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It is not. Only à idiot can say this. King Stephan is as Napoléon maybe far better because hé had less resources than the french general. 43 battles won on 47 Hé fought. 😊
"Moldavia was not my ancestors', was not mine, and is not yours, but belongs to our descendants and our descendants' descendants to the end of time." - Stefan Dom cel mare
Stepehen the great one of the great rulers in the Balkans. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤝🏴.
Vlad was never depicted as a vampire. You are confusing the historical figure with the book and movie character. Vlad was only the inspiration for Bram Stoker because he was known for his cruelty.
Thats propaganda. Vlad is a hero not only to Romanians but to all Europeans. He fought the islamic hordes with very little ressources and managed to force a retreat of a 100,000 strong Ottoman army after completely demoralizing them by impaling 20,000 ottomans. He was a master of psychological and guerrilla warfare.
Machiavelli wrote that in the book "the prince" (il principe): "For a ruler, if you cannot strive for both loved and feared. Its better to be feared than loved. As fear is a better motivator tool for ruler to exert power".
As a Romanian i am very happy to see some of our history on your channel. In those days the leaders would fight for their people with the people, nowadays the leaders have secret or plain sight meetings to fight their own people.
@@thereal_maximg😂😂😂Friend, he is from the Maramuresi family, born in the Moldavia region of Romania...he was the ruler of Moldavia, and that Moldavia together with Wallachia formed today's Romania...
If anyone's (very) keen on Medieval Romania, Hungary, the Ottomans, especially from a military point of view, I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos
@@williamrobert9898 Actually Stephen the great defeated Mehmed too in 2 battles out of 3. Mehmed was also defeated by Hungarian peasants during siege of Belgrade
@Jihadists_tears Can you give me the name of the other 2 Battles in which they fought each other? Edit: Hungarian peasants??? The same ones who were conquered by the Ottomans later after the Ottomans crushed them in the Battle of Mohacs? That's irrelevant, stick to the topic
@Jihadists_tears Come on bro, give me the names of the other 2 Battles in which Stephen The Great won against Mehmed the second, I want to educate myself, the only engagement between the 2 that I could find is the battle of Valea Albă
watch corpus draculianum chanel. the campaign against stefan was a crusade :)))) the primal objective was to take istanbul, the secondary goal was to dismantle the tartar hanat, and the minimal goal was to bring moldova under polish rule. a historian who search in teuton archives found documents about that campaign by chance, he was searching for grand master of teuton order correspondence with pope :)))) and as teutons was a part of that campaign he found unknow facts, until few years ago. fun fact after that battle, polish begin to use short hair haircut, because stefan hang them by the long hair on the trees on that forest :)))) it seems to be true because in all the paints of polish knights before battle they have long hair..... after that date.... in all paints they have short hair :))))
I'm Romania this only few battles he been I hope we get more because people know of Vlad but in my home country this man was one of the greatest heroes of Eastern Europe
@@catalindale7296 I am Romanian as well, and I believe it is true he was one of the greatest heroes of Eastern Europe. Just like Ștefan cel Mare, Hunyad and Skanderberg, he is one of the heroes who temporarily halted Ottoman expansion into Eastern Europe.
Goes to show that no amount of troops can compensate for poor leadership and tactics on the Ottoman’s part. Though I’m sure the numbers are a little inflated to add some mystique to the battle.
later ottomans defeated stephen the great in battle of valea alba. and both had the same number. so they are not bad they are actually good at military.
@@odez5412 Romanians were always vastly outnumbered by the Ottomans. When Stefan lost the battle at Valea Alba he was vastly outnumbered in that battle.
@@odez5412 Mehmet had a minimum of 100k soldiers up to 150k, Stephan had between 12k-20k moldovans and another 10k hungarians and polish fighters (a maximum of 30k). 100k vs 30k .Do you really think Mehmet , the sultan of the Ottoman empire, only had 30k soldiers with him ??
@@Emanuel-E en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valea_Albă Why and how could they have 150k? Even in this video it shows a huge battle that ottoman lost. How can they have 150k after 1 year? Lets say that they had that army. Why would mehmed attack a kingdom with 150k? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Otlukbeli Aqqoyunids, a turkish country ruled most of the iran. It was a way bigger threat. And this battle happened, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Otlukbeli And he had 100k in that battle. So why would he attack moldovia with 150k? He attacked istanbul with 100k, and thats one of the most important things in history.
We cannot say that Mehmed massacred the Moldavians at Valea Alba when he had much greater losses. The Moldavians rejected them several times until Mehmed ordered a general attack. The Moldovans had to retreat and left behind 800 men to cover the retreat. Among these 800 there were very large losses.. Stefan did not lose so many soldiers, but he lost more than ten boyars from the Council of the country who were also fighting on the front line. Stefan could not use his entire army in this fight because he left part of his troops to protect his lands from the Tatar invasion that was taking place at the same time.
only the battle was lost by stefan... the campaign was won, the ottomans retreat before reach suceava, mehmet made a mistake start that campaign on winter.
Worth some mentions: The Ottomans attacked during winter, which was almost unheard of, they had never done it before and they didn't try it after (obviously why). They tried to surprise Stefan, they failed. Around 2/3 of Stefan's army were peasants, we can only assume that they were very poorly equipped and maybe simple spearmen. The invasion of 1476 of Mehmet II was at first a huge success, they took most of the country but couldn't occupy any of the fortresses in the North. The decisive battle while it was a disaster for Moldova it was in doubt for a long time, Mehmet needed to use his personal guard to break through. Anyway, Stefan kept harassing, burning and when the Transylvanian army finally arrived Mehmet's retreat turned again into a rout. He had his army dispersed to control the country, easy to attack, the main army moved slow, there was also disease.... Mehmet started with 200.000 and under half of that managed to cross the Danube back. The war continued for 4 more years but the casualties were so big they were unsustainable for the Ottomans, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that this was one of the things that slowed down their expansion until Selim and Suleyman.
the tactics used were nothing short of genius. terrain, weather, guerilla tactics, and perfect positioning of troops. Suleiman had an army probably twice as large, but he did not know what to do with it. he was no Mehmed II. however, i am more impressed by the fact that such a small principality managed to raise such a large force. sure, only a few thousand were professional soldiers, the rest merely militia. still... the logistics to provide for such a force from such a small state is impressive, when during the crusades, the western countries could barely feed lesser armies, still in owe of roman ability to provide resources to so many over such long distances. while the ottomans here were many, they suffered scortched earth tactics, and feeding the soldiers so far from home was a huge problem. Stefan knew what he was doing.
Principality of Moldavia was Romanian, why did Dimitrie Cantemir write that all inhabitants of Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania are Romanians, and descendants of the Romans since Trajan the Emperor? And Principality of Moldavia founded Romania in 1859, Alexandru Ioan Cuza was a Moldavian boyar, later Prince of Moldavia and days later Prince of Wallachia and created Romania.🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🦅
@@InAeternumRomaMaterNo, I am from Moldova and we are not romanian. Stephen the Great is ours. You guys can have the Vampire. The russian empire and the soviets treated us better than you gypsies did. Stephen the Great is 100% ours and not yours
@@InAeternumRomaMaterYou are lucky the Russian Empire didn't annex the entire principality or your useless gypsy country wouldn't be a thing. Stephen the Great is Moldovan and not Romanian.🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩
@@alechboy3578banning the matern language of the inhabitants keep them iliterate, deporting to Siberia and starving them to death. It was indeed heaven under Russian empire and URSS. Good fairytails you have here.
Romania was first founded in 1859. For reference, that's 164 years ago. The Battle of Vaslui took place in 1475. That's 384 years before Romania was founded.
Michael the Brave by far. He beat the Ottomans all the way to Adrianople, conquered all Ottoman fortresses on Danube, defeated all the empires around until was betrayed. He lost a single battle at Miraslau and was betrayed by Austrians, who joined Hungarians, Polish, Moldovans, already a double size army and even that could win if didnt follow the Austrian retreat into ambush.
Vlad the Third Dracula (The Impaler) was after his realise in Bosnia and Serbia, where he campaigned against the Ottomans. Source: Corpus Draculianum an independent research team
As a Moldovan i think the ottoman numbers are a lot more because in Moldavian chronics says that Oastea otomană era cit o țara de mare undeva la 120.000 de osteni which means that the ottoman army is a lot bigger about 120.000 soldiers+whalachian army
in istanbul arhive is a document in who is wrote that 20.000 peasants from bulgaria were recruited to build roads and bridges for that campaign. it can be 100,000 but all the army. a army like that need doctors, tailors, smiths, cooks, horse care takers, and so on, most of trustful historians agree to 30-40.000 combatant forces, on ottoman forces and 20.000 combined moldavian, polish, hungarians from that only 10.000 seems to be moldavian. from all estimates the demographer of moldavia at that time was about 500.000 you deduct women 50% child and older 30-40% and.... you don't have so much men's capable to fight :D
St.Stephen the Great, the greatest Romanian lord. The greatest latin warrior of the east in Medieval Romanian History. Slavă Românilor, vlahi din Balcani, copii romanilor al Romei🇷🇴🏛🦅
@@thereal_maximg I was precisely. Principality of Moldavia was the state that formed modern day Romania, Alexandru Ioan Cuza was a Moldavian boyar, and the Prince of Moldavia, who later got elected Prince of Wallachia and formed today's Romania. I already gave another comment like this, and gave you old documents from the Principality. Principality of Moldavia was even the first to have news papers compared to Wallachia, and they were called "Albina Românească"😂
@@InAeternumRomaMaterYou are lucky the Russian Empire didn't annex the entire principality, otherwise your useless gyspy country wouldn't be a thing. Stephen the Great is ours and not yours. Moldovans are the real aryans. Dragostea din tei is also our song and doesn't belong to gypsy land
@@thereal_maximg Moldovans are a sub-type of romanian, like bavarians are a sub-type of german or texans a sub-type of americans. I should know... I am one (bessarabian romanian). So yeah, please document yourself before making silly claims like you just did.
@@thereal_maximg I'm Romanian, and I'm pretty sure this is a Russian troll trying to annoy Moldavians. All Romanians know the year when Moldova and Valahia united. Either that or an ultra nationalist Romanian of some sort. Pay no attention to him or others like him.
They did but were attracted towards a populated area, to force them to cross the bridge and resupply, so they could fall into the chosen battlefield, on a route to Suceava capital. This guys explain is poor.
@@f1uf If u thought a bit more, you would know that it is a sign of respect for our warrior ( metaphor ). Besides we as Christians we don't believe that death is the end.
It's important to note that 100,000 is probably exaggerated. It is extremely unlikely that their number exceeded 45,000-50,000. Still, the victory was impressive.
If you are following the modern days trend on Moldavian independent republic, their narrative relies heavily on Stephen The Great behavior during this whole reign. Since Stephen was fighting Vallachia and Trasylvania so often in order to secure a flank, then he must not considere himself related to vallachians in any way, so his descendants must not feel themselves as romanian. Because brothers don't fight each other, right? Much later russians picked up the idea and used it on Bessarabia for several decades of constant propaganda: "moldavians are not romanians so they must speack a different language: moldanian language" Voilà. A really interesting detail is on 1:20. Szekely men were acting independently to magyar rule of Transylvania and provided consistent support to Stephan. 5k szekelys men is a lot. I would love to see an episode dedicated them. The tactics used on early stages of Vaslui battle must be overated. The use of the bells to lead the main ottoman infantry to a side of battlefffield is a fantasy, a funny fantasy i must admit. A inovation never used before or after if whole European medieval times. That imply that Stephen had a mobile meteorological station dispatched with his army and knew in advance that were not visibility on the battlefield, also a bunch of "musicians" dispatched with the army the whole time. That is ridiculous. Not even today you cannot predict the wheather in such a way. Also the micromanagement at tactical level must be insane. Is a fake in my opinon.
Stefan the Great has gathered the "Great Army" ie almost all the able bodied men of the voievodate so I think that some of my ancestors thought at Vaslui.
If such a high percentage of men fought, then because it was so long ago, I think you're right, just by the logic of genealogy. I can't say that about famous Mediaeval British battles, cos like, Henry V did NOT take most able-bodied Englishmen to France to fight at Agincourt. Vaslui sounds like a much cooler battle though- more impressive, & defending their home, not invading for no good reason.
Laiotă was not in alliance with the sultan. Laiotă was a subject of the sultan. A subject of a monarch doesn't make alliance with the latter. He obeys orders within his duty to his lord
Don't believe these numbers. Little Moldova had 40 000? Yeah, sure. Ottomans 60 000-100 000 also too much. For comparison the famous battle of Pavia 1525 was the decisive battle of big countries and had about 25 000 from each side.
Even at the Battle of Otlukbeli in which Mehmed II faced his greatest threat, the Uzun Hasan led White Sheep Turcomans, his Ottoman army numbered less than 100k
Those numbers are surely exagarated, in battle of varna 1444 Ottomans has about 40.000 to 60000 Man and it was lead by Sultan himself with all of his household troops and armies from both anatolia and balkans, against a whole crusade but just 30 years later Ottomans assamble 100.000 just for a small balkan state...
Wallachia or Moldova cannot raised at the time more than 16 k or 18k soldiers (with 3k to 4 k mercenaries included) ,very unlikely 20 k army! unrealistic numbers 40k !
Moldova had a 30k free peasants (razeshi) army and a permanent 7-10 k cavalry, so yes the great army as is called was more than 40k that time and they were all trained warriors.
I see comments didn't fight himself. Remember he was crippled for life in siege of Chilia? He was an engaging general. A fighter. Hight 1.65 cm. His sword is still keept in Istanbul. See pictures of sword dimension. Fucking tough molavian
Even in the Battle of Otlukbeli, the Ottomans could not raise an army of 100,000, even though the army was led by the Sultan himself against the great threat Uzun Hasan. The quarter of numbers for both armies seem more consistent. The numbers are already exaggerated in most historical documents.
100k is not right... Mehmed famous siege of Constantinople 1453.. He had around 100k-120k But an Ottoman Commander will not lead an army this big Without the Sultan... 50k-maybe 70k But 100k is a very big and Unrealistic number...
i think my main concern about this video is how tf that a pasha lead more army than the sultan himself, because on the next year mehmed 2 actually defeats stephan on valea alba with a lesser army number (atleast according to wikipedia) , so i cant help to wonder the number of ottoman army on vaslui is heavily exaggerated
in istanbul arhive is a document in who is wrote that 20.000 peasants from bulgaria were recruited to build roads and bridges for that campaign. it can be 100,000 but all the army. a army like that need doctors, tailors, smiths, cooks, horse care takers, and so on, most of trustful historians agree to 30-40.000 combatant forces, on ottoman forces and 20.000 combined moldavian, polish, hungarians from that only 10.000 seems to be moldavian. from all estimates the demographer of moldavia at that time was about 500.000 you deduct women 50% child and older 30-40% and.... you don't have so much men's capable to fight :D
now that number more make sense , its funny every ottoman campaign on small europe country the number ottoman always 100k while selim 1 conquered mamluk completely with 60-80k army
@@rakadean39 and usually only a sultanate campaign ( when sultan is present) had that numbers 100,000+ and this is very rare in history. i believe people from small countries exagerate the numbers only to show how brave they was :))) if they was so brave why ottomans after all manage to rule balkans? the victories of serbia, albania, valahia, moldavia even hungary was only temporary or to put them in a better negotiation position. but only as vassals of ottomans. after all ottomans ruled balkans almost 500 years :)))) so who won?
Well the numbers for the Ottomans are believable (they were able to get man from a fast emipre). As for the Moldovian side, they were in a fight for survival so they would be able to get a lot of people too. The only question would be. Was the Moldovian army all "professional" or was it partially farmers who wanted/needed to help to defend their homeland.
@@ChristiaanHW”oastea mica” was the army used in raids which was professional, “oastea mare” was the defending army seen as the last resort which was mainly composed of farmers and peasants. So yes, at Vaslui most of the able man in the kingdom fought without much of the necessary training
Moldavians were referred as Vlachs, which means Romanians. And they were referring to themselves as Romanians too, take the example the writings of both Dimitrie Cantemir and Vasile Lupu who both where Prince's of Moldavia. Not to mention that Principality of Moldavia founded Romania in 1859
@@lotyogipityu7992 Are you mentally unwell? Vlachs was the historical exonym to the people of the Proto-Romanian branch, Aromanians is the second biggest group of the Proto-Romanian family, Romanians being the biggest, so of course they are called Vlachs. But why was Dragoș Vodă referred as a Vlach? Why did he take with him vlachs from Maramureș? And why was Moldavia referred as Boğdan Iflak, Eng: Bogdan's-Wallachia, Russo-Wallachia and Moldo-Wallachia by Turks, Greeks and even by the rulers themselves of the Principality? Why did St.Stephen the Great refer to Principality of Wallachia as "the other Wallachia" to the Venetians so that they wouldn't confuse it with his Principality? Short answer: Because they are Vlachs, aka Romanians
Nah Ottoman Empire is heavily overhyped. Oh they conquered the Balkans and Large parts of North Africa. In North Africa, it is basically sand and camels. Balkans are not really fertile or do have any development. Same with Asia minor. They were average at best, mostly overhyped by Turks online.
@@St3v3NWL I do not think that they are heavily overhyped as they are one of the strongest respective empires ever in this world and to win some epic battles is considered huge for their dynasty to be honest regardless of any network,good friend!!!🙏🏻
@@St3v3NWL "They were average at best, mostly overhyped by Turks online." Except even Western historians agree their achievements were great. At one point the could have easily conquered Europe.
"Where were they excessively outnumbered? He had 40k troops against 100k Ottoman troops , and when you're on the offensive, you need 10 soldiers attacking for every 1 soldier defending to have a chance to conquer the defender?"
You mean us Moldovans? Dragostea din Tei is also ours like Stephen the Great. You are lucky the Russian Empire didn't annex the whole principality like it should have.
@@alechboy3578so you admit that today "moldovans" are a russian creation. By the way Russian Empire wanted to take both Muntenia(Wallachia) and Moldavia but they limited at Bassarabia in the end. And it will return back to the rightfull Moldavia (Romania) soon in the next few years.
Hey lol. Romanians from all 3 principalities know all that and also that was the bloody rulers placed as puppets by the surrounding powers to collect their tribute. Rulers had to obey their masters, collect the taxes and join their wars with the mostly boyars armies, not of their own. Moldova also attacked other Romanian principalities on behalf of its masters in time. In those times was like that and the masses of populations had to follow their rulers. So cut the crap.
mate modern romania was created by great powers ( france and england ) to oppose russia so romanians are designed to oppose russia. and be happy the russians "liberate" half of moldova :))) stay like that most of us we don't need you as part of romania and as part of europe until you will prove you are from europe and not from russia. sooooo...... like sofia told you before .... CUT THE CRAP
What about the first Stephan attack of Chilia fortress? That was a clear betrayal. I'm a romanian coming from Moldova region and at least I recognize that at the time we were used by foreign powers against each other. Look for example how the Rus principalities fought each others, the italian states and the german ones before every unifications. Stop weaponizing the past for separatist propaganda.
Asa au fost vremurile pana ne-am unit. Domnii Valahi nu aveau de ales decat sa se supuna imperiului de peste Dunare sau sa fie ucisi si tara pradata de turci si tatari. De cate ori au avut ocazia s-au ridicat impotriva turcilor, dar cand au razbit cu turcii a trebuit sa lupte impotriva ungurilor, austriecilor, moldovenilor si polonilor. Si Moldova era la cheremul Poloniei siTurcilor si s-a ridicat impotriva lui Mihai Viteazul la ordinul Poloniei, care-si vroia omul loial pe tron si aservirea tarii.
The problem with the christian in medieval era is that they don't have unity in themselves instead of uniting and supporting each other's againts the Muslim invaders they turn themselves to one another.If only the christian united they can conquer and establish a Christian ground in anatolia and middle east.
After 1000 CE and especially 1200 CE Islam had become a very shirk in many regions, vassekized by the Tartars, only nomadic desert tribes were almost entirely pious.
@@odez5412 No. And No G...d Through His Messenger Gabriel enlightened Mohammed (PBUH) for the Faith. And also provided Mohammed (PBUH) that after the first three generations from the Founding that there would be additional non-divinely inspired Hadith. After 300 years from the Founding such non- divinely inspires Hadith would gradually become Canonical and deviate the Faith. This has come to pass just as Mohammed (PBUH)had been illuminated to declare.
@@odez5412 Obsfucation of truthful and righteous declarations of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the issue for 1000 years. Are you Muslim? Ot a Troll? Regardless, wilful ignorance is not an excuse or explanation. Translation is quick and easy from/to any language.
@@alechboy3578 Haha, you're a joke. Romanians are latins, so are the ones east of the Prut River, you're a migratory Slav, you have nothing to do with Principality of Moldavia nor with any part of Romania or Republic of Moldova. Go back to Russgayia🤣
100.000 is over exaggerated. The following year Mehmed II sent a bigger army which was 30.000 men. And this was enough to destroy Stefan III’s army at Valea Albă. The first army should be less than 30.000.
Principality of Moldavia was a Romanian Principality, it founded modern Romania in 1859, Alexandru Ioan Cuza was a Moldavian boyar who was voted as Prince of Moldavia in 1859, and days later as Prince of Wallachia forming today's Romania! Here are some writing sources from Principality of Moldavia, enligt yourself: _Pravila lui Vasile Lupu, Iași, 1646_ *„Carte romănească* (Картє Рoмьɴѣскѫ) de învățâtură de la pravilele înpărâtești și de la alte giudeațe, cu dzisa și cu toată cheltuiala lui Vasile Voivodul și Domnul Țărâi Moldovei, di în multe scripturi tâlmăcită di în limba ilenească, *pre limba româniască* (ПрєʌймБА Рoмѫɴѩскѫ). În Tipariul Domnesc s-au tipărit în mănâstirea a Trei S(fe)ti(te)le în Iași, de la Hristos 1646. După tocmala și nevoința Mării Sale Domnului datu-s-au învățătură și mie unui mai mic și nice de o treabă a Mării Sale rob, Evstrate biv logofet, de am scos aceaste pravile și le-am tălmăcit den scrisoare grecească *pre limbă românească (ПрєʌимБѫ Рoмьɴѣскѫ) ca să poată înțeleage toți.”* _Letopisețul Țării Moldovei, scris probabil la Mânăstirea Coșula (jud. Botoșani) pentru Iordachi Cantacuzino (1780)_ Ultimul paragraf: „Așa și neamul acésta, de care scriem, a neamului țărilor acestora, numele drept și mai vechiu iaste *romănĭ* (Рoмьɴй), adecă râmleani, de la Roma. Acest nume de la descălecatul lor de Traian înpărat. cât au trăit pănă la pustietatea lor de pre acéste locuri în munți, în Maramoreș și pe Olt, tot acest nume au ținut și țin și pănă astăzi și încă mai bine munténii decât moldovénii, că ei și acum zic și scriu *Țara Romănească, și românilor* (Цара Рoмьɴѣсь Шꙑ Рoмѫɴиʌoр) celor din Ardeal. Iară străinii și țările împrejur le-au pus acest nume vlah, di pe vloh, cum s-au mai pomenit, valios, valasco, olah, voloșin, tot de streini sânt pusă acéste numere, de pre Italiia, cărora zic le vloh. Apoi mai târziu, turcii (…). Munténilor le zic turcii kara-vlah. Grecii le zic vlahos-bogdanos moldovenilor, iar munteanilor le zic vlahos. *Că acest nume, moldovean, ne iaste di pe apa Moldova,* după al doilea descălecatul aceștii țări de Dragoș Vodă. Și munteanilor, ori de pre munte, munteani, ori di pe Olt, olteani, că léșii așa le zic, molteani. Măcară dar că și la istorii și la graiul streinilor și înde sine cu vréme, cu vacuri, cu primineale au dobândit și alt nume, dar acela carele iaste nume stă întemeiat și rădăcina rămâne. Cum vedem că, măcar că ne răspundem acum moldoveani, iar nu *întrebăm: știi moldoveneaște?, ci întrebăm știi romăneaște?, adecă râmleneaște, puțin nu zicem: sțis romanițe? pre limba latinească.* Stă dar numele cel vechiu ca întâi neclătit, deși adaog ori vrémile îndelungate, ori streinii adaog și alte neamuri, dar cel ce iaste de rădăcină nu să mută. Și *așa iaste acestor țări și țării noastre, Moldovii și Țării Muntenești, numele cel drept de moșie, iaste români (Рoмѫɴй),* cum să răspund și acum cei din Țara Ungurească lăcuitori, și munteanii țara lor și scriu și răspund cu graiul: Țara Romănească (Цара Рoмьɴѣсь) […]” Cazania lui Varlaam, Iași, 1643 *„Carte romănească* (Картє Рoмьɴѣскѫ) de învățătură dumenecele preste an și la praznice înpărătești. Și la Svănți Mari. Cu zisa și cu toată cheltuiala lui Vasilie [Lupu] Voivodul și Domnul Țărăi Moldovei. Di în multe scripturi tălmăcită. Di în limba sloveniască pre *limba romeniască* (Прєʌмба Рoмєɴïѧкѫ). De Varlam Mitropolitul de Țara Moldovei în tipariul domnesc. În mănăstirea a Trei Steli, în Iași. De la Hristos 1643. Stihuri în stema domniei Moldovei Deși vedzi căndva sămn groaznic, să nu te miri cănd să aratâ putearnic. Că putearnicul putearia-l închipuiaște, și slăvitul podoaba-l schizmeaște. Cap de buâr și la domnii Moldovenești, ca putearia aceii hieri să o socotești, De unde mari domni spre laudă ș-au făcut cale, de-acolo și Vasilie vodă au ceput lucrurile sale. Cu învățături ce în țara sa temeliuiaște, nemuritoriu nume pre lume știe zideaște. CUVĂNT ÎNPREUNĂ *CĂTRÂ TOATÂ SEMENȚÏA ROMENEASNÂ* (Кьтрѫ тoатѫ Сємєɴцïѫ Рѡмєɴѣсиѫ) Prea luminat întru pravoslavie, și credincios întru Părintele Nenăscut, și întru Fiul de la Părintele Nenăscut mainte de toți vecii, și întru Duhul Svănt dela Părintele Purcezătoriu, și pre Fiul Odihnitoriu, Svănta Troiță Unul Adevărat Dumnezău Ziditoriu și Făcătoriu tuturor văzutelor și nevăzutelor. Io Vasile Voevod cu darul lui Dumnezău Țiitoriu și Biruitoriu și Domn a toată Țara Moldovei, dar și milă și pace și spăsenie a toată *semenția romănească (Сємєɴцïѫ Рѡмєɴѣсиѫ) pretutinderea ce să află pravoslavnici într-aciasta liânmbă* cu toatâ inima cearem dela Domnul Dumnezău și Izbăvitoriul nostru Iisus Hristos. Diintru cât s-au îndurat Dumnezău diîntru Mila Sa de ne-au dăruit dăruim și noi acest dar *limbii romănești,* *carte pre limba romănească* (РȢмънїзиж), întăiu de laudă lui Dumnezău, după acea de învățătură și de folos sufletelor pravoslavnici." 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🏛🏛🏛🏛☦️
It is said that every balkan country has a glorious victory over a trillion janissaries but no one buys these nonsense stories except those balkan countries.
Battle of Valea Albă ottomans did that challenge in this battle XD. and if you think ottoman allways had bigger army you dont know history. and all those balkanian great commanders: skanderberg vlad and stephen all of them were slapped XDDDDDD
@@odez5412 lmao tell me what type of drug you are taking because I defently wanna try it XD did you even watch the video lmao? And skanderberg and vlad among many others destroyed the ottomans you need to open a history book besides a Turkish one
@TIAID-ct4ov And Vlads head is in Istanbul. I think there are more Turks in the ground because Skanderberg quickly hided to his castle when Mehmed II. came.
in Varna 1444 Osmanli annilihated and killed 100,000-110,000 crusaders from 15 european nations including the killing of the Polish king and a Cardinal from the Vatican in Kosovo 1448 Osmanli annilihated and killed 100,000 crusaders while losing 17,000 martyrs in kosovo 1456 Osmanli annilihated and killed 30,000 to 50,000 Hungarian crusaders and smashed the skull of their king Hunyadi
What the heck. Ioanes de Hunyad won the Battle of Belgrade against the Ottomans in 1453 and died of typhus weeks after. You lie like a turkish gazette.
@@Sofia-0001 :))))) on varna battle, the battle was won mostly by the charge of the light cavalry from valahia. after the charge the ottoman flank were walahian riders hit the army collapsed, the sultan order retreat, the leader of valahian toops, oldest son of Vlad II Dracul and brother of Vlad Țepeș and Radu the Handsome. give permision to his troops to rob the ottoman camp and leave the batlle, heading to buda to meet jhon huniady. when walhians return with their prey passing in front of the Crusaders commanded by King Władysław III of Poland, they wanted also a share of the prey, and order a frontal attack on sultan tent, the jenisaryes manage to defend the sultan and defeat the crusaders as the sultan seeing it is hope for a great win, orders a contrattack lead from his personal guards and defeated crusaders. mircea the second reach buda and give the news of the victory, mircea and all royal court starting a party for the victory:)))) three days after, the news come from varna that the battle was actually lost :))))) and his father is holding jhon huniady prisoner :))))mircea the second was convinced they won. later the valahians were depicted like traitors leaving the battle by all european historians. as ottomans write how smart was the sultan to attract crusaders in the middle of their camp and close the flanks after and defeat them. this facts are know by more then 10 years...... nobody rewrite this fact. documents was found it is no doubt that this was the real depiction of the battle of varna.
:))))) on varna battle, the battle was won mostly by the charge of the light cavalry from valahia. after the charge the ottoman flank were walahian riders hit the army collapsed, the sultan order retreat, the leader of valahian toops, oldest son of Vlad II Dracul and brother of Vlad Țepeș and Radu the Handsome. give permision to his troops to rob the ottoman camp and leave the batlle, heading to buda to meet jhon huniady. when walhians return with their prey passing in front of the Crusaders commanded by King Władysław III of Poland, they wanted also a share of the prey, and order a frontal attack on sultan tent, the jenisaryes manage to defend the sultan and defeat the crusaders as the sultan seeing it is hope for a great win, orders a contrattack lead from his personal guards and defeated crusaders. mircea the second reach buda and give the news of the victory, mircea and all royal court starting a party for the victory:)))) three days after, the news come from varna that the battle was actually lost :))))) and his father is holding jhon huniady prisoner :))))mircea the second was convinced they won. later the valahians were depicted like traitors leaving the battle by all european historians. as ottomans write how smart was the sultan to attract crusaders in the middle of their camp and close the flanks after and defeat them. this facts are know by more then 10 years...... nobody rewrite this fact. documents was found it is no doubt that this was the real depiction of the battle of varna.
@@MPapainog I didnt talk about the battle of Varna. He lied about the outcome of battle of Belgrade and assumingly how the Ottomans smashed the skull of John Hunyad in 1456, who actually died of typhus after he won the battle of Belgrade in 1453.
It was a very smart move on his part. But the biggest deciding factor of this battle was the geographic advantage of the fog removing visibility. Without the fog, the plan couldnt have worked, and the Ottomans woupd have swept them all aside. The victory is beyond impressive by numbers alone, but i wouldnt call the man "genius"
Thats the point using the terrain to your favor. Thats what a military genius does. Its not a coincidence he won 34 battles while losing only two. He strategically decided to use this terrain bc of the fog that was known to be present on the area during this time of the year. I recommend reading Sun Tzus art of war.
The place is a sunken mudded depression and the edges were forested. How did the Ottomans got into such place? What would you name a general who managed to attract an invading army of his country to follow him for a battle exactly in that place, at exactly that time, right when the fog also surrounds the place? Then to maneuver them like marionets to follow the music to the west, while the guns were at north east and the main army inside the forest, waiting behind at east. The small bridge to cut retreat, muddy place to nullify Ottoman cavalry movement advantage and also block or slow retreat.
Every history geek who deep-dive into history with an impartial perspective will realize that the ottoman military was vastly overrated. In almost all early crucial Balkan conflicts, ottomans had more men, supplies, and gunpowder than their rivals. When the odds were equal or they faced up more equal grade enemy, the ottomans were utterly broken and decisively defeated. Gjergj Kastrioti, one of the most prominent ottoman ass-kickers in history, had a 24-1 win/loss ratio against the ottomans. Besides, Kastrioti's army was vastly outnumbered (most of the time 10 to 1), largely consisting of militia and volunteers. Ironically, Gjergj Kastrioti was enslaved and trained by ottomans. Yet he was a far better soldier&leader than any other ottoman sultan&pasha in history. After all, he was a proud Christian. The ottomans may have enslaved his body, but they had never enslaved his soul. Not only the ottoman Balkan invasion, this situation also applies to subsequent battles that took place in the following centuries. In the Battle of Ankara (1402),Mongolian descendant Tamerlane inflicted significant casualties on the ottoman while imprisoning the ottoman sultan. At the beginning of the battle, both belligerents exchanged letters, and Tamerlane humiliated the ottoman sultan more than once. Let's take a look at the siege of Constantinople, for example. Ottomans deployed more than 100,000 men plus giant cannons forged by Hungarian engineer Orban that have been unique and never seen that age. On the other side, the city defenders had barely 10,000 and were out of livestock and munitions. Despite that, the siege took 50 days and the ottomans lost half of their armies. Just do some research. Since when did mehmed, "the so-called conqueror" who annexed Constantinople, win which battle while the odds were against him? He always got the numbers, cannons, and manpower. :) The ottomans first confrontations with the colonial powers also ended up with military disasters. Battle of Gulf Oman 1554 decisive Portuguese victory, ottomans lost all their ships, ottoman admiral fleed like a chicken and Battle of Cape Corvo 1613 (It was a crushing Spanish victory, a vast amount of ottomans taken prisoner by the Spanish) Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (1538-1560) also resulted in Portuguese victories. Prince Eugene of Savoy from Habsburg dynasty was another notable ottoman crusher in history. His achievements against ottomans were pretty impressive. Battle of Zenta 1697 and Battle of Petrovaradin are simple examples of how he brought down ottomans.(During these battles, Eugene had 20,000 men, and ottomans had more than 100,000 men. After these battles, no other ottoman sultan dared to lead military campaigns. Literally, the ottomans came to the negotiation table while on their knees (Treaty of Karlowitz 1699) and bowed to the Habsburg terms. The ottomans so-called predecessors, the seljuk turks, had no difference in that subject. They were also defeated and humiliated in countless wars like ottomans while holding tactical&numerical superiority. The Battle of Lake of Antioch 1098, the Battle of Sarmin 115, the Battle of Didgori 1121, the Battle of Iconium 1190, the Battle of Kosedag 1243 etc. Moreover, this Turkic faction was just a bad copy of the Mongols in terms of warfare. The only thing they did was implement cowardly hit-and-run horse archery tactics, nothing more. Since I referred to seljuk turks, I'd like to refer to some misinformation about it that is spreading around the internet. :) The factual crusades conducted by Catholic factions were regarding the Holy Lands, Jerusalem, and Levant states and ignited by the Pope .This means the other prevention attempts to repel muslim invaders from Balkan territory should not be defined as a crusade like Nicopolis and Varna. (the ignorant turkish brats are speaking about these all the time.) Here's a quote from a historian to bring clarity to that topic. " I've seen constant misconceptions on the internet that the goal of the Crusades was “to prevent Muslim expansion into Western Europe” or something. This is not so. The First Crusade's stated aim was to aid Eastern Christians, primarily the Greek Orthodox Byzantine Empire. After the First Crusade, the subsequent Crusades aimed to preserve Roman Catholic rule in the Holy Land, especially Jerusalem. This was the stated goal of the Crusades and since the last vestige of Roman Catholic rule in the Holy Land fell in 1291, which is why people say the Crusades failed. This is also wrong, The first, third, and sixth crusades succeeded." The Russians were another faction that constantly beat up this empire throughout the 19th century. The Treaty of Kuciuk Kainargi (1774)was at the outset of Russian dominance over that sick empire that resulted after the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774). Since that date, Russians always have prevailed during the conflicts with ottomans. (except the Crimean War 1863, in that war Britain&French teamed up with ottoman and saved them from another disastrous defeat) I'd add that info too, The battle of Serbs ain't happened. It's a myth the ignorant turk fools tend to believe in. You cannot find any single history book that covered this battle. As for the battle of Maritsa, there was no way the Serbs had gathered such a large army at that time. ( just a lie spread by pan turk clowns) Even at the Battle of Kosovo, Lazar Hrebeljanović (the national hero of Serbs barely rallied around 10,000/12,000 men under his command). The numbers of Balkan faction armies are grossly exaggerated by foolish turk brats, without any single historical proof. As a history geek, I am an expert on seljuk&ottoman history even though I despise both factions. I gave the exact date of the Battles and the names of prominent military figures who crushed ottomans with supplement citations. :) I'm pointing out historical facts here. Only ignorant ottoman fanboy turk fools are bragging about that garbage empire. They never read any decent history books in their lives all of their knowledge is based on the internet and ahistorical TV shows in turkey, merely coming up with copy/paste replies from the internet. (mostly Wikipedia) This garbage-sick man empire only brought poverty and misery to humanity. Zero contribution to science, art, and literature had left behind a disgraceful legacy. Their so-called bloated military might is just a myth that ignorant muslim clowns ( ottoman fanboy turks mostly) believe it. :) With this lucid argument, I've debunked those myths one by one based on detalied historiography.
in istanbul arhive is a document in who is wrote that 20.000 peasants from bulgaria were recruited to build roads and bridges for that campaign. it can be 100,000 but all the army. a army like that need doctors, tailors, smiths, cooks, horse care takers, and so on, most of trustful historians agree to 30-40.000 combatant forces, on ottoman forces and 20.000 combined moldavian, polish, hungarians from that only 10.000 seems to be moldavian. from all estimates the demographer of moldavia at that time was about 500.000 you deduct women 50% child and older 30-40% and.... you don't have so much men's capable to fight :D
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Can you tell me how can I make such a animations? like you do one your video
Can you make a video about annexation of Bessarabia and Moldova.
Salam MIRI account to din ki bad miliga watch is Ana mashgol hi
Make a video about Military occupations by the Soviet Union. In special one about Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina.
Whether you’re against the Ottomans or the others
This battle was just pure genius on Stephan’s part.
Pure, genius.
It's a crime that Stephen the Great is always overlooked when talking about great generals.
It is not. Only à idiot can say this. King Stephan is as Napoléon maybe far better because hé had less resources than the french general. 43 battles won on 47 Hé fought. 😊
Most Romanian rulers are overlooked
"Moldavia was not my ancestors', was not mine, and is not yours, but belongs to our descendants and our descendants' descendants to the end of time."
- Stefan Dom cel mare
Stepehen the great one of the great rulers in the Balkans. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤝🏴.
The Balkans are somewhere else, buddy! Learn some geography before you post idiotic comments.
True...except one thing. Moldavia Valachia and Transilvania... current day Romania is not in the Balkans.
For guy often depicted as a villainous vampire, Vlad sounds like a hero in this video.
Vlad was never depicted as a vampire. You are confusing the historical figure with the book and movie character. Vlad was only the inspiration for Bram Stoker because he was known for his cruelty.
Thats propaganda. Vlad is a hero not only to Romanians but to all Europeans. He fought the islamic hordes with very little ressources and managed to force a retreat of a 100,000 strong Ottoman army after completely demoralizing them by impaling 20,000 ottomans. He was a master of psychological and guerrilla warfare.
Otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler. He used impaling as a torture technique against his enemies.
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Machiavelli wrote that in the book "the prince" (il principe):
"For a ruler, if you cannot strive for both loved and feared. Its better to be feared than loved. As fear is a better motivator tool for ruler to exert power".
As a Romanian i am very happy to see some of our history on your channel. In those days the leaders would fight for their people with the people, nowadays the leaders have secret or plain sight meetings to fight their own people.
Actually he is a romanian too he has another channel in romanian named dedo
@@moldoveanul408 Nu stiam, mersi.
@@firrycel cu plăcere
Stephen the Great is ours and he is Moldovan. You guys can have the vampire. Stephen is ours
@@alechboy3578 we are talking about the guy making the video i am from moldova too
I'm romanian and we've voted Stephan, Ștefan Cel Mare, our greatest romanian ever 🤘
Yes,🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🦅
He is Moldavian, not Romanian. Be precise.
@@thereal_maximghe is romanian🇷🇴☦️
@@thereal_maximg😂😂😂Friend, he is from the Maramuresi family, born in the Moldavia region of Romania...he was the ruler of Moldavia, and that Moldavia together with Wallachia formed today's Romania...
@@thereal_maximg he is Romanian, be precise
Happy Moldovan Independence Day !🇲🇩🇲🇩 I hope to see my country Moldova unite with the Romanian motherland.
Soon your country recapture by ottoman empire inshallah
@@socialtimeshistoryvlogs9375Inshafuckingllah the ottoman oppression was removed forever in 19th century
As a Bulgarian I would be happy to see that day.
@@socialtimeshistoryvlogs9375 Turks are gay. Soon they will have the fate of Irak
@@socialtimeshistoryvlogs9375which Quran are you reading which one
If anyone's (very) keen on Medieval Romania, Hungary, the Ottomans, especially from a military point of view, I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos
I love his channel
Are there any good books that are specific to the wars of this particular area and time?
Stephen the Great was a genius military strategist!
A champion indeed
That makes Mehmed the second look even more impressive giving the fact that he was able to defeat him in battle
@@williamrobert9898 Actually Stephen the great defeated Mehmed too in 2 battles out of 3.
Mehmed was also defeated by Hungarian peasants during siege of Belgrade
@Jihadists_tears Can you give me the name of the other 2 Battles in which they fought each other?
Edit: Hungarian peasants??? The same ones who were conquered by the Ottomans later after the Ottomans crushed them in the Battle of Mohacs? That's irrelevant, stick to the topic
@Jihadists_tears Come on bro, give me the names of the other 2 Battles in which Stephen The Great won against Mehmed the second, I want to educate myself, the only engagement between the 2 that I could find is the battle of Valea Albă
The effects in this video are EPIC! Thanks for another awesome video!
Can you guys make part 3 of Stefan the Great and his battle of Cosmin Forrest that would be awesome !!!!
watch corpus draculianum chanel. the campaign against stefan was a crusade :)))) the primal objective was to take istanbul, the secondary goal was to dismantle the tartar hanat, and the minimal goal was to bring moldova under polish rule. a historian who search in teuton archives found documents about that campaign by chance, he was searching for grand master of teuton order
correspondence with pope :)))) and as teutons was a part of that campaign he found unknow facts, until few years ago. fun fact after that battle, polish begin to use short hair haircut, because stefan hang them by the long hair on the trees on that forest :)))) it seems to be true because in all the paints of polish knights before battle they have long hair..... after that date.... in all paints they have short hair :))))
The sequel was worth the wait. Thanks for making it.
I'm Romania this only few battles he been I hope we get more because people know of Vlad but in my home country this man was one of the greatest heroes of Eastern Europe
@@catalindale7296 I am Romanian as well, and I believe it is true he was one of the greatest heroes of Eastern Europe. Just like Ștefan cel Mare, Hunyad and Skanderberg, he is one of the heroes who temporarily halted Ottoman expansion into Eastern Europe.
Mulțumim!
Your suport helps us a lot! Thank you!
Goes to show that no amount of troops can compensate for poor leadership and tactics on the Ottoman’s part. Though I’m sure the numbers are a little inflated to add some mystique to the battle.
later ottomans defeated stephen the great in battle of valea alba. and both had the same number. so they are not bad they are actually good at military.
@@odez5412 Romanians were always vastly outnumbered by the Ottomans. When Stefan lost the battle at Valea Alba he was vastly outnumbered in that battle.
@@Emanuel-E wikipedia doesnt say that. Also wikipedia also says that hungaria and poland were in moldovian side.
@@odez5412 Mehmet had a minimum of 100k soldiers up to 150k, Stephan had between 12k-20k moldovans and another 10k hungarians and polish fighters (a maximum of 30k). 100k vs 30k .Do you really think Mehmet , the sultan of the Ottoman empire, only had 30k soldiers with him ??
@@Emanuel-E en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valea_Albă
Why and how could they have 150k? Even in this video it shows a huge battle that ottoman lost. How can they have 150k after 1 year? Lets say that they had that army. Why would mehmed attack a kingdom with 150k?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Otlukbeli
Aqqoyunids, a turkish country ruled most of the iran. It was a way bigger threat. And this battle happened,
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Otlukbeli
And he had 100k in that battle. So why would he attack moldovia with 150k? He attacked istanbul with 100k, and thats one of the most important things in history.
Romania and Moldova shall again be united like this🇷🇴🤝🇲🇩
Moldova and Valahia are united, Basarabia, north Bucovina and Bugeac regions are missing from Moldova.
We cannot say that Mehmed massacred the Moldavians at Valea Alba when he had much greater losses. The Moldavians rejected them several times until Mehmed ordered a general attack. The Moldovans had to retreat and left behind 800 men to cover the retreat. Among these 800 there were very large losses.. Stefan did not lose so many soldiers, but he lost more than ten boyars from the Council of the country who were also fighting on the front line. Stefan could not use his entire army in this fight because he left part of his troops to protect his lands from the Tatar invasion that was taking place at the same time.
@tudorm6838 BRAVOOO
only the battle was lost by stefan... the campaign was won, the ottomans retreat before reach suceava, mehmet made a mistake start that campaign on winter.
Worth some mentions: The Ottomans attacked during winter, which was almost unheard of, they had never done it before and they didn't try it after (obviously why). They tried to surprise Stefan, they failed. Around 2/3 of Stefan's army were peasants, we can only assume that they were very poorly equipped and maybe simple spearmen.
The invasion of 1476 of Mehmet II was at first a huge success, they took most of the country but couldn't occupy any of the fortresses in the North. The decisive battle while it was a disaster for Moldova it was in doubt for a long time, Mehmet needed to use his personal guard to break through. Anyway, Stefan kept harassing, burning and when the Transylvanian army finally arrived Mehmet's retreat turned again into a rout. He had his army dispersed to control the country, easy to attack, the main army moved slow, there was also disease.... Mehmet started with 200.000 and under half of that managed to cross the Danube back. The war continued for 4 more years but the casualties were so big they were unsustainable for the Ottomans, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that this was one of the things that slowed down their expansion until Selim and Suleyman.
May God rest your soul Stefan! Be blessed! 🙏☦️
Ștefan cel Mare ( Stefan The Great), was my childhood hero
Fantastic video.
One of the greatest Military Commander of Moldavia 🇲🇩🇷🇴
Of Romania !! Moldova is part of Romania since 1859
@@michaelpencio9573 is moldova story
@@Cipry005 moldova story is also our story.
Deal with it.
From Moldova region of Romania!!!💪🇷🇴
@@tiziogg6350 Bro u are ricky1
@@толянтолянович-н1и Wallachia 1330!
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Slava Velikaya Rumuniya Suka!!!
Hey Knowledgia team, are you guys planning to make Skanderbeg part 2 anytime soon?
This is some Red Cliff level of genius, soo proud to be a Romania.
the tactics used were nothing short of genius. terrain, weather, guerilla tactics, and perfect positioning of troops. Suleiman had an army probably twice as large, but he did not know what to do with it. he was no Mehmed II. however, i am more impressed by the fact that such a small principality managed to raise such a large force. sure, only a few thousand were professional soldiers, the rest merely militia. still... the logistics to provide for such a force from such a small state is impressive, when during the crusades, the western countries could barely feed lesser armies, still in owe of roman ability to provide resources to so many over such long distances. while the ottomans here were many, they suffered scortched earth tactics, and feeding the soldiers so far from home was a huge problem. Stefan knew what he was doing.
But he lost and left his country 😂😂😂
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب Stefan lost? Or what do you mean?
amazing!
Big ✝️ Hero.StefanThe Great
It was a wonderful historical coverage of that clashed between Ottoman forces and Moldovan 🇲🇩 leader Stephen...thank you for sharing
Principality of Moldavia was Romanian, why did Dimitrie Cantemir write that all inhabitants of Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania are Romanians, and descendants of the Romans since Trajan the Emperor? And Principality of Moldavia founded Romania in 1859, Alexandru Ioan Cuza was a Moldavian boyar, later Prince of Moldavia and days later Prince of Wallachia and created Romania.🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🦅
@@InAeternumRomaMaterNo, I am from Moldova and we are not romanian. Stephen the Great is ours. You guys can have the Vampire. The russian empire and the soviets treated us better than you gypsies did. Stephen the Great is 100% ours and not yours
@@InAeternumRomaMaterYou are lucky the Russian Empire didn't annex the entire principality or your useless gypsy country wouldn't be a thing. Stephen the Great is Moldovan and not Romanian.🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩
@@alechboy3578banning the matern language of the inhabitants keep them iliterate, deporting to Siberia and starving them to death. It was indeed heaven under Russian empire and URSS. Good fairytails you have here.
Romanian leader,nothing to do with modern Moldova !!
Stephen the Great the best Romanian military leader. Easily TOP 10 generals of all time.
Romania was first founded in 1859. For reference, that's 164 years ago. The Battle of Vaslui took place in 1475. That's 384 years before Romania was founded.
And?
@@andreicristian9575He was still a romanian. Turkey was founded recently, does that mean turkish people didnt exist?
Michael the Brave by far. He beat the Ottomans all the way to Adrianople, conquered all Ottoman fortresses on Danube, defeated all the empires around until was betrayed. He lost a single battle at Miraslau and was betrayed by Austrians, who joined Hungarians, Polish, Moldovans, already a double size army and even that could win if didnt follow the Austrian retreat into ambush.
Vlad the Third Dracula (The Impaler) was after his realise in Bosnia and Serbia, where he campaigned against the Ottomans. Source: Corpus Draculianum an independent research team
Skenderbeg defeated the ottoman empire
As a Moldovan i think the ottoman numbers are a lot more because in Moldavian chronics says that Oastea otomană era cit o țara de mare undeva la 120.000 de osteni which means that the ottoman army is a lot bigger about 120.000 soldiers+whalachian army
You are Romanian
@@dragusinstan1234 Moldovan*
in istanbul arhive is a document in who is wrote that 20.000 peasants from bulgaria were recruited to build roads and bridges for that campaign. it can be 100,000 but all the army. a army like that need doctors, tailors, smiths, cooks, horse care takers, and so on, most of trustful historians agree to 30-40.000 combatant forces, on ottoman forces and 20.000 combined moldavian, polish, hungarians from that only 10.000 seems to be moldavian.
from all estimates the demographer of moldavia at that time was about 500.000
you deduct women 50% child and older 30-40% and.... you don't have so much men's capable to fight :D
居然有中文字幕，好惊讶和感动（终于不用一个字一个字查过去了）
St.Stephen the Great, the greatest Romanian lord. The greatest latin warrior of the east in Medieval Romanian History. Slavă Românilor, vlahi din Balcani, copii romanilor al Romei🇷🇴🏛🦅
Greatest Moldavian Lord. Be precise.
@@thereal_maximg I was precisely. Principality of Moldavia was the state that formed modern day Romania, Alexandru Ioan Cuza was a Moldavian boyar, and the Prince of Moldavia, who later got elected Prince of Wallachia and formed today's Romania. I already gave another comment like this, and gave you old documents from the Principality. Principality of Moldavia was even the first to have news papers compared to Wallachia, and they were called "Albina Românească"😂
@@InAeternumRomaMaterYou are lucky the Russian Empire didn't annex the entire principality, otherwise your useless gyspy country wouldn't be a thing. Stephen the Great is ours and not yours. Moldovans are the real aryans. Dragostea din tei is also our song and doesn't belong to gypsy land
@@thereal_maximg Moldovans are a sub-type of romanian, like bavarians are a sub-type of german or texans a sub-type of americans. I should know... I am one (bessarabian romanian). So yeah, please document yourself before making silly claims like you just did.
@@thereal_maximg I'm Romanian, and I'm pretty sure this is a Russian troll trying to annoy Moldavians. All Romanians know the year when Moldova and Valahia united. Either that or an ultra nationalist Romanian of some sort. Pay no attention to him or others like him.
Stephen the Great of the Romanian Moldova. One of the greatest in his line of kings going back through millennia.
Stephan was a Moldovan not a Romanian
@@adr76887it’s difficult for you to understand the concept of nation, civilization, history, poor you.
@@adr76887Congratulations you have won something contact for your price 🎁🎁.
@@adr76887True, ignore these guys. He is our leader. The gypsies have Vlad. Stephen is ours
@@adr76887he moldavian romanian, not russian bassarabian
Yes finally thank you
Imagine having 100,000 men and not scouting....
They didn’t have 100000 men
@@papazataklaattiranimamThey did cry Muslim just like thousands of Muslim men when they where getting slaughtered.
@@papazataklaattiranimamcope 😂
They did but were attracted towards a populated area, to force them to cross the bridge and resupply, so they could fall into the chosen battlefield, on a route to Suceava capital. This guys explain is poor.
Long Live Stephen!
Stephen was heavily defeated by Mehmet and he became a vassal of the Ottomans.
He's already dead💀
@@scourgeofgodattila579 Ik
@@f1uf If u thought a bit more, you would know that it is a sign of respect for our warrior ( metaphor ). Besides we as Christians we don't believe that death is the end.
@@scourgeofgodattila579And also the cockroach empire is dead and keep do the same thing
nice video
St.Stephen the Great _Athleta Christi_ 🇷🇴🦅
这期有翻译成中文了，很好❤。
*GUYS GREAT DOC !!!!!!!!!!!!*
Wheres part 2 of skanderbeg???
It's important to note that 100,000 is probably exaggerated.
It is extremely unlikely that their number exceeded 45,000-50,000.
Still, the victory was impressive.
And for the Istanbul on 1453 Turks are telling their ancestors were 50-60.000 and they were finally 120-150.000 against 8000 defenders.
It was 120,000 confirmed troops
@@dragusinstan1234 by whom?
@@dragusinstan1234 there wasn't
@@giannisgiannis870 CORECT
If you are following the modern days trend on Moldavian independent republic, their narrative relies heavily on Stephen The Great behavior during this whole reign.
Since Stephen was fighting Vallachia and Trasylvania so often in order to secure a flank, then he must not considere himself related to vallachians in any way, so his descendants must not feel themselves as romanian. Because brothers don't fight each other, right? Much later russians picked up the idea and used it on Bessarabia for several decades of constant propaganda: "moldavians are not romanians so they must speack a different language: moldanian language" Voilà.
A really interesting detail is on 1:20. Szekely men were acting independently to magyar rule of Transylvania and provided consistent support to Stephan. 5k szekelys men is a lot. I would love to see an episode dedicated them.
The tactics used on early stages of Vaslui battle must be overated. The use of the bells to lead the main ottoman infantry to a side of battlefffield is a fantasy, a funny fantasy i must admit. A inovation never used before or after if whole European medieval times. That imply that Stephen had a mobile meteorological station dispatched with his army and knew in advance that were not visibility on the battlefield, also a bunch of "musicians" dispatched with the army the whole time. That is ridiculous. Not even today you cannot predict the wheather in such a way. Also the micromanagement at tactical level must be insane. Is a fake in my opinon.
I'm so grateful that he stood his ground and won. It's scary to imagine that these lands would have been converted to islam.
Stefan the Great has gathered the "Great Army" ie almost all the able bodied men of the voievodate so I think that some of my ancestors thought at Vaslui.
If such a high percentage of men fought, then because it was so long ago, I think you're right, just by the logic of genealogy. I can't say that about famous Mediaeval British battles, cos like, Henry V did NOT take most able-bodied Englishmen to France to fight at Agincourt. Vaslui sounds like a much cooler battle though- more impressive, & defending their home, not invading for no good reason.
I was waiting for part 2
kino is back
Make a Siege of Plevna video
Please add Persian subtitles for all videos
Laiotă was not in alliance with the sultan. Laiotă was a subject of the sultan. A subject of a monarch doesn't make alliance with the latter. He obeys orders within his duty to his lord
Romania has had great characters in its history, there are many other heroes with great deeds.
is moldova story
@@Cipry005 Well, that's what I said,
Wallachia, Transylvania, Moldavia... history of Romania.
@@deliriumextreme1637 no! is story of r.moldova.
@@Cipry005 Yes, If Moldova region of Romania.
@@deliriumextreme1637 Bro according to you Stephen the Great fought for Romania or Moldavia
When Stefan removes Kebeb,Great video ☦️ !!!!!
But at the end of the day, we made them eat kebab at least 2 hundred years!!!
Lol what a deed. Subjugated a 20x times smaller country wow
100x smaller**
@@mkb9617They were vassals, so no, you didnt
1:56 I think that Belgrade still wasn't a part of Ottoman Empire. Sultan Suleiman I conquered Belgrade in 1521.
You know what similar Christian and Hindus historian ? Like this
Ottoman 100k vs Christians 2000
Delhi/mughal 200k vs 1000 Hindus
Verry good job, thanks!❤
the battle that shaped today's europe.
Moldova is Romania !!!
We are all Romanians !!! 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
Propagandă românistă.
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Don't believe these numbers. Little Moldova had 40 000? Yeah, sure. Ottomans 60 000-100 000 also too much. For comparison the famous battle of Pavia 1525 was the decisive battle of big countries and had about 25 000 from each side.
Even at the Battle of Otlukbeli in which Mehmed II faced his greatest threat, the Uzun Hasan led White Sheep Turcomans, his Ottoman army numbered less than 100k
Those numbers are surely exagarated, in battle of varna 1444 Ottomans has about 40.000 to 60000 Man and it was lead by Sultan himself with all of his household troops and armies from both anatolia and balkans, against a whole crusade but just 30 years later Ottomans assamble 100.000 just for a small balkan state...
Wallachia or Moldova cannot raised at the time more than 16 k or 18k soldiers (with 3k to 4 k mercenaries included) ,very unlikely 20 k army!
unrealistic numbers 40k !
Moldova had a 30k free peasants (razeshi) army and a permanent 7-10 k cavalry, so yes the great army as is called was more than 40k that time and they were all trained warriors.
Pleas anyone tell me how can I make such a animations?
I see comments didn't fight himself. Remember he was crippled for life in siege of Chilia? He was an engaging general. A fighter. Hight 1.65 cm. His sword is still keept in Istanbul. See pictures of sword dimension. Fucking tough molavian
Big up Basarab III Ray Liotta!
زیرنویس فارسی هم اضافه کنید 🙏
Even in the Battle of Otlukbeli, the Ottomans could not raise an army of 100,000, even though the army was led by the Sultan himself against the great threat Uzun Hasan. The quarter of numbers for both armies seem more consistent. The numbers are already exaggerated in most historical documents.
seems the only army without inflated numbers in history was Leonidas' army at thermopylae.
@@daarom3472 no not only he there are way more.
Let’s see Mehmed’s reaction when Skanderbeg easily defeats his 100.000-50.000 armies with only 8.000 man.
common Skanderbeg W
Back when albanians were still based.
Mehmed is truly great he earned the title conqueror while his enemies was Stephen, Jon Hunyadi, Skanderbeg, Uzun Hasan, Vlad.
@overpredor3412 All of his enemies had 5 times smaller armies
@@EuroBuci another innocent who thinks bigger army always win 🤗
Always nice to se Ottomans losing.
ottoman 3rd roman empire even if you don't like it
@@hfggtr4243 ♥️💋
Loser Ottoman subjects discovered.A Serb who still hasn't survived the war in which 800 Turkish horsemen wiped out his empire.
always nice to see when balkanian great commanders getting slapped by mehmed the conquerer XD
@@odez5412memhed was a horrible general he got defeated multiple times by balkan generals.
100k is not right...
Mehmed famous siege of Constantinople 1453.. He had around 100k-120k But an Ottoman Commander will not lead an army this big Without the Sultan... 50k-maybe 70k But 100k is a very big and Unrealistic number...
@@NeolithiqKing they didn't have 100k I am sure of that.. Maybe 40k - 70k
17k vallachians
Numbers are True
Also Gallipoli European army 489,000 man and
Ataturk slapped total 300,000 👋
@@burakdakak6322 Ataturk couldn't win without germans and albanian troops
@@EuroBuci bruh ataturk was great leader of course he could. the proof is he defeated armenians british french italians greeks at the same time.
i think my main concern about this video is how tf that a pasha lead more army than the sultan himself, because on the next year mehmed 2 actually defeats stephan on valea alba with a lesser army number (atleast according to wikipedia) , so i cant help to wonder the number of ottoman army on vaslui is heavily exaggerated
in istanbul arhive is a document in who is wrote that 20.000 peasants from bulgaria were recruited to build roads and bridges for that campaign. it can be 100,000 but all the army. a army like that need doctors, tailors, smiths, cooks, horse care takers, and so on, most of trustful historians agree to 30-40.000 combatant forces, on ottoman forces and 20.000 combined moldavian, polish, hungarians from that only 10.000 seems to be moldavian.
from all estimates the demographer of moldavia at that time was about 500.000
you deduct women 50% child and older 30-40% and.... you don't have so much men's capable to fight :D
now that number more make sense , its funny every ottoman campaign on small europe country the number ottoman always 100k while selim 1 conquered mamluk completely with 60-80k army
@@rakadean39 and usually only a sultanate campaign ( when sultan is present) had that numbers 100,000+ and this is very rare in history. i believe people from small countries exagerate the numbers only to show how brave they was :))) if they was so brave why ottomans after all manage to rule balkans? the victories of serbia, albania, valahia, moldavia even hungary was only temporary or to put them in a better negotiation position. but only as vassals of ottomans.
after all ottomans ruled balkans almost 500 years :)))) so who won?
New to this channel. I like the animation!! #SubscribedAndFollowing
Every trick in the book.
Thanks for video. The real numbers of soldiers near 15000 vs 30000
Impressive by the Moldavians, but these numbers seem way too big for this time period.
Well the numbers for the Ottomans are believable (they were able to get man from a fast emipre).
As for the Moldovian side, they were in a fight for survival so they would be able to get a lot of people too.
The only question would be. Was the Moldovian army all "professional" or was it partially farmers who wanted/needed to help to defend their homeland.
@@ChristiaanHW”oastea mica” was the army used in raids which was professional, “oastea mare” was the defending army seen as the last resort which was mainly composed of farmers and peasants. So yes, at Vaslui most of the able man in the kingdom fought without much of the necessary training
@@lotyogipityu7992 Cool fairy tales bro
Moldavians were referred as Vlachs, which means Romanians. And they were referring to themselves as Romanians too, take the example the writings of both Dimitrie Cantemir and Vasile Lupu who both where Prince's of Moldavia. Not to mention that Principality of Moldavia founded Romania in 1859
@@lotyogipityu7992 Are you mentally unwell? Vlachs was the historical exonym to the people of the Proto-Romanian branch, Aromanians is the second biggest group of the Proto-Romanian family, Romanians being the biggest, so of course they are called Vlachs. But why was Dragoș Vodă referred as a Vlach? Why did he take with him vlachs from Maramureș? And why was Moldavia referred as Boğdan Iflak, Eng: Bogdan's-Wallachia, Russo-Wallachia and Moldo-Wallachia by Turks, Greeks and even by the rulers themselves of the Principality? Why did St.Stephen the Great refer to Principality of Wallachia as "the other Wallachia" to the Venetians so that they wouldn't confuse it with his Principality? Short answer: Because they are Vlachs, aka Romanians
The Ottoman Empire was one of the strongest respective empires in this world but they themselves have lost massively in this battle,good friends!!!🙏
Nah Ottoman Empire is heavily overhyped. Oh they conquered the Balkans and Large parts of North Africa. In North Africa, it is basically sand and camels. Balkans are not really fertile or do have any development. Same with Asia minor. They were average at best, mostly overhyped by Turks online.
@@St3v3NWL I do not think that they are heavily overhyped as they are one of the strongest respective empires ever in this world and to win some epic battles is considered huge for their dynasty to be honest regardless of any network,good friend!!!🙏🏻
@@St3v3NWL "They were average at best, mostly overhyped by Turks online."
Except even Western historians agree their achievements were great. At one point the could have easily conquered Europe.
@@St3v3NWL LOOOOOOLLLL
@@St3v3NWL The Ottomans were much larger than most European Empires.
"Where were they excessively outnumbered? He had 40k troops against 100k Ottoman troops , and when you're on the offensive, you need 10 soldiers attacking for every 1 soldier defending to have a chance to conquer the defender?"
You confuse the battle in the fortress with the one in the open field!
3-1
Some chronicles noted 120k Ottomans and was a pitched battle, face to face, not a fortress siege. In that case the ratio should be at least 3:1.
Finally us Romanian getting the spotlight after Albanians get credited of fighting the Ottomans single handledly
You mean us Moldovans? Dragostea din Tei is also ours like Stephen the Great. You are lucky the Russian Empire didn't annex the whole principality like it should have.
@@alechboy3578what are you on about, Stefan was born,lived,fought and died on romanian ground.
@@alechboy3578so you admit that today "moldovans" are a russian creation. By the way Russian Empire wanted to take both Muntenia(Wallachia) and Moldavia but they limited at Bassarabia in the end. And it will return back to the rightfull Moldavia (Romania) soon in the next few years.
Wild how the romanians (Walachians) always ended up betraying the Moldavians. More Moldavians from the part thats under romania need to learn this
Hey lol. Romanians from all 3 principalities know all that and also that was the bloody rulers placed as puppets by the surrounding powers to collect their tribute. Rulers had to obey their masters, collect the taxes and join their wars with the mostly boyars armies, not of their own. Moldova also attacked other Romanian principalities on behalf of its masters in time. In those times was like that and the masses of populations had to follow their rulers. So cut the crap.
mate modern romania was created by great powers ( france and england ) to oppose russia so romanians are designed to oppose russia. and be happy the russians "liberate" half of moldova :))) stay like that most of us we don't need you as part of romania and as part of europe until you will prove you are from europe and not from russia. sooooo...... like sofia told you before .... CUT THE CRAP
They still think of us as peasents
What about the first Stephan attack of Chilia fortress?
That was a clear betrayal.
I'm a romanian coming from Moldova region and at least I recognize that at the time we were used by foreign powers against each other.
Look for example how the Rus principalities fought each others, the italian states and the german ones before every unifications.
Stop weaponizing the past for separatist propaganda.
Asa au fost vremurile pana ne-am unit. Domnii Valahi nu aveau de ales decat sa se supuna imperiului de peste Dunare sau sa fie ucisi si tara pradata de turci si tatari. De cate ori au avut ocazia s-au ridicat impotriva turcilor, dar cand au razbit cu turcii a trebuit sa lupte impotriva ungurilor, austriecilor, moldovenilor si polonilor. Si Moldova era la cheremul Poloniei siTurcilor si s-a ridicat impotriva lui Mihai Viteazul la ordinul Poloniei, care-si vroia omul loial pe tron si aservirea tarii.
The problem with the christian in medieval era is that they don't have unity in themselves instead of uniting and supporting each other's againts the Muslim invaders they turn themselves to one another.If only the christian united they can conquer and establish a Christian ground in anatolia and middle east.
they did what are crusades? or varna or kosovo or more. they worked together but still they couldnt conquer those lands
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Musicians trolled them hard
They were war drums.
I wonder why don't you guys but your references
After 1000 CE and especially 1200 CE Islam had become a
very shirk in many regions, vassekized by the Tartars, only nomadic desert tribes were almost entirely pious.
no it was a religion after gabriel came to muhammed.
@@odez5412
No.
And No
G...d Through His Messenger Gabriel enlightened Mohammed (PBUH) for the Faith.
And also provided Mohammed (PBUH) that after the first three generations from the Founding that
there would be additional non-divinely inspired Hadith.
After 300 years from the Founding
such non- divinely inspires Hadith
would gradually become Canonical
and deviate the Faith.
This has come to pass just as Mohammed (PBUH)had been illuminated to declare.
@@truthjustice6454 my english is not bad and i can understand all youtube comments but i didnt understand a thing in your comment.
@@odez5412
Obsfucation of truthful and righteous declarations of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the issue for 1000 years.
Are you Muslim?
Ot a Troll?
Regardless, wilful ignorance is not
an excuse or explanation. Translation is quick and easy from/to any language.
@@truthjustice6454 yeah i am a muslim i can tell you imanin sartlari islamin sartlari and more.
Sigma Moldavians
*Romanians (Vlachs) but Moldavians is also correct👍
@@thaton72No Stephen is our historical figure. He has no ties with gypsies.
@@alechboy3578 Haha, you're a joke. Romanians are latins, so are the ones east of the Prut River, you're a migratory Slav, you have nothing to do with Principality of Moldavia nor with any part of Romania or Republic of Moldova. Go back to Russgayia🤣
@@alechboy3578go back to russia mongol.
Romanians
By the power of God! I will crush you!
I don't like cowards.
100.000 is over exaggerated. The following year Mehmed II sent a bigger army which was 30.000 men. And this was enough to destroy Stefan III’s army at Valea Albă. The first army should be less than 30.000.
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Romania*
@@exotic_horse7434 bro has asian eyes 💀
@@idk-.-.-_.- tf
Moldavia is the Romanian moldova, the other one is Bassarabia (just a part of it)
Principality of Moldavia was a Romanian Principality, it founded modern Romania in 1859, Alexandru Ioan Cuza was a Moldavian boyar who was voted as Prince of Moldavia in 1859, and days later as Prince of Wallachia forming today's Romania! Here are some writing sources from Principality of Moldavia, enligt yourself:
_Pravila lui Vasile Lupu, Iași, 1646_
*„Carte romănească* (Картє Рoмьɴѣскѫ) de învățâtură de la pravilele înpărâtești și de la alte giudeațe, cu dzisa și cu toată cheltuiala lui Vasile Voivodul și Domnul Țărâi Moldovei, di în multe scripturi tâlmăcită di în limba ilenească, *pre limba româniască* (ПрєʌймБА Рoмѫɴѩскѫ). În Tipariul Domnesc s-au tipărit în mănâstirea a Trei S(fe)ti(te)le în Iași, de la Hristos 1646.
După tocmala și nevoința Mării Sale Domnului datu-s-au învățătură și mie unui mai mic și nice de o treabă a Mării Sale rob, Evstrate biv logofet, de am scos aceaste pravile și le-am tălmăcit den scrisoare grecească *pre limbă românească (ПрєʌимБѫ Рoмьɴѣскѫ) ca să poată înțeleage toți.”*
_Letopisețul Țării Moldovei, scris probabil la Mânăstirea Coșula (jud. Botoșani) pentru Iordachi Cantacuzino (1780)_
Ultimul paragraf: „Așa și neamul acésta, de care scriem, a neamului țărilor acestora, numele drept și mai vechiu iaste *romănĭ* (Рoмьɴй), adecă râmleani, de la Roma. Acest nume de la descălecatul lor de Traian înpărat.
cât au trăit pănă la pustietatea lor de pre acéste locuri în munți, în Maramoreș și pe Olt, tot acest nume au ținut și țin și pănă astăzi și încă mai bine munténii decât moldovénii, că ei și acum zic și scriu *Țara Romănească, și românilor* (Цара Рoмьɴѣсь Шꙑ Рoмѫɴиʌoр) celor din Ardeal.
Iară străinii și țările împrejur le-au pus acest nume vlah, di pe vloh, cum s-au mai pomenit, valios, valasco, olah, voloșin, tot de streini sânt pusă acéste numere, de pre Italiia, cărora zic le vloh. Apoi mai târziu, turcii (…). Munténilor le zic turcii kara-vlah. Grecii le zic vlahos-bogdanos moldovenilor, iar munteanilor le zic vlahos. *Că acest nume, moldovean, ne iaste di pe apa Moldova,* după al doilea descălecatul aceștii țări de Dragoș Vodă. Și munteanilor, ori de pre munte, munteani, ori di pe Olt, olteani, că léșii așa le zic, molteani.
Măcară dar că și la istorii și la graiul streinilor și înde sine cu vréme, cu vacuri, cu primineale au dobândit și alt nume, dar acela carele iaste nume stă întemeiat și rădăcina rămâne. Cum vedem că, măcar că ne răspundem acum moldoveani, iar nu *întrebăm: știi moldoveneaște?, ci întrebăm știi romăneaște?, adecă râmleneaște, puțin nu zicem: sțis romanițe? pre limba latinească.*
Stă dar numele cel vechiu ca întâi neclătit, deși adaog ori vrémile îndelungate, ori streinii adaog și alte neamuri, dar cel ce iaste de rădăcină nu să mută. Și *așa iaste acestor țări și țării noastre, Moldovii și Țării Muntenești, numele cel drept de moșie, iaste români (Рoмѫɴй),* cum să răspund și acum cei din Țara Ungurească lăcuitori, și munteanii țara lor și scriu și răspund cu graiul: Țara Romănească (Цара Рoмьɴѣсь) […]”
Cazania lui Varlaam, Iași, 1643
*„Carte romănească* (Картє Рoмьɴѣскѫ) de învățătură dumenecele preste an și la praznice înpărătești. Și la Svănți Mari. Cu zisa și cu toată cheltuiala lui Vasilie [Lupu] Voivodul și Domnul Țărăi Moldovei. Di în multe scripturi tălmăcită. Di în limba sloveniască pre *limba romeniască* (Прєʌмба Рoмєɴïѧкѫ). De Varlam Mitropolitul de Țara Moldovei în tipariul domnesc. În mănăstirea a Trei Steli, în Iași. De la Hristos 1643.
Stihuri în stema domniei Moldovei
Deși vedzi căndva sămn groaznic,
să nu te miri cănd să aratâ putearnic.
Că putearnicul putearia-l închipuiaște,
și slăvitul podoaba-l schizmeaște.
Cap de buâr și la domnii Moldovenești,
ca putearia aceii hieri să o socotești,
De unde mari domni spre laudă ș-au făcut cale, de-acolo și Vasilie vodă au ceput lucrurile sale. Cu învățături ce în țara sa temeliuiaște, nemuritoriu nume pre lume știe zideaște.
CUVĂNT ÎNPREUNĂ
*CĂTRÂ TOATÂ SEMENȚÏA ROMENEASNÂ*
(Кьтрѫ тoатѫ Сємєɴцïѫ Рѡмєɴѣсиѫ)
Prea luminat întru pravoslavie, și credincios întru Părintele Nenăscut, și întru Fiul de la Părintele Nenăscut mainte de toți vecii, și întru Duhul Svănt dela Părintele Purcezătoriu, și pre Fiul Odihnitoriu, Svănta Troiță Unul Adevărat Dumnezău Ziditoriu și Făcătoriu tuturor văzutelor și nevăzutelor.
Io Vasile Voevod cu darul lui Dumnezău Țiitoriu și Biruitoriu și Domn a toată Țara Moldovei, dar și milă și pace și spăsenie a toată *semenția romănească (Сємєɴцïѫ Рѡмєɴѣсиѫ) pretutinderea ce să află pravoslavnici într-aciasta liânmbă* cu toatâ inima cearem dela Domnul Dumnezău și Izbăvitoriul nostru Iisus Hristos.
Diintru cât s-au îndurat Dumnezău diîntru Mila Sa de ne-au dăruit dăruim și noi acest dar *limbii romănești,* *carte pre limba romănească* (РȢмънїзиж), întăiu de laudă lui Dumnezău, după acea de învățătură și de folos sufletelor pravoslavnici."
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Ottomans trying not to get fucked while they are outnumbering the opposite army : challenge impossible
It is said that every balkan country has a glorious victory over a trillion janissaries but no one buys these nonsense stories except those balkan countries.
Battle of Valea Albă ottomans did that challenge in this battle XD. and if you think ottoman allways had bigger army you dont know history. and all those balkanian great commanders: skanderberg vlad and stephen all of them were slapped XDDDDDD
@@odez5412 lmao tell me what type of drug you are taking because I defently wanna try it XD did you even watch the video lmao? And skanderberg and vlad among many others destroyed the ottomans you need to open a history book besides a Turkish one
@TIAID-ct4ov And Vlads head is in Istanbul. I think there are more Turks in the ground because Skanderberg quickly hided to his castle when Mehmed II. came.
@@odez5412Talking about victories but Not even mentioning defeats, i hate this method of propaganda
in Varna 1444 Osmanli annilihated and killed 100,000-110,000 crusaders from 15 european nations including the killing of the Polish king and a Cardinal from the Vatican
in Kosovo 1448 Osmanli annilihated and killed 100,000 crusaders while losing 17,000 martyrs
in kosovo 1456 Osmanli annilihated and killed 30,000 to 50,000 Hungarian crusaders and smashed the skull of their king Hunyadi
What the heck. Ioanes de Hunyad won the Battle of Belgrade against the Ottomans in 1453 and died of typhus weeks after. You lie like a turkish gazette.
@@Sofia-0001 :))))) on varna battle, the battle was won mostly by the charge of the light cavalry from valahia. after the charge the ottoman flank were walahian riders hit the army collapsed, the sultan order retreat, the leader of valahian toops, oldest son of Vlad II Dracul and brother of Vlad Țepeș and Radu the Handsome. give permision to his troops to rob the ottoman camp and leave the batlle, heading to buda to meet jhon huniady. when walhians return with their prey passing in front of the Crusaders commanded by King Władysław III of Poland, they wanted also a share of the prey, and order a frontal attack on sultan tent, the jenisaryes manage to defend the sultan and defeat the crusaders as the sultan seeing it is hope for a great win, orders a contrattack lead from his personal guards and defeated crusaders. mircea the second reach buda and give the news of the victory, mircea and all royal court starting a party for the victory:)))) three days after, the news come from varna that the battle was actually lost :))))) and his father is holding jhon huniady prisoner :))))mircea the second was convinced they won. later the valahians were depicted like traitors leaving the battle by all european historians. as ottomans write how smart was the sultan to attract crusaders in the middle of their camp and close the flanks after and defeat them. this facts are know by more then 10 years...... nobody rewrite this fact. documents was found it is no doubt that this was the real depiction of the battle of varna.
:))))) on varna battle, the battle was won mostly by the charge of the light cavalry from valahia. after the charge the ottoman flank were walahian riders hit the army collapsed, the sultan order retreat, the leader of valahian toops, oldest son of Vlad II Dracul and brother of Vlad Țepeș and Radu the Handsome. give permision to his troops to rob the ottoman camp and leave the batlle, heading to buda to meet jhon huniady. when walhians return with their prey passing in front of the Crusaders commanded by King Władysław III of Poland, they wanted also a share of the prey, and order a frontal attack on sultan tent, the jenisaryes manage to defend the sultan and defeat the crusaders as the sultan seeing it is hope for a great win, orders a contrattack lead from his personal guards and defeated crusaders. mircea the second reach buda and give the news of the victory, mircea and all royal court starting a party for the victory:)))) three days after, the news come from varna that the battle was actually lost :))))) and his father is holding jhon huniady prisoner :))))mircea the second was convinced they won. later the valahians were depicted like traitors leaving the battle by all european historians. as ottomans write how smart was the sultan to attract crusaders in the middle of their camp and close the flanks after and defeat them. this facts are know by more then 10 years...... nobody rewrite this fact. documents was found it is no doubt that this was the real depiction of the battle of varna.
@@MPapainog I didnt talk about the battle of Varna. He lied about the outcome of battle of Belgrade and assumingly how the Ottomans smashed the skull of John Hunyad in 1456, who actually died of typhus after he won the battle of Belgrade in 1453.
Back then, the ottoman always suffered defeat unless the sultan himself leads the battle..
Sadly, later ottoman sultan didn't even leave his palace😑
In modern times, presidents & prime ministers lead to hide first than civilians.😂😂
Cockroach history is useless anyways
@@halfevilhalfgood2206 yes thats sad.
If Constantinople was not defended by 11k but at least 2x men, probably the history would be different today.
HEHehe 100K OTTOMAN army :D source british history
50 k more likely ,an acceptable number , some says 60k , it's possible, but not 100k ! very unrealistic number!
@@NeolithiqKing take the lowest number
If only the byzantines could do that at 1453
thats a siege not a field battle
@@odez5412 still i had hope
@@orirotem2298 ok
@@odez5412 fine
The video title is biased
It was a very smart move on his part.
But the biggest deciding factor of this battle was the geographic advantage of the fog removing visibility. Without the fog, the plan couldnt have worked, and the Ottomans woupd have swept them all aside.
The victory is beyond impressive by numbers alone, but i wouldnt call the man "genius"
Thats the point using the terrain to your favor. Thats what a military genius does. Its not a coincidence he won 34 battles while losing only two. He strategically decided to use this terrain bc of the fog that was known to be present on the area during this time of the year. I recommend reading Sun Tzus art of war.
The place is a sunken mudded depression and the edges were forested. How did the Ottomans got into such place? What would you name a general who managed to attract an invading army of his country to follow him for a battle exactly in that place, at exactly that time, right when the fog also surrounds the place? Then to maneuver them like marionets to follow the music to the west, while the guns were at north east and the main army inside the forest, waiting behind at east. The small bridge to cut retreat, muddy place to nullify Ottoman cavalry movement advantage and also block or slow retreat.
Every history geek who deep-dive into history with an impartial perspective will realize that the ottoman military was vastly overrated. In almost all early crucial Balkan conflicts, ottomans had more men, supplies, and gunpowder than their rivals. When the odds were equal or they faced up more equal grade enemy, the ottomans were utterly broken and decisively defeated.
Gjergj Kastrioti, one of the most prominent ottoman ass-kickers in history, had a 24-1 win/loss ratio against the ottomans. Besides, Kastrioti's army was vastly outnumbered (most of the time 10 to 1), largely consisting of militia and volunteers. Ironically, Gjergj Kastrioti was enslaved and trained by ottomans. Yet he was a far better soldier&leader than any other ottoman sultan&pasha in history. After all, he was a proud Christian. The ottomans may have enslaved his body, but they had never enslaved his soul.
Not only the ottoman Balkan invasion, this situation also applies to subsequent battles that took place in the following centuries.
In the Battle of Ankara (1402),Mongolian descendant Tamerlane inflicted significant casualties on the ottoman while imprisoning the ottoman sultan. At the beginning of the battle, both belligerents exchanged letters, and Tamerlane humiliated the ottoman sultan more than once.
Let's take a look at the siege of Constantinople, for example. Ottomans deployed more than 100,000 men plus giant cannons forged by Hungarian engineer Orban that have been unique and never seen that age. On the other side, the city defenders had barely 10,000 and were out of livestock and munitions. Despite that, the siege took 50 days and the ottomans lost half of their armies.
Just do some research. Since when did mehmed, "the so-called conqueror" who annexed Constantinople, win which battle while the odds were against him? He always got the numbers, cannons, and manpower. :)
The ottomans first confrontations with the colonial powers also ended up with military disasters.
Battle of Gulf Oman 1554 decisive Portuguese victory, ottomans lost all their ships, ottoman admiral fleed like a chicken and Battle of Cape Corvo 1613 (It was a crushing Spanish victory, a vast amount of ottomans taken prisoner by the Spanish)
Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (1538-1560) also resulted in Portuguese victories.
Prince Eugene of Savoy from Habsburg dynasty was another notable ottoman crusher in history. His achievements against ottomans were pretty impressive. Battle of Zenta 1697 and Battle of Petrovaradin are simple examples of how he brought down ottomans.(During these battles, Eugene had 20,000 men, and ottomans had more than 100,000 men. After these battles, no other ottoman sultan dared to lead military campaigns. Literally, the ottomans came to the negotiation table while on their knees (Treaty of Karlowitz 1699) and bowed to the Habsburg terms.
The ottomans so-called predecessors, the seljuk turks, had no difference in that subject. They were also defeated and humiliated in countless wars like ottomans while holding tactical&numerical superiority. The Battle of Lake of Antioch 1098, the Battle of Sarmin 115, the Battle of Didgori 1121, the Battle of Iconium 1190, the Battle of Kosedag 1243 etc. Moreover, this Turkic faction was just a bad copy of the Mongols in terms of warfare. The only thing they did was implement cowardly hit-and-run horse archery tactics, nothing more. Since I referred to seljuk turks, I'd like to refer to some misinformation about it that is spreading around the internet. :)
The factual crusades conducted by Catholic factions were regarding the Holy Lands, Jerusalem, and Levant states and ignited by the Pope
.This means the other prevention attempts to repel muslim invaders from Balkan territory should not be defined as a crusade like Nicopolis and Varna. (the ignorant turkish brats are speaking about these all the time.) Here's a quote from a historian to bring clarity to that topic.
" I've seen constant misconceptions on the internet that the goal of the Crusades was “to prevent Muslim expansion into Western Europe” or something. This is not so. The First Crusade's stated aim was to aid Eastern Christians, primarily the Greek Orthodox Byzantine Empire. After the First Crusade, the subsequent Crusades aimed to preserve Roman Catholic rule in the Holy Land, especially Jerusalem. This was the stated goal of the Crusades and since the last vestige of Roman Catholic rule in the Holy Land fell in 1291, which is why people say the Crusades failed. This is also wrong, The first, third, and sixth crusades succeeded."
The Russians were another faction that constantly beat up this empire throughout the 19th century. The Treaty of Kuciuk Kainargi (1774)was at the outset of Russian dominance over that sick empire that resulted after the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774). Since that date, Russians always have prevailed during the conflicts with ottomans. (except the Crimean War 1863, in that war Britain&French teamed up with ottoman and saved them from another disastrous defeat)
I'd add that info too, The battle of Serbs ain't happened. It's a myth the ignorant turk fools tend to believe in. You cannot find any single history book that covered this battle. As for the battle of Maritsa, there was no way the Serbs had gathered such a large army at that time. ( just a lie spread by pan turk clowns) Even at the Battle of Kosovo, Lazar Hrebeljanović (the national hero of Serbs barely rallied around 10,000/12,000 men under his command). The numbers of Balkan faction armies are grossly exaggerated by foolish turk brats, without any single historical proof.
As a history geek, I am an expert on seljuk&ottoman history even though I despise both factions. I gave the exact date of the Battles and the names of prominent military figures who crushed ottomans with supplement citations. :) I'm pointing out historical facts here.
Only ignorant ottoman fanboy turk fools are bragging about that garbage empire. They never read any decent history books in their lives all of their knowledge is based on the internet and ahistorical TV shows in turkey, merely coming up with copy/paste replies from the internet. (mostly Wikipedia)
This garbage-sick man empire only brought poverty and misery to humanity. Zero contribution to science, art, and literature had left behind a disgraceful legacy. Their so-called bloated military might is just a myth that ignorant muslim clowns ( ottoman fanboy turks mostly) believe it. :)
With this lucid argument, I've debunked those myths one by one based on detalied historiography.
in istanbul arhive is a document in who is wrote that 20.000 peasants from bulgaria were recruited to build roads and bridges for that campaign. it can be 100,000 but all the army. a army like that need doctors, tailors, smiths, cooks, horse care takers, and so on, most of trustful historians agree to 30-40.000 combatant forces, on ottoman forces and 20.000 combined moldavian, polish, hungarians from that only 10.000 seems to be moldavian.
from all estimates the demographer of moldavia at that time was about 500.000
you deduct women 50% child and older 30-40% and.... you don't have so much men's capable to fight :D
100.000 soldier ? thats too exagerated man
They were no more than 40.000 at most
40.000? that's too exagerated man. They were just 4 janissaries invading at most. This battle is not impressive at all. HURR DURR!
you managed to count them while you were there?
@@Gabi-mq3fb Actually yeah. I am a Romanian Vampire so I lived hundreds of years. I was there, you can trust me dude.
ask the narrator this good question@@Gabi-mq3fb