Dubrovnik - history, sieges, captures, liberations, and staring cats
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The first of a few videos from Dubrovnik. The figure of 114 killed by the shelling in the early '90s comes from a Red Cross figure quoted on Wikipedia. I have seen other numbers, and cannot vouch for the accuracy of this number. Some figures are for slightly different period lengths, some are for civilians only, and others include military personnel. None differs enormously, however.
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Dubrovnik - history, sieges, captures, liberations, and staring cats
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This video does not accurately portray the sheer numbers of cats that live in dubrovnik
The quick-eyed will see a few cats in the still photographs.
Ever been to Istanbul? There is a shit-ton of cats there.
there is a shit ton of everything in istanbul ... more tea is consumed daily than the rest of the Balkan peninsula ... most people think Brits drink a lot of tea ... and also is a fast food nirvana ...
When in Dubrovnik, whilst walking down an alley in the old city, I saw a women petting her two fat cats. A street cat then walked by, and the woman spat on it. It was a strange sight.
@@blatt1375 crazy cat lady? xD
He's back HUZZA!!!!!
HUUUZZZZZAAAAAA!!!!!
2ndPerk And on that day HUZZAAAS and HOOOPLAS rang across the world.
VIKIIIIINGS!!!
-and now all HAIL PRESTO!
>HUZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
-fine, fine i remember. The age of Presto had ended over a century earlier.
>(silently): vikings.
That cat's not stuffed, it just does what all cats do: Not a single shit.
He was joking.
Please to be explaining zis Englischer humour, ja?
Rex The AstroDog
Thank you for stating the obvious. And because he was joking I obviously could not have been joking as well.
Birdblizzard You're welcome mate. Just try not to do it again ;^)
Cats do alot of things.
This dude should become a british TV host. I would watch the shit out of his shows.
The bit of Bosnian territory about which you didn't know called Neum is there because in the early 18th century Dubrovnik was in danger of having a border with then Venetian Dalmatia, with whom they were both trading and military rivals. Dubrovnik didn't like the idea of a Venetian land attack, so they struck a deal with the Ottomans, making them request Neum after a peace struck with Venetia and the Hapsburgs in 1718. Neum became a part of the Turkish province of Bosnia, so it stayed in Bosnian hands even after 1991.
You posted the same comment twice, I say delete one of them
Interesting. That it was sold to the Ottomans for financial reasons rather than military came from Wikipedia, which is of course fallible.
Well, what I posted here is what's written in my history books and what's been told to me by people living in Dubrovnik (I'm Croatian). Anyway, I hope you have a nice time in Dubrovnik, the city is very rich in history and culture. Unfortunately, it is also very rich in turists, and the prices are unbelievably high, especially inside the walls (though I'm sure you know that by now).
Actualy that deal was null and void after Austro-Hungary conquered the area, and it stayed so even after it anexed the BiH. It was only during the SFRJ era that Tito decide that BiH should have it's own exit to the sea with a port - Ploče.
Hey, nice to see ya back Lindy!
Good video. Keep 'em coming.
Three cheers for the return of Lloyd!!!
UURRAHH
UURRAHH
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Thanks for making a new video!
Always enjoy your videos Lindybeige. : )
Don't we all?
koti12000 There are always some Frenchmen ;)
Jan Plewa those bastards!
Jan Plewa Wait, am I not allowed to enjoy his videos then ? ;)
Guillaume M :D I'm German, I have no problems with France ;)
Congrats on your 300th vid :)
Awesome to see another video lindy, you always make them interesting; including the one about mud bricks!
Damn I've missed you Lindy, welcome back!
Happy 300 vids!
Yay, good to see your back Lindy!
Great to see you're back, Lindy. Congratulations on your 300th video!
It would pretty neat if you could make a video or two about Game of Thrones in terms of "historical authenticity" (in quotes because it is a fictional setting after all, but it's inspiration from the War of the Roses and such is obvious). You know, do the fight scenes resemble what a duel or brawl would have looked like, sets and costumes and such.
its been a while... long time no see!!! Love your vids man, try to find the time to pop in every once in a while...
Hey, you're back ! nice to see you again :)
As a half-Croatian, It's nice to see you visit my motherland. Even nicer to see how Dubrovnik looks 10 years after I visited it last. It never crossed my mind that the city was used for King's Landing scenes!
Thank you. I am sitting in my hostel in old town looking for history on this place, then I see Lindy had video. Good last keep it up you spazz
I was in Dubrovnik yesterday!!! Really great architecture and history but too busy and hot for me to enjoy. Love the video's, please make more!!!!!
Great and fast video!
The legend never dies.
I live here!
I'm glad you've been here Lindybeige
Welcome back, Lindybeige. I actually wanted to ask, when you have time again, if you could actually do a video on the fighting in Game of Thrones (since you mentioned it in your video). I'd be curious to know what you think. I haven't seen anyone do an analysis of how good or bad it is (especially withe episode 9 of this last season).
Well, just an idea to throw out there. I hope you do pick it up if you have time.
There's actually an expert review of the Oberyn vs Gregor Clegane duel on scholagladiatoria's channel.
scholagladiatoria did a bit on that a few days ago.
History time! Great video, had no idea even the French held the place for a while. Your GoT reference was marvelous too, never watched (only read) the series so that was a complete surprise.
YES YOU ARE BACK :D
Great to see you back in fighting trim again!
We missed you! great you are back! :)
Seriously, this man deserves more attention!
Wow, just after I have a dream about you being my out of school time history teacher, you upload a video that teaches me a little bit of history.
You also promised to give me another lesson next wednesday in the dream.
Thanks for sharing!..
something something Annnnnnnnnnd THE FRENCH! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Hey, you're back. It had been a while between vids, wasn't certain where you'd gone
Great video
it's good to hear from you again.
Wow... that was a truly epic cat stare fight!
Btw, good to see a new video of yours again!
I expected a video about the movie 300 because it's the 300th video, but doesn't matter, keep em' comming!
Yay more travel videos.. I remember reading Lindy's website about the leather ancient Greek cuirass when I was about 13 trying to learn how to make bows and chainmail. He sure has done a lot of internets I am now 24
Your travel videos are great! More, I tell you.
Been in Dubrovnik 4 times in my life already, it has one of the most beautiful old-towns in Europe. I highly recommend to visit it.
but not during tourist season
Is there any place in Europe that isn't "rich in history"? Snarkiness aside, nice video, Lindy, always good to see what part of the world you're traipsing through.
***** ...fair enough.
The parts of Scandinavia in the arctic circle?
The7DragonsOfReggae yes, those.
Milton Keynes.
Tim Ward Harsh... *sniff*
Absolutely love your videos. I'm thinking of becoming a teacher or professor.
Lloyd is back!
Also I think the red keep is scaled or mice rather than full sized people.
What a coincidence, me and some family are going there in a few months. I never knew it was bloody King's Landing! :) Thanks Lindy.
Lindybeige humming the game of thrones theme... a good day just became a great day
Acapella is so great!
Where can i get it?
But then, on the 24.06.2014 Lindeybeige finally uploaded a new video - HUZZA!
Brilliant. The bus trip must have been lovely too. Did you go to Tivat yet? It's to the south.
Thanks, but no, the bus trip was horrible. Hardly slept a wink. Arrived and fell face-forwards onto my bed and woke up in the same position four hours later.
I've missed you Lloyd, the number of videos has been less than I would like. I think you should try to get up to at least 5-6 videos a day.
I just liked this video and it went from 2.9K to 3K.
Any chance of some videos on Game of Thrones similar to Ironclad or Helen of Troy?
Have been to Dubrovnik 2 years ago. It's true the tourist density in the old town is very high but it is really beautiful! In fact almost no one lives there. It's all restaurants, museums hotels and shops.
Good to see you're not dead.
Thanks. Not dead is my preferred state of being.
As is so very often the case, posts to which I wish to reply have no 'reply' button. The post before this one is about King's Landing. Landing sounds like London, much like Lannister sounds like Lancaster, and Stark sounds like York. GoT is a retelling of the Wars of the Roses.
Lindybeige However, neither the House of Lancaster nor the House of York seized the throne of England in the end - it was the House of Tudor. Now, which character's name sounds like Tudor?
It's inevitable. Before the show ends, Hodor will sit on the Iron Trone.
All hail king Hodor!
Some mayor mistakes in the video. Dubrovnik wasn’t part of the Ottoman empire, it was under its protection and therefore paid the Sultan. It also didn’t sell territory because of bad economy, which it nearly never had. It sold it to not have a land border with Venice that was a threat to Dubrovnik.
And although Latin was the state language, Croatian was spoken in household and all day life. Same goes with Italian-Dalmatian later. Only the nobles were billingual and spoke it for trading purposes, the rest spoke Croatian. That’s why nearly all of Dubrovniks rich poetry and works were in Croatian. Dubrovnik was also not a vassal to Hungary, but the Magyar-Croatian king. In the Habsburg empire it became part of the Dalmatian province that was included into Croatia inside the monarchy. In Yugoslavia it was first oart of the Zeta banate and then the Croatian banate. In WW2 it was part of the Independent State of Croatia, in Yugoslavia part of the Croatian socialist republic.
mayor ti se piše major
Popis iz 1890
That feeling when you understand what the children are saying at 1:29 :D Croatia :D
Lindybeige,
You should totally do a whole series on Game of thrones and where GRR Martin got his inspiration from historical events. I think you have the perfect expertise!
War of the Roses.
VintageLJ
yea but go into details!!
Excellent travelogue, just like many of your previous ones. :-) Even by the standards of southeast Europe, Dubrovnik has a very colourful and complex history as a city and a former polity. Look up the Republic of Ragusa, it's the sort of real historical stuff that one just can't make up...
Welcome back. Your cat is glad you're home too, lol
bonus points for the acapella game of thrones theme at the end.
is this where they make sturmoviks?
Please do an analysis of Red Viper vs The Mountain. It looked awesome but probably wasn't awesome in case of martial arts.
Schola Gladiatoria has done one.
I used to have lots of people visit the "Red Keep" in my "King's Landing" too. Plenty of digging went on although not so much these days when it's starting to develop some archaeological value.
This is what happens when you expect Lindy to do a version of the GoT theme at the end of this video but get the South Park "Weiner Floppy Weiner" version stuck in your head.
So I'm not the only one who has that particular earworm problem when I hear the theme, huh? Good to know.
Slightly disappointed that Lindy didn't whistle the refrain.
And why would people come out in droves to visit a place that was CGI? Seems rather nonsensical to me.
morallyambiguousnet I always get the Peter Dinklage Peter Dinklage Peter Dinklage version.
Jontman42 Ever since seeing "Knights of Badassdom" all that comes into my head when I think about Peter Dinklage is some "monsters in need of pummelin'" and something about "an ounce of killer 'shrooms."
I dream of you getting funding to do a full documentary series on the history of the Mediterranean world. That would be a truly fascinating journey. Would this be something you would consider if the opportunity ever arose?
Lindy! Don't ever leave us for so long again :)
You should have visited zadar. I'm croatian and from the cities I've visited it's the one that is most interesting and beautiful :)
King's Landing! Cool
So thats what Aegon's High Hill and the Red Keep look like, cool!
MOST EPIC GOT INTRO EVVAH
perfect, now i wanna go to dubrovnik too
always a pleasure.
What a history...
The Dubrovnik literacy and literature is really really interesting ^_^
King's Landing is called King's Landing, because that's where Aegon the Conqueror first landed his fleet and built his first fort. I don't think it has much to do with London.
0:57 -- I came to Dubrovnik for the archaeology, but I stayed for the cat-staring matches.
It's been too long since my last Lindy fix. I've been jonesin'
Pretty neat
Lindy please please please please please please do a video on game of thrones, I'm sure there's many things you could talk about.
5 years later and I'm still proud of that dark cat
The part on the coast was actually given to Bosnia long after the time mentioned in the video and was given by the state, not Dubrovnik which was just a city not autonomy in the time. Happened during the last 100 or so years. Not before.
In this vein, I'd like to hear about how many times Alexandria, in fact how many times all of Egypt has changed hands in recorded history.
I'm going to Dubrovnik again for the first time in 3 years. I am bracing myself for the amount of people coming to see King's Landing. Eeps!
Lindybeige historical travel TV series when?
You DO have places where the language changes in Britain. In Wales for example, Welsh was the dominant language until the late 19th century. Changing your language to that of the people with more power is something that has happened and continues to happen all over the world.
Oh! I've been here! In 2006 I think. Had a thoroughly horrible time because the heat was unbearable. A shame, because it does look very nice.
@lindybeige >>> Great video...👍
He lives!
I was never aware how often it changed hands.
Speaking of all the occupation it is astonishing that they speak slavic.
Maybe you could do something with Game of Thrones weapons (like Ice, Oathkeeper or Longclaw) or about the fighting styles?
Before you start, the helmet budget was blown on the Hound's and Gendry's helmets
Stark helmets were terrible....
TadRaunch And the Hound almost never wears his bloody helmet!
rkrokberg Because they spent so much on his makeup!
TadRaunch Nope that's because only lots of c*nts wear helmets
0:18 exactly like the old part of Santiago de Compostela when tourists come to do the way, heh
I've drank the fountain water! It was the best tasting water I've ever had while in Croatia.
you were thirsty, and those pipes are old, northern part of Croatia has much better water then that, especially in the summer
Hey, cool, you were in the neighborhood! Ok, I live in Belgrade, Serbia. Not exactly neighborhood but still - close enough! Hope you had a great time. If you are ever to visit fair lands of Serbia, give me a call, we can arrange something for sure. :)
Fair and Serbia don't belong in a sentence together.
I'll give you that. Must have been quite a nice day when I wrote lines above.
Not Bosnians and Montenegrians,The Serbs and Montenegrians
You were basicaly in my backyard and yet i missed you damm
Haven't gotten there yet
Fame of Drones (@@)
Cats of the Adriatic....
Those are archaeology cats. they stare at each other like that for hours, each waiting for the other to withdraw his or her postulation about the particular site they're sitting on. Love me some red tile roofs.
been there
Epic xD
Lindybeige doesn't like Game of Thrones. Not enough fire arrows.
"And the French surrendered." Wow, I never saw THAT coming.
The English you speak is far removed from that of the Anglo-Saxons.
It more closely resembles a total mix between French and Anglo-Saxon, with a Nordic undertone.
General English is based on Anglo words, with the French adding many new ones, but calling it far removed would be stupid. Any English speaker could easily link many Anglo words with Modern english, despite the French interference
+VintageLJ
A modern day English-speaking person cannot hope to understand a medieval Anglo-Saxon text, whereas a German or French can more or less understand the medieval versions of their language. In fact a modern day German can understand Anglo-Saxon better than a modern day Briton.
I've been there