These long videos are fun to make, but are also extremely time-consuming and stressful. Hopefully, you like them :-) This particular video adds 20 minutes of new footage (Diu 1508 and Alcacer Quibir 1578), fixes mistakes, improves graphics, and so on and so forth.
Hello guys, I'm the co-creator of this Ottoman mini-series. I just wanted to say that it is a pleasure to re-work and bring back our Ottoman series from a long hiatus. In this extended version, we’ve added the first battle of Diu and another long extension of the African front which covers the War of the 3 Kings and the decisive battle of Ksar-el-Kebir. For those linguists out there and curious about the text at 51:00 , it is actually Osmanlıca and Malay written in Arabic script which roughly translates “Selam arkadaşlarım” and “Salam saudara jauh” which literally means “Greetings my fellow friends/brothers.” Just a tiny bit of easter egg for Turkish and Malaysian/Indonesian viewers out there. As usual here are the Attila mods which we used in this video: -Medieval MK1212 -1529-War of Gunpowder -reShade -Aztec lighting -Portuguese mod (Shogun 2) Best wishes, ڤمنه ملايو
@@roddeazevedo Stopped doing impressive things? Soldado Milhões on WWI? Fighting on Ultramar War against Angola, Mozambique, Guiné Bissau armed with way better Russian Weapons? You know nothing of what you are talking about...
@@roddeazevedo the myth of Soldado Milhões? He was not a myth but a real soldier 🙂 "Anibal Augusto Milhais"... the incompetent officers you talk about must be the english of course that were those in charge of the Portuguese troops... Calling primitive dimwits to the African liberation fighters led by the Soviets tells me everything i need to know about you and your ideas, it is far more difficult to fight in a jungle environment than it is in a European one. That is why the USA got their asses kicked in Vietnam and Portugal got out of Africa when it decided to. You are not that smart are you? 😂😂😂
I thought adding some timestamps might help, so here they are. Another great video, K&G! 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:57 Portuguese's first Interventions in the Indian Ocean 00:06:44 1509 Battle of Diu 00:12:20 Post Battle of Diu - Ottoman Empire’s Intervention 00:17:11 1525 Battle of Diu 00:20:31 1538 Battle of Diu 00:30:43 Ethiopian-Adal War - Intro 00:35:17 Ethiopian-Adal War - Beginning 00:39:56 Ethiopian-Adal War - Portuguese Intervention 00:44:19 Ethiopian-Adal War - Battle of Wayna Daga 00:47:56 Ethiopian-Adal War - Epilogue 00:49:47 After the 1538 Battle of Diu 00:53:15 Suez Expedition 00:56:31 1546 Battle of Diu 01:00:14 Yemeni Revolt-Attack on Hormuz 01:04:55 1565-68 Ottoman expeditions 01:07:05 North African front - Intro 01:10:19 Portuguese Intervention in Morocco - Battle of Ksar El Kebir 01:19:33 Conclusion
38:59 General Ahmed Ibrahim destroyed the church of Merry in Axum as a revenge for the action of the Ethiopian Orthodox who burnt Masjid Qiblatayn in zeila city when they earlier toppled the sultanate of ifat prior to the emergence of Adal empire and never as punishment for their resistance of the siege.this account is indeed well captured in the book "Futu Al Habash" Authored by Moroccan scholar.
Respect for our Portugal friends from Turkey. We fought well, so we are brothers now. We prefer a honorable and brave enemy to coward and dishonest friend. 🇹🇷🇵🇹
@@YourNationalist Im living with my Armenian neighbour in İstanbul. My rental apartment that I living in now, its owner is Armenian too. Hundred thousands Armenian are still living in Turkey. Even in those "genocide" days, they lived. You don't understand, but during the war, Armenians lived in many parts of Anatolia and they started to gang up with the nationalist movements due to Russian influence. While in the middle of the war with the West, internal turmoil behind the front would destroy the country. That's why "only" Armenians in places where there was no garrison were exiled en masse. The Armenians in other places were not touched. In the Ottoman archive records, there are also name documents for all of them. Even special documents have been prepared for many Armenians. Because reliable Armenians who were in the region of exile and were assigned in the state or registered in the merchant guild were not wanted to be exiled. Turkey has always been a multinational structure and Armenians have always been a nation that sees the right in this structure. You cannot understand this because you are very unfamiliar with the Ottoman and Turkish history. If you really want to be objective, please research and read about Armenian Gang activities in Turkey. It was a bitter solution that had to be done to break the Russian influence. But genocide is a completely different claim. Even an insult. Genocide, as the name suggests, means trying to destroy a race. In those days, Armenians were deported to Syria, Iraq, Armenia, but they were also deported to regions in western Turkey. They were even sent to Istanbul. The aim was only to disperse an internal rebellion by sending those in the uncontrolled area in the middle of Anatolia to the controlled areas. Not all Armenians were rebels or gang members, but we are talking about the 1900s. You don't know who is who. Mass exile was the only solution during the war. In addition, the fact that there are still so many Armenians living in the country where a genocide took place, the fact that those deported settled and lived in the deported regions, and the fact that those who were exiled to Armenia went to Armenia, who are those who died? There were also many clashes and attacks during a massive exile. Things like this were normal back then. The disappearances are due to the problems in this exile process and their numbers and the events and losses are recorded in historical documents. Yes, we exiled them to different places and under the conditions of that day we had to. It is unfortunately possible for such painful events to occur while an empire is falling apart and huge world wars have begun. Genocide allegations are taken very seriously in our country, and that's why almost everyone constantly researches, reads and discusses this issue. There are even hundreds of government officials convicted for not performing their duties well enough during exile, and there are court records. Look, these records are not newly produced laundering studies, they are documents recorded during the events in the 1910s. At that time, no one even needed to prepare such documents for an event that no one could even hold accountable for. There was even a real and systematic genocide in the 1940s. In other words, even years later, events such as the genocide were not considered as valuable as they are today. These are not very distant dates. If the places chosen for exile from Turkey after the Ottoman Empire were still within the borders of Turkey, they would not even have been sent out of the country. After the borders changed, those people were deleted from our population and the Armenian diaspora started to describe everyone who came out of the Turkish population as "killed" as an exaggerated number. They're talking about millions. +++
in that age Formosa was a colony of Spain,, because Portugal was defeated in 1580 by the Spanish empire of king Felipe ii,, nobody forget 60 years of spanish dominion
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 True. In that same period, the Spanish Crown wanted to defeat the British Crown in their seas. Some accounts say that the Portuguese in the Spanish Armada was very reluctant in fighting against the British because of the long-time Treaty of Windsor (1386). But, I guess, we all had to join forces later to battle Napoleon. Time to bury our axes after that. Now, we enjoy each others' beaches, food, language, and friendship. :)
@@youxkio the Spanish Armada was a tragedy thanks to the bad weather,, the real winner was the weather, without the advantage of the natural disaster spain had many successes like the English Armada or the Battle of Cartagena de Indias... on many occasions the climate makes other sides more favorable like "general winter" of Russia.
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 Yes, the bad weather was also against the British navy. Could it be more like a failure in the maritime strategy and preparation?
To make Alcácer-Quibir even more devastating, I want to add that King Sebastian was very young. He ascended to power at age 14 and died at age 24 without an heir - or, well, presumed dead, his body never turned up, leading to the myth that he would return to Portugal, in a day of heavy fog, at the nation's greatest time of need. What was left of the royal family failed to secure a clear sucession, and when the next claimant was the King of Spain, well... It took a while for us to break free, I believe it was already the Thirty Years War.
The thing is the body did turn up. It was returned by the Sultan of Morocco to king Philip I of Portugal, but at that time the legend about Sebastian had already grown too strong for people to believe the body was his. He is buried in the Jerónimos Monastery.
@@M_MontalvãoI didn't know about this, but apparently there is a lack of evidence surrounding the true identity of the body and many believe it was a plan of King Philip to ensure that people saw him as the one and only king and not as a place holder until the return of D. Sebastião.
I dont know nothing about “naruto”, but this subject is old for me. Heard about it in school. Portuguese wars in severeal different continents, from distant far Asia to middle east, from Africa to America, aside from the many battles in Europe. Almeida guy showed here was a real hero in search for vengence, brave as they get.
Portuguese in the Age of Discovery: We'll cross the entire world to fight the Ottomans for God and Country!! Portuguese today: Why does this game have brazilian flag for the portuguese language :(
You guys are turning light to an era even not explained in Turkish History lessons, I also doubt whether the history teachers in Turkey have this kind of an overview over the Portugese situation in 16th century. Thank you
You are correct that especially mainstream history portrayals of the ottoman empire's indian expeditions are only briefly mentioned with some key events, and in school textbooks , the failure against the portuguese is depicted as an indirect win, since the red sea fell in ottoman control. And the cause of the failure of the expeditions are simply seen as a shipwrighting error, the ships were not adequate in design for ocean warfare. Which is a very lazy way of justifying the failure. But as years pass, more and more historians lean to the details of the subject, much like Ottoman expeditions to Italy.
Not even in portugal do they teach this to us, they just give a generalised, stereotypical and boring summary. Wheres the tention? The drama? The pain and the gain? The school system is absolutely dreadful.
Exactly! These videos are much better than what we're taught in School in Portugal! 😂 Those must have been Epic Battles! Respect! ❤🇵🇹🇹🇷 PS: Can you tell Orkun Kökçü that we'd love to have him at SL Benfica!? Thanks in advance! 😂🤝
@@mariahenriques6053 Yeah sadly channels lie this will always go for sensationalism over facts. School is boring because its just facts without the opinions (well it should be anyway). I have noticed Kings and Generals making up entire parts to stories to make them more interesting and just lying about other things because the truth was too boring. Take RUclips as entertainment with some facts but any video like this should be taken with a handful of salt.
I am from Malaysia living in capital city kuala lumpur and Malacca is not that far away from KL.. My husband is from Lisboa, Portugal . I have been to.Portugal few times for holiday and visited some of historical sites, palaces, Forts and castles. (Sintra etc ) Its awesome.
I am Portuguese and proud of this video. Portugal has a problem. Was governed by a dictator during 1930's to mid 70's and got a big bit stepped back on economy and imdustry. Still trying to overcome post dictatorship freedom corruption problems. Many thanks for the content.
I absolutely love when a video is done on the Portuguese. Can’t thank you enough for doing these. Please continue doing more on the Portuguese. It’s a nation full of great history and discovery throughout the world.
Quem decobriu o mundo todo foi Portugal e Portugal ensinou os Castelhanos a navegarem a espanha não descobriu nada foi castela o nome de espanha não existia há 500 anos atraz.
I absolutely agree with you about the History of the Portuguese. But man, did they behave in India. It Always brings me this sweet cognitive dissonance: i Love These Guys...that destroyed Ships with helpless civilians in cold blood 😅
Congratulations on this excellent documentary about the "Golden Age of the Portuguese Empire" (of which Brazil is one of the consequences and which we Brazilians know so little about). A suggestion: if possible, make subtitles available in Portuguese, Turkish, Greek and Indi (it would be of great help for people influenced by the Portuguese and Ottoman Empires to learn more about this important and decisive conflict, as well as its consequences). Just for a brief example: in Brazil, the death of Don Sebastião de Avis in the Battle of Alcacer Quibir is seen as a mad adventure by a foolish young monarch in Moroccan lands (and not as a consequence of the geopolitical dispute between rival empires).
to be fair, here in Portugal that situation is portrayed, and even taught in schools, in the exact same way: a stupid adventurous mistake that led to the fall of that dinasty of kings. there is, however, like you say much more to be said about it
@@anachronisticon that is debatable, because africa was a colony of rome since year 0 , the first empire in america was spain, they has built the first european city in america, the first american church, the first american universities, the first american bank, the first global currency (the spanish dollar) , and the first international language,, and Spain was the creator of the pacific atlantic trade. Manila...Acapulco\Panama...Sevilla.
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 portugal was the first to reach japan on the other side of the world 100 years before any european, say the japanese themselves. this is already proof that he was the first to create a global empire, global empire is not just a continent.
Portugal 🇵🇹 é demaisss, brabo país! Eu sendo brasileiro, era descendente de Italianos até ver este video! Agora meus descendentes são Portugueses concerteza, meus pais se enganaram!
Great work with this video! As a Portuguese I learned a lot about this crucial period of the Portuguese history. I loved the detail you went into and the nice animations 👍 Respect for the Ottomans!
As a brazilian who has a portuguese grandfather it makes me proud how the portuguese were always the outcasts but still managed to prevail in lots of times. Heróis do mar, nobre povo...
the Portuguese empire always showed up ready to fight. they where aggressive and ruthless . resorting to extreme acts of violence in order to achieve their objectives was their natural default setting. diplomacy was never their first option.
In the USA we have a massive blind spot for history relating to the Portuguese and Ottomans, so this history of their contest in the Indian Ocean was a great introduction. The history of the Spanish in the Americas is much more familiar, yet this points to how contingent and interconnected these histories are. Somewhat ironic, I think, that the walls of Constantinople stood unassailable for 1,000 years until the Ottoman's arrived with new and superior artillery, taking the City and disrupting the trading routes of the silk road. The fall of Constantinople not only forced Europe to catch up in cannon tech, but led Portugal to seek sea routes to the spice trade of the Indies. This lead to new sailing ships equipped with new cannons, causing havoc for the Ottomans. And the Portuguese dominance of the route around Africa caused Spain to seek a different route to the East by sailing West, resulting in the accidental "discovery" of the Americas.
It seems there were different approaches. The Portuguese concentrated on gaining fortified trading posts (or "factories") and perhaps some of their hinterland. While the Spaniards (and later the British), preferred to conquer huge areas and hold them as giant colonies. Of course there were exceptions such as Brazil, but some of the trading posts remained Portuguese until India annexed Goa in 1975, Indonesia took East Timor in the same year and China got Macau in 1999.
The Ottomans, by expanding the frontier of their empire, also expanded the list of enemies they have to fight. The List of Enemies outside their Empire: Habsburg monarchy, Portugal, Russia, Safavid Persia, Wahabi from central Arabia and then finally Britain and France during WW1. The List of Enemies within their Empire : Greek, Slavic, Bulgarian, Armenian , Macedonian, Arab and even Turkish rebels. Due to military threats from within and without , coupled with political intrigue at court, it's no wonder why some Ottoman sultans just absconded their stressful governing responsibilities to their Grand Viziers and retreat into a life in the harem with all kinds of vices as a form of escapism.
@@aloisschicklgruber9807 Yes, but wasn't that a case of a friendly neighbor stopping by to borrow a cup of sugar and once they were inside, destroying the place? The Crusaders wreaked havoc on Constantinople but presented themselves as fellow Christians on their way to the Holy Land.
Francisco de Almeida also said " Se Deus fala Português não sei, mas estes canhões falam" Translation: "I don't know if God speaks's Portuguese, but these cannons do" Absolute badass.
@@aqqoyunlu1203 I mean, yes, but actually yes. Doesn't mean they went to all to become crap. But ruling over the overseas territories just became totally mismanaged, and even internal conflicts and family rivalries were getting in the way of who was being appointed, etc. The early birds' success couldn't just be replicated anymore. Of course, there were still successes, but not with the same drive.
"my king, they killed a man named my son... " (battle of Chaul) stories tell that he was impaled and some mamluks cuted all the skin off his face. "son, they didn't light a candle at your funeral, today I burn a whole city for you" Francisco de Almeida - battle of dio.
Congratulations for the detailed research and the video itself, a comprehensive work on the subject. Portuguese ventures into India was the cornerstone of the discovery of Brazil. The portuguese colonies in South America, India, Malacca, Africa, China, Timor formed a vast Empire of which Brazil eventually emerged to be the Crown Jewel. I salute my portuguese heritage, my mother language (última flor do Lácio..) and all lusophonic brothers around the World, siblings and cultural heirs of Portuguese influence into our own diverse and rich cultures. Honra e Glória aos bravos do passado, Ó Mar Salgado, quanto de teu sal são lágrimas de Portugal?
I was amazed at Portugal being talked about in these kind of channels, where they are thouroughly ignored (save BazBattles with Aljubarrota a few years back), but then I understood this is part of an Ottoman series, so, yeah, it makes sense now. Portugal just got in the way.
Thanks for putting this up here. Having only recently read Roger Crowley's excellent 'Empires of the Sea' about the Spanish and Ottoman conflicts of the same period in the Mediterranean, I very much enjoyed this look at the Portuguese-Ottoman struggles in the Indian Ocean, the peripheral but related events in the Horn of Africa, and the aftermath of Portugal's misadventure in North Africa. Thanks again!
Good idea, the Dutch Portuguese war was the first global war , deserves a well studied work, and you are the right man to do that job! I hope that you accept this challenge.
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 which defeat? He inherted the Thrones of Portugal because Sebastião had no heirs🤣. And you still managed to lose alot of portuguese colonies 😬
Do you think it’s a politically motivated omission? Since Portugal colonized Brazil maybe they wouldn’t want to acknowledge too much. What are your thoughts on this?
@@DarkHawk1977 In the XVI century the whole Portuguese army from Morrocco to Malacca is estimated to be at most 10,000 men, according to C.R. Boxer. Portuguese may be one of the most spoken languages today, but not at the time of these events.
@@DarkHawk1977 ???? In 1650 portugal had 1.2 mil pop while ottoman empire had 28mil. almost 28 times as much people. And there were several european kingdoms/empire sitting in 10mil+
@@DarkHawk1977 You're reframing this as being about ethnicity, even though that has nothing to do with the original comment. The Portuguese were still outnumbered
What a coincidence. I have been thinking of re-watching your Ottoman-Portuguese War series some of these days when I find the time, and here you go upload a movie encompassing everything said there and more. Even went on to download it
I really want a Sabaton song about some of these battles. These have been left too much in the shadow of what happened in Mediterranean and the Americas at the time. Magnificent video!
This made me look at history differently. We were taught at school briefly about Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama's travels to India and Portugal's involvement in spice trade, but that was it. Now I can finally see what the sentence in the history book about the Ottomans having seized the spice trade previously meant. And now I can see that the Ottoman Empire was not only a passive observer of the European colonial powers in the mainland, but also participated in the power struggles with them in the Indian Ocean too. Considering their geographical position, it is natural that the Ottomans didn't join the colonisation of the Americas. It would have made more sense to colonise in the Indian Ocean, especially along East Africa and India. However, the Portuguese resistance and other factors prevented them from doing so. Controlling the Mediterranean was probably another important factor, as the Ottomans had to conquer the Eastern parts of Mediterranean and the northern regions of Africa. As the straits of Gibraltar were surrounded by Portugal, Spain and Morocco, all potentially hostile powers, the Ottomans could not partake in the colonisation of the Americas. The conquest of Morocco could have served that goal, which might have been one of the attractions for trying to do so, alongside control of the Mediterranean, weakening their enemies and restoring the Umayyad caliphate's former borders. The Ottoman Empire was also primarily a land-based empire, not a naval colonial project, and administrated in this manner. Portugal, Spain, France and England, major powers surrounded by sea used their colonial empires to project their power in internal struggles when it was hard to expand their empire in the mainland. They had fewer enemies to fight along their land borders. Their access to the sea was unhinged by any intermediate power and thus they were more free to dominate the oceans.
The thing is, all these wars to date started when the Ottomans aka Abassyd caliphate established a rulership in East Africa and Iraq to Yemen with headquarters in Oman. The problem started when the Ottomans begun to attack Abbysinians Lalibela and Aksum for Biblical artifacts and then selling them as their own in Byzantine and at Constantinople. By 1300 Abbysinians from Aksum sent it's ambassador to Spain and Portugal to establish political friendship. They taught them about Biblical history of East Africa and invite them to visit and confirm everything. At the time European were also fighting against Islam and were blocked by the Islamic traders from coming into East. The European didn't take them seriously so they didn't come to East until Ethiopians sent a long letter commonly known as "Prester Juan" Juan is a Germanic name for John. In the letter, they described that they're the oldest Church in the world and housing ancient Artifacts of the 12 tribes who were pushed further South by Somalis and Turks, that they themselves rule over the 12 tribes from a far distance, the 12 tribes who are just below their lands in Forests. They requested Germanic rulers to come to their aide as Ottomans had established a treaty with Ajuran Somalis to steal Biblical manuscript and the two were actively involved in selling the twelve tribes into slavery. Mainly selling them to Southern india and Iraq's Basra. The Germans would quietly send mercineries and top spies from Spain and Portugal. the first four fleet never made it through the cape of Good Hope (South Africa) but Vasco Da Gama successfully made it in 1400s. After reaching Goa, Vasco Da Gama established treaties and had left spies in all his stops along the East African coast. On his return, he picked up his spies back on board although some didn't survive. Those who made it via Malindi, Sofala told Vasco Da Gama that they were able to spy East Africa and saw no white Jews in Africa but Black people like West Africans. Vasco Da Gama went back and told European that the Indians told him that the only Jews they knew were very dark skin and came from East Africa. The Romans Catholic and Germans heard these News, they were very disappointed. Because they were expecting to find "White Jews." But discovery of more black people especially below Abbysinians frightened Germans because they were already teaching about "white Jews" and white Jesus through out Europe. After Vasco Da Gama conquest,more spies were sent like Kraft In the 1800s when Germans and Britain would again sent missionaries spies to find the white lost Jews below Abbysinians. But no white Jews were ever found but black Africans who claim to have migrated from Senna,Misri and Aksum. Things would became even ugliar when Abbysinians would begun showing ancient Biblical artifacts that showed ancient Hebrew's as Negus. From that, British Royal Geography Society would sent a spie by the name John Hannington Speke and his commander Mr Burton, and John Speke would again reaffirm And confirm from the Indians Puranas Sanskrit books and Hindu historians and from Arabs and Cushites that the only religious tribes known to have migrated from Yemen to interior of Africa were indeed black, majority had become savage's Walked around naked and established important trade hubs in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Western Kenya and elsewhere. John Hannington Speke would return to Britain to expose these only to be assassinated before he could provide his evidence before The British Geography Society commission. Burton his counterpart would be paid to go back alone and change history to what you know today of East Africa. Germans, Brits, Greeks and Ethiopians would then dig Suez canal to block Turks from ever reaching or migrating again to Africa. And from that the ottomans and Islamic power came to and end. Germans bombed the Oman's sultan in East Africa, chased away all Arabs back to Middle East and British created countries with Nilotes and Cushites as the Armies that protect and hide everything for good. Now you know!!!!.
The portuguese were the first global empire because we understood the importance of the dominance of the seas. What was the greatest power in the empire that followed, the British? Mastery of the seas, globally. What was the greatest power of the next, the American? Mastery of the seas, globally. For this reason alone in World War II the Nazis could never stand shoulder to shoulder with the traditional and the new maritime powers.
@@MELO-u8p Indeed, exactly what I meant. And this can be applied to modern dat. Why does Russia want to control Crimea and Ukraine? To control the Black Sea. Why is China so keen on expanding their influence in Western Pacific, and seeking to conquer Taiwan? For the same reason, to oppose US hegemony. (If they could, they'd like to control Straits of Malacca and Indonesia too). And for this same reason, USA maintains naval bases and allies South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia in the Pacific Sphere. This is also why Somali pirates were seen as a huge threat to global shipping. The Japenese tried become a new naval empire just like Britain, replicating it in every way possible, and succeeded in conquering huge areas of the Pacific, but lost to more powerful American empire.
Actually, the Venetians were the ones who's taxes the Portuguese wanted to avoid considering they were the middlemen in the eastern Mediterranean trade.
@@aqqoyunlu1203 in this moment portugal is just portugal... but turkey have a lot of puppet states, like north cyprus or azerbaijan. their "empire" still alive
@@rvrv7021 They never said that, they included the information that some sources say a group of women joined in on the frontline to show how hard pressed the defenders were.
@@whitechocolateman1088 Yes, but its true. In the first siege Catarina Lopes, Isabel Madeira (Captain of abattalion of female combatants), Garcia Rodrigues, Isabel Fernandes, and Isabel Dias. Isabel Madeira formed a group of female combatants who fought in front of the battle against the Turks again in the the second siege of 1542 aiding the men with some of the former.
If you born in a portuguese family like me , you Also Will respect the portuguese womans. They are strong personality , specialy the nort Portugal womans
Loving for these videos, never see such documentaries like such on youtube rather ad related or gaming related, these are full of the knowledge which needed for a normal high school student. For everyone, the history is important since they related to that
Are you referring to production value, geographic area coverage, or time period, or subject matter? Because there are a few out there. Baz Battles SandRoman History Invicta History Marche Scolagladiatora (more individual weapon-based) Lindybeige (British man talking into a camera talking about how Britain is the greatest thing since before tea, and occasionally about Roman and Greek history) Those are a handful that I grabbed off my subscriptions. Hope you enjoy.
Even if I'm not interested in some subject, I always click and like. The amount of work and quality you're putting in these videos is unspeakable. Love you guys!
I am an Arab, and I was looking for an interesting detail in a video clip, not in books, but I was amazed by the neutrality in recounting the strength of both sides, and the respect for the content creator made me like this video. Indeed, the Mamluks were weak, and the Ottomans’ control over Egypt was a clever leap, and Spain’s preoccupation with the Americas was a wonderful opportunity. Precious, these centuries were interesting events, and the cold war, thank you, I am from Saudi Arabia in the heart of the Islamic capital
Ah yes, king Sebastian, such a powerful king he single handedly nearly ended one of the most dominant nations of the world of his time. Shame it was the nation he ruled
Portugal being so perfectly located geographically managed to just wither away without any major wars with European powers I mean they even had the fucking Pope give them half the (known) world with Spain with that Treaty of Tordesillas... surely both Kingdoms literally made the Papal States for that. So glad this channel exists and such a fitting documentary to display their world wars with the Ottomans. Always a huge fan of history and hate when the ENTIRE history of a kingdom, nation or empire (whatever you prefer ;) gets jammed into a 10 min video...
@@Hitmannzz The first part of your comment is overly simplistic. If you take into consideration the demographics of Portugal, the fact that the treaty was never recognized by the remaining Christian Nations (or enforced by the pope), and that a huge chunk of the Portuguese navy and army was in the Grand Armada, including the Armada's flagship. The command of said Armada, was not. It was a Spanish command. Not to mention that after the end of the Iberian Union, in 1640, Portugal was at war with France, the Netherlands, Spain, the Ottomans, the Indian Sultanates, and Rajas. Ah, and the Portuguese and Spain wars, (including Castille, Galicia, Leon, and the subsequent unions and alliances ), spanned well over 600 years. Portugal went to war with whom Nations normally go to war with - Their neighbors. And the strategic position that you mention looks good now, when you know the whole world and how to get to other lands. At the time, Portugal was literally in the end of the world, on the edge of the Mediterranean and Atlantic trade. It was a rural and impoverished nation. That necessity resulted in the traveling and conquests that followed in the 15th century. It was the same necessity that drove the Norseman to the same end. The Portuguese Empire did wither away, but the reasons, my friend are stronger than the advantages/challenges that you point out. And the main one is very likely, a succecion of terrible leadership from a Monarchy that grew very accustomed to having extended land overseas and fail to look within to realize that the country was not just the King's Court and Lisbon and the rest of the Kingdom, simply a ground for recruiting troops, settlers and growing their food. Portugal withered because it failed to invest in its people and infrastructure. No country can live of churches and shipbuilding alone. And when the shipbuilding ends, you're left with only churches.
@@nunoalmeida2646 The problem was our "allies and friends" - the British. Methuen treaty was the reason for all of this... With friends like the brits who needs enemies?
@@nunoalmeida2646 Awesome comment. I was being jokingly simplistic and tbh I don't know half as much about Portuguese history as I do with German or British history (Hence why I love channels such as this) Your comment however I really do appreciate every point you made is valid beyond belief. In you honest opinion do you think if the Iberian union with those inbred fools the (Spanish) Hapsburgs would she (Portugal) have been able to maintain its world wide prestige for a couple more centuries?
Was not expecting 20 minutes of very very rarely covered Ethiopian history! That country has resisted foreign interference since the first Pharaohs and its awesome to see one of their most understudied conflicts covered here.
Yep, glad we’re in history. When people look at Africa only slavery and colonization comes up but to have actual history is amazing, proud to be Somali
Something worth mentioning Is that after Francisco de Almeida won the battle of Diu he ordered dozens of mameluk leaders to be executed by being tied to the mouth of cannons which were then fired, like human cannonballs. And this was the letter he sent to the enemy commander, Malik Ayyaz, before the battle. “I the Viceroy say to you, honored Meliqueaz captain of Diu, that I go with my men to this city of yours, taking the people who were welcomed there, that in Chaul fought my people, and killed a man who was called my son, and I come with hope in God of Heaven to take revenge on them and on those who assist them, and if I don't find them I will take your city, to pay for everything, and you, for the help you have done at Chaul, this I tell you, so that you are well aware that I go, as I am now on this island of Bombay, as it will tell you the one who this letter brings”.
the Portuguese at the time had steel balls (due mostly to its geographic location, on its back constantly fighting the spaniards, on its coast constantly fighting pirates, corsairs, invasions, etc., and all this after 700 years of Reconquista). Portuguese leaders also had a penchant to write "nice" letters to their opponents, it's a shame most of this stuff was lost
The Mamluk he wanted dead for killing his son is Amir Hussain al-Kurdi, the governor of Jeddah, who also built the walls of Jeddah to repel the Portuguese and he survived the war along with only 22 other Mamluks. Him and Salman Rais defended Jeddah from the Portuguese in 1517.
@EM the letter was addressed to Malik ayazz but the men who killed his son he mentions are Hussein al-kurdi's men. He was enraged that of the 22 mamluks who survived and escaped Hussein al-kurdi was among them.
Excellent compilation and work. Thanks. I sincerely want to contribute to the channel in the future (I wish I had done it for a long time), when I solve some problems and become more familiar with the internet, because I still don't use it for purchases or transfers (in this aspect I'm still in another century, only in this aspect, so I´m sorry for that for now, but since a long time I do my best to promote your Channel to friends and not only ). Great Battle of Diu. And it's been 450 years for Europeans in the East. Just that disagreement with a final sentence about trade (and it has nothing to do with my Portuguese origin, as I'm interested in everything in general and not just these conflicts involving Portuguese and I look for an impartial approach). Trade with India was very limited for Ottomans and no Portuguese strategic points, and they were many, taken (except the mouth of the Red Sea and Aden specifically). And a Portuguese victory in 1589 (the Empire still functioned autonomously under the crown of the Habbugos, driving the Turks away from Mombassa in East Africa (as previously in India, the Strait of Hormuz and Southeast Asia) limiting them to the of the Red Sea and its gates completly open. it is a grain of sand in a work (and to debate according to historians), in your amazing work.
I'm amazed just how mang times these two guys fought over the spice trade and how the Portuguese won most of these despite being being far away from their country. Innovation is really important indeed something which the Ottomans didn't consider doing until it was too late.
its more like ottomans asking themselves "can we go colonial and compete with portugese while competing asutria holy roman empire poland lithuania and venice at the same time?" and they wisely concluded "no" and didnt wasted resources on a negligible frontier
@@egesisli5694 well, you can't have it all, can you? Do you realize how long it took the Portuguese to send an armada around Africa to get there? You guys were basically fighting at home. You were just unmatched in naval power.
Learned more about the battle of Alcácer-Quibir in this segment than when I was in school. Didn't learn why Sebastião went to war only that he went and the people were still waiting for him back on a foggy day.
Considering how significant that loss was we barely know anything about it, in school you are asked to know the year it ocurred and that's it, not a single thing about what motivated that incursion to Morocco.
As a Portuguese I have to congratulate you for the long and informative video. Just add that the religious aspect had a fundamental role in the politics and motivation of the armed forces and that a large part of the Portuguese nobility did not support the little king of Portugal (18 years old) in the battle of Alcácer Quibir (battle of the 3 kings), he was motivated by the court of Portugal through religious fervor. In the end Portugal suffered too much and almost ended its empire with the Dutch trying to keep the Portuguese possessions in India and China and Brazil and being ruled by three reigns of Spanish kings.
@@Luso515PorTuoGraal Almohad destroyed Almoravids not you or Castilla . At least you were able to get out from castillan trap where basque and Catalan are stuck
Finally someone who simply reads. Does not "act" the text. No "deep ending" of sentences. One really feels respected. Thanks guys. Do not lose this quality...
in eu4 both of them arrives to india too late or never but i would like to rush and compete with the other too:( also its impossible to annex the mamluks as historicaly happened
My thoughts exactly lol. I did some Portugal campaigns in EU2 colonising the Americas (yeah Portuguese USA and Brazil) but haven't done that yet in EU4
@@alptekinergin5561 It is most ignorated part of history in EI4 IMO. There should be events for Portugese that would give Mamluks bankruptcy and this should give subjugation cb to Ottomans on Mams.
I'm from sri Lanka and when Portuguese came to sri Lanka I can't exactly remember the year but definitely 1500's when Portuguese ships accidentally came to sri Lanka due to a storm and ottoman businessmen and tradesman who spotted Portuguese flags immediately started firing and Portuguese started firing back with their big cannons(first time sri lankan people ever saw guns or cannons in history) Wich resulted ottomans being defeated and colonized the shores of sri Lanka.
dutch came to my nation in 1596..they began to collect our lands,mines etc by colonization for 350 years.. 😔😔😔 they are rich country by killing another,,what a cruelty acts from the most "human-rights country"...
@@oldwine2401 Sou Brasileiro e aqui os Holandeses também foram destruídos. Apesar um Holandês ter feitos boas coisas pela cidade onde moro. O Conde Maurício de Nassau. A WIC o expulsou pois estava tentando desenvolver a região. Recife, estado de Pernambuco a mais antiga das capitanias.
King Sebastian’s death and the subsequent Hapsburg takeover was so tragic to Portugal that many still held to the belief that he had survived and would one day return to reclaim the throne and make the kingdom independent from Spain once again, as his corpse was never found. This whole idea at some point ended up getting some mythical status and mingling up with common old folk tales of dormant kings that await to return to their land in a time of hardship, such as King Arthur in Avalon. Some really clinged to this idea, and this legend was even evoked when the time came for the Portuguese to fight to break away from the Spanish Crown. Oddly enough, as late as the early 20th century there was this notion in Brazil among certain provincial anti-republic movements that King Sebastian would return to restore the then recently abolished monarchy in Brazil.
Could you do a video about the Portuguese history in Asia, please? I mean, the influence the portuguese had on Japan with firearms (and gastronomy) or even the deal with China about Macau
My country is so small, nowadays, many people have embraced defeatism, thinking we *must* be dependent on bigger countries. It's like many have forgotten we challenged every single odd and came out on top for the most part.
People like YOU, are defeatist. I am Portuguese and will never be defeated. It's people like you, soft, lefties writting silling comments like you have that creates defeatism. Hold your head up high no matter what. Don't forget what your grandfathers fought for. Stop embarrasing your country with such defeatist mentality.
I love the longer videos. Also this topic is great. You guys are doing a great job of filling in the gray areas of my history knowledge. I love history and finding something new to learn is getting more difficult. This is a great choice
Legend has it that during one of these campaigns, a portugese sailor would kill Montoya Beg. Years later, his son Indigo would exact revenge for this atrocity by saying, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die" as he would kill the sailor
@@refaathassan8595 Dear friend,when James Cook born,the Portuguese have been all around the world 170 years at least before... James Cook born in 1728,Portuguese have been in canadá (Newfoundland and Labrador)in 1492, India in 1497,island of são lourenço know today as Madagascar in 1500, Brazil in 1500, Ceilâo know today as Sry lanka in 1505, Mauritius in 1502, Comores islands in 1505,Tristâo da Cunha island in 1506,Santa Helena Island in 1501,Ascension Island in 1501, Papua New Guinea in 1511,Molucas in Indonesia in 1511,China (Macau)in 1535,malasia (malacca)1511,east timor not far from Australia in 1515,(Australia in 1523 but to hard to admit that) Japan in 1543 (Nagasaki was founded by the Portuguese) Formosa island today know as Taiwan in 1544,Maldives island in 1558,Magalhaes first circumnavigation to the world in 1521, Espiritu Santo and Vanatu in the Pacific in 1606 and much more Just have a look to the Portuguese empire between 1500/1600 and you will be suprise. GIL EANES,DIOGO GOMES,FERNÃO GOMES,LOPO GONÇALVES,DIOGO CÃO, BARTOLOMEU DIAS,PÊRO DA COVILHÃ, JOÃO FERNANDES LAVRADOR,VASCO DA GAMA,GASPAR CORTE-REAL,PEDRO ÁLVARES CABRAL,DIOGO ZEIMOTO,FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE LACERDA E ALMEIDA that some of the great Portuguese explorers.
The war was one of the very first capitalist war. Venetian merchants vouching for the Ottoman Muslim to beat catholic Portugal to ensure venice did not get kicked out of the trade monopoly. Money 💵 💵💵 talks.
@ana sheee As if any other nation was different. The Venetians just saw an opportunity in the weak and civil war ridded Roman Empire and took it: everyone wanted the cake, they just were the one to get it first.
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These long videos are fun to make, but are also extremely time-consuming and stressful. Hopefully, you like them :-) This particular video adds 20 minutes of new footage (Diu 1508 and Alcacer Quibir 1578), fixes mistakes, improves graphics, and so on and so forth.
Yeah! Thanks for the video.
It's very good
Can you guys make a vedio about the Rise of the ottomans compiling all the ottoman battles from kossavo to leapanto.
I love your videos! They are the best !!
Hey can yoy guys make a series on India's history
Hello guys, I'm the co-creator of this Ottoman mini-series. I just wanted to say that it is a pleasure to re-work and bring back our Ottoman series from a long hiatus. In this extended version, we’ve added the first battle of Diu and another long extension of the African front which covers the War of the 3 Kings and the decisive battle of Ksar-el-Kebir.
For those linguists out there and curious about the text at 51:00 , it is actually Osmanlıca and Malay written in Arabic script which roughly translates “Selam arkadaşlarım” and “Salam saudara jauh” which literally means “Greetings my fellow friends/brothers.” Just a tiny bit of easter egg for Turkish and Malaysian/Indonesian viewers out there.
As usual here are the Attila mods which we used in this video:
-Medieval MK1212
-1529-War of Gunpowder
-reShade
-Aztec lighting
-Portuguese mod (Shogun 2)
Best wishes,
ڤمنه ملايو
So excited by the comings ottomans Safavids wars !!!
You’re work is incredible
Thank you and indeed, the Safavid war is a fun topic to cover!
Keep it up, you are a gem for the history community :)
Türkiye'den selamlar (Greetings from Turkey)
A topic that is certainly not covered very often, glad you guys do! Let's go!
Edit: looove the ship animations!
I think it's from total war napoleon
@@hokkigamer5170 probably Empire Total War because of Indians.
So... this is a I tip my hat to you, one legend to another o.o
@Fan of Deng Xiaoping Adolphus!? Sussy baka uwu
@@syn_2529 - Adolphus Fan, perhaps?
The most impressive thing about this battle is the fact that Portugal sended an official letter announcing the day they would arrive to fight
They are honest.
for about 250 years, the Portuguese empire did lots of impressive stuff
chivalry, the Portuguese always had rules for war.
@@roddeazevedo Stopped doing impressive things? Soldado Milhões on WWI? Fighting on Ultramar War against Angola, Mozambique, Guiné Bissau armed with way better Russian Weapons? You know nothing of what you are talking about...
@@roddeazevedo the myth of Soldado Milhões? He was not a myth but a real soldier 🙂 "Anibal Augusto Milhais"... the incompetent officers you talk about must be the english of course that were those in charge of the Portuguese troops... Calling primitive dimwits to the African liberation fighters led by the Soviets tells me everything i need to know about you and your ideas, it is far more difficult to fight in a jungle environment than it is in a European one. That is why the USA got their asses kicked in Vietnam and Portugal got out of Africa when it decided to. You are not that smart are you? 😂😂😂
I thought adding some timestamps might help, so here they are. Another great video, K&G!
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:57 Portuguese's first Interventions in the Indian Ocean
00:06:44 1509 Battle of Diu
00:12:20 Post Battle of Diu - Ottoman Empire’s Intervention
00:17:11 1525 Battle of Diu
00:20:31 1538 Battle of Diu
00:30:43 Ethiopian-Adal War - Intro
00:35:17 Ethiopian-Adal War - Beginning
00:39:56 Ethiopian-Adal War - Portuguese Intervention
00:44:19 Ethiopian-Adal War - Battle of Wayna Daga
00:47:56 Ethiopian-Adal War - Epilogue
00:49:47 After the 1538 Battle of Diu
00:53:15 Suez Expedition
00:56:31 1546 Battle of Diu
01:00:14 Yemeni Revolt-Attack on Hormuz
01:04:55 1565-68 Ottoman expeditions
01:07:05 North African front - Intro
01:10:19 Portuguese Intervention in Morocco - Battle of Ksar El Kebir
01:19:33 Conclusion
Thanks for the useful timestamps!
Thank you, it certainty helpful
A hero of the history community. 🍻
38:59 General Ahmed Ibrahim destroyed the church of Merry in Axum as a revenge for the action of the Ethiopian Orthodox who burnt Masjid Qiblatayn in zeila city when they earlier toppled the sultanate of ifat prior to the emergence of Adal empire and never as punishment for their resistance of the siege.this account is indeed well captured in the book "Futu Al Habash" Authored by Moroccan scholar.
Thank you
Respect for our Portugal friends from Turkey. We fought well, so we are brothers now. We prefer a honorable and brave enemy to coward and dishonest friend. 🇹🇷🇵🇹
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@Dionisios K Was it real?
@@SpectruMetaL your People still refuse this serious crime(s) ? Xd People from several nation's never change...
@@YourNationalist Im living with my Armenian neighbour in İstanbul. My rental apartment that I living in now, its owner is Armenian too. Hundred thousands Armenian are still living in Turkey. Even in those "genocide" days, they lived. You don't understand, but during the war, Armenians lived in many parts of Anatolia and they started to gang up with the nationalist movements due to Russian influence. While in the middle of the war with the West, internal turmoil behind the front would destroy the country. That's why "only" Armenians in places where there was no garrison were exiled en masse. The Armenians in other places were not touched. In the Ottoman archive records, there are also name documents for all of them. Even special documents have been prepared for many Armenians. Because reliable Armenians who were in the region of exile and were assigned in the state or registered in the merchant guild were not wanted to be exiled.
Turkey has always been a multinational structure and Armenians have always been a nation that sees the right in this structure. You cannot understand this because you are very unfamiliar with the Ottoman and Turkish history. If you really want to be objective, please research and read about Armenian Gang activities in Turkey. It was a bitter solution that had to be done to break the Russian influence. But genocide is a completely different claim. Even an insult. Genocide, as the name suggests, means trying to destroy a race. In those days, Armenians were deported to Syria, Iraq, Armenia, but they were also deported to regions in western Turkey. They were even sent to Istanbul. The aim was only to disperse an internal rebellion by sending those in the uncontrolled area in the middle of Anatolia to the controlled areas. Not all Armenians were rebels or gang members, but we are talking about the 1900s. You don't know who is who. Mass exile was the only solution during the war. In addition, the fact that there are still so many Armenians living in the country where a genocide took place, the fact that those deported settled and lived in the deported regions, and the fact that those who were exiled to Armenia went to Armenia, who are those who died? There were also many clashes and attacks during a massive exile. Things like this were normal back then. The disappearances are due to the problems in this exile process and their numbers and the events and losses are recorded in historical documents. Yes, we exiled them to different places and under the conditions of that day we had to. It is unfortunately possible for such painful events to occur while an empire is falling apart and huge world wars have begun. Genocide allegations are taken very seriously in our country, and that's why almost everyone constantly researches, reads and discusses this issue. There are even hundreds of government officials convicted for not performing their duties well enough during exile, and there are court records. Look, these records are not newly produced laundering studies, they are documents recorded during the events in the 1910s. At that time, no one even needed to prepare such documents for an event that no one could even hold accountable for. There was even a real and systematic genocide in the 1940s. In other words, even years later, events such as the genocide were not considered as valuable as they are today. These are not very distant dates. If the places chosen for exile from Turkey after the Ottoman Empire were still within the borders of Turkey, they would not even have been sent out of the country. After the borders changed, those people were deleted from our population and the Armenian diaspora started to describe everyone who came out of the Turkish population as "killed" as an exaggerated number. They're talking about millions. +++
An excellent account of Portuguese and Ottoman deeds. Greetings from a Portuguese living in Taiwan - Formosa!
in that age Formosa was a colony of Spain,, because Portugal was defeated in 1580 by the Spanish empire of king Felipe ii,, nobody forget 60 years of spanish dominion
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 True. In that same period, the Spanish Crown wanted to defeat the British Crown in their seas. Some accounts say that the Portuguese in the Spanish Armada was very reluctant in fighting against the British because of the long-time Treaty of Windsor (1386). But, I guess, we all had to join forces later to battle Napoleon. Time to bury our axes after that. Now, we enjoy each others' beaches, food, language, and friendship. :)
@@youxkio the Spanish Armada was a tragedy thanks to the bad weather,, the real winner was the weather, without the advantage of the natural disaster spain had many successes like the English Armada or the Battle of Cartagena de Indias... on many occasions the climate makes other sides more favorable like "general winter" of Russia.
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 Yes, the bad weather was also against the British navy. Could it be more like a failure in the maritime strategy and preparation?
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 Not defeated, inherited
This is not very much explored in Portuguese history classes.
As a Portuguese, I thank kindly for this video. Cheers!
neither in the turkish bruh
So sad. Brainwashed 🧠
@@jeebus6263 I’m your brain on drugs 💊
the comunists want to clean history of all countries
@@oldwine2401 NO...the next in this history was the end of the ottoman empire and agreements wish lead to the republic of turkey that is today.
To make Alcácer-Quibir even more devastating, I want to add that King Sebastian was very young. He ascended to power at age 14 and died at age 24 without an heir - or, well, presumed dead, his body never turned up, leading to the myth that he would return to Portugal, in a day of heavy fog, at the nation's greatest time of need. What was left of the royal family failed to secure a clear sucession, and when the next claimant was the King of Spain, well... It took a while for us to break free, I believe it was already the Thirty Years War.
O jovem acreditou que poderia estar no nível dos velhos guerreiros. Ele só não não sabia o motivo deles estarem velhos e ainda lutando.
The thing is the body did turn up. It was returned by the Sultan of Morocco to king Philip I of Portugal, but at that time the legend about Sebastian had already grown too strong for people to believe the body was his. He is buried in the Jerónimos Monastery.
@@M_MontalvãoI didn't know about this, but apparently there is a lack of evidence surrounding the true identity of the body and many believe it was a plan of King Philip to ensure that people saw him as the one and only king and not as a place holder until the return of D. Sebastião.
Ok but The King of Castile, not "the King of Spain"
Portuguese vs Ottomans was basically “The Crusades Shippuden”.
I couldn't agree more
I dont know nothing about “naruto”, but this subject is old for me. Heard about it in school. Portuguese wars in severeal different continents, from distant far Asia to middle east, from Africa to America, aside from the many battles in Europe.
Almeida guy showed here was a real hero in search for vengence, brave as they get.
😂
Ubisoft: And more assassin's creed story to come!
Literally an Narutards
Portuguese in the Age of Discovery: We'll cross the entire world to fight the Ottomans for God and Country!!
Portuguese today: Why does this game have brazilian flag for the portuguese language :(
Bruhhh . . .Lol
YES FFS IHATE THAT
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Yeah that's painful
When the sons became Bigger than the fathers ...
You guys are turning light to an era even not explained in Turkish History lessons, I also doubt whether the history teachers in Turkey have this kind of an overview over the Portugese situation in 16th century. Thank you
You are correct that especially mainstream history portrayals of the ottoman empire's indian expeditions are only briefly mentioned with some key events, and in school textbooks , the failure against the portuguese is depicted as an indirect win, since the red sea fell in ottoman control. And the cause of the failure of the expeditions are simply seen as a shipwrighting error, the ships were not adequate in design for ocean warfare. Which is a very lazy way of justifying the failure. But as years pass, more and more historians lean to the details of the subject, much like Ottoman expeditions to Italy.
Not even in portugal do they teach this to us, they just give a generalised, stereotypical and boring summary. Wheres the tention? The drama? The pain and the gain? The school system is absolutely dreadful.
Exactly! These videos are much better than what we're taught in School in Portugal! 😂 Those must have been Epic Battles! Respect! ❤🇵🇹🇹🇷
PS: Can you tell Orkun Kökçü that we'd love to have him at SL Benfica!? Thanks in advance! 😂🤝
Unfortunately it is not acurate.🥺
@@mariahenriques6053 Yeah sadly channels lie this will always go for sensationalism over facts. School is boring because its just facts without the opinions (well it should be anyway). I have noticed Kings and Generals making up entire parts to stories to make them more interesting and just lying about other things because the truth was too boring. Take RUclips as entertainment with some facts but any video like this should be taken with a handful of salt.
The ottoman and the Portuguese did a cold war before it was cool
*before it was hot
*cool
I see what you did there 😏
Although I feel like this was a much warmer war than the Cold War lol, what with all the direct fighting.
Actually using the before it was cool joke format about the cold war is extra punny. Well done.
I didn't know it
Great content.
As a proud portuguese 🇵🇹my honor to the Otommans, and kind regards to my close Turkish 🇹🇷 friends!!
Kind regards to you too from Turkey. 😊🇹🇷
"Afonso de Albuquerque" é um nome bem forte
Turkey😂😂😂
I am from Malaysia living in capital city kuala lumpur and Malacca is not that far away from KL.. My husband is from Lisboa, Portugal . I have been to.Portugal few times for holiday and visited some of historical sites, palaces, Forts and castles. (Sintra etc ) Its awesome.
@@khatijahabubakar7073 Obrigado ;).
I was always amazed about Portugals history.
Such a beautiful Country.
Thanks
Beautiful women too 😍
I am Portuguese and proud of this video. Portugal has a problem. Was governed by a dictator during 1930's to mid 70's and got a big bit stepped back on economy and imdustry. Still trying to overcome post dictatorship freedom corruption problems. Many thanks for the content.
where are you from
Thanks! ❤🇵🇹
"The Portuguese were outnumbered..."
Yeah when weren't we?
Baddass portuguese
You always were amigo, abraços.
Proud of Portuguese conquistadors who ended the nestorian church of kerala
@@noone7692 മലയാളി ആണോ?
Sempre estivemos lmao
I absolutely love when a video is done on the Portuguese. Can’t thank you enough for doing these. Please continue doing more on the Portuguese. It’s a nation full of great history and discovery throughout the world.
Turks ane europeans fighting for the ownership of indians
Quem decobriu o mundo todo foi Portugal e Portugal ensinou os Castelhanos a navegarem a espanha não descobriu nada foi castela o nome de espanha não existia há 500 anos atraz.
I absolutely agree with you about the History of the Portuguese. But man, did they behave in India. It Always brings me this sweet cognitive dissonance: i Love These Guys...that destroyed Ships with helpless civilians in cold blood 😅
Congratulations on this excellent documentary about the "Golden Age of the Portuguese Empire" (of which Brazil is one of the consequences and which we Brazilians know so little about). A suggestion: if possible, make subtitles available in Portuguese, Turkish, Greek and Indi (it would be of great help for people influenced by the Portuguese and Ottoman Empires to learn more about this important and decisive conflict, as well as its consequences). Just for a brief example: in Brazil, the death of Don Sebastião de Avis in the Battle of Alcacer Quibir is seen as a mad adventure by a foolish young monarch in Moroccan lands (and not as a consequence of the geopolitical dispute between rival empires).
to be fair, here in Portugal that situation is portrayed, and even taught in schools, in the exact same way: a stupid adventurous mistake that led to the fall of that dinasty of kings. there is, however, like you say much more to be said about it
@@1193joao Thank you for the information. 😊🤜🤛
Because it was like that. That battle was between a Moroccan King and a Portuguese one. It has nothing to do with ottomans.
@@hamzasatOttomans aided Marooco
His uncle the king of Spain told him do not go to Maroc.
Literally just finished an audiobook on Portugals maritime empire yesterday. What a pleasant surprise to see this today.
which one ?
@@lightningboltpt "Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire"
@@anachronisticon that is debatable, because africa was a colony of rome since year 0 , the first empire in america was spain, they has built the first european city in america, the first american church, the first american universities, the first american bank, the first global currency (the spanish dollar) , and the first international language,, and Spain was the creator of the pacific atlantic trade. Manila...Acapulco\Panama...Sevilla.
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 I think you're confusing the title of a book I read with my opinion.
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 portugal was the first to reach japan on the other side of the world 100 years before any european, say the japanese themselves. this is already proof that he was the first to create a global empire, global empire is not just a continent.
Portugal 🇵🇹 é demaisss, brabo país! Eu sendo brasileiro, era descendente de Italianos até ver este video! Agora meus descendentes são Portugueses concerteza, meus pais se enganaram!
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Great work with this video! As a Portuguese I learned a lot about this crucial period of the Portuguese history. I loved the detail you went into and the nice animations 👍
Respect for the Ottomans!
as someone who was victim to your warmongering i f a lot of your women now as revenge.
As a brazilian who has a portuguese grandfather it makes me proud how the portuguese were always the outcasts but still managed to prevail in lots of times.
Heróis do mar, nobre povo...
Até tremem Mano! 😂🇵🇹❤🇧🇷
the Portuguese empire always showed up ready to fight. they where aggressive and ruthless . resorting to extreme acts of violence in order to achieve their objectives was their natural default setting. diplomacy was never their first option.
É nois
@@bconni2who were the most advanced people that Portuguese went war against them?
thieves? Yeah
In the USA we have a massive blind spot for history relating to the Portuguese and Ottomans, so this history of their contest in the Indian Ocean was a great introduction. The history of the Spanish in the Americas is much more familiar, yet this points to how contingent and interconnected these histories are. Somewhat ironic, I think, that the walls of Constantinople stood unassailable for 1,000 years until the Ottoman's arrived with new and superior artillery, taking the City and disrupting the trading routes of the silk road. The fall of Constantinople not only forced Europe to catch up in cannon tech, but led Portugal to seek sea routes to the spice trade of the Indies. This lead to new sailing ships equipped with new cannons, causing havoc for the Ottomans. And the Portuguese dominance of the route around Africa caused Spain to seek a different route to the East by sailing West, resulting in the accidental "discovery" of the Americas.
Never to late to learn world history, congrats.
Americans sort of fought against ottoman proxy states in the barbary pirate wars.
It seems there were different approaches. The Portuguese concentrated on gaining fortified trading posts (or "factories") and perhaps some of their hinterland. While the Spaniards (and later the British), preferred to conquer huge areas and hold them as giant colonies.
Of course there were exceptions such as Brazil, but some of the trading posts remained Portuguese until India annexed Goa in 1975, Indonesia took East Timor in the same year and China got Macau in 1999.
The Ottomans, by expanding the frontier of their empire, also expanded the list of enemies they have to fight. The List of Enemies outside their Empire: Habsburg monarchy, Portugal, Russia, Safavid Persia, Wahabi from central Arabia and then finally Britain and France during WW1. The List of Enemies within their Empire : Greek, Slavic, Bulgarian, Armenian , Macedonian, Arab and even Turkish rebels. Due to military threats from within and without , coupled with political intrigue at court, it's no wonder why some Ottoman sultans just absconded their stressful governing responsibilities to their Grand Viziers and retreat into a life in the harem with all kinds of vices as a form of escapism.
@@aloisschicklgruber9807 Yes, but wasn't that a case of a friendly neighbor stopping by to borrow a cup of sugar and once they were inside, destroying the place? The Crusaders wreaked havoc on Constantinople but presented themselves as fellow Christians on their way to the Holy Land.
Como español licenciado en Geografia e Historia nunca se nos enseños sobre las disputas entre otomanos y portugueses en el Índico. Muy agradecido.
Por outro lado Lepanto está em todos os nosso livros, um enorme feito de "nuestros hermanos".
''Não tiveste para teu enterro nem uma tocha, filho! Aqui te acendo uma cidade!'' Almeida, Francisco
"You had nary a candle at your burial, son. Here I light a city for you." - Almeida, Francisco.
Worth translating for the benefit of all readers.
" quem o frango comeu , vai agora ter de comer o galo ou pagá-lo "
@@1ifemareNão tivestes uma tocha para te alumear, agora tens um-ha cidade a alumear-te
Francisco de Almeida also said " Se Deus fala Português não sei, mas estes canhões falam"
Translation: "I don't know if God speaks's Portuguese, but these cannons do"
Absolute badass.
simplemente precioso, palabras de un héroe
Obrigado!
Thanks! Best Regards from Portugal! ❤🇵🇹
So basically it goes like this:
Portugal with superiority = loss
Portugal overwhelmed = win
Go figure....
To be fair, commanders' abilities went down throughout time.
@@aqqoyunlu1203 I mean, yes, but actually yes. Doesn't mean they went to all to become crap. But ruling over the overseas territories just became totally mismanaged, and even internal conflicts and family rivalries were getting in the way of who was being appointed, etc. The early birds' success couldn't just be replicated anymore. Of course, there were still successes, but not with the same drive.
That is because we have the tendency to "desenrascar" when we have our butts tight.
Typical... Portugal only fights greatly when outnumbered, overwhelmed and with odds against it. Even today...
yeah cocky cr7 fcks up
scared cr7 eins evrything
Portuguese gave a tough fight considering the odds against it. Respect.
46:47 That must be the most heroic act i have ever heard during that time, What a brave man
"my king, they killed a man named my son... " (battle of Chaul) stories tell that he was impaled and some mamluks cuted all the skin off his face.
"son, they didn't light a candle at your funeral, today I burn a whole city for you"
Francisco de Almeida - battle of dio.
I’ve been watching historical documentaries since the 90’s, this channel is better than 99% of them. Keep up the good work!
Facts! ❤🇵🇹
Next episode of the Portuguese-Ottoman war will be the Battle for Endor.
Darth Suleiman: “Lucas Andarilho das Nuvens, I am your father!”
@@abcdef27669 Andarilho lmao
Have you ever heard of the tragedy of Darth Suleiman the Wise? It's not a story the Catholics will tell you.
@@abcdef27669 Lucas Andarilho: "That's not true! That's impossible!"
@@miguelpadeiro762 bro nem gozes, eu tenho um livro do Phantom Menace (ya eu sei) onde dizem Luke Andarilho das Estrelas.... WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Thanks!
Never put yourself between a Portuguese and his spices.
_Pastéis de Nata_ gotta have their cinnamon, whatever the cost!
@@aqqoyunlu1203 funny, but innacurate.
Portugal does have its sins throughout History: stealing in trade is not one of them.
Luckily the Dutch can't read
I actually like them better without cinnamon...
@@diogorodrigues747 to be completely honest with you... me too. _Arroz doce_ , however...
Damn all this fore spice jesus
Congratulations for the detailed research and the video itself, a comprehensive work on the subject. Portuguese ventures into India was the cornerstone of the discovery of Brazil. The portuguese colonies in South America, India, Malacca, Africa, China, Timor formed a vast Empire of which Brazil eventually emerged to be the Crown Jewel. I salute my portuguese heritage, my mother language (última flor do Lácio..) and all lusophonic brothers around the World, siblings and cultural heirs of Portuguese influence into our own diverse and rich cultures. Honra e Glória aos bravos do passado, Ó Mar Salgado, quanto de teu sal são lágrimas de Portugal?
Beutifal Word's!!👌
Abraço Mano! 🇵🇹❤️🇧🇷
🙌🇧🇷🇵🇹
I was amazed at Portugal being talked about in these kind of channels, where they are thouroughly ignored (save BazBattles with Aljubarrota a few years back), but then I understood this is part of an Ottoman series, so, yeah, it makes sense now. Portugal just got in the way.
Still figuring out if it's lack of interest, ignorance (or both) or just remnants of the Black legend sprinled in the feeble minds of many anglos.
Thanks for putting this up here. Having only recently read Roger Crowley's excellent 'Empires of the Sea' about the Spanish and Ottoman conflicts of the same period in the Mediterranean, I very much enjoyed this look at the Portuguese-Ottoman struggles in the Indian Ocean, the peripheral but related events in the Horn of Africa, and the aftermath of Portugal's misadventure in North Africa. Thanks again!
Read Roger Crowley's "Conquerors" also, it deals with the Portuguese voyages to India.
Would you guys consider doing a Dutch-Portuguese war video next, maybe even as a part of an eighty years war series?
That would be interesting.
Good idea, the Dutch Portuguese war was the first global war , deserves a well studied work, and you are the right man to do that job!
I hope that you accept this challenge.
make a video about the complete defeat of portugal by the spanish empire of felipe ii, 60 years of spanish rule
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 which defeat? He inherted the Thrones of Portugal because Sebastião had no heirs🤣. And you still managed to lose alot of portuguese colonies 😬
@@xavierrealmadrid7420 True!......in Portugal it was know as the 60 years of shame..
¡Gracias!
Portuguese and Ottomans are friends now.
Love from Portugal 🇵🇹 to Turkey 🇹🇷 :)
🔙❤
Thx mate. But we are not Ottomans. We are Turks.
@@ElacTeubusht Yhea you are right, but i also wanted to include all the people that are from former ottoman empire's lands.
@@jeebus6263 Understandable we portuguese are just like that with the Spanish
@@zen2557 The name of the empire was "Devlet-i Ali Osman" so That means ottomans is true
SIGAAA PESSOAL. VIVA PORTUGAL!
A great "Obrigado" to Kings and Generals and everyone involved in this project.
As a brazilian I wish this were more studied in our schools. We were part of the empire at this time, it is part of our history.
your ancestors were incredible warriors
Muito bem dito, abraço Luso.
Do you think it’s a politically motivated omission? Since Portugal colonized Brazil maybe they wouldn’t want to acknowledge too much. What are your thoughts on this?
@@SnarkyJohnny one word: Proud.
@@SnarkyJohnny it is not taught at school in Portugal as well.
These videos should be kept in some kind of video library. Pure gold made with huge effort. All respect and support!
"The Portuguese we're outnumbered 3 to 1" Yeah when weren't they
However 💪💪💪
@@DarkHawk1977 In the XVI century the whole Portuguese army from Morrocco to Malacca is estimated to be at most 10,000 men, according to C.R. Boxer. Portuguese may be one of the most spoken languages today, but not at the time of these events.
@@DarkHawk1977 ???? In 1650 portugal had 1.2 mil pop while ottoman empire had 28mil. almost 28 times as much people. And there were several european kingdoms/empire sitting in 10mil+
EUROPE VS OTTOMAN???
@@DarkHawk1977 You're reframing this as being about ethnicity, even though that has nothing to do with the original comment. The Portuguese were still outnumbered
What a coincidence. I have been thinking of re-watching your Ottoman-Portuguese War series some of these days when I find the time, and here you go upload a movie encompassing everything said there and more. Even went on to download it
I really want a Sabaton song about some of these battles. These have been left too much in the shadow of what happened in Mediterranean and the Americas at the time. Magnificent video!
This made me look at history differently. We were taught at school briefly about Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama's travels to India and Portugal's involvement in spice trade, but that was it. Now I can finally see what the sentence in the history book about the Ottomans having seized the spice trade previously meant. And now I can see that the Ottoman Empire was not only a passive observer of the European colonial powers in the mainland, but also participated in the power struggles with them in the Indian Ocean too.
Considering their geographical position, it is natural that the Ottomans didn't join the colonisation of the Americas. It would have made more sense to colonise in the Indian Ocean, especially along East Africa and India. However, the Portuguese resistance and other factors prevented them from doing so. Controlling the Mediterranean was probably another important factor, as the Ottomans had to conquer the Eastern parts of Mediterranean and the northern regions of Africa. As the straits of Gibraltar were surrounded by Portugal, Spain and Morocco, all potentially hostile powers, the Ottomans could not partake in the colonisation of the Americas. The conquest of Morocco could have served that goal, which might have been one of the attractions for trying to do so, alongside control of the Mediterranean, weakening their enemies and restoring the Umayyad caliphate's former borders.
The Ottoman Empire was also primarily a land-based empire, not a naval colonial project, and administrated in this manner. Portugal, Spain, France and England, major powers surrounded by sea used their colonial empires to project their power in internal struggles when it was hard to expand their empire in the mainland. They had fewer enemies to fight along their land borders. Their access to the sea was unhinged by any intermediate power and thus they were more free to dominate the oceans.
The thing is, all these wars to date started when the Ottomans aka Abassyd caliphate established a rulership in East Africa and Iraq to Yemen with headquarters in Oman.
The problem started when the Ottomans begun to attack Abbysinians Lalibela and Aksum for Biblical artifacts and then selling them as their own in Byzantine and at Constantinople.
By 1300 Abbysinians from Aksum sent it's ambassador to Spain and Portugal to establish political friendship. They taught them about Biblical history of East Africa and invite them to visit and confirm everything. At the time European were also fighting against Islam and were blocked by the Islamic traders from coming into East.
The European didn't take them seriously so they didn't come to East until Ethiopians sent a long letter commonly known as "Prester Juan" Juan is a Germanic name for John.
In the letter, they described that they're the oldest Church in the world and housing ancient Artifacts of the 12 tribes who were pushed further South by Somalis and Turks, that they themselves rule over the 12 tribes from a far distance, the 12 tribes who are just below their lands in Forests. They requested Germanic rulers to come to their aide as Ottomans had established a treaty with Ajuran Somalis to steal Biblical manuscript and the two were actively involved in selling the twelve tribes into slavery. Mainly selling them to Southern india and Iraq's Basra.
The Germans would quietly send mercineries and top spies from Spain and Portugal. the first four fleet never made it through the cape of Good Hope (South Africa) but Vasco Da Gama successfully made it in 1400s.
After reaching Goa, Vasco Da Gama established treaties and had left spies in all his stops along the East African coast.
On his return, he picked up his spies back on board although some didn't survive. Those who made it via Malindi, Sofala told Vasco Da Gama that they were able to spy East Africa and saw no white Jews in Africa but Black people like West Africans.
Vasco Da Gama went back and told European that the Indians told him that the only Jews they knew were very dark skin and came from East Africa.
The Romans Catholic and Germans heard these News, they were very disappointed. Because they were expecting to find "White Jews."
But discovery of more black people especially below Abbysinians frightened Germans because they were already teaching about "white Jews" and white Jesus through out Europe.
After Vasco Da Gama conquest,more spies were sent like Kraft In the 1800s when Germans and Britain would again sent missionaries spies to find the white lost Jews below Abbysinians. But no white Jews were ever found but black Africans who claim to have migrated from Senna,Misri and Aksum.
Things would became even ugliar when Abbysinians would begun showing ancient Biblical artifacts that showed ancient Hebrew's as Negus.
From that, British Royal Geography Society would sent a spie by the name John Hannington Speke and his commander Mr Burton, and John Speke would again reaffirm And confirm from the Indians Puranas Sanskrit books and Hindu historians and from Arabs and Cushites that the only religious tribes known to have migrated from Yemen to interior of Africa were indeed black, majority had become savage's Walked around naked and established important trade hubs in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Western Kenya and elsewhere.
John Hannington Speke would return to Britain to expose these only to be assassinated before he could provide his evidence before The British Geography Society commission. Burton his counterpart would be paid to go back alone and change history to what you know today of East Africa.
Germans, Brits, Greeks and Ethiopians would then dig Suez canal to block Turks from ever reaching or migrating again to Africa. And from that the ottomans and Islamic power came to and end.
Germans bombed the Oman's sultan in East Africa, chased away all Arabs back to Middle East and British created countries with Nilotes and Cushites as the Armies that protect and hide everything for good.
Now you know!!!!.
The portuguese were the first global empire because we understood the importance of the dominance of the seas. What was the greatest power in the empire that followed, the British? Mastery of the seas, globally. What was the greatest power of the next, the American? Mastery of the seas, globally. For this reason alone in World War II the Nazis could never stand shoulder to shoulder with the traditional and the new maritime powers.
@@MELO-u8p Indeed, exactly what I meant. And this can be applied to modern dat. Why does Russia want to control Crimea and Ukraine? To control the Black Sea. Why is China so keen on expanding their influence in Western Pacific, and seeking to conquer Taiwan? For the same reason, to oppose US hegemony. (If they could, they'd like to control Straits of Malacca and Indonesia too). And for this same reason, USA maintains naval bases and allies South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia in the Pacific Sphere. This is also why Somali pirates were seen as a huge threat to global shipping. The Japenese tried become a new naval empire just like Britain, replicating it in every way possible, and succeeded in conquering huge areas of the Pacific, but lost to more powerful American empire.
Man these videos are always so educational yet entertaining at the same time, props to this channel for making history fun and accessible
Ottoman Empire: Noo! you must pay our taxes to get good quality spices from India
Portuguese Empire: Haa ha ship go around Africa
Actually, the Venetians were the ones who's taxes the Portuguese wanted to avoid considering they were the middlemen in the eastern Mediterranean trade.
@@thenutella8846 they also sponsored Portugal. Brazil literally woundn't have been discovered without Venice's money
The Ottoman Empire had a end, in 1917.
@@aqqoyunlu1203 in this moment portugal is just portugal... but turkey have a lot of puppet states, like north cyprus or azerbaijan. their "empire" still alive
The empirethatgotoblitoratedbymorrocanssayswhat??
Wow, I had no idea the Ottomans fought and held territories so far away from home! And all this warring with Portugal! Great video!
News just in: The Mars Rover has captured images of what appears to be an ancient Portugese-Ottoman battle on the far-side of Mars.
Those martian spices shall finally grace the markets of Lisbon!
What a delicate summary.
The spice must flow.
Yes! feitorias have been build by the base of Olympus Mons!
there aint no far side of mars, but ok
I can't believe the Portuguese held that fort off against the ottomans with only 40 fighters remaining. That is insane.
The womans made the Diference , King and general say...
@@rvrv7021 they secretly won because they had a naked scotsman with bagpipes on their team
@@rvrv7021 They never said that, they included the information that some sources say a group of women joined in on the frontline to show how hard pressed the defenders were.
@@whitechocolateman1088 Yes, but its true. In the first siege Catarina Lopes, Isabel Madeira (Captain of abattalion of female combatants), Garcia Rodrigues, Isabel Fernandes, and Isabel Dias. Isabel Madeira formed a group of female combatants who fought in front of the battle against the Turks again in the the second siege of 1542 aiding the men with some of the former.
If you born in a portuguese family like me , you Also Will respect the portuguese womans.
They are strong personality , specialy the nort Portugal womans
We Portugueses repect all our braves and honorables enemies , today we are no longer enemies , only respect and honor stand.🇵🇹💙🙏
Loving for these videos, never see such documentaries like such on youtube rather ad related or gaming related, these are full of the knowledge which needed for a normal high school student. For everyone, the history is important since they related to that
Are you referring to production value, geographic area coverage, or time period, or subject matter? Because there are a few out there.
Baz Battles
SandRoman History
Invicta
History Marche
Scolagladiatora (more individual weapon-based)
Lindybeige (British man talking into a camera talking about how Britain is the greatest thing since before tea, and occasionally about Roman and Greek history)
Those are a handful that I grabbed off my subscriptions. Hope you enjoy.
Even if I'm not interested in some subject, I always click and like. The amount of work and quality you're putting in these videos is unspeakable. Love you guys!
I am an Arab, and I was looking for an interesting detail in a video clip, not in books, but I was amazed by the neutrality in recounting the strength of both sides, and the respect for the content creator made me like this video. Indeed, the Mamluks were weak, and the Ottomans’ control over Egypt was a clever leap, and Spain’s preoccupation with the Americas was a wonderful opportunity. Precious, these centuries were interesting events, and the cold war, thank you, I am from Saudi Arabia in the heart of the Islamic capital
Antha Saudi!??!?? 😯 😮
Wallah??!! 🤩
Min wen!??? 😁
@@mikidias From Riyadh, and you?
Orgulho da historia de nossos pais portugueses. Saudações do Brasil.
❤️🇵🇹
obrigado |!!
🇵🇹 ❤🇧🇷
Muito melhor das ambitioences dos Ingleses. Sou Escoces pelos os meus tomates!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@diamonia Mas tu sabes qual e a ascendencia do Gabriel? Nao, entao cala-te palhaco.
Ah yes, king Sebastian, such a powerful king he single handedly nearly ended one of the most dominant nations of the world of his time. Shame it was the nation he ruled
Portugal being so perfectly located geographically managed to just wither away without any major wars with European powers I mean they even had the fucking Pope give them half the (known) world with Spain with that Treaty of Tordesillas... surely both Kingdoms literally made the Papal States for that. So glad this channel exists and such a fitting documentary to display their world wars with the Ottomans. Always a huge fan of history and hate when the ENTIRE history of a kingdom, nation or empire (whatever you prefer ;) gets jammed into a 10 min video...
@@Hitmannzz forget the last comment, my English is limited and completely misunderstood what you had written. My bad
@@Hitmannzz The first part of your comment is overly simplistic. If you take into consideration the demographics of Portugal, the fact that the treaty was never recognized by the remaining Christian Nations (or enforced by the pope), and that a huge chunk of the Portuguese navy and army was in the Grand Armada, including the Armada's flagship. The command of said Armada, was not. It was a Spanish command. Not to mention that after the end of the Iberian Union, in 1640, Portugal was at war with France, the Netherlands, Spain, the Ottomans, the Indian Sultanates, and Rajas. Ah, and the Portuguese and Spain wars, (including Castille, Galicia, Leon, and the subsequent unions and alliances ), spanned well over 600 years. Portugal went to war with whom Nations normally go to war with - Their neighbors. And the strategic position that you mention looks good now, when you know the whole world and how to get to other lands. At the time, Portugal was literally in the end of the world, on the edge of the Mediterranean and Atlantic trade. It was a rural and impoverished nation. That necessity resulted in the traveling and conquests that followed in the 15th century. It was the same necessity that drove the Norseman to the same end. The Portuguese Empire did wither away, but the reasons, my friend are stronger than the advantages/challenges that you point out. And the main one is very likely, a succecion of terrible leadership from a Monarchy that grew very accustomed to having extended land overseas and fail to look within to realize that the country was not just the King's Court and Lisbon and the rest of the Kingdom, simply a ground for recruiting troops, settlers and growing their food. Portugal withered because it failed to invest in its people and infrastructure. No country can live of churches and shipbuilding alone. And when the shipbuilding ends, you're left with only churches.
@@nunoalmeida2646 The problem was our "allies and friends" - the British. Methuen treaty was the reason for all of this... With friends like the brits who needs enemies?
@@nunoalmeida2646 Awesome comment. I was being jokingly simplistic and tbh I don't know half as much about Portuguese history as I do with German or British history (Hence why I love channels such as this) Your comment however I really do appreciate every point you made is valid beyond belief. In you honest opinion do you think if the Iberian union with those inbred fools the (Spanish) Hapsburgs would she (Portugal) have been able to maintain its world wide prestige for a couple more centuries?
this may be the best channel ive ever stumbled upon
I adore these videos from Kings and generals- now uploading 80min episodes, History buffs like me digest!
Was not expecting 20 minutes of very very rarely covered Ethiopian history! That country has resisted foreign interference since the first Pharaohs and its awesome to see one of their most understudied conflicts covered here.
europe: we bring you christianity, ethiopia: oh great catholics thats exactly wath we orthodox christians needed
@@kony12356 if it was not because of portuguese... ethiopia that muslim country... :D
Resistiram á interferencia estrangeira porque correm mais do outros.
They couldn’t resist Somali and adel empire destroying them tho
I hope you guys will make some more Ottoman war videos, it is one of my favorite series of yours
As a Somali I'm very grateful you guys decided to cover this topic!
Yep, glad we’re in history. When people look at Africa only slavery and colonization comes up but to have actual history is amazing, proud to be Somali
Something worth mentioning
Is that after Francisco de Almeida won the battle of Diu he ordered dozens of mameluk leaders to be executed by being tied to the mouth of cannons which were then fired, like human cannonballs. And this was the letter he sent to the enemy commander, Malik Ayyaz, before the battle.
“I the Viceroy say to you, honored Meliqueaz captain of Diu, that I go with my men to this city of yours, taking the people who were welcomed there, that in Chaul fought my people, and killed a man who was called my son, and I come with hope in God of Heaven to take revenge on them and on those who assist them, and if I don't find them I will take your city, to pay for everything, and you, for the help you have done at Chaul, this I tell you, so that you are well aware that I go, as I am now on this island of Bombay, as it will tell you the one who this letter brings”.
BALLS, Something that is lacking in today´s western leaders.
the Portuguese at the time had steel balls (due mostly to its geographic location, on its back constantly fighting the spaniards, on its coast constantly fighting pirates, corsairs, invasions, etc., and all this after 700 years of Reconquista). Portuguese leaders also had a penchant to write "nice" letters to their opponents, it's a shame most of this stuff was lost
The Mamluk he wanted dead for killing his son is Amir Hussain al-Kurdi, the governor of Jeddah, who also built the walls of Jeddah to repel the Portuguese and he survived the war along with only 22 other Mamluks. Him and Salman Rais defended Jeddah from the Portuguese in 1517.
@@Thesandchief no, it was Malik Ayaz
@EM the letter was addressed to Malik ayazz but the men who killed his son he mentions are Hussein al-kurdi's men. He was enraged that of the 22 mamluks who survived and escaped Hussein al-kurdi was among them.
Excellent compilation and work. Thanks. I sincerely want to contribute to the channel in the future (I wish I had done it for a long time), when I solve some problems and become more familiar with the internet, because I still don't use it for purchases or transfers (in this aspect I'm still in another century, only in this aspect, so I´m sorry for that for now, but since a long time I do my best to promote your Channel to friends and not only ). Great Battle of Diu. And it's been 450 years for Europeans in the East. Just that disagreement with a final sentence about trade (and it has nothing to do with my Portuguese origin, as I'm interested in everything in general and not just these conflicts involving Portuguese and I look for an impartial approach). Trade with India was very limited for Ottomans and no Portuguese strategic points, and they were many, taken (except the mouth of the Red Sea and Aden specifically). And a Portuguese victory in 1589 (the Empire still functioned autonomously under the crown of the Habbugos, driving the Turks away from Mombassa in East Africa (as previously in India, the Strait of Hormuz and Southeast Asia) limiting them to the of the Red Sea and its gates completly open. it is a grain of sand in a work (and to debate according to historians), in your amazing work.
I'm amazed just how mang times these two guys fought over the spice trade and how the Portuguese won most of these despite being being far away from their country. Innovation is really important indeed something which the Ottomans didn't consider doing until it was too late.
its more like ottomans asking themselves "can we go colonial and compete with portugese while competing asutria holy roman empire poland lithuania and venice at the same time?" and they wisely concluded "no" and didnt wasted resources on a negligible frontier
@@egesisli5694 well, you can't have it all, can you? Do you realize how long it took the Portuguese to send an armada around Africa to get there? You guys were basically fighting at home. You were just unmatched in naval power.
@@egesisli5694 Cope! Portuguese pwn u.
@kamil s ok, kamil
@@NeoZeta *Outmatched
Learned more about the battle of Alcácer-Quibir in this segment than when I was in school. Didn't learn why Sebastião went to war only that he went and the people were still waiting for him back on a foggy day.
Considering how significant that loss was we barely know anything about it, in school you are asked to know the year it ocurred and that's it, not a single thing about what motivated that incursion to Morocco.
From turkey,respect portugal ❤
Same feelings from Portugal to Turkey.
Greetings.
As a Portuguese I have to congratulate you for the long and informative video. Just add that the religious aspect had a fundamental role in the politics and motivation of the armed forces and that a large part of the Portuguese nobility did not support the little king of Portugal (18 years old) in the battle of Alcácer Quibir (battle of the 3 kings), he was motivated by the court of Portugal through religious fervor. In the end Portugal suffered too much and almost ended its empire with the Dutch trying to keep the Portuguese possessions in India and China and Brazil and being ruled by three reigns of Spanish kings.
Portugal has been pooped by Morocco (under almoravids)
@@moroccoisback477 And then defeat in its birth the Almoravids. One of the victories is its birth certificate.
@@Luso515PorTuoGraal Almohad destroyed Almoravids not you or Castilla . At least you were able to get out from castillan trap where basque and Catalan are stuck
@@moroccoisback477 Portugal and Castile get territory from them, before, and already in crisis, but yes, it was the Almohads who destroyed them.
Im always in favor of more videos about the Portuguese adventures.
Finally someone who simply reads. Does not "act" the text. No "deep ending" of sentences. One really feels respected. Thanks guys. Do not lose this quality...
Saudações a nossos amigos e irmãos portugueses!
Greetings to our portuguese friends and brothers!
You forgot the ottoman-Portuguese war over Mars.
What's that?
Maybe pun😂
is there any spicies there? if so we will dominate that stuff
2023 otto-portugese martian empire insaAllah
@@librainvictus5660 space ship battle between neo Portuguese empire and neo ottoman empire
Another award-worthy depiction! Thanks Kings and Generals.
love it! - have long had a fascination with the Ottoman Empire
164 'dislikes' - why? this is the best video on this topic of Ottoman-Portuguese war ever
The kitten in the background at around 53:00 is just the most adorable, especially during a professional presentation like this.
i love how they still use Total War clips and images haha it makes it feel almost wholesome lmao
Ahh this makes me want to start a EU4 Portugal campaign again. It's so chill lol
in eu4 both of them arrives to india too late or never but i would like to rush and compete with the other too:(
also its impossible to annex the mamluks as historicaly happened
@@alptekinergin5561 Yeah, I colonized half of the Americas before I got to India lol.
My thoughts exactly lol. I did some Portugal campaigns in EU2 colonising the Americas (yeah Portuguese USA and Brazil) but haven't done that yet in EU4
+thew music at around 1h from EU4 only boosts it :-D
@@alptekinergin5561 It is most ignorated part of history in EI4 IMO.
There should be events for Portugese that would give Mamluks bankruptcy and this should give subjugation cb to Ottomans on Mams.
Awesome video! I am portuguese and didn't know about much of this.
I'm from sri Lanka and when Portuguese came to sri Lanka I can't exactly remember the year but definitely 1500's when Portuguese ships accidentally came to sri Lanka due to a storm and ottoman businessmen and tradesman who spotted Portuguese flags immediately started firing and Portuguese started firing back with their big cannons(first time sri lankan people ever saw guns or cannons in history) Wich resulted ottomans being defeated and colonized the shores of sri Lanka.
Yes, unfortunately some time after the Dutch took over it, to be taken again by the British.
@@hotman_pt_ but sometimes the dutch falied/lost, like Macau and others. it was impossible for Portugal to control so much area, in so long time
Never heard about that before, very interesting (from Turkiye)
dutch came to my nation in 1596..they began to collect our lands,mines etc by colonization for 350 years.. 😔😔😔 they are rich country by killing another,,what a cruelty acts from the most "human-rights country"...
@@oldwine2401 Sou Brasileiro e aqui os Holandeses também foram destruídos. Apesar um Holandês ter feitos boas coisas pela cidade onde moro. O Conde Maurício de Nassau.
A WIC o expulsou pois estava tentando desenvolver a região.
Recife, estado de Pernambuco a mais antiga das capitanias.
King Sebastian’s death and the subsequent Hapsburg takeover was so tragic to Portugal that many still held to the belief that he had survived and would one day return to reclaim the throne and make the kingdom independent from Spain once again, as his corpse was never found.
This whole idea at some point ended up getting some mythical status and mingling up with common old folk tales of dormant kings that await to return to their land in a time of hardship, such as King Arthur in Avalon. Some really clinged to this idea, and this legend was even evoked when the time came for the Portuguese to fight to break away from the Spanish Crown.
Oddly enough, as late as the early 20th century there was this notion in Brazil among certain provincial anti-republic movements that King Sebastian would return to restore the then recently abolished monarchy in Brazil.
To this day, we still say it as a joke that he will return to fix our country ahah
Wow 😮
its not very often you find actual history anymore thanks for this i wish the history channel still did this
Could you do a video about the Portuguese history in Asia, please? I mean, the influence the portuguese had on Japan with firearms (and gastronomy) or even the deal with China about Macau
Portuguese words also influencied the Japanese Language.
Portugal had a Feituria in Nagasaki
Apparently the Portuguese introduced playing cards to Japan and apparently the Japanese word for gangster Yakuza means a losing hand in cards.
Safavid-Portugal Wars are also very interesting and long lasting. Shame there ain't quite enough information about it on internet.
These channels don't do Portugal, unless Portugal stumbles into whatever crap they are covering.
My country is so small, nowadays, many people have embraced defeatism, thinking we *must* be dependent on bigger countries. It's like many have forgotten we challenged every single odd and came out on top for the most part.
People like YOU, are defeatist. I am Portuguese and will never be defeated. It's people like you, soft, lefties writting silling comments like you have that creates defeatism. Hold your head up high no matter what. Don't forget what your grandfathers fought for. Stop embarrasing your country with such defeatist mentality.
Great documentary! Love from Porto!
As always, a stellar job. And of a topic I know very little. Will digest this with great interest. Thank you.
Heróis do Mar, Nobre povo! Nação Valente, Imortal!
Levantai hoje de novo o esplendor de Portugal…
@@abcdef27669 Dentre as brumas da Vitória, ...
@@pastaconcurso6371 tá mal, a continuação é esta "Entre as brumas da memória
Oh, Pátria, sente-se a voz..."
@@mmmab1000 desculpa-me. Não sou português.
@@pastaconcurso6371 Sem problema :)
I love the longer videos. Also this topic is great. You guys are doing a great job of filling in the gray areas of my history knowledge. I love history and finding something new to learn is getting more difficult. This is a great choice
The Age of Colonization series is easily going to be the most interesting series on this channel.
Any time I see videos on Hellenic/Hellenistic Age or Early Modern Era, I can't help but smile from ear to ear.
This was fascinating in my AP European history class we could not go over this due to time constraints but thank you so much
Legend has it that during one of these campaigns, a portugese sailor would kill Montoya Beg. Years later, his son Indigo would exact revenge for this atrocity by saying, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die" as he would kill the sailor
I'm pretty sure he's Spanish not Portuguese
I couldn’t help but read that line in his accent. Great movie!
First Global empire in History...so much the Portuguese give to the world and so underrated...
Underrated yes, first global empire this i doubt
@@refaathassan8595 Dear friend,when James Cook born,the Portuguese have been all around the world 170 years at least before...
James Cook born in 1728,Portuguese have been in canadá (Newfoundland and Labrador)in 1492, India in 1497,island of são lourenço know today as Madagascar in 1500, Brazil in 1500, Ceilâo know today as Sry lanka in 1505, Mauritius in 1502, Comores islands in 1505,Tristâo da Cunha island in 1506,Santa Helena Island in 1501,Ascension Island in 1501, Papua New Guinea in 1511,Molucas in Indonesia in 1511,China (Macau)in 1535,malasia (malacca)1511,east timor not far from Australia in 1515,(Australia in 1523 but to hard to admit that) Japan in 1543 (Nagasaki was founded by the Portuguese) Formosa island today know as Taiwan in 1544,Maldives island in 1558,Magalhaes first circumnavigation to the world in 1521, Espiritu Santo and Vanatu in the Pacific in 1606 and much more
Just have a look to the Portuguese empire between 1500/1600 and you will be suprise.
GIL EANES,DIOGO GOMES,FERNÃO GOMES,LOPO GONÇALVES,DIOGO CÃO,
BARTOLOMEU DIAS,PÊRO DA COVILHÃ,
JOÃO FERNANDES LAVRADOR,VASCO DA GAMA,GASPAR CORTE-REAL,PEDRO ÁLVARES CABRAL,DIOGO ZEIMOTO,FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE LACERDA E ALMEIDA that some of the great Portuguese explorers.
No, first global empire is spanish empire.
@@CagataySahin1 have a look in the Portuguese empire in 1500s Vs Spanish and see the difference.
@@CagataySahin1 have a look in the tordesilhas treaty between Portugal and Spain and you will understand why Portugal was the first global empire.
Another thing I had no idea existed. Exquisite. King and Generals just keeps getting better.
The war was one of the very first capitalist war. Venetian merchants vouching for the Ottoman Muslim to beat catholic Portugal to ensure venice did not get kicked out of the trade monopoly. Money 💵 💵💵 talks.
@ana sheee As if any other nation was different. The Venetians just saw an opportunity in the weak and civil war ridded Roman Empire and took it: everyone wanted the cake, they just were the one to get it first.
The Malmuks and Ottomans intervention in india. to secure their own trade. Are all trade wars capatalist?
Praise God Portugal held their own 💪💪💪
@@fede98k54 venetians and genoese do everything for money, even now 😂 there's something about being from a maritime republic
What war isnt a capitalist war? Every war is fought to gain resources of some kind.
Portugal:when you put all of yours points into naval skills
This channel introduce a high quality work, that many times i press the LIKE button even before watching
keep it up guys 👍👏
Love these long form videos
Great piece of history blended with epic battles and adventures. Amazing job!