Top Five Largest Cities in Europe (1200-2019)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The five largest cities in Europe from 1600 BCE to 2019, with every year shown from 1200.
Please note:
-Figures are extrapolations based on available data.
-The 'urban area' definition is used in all cases
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Just a quick note about the definition of a city: For this video I used the 'urban area' definition, which is slightly different to what I used for previous city videos ('city proper'). The reason I did this was because the city boundary of Paris is far smaller than the true size of the city, which would skew the figures. The difference is minimal in most other cases, so it should still be comparable with my other city videos.
And regarding Asia, with a bit of luck it will be my next upload. I'm nearly at the end of the project :)
@Игровая Колонна Usually I use Inkscape for graphics and MAGIX Movie Edit for animation, although for city videos I don't need Inkscape (I just use a something similar to MS Paint called Paint.net).
Wasn't Vienna around 2 millions in 1910?
From what year are you now on Asia?
@@DarrylGonzales I'm not on an exact year due to the way I'm making it, but I am working on the 1403-1600 section. It will be a lot quicker from now as the map will start to get simpler and change less.
@@OllieBye Ah good to hear. So you can get to upload it by late April or early May right?
Turkey: Hold my beer I'll catch up after the war
Betonic *Ayran
turkey: Get fucked
@@deniz1074 how nigga?
@@muratabi265 Raki*
“If the Earth were a single state, Constantinople would be its capital.” Napoleon Bonaparte
Emm, pretty sure Saint-Petersburg had more population in 1914 then Moscow
Saint-Petersburg isn't even on the map
The Pinnacle exactly.
@@placeholder8768 That's the problem, shitheads
No it didn't, moscos was where the russian empire started, with ivan the terribe and the grat duchy of moscow
@@soyderiverdeliverybeaver8941 are you drunk?
haha! Saint-Petersburg as a capital of the Russian Empire was much bigger than Moscow in the late 19th century!
do you see Saint Petersburg?
@@benmarley3086
It should be here
Kate S yes i know because st Petersberg is in Europe.
Saint Petersburg is too far north to appear in this map, but I would have included it otherwise.
@@OllieBye but it's in Europe so should be here
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Black Death: allow me to introduce myself
Mankind: Too bad we don't have vaccines, or we can never deal with this, and will go extinct! JUST KIDDING.
@@scintillam_dei Yeah except a third of everyone died, and those who didn't were likely still sick. Again, you're an idiot.
Europe needed ~1500 years to catch up with Rome.
Well...
Not really, by 1300 Europe was well ahead than Roman Europe was in terms of population sizes, urbanization etc.
In the Middle East that was the case by 900.
@@g-rexsaurus794 He meant that Rome held the title as the only city to have ever reached a million people for at least 1500 years
And Rome needed 1500 years to catch up with some Ancient civilizations in the Middle East
Rome is in Europe btw. And most of the world needed 1500 years to catch up with rome. They were ahead of their time. Also they were a major empire with immigrants and slaves from all across their territories. It was effectively the centre of the world for several centuries.
After the plague came prague
Loool
Shouldn't Vienna be here, it had almost 2 million by 1914?
Yes it should! But everyone forgets about austria (always).
@@Bernhard-ik4hv AEIOU
It should be. I'm certain of that Vienna and Petersburg were bigger than İstanbul and Moscow at the end of the 19th century.
@@envinyatar5712viyana istanbuldan hiç buyük olmadı
Maybe in alternate universe if conquered by Ottomans lol.
I never knew Venice was one of the biggest cities in Europe, and so for such a long time even. Too bad it is now reduced into a Disney themed park.
Veníce can t growth more thats the reason, and the Wather is an another problem to live there
That's not true, 200.000 original Italians still live in Venice
it whas an evil place then. no loss
They destroyed Byzantium so it’s what they deserve
@@sardiniapiedmont the byzanthines more or less did it to themselves via hubris. in previous campaigns the crusaders reqonguered most of asia-minor back for byzanthium in a pretty uneven deal, yet crusaders kept their word. then crusaders didnt get much aid once they settled in the levante. their armenian allies even where attacked at times.
when byzanthium whas sacked it whas a combination of unlucky factors where venetians and byzanthine usurpers played key roles. but also byzanthine hubris again...as they should have known the power of these medival knights and the lack of reputation they earned in previous decades.
they thought they could get away with everything for being byzanthium.
but yeah. great loss. but one that came in many stages before and after crusaders sacked it.
1453 Ottoman joined the chat
Deafult Noob he should have changed name to istanbul in 1453 :D
Akif Aribas yanlış biliyorsun İstanbul ismi Cumruhiyetten sonra kesinleşti. 1453 te fethedildiğinde resmi isim koyulmamıştı Konstantinopolis, Stanpolis(Istanbul ismi burdan geldi) daha çok başka isimlerle çağrılıyordu nette araştırırsan bulursun.
@@lyk1a718 onun amacı gerçeği öğrenmek değil bildiğin gerzek bir ezik milliyetçi. bi sikim olmaz bunlardan nefesini boşa yorma
@@ogunkovan Ezik milliyetçi diye aşağılamak abartı olmuş la adam hakaret bile etmemiş ki
@@ogunkovan olm ben milliyetçi değilim mizah yapıyorum burda git başka yerde havla istanbulmuş constantinmiş çokta sikimde sanki
Saint-Petersburg had 2 400 000 people in 1917th. In that video there's a lie.
Like That
*visible confusion*
@@GrillGimberty lol, it's so strangely, Leningrad has to be here in any way
Notice how heavily the city of Constantinople's numbers dropped in the early 1200s by more than 200,000. The devastating sack by the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade truly decimated the city, most of the population was made homeless by massive fires set by the crusaders, or left the city as refugees. Byzantium never recovered afterwards, leaving it weak against the ottomans.
When the population dropps it is not because people die. It i because people leave the city to go to the safer countrysides or nearby cities. Aniway the video isn’t that accurate either
@@leonardodavid2842 Thats what I said buddy
@@@reuben7705
me: "When the population dropps it is not because people die. It i because people leave the city to go to the safer countrysides or nearby cities"
you: "Thats what I said buddy"
That is...a good point...
but still... "Fourth Crusade truly decimated the city" I mean... It could be argued that that means Killing. (that that? is it correct? English I guess...?)
Leonardo David 28 read the rest of my comment. Decimated as in they burnt down a huge part leading to refugees fleeing
Leonardo David 28 but many still did die from the fires and crusader brutality during the sack of the city. Also ‘That that’ is correct too haha
Weird to think that Granada was once the biggest city in europe
Not really. Al-Andalus was ahead of its time
Md Borhan uddin brought*
Md Borhan uddin Arabian Muslims* yes
@@someone-wi4xl The only light they brought was light of burning cities. Most of their knowledge was from conquered peoples (mostly from persians, greeks and hindus) and what they researched themselves was destroyed by mongol conquest.
@@zarian0014 this has nothing to do with our dicussion .. they are Arabian Muslims that's a fact
and the first university in the world (University of Al Quaraouiyine
) Established circa 859 A.D by an Arabian women named
Fatimah Al-Fihri (of Quraysh Tribe)
and from that university many great people have graduated
such as Ibn Khaldun
whom is also Arabian
Musa (Moses) bin Maimon whom is from Bani Israel (Israelite our cousins)
and from him the 13 pillars of Faith that most Jews today believe in
Muhammad al-Idrisi
also an Arabian man known to be a great geographer ,
and much more
i find it funny how you people like to disregard the accomplishments of great Arabian Empire that was the base of modern Science that continue their first steps
oh .. and by the way .. the Persians also built their empire on the accomplishment of the Babylonians (our Cousins) and others that they conquered
but i like how you disregard this fact
and the fact that even the Spanish Empire built on what the Al-Andalus accomplished
hmm .. it's as if humans trade knowledge and culture and achievements with each other
hmmmmmm
Berlin: *has population boom*
WW2: i'm gonna end this mans whole career
İstanbul is 16M now. Hi from there :)
I enjoy the video of Turks putting a bag on a US of AIDS soldier's head, telling him to leave Turkey.
Great video, but I think it would be more accurate to label Istanbul/Constantinople "Turkic", considering London is labeled "Germanic" and Moscow "Slavic", not "English" and "Russian".
huh, u are smart. i think u are from hungary. ATİLLA! greetings from turkey friend.
“Turkic” is a language family, which apart from Turkish also contains Azeri, Uzbek, Kazakh, and a number of other languages.
@@alexandersokolnik1596
Yes, that's my point.
Debre Szabolcs Attila Oops, I misread. My apologies.
The English are mostly Germanic, the Russians are Slavic.
Where's Saint-Petersburg? At some point it was more populous than Moscow, in the 1900s
Yes but it wasn't top 5.
@@derbigpr500 It was, actually. If Moscow here in the 1900s has a 4th place, while at that time Saint-Petersburg was even bigger
Vienna is missing too. Austria itself had one of the largest populations in Europe during the Habsburg rule
Saint-Petersburg was the capital of Russia but Moscow was more populous.
@@sandis2935 I don't wanna argue, there are statistics about the population of Russian Empire in the beginning of 20th century. And Saint-Petersburg had a bigger one.
Hello I'm Madrid the youngest and I've come to stay.
Madrid, Madrid, Madrid 🇨🇴💛💜💚🇪🇸
İstanbul büyükşehir belediye başkanı sayın Ekrem İmamoğlu'na buradan selamlarımı sunuyorum
Helal olsun
Speak european
@@marco3083 this is the language of the biggest city in europe
@@marco3083 lets speak eurasia
@@marco3083 This is the biggest European language in the biggest city of Europe. İstanbul is in Europe, illiterate poor weirdo.
Are you sure Lisbon is correct? The 1755 earthquake was supposedly devastating and is said to have destroyed the city almost completely.
It was reconstructed very fast..the new lisbon now is what is called Baixa Pombalina near Terreiro do Paço
Moving forward to the 11th century, Kiev had grown to be one of the largest cities in Europe. It was a center for crafts and shopping and was also home to hundreds of churches. The population during this time was 50,000.
It's doubtful a city of 50k people would have needed literally hundreds of churches, even one single hundred would have been a lot.
this did not age well :(
@@1estel1ch.42 how kiev has been invaded, traded, conquered, and reconquista'd like 400 times in its history what makes now different
Madrid high 5 👋 yeeeey!!! 😀😃😊
Spain's best tap water and beaches are in Madrid, let's not forget about that.
High 3 in Europe, depending if you take Russia and Turkey european or not.
If they are european, Madrid is top 5.
If they are euroasians, Madrid is top 3 and Barcelona top 4.
Regards.
@@Wikitoube 😂😂 Exactly, too many beaches and see are in there.
Can you do top 5 largest cities in Asia till 2019? Thanks!
Miko Percibir China and India and Manila...
brummie wellington what i meant is china and india will most likely take most and manila as an extra
I doubt how many of ancient Chinese population data were translated into English...
@@redocious8741 Ever heard of Tokyo?
Fosso CITY not METROPOLITAN
Top fives of 2019
1-Istanbul
2-Moscow
3- Paris
4-London
5-Madrid
you mean Constantinople
Elias Frahat Spoilers!
@@rokivulovic7598 Istanbul not Constantinople
I am proud of my history, there are still butthurts of it who can't deal with reality.
@@oguzhanyurekli3448 Yes . I mean sure , this was large and cool greek city ...
600 fucking years ago . It so stupid . Its like to say "London was established by Romans so give it back to Italy " . First of all they aren't even Romans anymore . And i think thats all .
Vienna was 2 million from 1900-1918
True, it was the third biggest city in europe...
Bernhard 3003 fourth
@@konplayz Yes sorry
Bernhard 3003 No that was fourth Berlin was much larger.
@@konplayz Sorry but this is incorrect. Vienna had 900,000 in 1869 and was no. 3, with almost twice as many inhabitants as Moscow at that time. In 1900 it had 1.77 million. Basically Vienna was 3rd largest until around 1934 when it dropped to 5th place and remained there until around 1950. Also I'm pretty sure Amsterdam should have popped up some time in the late 17th century.
RIP Constantinople in 1453...
No it's a rebird of constantinople still today (sry my english is...)
nE DioN La MeHmEt
Athan asios It was a ruin when we took it and made the best city in the world once again. You can see the population drop before Ottomans and the rise after they took the city in the video.
@Athan asios well Have u ever been in Istanbul? I think, the answer is "no" but I can only tell u Istanbul one of the most beautiful and historical city...And now is better than too many cities...🙂
@Athan asios I'm from Serbia and came from belgrad for living in Istanbul not Constantinople...
I am surprised of how many year italy had some of the most populated cities.
Well they were split into Naples, Venice, Siena, Florencia and more
And none of them was Rome
Y'all know jack shit about history if y'all are confused of why Italy had large cities.
Come on....definitely nothing to be surprised about that.....
Geography nerds. The most brutal of all nerd subgroups
Where is Vienna? It had a population of over 2 million in 1910
Funeral Agreed!
Funeral it totalled to 1.7 million, not 2.1 million, but yeah, he should’ve replaced Constantinople with it.
@@placeholder8768 actually it reached 2 million at around 1910, didn't really drop in WW1 from 1914 to 1918, has risen instead because of eastern european refugees to 2.23mil, in 1923 census it was under two Million for the first time since Like around 1905, many came back to the parts of monarchy which became nations and you also have to consider the massive poverty, tuberculosis epidemics, foot shortage, economic crisis in the years right after the war
Constantinople/Istanbul #1 in 3 different eras lol
Ma sha Allah
Vihainen Tonttu mashallah means something like amazing,lets hope it continues like that. I mean its not the exact meaning it can also mean may god keep it that way or protect it from any hex or something bad
@@SocialistFinn1 well learn before u talk masha allah is something means like "wow thats amazing"
Vihainen Tonttu idiot I’m an atheist and I still say Oh my god in English. It’s just an expression
@Kubilai A i know,im a turk myself and we use it in many different ways. I just didnt know what was the exact meaning of it in english so i wrote other meanings of it and the ways we use it
So Istanbul is basically the biggest city in Europe. Amazing
largest as population not biggest
@@jessteen8662 I know that's what i meant
@@jessteen8662 Hmm, which city is bigger than Istanbul? Because I have seen it and it's bloody huge.
@@MarkhasSteelfort Tokyo Almost 40 million inhabitants and if you put Tokyo in UK ,it would take ~40% of his land
@@plumebrisee6206 Population-wise, metropolitan Tokyo is only around 13,5 million to London's 8,5 million. I think you mean Tokyo's general area, in which it only has about 35,0 million people in it.
WHERE IS SAINT PETERSBURG?
IT IS THE FOURTH CITY IN EUROPE NOW))
Spiritt Chaser true but it’s to far north
Unlikely that its fourth when paris and london are so close to each other. Its probably 5th or 3rd
And there I was thinking why was Naples contested by every monarch in Europe.
Same obvious reason Granada was taken, where there is people there is wealth, in relative terms at least
Naples was the top 2 and 3 largest cities in europe at many points in its history but the population and power took a serious hit with a plague outbreak in the mid 17th century, which followed a decade poltical upheaval. It recovered somewhat in the 18-19th century and remained important but never recovered that previous size and prominence, and the way the kingdom was treated during the reunification of the 19th century kept it from competing with central and northern Italy going into the modern age.
Naples is pretty overlooked sometimes by historians because the state archive which contained the majority of very important records and letters needed to conduct historical research was destroyed by the Nazis in their retreat.
The population of Lisbon should have dropped quite significantly in 1775.
I know right? The whole city was destroyed by the earthquake and no reduction in the population?
@@teixeira476 Plus the fires and the flood (if the board game Lisboa has taught me anything).
@@iambicpentakill971 there's a board game like that?
*1755 actually
Fire?
I think Vienna had more population than Berlin between 1850 - 1870
Stg .Ventor also, it had 2 million inhabitants before WW1
I think you should've included Sevile again in the 1500's. This city became the main merchant city of Spain, it had italian, french, even catalan quarters and it was the main port regarding the atlantic travels. Probably about 120,000 people in the 1520's.
Excellent video, as always! Any news, dear Friend, on the History of Asia project of yours? Looking forward with great trepidation to receiving it ASAP!
Yep, I hope to make that video my next upload. I'm going to be putting a lot of time into it from now on.
By 1300 Seville should be Romance.
@Sabela CG In 1300 it was under Castile
Even before it should be Romance. As the language spoken before the arrive of the Castilians was Mozarabic, which is a language derivated from Latin, though with Arabic influence.
@Sabela CG Not in 1300
@@anaworld4354 We aren't sure about the linguistic demographics of ANdalus but we can safely say that Arabic was the dominant language, not Mozarabic, especially in the south.
Isn't like the half of Istanbul in Asia?
Yep so it's sometimes not counted as biggest city of Europe
Asian side and far northern/western side werent counted as istanbul until the turkish republic
Istanbul is famous for East is Asia, West is Europe. Here have strait for seperate Europe and Asia.
www.google.com.tr/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi1nvGfv4XiAhVM16QKHUsNDFAQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=%2Furl%3Fsa%3Di%26source%3Dimages%26cd%3D%26ved%3D%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fvisiting-turkey.com%252Fistanbul%252F%26psig%3DAOvVaw0VfbujlYh3qjThCmtsf4g0%26ust%3D1557183638219799&psig=AOvVaw0VfbujlYh3qjThCmtsf4g0&ust=1557183638219799
most people is living in european side i guess
The area and population of the European part of Istanbul is much larger than the Asian part.
In 1910 Vienna had around 1.7 Million inhabitants, so it should be 4th on your map
5th🇪🇸🇪🇸
Istanbul 🇹🇷
Chyrka
Seville was retaken by Christians in 1247. So from 1247 on, Seville should appear yellow (Romance), not Orange.
I ❤ Geography!
it's demographics, not geography
To be more precise, when someone plotted this demographic data on a map using a Geographic Information System, they were doing Human Geography.
Ollie, the biggest city in Russia thru 19th and beginning of 20th century was Saint Petersburg, not Moscow
Ivan Glushkov smh look where St. Petersburg is located then look how big the map he used is
Wow Paris in the game since the begining
You somehow forgot Vienna. Vienna was the largest city in Germany and one of the five largest cities in Europe until Berlin run up in the late 1800s.
to bad vienna was never part of germany
in 1800s
@@n.c.kupfermann1023 Vienna was a german city till 1866
@@ein.mensch9185 there was no germany before 1871.
That's a common mistake.
State=/=country
The german empire(18.01.1871) was the first german national state. But Germany as a country exists since the middle ages and Austria was always part of it.
N.C. Brix Too bad your assumptions are not even coherent.
Rome held the 1M title for 1800 years
Watching the vid again , I just realised that you put Seville in the late 13th and early 14th centuries as “Arabic “, and that’s another mistake. Soon after it was conquered by the Christians in 1248, the city became Christian majority and Spanish speaking , because most of the moors were expelled , and the king brought many colonists from northern Spain to replace them.
So nobody is gonna talk about the fact that paris was always part of the biggest european cities ?
Yep 😂 I'm not from there but as a French person I pointed this out ☺
France was always very populus relative to its neighbors, and because it has a "primate city" culture which encourages urban centralization into a few cities it kept Paris's population high. Even today the population of Paris relative to other french cities is a large gap not seen in many other countries of that population size. Similar to London, Moscow, Istanbul, and Cario. But then compare this to European countries who do not have this kind of centralization like Italy and Germany the size if cities is more spread out among the nation's overall population.
I remember reading something similar to this subject on the Ottoman empire. They called the idea "parasite cities", a few urban centers sucking up everything around it and thus depopulating smaller towns and villages. Istanbul, Cairo, Allepo, Sarajevo, Thessaloniki, Baghdad are some. This is why you read accounts if Europeans traveling to the empire and writing about despite the overall high population the countryside seems empty and littered with abandoned cities.
France was a little like this at one point and now Italy is undergoing something similar with internal migration to Milan and Rome
Where's Antwerp or Bruges in the 15th century lol
Probably they were individually too small.
As well as Amsterdam in mid 17th century, and Vienna from 1860s to 1950
Please do a top 10 minimum and let the circle grow directly proportional to the population :) Nice Video btw, but it makes me wonder where in Europe there might be other big cities
Moscow has 17kk+ today... why it ended on 12.7..?
It is the biggest city in Europe.
I guess Istanbul is bigger
@@СергейПлугатырюв No it isn't. author of video used some weird and most likely outdated info, he made tons of mistakes.
Istanbul has about 14kk people while Moscow 17kk.
You can find this info even on wikipedia!
@@Grafomanokrasto Yeah you're right cause my answer was based on my personal experience as I used to live in Moscow and often go to Istanbul.The latter seems to be much more populated
@@СергейПлугатырюв its just smaller, so density may make it seem so. I visited Istanbul about 16 years ago and moscow just last year, Moscow is just MUCH bigger.
@@Grafomanokrasto with immigrants and tourists we are much more crowded. 16.5 million ppl is our pop(1m immigrant and tourists i guess). But i dont have an idea about moscow
London be like: hold my tea
İstanbul non official 22m.
Vienna where are you?
In Austria
He forgot it and focused instead on Moscow Rome and Madrid.
In Istanbul, did you count the cats as well?
City of Cats
Well 14M is only the offical count. Istanbul has nearly 1.5M syrian refugees which are unregistered. And also a lot of people that are registered in their hometown just to vote for their city during the elections but actually live in Istanbul and people pouring in from nearby cities during the day for work etc. So on a normal day istanbul is thought to host nearly 23M people.
@Joseph Stalin iltifat ediyor ama anlamıyorsun
Iatanbulda kedi var ya bir sürü o yüzden diyor
@Joseph Stalin Istanbul yabancilar tarafindan kediler sehri olarak biliniyor, cunku avrupanin hicbir sehrinde Istanbuldaki kadar kedi yok ve Istanbul'daki kadar kedilere iyi bakilan bir yer yok. Bu durum yabanci belgesellere bile konu oldu. Arkadas bunu bildigi icin latife yapmis.
Worst thing ever happened was the fall of the Bizantines.
Why?
@@BenjKlxer He hates Islam, maybe. Like many kids here.
But isn't modern turkey secular?
If you mean 1453: The real thing is, that Constantinople was captured by crusaders in 1204 and never truly recovered from that, till the Turks made it to their capital of the Ottoman Empire. Up to now, the Turkish people made Istanbul a huge Metropolis and were very successful in doing so.
Modern turkey is secular on paper but the government is not or trying not to be
But don’t worry it will be secular again
It's more than 15 million if you count the Syrian refugees.
Suriyesiz 15.5 falan suriyelilerle 16-16.5 yapıyor
@@think9747 Suriyesiz 5M
Knossos first city of Europe
George Mag It's not the first city in Europe but the first european metropolis.
Like si eres madrileño
Kyiv (Kievian Rus capital) was one of the largest cities in Europe during late medieval period. Why wouldn’t you include it?
Because it was not in the top 5...
The statistics are very strange. In the 18-19 centuries, St. Petersburg was the capital of Russia and the population there was more than in Moscow
One of the things that describes how well organize in territory distribution is Germany is that, they have a very high density of population, and it is the second country in Europe with most population, and still their cities are not overpopulated. That is an example of good territorial planning.
Istanbul is my fav city😍. Its just so beautiful and amazing like its turkish shows😊
Constantinople or Byzance please, not Istambul
Istanbul was Costantinople but now it's Istanbul not Costantinople
Stomio05 Turks made the city a metropol, before Turks, it was just a peninsula with a byzantium palace on it
@@egecant Yes, the most important city in Europe for 4 centuries was made a metropolis by some sheep farmers from the plains of asia. Sure.
@@thibaudduhamel2581 Believe it or not I dont care. Its a fact
We won. most crowded and poorest
Where are "turkey isnt in Europe guys?" 😂😂😂 Maps say they were , they are and they will be in Europe. Sorry for bothering you😉
I think they were few cities that they were larger than Paris at 600 and 1000 A.D.
Paris started growing around 1000 - 1100 to become one of the largest european cities.
Also, Constantinople surpassed at the end of 19th century so it wasn't a top 5 european city. But it was the largest city in Europe for 1000 years. I don't know a city that can match this achievement.
ISTANBUL TURKEY
@@onurbaskan1268 As a Greek, yes it is called Istanbul - However, at the time Constantinople WAS the name of the city from 330-1923. This being more then 1000 years easily, while Istanbul has only been Istanbul since 1923-Modern. We'll see if it remains Istanbul, mostly from the threat of Nuclear Apocalypse which could obliterate the city, but Istanbul can be the name for longer. For now.. Istanbul has only been Istanbul for a Hundred Years flat, which doesn't match the rough 1593 years which Istanbul was Constantinople.
After 1453 Constantinopoles name was changed to Istanbul.
no, it wasn't
Rome: i am first
Rome a bit later: 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😨😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣
Didn’t the numbers in London drop dramatically during the bubonic plague?
0:55 Prague!!
1:11 ou....
Why istanbul in 1468 arabic or turkish ?
in this yeara Istanbul was a MultiLanguage and multicultural city, in this city are talk in greek and the new comer talk turkish with many people talk in arabic for the religion
@@cemonder6665 peki bu anlattıklarının benim sorduğum soruyla ne ilgisi var
@@cemonder6665 ha ben onun yanıtını görmemişim benim sorum videoda istanbul ilk dönemlerinde arap ve türk olarak gösteriliyor neden
@@cemonder6665 yes but arabic in this days are used for religious in the madrassa especcially.
The Turks made İstanbul-Constantinople great again after Crusaders sacked it.
Actually it's a little bit fucked up right it has very beautiful places but also very many gypsies
People always blame the Turks for conquering Constantinople, but it was Western crusaders who burned it to the ground and looted it of all its treasures. The Ottoman Turks were actually far more respectful to the city, and even today much of its architectural heritage has been preserved. Most of Constantinople had been raped and pillaged decades before the Ottomans ever set foot in the city.
Bob McCandles I mean, if you blame Byzantium for the sacking of Constantinople, you’re crazy.
It wasn’t western crusaders, it was specifically Italian-funded crusaders.
Also, yes the architecture had been preserved, but now Erdogan is planning to literally turn stuff like the Hagia Sophia into a mosque again by destroying century-old Christian architecture, even though it’s a UNESCO heritage site.
Also, yeah, Constantinople had been raped and pillaged before the Ottomans came.
The Ottomans decided to continue the tradition: if you go to Istanbul nowadays, you’ll probably see at least five prostitutes, and you may have not read about how the Ottomans paid massive taxes for foreign religions, forcing them to convert under unliveable conditions, and how the Ottomans kidnapped foreign children and brainwashed and trained them to become elite, obedient soldiers (Janissaries).
@@placeholder8768 I never blamed Byzantium, dumbass. Learn how to read. And why are we talking about Erdogan? I'm talking about the Ottomans. The Latin crusaders engaged in an orgy of rape, looting and murder on a level that would have made the Goths and Vandals blush. The French basically took it upon themselves to burn and rape everything they touched, violated nuns in the streets, murdered Orthodox priests, smashed and destroyed the icons and treasures of the Hagia Sophia and placed a literal prostitute on the patriarchal throne. The Western Crusaders weakened and destroyed the Byzantine Empire to the point where it was easy pickings for the Turks. While the Ottomans certainly committed their own atrocities in the first few days after the fall of Constantinople, they were not nearly as barbarous and disrespectful to the city's Byzantine heritage. Go to Venice today to see just how much was stolen.
@@bubastis6306 Turks were not any better
1:20 RIP GRANADA ,u will be in the heart of all muslims
true...and Cordoba and Seville. The three main cities that shaped Al Andalus
@@mirandapillsbury7885 the muslims (Umayyad arabs, because berber almoravids and almohads didn't bring only SHIT) built so much cities in iberia ,like murcia,madrid,valdoid,almeria,granada,algecieras and they developed others from little cities to a megapolis in the middle ages bieng head to head with constantinople who took years from romans to built it the arabs done it in 30 years ,like cordoba,sevilla,valencia,cadiz
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Saint Petersburg ? 1830 - 500k
You forgot Syrians when you count İstanbul.. it has more than 20M pop.
Amsterdam was 210000 in 1600 so it should’ve been on it😥
The video isn’t very accurate
According to Wikipedia, it had 200,000 inhabitants in 1700: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam.
This guy's knowledge of European history is fundamentally flawed, hence Amsterdam and Vienna don't appear but Madrid does lol
It's BC/AD, revisionist.
He made it that way to not offend those who are not Christian.
@@movedaccount9958 "Offending people" isn't good justification for changing history and/or conventions that have been in place for thousands of years.
@@nottiredofwinning3736 yeah you are right, conventions. That's the point of saying CE, instead of incorrectly assuming the the birth of Jesus was 2019 years ago we now openly state that it's just a myth, a common convention
But I mean we all know you don't give a shit about history, it's all deus Vult and wehraboos on RUclips now.
@@nottiredofwinning3736 Do you even know the definition of the word "convention"? Conventions change all the time, they're not set in stone forever and ever.
@@nottiredofwinning3736 Even wrong things can be a convention for thousands of years. Just because they are there for thousands of years does not mean they are correct.
Yassss Madrid
🇨🇴💛💜💚🇪🇸
Note that Rome had a population of 1,000,000 in ~1 A.D. No other city would hit 1,000,000 in population until London in ~ 1,800 A.D.
Constantinople is not shown hundreds of years before
Matthaeus Alexandria in Egypt had 1,000,000 population 200 years before Rome did
Baghdad
2,000,000
No other city in Europe, Chinese cities hit it ages ago.
Palermo was no longer Arabic speaking in the 13th century. Muslims had left the island and Frederick II expelled them early in his reign. Also during the 12th century the Norman rulers initiated a process of “latinisation” , to make the island Roman Catholic and Romance speaking again , like the rest of western Europe , so they brought many immigrants from the peninsula ( the “Lombards “) . By the late 12th century the island , and Palermo too , was already mostly Catholic and Romance speaking. This process ended with Frederick II who crushed the last Muslims living there and deported them to North Africa or to Lucera in mainland Italy , where they lived until the year 1300 when they were also crushed and sold as slaves.
John Mason nice trolling man, keep up the good work.
Asmoh so, Southern Europeans are darker than Northern Europeans , who would have thought ! As if it hasn’t always been the case. It was well known to ancient Greeks and Romans , it has nothing to do with the Arab invasions which happened much later. Since light hair and eyes evolved in Northern Europe thousands of years ago , in the Baltic Sea area ( Finland , Sweden etc ) it’s natural that the further away you go , the less common it becomes. Another factor is the Neolithic settlement in Europe , which affected mostly the south , these settlers came from Mesopotamia , but that happened 10000 years BC , nothing to do with Arabs. If you ever visited Europe you’d notice that these north / south variations happens in all countries , northern germans are noticeable lighter than southern ones , northern poles lighter than southern poles etc ... tell me , how much time was Bavaria occupied with Arabs ?
Asmoh it’s a fact these expulsions happened , I never said that they were replaced with Germans , Norwegians or whatever. You’re using a straw man argument here. In both Spain and Italy, when it was possible , the Islamic population was replaced with settlers from northern Spain and northern Italy who were Catholics / Romance speakers. This is a historical fact. Of course some Muslims may have remained. My comment that Palermo was no longer Arab majority in the 13th century ( 130 years after it was taken by the Normans ) remains true.
Asmoh show me a genetic test that shows Sicilians are closer genetically to Tunisians than to Germans ? Of course , a Sicilian will be somewhat closer to Tunisians than a person from Hamburg , that’s obvious , but overall Europeans , both northern and southern , will always cluster closer to each other than to a North African or Arab.
@John Mason Your generalisation is stupid. You can't talk about such a huge region like Southern Europe as if in every country it had happened the same. Here in Spain we all look the same way (except maybe the Galicians who have a lot less sun and the Canarians who are not peninsular). But because of the Reconquista, Northern Spanish people went to the south and repopulated the areas that were isolated due to the muslims being expelled. And not only them, also Italian, French, German, Swiss and Flemish people came to repopulate. So we are Southern Europeans, that's all. There are some people with a little bit of North African blood, but the majority of people don't. Ah, and which of these Southern Europeans look Arab? ➡️ Blanca Suárez, Manu Ríos, Amaia Salamanca, María Valverde, Nerea Camacho, Dani Rovira, Patricia Montero, Anna Castillo, Paco León, Ester Expósito, Jaime Lorente, Álvaro Cervantes, María Pedraza, Maribel Verdú, María Castro, Anne Igartiburu, Quim Gutiérrez, Pablo Rivero, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Martín Rivas, Vanesa Romero, Yon González, Ana Duato, Manuel Burque, Carolina Marín, Mireia Belmonte, Manuel Carrasco, Jaime Olías, Jon Kortarajena, Eva Isanta, Jorge Cadaval, Paz Vega, Ángela Cremonte, Pilar Rubio, Irene Ferreiro, Alba Planas, Cristina Castaño, Pedro Sánchez, Mariano Rajoy, Pablo Casado, Pablo Iglesias, Albert Rivera... To me they all look what they are: Southern European.
You forgot the Flemish cities of Bruges and Antwerp, both of which were once among the largest cities in Europe.
He also forgot Amsterdam in the Golden Age, the most important and powerful city in Europe, and later Vienna.
Amsterdam has never been the 'most important city of Europe' nor the largest or even one of the top 5. Istanbul, London, Paris, Moscow, Naples, St. Petersburg and Lisbon were larger during the late 16th and 17th century. You might want to tone down your statements a bit.
twas very sad seeing constantinople go from greek to turkish
Paris and London : fighting each other since 1560
and they still cant beat their big bro istanbul
Figthing mostly against Spain on these days.
Black _Storm1 yet neither can come close to the glory and splendor of the Eternal City, Rome!
@@ogunkovan They had periods in which they were bigger.
Ottoman empire is a dwarf compared to British empire
it's scary to see no one ever mentioned that paris has been in the top 5 for about 1500 years..
Yes, but it wasn't. They are some cities like Kiev, that were larger than Paris during the Middle Ages, but Ollie Bye missed them. Paris maybe is in top5 for around 1000 years though.
@@bookis100 Kiev was bigger than Paris? When exactly?
London and Paris are pretty much in the same league.
@The Unbekannt what?
At least since the 17th century or so. Before that it was Paris all the way.
Both are important for the west, but in a different way imho
- Paris is like the "historical" big city in the west, always here and important.
- London is like the city that set a new standard for "big cities" (first "megapolis" in history, because of industrial revolution).
1350 Paris
Plague: Hello there
What about the flemish and Dutch cities.
In 1200 Ypres seems to have had between 40-200k (last one quite implausible) pop, still seems to have been close to 1200's Paris.
In around 1400 Bruges had a pop of between 80-200k. (a good estimate seems to be 125k)
In the 17th century Amsterdam had over 200k as well.
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Even if Flemish cities were strong, Paris is too much Paris. Bruges could be, but Ypres I don't think so
@@WarpDoomer sources seem to be around 40k-200k in the 1200 century after growth of the wool industry + Paris being looted and sieged numerous times.
200,000 for Ypres in 1200 is implausibly high. That would make it one of the largest cities on earth, never mind just Europe. The population estimates for Bruges seem to be highly inconsistent, so it would be difficult to include figures for it with any real confidence.
As for Amsterdam, that did actually make it onto the top five very briefly in the 1600s, but it was so brief that I didn't include it. If you think that's the wrong way to do it, I understand that. This just comes down to opinion.
In future, I'd appreciate it if you just ask why I've done something rather than lambasting the video. You'll never convince someone you're right by attacking them, even if you are actually right.
@@OllieBye which sources did you use if I may ask? Hohenberg and Lees seems to aproximate Bruges in 1400 at 125k, above Milan and Venice and Amsterdam quite lower than other sources at 180k in 1700. In 1985. And Chandler in 1987 has Amsterdam at 175k in 1675 and 210k in 1700 higher than Lisbon.
@@MrPbhuh I did actually use Chandler for parts of this video, although apparently not for Amsterdam.
Either way, I'm not necessarily saying Amsterdam and Bruges shouldn't have been included. Amsterdam was omitted for creative reasons as previously explained, and the estimates Bruges seem to be inconsistent (although admittedly I didn't consider including Bruges for this video, that's an oversight on my part).
2:16 can literally pinpoint the industrial revolution in London, followed a few decades later in Paris
Damn Paris was always a big city
Not always
Ephraïm Boateng No,Paris’in population is 2.1 million now.İt’s İle de France’s population.
@@erichvonmanstein1952 IDF pop is 12 millions not 10 millions. It's the urban area population like it said in the beginning of the video.
When St Petersburg was the capital of Russia, it was bigger than Moscow. But why isn't St Petersburg included?
in 1900:
St Petersburg: 1.4M
Moscow: 1.2M
St. Petersburg is not on the map
@@TrafficPartyHatTest Then the map should have included St Petersburg
Istanbul la plus belle ville du monde😍❤
Turan Islam non! Cette Rome! Et l’autre ville s’appelle Constantinople!
C'est Byzance/Constantinople
Sevilla was arab until 1248. After was spanish (romance, yellow roundel)
Además, yo he leído varias veces en libros de Historia que Sevilla era la ciudad más poblada de Europa en el XVI junto con Lisboa
Constantinople Came Back EVEN STRONGER
nope
ozanbeyefendi ozanbeyefendi yep
Greek dream
Its Istanbul now
@@yigitarslan4013 istanbul also comes from greek name.
Are you planning to make a map video of the largest five cities in Africa and the Middle East too? And thank you so much for your great job.
@@lovrohrkac1437 you're right but nothing is impossible ^^
There is no region named middle east it is british colonial term nothig more stop calling that region middle east please.
@@lovrohrkac1437
Actually in Arabic too, the Middle East called "الشرق الأوسط" (al-sharq al-awsat) in Arabic.
@@lovrohrkac1437 I said the same it is colonial term nothing more.
@@lovrohrkac1437 What do you mean due to lack of information? Eurocentric people are so ignorant. Cities have appeared in regions of Africa bigger than your countrie's population, where 20 years ago there was just bushland. Its the fastest developing region on earth.
Constantinople/Istanbul is the real Eternal City.
Yes but this city is dirty since the Turks have take it.
@@erwannleligerien3771 lol a french says that
@@denizomg he is true though, erdogan now wants to convert Aya Sophia church into a mosque
@@outatisater7943 Just dont talk about things that you dont know please.
@@turbishon7770 it's in the news
The world is not a title deed of anyone.Who wins the battle, he owns the land.The Turks won the war Turks named the city Istanbul
Most cities in what today is called Turkey still have mispronounced versions of their original Greek names.
Smyrni became Izmir
Kallipolis - Gelibolu
Trapezounta - Trabzon
Kerasounta - Giresun
Panormos - Bandirma
Ikonio - Konya
Prousa - Bursa
Magnisia - Manisa
Kastamoni - Kastamonu
Samsunta - Samsun
Sinopi - Sinop
Nikea - Iznik
The Turkish flag is just a copy of the ancient Greek banner of Constantinople.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Constantinople-Banner.svg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/001-Byzantium-2.jpg/369px-001-Byzantium-2.jpg
Even the name Anatolia is Greek, it means "East Land" Anatoli =East in Greek
Damn, the slavs had one of the largest cities before the germans 😂
@Jovan Naumovski Nah, I'm a slav myself so don't take it the wrong way, it's just *very* unexpected tbh
@@madmasseur6422 Not at all...
You mean Prague? Part of Holy roman empire (German), where most of the people talked deutsch?
My city (Prague) was third biggest in Europe, after fourth, fifth and twenty-fourth now.