Ottoman Conquest of Thessalonica and Albania - Medieval History
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
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Kings and Generals began remaking its animated historical documentary on the history of the Ottoman empire with the early rise of the Ottoman beylik under Osman I. In the first video we covered the early origins of the beylik, its status among the Muslim states in Anatolia and its early clashes against the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire at Bapheus and Dimbos in 1302 ( • Rise of the Ottoman Em... ). The second episode showed how they became a regional power with the continued battles against the Byzantines and other states, including the siege of Prusa (Bursa) and the battle of Pelekanon ( • How the Ottomans Took ... ). As the Ottoman entered the Balkans, they had to face the Serbian Empire and the Second Bulgarian Empire, leading to the battles like Maritsa in 1371 ( • Maritsa 1371 - End of ... ). The Ottomans continued expanding both in Europe and Asia, leading to many conflicts, including the Karamanids, culminating at the battle of Frenkyazisi in 1387 ( • Ottoman Expansion in A... ). As the Ottomans managed to defeat their enemies in Anatolia, they now had time to fight against the burgeoning Balkan alliance that formed against them with Lazar Hrebeljanovic of the Moravian Serbia at its head. His confrontation with the sultan Murad I would led to the battle of Kosovo in 1389 ( • Battle of Kosovo 1389 ... ). In the aftermath of Kosovo, Bayezid I continued campaigns in Anatolia and the Balkans. The events in Anatolia culminated at the battle of Kirdilim of 1391, where the Sultan defeats his Turkic opponents led by Kadi Burhaneddin. The Ottomans became the sultans of Rum getting the title of the Seljuks ( • How the Ottomans Becam... ). Afterwards the Sultan continued campaigning in Europe, leading to the major Ottoman defeat at Rovine in 1395 against the Voivode of Wallachia, Mircea the Elder ( • First Major Ottoman De... ). Despite that, the Ottoman advance in Europe continued and to counter it, the king of Hungary Sigismund called a crusade joined by many nobles and retinues from the Balkans, France and beyond. This led to a crusade and the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 ( • How the Ottomans Defea... ). In the aftermath, Bayezid had a free rein and he blockaded Constantinople. The Roman emperor Manuel II Palaiologos decided to travel to Europe to get help, but got no help in the West ( • Roman Emperor Gets No ... ). But with the Ottoman expansion in Anatolia, Bayezid was on a collision course with another conqueror - Timur, which led to the battle of Ankara in 1402 ( • Battle of Ankara 1402 ... ). In the aftermath, the civil war of interregnum between the sons of Bayezid almost destroyed the Ottomans ( • Civil War That Almost ... ). Mehmed I won the civil war and he and his son Murad I continued the expansion, leading to the siege of Constantinople in 1422 ( • Ottoman Conquest of Th... ). Although it failed, the Ottoman expansion continued in Epirus, Albania and during the siege of Thessalonica.
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00:00 Introduction
02:19 War with Venice & the Siege of Thessalonica (1423-1430)
07:29 Ottoman Campaigns Against Epirus & Albania (1428-1436)
10:50 Struggle For Serbia and Wallachia (1420-1438)
14:11 Anatolian Campaigns (1434-1437)
16:51 Byzantine Empire in 1432-1442
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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
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.
It is not so much that "they played well" the Easter Romans (i.e. the Greeks). If they had "played well" the Greeks they would have conquered the Eastern Roman Empire within 20-30 or at maximum 50 years since the year 1000 AD when they appeared in the eastern borders in east Anatolia with the stated intention to get to Constantinople and realise the 3-centuries old aspiration of the muslims to conquer Constantinople. Instead it took them 450 years to achieve so and about 250 years after Constantinople was already destroyed and the Empire was already gone breaking apart in a multitude of fractions, some ruled by Greeks other ruled by Latins and Franks who hated vehemently Greeks more than the Turks. Greeks were being attacked by the greatest number of enemies that ever appeared all simultaneously to attack a single nation, so they could only last so long, even more so when the Greek oligarchies, by then getting increasingly internationalized with a lot of intermarriages with western Europeans had distanced themselves from the Greek middle class selling them over repeatedly for the personal benefit of the moment.
What Turks did however was that they employed the age-old strategy of of the Turkomongolic nomads : attack when it is easy, abandon and run back when it gets tough. They would never take the slightest risk. They were not being "Alexander the Greats", not "Ceasars" nor "Conquistadors". They never had superior armies (if counted per number of soldiers), they could never pierce through numerically superior enemies and they even struggled against quite much smaller armies. Their method was that of the Parthian shot, ride in, throw some arrows, come back. They would generally avoid battles unless they had a massive numerical advantage and they would stick to raiding the civilian places, villages and towns. By destroying the countryside, killing the 1/3rd of the people and selling the remnants as slaves or directly islamifying them, by stealing the children to make them into soldiers they were growing in numbers by the decade and their enemies, Greeks in that instance, were getting fewer. Greeks were, among other, impeded by their religion and civilisational level, they were not up to doing similar things to Turks, not slaughters, nor slave-trade, no forced christianisations, no children stealing and turning them into soldiers. Overall the only solution for Greeks to employ was to go for overkill - and somehow they managed to do so in the case of Pechenegs and this only because they had employed the Pechenegs' cousins, the Cumans who actually did most of the slaughters. But they failed to do so against the Seljuks and Ottomans - there they had none to do the dirty job and them, Orthodox Christians, could not do so. It is clear that in such instances, Islam has the upper hand over Christianity and the nomadic barbaric culture has the advantage over the sedentary civilised ones.
I am not denigrating the efforts of Turks here, if anything they had persistence, fanaticism and continuity, all of which permitted them to rise and found eventually the Ottoman Empire. Something which Greeks who run the Eastern Roman Empire for a 1000 years somehow managed to forget precisely repeating the same mistakes that Latin Romans had done in the past in the 3rd century AD (i.e. inflation, state concentration, high taxation, control of markets, banking games etc.).
@@user-ex6nd8dq8w 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 For a Turk who has no history, it is bound you have this laughable view of history. I am wondering if you apply the same logic to you Turks. Are you claiming you did not exist before 1923 when Kemal made you a nation? Because the Ottoman Empire was not the creation of the Turks, it was the creation of a mix-bag islamified populations dictated the Ottoman dynasty which, as per historians, was rooted to Osman who himself was coming down patrilinearly from Ioannes Tzelepes Komnenos, the renegade cousin of Ioannes Komnenos, i.e. a Greek...oh... sorry.... a Rooooman! LOL! So funny! Are you applying the same logic to other nations? Did Germans come into existence in 1871? And what about the English who as per your logic hardly ever existed in history as they were under the.... British!!!
Do you understand the stupidity of your "logic" here? For you to claim oh-so-conveniently that "Greeks got to the dustbin of history" and that "only their language survived" (LOL! How and why?), just shows the amount of your empathy towards Greeks. If that was the case you would not come here to spill poison like a double-tongued snake. Be it so, let me answer back your nonsense.
To claim that Greeks disappeared you will have to call liars all those ethnic Greeks who kept speaking about their Greek history, ancestry, heritage, blood throughout the Middle Ages, and the examples are countless. Roman was their state-name (a Greek name too BTW but how would a clueless Turk like you know it?), Greek was their ethnicity. Just like "Britain" is not an ethnicity, English is their ethnicity and then there are Welsh and Scottish, different people. But then you had 1000s of Roman writers that spoke of ethnic Greeks within the Empire. Forget about the Romans. Are you a muslim? Because in Coran it clearly speaks of Greeks not just for ancient ones such as Alexander the Great but also for contemporary ones. Go fight against your imams on that. And then the millions of Europeans who called those "Eastern Romans" Greeks precisely because they wanted to call them by their ethnic name, not by their state name, which they wanted for themselves. But then even the Varangians called the whole Empire Grikkland, i.e. Greece - and Varangians were friends and allies of the Greeks, they were not influenced by the Latins in calling them so - Varangians had come from the northeast, not from the west.
We also have full records of the medieval Greek writers, "Eastern Roman writers" if you like : they clearly stipulate that their ancestors were the Greeks who set up the cviliasation and the Romans who set up the state. However, the latter were remembered only as the Empire-formers not as physical ancestors, precisely because the Latin Romans never colonised the Greek lands (they were Senatorial lands, just like Italy, they were seen as core-lands of the Empire and Greeks were seen as core people of the Empire, thus the ease with which the Empire shifted to the East when the times became difficult).
Now as per all the rest of inconsequential bravado about the valor of "turkish people" in war, you do a lot of jumping around which just shows your pathetic understanding of history. Calling as "your own" all Turkomonoglic people of Eurasia is the equivalent of Greeks (or just any European) calling "their own" all other Europeans so that e.g. the Czechs can brag about the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas! LOL! What? They all spoke European language with so many common elements, grammar, syntax, religion, civilisational basis.... call them all "Europeans" and there you go. But reality is not that. Reality is that the Turkomongolic people of Attila had little connection to the Seljuks and even Seljuks with Ottomans, well, there was a lot of water downstream between the two (Ottomans started off as a hybrid). Turkomongolc never had any notion of ethnicity afterall, and hence they tended to mix a lot and usually disappear from the face of history just like the Huns and the Pechenegs and the Cumans and Outrigurs and the Kutrigurs and so many other. The Ottomans remained, and absorbed the Seljuks and the Karamanids as well since they employed the muslim religion as the sole unifying element of their Empire, not at all a national/ethnic basis, the very reason why Turks of today are so varied, so different among each other.
As for the "Turkish valour" in battle. I only need to repeat that they appeared on the eastern frontiers of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1000 AD and it took them about half a millenium to get to their target, Constantinople (a target set by all muslims afterall). That is not at all a sign of "capable armies". If you have a capable army you just dive in and go for the kill. Seljuks and Ottomans couldn't do so. They only managed due to the fact that Greeks were not united among each other and had, at the same time, to fight all northern and western invaders, fellow Christians of both Orthodox and Catholic faith, not just the islamic Turks.
Also, no need to mention the battles of Matzikert and Myriokephalon unless you read exactly what happened. Seljuks had been trashed and mopped out of the fortress of Myriokephalon by a same-numbered Eastern Roman force (the overall army was divided into two parts, the one went AWOL, probably treason - Turks like to mention the full number to sell cheap bravado of course). And then the pretender to the throne Andronikos Doukas sold out Emperor Romanos leaving him in front with less than 2000 troops hence easily encircled by the full Seljuk army. That was the "great Turkish victory". Pathetic. The only reason Turks managed to invade was the 10 years Civil War that ensued among Greeks (following the 10 years Civil War prior to the battle of Matzikert). Things were bad inside the Empire, it is not that Turks took on Greeks at their heyday like Alexander did against Persians. Still it took Turks 450 years and 250 after the actual destruction of the Eastern Roman Empire by the Catholics! Call that competence? Persistence, fanaticism, consistence maybe, but competence there is not.
Also just don't mention naval battles - there was no Turk on those ships. A mixed riff-raff of slaves with islamified Greek admirals like Barbarossa and Turgut Reis. As said, the Ottomans were a dynasty ruling over a mixed-bag of people, not an ethnic group.
Best history Channel on RUclips
Thanks!
👍🏻👍🏻🫡🫡
Agreed 💯
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.
Your ottoman videos have the highest budget right?😂
Each one is very well done 👏
Idk
Their history is really interesting
You do know that Kn'G are a Turko-Azeri channel do you? So it is natural for them to pay more attention to that part of history. There are suspicions too that they received finance "from above" since they were a big team since day 1 and employed on payrol a lot of people, also purchasing subscriptions something which channels at the time dealing with history never did (almost all of them were kept by amateur lovers of history). Note that Kn'G jumped within a single year to 1 million subs which even if we count their flashy productions cannot be explained when equally well-polished if not better history channels struggled to get to that level through several years (more than 5 at least). I won't reduce the Kn'G channel to zero, some of their videos are quite of good quality and relatively of good historicity, however, when it comes to Turks and Greeks and that area, well, they are not necessarily the most objective. Most notably Kn'G removed any semblance of historicity when it comes to Alexander the Great and Macedonia pandering quite a lot to Skopje's propaganda.
@@user-ex6nd8dq8w you sound mentally unwell lol
@@user-ex6nd8dq8wany other similar history channels you can recommend?
Amazing work, from the untamed mountains of Albania!❤
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.
What a captivating journey through the annals of history these videos provide.
My favourite serie is back, thanks for the video
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!
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁💯
My favourite series on this channel so far.
I wait for another episode with patiency.
Thank you for the video
Keep up the great job 👏
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.
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
Huge thank you!
Really cool video Thanks
I am in love with this series
Amazing!
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
Love this channel
Thanks!
Yes another ottoman eposide love u guys.
Teşekkürler 🎁
We need a new Skanderbeg series!! Amazing video
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
Follow the channel
you guys just keep delivering
Little mistake: Pope Eugene IV's portrait is wrong. In 19:18 you show Martin V
Good job ❤
Great! Please more Videos about Skanderbeg❗️
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.
This series is the best series out there on the ottoman empire. Nice Work K and G !!!!
waiting eagerly for the next episode
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.
After watching extra history story of Vlad the Impaler, it's facinating to see Wallachia's political turmoil in this series.
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.
Your series about Ottomans is really good please do more videos about ottomans
Hello great General. Could you,if possible, make a serie about the Portuguese Colonial Empire? I think that would be pretty intressting.
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
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.
Ottoman series is actually the best. Pls keep it up ❤
Best show on RUclips
The Karamanids are so damn lucky, always slipping out of certain invasion by a third party.
Amazing reboot on the ottoman series ❤️🔥
Any plan on making video ob Mughal Empire? Or continuing your Maratha series?
This channel sparked my intrest in history and is also its lifeline till today , I am following his videos for last 5 years
Yes more Ottoman videos! thanks KnG!
Thanks
Very entertaining ❤
Do a Video about Tamerlanes conquest of Izmir!
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
@@dimitrisoikonomou4749You must be more Albanian than him, sons of Plato&Aristotle know how to behave and be respectful.
@@dimitrisoikonomou4749 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 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.
@@notme1411they 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!
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
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!"
Can you guys do a series about the fall of the ottomam empire?
Who else was watching and waiting for the borders to gradually begin to match the start of EU4 campaign
May i ask where did you get the flag of this white eagle in blue backround should Carlo 2 of Epirus ?
Very good video, great job, but why is the venetian flag light blue and the ottoman not red?
Nice
ottoman/late byzantine one is my favourite series
Maps could be shown for much longer time . Please
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.
Murad was very clever.
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
Finally an Ottoman video 😍. Dude, upload ottoman videos atleast once a week.
No
@@KingsandGeneralsFrom where😭😭
Ask Venice for help. I'm sure it will work out this time.
cool
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 .
Bro we need more ottoman videos weekly @kingsandgeneral
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.
Por que vocês não dublam mais os seus vídeos
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
Please do the 🇦🇱 Warrior skanderbeg
Can you make video about Ottoman conquest of Bosnian kingdom. Well done 🫡
Can u do ottoman conquest of Bosnia ? It would be interesting because almost no one know that
In my opinion the reason the Byzantine Empire did collapse was global warming. The middle age warm period saw most of Europe enjoy warmer weather which lead to increased farm production. The opposite happened to Anatolia, the warmer weather made it dryer and farm production dropped. We can see this after the Turks took over the most arid part of Anatolia, it's center. When Constantinople would take part of it back, the Theme that had existed in that area would NOT be reestablished. I suspect because it was to dry by 1100 to support traditional farming in that part of Anatolia (some time called “Asia Minor”).
One of the problems with Global Warming is certain areas benefit under global warming, while most areas suffer. Anatolia is an area where farming improved during the Dark Age Cold Period for Anatolia received more rain during such cold period as its weather pattern changes.
In warm periods, Anatolia follows mostly tropical weather patterns, i.e. all weather is local, little west to east weather systems. In colder periods, the Anatolia gets more of its weather via the west to east weather pattern typical of the temperate zones, i.e most of the US and Northern Europe. This brings more rain to Anatolia and with it increased food production.
With the advent of the medieval warm period around 950 AD, food production dropped in Anatolia. Basil II responded to this by expanding the Byzantine Empire to its largest extent since the Arab Conquest, but his successors could not handle the further decline in food production and the resulting drop in population.
Combined with lost of access to wood to maintain its fleet, Byzantine entered into a time period of economic crisis that it never recovered from as Europe entered the medieval warm period.
Byzantine never recovered from the effect of global warming till the Turks took over the remains and built a Turkish-Greek Empire called the Ottoman Empire. Please note Constantinople fell to the Turks as the Medieval warm period ended and the Little Ice Age began. Thus at the time Europe was at its coldest, the Turks were the strongest power in Europe.
Side note: The Ottoman Empire was more Greek then Turk, while having a Turkish Emperor. This was true before 1453 and lasted till the 1600s. As the Ottoman Empire became the “Sick man of Europe” it became more Islamic and rejected its Greek Roots after about 1600. As the Ottoman rejected its Greek Roots, the Greeks came to resent rule by the Turks. In many ways the modern Greek Turkish hatred is the result of that bitter divorce. Note the Ottoman Empire was at its height during the Little Ice Age, as Anatolia again had higher rain fall do to the shift in weather patterns. Since the 1800s Anatolia has dried out again and while the Ottoman Empire was in trouble by the 1700s do to its rejection of its Greek Roots, it's real decline started in the 1800s as Anatolia started to dry out again, much like the Byzantine Empire post 1025.
That's so wrong,they created that fall by themself,just before the sack of Constantinople by humiliating and hostile acts to the crusades.even slaughtered thousands of latin due to jealousness by latins.latins trying hard to help rm but they refused many times and even overconfident to repelled the latins before the fall of Constantinople
What’s the song played in the Intro?
Üsküdar'a giderken
Make a series on mughal empire too
Also Sher Shah Suri
ooooo-oooo. This should be good....
Am I the only one under the impression that at least one of the writers extensively plays Europa Universalis ? 🤔
Excellent video 📹
THE WRITING ✍️ IS ON THE WALL 🧱.
Your job, marriage, business, your land, your money is slowly walking away.
What can you do.
Im persian K&G.... there is nothing I can do to stop my baldness😅😢 but hey... atleast right now im rocking that 500BCE fade ngl
EU4 players: OH MY GOD! OKAY IT'S HAPPENING!
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.
Thanks To Thiago Amazing Vídeo.
Its scary to think that this period with Ottomans turning up ends up determining the faith of the Balkans as a difficult region to this day. Even the Soviets didnt get to cause such mess which is pretty impressive.
It's actually started by hostiles of eastern roman to latins just before the fall of Constantinople, that's caused no way for western to help em,cz they kept acts to denied the help of western romans
PLEASE MAKE A VİDEO OF THE 2. SİEGE OF VİENNA
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 :)
"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 ,,,
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
Can you cover the period where the Eastern Romans lose most of their land in Greece and the surrounding area, outside of Anatolia.
Roman does civil wars even in their last days. ☠☠
I know I've made criticisms before, but you guys make solid content.
Golden times
Also Georgian Church was against the unity of churches. They were also represented at council.
siege of constantinople, next?
Is this series going to go after the Siege of Constantinopol?
Yep
we are coming close to the date 😉
May 29 1453 ??
@@newgeneration9077 1444
Game name please