In the matter of fact, this is all prophaciesed in the holy quran, in the first "verses of surah - the romans" it begins that Romans have lost, but after 3-9 years they will come back and defeat the Persians... And they did it in 7 years... Then it says that the Muslims will defeat them and win by the victory and the help of god and god is true to his promises. And that's exactly what happened..
@@therearenoshortcuts9868 Another similarity with WW1. The Persians were "stabbed in the back". This video omits a crucial fact, which was the conspiracy of the Persian generals against Khosrow II due to political rivalries. It was the main reason why the whole Persian war effort was completely undone, as the conspirators allied with the Byzantine emperor and allowed him to counter-attack with ease, even standing aside with their armies as the emperor fought their fellow Persians. Part of their agreement with him was also the evacuation of occupied territories, which was enforced by their puppet Kavad II after he dethroned his father.
The thing is, Turks and Byzantines often were allies. Through the centuries Constantinople allied and recruited Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, Kipchaks. And even with the Seljuks in the very beginning.
Ik about those relationships with the seljuks (if I recall seljuk mercenaries helped the byzantine armies in the crusades, I am not 100% sure) but the irony is that the Ottoman turks were the ones who killed the Empire in 1453, a few centuries later.
may I suggest making the "siege of Constantinople" (the hundreth time) in the year 1204, it will be quite interesting on how the Crusaders were able to win the siege against it (just a suggestion)
Story of Heraclius is probably one of the saddest in history. His comback against the Sassanids is something one expects in a Hollywood movie, but in the end it turns into a tragedy.
Heraclius, Majorian, Justinian, Constantine XI Palaiologos, Aetius, Claudius, and who can forget Aurelian. There are soo many great yet tragic roman emperors and generals
And His successor would be despised today by Roman Historians and byzantine empire would have suffered the same fate as Persian had his successor be slightly less competent than Him
@@El-Silver the point is at that point He had been succeeded by less competent ruler than what Happened to Persian empire in next few years could have happened to byzantine empire too
@@mustafarehman1580 eh well I think you are right Contans while not great was an ok ruler Constantine IV ( Heraclius grandson ) while he had a short reging won against the Arabs But justian 2 was a horrible emperor that causes the 20 years anarchy
I find this war to be probably one of the saddest war in my known history, the sassanid and byzantine tried their very best to best each other, but all those 150% disclipine and 8.0 Morale of armies and thousands of war exhaustion thousands of war taxes collected, But they later fall.
The Byzantine story is fascinating. The sad story of Belasarius, Leo iii and the siege of Constantinople among many. The fact it lasted until 1453 is amazing.
Sharbaraz and his army fought for 20 years without losing a single battle. He conquered Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. What a great general he was! Heraclius defeated so many armies in relatively short time in Anatolia, Caucasus, and Mesopotamia! He restored his Empire, but 10 years later he couldn't no more:(. Such a tragic hero and roman legend! Both of them should be mentioned among 20 best generals in world history
I understand Khosrow's thirst for reclaiming the lands of the Achaemenid Empire. He was probably drunk with imagining how his name would go down in history as the victor over the Byzantines and the reclaimer of the Achaemenid legacy. But alas, he is now known for helping weaken the Sassanid empire and allowing for the Arabian conquest. Sometimes, it's better to not get cocky and greedy and settle with what you have.
I think at that moment Khosrow decided how the future of the world would become. Just imagine what if they made a peace deal and the Sassanids survived the 7th century. Everything today would be different: no Islamic caliphate --> no Persian science traveling to europe via Muslim Spain & Sicily --> No Renaissance --> Byzantium not being invaded by Turkic nomads (since Persia would still be around) --> No Colonialism (Europeans don't need to find new trading routes since they still can trade with the East via Byzantium) --> etc. etc.
@@yourmajesty1361 actually the the Renaissance would still happend most of the science and other things was from the romans not the persians No Colonialism if the catholic and orthodox world become enemys it could still happen also sea reoutes are faster then land the good thing about this time line wouldbe no islam or least it takes way longer to get out of arabia
@@El-Silver I doubt that. The Byzantines were not so fond of sharing their knowledge with Western Europeans. They only did so in 1451 when they had no other option expect to flee from the Turks to western European Kingdoms. Long before the Mongol invasion, Persians were the principal translators of the newly established library of Baghdad. Over the next three centuries the texts of Aristotle, Plato, Galen and other thinkers of Antiquity would be translated into Arabic. This gave rise to a canon of knowledge in philosophy, mathematics, medicine, history and literature that would later finds its way through Spain and Sicily to Europe to present the seeds for the Renaissance. It's also proven that Christian Kings after the Reconquista adopted a lot of these Islamic scientific works to modernize their own science. And if the Sassanid Empire wouldn't fell; this would mean no Turkic invasion of Western Asia and thus the Byzantines would remain in power & keep their knowledge for themselves.
@@yourmajesty1361 acutally well yes and no becuase Sicily during byazntine rule was the remark of the second golden age of romans i think information would leak somehow (normans taking Sicily )could be one the turks would still come and most likely convert to zoroastrianisim
He wasn't greedy. First of all, byzantines started the war according to Arthur Christiensen. Khosrow aparviz tried to defend his country. Secondly He seek for taking revenge of Alexander's burning persepolis and destroying great and glorious achaemenid empire from the Greeks History written by the victorious
Excellent video covering this truly epic conflict. Probably one of my favorite wars to read about in history (despite the unfortunate uncertainties regarding the sources). I'd pay to see a movie about this war, this is some incredible source material.
Thanks! Regarding the pure drama, it was one of the most epic wars. I hope that you don't hold the lack of sources against me. It is almost like all Byzantine sources became vague in the period. We know much about the era of Justinian's restoration and about Muslim invasion, but very little about this particular war. I hope that we are going to get more historical movies. Alas, they can't earn much...
+nurrrik & phoenix No, I'm not holding it against you obviously. I know that the sources for this war are extremely frustrating. Mostly because the main source from this war (George of Pisidia) is not very thorough and classical in his recollection of events and outright skips a whole lot of important events. George was also primarily a poet and his histories were written to be read aloud in Constantinople after Heraclius' victory, which results in alot of exaggerations (Khosrau fleeing naked from one of his palaces when Heraclius was approaching for example), odd analogies and quotes which, while very memorable are most likely propaganda. For example, this likely fabricated quote from Sharbaraz: "See your Emperor! He fears these arrows and spears no more than would an anvil!" I think Robin Pierson of the History of Byzantium podcast said it best when saying that George of Psidia's history of the events is pretty much like the "300 version" of this war.
Yeah, I also like this podcast. Great analogy! In later periods of the Byzantine history, you see more accounts from the Slavic historians. They are not always accurate but have the details essential to make assumptions about the events. It seems that Byzantine historians were influenced heavily by their classical counterparts.
its a shame because the only piece of media that we have set in this time period is total war Atilla, I will almost certainly go and see a movie about Justinian's restorations or about the Byzantine empire as a whole
I agree. We see less and less historical movies. Obviously, it is all about money. There have to be 1 billion dollars historical movie or Game of Thrones level tv show, for everyone to start producing them again. I would kill for the continuation of HBO's Rome. Just keep on going and set it during the late age of Octavian's rule.
It's so unfair that we get dozens of videos like this about Roman emperors and generals like Heraclius and Belisarius. But no one ever drops an ounce of credit towards the Sassanid general Shahrvaraz. Shahrvaraz easily outperforms every military commander in this war and many wars before this including Heraclius. Here's a list of Shahrvaraz' victories. -Shahrvaraz defeats a Roman army outside of Dara. Besieges and captures Dara. -Shahrvaraz defeats a Roman army outside of Edessa, mortally wounding the Roman general Germanus. -Shahrvaraz defeats Heraclius outside of Antioch in 613AD. Capturing Antioch. -Shahrvaraz defeats Heraclius, Theodore and Nicetas again in Syria. Allowing him to capture Damascus. -Shahrvaraz defeats Nicetas near Emesa. Allows him to besiege Jerusalam and capture it. By AD618, Shahrvaraz had cut the Byzantine empire in half and captured every fort, town and city from Chalceon to Alexandria. And even during Heraclius' counter attack where Heraclius defeats Shahrvaraz twice, Shahrvaraz counters back again, defeating Heraclius at Saditama and later at the Sarus River. Allowing him to march to Constantinople. He never properly besieges Constantinople but still, give the man some credit.
Heraclius only now is becoming well know the reason i can think why shabarraz is not as well know is because from 622 onward he was defeated multiple times by Heraclius also sarus was not a byzantine defeat , it was nominal Byzantine victory since Heraclius won the engagement but shabarraz retreated in good order. i will say the video ignored a lot
@@El-Silver like I said, Heraclius defeated Shahrvaraz twice in his counter attack. The Sarus River is actually considered a successful Roman retreat since Heraclius saves his army. But even then Shahrvaraz still traps and destroys Heraclius' vanguard. But again these accounts are from extremely pro-Roman sources like almost everything from this war. It’s considered a nominal Roman victory because of that. And there is another minor engagement/skirmish at Saditama where Heraclius is defeated. And this is coming from Walter Kaegi and the book Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium. Which is once more an account of Heraclius life from a Roman perspective, very pro-Roman and Christian sources. All I’m saying is that most and all modern recounts of this war completely refuse to even see the war from the Persian side for a moment. Shahrvaraz had to fight countless battles and sieges to take the entire eastern part of Rome. He did this for twenty years. And he was mostly successful. Successful to even after being defeated still managing to press Heraclius' army out of his way and reach Constantinople.
@@danialm1940 yes his defeat in 622 and his defeat in 625 , also his failure to captued Constantinople but here it was not Heraclius , and yeah Shahrbaraz Did defeat Heraclius before the sarus river. i would also like to add that you gave that the first achivements that were not of shabarraz the dara one is an example were there were many generals , but yeah Shahrbaraz was a very good commander but like Heraclius people do not remeber him because in the end he lost and the accounts of Heraclius been a underdog here help the narritive. lastly i think like Heraclius people see how his later life was terrible as he bidded for the throne and got killed.
@@El-Silver Yes, agreed. Many kings and generals are praised in the history of the wars between these two empires but Shahrvaraz is sidelines. Belisarius fights the Persians three times in his career. He's defeated twice but he's victorious at Dara. Yet people only focus and talk about his victory at Dara. I still believe Heraclius is a genius but what I'm simply stating is that what Shahrvaraz managed for over twenty years in this war was nothing short of extraordinary. Not only defeating Roman armies, including Heraclius the emperor himself. But capturing and taking territory and cities that had remained untouched and in Roman hands for a thousand years. And even after his defeat, Heraclius never manages to destroy Shahrvaraz and his army completely. Shahrvaraz still counters back and wins minor victories and skirmishes. He's always a threat to Heraclius until they become allies. He never actually besieges Constantinople due to allying himself with Heraclius. Shahrvaraz is sidelines due to a few factors. One is Roman propaganda, second is his name and titles being confused in different sources and third because he rebels against the Persian throne. Causing Persian sources to despise him too. I just wish modern recounts of this war would give him more credit.
+Commissar BRO at least half of it is you. I am surprised no one noticed your narration skills before us. :-) hope that we will be collaborators for a long-long time.
Kings and Generals غُلِبَتِ ٱلرُّومُ The Byzantines have been defeated فِىٓ أَدۡنَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَهُم مِّنۢ بَعۡدِ غَلَبِهِمۡ سَيَغۡلِبُونَ In the nearest land. But they, after their defeat, will overcome. فِى بِضۡعِ سِنِينَ ۗ لِلَّهِ ٱلۡأَمۡرُ مِن قَبۡلُ وَمِنۢ بَعۡدُ ۚ وَيَوۡمَٮِٕذٍ يَفۡرَحُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ Within three to nine years. To Allah belongs the command before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice بِنَصۡرِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ يَنصُرُ مَن يَشَآءُ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ In the victory of Allah. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful. وَعۡدَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ لَا يُخۡلِفُ ٱللَّهُ وَعۡدَهُ ۥ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَڪۡثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ [It is] the promise of Allah. Allah does not fail in His promise, but most of the people do not know. Quran 30 1
the romans and persians should've come to peace with eachother much earlier, established borders recognized by both empires and formed a coalition to expand both east and west. However, it is easy to understand why they were constantly fighting eachother since a definitive victory for either empire would mean world domination.
There rarely was any real peace between the Eastern Romans and the Persians. They had been at each other's throats for 1000 years by the time the Byzantine - Sasanian war started in 602AD. From the Greek perspective they have hated the Persians ever since Thermopylae and the sack of Athens in the 5th century BC. From the Persian perspective they swore eternal hatred of the Greeks since Alexander the Great sacked their entire empire. There was basically a new war between these empires every generation for centuries. The Byzantine - Sasanian war started out as just another war between rivals but the Persians gained some major victories in the first few years. This inspired the Shahs of Persia and their generals to take the war up another notch. The Persians saw this as their opportunity to permanently knock out their age old rival so they pressed on for a total victory rather than just accept the winnings they already had. The second phase of the war was a disaster for both Empires but the Persians were utterly spent when they sued for peace. The Byzantine - Sasanian war was the equivalent of WW3 of the ancient world that left behind an apocalyptic hellscape. Formally thriving towns and cities were burned to the ground never to be rebuilt because the populations did not survive the conflict. This war literally marks the start of the dark ages in the Eastern Empire. The Arab were able to make short work taking over the ruins of both empires because Nature abhors a vacuum.
@Spectre Oh cool, talk about being proud of a shit sandhut nation to the point where you glorify a failed war after which the Sissynids got ahnialated by some Desert dwelling tribes in Arabia. if it weren't for them - we would still have Rome and the Sassanid Empire (for whatever it was worth).
Heraclius also wasn't just a great tactician - he was an eminent strategist. He knew that the Persians held a huge advantage in resources, so he sought to turn that against them (i.e. their forces were tied down occupying places).
Arab tribesmen were actually prized mercenaries for both the Byzantines and Persians, and their participation often decided victory for one side or the other. When they were united under one banner, with both the Byzantines and Persians already exhausted by war, it was a perfect storm.
Arabs also were exhausted there was many rebellions in Arabia after the death of the prophet and even before the death of the prophet Muslims fought Quraish the strongest Arab Tribe and many muslims died in that war
the Sassanids we’re constantly in war with hostile central Asian nomads who were trying to enter the Middle East. This made it harder to win wars against the byzantines.
@@afnan9356 didn't you watch the video, mutiny happened in the Persian empire and the son of the former king took over and wanted peace with Rome, and that is after heracles have defeated them in almost every battle that took place between the two empires. This war was also mentioned in the Quran at the beginning of surah Ar Rum chapter 30.
but don't you find it amusing? I mean, ofc Byzantine and Sassanian were 2 exhausted empires, yet they still had battle hardened soldiers, with more numerous numbers, better equipment and more battle experiences, but still lose the war to desert people who never had any major achievement before in history.
Your statement would mean that just because the US was exhausted in the war in Vietnam, then Cuba or any other weak country would have a chance of invading the US. Make sense? No it doesn´t. The Byzantines and Sassanians still had vast wealth compared to the arabs, they had centuries of military experience, battle hardened officers and generals. They also had better weapons. Not to forget that in almost every single engagement the muslims were outnumbered against the east romans and persians.
Rygart Ilham do you have any figures about the battle hardened soldiers? The speed at which Byzantine lost Syria and Egypt to not just Arabs but the Sassanids shortly before that, doesn't come across as an empire with numerous and battle hardened soldiers
Mati khorasani was US exhausted like the two powers in question? When did Vietnam was able to attack US mainland and besieg Washington? Know the history of the two conflicts before you draw any conclusions.
Heraclies or Eraclies. His cities stay stand in Turkey. Just their name some changed with Turkish pronunciation. Eracli converted the "Ereğli".. 3 piece Ereğli stil stand in Turkey.
+Kings and Generals I don't think that he commanded the army. The name of the commander was obliterated by a history or dynasty. Most likely he was a mercenary as in the First Punic War (Xanthippus)
Persians didn't just attack Byzantine empire for no reason. Persian king, Khosro Parviz, was son in law of Maurice, Roman emperor. Khosro lost his empire due to weak leadership to his general, Bahram Choubin. Maurice helped Khosro to take his empire back. Few years later, a Roman general, Phocas, revolted against Maurice and killed him. Khosro rushed to Byzantine to help Maurice's son or brother to take bakc roman throne. He was almost successful till Heracules took the power in Constantinople and refused to give the throne to Maurice family. That's the Persian side of story. Hercules was a mischievous man and a capable general. He captured Persian envoys, forged letters and sent them back to 3 Persian generals. In fake letters, Khosro had asked the generals to be demoted and imperisoned. Two of three generals believed the forgery and revolted against the Persian emperor. One of them remianed in Egypt with half of Persian army the other one didn't come back to help the capital. Only one general with quarter of Persian forces rushed back to help the King. Armenian subjects of Persian empire revolted against Persian king and Turk allies of Byzantine attacked Persian Cauacaus in current day Georgia and Azerbaijan. Finally, Heracules attacked Persian capital with a combined forces of Byzantine and Armenian rebels and won a hard battle against a quarter of Persian army who were exhausted running back in a short time. Short after this incident, Khosro was killed by his idiot son Kavadh who asked for peace. It was end of Sassanids. Kavadh killed most of his brothers in the process. The empire was so weak that 12 Persian kings and queens ruled from 628 till 632. Arabs attacked Persians in Mesopotamia in 632. Persians lost their empire and Romans gave up more than half of their territories. This all out war created a vacuum which Islam and Arabs filled in.
@nickys34 No, the difference here is this a long conflict which basically broke both nations, created a lot of instability and destroyed their armies for nothing. The prize from this war was nothing and so both countries were weaker after the war
@nickys34 compared to the heigth of justinian the byzantine empire had about 26,000,000 people by 600 both empires had suferred from plague that killed 1/3 of their population that is why before the war it was 17 000 000 the war of 572 to 591 kept the byzantines occupied as the avars came to the balkans and destroyed it , from 592 to 602 maurice main focus would be the balkans and his death led to the byzantine war of 602 to 628 the persians where at war with the byzantines from 571 to 592 and then war with the white huns and turks then the byzantine war happend by the end khavad made peace but kavad died do to the plague that killed thousands what happend next was a series of civil wars from 628 to 632 in which diferent leaders assumed the throne and 7 shash where procliamed by the end of it a 12 year old boy was made king to be a puppet other nobles where declaring its independance and the turks where raiding the empire the next year the arab invasions began to say they where not weakend is a gross understatement.
@nickys34 except that like i said in the case of persia said equipment was and veterans where busy killing eachtother for another 4 years in civil war , and persia was not even united also despite not being crushed the byzantines lost much more the people became discontented due to persians invading and the balkans was lost to avars and slavs. unless the war gets you taxes loot or anything worth of value its usually a problem the byzantines and persians gained nothing of the war only looses of provinces men , monetary crisis , spread of the plague ,and more
An interesting event that happened during the Byzantine-Persian Wars was when the Persians captured the Holy Land(Israel) in the course of one of the wars they destroyed most of the Christian churches except for the Church of the nativity in Bethlehem.Why did they spare this church? -because of a mural that depicted the Three Wise Men who were magi or Zoroastrian priests clad in Persian garb done on one of the facades of the church.
Kalo Arepo I heard from somewhere that the three wise men were not only magi, but were actually Jewish and were heirs to Daniel that stayed in the east.
RC1505 -IT'S possible as the Zoroastrian religion had a strong influence on early Judaism when the Jews came in contact with the Persian empire under Cyrus the Great.Many Jews settled in that empire as exemplified by the story of Esther in the Old Testament.There were also many Jews in Babylon even after many returned to Israel.The Talmud was written by Babylonian Jews who lived there under the Parthian and neo-Persian Empires.There is also a theory that the story of the three wise men originated when an Armenian king(Tiridates) VISITED Rome in about 30A.D. with a big retinue.The Armenians also were Zoroastrians at the time.
Kalo Arepo Interesting stuff! I would like to point out that the Talmud was written some years after the execution of Yeshua. And the only influence I can think of Zoroastrianism having on Judaism is the poetic King of Kings rhetoric and many incorrectly calling Cyrus the Messiah at the time, which can't be the case what with the fall of his Achaeminid Empire to Alexandros.
RC1505 -Zoroastrianism had a huge influence on Judaism and from there to Christianity and Islam -the idea of Satan as God's nemesis comes from the Persian religion -Satan is called Ahriman in the Zoroastrian theology and he is the Evil One who opposes the good God called Ahura Mazda(and yes there is a link to the Mazda car!)Good will win in the end but after a bloodthirsty struggle(The idea of an Apocalypse) and there will be a Last Judgement.The hierarchy of angels and demons idea also comes from Zoroastrianism -the cherubim and seraphim stuff and the idea of God using angels as messengers.
+Antonis Theodoridis thank you, my friend. You will surely enjoy the video that will be released on Sunday. :-) for now, please share with your friends, that will help us quite a bit!
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no Islamic caliphate --> no Persian science traveling to europe via Muslim Spain & Sicily --> No Renaissance --> Byzantium not being invaded by Turkic nomads (since Sassanid Persia would still be around) --> No Colonialism (Europeans don't need to find new trading routes since they still can trade with the East via Byzantium) --> etc. etc.
Well I don't know about all that. It's at least questionable to assume a single cause for all these geopolitical outcomes and conclude they wouldn't have happened otherwise. But the spread of Islam might have been significally affected.
@@ajbolt7 nop hagia sophia was an aristocratic classic huge ordodox temple without towers... after the fall of constantinople in 1453 the ottomans burn the temple and then remove everything that belongs to Christianity and turn it into a muslim church...
At that time the Arabs were betting big on who would win between them, except one Arab said the Romans would win and in a few years we would conquer those two great empires. And he’s right.
It seems like you kinda glossed over the Siege of Constantinople by the Persians and Avars. If fact the situation was so dire that Heraclius wanted to move the capital to Syracuse, Sicily to be safer. I was about to start reading a book by Geoffrey Regan about Heraclius called "The First Crusader" when I received this video in my recomended list.
Thanks for watching. It is actually an apt description for Heraclius. He did return the true cross and retook Jerusalem. Regarding the siege, you are right. It was written in a much detailed fashion, but eventually, we decided to cut it, as the video was already running long. If everything goes according to the plan, we'll have a series of videos concerning all major sieges of Constantinople.
@@KingsandGenerals Look exactly at this comment. This is why I say your channel doesn't give the accurate account of events. In several occasions when Romans are soundly defeated, or humiliated by Persians, there is this "we don't know what happen" explanation, or it is not even mentioned. This is cherry picking of the events to make a certain side look better, and create a narrow view to, a much greater event. BTW, your animations look legit and these projects seem painfully time consuming. I wish they were more accurate and showing both sided acheivements pretty balanced.
I love this channel so much, I've been watching backwards all the way to here and I want more! This is by far some of the best documentaries of some of my favorite history subjects, thank you for everything you do.
Yeah I love all the improvements as it goes on, I feel really immersed in the history, and being a Total war fan makes them even more enjoyable. I hope to support you on Patreon soon, keep up the great work!
I enjoyed this video, But i am disappointed that you didn't mention all the great quotes: "I pursue and run after peace. I do not willingly burn Persia, but compelled by you. Let us now throw down our arms and embrace peace. Let us quench the fire before it burns up everything." -Heraclius "Khosrow, greatest of Gods, and master of the earth, to Heraclius, his vile and insensate slave. Why do you still refuse to submit to our rule, and call yourself a king? Have I not destroyed the Greeks? You say that you trust in your God. Why has he not delivered out of my hand Caesarea, Jerusalem, and Alexandria? And shall I not also destroy Constantinople? But I will pardon your faults if you submit to me, and come hither with your wife and children; and I will give you lands, vineyards, and olive groves, and look upon you with a kindly aspect. Do not deceive yourself with vain hope in that Christ, who was not able to save himself from the Jews, who killed him by nailing him to a cross. Even if you take refuge in the depths of the sea, I will stretch out my hand and take you, whether you will or no." -Khosrow II EDIT: Upon later reflection i believe khosrow's quote may be a fabrication by byzantine sources. It's well written though, So i'm keeping it here.
It´s safe to say that it was this sort of arrogance that kicked Khosrau in the face lol...always be humble in victory unless the head of your slain enemy is thrown infront of your feet.
Kings and Generals غُلِبَتِ ٱلرُّومُ The Byzantines have been defeated فِىٓ أَدۡنَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَهُم مِّنۢ بَعۡدِ غَلَبِهِمۡ سَيَغۡلِبُونَ In the nearest land. But they, after their defeat, will overcome. فِى بِضۡعِ سِنِينَ ۗ لِلَّهِ ٱلۡأَمۡرُ مِن قَبۡلُ وَمِنۢ بَعۡدُ ۚ وَيَوۡمَٮِٕذٍ يَفۡرَحُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ Within three to nine years. To Allah belongs the command before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice بِنَصۡرِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ يَنصُرُ مَن يَشَآءُ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ In the victory of Allah. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful. وَعۡدَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ لَا يُخۡلِفُ ٱللَّهُ وَعۡدَهُ ۥ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَڪۡثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ [It is] the promise of Allah. Allah does not fail in His promise, but most of the people do not know. Quran 30 1
Well citations of the Quran about the wars of the VIIth century are.... unreliable to say the best : indeed since the Quran has been written (in its final version whether Sunnite or Chiite) only one or two century later (i can't remember the exact date) it is sort of easy to have modified the prophetic messages to fit the reality. Besides I still wonder why Allah would give a crap about human empires (or God for that matter, just a different language for the same name), or man I really need to understand why Allah let the colonisation happen :p
As a national Greek and a Christian, I am also sad to see the end of the Byzantine era, not implying that any of the eras (Christian or Muslim) was better than the other of course. To be fair, for Egypt it was the pagan era that saw its greatest achievements, both at the time of the pharaohs and during the hellenistic era. After all, when people think of Egypt, the Pyramids and Cleopatra come to mind before anything else.
Nice one, i hope you make more of this nice stuff. But i have to say, its really a pity you missed an important part of this epic story; the struggle of Heraclius to convice his subjects that, despite the loss of Africa and Asia and the army's defeats, the empire could and should put another fight, to victorry or the bitter end. The lending of all church assets to the state, the heated speaches with a never before seen religious character and the rush of recruits to enlist in preparation for a counter offensive are so touching. It's really ironic how we are made to believe that strong will, tireless effort and cunning eventually brings a great victory, not only in the field but in the legends. Heraclius would have been named the greatest General after Caesar if he died after the peace talks with persia. His score to turn a situation that was hopeless to a victory is unparaled in byzantine 1000 year history. But reality in this world can be a bitch some times, and can take away what you thought you earned just with a swift and unseen blow (Yarmuk)
Thank you! I had that part in the narration but eventually decided to shorten it to keep the video under 15 minutes. Indeed, Heraclius was one of the best Byzantine commanders. Unfortunately, he lived too long and wasn't able to stop the Muslim invasion.
Milo The Orange what I meant by lost is that despite taking territory and winning a number of victories over the Byzantines in the end the Sassanids were repelled and the state of the Middle East was restored to the former status quo. In a sense it was a victory for the Byzantines as they were able to repel them despite pressures from the east and west. If it helps the loss part refers to the battles they lost near the end of the war.
Truly thankful about someone finally making a video of a conflict in the middle east that facilitated the rise of islam this is gold as no one truly bothers to attempt to describe what conflicts lead to the fall of empires most of the time they are simply described as them fumbling and falling appartPlus you have saved me hours of trying to explain to someone this specific conflict the video is great and if you are looking for ideas a more in depth description of the khaganate wars that split the mongols is one the fall of parthia the mughals ming and all time favorites like western rome or the greek suceesor states are there to name a few(the seleucids was awesome work) and phyrrus's campaigns on rome and sicily(epirus was not as big as its neighbors but could have matched Macedon's conquests in west if they only taken Rome)
Thanks for watching! As a student of history - events happen for multiple reasons and reducing them to a click bait is offensive. :-) I will add your suggestions to my ever growing list of future documentaries. :-)
During that war when Rome lost Persian Empire at first, it was mentioned in the Holy Quran that Rome will win the war in few years, and this what really happened based on this video. You can check the first verses in Al Rum chapter in the Holy Quran. “The Romans have been defeated (2), in a nearby land.Yet following their defeat, they will triumph (3), within three to nine years.The whole matter rests with Allah before and after victory. And on that day the believers will rejoice (4).”
@@kyzzzzHello Buddy, actullay no one cares if you believe in Quran or not but it is fact, the Quran made a really millitary predict and spoke for a byzantine victory at the time the Byzanz were desparate, they were in very bad and misrable situation. No one at that time could believe that they would win again and restore what they lost. No problem ... Good luck for you Buddy and for your Santa Claus.
yo hashim , do some research before you use your fingers to type a dumb comment like this. we can talk about this if you want. cause i got some news for you "we didn't, even you didn't. islam did"
Great work, both on animating and condensing a 26 year war (and 7 centuries) in a 10ish min. video! But I'm sorry to state that it could be better narrated. I was a bit let down by the fact that many names were pronounced rather badly: such as Ancria instead of AnCYra, Cacausus instead of CAUcasus, and many other names of persons and places. I know this is the hard part of trying to pronounce all kinds of alien sounding words in Greek, Latin, Pahlavi, Armenian etc. but it will get easier once the narrators or the researchers get used to them. I could offer some help in pronunciation if you'd like. Keep up the amazing work!
The story of the last Roman-Persian War is incredible, but it's important to remember that the war didn't just come out of nowhere. There had been nearly a century of back-and-forth conflict during the 6th century that was a constant source of fuel to the inferno that began in 602.
This one could really use a redo, the standard and quality of this channel has increased considerably since this was released and it's a really interesting conflict. It basically sets the stage for the medieval period. It's arguable that up until this point we are dealing with 'late antiquity', or maybe an intermediate period between the classical and medieval period.
Awesome video! My one gripe is that the video does fail to portray the tragic human side of Heraclius who managed to pull one of history's greatest miracles to then just see everything fall into a nightmare.
“The Romans have been defeated in the lowest land, but after their defeat they will soon be victorious. Within three to nine years. The decision of the matter, before and after, is with God.” (Quran 30:2-4)
I Just Googled the context and this is so freaking cool! I kind of wish the muslims hadn't invaded the byzantines after the war. It'd be interesting to see How They could've both cooperated
@@leonardofranzinribeiro4220 yup it was a revelation From The Creator bcz at the time romans and sassinids were fighting, there were muslims in the Arbaian Peninsula who were struggling against pagans. The pagans Taunted Muslims by saying they support Sassinids, as they were pagans too, and muslims supported romans ,as they were the people of the Holy Book. They said this to taunt muslims as christians who were close to resemblence to muslims spiritually lost to sassinids and the pagans said as the sassinids defeated the Romans , they(pagans) will crush the muslims like that too. So to give the good news and hope to muslims , The Creator revealed this Verse after which romans were victorious. This was the whole event behind the revelation and after that Muslims won against pagans.
@@leonardofranzinribeiro4220 during the sassanid Roman war the Muslims were supporting the Romans since they were the people of the scripture, and the pagan Arabs were supporting their fellow Sassanid pagans
Quran verse revelation at 621 AD: "The Romans were defeated in the lowest land and they will win after 3-9 years." Lowest land is the shore near dead sea at 614 AD (lowest location on Earth). Prophecy fulfilled at 628 AD (7 years after verse revelation date). This verse statement ccontains both a scientific term (in the lowest land) as well a very highly unlikely risky prophecy that after extreme loss there is a win. Just like if you see a football game of 8-1 and you say the defeated team will win! Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was not in need to put his prophrthood title on the edge of such a prediction after him being successful in leading those he convinced unless he is truly a prophet.
Thanks! I have been thinking and researching Thirty Years' War in order to come up with a plan. It, obviously, should span across many videos, but I wonder if it should be battle-centric or concentrate on the bigger picture. The first is more exciting, but the second will allow for more historical accuracy. Need to think about it. :-)
muslim were destroyed in 717 not to be united again their best souldiers dead and their expansion finished only a foul can claim some pride in this beta text empire
Studying this war at Uni was both one of the most interesting and depressing couple of lectures I have ever had to sit through... You have to feel for the Byzantines. There capital was devastated by the loss of Egypt. The seizure of the valuable eastern provinces had left the state bankrupt, having to loot their own churches en-mass just to pay for their crippled army... They finally feel like they have peace, fated to be the dominant world empire, finally beating their age old rival... And then it's all un-done in a matter of years by the rise of a new upstart power whose men had helped the Persians with their initial successes by failing to defend the border they had long been paid to help secure.
Your documentaries ought to be screen during history classes to get a different perspective on events in ancient history instead of just perusing the textbooks & looking at slides of maps. Its stimulating for students studying ancient History subject esp. at secondary level. It stick as much to the facts as possible and that is refreshing in this internet age where almost anything goes. Congrats on work well done.
Love portrait of Hypatia in Alexandria there at the end. Great movie about the end of an era and the rise of ignorance and brutal savagery that dominated the end of the Roman Empire
Yeah me too! Haven't played in years... Your animated moves of Heraclius and others and the terrain reminded me of HoMM franchise. Keep up the good work :-)
Excellent documentary Nurrik & Phoenix! You guys make military history the most exciting on RUclips!!! Could you please make one with the great Hellenic/Hellenistic/Yunan General Pyrrhus of Epirus and his great victories against the Romans and Carthaginians on Italian & Sicilian soil?
Thanks for your kind words! Yes, I have Pyrrhus on my list, there will be a documentary on him. Yunan is the Turkish name for Greeks. How come you know it/decided to use it? :-)
nurrrik & phoenix I study history a lot and that's how I know, I also wanted the wider audience from the Islamic world to understand. I would've said Rum but that would've added to the confusion :-) Will you also make more Byzantine/Byzantium/Bizans documentaries? If you could please make all 4 of the great sieges of Constantinople that would be awesome! 1- Byzantio-Sassanid War Joint Avar, Slavs & Sassanid siege of Constantinople 626 2- Byzantio-Arab War and 1st great Arab siege of Constantinople 674-678 3- Byzantio-Arab War and 2nd great Arab siege of Constantinople 717-718 4- Byzantio-Ottoman War siege and conquest of Constantinople 1453.
Great! :-) I have a documentary on Manzikert and will probably have at least one or two documentaries on Byzantine-Arab wars and one on Byzantine-Bulgarian War.
nurrrik & phoenix that sounds awesome! Please don't forget to talk about John I Tzimiskes and Nicephoros/Nikephoros/Naqfur Phokas/Phocas the pale death of the Saracens/Arabs and their reconquests of Crete, Cyprus, Cilicia and northern Syria. If you have time at the end you can talk about his heroic victory over the Rus(proto Russians) in the balkans too. Thank you!
Important detail - shortly before, in the 541, the bubonic plague appeared in Europe for the first time, precisely in Constantinople. It was as deadly as Black Death in 14th century, estimations are it killed 40% of Byzantine population. It was reappearing few times with smaller epidemics for the next 200 years. This might be the sole reason that this most powerful realm in area was on the defensive ever since until it's fall.
The Phokas military dynasty an the Amoride Emperors Nikephoros II Phokas and Basileios II reconquered all territories lost to the ´Arabs reestablishing the frontiers od the Byzantine Empire as Heraklios had left them.
The Phokas military dynasty an the Amoride Emperors Nikephoros II Phokas, his brother Leo Phokas and Emperor Basileios II reconquered all territories lost to the ´Arabs, reestablishing the frontiers of the Byzantine Empire as Heraklios had left them.
@@thoughtshewasaryan2591 they fought for years then a pl@gue ravaged them both Making things worst also heraculis wasn't even able to lead his armies Arabs just got lucky
@@sussyballs424 r u mad bro the arabs were also at war with each other before and when they finally all got united they were also ravaged by war. R u mad bro that islam destroyed the remains of the roman empire
@@thoughtshewasaryan2591 moron the wars that the Arabs fought were less severe compared to the Byzantine Sassanid war also the Arabs won the war that they fought meanwhile Byzantines and Persians failed to destroy each other
Please update this video with OfficiallyDevin! Maybe with some new information and aesthetic tweaks now that your channel has been constantly improving and it is on a good streak of making Roman Empire-related videos. I know you've updated some videos in the past and if there is any chance you have the time it would be wonderful to watch this video (and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa *hint hint*) in an updated and perfected form. I love your videos and continue educating us. I've been watching your channel religiously for over 2 years.
New and updated video: ruclips.net/video/r2cEIDZwG5M/видео.html
557 battle of Bukhara Khosrau I 531- 579
In the matter of fact, this is all prophaciesed in the holy quran, in the first "verses of surah - the romans" it begins that Romans have lost, but after 3-9 years they will come back and defeat the Persians... And they did it in 7 years... Then it says that the Muslims will defeat them and win by the victory and the help of god and god is true to his promises.
And that's exactly what happened..
Sasani / Zazani
The founders of the Sassanid state are the Zazas
Did Islam exist in the 7th century? :D How did you know?
It's sad that you didn't mention the jewish involvement in this was
So this is basically the ancient equivalent to WW1. A whole lot of fighting for a whole lot of nothing.
In a way. I guess WWI had more reasons, this one was just a tradition. They fought non-stop for 4 centuries.
@@therearenoshortcuts9868 Another similarity with WW1. The Persians were "stabbed in the back". This video omits a crucial fact, which was the conspiracy of the Persian generals against Khosrow II due to political rivalries. It was the main reason why the whole Persian war effort was completely undone, as the conspirators allied with the Byzantine emperor and allowed him to counter-attack with ease, even standing aside with their armies as the emperor fought their fellow Persians. Part of their agreement with him was also the evacuation of occupied territories, which was enforced by their puppet Kavad II after he dethroned his father.
Watch Corbett Report's documantaries on WWI
@@KingsandGenerals The Sassanid wanted to restore the Achaemenid empire and The Byzantine wanted to restore Alexander's empire.
@@ashk244 how is that similar to ww1
The Byzantines entered an Alliance with the Turks
(*OH THE IRONY*)
The thing is, Turks and Byzantines often were allies. Through the centuries Constantinople allied and recruited Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, Kipchaks. And even with the Seljuks in the very beginning.
Ik about those relationships with the seljuks (if I recall seljuk mercenaries helped the byzantine armies in the crusades, I am not 100% sure) but the irony is that the Ottoman turks were the ones who killed the Empire in 1453, a few centuries later.
+Master Assassin yeah, it does make it more ironic.
may I suggest making the "siege of Constantinople" (the hundreth time) in the year 1204, it will be quite interesting on how the Crusaders were able to win the siege against it (just a suggestion)
Great suggestion. I will need to think about it. Maybe it should work as a series of videos concerning various sieges.
Story of Heraclius is probably one of the saddest in history. His comback against the Sassanids is something one expects in a Hollywood movie, but in the end it turns into a tragedy.
Heraclius, Majorian, Justinian, Constantine XI Palaiologos, Aetius, Claudius, and who can forget Aurelian. There are soo many great yet tragic roman emperors and generals
@@athingwhichexists Majorian is my favorite underrated emperor. Such a determined guy to go against all odds.
Hey dont forget stilicho
Story of Khosrow is also tragic. He was sentenced to death by the court of nobles.
@@artanbehmard151 nothing tragic about a demon getting killed by his minions of hell
Heracleus was a tragic hero...his life-achievement was demolished in front of his eyes...his private life was tragic too...
yeah he is very underated had he died in 629 he would have been rembered as one of the greatest emperos to ever live
And His successor would be despised today by Roman Historians and byzantine empire would have suffered the same fate as Persian had his successor be slightly less competent than Him
@@mustafarehman1580 constans 2 while not a bad emperor was not as competent as Heraclius
@@El-Silver the point is at that point He had been succeeded by less competent ruler than what Happened to Persian empire in next few years could have happened to byzantine empire too
@@mustafarehman1580 eh well I think you are right Contans while not great was an ok ruler
Constantine IV ( Heraclius grandson ) while he had a short reging won against the Arabs
But justian 2 was a horrible emperor that causes the 20 years anarchy
I find this war to be probably one of the saddest war in my known history, the sassanid and byzantine tried their very best to best each other, but all those 150% disclipine and 8.0 Morale of armies and thousands of war exhaustion thousands of war taxes collected, But they later fall.
its one of the most fun wars for me, arabs rise is great
The Byzantine story is fascinating. The sad story of Belasarius, Leo iii and the siege of Constantinople among many. The fact it lasted until 1453 is amazing.
@@PeteCourtier got wreck by mehmed ii
@@omgbruhohhellnahmanwtfman9558 Alas the ottomans fell as well. As do all empires.
@@PeteCourtier in 1914
The greatest empire after rashidun caliphate
Sharbaraz and his army fought for 20 years without losing a single battle. He conquered Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. What a great general he was!
Heraclius defeated so many armies in relatively short time in Anatolia, Caucasus, and Mesopotamia! He restored his Empire, but 10 years later he couldn't no more:(. Such a tragic hero and roman legend!
Both of them should be mentioned among 20 best generals in world history
well, he did die in the ensuing chaos after the peace. Sad because he probably could have delt with the rashidun caliphate quite well had he lived
@@ilect1690
Lol no,
The ston had come from the sky to destroy nabucanazzar's idol
@@EndTimeNarrativeJust as the mongols destroyed Bagdad or whatever it was.
I understand Khosrow's thirst for reclaiming the lands of the Achaemenid Empire. He was probably drunk with imagining how his name would go down in history as the victor over the Byzantines and the reclaimer of the Achaemenid legacy. But alas, he is now known for helping weaken the Sassanid empire and allowing for the Arabian conquest.
Sometimes, it's better to not get cocky and greedy and settle with what you have.
I think at that moment Khosrow decided how the future of the world would become. Just imagine what if they made a peace deal and the Sassanids survived the 7th century. Everything today would be different: no Islamic caliphate --> no Persian science traveling to europe via Muslim Spain & Sicily --> No Renaissance
--> Byzantium not being invaded by Turkic nomads (since Persia would still be around) --> No Colonialism (Europeans don't need to find new trading routes since they still can trade with the East via Byzantium) --> etc. etc.
@@yourmajesty1361 actually the the Renaissance
would still happend most of the science and other things was from the romans not the persians
No Colonialism if the catholic and orthodox world become enemys it could still happen also sea reoutes are faster then land
the good thing about this time line wouldbe no islam or least it takes way longer to get out of arabia
@@El-Silver I doubt that. The Byzantines were not so fond of sharing their knowledge with Western Europeans. They only did so in 1451 when they had no other option expect to flee from the Turks to western European Kingdoms. Long before the Mongol invasion, Persians were the principal translators of the newly established library of Baghdad. Over the next three centuries the texts of Aristotle, Plato, Galen and other thinkers of Antiquity would be translated into Arabic. This gave rise to a canon of knowledge in philosophy, mathematics, medicine, history and literature that would later finds its way through Spain and Sicily to Europe to present the seeds for the Renaissance. It's also proven that Christian Kings after the Reconquista adopted a lot of these Islamic scientific works to modernize their own science. And if the Sassanid Empire wouldn't fell; this would mean no Turkic invasion of Western Asia and thus the Byzantines would remain in power & keep their knowledge for themselves.
@@yourmajesty1361 acutally well yes and no becuase Sicily during byazntine rule was the remark of the second golden age of romans
i think information would leak somehow (normans taking Sicily )could be one the turks would still come and most likely convert to zoroastrianisim
He wasn't greedy.
First of all, byzantines started the war according to Arthur Christiensen. Khosrow aparviz tried to defend his country.
Secondly He seek for taking revenge of Alexander's burning persepolis and destroying great and glorious achaemenid empire from the Greeks
History written by the victorious
Excellent video covering this truly epic conflict. Probably one of my favorite wars to read about in history (despite the unfortunate uncertainties regarding the sources). I'd pay to see a movie about this war, this is some incredible source material.
Thanks! Regarding the pure drama, it was one of the most epic wars. I hope that you don't hold the lack of sources against me. It is almost like all Byzantine sources became vague in the period. We know much about the era of Justinian's restoration and about Muslim invasion, but very little about this particular war.
I hope that we are going to get more historical movies. Alas, they can't earn much...
+nurrrik & phoenix
No, I'm not holding it against you obviously. I know that the sources for this war are extremely frustrating. Mostly because the main source from this war (George of Pisidia) is not very thorough and classical in his recollection of events and outright skips a whole lot of important events. George was also primarily a poet and his histories were written to be read aloud in Constantinople after Heraclius' victory, which results in alot of exaggerations (Khosrau fleeing naked from one of his palaces when Heraclius was approaching for example), odd analogies and quotes which, while very memorable are most likely propaganda. For example, this likely fabricated quote from Sharbaraz: "See your Emperor! He fears these arrows and spears no more than would an anvil!"
I think Robin Pierson of the History of Byzantium podcast said it best when saying that George of Psidia's history of the events is pretty much like the "300 version" of this war.
Yeah, I also like this podcast. Great analogy!
In later periods of the Byzantine history, you see more accounts from the Slavic historians. They are not always accurate but have the details essential to make assumptions about the events. It seems that Byzantine historians were influenced heavily by their classical counterparts.
its a shame because the only piece of media that we have set in this time period is total war Atilla, I will almost certainly go and see a movie about Justinian's restorations or about the Byzantine empire as a whole
I agree. We see less and less historical movies. Obviously, it is all about money. There have to be 1 billion dollars historical movie or Game of Thrones level tv show, for everyone to start producing them again. I would kill for the continuation of HBO's Rome. Just keep on going and set it during the late age of Octavian's rule.
It's so unfair that we get dozens of videos like this about Roman emperors and generals like Heraclius and Belisarius. But no one ever drops an ounce of credit towards the Sassanid general Shahrvaraz. Shahrvaraz easily outperforms every military commander in this war and many wars before this including Heraclius. Here's a list of Shahrvaraz' victories.
-Shahrvaraz defeats a Roman army outside of Dara. Besieges and captures Dara.
-Shahrvaraz defeats a Roman army outside of Edessa, mortally wounding the Roman general Germanus.
-Shahrvaraz defeats Heraclius outside of Antioch in 613AD. Capturing Antioch.
-Shahrvaraz defeats Heraclius, Theodore and Nicetas again in Syria. Allowing him to capture Damascus.
-Shahrvaraz defeats Nicetas near Emesa. Allows him to besiege Jerusalam and capture it.
By AD618, Shahrvaraz had cut the Byzantine empire in half and captured every fort, town and city from Chalceon to Alexandria. And even during Heraclius' counter attack where Heraclius defeats Shahrvaraz twice, Shahrvaraz counters back again, defeating Heraclius at Saditama and later at the Sarus River. Allowing him to march to Constantinople. He never properly besieges Constantinople but still, give the man some credit.
Heraclius only now is becoming well know the reason i can think why shabarraz is not as well know is because from 622 onward he was defeated multiple times by Heraclius also sarus was not a byzantine defeat , it was nominal Byzantine victory since Heraclius won the engagement but shabarraz retreated in good order. i will say the video ignored a lot
@@El-Silver like I said, Heraclius defeated Shahrvaraz twice in his counter attack. The Sarus River is actually considered a successful Roman retreat since Heraclius saves his army. But even then Shahrvaraz still traps and destroys Heraclius' vanguard. But again these accounts are from extremely pro-Roman sources like almost everything from this war. It’s considered a nominal Roman victory because of that.
And there is another minor engagement/skirmish at Saditama where Heraclius is defeated. And this is coming from Walter Kaegi and the book Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium. Which is once more an account of Heraclius life from a Roman perspective, very pro-Roman and Christian sources.
All I’m saying is that most and all modern recounts of this war completely refuse to even see the war from the Persian side for a moment. Shahrvaraz had to fight countless battles and sieges to take the entire eastern part of Rome. He did this for twenty years. And he was mostly successful. Successful to even after being defeated still managing to press Heraclius' army out of his way and reach Constantinople.
@@danialm1940 yes his defeat in 622 and his defeat in 625 , also his failure to captued Constantinople but here it was not Heraclius , and yeah Shahrbaraz Did defeat Heraclius before the sarus river. i would also like to add that you gave that the first achivements that were not of shabarraz the dara one is an example were there were many generals , but yeah Shahrbaraz was a very good commander but like Heraclius people do not remeber him because in the end he lost and the accounts of Heraclius been a underdog here help the narritive.
lastly i think like Heraclius people see how his later life was terrible as he bidded for the throne and got killed.
@@El-Silver Yes, agreed. Many kings and generals are praised in the history of the wars between these two empires but Shahrvaraz is sidelines. Belisarius fights the Persians three times in his career. He's defeated twice but he's victorious at Dara. Yet people only focus and talk about his victory at Dara.
I still believe Heraclius is a genius but what I'm simply stating is that what Shahrvaraz managed for over twenty years in this war was nothing short of extraordinary. Not only defeating Roman armies, including Heraclius the emperor himself. But capturing and taking territory and cities that had remained untouched and in Roman hands for a thousand years. And even after his defeat, Heraclius never manages to destroy Shahrvaraz and his army completely. Shahrvaraz still counters back and wins minor victories and skirmishes. He's always a threat to Heraclius until they become allies. He never actually besieges Constantinople due to allying himself with Heraclius.
Shahrvaraz is sidelines due to a few factors. One is Roman propaganda, second is his name and titles being confused in different sources and third because he rebels against the Persian throne. Causing Persian sources to despise him too. I just wish modern recounts of this war would give him more credit.
@@danialm1940 cry about it
I am forever blown away by your video production skills! Amazing content!
+Commissar BRO at least half of it is you. I am surprised no one noticed your narration skills before us. :-) hope that we will be collaborators for a long-long time.
Commissar BRO our paths cross again! Great video nurrik & phoenix btw, you got yourself a sub! :)
+BVargas78 thanks and welcome to the channel. :-)
Kings and Generals
غُلِبَتِ ٱلرُّومُ
The Byzantines have been defeated
فِىٓ أَدۡنَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَهُم مِّنۢ بَعۡدِ غَلَبِهِمۡ سَيَغۡلِبُونَ
In the nearest land. But they, after their defeat, will overcome.
فِى بِضۡعِ سِنِينَ ۗ لِلَّهِ ٱلۡأَمۡرُ مِن قَبۡلُ وَمِنۢ بَعۡدُ ۚ وَيَوۡمَٮِٕذٍ يَفۡرَحُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ
Within three to nine years. To Allah belongs the command before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice
بِنَصۡرِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ يَنصُرُ مَن يَشَآءُ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ
In the victory of Allah. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.
وَعۡدَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ لَا يُخۡلِفُ ٱللَّهُ وَعۡدَهُ ۥ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَڪۡثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ
[It is] the promise of Allah. Allah does not fail in His promise, but most of the people do not know.
Quran 30 1
The pronunciations are really bad.
the romans and persians should've come to peace with eachother much earlier, established borders recognized by both empires and formed a coalition to expand both east and west. However, it is easy to understand why they were constantly fighting eachother since a definitive victory for either empire would mean world domination.
The thing is, they fought for so long without results...
Huge empires always distrust each other. It can't be helped.
There rarely was any real peace between the Eastern Romans and the Persians. They had been at each other's throats for 1000 years by the time the Byzantine - Sasanian war started in 602AD. From the Greek perspective they have hated the Persians ever since Thermopylae and the sack of Athens in the 5th century BC. From the Persian perspective they swore eternal hatred of the Greeks since Alexander the Great sacked their entire empire. There was basically a new war between these empires every generation for centuries.
The Byzantine - Sasanian war started out as just another war between rivals but the Persians gained some major victories in the first few years. This inspired the Shahs of Persia and their generals to take the war up another notch. The Persians saw this as their opportunity to permanently knock out their age old rival so they pressed on for a total victory rather than just accept the winnings they already had. The second phase of the war was a disaster for both Empires but the Persians were utterly spent when they sued for peace.
The Byzantine - Sasanian war was the equivalent of WW3 of the ancient world that left behind an apocalyptic hellscape. Formally thriving towns and cities were burned to the ground never to be rebuilt because the populations did not survive the conflict. This war literally marks the start of the dark ages in the Eastern Empire. The Arab were able to make short work taking over the ruins of both empires because Nature abhors a vacuum.
@@Novusod yes
@@saeedvazirian he meant militarily and economically when Arabs arrived after 632 AD.
Damn, the Achaemenid Empire was so close to being reformed.
Panzern Kern pitty!
It really hurts me
And they amost avenged their defeat to the greeks a millenia before.
@12 yıl önce They did lay siege in "Constantinople" in 626 but failed to capture it.
@Spectre Oh cool, talk about being proud of a shit sandhut nation to the point where you glorify a failed war after which the Sissynids got ahnialated by some Desert dwelling tribes in Arabia.
if it weren't for them - we would still have Rome and the Sassanid Empire (for whatever it was worth).
Heraclius seems like a pretty legit commander. Successfully out playing multiple ambushes, and creating his own successful traps.
Yes, he is up there with Belisarius.
Heraclius also wasn't just a great tactician - he was an eminent strategist. He knew that the Persians held a huge advantage in resources, so he sought to turn that against them (i.e. their forces were tied down occupying places).
**No One Expected The Arabs**
he said arabs not muslims!!
Arab tribesmen were actually prized mercenaries for both the Byzantines and Persians, and their participation often decided victory for one side or the other. When they were united under one banner, with both the Byzantines and Persians already exhausted by war, it was a perfect storm.
The Arabs themselves didn't expect to defeat Romans and persians until Prophet Muhammad
Omar Muhammed defeat both empires were exhausted
Arabs also were exhausted there was many rebellions in Arabia after the death of the prophet and even before the death of the prophet Muslims fought Quraish the strongest Arab Tribe and many muslims died in that war
the Sassanids we’re constantly in war with hostile central Asian nomads who were trying to enter the Middle East. This made it harder to win wars against the byzantines.
same for Byzantines
the Avars and Slavs were attacking them non-stop
@@someone-wi4xl yeah being a superpower wasnt ez since everyone wanted a piece
that's what u got when largely expanding ur teritory
@@furqanrahman8409 But persian gained aboyt half of the byzantinnes land later given back for peace
@@afnan9356 didn't you watch the video, mutiny happened in the Persian empire and the son of the former king took over and wanted peace with Rome, and that is after heracles have defeated them in almost every battle that took place between the two empires. This war was also mentioned in the Quran at the beginning of surah Ar Rum chapter 30.
Most underrated conflict. Rise of Islam was only made possible because of this.
+Khurmiful indeed. In terms of the number of the future conflicts caused, this one gets the cake.
but don't you find it amusing? I mean, ofc Byzantine and Sassanian were 2 exhausted empires, yet they still had battle hardened soldiers, with more numerous numbers, better equipment and more battle experiences, but still lose the war to desert people who never had any major achievement before in history.
Your statement would mean that just because the US was exhausted in the war in Vietnam, then Cuba or any other weak country would have a chance of invading the US. Make sense? No it doesn´t. The Byzantines and Sassanians still had vast wealth compared to the arabs, they had centuries of military experience, battle hardened officers and generals. They also had better weapons. Not to forget that in almost every single engagement the muslims were outnumbered against the east romans and persians.
Rygart Ilham do you have any figures about the battle hardened soldiers? The speed at which Byzantine lost Syria and Egypt to not just Arabs but the Sassanids shortly before that, doesn't come across as an empire with numerous and battle hardened soldiers
Mati khorasani was US exhausted like the two powers in question? When did Vietnam was able to attack US mainland and besieg Washington? Know the history of the two conflicts before you draw any conclusions.
Heraclius was a fuckin' baller. One of my favorite emperors alongside Basil II, the Bulgar Slayer.
Yeah, a very underrated commander. I have a documentary planned for Basil II, so don't forget to subscribe. :-)
Heraclies or Eraclies. His cities stay stand in Turkey. Just their name some changed with Turkish pronunciation. Eracli converted the "Ereğli".. 3 piece Ereğli stil stand in Turkey.
He ruled too long.
+Kings and Generals I don't think that he commanded the army.
The name of the commander was obliterated by a history or dynasty.
Most likely he was a mercenary as in the First Punic War (Xanthippus)
He was challenged by three warriors and won.
He was 52 yaers old.
That story is true for sure. =)
I haven't seen in my entire life so great videos. Even the documentaries aren't so good. Amazing work...continue...
Thanks for watching and please share our videos with your friends. :-)
Kings and Generals Already did ;)
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Persians didn't just attack Byzantine empire for no reason. Persian king, Khosro Parviz, was son in law of Maurice, Roman emperor. Khosro lost his empire due to weak leadership to his general, Bahram Choubin. Maurice helped Khosro to take his empire back. Few years later, a Roman general, Phocas, revolted against Maurice and killed him. Khosro rushed to Byzantine to help Maurice's son or brother to take bakc roman throne. He was almost successful till Heracules took the power in Constantinople and refused to give the throne to Maurice family. That's the Persian side of story. Hercules was a mischievous man and a capable general. He captured Persian envoys, forged letters and sent them back to 3 Persian generals. In fake letters, Khosro had asked the generals to be demoted and imperisoned. Two of three generals believed the forgery and revolted against the Persian emperor. One of them remianed in Egypt with half of Persian army the other one didn't come back to help the capital. Only one general with quarter of Persian forces rushed back to help the King. Armenian subjects of Persian empire revolted against Persian king and Turk allies of Byzantine attacked Persian Cauacaus in current day Georgia and Azerbaijan. Finally, Heracules attacked Persian capital with a combined forces of Byzantine and Armenian rebels and won a hard battle against a quarter of Persian army who were exhausted running back in a short time. Short after this incident, Khosro was killed by his idiot son Kavadh who asked for peace. It was end of Sassanids. Kavadh killed most of his brothers in the process. The empire was so weak that 12 Persian kings and queens ruled from 628 till 632. Arabs attacked Persians in Mesopotamia in 632. Persians lost their empire and Romans gave up more than half of their territories. This all out war created a vacuum which Islam and Arabs filled in.
@nickys34 No, the difference here is this a long conflict which basically broke both nations, created a lot of instability and destroyed their armies for nothing. The prize from this war was nothing and so both countries were weaker after the war
@nickys34 compared to the heigth of justinian the byzantine empire had about 26,000,000 people by 600 both empires had suferred from plague that killed 1/3 of their population that is why before the war it was 17 000 000 the war of 572 to 591 kept the byzantines occupied as the avars came to the balkans and destroyed it , from 592 to 602 maurice main focus would be the balkans and his death led to the byzantine war of 602 to 628
the persians where at war with the byzantines from 571 to 592 and then war with the white huns and turks then the byzantine war happend by the end khavad made peace but kavad died do to the plague that killed thousands what happend next was a series of civil wars from 628 to 632 in which diferent leaders assumed the throne and 7 shash where procliamed by the end of it a 12 year old boy was made king to be a puppet other nobles where declaring its independance and the turks where raiding the empire
the next year the arab invasions began to say they where not weakend is a gross understatement.
@nickys34 except that like i said
in the case of persia said equipment was and veterans where busy killing eachtother for another 4 years in civil war , and persia was not even united
also despite not being crushed the byzantines lost much more the people became discontented due to persians invading and the balkans was lost to avars and slavs.
unless the war gets you taxes loot or anything worth of value its usually a problem the byzantines and persians gained nothing of the war only looses of provinces men , monetary crisis , spread of the plague ,and more
Yeh he only want compensate
Nice summary thanks
2019 and it’s already looking ancient! Also a testimony of how this channel has improved in just 2 years. Well done and keep delivering
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What else should 7th century feel rather than ancient?
Glad to see your documentary videos start to have bigger and bigger audience.
Thank you, buddy! You will love the next one. :-)
Can't wait already
An interesting event that happened during the Byzantine-Persian Wars was when the Persians captured the Holy Land(Israel) in the course of one of the wars they destroyed most of the Christian churches except for the Church of the nativity in Bethlehem.Why did they spare this church? -because of a mural that depicted the Three Wise Men who were magi or Zoroastrian priests clad in Persian garb done on one of the facades of the church.
+Kalo Arepo didn't know about that! Great tidbit.
Kalo Arepo I heard from somewhere that the three wise men were not only magi, but were actually Jewish and were heirs to Daniel that stayed in the east.
RC1505 -IT'S possible as the Zoroastrian religion had a strong influence on early Judaism when the Jews came in contact with the Persian empire under Cyrus the Great.Many Jews settled in that empire as exemplified by the story of Esther in the Old Testament.There were also many Jews in Babylon even after many returned to Israel.The Talmud was written by Babylonian Jews who lived there under the Parthian and neo-Persian Empires.There is also a theory that the story of the three wise men originated when an Armenian king(Tiridates) VISITED Rome in about 30A.D. with a big retinue.The Armenians also were Zoroastrians at the time.
Kalo Arepo Interesting stuff! I would like to point out that the Talmud was written some years after the execution of Yeshua. And the only influence I can think of Zoroastrianism having on Judaism is the poetic King of Kings rhetoric and many incorrectly calling Cyrus the Messiah at the time, which can't be the case what with the fall of his Achaeminid Empire to Alexandros.
RC1505 -Zoroastrianism had a huge influence on Judaism and from there to Christianity and Islam -the idea of Satan as God's nemesis comes from the Persian religion -Satan is called Ahriman in the Zoroastrian theology and he is the Evil One who opposes the good God called Ahura Mazda(and yes there is a link to the Mazda car!)Good will win in the end but after a bloodthirsty struggle(The idea of an Apocalypse) and there will be a Last Judgement.The hierarchy of angels and demons idea also comes from Zoroastrianism -the cherubim and seraphim stuff and the idea of God using angels as messengers.
Best channel ever. Both meaningful and awesome. Thank you for doing so good videos. I watched your whole channel in just 1 day.
+Antonis Theodoridis thank you, my friend. You will surely enjoy the video that will be released on Sunday. :-) for now, please share with your friends, that will help us quite a bit!
When we watch new documentaries of k& g we ll see the real difference. Brilliant channel. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤝🏴.
Imagine how different history might have turned out if the persians had quit while they had Egypt, Syria and the Caucasus.
no Islamic caliphate --> no Persian science traveling to europe via Muslim Spain & Sicily --> No Renaissance
--> Byzantium not being invaded by Turkic nomads (since Sassanid Persia would still be around) --> No Colonialism (Europeans don't need to find new trading routes since they still can trade with the East via Byzantium) --> etc. etc.
Well I don't know about all that. It's at least questionable to assume a single cause for all these geopolitical outcomes and conclude they wouldn't have happened otherwise.
But the spread of Islam might have been significally affected.
Well If alternative history would NOT be questionable it would not be alternative history :) so welcome to the club.
@@yourmajesty1361 That sounds like the best timeline
@@yousuf6382 you mean the science that Arabs stole and claimed for themselves?
why does hagia sophia have towers ????? in 6 century
An honest mistake.
Minarets*not towers.
The Hagia Sofia did have towers pre conquest, just not as tall as depicted in the video. They became much taller under the ottomans.
@@ajbolt7 nop hagia sophia was an aristocratic classic huge ordodox temple without towers... after the fall of constantinople in 1453 the ottomans burn the temple and then remove everything that belongs to Christianity and turn it into a muslim church...
@@YY-ug9mv It's important to have lots of vitamins and minarets in one's diet.
At that time the Arabs were betting big on who would win between them, except one Arab said the Romans would win and in a few years we would conquer those two great empires. And he’s right.
Chapter room in the Quran
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It seems like you kinda glossed over the Siege of Constantinople by the Persians and Avars. If fact the situation was so dire that Heraclius wanted to move the capital to Syracuse, Sicily to be safer. I was about to start reading a book by Geoffrey Regan about Heraclius called "The First Crusader" when I received this video in my recomended list.
Thanks for watching. It is actually an apt description for Heraclius. He did return the true cross and retook Jerusalem.
Regarding the siege, you are right. It was written in a much detailed fashion, but eventually, we decided to cut it, as the video was already running long. If everything goes according to the plan, we'll have a series of videos concerning all major sieges of Constantinople.
I read that he was even considering moving the capital to Carthage
@@KingsandGenerals Look exactly at this comment. This is why I say your channel doesn't give the accurate account of events. In several occasions when Romans are soundly defeated, or humiliated by Persians, there is this "we don't know what happen" explanation, or it is not even mentioned. This is cherry picking of the events to make a certain side look better, and create a narrow view to, a much greater event. BTW, your animations look legit and these projects seem painfully time consuming. I wish they were more accurate and showing both sided acheivements pretty balanced.
@@KingsandGenerals Indeed, the regaining of the true cross is still celebrated every year in the Orthodox Church.
I love this channel so much, I've been watching backwards all the way to here and I want more! This is by far some of the best documentaries of some of my favorite history subjects, thank you for everything you do.
Oh, you reached the first one. :-) Hopefully, you see, thay we are constantly improving. :-)
Yeah I love all the improvements as it goes on, I feel really immersed in the history, and being a Total war fan makes them even more enjoyable. I hope to support you on Patreon soon, keep up the great work!
Will do, thanks!
“Herculean effort” should be “Heraclian effort” after what Heraclius did to save the empire
I enjoyed this video, But i am disappointed that you didn't mention all the great quotes:
"I pursue and run after peace. I do not willingly burn Persia, but compelled by you. Let us now throw down our arms and embrace peace. Let us quench the fire before it burns up everything."
-Heraclius
"Khosrow, greatest of Gods, and master of the earth, to Heraclius, his vile and insensate slave. Why do you still refuse to submit to our rule, and call yourself a king? Have I not destroyed the Greeks? You say that you trust in your God. Why has he not delivered out of my hand Caesarea, Jerusalem, and Alexandria? And shall I not also destroy Constantinople? But I will pardon your faults if you submit to me, and come hither with your wife and children; and I will give you lands, vineyards, and olive groves, and look upon you with a kindly aspect. Do not deceive yourself with vain hope in that Christ, who was not able to save himself from the Jews, who killed him by nailing him to a cross. Even if you take refuge in the depths of the sea, I will stretch out my hand and take you, whether you will or no."
-Khosrow II
EDIT: Upon later reflection i believe khosrow's quote may be a fabrication by byzantine sources. It's well written though, So i'm keeping it here.
Yeah, kings of the old were over the top. That is why I admire Spartans and Caesar even more. :-)
It´s safe to say that it was this sort of arrogance that kicked Khosrau in the face lol...always be humble in victory unless the head of your slain enemy is thrown infront of your feet.
+Mati khorasani good point!
Kings and Generals
غُلِبَتِ ٱلرُّومُ
The Byzantines have been defeated
فِىٓ أَدۡنَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَهُم مِّنۢ بَعۡدِ غَلَبِهِمۡ سَيَغۡلِبُونَ
In the nearest land. But they, after their defeat, will overcome.
فِى بِضۡعِ سِنِينَ ۗ لِلَّهِ ٱلۡأَمۡرُ مِن قَبۡلُ وَمِنۢ بَعۡدُ ۚ وَيَوۡمَٮِٕذٍ يَفۡرَحُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ
Within three to nine years. To Allah belongs the command before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice
بِنَصۡرِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ يَنصُرُ مَن يَشَآءُ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ
In the victory of Allah. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.
وَعۡدَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ لَا يُخۡلِفُ ٱللَّهُ وَعۡدَهُ ۥ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَڪۡثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ
[It is] the promise of Allah. Allah does not fail in His promise, but most of the people do not know.
Quran 30 1
Well citations of the Quran about the wars of the VIIth century are.... unreliable to say the best : indeed since the Quran has been written (in its final version whether Sunnite or Chiite) only one or two century later (i can't remember the exact date) it is sort of easy to have modified the prophetic messages to fit the reality. Besides I still wonder why Allah would give a crap about human empires (or God for that matter, just a different language for the same name), or man I really need to understand why Allah let the colonisation happen :p
Liked just for the ending scene. Truly the end of an era for Egypt.
Hope you also liked the video in general. :-)
I most definitely did. But this ending gave me chills! Keep it up man!
Thanks!
You are right. This was a great movie. I am not militant in my religious views, but it was sad seeing the end of the pagan era.
As a national Greek and a Christian, I am also sad to see the end of the Byzantine era, not implying that any of the eras (Christian or Muslim) was better than the other of course.
To be fair, for Egypt it was the pagan era that saw its greatest achievements, both at the time of the pharaohs and during the hellenistic era. After all, when people think of Egypt, the Pyramids and Cleopatra come to mind before anything else.
Yep, exactly. :-)
Arabs joined the chat
Sassanids left the chat
E permanently
So?!
Press F
@Salman Tajamal Arabian Muslims then :)
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Nice one, i hope you make more of this nice stuff.
But i have to say, its really a pity you missed an important part of this epic story; the struggle of Heraclius to convice his subjects that, despite the loss of Africa and Asia and the army's defeats, the empire could and should put another fight, to victorry or the bitter end. The lending of all church assets to the state, the heated speaches with a never before seen religious character and the rush of recruits to enlist in preparation for a counter offensive are so touching.
It's really ironic how we are made to believe that strong will, tireless effort and cunning eventually brings a great victory, not only in the field but in the legends. Heraclius would have been named the greatest General after Caesar if he died after the peace talks with persia. His score to turn a situation that was hopeless to a victory is unparaled in byzantine 1000 year history. But reality in this world can be a bitch some times, and can take away what you thought you earned just with a swift and unseen blow (Yarmuk)
Thank you!
I had that part in the narration but eventually decided to shorten it to keep the video under 15 minutes.
Indeed, Heraclius was one of the best Byzantine commanders. Unfortunately, he lived too long and wasn't able to stop the Muslim invasion.
Oh wow fancy seeing you here. I always see you contributing modern Greek knowledge to the Ancient Greek in Latin stream on Scorpiomartianus channel.
@@stevenv6463 cheers mate
Sassanids: We May have lost but at least we still have our lands
Arabs: Yeah I don’t think so
Who said sasanids lost to byzantiom??did they conquere and control sasanids lands for several years??no
@@mohammadglory1063 yah Yes, that's right, but look at the end of the video.. That what he means
Milo The Orange what I meant by lost is that despite taking territory and winning a number of victories over the Byzantines in the end the Sassanids were repelled and the state of the Middle East was restored to the former status quo. In a sense it was a victory for the Byzantines as they were able to repel them despite pressures from the east and west. If it helps the loss part refers to the battles they lost near the end of the war.
Milo The Orange sorry about the misunderstanding
Both Iran and Rome lost so technically the Iranians lost .
Impressive Documentary video. The battles these two fought are interesting to listen too. My compliments to this video's creators for making it.
This was done absolutely amazingly, havent seen this war covered in such detail but also so succintly! Love this channel!
+Greg Platis thanks! :-) we are very happy that you enjoyed this one. New documentary will be up in 7 hours. :-)
Looking forward to it! Binge watching all your videos as we speak!!
+Greg Platis thanks. :-) please don't judge the older ones too harshly. :-)
Truly thankful about someone finally making a video of a conflict in the middle east that facilitated the rise of islam this is gold as no one truly bothers to attempt to describe what conflicts lead to the fall of empires most of the time they are simply described as them fumbling and falling appartPlus you have saved me hours of trying to explain to someone this specific conflict the video is great and if you are looking for ideas a more in depth description of the khaganate wars that split the mongols is one the fall of parthia the mughals ming and all time favorites like western rome or the greek suceesor states are there to name a few(the seleucids was awesome work) and phyrrus's campaigns on rome and sicily(epirus was not as big as its neighbors but could have matched Macedon's conquests in west if they only taken Rome)
Thanks for watching! As a student of history - events happen for multiple reasons and reducing them to a click bait is offensive. :-) I will add your suggestions to my ever growing list of future documentaries. :-)
Rewatching this. I couldn't say which of your videos I've enjoyed most, but this one's ending has moved me more than any other.
I can't love history without your videos man! They make me addicted :D love the animation
During that war when Rome lost Persian Empire at first, it was mentioned in the Holy Quran that Rome will win the war in few years, and this what really happened based on this video. You can check the first verses in Al Rum chapter in the Holy Quran. “The Romans have been defeated (2), in a nearby land.Yet following their defeat, they will triumph (3), within three to nine years.The whole matter rests with Allah before and after victory. And on that day the believers will rejoice (4).”
super bullshit
If you’re gonna quote the Quran I’ll quote the story of Santa Claus, seeing as how they’re both enormous works of fiction lmao
@@kyzzzzHello Buddy, actullay no one cares if you believe in Quran or not but it is fact, the Quran made a really millitary predict and spoke for a byzantine victory at the time the Byzanz were desparate, they were in very bad and misrable situation. No one at that time could believe that they would win again and restore what they lost. No problem ... Good luck for you Buddy and for your Santa Claus.
"Imagine all the people living life in peace. Ioannes Lennonites."
LOL Good one!
+Dionysios L. You are the first one who noticed. :-)
Haha, must be because I'm Greek XD
Respect to the Iranians for the Good fight !
don't do that shit
Snitch
@theworld persian destroyed middle east
@@الصبر....ا Persians belong to Central Asia
the M.E is for the Semites only
yo hashim , do some research before you use your fingers to type a dumb comment like this. we can talk about this if you want. cause i got some news for you "we didn't, even you didn't. islam did"
i wish i could go back in time and tell my ancestors that war with the romans would only mean the fall of both and rise of islam
In fact, we all should go back and tell our ancestors to stop fighting.
Yeah exactly I have to work on my time machine....
Rise of islam is not because of any military engagement ,,it was due to code and standards early muslims followed,,,
It's because both Byzantium and the Sasanians were tired as hell, shut up with your 'codes of islam' foolishness
TheModest Man why u r taking it personally,,,calm down,,grass is greener on both tje sides,,,
Great video for context
Great narration
If khosrow accept the peace at the first time ... just think about it!
World fate changed by that!
Great channel deserves more subs
Thanks! :-)
I am blown away by this vid , big like
Thank you, good sir! Consider sharing our videos, newer ones actually got better. :-)
Best history channel in RUclips ;)
Love this series.. no subjective BS, just facts. Keep it up!
Thank you for being with us. :-) Tell your friends about our channel. :-)
12:20 Patrain?
Otherwise impeccable narration. :-)
My pronunciation is the worst XD
Great work, both on animating and condensing a 26 year war (and 7 centuries) in a 10ish min. video! But I'm sorry to state that it could be better narrated. I was a bit let down by the fact that many names were pronounced rather badly: such as Ancria instead of AnCYra, Cacausus instead of CAUcasus, and many other names of persons and places. I know this is the hard part of trying to pronounce all kinds of alien sounding words in Greek, Latin, Pahlavi, Armenian etc. but it will get easier once the narrators or the researchers get used to them. I could offer some help in pronunciation if you'd like. Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you! We will try to improve this facet. :-)
The story of the last Roman-Persian War is incredible, but it's important to remember that the war didn't just come out of nowhere. There had been nearly a century of back-and-forth conflict during the 6th century that was a constant source of fuel to the inferno that began in 602.
This is Gold , please don't stop making these
Thanks! The new one will be available this weekend. :-)
This one could really use a redo, the standard and quality of this channel has increased considerably since this was released and it's a really interesting conflict. It basically sets the stage for the medieval period. It's arguable that up until this point we are dealing with 'late antiquity', or maybe an intermediate period between the classical and medieval period.
Entertaining! You earn a new sub now !
Thanks! I have watched your videos. Your machinimas are great!
Thanks !! If you need a collab , please let me know !
+Malay Archer thanks! I have an idea and will e-mail you soon.
nurrrik & phoenix add me on steam: [OKCU] Malay Archer
+Malay Archer I did! :-)
Awesome video! My one gripe is that the video does fail to portray the tragic human side of Heraclius who managed to pull one of history's greatest miracles to then just see everything fall into a nightmare.
“The Romans have been defeated in the lowest land, but after their defeat they will soon be victorious. Within three to nine years. The decision of the matter, before and after, is with God.” (Quran 30:2-4)
I Just Googled the context and this is so freaking cool! I kind of wish the muslims hadn't invaded the byzantines after the war. It'd be interesting to see How They could've both cooperated
@@leonardofranzinribeiro4220 yup it was a revelation From The Creator bcz at the time romans and sassinids were fighting, there were muslims in the Arbaian Peninsula who were struggling against pagans. The pagans Taunted Muslims by saying they support Sassinids, as they were pagans too, and muslims supported romans ,as they were the people of the Holy Book. They said this to taunt muslims as christians who were close to resemblence to muslims spiritually lost to sassinids and the pagans said as the sassinids defeated the Romans , they(pagans) will crush the muslims like that too. So to give the good news and hope to muslims , The Creator revealed this Verse after which romans were victorious. This was the whole event behind the revelation and after that Muslims won against pagans.
@@leonardofranzinribeiro4220 tbh I think the Romans would’ve fell after the ottomans showed up
Allahu Akbar! God is surely mighty & Strong
@@leonardofranzinribeiro4220 during the sassanid Roman war the Muslims were supporting the Romans since they were the people of the scripture, and the pagan Arabs were supporting their fellow Sassanid pagans
Awesome new series/idea. I'll support each & every video you folks out out. Keep on educating the masses please! Lol
Thanks, will do :-)
That has to be the most epic intro I have ever seen
The summary of this video is basically "our historical information is limited"
This is pretty much exactly how my eastern Roman Empire campaign went on total war Attila
جدا رائع أتمنى ترجمة المزيد مع حبي وتقديري للمجهود المبذول
Great vid.Haven't watched any vid for months and it is great
Thank you. :-)
Wow! It felt like I was watching a movie in theatre for two hours. Amazing.
Quran verse revelation at 621 AD:
"The Romans were defeated in the lowest land and they will win after 3-9 years."
Lowest land is the shore near dead sea at 614 AD (lowest location on Earth).
Prophecy fulfilled at 628 AD (7 years after verse revelation date). This verse statement ccontains both a scientific term (in the lowest land) as well a very highly unlikely risky prophecy that after extreme loss there is a win. Just like if you see a football game of 8-1 and you say the defeated team will win! Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was not in need to put his prophrthood title on the edge of such a prediction after him being successful in leading those he convinced unless he is truly a prophet.
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الحمد الله على نعمة الاسلام
@Lotus 98T shut up
Lotus 98T who is the correct prophet from God?
@Lotus 98T no Jesus is prophet
Once again, great work with your documentary series. I was wondering if sometime you will attempt to analyze the Battle of White Mountain.
Thanks! I have been thinking and researching Thirty Years' War in order to come up with a plan. It, obviously, should span across many videos, but I wonder if it should be battle-centric or concentrate on the bigger picture. The first is more exciting, but the second will allow for more historical accuracy. Need to think about it. :-)
Another thought is to start with the Hussite Wars and Religious Wars across Europe. :-)
Lol the caliphate troll both empire
muslim were destroyed in 717 not to be united again their best souldiers dead and their expansion finished only a foul can claim some pride in this beta text empire
@Leo Jansen no problem no matter how much you bark , truth will be truth
@@mehrdad7144 Fuck Cows worshipers
@@mohagamal7102 fuck off asshol i dont care
@dd ppa but we destroyed them again hahahaha
Very well produced video! Entertaining history, great job! :)
Thank you, good sir! :-)
I love history ! The political Commissar was very convincing . :)
Same here, Commissar is a true Bro. :-)
The great comeback in history
Awesome! One of your best videos!
Thanks! They will only get better - we are constantly improving our assets and learn new things in Adobe. :-)
How about Shahpoor ???????
I'm 4 years late but I'm here!! Excellent quality video, extremely accurate depictions and accounts!! Much love!
Studying this war at Uni was both one of the most interesting and depressing couple of lectures I have ever had to sit through...
You have to feel for the Byzantines. There capital was devastated by the loss of Egypt. The seizure of the valuable eastern provinces had left the state bankrupt, having to loot their own churches en-mass just to pay for their crippled army... They finally feel like they have peace, fated to be the dominant world empire, finally beating their age old rival... And then it's all un-done in a matter of years by the rise of a new upstart power whose men had helped the Persians with their initial successes by failing to defend the border they had long been paid to help secure.
Your documentaries ought to be screen during history classes to get a different perspective on events in ancient history instead of just perusing the textbooks & looking at slides of maps. Its stimulating for students studying ancient History subject esp. at secondary level. It stick as much to the facts as possible and that is refreshing in this internet age where almost anything goes. Congrats on work well done.
Thank you! :-)
holy crap. I just found your channel on a wim. Where have you been?!!?!?!
We have been here since August. :-) Where have you been?
Outstanding! Thank you
+Templarswordxx7 thanks for watching! :-)
Love the series, great work
+HenryVM85 thank you very much! :-)
There are still Zoroastrians today in a number of 200.000 people.Zoroastrianism is the oldest religion along with Hinduism
Yeah, they are called Pars and live in the northwestern part of India.
nurrrik & phoenix they are called parsi in india
you mean pagan who worship fire as god?
zorroastrians aren't pagans.They worship one god called Ahura Mazda.They are monotheistic.
Al fateh still better than following a pedophile rapist warlord
Ahh nobody expects the Spanish Inqui... I mean the Muslims
+Bob Bulat haven't heard this iteration. :-)
These videos are amazing. But if you guys can or care to, organizing all these videos by date would be nice
I learned a lot in this video. Thanks 🤙
Nice channel
Thank you for this part of history
Thank you for watching!
I really, enjoyed this narrator. He should do more documentaries with you guys.
Yeah, Commissar Bro is really great. Please, go to his channel and say hi :-) ruclips.net/user/CommissarBRO
Love portrait of Hypatia in Alexandria there at the end. Great movie about the end of an era and the rise of ignorance and brutal savagery that dominated the end of the Roman Empire
Love that movie. :-)
It's historicaly inaccurate but it's ok
This is so much Heroes of Might and Magic 3! Especially from 7:55
Huh! :-) I miss that franchise. :-)
Yeah me too! Haven't played in years... Your animated moves of Heraclius and others and the terrain reminded me of HoMM franchise. Keep up the good work :-)
Excellent documentary Nurrik & Phoenix! You guys make military history the most exciting on RUclips!!! Could you please make one with the great Hellenic/Hellenistic/Yunan General Pyrrhus of Epirus and his great victories against the Romans and Carthaginians on Italian & Sicilian soil?
Thanks for your kind words! Yes, I have Pyrrhus on my list, there will be a documentary on him. Yunan is the Turkish name for Greeks. How come you know it/decided to use it? :-)
nurrrik & phoenix I study history a lot and that's how I know, I also wanted the wider audience from the Islamic world to understand. I would've said Rum but that would've added to the confusion :-) Will you also make more Byzantine/Byzantium/Bizans documentaries? If you could please make all 4 of the great sieges of Constantinople that would be awesome!
1- Byzantio-Sassanid War Joint Avar, Slavs & Sassanid siege of Constantinople 626
2- Byzantio-Arab War and 1st great Arab siege of Constantinople 674-678
3- Byzantio-Arab War and 2nd great Arab siege of Constantinople 717-718
4- Byzantio-Ottoman War siege and conquest of Constantinople 1453.
Great! :-) I have a documentary on Manzikert and will probably have at least one or two documentaries on Byzantine-Arab wars and one on Byzantine-Bulgarian War.
nurrrik & phoenix that sounds awesome! Please don't forget to talk about John I Tzimiskes and Nicephoros/Nikephoros/Naqfur Phokas/Phocas the pale death of the Saracens/Arabs and their reconquests of Crete, Cyprus, Cilicia and northern Syria. If you have time at the end you can talk about his heroic victory over the Rus(proto Russians) in the balkans too. Thank you!
Will do! :-) I am not from Turkey, but it is heartwarming to meet someone who doesn't spew hate on the internet. :-)
What's the music at 0:52
Roman Empire, caliphate, Sassanid empire.. Respect to all these super powers
Arkon respect to murderers?
Empires and governments have been corrupt throughout history with a few exceptions far in between.
@@___free4ever___
All Empires in history were made by murders but there are some murders deserve respect as well as death.
@@Мустафаиракский-я8ш can't see how a murderer deserves respect!
@@___free4ever___ hey toxiczz lndian, ur pm is murderer🤣
@@itbe796 lol, I'm actually Iranian, and we don't have a lack of big empires, but my point is too much for your 🧠.
Do more on the Achaemenids and Sassanids please
غلبت الروم في أدنى الأرض وهم من بعد غلبهم سيغلبون في بضع سنين لله الامر من قبل ومن بعد و يومئذ يفرح المومنين بنصر الله ينصر من يشاء وهو العزيز الرحيم
Your work is Gold!
Thank you!
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Thank you
this war is also given inn short in holy Quran in chapter Room.
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+Before it happens
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Yeah that is true.
Important detail - shortly before, in the 541, the bubonic plague appeared in Europe for the first time, precisely in Constantinople. It was as deadly as Black Death in 14th century, estimations are it killed 40% of Byzantine population. It was reappearing few times with smaller epidemics for the next 200 years. This might be the sole reason that this most powerful realm in area was on the defensive ever since until it's fall.
Thank you!
The Phokas military dynasty an the Amoride Emperors Nikephoros II Phokas and Basileios II reconquered all territories lost to the ´Arabs reestablishing the frontiers od the Byzantine Empire as Heraklios had left them.
The Phokas military dynasty an the Amoride Emperors Nikephoros II Phokas, his brother Leo Phokas and Emperor Basileios II reconquered all territories lost to the ´Arabs, reestablishing the frontiers of the Byzantine Empire as Heraklios had left them.
Imagine how strong they would’ve been if they were allies and not enemies
Well when the caliphate attacked they became allies and tried to attack on two fronts but they lost
@@thoughtshewasaryan2591 because both were exhausted Moron
@@thoughtshewasaryan2591 they fought for years then a pl@gue ravaged them both Making things worst also heraculis wasn't even able to lead his armies Arabs just got lucky
@@sussyballs424 r u mad bro the arabs were also at war with each other before and when they finally all got united they were also ravaged by war. R u mad bro that islam destroyed the remains of the roman empire
@@thoughtshewasaryan2591 moron the wars that the Arabs fought were less severe compared to the Byzantine Sassanid war also the Arabs won the war that they fought meanwhile Byzantines and Persians failed to destroy each other
Please update this video with OfficiallyDevin! Maybe with some new information and aesthetic tweaks now that your channel has been constantly improving and it is on a good streak of making Roman Empire-related videos. I know you've updated some videos in the past and if there is any chance you have the time it would be wonderful to watch this video (and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa *hint hint*) in an updated and perfected form. I love your videos and continue educating us. I've been watching your channel religiously for over 2 years.
Awesome videos defently subscribing
Welcome aboard!