Battles of Vaslui (1475) and Valea Alba (1476) - Ottoman Wars DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Previously within our series on the Ottoman Wars we have covered the battles of Kosovo (bit.ly/2JI3F0p), Nicopolis (bit.ly/2zUNRre), Ankara (bit.ly/2uW7r0D), Varna (bit.ly/2JIK2VG), Second Kosovo, Constantinople (bit.ly/2uELWlI), Belgrade, Targoviste and Otlukbeli (bit.ly/2JOBlcQ), which brought allowed us to talk about historical figures like Lazar Hrebeljanovic and Murad I, Bayezid I and Sigismund of Luxembourg, Timur and John the Fearless, John Hunyadi and Murad II, Mehmed II and Constantine XI, Vlad Tepes and Uzun Hasan. In this episode on the battles of Vaslui and Valea Alba, the Prince of Moldavia Stephen II the Great enters the story and shows his military prowess against the Ottomans of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror. The video describes how the conflict between the Moldavian Princedom and the Ottoman Empire came to be and culminates with the battles of Vaslui (1475) and Valea Alba (1476).
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Sources:
John van Antwerp Fine - The Late Medieval Balkans
Uzunçarşılı İsmail Hakkı - Osmanlı Tarihi
Finkel, Caroline - Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire
İnalcık, Halil - Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klasik Çağ (1300-1600)
Franz Babinger - Mehmed the Conqueror and his time
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Ok, a few points, so you don't scream at us too much in the comments. :-)
1. We know that in many Eastern European languages the word "prince" means "the son of the ruler", "heir". In English prince means both "ruler of the princedom - knyaz/knez" and "son of the ruler/heir".
2. The lack of the cannons for the Ottomans during the battle of Vaslui is strange. There are a few explanations - they were left at the siege of Shkodra or were left behind with the baggage train, as Suleiman Pasha wasn't expecting a battle.
3. Dobruja remains an interesting case, multiple sources depict it either under Wallachian or Ottoman control prior to the conquest of Chilia by Stephen.
4. It is extremely difficult to research the Ottoman battles, the sources are often conflicting, so if you see something that you consider wrong, try putting yourself in our shoes - we have to go through multiple primary and secondary sources and logic our way to the coherent story.
5. We made a mistake with Stephen Batory, the name is right, but the portrait wrong.
6. We don't have time/resources to add subtitles in other languages, but English. You can help us quite a bit by adding subtitles in your native language. Thank you in advance! prntscr.com/k9hiqn
Kings and Generals i mean i have already told ya guys which should be easy but Zeta modern day montenegro existed as a nation under the crnojvic dynasty and specialy at this time when seige of shkodra began lord or prince of zeta helped the vencian city of shkodra
Şehzade=Heir
Dobrudja was Otoman by that time.actually from the time of Mircea the Old of Valachia who had to give it to turks.
Prince is supposed to mean the first. It can be the sovereign or heir of sovereign.
Kings and Generals make about Nikola Subic Zrinski
Way better than history channel
These series need more Gator boys and Storage Wars
GeneralSantucci1st better than the history channel
Why didn't The Ottomans bring cannons to the battle Valea Alba? well according the history channel, it was aliens!
Kyle Fisher no you're wrong it's lizard people only an alien would say that
Way way better than history channel! If I want to see history I tune in to Kings and Generals and others on youtube. Awsome work you guys doing!
Stephen is, for certain, one of the most underrated personalities in history!
as a romanian I can say he is just like Skanderbeg for the albanians
Like Nikola Skobaljic, Janko Sibinjanin, Djuradj Brankovic, Djuradj Branilovic Kastriot aka skenderbeg, Vladislav Cepes and so on
He is kind of a Caesar for us romanians.
No doubt
Suleiman should have faced against them to be killed
@HistoryLover23 Caesar was defeated 3 times. At Gergovia 52 bc by Vercingetorix, at Dyrrachium 49 bc by Pompey and at Ruspina 46 bc.
battle of Vaslui is such a tactical masterpiece
Yep, a remarkable battle!
indeed
Mouad Ghorbal + Don't forget Suleiman Pasha's stupidity. Quality difference between suleiman pasha and Mehmed the Conqueror. We saw that in battle of valea alba.
Sebastian Numbers doesn't imporrtant we saw this in vaslui. Mehmed the conqueror was better than stephan the great and defeated him.
Berrak kısa Because Stefan was wekeand after the battle of Vaslui. Moldavia was a small country and still resisted in front of Otoman empire.
The valley battle is probably the best battle I've ever seen. Somehow winning against a vastly superior army using nothing but strategy and extreme trickery is amazing. Stephen is pretty fucking epic.
Edward Du yah he was a nice fellow, he’s been made a saint in romania
Edward Du Vastly superior army had a stupid commander (Suleiman pasha) We saw what same army done with Mehmet the Conqueror in the valea alba.
Hes not a saint tho, the only one that was made a saint was Brancoveanu because he was martyred for his faith.
Berrak kısa And about a hundred years later in 1565, we see that army again except they get defeated by less than 10,000 Knights and civilians. But I'll have to agree with you, leadership matters more than the number of soldiers you have to throw at the enemy.
Moonw1ng I didn't understand your example about 1565 ? Do u mean siege of szigetvar ?
It's very interesting how, at the battles of Vaslui and Valea Alba, Stephen always had another card to play.
well, he was brave, as we already know trough his actions, he was highly capable in military tactics and also very skilled in diplomacy. he was surrounded by enemies like golden horde, ottomans, polish, his wallachian "fellows" or hungarian foes but managed to outperform them using all the war lessons from the book, winning 34 from 36 battles that he personally participate and another 4 lead by his commanders.
As a citizen of Moldova, I am delighted that you covered the battle for Vaslui and the greatest leader in our history Stefan Cel Mare(Stephen the Great, now a Saint). Loved the video.
Thank you! And, please, share!
No Doubt I'll share :)
Why the hate mate? If you did a little search you'd know Romania and Moldova are brother nations and Stephen is considered a great one in both states. Also it is not by choice we(Moldova) are in the current situation we are now. We once were the Principality of Moldova, but we got really fucked by the Russian Empire which got the modern Moldova territory in 1812. Do you think we wanted that? Also the place of battle does not have any importance. Do you think Alexander the Great should lose all his validity for the Greeks because he won battles in modern day Iraq/Iran/Turkey? Fuck no. So start using your brain, cause at the moment you don't.
@@GTSilvano I respect you
Ama moldova osmanlı toprağıdır 1878 e kadar.
Stephen the Great was a truly remarkable man. I wonder what leaders like him could have achieved as rulers of larger nations.
Nemo Nobody not much... Leaders of larger nations were constrained in such a way that these leaders wouldnt really have had the chance to shine. In France the terrain was a major military factor preventing these kind of amazing victories, tradition, and the nobility were a political factor against this too. (The king spent 90% of the time trying to prevent his knights from mindlessly charging forward.)
well rulers like stephen skandeberg and so were put on hard situation while larger rulers dont
You easily forget what kind of mess you have to deal with if you are ruler of large nation. Everytime riots in your massive empire when you seem weak and battles with neighbors along the empire massive borders on every front. You have army in east to deal with some riot, oh yeah fuck you, your neighbor rival country on western border take advantage and attack you or your allies/vassals.
Nemo Nobody Napoleon
well unfortunately theres this Pope who hinders people like Stephen to shine
Valea Albă means "the white valley" and it was allegedly named after the countless bones that were left on the battlefield.
Yeah, I have read that. Other sources claim that it was called that before the battle.
It was called like that before the battle.
Or Războieni.
@@KingsandGenerals It's still unclear but Stephen's army in the 2nd battle was smaller than the first. He didn't have the time to assemble them again this time and the Mongol attack hindered that as well. Without the peasant conscripts he wouldn't have had more than 15.000 soldiers. Of course, these would have been the best troops by far.
@@johnjcb4690
First of all, it was 100000 vs 15000
Second of all, the Moldavians were armed with cannons, muskets and crossbows.
Third of all, the Moldavians used the Hussite Wagonburgs.
Mehmed II be like:" Ugh! if you want something done right, you gotta do it your self!"
Yep. :-) He was considered one of the better commanders of his era.
@CipiRipi00
The weakness of his foes does not in any way undermine Muhammad the Conqueror's strength.
You repeated "they had no army anymore" twice in your comment which is utterly absurd. Civil wars do not deem a country's army non-existent. Let's not forget the Ridda wars after which the Muslims immediately destroyed both the Roman and Persian Empires (It's interesting how the Roman and Persian conflict is brought up to undermine the Muslim's victory whereas the Ridda wars in which 70K companions of the Prophet were killed is never mentioned whatsoever). Let's also not forget the modern American civil war after which there's... well the America of WW1, WW2 and today. Not to mention the medieval civil Ottoman wars less than a century before the events of this video. The Ottomans forces were divided, their borders changing and disputed, their strength completely directed at forces within their Empire, yet not a single one of the multiple and powerful Christian Empires bordering the Ottomans had or could have had dared to break treaty and grasp at Ottoman lands.
@CipiRipi, your opinion on Muhammad not being one of the better commanders of his era (as put by @Kings and Generals) is negligible in comparison with the aforementioned undeniable facts. The factors affecting any war throughout history are many. However, the Conqueror's strength is crystal clear. Sultan Muhammad (“محمد” spelt Mehmet by the Turkish) the Conqueror personally led his first campaign at the age of 19, conquered Constantinople at the age of 21 and ended the Byzantine Empire. Within 10 more years, he led 11 more campaigns, and then another 6 for a total of 19 personal campaigns. The Sultan annexed the Serbian and Morean Despotate, Lesbos, the Kingdom of Bosnia, Karamanids, colony of Negroponte and the entire Black Sea. He also ended the Empire of Trebizond. These achievements testify for the Sultan’s ruling, religious, strategic and engineering genius. If the powers of his time seemed fragile and weak, then that is due to his mighty overshadowing existence.
لتفتحن القسطنطينية، فلنعم الملك ملكها، ولنعم الجيش ذلك الجيش" أخرجه الإمام أحمد في مسنده” (i.e. “Verily, Constantinople shall be conquered. Praise be to its conqueror and praise be to his army” narrated by Imam Ahmad in his Musnad)
-A proud Muslim Crimean
CipiRipi00 All you fake european information is for make us black like your ancestor did they can not stand that we were the strongest. We ask for peace but konstantinos think that he was strong he even asked other countries (friends) to help him, but those who were scared knew themselves who was the strongest and let him down. In short, konstantinos also had it wrong and thought it was strong.
@CipiRipi00 Stephan defeated suleiman pasha and mathias corvinus but lost against mehmed the conqueror. Think about that ...
@CipiRipi00 We are not talking about aftermath. Stephan defeated suleiman pasha and mathias corvinus at the battlefield but lost against mehmed the conqueror. Stop denying fact.
Stephen III was a great army commander. He won many battles against larger armies. Great video as always.
Stephen's sword is still kept in one of the Istanbul palaces.
Yep! i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o673/AlaeSwords/AlaeSwords159/stephenofmoldaviaiii1_zpsa3320650.jpg
I think in topkapi museum
@@youngshatterhand810 what the fuck
@@youngshatterhand810 you cant even get close it . Highly guarded museum and historical places all around it and because of terror activities watching 24/7 by military patrols . shut your dumb nationalist / anti turk propoganda and get real before your family kick you out of home
@@youngshatterhand810 Try it, loser!
I have a big respect for Stephen, his valley tactic was awesome, actually the best ı've ever seen (I'm turkish)
En iyi taktik mi? Sen Malazgirt, Nigbolu, Çaldıran veya Moğaçı bilmiyor musun ki buna büyük taktik diyorsun?
@Sebastian You dont understand me. Ottoman History have a lot of defend and attack story, but this not perfect.
@@dinaridwolf9894 Wtf. My ancestors Mete Khan, Big Eagle Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Attila, Alparslan, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman(Magnificent), Emir Timur, Emir Baybars and most of them. All of conqueror, Fatih Sultan Mehmet is a begining new era(1453).
@@dinaridwolf9894 Ahahahahahaha ARE YOU CRAZY. WTF. ALL OF THEM WAS TURK. Kanuni,Mehmet was Oguz Turks, Emir Timur Ozbek Turk, Attila was Leader Europe Hun Turks, Baybars was Kipchak Turk, Mete Khan was Asia Hun Turk. I am a Muslim, I love Islam and HAZRETI Mohammed (RADIYALLAHU ANH) MY LEADER, MOHAMMED IS FATHER IS ALL THE MUSLIMS
@@dinaridwolf9894 We talks the same language all Turks. Ozbek,Azeri,Turkmenistan,Kirgizistan,Uygur Turks,Kazakhistan. WE ARE BROTHERS ALL TURKS
As a Romanian & native of Wallachia, I salute you for making such a well-detailed & exciting episode about our ancestors struggles against the Ottoman Empire. I love your channel, the content is amazing! You make history fun & entertaining, and that isn't an easy task. So much respect & admiration for your fantastic work!
Büyük Osmanlı imparatorluğu 😎
you guys have high quality unbiased videos 👍
Thank you!
Something unbiased in 2018 is like a diamond in the dirt.
+Hakan Postacı
+Profetu Rulz
Yes but it's kinda hard to be biased in these vids lol
It's somewhat difficult to be biased with military history. Winners and losers and how they did it is all they talk about.
just the land borders are wrong
I know the aria of Vaslui battle very well , My familly descends from moldavian soldiers compesated by Stephan with land on the surrounding hills. It was a muddy swamp valey ( now a lake) and in winter the fog is incredible thick and there is an echo so strange that amplifies the sonds. Spooky place and my grandparents told me stories with turkish soldiers ghosts.Stephan knew the place well because he lived in Vaslui in his youth.
Interesting!
So smart King Stephan, he understand the art of war
Mehmet just knows how to get the job done. It's surprising he lived through so many conflicts and yet continued putting the Ottomans in the front foot at every turn.
Any other ruler would've crumbled under so much pressure.
The siege of Constantinople is symbolic to his style. There's no viable option? Fine. I'll sail my ships on land instead.
Rex Galilae Well said.
haha love that last part, I wonder what kind of person he was
Duew In Turkey it is still a humour matter used in daily language. We wonder about his personality for 500 years 😄
Alhamdulillah. Sultan Mehmet Fateh. May his soul rest in jannah. Amen
People obsessed with knowledge and high degree of curiosity like Mehmet II are usually super patient and determinant handling things. Typical mindset of an inventor/scientist also.
Georgian and Moldovian history is very similar and dark ! greetings from georgia moldovian brothers and respect.
Romanian*
@@heyidoexist796 agreed my bad
@@rezokapanadze9965 I didnt expect you to answer after 3 years but its ok
It is truly amazing how it is very hard to find good reading material on Stephan III of Moldavia, who clearly was one of the great captains of war. I am very impressed by this video and the knowledge that has been provided.
Thank you. :-) Regarding the first half of your comment, welcome to my personal hell. :-)
Respect for Kings and Generals for not giving up in searching historic sources for covering one of the greatest periods of the Romanian medieval history.Indy Neidell who covered The Great War channel on youtube apologized he couldn`t find detailed information on the most important allied victories in 1917 : the battles from Mărăşeşti, and Oituz. I have a regret I could`nt help him because I have seen the episode much later.He assumed there are informations in Romanian
still one of the earliest about him was published in Polish lituanian commenwealth in latin first ...
@@emilianairinei3223 Stephen the Moldavian king loved the Romanians so much that he burned Bucharest twice. For this we Moldovans love him very much.
@@KingsandGenerals There may be more information about him in Russian forgotten archives somewhere in a dark and moist basement under the Kremlin.
Damn,Stephen was truly a genius
Wow! Stephen's drums really did quite an effect in disorganizing the Ottoman lines in that battle its crazy!
Ps.
I love that the icon of Mehmed II keeps flipping as he moves around hehehe
I look forward for more Ottoman coverage!
Thanks for watching!
This could call a victory of a non weponied unit of an army.
L'Homme Éveillé Mate I was not angry when I sent this message. Looks like angry message ?
Saguntum-Iberian-Greek Konstantinopoli Mehmed was handsome. He just was fat in 1480 and in this time he was ugly I agree.
The Greek Genocide by Nicholas Siderakis
It all came to an abrupt end 100 years ago
A place where dreams and myths were born - Amazons, Argonauts, Perseus
Turkish Ottomans calling an extinctions to a Greek ethnic group that has been native to the region for over 3,000 years
All orchestrated by 3 successive governments - The Ottomans, Attaturk, and the Young Turks
The Pontic Greeks driven from their homes
By ethnic and religious fanatics
Churches either destroyed or converted
Over 750,000 slaughtered or sold into slavery
From 20% of the population to just 2%
Forced marches, rape, beheadments, and cutting off limbs
An entire population evicted from their homeland
An entire population cease to dream and speak of myths
Mehmed II is by far the most respectable Sultan in the Ottoman History. He was not only a great commander, but also a brilliant diplomatic ruler. In addition, he had some high interest in different kinds of science, especially mathematics. He founded a moslem seminary and brought the greatest mathematicians of his time to Istanbul. Much respect to this man.
Boran Çelik also he invented mortar airtellry system
Boran Çelik Well said bro. He was ceaser,sultan,caliph and khan.
alp kağan no...
Boran Çelik great commander? How does a commander take over one hundred thousand men and get his ass kicked by 30 thousand men? If that makes him a great commander Steven the great is a god.
GoivaniJony You can not judge any commander by just a one battle. Mehmed II conquered Bosnia, Trebizond etc. and most importantly Constantinople. These are enough to make us say he was a great commander.
Much respect to Stephen by the way.
I m from Turkey. King Stefan was a great leader. its so exciting to see two great leaders in fight. Wonderful!!
Huma TheGreat More like a prince\voievod\duke, he never got to be king unfortunatelly.
it doesnt matter. His succeses proves he was a true king.
Kardeş onlar bizim liderlere hayran olunca sıkıntı yok ama bizim insanımız
büyük komutanlara hayran olunca suçlu mu oluyor?
Benim hayran arkadaşım var. Genellemek doğru değil.
OutsiderKK tam aynısını ben yazcaktım sen yazmışsın
I remembered watching and reading about this battle and this has to be one of the most planned and well-executed tactics in the medieval warfare. Battle drums to lure the Ottomans across the river and then force them to turn to the wrong side. Not sure if this was all planned out by Stefan or he adapt his tactics upon seeing the Ottoman crossing the river (I am not sure if he could have predicted that Suleiman will cross the bridge, since he was originally on the same side with the Vaslui town).
Mehmed must have learnt of Stefan's talent and decided not to take any form of risk. He carefully ensure supply line and move slowly to avoid separation. The later battle of Valea Alba forced by Mehmed was a simple and standard battle in which Mehmed simply outnumbered.
Unfortunately, we don't know more about the previous battles Stephen fought, so it is hard to say. But, he won quite a few against the superior opponents, so he knew how to fight outnumbered.
Stephen ruled for 57 years(1457-1504), had 36 battles and won 34. And to thank God for his victories, he built monasteries. He's a legendary ruler and also a saint here in Romania.
The strategy and tactics of Stephen III leading up to and during the Battle of Vaslui are truly remarkable. A sure rival to Hannibal Barca in my opinion. Such discipline, trust and training would be required to pull off every move with such synchronicity.
I thought of fixing a few innacuracies, but your pinned comment made me change my mind and tackle other subject. I was trying to imagine to fit your shoes, guys, and that wouldn't be easy. This video containing so many details and wow, the cartography is op!
Maybe you wonder what is with these principalities? Where are they today? Well, principality of Moldavia and Wallachia united in 1859 and Transylvania was granted to the newly formed principality after Romanian participation in the WW1, thus resulting, more or less, modern Romania!
Extra facts: the name Valea (valley) Alba (white) was given to that particular valley where the 1476 battle was fought due to the high number of bones present everywhere there.
Peter Aaron, Stephan's uncle lured his brother (Bogdan, Stephan III's father) into a trap at a wedding and it is said he personally beheaded his bro. Stephen never forgot this.
After the battle of Vaslui, Stephan was not content with the result as some units didn't do their job properly so he executed some boyars for this.
After Mircea the Old's reign, Dobrudja fell into the firm grip of the Ottomans and Romania would receive this province in the 19th century.
Ty for this vid, K&G!
If you see any mistakes, do comment, we are always open to criticism. We just want you guys to know that we try to take into account all sources, so whenever there is a discrepancy, we have to make a decision.
A romanian "red wedding"
some sort of it ... it was certainly a big surprise :)
should also have added that Stephan is known as "the great" not "the 3rd" as a little puff for his bravery even though he was pretty small in stature (that's what she said), just like Vlad is known as "the Impaler" or "Dracul/Dragon".
still, got to say, never learned that Stephan got the title of "champion of christ" from the pope...you'd think that's a pretty big deal.
Dobrudja has never been romanian before the end of the 19th century. Dobrudja has been a bulgarian land from 681 up until 1422 (with an interruption from 1018-1187, because of the East Romans)
People say these days Ottoman gained power by fighting against weak nations and states, but in fact Ottoman started in place little than current Switzerland and had a lot of struggles such as Timur - Mongols- Crusades- Civil wars and so on, but ceased to exist only after nationalism increased in world.
My fav serie :)
Every cancer starts from a single cell. Thank God, the brave heroes of the Balkans cured it for good.
You eat weaker ones and gain strength, eventually you become stronger than the ones who were stronger than you in the past. And you continue to eat until you become the strongest. That was pretty much first 50-100 years of the Ottomans. It's kinda fascinating to think even Karamanids were stronger than the Ottomans at the beginning.
OnE61811301 “every cancer starts from a single cell” You mean like every Balkan nation?
OnE61811301 living under their rule for 400 years is not curing imo
sorry my friend, but you are an idiot, plain and simple
I am from Moldova,Stephen was Great and Saint,because after winning every battle he build Church to keep morale of Orthodox Church.Well I love history.
The Ottomans were fortunate to have such a competent ruler like Mehmed II during this period. During this time, the Ottomans had many strong opponents like Skanderberg, Stephan III, Vlad the impaler, Sultan Hassan, King Mathias etc. Thanks to the strong leadership of Mehmed II, the Ottomans were able to ride through this tough period and continue to expand. Any lesser ruler would have failed under such tough circumstances and the Ottoman Empire would have probably shrunk, if not collapsed.
Indeed he was a good leader. During his period Otoman Empire becamed to grow as a great civilization!
@Koksal Ceylan meh, today Balkan has done nothing but hating each other. Crappy leader like erdogan with his bullshit propaganda only makes it worst. Or nationalist sick fuck like in Greece and Serbia
@Koksal Ceylan What was Albanian/Bulgarian/Romanian/Hungarian/Serbian about the Ottomans? The janissaries and that is about it. It was a Muslim empire.
They still had a massive advantage over these rulers.
More soldiers, they controlled strategic territories.
In order to be defeated, all these separate rulers, be they eastern European vojvods, The Pope, independent kingdoms, etc. Would have had to unite forces, but they were too occupied betraying and going to war with each other.
Those opponents of mehmed where left alone against the might of the ottoman empire and ultimately betrayed by fellow christians.I don't know how great Mehmed II was but just imagine Vlad the impaler leading a great nation and a big army and having the resources the Ottomans had.Vlad the impaler won his crown after a duel to the death.Won a duel to the death against his father's killer and then forced him to dig his own grave before being beheaded in front of his army.He fought alongside with his soldiers in some battles, disguised himself as an ottoman diplomat and conquered an ottoman stronghold.He was close to kill one of the greatest leaders in history...Mehmed the Conqueror... in a suicidal night attack.
Mehmed II after his generals fail to defeat Stefan: "Fine. I'll do it myself"
With my Gazillion soldiers, and also fuckin' Tatars, against a few peasants, so i wouldn't be humiliated again ! He taught them a lesson.
@@gicady Don't cry,,Mehmed was the best commander,,His ability of moving armies through the rough terrain of Moldova speaks volumes of his intelligence plus nobody could destroy the walls of Constantinople before Mehmed II.
@@gicady why are you always in every comment section,adding nothing to the conversation but hating for no reason.
@@Sam-wt1cx well, the freaking cannons were just invented when Mehmed took the throne.
@@cormoranuud no they werent
Mehmed already had cannons
They became popular by the end of the 14th century
But mehmed cannons were small
The Hungarian engineer orban proposed that he could make a cannon far bigger and stronger than the ones mehmed had which barely made any significant damage on constantinople walls
And so 'Basilica' was born, it took 3hrs to reload but it fucking made damage on the walls
Despite having this mehmeds cannons still didnt break the inner walls
It was during one of the assaults in the killing fields between the walls that the byzantine left the gates open to the city
Mehmed used this blunder and stormed in jannisaries first clearing the entire gate area
Rest of the army poured in
I ‘m a Turk and wow Stefan III was a great leader such as Mehmed II the Conqueror And thanks to u guys for finnaly making an Ottoman video
Thanks for watching, more to come!
It's quite crazy for the ottoman history that they never managed to fully occupy the territory of modern day Romania - Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania (so-called independent and "protected" by Hungarians). But they managed to make from these areas a quite effective money-making machine 😂😂
@@fuguthefish have u ever heard of vassals states? wallachians had figh in ottoman side whenever they wanted
@@besmirguma1911 Vassal state ≠ Occupied. And I've literally said that. Don't try to tell the history of his own country to a historian, lmao. :))
@@fuguthefish
Vassals state means =Please take my money and my soldiers but leave me alone = conditional conquest
historian of my ass
Fun fact: the ottomans named him "the great". Even tough they fought a lot, they somehow had the humbleness required to admit the qualities of their enemies, on both parts
Damn, I missed the premiere of this video. Superb work, guys. Love the series.
Thank you very much, we missed you :-) I was keeping this in my bookmarks, to discuss with you: store.steampowered.com/app/860620/KURSK/ Such a great idea for an adventure game.
Ah yes. I remember I mentioned this game in our previous conversation.
Two comments:
- Damn dat Stephen he must be made into an epic movie
-Confirmed!! Mehmet II balls are enormous!
ruclips.net/video/U_Sjb0y-dwU/видео.html
there is a movie, but a Romanian one with no subtitles. epic movie for it's time
I would say that Stephan's balls are around 3 times heavier, since his men were outnumbered at least 3 to 1, not forgetting the madlad strategy that actually worked.
@@gicady nah imo it's Mehmet but that's just my imo
@@badalrana10 no
@@danc7934 It's always harder to march the army into far and stranger lands
You made my day again ! Thank you for your hard work.Much appreciated. I knew the details from the battle of Vaslui as it is very well known in Romania but I didn't know as many details about the battle of Valea Alba. I think you are getting better with each video.Best regards!
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Already doing that . All the best :)
It's nice to see things from a perspective. Thank you for considering multiple sources and not taking one for granted.
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Our greatest king is underrated in universal history, his tactics were too good!
Damn if you can't surround the enemy make them think that you can. Brilliant tactic!
Yep, I loved covering this battle.
Looking forward to the next episode!
Stefan just played with their minds at Vaslui. He dictated all the moves and the Ottomans danced as he sang, as they say.
@@mulapare2593 Ottoman commanders: I fear nothing, but that thing (Moldavian war drums), it scares me.
When Dracula-Vlad III gives you an army to take the throne of Moldavia and you end up being more successful and famous than him. Feelsbadman
Yeah, that is ironic, never thought about that.
successful - yes, famous - absolutely not, better - now that's debatable
Hello, I’m Moldavian, Vlad and Stephan were brothers in law, that’s the reason of helping each other I guess.
Also, Stephan was given the name of “Saint” by the Rome’s Pope, his full name is “Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt”
Thank you so much for taking Romanian history into account! I hope very much that you will continue doing this in future video.
All the best from a very grateful subscriber! :)
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Yes Ottoman wars, great video!
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Stefan vs Mehmet - Unstoppable Force meets Immovable Object
Well... I think it is the best documentary about this battle. This is the most famous battle in the medieval era for my country, Romania. I have to say that i am quite surprised by the way you made this documentary. In a very, very positive way. I know this battle very well (really well, have my word) but, as a true history lover, i know that you can always learn more, as you never know everything. I watched dozens(maybe hundreds) of documentarys of this battle. Some of them said things that were wrong, others weren't specifing them at all. But your documentary is the first one in which i hear incredible details, some of which I I honestly didn't knew( hit in the ego XD ). Anyways, just wanted to mention yet again what an amazing work you do.
P.S: would you consider covering more of the romanian history(i.e. dacian wars of 101-102;105-106 or maybe some modern history, mainly from the Crimean War to the Cold War) I am asking this because my last request was of the Dark Age, and I received the Catalunian Plains:) Sorry if i sound arrogant, I am super excited every time you post something, especially my own history. Have a great day!
Thank you for watching! And please consider sharing. :-)
Regarding the requests, we don't really do them outside of Patreon, but the plan is to work hard and eventually cover all the battles in history. Sounds ambitious and will take time, but, we will get there. :-)
Kings and Generals Thank you for the response. I already shared all of your videos, which I usually watch twice. Regarding the patreon, I am not curently in the financial situation to be able to donate, but once I will be in that position, you will be the first to be supported. You really put a lot of effort and heart in your videos(that is the impression that you give, and I think is true)
Realy? What about Michael the Brave at Calugareni?
Dacian wars are not part of the romanian history.
Michael the Brave was no dacian, he was however the voevod of Valachia (1593-1601)
And that's why the Romanian national anthem has a reference to Mr.Stephan here.
As it should. :-)
Michael, Stephen, Corvinus! The greatest three rulers of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania.
Vlad and Stephen
My favorite cousins 👌
There was a short moment there when they fought each other, but yeah. :-)
@@KingsandGenerals Yes they did fought each other near the nowadays city known as Galati
@Dan D I knew stuff that they fought each other and you think I didn't know when Romania united 😐, you forgot to say that the first time all 3 major regions United was under Michael the Brave at Alba Iulia to bad he was betrayed...
Stephen was a little bit asshole because Vlad previously helped him to get the throne of Moldavia 😂😂
@@TheMiG96 who is won this battle I wonder ? I think stephan better than vlad because vlad pure barbarian but stephan good ruler and commander.
Mehmet the conqueror was truly an iconic figure and his military career is one of the most fascinating in history . They say ur judged by the strength of ur enemies .
Mehmed faced some of the most brilliant and resourceful opponents all of whom are legends of their own countries hunyadi skanderberg Vlad stephen ....
And he always got the job done.
he outnumbered the Moldavians by a lot, you forget to mention that. would've been brilliant if he won with inferior numbers
@@arkantos2227 truly , these people always "forget" that the Sultan always had more men than everyone else
@@arkantos2227 You wanted Sultan to have 2000 soldiers?
Yep... let him fight a 125000 vs 38000 fight like stephan did... and see how he did... He was a very carefull leader who used his superior forces to crush an opponent. For real did he ever won a battle where he was outnumbered 5 to 1 like our princes did? Stefan, Vlad, Mihai...always outnumbered always bringing down the hammer on the ottomans. I always wonder how would Valachia and Moldavia would have been if we had the same manpower as Hungary, Poland and the Ottomans...
@@neddhu Less Numbers lead towards the more strategic approach while more Numbers lead towards arrogance. It doesn't matter if the commander is mehmet or Stephen
Moldavia the OG !
Respect from Albania .
Skanderberg OG
From Romania
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The Unbekannt Kosovo is Serbia 🇲🇩 ❤️🇷🇸
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Yes finally more Ottoman videos been waiting for a Long time! Thank you
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Love from the Balkans and Central Europe. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do!
15:00 Stephen didn’t simply agree to pay annual tribute again like as you say here. More context was needed. Stephen and Mehmed negotiated more favourable terms for Moldavia which included paying less tribute than before and the Ottomans agreed as they did not want to deal with Stephan again. This was a huge win for Stephen. Stephen went on to rule for almost 50 years! He fought 36 battles only losing 2. He was a true tactician and military genius.
@@EtruscanTURK-fs9nn yeah, because guess what , there is a problem when you have at least 50k men in every war versus 10-20k men. I wonder who would win
@Emil Fontanot people who say, Mehmet was so good, should care. Mehmet had numbers, he clearly wasn't some skilled general
@Emil.Fontanot What proves that Mehmet is not a Great general but an average one is that he conquered countries already weakened by Civil wars and interior crisis like Byzantine Empire and he conquered them with vast Armies but when he was called to fight against countries like hungary and leaders who were compitent and more intelligent than him like St.Stephen the Great who actually defeated Mehmet in the siege of Neamț Citadel.Thats a why Mehmet is not even close to Alexander the Great or St.Constantine the Great or St.Nikephoros Phokas and Johannes Komenos.
@Emil.Fontanot And that made him a good General not a Great actually if you study Mehmet victories the majority of them happened in Anatolia and in Central Greece were his suppliers were close and he could feed his soldiers without any problem and without a great effort to accomplish it,put when he distanced himself from his suppliers he seemed incapable to organise a good supply system for his army that's why he lost the majority of the engagements he fought against countries like Hungary.Unlike the Hellene General Alexander the Great or Emperor Basil the II and Emperor Johanes Komnenos who won battles despite facing the same problem with Mehmet and often fighting battles without having the upper hand in numbers. That's why my friend there is not the name of Mehmet among the names of the Greats.(Also, your insult in the begging shows your civilized background )
@Emil.Fontanot Alexander had not numerical superiority what you say about his army is true but Persians were like the US of the Era and at their peak when Alexander attacked them. Same goes for Basil the II he fought the Bulgarian Empire at its peak not at its death bed like Mehmet did.Also emerged victorious not because of the varangian guard but the change of tactics.Mehmet was,also, defeated in the Siege of Neamt Citadel by Stephen the Great and after those defeats Mehmet didn't dared to emerge campaigns which distanced him from his suppliers.Finally the main difference between all those great hellenes Alexander,Basil,Johannes etc.and Mehmed is that Basil Johannes and Alexander faced their enemies at their peak of their Strength and they defeated them not at their decline.
Battle of Vaslui is my favourite battle from history, because there my ancestors deafeted the mighty Ottoman Empire, and Mohammed the Conqueor!🩸🩸🩸
Ottoman Wars is the best of your series. Thank you for these excellent videos!
Thank you very much!
I am Stefan, and I am proud for have this name. Large life to most great warrior of Christ.
This man was a great warrior, strategist, economist and diplomatic. Men as he are counted with fingers' hand.
A great greeting and congratulations for excellent content.
I always enjoy watching battles fought by genius commanders 👏👍🏻😊
Thanks for watching!
Yes more ottoman wars, can’t wait for Vienna
Yep, it will happen
But was a great defeat for ottomans 😏😏😏😏😳😂
Kings and Generals can you please make a video on first battle of mohacs??
Kings and Generals
When will Ottoman Empire announce Vienna 2 ?
Kings and Generals Please disable comments for Vienna. It hurts so much lmao.
Stephen the Great, fought 48 battles, won 46. 'Nuff said.
Impressive. Our Ottoman ancestors were often outnumbered and had to achieve victory through tactical superiority, but this time it was the other way around. Pretty impressive man.
Thanks!
Aslında Osmanlı genel olarak çoğu savaşta düşmandan üstün ya da yakın sayılara sahipti.
Sinan Royal I think you were wrong the ottomans they always outnumbered the appointment just look at the battles they fought against our warrior king Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeg🇦🇱
So beautiful, thank you sir! One of my greatest country heroes.
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Hey guys, I may have an interesting idea: when 1 country (e.g. Ottomans) capture a town/city in another country (e.g. Moldavia), highlight the taken city in the Ottoman’s country colour. Perhaps that’d be a good visual explanation for the taking and losing of cities!
Noted, thanks for the feedback!
Kings and Generals I recommend the same thing
Stephan ruled for nearly 50 years if I am not wrong
Yes he did
Nice performance btw ;)
47 years ,from 1457 to 1504
the greatest ruller of all, remembered till this day by us moldavians
No. He rule for 47 years
I see a massive difference in tactical and strategic competence between western Europe and Eastern Europe during this time. These are competent generals using crafty and effective strategies, whereas the French and English couldn't even control their armies half the time.
Western Europe had what it took, they had both financial and human resources. Now look how Moldova looked on the map, caught between empires with pretensions. If you didn't use some slicker methods to spare your soldiers and resources, you'd be left with no country and no life.
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While I will always dislike the ottomans for ending the Roman Empire I still think ottoman history is absolutely fascinating to study. Great job as always
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for putting in the effort of finding the best and most accurate outcome it's much appreciated
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Sfântul Ștefan, Ștefan cel Mare! Glorie eternă și odihnă veșnică!
Is he a saint?
@@assyriancrusader3760 kind of
@@assyriancrusader3760 because he build a lot of charches
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب well 💁♂️ our churc call him saint but ... anyway he did a lot for christianity here in Moldova
I was waiting for some history about my country. Thank you, sir!
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Stephen the Great is my favorite Romanian warrior historical figure. After Michael the Brave, of course
well he is kinda moldovan techinically cuz at the time he wws born in moldova and an ethnic
@@spucy69well technically you are retarded
If you take a look at Memet the 2nd opponents Stephan III, Jon Hunyadi, Vilad Tapes, Sikander beg, Constantine,Uzun Hasan.... All of them became legends either by loosing or defeating Mehmet..... If those fierce guyz live in other era their legends would be so great.... And look at those Alliances between Mehmet & Wallachia and Stefan & Ak koyunlu which shows that it was never for Relegion or faith but for politics and tribute..........!
Like for first part of your comment but for last part... look in Balcanic peninsula how many become muslims (in Albania,Bulgaria,ex Yugoslavia etc..)👍🏻😊
Mehmed II had enemies like Mathias Corvinus, Stephen The Great, Vlad Tepes, Skanderbeg, Uzun Hassan. All of them were strong & capable military leaders. Only Mehmed II could counter such fierce rivals in the region.
Had a lot of resources compared to his foes. Usually 100k Ottomans versus like 30k. Not impressive.
And the crusader was 350k army from Varna 1444 until 1480 to attack Mehmed the Conqueror. But Mehmed very genius to handle it. Like play with camel to anticavalry from crusader.
@@ΆρωμαΜπλεlet’s go full overblown for the ottoman numbers but let’s be cautious for the Christians
@@ΆρωμαΜπλε how many times have we heard 100k ottoman soldiers for every single battle lol. Where’s the logistics concern here ?
@@ΆρωμαΜπλε you want to think about logistics when it’s the Christian army but when it is the enemy the other let’s go overboard
The whole series about Ottoman Wars are very interesting, including this video. Super! Waiting for the continuation
Thank you!
When u finish makin Mehmed II we will love to see Yavuz Sultan Selim and his badass campaing to memluks
King the patates oh yes, Yavuz Sultan Selim was the most efficient ruler and brilliant military leader the Ottomans ever had imo.
By far the most badass and brutal ottoman sultan imo. 👍🏼
kadir yildirim Yep, he is a great military leader and ruler. But I think Mehmed II is way better than him
King the patates I can understand that. Mehmet was a more kind, enlightened and open leader while Yavuz was way more brutal but he did get the job done.
I've never heard of this Yavuz before but I'm interested now.
Omg!! Without being biased but Stephan in the first battle fought very well, I'm impressed. Thanks for being better and better than before K&G.
Thanks for watching!
Finally another Ottoman episode, it has been months already.
It was. :-)
As a romanian I'm so proud that you decided to tell the world about my ancestors sacrifice and how they defended the christianity .
This video it's another masterpiece, thank you Kings and Generals for your dedication and for making our days better .
Cheers!
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Didn’t know Harris was a Romanian name
This episode touched my heart. Thank you and I hope you will cover even more Romanian battles!
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Stephen the Moldavian king loved the Romanians so much that he burned Bucharest twice. For this we Moldovans love him very much.
@@delfinnegru4654 stefan was put on throne by the help of wallachan army btw. also modavia and moldavians are in todays romania, you (republic of moldova) are just a piece of medieval molavia, the least significant one. all the moldavian history is in romania: the fortresses, churches, old moldavian architecture, the capitals, the voievodal lands, etc.
Stephens tactic was awsome. At the end the sheer number of human resource of the ottomans led him to pay tribute.
Love it you guys made my day with this !!!
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This channel is awesome overall very coherent and understandable you guys do a great job
Thank you very much!
What a legend.I already love this guy
I was waiting for this for ever!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hope, you enjoyed it. :-)
I am romanian! Happy to see this storytelling of the glorious history of my country. Thanks a lot
One of the best videos so far.
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Kings and Generals of course I will
The Chronicle of Moldavia - written by humanist Grigore Ureche ( 'ear' ) - describes Stefan as always knowing how to bounce back from a defeat.
After the White Valley, Ottomans plundered Moldavia and took a significant number of slaves. However, as they were crossing the Danube back into occupied territory, Stefan suddenly appeared with an army and charged right at the Sultan. Mehmed is described as mortified and Ureche states that he ordered all loot abandoned, so that the Ottoman Army could cross the Danube faster
That is utter bullshit. Even if it happened, do you really think Thousands of Ottoman soldiers would not fight back & Sultan will simply agree to what Stephen asked him to do?
@@Sam-wt1cxHe talks about the siege of Neamț Citadel were Mehmet was actually defeated by Stephen
You guys never cease to amaze me. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, we will!
Love it. I love my history and there are few moments in which I hear about the post Byzantine World in which the Ottomans start trying to take over Southern Europe. Keep up the great work.
Will do, thanks
Another great video about St3phen the Great Moldavia Romania. I love you're videos 🤗
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9:1 casualty ratio, now that's success.
He reigned for 47 years, had 48 battles and won in 46 of them. He defeated everyone around him. He is the best leader of all time.
But Atatürk>Stefan
@@aydakutay3280 he is saying Stefan was the greatest leader of moldova
@@aydakutay3280 keep dreaming
Im always sooo happy everytime my notification pops up and saw Kings & Generals uploaded a new video
Yes, and we are happy to make more videos for you :-)
Been waiting for this video for a long time! Great job! Love your channel!
Thank you very much! :-)
Stephen the Great and the Holly, one of the Titans of the Balkans. Never forget
Velkan don’t forget Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeg too🇦🇱
@@mikeny5020 never⚔
Velkan lol ok You probably didn’t see his videos he never lost a battle till the day he died
@@mikeny5020 I meant that I would never forget Skanderbeg
Velkan I was not trying to say that he was stronger and for me it doesn’t matter from what country they came from I saw some videos of Stephen He was unbelievable warrior and we had some great warriors from the Balkans and we should be proud of it unfortunately we didn’t get any help from the west✌️🇦🇩🇦🇱
That drums tactic is simply genius !! .
Makes you think the enemy is there and align in one direction when he actually comes from behind. so smart.
That's pretty sneaky from the Moldavian but hey you do what you have to do when you are 30k+ against 100k+ ;)
great videos guys. probably the best stuff on RUclips I watch at the moment.
PS : i recognise those drums from Napoleon TW Darthmod lol
Thank you for watching :)
If you go to Chisinau in Moldova, you'll see a huge statue of Stephen the Great into a park, and the main boulevard/road going through is also named after him.
You forgot to mention that he is printed on their currency
not only there ,statues of STEPHEN are all over in his former lands,moreover a poll was conduct in entire ROMANIA :STEPHEN is the moust apreciated ruler of all times for romanian population
in Suceava county ,you have high schools named after him ,the university,streets,museums,libraries,there is not a town wich doesnt have thouse named after him
That is the statue in Republic of Moldova, not in Moldova. Moldova is not Republic of Moldova. The statue of Stephen on the battlefield (Vaslui, Moldova, Romania) is far greater.
@@mr_flacohernandez3196 nah m8
This video warms my heart. Thank you!
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already did :D
I love your pronunciation for those battle sites so much
Thank you :-)
Our Stefan was a great strategist. Thats why he is called Stefan cel Mare Stephen the Great)
Most people: Vlad was the best Romanian ruler!
Stephen: I fought off the Ottomans, fought off the Golden horde and defeated my important Rival
But seriously As far as I have seen many people favor Vlad more, but don't get me wrong he's a great ruler and all but Stephen needs the spotlight
Becuse of vampire bullshit story
actually I think Michael the Brave was the greatest
He was betrayed soo
Vlad is just famous, nobody considers him the best Romanian ruler... he was an unsuccessful prince that tried too much.
As a wallachian i say Stephen was the great leader of romanians, followed by Michael the Brave
Thank you for this great documentary! I think Valea alba is a Prius victory for Mehmet the Conqueror, Stephan somehow manage to stop him even after defeated by Ottomans. But i cant wait to see Mehmet vs. Vlad!!!
He had already done a video about that.
Dude you have the best history channel here, and fun to watch
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Yes! The ottomans are back!
No! The ottomans are back! ... said by everyone in the balkans =)
I am probably in the second group. Researching that is painful :-)
Kings and Generals well at least if you are doing the whole history of the Ottoman Empire you only have 400 more years worth of research to do=)
Kyle Fisher balkans is Turkey we will destroy balkans
Turkısh Nationalist ya siktir git yarım yamalak boktan ingilizcenle gereksiz milliyetçilik yapmaya çalışıp rezil etme milletimizi.