Ten Minute History - The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Birth of the Balkans (Short Documentary)

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  • Опубликовано: 16 апр 2018
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    This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire from the turn of the nineteenth century to its end in 1923. The first half covers the empire's struggles up until the Crimean War and the second sees the empire catastrophic fall including the Balkan Wars and of course the First World War.
    Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.
    Recommended books:
    Douglas A Howard - A History of the Ottoman Empire (2017) - Genuinely a phenomenal introduction which covers the entire empire. There are a few things he tends to gloss over, most notably Balkan independence movements.
    Caroline Finkel - Osman's Dream: A History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 (2006). Another great overview book, more detailed than the above but harder to get into, is particularly good at covering the Sultans and their ministers.
    Donald Quataert - The Ottoman Empire 1700-1922 (2005). A really good overview, it's shorter than the other two and does a great job covering Egypt. Has very good insights into the legacy of the Ottoman Empire as well which many books tend to lack.

Комментарии • 3,8 тыс.

  • @HistoryMatters
    @HistoryMatters  6 лет назад +872

    Vote for the next episode here:
    www.strawpoll.me/15524347

    • @herbert4725
      @herbert4725 6 лет назад +4

      Ten Minute History you make great videos

    • @yasirtaher0919
      @yasirtaher0919 6 лет назад +8

      Can you do the Vietnam war plz I want to learn more about it

    • @royharel2147
      @royharel2147 6 лет назад +2

      Can you make a video elaborating more on the Crimean War at some point?

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 6 лет назад +1

      I'm really hoping for one about Africa. My dad was born there.

    • @kushia4002
      @kushia4002 6 лет назад +2

      Please can you do a video on the English Civil War?

  • @LOLERXP
    @LOLERXP 2 года назад +1845

    The sultans truly honored their title Kayser-i-Rum by keeping alive the Roman emperors' tradition of being overthrown every 5 seconds.

    • @mertcebeci26
      @mertcebeci26 Год назад +162

      I can give you even a better statistic: Ottoman Empire had 36 sultans throughout it’s lifespan and 12 of them was overthrown. That’s a solid 33% rate of overthrowing lol

    • @juwebles4352
      @juwebles4352 Год назад +27

      @@mertcebeci26 I wonder what the rate of overthrowing was for rome lol

    • @jamesson1154
      @jamesson1154 Год назад +26

      @@juwebles4352 I’d wager much higher, too lazy to google search. I’ll wait for the answer lol.

    • @fallingskies8991
      @fallingskies8991 Год назад

      @@jamesson1154 For the Roman Emperors until the fall of Western Rome:
      34-44% were assassinated (or suspected of being assassinated) and 14% were executed,
      Thus making that a 48-58% chance of being retired from life by your own people.
      Then 9% of Emperors died on the battle field, and 4% committed suicide.
      So if you were the lucky 29%, you might have died of natural causes, like good old TB!

    • @chillmemes5865
      @chillmemes5865 Год назад

      @@jamesson1154 About 20% of their emperors were assassinated

  • @Isildun9
    @Isildun9 6 лет назад +7063

    Fun Fact: The Ottomans were the only member the Central Powers from World War 1 that actually managed to overthrow the treaty they had signed at the end of the war and renegotiated for a better deal.

    • @KizanTM
      @KizanTM 5 лет назад +26

      @@Bobelponge123 xD

    • @lisvit3887
      @lisvit3887 5 лет назад +72

      @asaeampan ooh wow you can figure out that 1 of 4 is 25%, also I wasn't saying what they did was not impressive because it sure was but saying it out of the 4 members doesn't make it sound any more impressive. What I was saying is that if there would've been more members it would have made it even more rare.

    • @drzoidberg844
      @drzoidberg844 5 лет назад +8

      asaeampan If you went to the Ozarks the rabbits would probably take you down it would be too much to Handle for a slim city boy. Hillbilly’s would beat your ass and then show you how to properly build tables and install wireless routers

    • @thedood7859
      @thedood7859 5 лет назад +41

      Greeks tried to take some more land.

    • @turkisheurovisionfansince2416
      @turkisheurovisionfansince2416 5 лет назад +5

      The DooD but in the end they didn’t

  • @StuartLynx
    @StuartLynx 3 года назад +3843

    Imagine how crazy it must have been for someone born in the Balcans in the 1860s to live long enough to see the 1960s

    • @treshampton9822
      @treshampton9822 2 года назад +482

      Bro I think about stuff like this all the time. We all wanna act like time distances us greatly when in fact we all are more similar then we think. Our lives are short, it’s important not too forget our history.

    • @nalat1suket4nk0
      @nalat1suket4nk0 2 года назад +47

      Wow that's crazy omg, i- damn

    • @Godslayer5656
      @Godslayer5656 2 года назад +420

      Imagine someone in Bosnia, going from the ottomans, to Austria Hungary, to Yugoslavia. WW1, WW2, the interwar and post war period, must have been nuts.

    • @tonys9397
      @tonys9397 2 года назад +190

      Given the volatility of the region there’s a good chance you’d die but I’m certain there were some people who lived around that much

    • @nikzombi
      @nikzombi 2 года назад +57

      most probably wouldn't be able to survive because of the slaughtering and/or wars but yeah... imagine

  • @izzybrizzie9133
    @izzybrizzie9133 3 года назад +510

    1:55
    To dissolve them is an understatement, the mad lad literally fired artillery shells on the jannisery barracks as well as starting a men hunt.

    • @ahmettosun8196
      @ahmettosun8196 2 года назад +83

      It was so necessary.This maybe the only thing that all turks agree upon.

    • @blockmasterscott
      @blockmasterscott 2 года назад +31

      It had to happen, there was really no other way.

    • @masterexploder9668
      @masterexploder9668 2 года назад +31

      Spahis were first to lead the charge, because they were rivals of Jannissaries for centuries. They did their job, proved themselves better and gracefully disbanded.

    • @TassieDinkum90
      @TassieDinkum90 2 года назад +51

      So it was like an Order 66 on the Jannisaries

    • @emre30489
      @emre30489 2 года назад +7

      @@TassieDinkum90 exactly

  • @nhmikey1
    @nhmikey1 5 лет назад +9556

    So did Muhammed Ali rule Egypt before or after he was a boxer?

    • @captus2975
      @captus2975 5 лет назад +366

      He called all the french, Orangutans

    • @theunclethatdoesnttouchyou
      @theunclethatdoesnttouchyou 5 лет назад +923

      Float like a butterfly. Sting like the destruction of an empire.

    • @hijabnaqvi4432
      @hijabnaqvi4432 5 лет назад +218

      There are multiple famous people named Muhammad Ali,the founder of Pakistan,the boxer and the onr in this video.

    • @farhanisraq5102
      @farhanisraq5102 5 лет назад +486

      Hijab Naqvi wow Muhammad Ali was also the founder of Pakistan. There's so much I didn't know about him 😱

    • @nethermonke8287
      @nethermonke8287 5 лет назад +102

      Hijab Naqvi r/woooosh

  • @POCLEE
    @POCLEE 6 лет назад +4524

    The whole WW1 part of Ottoman deserves its own episode.

    • @andrejhofer2007
      @andrejhofer2007 4 года назад +156

      The Gallipoli Campaign...

    • @b_de_silva
      @b_de_silva 4 года назад +268

      @@andrejhofer2007 outside of gallipoli the ottomans were mostly a complete failure just like austria

    • @b_de_silva
      @b_de_silva 4 года назад +46

      @Tarık Mengüç "raping" the allies taking more casualties than they caused during the war.

    • @wowyourereallyreadingthis
      @wowyourereallyreadingthis 4 года назад +7

      Yesss Gallipoli

    • @JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff.
      @JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff. 4 года назад +57

      @Betrion What? What? What? What? Most people don't even know about the Ottoman genocides. Also how about you deploy whataboutism in a proper manner. If we were defending the colonial powers in Africa and you would know what people are talking and not talking about then your argument would make sense. Also also what has Hitler got to do with any of this?

  • @danmarkfordanskerne3039
    @danmarkfordanskerne3039 4 года назад +4076

    Nobody:
    Balkans 1800-2004:
    War war war war war war war war war war

    • @artkondratyev4307
      @artkondratyev4307 4 года назад +120

      America: Am I a joke to you? Not for long, though.

    • @SKa-tt9nm
      @SKa-tt9nm 4 года назад +90

      Danmark for danskerne the balkans have been in near constant war since at least 681. There was short period of peace in the mid 9th and mid 10th century.
      Constant war likely goes back to Ancient Greek times.

    • @lukesalazar9283
      @lukesalazar9283 4 года назад +4

      @@SKa-tt9nm why is this though..

    • @SKa-tt9nm
      @SKa-tt9nm 4 года назад +215

      Luke Salazar it’s one of the cradles of western civilization. If you look at the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, the majority of them are in the Balkans and Italy.
      So when history stretches that far, different countries rise and fall at different times. So if in one generation the Greeks were the aggressors, in the next one its the eastern Roman Empire, the Bulgars, etc.
      after 2-3 thousand years of that, there’s no more “good guys” and “bad guys”. It’s just whose turn is it to be powerful. My grandfather might have burned down your village, but he did it because his father’s village was burned down by your great-grandfather, etc.
      and then kids are taught in history class to hate all their neighbor countries because they invaded or committed atrocities, ignoring the times when your own country committed the same atrocities.
      It’s a vicious cycle.

    • @clongshanks5206
      @clongshanks5206 4 года назад +37

      S K very well said. I wish there was a way to break that cycle. Russians and Turks still hate each other after 700-800 years

  • @Ksaadmdd
    @Ksaadmdd 2 года назад +208

    Sultan: *Attempts to modernize the country*
    Janissaries: Can u don't

  • @Dave_Sisson
    @Dave_Sisson 6 лет назад +3459

    It's interesting that he avoided saying "the sick man of Europe"which is the standard cliche about the decline of the Ottomans in the Balkans.

    • @stardust6097
      @stardust6097 6 лет назад +116

      I know right. The Ottomans could have easily won the war with Italy and the Balkans. But why is it cliche? It's not entirely wrong.

    • @EndOfSmallSanctuary97
      @EndOfSmallSanctuary97 6 лет назад +791

      I mean, it's not a cliche if it's pretty much correct. The Ottomans suffered nothing but setbacks, losses and humiliations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

    • @triglos5413
      @triglos5413 6 лет назад +203

      With German assistance if not they would fight them with sticks and rocks

    • @keeganmoonshine7183
      @keeganmoonshine7183 6 лет назад +350

      It's hard to keep empires as large as the ottoman one together and unified culturally.

    • @firefox3249
      @firefox3249 6 лет назад +26

      Star dust Yeah, but only because Italy was incompetent as well (no offense to any Italians).

  • @OliveOilFan
    @OliveOilFan 6 лет назад +3581

    Oh cant wait for the comment section to have a respectful and engaging discussion about the ottomans

  • @buddy4445
    @buddy4445 5 лет назад +1548

    Take a drink every time a Sultan is overthrown

  • @puchy110
    @puchy110 6 лет назад +3109

    My Turkish friend call me her little brother. I thought well of it until I remembered what Ottoman Sultans did to their brothers...

  • @Bluehawk2008
    @Bluehawk2008 6 лет назад +675

    The Crimean War was not the first war to see the use of rifled muskets, but rather the first to see armies equipped predominantly or exclusively with rifles.

    • @uzairazhar2564
      @uzairazhar2564 5 лет назад +8

      Bluehawk2008
      Well observed, I might be incorrect but I think they were also used in the Battle of Waterloo.

    • @nacht6747
      @nacht6747 5 лет назад +7

      @@uzairazhar2564 The 95th was the first to be armed with the Baker rifle en masse iirc

    • @ALTAI38
      @ALTAI38 4 года назад +2

      Ottomans had a lot of bolt action rifles, poorly equiped without a scope. Yet ww1 was the most beautiful war because it introduced auto loading which are in NATO's top weapons

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 3 года назад +15

      @@uzairazhar2564 Actually, rifles simply weren't very efficient for a long time (except for skirmishers, and some very specialized forces), because of their low fire rate. The point was, that by the time of the Crimean war, rifles became so effective that you simply has to use them in a large modern war.

    • @uzairazhar2564
      @uzairazhar2564 3 года назад

      @@xenotypos
      I agree, I believe only a small number of troops used rifles at Waterloo.

  • @petarswift5089
    @petarswift5089 Год назад +105

    My professor of history in Serbia kept saying that Belgrade and Baghdad were in the same country. I was fascinated by that fact.

    • @altunaze6127
      @altunaze6127 Год назад +8

      Belgrade and Mecca.. Yemen

    • @Octavian999
      @Octavian999 11 месяцев назад +6

      Belgrade, Baghdad, Istanbul, Tripoli, Algiers, Mecca, Athens. It was a vast empire.

    • @fredsoh4027
      @fredsoh4027 Месяц назад +1

      So were paris and Damascus

    • @Zalmoxesuwu
      @Zalmoxesuwu 11 дней назад +1

      @@fredsoh4027and at one point, Kiev and Seoul (mongol empire)

    • @fredsoh4027
      @fredsoh4027 11 дней назад

      @@Zalmoxesuwu good point

  • @universenerdd
    @universenerdd 3 года назад +1981

    “The Russians invaded Crimea” oh boy this sounds familiar

    • @dovidsokol380
      @dovidsokol380 3 года назад +6

      C
      I want to diacus dis
      .
      Russia would b and still kn b Changed
      If then or now thay have a Warm Water Port on their weatern '? Side)?!!
      What do u say
      Like , Turning a spy
      Fliping

    • @user-no4di9ro7c
      @user-no4di9ro7c 3 года назад +109

      No, Crimea was their territory back then. The war was called Crimean, because Russian main defense line was there

    • @user-no4di9ro7c
      @user-no4di9ro7c 3 года назад +16

      @SebiscuitTheGreat OOOF of course he does, but there was no russian invasion in Crimean war in the first place, so his statement is not correct

    • @user-no4di9ro7c
      @user-no4di9ro7c 3 года назад +26

      @SebiscuitTheGreat OOOF and it became part of Ukraine only in 20th century

    • @MacTac141
      @MacTac141 3 года назад +16

      @@user-no4di9ro7c Good point, I guess the illegal invasion of 2014 was more or less the first

  • @HistoryMatters
    @HistoryMatters  6 лет назад +1592

    This isn't England...

    • @yasirtaher0919
      @yasirtaher0919 6 лет назад +27

      Your videos are done with amazing quality

    • @Crevulus
      @Crevulus 6 лет назад +122

      Ten Minute History …this is Sparta?

    • @decades1912
      @decades1912 6 лет назад +8

      Oh, so it's France!

    • @vitorluigi2911
      @vitorluigi2911 6 лет назад +6

      Make a french series

    • @Felishamois
      @Felishamois 6 лет назад +11

      What about a three ou four-parter on Ethiopia?

  • @PureFPSPwnage
    @PureFPSPwnage 6 лет назад +715

    "Look at my moustache."

  • @jasonlovins5288
    @jasonlovins5288 Год назад +129

    Having published in Academic Journals on this topic, you covered quite a bit of the expansive history here, & didn't shy away from the fact that the Europeans had a very vested interest in keeping the Ottomans militarily & economically weakened for their own trade goals. Kudos!

    • @reecem9367
      @reecem9367 9 месяцев назад

      Why were the CUP and Young Turks primarly based out of European Turkey/Balkans and not Anatolia given the fierce anti-Ottoman nationalism in the Balkans/European Turkey

    • @dl5498
      @dl5498 8 месяцев назад

      hey bro, can you send me a link? I'd like to see it for a project that I have to do

    • @denizkizilates3063
      @denizkizilates3063 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@reecem9367ín attempt to save the empire, ottomans sought to reform and strengthen the army. Military officers were being educated in Balkan region, best and brightest of them that were going to be generals, traveled all over the Europe , studied their cultures and observed their lives. So it's natural that they were the ones to realize that such reforms were not enough and entire system had to be overhauled if they were to save what was left of the empire. Anatolia was pretty poor and neglected region with %90 illiterate population of farmers, shepherds and religious folk.

  • @tomrowell1558
    @tomrowell1558 4 года назад +402

    9:33 RIP Ottoman Empire “we gave it a go” 😂 they gave it a pretty damn good go to be fair

    • @imsyed5
      @imsyed5 3 года назад +2

      I'll be back

    • @bmwm4481
      @bmwm4481 3 года назад +1

      🤣🤣👏🏼

    • @rorychivers8769
      @rorychivers8769 3 года назад +6

      @Syphax Atlas How much of the world speaks some form of Roman ?. Even English is basically a Romanized language

    • @421less1
      @421less1 3 года назад +11

      @Syphax Atlas id say the romans probably had more of an overall impact than the ottomans, we just have the historical bias of out world still kind of being impacted by the ottomans. That is a really good point about china though. Even under different political entities they've just about always been able the throw weight around regionally

    • @J-IFWBR
      @J-IFWBR 3 года назад

      @Syphax Atlas China is not an empire that still exists =) The Chinese empire ended at the 1. January 1912 =)

  • @jeiku5314
    @jeiku5314 6 лет назад +765

    I finally know what terms are which. Now to play some Kaiserreich...

    • @fkostyuk
      @fkostyuk 6 лет назад +29

      Electric Fan Ottomans are fun in Kaiserreich! It's a shame they always lose the Ottoman-Axis war and become boring generic focus-tree Turkey if controlled by AI

    • @SynisterFour
      @SynisterFour 6 лет назад +7

      fkostyuk The first balkan war is the most annoying part about playing as ottomans.

    • @ziri9613
      @ziri9613 6 лет назад +5

      lol it Is actually easy to win the axis war, ok well not easy but I managed to do it once and I was quite proud, all you have to do is to prepare for it from the start, and so really boring micromanagement day by day you can win, after winning and restoring the borders of the ottoman empire it felt soo great but sadly it became to boring to continue playing.

    • @ziri9613
      @ziri9613 6 лет назад +1

      also it is the easiest war to deal with, the most annoying one is actually the axis war

    • @blueoceancorporations1019
      @blueoceancorporations1019 5 лет назад +5

      @@fkostyuk Except when I play as greece then we have an OP ottoman empire beating up the axis bad time.

  • @marcnassif2822
    @marcnassif2822 5 лет назад +3536

    So basically
    The Balkans are a headache

  • @Hannodb1961
    @Hannodb1961 5 лет назад +280

    "... but someone didn't like it, and so...... war"

  • @Sienn0
    @Sienn0 2 года назад +168

    I've been always intrigued by the history of the Ottoman Empire, both its rise and fall throughout studying history in grade school. I really enjoyed the documentaries.

    • @viktor_voughn
      @viktor_voughn 2 года назад

      They just inslaved non muslim ppl in the start and were never able to go past Vienna

    • @Minimanmax
      @Minimanmax 2 года назад +4

      If you want a more in depth look at the history of Turkey/the Ottoman Empire check out kraut’s video series on Turkey

    • @selcuk32adana
      @selcuk32adana 2 года назад +3

      well Turks kept history busy

  • @romulusnuma116
    @romulusnuma116 6 лет назад +400

    5:48 I feel like we're gonna hear that a lot

    • @archaontheeverchosen
      @archaontheeverchosen 6 лет назад +4

      Romulus Numa But What if this gonna be in 15th and 16th century?

    • @shinebrightlikeadoitsu1120
      @shinebrightlikeadoitsu1120 5 лет назад +2

      Can we have the British version of this please? 😂😂😂

    • @dahiliye101
      @dahiliye101 5 лет назад +2

      @@shinebrightlikeadoitsu1120 But ıt's still on the process.

  • @LONGshot-tf8cf
    @LONGshot-tf8cf 4 года назад +63

    “Trouble came knocking in the shape of a boot, a boot called Italy”

  • @octapusxft
    @octapusxft 3 года назад +332

    Good job picking up that the Greeks were still calling themselves Romans back then. Lots of my fellow Greeks do not know that these days

    • @andrew7taylor
      @andrew7taylor 3 года назад +3

      They called themselves Romans? How did that happen?

    • @dete31
      @dete31 3 года назад +85

      @@andrew7taylor the Roman empire ended as a Greek-speaking state centered on Constantinople. Its people were Romans, so it makes sense that they still called themselves that after being conquered by the Ottomans.

    • @lakoste03
      @lakoste03 2 года назад +28

      They identified as greki (Γραικοί) or romiyi (Ρωμιοί) as they saw themselves as descendants of the Byzantine empire (the Eastern part of Roman epmire) and as descendants of the ancient Greeks

    • @ddpmk355
      @ddpmk355 2 года назад +16

      @@lakoste03 Even a few decades ago, old people used the ethnonym “Roman” instead of “Greek”.

    • @simulacrumpilot2777
      @simulacrumpilot2777 2 года назад +20

      We still call you that. Turkish word for Greek is Rum. Which comes from Roman.

  • @SAADOFFICIAL436
    @SAADOFFICIAL436 4 года назад +1893

    Facts about Mohammad Ali....
    1) He was the ruler of Egypt at Ottoman era at 19th century.....
    2)He was the famous boxer in US history
    3)He's the founder of Modern country Pakistan....
    4)He is the second grand Vizier of Ottoman empire at 1360s...
    5)He is a time traveller and Co-founder of NASA
    6)His power level was over 9000
    7)He ruled from Persia to the wastelands of Maghreb for more than 8 centuries...
    8)He is medically proven as an 'Immortal'
    9)He conquered Jerusalem from the crusaders in the name of Salah Al Din...
    10)He won some championship titles at the end of the 20th century at WWE
    11) He was the mentor of Cristiano Ronaldo who goes by the name 'Sir Alex Ferguson'.

    • @amortality999
      @amortality999 3 года назад +77

      Omg your incredible 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Nietabs
      @Nietabs 3 года назад +8

      ok

    • @imsyed5
      @imsyed5 3 года назад +2

      😒😒😒

    • @Aynshtaynn
      @Aynshtaynn 3 года назад +83

      He floated like a butterfly, stung like a dissolution of an empire

    • @craycap6325
      @craycap6325 3 года назад +32

      @@amortality999 more like magnificent

  • @franktieck2305
    @franktieck2305 2 года назад +54

    9:32 "We gave it a go" Well as far as empires go. The Ottoman empire did pretty good to say the least

  • @davesy6969
    @davesy6969 3 года назад +40

    I really like the waving characters at the end.

  • @bobing1752
    @bobing1752 3 года назад +23

    2:43 "Only we can bully them" god I'm crying this channel is incredible. Mostly serious but when there are jokes, they're god tier jokes

  • @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it
    @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it 3 года назад +94

    Ottoman Empire: *who are you?*
    Turkey: *im you... but smaller*

    • @kkon5ti
      @kkon5ti 3 года назад +12

      And better - well at least under Atatürk

    • @commentslayer
      @commentslayer 3 года назад +4

      To hell with ataturk he was the biggest sell out the world has seen .
      Long live Erdogan 🇸🇴

    • @ecexx.
      @ecexx. 3 года назад +28

      @@commentslayer are you Turkish or just a spare tire?

    • @namenloser7026
      @namenloser7026 3 года назад +1

      @@kkon5ti yeah that’s why turkey was for years a shithole.

    • @emirhaneksioglu4503
      @emirhaneksioglu4503 3 года назад +3

      @@namenloser7026 A country that came out of a devestating war against all odds wasn't doing well after it? Shocker.

  • @cchoki1
    @cchoki1 6 лет назад +778

    The map of Bulgaria's principality is wrong. In 1885, the Bulgarian Prinicipality united with Eastern Rumelia, which is the territory south of what you showed.

    • @HistoryMatters
      @HistoryMatters  6 лет назад +300

      I didn't include Rumelia because it was co-administered by both the semi-independent Bulgaria and the Ottomans and I wasn't sure how to display it on the map that didn't require further explanation.

    • @keith5615
      @keith5615 6 лет назад +7

      Hash marks?

    • @ferumman
      @ferumman 6 лет назад +57

      On theory it was co-administered but in reality it was fully in Bulgaria control. Bulgaria at the time was not semi autonomous but independent country that is vassal to the Ottomans on paper. And btw the unification of Bulgaria and Rumelia was important cause it shows how weak was the empire at the time. This act was heavily attacked by Russia and still the Ottomans let it happen.

    • @doomdrake123
      @doomdrake123 6 лет назад +9

      Ten Minute History on matter of the bulgarian revolt, you haven't show the provinces that revolted. It was basicly Rumelia that revolted.

    • @jonkulen5644
      @jonkulen5644 6 лет назад +2

      ferumman You are right

  • @Munax.
    @Munax. 6 лет назад +879

    Turkey's border wasn't look like 9:25 this exactly after the independece war. The province that today known as Hatay was joined to Turkey at 1939.
    Anyway, cool video.

    • @tanerbulbul4353
      @tanerbulbul4353 5 лет назад +35

      @Burak buyur sen yaz

    • @ertegin
      @ertegin 5 лет назад +20

      Burak lan adamın yazdığı her şey tamamen anlaşılıyor sorun ne

    • @benmustafakemalataturk1874
      @benmustafakemalataturk1874 5 лет назад +10

      There is a northern cyprus, I live in Turkish and Cyprus, but the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

    • @cancatalbas7849
      @cancatalbas7849 5 лет назад +31

      Turkish border didnt look like the one at 9:25, at least not immediately after. There was a minor incident for a province that is now called "Hatay" which was resolved in 1939, so minus Hatay, it would've been correct, but in the end it comes to that, so who cares right?

    • @user-ql1lg5iy7f
      @user-ql1lg5iy7f 4 года назад +13

      @Burak.. Ingilterede yasayan Hatayli olarak duruma el koyuyorum..
      “wasn’t” yerine “didn’t” yazmaliydi ama ne demek istedigi anlasilmis. Bu durum seni neden cok sinirlendirdi onu anlamadim?

  • @ronaldgarrison8478
    @ronaldgarrison8478 3 года назад +42

    The presentation style of this channel is sheer genius. And it's unique. I don't know any other channel that handles things this way. A whole bunch of brilliant styles, working together.

    • @elizabethmackenzie5730
      @elizabethmackenzie5730 2 года назад

      I find the monotonous tone very hard to listen to. It sounds like a computer.

    • @ronaldgarrison8478
      @ronaldgarrison8478 2 года назад +1

      @@elizabethmackenzie5730 Different strokes, and all that. I won't even give your comment a thumb down. You like what you like, don't what you don't. I can't argue with that. You gotta do what works for you.

  • @avery9689
    @avery9689 4 года назад +278

    Wait, the Greeks called themselves Romans up to the 1800's? Never knew that, that's awesome.

    • @CimboAkinci
      @CimboAkinci 4 года назад +145

      We still call them Romans(Rum) in Turkish, because they were being Rome when we learned about them. Or Ionians(Yunan), because they were being Ionia when the Persians learned about them. No one says Greek, lol.

    • @IsReallyFuckingHot
      @IsReallyFuckingHot 4 года назад +42

      Also , the world Greek comes from Latin Graercia , as the Romans first met the people of Gracia from Epirus ( north west Greece ) who colonized in Italy .

    • @perparimarsenal
      @perparimarsenal 4 года назад +2

      D.Ant. Yeahh not correct. North Epirus was never inhabited by modern greeks.

    • @ihonestlydontknow9968
      @ihonestlydontknow9968 4 года назад +12

      @Serbon Resurrected it's perfectly normal for easterners to call it yunan since ionia was in asia minor. And europe called it greek because that's how they learned from the romans. But turks call greeks both yunan and rum because greeks called themselves rome as well.

    • @kkajakk1146
      @kkajakk1146 4 года назад +18

      Basal Tripod9684 The Eastern Roman Empire was predominently Greek after the loss of Egypt and Syria, it’s quite logical then that they would call themselves Romans

  • @iielysiumx5811
    @iielysiumx5811 6 лет назад +6

    Great video as usually dude, keep up the good work!

  • @BulletsToBrainRatio
    @BulletsToBrainRatio 6 лет назад +18

    I literally have a midterm on this tomorrow. I can't express my thanks.

  • @Fiach_McHugh
    @Fiach_McHugh 2 года назад +89

    "Against all odds" perfectly sums up the turkish war of independence. I think Turks have some kind of superpower only to use in the time of great need: when their independent state is going down. From Gokturks to Republic they always found a way to build a state of order

    • @bronzejourney5784
      @bronzejourney5784 Год назад +4

      Big portion of that superpower stems from the Atatürk himself. The way he united an entire country which was in shambles and riddled with many groups of minorities that despise each other, honestly nothing short of a miracle.
      And to think that he wasnt even ethnically properly Turkish himself, adds another magnitude of respect.

    • @PrimeGooBrr
      @PrimeGooBrr Год назад +8

      @@bronzejourney5784 he was ethnically Turk actually. An old Ottoman principle was taking Anatolian Turks to new conquered states and make them live in there,so conquers may be long termed.which Atatürk's grandfathers lived the same.He didn't born in Anatolia,but he was a Turk.

    • @strider8662
      @strider8662 Год назад +5

      Honestly one thing I pride on turkish history is their incredible stubborness to be completely free. Any time their freedom was at peril, they seem to find a way to avoid subservience entirely.

    • @Octavian999
      @Octavian999 11 месяцев назад +2

      We are just massive procrastinators. We can be capable, as shown by the many empires we've built over the last 2 millenia, but once our states start declining we don't get up from out fat asses and fix the issue until the very last minute.

    • @lisette2060
      @lisette2060 12 дней назад

      ​@@Octavian999That's why millions of Turks prefer living in modern Western Christian societies while voting for an Islamic dictator, and still hating both choices?
      Sounds reasonable ... 🤔

  • @egemutlupayasli7692
    @egemutlupayasli7692 2 года назад +2

    Very nice video man

  • @ntatemohlomi2884
    @ntatemohlomi2884 3 года назад +7

    Fascinating looking back at the fall of empires, rivetting watching the comedy of errors of one rapid decline and falling apart in real time on social media.

  • @MrSwatbg
    @MrSwatbg 6 лет назад +64

    Brief and quite informative video at the same time. But in the video Bulgaria's southern borders in 1908 lays across the Balkan mountain, although the unification with Eastern Rumelia did take place in 1885.
    Keep up the excellent work!

  • @CoqPwner
    @CoqPwner 5 лет назад +1

    Fascinating as always

  • @morrowseer3013
    @morrowseer3013 5 лет назад +343

    Rip ottomans “We gave it a go”

    • @kasadam85
      @kasadam85 4 года назад +9

      @Salt & Pepper Not really , technically US has been the superpower longer than Ottoman Empire was , moreover they're the dominant nation in a continent which is far from all the likely threats to them such as Russia , Turkey , France , Iran , India , China and so on . As it stands the only way for US to lose it's position in the world ranking is huge civil wars to occur .

    • @kasadam85
      @kasadam85 4 года назад +6

      @Salt & Pepper I didn't say anything about the US age , It has been the superpower since WW2 and it'll remain that way in the next decades , Ottoman empire stayed on top of the list for a barely a century which is a lot but US either almost surpassed that or close to overtaking that .

    • @kasadam85
      @kasadam85 4 года назад +9

      @Salt & Pepper there's a difference between being the dominant nation in the region and being the superpower of the entire world , Ottoman Empire certainly has never been a superpower for more than 150 years .

    • @naberyoutube2802
      @naberyoutube2802 4 года назад +2

      @@kasadam85 Far from China and Russia? You do realise that the world doesn't end at the west of America right? It connects with the east side of Asia.

    • @kasadam85
      @kasadam85 4 года назад

      @@naberyoutube2802 what's your point ?

  • @karolclark791
    @karolclark791 2 года назад +18

    A sultans male relative: "exists"
    Sultan: "So you have chosen, death"

    • @ArdaSReal
      @ArdaSReal 2 года назад

      Suprisingly effective rule tho, for example Süleyman couldnt kill his son wich was Part of the reason for his life going into a tragic direction

  • @alexwalker8082
    @alexwalker8082 6 лет назад +11

    That was a slower and even more painful demise that I was previously aware of, bad times. Good video though.

  • @teaskovski336
    @teaskovski336 3 года назад +85

    Very informing video, keep up the great work! There was one mistake I noticed: the map on 9:26 is slightly wrong. The region called "Hatay" at the very South of Turkey was given to the Turks at 1938. It was part of the French collonial Empire beforehand.

    • @precursors
      @precursors Год назад +3

      It was not given to Turkey, the referendum in Hatay resulted in Hatay joining Turkey willingly.

    • @melonking9752
      @melonking9752 8 месяцев назад

      1st Hatay became independent
      2nd They held a referandum
      3rd they joint to Turkey

  • @Alsayid
    @Alsayid 10 месяцев назад +19

    That's a really wild ride towards the end of the empire. It always intrigues me how the Turks, after so many defeats and losses of territory, managed to come back at their weakest moment and regain some chunks of empire to form Turkey. I reckon it happened because everyone (meaning the allied powers) was too tired from WWI to care to enforce the treaty on Turkey, and Russia was distracted with its own civil war.

    • @tentelite212
      @tentelite212 5 месяцев назад +1

      Sort of but no, the USSR won by that point I think and both them and Turkey agreed to pretty much split teh Armenian state formed there, after which the USSR began funding the Turkish army (this Is very simplified)

  • @ismailkaya1917
    @ismailkaya1917 6 лет назад +328

    man i laughed so hard to your mustafa kemal drawing ahaha

    • @HistoryMatters
      @HistoryMatters  6 лет назад +142

      It looks far too much like Berlusconi for my liking.

    • @RicardoD957
      @RicardoD957 6 лет назад +5

      Ten Minute History plot twist.

    • @Sal-zi4tu
      @Sal-zi4tu 5 лет назад +13

      He looks the coolest in history

    • @sashingopaul3111
      @sashingopaul3111 5 лет назад +1

      where’s the moustache?

    • @user-kp8id5qr6x
      @user-kp8id5qr6x 3 года назад +16

      He's blond w blue eyes. Why would you even draw him like that? lol

  • @davidharing6475
    @davidharing6475 6 лет назад +13

    I always love it when they hold up a sign that says "Everything is terrible." 4:41

  • @aytekgungor3749
    @aytekgungor3749 3 года назад +3

    Historically accurate video. Thanks.

  • @blueblack3591
    @blueblack3591 Год назад

    love your analysis

  • @h0ckeyd
    @h0ckeyd 4 года назад +37

    You know, right at the end, Boris Johnson's ancestor was the last foreign minister for the Ottomans....apparently they hung him up and dragged him through the streets of Istambul.

    • @ysmn4667
      @ysmn4667 3 года назад

      Guillotine vibes

    • @farismustafa5389
      @farismustafa5389 3 года назад +6

      @Абдульзефир its Istanbul

    • @blababla4453
      @blababla4453 2 года назад +7

      @Абдульзефир on „paper“ . the people living there called it istanbul, which comes from some greek phrase that meant „to the city“ . It is not like: „ you know what? Lets change the name from konstantiniye to istanbul. I just feel like it.“ it was already called like that for centuries by the people.

    • @acanthoscurriageniculata7141
      @acanthoscurriageniculata7141 2 года назад +3

      @Абдульзефир you don't know anything

    • @bertrecht913
      @bertrecht913 2 года назад

      @@farismustafa5389 Constantinople

  • @Xgckl
    @Xgckl 6 лет назад +115

    Wow, England sure looked different back in the day.

    • @Xgckl
      @Xgckl 4 года назад

      @Person Hello I think this was more a joke about the English history videos coming up around that time. Didn't help that they're both red.

  • @martynparkman8332
    @martynparkman8332 4 года назад

    Good vid, thanks.

  • @el0blaino
    @el0blaino Год назад

    Great presentation!

  • @bruddalusker
    @bruddalusker 6 лет назад +159

    7:59 is that the 11th doctor?

  • @wildyracing1
    @wildyracing1 4 года назад +62

    An accurare assertion of history, although short. You should've covered a bit of WW1 as it is very defining for both Turkey and Bulgaria. They succesfully fought as allies despite the mutual hatred up until the Germans start losing.

    • @levongevorgyan6789
      @levongevorgyan6789 2 года назад +1

      Then he might have had to go into the Armenia, Greek, and Assrian Genocides.

    • @brianwashedhunter1150
      @brianwashedhunter1150 Год назад +1

      ​@@levongevorgyan6789
      Stop the cap

    • @levongevorgyan6789
      @levongevorgyan6789 Год назад +3

      @@brianwashedhunter1150 You are right. I forgot the massacres of the Yazidis too.

    • @maas1208
      @maas1208 26 дней назад

      ​@@levongevorgyan6789 How about you talking about the horrible things the French did in Algeria

    • @levongevorgyan6789
      @levongevorgyan6789 26 дней назад

      @@maas1208 Right after I talk about the cenuries of Algerian slave raids on France, only completely stopped by the French conquest of Algeria?

  • @CEKROM
    @CEKROM 5 лет назад +1

    Very interesting video, I found your channel and I like it

  • @BasitKhanSafi
    @BasitKhanSafi Год назад

    Great summary

  • @DaisyGeekyTransGirl
    @DaisyGeekyTransGirl 6 лет назад +5

    Been a while since I watched your videos. Still really good as always.

  • @mickmickymick6927
    @mickmickymick6927 6 лет назад +3

    Good video, I especially appreciate these topics that I don't know much about. The only thing is you threw a lot of names fairly quickly, the little images of the people were good but it would be great if you put their name beside the image, it's easy to forget which one is which.

  • @Dan-sc1gr
    @Dan-sc1gr 3 года назад

    Really cool video.

  • @KinokoAro
    @KinokoAro 2 года назад +5

    I love how losing to Italy was a sign of weakness

  • @THECOMMUNISTCHANNEL
    @THECOMMUNISTCHANNEL 4 года назад +77

    Ottoman Empire: *exists*
    Balkans: *peace was never an option*

    • @arkan5000
      @arkan5000 4 года назад +4

      it never was, it never will be

    • @sticknodes3464
      @sticknodes3464 4 года назад +2

      @@arkan5000so thats why every balkan country hate each other

    • @sticknodes3464
      @sticknodes3464 4 года назад +3

      @DeadRed Cross tell that Bosna hersek and Serbia

    • @sticknodes3464
      @sticknodes3464 4 года назад +2

      @DeadRed Cross or Macedonia and Greece

    • @sticknodes3464
      @sticknodes3464 4 года назад +1

      @DeadRed Cross those three hate Turkey together. And ı think thats the only reason why they dont hate each other. And Bulgaria also hate them as well

  • @forbiddenlies1938
    @forbiddenlies1938 6 лет назад +15

    Got pretty much everything perfectly right. Amazing content man.

  • @theyoodoo
    @theyoodoo 4 года назад +2

    As always, I love the cartoon figures.

  • @Slaktrax
    @Slaktrax 3 года назад

    Very good videos. History in a nutshell :)

  • @classicrockandfurriesrule4743
    @classicrockandfurriesrule4743 5 месяцев назад +3

    Mohmand Ali . He floats like a Butterfly and Stung like a Bee !

  • @Muflie
    @Muflie 3 года назад +9

    The Fall of the ottoman empire is what makes real men cry

  • @nickpast2252
    @nickpast2252 3 года назад

    Delightful

  • @JL1009
    @JL1009 6 месяцев назад

    I could watch these all day

  • @berfeito
    @berfeito 6 лет назад +3

    Thanks for the videos! Could you do a Middle East from 1918 through today?

    • @HistoryMatters
      @HistoryMatters  6 лет назад +3

      It's definitely on the list since it's part of the British curriculum.

    • @dontlookatmyprofilepicxp2532
      @dontlookatmyprofilepicxp2532 6 лет назад

      Bernardo Cavalcanti
      It became a big shithole because of Europe's puppets and their thoughtless dividing.
      End of story.
      Source: me who is from the Middle East.

  • @PaulVonZeppelin
    @PaulVonZeppelin 3 года назад +6

    0:49 New Order is in this video? hell yes that's my favorite band!

  • @jonathanduplantis1403
    @jonathanduplantis1403 2 года назад

    Thank you

  • @studogable
    @studogable 2 года назад

    Love the golden cage in the background.

  • @fralencemelograno
    @fralencemelograno 5 лет назад +47

    8:32 THESE ISLANDS have a name, Dodecanese!

  • @caesar9708
    @caesar9708 5 лет назад +77

    The Ottomans turned into a punching bag in the 19th century. Getting whipped and eaten slowly by Russia, Austria and Egypt.

    • @KadirAksu28
      @KadirAksu28 5 лет назад +23

      Technically 'Egypt' was Ottoman aswell, More a civil war than another independant country.

    • @yarpen26
      @yarpen26 5 лет назад +5

      @@KadirAksu28 The Ottoman Empire had the dubious honor of being a country parts of whose occupied territories were puppet states to _other_ powers more than they were to the Ottomans.

    • @XXMXX4
      @XXMXX4 4 года назад +2

      @@KadirAksu28
      In the beginning it was a war for independence but under the pressure of the great powers mohamed ali agreed that egypt would remain a subject of ottomans so it turned from fully control to a nominal control of Egypt

    • @ggoddkkiller1342
      @ggoddkkiller1342 4 года назад +3

      @@XXMXX4 Muhammed Ali was a Turkish general as well that he saw an opportunity to establish his own country and that's why he always cooperated with europeans as they were more benefical than trying to establish a completely independent country!! So Egypt's rebellion was never about independence...

    • @european-one
      @european-one 4 года назад +5

      In fairness they would have been ended much sooner if Britain and France didn't want a counterbalance to russia

  • @ajkulasenpai
    @ajkulasenpai 3 года назад

    Video ending is such beuatiful ...

  • @GoPnIK_1
    @GoPnIK_1 4 года назад +1

    Perfect video for 10 minutes.

  • @theweirdofengland
    @theweirdofengland 5 лет назад +21

    8:00 nice Doctor Who reference

    • @raeda99
      @raeda99 4 месяца назад +1

      Fezzes are cool

  • @6936665
    @6936665 3 года назад +3

    Very accurate and brief. Enjoyed it as a Turk. Thanks

  • @Retroglamamour
    @Retroglamamour 2 года назад

    2:42 _”Only we can bully them”_ 😂 I love this channel

  • @T.GLongstaff
    @T.GLongstaff 3 года назад

    I’m looking at your mustache and it. Is. EPIC!!!!

  • @aiiv7839
    @aiiv7839 3 года назад +26

    0:08
    I just noticed: there's no right arm for the British man. I guess this is a general who lost it in battle?

    • @tristan3801
      @tristan3801 3 года назад +11

      That's Horatio Nelson. The legendary one-armed admiral

    • @aiiv7839
      @aiiv7839 3 года назад +3

      @@tristan3801 Oh, I forgot about this comment.
      Thank you! :)

  • @dimoiordanov8655
    @dimoiordanov8655 3 года назад +5

    @historymatters another amazing video, but I want to point out few small mistakes that you made. After the Berlin Treaty Principality of Bulgaria was independent, but the territory of Eastern Rumelia was autonomous territory under ottoman rule. That will change in 1885 when Bulgaria annexed that territory starting the Bulgarian Serbian war.

  • @Dmazza99
    @Dmazza99 2 года назад

    9:33 that date is satisfying for some reason

  • @patrickcombs3567
    @patrickcombs3567 2 года назад +1

    Wow that was a marathon of revolving leaders, borders and alliances.

  • @mohssenkassir431
    @mohssenkassir431 6 лет назад +67

    Where are the book recommendations?

  • @ShasOSwoll
    @ShasOSwoll 3 года назад +4

    Watching this alongside "The Ottoman Empire but it's Sir Pelo" for MAXIMUM HISTORY

  • @manooxi327
    @manooxi327 4 года назад +1

    Tnx

  • @ghaithamri9090
    @ghaithamri9090 2 года назад +1

    Heartbreaking

  • @dkupke
    @dkupke Год назад +4

    As impossible as it would have bee, it’s very interesting to imagine the Ottoman’s surviving to tap into the resources their empire sat on.

  • @bigboyrambo2009
    @bigboyrambo2009 2 года назад +8

    The first 10 Ottoman rulers where legendary, after Sultan Suleiman the 10th Sultan, the Ottomans couldn't find 1 good ruler in 300 years.

  • @BC4EVER
    @BC4EVER 3 года назад +1

    BRING BACK 10 MINUTE HISTORY

  • @kwadkar4348
    @kwadkar4348 3 года назад +1

    The pronounciation of Herzegovina tho 🤣🤣 Great vid btw

  • @theresgottabeagermanwordfo903
    @theresgottabeagermanwordfo903 3 года назад +19

    Serbia And Russia Are like the Best Bros Ever since Elementary

    • @lisette2060
      @lisette2060 12 дней назад

      Common values leading to Srbrenica and Butcha ...
      What's not to like 💩🤮

  • @hadjimurad1766
    @hadjimurad1766 2 года назад +12

    Romania didn't just let russian troops throught(1812), they also came to Russia's aid, when the great duke( the Czar's brother and comander pf the armed forces) requested it. The battle of Plevna is famous in Romanian history, as well as the attack on the Smârdan fort, which was imortalised in a painting by Nicolae Grigorescu. We call it the War for Independence.

  • @Maekar19
    @Maekar19 3 года назад

    We gave it a go better than many empires so be proud.

  • @shahansindhi8141
    @shahansindhi8141 5 лет назад +17

    The status of the "Suez Canal" can still give the greatest military minds a heartattack...