A Rainforest in Turkey & Iran? | Odd Geography
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- To the south of the Black and Caspian seas, we can find the Pontic and Hyrcanian forests---parts of which can qualify as temperate rainforest. These unique environments stand in stark contrast to the surrounding desert and steppe. As a result, the ecology and human culture in these two places have diverged as well.
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I was born in Rasht and people outside my country are always baffled when I describe my region's climate :)
My hyrcanian heritage ❤
My fellow Gilak
Im gilaki Persian too ❤
Can’t you just explain the geography? You’re on the shore of a lake, is it really baffling that it’s green?
@@KoroushRP The moment you put Persian next to Gilak and write Persian with a capital letter but not the Gilak you are automatically not a Gilak anymore:)
Dude this was EXACTLY what I was looking for. I was just so confused on what could cause the clouds to go south so consistently to make that much raid fall/such a rain shadow. The winds totally made sense and I have always wondered about those parts of Turkey and now it makes even more sense. I love micro climates they are so interesting. I live in a very special/particular place, Eureka California. It's basically perpetually 60 degrees and cloudy. But if I dive 20 mins south it can shoot up to high 80s or 90s in the summer, but once you come back and hit a certain spot, it's all cloud cover or foggy/misty. There's not a whole lot of habitable area for urbanization around us, it's all mountains. It's the one flat place on the coast. The whole area is basically a big alluvial flat from river run off over thousands of years so it's very swampy already and with the mountains right behind us, the clouds sit here or rain on their way up. Part of the bay is just slightly above sea level that it goes bare when the tide is out. Coming from L.A and the California Central Valley where it was basically the same always HOT, and then HOT days and COLD nights in the winter.. it was so facinating the difference. It made me much more curious of all the different types of climates and geological things that can cause different ones to exist that defy the norm. Thanks so much for this and I hope you have others/make more!
Geographically speaking, Turkey has always been very fertile. Such that, there is no desert in Turkey.
@@AD-yq8rl I was referring to the very green strips in the northern part of Anatolia. I don't think I called turkey a desert. It is where civilization started, was the seat of the byzantine empire and the ottoman empire who were both extremely affluent in the hay days.
Thanks! I have always been fascinated by our west coast, too. I will definitely be making videos about upwelling, the marine layer, and all the strange microclimates there caused by the terrain and the ocean. In my first video, I mentioned some strange aspects of the Central Valley. Thanks for tuning in!
@Lazris59, et al, I used to live in both the Los Angeles and San Diego areas and, truth be told, they tend to be even more diverse with their weather climates than your part of California.
@@AD-yq8rl , the fertile valley that you all are mentioning is, in fact, part of, or is, the modern name for the Garden of Eden, which is mentioned in the Holy Scriptures.
As in Iranian, I enjoyed watching this, yes North of iran there are places with rainfall 200 days a year. And scenery is absolutely amazing.
I’m Pontic Greek myself Thankyou for shedding light on my peoples history and land. It’s much appreciated.
I was born in Rasht. I have not seen my rain city for 4 years. I have been living in Germany. I love Germany but I also miss that amazing climate and people's warmth and love.
Fascinating! You managed to cover not only the geography of the regions but also the cultural histories in 8:30' video. Thank you... I was a bit surprised at the end to see how much artificial light along the southern Caspian coast. This implies that it is quite developed despite the agricultural and mountainous aspects of the regions.
It is indeed!
Yes👏
Maybe Inner Anatolia is not as lush as Black Sea Region of Turkey but it is still pretty fertile and forested. Especially due to agriculture, peasants cut down the large forestry areas and made them be able to become the grain harvest belt of Turkey. But at the end, I think I don’t need to explain it since everything is obvious as it can be seen from the satelliate photos.
Inner Anatolia defined as a "desert" as far back as Roman times. Persians, Romans, Crusaders all suffered dearly through that route thus swifted to southmost (far longer) routes to prevent thirst and heat. When Turkic tribes invaded Anatolia they easily settled around Iconium (Konya/Karaman) as A) it was plains and grassland, ideal for their flocks of horses, B) for the same reason Byzantine presence was much lower compared to other parts of Asia Minor. But yeah obviously you have a degree on Anatolian history so be my guest on butchering walls of academic resources about Anatolian history, agriculture, geography, commerce, social sciences and so on.
@@otgunzthere is no desert in Inner Anatolia LoL
@@otgunz central anatolia is not a desert bro
@@otgunz its not defined as a desert, its defined as a steppe.
@huseyinfurkankardiyen2104southeast anatolia is desert, central anatolia is steppe
I love how westerners romanticize on Greeks in stuff like this, like Greeks didnt took over those places from someone else. "Constantinople" itself is an example of that. There is evidence there was settlements in the region long before Greeks, but for some reason it is ignored.
It was justified for us to conquer them and civilize them.
@@PsycheTesStachtes Its funny, because if you ask a Roman, that is exactly what they would tell you about the invasion of Greece. Or do you remember the time how they brought "civilization" to Byzantine centuries later, when crusaders invaded Constantinople?
I can give so many "civilized" examples from west, like the time how they learned how to farm from the east, or how they killed women because they were "witches" , or how they died en-masse because they simply didn't have soap, or how civilized west "borrowed" compass and many other advanced stuff from east, or how they "fixed" mental patients with torture. I can go on for days.
West is so civilized.
@@PsycheTesStachtes so justified that ppl still lived in caves, look at cappadocia lol so much for muh civilized greks
@@PsycheTesStachtes Nothing justifies enslavement, colonisation, conquest. And it works for both nations, and I am telling this as a Turk myself.
@@otgunz Greeks civilize and Turks destroy, thars why westerners think of Socrates when they hear Greece and Islam when they hear Turkey.
Love your videos. Two points of feedback:
1. Your audio when talking to the camera is very good, then gets a lot worse for the narration - might be worth trying another mic.
2. In the first half of this video in particular you have a lot of map images, it may be interesting to see more pictures that aren't maps, for example of the brown bears and leopards you mention. The second half is very good in this respect.
Thanks for uploading
Great points, thanks. And I'm glad someone else confirmed my suspicion that my lapel mic has much better sound than my desk mic. Next video will have much more crisp sound. Thanks again.
@@casualearth9076Your lapel will sound better for a few acoustic reasons that actually are really interesting. Basically, recalling my audio engineering course, it has to do with not only the proximity of the mic to your lips, but the physical properties of condenser microphones that when small, accentuate the deeper tones in your voice, which tend to sound really nice.
In addition, physically holding a lap mic to your face can create something I learned as the James Earl Jones effect, and is really interesting.
This is a year hence, so not sure if this comment will be relevant by this point.
@@ncpolley What if I already have a deep voice, would that make it worse? Lmao
@@Shvetsario No, it only gets better. You're just picking up more of those deep tones. Though there can be a point of diminishing returns, but I doubt your voice is deep enough to get to the point where it sounds *bad*. Very few human beings have a voice that deep.
Unfortunately Iran lost both lion and tiger in early 20th century. At least the lion still survives in India but the legendary Caspian Tiger is all gone.
While the Caspian Tiger is lost to us, the Siberian Tiger is genetically very close and could fill in the niche left by the Caspian. No such environment or prey density exists there now but the Siberian Tiger is stable and might be growing a little. Maybe some day, with some luck, there might be some species that inhabits Iran again.
The Caspian tiger was said to be smaller and harmless.
@@danh9841 if you breed the Bengal tiger with Siberian tiger, you would get Caspian tiger 🐯😁
LoL , I think the moderate climate of these specie's habitats would be Hyrkanian forests. Hot and rainy but cold winters, also I think the Caspian tiger looked more like Siberian tiger, but had a darker coat, there are a few photos of them with their colour, they kinda had dark orange to burnt colour to them (like Bengal tiger)
@@alexbowman7582 smaller than Siberian but bigger than Bengal
This channel is like... exactly
the most interesting things I want to know about.
I am from Abana, Kastamonu in the black sea region in Turkey. My home is by the black sea.
As someone from Azerbaijan, I am so sad and disappointed that there are no more Caspian tigers. Just a few bears and leopards left. Hopefully, we can at least keep them.
I love how you seamlessly connect the physical geography to the history of the place as a consequence of its geography.
I crossed the entire black sea coast and into Georgia, the eastern region is the same. Extremely green, I was shocked at the tea farms on the mountainsides of the black sea coast. Amazing place.
I also visited southern Azerbaijan, lenkeren had as much humidity as any tropical country, probably more.
I had no idea about the tea farming over there either! It now makes much more sense why the Turkish people are such tea guzzlers!
I remember 13 days of none stop rain when I was a child living in Northern Iran. I doubt we have that much rain but still more than enough moisture.
i live in the western black sea region in turkey, we had rainy days non-stop from march to june this year. i thought i will never see the sun again lol.
A nice history lesson in between the usual great geography "class". Excellent video :)
Turkey isn’t really surprising like Iran. There are no deserts in Turkey and forests can be found all across the country especially by the sea…
Why you people hate the desert so much? I don't get it.
At least I'm pretty sure that the weather in southern regions like "antep" or "merdin" is not like europe and it's the same as haleb (Aleppo) or kamishli in syria.
@@أدرار_ؤمعروف I don’t hate desert. It is just a geographical feature. Btw Aleppo doesn’t have a desert too. I didn’t say Turkey is all covered with jungle. I said forests aren’t as surprising as in Iran to exist here.
@@أدرار_ؤمعروفi think it comes from the wrong perception of our country. many westerners imagine the middle-east as a big pile of desert with people riding camels when turkey doesn't have a desert nor a single camel native to anatolia. so it does get frustrating when people say it is "surprising" that there's a forest in turkey.
@@أدرار_ؤمعروفIts not that we hate deserts whatsoever, we say that we don't have any of them because we literally don't have any of them lol
@@أدرار_ؤمعروفeven subconsciously they seethe about arabs.
I was literally a google earth traveller looking for this video 😂; very underrated channel
I’ve always been curious about these areas and this video is absolutely EXCEPTIONAL! So detailed, geography, history all combined seamlessly. You clearly are very knowledgeable and a great communicator without being pompous and full of yourself as some others on RUclips are! Ill be watching more :)
I am from central anatolia, it is like a mystery for people because those areas are not so touristic but there are so many ruins from roman and greek times and from ancient anatolians such as; hitites, phyrigians, lydian, galatians etc. And nature is also wonderful.
i watch a lot of history and geography youtube and i really think ur the best. short videos with nothing but "meat and potatoes" for the entire runtime. thanks for the content big bro!
Like in northern Spain, where within a few kilometers it makes a transition between the basque or cantabrian coast, which are the wettest climates of western Europe to the Ebre valley on the other side of the mountains, which features the Bardenas desert, one of the driest areas of europe
3:30 leopard map is not fully correct. There are some leopards in South East of Turkey at Toros Mountains in Antalya
There's a lot not correct in this video. To start with his abysmal historical accuracy.
Always look forward to your content! Keep making videos :)
Dude, the fact that you bring out Pontic Greeks when speaking about the history of the Black Sea and not the Laz People, possibly the Oldest Surviving People in Anatolia wich have survived whilst Hatti's, Hittites and Urartu's Didnt for the sole reason of living in the most rugged, mountainous and Forested region of the Black Sea, i woulld have loved to hear about them.
@@welatparez1kurd İDK where did you heard these weird news, however the situtation isnt as drastic as you guys make out to be.
Whilst the Linguistic decline is a thing, it is only as terrible as you say in Mixed areas like Çxala (Borçka) or Xopa (Hopa) where Laz who speak the local Dialects, the Laz who speak the Coastal dialects, Hemshins and Adjaran Georgians live in close proximity, resulting in Secondary languages like Turkish to be able to much more easily penetrate the area.
however the Coastal dialects (wich are also the majority of the Laz population lives and whose regions and Majority Laz) like Artasheni (Ardeşen), Vitze (Fındıklı), Atina (Pazar) and Arkabi (Arhavi), are still spoken by its Peoples very actively (especialy in Rural Areas) and no, it is true the Laz are among the most Patriotic members of the society (mostly as a result of the massacres of the Russian and its Voluntery Armenian units in the area during WW1) however a good chunk do not deny their Laz identity.
the Language is in threat but you can still find much more Endangered Languages in larger numbers in Dagestan or even in some European Countries (Tsakonian in Greece, Bessarabian Bulgarian Dialect in Moldova and Ukraine)
Yeah he also throws around words like massacre all willy nilly. He's clearly pushing Christian sources rather than facts.
Laz people didn't exist during those old empires. They emerged in the later antiquity. They emerged from the ancient Colchians. Some theories suggest that they migrated from western Georgia to their current location. The coastal areas of the Laz-speaking territories which are from Cayeli in Rize to Sarpi in Adjaria were predominantly Greek-speaking. The Laz dialect of Pazar (Atina in Laz from the Greek Athina) has a huge influence on the vocabulary and grammar by the Greek language. It's due to the coastal areas of Lazica having many Greek settlements which were later assimilated by the Laz speakers. The same happened in Western Georgia and Abkhazia. The Hemshin people also have Greco-Armenian roots like the top Byzantinologist Anthony Bryer mentions.
@@georgekech4903 Laz People may not have formed at this time, but their Direct Ancestors the Colchians have been inhabiting the region for Centuries at this time, there are inscriptions of the King of Urartu Sarduri II launching attacks against their Tribes inhabiting Chorokh valley conquering them, aside from that you have Colchian Drulei tribe mentioned in Xenophon that have been living in the Eastern Black Sea long time and had been a Eternal enemies of the Colony of Trebizond, they had a capital so well Fortified that 10K Hoplites of Xenophon was unable to take it, even though they might have reached the areas around Trebizond Later than Colonists of Miletus they have been inhabiting the East of Trebizond Centuries before they were ever written, plus there were numerous other Anatolian İndo-Europeans inhabiting Anatolia before Greek came in and later assimilated the area, dont get me wrong Pontic Greeks are old, but they arent the first peoples to inhabit this region.
@@georgekech4903 Though it is True that the Urbanisation in Eastern Black Sea was mainly fueled by Greek Colonists, you can find the origins of numerous Coastal Towns there to be originated from Greek Settlers, (most obvious is the town of Atina (Pazar)) however even though many cities like Batumi, Trebizond, Phasis were Greek Settlements, those settlements werent older than the People living there, those Settlements existed for the express purpose of Trading with Locals, and those Locals were Colchians, Paphlagonians, Schytians and many other peoples İnhabiting the shores of the Black Sea.
One side of my family is from Artvin. Northen anatolia. I just want to add big mountains and deep valleys create microclimates that let olive 🫒 and some other Mediterranean types of plant to grow.
Just found your videos through the Baikal Seals one (had a lecturer about the amphipods of the lake and the lecturer offhandedly mentioned the seals and one rabbit hole later I found your videos). Have gone through and binged your videos now, great content!
We have kind of the same in the south of Turkey near Mersin .. banana's and avocado's and other exotic fruits that grow here can't grow anywhere else out here in the country .
Is the map behind you places you've visited? Also you're one of my favorite channels on RUclips. I'm a huge geography/cartography nerd and I love your videos so much. You have such a talent for narrating.
It looks like a map of volcanic activity to me
Dude, your history chops are excellent. You need to make more videos like this
Very nice, i was always interested in this region! It would be cool if you talked about how southern Yemen and the levant are lush in between all the desert
Excellent video! So informative!
WOW that was insanely interesting, I had NO idea!
Subbing at 28k, cant wait to see your channel grow!
Very nice. Thanks. May I add, that the summer rain for those Pontic and Hyrcanian rain forest are indeed as you explain: the "Anti-Monsoon." At other times, the clouds travel from North Atlantic over Europe, by the westerly winds, dumping their rain when hitting the very high mountains, from norther Turkey through Iran into Afghanistan to Kirgizstan and Uzbekistan. The Atlantic rains create meadows and parkland in those countries. Its is the '"Anti-Monsoon"'s extra rain in Summer that helps them become rainforests when it falls
thank you from turkey, it was interesting
@@ArminRad693 Just took a peek and you are literally iranian bruh, you really aren't the fella to call us poor. At least our women aren't killed by the police because they didn't wear hijab the right way.
@@ArminRad693ne alaka amk 😂
Did a similar phenomenon exist on the southern shore of the Aral Sea? I have seen old pictures that seem to indicate it was greener than the northern shore. Fascinating video, thank you for sharing.
I doubt. The Aral Sea was small and it was located on a huge plain, so no rain shadow happened.
(Nvm it took about a one minute search on Google. Anyways, I think this video is really interesting and well explained, and the imagery you put together only adds to it!)
Sorry for asking two years after you posted the video, but is there any way you could send me the link to the satellite picture of the Aegean sea? It's stunning!
Thank god for finding your channel your videos are amazing!
I know it doesn't have much credibility when ''a friend of a friend'' tells you something, but in any case, I believed my Turkish friend when he told me that, a friend of his, he spotted a Caspian tiger a few years back... I mean, it's not impossible, that forest is thick, they could be still hiding in there.
As a Syrian, I also wonder why the levant has a green belt comparing to the interior. in anycase, amazing video!
Extraordinary videos! Binging so much haha
THIS IS FASCINATING
this is very interesting. here in croatia there is a tunnel, maybe a mile long. on one side it's almost always rain and winter and on the other it's summer. a mountain range makes all the difference.
Thank you for the video.
Interestingly, I read somewhere that the enigmatic strip of green in Caspian Iran is 2/3 the size of Italy.
I had no idea about this even when living at about 4 hours away! This was very informative, thank you
I have a question about a similar microclimate dilemma - I recently read Maurice Herzog’s account of his summit of Annapurna. On the way down, he describes wandering through rainforest in the middle of the himalayas at like 3000m. Is it true that such forests exist?
I heard there was mountain lions and Snow jaguars up there
Maybe considering the mild latitude of Nepal they have tropical savanna and humid subtropical climate at the lower altitudes so there might be a temperate rainforest
I am from Indian Part of Central Himalayas adjoining Nepal.
And I would say that from 2000-3000m,if the moisture is high,you can get pretty dense forests of Oak,Cedar,Fir and Spruce which can be termed as temperate rainforests.
Glad i found your channel. Really interesting videos
Here, an avid Google maps traveller, that was thrilled by your overview! I'm amazed! ❤
Historically, the Romans and Greeks may have called the semi-desert climate in Central Anatolia region a desert, but of course Central Anatolia is not a desert.
According to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification, Central Anatolia generally falls into the cold semi-arid climate (BSK) classification. Different climate classifications also classify this climate as Steppe or Semi-desert climate. In many regions of the world, this climate is seen near cold deserts and generally surrounds these deserts like a frame. A similar climate occurs in the regions from Tehran to Southern Azerbaijan, near the Kavir desert of Iran, and in northeastern Iran, in semi-arid regions near the deserts of Central Asia (such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan), and in northern Afghanistan. It is found in the Uyghur region and Gansu regions of China, in areas near the Gobi desert, in eastern Mongolia and eastern Inner Mongolia. Outside Eurasia, the same climate is found near cold deserts. This climate is also seen especially near the Australian deserts, in the east of South Africa's Karoo Desert, and in the north of the Arizona Desert in the USA and in the areas near the Patagonia Desert in Argentina in South America. Additionally, this climate is found in Central Spain and Central and Eastern independent Azerbaijan. In fact, there are two places on Earth where this climate is observed even though there is no cold desert nearby:
1. Central Anatolia
2. Central Spain
The Central and East of Azerbaijan is a mixture of almost cold desert climate and semi-arid steppe climate. The area is called the "shrub desert". It is an intermediate type climate that is drier than the BSK climate but slightly more humid than the cold desert climate.
The Viking raids are very interesting.
In 943, they captured the capital of Arran (Caucasian Albania [Modern azerbaijan]), Barda for 6 months until dysentery forced them to abandon it.
I wonder what could've happened if they stayed longer and made a deal with the rapidly collapsing Abbasids.
Giving something somewhat similar to Normandy but in Azerbaijan....
That's so cool to think about
Who knows, but most of the raids was sacking and escaping back to sea.
@@uan9166 But on this occasion they installed themselves within Barda. Which is 250 km away from the sea, showing this was different to previous raids.
Had dysentery not forced them to leave, they probably would've been able to remain much longer than 6 months.
As the months pass, bringing more and more Rus to strengthen their hold on the region. Until they completely oust the Sajid Dynasty from the region, allowing them to communicate directly with the Abbasids, who by this time were puppets of the Buyids.
In exchange for conversion, they would be given governorship over Arran/Caucasian Albania.
From there, they would use their naval prowess to take the wealthy and fertile Iranian Caspian lowlands of Gilan, Tabaristan and Gorgan.
With the Khazar defeat in 968, the Capsian would become a Rus lake. And would open up the route for many more Rus to settle in Arran due to its proximity to the incredible wealth of the Middle east. This would make the Arran based Rus principality richer than all the rest, rivalling Kiev. Shifting the power balance of the principalities and shifting their trade towards the Caspian instead of the Byzantium.
This in turn would have have a large effect on Vladimir's conversion in 987, due to the already Muslim Arran exerting huge influence over Kiev and other principalities, giving some Muslim populations in those principalities even before 987.
This is completely different to what happened historically, where the only significant direct Rus interaction with Muslims were those of the Volga Bulgars, who didn't leave a big impression.
So the entire Kievan Rus could potentially convert to Islam due to Arran's influence. Or at the least, the majority of Southern, Eastern and Volga regions of the Kievan Rus would.
Meanwhile, the more heavy Infantry focused Rus could play a major role against their lighter equivalents in the middle east.
Perhaps using the chaos following the Abbasid decline, with tens of dynasties all over the region. Using their control of the Caspian coast to push into interior Northern Iran. Challenging and perhaps defeating the Buyids, which would give rise to a Rus controlled Baghdad and Abbasid Caliphate....
I met a person from Iran who thought me a fool for mentioning this place, which I had just learned about. He was very annoyed that I wouldn't simply accept his native knowledge and stood my ground.
most people like this are not real iranians, they are from dangrous separatist groups (mosltly kurd or turk ) who hate iran very much, so they try to show everything bad about iran.
I find these areas so fascinating because they constitute ice age refugia for most of the plants/animals that used to be here where I live (Switzerland).
Northern and western Iran is hosting of many magneficent animals of all of Asia, the Caspian red deer (which many of these been taken to UK in 17th century, currently known as british deer) the Iranian Ibex & Persian Leopards, which are all considered endangered and may not survive for the next 50 years, if nothing is done. the red deer still has a chance to survive since a large number are roaming the forests of UK, but the asiatic cheetah is already considered extinct in the wild today, an animal which was seen in the wild just 10 years ago, there are less than 20 or so in captivity, it's such a disapointment that these animals by nature chose northern Iran and keep coming back but the goverment don't give a damn to protect them properly or at least provide them a protected nature reserver area. a few years ago 3 persian leopards been sent to Russia to increase the chance of survival of this species ... (They are the second largest leopard in the world and the brightest in colour amongs all leopard species, almost white in coat) but they came back to Iran, this shows that northern Iran is their preffered geography, and yet we still waiting for attention of the goverment, hopefully before they are extinct.
The Caspian red deer, just a small number of arround 90-100 are being kept in a nature reserve in Rasht, and they have been wiped out of the wild already. here it shows their geographic range from a few years ago
www.researchgate.net/figure/Location-of-the-study-sites-across-the-Hyrcanian-forests-and-indication-of-red-deer_fig2_318447010
The Ibex which was estiminated to be around 10000-13000 in the past 50 years, is now less than 1500 left in the wild, same number as the persian leopard.
Wow what a great video, sir. Subscribed.
That picture of cloud formation as a result of the northerly anti-monsoon winds over the Black Sea is absolutely incredible!
tigers live in densely wooded habitats on the other hand lions live in semi wooded habitats such as shrub lands and savannahs thats why they rarely meet each other in the wild
2:00 west of black sea is also dry, and eastern part is rainy
as an iranian thats true,northern Iran looks like Italy,southern France,spain ,north turkey and other european country's forests
Italy,southern France,spain ,north turkey and other european country's forests looks like Northern Irans forests👍
جنگل های هیرکانی در شمال ایران قدیمی ترین جنگل های جهان هستند از جنگل های ایتالیا و شمال ترکیه بسیار قدیمی تر هستند
yeah where are you from?@@stanleyyelnats4524
If you want to have a closer look at Turkish northern part, have a look at Turgut Bayraktar documentaries. You will see how green and lush it is.
Thick forest and mountains.... I hear those Appalachian banjos playing
Proud of my Pontic Greek heritage
Καλημερα απο Pωσια! 😃
Τ'εμέτερον
Pontic Greek Bulgarian from Varna here.. we also have this subtropical forests and jungles next to the black sea coast.
Tree's create the majority of rain on land. Tree's create rain.
Could you do a video on the Dhofar region of Oman and the khareef season?
Huh yeah must admit, never noticed that before when browsing google maps. Great vid!
I was thinking of the Iranian part a few days ago while on Maps. Thx :)
Very informative video but there's a bit of a problem, you called Mirza Kuchek Khan a "strict nationalist" which is not true, he was a patriotic guerilla fighter for sure, but nationalist is not the correct term to describe it. In fact him and the Jangali movement were inspired by socialist ideas and even received Soviet aid against Imperialist Russians and Iran's monarchs. Thanks for covering this topic though.
RIP Mirza koochek khan - a hero of iran
Yes this is everything I needed! You answer every question
leopards and tigers had 1 of thier last refuges in that area in the 1980's
Could you do a video on how the aral sea affected the climate in it's region before & after its evaporation? Thanks!
1:13 in Greek, the word etesiai (the etesians) means "the yearly ones", the winds that blow year by year.
Turkey, or rather Anatolia, used to be a rainforest, just like in Brazil. but when Timur invaded with his armies, he burned the whole forest. it has not recovered since then because rainforests are closed ecosystems in themselves. It was destroyed because of a maniac in history in Turkey, let's not be that maniac today and let the remaining forest continue to exist.
As a teacher myself, holy shit you’re an amazing teacher. Great stuff!
Thats amazing that they plant oranges at the same latitude as philly
Iran having a rain-forest is not "Odd", this assumption is the result of the People in west being "ignorant"!
What/where is the castle on the side of the mountain at the end of the video?
Sumela Monastery, a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Pontic mountains of Turkey.
@@casualearth9076 thanks
That looks like it's in the mountains of China
Wow, this is a really interesting video. Like that shot of Greece where you could see the effect of the wind sweeping sand & dust.. and the anti-monsoon / monsoon shot.. good stuff
Very nice ! !
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I like the paper map background. None of this green screen B.S.
seems like victoria 3 devs did their research right when designing this regions in their game
Excellent, thank you,
Back in -my- karahan tepe days plains next to atlas mountains were all lush rainforest smh
Bring back warm and humid days and anatolian leopards q.q
Nice video about interesting things.
There's actually also rainforest in Germany. Seriously, look it up!
8:00 just like how greeks did same to turks, jews and albanians in greece
this is true. however some would make the distinction that turks are "invader" and greeks are "invaded"
i know thats why i put it in quotations. no one alive during the population exchanges of 1923 was alive during the original turkish invasions of anatolia 850 years previously. so its effectively meaningless@@koba0798
@@marcoroberts9462 Greeks invaded these places too.
@@marcoroberts9462It was the same for the people who were in these regions before Greeks, but from the video it seems that it's only a problem when the Turks do it...
@@r.yuksel9774Anatolians liked greek culture and adopted it. no one forced it on them. They were related to greeks as they were both indo-Europeans.
Excelente canal, le pongo traducción automatica y listo :D
Awesome video
07:55 @Casual Earth not just forced back,massacred and or converted actually the main reasons was ;
Population exchange between 1770-1923 1.9 million Christians moved out from anatolia and over 5 milion muslims moved from balkans
Armenians tried to annex east parts of empire together with russia but lost, failed to keep the land and eventually moved to other parts of the empire as there was a ww going on it was the civil war, atrocities and rebellions they commit had driven them out by deportion. (arround 360k armenians between 1890-1915, 300k of it at 1915 civil war)
Basically is the opposite as the northern desert in caribean Venezuela
cossacks are basically river pirates ahh yeah, very famous seamen these lads were
"Modern Orthodox" is like being a "Vegan Carnivore". LOL! Abraham, Isaac and Jacob wouldn't know wtf was going on if they landed in Crown Heights.
God your content is amazing
Fascinating
So many RUclipsrs cover the same topics as one another. You always seem to cover topics no one else has noticed. I was going to drop you $5 in a Super Thanks, but that option is not showing here. What gives? Please don't tell me that RUclips requires you to already be raking in the dough before they let you rake in the dough.
Thank you, that is exactly my intent: to cover the topics that are rarely covered, and in more depth. Thanks so much for offering a donation. To be honest, that's probably not RUclips's fault: I probably just don't have that feature set up/enabled yet.
6:15 ottoman empire didn't invade iran in ww1. in fact the last war between ottoman empire and iran was at 1823, nearly 100 years before the ww1
They invaded in 1906 and were expelled by the Russian Imperial Army in 1911. The Ottomans then launched a second invasion in 1916.
Now, I want to do a CK2 run where I fight to unify the region and split off from Persia.
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This comment just confuses me honestly.
@@anelbegic2780 do you want ethnic group to be divided in iran?
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It's a game dude, relax. I am not physically diving Iran, or in CK2's case Persia, personally.
My fictional idea is not reality
In 1923, a Population Exchange Agreement was signed between the governments of Greece and Turkey, and between 1923 and 1930, Turks in Greece were forced to migrate to Anatolia, while Greeks in Turkey migrated to Greece. Consider this when evaluating the 1900-2000 comparison map at 07:51. Otherwise, the decrease in the Greek population in Turkey will be misunderstood.
The predominant summer wind in Greece and the Anatolian Mediterranean is called the Meltemi. It has been called this since ancient times. Etesian is a western word adaption.
Etesian = ετήσιος, μάλλον λόγω της συχνότητας του φαινομένου
@@charisantonakis And who in Greece, calls Mitiliyne, Lesbos?
@@petrosros δεν σε πιάνω φίλε μου
@@charisantonakis I was pulling the vlogger up on cultural imperialism, making Hellenic culture and its language conformed to the Anglo-Saxon world view, albeit with the co-operation of your corrupt rulers of whatever ilk.
@@petrosros "Cultural imperialism" is not even an issue to us. We should be much more concerned about the (regular) imperialism of the United States/ NATO and the EU, that dictates all economic, military and diplomatic matters of our country. While cultural negligence can sometimes be irritating, it is nothing compared to the lack of self-determination and free will of a people. Focusing exclusively on it is like staring at a tree and ignoring the forest, as we say in Greece .
The was a population exchange between Greece and Turkiye thats why they all migrated back to Greece . Its a bit dangerous talking about history with half information
There also many events leading up to that, which were referenced in the video. In addition, although it was a political decision, that doesn't mean the word "forced" does not apply to the people. Finally, this is a video about Turkey's Black Sea coast--if this were a video about Greece, I would have mentioned Muslim citizens being forced out of Greece. I do take your point, though--if I were to make this video again, I'd quickly mention that.
@@casualearth9076 all good My family is one of those forced ones from your mentioned city Trabzon. Nice if you got my point .
Very interesting topic congrats, I just read this year in a book that East Coast of Black Sea is one of the rain forests besides Africa and South america, now I saw this video
@@el.grantelbart Thank you, this was very good constructive criticism. I appreciate it.
My friend, both governments shoke hands on the agreement and both government sent people by only looking at their religion, both gov. had to send them back even if it is by force unfortunately.@@el.grantelbart
2:44 when did the phrase “one of the…” become bombing to use ?