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The Ottomans were too relentless. Only Timur could crush them in those days and they still bounced back like it never happened. Meanwhile the Romans just floundered, although you have to give the Palaiologos dynasty credit for surviving as long as they did.
It would be helpful if you could reinstate the numbering in each video title of this series so that viewers can more easily follow the sequence. Great series, by the way.
@@kumebannerlord I was thinking about the same thing but maybe they didn't do it because the algorithm would also be able to read the text on the thumbnail so they didn't do that.
Even how much i love this channel, figuring out the correct watch-order can be a clusterfuck. I wish K&G would sort the playlists in chronological order instead of by release date. It would be much better especially for new viewers.
Have to say the Ottomans played the Easter Roman power players really well. Like they didn’t mind being emperor of a fractured empire as long as they were emperor. All the while the ottomans kept taking pieces of the empire until basically the city was all they had.
Yeah, they all fought to become Roman emperor. It's just a shame that in their zeal to do so, they let the rest of the empire collapse around them. Those days were long removed from the time of Cincinnatus who sacrificed for the good of the people. There is a lesson to be learned here. The good of the nation must come before the personal benefit of one individual.
@@Fokas-n8t Stop saying that eastern Romans were Greeks. Nope. They were Romans who in time adapted the Greek language. But that does not make them 'Greeks'. The eastern Mediterranean world (including Greece and Asia Minor) was conquered by the Romans shortly after 200 BC. After the death of Alexander the great, Greek lands were divided into three major kingdoms: - Antigonids in Macedonia - Seleucids in Asia Minor, Syria and Mesopotamia - Ptolemies in Egypt all of which fell under Roman control by 190 BC. Then the slave life for the Greeks started in Macedonia, Asia Minor etc. There were no independent Greek state for the next 2000 years and they disappeared from the map of the world as a separate political entity. The mastership of the Greeks was passed on to Eastern Roman empire after the collapse of Western Roman empire in Rome circa 5th century AD. Yes perhaps Greek language was still spoken at these lands, but that did not change the fact that the people of Ancient Greece pretty much already faded away into the dust bin of history and only their language survived. The fact that Byzantines spoke Greek language does not make then Greek. This is similar to some other examples in history. Such as with the case of Seljuk Turks who despite being the masters of Persians under the Great Seljuk Empire, they preferred to use Persian Language in the Palace and Political circles. And during our times, many countries speak English, but that does not make them British. Greece and Greeks after being forgotten for almost 2000 years, they re-appered in the pages of history again in 1830 when they managed to gain their independence from the Ottomans, after being ruled by them for almost 400 years. And Turks always won battles against weak opposition?? Really?? Well this just buries your credit for historical knowledge. No other nation in history established more states and empires than the Turks. It was the Europeans to defeated weaker nations during their colonization eras (Spanish against Aztecs, Mayas, Incas; British against American Indians, Australian Aboriginals etc). And some examples for you for Turkish victories (based on your not so impressive level history, you might not now that Turks not consist of Ottomans only.) I will bypass to save space here the military victories of many Turkish states/empires, such as Huns, Gokturks, Khazars, Memluks, Gaznevids, Zengis, Akkoyunlular etc etc. Just a few examples from Seljuks and Ottomans - Victories of Seljuk Turks against East Romans (and others). For ex at the battle Mankizert, The Seljuks led by Sultan Alparslan won a major battle against the much more numerous Romans (Romans were 2 to 3 times more powerful). At this battle, first time in history a Roman emperor fell into captivity in a war. This was one of turning points in history and after Mankizert, the gates of Anatolia was opened to the influx of the Turks. - Battle of Myriokephalon. Again, Seljuk Turks won the battle against numerically superior Romans which further helped Turks strengthened their position in Anatolia. - Battle of Nichopolis; Ottoman victory against the crusader armies of Europe who were consists of: Holy Roman Empire • Kingdom of France • Duchy of Burgundy • Kingdom of Hungary • Voivodship of Transylvania • Kingdom of Croatia • Principality of Wallachia • Knights Hospitaller • Republic of Venice • Republic of Genoa • Bulgarian Empire • Teutonic Knights • Byzantine Empire • County of Cilli • District of Branković - Battle of Varna: Ottoman victory against the European crusaders. Varna Crusaders: Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Hungary, Kingdom of Croatia, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kingdom of Bohemia Principality of Wallachia, Bulgarian rebels, Kingdom of Bosnia, Papal States, Teutonic Knights Naval assistance: Duchy of Burgundy, Republic of Venice, Republic of Ragusa, Byzantine Empire - Battle Kosove II: Ottoman victory against the crusaders: Kingdom of Hungary, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Bohemia, Moldavia, Grand Duchy of Lithuania ,Wallachia ==> After Ottoman victories at Nichopolis (1396), Varna (1444) and Kosovo (1448), Europe and Papal states couldn't dare to come to the rescue of Romans during the siege of Constantinople at 1453. - Naval battle of Preveze: Major victory by the Ottomans against the Holly League combined navy of 12 galleys, 50 galiots, 140 barkas, 2500-2594 cannon, 60,000 soldiers vs Ottoman force of only 122 galleys and galliots 366 cannon, 3,000 janissaries and 8000 soldiers. --> The unbelievable fact of the battle was that against the loss of Holly League naval armada of 13 ships, 36 ships captured and 3,000 prisoners, Ottomans did NOT lose even a single ship and only lost 400 sailors. Holy League were made up of: • Republic of Venice, • Papal States • Republic of Genoa • Spain • Mantua • Malta The reply has been too long already and cutting it here. But it should be enough for you to do some homework before you express some false statements here.
@@lonelywolf1480 The two merged together. When Rome was nothing more than a city, the Latin tribe that governed Rome within the region of Latium, or Lazio as known today, assumed the name "Romans". The term Roman became something like an ethnicity and eventually a nationality, whereby Romans' ethnic language was primarily Latin. The Romans did not know themselves by their language, but by their way of life which merely included the Latin language. After over a thousand years, the Greek language had also become a Roman ethnic language. As Latin faded away from the Roman realm, owing to loss of Latin-speaking lands, Greek was the only "Roman" language. It is by this way that Romans defined themselves by speaking Greek rather than Latin. So the "Romans" of the later, smaller, medieval version of the Roman Empire were ethnically Roman, meaning that their language was now Greek, and they were also more Hellenized.
@@lonelywolf1480 This guy knows it. They will not accept it tho mate. They are not interested in real history. Mostly fan boys :D Doesnt know shit besides what the western historians tells them.
This really is one of your best series. Awesome, but sad. I would love to see you cover the Eastern Roman refugees' influence in Italy. It's talked about in western history, but it's rarely discussed.
Although I know not every military engagement can be mentioned without making the videos really long, I am surprised Sigismund's siege of Golubac wasn't mentioned considering it wasn't one of the many small scale clashes led by lower ranked generals, rather it was a campaign against the Ottomans led by the Hungarian king himself. Good video either way tho
There is absolutely no better way to start the week than with a K&G video, even if I am a day late 😎 As always, The Team has made this history lesson into a fantastic video. I couldn't expect any less from y'all!
After this series end, can you talk about Ottoman post-Sulaiman the Magnificent (especially in the 17th century until its fall in 1924)? Because it is lesser-known and rarely anyone that talked about it.
There is little to cover about skenderbeg nothing is written. Tbe stuff that is also written, people debate it. No one watches those bcs theyre not that interesting. Just like its is not i teresting for us, when there are videos of random mongolic tribes in russia.
Another great Ottoman video in some of more obsucre parts(in popular terms) in Ottoman history. Here's hoping we would get an Ottoman army on it's own, especially if it's not just Jannisary. Kapikulu, Azabs, Akinci and Timar exist too not too mention the wagon forts system.
A video that talks about, or at least has a short reference to the Despotate of Arta would be greatly appreciated. Gjin Bua Shpata is extremely underrated.
@@AthrihosPithekos Gjin Bua Shpata defeated Nikephoros Orsini II in the battle of Achelous 1359 where Nikephoros himself was killed, and after that battle, Gjin Bua Shpata and Pjetër Losha established two despotates in the southern half of the previous Despotate of Epirus. After Pjetër died, his portion was inherited by Gjin Bua Shpata who then formed the Despotate of Arta. He fought numerous battles against the Despotate of Epirus which often got help from the Ottomans during the reign of Thomas Preljubovic and of Esau Buondelmonte, being undefeated in battle but failing to besiege Janina (Ioannina). His reign is pretty interesting to read about and would make one great video in my opinion.
@@Domina1190 The first albanian speakers to ever step into Epirus Vetus were sellswords-mercenaries of the Serbian king (kral) Stefan Dusan. Thomas Preljubovic was also a Serb partially. He butchered many Albanians, Bulgarians and Vlachs. He treated bad the Rhomaioi (Greek speakers) of Ioannina as well.
@@AthrihosPithekos When you talk about Albanian speakers "coming into Epirus", you're talking about the Albanian migrations into Greece that began at the end of the 13th century and reached their peak during the 14th century, but Albanians had already lived in Epirus before that. The oldest medieval document actually talking about the ethnic composition of Epirus is a Venetian Document in 1210 which simply states that "The Peninsula east of Corfu (that being Epirus) is populated by Albanians". As for Thomas Preljubovic, he was a tyrant and a sadist who massacred innocent children, mostly of Albanians, but non Albanians as well.
A superb video, when u mentioned the "Albanian lords were left to fight alone" kinda reminded me of Skanderbeg's exact scenario against the ottomans with a bit of venetian support
@@KingsandGenerals OH YEAH! I thought the serie would end after the fall of Constantinople, but more episodes about Skanderbeg, Suleiman and Vlad Dracula sounds like heaven
@@KingsandGenerals This is your best series I love how everything is detailed wating for the era of Mehmet the conqueror I really hope you can show it perfectly
This reminded me off, the famous story of mahmut in the folklore, the one who changed his name from a christian name to a muslim, to avoid taxex. But he become a laughing stock because we all know what mah"mut" means, his legends still persists and people mock him even though he has been dead for 500 years.
Bro it's just misinformation spread by Anti-Islam parties. Jizya is tax which is only 1.5% of your income usually and is equivalent to 1.5 gold ( I don't remember the unit ) which is to be paid only by young men. No woman has to pay, no old man has to pay, no child has to pay, no sick has to pay and no cripple has to pay and paying this tax will assure your rights and safety by the Islamic government and you won't have to serve in the military unlike Muslims which will have to serve in the army even after the yearly "Zakat" tax which is 2.5% of your income if you have property worth more than 93.75 grams of Gold. You people will pay even 40-60% taxes to the western Governments but are too prejudiced to even pay 1.5% to an Islamic governments for your rights and safety
Po ata pak qe jane akoma te besimit grekorthodhoks ,,,pse nuk u konvertuan ne islam qe mos te paguanin taksat,,,? ,,,,,i pagonin taksat ,,,se kishin krishtin ne gjak ,,,dhe ne shpirt ,,kishin bese ne zot ,,,,,i uroj orthodhokset ,,gezuar pashket ,,, amin
Ti u konvertove ne islam per mos te paguar taksat ? ,,,,haha ,,,,po ata pak qe nuk u konvertuan dhe mbajten besimin grekorthodhoks ,,pse nuk e ben si shumica ? ,,,nuk u konvertuan se e kan krishtin ne gjak dhe ne shpirt ,,,dhe kur vdesin kan kryqin ,,,ndersa ti jo ,,,,i uroj orthodhokset ,,gezuar pashket ,,,
Thanks for this video Kings and Generals . The Byzantine Empire is one of the most interesting European empire. Thanks for this history. I also like the more modern history on this channel like the Russo Japanese War and World War II. Can you also make more videos about the First World War. ❤
I feel sorry for all the unfortunate people who under siege in Thessalonika for a grueling 7 years. I can only imagine how horrific living within a besieged city for so long was back then.
Your Skanderbeg video has been very popular in Albania please visit us some days with your friends kings and general ti see the ottoman town of berat and the castle of kruja or berat we have a castle for every town❤️👐🏻
@@Thinkonomics123 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Kastriotis from Northern Albania. Omg, you greek idiot! Skenderbeg is the Albanian word , the Turkish word is Iskanderbey and the real Albanian name was Gjergj Gjon Kastrioti MAZREKU. Mazrek is the Albanian word for Horse-breeder.
@@Platoretaethey are NOT. They are a conglomerate of Albanians,Aromanians,Bulgarians and Turkic people! From 600 until today the territory of Greece has been repopulated by NON--HELLENIC people! The ancient Hellenes are Dead!
Really looking at this time period, you can truly feel the incredible impact of the 4th crusade. It was so crippling for everyone in the region (southern balkans) that it allowed a shattered piece of another empire to come in and clean out the entire former byzantine world.
u need to know about the of the sack of Constantinople,cz many peep didn't dig deeper,that before that event there's another crusader that been lead by holy roman emperor(frederick barbarosa) but u gonna read ur self that they have been facing heavy hostility acts by byzantine that lead to death of frederick.and 1 more worse, that the byzantine slaughtered thousands of latin in their capital due to jealousness for the prosperous latins,there some more events more to tell but u better read em yourself.they'd viewed themself more greek than latin and growing selfish feelings there.mamy times layins trying to fixed them but they'd denied em .
@@Floppedd nuk eshte gjith shqipria e jugut orthodhkse ,,,vetem pak jan ,,himara ,ne myzeqe ka ,etj ,,,gjith laberia jan myslyman ,,,,,ismail bej qemali ,,,haha 😝
Great Series, modern history like ukraine is boring, have a lot of information, and is hard to get the reality in this type of actual conflict, stay making videos about old wars, and launch the series complete thanks a lot for all , im a big fan.
An interesting fact; the drug that prevents hair loss advertised on the channel and the story about the Byzantine empire; Coincidentally, Istanbul, which is described in the documentary, currently has the largest and most patient-accepting hair transplantation centers in the world :)
By that point, was the Roman Empire based in Constantinople beyond saving already or was there still a chance for recovery? It is hard to pinpoint when the Roman Empire was beyond saving if they can still made an impressive recovery after what happened in 1204.
Personally, 1071 was a massive blow to the Romans and if there were more emperors like Alexios and John II Komnenos after 1071, 1204 would be prevented and the City of World's Desire wouldn't be reduced to ash and ruble. After 1204 a great restoration was a dream, sure Nicea did a lot but there were the Mongols and Ottomans afterwards, not good times to restore the empire. Also respect cuz you called the "Byzantines" "Romans" because they are the most legitimate and only successor to Rome
I reckon that the year 1204 was the decisive wound that could never be healed. After the sacking of Constantinople, the Romans could not muster the needed resources to conscript their own armies. They did even have enough riches to feed their own people in the capital, let alone pay for mercenaries. The last chance for a possible recapture of Asia Minor was the Battle of Myriocephalon. That battle was ill-planned by the Romans, even though they could have won the Sultanate of Rum. It was a slow death spiral after that as the Romans fought one another ad nauseam.
The failure of the Varna Crusade in 1444 sealed the fate of Constantinople. While the Ottomans were distracted, Constantine was able to take over territory in central Greece. But after the Crusaders were defeated at Varna, the Ottomans turned their attention to the Byzantines and took away all of Constantine's gains. Had the Ottomans been destroyed at Varna, the Byzantines would have gotten a new lease on life.
@@TIME12308Manzikert wasn't really that bad of a defeat. It was the civil wars that created a power vacuum in Anatolia that the Turks were able to take advantage of.
@@trantorcapitalofthegalacti3173 After the empire of nicaea retook the city they became lazy (or evsn cowardly) and neglected anatolia focusing their attention uselessly on europe while western anatolia was being raided by turks. the greeks had many chances of surviving but they loved fighting eachother and ignoring turks for some reason. its as if they were cursed.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. If the Byzantines had spent more time fighting their enemies and less time fighting each other they might not have been swallowed up by the Ottomans and some direct successor state of their empire might still be around today.
I cant watch this video because it's simply too painful but I will leave this comment to boost your interaction and get you more views. Keep doing what you're doing, but maybe with a little less heartbreaking decline of Roman civilization next time
Very cool video from an Albanian Muslim! And can’t wait to see the series in the future. I always love seeing my small people in historical documentaries especially during the ottoman time which gives way to the question of how a European people like Albania are mostly Muslim in faith. I’ll definitely be watching this series as It reaches the 16th and 17th centuries where many argue was the ottoman golden age. Which had Albanian lands doubled under their vilyats and many prominent Albanian people and families like the koprulus and Muhammad Ali pasha Albanians who held control over mass controls of the Islamic empire May peace and non oppression follow the Balkans as we reach the first half of the 21st century ❤️
I also just came back from a Balkan tour and were at Albania 3 days ago knew that after Ottoman period wars peaked at Balkans and looks like they are still not good within them even tho except Albanians, Greeks and Turk minorities they are all Slavs can't relate that type of conflicts Turks are well with their relationships for a long time can not even imagine Turkey going to war with Azerbaijan but Slavs have similar examples. At tour listened the recent wars and civil relationships within Balkans and with Turks from a Bulgarian citizen Turk tour guide he was pretty good even talked about demographics and looks like you are going to take over Macedonia lol and for us suprised to learn and experience that even Serbians are not uptight about Turks.
4:58-5:00 “Journeyed to Venice, Milan and Hungary” Genoa: what no kiss haha? Constantinople: … Genoa: wow so you’d rather ask a maritime republic that sacked you than give a nice guy like me a chance?
We also find a very revealing report in the work of the Polish historian Jan Długosz, who describes the campaign led by Vladislav IV Jagiellon in 1444. According to this author, when the crusaders departed from Nicopol for the southern bank of the Danube and arrived in northern Bulgaria, they saw a number of superb and remarkable edifices built by Roman emperors and military leaders, as well as marble monuments-arches and columns-bearing inscriptions in Latin and Greek. “All of these monuments,” this author notes, “were to a great extent destroyed by the Turks.”
Good job K&G ! Thessalonìki , that ancient Hellenic city has been through a lot. Glad to say in our days it has reversed all foreign conquests and invasions and it's free once again 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 .
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Is there a new playlist for this series or just that other one with like 100 plus ottoman vids
This is your best series I love how everything is detailed wating for the era of Mehmet the conqueror I really hope you can show it perfectly
It is pretty crazy but funny how the romans went from a single city to ruling the entire mediteranian and then back to one city again
Ironic
Well, they turned into all the Romance speaking people.
And don't forget that the first and the last emperor have the same name, namely 'Constantine'.
The Ottomans were too relentless. Only Timur could crush them in those days and they still bounced back like it never happened. Meanwhile the Romans just floundered, although you have to give the Palaiologos dynasty credit for surviving as long as they did.
@@roihanfadhil2879Augustus is not named Constantine
It would be helpful if you could reinstate the numbering in each video title of this series so that viewers can more easily follow the sequence. Great series, by the way.
Bad for the algorithm, unfortunately. Description always has info on the previous episodes.
@@KingsandGenerals It's still kinda different without the numbering. What about mentioning it on the description, at least?
@@hananreldy2227 i think they could put the number in the thumbnail's corner like the Crusade series and alexanders
@@kumebannerlord I was thinking about the same thing but maybe they didn't do it because the algorithm would also be able to read the text on the thumbnail so they didn't do that.
@@KingsandGeneralsyou can put in the thumbnail
Even how much i love this channel, figuring out the correct watch-order can be a clusterfuck. I wish K&G would sort the playlists in chronological order instead of by release date.
It would be much better especially for new viewers.
ruclips.net/p/PLdS0nRsXoS3-KaHi_f1-_1pcS11lftF7Q&feature=shared Here if you want a playlist of the early ottoman series
That's why they usually combine episodes into long versions combining it all in a comprehensive story.
Best history Channel on RUclips
Thanks!
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Agreed 💯
Have to say the Ottomans played the Easter Roman power players really well. Like they didn’t mind being emperor of a fractured empire as long as they were emperor. All the while the ottomans kept taking pieces of the empire until basically the city was all they had.
Yeah, they all fought to become Roman emperor. It's just a shame that in their zeal to do so, they let the rest of the empire collapse around them. Those days were long removed from the time of Cincinnatus who sacrificed for the good of the people. There is a lesson to be learned here. The good of the nation must come before the personal benefit of one individual.
@@Fokas-n8t Stop saying that eastern Romans were Greeks.
Nope. They were Romans who in time adapted the Greek language.
But that does not make them 'Greeks'.
The eastern Mediterranean world (including Greece and Asia Minor) was conquered by the Romans shortly after 200 BC.
After the death of Alexander the great, Greek lands were divided into three major kingdoms:
- Antigonids in Macedonia
- Seleucids in Asia Minor, Syria and Mesopotamia
- Ptolemies in Egypt
all of which fell under Roman control by 190 BC.
Then the slave life for the Greeks started in Macedonia, Asia Minor etc.
There were no independent Greek state for the next 2000 years and they disappeared from the map of the world as a separate political entity.
The mastership of the Greeks was passed on to Eastern Roman empire after the collapse of Western Roman empire in Rome circa 5th century AD.
Yes perhaps Greek language was still spoken at these lands, but that did not change the fact that the people of Ancient Greece pretty much already faded away into the dust bin of history and only their language survived.
The fact that Byzantines spoke Greek language does not make then Greek. This is similar to some other examples in history. Such as with the case of Seljuk Turks who despite being the masters of Persians under the Great Seljuk Empire, they preferred to use Persian Language in the Palace and Political circles. And during our times, many countries speak English, but that does not make them British.
Greece and Greeks after being forgotten for almost 2000 years, they re-appered in the pages of history again in 1830 when they managed to gain their independence from the Ottomans, after being ruled by them for almost 400 years.
And Turks always won battles against weak opposition?? Really??
Well this just buries your credit for historical knowledge.
No other nation in history established more states and empires than the Turks.
It was the Europeans to defeated weaker nations during their colonization eras (Spanish against Aztecs, Mayas, Incas; British against American Indians, Australian Aboriginals etc).
And some examples for you for Turkish victories (based on your not so impressive level history, you might not now that Turks not consist of Ottomans only.)
I will bypass to save space here the military victories of many Turkish states/empires, such as Huns, Gokturks, Khazars, Memluks, Gaznevids, Zengis, Akkoyunlular etc etc.
Just a few examples from Seljuks and Ottomans
- Victories of Seljuk Turks against East Romans (and others). For ex at the battle Mankizert, The Seljuks led by Sultan
Alparslan won a major battle against the much more numerous Romans (Romans were 2 to 3 times more powerful).
At this battle, first time in history a Roman emperor fell into captivity in a war.
This was one of turning points in history and after Mankizert, the gates of Anatolia was opened to the influx of the Turks.
- Battle of Myriokephalon. Again, Seljuk Turks won the battle against numerically superior Romans which further helped
Turks strengthened their position in Anatolia.
- Battle of Nichopolis; Ottoman victory against the crusader armies of Europe who were consists of:
Holy Roman Empire • Kingdom of France • Duchy of Burgundy • Kingdom of Hungary • Voivodship of Transylvania
• Kingdom of Croatia • Principality of Wallachia • Knights Hospitaller • Republic of Venice • Republic of Genoa
• Bulgarian Empire • Teutonic Knights • Byzantine Empire • County of Cilli • District of Branković
- Battle of Varna: Ottoman victory against the European crusaders.
Varna Crusaders:
Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Hungary, Kingdom of Croatia, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kingdom of Bohemia
Principality of Wallachia, Bulgarian rebels, Kingdom of Bosnia, Papal States, Teutonic Knights
Naval assistance: Duchy of Burgundy, Republic of Venice, Republic of Ragusa, Byzantine Empire
- Battle Kosove II: Ottoman victory against the crusaders:
Kingdom of Hungary, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Bohemia, Moldavia, Grand Duchy of Lithuania ,Wallachia
==> After Ottoman victories at Nichopolis (1396), Varna (1444) and Kosovo (1448), Europe and Papal states couldn't dare
to come to the rescue of Romans during the siege of Constantinople at 1453.
- Naval battle of Preveze: Major victory by the Ottomans against the Holly League combined navy of 12 galleys, 50 galiots, 140 barkas, 2500-2594 cannon, 60,000 soldiers vs Ottoman force of only 122 galleys and galliots
366 cannon, 3,000 janissaries and 8000 soldiers.
--> The unbelievable fact of the battle was that against the loss of Holly League naval armada of 13 ships, 36 ships captured and 3,000 prisoners, Ottomans did NOT lose even a single ship and only lost 400 sailors.
Holy League were made up of:
• Republic of Venice,
• Papal States
• Republic of Genoa
• Spain
• Mantua
• Malta
The reply has been too long already and cutting it here.
But it should be enough for you to do some homework before you express some false statements here.
@@lonelywolf1480 The two merged together. When Rome was nothing more than a city, the Latin tribe that governed Rome within the region of Latium, or Lazio as known today, assumed the name "Romans". The term Roman became something like an ethnicity and eventually a nationality, whereby Romans' ethnic language was primarily Latin. The Romans did not know themselves by their language, but by their way of life which merely included the Latin language. After over a thousand years, the Greek language had also become a Roman ethnic language. As Latin faded away from the Roman realm, owing to loss of Latin-speaking lands, Greek was the only "Roman" language. It is by this way that Romans defined themselves by speaking Greek rather than Latin. So the "Romans" of the later, smaller, medieval version of the Roman Empire were ethnically Roman, meaning that their language was now Greek, and they were also more Hellenized.
@@Fokas-n8t bro learned history from twitter
@@lonelywolf1480 This guy knows it. They will not accept it tho mate. They are not interested in real history. Mostly fan boys :D Doesnt know shit besides what the western historians tells them.
Exceptional series, the best I’ve ever viewed. Keep it up, looking forward to seeing more amazing videos!
How many times can Akşehir and Beyşehir change hands . I swear it happens atleast twice every episode.
Some countries just don't know when to quit.
Karamans have always been claiming those lands
This really is one of your best series. Awesome, but sad. I would love to see you cover the Eastern Roman refugees' influence in Italy. It's talked about in western history, but it's rarely discussed.
Keep up the great job 👏
What a captivating journey through the annals of history these videos provide.
Although I know not every military engagement can be mentioned without making the videos really long, I am surprised Sigismund's siege of Golubac wasn't mentioned considering it wasn't one of the many small scale clashes led by lower ranked generals, rather it was a campaign against the Ottomans led by the Hungarian king himself. Good video either way tho
We are planning to cover it in the long video
My favourite serie is back, thanks for the video
Can't wait till you discuss the 1453 Conquest of Constantinople. Been waiting for a while. Great content.
Thanks!
There is absolutely no better way to start the week than with a K&G video, even if I am a day late 😎
As always, The Team has made this history lesson into a fantastic video. I couldn't expect any less from y'all!
We need a new Skanderbeg series!! Amazing video
Your series about Ottomans is really good please do more videos about ottomans
Love this channel
Thanks!
Yes another ottoman eposide love u guys.
Your ottoman videos have the highest budget right?😂
Each one is very well done 👏
Idk
Their history is really interesting
@@Fokas-n8tany other similar history channels you can recommend?
@@Fokas-n8t🥵
@@Fokas-n8t You are living with HATRED and 1 day its gonna bite you in your ass.. 👍🏽
My favourite series on this channel so far.
I wait for another episode with patiency.
Great! Please more Videos about Skanderbeg❗️
The Karamanids are so damn lucky, always slipping out of certain invasion by a third party.
After watching extra history story of Vlad the Impaler, it's facinating to see Wallachia's political turmoil in this series.
This channel sparked my intrest in history and is also its lifeline till today , I am following his videos for last 5 years
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁💯
Thank you for the video
From Rising and Defending Empire to hair! It is one of amazing creating correlation! :D May The God bless and give Hidayah to you! Congratulations
Yes more Ottoman videos! thanks KnG!
Amazing work, from the untamed mountains of Albania!❤
This series is the best series out there on the ottoman empire. Nice Work K and G !!!!
waiting eagerly for the next episode
After this series end, can you talk about Ottoman post-Sulaiman the Magnificent (especially in the 17th century until its fall in 1924)?
Because it is lesser-known and rarely anyone that talked about it.
We will, all within this series
@@KingsandGenerals Ok, can't wait it for 🙏🙏.
@@KingsandGeneralsso the rise of the Ottomar Empire is like the First Season of a multiple Season Series Covering the complete Ottoman history?
@@Kili2807 yep
@@roihanfadhil2879 No thanks. It's documentary about it's fall is too emotional for me.
I hope you cover the battles of Scanderbeg against Ottomans too :)
Iskender bey😊
they already did
@@erdibulku6848 yes but they will remake Skanderbeg's series again in the near future as the ottoman remake series progress
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There is little to cover about skenderbeg nothing is written. Tbe stuff that is also written, people debate it. No one watches those bcs theyre not that interesting. Just like its is not i teresting for us, when there are videos of random mongolic tribes in russia.
Another great Ottoman video in some of more obsucre parts(in popular terms) in Ottoman history. Here's hoping we would get an Ottoman army on it's own, especially if it's not just Jannisary. Kapikulu, Azabs, Akinci and Timar exist too not too mention the wagon forts system.
would be interested in a video about the ottoman army, even pre-janissary era. how did it function, the logistics behind it... all of that stuff.
Little mistake: Pope Eugene IV's portrait is wrong. In 19:18 you show Martin V
Ottoman series is actually the best. Pls keep it up ❤
A video that talks about, or at least has a short reference to the Despotate of Arta would be greatly appreciated. Gjin Bua Shpata is extremely underrated.
Everyone gets his chance when the Eastern Romans-Rhomaioi are down...
@@AthrihosPithekos Gjin Bua Shpata defeated Nikephoros Orsini II in the battle of Achelous 1359 where Nikephoros himself was killed, and after that battle, Gjin Bua Shpata and Pjetër Losha established two despotates in the southern half of the previous Despotate of Epirus. After Pjetër died, his portion was inherited by Gjin Bua Shpata who then formed the Despotate of Arta. He fought numerous battles against the Despotate of Epirus which often got help from the Ottomans during the reign of Thomas Preljubovic and of Esau Buondelmonte, being undefeated in battle but failing to besiege Janina (Ioannina). His reign is pretty interesting to read about and would make one great video in my opinion.
@@Domina1190 The first albanian speakers to ever step into Epirus Vetus were sellswords-mercenaries of the Serbian king (kral) Stefan Dusan. Thomas Preljubovic was also a Serb partially. He butchered many Albanians, Bulgarians and Vlachs. He treated bad the Rhomaioi (Greek speakers) of Ioannina as well.
@@AthrihosPithekos When you talk about Albanian speakers "coming into Epirus", you're talking about the Albanian migrations into Greece that began at the end of the 13th century and reached their peak during the 14th century, but Albanians had already lived in Epirus before that. The oldest medieval document actually talking about the ethnic composition of Epirus is a Venetian Document in 1210 which simply states that "The Peninsula east of Corfu (that being Epirus) is populated by Albanians".
As for Thomas Preljubovic, he was a tyrant and a sadist who massacred innocent children, mostly of Albanians, but non Albanians as well.
Huge thank you!
Good job ❤
I am in love with this series
Amazing!
A superb video, when u mentioned the "Albanian lords were left to fight alone" kinda reminded me of Skanderbeg's exact scenario against the ottomans with a bit of venetian support
Albanians were always betrayed by their neighbors not all but most
Thanks
Really cool video Thanks
Best show on RUclips
Two more episodes to go. I'm gonna miss the Ottoman series
It is gonna have many more episodes.
@@KingsandGenerals OH YEAH! I thought the serie would end after the fall of Constantinople, but more episodes about Skanderbeg, Suleiman and Vlad Dracula sounds like heaven
@@KingsandGenerals This is your best series I love how everything is detailed wating for the era of Mehmet the conqueror I really hope you can show it perfectly
amazing documentary! i wish you’d make a documentary about persian sassanids more for example shapur ii or khosrow i❤.
they recently said that the Roman-Persian war of 602-628 is in planing stage
@@Kili2807 i’ve seen that war for like 10 times, i’m talking about a documentary about big persian victories or its greatest kings.
you guys just keep delivering
Do a Video about Tamerlanes conquest of Izmir!
Really gotta pay attention to events in this period
Finally an Ottoman video 😍. Dude, upload ottoman videos atleast once a week.
No
@@KingsandGeneralsFrom where😭😭
"You converted to Islam because you believe in Allah. I converted to Islam to avoid taxes. We are not the same."
- Albania, supposedly
This reminded me off, the famous story of mahmut in the folklore, the one who changed his name from a christian name to a muslim, to avoid taxex. But he become a laughing stock because we all know what mah"mut" means, his legends still persists and people mock him even though he has been dead for 500 years.
It's shame , that lack honour
Bro it's just misinformation spread by Anti-Islam parties. Jizya is tax which is only 1.5% of your income usually and is equivalent to 1.5 gold ( I don't remember the unit ) which is to be paid only by young men. No woman has to pay, no old man has to pay, no child has to pay, no sick has to pay and no cripple has to pay and paying this tax will assure your rights and safety by the Islamic government and you won't have to serve in the military unlike Muslims which will have to serve in the army even after the yearly "Zakat" tax which is 2.5% of your income if you have property worth more than 93.75 grams of Gold. You people will pay even 40-60% taxes to the western Governments but are too prejudiced to even pay 1.5% to an Islamic governments for your rights and safety
Po ata pak qe jane akoma te besimit grekorthodhoks ,,,pse nuk u konvertuan ne islam qe mos te paguanin taksat,,,? ,,,,,i pagonin taksat ,,,se kishin krishtin ne gjak ,,,dhe ne shpirt ,,kishin bese ne zot ,,,,,i uroj orthodhokset ,,gezuar pashket ,,, amin
Ti u konvertove ne islam per mos te paguar taksat ? ,,,,haha ,,,,po ata pak qe nuk u konvertuan dhe mbajten besimin grekorthodhoks ,,pse nuk e ben si shumica ? ,,,nuk u konvertuan se e kan krishtin ne gjak dhe ne shpirt ,,,dhe kur vdesin kan kryqin ,,,ndersa ti jo ,,,,i uroj orthodhokset ,,gezuar pashket ,,,
Thanks for this video Kings and Generals . The Byzantine Empire is one of the most interesting European empire. Thanks for this history. I also like the more modern history on this channel like the Russo Japanese War and World War II. Can you also make more videos about the First World War. ❤
Will list
I like how the sponsor's tag line was basically just "Well it *COULD* work! We don't know! We're definitely not a scam! Buy our product anyways!"
Amazing reboot on the ottoman series ❤️🔥
Any plan on making video ob Mughal Empire? Or continuing your Maratha series?
Hello great General. Could you,if possible, make a serie about the Portuguese Colonial Empire? I think that would be pretty intressting.
Who else was watching and waiting for the borders to gradually begin to match the start of EU4 campaign
will always be a fan
I feel sorry for all the unfortunate people who under siege in Thessalonika for a grueling 7 years.
I can only imagine how horrific living within a besieged city for so long was back then.
Your Skanderbeg video has been very popular in Albania please visit us some days with your friends kings and general ti see the ottoman town of berat and the castle of kruja or berat we have a castle for every town❤️👐🏻
Skerdebej says the turk. His name is georgios kastriotis that's his real name grek my friend
@@muhammadadeel8639 I know better than you the story
@@Thinkonomics123 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Kastriotis from Northern Albania. Omg, you greek idiot!
Skenderbeg is the Albanian word , the Turkish word is Iskanderbey and the real Albanian name was Gjergj Gjon Kastrioti MAZREKU. Mazrek is the Albanian word for Horse-breeder.
@@Platoretaethey are NOT. They are a conglomerate of Albanians,Aromanians,Bulgarians and Turkic people! From 600 until today the territory of Greece has been repopulated by NON--HELLENIC people! The ancient Hellenes are Dead!
@@Thinkonomics123he wasn’t Greek lol his name is Gjergj Kastrioti
Am I the only one under the impression that at least one of the writers extensively plays Europa Universalis ? 🤔
Really looking at this time period, you can truly feel the incredible impact of the 4th crusade. It was so crippling for everyone in the region (southern balkans) that it allowed a shattered piece of another empire to come in and clean out the entire former byzantine world.
u need to know about the of the sack of Constantinople,cz many peep didn't dig deeper,that before that event there's another crusader that been lead by holy roman emperor(frederick barbarosa) but u gonna read ur self that they have been facing heavy hostility acts by byzantine that lead to death of frederick.and 1 more worse, that the byzantine slaughtered thousands of latin in their capital due to jealousness for the prosperous latins,there some more events more to tell but u better read em yourself.they'd viewed themself more greek than latin and growing selfish feelings there.mamy times layins trying to fixed them but they'd denied em .
Can u do ottoman conquest of Bosnia ? It would be interesting because almost no one know that
Greatest video
Make a series on mughal empire too
Also Sher Shah Suri
Teşekkürler 🎁
We need more videos on the Ottoman empire
Very entertaining ❤
Is this series going to go after the Siege of Constantinopol?
Yep
Can you guys do a series about the fall of the ottomam empire?
Murad was very clever.
Very good video, great job, but why is the venetian flag light blue and the ottoman not red?
Imagine being born Muslim in Albania because 600 years ago your ancestors didnt wanna pay taxes.
North Africa converted to Islam for similar reasons.
Let's just say byzantine taxation was quite brutal
Its more or less the same with bosnia north albania is catholic south albania is orthodox the central albanians were mixed and they decided islam
Imagine serbien lords given away dougters away to otoman rulers one after one. I see now why Turks dosent looks like step people from asia
@@Phantom-xp2coNorth Africa accepted Islam long and more than 1000 years ago. Not any depends on taxes
@@Floppedd nuk eshte gjith shqipria e jugut orthodhkse ,,,vetem pak jan ,,himara ,ne myzeqe ka ,etj ,,,gjith laberia jan myslyman ,,,,,ismail bej qemali ,,,haha 😝
Can you make the same series but for the Byzantines as well? 476 to 1453 would be nice with the same maps and graphics too.
I mean the Rise of the Ottoman Empire basically is the fall of the Byzantine empire at the same time
@@Kili2807 but not enough focus on it. Ofc, it overlaps a bit.
May i ask where did you get the flag of this white eagle in blue backround should Carlo 2 of Epirus ?
Great Series, modern history like ukraine is boring, have a lot of information, and is hard to get the reality in this type of actual conflict, stay making videos about old wars, and launch the series complete
thanks a lot for all , im a big fan.
An interesting fact; the drug that prevents hair loss advertised on the channel and the story about the Byzantine empire; Coincidentally, Istanbul, which is described in the documentary, currently has the largest and most patient-accepting hair transplantation centers in the world :)
ottoman/late byzantine one is my favourite series
By that point, was the Roman Empire based in Constantinople beyond saving already or was there still a chance for recovery? It is hard to pinpoint when the Roman Empire was beyond saving if they can still made an impressive recovery after what happened in 1204.
Personally, 1071 was a massive blow to the Romans and if there were more emperors like Alexios and John II Komnenos after 1071, 1204 would be prevented and the City of World's Desire wouldn't be reduced to ash and ruble. After 1204 a great restoration was a dream, sure Nicea did a lot but there were the Mongols and Ottomans afterwards, not good times to restore the empire.
Also respect cuz you called the "Byzantines" "Romans" because they are the most legitimate and only successor to Rome
I reckon that the year 1204 was the decisive wound that could never be healed. After the sacking of Constantinople, the Romans could not muster the needed resources to conscript their own armies. They did even have enough riches to feed their own people in the capital, let alone pay for mercenaries. The last chance for a possible recapture of Asia Minor was the Battle of Myriocephalon. That battle was ill-planned by the Romans, even though they could have won the Sultanate of Rum. It was a slow death spiral after that as the Romans fought one another ad nauseam.
The failure of the Varna Crusade in 1444 sealed the fate of Constantinople. While the Ottomans were distracted, Constantine was able to take over territory in central Greece. But after the Crusaders were defeated at Varna, the Ottomans turned their attention to the Byzantines and took away all of Constantine's gains. Had the Ottomans been destroyed at Varna, the Byzantines would have gotten a new lease on life.
@@TIME12308Manzikert wasn't really that bad of a defeat. It was the civil wars that created a power vacuum in Anatolia that the Turks were able to take advantage of.
@@trantorcapitalofthegalacti3173 After the empire of nicaea retook the city they became lazy (or evsn cowardly) and neglected anatolia focusing their attention uselessly on europe while western anatolia was being raided by turks. the greeks had many chances of surviving but they loved fighting eachother and ignoring turks for some reason. its as if they were cursed.
Ask Venice for help. I'm sure it will work out this time.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. If the Byzantines had spent more time fighting their enemies and less time fighting each other they might not have been swallowed up by the Ottomans and some direct successor state of their empire might still be around today.
There is an entire country called Greece and another one called Cyprus. What are they if not remnants of the Byzantines?
@@hectortroy8671 Yes, Remnants …
The stage is set for 1444... I'm hoping for at least one EU4 reference next video!
Maybe they split it in two. There is alot going on in the balkans between 1440 and 1444
Yep, 2 videos
@@KingsandGenerals Brilliant
I have a feeling EU V is coming after the next video drops that would make the cherry on top be true of its meaning.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.
Nope
Experiences and bad times create proper nations it's not a cycle it's about learning with bad times
@@tatarcavalry2342time will tell if the cycle is unavoidable
I cant watch this video because it's simply too painful but I will leave this comment to boost your interaction and get you more views. Keep doing what you're doing, but maybe with a little less heartbreaking decline of Roman civilization next time
Long live the ottomans
Maps could be shown for much longer time . Please
Very cool video from an Albanian Muslim! And can’t wait to see the series in the future.
I always love seeing my small people in historical documentaries especially during the ottoman time which gives way to the question of how a European people like Albania are mostly Muslim in faith.
I’ll definitely be watching this series as It reaches the 16th and 17th centuries where many argue was the ottoman golden age. Which had Albanian lands doubled under their vilyats and many prominent Albanian people and families like the koprulus and Muhammad Ali pasha Albanians who held control over mass controls of the Islamic empire
May peace and non oppression follow the Balkans as we reach the first half of the 21st century ❤️
I also just came back from a Balkan tour and were at Albania 3 days ago knew that after Ottoman period wars peaked at Balkans and looks like they are still not good within them even tho except Albanians, Greeks and Turk minorities they are all Slavs can't relate that type of conflicts Turks are well with their relationships for a long time can not even imagine Turkey going to war with Azerbaijan but Slavs have similar examples. At tour listened the recent wars and civil relationships within Balkans and with Turks from a Bulgarian citizen Turk tour guide he was pretty good even talked about demographics and looks like you are going to take over Macedonia lol and for us suprised to learn and experience that even Serbians are not uptight about Turks.
Excellent video 📹
THE WRITING ✍️ IS ON THE WALL 🧱.
Your job, marriage, business, your land, your money is slowly walking away.
What can you do.
Nice
4:58-5:00 “Journeyed to Venice, Milan and Hungary”
Genoa: what no kiss haha?
Constantinople: …
Genoa: wow so you’d rather ask a maritime republic that sacked you than give a nice guy like me a chance?
Roman does civil wars even in their last days. ☠☠
Also Georgian Church was against the unity of churches. They were also represented at council.
Can you make video about Ottoman conquest of Bosnian kingdom. Well done 🫡
Can you cover the period where the Eastern Romans lose most of their land in Greece and the surrounding area, outside of Anatolia.
Thanks To Thiago Amazing Vídeo.
We also find a very revealing report in the work of the Polish historian Jan Długosz, who describes the campaign led by Vladislav IV Jagiellon in 1444. According to this author, when the crusaders departed from Nicopol for the southern bank of the Danube and arrived in northern Bulgaria, they saw a number of superb and remarkable edifices built by Roman emperors and military leaders, as well as marble monuments-arches and columns-bearing inscriptions in Latin and Greek. “All of these monuments,” this author notes, “were to a great extent destroyed by the Turks.”
@kingsandgeneral do a video on the ottoman conquest of SERBIA/HUNGARY
Good job K&G ! Thessalonìki , that ancient Hellenic city has been through a lot. Glad to say in our days it has reversed all foreign conquests and invasions and it's free once again 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 .
🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷SELANİK.
@@Dionisios_ RİP KİNG CONSTANTİNE MEHMET KHAN LİBERATED 🇹🇷 1453..
@@Dionisios_STOP CRY MEHMET KHAN LİBERATED İstanbul.. AGAİNST CONSTANTİNE Romans rıp
@@Dionisios_ RİP YOU MALAKA 🤡🤡...
@@Dionisios_ RİP MALAKA 🤡
What’s the song played in the Intro?
Üsküdar'a giderken
I guess dinner is waiting an extra 23 minutes