says about the turks i dont care i LOVE your cuisine and culture that mix of turckic and muslim your architecture is beutiful i hope someday our politics calm down a bit and be allies

  • @krazy167
    @krazy167 2 года назад +130

    Im not even greek but damn this gives me the chills, Also Constatine XI is a gigachad

  • @artemgorew
    @artemgorew 6 месяцев назад +117

    Touching song. Much love to my Orthodox☦ brothers from Russia. 🇷🇺🤝🇬🇷

    • @sevenpuHouvidim335
      @sevenpuHouvidim335 6 месяцев назад +9

      The Third Rome will never forget the Second

    • @euphoria598
      @euphoria598 5 месяцев назад +3

      Russians also tried to conquer but they failed it 😂

    • @artemgorew
      @artemgorew 5 месяцев назад +11

      @euphoria598 Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774) - Russian victory
      Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792) - Russian victory
      Russo-Turkish War 1806-1812 - Russian victory
      Russo-Turkish War(1828-1829) - Russian victory
      Crimean War (1853-1856)- Ottoman, British and French victory
      Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) - Russian victory

    • @euphoria598
      @euphoria598 5 месяцев назад

      @@artemgorew stupis a gayreek i meant when it was byzantine russians failed KNOW YOUR OWN HİSTORY DAMN

    • @euphoria598
      @euphoria598 5 месяцев назад

      @@artemgorew stupid a b i was talking about byzantine and russians KNOW YOUR OWN HİSTORY DAMN

  • @youarebeautiful7876
    @youarebeautiful7876 3 года назад +192

    Greetings from Romania, orthodox brothers
    🇷🇴🤗🇬🇷
    May we shall meet again❤❤

    • @mohammedghassan8522
      @mohammedghassan8522 3 года назад +5

      You may meet of course, but only as a tourists in hagia sofia mosque 🕌😉

    • @smene5095
      @smene5095 3 года назад +6

      @@mohammedghassan8522 wow amazing answering bro😂⚡

    • @romanianpatriot303
      @romanianpatriot303 3 года назад +9

      @@mohammedghassan8522 raged

    • @nicolashadjinicolaou4429
      @nicolashadjinicolaou4429 3 года назад +4

      @@mohammedghassan8522 remember this words bro when you will see thousand candles burning again in hagia sofia and our prayers you will understand

    • @mohammedghassan8522
      @mohammedghassan8522 3 года назад

      @Anninos Christoforou_ orthodoxy the only truth orthodoxism has died after revolution in Moscow 1917

  • @marioalmansa3655
    @marioalmansa3655 2 года назад +321

    As a Spain citizien i listen to this before working out, because i feel very proud my country Spain was a province of the ancient Roman Empire and i feel sad about this song because Byzantine Empire was the true succesor of Rome, the ancient western Europe was very CHAD.

    • @AA-dh5gt
      @AA-dh5gt 2 года назад +2

      Spain was alnduls

    • @g1u2y345
      @g1u2y345 2 года назад +27

      Not only successor, it was the continuation. When the west fell, the Romans in the East continued on. There was never a break in Roman rule up until the 4th crusade in the 1200s.

    • @ElHeraldoHispano
      @ElHeraldoHispano 2 года назад +18

      We are the titular successors of Rome.
      The Catholic Monarchs bought in 1502 the title of Roman Emperor to Andreas Palaiologos, the last titular ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire.
      Felipe VI still holds that title.

    • @g1u2y345
      @g1u2y345 2 года назад +5

      @@ElHeraldoHispano The title died with Constantine. Any other successors held a title with no real meaning. The Pope recognized the HRE as the Roman Empire, Catholics would likely not recognize the Palaiologos claim.

    • @ElHeraldoHispano
      @ElHeraldoHispano 2 года назад +9

      @@g1u2y345 But yet, the Spanish Monarchs bear the Roman Emperor title anyway, handed by the rightful Roman Emperor himself. Doesn't matter whether it is just a futile _de iure_ claim, the thing is that they hold that title.

  • @ethienneloine
    @ethienneloine 4 года назад +103

    Very beautiful and powerful song!! Greeting from Serbia 🇷🇸💓🇬🇷✊🏽

    • @abdulkadireroz6393
      @abdulkadireroz6393 4 года назад +1

      powerful?

    • @ilhambasudara8616
      @ilhambasudara8616 4 года назад +1

      Noob poor country

    • @mustafakemalataturk7337
      @mustafakemalataturk7337 4 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/SKFCs5m19pQ/видео.html
      Gli Etruschi Erano Turchı🇹🇷
      İstanbul 3000 Year Turkısh City
      Prof: MARİO ALİNEİ 🇮🇹😉 !

    • @Elbruhman6456
      @Elbruhman6456 4 года назад +4

      @@mustafakemalataturk7337
      1st. The ottoman empire never lived that long
      2nd. Constnatinople belonged to the byzantines more than the turks
      3rd. get fact'd you butthurt turk

    • @piscator13optimus
      @piscator13optimus 3 года назад +3

      Orthodox brothers!

  • @thevillager8339
    @thevillager8339 9 месяцев назад +981

    Girls with a time machine:
    -Hi I'm your granddaughter
    -Vow really
    Boys with a time machine:
    -Hi Palaliogos
    -Yeah i brought another 30 000 men in case you needed them

    • @RodrigoUF
      @RodrigoUF 9 месяцев назад +49

      I thought I was alone in the thought

    • @RodrigoUF
      @RodrigoUF 9 месяцев назад +9

      😅 were more than 1

    • @Kelek02
      @Kelek02 9 месяцев назад +27

      Delaying the inevitable:/

    • @Javerr
      @Javerr 9 месяцев назад

      If:
      >You Win, You change history enough to prevent the discovery of america.
      >You Lose, nothing changes but more casualties

    • @MithraRu
      @MithraRu 8 месяцев назад +101

      ​@@Kelek02 least extremist turk