Alot of people criticize the song for sounding too oriental, eastern or Turkish. I've been receiving these comments over and over again, so I'll just pin the response here instead of answering individually every time. The first basic thing to remember is that this song isn't actual Byzantine music, it's Byzantine-themed music. It has no pretenses at being historical Byzantine music; it is however representative of modern Greek music with slight orchestral additions. The people criticising the song as being too oriental do it out of a basic assumption: Some are simply unaware of the deeply "oriental/eastern" sound of Greek music and are likely only familiar with the music of the Ionian Islands, the Italian-like, Zorba music; and like many non-Greeks, they have only been exposed to this highly specific and regional style of Greek music, and therefore project it as being the entirety of all Greek music-most of which doesn't sound like that at all. Others recognise that Greek music of today does have an "oriental" sound, but they attribute it to Ottoman influence, their assumption being that before the Turkish conquest, Byzantine music had a Western European sound, and that Turkish influence made Greek music the way it is today, therefore Byzantine-themed music should have a Western European sound. The main aspect of this song that makes it sound oriental is the scale/mode used, which involves a tetrachord (series of four notes) found in the Double Harmonic Major, called by various names by other cultures, such as Phrygian Dominant or Hijaz. The earliest attestation of this tetrachord is found in ancient Greek music, in the Lydian Chromatic Mode and the Hypolydian mode, and Arab writers of the early Islamic Golden Age mention in their writings that they are adopting the tetrachords of Ancient Greek music and basing their nascent musical style on this ancient system. Therefore the notion that such scales were brought after the Turkish conquest is nullified: these scales existed as far back as the Hellenistic Era, and Octavian and Caesar heard these very tetrarchords in their culture's music. In fact, google "Double Harmonic Major," and you'll see it referred to by another name: the Byzantine Scale. This "oriental, too Arabic to be Byzantine" scale is so important, so central to Byzantine music, that it is called, literally, the Byzantine scale. Another thing many people respond negatively to is Byzantine chant itself, the style of singing. The idea usually being: "this sounds Islamic, this can't be how Byzantines sang," or: "yes Greeks sing like this today because of Turkish and Islamic influence, but in the days of the Byzantine Empire, their religious chants would have sounded like Gregorian chanting." Gregorian Chant is not the original style of Christian liturgical chant. Old Roman Chant is. Old Roman Chant is the style of liturgical Christian singing of the Late Roman Empire. It is the common ancestor of both Gregorian and Byzantine chant, as both traditions evolved from Old Roman Chant. Here are a few examples of Old Roman Chant: ruclips.net/video/2JOShBSsql0/видео.html ruclips.net/video/t3ERxC4etHo/видео.html The similarity with Byzantine chant is blatant. Old Roman Chant has that "Oriental/Islamic" thing going in the singing, which is simply a high degree of vocal ornamentation that is melismatic with a high degree of microtonal inflection. The modern style of singing found in today's Greek Orthodox Church (among others) is not a product of Ottoman and Islamic influence--instead, it goes back to the common roots of the earliest forms of Christian liturgical chant. Once again, it's historically impossible for this style of chanting to be the product of Turkish influence, but it is a very plausible hypothesis that it's Islam that adopted this style of chanting from the Christian Mediterranean basin at the onset of its conquests, and not the other way around. The assumption that Turks wiped out a nonexistent, Western European style of native Greek music is completely contradicted by historical research. Many of these "oriental" sounding elements existed in Ancient Greece and were in fact Greek influence upon Middle-Eastern music, which is a testament to the fact that culture does not turn altogether "Western" upon crossing from Anatolia into Greece. Despite being foundational to Western civilisation, Greece has always been more similar to its neighbours in the East than the English or the French on many cultural levels; music being one of them. Just to be clear: I'm not saying Turkish music is 100% Byzantine or that there has been no Turkish influence on Greek music. Bilateral influence has been occurring between these two cultures ever since the 1000's. What I'm saying is that the "oriental" vibe of Byzantium is native to it, and that Turkish influence did not fundamentally change Greek music from a Western one to an "Eastern" one. It was already "Eastern" in style before. Therefore using the sound of modern Greek music is not inappropriate for representing Byzantium, as modern Greek music is not an Islamic/Turkish/Middle-Eastern imposition, and is in fact, very much a direct continuation of Byzantine music and carries the echoes of it.
@@faryafaraji I'm quite a history enthusiast and was aware of the influence the Greek culture had on Islamic philosophy and other aspects however, I didn't really think about the musical side of this. I found out quite a lot from your comments and even became aware of some of the stereotypes I was subscribing to. Oh well... there's always something new to learn I guess :). Thanks a lot for taking your time to share all these!
Idk man, as an history nerd this sound not far from how I imagined secular eastern roman music. I guess most of the comments who say stuff like that come from americans *Shrugs*
I am Greek and I am a musician and one thing I can tell you, your song sound amazingly Byzantine. If these ignorant people go inside a greek orthodox church, where the tradition of Byzantium still is kept intact, they will listen to the priests singing and they sing exactly the scales you are using. If it sounds too oriental let them understand and never forget that Byzantium was in the orient. Also for some reason in my ears, your melody sounds more ancient roman/ greek than oriental Arabic, it's ridiculous how ignorant some people can be and try to teach people who have made their research and have knowledge on a subject like yourself.
@@cintaratna6083 Americans definitely play a central part in that they're the culture that dictates stereotypes through Hollywood and pop-culture. I was in Crete last month, and a local musician told me that he stopped playing Cretan folk music at restaurants because American tourists complained for years that it sounded too "weird and arabic," and now he just plays music from the Ionian islands; that's the Italian sounding Greek music everyone knows from the Zorba song. Basically he has to play a style of music that has nothing to do with his home region, because that's the most Western-friendly style and the one that conforms to American stereotypes of what Greek music "should sound like," it's pretty sad tbh
A while ago, one night when I was having trouble sleeping, I started playing a mix of songs from RUclips music. Then I fell asleep and woke up hours later in the middle of the night while this song was playing; and after that I thought I had died and the angels were singing this song to me. Hahaha I think I got high because of the good song.
@@hydratejsn me da pena decirle eso, que me rechace o me diga raro o algo asi, pero es humor bro, pero en parte es verdad ya que aunque me siento orgulloso de escuchar esta cancion todos los dias y tendria mucho miedo de decir esto si me lo preguntan , y mostrarme como soy y mis gustos aunque a veces no me da miedo
To further your argument- culture is nuanced so arguably there is no such thing as a western or eastern culture. Culture is much more diverse. There might be general cultural trends however.
@@Valya1989 Western/eastern culture are overarching. They both exist. All cultures in the west have some similarities to each other and same with the east.
@@klynt2763 It's hard to say, in Southern Italy the "rap competitions" continued for centuries, sometimes the Byzantines won, other times the Longobards, then against the Normans and the Arabs, or the Roman Papacy, like Creeps and Bloods. I believe that the gigachad who definitively won was Emperor Frederick II of Swabia, at the end of the 12th century, with the hit "Constitutiones Regni Siciliae In Da Club" .
I just had to have a Pontian lyra in the song; the Pontian Greeks still carry the spirit of Eastern Rome and keep it alive in their lands. Love and respect from Canada to all Pontian Greeks!
@@faryafaraji if you want you can check the pontian "war songs" called "serra" or "pyrrichios horos". Maybe (if you want) you can create an epic cover of this music type. Anyway, just an idea, do what you want. You are pretty talented
@@faryafaraji If you want you can read this to learn about the type of music: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_(dance) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhichios
@@lordofhostsappreciator3075 Byzantines were the last Romans after colapsed of western Roman Empire in the 476 AD Byzantine was Eastern Roman Empire They were Greeks (Byzantines) but they called themselves Romans I correct word Romanians to Romans - sorry for my linguistic mistake Of course Romanians are not Romans
@@martig1000 ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑ ΡΩΜΑΊΩΝ is what they called themselves. Byzantium wasn't used but it makes sense because constantinople was built where the ancient greek city of byzantion used to be its like calling the empire Constaninople empire nothing wrong with that
Thanks alot Hadrian! Yeah, that's why I love Byzantium as a concept for musical exploration-it allows one to meld Western and Eastern musical sensibilities in a way that's thematically appropriate.
Hey man, i am as well really obsessed with Byzantine. I just wanted to tell you, that acctually Byzantine people never called themselfes Byzantines. They are called Romans. Byzantine is just a new name made before like 100-200 Just to make it easier for historians. That name is crated, because old Istambul is called "Byzant".
if you guys have intrest about Anatolia and its people or culture I can help you. I can say to you Turks are not the barbarians that anslave local poor Rums we are not Americans and most of the people in Turkey is Romanized and Turkified Greeks. if you look the dna tests of The Turks you can see. in the past 150 yers before there where a millions of christians was living in Turkey. In the erarly republick times populations had exchanged
There is no such thing. States have used religion and nationalism. Hellenism is as dangerous and malicious is Turkism or Arabism etc or Americanism. Today you see USA is using capitalism amd dominating markets with its currency and converts people with money. Anatolia is now still evolving like many moves from Iraq or Georgia or afghanistan. There is no need for Hellenistic statism to describe the history as those were Greeks but Turks converted them to Islam & their national identity. Bulgarians, Romanians, Serbians, Arabs, Mongolians, Turkic tribes, Kurds, Jews, Armenians, Parsians now all have melted by the Romans & Ottomans not only in Anatolia almost entire Eurasia. Of course I. General east Mediterranean has Jewish, Greek, Ottoman Turk, Arab and Latin, Armenians’ forms of cultures, traditions. But all have common is Jewish because of Prophet Moses and Abraham. Study these well and see wider.
@Who Cares? They were not Hellenes. They were Rhomaioi, otherwise translated in English as Romans. Their descent was also not Hellenic. The countless eastern Romans who never had Greek descent can attest to the truth of what I say here. "Latins" is also not a real ethnonym. Your differentiation is laughable at best.
The production value of your music is incredibly impressive. Many of your pieces wouldn't sound out of place in a great movie/video game soundtrack. I enjoyed this one a lot. Thank you very much!
No wonder so many scandinavian / anglosaxons / norman travelers wanted to make a living there. Visiting the Eastern Roman Empire and specially Constantinople was like being in a dream. So many exotic things, so many developments you haven't heard of in your lifetime.
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors). Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱): - Justinian I - Justin I - Anastasius I - Marcianus - Valentinian II - Gratian - Valens - Valentinian I - Jovian - Constantius II - Constantine the Great - Maximianus "Herculius - Diocletian - Probus - Aurelian - Quintillus - Claudius II "Gothicus - Hostilianus - Decius Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)" This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
@Mocanu Stefan Why free? I live in Trabzon. Pontus are Muslim here. Hemşin are muslim.Lazlar are muslim. Praying 5 times a day. Washing 5 times a day. No alcohol,no pre matrial sex. A clean place.
I am Greek and it doesn't sound oriental at all to me. I understand why Western people call it like this though. I would call it imperial, I can hear the "imperial" pentatonic (I call it like this, maybe it has another name). Very interesting!
The usual name for it English is Double Harmonic Major, and in Byzantine Chant it's Tone 2, but you're right that it sounds very imperial, I feel the same way about it
doesnt sound arabic at all to me, growing up greek galore in australia, its normal for me to hear this. When i hear arabic music it's totally different to greek.
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors). Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱): - Justinian I - Justin I - Anastasius I - Marcianus - Valentinian II - Gratian - Valens - Valentinian I - Jovian - Constantius II - Constantine the Great - Maximianus "Herculius - Diocletian - Probus - Aurelian - Quintillus - Claudius II "Gothicus - Hostilianus - Decius Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)" This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
I am Italian and I am a former inhabitant of the territory of the exarchate (Ravenna) where there are still many testimonies of the Eastern Roman Empire respect for all Orthodox brothers from an Italian Orthodox
@@plmb6743 Italians and turks know NOTHING about Architecture. They just copied GREEK Architecture everywere and still doing it today , dark mosques and the Vatican church are copies of the Hagia Sophia Cathedral 🇬🇷☦️
During the Renaissance, the West, which was rediscovering antiquity, could not accept that this period had continued and enriched in a state during the Middle Ages: Greece, or the Eastern Roman Empire. Their desire to draw clear borders between the periods pushed them to relegate the Byzantine Empire to oblivion. Let's not forget, what Greece, during the Middle Ages, brought to the world. We Greeks did not cease to exist during the Middle Ages, on the contrary we became an even more incredible people! After years of Ottoman domination, we are still here, keeping our traditions, our religion. Do not forget !
Definitely, but I don’t think it was out of malice, when Constantinople fell, many fled to Italy and brought with them the traditions and knowledge of the Roman Empire so they kind of started the whole thing. On the other side though, by the time of the renaissance, the Roman Empire had lost much of its splendor, especially after 1204 where a lot of cultural artifacts from ancient times were destroyed by the greed of the crusaders
@@glent8719 It was out of malice, greed and confusion. Religion is the root of all evil. Religion is for horror and sorrow, through the slavery of government
@@ereny9465 Cementze is persian, as pontic Greek i know it. Alexander Generals brought it to anatolia. Also there wasnt hellenization of Natives there.The big cities were founded by ionians during the second helenic colonization and ONLY during the roman times the whole area behind the mountains (natives hitties) area hellenified.During the years of hellenic and roman history , people there would come and go as trabzon (trapezus) was an important city for all the empires there as well for the ottomans. There will be all kinds of dna in that area , as it is literally in the midle of the world.
This is amazing work! As a Serb who's country used to be part of the Eastern Roman Empire, I'd love to have seen Constantinople way before the 1453 Ottoman siege
Приветствую Сербию! Вы увидите Византийскую империю, когда войдёте в состав Российской империи. Конечно, одежда, еда, климат, технологии и техника в Российской империи будут не такие, как в Византийской империи, но дух будет такой же.
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors). Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱): - Justinian I - Justin I - Anastasius I - Marcianus - Valentinian II - Gratian - Valens - Valentinian I - Jovian - Constantius II - Constantine the Great - Maximianus "Herculius - Diocletian - Probus - Aurelian - Quintillus - Claudius II "Gothicus - Hostilianus - Decius Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)" This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
@@greatpower8147 All the Roman emperors (Justinian, Constantine etc ...) that I quoted in my comment are Illyrians (so Albanians) and not Slavs (so non-Serbs ...). Indeed the Serbs are not native of the Balkans because they come from the Slavs who settled in the lands of the Illyrians (thus Albanian). Source : Constantin Porphyrogénète, “Les cités désertées“ in De administrando imperio, cité dans Stelian Brezeanu : Toponymie et réalités ethniques sur le bas-Danube au xe siècle ; Vladislav Popović, “La descente des Koutrigours, des Slaves et des Avars vers la mer Égée : le témoignage de l'archéologie“, in|Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, volume 12, 1978, pp. 596-648 sur [1] et Jordanès, Getica : “…Sclavini a civitate nova et Sclavino Rumunense et lacu qui appellantur Mursianus…“ sur : De rebus Geticis citant le manuscrit de Vienne.
@@greatpower8147 In my list they are all Illyrians. (I gave you the source) Several of the most-outstanding emperors of the late Roman Empire were of Illyrian (🇦🇱) origin, including Claudius II Gothicus, AURELIAN, Diocletian, and Constantine the Great, most of whom were chosen by their own troops on the battlefield and later acclaimed by the Senate. Source : Illyria historical region, Europe, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
People complaining about this sounding too « oriental » should really look at a map and see where Greece is. Not to mention that Greece and the Orient influenced each other even before the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) was a thing.
Dont know why westerners hate oriental. Middle east and eastern mediterranean were the center of the world since the creation of the civilization. While todays civilized lands like northern and western europe were batbarian wastelands. Keep your ties strong with your heritage,the east,greek bros 🇹🇷🇬🇷
@@iskambillordu Probably because the media and the western world gives them a bad rap as some violent and backwards place filled with terrorists and religious extremists.
I love that you mixed Latin and Greek! It shows how Roman history was a single whole, a continuum. In fact, set Latin expressions remained in use in the court of Constantinople long after most people had ceased speaking Latin. || The only thing I found odd or maybe a bit ridiculous was the unmelodious cries around 4:45.
They’re indeed not melodious at all haha, but they’re very rythmic :p Rythmic war cries of soldiers to hype themselves up are a staple of all cultures, and Romans were no exception. Soldiers tend not to be the most elegant and melodious singers, and these sort of war cries tend to be very rough and coarse, just like the men who sing them. Byzantium was made up of different strata, and not all of it was the elegant purple, I think the contrast between the chanting and the coarse cries shows that well enough
This song is fantastic because it not only showcases a little bit of Byzantine music with Greek lyrics but also it has Latin lyrics! Congrats! Greetings from Mexico!
I think I fell in love with this. The music , the greek and latin together..It was a pleasure out of this world. I will definitely listen to this next time I visit Hagia Sophia..
@@BartlomiejDmowski so what lil bro, she still was a boss and kept the Empire strong during dark times while her Husband was out of commission thanks to the Plague
Every time I listen to this song I have goosebumps. Great great job! Even it is not original Byzantine song I can feel the Byzantine power, mystery and energy coming from this song. Love it
Sono d'origine italo greco, mio babbo é nato a Roma e la mia mamma ad Atene, mi sento orgoglioso delle mie radice italo-greche, quando ascolto questa musica mi porta a ricordare ai due grandi imperi al romano e al greco. grazie per questa musica bizantina incredibile.
and I am Rumei with Ukrainian roots, the song is truly great. We unfortunately almost lost our language( rumaiica ), but before the war Ukraine was helping us restore it
@@thevoiceofhonor8671 something you will soon have more muslims in "Third Rome" than people of the Greek faith, moscow repeats the fate of Constantinople?
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors). Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱): - Justinian I - Justin I - Anastasius I - Marcianus - Valentinian II - Gratian - Valens - Valentinian I - Jovian - Constantius II - Constantine the Great - Maximianus "Herculius - Diocletian - Probus - Aurelian - Quintillus - Claudius II "Gothicus - Hostilianus - Decius Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)" This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
Fun fact it was founded by Greek colonists and its original name in Greek and Latin was "Neapolis" literally meaning "New City", eventually becoming "Napoli" in Italian after the collapse of Roman and Byzantine government Italy.
Anche se Napoli fu fondata dai greci il DNA dei greci oggi a Napoli è quasi inesistente, visto e considerato che i popoli italici e poi Nordici hanno invaso e colonizzato napoli molto più del resto del sud.
As a lover of Rome in all its forms, this brought tears to my eyes. Everybody hypes up the Western Romans for good reasons, but a s a result, the either ignore, completely disregard, or outright disrespect the Eastern Romans who I believe to be even more powerful and respectable than their western ancestors. The Eastern Romans withstood all manner of peoples from the Huns, the Persians, Arabs, and even the Mongols. They stood against foes that their western latin ancestors would have regarded as divine punishments, and in the face of all them they spit and persevered longer than their latin ancestors.
@@Hispano1 Yes and no Total army number might have been a little bit bigger considering the fact that the entire empire was bigger, but cataphracts, varangians and other Eastern Roman units were far more superior to their predecessors
@@Hispano1 classic Rome couldn't resist to the consecutively waves of barbarians,but eastern Empire not only survived,but was the super power of Europe for hundreds of years.
@@lilestojkovicii6618 Cierto, pero en esta época ya no habían soldados profesionales, sino milicianos que se levantaban en armas cada vez que había una guerra y el núcleo profesional no era muy grande a diferencia de épocas pasadas, además recuerda que Roma uso los Catafractos durante el mandato de Adriano y posteriormente, además aunque la guardia Varega era fuerte, pero no se podía equiparar a Pretorianos curtidos en mil batallas bien equipados.
@@kimphilby7999 Roma dejó de ser clásica cuando murió Juliano el Filósofo o apóstata, además de eso Roma pudo resistir durante bastante tiempo las olas bárbaras que de no ser honorio la Roma Occidental hubiera sobrevivido durante mucho más tiempo, y así es Bizancio fue una gran potencia, sin embargo no pudo enfrentarse a tantos frentes desde Hispania, el norte de África, Egipto, (Por los Árabes) Italia, (Por Germanos) Siria y Armenia, (por Sasánidas), Tracia y Moesia (por pueblos de las estepas como los Ávaros), Constantinopla perdió gran parte de las conquistas de Belisario en poco tiempo y estuvo muchas veces cerca de caer y fue derrotada en multitud de ocasiones, entonces tampoco es tan así como lo dices.
As an Indian I can trace the tone in our Malakan orthodox chruch , in there prayer they use some of the string notes same as used here.. though feel nostalgic to me
Gratias Farya! As a fanatic of rome, its rare to find something good like this. And not to mention the perfect quality with it. It just motivates me to go on! Keeü it up! Every time I listen to it, I get a boost. You deserve a far greater audience. btw. I love your community here. Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Persians, ect... Its sincerly the first time that I see people of so many cultures, that get along so well. As I said, great masterpeace!
Farya Faraji, you are incredible! This song is not only lovely but has a bit of magic in it. The period of Justinian's Byzantine history is famous not because of reconquest, but also because of bilingualism. I could never imagine anyone making that era tangible. Make more Latin and Greek mixed music.
As a Greek-American, I appreciate your comments. History illustrates how inextricably connected/tied we are. Humans have a limited vocal range, and essentially, we are ONE. Our differences make us interesting to one another as social beings, AND nothing more to the fates/higher power/God/etc. "Too Asian" sounds absolutely ridiculous to me and perhaps BOT-generated. Ridiculous.. When nations are inspired by other nations, that IS history. Learn some.....
Man I only found your channel 3 hours ago, Belisarius video popped up. I AM BLOWN AWAY DUDE, YOU ARE KILLIN IT. Please keep up with Byzantine music and other work(I also heard your Hajduks from Raska, mad respect for that brother). All in all I am only sorry I never knew of your channel sooner. All the best. Greetings from Serbia☦️🇷🇸
I love listening to Greek and Latin chants. The heritage of the Byzantine Empire in: culture, religion, traditions, language. Greetings from Tajikistan (Eastern Iran) 🇹🇯❤️☀️🇬🇷 Seposguzoram ustod Farya Faraji duroud bar shumo☀️❤️
Can't stop coming back to this song, the Greek chanting, the Latin solo part, the instrumentation, it's all so wonderful. Thank you so much for making this!
Great image of Byzantine civilization! I really appreciate the chorus. Finally our good Roman soldiers can counter that frightening Turkish rap xD I just reminded about a Byzantine prayer that emperor Costantine VII Porphyrogenitus prescribed that a leaving emperor have to say, a sort of greeting to the city, a prayer to God to protect the city. I think would be a good subject for a song, but I don't remember where to find it...
Haha I'd like to go back in time and send a music to each of the respective sides and see which one would win :p And interesting! I'll do some research on that prayer!
I am Georgian, born in Greece, and I am proud that God made me an Orthodox Christian through these two blessed nations. I love my Greek and Georgian Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters, as well as all Orthodox Christians around the world. Glory to God! Orthodoxy or death! May God bless you all in the name of Jesus Christ!
How much fun Farya Faraji must have had recording this! I imagine him jumping around a recording studio, pounding his chest, shouting ROMA CAPUT MUNDI 😂 ❤️
I am a Turk and the saz made this music more “familiar” more close to me, if that makes sense? Idk I like the fact that you added the saz in it, it feels nice.
I absolutely love this. It sounds just like I imagined Byzantine music would sound like; created with the modern tools, of course; another thing that is not sufficiently praised in the comments is the background image itself, the emperor looking peacefully at you while fast-paced music is played, the particles indicating change, yet the mosaic stays unaltered, showing that no matter what happens, no matter what the soldiers think is a final battle, no matter even if the empire falls, the culture and knowledge would live on, and this channel of yours is a very proof of this. Lots of respect from me, please continue making excellent pieces like this.
Моя любовь к Византии, ее истории, культуре началась с 11 лет. Теперь мне 29 и я получаю безумное эстетическое удовольствие от прослушивания данного трека, погружаясь ещё сильнее в византийскую культуру. Больше треков в данной стилистике!
I listen to your creations several times a day. They attract and don't let go. Majestic and inspiring. It seems to me as if through this music I hear my distant ancestors who once lived in the Eastern Roman Empire (in Trebizond). We are Pontic Greeks. My parents and grandmother still speak romeika, the language of the Eastern Roman Empire. Thank you for your work and may the muse of inspiration never leave you.🎼🏛️🌿🕊️
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors). Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱): - Justinian I - Justin I - Anastasius I - Marcianus - Valentinian II - Gratian - Valens - Valentinian I - Jovian - Constantius II - Constantine the Great - Maximianus "Herculius - Diocletian - Probus - Aurelian - Quintillus - Claudius II "Gothicus - Hostilianus - Decius Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)" This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
@@billkar6479 Anthropology shows us the truth. ( Albanians are Pelasgians = Illyrians, Thracians, etc ... = today Albanians ) Anthropology. The current Albanians have the particularity of having the highest cephalic index (85 to 90) in Europe (Hyperbrachycephaly/round head) and a pronounced planoccipitalia (flattening of the posterior and inferior wall of the skull). Ripley, in his classification system, considered the shape of the head as the most reliable index in the racial diagnosis. Jacque and Morgan (🇫🇷) affirms source : (l'humanité archéologique, Paris 1921): "The oldest archaeological documents that we have about these settlers lead us to think that their migration was made by coming from continental Europe, and that, during the fourth millennium before our era. Then would have intervened the Pelasgians 🇦🇱, bringing with them the knowledge of the metal. While occupying the European Helladia, these tribes would have advanced until the Islands and the Asian territories ... the other, the most recent, which would have been the author of the Mycenaean culture, and would be related to the tribes, which in these times, inhabited Thrace and the banks of the Danube . These settlers would not be Hellenes properly speaking, but Thraco-Phrygians ". This brachycephaly is, also, celke of the mountain dwellers " said to " round head " of the 5th or 4th millenium which populated, partly, the Near and Middle East such as Sumerians (not semitic people), Hittites, Elamites. This characteristic is confirmed by the archaeological excavations carried out in the oldest necropolises discovered in a very vast geographical space going from the High Danube to Asia Minor while passing by the Balkans and particularly the regions populated, currently, by populations of Pelasgians stock (Albanian ethnic group). To finish I make notice that, C.H and C.B hawes ( Crete, the forerunner of Greece, London 1909 ), have established marked anaologies between Albanian skulls. This discovery corroborates, once more, the Pelasgians-Illyrians origin of the populations, known as Dorian, originating in the North of Greece whereas, only, their leaders or kings, minority in the country (king of Sparta Agis IV, in the IIIrd s before JC, affirmed that there were three periecles for a Spartan), were of Semito-Egyptian origin as the many arguments prove it.
To all my local Balkan brethren that aspire to Western Europe, culture and etc.I've got a message. Embrace your legacy and start understanding that "Oriental" is a misinterpreted term used today to describe "Middle-Eastern" music. The Mediterranean shares a long history and culture bond with the Middle-East but what fail to see is that it's exactly Ancient Greece inspiring the tunes that people would see as "Oriental" today. Oriental truly means Mediterranean and I urge all of us embrace that. Bulgarians, Greeks, Turks, Romanians, Serbs and most other Balkan peoples, we share a common Eastern Roman root. Remember that. I also want to add that to us "Oriental" and "Balkan" are two distinct styles but not to the common Westerner.
As a Turkish person i agree with you. The Byzantine Empire (Eastern Rome) influenced the ottomans as well. When i listen to this, it kind of feels like it is coming from Anatolia. It feels like i hear the music of my own country when i listen to this. The problem with western/northern Europe is that they dont understand the mediterreanean. They have to categorize everything. You are either this or that.. and that way of thinking is just stupid. I believe that the western world has a very different view of what the byzantine empire looked like. They feel like everyone was having northern european culture. They just cant comprehend anything.
This is a remarkable masterpiece that can be enjoyed by people from all backgrounds. The fact that you are an Iranian musical composer mastering medieval traditions from across the Middle East, and simultaneously devoting time to mastering both Latin and Greek (as well as English and all the other myriad languages you use for your musical arrangements), and still find time to review and point out the tiny inaccuracies between your pronunciation of terms in the Classical Greek form and Byzantine Koine Greek form, only shows how incredibly devoted to your craft you are. Please do not stop making these gorgeous artworks. You have a true gift.
@@snursultan9611 my friend the army was there since ever It's just the APK trying to get few extra voters by telling half truths to people And half true is a full lie my friend
I randomly turned it on while listening to other songs on the channel, I've been listening to it nonstop for a few days, greetings to Greeks from Turkey, our neighbor has a very good history and culture.
Хочется выразить вам респект за то, что вы создаете реалистичную музыку. Византия была более восточной страной, чем западной, на мой взгляд. Огромная часть Византии - это греки и армяне, чья музыка как раз таки звучит больше по-восточному. Еще надо не забывать, что в те годы многие греки в основном жили в современной Анатолии на западе. Спасибо Farya!
Your accent in Greek is unbelievably Greek-like. Fantastic use of multiple GrecoRoman music from various areas. PS. You sound like a mainland Greek and in other lines like Pontian Greek.
Thanks alot! I was travelling to Greece last month and my accent got me in trouble haha, I'm not very good at languages but I can handle the pronunciations somewhat O.K, so everytime I spoke what little Greek I knew, the locals would think I was Greek and I'd have to stop them lol. I do still have trouble with the intonation though; Greek is alot like Spanish where there's no rule for which syllable of the word is accented-in French it's always the last syllable so it's easy to remember, but in Greek and Spanish you have to learn it for each word, it's a nightmare hahaha. I still the love language, I promised to myself I'll learn it one day
@@faryafaraji Whenever you want to take this leap of faith, my friend is teaching Greek (modern, ancient and Latin) remotely as foreign language ! Believe me, you sound better than 2nd generation mainland and Cypriot Greeks in the United Kingdom ! The simplified Greek is difficult as a more complex system of intonation signs ceased to exist. It is more native speaker oriented nowadays. Archaic/Cleansed Greek which was the formal Greek up to 1980s had all the signs necessary to understand the intonation.
Alot of people criticize the song for sounding too oriental, eastern or Turkish. I've been receiving these comments over and over again, so I'll just pin the response here instead of answering individually every time. The first basic thing to remember is that this song isn't actual Byzantine music, it's Byzantine-themed music. It has no pretenses at being historical Byzantine music; it is however representative of modern Greek music with slight orchestral additions.
The people criticising the song as being too oriental do it out of a basic assumption:
Some are simply unaware of the deeply "oriental/eastern" sound of Greek music and are likely only familiar with the music of the Ionian Islands, the Italian-like, Zorba music; and like many non-Greeks, they have only been exposed to this highly specific and regional style of Greek music, and therefore project it as being the entirety of all Greek music-most of which doesn't sound like that at all.
Others recognise that Greek music of today does have an "oriental" sound, but they attribute it to Ottoman influence, their assumption being that before the Turkish conquest, Byzantine music had a Western European sound, and that Turkish influence made Greek music the way it is today, therefore Byzantine-themed music should have a Western European sound.
The main aspect of this song that makes it sound oriental is the scale/mode used, which involves a tetrachord (series of four notes) found in the Double Harmonic Major, called by various names by other cultures, such as Phrygian Dominant or Hijaz. The earliest attestation of this tetrachord is found in ancient Greek music, in the Lydian Chromatic Mode and the Hypolydian mode, and Arab writers of the early Islamic Golden Age mention in their writings that they are adopting the tetrachords of Ancient Greek music and basing their nascent musical style on this ancient system. Therefore the notion that such scales were brought after the Turkish conquest is nullified: these scales existed as far back as the Hellenistic Era, and Octavian and Caesar heard these very tetrarchords in their culture's music.
In fact, google "Double Harmonic Major," and you'll see it referred to by another name: the Byzantine Scale. This "oriental, too Arabic to be Byzantine" scale is so important, so central to Byzantine music, that it is called, literally, the Byzantine scale.
Another thing many people respond negatively to is Byzantine chant itself, the style of singing. The idea usually being: "this sounds Islamic, this can't be how Byzantines sang," or: "yes Greeks sing like this today because of Turkish and Islamic influence, but in the days of the Byzantine Empire, their religious chants would have sounded like Gregorian chanting."
Gregorian Chant is not the original style of Christian liturgical chant. Old Roman Chant is. Old Roman Chant is the style of liturgical Christian singing of the Late Roman Empire. It is the common ancestor of both Gregorian and Byzantine chant, as both traditions evolved from Old Roman Chant. Here are a few examples of Old Roman Chant:
ruclips.net/video/2JOShBSsql0/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/t3ERxC4etHo/видео.html
The similarity with Byzantine chant is blatant. Old Roman Chant has that "Oriental/Islamic" thing going in the singing, which is simply a high degree of vocal ornamentation that is melismatic with a high degree of microtonal inflection. The modern style of singing found in today's Greek Orthodox Church (among others) is not a product of Ottoman and Islamic influence--instead, it goes back to the common roots of the earliest forms of Christian liturgical chant. Once again, it's historically impossible for this style of chanting to be the product of Turkish influence, but it is a very plausible hypothesis that it's Islam that adopted this style of chanting from the Christian Mediterranean basin at the onset of its conquests, and not the other way around.
The assumption that Turks wiped out a nonexistent, Western European style of native Greek music is completely contradicted by historical research. Many of these "oriental" sounding elements existed in Ancient Greece and were in fact Greek influence upon Middle-Eastern music, which is a testament to the fact that culture does not turn altogether "Western" upon crossing from Anatolia into Greece. Despite being foundational to Western civilisation, Greece has always been more similar to its neighbours in the East than the English or the French on many cultural levels; music being one of them.
Just to be clear: I'm not saying Turkish music is 100% Byzantine or that there has been no Turkish influence on Greek music. Bilateral influence has been occurring between these two cultures ever since the 1000's. What I'm saying is that the "oriental" vibe of Byzantium is native to it, and that Turkish influence did not fundamentally change Greek music from a Western one to an "Eastern" one. It was already "Eastern" in style before. Therefore using the sound of modern Greek music is not inappropriate for representing Byzantium, as modern Greek music is not an Islamic/Turkish/Middle-Eastern imposition, and is in fact, very much a direct continuation of Byzantine music and carries the echoes of it.
@@faryafaraji I'm quite a history enthusiast and was aware of the influence the Greek culture had on Islamic philosophy and other aspects however, I didn't really think about the musical side of this. I found out quite a lot from your comments and even became aware of some of the stereotypes I was subscribing to. Oh well... there's always something new to learn I guess :). Thanks a lot for taking your time to share all these!
Idk man, as an history nerd this sound not far from how I imagined secular eastern roman music.
I guess most of the comments who say stuff like that come from americans *Shrugs*
I am Greek and I am a musician and one thing I can tell you, your song sound amazingly Byzantine. If these ignorant people go inside a greek orthodox church, where the tradition of Byzantium still is kept intact, they will listen to the priests singing and they sing exactly the scales you are using. If it sounds too oriental let them understand and never forget that Byzantium was in the orient. Also for some reason in my ears, your melody sounds more ancient roman/ greek than oriental Arabic, it's ridiculous how ignorant some people can be and try to teach people who have made their research and have knowledge on a subject like yourself.
@@adrianradulescu7238 Thanks alot Adrian!
@@cintaratna6083 Americans definitely play a central part in that they're the culture that dictates stereotypes through Hollywood and pop-culture. I was in Crete last month, and a local musician told me that he stopped playing Cretan folk music at restaurants because American tourists complained for years that it sounded too "weird and arabic," and now he just plays music from the Ionian islands; that's the Italian sounding Greek music everyone knows from the Zorba song. Basically he has to play a style of music that has nothing to do with his home region, because that's the most Western-friendly style and the one that conforms to American stereotypes of what Greek music "should sound like," it's pretty sad tbh
A while ago, one night when I was having trouble sleeping, I started playing a mix of songs from RUclips music. Then I fell asleep and woke up hours later in the middle of the night while this song was playing; and after that I thought I had died and the angels were singing this song to me. Hahaha I think I got high because of the good song.
I played this to my beer.
It became wine.
😂
yes
XD
Lol
Jesus
Her: So what kinda music do you listen too?
Me: *well it's kinda complicated*
Just tell her. You may discover a shared interest.
@@hydratejsn me da pena
@@FelipeSuarez-w5m que te da pena?
@@hydratejsn me da pena decirle eso, que me rechace o me diga raro o algo asi, pero es humor bro, pero en parte es verdad ya que aunque me siento orgulloso de escuchar esta cancion todos los dias y tendria mucho miedo de decir esto si me lo preguntan , y mostrarme como soy y mis gustos aunque a veces no me da miedo
I got asked that question a few times and i was just silent for some reason bro.
People who think it's too "oriental" don't understand that Greece is at a crossroads between weat and east. They were influenced by both cultures.
Same with Armenians and Turks
correction: they influenced both cultures
To further your argument- culture is nuanced so arguably there is no such thing as a western or eastern culture. Culture is much more diverse. There might be general cultural trends however.
@@Valya1989 Western/eastern culture are overarching. They both exist. All cultures in the west have some similarities to each other and same with the east.
@@harris8172 Armenians, Turks and Arabs are very influenced by Iran.
Courtier: "My Basileus! Langobards barbarians challenged us to a Rap Battle, what we do now?"
Emperor: "Hold my tzatziki..."
swag
Best comment lmao
Who won?
Who's next?
You decide!
@@klynt2763 It's hard to say, in Southern Italy the "rap competitions" continued for centuries, sometimes the Byzantines won, other times the Longobards, then against the Normans and the Arabs, or the Roman Papacy, like Creeps and Bloods. I believe that the gigachad who definitively won was Emperor Frederick II of Swabia, at the end of the 12th century, with the hit "Constitutiones Regni Siciliae In Da Club" .
I played this on loud speaker and my neighbor texted me "We march at dawn" .
Did you indeed, march at dawn?
He is vibing with you there. I would too.
@@Briselance we will brother haha
@@mordorr7700we go reconquista ( :
😆 🤣 ❤
I'm addicted to this masterpiece. Love from Sicily to my greek brothers.🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷
ROMA AETERNA 🇬🇷🏛🇮🇹
@@exchef7555 Roma caput mundi 🇮🇹♥️🇬🇷
@@ElGoldBeing Roman is a privilage,a state of mind,a way of life.
@@imperfectcell7081 totally agree
ROMA INVICTA 🇹🇩❤🇮🇹🏛
Your pontian lyra part (2:14) was epic.
Salute from a pontian greek
I just had to have a Pontian lyra in the song; the Pontian Greeks still carry the spirit of Eastern Rome and keep it alive in their lands. Love and respect from Canada to all Pontian Greeks!
@@faryafaraji if you want you can check the pontian "war songs" called "serra" or "pyrrichios horos".
Maybe (if you want) you can create an epic cover of this music type.
Anyway, just an idea, do what you want. You are pretty talented
I'll check them out for sure, thanks for the reference!
@@faryafaraji If you want you can read this to learn about the type of music:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_(dance)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhichios
Yeah bro its dope, salut from an armenian
Salento and Calabria: last greek byzantine strongholds in southern Italy against the Lombards!🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷
Roman, not byzantine
@@lordofhostsappreciator3075 Byzantines were the last Romans after colapsed of western Roman Empire in the 476 AD
Byzantine was Eastern Roman Empire
They were Greeks (Byzantines) but they called themselves Romans
I correct word Romanians to Romans - sorry for my linguistic mistake
Of course Romanians are not Romans
In fact, not only Greeks
They never call themselves -Byzantines.
This is our western or rather northern ❄ idea to call them ,, Byzantines"
@@martig1000 ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑ ΡΩΜΑΊΩΝ is what they called themselves. Byzantium wasn't used but it makes sense because constantinople was built where the ancient greek city of byzantion used to be its like calling the empire Constaninople empire nothing wrong with that
Beautiful work. As an Italian with a bit of Greek heritage I highly approve! Those eastern notes really capture the spirit of the age
Thanks alot Hadrian! Yeah, that's why I love Byzantium as a concept for musical exploration-it allows one to meld Western and Eastern musical sensibilities in a way that's thematically appropriate.
@Abderrahmane Qaym Ouled Taffer Bentahar ave, inshallah
Bellissima
Italian with Greek heritage, so 100% Roman :)
I am the 1000th like
As a frankish barbar, this is a banger
I love this, since I am literally Obsessed with Byzantine History
The Normans?! Uh oh, somebody crown Alexios as emperor as I think the Normans are looking to invade Greece again
Hey man, i am as well really obsessed with Byzantine. I just wanted to tell you, that acctually Byzantine people never called themselfes Byzantines. They are called Romans. Byzantine is just a new name made before like 100-200 Just to make it easier for historians. That name is crated, because old Istambul is called "Byzant".
@@dusanrodic138 yeah even the Turks called them Rum (Roman). I am studying in Northern Cyprus and we calls the Greeks or Italians Rum
if you guys have intrest about Anatolia and its people or culture I can help you. I can say to you Turks are not the barbarians that anslave local poor Rums we are not Americans and most of the people in Turkey is Romanized and Turkified Greeks. if you look the dna tests of The Turks you can see. in the past 150 yers before there where a millions of christians was living in Turkey. In the erarly republick times populations had exchanged
There is no such thing. States have used religion and nationalism. Hellenism is as dangerous and malicious is Turkism or Arabism etc or Americanism. Today you see USA is using capitalism amd dominating markets with its currency and converts people with money. Anatolia is now still evolving like many moves from Iraq or Georgia or afghanistan. There is no need for Hellenistic statism to describe the history as those were Greeks but Turks converted them to Islam & their national identity. Bulgarians, Romanians, Serbians, Arabs, Mongolians, Turkic tribes, Kurds, Jews, Armenians, Parsians now all have melted by the Romans & Ottomans not only in Anatolia almost entire Eurasia. Of course I. General east Mediterranean has Jewish, Greek, Ottoman Turk, Arab and Latin, Armenians’ forms of cultures, traditions. But all have common is Jewish because of Prophet Moses and Abraham. Study these well and see wider.
Wow... the Latin lines are giving me chills... great work
Thanks alot!
I love the combination of Greek and Latin... This is one of the most beautiful things about the Byzantine Empire
Dude, let us call it what it actually was: Roman. Byzantine is such a screwed term.
Yeah, you right. It's just when you are in a Greek school and you hear that term all the time, you getting used to it
Βυζάντιο ! Υπάρχουν νομίσματα της εποχής του Βυζαντίου στην Κύπρο και Ασία
@Who Cares? They were not Hellenes. They were Rhomaioi, otherwise translated in English as Romans. Their descent was also not Hellenic. The countless eastern Romans who never had Greek descent can attest to the truth of what I say here. "Latins" is also not a real ethnonym. Your differentiation is laughable at best.
@@DivineHellas No matter how much you insist on them being "Hellenes", they were not. They were Romans. Romans with varied multi-ethnic backgrounds.
As Sicilian a really enjoy this Greek music. I feel connected with my Greek Brothers, probably because of common ancestors..
It was a Greek land until the Eastern Roman Empire days ☦️🇬🇷
The production value of your music is incredibly impressive. Many of your pieces wouldn't sound out of place in a great movie/video game soundtrack. I enjoyed this one a lot. Thank you very much!
Thanks alot!
Imagine being a Varangian experiencing Byzantium for the first time
No wonder so many scandinavian / anglosaxons / norman travelers wanted to make a living there. Visiting the Eastern Roman Empire and specially Constantinople was like being in a dream.
So many exotic things, so many developments you haven't heard of in your lifetime.
Even Northern France is too hot so I won't imagine current days Turkey 🦃real oven.
C I V I L I Z E D
*HALVDAN WAS HERE*
The party im imagining is WILD
Oh Lord! The pontian music touches were so on point! Long love the kingdom of Trabezon!
I just had to add a reference to the Pontic Greeks, they carry the heart and soul of Eastern Rome with them. A beautiful culture
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
- Justinian I
- Justin I
- Anastasius I
- Marcianus
- Valentinian II
- Gratian
- Valens
- Valentinian I
- Jovian
- Constantius II
- Constantine the Great
- Maximianus "Herculius
- Diocletian
- Probus
- Aurelian
- Quintillus
- Claudius II "Gothicus
- Hostilianus
- Decius
Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
@Mocanu Stefan Why free? I live in Trabzon. Pontus are Muslim here. Hemşin are muslim.Lazlar are muslim. Praying 5 times a day. Washing 5 times a day. No alcohol,no pre matrial sex. A clean place.
Long live BİG CONQUEROR FATİH SULTAN MEHMED.
@Mocanu Stefan there is such of course.. That is just your forced assumption which CIA called "İntellectual Colonialism"..
🇮🇹🤝🏾🇪🇸🤝🏾🇬🇷
Being Mediterranean Chads And the True Roman Empire Descendants
No nos metas ahí
@@eljulencio4152 pero que dices payaso, literalmente somos los descendientes de roma
A mí puedes meterme
@@eljulencio4152 ?
@@eljulencio4152 no importa que tanto quieras ignorarlo, lo somos y lo seremos sin importar que tanto llores.
I am Greek and it doesn't sound oriental at all to me. I understand why Western people call it like this though. I would call it imperial, I can hear the "imperial" pentatonic (I call it like this, maybe it has another name). Very interesting!
The usual name for it English is Double Harmonic Major, and in Byzantine Chant it's Tone 2, but you're right that it sounds very imperial, I feel the same way about it
doesnt sound arabic at all to me, growing up greek galore in australia, its normal for me to hear this. When i hear arabic music it's
totally different to greek.
😍😘😘απο 🇬🇷 Η ελλαδα εναι και αυτο εδω, αλλά κα άλλα .❤️
@@denis_neovvl If I recall correctly, Arabic music was influenced by Persian and *Greek* music.
Those who complain it sounds too oriental perhaps they never listened to Orthodox chants.
Beautiful, please do more Byzantine music.
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
- Justinian I
- Justin I
- Anastasius I
- Marcianus
- Valentinian II
- Gratian
- Valens
- Valentinian I
- Jovian
- Constantius II
- Constantine the Great
- Maximianus "Herculius
- Diocletian
- Probus
- Aurelian
- Quintillus
- Claudius II "Gothicus
- Hostilianus
- Decius
Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
@@Universal.. ruclips.net/video/BLUkgRAy_Vo/видео.html
@@Universal.. but your source doesn't say anything about those emperor's
Agreed, he should.
@@Universal.. albanian fanfiction about being illyrians is getting out of hand
I am Italian and I am a former inhabitant of the territory of the exarchate (Ravenna) where there are still many testimonies of the Eastern Roman Empire respect for all Orthodox brothers from an Italian Orthodox
Istanbul/Constantipolus was actually build by the Italians, why do the Italians not take their credit for it. It is like Rome build on 7 hills.
@@plmb6743 Built and constructed by greeks mate
@@plmb6743 Italians and turks know NOTHING about Architecture. They just copied GREEK Architecture everywere and still doing it today , dark mosques and the Vatican church are copies of the Hagia Sophia Cathedral 🇬🇷☦️
✝️❤️🔥☦️
i'm an Italian Orthodox too ☦️🇮🇹
During the Renaissance, the West, which was rediscovering antiquity, could not accept that this period had continued and enriched in a state during the Middle Ages: Greece, or the Eastern Roman Empire. Their desire to draw clear borders between the periods pushed them to relegate the Byzantine Empire to oblivion. Let's not forget, what Greece, during the Middle Ages, brought to the world. We Greeks did not cease to exist during the Middle Ages, on the contrary we became an even more incredible people! After years of Ottoman domination, we are still here, keeping our traditions, our religion. Do not forget !
The middle ages were largely Christian. We call it the Mess age also. So much killing. it was all Roman and they converted everyone
Love from ancient civilizations india 🌹
@@mawsey1477 thank you. We will always give thanks to something
Definitely, but I don’t think it was out of malice, when Constantinople fell, many fled to Italy and brought with them the traditions and knowledge of the Roman Empire so they kind of started the whole thing. On the other side though, by the time of the renaissance, the Roman Empire had lost much of its splendor, especially after 1204 where a lot of cultural artifacts from ancient times were destroyed by the greed of the crusaders
@@glent8719 It was out of malice, greed and confusion. Religion is the root of all evil. Religion is for horror and sorrow, through the slavery of government
Alleluia! ☦️✝️🇻🇦🇮🇹🇬🇷
Алилуя ✝️❤🇬🇷❤🇷🇺❤🇺🇦❤🇻🇦❤🇮🇱
Hallelujah ☦️✝️ 🇺🇸
America's one and only king, the king of kings
@@WendysFriesWe have another King, who bows down to the King of Kings.
@@WendysFries thanks God Im Russian🙏🙏🙏
@@MatVonPreussen Gloria in excelsis Deo!
The spirit (energy) of the music and the way they're looking at you or just by their standing postures gives me an essence of power .
I got goosebumps listening to it. Greetings from Turkey
As a Turk, I really enjoy this music, especially the Pontic elements since I'm also used to the same instrument.
He lan kemençe çıkınca bende mal oldum
@@Kartlos1 kemençe bölgesi zaten pontus :D bugün kendine lazım diyenlerin yarısı da pontus kökenli.
@@ereny9465 kolonizasyon kellimesi ne alaka Turkler andoluyu kolonize mi ettiler?
@@Kartlos1 Kemençeyi bırak, direkt bağlama kullanmış bizans için :DD
@@ereny9465 Cementze is persian, as pontic Greek i know it. Alexander Generals brought it to anatolia. Also there wasnt hellenization of Natives there.The big cities were founded by ionians during the second helenic colonization and ONLY during the roman times the whole area behind the mountains (natives hitties) area hellenified.During the years of hellenic and roman history , people there would come and go as trabzon (trapezus) was an important city for all the empires there as well for the ottomans. There will be all kinds of dna in that area , as it is literally in the midle of the world.
This is amazing work! As a Serb who's country used to be part of the Eastern Roman Empire, I'd love to have seen Constantinople way before the 1453 Ottoman siege
Приветствую Сербию! Вы увидите Византийскую империю, когда войдёте в состав Российской империи. Конечно, одежда, еда, климат, технологии и техника в Российской империи будут не такие, как в Византийской империи, но дух будет такой же.
I think you should have seen her before 1204
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
- Justinian I
- Justin I
- Anastasius I
- Marcianus
- Valentinian II
- Gratian
- Valens
- Valentinian I
- Jovian
- Constantius II
- Constantine the Great
- Maximianus "Herculius
- Diocletian
- Probus
- Aurelian
- Quintillus
- Claudius II "Gothicus
- Hostilianus
- Decius
Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
@@greatpower8147 All the Roman emperors (Justinian, Constantine etc ...) that I quoted in my comment are Illyrians (so Albanians) and not Slavs (so non-Serbs ...).
Indeed the Serbs are not native of the Balkans because they come from the Slavs who settled in the lands of the Illyrians (thus Albanian).
Source : Constantin Porphyrogénète, “Les cités désertées“ in De administrando imperio, cité dans Stelian Brezeanu : Toponymie et réalités ethniques sur le bas-Danube au xe siècle ; Vladislav Popović, “La descente des Koutrigours, des Slaves et des Avars vers la mer Égée : le témoignage de l'archéologie“, in|Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, volume 12, 1978, pp. 596-648 sur [1] et Jordanès, Getica : “…Sclavini a civitate nova et Sclavino Rumunense et lacu qui appellantur Mursianus…“ sur : De rebus Geticis citant le manuscrit de Vienne.
@@greatpower8147 In my list they are all Illyrians. (I gave you the source)
Several of the most-outstanding emperors of the late Roman Empire were of Illyrian (🇦🇱) origin, including Claudius II Gothicus, AURELIAN, Diocletian, and Constantine the Great, most of whom were chosen by their own troops on the battlefield and later acclaimed by the Senate.
Source : Illyria
historical region, Europe,
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
People complaining about this sounding too « oriental » should really look at a map and see where Greece is. Not to mention that Greece and the Orient influenced each other even before the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) was a thing.
Yea Greeks had contact with the East since the Bronze Age.
All you have to do is go to Orthodox church - Their singing is exactly like this
Dont know why westerners hate oriental. Middle east and eastern mediterranean were the center of the world since the creation of the civilization. While todays civilized lands like northern and western europe were batbarian wastelands. Keep your ties strong with your heritage,the east,greek bros 🇹🇷🇬🇷
@@iskambillordu and the Indo-Europeans who started any early civilization mostly are the Eastern ones such as, Greek, Hittite, Iranian and Indo-Aryan
@@iskambillordu Probably because the media and the western world gives them a bad rap as some violent and backwards place filled with terrorists and religious extremists.
I love that you mixed Latin and Greek! It shows how Roman history was a single whole, a continuum. In fact, set Latin expressions remained in use in the court of Constantinople long after most people had ceased speaking Latin. || The only thing I found odd or maybe a bit ridiculous was the unmelodious cries around 4:45.
They’re indeed not melodious at all haha, but they’re very rythmic :p Rythmic war cries of soldiers to hype themselves up are a staple of all cultures, and Romans were no exception. Soldiers tend not to be the most elegant and melodious singers, and these sort of war cries tend to be very rough and coarse, just like the men who sing them. Byzantium was made up of different strata, and not all of it was the elegant purple, I think the contrast between the chanting and the coarse cries shows that well enough
@@faryafaraji Oh okay, that makes sense.
@@faryafaraji Based
@@faryafaraji What you did was genius!
Ironically that is, without any irony, one of my most cherished parts of the song.
This song is fantastic because it not only showcases a little bit of Byzantine music with Greek lyrics but also it has Latin lyrics! Congrats! Greetings from Mexico!
This is an Eastern Roman Empire song that is on steroids! It’s so amazing!
I think I fell in love with this.
The music , the greek and latin together..It was a pleasure out of this world.
I will definitely listen to this next time I visit Hagia Sophia..
As A Romanian and Orthodox this music is love to my ears thank you for sharing, Roma Eterna!!!!
Оставь да
Ave frate!
You mean wallachia puppets?
@@emrcn1538 Vlah is the exonym for the ethnonym roman/ruman/romanus. So yes. Also, drop the insulting tone.
@@emrcn1538 the only reason you won was thanks to the crusades
Justinian a true sigma chad that surrounded himself by other sigma chads, even his wife was a sigma chad
@@BartlomiejDmowski so what lil bro, she still was a boss and kept the Empire strong during dark times while her Husband was out of commission thanks to the Plague
Sounds very sigma chad to me
I wouldn't call Justinian a chad. His wife definitely had more balls than him.
Αυτοσ είναι το σίγμα
Every time I listen to this song I have goosebumps. Great great job! Even it is not original Byzantine song I can feel the Byzantine power, mystery and energy coming from this song. Love it
Ah yes.
I was looking forward to another of your masterworks.
Thanks alot Bogdan :)
The latin part made my Romaboo skin shiver, Roma Invicta indeed.
love for all greeks, romanians, the rest of balkanians and anatolians from Italy 💪🏛✝
Sono d'origine italo greco, mio babbo é nato a Roma e la mia mamma ad Atene, mi sento orgoglioso delle mie radice italo-greche, quando ascolto questa musica mi porta a ricordare ai due grandi imperi al romano e al greco. grazie per questa musica bizantina incredibile.
sono un Ortodosso Italiano ☦️🇮🇹
love to all orthodox christians in 🇷🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇹🇷🇧🇾🇸🇮🇲🇪🇭🇷🇬🇷🇬🇪🇮🇱🇵🇸🇱🇧🇯🇴🇮🇷🇰🇿🇨🇾🇪🇬🇧🇦🇦🇱🇧🇬🇲🇩🇷🇴🇮🇶🇲🇰🇸🇦🇸🇾🇦🇲 and the rest of the world
I am an orthodox
@@qerqiztopulli1708 My condolences.
Kosovo is Serbia
@@te0czbg no
@@te0czbg my bad let me remove it
I am a pontic Greek with Russian roots, but I consider myself a full-fledged Greek🇬🇷
this is a very beautiful song, thanks to the author!🇬🇷❤
and I am Rumei with Ukrainian roots, the song is truly great. We unfortunately almost lost our language( rumaiica ), but before the war Ukraine was helping us restore it
Russia is Third Roma, so its close to be greek anyway.
@@thevoiceofhonor8671 something you will soon have more muslims in "Third Rome" than people of the Greek faith, moscow repeats the fate of Constantinople?
@@jedowampo5431 Where do you see Muslims growing in Moscow?
@@jedowampo5431 θδθδιξ δισξσκ σκδκχ???
Слушаю уже 10 раз. Боже, это так эпично!
I know this has nothing to do With The comment, but the yt translation function is so great. Love that I can read your comment
Не одному мне зашло, брат)
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
- Justinian I
- Justin I
- Anastasius I
- Marcianus
- Valentinian II
- Gratian
- Valens
- Valentinian I
- Jovian
- Constantius II
- Constantine the Great
- Maximianus "Herculius
- Diocletian
- Probus
- Aurelian
- Quintillus
- Claudius II "Gothicus
- Hostilianus
- Decius
Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
@@Universal.. lmao
As an Greek-Napolitan the emotion that the song gives, brings tears to my eyes. Love to all the Greeks from Napoli 🇮🇹🤍🇬🇷
Forza Napoli
❤️🇮🇹💪🏼
Fun fact it was founded by Greek colonists and its original name in Greek and Latin was "Neapolis" literally meaning "New City", eventually becoming "Napoli" in Italian after the collapse of Roman and Byzantine government Italy.
Anche se Napoli fu fondata dai greci il DNA dei greci oggi a Napoli è quasi inesistente, visto e considerato che i popoli italici e poi Nordici hanno invaso e colonizzato napoli molto più del resto del sud.
Neapolis❤
Please do more Byzantine-like music! I love your music and this by far is my favourite!
I'm definitely doing more for sure :)
@@faryafaraji Can you do Christian Japanese Music try to blend Orthodox Chanting into Taiko Drums and Shakuhachi
@@鉄永誠-s1m i LOVE that concept what a unique idea
@Roman Emperor Lucius Domitus Aurelianus maybe but It's never been tried so we won't know
@@鉄永誠-s1m
Holy shit...
That's worse than sacriligion but it would be intresting....
As a lover of Rome in all its forms, this brought tears to my eyes. Everybody hypes up the Western Romans for good reasons, but a s a result, the either ignore, completely disregard, or outright disrespect the Eastern Romans who I believe to be even more powerful and respectable than their western ancestors. The Eastern Romans withstood all manner of peoples from the Huns, the Persians, Arabs, and even the Mongols. They stood against foes that their western latin ancestors would have regarded as divine punishments, and in the face of all them they spit and persevered longer than their latin ancestors.
La Roma de Trajano era mucho más fuerte que la de los Bizantinos.
@@Hispano1 Yes and no
Total army number might have been a little bit bigger considering the fact that the entire empire was bigger, but cataphracts, varangians and other Eastern Roman units were far more superior to their predecessors
@@Hispano1 classic Rome couldn't resist to the consecutively waves of barbarians,but eastern Empire not only survived,but was the super power of Europe for hundreds of years.
@@lilestojkovicii6618 Cierto, pero en esta época ya no habían soldados profesionales, sino milicianos que se levantaban en armas cada vez que había una guerra y el núcleo profesional no era muy grande a diferencia de épocas pasadas, además recuerda que Roma uso los Catafractos durante el mandato de Adriano y posteriormente, además aunque la guardia Varega era fuerte, pero no se podía equiparar a Pretorianos curtidos en mil batallas bien equipados.
@@kimphilby7999 Roma dejó de ser clásica cuando murió Juliano el Filósofo o apóstata, además de eso Roma pudo resistir durante bastante tiempo las olas bárbaras que de no ser honorio la Roma Occidental hubiera sobrevivido durante mucho más tiempo, y así es Bizancio fue una gran potencia, sin embargo no pudo enfrentarse a tantos frentes desde Hispania, el norte de África, Egipto, (Por los Árabes) Italia, (Por Germanos) Siria y Armenia, (por Sasánidas), Tracia y Moesia (por pueblos de las estepas como los Ávaros), Constantinopla perdió gran parte de las conquistas de Belisario en poco tiempo y estuvo muchas veces cerca de caer y fue derrotada en multitud de ocasiones, entonces tampoco es tan así como lo dices.
This is the most impressive RUclips-channel I've seen in the last 10 years. Christ bless you!
As an Indian I can trace the tone in our Malakan orthodox chruch , in there prayer they use some of the string notes same as used here.. though feel nostalgic to me
Hello brother 🤗
Gratias Farya! As a fanatic of rome, its rare to find something good like this. And not to mention the perfect quality with it. It just motivates me to go on! Keeü it up! Every time I listen to it, I get a boost. You deserve a far greater audience.
btw. I love your community here. Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Persians, ect... Its sincerly the first time that I see people of so many cultures, that get along so well. As I said, great masterpeace!
Spiritus Invictus Pro Deo Et Patria
5:15 This is just... divine and sublime.
Thanks I use this part for my edits
Farya Faraji, you are incredible! This song is not only lovely but has a bit of magic in it. The period of Justinian's Byzantine history is famous not because of reconquest, but also because of bilingualism. I could never imagine anyone making that era tangible. Make more Latin and Greek mixed music.
In LatinAmerica we all learn Greek Language in our Bible Studies i love being an Spanish Speaker but i love more the Greek language 🇬🇷☦️⛪️📖❤️🔥
Solo por el español ya eres heredero de Roma
In hispánic américa
@@soropintoresco9030No eso son los españoles.
Te falta filosofía e historia.
Nosotros los hispanos americanos somos hijos de españoles.
@@soropintoresco9030Y por lo que veo no eres bárbaro (Alemán) nosotros sabemos lo que es: "ser y estar"
I always found Byzantine music style very fascinating and enjoyable, its unique and i hope it will never get lost in history
As a Greek-American, I appreciate your comments.
History illustrates how inextricably connected/tied we are.
Humans have a limited vocal range, and essentially, we are ONE.
Our differences make us interesting to one another as social beings, AND nothing more to the fates/higher power/God/etc.
"Too Asian" sounds absolutely ridiculous to me and perhaps BOT-generated.
Ridiculous..
When nations are inspired by other nations, that IS history.
Learn some.....
Facts, I love music that blends many different styles
Man I only found your channel 3 hours ago, Belisarius video popped up. I AM BLOWN AWAY DUDE, YOU ARE KILLIN IT. Please keep up with Byzantine music and other work(I also heard your Hajduks from Raska, mad respect for that brother). All in all I am only sorry I never knew of your channel sooner. All the best. Greetings from Serbia☦️🇷🇸
Serbian brother! Love from Greece
I started listening and literally gasped because it’s so beautiful. I’m gonna be obsessed with this from now on.
I love listening to Greek and Latin chants. The heritage of the Byzantine Empire in: culture, religion, traditions, language.
Greetings from Tajikistan (Eastern Iran)
🇹🇯❤️☀️🇬🇷
Seposguzoram ustod Farya Faraji duroud bar shumo☀️❤️
do you like the slavery also?
@@je-freenorman7787 bruh
@@je-freenorman7787 bruh
@@МагомедАжуфамунедов Brohemian
@@thefaramith8876 are you guys doing your parot routine again or practicing to be an echo?
Your song is too good, greetings from a catholic in Malaysia ✝️🇲🇾
Greetings from Canada :)
Θεϊκή μουσική,ευχαριστούμε 🔊
Can't stop coming back to this song, the Greek chanting, the Latin solo part, the instrumentation, it's all so wonderful. Thank you so much for making this!
Great image of Byzantine civilization! I really appreciate the chorus. Finally our good Roman soldiers can counter that frightening Turkish rap xD
I just reminded about a Byzantine prayer that emperor Costantine VII Porphyrogenitus prescribed that a leaving emperor have to say, a sort of greeting to the city, a prayer to God to protect the city. I think would be a good subject for a song, but I don't remember where to find it...
Haha I'd like to go back in time and send a music to each of the respective sides and see which one would win :p And interesting! I'll do some research on that prayer!
criminally underrated, i rlly hope ur channel grows more, u deserve it so much
4:38 best part! God bless all Orthodox Christians! ☦️❤
Дай бог здоровья всем☦️
Song has convinced me to learn Greek and so yesterday I started.
Nice!! Koine?
Nice!!! Attic Greek!!!!
Σε ευχαριστούμε
Isnt this song sung in old greek?
@@reginaldcampos5762 Byzantine Greek language
The Old Greek are the ancient Greek
I’ve listened to this on repeat for a couple days now. Truly a great song, you have a major talent. Never stop making awesome music.
I am Georgian, born in Greece, and I am proud that God made me an Orthodox Christian through these two blessed nations. I love my Greek and Georgian Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters, as well as all Orthodox Christians around the world. Glory to God! Orthodoxy or death! May God bless you all in the name of Jesus Christ!
გაგიმარჯოს ძმაო :)
🏥👑🛐🎊🎵🙋🏽♀️😇🕊🤍💙👍🏽Amennnn.
Love and respect from
Indian Syrian Christian 🙏✝️☦️
☦️❤🇷🇺
Hello fellow Indian brother 😊
R u from Kerela?
@@monirulislam1629 i am,fellow historical music lover
Greetings🤝from syrian chritians from Kerala, India, (Nazrani) 🇮🇳
Fantastic work. I congratulate and follow you with your continuous effort. Geeetings from a Cretan Greek 🇬🇷
How much fun Farya Faraji must have had recording this! I imagine him jumping around a recording studio, pounding his chest, shouting ROMA CAPUT MUNDI 😂 ❤️
That's essentially what I've been doing ever since I've heard this lmao
@@alexandermagnus82 Keep doing it!
Accidentally clicked this. I'm so glad I did. Excellent.
As an Orthodox Convert Turkish, I really like your works. Keep up the good work mate !
God bless you brother 🙏
You're greek
@@Roma_invicta Bless us all brother
@Kerimcan Ak mesihte biriz 😊
You can callyourself greek, the only thing that seperates us is religion.
Long live the Eastern Roman Empire!🇬🇷🦅
Roma Invicta!
@@GigaChadlovesandcares Roma Aeterna!
Eastern Roman empire is kind of cringe
@@YAContinental no u cringe,Try make a Empire that will last for 300 years without falling by ur self,And not insulting ancient eastern Roman Empire.
@@GreekOrthodoxChurchRblx 300 years? Are we talking about the same eastern Roman Empire?
Your Skill with music composition is the best I have ever heard from a single composer outside of mainstream holywood films
Thanks alot man, I appreciate it :)
I am a Turk and the saz made this music more “familiar” more close to me, if that makes sense? Idk I like the fact that you added the saz in it, it feels nice.
The sound of Anatolia 😉
@@PolAdd22 anatolia has so much cultures combined so I really guess if thats the sound of every part of the anatolia but alright
@@victrix5607 i talked about the saz...many music styles but if i had to pick an instrument that describes Anatolia then i would pick the saz
you are a Greek* Muslim
@@PolAdd22 its Greek
Long live to Greeks from Iran❤️
Congrats on 1 million with this one too! Just a day or two ago I checked and it was at 800k. Very well deserved and I'm hoping for much more to come!
I absolutely love this. It sounds just like I imagined Byzantine music would sound like; created with the modern tools, of course; another thing that is not sufficiently praised in the comments is the background image itself, the emperor looking peacefully at you while fast-paced music is played, the particles indicating change, yet the mosaic stays unaltered, showing that no matter what happens, no matter what the soldiers think is a final battle, no matter even if the empire falls, the culture and knowledge would live on, and this channel of yours is a very proof of this.
Lots of respect from me, please continue making excellent pieces like this.
Моя любовь к Византии, ее истории, культуре началась с 11 лет. Теперь мне 29 и я получаю безумное эстетическое удовольствие от прослушивания данного трека, погружаясь ещё сильнее в византийскую культуру. Больше треков в данной стилистике!
I am amazed by the quality of the this masterpiece. Greetings from Anatolia.
I love this - especially with the use of ancient/medieval Greek instruments! Wonderful and haunting!
Just found out about your masterclassed channel. Congrats for the whole work. Greeting from a French orthodox.
Merci! Salut du Québec :)
I listen to your creations several times a day. They attract and don't let go. Majestic and inspiring. It seems to me as if through this music I hear my distant ancestors who once lived in the Eastern Roman Empire (in Trebizond). We are Pontic Greeks. My parents and grandmother still speak romeika, the language of the Eastern Roman Empire. Thank you for your work and may the muse of inspiration never leave you.🎼🏛️🌿🕊️
Oh my God! You really do magic with so many instruments that it felt like it was at that time, please keep doing it ❤️
Thanks alot Juan!
Here in South America we are sons of Roman Culture ✝❤ all love to Greece and Italy our grandparents 🇬🇷
God bless you
No como tal es gracias a los españoles
Iēsoûs Khrīstós, Theoû Huiós, Sōtḗr
Salutations from Romania ☦
ΙΧΘΥΣ 🙏🏼
The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
- Justinian I
- Justin I
- Anastasius I
- Marcianus
- Valentinian II
- Gratian
- Valens
- Valentinian I
- Jovian
- Constantius II
- Constantine the Great
- Maximianus "Herculius
- Diocletian
- Probus
- Aurelian
- Quintillus
- Claudius II "Gothicus
- Hostilianus
- Decius
Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .
@@Universal.. Is your country (Albania I presume) mostly Muslim or Christian?
@@Universal.. Albanians wish they were related to illyrians but too bad it’s all made up. They’re but an ottoman-bred artificial race.
@@billkar6479 Anthropology shows us the truth. ( Albanians are Pelasgians = Illyrians, Thracians, etc ... = today Albanians )
Anthropology.
The current Albanians have the particularity of having the highest cephalic index (85 to 90) in Europe (Hyperbrachycephaly/round head) and a pronounced planoccipitalia (flattening of the posterior and inferior wall of the skull).
Ripley, in his classification system, considered the shape of the head as the most reliable index in the racial diagnosis.
Jacque and Morgan (🇫🇷) affirms source : (l'humanité archéologique, Paris 1921): "The oldest archaeological documents that we have about these settlers lead us to think that their migration was made by coming from continental Europe, and that, during the fourth millennium before our era.
Then would have intervened the Pelasgians 🇦🇱, bringing with them the knowledge of the metal. While occupying the European Helladia, these tribes would have advanced until the Islands and the Asian territories ... the other, the most recent, which would have been the author of the Mycenaean culture, and would be related to the tribes, which in these times, inhabited Thrace and the banks of the Danube .
These settlers would not be Hellenes properly speaking, but Thraco-Phrygians ".
This brachycephaly is, also, celke of the mountain dwellers " said to " round head " of the 5th or 4th millenium which populated, partly, the Near and Middle East such as Sumerians (not semitic people), Hittites, Elamites.
This characteristic is confirmed by the archaeological excavations carried out in the oldest necropolises discovered in a very vast geographical space going from the High Danube to Asia Minor while passing by the Balkans and particularly the regions populated, currently, by populations of Pelasgians stock (Albanian ethnic group).
To finish I make notice that, C.H and C.B hawes ( Crete, the forerunner of Greece, London 1909 ), have established marked anaologies between Albanian skulls.
This discovery corroborates, once more, the Pelasgians-Illyrians origin of the populations, known as Dorian, originating in the North of Greece whereas, only, their leaders or kings, minority in the country (king of Sparta Agis IV, in the IIIrd s before JC, affirmed that there were three periecles for a Spartan), were of Semito-Egyptian origin as the many arguments prove it.
This has become one of my favourite songs. Please do more Greek/Byzantine music
LOVE THIS SONGGG! Love from Türkiye🇹🇷🇬🇷
Biraz daha y@la. Seni Avrupa ya kabul edebilirler
2:04 love how this piece perfectly drops into the eastern greco music, almost like it’s saying “We’re still Roman, don’t forget that”
Amazing work! Thank you for this priceless work!
Thanks alot!
To all my local Balkan brethren that aspire to Western Europe, culture and etc.I've got a message. Embrace your legacy and start understanding that "Oriental" is a misinterpreted term used today to describe "Middle-Eastern" music. The Mediterranean shares a long history and culture bond with the Middle-East but what fail to see is that it's exactly Ancient Greece inspiring the tunes that people would see as "Oriental" today. Oriental truly means Mediterranean and I urge all of us embrace that. Bulgarians, Greeks, Turks, Romanians, Serbs and most other Balkan peoples, we share a common Eastern Roman root. Remember that. I also want to add that to us "Oriental" and "Balkan" are two distinct styles but not to the common Westerner.
As a Turkish person i agree with you.
The Byzantine Empire (Eastern Rome) influenced the ottomans as well. When i listen to this, it kind of feels like it is coming from Anatolia.
It feels like i hear the music of my own country when i listen to this.
The problem with western/northern Europe is that they dont understand the mediterreanean. They have to categorize everything. You are either this or that.. and that way of thinking is just stupid.
I believe that the western world has a very different view of what the byzantine empire looked like. They feel like everyone was having northern european culture.
They just cant comprehend anything.
Une des plus belles musiques que j’ai pu écouter dans ma vie 🙏
This is a remarkable masterpiece that can be enjoyed by people from all backgrounds.
The fact that you are an Iranian musical composer mastering medieval traditions from across the Middle East, and simultaneously devoting time to mastering both Latin and Greek (as well as English and all the other myriad languages you use for your musical arrangements), and still find time to review and point out the tiny inaccuracies between your pronunciation of terms in the Classical Greek form and Byzantine Koine Greek form, only shows how incredibly devoted to your craft you are.
Please do not stop making these gorgeous artworks. You have a true gift.
İ loved this song. Peace be upon you, Love from Turkey to all my greek friends!🇹🇷🇬🇷
@jaffer raza That' s just history my friend
@jaffer raza how is that even relevant?
My friend do not militarize aegean islands!
@@snursultan9611 my friend the army was there since ever
It's just the APK trying to get few extra voters by telling half truths to people
And half true is a full lie my friend
kaisar i rum
so turkey is de facto eastern rome I guess
This is amazing, please keep creating more Byzantine masterpieces.
I randomly turned it on while listening to other songs on the channel, I've been listening to it nonstop for a few days, greetings to Greeks from Turkey, our neighbor has a very good history and culture.
Much love to the Turks from Canada ❤️
It's rather our culture
@nıKolayGelsin malsın.
Biz zaten bizansın mirasının çoğuna sahibiz. Bizim de kültürümüz yani xd
@nıKolayGelsin wait till you learn that anatolian turkish culture is actually mostly byzantine 🤯
Хочется выразить вам респект за то, что вы создаете реалистичную музыку. Византия была более восточной страной, чем западной, на мой взгляд. Огромная часть Византии - это греки и армяне, чья музыка как раз таки звучит больше по-восточному. Еще надо не забывать, что в те годы многие греки в основном жили в современной Анатолии на западе. Спасибо Farya!
Arveler ( Sorbonne's academic) says that Byzantium or Eastern Roman Empire is the first European Empire
@@sgourkon8742 LMAO
this song has immense power, voice and melody wise, keep it up!
Your accent in Greek is unbelievably Greek-like.
Fantastic use of multiple GrecoRoman music from various areas.
PS. You sound like a mainland Greek and in other lines like Pontian Greek.
Thanks alot! I was travelling to Greece last month and my accent got me in trouble haha, I'm not very good at languages but I can handle the pronunciations somewhat O.K, so everytime I spoke what little Greek I knew, the locals would think I was Greek and I'd have to stop them lol. I do still have trouble with the intonation though; Greek is alot like Spanish where there's no rule for which syllable of the word is accented-in French it's always the last syllable so it's easy to remember, but in Greek and Spanish you have to learn it for each word, it's a nightmare hahaha. I still the love language, I promised to myself I'll learn it one day
@@faryafaraji Whenever you want to take this leap of faith, my friend is teaching Greek (modern, ancient and Latin) remotely as foreign language ! Believe me, you sound better than 2nd generation mainland and Cypriot Greeks in the United Kingdom !
The simplified Greek is difficult as a more complex system of intonation signs ceased to exist. It is more native speaker oriented nowadays.
Archaic/Cleansed Greek which was the formal Greek up to 1980s had all the signs necessary to understand the intonation.
@@faryafaraji well, at least the stressed syllable is marked in writing, unlike in English.
NOT SO MUCH...
βασιλεὺς βασιλέων, βασιλεύων βασιλευόντων☦
Love and respect for the great Hellenic nation from Serbia
God bless you brother 🙏🫡☦️
Косово это Сербия ✋
A true amazing song from an empire with a long history, love from the Indonesian history lovers 🇮🇩❤🇬🇷