Your the only bloke I know that explained this correctly while keeping it amusing as modern Greece's foundation was weird & i even learnt a few bits! You got a subscriber.
22:30 again, Kapodistrias wasn't against democracy. In fact he engineered the Canton system in Switzerland, which is hailed as the most democratic system on earth. The difference is that Greece was at the time very uneducated and not ready for direct democracy. Whenever the generals tried to run Greece democratically, infighting always broke out. So Kapodistrias said that they should first try to win the war, then try to build a democratic system
@@orf2Aa leader figure that sees the bigger picture and takes a slower routes but doesn't perform instant miracles being mocked and accused by the media and rival groups was (and is to an extend) very common in Greece.
@@orf2A Yes the landlords and the people who had extra privileges in Ottoman times disliked the creation of a new state that would strip those privileges and provide equal rights
Greeks (Hellenes) existed for THOUSANDs OF YEARS and remained there in the lands of Greece proper, Anatolia and South Russian empire. Furthermore, were the dominant influence behind the culture of eastern Roman empire. It is the same and tenfold saying "why Greece exists" as saying why Armenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Croatia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia,Iraq, Syria etc etc exist ... zero nationalism, just stating the obvious...
11:00 Rumeli is actually a catch-all term for Balkan lands of the Ottoman Empire. Rum means "roman" and "eli" means "land" in archaic turkish, so it literally means "land of the romans". However it was also a vilayet in the last last few centuries of the Ottomans. Also Kocabaş literally means "big head" in turkish. So the aristocrats are called big heads. I also believe klepth means thief in greek. You can't make these faction names up.
@@huss4r1813 clearly you have idea what you're talking about because this is a crypto-pole trying to reach space. FACE IT, SILLY POLE! NEITHER POLAND NOR POLES CAN INTO SPACE!!!
In Tripolitsa, Kolokotronis reached the center of the city with his horse, and he claimed that from the outskirts of the city, all the way to the heart of it, there was no road, only corpses of the "barbarians" aka the enemy. Greeks had so much fury and rage over the hundreds of years that they were slaughtering everyone that was consindered an enemy in Tripolitsa for 3 constant days.
The Population was composed of the families of the people that had them enslaved & used their Ancestors for generations. They were inside the walls mocking the Greeks, even cutting Priests bits by bits & tossing the chunks of flesh down from the Towers saying: Come Greeks, come eat from your Priests. The Greek Civilian Population of the Peloponnesos suffered the worst atrocities after the Orlov revolts prior to that. Terrible..
Standing in these lands for millenniums. Always fighting against the odds, always guarding Thermopylae. Eternal glory to our formidable ancestors 🔥🏛️🇬🇷
The greek nation never stopped to exist.. we never stopped reading speaking n writing in our own language.. as a state maybe is fairly new as many other.. Italian state for example
you should really be grateful to the Turks, in half a millennium they could have easily replaced your culture and and language instead of letting you practice your religion and traditions
@@taylanulusoy2699 they were only 250 y .. we being in empires for millennia .. you were like the water.. come and evaporate left nothing back.. useless you came useless you remain
@@evaggelosfeideropoulos3807 hahahaha hard greek copium, whatever you say old maaannn no need to compare dicks about the past when in the present Turkey is doing much better than Greece
@@evaggelosfeideropoulos3807 nope, try 400 years buddy. Sadly, Greek civilization hasnt done anything worthwhile in a loooooong time. Its really sad that you need to go so far back in history that you probably arent even remotely related to your "ancestors" to have some history to be proud of. Lol
I think, not that I know a lot about it, that the lands of Greece and Turkey should(probably) be given to the nation-state of Paraguay 🇵🇾, since the Paraguayan people living there are still oppressed by the illegitimate governments(Greek and Turkish one's respectively). Not that I would enforce that by any means as an European, as Imperialism only starts south of the Mediterranean sea.
13:50, well no, the Greeks DID know of the ancient Greeks, which is why many revolutionaries, along with Kolokotrones, had an ancient greek hoplite looking like helmet, and there are many paintings depicting them with ancient Greek characteristics, Kolokotronis used to tell to his soldiers about the labors of the ancient Greeks to make them invincible in battle, he along with many other revolutionaries said to have used ancient Greek tactics in battle which were actually effective.
You're actually wrong, the average greek probably didn't know about the heroes and figures of ancient greece. The chieftains such as Kolokotrones, used these figures to seduce the europeans on entering the conflict. The term 'Hellene' and 'Graikos' (greek) was being popularized by a greek intellectual named Adamantious Korais, living in Paris, in an effort of creating a sense of nationalism that relate to the ancients and to wean the average greeks off the institution of the Orthodox Church and their identity as "Romiois", related to the Byzantine Empire. It would take time during the revolution for the greeks to actually incorporate the term hellene and their identity with the ancient pagan past in spite of their medieval roman background. The video is actually correct and does a rather good job of presenting the subject, even though it's in an oversimplified manner!
and btw the portrait you're referring to of kolokotrones with the hoplite helmet and many other paintings portraying the greek revolution were painted between 1850 - 1860 by Dionysios Tsokos, years after the death of kolokotronis
@@peppino6976Kolokotronis literally talks about Ancient Greece and ancient greeks being his ancestors in letters/speeches to school kids in the Peloponnesus.
@@peppino6976But, in saying that, the Greeks are the Heirs of that Roman & Hellenic Heritage! Their Language, Traditions, Geography, & for the most Part Genetics clearly attests to that reality.
@@andna3043 like i said, it would take time for the revolution to start to sympathize with the ancient pagan past. this speech that you're referring is from 1838 a year after the Battle of Navarino, so pretty much at the end of the war. And btw, Kolokotronis is not an average greek as mentioned on the video, of course he knew about the ancient greeks.
My family's name has also Turkish roots. (Katsos) is also a Hellenic family name derived, during the period of the Ottoman Occupation of Greece and prior to the Greek Revolution, from the Turkish word Kacak meaning a "fugitive, to flee,ect." or Klepht(mountain guerrilla)in the Greek. The Katsos Clan or family was found in the mountains of Morea,Epiros and Thessally. The Turkish verb stem Kac is in front of similar words having the same meaning(ie: to flee,runaway, deserter,smuggled contraband,escape,illegal,ect.)--Doxapatris 14:51, 20 July 2009 (UTC). I've heard that there was a point where the Ottomans changed tactics and starting recruiting non-muslim soldiers, and whoever did not accept, they gave him the description Kacak, from which many surnames arrose with this stem, although with different endings signifying their different locations in Greece.
Like Kolokotronis said if it wasn't for the damn civil war we would have taken Constantinople by now, and this is true the ottoman empire was already weak by then.
They were both dependent on the existence of the eastern Roman empire as they were claimant states. Morea was infact ruled by the uncle of the last emperor who was kicked out of the imperial court for trying to usper the throne twice lol. Fun fact morea actually ignored the request for reinforcements during 1453 because of that guy.
Yes and after a while , the nephews of Constantine Palaiologos , the last Emperor of Byzantium , became muslims , changed names and served Mehmed the conqueror. The despotate of Morea stood no chance against the ottomans and its nobility ended up serving the ottomans. As for Trabizond , the Komnini princess was taken by Mehmed as his wife (One of the many he had). After the fall of Constantinople , everything was pointless. Even the nobles and the crown heirs accepted the fact that there will be no crown of the Eastern Roman Empire after 1453 and most of them converted to islam . It would be no surprise to me if the last beys/nobles of the ottomans in the early 1920's (and their descendants today) were originally the Byzantine Greek Nobility.
The Ottomans committed "some" atrocities at Chios Island? Some? They genocide the whole island. And they did the same to many other places of Greece a lot of times before and after 1821. Atrocities and Turkey are synonymous.
Yok ya…Sizin için Küçük Asya felakati bizim için Kurtuluş Savaşı öncesi sizin dedelerinizin yapmış olduğu ,Yunan mezalimini ben yaşım icabı dedelerimden dinlemiş biriyim.
@@1903mercan Δεν έχω ιδέα τί γράφεις. Μάθε Ελληνικά ή γράψε Αγγλικά. Το ότι στην σημερινή Τουρκία ζούσαν Έλληνες για χιλιάδες χρόνια πριν γίνει το Τουρκικό κράτος, είναι ιστορία. Μπορεί να μην σου αρέσει αλλά η αλήθεια πρέπει να γίνει γνωστή ακόμα και σε εσάς που δεν ξέρετε ποιοί ήταν οι παππούδες σας και ποιοι ζούσαν ειρηνικά σε αυτά τα εδάφη πριν έρθουν οι φονιάδες και τους πάρουν τα σπίτια, τα χωράφια, τα παιδιά, τις γυναίκες και όλα όσα είχαν φτιάξει με τον ιδρώτα τους. Οι περισσότεροι Τούρκοι έχουν Ελληνικό DNA και δεν το ξέρουν. Με ένα τεστ μπορούν να το μάθουν όμως. 😉
As a Greek, I have seen numerous videos about the Greek independence, but none described it as good as this one. The truth is, Greece as a concept is very complicated and has changed over the years. The Greek revolution started more like a Balkan union, united by the greek culture (just like the byzantine empire), and later became a "Greek" revolution. Then we had the Megali Idea, which was successful at first but stopped after the Greco-Turkish war that ended in 1922. So, Greece today is very different than what the Filiki Etairia hoped to achieve.
I'd say "united by religion (just like the Byzantine Empire)". Because at the time the unifying thing in Greece was nationalism in the upper classes, and religion in the lower. In the end Nationalism prevailed (as it was a thing of the moment), but earlier revolts aimed more at re-creating an "Orthodox nation" rather than a Greek Nation
Im curious to know, as i have heard that greeks learn history differently with high notes of religion, as religion is seen as something very close to society there. Just out of curiosity, do greeks believe that what we call today "Byzantine empire" was somewhat of a Greek empire? Or am i exaggerating?
Obviously Poland is the only one with rightfull claims on all of greece and balkans! For no other reason that baltic is bloody cold and expensive and we have no decent vacation spot options.
Have you ever thought about whatever "freedom at all costs means?" And not all of them were a failure entirely because several of them saw enough success as to make the Turks grant at least SOME rights to the Greeks especially the educated ones, since they needed them to run their empire. And also, over time, every rebellion came closer to success due to the gradual weakening of the Ottoman empire. In addition all but two of these rebellions were localised and limited affairs happening in one or two regions at most.
It sounds natural for someone who has been refused entry visa into Greece 8 times. Its ok poor boy. You can try again. maybe the 9th time will be your lucky one
@@noterrormanagement hahaha. Your grammar and form of speech has confirmed you are NOT Greek. Keep trying to get visa. maybe you will get lucky. BTW is that foam on your lips? You have been bad boy!!!!
Greece is a civilzation more than 10.000 years in the area. Turks are here the last 900 years , so as Slavs and Albanians. Almost the majority of the medirerranean cities were established by Greeks . Romans copied everything from the Greeks . All these in a small nutshel , never mind detailing all the aspects here , it will take a month here to wite down everything .
Greece played a bigger role in human civilization than any other country. Any educated person knows this! Greeks are under appreciated. I see Greek influence all around me anywhere I’ve been to.
Great video, very informative. The style reminds me of Bill Wurtz and Oversimplified. But one thing I wanna point out is the word "islands" is pronounced "i-lands" with a silent S :D
If Greece didn’t exist, we would miss fundamental functions and rights in our western societies. From profound communication and political order to practicing Medicine and evolving sciences.
Just stumbled upon this channel and am so happy I did. In this time of most channels being AI TTS it’s awesome to see a channel with homemade animations and read by the creator in English even though it’s not his native language. We need more of this and I really look forward to future content. 👍
Great video small correction at 12:55 you point Spetses to be in South Attica while it is located in the first leg of Peloponnese. The shape of the island is correct, only the location is wrong. As for Hydra you mistake it with the island of Makronisos, Hydra is also supposed to be near to Spetses in the easter Peloponnese, not in Attica. The correct location for both would be on peninsula to the west. Don't worry, it's a complicated geographical location so a lot of people do similar mistakes.
@@exilefromthefireland Διοικητικά ναι. Εκεί γίνεται το μπέρδεμα καθώς μάλλον όποιος ψάχνει την τοποθεσία υποθέτει ότι βρίσκονται και γεωγραφικά στην Αττική. Δεν είναι για παράδειγμα απέναντι από το Σούνιο όπως το αποκομίζει στον χάρτη, αλλά απέναντι από την Ερμιονίδα παρόλο που για κάποιο λόγο δεν ανοίκουν σε αυτή.
Greeks exist before Greece. Ancient city states when the others around was theocracy countries. They could not understand how the citizen of Athens have a word in a other city. Cause more ancient times aegean greek families took all over east meditaranian by colonization,later the families towns become city states. All Greek but free. Building your civilization on sea with so many islands,freedom is a key meaning to your people. ''IF ROMAS DIDN'T CONQUER GREEKS,NOW,WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN 200-300 YEARS AHEAD.""Carl Sagan Just pay respect every day to Greeks.
Kapodistrias murder was not as it looks in history books. He was murdered by the big countries of the time to establish their own pawns in the Greek government because Kapodistrias was going to make Greece a great place as he did for Russia and Switzerland and other places. And that was not acceptable by Britain, Germany and France, at least.
Don't forget the russians, anyway great powers of the time used the old school technique " divide and conquer" to take for themselves whatever they could after dismantling the ottoman empire.All they left behind were puppet states ( mostly in Greece and Turkey,the core of the Byzantines, making sure those territories will never unite again) and injustice (aca British "cooking" in Cyprus and Palestine).As a Greek ( I prefer Helene) I wish for my people to be REAL free someday after all these thousand of years of occupation, maybe then they could ONCE MORE guide humanity to the light...
@@cyfix7295 No he wasnt. You speak of what they say of his family about 1300AC one version , but that would still make them most likely Greeks since whole Italy is Greek ,just like whole albania whom albanians come 80% Greek dna at averege, but even if they were from venetia or istria after 500 years marrying with Greek families in Kerkyra he might had 5% venetian dna
@@petrospetromixos6962 Whole Italy Is/was Greek ? wtf ? Venice Greek ? Well we could say also about the Slavs who migrated to Balkan right ? After 500-1000 years of marrying with Greek,Macedonian,Bulgarian families they might have 5% Slavic Dna 🤣
0:52 i am amazed you know this the first was back in Mani peninsula in 1481, when Korkodeilos Kladas and the fierce Mani fighters rose up against the Ottomans.
probably true! but they did not raise up. more likely, refused to submit. it took a long time for the maniots to develop a Greek conscience, some not even being christianized well into the late 17th c.
@@TartarusPyro maniots were the remnants of the slavic tribe Melingi. also found in the mountain valley leading from patras to the lower approaches of mountain erymanthos. also, the name Mani is probable derived from the remnants of the middle ages occupation by frankish nobles
@@yiannimil1 history from wikipedia i guess eh? Visit some museums mb you will find hand written texts The etymology of the word Mani is open to many interpretations. 1. The toponym Maini is mentioned for the first time in the year 876 AD. AD in the Tacticus of Leo the Wise and is repeated later in the texts of the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus. "We must know that the inhabitants of the castle of Mani are not from the generation of Slavs that we talked about earlier, but they come from the oldest Romans, who until now are called Greeks by the locals, because in ancient times they were pagans and worshiped the idols like the ancient Greeks, and who, after being baptized during the reign of the venerable Basilius, became Christians. And the place where they live is arid and unprofitable, but it has olive trees from which they live". Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
@@yiannimil1 the manios where the last of the greeks to abandon the Olympian gods when people talked to them about christianity the always replied negative they said we are greeks what is this you talking about
If you search about this, tou will find this number. Idk h who came up with this number first, but for sure we can say with cetraintly that we have sources about many revolts happening during the Ottoman period.
@@kv4648 because the first greek state was formed in 1821. Ancient greeks were consisted of independent city-states. They never formed a kindom with one ruler at its head. While the Byzantine Empire consisted of a number of different people. Even the name Byzantine was firstly used in 1557 by a German historian, 100 years after its fall. The name used was Eastern Roman Empire.
The global civilization is Greek thats why Greece still exist You cant kill civilization just adopted it dear European American Turk Arab and the rest if the world
@@cyfix7295the state has existed since 1830, but the greek people have existed since at least 1200 bc. And if we count the Myceneans, the Minoans and Cycladics, it goes even further back, at around 3000 bc. So yeah, the greek people predate the Hellenic Democracy.
For nearly 400 years after 1453, when the Ottoman Turks invaded Constantinople, finishing off the Byzantine Empire, Greece was among the countries that suffered under their regime. Ottoman repressions finally led to the Greek War of Independence in 1821, resulting after nine years in a hard won and well deserved victory. Constantinople (that is the city's true, original greek name) was greek long before it fell into the hands of the Ottomans, as well as all the parts there. Hagia Sophia ( Αγια Σοφια) which means "Holy Wisdom" in greek, was originally a Christian church, in a christian land, later turned into a mosque by the Ottomans, then into a museum, and, today, into a mosque again, by the Turks. All of that used to be greek, and they should become greek again.
@@cyfix7295 No, my ignorant friend, Constantinople wasn't made by the Romans.......It was founded as Byzantium in the 7th century BCE, by GREEK settlers from MEGARA, GREECE. In 330 CE, the HALF GREEK - HALF ROMAN emperor Constantine ( Greek name ) the Great, whose father was Flavius Constantius, a Roman army officer, and his mother was Helena, a GREEK woman who was later canonised as a saint, by the Greek ORTHODOX Church, made Constantinople his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome, and, finally, as Constantinoupolis, after himself. As for Hagia Sophia, it was built by Justinian, who was an Eastern Roman emperor, alright, but he had been made a Byzantine emperor by the time he built it, and Byzantium WAS A GREEK EMPIRE at the time. Not to mention that Hagia Sophia ( that is still considered the epitome of Byzantine, that is, GREEK, architecture, to this very day ), was designed by the GREEK geometers Isidore of Miletus, and Anthemius of Tralles. Next time, do some research in Wikipedia, before you speak, OK.........??????
@@ΑλεξάνδραΓόγαλη Constantine is Roman Name, Flavia Julia Helena - His Mother from wealthy ROMAN family given land in Anatolia !!! BYZANTIUM IS FAKE NAME . NON EXISTENT . It Was Roman Empire or Eastern Roman Empire To the END . All Today Greek people called themselvs "ROMEI" . Hagia Sophia epitome of Byzantine, that is, GREEK architecture HAHAHA ......Eastern Roman Empire MAN !!! That is ROMAN architecture ....... Go watch some documentary about Constantinople bro ... The City Was made by him from scratch Next Time Don't LIE MAN OK ........... ????? Greece Even Trying To Steal Roman History and Culture ......SHAME VIva La Italia Peace 🤣
@@cyfix7295 So, you're Italian, ha........That explains it......!!!!!! Go read our History, man !!!!!! Google everything I said, on Wikipedia, and you'll realise that YOU'RE THE LIAR, NOT ME......Greece was never in need to steal anything from anyone, we gave the whole world OUR OWN CULTURE AND CIVILISATION, HISTORY ITSELF WAS BORN IN OUR LAND, WHICH IS THE CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY, PHILOSOPHY, THEATER, MEDICINE, THE OLYMPIC GAMES, AND SO MANY OTHER THINGS...... Byzantium a fake name.......Hahahaha, really........????? Wikipedia has a different opinion on that......!!!!!!! Go check it out, if you dare.....!!!!!! Constantine the Great WAS HALF GREEK, HIS MOTHER WAS GREEK, HIS FATHER WAS A ROMAN...... Wikipedia, man......!!!!! When we Greeks were teaching the ancient world the very definition of "culture", architecture, and all the above, most of all the other "nations" were still hanging from trees........!!!!!!! ΖΗΤΩ Η ΕΛΛΑΣ !!!
Why does Greece Exist? I will answer you Turk. For making you happy. Why you are happy? Because Greece is a ancient civilization and you have the good to are near with this country.
You censored it? I'll post it again. Thanks to Greece "Great War 2: Electric Boogaloo" was lost from the perspective of Nietzsche's "Blonde Beast"s. It was worth it then (Axion Esti by Odysseas Elytis, Nobelist. Good stuff 👌 )
And another thing: as for the so called "attrocities" the Greeks supposdly conducted freeing Tripoli. 1. Ottomans were conquerors whereas Greeks conducted a - - - > liberational war, 2. Greeks suffered *four HUNDRED* years of Ottoman cruelty 3. What this cruelty was like? IMAGINE THIS - - - > only one single example of how they treated the Greeks: they were opening the belly button of the person, they were then carefully pulling out his small intestine, they were fasten it on a tree, *and they were making him to revolve around the tree.* .. .. ..
@@ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΣ Despite that Greeks were the majority and felt represented in the Byzantine Empire? So technically a Greek state, a Greco-Roman civilization.
@@ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΣ yeah because at the medieval times and prior, hellenic associated with the greek pantheon aka pagan religion, ofcourse they were against the paganism. ofcourse it led to some tragedies and rebellions-civil wars, the population converted to orthodox over time, forced or not.
@@tompatterson1548 Italy is the only successor of Rome because Rome is the capital city of Italy and also, because the Roman Empire was created by Latins, not by Goths.
we took loans to buy ships that later we burned as a revolt against eachother. Then we took another loan to repay the first loans! Yeah without Russia, England and France the slavo-albanian-turko greeks leaving in Peloponhsos wouldnt in 10000 years kick ottoman ass
gotta admit, history never has been presented as fun and interesting as this 🤭 looking forward to more stuff, anything about the history about some european country (as I'm from Austria myself)
In historical terms of time, 379 years is just a drop in the bucket. In one way or another Greece, despite the enormous opposition and difficulties, still exist.. The question is why the Ottoman empire still exists in Anatolia ????
Countries did not exist until the past few centuries. Humans had empires, kingdoms, municipalities, tribes. Modern day civic societies have been developing since the past five centuries. Countries with borders and citizenships are a relatively new concept.
GREECE IS IMMORTAL, ITS IN YOUR LANGUAGE (BTW not only for the so-called Turks, but whatever language you speak in any country), it's in your customs and traditions, it's in your so-called cuisine (except for stake tartar), it's in the ground you walk on and all around you, it's in the churches you occupied, it's in your the name you are given, both as individuals and in your cities, and above all else it's in your DNA (and this part is the most painful speaking as a Greek). GREECE IS EVERYWHERE. Simple, true and historically documented. And SOCRATES AND PLATO ARE FEATURED IN THE NARTHEX OF THE CHURCHES / MONESTARIES ON MOUNT ATHOS. THE HELLENES (AKA GREEKS) NEVER FORGET WHO THEY ARE. NEVER. To deny this is wishful thinking on your part and that's putting it mildly... And even after all of that history and strife and subjugation, we're still HERE!
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No no no no no no no no no no no no no no
Why do you even exist?
Your the only bloke I know that explained this correctly while keeping it amusing as modern Greece's foundation was weird & i even learnt a few bits!
You got a subscriber.
Why are some of your videos gone?
It's amazing how the Greeks managed to defeat and humiliate the Turks all by themselves without the help of any other army!
22:30 again, Kapodistrias wasn't against democracy. In fact he engineered the Canton system in Switzerland, which is hailed as the most democratic system on earth. The difference is that Greece was at the time very uneducated and not ready for direct democracy. Whenever the generals tried to run Greece democratically, infighting always broke out. So Kapodistrias said that they should first try to win the war, then try to build a democratic system
he was being mocked as undemocratic by greek newspapers on his era its maybe what caused the confusion in this video
@@orf2Aa leader figure that sees the bigger picture and takes a slower routes but doesn't perform instant miracles being mocked and accused by the media and rival groups was (and is to an extend) very common in Greece.
SHIT, THEY SAY THE SAME THINGS ABOUT STALIN... ALL THE HEROES OF HISTORY WHO FOUGHT FOR DEMOCRACY ARE DESCRIBED AS "ANTI-DEMOCRATS".
nice fairy tale
@@orf2A Yes the landlords and the people who had extra privileges in Ottoman times disliked the creation of a new state that would strip those privileges and provide equal rights
GREECE AND TURKEY ARE RIGHTFUL LANDS OF GLORIOUS PARAGUAY 🇵🇾🇵🇾🇵🇾
NO THEY BELONG TO THE BEST COUNRTY, LIBERLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THESE ARE ALL PARTS OF MOLOSSIA, INCLUDING CRIMEA AND PALESTINE@@bobagingo_
@@bobagingo_they belong to MOLOSSIA!!!!!
@@evil_lebron_gamingNO LIBERAL IDIOT, THEY BELONG TO EAST TIMOR 🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱
These are native san marinonese lands, fool!
Greeks (Hellenes) existed for THOUSANDs OF YEARS and remained there in the lands of Greece proper, Anatolia and South Russian empire. Furthermore, were the dominant influence behind the culture of eastern Roman empire. It is the same and tenfold saying "why Greece exists" as saying why Armenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Croatia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia,Iraq, Syria etc etc exist ... zero nationalism, just stating the obvious...
The question shouldnt be why does Greece exist, thw question should be why does Turkey exist.
True
nah
The question should be why are you exist
very True
@@themachine096the right question is what your mom's profession
16:30 a small correction, the capital didn't move to Salamis, but to the nearby island of Aegina
"Hellas is destined to live.. and She Will"
Charilaos Trikoupis 1893
"Unfortunately we have defaulted on our debts"
-The same guy
11:00 Rumeli is actually a catch-all term for Balkan lands of the Ottoman Empire. Rum means "roman" and "eli" means "land" in archaic turkish, so it literally means "land of the romans". However it was also a vilayet in the last last few centuries of the Ottomans. Also Kocabaş literally means "big head" in turkish. So the aristocrats are called big heads. I also believe klepth means thief in greek. You can't make these faction names up.
@@epeksergastis thanks!
BECAUSE GREECE IS WORLD POWER, GREECE RULES WORLD SEA SPACE AND OTHER, I LOVE GREECE
clearly this comment was written by a greek
@@huss4r1813
clearly you have idea what you're talking about because this is a crypto-pole trying to reach space.
FACE IT, SILLY POLE! NEITHER POLAND NOR POLES CAN INTO SPACE!!!
TÜRKIYE ABOVE ALL 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
@@huss4r1813 no no no , i think they might be albanian.
@@alisaglam2465 maybe so, maybe they have albanian and greek parents
In Tripolitsa, Kolokotronis reached the center of the city with his horse, and he claimed that from the outskirts of the city, all the way to the heart of it, there was no road, only corpses of the "barbarians" aka the enemy. Greeks had so much fury and rage over the hundreds of years that they were slaughtering everyone that was consindered an enemy in Tripolitsa for 3 constant days.
The Greeks did them well!
The Population was composed of the families of the people that had them enslaved & used their Ancestors for generations. They were inside the walls mocking the Greeks, even cutting Priests bits by bits & tossing the chunks of flesh down from the Towers saying: Come Greeks, come eat from your Priests. The Greek Civilian Population of the Peloponnesos suffered the worst atrocities after the Orlov revolts prior to that. Terrible..
Standing in these lands for millenniums. Always fighting against the odds, always guarding Thermopylae. Eternal glory to our formidable ancestors 🔥🏛️🇬🇷
The greek nation never stopped to exist.. we never stopped reading speaking n writing in our own language.. as a state maybe is fairly new as many other.. Italian state for example
you should really be grateful to the Turks, in half a millennium they could have easily replaced your culture and and language instead of letting you practice your religion and traditions
@@taylanulusoy2699 they were only 250 y .. we being in empires for millennia .. you were like the water.. come and evaporate left nothing back.. useless you came useless you remain
@@evaggelosfeideropoulos3807 hahahaha hard greek copium, whatever you say old maaannn no need to compare dicks about the past when in the present Turkey is doing much better than Greece
@@evaggelosfeideropoulos3807 nope, try 400 years buddy. Sadly, Greek civilization hasnt done anything worthwhile in a loooooong time. Its really sad that you need to go so far back in history that you probably arent even remotely related to your "ancestors" to have some history to be proud of. Lol
@@taylanulusoy2699 what about the multiple massacres of the greek orthodox priests and islamifacation of the greeks living in Asia Minor
I think, not that I know a lot about it, that the lands of Greece and Turkey should(probably) be given to the nation-state of Paraguay 🇵🇾, since the Paraguayan people living there are still oppressed by the illegitimate governments(Greek and Turkish one's respectively). Not that I would enforce that by any means as an European, as Imperialism only starts south of the Mediterranean sea.
what drugs do you take?
As a Greek who lives in Paraguay I totally agree.
The population in Greece and Turkey doesnt even know what Paraguay is.
@@anonanon7932 GREECE AND TURKEY ARE RIGHTFUL LANDS OF GLORIOUS PARAGUAY 🇵🇾🇵🇾🇵🇾
'Muero con mi patria' - Solano Lopez seconds before being stabbed to death by a Brazilian corporal
"Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks". - Winston Churchill.
13:50, well no, the Greeks DID know of the ancient Greeks, which is why many revolutionaries, along with Kolokotrones, had an ancient greek hoplite looking like helmet, and there are many paintings depicting them with ancient Greek characteristics, Kolokotronis used to tell to his soldiers about the labors of the ancient Greeks to make them invincible in battle, he along with many other revolutionaries said to have used ancient Greek tactics in battle which were actually effective.
You're actually wrong, the average greek probably didn't know about the heroes and figures of ancient greece. The chieftains such as Kolokotrones, used these figures to seduce the europeans on entering the conflict. The term 'Hellene' and 'Graikos' (greek) was being popularized by a greek intellectual named Adamantious Korais, living in Paris, in an effort of creating a sense of nationalism that relate to the ancients and to wean the average greeks off the institution of the Orthodox Church and their identity as "Romiois", related to the Byzantine Empire. It would take time during the revolution for the greeks to actually incorporate the term hellene and their identity with the ancient pagan past in spite of their medieval roman background. The video is actually correct and does a rather good job of presenting the subject, even though it's in an oversimplified manner!
and btw the portrait you're referring to of kolokotrones with the hoplite helmet and many other paintings portraying the greek revolution were painted between 1850 - 1860 by Dionysios Tsokos, years after the death of kolokotronis
@@peppino6976Kolokotronis literally talks about Ancient Greece and ancient greeks being his ancestors in letters/speeches to school kids in the Peloponnesus.
@@peppino6976But, in saying that, the Greeks are the Heirs of that Roman & Hellenic Heritage! Their Language, Traditions, Geography, & for the most Part Genetics clearly attests to that reality.
@@andna3043 like i said, it would take time for the revolution to start to sympathize with the ancient pagan past. this speech that you're referring is from 1838 a year after the Battle of Navarino, so pretty much at the end of the war. And btw, Kolokotronis is not an average greek as mentioned on the video, of course he knew about the ancient greeks.
Fun fact 9:56 "Kodjabash" literally means "Big Head" in Turkish.
My family's name has also Turkish roots. (Katsos) is also a Hellenic family name derived, during the period of the Ottoman Occupation of Greece and prior to the Greek Revolution, from the Turkish word Kacak meaning a "fugitive, to flee,ect." or Klepht(mountain guerrilla)in the Greek. The Katsos Clan or family was found in the mountains of Morea,Epiros and Thessally. The Turkish verb stem Kac is in front of similar words having the same meaning(ie: to flee,runaway, deserter,smuggled contraband,escape,illegal,ect.)--Doxapatris 14:51, 20 July 2009 (UTC). I've heard that there was a point where the Ottomans changed tactics and starting recruiting non-muslim soldiers, and whoever did not accept, they gave him the description Kacak, from which many surnames arrose with this stem, although with different endings signifying their different locations in Greece.
Love to see that you did not stop uploading! Love your videos they keep things in history i know nothing about easy and interesting!
How's Scooby-Doo and Shags? Can I have a three way with Velma and Daphne? Is it true in the sixties cart'oon you all were dodging the draft?
The ottoman empire: oh we will easily destroy this revolution too
After 400 years Greece:🗿🤫🧏
Like Kolokotronis said if it wasn't for the damn civil war we would have taken Constantinople by now, and this is true the ottoman empire was already weak by then.
at least our ancient blood still works the same
Hahahahahahaaaa
You barely secured Morea lol, and you still needed the help of 3 great powers for it. Nice fantasy though
@@Sarukhan475 Yes yes this is why your sultan was ready to abandon Constantinople and go back from where he came from.
@@LordAnestis "Go back to where he came from" ? LMAO where? When did that happen? Take your meds schizo boy.
@@LordAnestis "Go back to where he came from" Where?
When did this even happen? Oh right, you pulled it out of your ass. Take your meds lmao
The Despotate of Morea and the Empire of Trabizond existed until 1460 and 1461 respectively, but okay
They were both dependent on the existence of the eastern Roman empire as they were claimant states. Morea was infact ruled by the uncle of the last emperor who was kicked out of the imperial court for trying to usper the throne twice lol.
Fun fact morea actually ignored the request for reinforcements during 1453 because of that guy.
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74his brother not his uncle and I don't see how morea was going to be able to save constantinople.
@@mappingshaman5280 it wasn't that's the point. There was no way he was going to save or even reclaim the throne after that.
Yes and after a while , the nephews of Constantine Palaiologos , the last Emperor of Byzantium , became muslims , changed names and served Mehmed the conqueror. The despotate of Morea stood no chance against the ottomans and its nobility ended up serving the ottomans. As for Trabizond , the Komnini princess was taken by Mehmed as his wife (One of the many he had). After the fall of Constantinople , everything was pointless. Even the nobles and the crown heirs accepted the fact that there will be no crown of the Eastern Roman Empire after 1453 and most of them converted to islam . It would be no surprise to me if the last beys/nobles of the ottomans in the early 1920's (and their descendants today) were originally the Byzantine Greek Nobility.
Oxygen Greek word no breathing before Greeks thanks Greek for air HELLAS BEST
Dude use spelling marks. I had to read 3 times to understand the comment you wrote.
@@АлександърПърванов-ц2я that’s because you have the English comprehension level of a goldfish
The Ottomans committed "some" atrocities at Chios Island?
Some?
They genocide the whole island.
And they did the same to many other places of Greece a lot of times before and after 1821.
Atrocities and Turkey are synonymous.
Yok ya…Sizin için Küçük Asya felakati bizim için Kurtuluş Savaşı öncesi sizin dedelerinizin yapmış olduğu ,Yunan mezalimini ben yaşım icabı dedelerimden dinlemiş biriyim.
@@1903mercan Δεν έχω ιδέα τί γράφεις.
Μάθε Ελληνικά ή γράψε Αγγλικά.
Το ότι στην σημερινή Τουρκία ζούσαν Έλληνες για χιλιάδες χρόνια πριν γίνει το Τουρκικό κράτος, είναι ιστορία.
Μπορεί να μην σου αρέσει αλλά η αλήθεια πρέπει να γίνει γνωστή ακόμα και σε εσάς που δεν ξέρετε ποιοί ήταν οι παππούδες σας και ποιοι ζούσαν ειρηνικά σε αυτά τα εδάφη πριν έρθουν οι φονιάδες και τους πάρουν τα σπίτια, τα χωράφια, τα παιδιά, τις γυναίκες και όλα όσα είχαν φτιάξει με τον ιδρώτα τους.
Οι περισσότεροι Τούρκοι έχουν Ελληνικό DNA και δεν το ξέρουν.
Με ένα τεστ μπορούν να το μάθουν όμως.
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As a Greek, I have seen numerous videos about the Greek independence, but none described it as good as this one. The truth is, Greece as a concept is very complicated and has changed over the years. The Greek revolution started more like a Balkan union, united by the greek culture (just like the byzantine empire), and later became a "Greek" revolution. Then we had the Megali Idea, which was successful at first but stopped after the Greco-Turkish war that ended in 1922. So, Greece today is very different than what the Filiki Etairia hoped to achieve.
Woah, that is alot of text.
@@Dr.MaxMillianwhat did blud expect 💀💀
I'd say "united by religion (just like the Byzantine Empire)". Because at the time the unifying thing in Greece was nationalism in the upper classes, and religion in the lower. In the end Nationalism prevailed (as it was a thing of the moment), but earlier revolts aimed more at re-creating an "Orthodox nation" rather than a Greek Nation
@@audyssea Did I say otherwise?
Im curious to know, as i have heard that greeks learn history differently with high notes of religion, as religion is seen as something very close to society there. Just out of curiosity, do greeks believe that what we call today "Byzantine empire" was somewhat of a Greek empire? Or am i exaggerating?
Did you know that before Turkiye all of Anatolia was Greek
That's what she said
@karaqakkzlNot really. It was more like Anatolian and Greek.
yeah then they got kicked out 😂
@@___E so even before greeks it was half greek ? lol
Not true. A significant part was Armenian and a small part kurdish.
Why does Turkey exist!?
Obviously Poland is the only one with rightfull claims on all of greece and balkans!
For no other reason that baltic is bloody cold and expensive and we have no decent vacation spot options.
And then Turks started mass murdering Pontic Greeks.
The question should be why does turkey still exist in Greek lands?
123 rebellions and none of them weren't successful.
"Have I ever told you what insanity means?"
Have you ever thought about whatever "freedom at all costs means?" And not all of them were a failure entirely because several of them saw enough success as to make the Turks grant at least SOME rights to the Greeks especially the educated ones, since they needed them to run their empire. And also, over time, every rebellion came closer to success due to the gradual weakening of the Ottoman empire. In addition all but two of these rebellions were localised and limited affairs happening in one or two regions at most.
I admire the Greeks for this.
If you perfect the art of the rebellion until it works, it's called "progress".
As a Greek i too question my country's existence on a daily basis.
☠☠
@@TopBoyAkykloforhta
yeah, i like pirate republics too.
Yeah i also question our country existence
It sounds natural for someone who has been refused entry visa into Greece 8 times. Its ok poor boy. You can try again. maybe the 9th time will be your lucky one
@@noterrormanagement hahaha. Your grammar and form of speech has confirmed you are NOT Greek. Keep trying to get visa. maybe you will get lucky. BTW is that foam on your lips? You have been bad boy!!!!
Greece is a civilzation more than 10.000 years in the area.
Turks are here the last 900 years , so as Slavs and Albanians.
Almost the majority of the medirerranean cities were established by Greeks .
Romans copied everything from the Greeks .
All these in a small nutshel , never mind detailing all the aspects here , it will take a month here to wite down everything .
When God create world he gave it to greeks. But greeks lovely people, do greks give world to others 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Ah. Good spin on that copy pasta
Greece played a bigger role in human civilization than any other country. Any educated person knows this! Greeks are under appreciated. I see Greek influence all around me anywhere I’ve been to.
Greeks made Rome, Rome made Europe, Europe made all western country and have much influence.
how is this channel so small, this is some documentary quality content
Great video, very informative. The style reminds me of Bill Wurtz and Oversimplified.
But one thing I wanna point out is the word "islands" is pronounced "i-lands" with a silent S :D
13:33 damn I didn’t know the ottomans ruled from central Germany to Naples
Why does turkey exist? Treaty of sevres should be acknowledged as valid
because we fought back and won 💪
I agree
@@MiracNotFoundusername checks out
@@GigaRoman Cope, 🇹🇷 💪
@@MiracNotFound *no... I don't think I will...* 1821 1871 1918 SÈVRES
Η Ελλάδα ποτέ δε πεθαίνει η Ελλάδα για πάντα θα ζει
Σώστα τα λες!!!
ΑΘΑΝΑΤΗ!
Για αυτό δεν ανασταίνεται
@@Nemesios777 μην απελπιζεσαι.
Greece died several times in history just read some history books. But the language survived NOT the ancient Greeks.
If Greece didn’t exist, we would miss fundamental functions and rights in our western societies. From profound communication and political order to practicing Medicine and evolving sciences.
those little eu4 sfx are more distinct than i ever gave them credit
Just stumbled upon this channel and am so happy I did. In this time of most channels being AI TTS it’s awesome to see a channel with homemade animations and read by the creator in English even though it’s not his native language. We need more of this and I really look forward to future content. 👍
Great video small correction at 12:55 you point Spetses to be in South Attica while it is located in the first leg of Peloponnese. The shape of the island is correct, only the location is wrong. As for Hydra you mistake it with the island of Makronisos, Hydra is also supposed to be near to Spetses in the easter Peloponnese, not in Attica. The correct location for both would be on peninsula to the west. Don't worry, it's a complicated geographical location so a lot of people do similar mistakes.
Διοικητικά οι Σπέτσες, η Ύδρα και όλα τα νησιά του Σαρωνικού και Αργολικού κόλπου, ανήκουν στο νομό Αττικής. 🙂
@@exilefromthefireland Διοικητικά ναι. Εκεί γίνεται το μπέρδεμα καθώς μάλλον όποιος ψάχνει την τοποθεσία υποθέτει ότι βρίσκονται και γεωγραφικά στην Αττική. Δεν είναι για παράδειγμα απέναντι από το Σούνιο όπως το αποκομίζει στον χάρτη, αλλά απέναντι από την Ερμιονίδα παρόλο που για κάποιο λόγο δεν ανοίκουν σε αυτή.
Αυτός βρίζει ότι αν έπρεπε να υπάρχει η Ελλάδα, μας έχει τρελάνει με αντιφάσεις και χαζομάρες εις βάρος μας, σιγά τίς λεπτομέρειες των νησιών .
Why Greece exist...for have F-16 viper,rafale and F-35.F-35 for defence,rafale for attack.
F-16 viper I don't know,half and half.
MY QUESTION IS WHY DOES TURKEY EVEN EXIST?
Greeks exist before Greece. Ancient city states when the others around was theocracy countries.
They could not understand how the citizen of Athens have a word in a other city. Cause more ancient times aegean greek families took all over east meditaranian by colonization,later the families towns become city states. All Greek but free. Building your civilization on sea with so many islands,freedom is a key meaning to your people.
''IF ROMAS DIDN'T CONQUER GREEKS,NOW,WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN 200-300 YEARS AHEAD.""Carl Sagan
Just pay respect every day to Greeks.
INSANE QUALITY bro keep up the content! this channel will blow up
please return Peabiru, we all miss you so much
Your channel is the best on youtube imo, not even joking... You will blow up on yt one day, so keep up the hard work!
Ey look, im greek and really enjoyed thiθ viδεο 😊👍
ποli kalo viδεο
Kapodistrias murder was not as it looks in history books.
He was murdered by the big countries of the time to establish their own pawns in the Greek government because Kapodistrias was going to make Greece a great place as he did for Russia and Switzerland and other places.
And that was not acceptable by Britain, Germany and France, at least.
Don't forget the russians, anyway great powers of the time used the old school technique " divide and conquer" to take for themselves whatever they could after dismantling the ottoman empire.All they left behind were puppet states ( mostly in Greece and Turkey,the core of the Byzantines, making sure those territories will never unite again) and injustice (aca British "cooking" in Cyprus and Palestine).As a Greek ( I prefer Helene) I wish for my people to be REAL free someday after all these thousand of years of occupation, maybe then they could ONCE MORE guide humanity to the light...
And they framed the relatives of hero Mauromixalis the time they were hunting down all heroes of the revolution
Kapo de tutti kapi 🤣 Kapodistrias was Venetian,by ethnicity
@@cyfix7295 No he wasnt. You speak of what they say of his family about 1300AC one version , but that would still make them most likely Greeks since whole Italy is Greek ,just like whole albania whom albanians come 80% Greek dna at averege,
but even if they were from venetia or istria after 500 years marrying with Greek families in Kerkyra he might had 5% venetian dna
@@petrospetromixos6962 Whole Italy Is/was Greek ? wtf ? Venice Greek ? Well we could say also about the Slavs who migrated to Balkan right ? After 500-1000 years of marrying with Greek,Macedonian,Bulgarian families they might have 5% Slavic Dna 🤣
Man, I really love your video style, the effects, the animation, the zoomer humor, everything
keep it up
You totally missed the battles between the Greeks and the Egyptian army
The quality of your videos always amazes me. You deserve way more subs.
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Greece exists because Greece is Greece
Finally, I've been waiting for this!
My liege, your inbred lineage has given you a certain... characteristic...😂😂
0:52 i am amazed you know this the first was back in Mani peninsula in 1481, when Korkodeilos Kladas and the fierce Mani fighters rose up against the Ottomans.
probably true! but they did not raise up. more likely, refused to submit. it took a long time for the maniots to develop a Greek conscience, some not even being christianized well into the late 17th c.
@@yiannimil1 correct last original hellenes i suppose ares ftw
@@TartarusPyro maniots were the remnants of the slavic tribe Melingi. also found in the mountain valley leading from patras to the lower approaches of mountain erymanthos. also, the name Mani is probable derived from the remnants of the middle ages occupation by frankish nobles
@@yiannimil1 history from wikipedia i guess eh? Visit some museums mb you will find hand written texts
The etymology of the word Mani is open to many interpretations. 1. The toponym Maini is mentioned for the first time in the year 876 AD. AD in the Tacticus of Leo the Wise and is repeated later in the texts of the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus. "We must know that the inhabitants of the castle of Mani are not from the generation of Slavs that we talked about earlier, but they come from the oldest Romans, who until now are called Greeks by the locals, because in ancient times they were pagans and worshiped the idols like the ancient Greeks, and who, after being baptized during the reign of the venerable Basilius, became Christians. And the place where they live is arid and unprofitable, but it has olive trees from which they live". Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
@@yiannimil1 the manios where the last of the greeks to abandon the Olympian gods when people talked to them about christianity the always replied negative they said we are greeks what is this you talking about
Ποίο είναι το πρόβλημα σας με την Ελλάδα???
this is one of most based history vids ever. keep going eu4 enjoyer
123 revolts? Do you have any articles or info about these revolts? Where did you come up with this number?
If you search about this, tou will find this number. Idk h
who came up with this number first, but for sure we can say with cetraintly that we have sources about many revolts happening during the Ottoman period.
Wait...before turks invade in today's turkey, they were living there Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, Irani, Jews. What all these peoples were done?
The amount of greeks who cant take a joke man
As a greek myself
Yes like wtf the man even finished the video on a positive note about the Greek Revolution. Some people should watch the content before cryticizing it
Greeks are a nation as old as the world. And no one was ever found who could destroy it.
Modern Greece started after the fall of the Roman empire.
Ancient Greece has nothing to do with modern ones
@@kv4648so wrong its funny
@@greoko could you tell me why then?
@@kv4648 because the first greek state was formed in 1821. Ancient greeks were consisted of independent city-states. They never formed a kindom with one ruler at its head. While the Byzantine Empire consisted of a number of different people. Even the name Byzantine was firstly used in 1557 by a German historian, 100 years after its fall. The name used was Eastern Roman Empire.
Του έλληνα ο τράχηλος ζυγό δεν υποφέρει. Greeks will always fight for freedom no matter the ods . Now give me the muslim hords.
The global civilization is Greek thats why Greece still exist
You cant kill civilization just adopted it dear European American Turk Arab and the rest if the world
I have a suspicion that his guy is Albanian.
If he was Albanian he would mention Chams and Arvanites. You only think he's Albanian because it goes against your false narrative 😂
Hey, I don't have false narrative. Only correct narrative!@@southepirote7676
@@southepirote7676 Maybe not all albanians are brainwashed and believe the actual Arvanites and not nazi Rama nore the Nazi cooperators Chams
@@southepirote7676 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The only false narrative here is the nonsense you are spreading. Epirus forever Greek!
@@kalez963 Cry about it kid. Epirus is Albanian and always will be 🇦🇱
Greece exist since 3000years,…Turkey since 100years!
Greece/Hellas exist from 1832 ...Wtf you talking about ? haha
@@cyfix7295
Είτε ανιστόρητος,αμόρφωτος καί ηλίθιος είσαι ειτε προπαγανδιστης το ίδιο σκατο ηλιθιος παραμενεις
@@cyfix7295the state has existed since 1830, but the greek people have existed since at least 1200 bc. And if we count the Myceneans, the Minoans and Cycladics, it goes even further back, at around 3000 bc. So yeah, the greek people predate the Hellenic Democracy.
As a Greek I
think that i needed to watch that
this is good and all, but Constantinople is rightful Ecuadorian land
Peloponnese aint an island its a peninsula💀
Just because there is a artificial canal in Corinth doesnt mean that Peloponnese is an island...
Greece existed for thousands of years and will continue to exist for thousands of years in the future. Get used to it.
Love your videos!!! Never stop making good quality videos!!!
For nearly 400 years after 1453, when the Ottoman Turks invaded Constantinople, finishing off the Byzantine Empire, Greece was among the countries that suffered under their regime. Ottoman repressions finally led to the Greek War of Independence in 1821, resulting after nine years in a hard won and well deserved victory. Constantinople (that is the city's true, original greek name) was greek long before it fell into the hands of the Ottomans, as well as all the parts there. Hagia Sophia ( Αγια Σοφια) which means "Holy Wisdom" in greek, was originally a Christian church, in a christian land, later turned into a mosque by the Ottomans, then into a museum, and, today, into a mosque again, by the Turks. All of that used to be greek, and they should become greek again.
Constantinople is made by the Romans my friend and Hagia Sophia , wtf you talking about.Constantine The Great wasn't even Greek Lol 🤣
@@cyfix7295 No, my ignorant friend, Constantinople wasn't made by the Romans.......It was founded as Byzantium in the 7th century BCE, by GREEK settlers from MEGARA, GREECE. In 330 CE, the HALF GREEK - HALF ROMAN emperor Constantine ( Greek name ) the Great, whose father was Flavius Constantius, a Roman army officer, and his mother was Helena, a GREEK woman who was later canonised as a saint, by the Greek ORTHODOX Church, made Constantinople his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome, and, finally, as Constantinoupolis, after himself. As for Hagia Sophia, it was built by Justinian, who was an Eastern Roman emperor, alright, but he had been made a Byzantine emperor by the time he built it, and Byzantium WAS A GREEK EMPIRE at the time. Not to mention that Hagia Sophia ( that is still considered the epitome of Byzantine, that is, GREEK, architecture, to this very day ), was designed by the GREEK geometers Isidore of Miletus, and Anthemius of Tralles. Next time, do some research in Wikipedia, before you speak, OK.........??????
@@ΑλεξάνδραΓόγαλη Constantine is Roman Name, Flavia Julia Helena - His Mother from wealthy ROMAN family given land in Anatolia !!! BYZANTIUM IS FAKE NAME . NON EXISTENT . It Was Roman Empire or Eastern Roman Empire To the END . All Today Greek people called themselvs "ROMEI" .
Hagia Sophia epitome of Byzantine, that is, GREEK architecture HAHAHA ......Eastern Roman Empire MAN !!!
That is ROMAN architecture ....... Go watch some documentary about Constantinople bro ... The City Was made by him from scratch
Next Time Don't LIE MAN OK ........... ????? Greece Even Trying To Steal Roman History and Culture ......SHAME
VIva La Italia
Peace 🤣
@@cyfix7295 So, you're Italian, ha........That explains it......!!!!!! Go read our History, man !!!!!! Google everything I said, on Wikipedia, and you'll realise that YOU'RE THE LIAR, NOT ME......Greece was never in need to steal anything from anyone, we gave the whole world OUR OWN CULTURE AND CIVILISATION, HISTORY ITSELF WAS BORN IN OUR LAND, WHICH IS THE CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY, PHILOSOPHY, THEATER, MEDICINE, THE OLYMPIC GAMES, AND SO MANY OTHER THINGS...... Byzantium a fake name.......Hahahaha, really........????? Wikipedia has a different opinion on that......!!!!!!! Go check it out, if you dare.....!!!!!! Constantine the Great WAS HALF GREEK, HIS MOTHER WAS GREEK, HIS FATHER WAS A ROMAN...... Wikipedia, man......!!!!! When we Greeks were teaching the ancient world the very definition of "culture", architecture, and all the above, most of all the other "nations" were still hanging from trees........!!!!!!! ΖΗΤΩ Η ΕΛΛΑΣ !!!
@@cyfix7295 I suggest you stop watching "documentaries", and start STUDYING HISTORY.
Why not...Long live to Greece 🇬🇷 !
Because both turks and westerners hated and still hate Greeks
Why does Greece Exist?
I will answer you Turk.
For making you happy.
Why you are happy?
Because Greece is a ancient civilization and you have the good to are near with this country.
You censored it? I'll post it again. Thanks to Greece "Great War 2: Electric Boogaloo" was lost from the perspective of Nietzsche's "Blonde Beast"s. It was worth it then (Axion Esti by Odysseas Elytis, Nobelist. Good stuff 👌 )
And another thing: as for the so called "attrocities" the Greeks supposdly conducted freeing Tripoli.
1. Ottomans were conquerors whereas Greeks conducted a - - - > liberational war,
2. Greeks suffered *four HUNDRED* years of Ottoman cruelty
3. What this cruelty was like? IMAGINE THIS - - - > only one single example of how they treated the Greeks: they were opening the belly button of the person, they were then carefully pulling out his small intestine, they were fasten it on a tree, *and they were making him to revolve around the tree.*
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You make my day beautiful with this video ı am always going to support you
the greeks made every language in the world 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 I'm country
So before 1453 greek nation states existed. Lets not forget that part.
Hellenism has always existed since antiquity.1453 is ottoman and eastern roman empire history not hellenic.
@@ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΣ Despite that Greeks were the majority and felt represented in the Byzantine Empire? So technically a Greek state, a Greco-Roman civilization.
@@cledon. Nope the eastern roman was anti hellenic.
@@ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΣ yeah because at the medieval times and prior, hellenic associated with the greek pantheon aka pagan religion, ofcourse they were against the paganism.
ofcourse it led to some tragedies and rebellions-civil wars, the population converted to orthodox over time, forced or not.
@@cledon. It was by force so to hell with the antihellenic eastern roman empire simple as that it's not part of hellenic history.
that's what they taught you in Albania, my friend. good politics, though, that you don't play Albanian.
You always think of us 24 hours nonstop. Southern Epirus is Albanian land currently under Greek occupation. Recognize the Cham genocide.
I LOVE VIC2 SOUND EFFECTS!!1!!1!!1
1:46 OBLIGATORY GREEK COMMENT:
TURKEY IS RIGHTFUL GREEK LAND AND CONSTANTINOPLE WILL BE GREEK AGAIN!
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It belongs to the true successor of Rome: Austria!
@@tompatterson1548The true successor of Rome is my neighbor Josh's backyard.
Its Istanbul and not constantinople.
Cope.
@@tompatterson1548 Italy is the only successor of Rome because Rome is the capital city of Italy and also, because the Roman Empire was created by Latins, not by Goths.
Comments radiate BALKAN ENERGY and I FUCKING LOVE IT
But all Turks are Greeks!
Good video bro!!!
What about you make a video about the italian unification?? 🤔🤔😁
As a proud Pinoy, Greece and Turkey are just all former Western regions of LAOS!!!! 🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦
wag kang makisawsaw..
@@derbdep Akala ni bro na seryoso ang pahayag na ito 💀
Because they kicked turkey's ass and regain their liberty and freedom
we took loans to buy ships that later we burned as a revolt against eachother. Then we took another loan to repay the first loans! Yeah without Russia, England and France the slavo-albanian-turko greeks leaving in Peloponhsos wouldnt in 10000 years kick ottoman ass
@@n1cks.365 hoho Whole huge ottoman empire+whole islamic world+europe vs few Greek rebels
Finally someone who uses the correct French flag
LOVE GREECE🇲🇶🇲🇶🇲🇶🇲🇶
That's the quebec flag not the hellenic flag.
That's just cringe
@@21rahhhhhh What ?
Are you Brazilian (or lusophone)? The accent and some word choices gave me this impression.
Oh, just saw your video on the lobster war, esse sotaque não engana kkkk. Great videos, hope you post more!
I can’t even begin to enumerate all the inaccuracies in this...still, it’s a complex subject, so good effort.
I am not going to joke, this teached me more than middle school!
New video and it's about my country? Yay
gotta admit, history never has been presented as fun and interesting as this 🤭 looking forward to more stuff, anything about the history about some european country (as I'm from Austria myself)
In historical terms of time, 379 years is just a drop in the bucket. In one way or another Greece, despite the enormous opposition and difficulties, still exist.. The question is why the Ottoman empire still exists in Anatolia ????
Dude, uncool ❤☦️🇬🇷
Countries did not exist until the past few centuries. Humans had empires, kingdoms, municipalities, tribes. Modern day civic societies have been developing since the past five centuries. Countries with borders and citizenships are a relatively new concept.
GREECE IS IMMORTAL, ITS IN YOUR LANGUAGE (BTW not only for the so-called Turks, but whatever language you speak in any country), it's in your customs and traditions, it's in your so-called cuisine (except for stake tartar), it's in the ground you walk on and all around you, it's in the churches you occupied, it's in your the name you are given, both as individuals and in your cities, and above all else it's in your DNA (and this part is the most painful speaking as a Greek). GREECE IS EVERYWHERE. Simple, true and historically documented. And SOCRATES AND PLATO ARE FEATURED IN THE NARTHEX OF THE CHURCHES / MONESTARIES ON MOUNT ATHOS. THE HELLENES (AKA GREEKS) NEVER FORGET WHO THEY ARE. NEVER. To deny this is wishful thinking on your part and that's putting it mildly... And even after all of that history and strife and subjugation, we're still HERE!
GREECE BETTER
When we most needed him he came back