Show notes! 0. Slight mistake with Chaldiran - should be further to the Northeast. 1. Let's talk about Iran. A few of our viewers expressed their concerns that we only portray the losses of this culture. Although it is true, it is not deliberate. If you know the history of Iran, you know that there are many great victories there, yet, details of many of these victories are lost. Ismail I is a good example - he was probably the most important historical figure in Iran since Cyrus and we know that he won at least 4 massive battles, while being outnumbered 2 and 3 to 1, against the Akkoyunlu, Shaybanids, and Shirvanshahs, yet the only detailed battle of his career is Chaldiran. In any case, we will rectify this situation down the line, as the battles of Nader Shah will be covered within this series in 2019. 2. We don't care about the ethnicities of the historical figures. Ismail, for instance, had Turkic, Greek and Georgian heritage, but that doesn't matter. He considered himself the Shahanshah of Iran, and so he should be accepted as such. The easiest example is the British royal dynasty. While they are of the German descent, they are British. 3. Breadfield has a different depiction in some of the sources, as they claim that the Hungarians stacked their center and that allowed them to break the Ottoman center. When the sources are conflicted like that, you often need to use logic and common sense. In this case - we know that the Ottomans stopped raiding Transylvania for a few decades, as they lost most of their border troops in the area. But if their loss came due to the fact that their center was smashed, then their wings would have been able to retreat with a relative ease, and they had the akinjis (light raiders) on the wings. Again, that doesn't mean that the other source is invalid. 4. If you have extra income, 1$ a month on Patreon (www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals) would help us immensely - we have many plans and every little bit helps. If you don't want to have a recurring payment, Paypal is an option - www.paypal.me/kingsandgenerals In any case, we appreciate your support, thank you!
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more than one hundred cannons..Dont this say nothing to you as to which side was really highly spirited and strong. I personally believe ottoman army was just nothing more than a mass of ants for safavids if they hadnt any cannons provided by venetians and other european powers
@Pasdar Dude do you really think the ottomans attacking would have meant that everyone is living in peace right after that? No racism? The ottomans committed genocide while they were attacking europe. But I mean it wasnt members of your religion getting slaughtered by them.
@Pasdar no state sponsored racism ? Are you insane ? Did you just watch the video, they killed thousands of Shia simply for being Shia. Dont be blinded, power turn people ugly. And Ottomans had lot of power
Well, it depends on perspective. I am glad that the janissaries was abolished and was made cannon fodder in the Auspicious Incident in 1826, the modernization of the state, the factories and schools established, the founders of Turkey was Ottoman generals, pupils in the schools and military academies in the Ottoman Empire.
@@umaransari9765 holy roman empire wasn't much significant compare with ottoman.. After the fall of western part, it was much more weaker and beaten by persian in the Middle of 5th century, however though it regained its land in the early 6th century, all its Eastern and southern Mediterranean land were conquered by the rashidun army.. From 6th to 10th century it was only with anatolia and balkan and after beated by seljuk and from 11th to 14th century it was limited in constantinople and some aside state
@Bitola Otuken , no, the Persian Empire was of comparable size and they collapse twice in just a few years, once during Alexander, another during the Rashidun invasion.
aluapzurc2 they werent slaves they were christian boys taken yes it was by force but they were treated like their own child and were in better conditions than they were back with their family which was a poor and painful life. And they werent all had to become soldiers. They were selected considering their abilities. Like the strong big children were soldiers where as the smart ones were selected in the higher ranks. They were taught everything like Turkish , Islam and other things. They only couldnt be one thing and that was the sultan. They could of even became the vezir as there was. Must say as these boys were "yeniçeri" and they were the closest to the sultan and they all loved the sultan so even if they were slaves they could of easily killed the sultan and smash the empire.
Europe: France, the Ottomans are gaining ground in Europe and threatening to take over the Christian world. Can we put aside our differences to fight this common enemy? Us French: Nah, I'll rather ally with them.
Yes, I definitely agree, and I understand why they did. But it also makes you wonder how France planned to deal with the Ottomans once they had weakened the Habsburgs.
+This is Barris! They wouldn't have to. Even if the Ottomans took Vienna, they would never be able to come close to threatening france since they'd be too far from Constantinople.
The Ottomans really were masters of early gunpowder warfare. Time and time again they utilize gunpowder weapons effectively, either to secure a devestating victory or to turn the tide of battle.
@Bingo Duff Holy shoot, what the frick are you talking about He's just talking about Ottoman Army's proficiency with gunpowder weaponry and you bring "white victims" including to those of those pesky Cosmopolitan white liberals and "Islamo-Nazis" (or whatever the frick you want to entails)? Are your brain cortex really alright in the first place?
@Bingo Duff it's simple , the Islamic caliphate or state or whatever you want to name it spread through war and conquest but Islam itself as riligon spread through many ways like trade , enter marriage , forced conversion was very rare and it was never a state policy for any Islamic state , for example the Levant didn't become majority muslim until the 12th century, Persia didn't become majority muslim until 3 centuries after the arab conquest. the myth of forced conversion is a load of crap that's being spread by crazy right wingers and white nationalists using outdated sources written by orintalists with a superiority complex during the colonial era . by the way comparing muslim conquest with colonialism is dumb and using what happend in otranto to bash Islam is even dumber . It's usually the one how acuses all those how disagree with him of being racist is the racist himself . you should relax dude and get educated by searching through unbiased work done by actual historians not bigoted right wingers with zero qualification on the subject but their own biased view
@Bingo Duff actually I'm not a leftist I had the far left as mush as I hate right because I'm an islamist (not a terorists) . what evil did you expose you moron all what you did was yaping about the usual insecure right wing conspiracy theoriey about haw the left hate the white men and blames everything on him and all of that crap , you didn't discuss any of my argument you just jumped on and associated me with the far left .
@Bingo Duff what long worthless paragraph , well guess what I'm from Algeria and if you know wher that is you would know that I have nothing to do with antifa since I'm a muslim and I get my history from unbiased and well documented sources so don't worry about me . my country witnessed both the French colonialism that killed 8 million of my people and sacked thousands of villages during the span of 130 years no conquering nation in the history of north Africa did that much damage , and after the independence we wher filled by socialists who bankrupted us and and caused a 10 years civil war that claimed the life of 250000 people because they didn't like it when islamist won the elections (so much for the so called democracy) . European colonialism is thing and it happend and caused a lot of damage and pointing it out is not racism and you are right every nation committed atrocities but the europeans took it to a hole New level.
@Bingo Duff my ancestors enslaved 1.5 million from the 16th to the 18th century while the frensh killed 8 millions of us how morally bankrupted to compare the enslavement of less then 2 millions to what can be considered a genocide that claimed the life of 8 million people, by the way when the French conquered Algeria the piracy was already stoped since it started to decline in the early 19th century and our naval fleet was already destroyed in the battle navarino 1827 which means the barbary states wher not a threat anymore . as for the American slaves , the Mediterranean at that time was under our control and the refused to pay the trebuitte for passage so they got what was coming to them , by the didn't the Americans defeat us in 1815 which means we are even . by the way you have to work on better ways to justify genocide .
0:57 Ottoman Empire Vs Hungary 3:23 Mehmed II's attack on Italy 5:54 Counter attack by Naples, Sicily & Hungary 6:23 Succession crisis in Ottoman Empire after Mehmed II's death (1481) Bayezid II becomes Sultan 7:18 European conquests continue under Bayezid II 9:21 *Ottomans Vs Safavids* after the fall of Aq Qoyunlu dynasty 11:32 Another succession crisis in the Ottoman empire after Bayezid II nominates Ahmed as the heir. Selim I consequently deposes his father & becomes Sultan. 12:41 Battle of Chaldiran (1514) Selim I Vs Ismail Shah
Great episode, balance of victories and defeats for the Ottomans. Next episode I hope will be the Ottoman-Mamluk wars, Selim will show his true skill and ruthlessness.
@@enesduraku6087 portoguesen ships bombarding holy muslim lands that times stuip mamluks they dont do anything why because they dont have cannons and big war ships they dont make it to after shia problem make more problem for ottoman empire he have do unpleasant necessity actions even some peoples say he kill to his own father selim ruled 8 year
Just as you guys covered the details of the Macedonian military tactics and equipment, could you do the same for the Ottoman Empire? At least up to the 17th Century.
Ismail is quite an interesting man. He was a Greek, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkic descent who wrote beautiful poems in Azerbaijani Turkish, wanted to be more like Persian rulers, whilst ruling over an empire that stretched from India to Anatolia. Mr. International, before it was cool
Some roots of safavid were kurdish.also some roots were georgian and afther shah abbas 1 they also had persian wife. But mostly safavid were azeri. But their empire was persian (culture , main language of people, official language ,persian capitals after tabriz , persian art , persian shah=king ,persian names like tahmasb ... )
@@darknesslight9630 The army was Turkmen (Turkic), the royal woman in the Safavid Empire used a Turkic title (Khanum), so that's not a good argument, also the Turkic language was used as court language until the reign of Shah Abbas. Shah İsmail wrote 1400 of his poems in Turkic, only 50 in Persian. He became shah because he was the grandson of Uzun Hasan (another Turkic ruler), and gained the support of the Turkmen soldiers. At the start the Safavids were clearly Turkic, but slowly they Persianized
@@bilgeturkkan6095 Shah ismail borned in iran , aradabil (azeri city) and his childhood was in gilan(iranian province with persian people).he knew persian at childhood .also i read one of his peom in turkish. at that poem he used most of words from persian in turkish poem. Khanom is also use in persian language for ladies.
TheFiresloth Actually in English they don’t mean much. There is so many word games in theese Turkish poets. Sultan Selim was a great poet. He was using a technique called ‘’Chess Poem’’. There were eight poems in one poem. Left to right, Top to bottom...
Could do some videos on other Turkish empires like the great seljuk or ghaznavid empire who's great king mahmud ghaznavi raided ancient india 17 times and never lost a battle he was equal to Alexander and timur. But people in the West never heard of him
If Mahmud Ghaznavi was alive right now and you'd ask him, he'd probably tell you that he considers himself Persian than Turkish. He's famous in history for being obsessed with Persian culture, poetry, literature, customs, etc.
Hhaanvic empire was persian. also the Ottoman empire might have been established by a ruler of supposed turkic origins like Osman I, but he was caucasian looking, he established a multi ethnic and multireligious empire and only the Ottoman identity was used, never the term '' turk'', actually it was considered offensive. For example , 4 out of 5 main families in the Ottoman Empire, in the first 100 years of existence were Christian converts. 48 Grand Veziers were Albanian
@@gjinbueshpata4239 Thats what albanians claim, but everybody in that time-era called the ottoman empire, the Turkish empire. The term ottoman empire is created by historians just like the term byzantine empire for the east-Roman empire. The army was mostly Turkish or at least turkic of ethnicity, except the jannisaries who only had Turkish culture and language teached to them but were ethnically diverse. The upper-class of the Turkish-Empire called the state: "Devleti - Aliye"
@@gjinbueshpata4239 And what 4 of 5 main families do you mean? There is only 1 main family in the empire and this is the (atleast in the beginning) turkic ottoman dynasty. The more mixed the rulers got, the more incompetent they also became, the first 10 ottoman sultans were all very competent and not that mixed yet.
Lmao defeating a army less than yours and the army which doesn't have a Canon is great according to you? not to mention that ottoman were defeated and only Canon fire helped them
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As a Türk, i find your videos really objective. And content quality is really great. Also your voice is calming when listening. Great work, teşekkür ederim 🙏🏻
@@1.2713 Aga sen ciddi olarak mı yaptın bu yorumu, Anadolu Türkmen ahalisi Şii değildi, Alevi idiler, netice olarak Öyle bir katliam vs olayı da yok. Ki,Şah'a giden Türkmenler'in de hepsi Alevi değildi, Sünni müslüman ahali de gitti
@@celalkarakaya7595 şiilikle alevilik aynıdır bektaşilik farklidir ayrica sunni veya sii olsun farketmez iran her zaman muslumanlara karsi hristiyanlarla ittifak kurmustur bugunde oyle ruslarla birlikte musluman kesiyolar suriyede yemende tarih tekerrurden ibaret ve evet en az 50 bin kisi katledildi ben olsam soykirim yapardim 50 bin az bile
Majority of Croatians nobles wanted ambush Ottoman army in hills near Krbava river, but general Emerik Derencin wanted open battle because it was more honorable way to win. Defeat at Krbava marks begining of 100 years without victory against Turks. Finally something about Croatia, although it is defeat. Can't wait for next episode and battle at Sisak and hopefully mention of Siget.
Medieval and Renaissance-era chivalry may stand at the foundations of today's West liberalism and humanitarianism... but holy shit, did they _not_ help in battle. And it's not like the Ottomans were anything new: the disastrous performance of the Polish and Hungarian armies against the Mongols several centuries prior was primarily due to the former's "Do you want to live forever? CHAAAAARGE!" attitude. Had anyone just calmed the fuck down and analyzed the enemy's tactic to learn how to counteract it, hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.
@@yarpen26 it's like fighting in a honor way against burglars, like dropping one of two knives you have just because the burglars have "just" one knive on their hands. you know what I mean
Alp Arslan Rahimullah was a great Mujahid and commander no doubt. But what Yavuz Sultan Selim achieved is just impossible to an extent. He surely was one of the greatest military commanders ever.
@@moroccanalmoravid1510 Obviously brother. There is simply no comparison between Hazrat Khalid bin Waleed RadiAllah Anhu and anyone else. Yavuz Selim Han Rahimullah was just a pure lover and follower of the great Companion. Yavuz Sultan Selim Han is not even equal to the dust on the feet of Khalid bin Waleed just like we Muslims today are not equal to the dust on the feet of Sultan Selim Han. When i compare Yavuz Sultan Selim with military commanders it is with other Muslim commanders etc after the Noble Companions. No one can match the Companions in deeds or status. They were the best generation indeed.
Yes ! Thank you for covering this, it is one of the most important yet overlooked battle in Middle-east history. If anyone's interested, there's a short fictionnal portrayal of the battle in "The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie. Very interesting.
Thank you for created this documentary about Battles of Otranto that I mentioned before, most people didn't know Ottoman army invade on Italy peninsular.
@Moca Bacana Strategically, yes, it was rather insignificant. However it is important as it really shows the ambition and aims of the Ottomans who sought to conquer Rome.
Yeah, they are relatively obscure, so it works. In general, this series is a good vehicle to show the history of a wider region across 500 years or so.
Kings and Generals My feelings as well. Kings and Generals has shown a part of History only learned about in upper divion courses at the university level, that is if its even offered at the institution. Good work!
I am so hyped for this series. Great to know the details of warfares between the Safavids and the Ottomans despite some degrees of ambiguity due to conflicting sources. Before watching this video, I know some famous monarchs of the Ottomans. Yet I am shocked that some of them made their ways to the throne in a bloody way in similar manners as their nomadic ancestors. Having a succession crisis while fighting external wars at the same time was such a feat.
The reason of it because the Ottoman Empire was the most organized in the World at that time. Army's discipline and morale was high even they did not affected by the throne fights in the State.
And it was just the beginning of a 500 year war between those twin powers. Iranians and Turks were like two brothers who were in conflict with each other and in the meantime they had lots of common points. Still Iran and Turkey are two pivotal powers in the middle east. I wish both nations the best.
@Princess Theodora If they were Turk, why their official language and administration was in Persian? Why did they rely on "Shahnameh" and other nationalistic principals coming directly from Sassanid era? Why they used Persian names and not Turkish names like seljuks? Safavids had support of 5 Shiit Turkmen tribes (Ghezelbashs) originally from Eastern Anatolia just until Shah abbas came to the power and founded Georgian guard. Still Safavi family with its branches live in Iran. Proudly I'm one of them with our family tree.
@Princess Theodora I don't continue this argument because you had made it personal. But changing language doesn't create a new ethnicity. You cannot recognize Americans as the British just due to their language. On the other side I don't know where you are from but this is the first time I hear about one million victims of Safavids!! Especially when we study other countries bloody history in the same period of time!! Have a good time
@@MagusMagnus we turks are still use arabic and persian names. Then we are arab or persian too 😂 ottoman sultans's mothers are greek, russian, serbian, jew etc. But we say, ottoman is turk. if you are safavid and you say that i am persian/iranian, okay. But historical safavids are turk. Safavids and seljuks founded in iran lands. But it isnt mean safavids and seljuks is iranian.
Crimea was under a steppe empire. For those who think the turkish empire was an evil empire you should really look into the Crimean Khanate The golden horde makes the turks look like golden retrievers.
Moroccan Almoravid Bayezid had great potential but captured by timur in his early era. I think in general Mehmed the Conqueror better than Sultan Selim but in military and tactics Sultan Selim I really best. No one sultan invaded a country deeply like him. For Suleiman he had such a nice conditions in 1520. His father selim gave him everything. He had great pashas like sokollu and ibrahim pasha he had barbarossa etc and his last 10-15 year was not better he ruled long unlike Selim I.
Cem Sultan Rahimullah suffered alot in his life. He was imprisoned and bribed alike but he never betrayed his faith or the Muslims. May Allah bless him❤
@@6wx689 Oh please! Sultan Selim Han did take up the office of Caliph. But he was not proud or boastful about it. After incorporating Makkah and Madinah, he was given the tittle "Custodian of thr Two Holy Mosques" as used by earlier Mamluk Caliphs. But he refused and declared that i am "Khadmain ul Haramain Shareefain" meaning servant of the Two Holy cities/mosques.
Safavid army fought in this battle heroic but as video mentioned it, ottomans had updated weapons so they have got the advantage. i think if Safavid state and ottomans had good relations, Europe had a very hard job in those years to rise up as we know EU, today. wars between Iran and ottoman empire, made them both weak.
Back then it was impossible for neighboring states of this size to just cozy up with one another. The Persians and Ottomans were natural foes and Iran's conversion to Shia provided only an additional raison de guerre.
@@matinabbaszadeh6911 ما چیزی به نام آذری ماذری نداریم تاجیگ کودن چرندیات پان فارسی اتو اینجا بلغور نکن! صفویه و تورکان قزلباش اهل ترکستان بودند که جدادشون به آزربایجان مهاجرت کرده آزری دیگه چه مزخرفیه
Because many creators of this channel are turkic, they belong to Azerbaijani turks. And Azerbaijani Turkic language are similar Anatolian turkic language like 99 percent
This is very great!!!! I am from Azerbaijan and nobody shows this historycal fact the true as Kings and Generals. In history isn't true explaining the battle of Çaldıran. But I am thanks to Kings and Generals, because you spoke this age most correctly. BEST VIDEO👍👍👍😊
Battle of Chaldiran was an example of a Medieval army facing an early Modern army. The Safavids had better cavalry and superior in hand to hand combat but the Ottomans took better advantage of innovation and utilised gunpowder. All they had to do was keep the Safavids at a distance with firepower and they managed to do that.
As Safavid favourite I like this video. Ottoman’s initials was artillery. But it was mistake to fight between two muslim and turk empires. Safavid was Azerbaijan not Iran. Please take it into consideration
There is a lot of information missing in this video. Here is an important issue: Kurdish tribes (sunni) took place on the side of Yavuz Sultan Selim against the Safavids. On the other hand, İsmail Koçgiri and the Alevi Kurds in Dersim provoked them against Selim. Selim repressed it violently. Later, in the war of the ring, the Kurds took the side of Yavuz Sultan Selim and defeated Ismail. Kurdish tribes have a great role in this war.
@@ahmetozkan438 bunch of tribes?!?! Mate, the kurds had one of the oldest empires and we destroyed a lot of mesopotamian states before u turks even decided to come out from under your rock in east asia. So dont chat bs about kurds when we had empires before u man even came to anatolia.
@@ahmetozkan438 i dont care. Kurds were in the middle east and on tgose lands much before turks came, and we built ancient empires there that still affect the modern world. Until you turks came, Personally, I have NO PROBLEM, AT ALL, with the turks coming to anatolia, especially the ottomans who i deeply love, But my problem is with the nationalist secular turks who hate kurds just for who they are, they hate kurds and kurdish history and discriminate against kurds just for where allah created them. Thats the problem. And i am sure you inderstand my point as you got good english.
There is no point for Ottomans enforce people change the religion . Especially era of Mehmet the second. If we were enforcing to do this now all the balkan peninsula must be a Muslim.
+Metin Mehmet Durgun that would probably end with a result of balkan revolts a lot sooner than they actually happened. And since the ottomans were strong back then, the revolts would've been crushed, making all the balkans into martyrs and forcing the holy legue into taking actions sooner. Ottomans knew what they were doing.. thats why they kept balkans for such a long period of time. Cus apart from the taxes and the jannisaries, they were basically left alone to do whatever. Forcing them into another language and especially for back then, another religion would've been catastrophic for the ottoman future.
Not true at all, why is whole anatolia muslim now even tho it was christian with the rule of the byzantine empire? The only reason the balkans are not muslim because the muslims got killed,expelled or retreated to turkey, kosovo albania and bosnia are mostly muslim countires
It's obvious that you don't know the Ottoman Empire fundamentals. Millet system etc. Non muslims were paying tax its a big income for empire. They all their Churchs. Government never had a policy converting nations religions. Ottomans become in power much later era in anatolia 1299 at this time already most of anatolia were muslims. And these muslims expelled from the balkans they were Turkish and it is already era of nationalism. There is just a simple thing that to know . Ottomans were an empire maybe the last traditional empire in the world.
Great Video as usual 😊. here are some notes about the battle of Çaldıran: - it is really hard to find numbers of the troops because the sources are confusing and sometimes the numbers are fantastic. but the similarities are the composition of the army. the safavid's have cavalry and the ottoman's 60 to 70 cavalry and the rest infantry and artillery. - şah ismail and selim are both underrated military commanders - you never told that the ottomans use war wagons very since 1448 by the battle of Kosovo until the early 1600s. And selim revolutionized the top arabacılar (artillery transport and war wagons) corps by mixing artillery and war wagons in the center in front of the janissaries and behind he azab screen with cavalry flanks. but that's it. Krep doing your great work, and I also love the mongol and the napoleonic series. sidenote: fuck all nationalist comments
Excellent channel. Salute to you from Egypt. The Safawy (Safavid) had a very negative long term impact on The Islamic world by turning most of the eastern muslim counteries as Iran, Azerbijan & Turkmanistan to Shiia.
lol haha 1 million? are u fucking serious? Shah Ismail didn't find more than 60 thousands people to enlarge his army to fight against different enemies from different sides and yet he managed to kill 1 million people? how? ignorant child.
"When Shah Ismail entered Tabriz he didn't face any resistance (from the people) yet he slaughtered them. On his command, the bellies of the pregnant sunni women were sliced. The graves of Sultan Yaqub and others were opened and their bones were taken out and burned. The 300 prostitues of Tabriz were gathered on one place and they got cut in two with swords. The head of 800 people from the region Alwan were chopped off. The dogs of tabriz were killed too. After Ismail killed many people he ordered his mother to be brought to him. He learned that his mother married a commander from Bayandur dynasty and upon that he ordered (his soldiers) to chop of her head. I don't think after Neron, there was any opressor in history like him (Ismail)"
very very inaccurate information and impossible, illogical at the same time. You can easily find out that this information is bullshit by using your simple logic. Yes he killed some people just like any other historical leader but this numbers are highly exaggerated. You probably took it from some turkish ottoman fanboy/radical sunni guy who lives in his dreamland lol
Yavuz sultan selim or in english selim the grim was a harsh ruler to say the least. There was a saying at his time which translates into something like: I wish youll be a vizier to selim. Sultan was infamous for executing his viziers or disobeying beys so thats how the saying has came to be. By the way his nickname yavuz means brave or fearless but at his time yavuz meant brutal or cunning. He is by far the most interesting ottoman sultan. Thanks for the video as always.
@@KingsandGenerals yes exactly it meant terrible or brutal in his days. But now it changed as i said. Yavuz is a pretty common name in turkey actually.
@BartinYer6 actually pirates in the Western Mediterranean raided Iceland by using the flag of Ottomans. One of the captains was a Dutch, who converted Islam Murat Reis. Others were mostly Algerian and other North African people
@Bingo DuffI know what I am saying. Though I am not an expert I read it from book of Turkish historian Emrah Safa Gürkan who is an expert on this. Corsairs were autonomous not necessarily linked to any Ottoman authority. I don't know if his book titled Corsair's of Sultan is translated to English. You can still read his article titled "“The Centre and the Frontier: Ottoman Cooperation with the North African Corsairs in the Sixteenth Century”, Turkish Historical Review 1/2 (2010): 125-163" If you can't find his books then you can read his master thesis and PhD dissertation. M.A. Thesis: "Ottoman Corsairs in the Western Mediterranean and Their Place in the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry, 1505-1535" PhD Dissertation: Espionage in the 16th century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-Betweens and the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry
Well at last you started covering safavids. Eager to see how it would go for ottomans when it comes to Shah Abbas the great of Persia.and also Nader of course.
Shah abbas the great of persia 😂😂😂😂😂 he were azerbaijanian turk idiot... like nadirshah... فارس های دزد بی تاریخ و بی هویت خجالت هم خوب چیزیه حالا اگر نادرشاه بیست تا از اجداد فارس ات رو با یک افغان تاق نمیزد و مردم اتو به سخره نمیگرفت یا شاه اسماعیل در اشعار تورکی اش خودش رو پیر تورکستان خطاب نمی کرد یا قزلباش ها مخالف به کارگیری فارس ها تو دولت و ادارات اون نبودند میتونستی با وقاحت و بیشرمی فاتحان سرزمین ات و قاتلان اجدادت رو پرشین خطاب کنی ولی دیگه نه با این شرایط
Great series. I am Turkish and like that you cover Ottoman Wars but I am more interested with French Revolutionary and Napoleoic Wars (Coalition Wars) myself. We have left in Siege of Zaragosa and Battle of Balien in Peninsula during Napoleonic era , didn't we ? I also hope you cover Napoleon's Egypt and Middle East Campaigns , Battle of Pyramids , Naval Battle of Nile and Siege of Acre where Ottomans even in crumbling stage of their history managed to inflict Napoleon his first defeat
Show notes!
0. Slight mistake with Chaldiran - should be further to the Northeast.
1. Let's talk about Iran. A few of our viewers expressed their concerns that we only portray the losses of this culture. Although it is true, it is not deliberate. If you know the history of Iran, you know that there are many great victories there, yet, details of many of these victories are lost. Ismail I is a good example - he was probably the most important historical figure in Iran since Cyrus and we know that he won at least 4 massive battles, while being outnumbered 2 and 3 to 1, against the Akkoyunlu, Shaybanids, and Shirvanshahs, yet the only detailed battle of his career is Chaldiran. In any case, we will rectify this situation down the line, as the battles of Nader Shah will be covered within this series in 2019.
2. We don't care about the ethnicities of the historical figures. Ismail, for instance, had Turkic, Greek and Georgian heritage, but that doesn't matter. He considered himself the Shahanshah of Iran, and so he should be accepted as such. The easiest example is the British royal dynasty. While they are of the German descent, they are British.
3. Breadfield has a different depiction in some of the sources, as they claim that the Hungarians stacked their center and that allowed them to break the Ottoman center. When the sources are conflicted like that, you often need to use logic and common sense. In this case - we know that the Ottomans stopped raiding Transylvania for a few decades, as they lost most of their border troops in the area. But if their loss came due to the fact that their center was smashed, then their wings would have been able to retreat with a relative ease, and they had the akinjis (light raiders) on the wings. Again, that doesn't mean that the other source is invalid.
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Sir can you make also the mohac war
They did not ordered the city to convert that is to be checked
Please turkish
Please Asia Pacific war story 😳😳😊
Shia is not Islam.
Ottomans and Napoleonic wars are the most interesting series in my opinion.
Agreed
indeed...serbian
Agreed
Absolutely.
@@takshashila2995 Amen
"Almost all Croatian army was massacred while Ottomans lost only few hundreds."
That's too much EU4
@@nijamkaj That's a siege. Its harder to destroy an army hiding behind thick walls than to fight on a field.
@@nijamkaj And the source is what? Vikipedia :D
@@RandomGuy-df1oy sure, you can call my college "Wikipedia" :D
@@nijamkaj hmm, which historian at that "college", why should I trust your college than historians?
@@RandomGuy-df1oy why i should prove something to you? Just read your fu*king name man.
If you think I'm lying, give to us some proof, or u cant?
I am terminal and homebound most of the day, I truly look forward to watching and wish I could afford to support your channel. Thank you for enlightening my day
I am sorry to hear that. Don't worry about supporting us financially - the fact that you dedicated your time to leave a comment means the world.
;( sorry to hear man
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. You are a fire as well, and as long as you burn you are still here. Nobody can give you more death than what you've been told to prepare for in your life. Nothing in this world can impact you more than you've already been. Stare it in the face, you are the fire and you still have shit to burn. (these videos lol)
Good luck, just because you're homebound doesn't mean you're not stronger than many people.
@Çamaşır Suyu Well it's better than being sad.
Stay strong my brother
Ottoman history is one of my favorite - a seemingly invinciable army on the verge of taking Europe. Makes for great content!
Flash Point History ottoman muslim
more than one hundred cannons..Dont this say nothing to you as to which side was really highly spirited and strong. I personally believe ottoman army was just nothing more than a mass of ants for safavids if they hadnt any cannons provided by venetians and other european powers
@Pasdar why?
@Pasdar Dude do you really think the ottomans attacking would have meant that everyone is living in peace right after that? No racism? The ottomans committed genocide while they were attacking europe. But I mean it wasnt members of your religion getting slaughtered by them.
@Pasdar no state sponsored racism ? Are you insane ? Did you just watch the video, they killed thousands of Shia simply for being Shia. Dont be blinded, power turn people ugly. And Ottomans had lot of power
Ottoman wars was awesome
Glad you are enjoying our videos. :-)
Everything about the Ottomans is awesome.
There's nothing awesome about the Ottomans post-18th century.
it is impressive how their empire grew and how they fought many tough battles and how they influence history.
Well, it depends on perspective. I am glad that the janissaries was abolished and was made cannon fodder in the Auspicious Incident in 1826, the modernization of the state, the factories and schools established, the founders of Turkey was Ottoman generals, pupils in the schools and military academies in the Ottoman Empire.
It’s amazing how powerful the Ottoman Empire was and how long they held it before World War I
A lot more coming
Dennis Cleary you will be amazed by Holy Roman Empire
But it wasnt a dynasty
It was symbol of Christianity for over a millennium
@@umaransari9765 holy roman empire wasn't much significant compare with ottoman..
After the fall of western part, it was much more weaker and beaten by persian in the Middle of 5th century, however though it regained its land in the early 6th century, all its Eastern and southern Mediterranean land were conquered by the rashidun army..
From 6th to 10th century it was only with anatolia and balkan and after beated by seljuk and from 11th to 14th century it was limited in constantinople and some aside state
And though it started weaking after 1683,it was a major power before the crimean war...
@Bitola Otuken , no, the Persian Empire was of comparable size and they collapse twice in just a few years, once during Alexander, another during the Rashidun invasion.
Ottoman Army was more organized than most army's at that time. This is the reason they have a big Win ratio.
more on that, they used gun powder and technology very efficiently.
and they use evey time their numnbers
Dont forget the slave children
@@aluapzurc2 Yea but it's just %10 of it's army
aluapzurc2 they werent slaves they were christian boys taken yes it was by force but they were treated like their own child and were in better conditions than they were back with their family which was a poor and painful life. And they werent all had to become soldiers. They were selected considering their abilities. Like the strong big children were soldiers where as the smart ones were selected in the higher ranks. They were taught everything like Turkish , Islam and other things. They only couldnt be one thing and that was the sultan. They could of even became the vezir as there was. Must say as these boys were "yeniçeri" and they were the closest to the sultan and they all loved the sultan so even if they were slaves they could of easily killed the sultan and smash the empire.
I think "Ottoman Wars" series is the best series.
As in, most controversial? :-)
@İnsan what's wrong with orientalism?
Indeed, and I would like to use K&G's statement.. this series is far from over
Vay mami
@@tarikk2054 aynen benim
Europe: France, the Ottomans are gaining ground in Europe and threatening to take over the Christian world. Can we put aside our differences to fight this common enemy?
Us French: Nah, I'll rather ally with them.
France was surrounded by the Habsburgs from every side, so it seems logical they would prioritize their safety over "religious" conflicts.
Yes, I definitely agree, and I understand why they did. But it also makes you wonder how France planned to deal with the Ottomans once they had weakened the Habsburgs.
Probably the way France inevitably dealt with the Hapsburgs: succession crises and wars for independence.
+This is Barris! They wouldn't have to. Even if the Ottomans took Vienna, they would never be able to come close to threatening france since they'd be too far from Constantinople.
This is Barris! The turks today are allied to Russian orthodox against globalisation
The Ottomans really were masters of early gunpowder warfare. Time and time again they utilize gunpowder weapons effectively, either to secure a devestating victory or to turn the tide of battle.
@Bingo Duff Holy shoot, what the frick are you talking about
He's just talking about Ottoman Army's proficiency with gunpowder weaponry and you bring "white victims" including to those of those pesky Cosmopolitan white liberals and "Islamo-Nazis" (or whatever the frick you want to entails)? Are your brain cortex really alright in the first place?
@Bingo Duff it's simple , the Islamic caliphate or state or whatever you want to name it spread through war and conquest but Islam itself as riligon spread through many ways like trade , enter marriage , forced conversion was very rare and it was never a state policy for any Islamic state , for example the Levant didn't become majority muslim until the 12th century, Persia didn't become majority muslim until 3 centuries after the arab conquest.
the myth of forced conversion is a load of crap that's being spread by crazy right wingers and white nationalists using outdated sources written by orintalists with a superiority complex during the colonial era .
by the way comparing muslim conquest with colonialism is dumb and using what happend in otranto to bash Islam is even dumber .
It's usually the one how acuses all those how disagree with him of being racist is the racist himself .
you should relax dude and get educated by searching through unbiased work done by actual historians not bigoted right wingers with zero qualification on the subject but their own biased view
@Bingo Duff actually I'm not a leftist I had the far left as mush as I hate right because I'm an islamist (not a terorists) .
what evil did you expose you moron all what you did was yaping about the usual insecure right wing conspiracy theoriey about haw the left hate the white men and blames everything on him and all of that crap , you didn't discuss any of my argument you just jumped on and associated me with the far left .
@Bingo Duff what long worthless paragraph , well guess what I'm from Algeria and if you know wher that is you would know that I have nothing to do with antifa since I'm a muslim and I get my history from unbiased and well documented sources so don't worry about me .
my country witnessed both the French colonialism that killed 8 million of my people and sacked thousands of villages during the span of 130 years no conquering nation in the history of north Africa did that much damage , and after the independence we wher filled by socialists who bankrupted us and and caused a 10 years civil war that claimed the life of 250000 people because they didn't like it when islamist won the elections (so much for the so called democracy) .
European colonialism is thing and it happend and caused a lot of damage and pointing it out is not racism and you are right every nation committed atrocities but the europeans took it to a hole New level.
@Bingo Duff my ancestors enslaved 1.5 million from the 16th to the 18th century while the frensh killed 8 millions of us how morally bankrupted to compare the enslavement of less then 2 millions to what can be considered a genocide that claimed the life of 8 million people, by the way when the French conquered Algeria the piracy was already stoped since it started to decline in the early 19th century and our naval fleet was already destroyed in the battle navarino 1827 which means the barbary states wher not a threat anymore .
as for the American slaves , the Mediterranean at that time was under our control and the refused to pay the trebuitte for passage so they got what was coming to them , by the didn't the Americans defeat us in 1815 which means we are even .
by the way you have to work on better ways to justify genocide .
The combination of Napoleonic Ottoman and Mongol war series make this channel great
Thank you!
Sultan Mehmet II had the idea of being The Ruler of Constantinople and Rome to unite two capitals of Roman Empire again.
nope
Rome(greater Constantinople) will be conquered by Khalifa tul Muslimeen Hazrat Mehdi RadiAllah Anhu. In Sha Allah azzawajal.
@ita-eng subber no it isn't.
@@muhammadonaiz6176 we don't want to conquer Rome, Rome is nothing, its just a city. We want one thing... the Almighty's compassion.
Taha, The first to have this idea was Justinian, the byzantine emperor.
Before I said the Mongol Empire series was my favorite but I think the Ottoman Wars series trumps the Mongols.
This makes me want to play eu4 again.
That urge never stops.
RIP religious ideas
Just fight them after 1600-1650 and their troops should be paper.
EU4?
play atwar
Another great Ottomans wars!!! Thank you :)
edit: Suleiman the magnificent is coming
KHK001 Finally ottomans back.
Yes, and the defeat of the Kingdom of Hungary :(
Yeah maybe the worst padishah of ottomans
SARU KHAN Are u talking about Magnificant Suleiman ?
Slowly, but surely.
0:57 Ottoman Empire Vs Hungary
3:23 Mehmed II's attack on Italy
5:54 Counter attack by Naples, Sicily & Hungary
6:23 Succession crisis in Ottoman Empire after Mehmed II's death (1481)
Bayezid II becomes Sultan
7:18 European conquests continue under Bayezid II
9:21 *Ottomans Vs Safavids* after the fall of Aq Qoyunlu dynasty
11:32 Another succession crisis in the Ottoman empire after Bayezid II nominates Ahmed as the heir. Selim I consequently deposes his father & becomes Sultan.
12:41 Battle of Chaldiran (1514)
Selim I Vs Ismail Shah
This is THE best video i've seen on this channel,soundtrack on point
Thank you!
Great episode, balance of victories and defeats for the Ottomans.
Next episode I hope will be the Ottoman-Mamluk wars, Selim will show his true skill and ruthlessness.
Pretty much. Thanks :-)
Well they dont call him Selim The Grim for no reason.
Selim the Resolute :)
For the Imperium of Mankind
@@enesduraku6087 portoguesen ships bombarding holy muslim lands that times stuip mamluks they dont do anything why because they dont have cannons and big war ships they dont make it to after shia problem make more problem for ottoman empire
he have do unpleasant necessity actions even some peoples say he kill to his own father
selim ruled 8 year
Just as you guys covered the details of the Macedonian military tactics and equipment, could you do the same for the Ottoman Empire? At least up to the 17th Century.
Yes, we will!
@@KingsandGenerals It has been a year and you still haven’t done it.
@@KingsandGenerals We're still waiting for this.
Yeah
Still waiting for 2 years
Also manifest Caesar sometime soon
Music, animation, narrating and colors perfect. Thanks very much!
Khabib smash Conor and new ottoman wars video on the same day. Today is truly, a good day.
Ikr ;)
Indeed lol
#muslimsforthewin
Idk, the west is winning by a few millions bodies so far. Even Khabib lives in a colony.
Everybody loses to Russians lol
Ismail is quite an interesting man. He was a Greek, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkic descent who wrote beautiful poems in Azerbaijani Turkish, wanted to be more like Persian rulers, whilst ruling over an empire that stretched from India to Anatolia.
Mr. International, before it was cool
These traditions of poetry among muslim leaders are very interesting. Do you know if there's a way to read their works ?
Some roots of safavid were kurdish.also some roots were georgian and afther shah abbas 1 they also had persian wife.
But mostly safavid were azeri.
But their empire was persian (culture , main language of people, official language ,persian capitals after tabriz , persian art , persian shah=king ,persian names like tahmasb ... )
@@darknesslight9630 The army was Turkmen (Turkic), the royal woman in the Safavid Empire used a Turkic title (Khanum), so that's not a good argument, also the Turkic language was used as court language until the reign of Shah Abbas. Shah İsmail wrote 1400 of his poems in Turkic, only 50 in Persian. He became shah because he was the grandson of Uzun Hasan (another Turkic ruler), and gained the support of the Turkmen soldiers. At the start the Safavids were clearly Turkic, but slowly they Persianized
@@bilgeturkkan6095
Shah ismail borned in iran , aradabil (azeri city) and his childhood was in gilan(iranian province with persian people).he knew persian at childhood .also i read one of his peom in turkish. at that poem he used most of words from persian in turkish poem.
Khanom is also use in persian language for ladies.
TheFiresloth Actually in English they don’t mean much. There is so many word games in theese Turkish poets. Sultan Selim was a great poet. He was using a technique called ‘’Chess Poem’’. There were eight poems in one poem. Left to right, Top to bottom...
Could do some videos on other Turkish empires like the great seljuk or ghaznavid empire who's great king mahmud ghaznavi raided ancient india 17 times and never lost a battle he was equal to Alexander and timur. But people in the West never heard of him
If Mahmud Ghaznavi was alive right now and you'd ask him, he'd probably tell you that he considers himself Persian than Turkish. He's famous in history for being obsessed with Persian culture, poetry, literature, customs, etc.
Hhaanvic empire was persian.
also the Ottoman empire might have been established by a ruler of supposed turkic origins like Osman I, but he was caucasian looking, he established a multi ethnic and multireligious empire and only the Ottoman identity was used, never the term '' turk'', actually it was considered offensive.
For example , 4 out of 5 main families in the Ottoman Empire, in the first 100 years of existence were Christian converts.
48 Grand Veziers were Albanian
@@gjinbueshpata4239 Thats what albanians claim, but everybody in that time-era called the ottoman empire, the Turkish empire. The term ottoman empire is created by historians just like the term byzantine empire for the east-Roman empire.
The army was mostly Turkish or at least turkic of ethnicity, except the jannisaries who only had Turkish culture and language teached to them but were ethnically diverse. The upper-class of the Turkish-Empire called the state: "Devleti - Aliye"
@@gjinbueshpata4239 And what 4 of 5 main families do you mean? There is only 1 main family in the empire and this is the (atleast in the beginning) turkic ottoman dynasty. The more mixed the rulers got, the more incompetent they also became, the first 10 ottoman sultans were all very competent and not that mixed yet.
@@amirhedayati8091 So why he dont know even persian ?? and why he insulted by Firdevsi (ferdowsi) as ''Melik-tâzî-guyend'' (Ruler who speak Barbaric)
FACT: Almost all Croatian nobility died on Krbava field.
That does sound fun for Croatian peasantry.
Fun fact: Sibenik never fell to the ottomans, after the thrashing they received they never attempted to attack Sibenik again! My home town!
Keyboard no im not lol. Im Croatian.
Balkan Stoka Ottomans had more important jobs than sibenik like belgrade and budin. Sibenik was small and poor city in that era.
Balkan Stoka my city Zadar never fell too.
Days since Ottoman wars: 0
I see you a lot under their videos.
BTW: nice comment
Napoleon I Bonaparte My french friend
Finally! Been waiting for months, can't wait for Marj Dabiq
Soon!
My favorite war series returns
More on the way!
Selim you were truly a great Sultan! Taken toon soon!
no he is not
Lmao defeating a army less than yours and the army which doesn't have a Canon is great according to you? not to mention that ottoman were defeated and only Canon fire helped them
This is epic! I always wait for this video upload for entire week. Love your chanel!
Thanks!
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This series are awesome man...
Thanks!
As a Türk, i find your videos really objective. And content quality is really great. Also your voice is calming when listening. Great work, teşekkür ederim 🙏🏻
İlk okuduğu şeyleri direk kullanıyor, gram objektif değil, örn katledilen 40 bin kişi meselesi
@@celalkarakaya7595 az bile dedi o savasta en az 50 bin kisiyi oldurdu yavuz ve hakliydida cunku siiler kahpedir
@@1.2713 Aga sen ciddi olarak mı yaptın bu yorumu, Anadolu Türkmen ahalisi Şii değildi, Alevi idiler, netice olarak Öyle bir katliam vs olayı da yok. Ki,Şah'a giden Türkmenler'in de hepsi Alevi değildi, Sünni müslüman ahali de gitti
@@celalkarakaya7595 şiilikle alevilik aynıdır bektaşilik farklidir ayrica sunni veya sii olsun farketmez iran her zaman muslumanlara karsi hristiyanlarla ittifak kurmustur bugunde oyle ruslarla birlikte musluman kesiyolar suriyede yemende tarih tekerrurden ibaret ve evet en az 50 bin kisi katledildi ben olsam soykirim yapardim 50 bin az bile
@@1.2713 Aga sen bomboş bir adamsın, daha şii ve aleviliğin farkını bilmiyorsun, zamanıma yazık edemem seninle tartışarak
That invasion of Italy seems extremely half-assed
Some sources claim that it was a minor raid.
Great video, I love the Ottoman series with Mehmet II, keep it up.
Thanks, we will!
in 3:04 you used the ottoman march music in the background wow that was so pretty❤
:-)
Kings and Generals =-)
Majority of Croatians nobles wanted ambush Ottoman army in hills near Krbava river, but general Emerik Derencin wanted open battle because it was more honorable way to win. Defeat at Krbava marks begining of 100 years without victory against Turks.
Finally something about Croatia, although it is defeat.
Can't wait for next episode and battle at Sisak and hopefully mention of Siget.
Yep, those will be covered.
Medieval and Renaissance-era chivalry may stand at the foundations of today's West liberalism and humanitarianism... but holy shit, did they _not_ help in battle. And it's not like the Ottomans were anything new: the disastrous performance of the Polish and Hungarian armies against the Mongols several centuries prior was primarily due to the former's "Do you want to live forever? CHAAAAARGE!" attitude. Had anyone just calmed the fuck down and analyzed the enemy's tactic to learn how to counteract it, hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.
@@yarpen26 it's like fighting in a honor way against burglars, like dropping one of two knives you have just because the burglars have "just" one knive on their hands. you know what I mean
Ismail fell from his horse and was almost killed in this battle
I read that in some Arabic source
That's true. He barely escaped.
@@ibrahimova51 and what?..two turks, trying to fight each other over arab religion..
@@YaverMemolibaba Turks without Islam are nothing
Yavuz Sultan Selim the first ottoman caliph. In 8 years he concered more cities than all ottoman sultans.
Alp Arslan , great victory at Manziekert.
Alp Arslan Rahimullah was a great Mujahid and commander no doubt.
But what Yavuz Sultan Selim achieved is just impossible to an extent. He surely was one of the greatest military commanders ever.
@@muhammadonaiz6176 yes but the greatest muslim strategist remains always the sword of Allah.
@@moroccanalmoravid1510 Obviously brother. There is simply no comparison between Hazrat Khalid bin Waleed RadiAllah Anhu and anyone else. Yavuz Selim Han Rahimullah was just a pure lover and follower of the great Companion.
Yavuz Sultan Selim Han is not even equal to the dust on the feet of Khalid bin Waleed just like we Muslims today are not equal to the dust on the feet of Sultan Selim Han.
When i compare Yavuz Sultan Selim with military commanders it is with other Muslim commanders etc after the Noble Companions. No one can match the Companions in deeds or status. They were the best generation indeed.
@@muhammadonaiz6176 i see you are a true muslim.
I smiled reading this comment, Beautiful words. Salamualaikum.
I've been always expecting that brilliant job
Thank you for illuminating historical truth. I am Azeri turk and from Azerbaijan, the centre of Safavid Empire, just like Shah Ismail
@Hassan Abdulsalam he was Turkish
@@pompacitokmakci He was Iranian and considered himself Iranian.
The centre of the Safavid empire was Isfahan.
@@DaDARKPass Isfaha was later on. Originally, it was Tabriz, Ardabil and etc. Check out the history my friend 😊
@@mr.azrbaycan9496 Yeah, and all of those are not in Azerbaijan either. Your point is stupid.
Yes ! Thank you for covering this, it is one of the most important yet overlooked battle in Middle-east history.
If anyone's interested, there's a short fictionnal portrayal of the battle in "The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie. Very interesting.
Selim and Napoleon, two leader with no aggressive expansion :D
Thank you for created this documentary about Battles of Otranto that I mentioned before, most people didn't know Ottoman army invade on Italy peninsular.
Thanks for watching!
@Moca Bacana Strategically, yes, it was rather insignificant. However it is important as it really shows the ambition and aims of the Ottomans who sought to conquer Rome.
@Youkon Dukon The Pope absolutely freaked out upon finding out. The entire peninsula entered Spongebob-like panic.
Nice video guys!!!.. May i suggest Pelloponisian war videos ?
U mean Albanian war cuz they are
These Ottoman wars have been the jewel in the crown of your near east battles!
Yeah, they are relatively obscure, so it works. In general, this series is a good vehicle to show the history of a wider region across 500 years or so.
Kings and Generals My feelings as well. Kings and Generals has shown a part of History only learned about in upper divion courses at the university level, that is if its even offered at the institution. Good work!
thank you for your work on battle of chaldiran
with great love from iran
hope you best
Thanks for watching!
I am so hyped for this series. Great to know the details of warfares between the Safavids and the Ottomans despite some degrees of ambiguity due to conflicting sources. Before watching this video, I know some famous monarchs of the Ottomans. Yet I am shocked that some of them made their ways to the throne in a bloody way in similar manners as their nomadic ancestors. Having a succession crisis while fighting external wars at the same time was such a feat.
We really need to make a video explaining the Ottoman succession. :-)
True. I know eu4 just oversimplified the Ottoman succession. At least Ottomans don't automatically generate and appoint a monarch in real life.
The reason of it because the Ottoman Empire was the most organized in the World at that time. Army's discipline and morale was high even they did not affected by the throne fights in the State.
میشه از جنگ هایی که ایران عثمانی شکست داده هم کلیپ بزارید
Awesome presentation! Thank you!
Thank you!
I wish Mehmet II didnt die too early.If he didnt die early we would've taken Italian peninsula and Rome
@@samuelflorenciooliveira1179 thats the truth
@@samuelflorenciooliveira1179 mamma li turchi 🤣🤣 keep fearing
Great channel! This channel keeps my history love alive. Thanks to you
Thank you for watching :-)
Well, I’m late haha. Glad I found some time for this! Thanks perfect video, with tiny errors you corrected in the comments!
Thank you very much :-)
And it was just the beginning of a 500 year war between those twin powers.
Iranians and Turks were like two brothers who were in conflict with each other and in the meantime they had lots of common points.
Still Iran and Turkey are two pivotal powers in the middle east.
I wish both nations the best.
Both countries also had commen enemy :D thats an other point.
@Princess Theodora If they were Turk, why their official language and administration was in Persian?
Why did they rely on "Shahnameh" and other nationalistic principals coming directly from Sassanid era? Why they used Persian names and not Turkish names like seljuks?
Safavids had support of 5 Shiit Turkmen tribes (Ghezelbashs) originally from Eastern Anatolia just until Shah abbas came to the power and founded Georgian guard.
Still Safavi family with its branches live in Iran. Proudly I'm one of them with our family tree.
@Princess Theodora I don't continue this argument because you had made it personal. But changing language doesn't create a new ethnicity. You cannot recognize Americans as the British just due to their language.
On the other side I don't know where you are from but this is the first time I hear about one million victims of Safavids!! Especially when we study other countries bloody history in the same period of time!!
Have a good time
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Safavids were Turks
@@MagusMagnus we turks are still use arabic and persian names. Then we are arab or persian too 😂 ottoman sultans's mothers are greek, russian, serbian, jew etc. But we say, ottoman is turk. if you are safavid and you say that i am persian/iranian, okay. But historical safavids are turk.
Safavids and seljuks founded in iran lands.
But it isnt mean safavids and seljuks is iranian.
"Battle of BreadField"
I'm loving these names.
For some reason, the name of this place is translated in all languages. Very weird. :-)
@@KingsandGenerals Haha I bet a lot of battles wouldn't quite have the same ring to them if their locations were literally translated into English
Awesome as always!
Thanks!
God that music at the end was awesome keep going like that.
I like your sources i know some of them i read it.
I will like to see more Turkic wars :)
Thanks! More on the way!
Wonderful wonderful
But it is not mentioned how the ottomans gained Crimea?
crimea khaganate joined ottoman empire
@@ooooo934 Khanate*
@@HashimyHuseini Khaganate also true .
Crimea was under a steppe empire.
For those who think the turkish empire was an evil empire you should really look into the Crimean Khanate
The golden horde makes the turks look like golden retrievers.
@@FriendlyCroock 🏊♂️🏊♂️🏳️🌈
I wish you made the video 15:14 minutes, that would be awesome. 15:14 minutes about a battle in 1514
Didn't work out.
Sultan Selim I most badass Ottoman Sultan.
Turkısh Nationalist Sultan selimi sevmeyen orospu evladıdır aksini iddaa edende orospu evladıdır. Yorumumu iyi oku.
Bayezid the thunderbolt? Mehmet the conqueror? Suleiman the magnificent?
Moroccan Almoravid Bayezid had great potential but captured by timur in his early era. I think in general Mehmed the Conqueror better than Sultan Selim but in military and tactics Sultan Selim I really best. No one sultan invaded a country deeply like him. For Suleiman he had such a nice conditions in 1520. His father selim gave him everything. He had great pashas like sokollu and ibrahim pasha he had barbarossa etc and his last 10-15 year was not better he ruled long unlike Selim I.
Murad I has this title .unarguably
Heron XVII He is martyr sultan. We have deep respect to him.
ah! Otranto ! thanks … I admire citizens of this place.
Awesome video! I love this!
Thanks!
Next up,the Mamelukes.
And taking the title of caliph.
P.s
Cem was supposed to be Mehmed’s successor.
عرب عثمانلي عسكري عبدالعزيز باي Yeah cem deserved throne. But maybe there would be no Sultan Selim I if cem took throne from Bayezid.
Cem Sultan Rahimullah suffered alot in his life. He was imprisoned and bribed alike but he never betrayed his faith or the Muslims. May Allah bless him❤
Muhammad Onaiz yeah
They didnt take the title of caliph.
@@6wx689 Oh please!
Sultan Selim Han did take up the office of Caliph. But he was not proud or boastful about it. After incorporating Makkah and Madinah, he was given the tittle "Custodian of thr Two Holy Mosques" as used by earlier Mamluk Caliphs. But he refused and declared that i am "Khadmain ul Haramain Shareefain" meaning servant of the Two Holy cities/mosques.
When are u getting the next ottoman war video?
Please post the next documentary on the Ottoman War, Please!
In a month or so.
OKay thanks
Great video👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks!
today I made my historical presentation homework based on this video. Thank you much ,,,
Thank you and good luck with your studies!
and i learned something, he kill own 2 nephews 9 and 11 . also killed Circassian in Egypt even pregnant woman so don't give birth a boy who can rebel
Safavid army fought in this battle heroic but as video mentioned it, ottomans had updated weapons so they have got the advantage. i think if Safavid state and ottomans had good relations, Europe had a very hard job in those years to rise up as we know EU, today. wars between Iran and ottoman empire, made them both weak.
Back then it was impossible for neighboring states of this size to just cozy up with one another. The Persians and Ottomans were natural foes and Iran's conversion to Shia provided only an additional raison de guerre.
@@yarpen26 both of them SaFavid and Ottomans were turks.persians never fighted
@@noahjob8433 Safavid is Iranian empire and Persians fought in the army, Safavid rulers were Azeri
@@matinabbaszadeh6911 dont say bullshit safavids were azerbaijanian turks not azeri. We are turk not azeri persian boomer
@@matinabbaszadeh6911 ما چیزی به نام آذری ماذری نداریم تاجیگ کودن چرندیات پان فارسی اتو اینجا بلغور نکن! صفویه و تورکان قزلباش اهل ترکستان بودند که جدادشون به آزربایجان مهاجرت کرده آزری دیگه چه مزخرفیه
amazing quality. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
1:52
Finally someone who cares to pronounce Turkish words right.
Because many creators of this channel are turkic, they belong to Azerbaijani turks. And Azerbaijani Turkic language are similar Anatolian turkic language like 99 percent
This is very great!!!! I am from Azerbaijan and nobody shows this historycal fact the true as Kings and Generals. In history isn't true explaining the battle of Çaldıran. But I am thanks to Kings and Generals, because you spoke this age most correctly. BEST VIDEO👍👍👍😊
Thank you!
Nicely done
Thanks!
I just realized that the icon you used for Ahmet came from AC: Revelations
:p
In my opinion, this series can be continued with Battles of Marj Dabiq (1516) and Ridaniya (1517)
It will!
Battle of Chaldiran was an example of a Medieval army facing an early Modern army. The Safavids had better cavalry and superior in hand to hand combat but the Ottomans took better advantage of innovation and utilised gunpowder. All they had to do was keep the Safavids at a distance with firepower and they managed to do that.
The Safavids actually tried to buy some guns and cannons from Portugal...and then it just scammed the Safavids and took over Hormuz
Just done debating on officers and nobles, now for kings and generals. AWESOME
Music, narrating, storytelling and graphics really the best. Thank you for the effort!
Another awesome video
Thanks!
TY SO MUCH
pls make more videos about Ottoman-Safavid wars.
Thanks for watching!
As Safavid favourite I like this video. Ottoman’s initials was artillery. But it was mistake to fight between two muslim and turk empires. Safavid was Azerbaijan not Iran. Please take it into consideration
bloody amazing job
Thanks :-)
There is a lot of information missing in this video. Here is an important issue: Kurdish tribes (sunni) took place on the side of Yavuz Sultan Selim against the Safavids. On the other hand, İsmail Koçgiri and the Alevi Kurds in Dersim provoked them against Selim. Selim repressed it violently. Later, in the war of the ring, the Kurds took the side of Yavuz Sultan Selim and defeated Ismail. Kurdish tribes have a great role in this war.
I don't know why kurdish history is never mentioned 😔😔
@@ahmetozkan438 you are wrong. But turks always hate kurds so i aint surprised. Turks always try and hide kurdish history all the time for no reason.
@@ahmetozkan438 Zaza-speaking Kurds carry Kurdish DNA. Genetic studies have confirmed this. Turkmens speak Turkish
@@ahmetozkan438 bunch of tribes?!?! Mate, the kurds had one of the oldest empires and we destroyed a lot of mesopotamian states before u turks even decided to come out from under your rock in east asia. So dont chat bs about kurds when we had empires before u man even came to anatolia.
@@ahmetozkan438 i dont care. Kurds were in the middle east and on tgose lands much before turks came, and we built ancient empires there that still affect the modern world. Until you turks came,
Personally,
I have NO PROBLEM, AT ALL, with the turks coming to anatolia, especially the ottomans who i deeply love,
But my problem is with the nationalist secular turks who hate kurds just for who they are, they hate kurds and kurdish history and discriminate against kurds just for where allah created them. Thats the problem. And i am sure you inderstand my point as you got good english.
Thanks for the great quality, as always.
Thanks for watching :-)
Great video!
Thanks!
There is no point for Ottomans enforce people change the religion . Especially era of Mehmet the second. If we were enforcing to do this now all the balkan peninsula must be a Muslim.
Generally, yes. But it happened during the siege of Otranto.
+Metin Mehmet Durgun
that would probably end with a result of balkan revolts a lot sooner than they actually happened.
And since the ottomans were strong back then, the revolts would've been crushed, making all the balkans into martyrs and forcing the holy legue into taking actions sooner.
Ottomans knew what they were doing.. thats why they kept balkans for such a long period of time.
Cus apart from the taxes and the jannisaries, they were basically left alone to do whatever.
Forcing them into another language and especially for back then, another religion would've been catastrophic for the ottoman future.
Not true at all, why is whole anatolia muslim now even tho it was christian with the rule of the byzantine empire? The only reason the balkans are not muslim because the muslims got killed,expelled or retreated to turkey, kosovo albania and bosnia are mostly muslim countires
It's obvious that you don't know the Ottoman Empire fundamentals. Millet system etc. Non muslims were paying tax its a big income for empire. They all their Churchs. Government never had a policy converting nations religions. Ottomans become in power much later era in anatolia 1299 at this time already most of anatolia were muslims. And these muslims expelled from the balkans they were Turkish and it is already era of nationalism.
There is just a simple thing that to know . Ottomans were an empire maybe the last traditional empire in the world.
Kings and Generals what is your references? Please dont be ignorance and lie.
Great Video as usual 😊. here are some notes about the battle of Çaldıran:
- it is really hard to find numbers of the troops because the sources are confusing and sometimes the numbers are fantastic. but the similarities are the composition of the army. the safavid's have cavalry and the ottoman's 60 to 70 cavalry and the rest infantry and artillery.
- şah ismail and selim are both underrated military commanders
- you never told that the ottomans use war wagons very since 1448 by the battle of Kosovo until the early 1600s. And selim revolutionized the top arabacılar (artillery transport and war wagons) corps by mixing artillery and war wagons in the center in front of the janissaries and behind he azab screen with cavalry flanks.
but that's it.
Krep doing your great work, and I also love the mongol and the napoleonic series.
sidenote: fuck all nationalist comments
Excellent channel. Salute to you from Egypt.
The Safawy (Safavid) had a very negative long term impact on The Islamic world by turning most of the eastern muslim counteries as Iran, Azerbijan & Turkmanistan to Shiia.
Yeah but he was successful at restoring the Iranian state
Ottoman series is the best
Thank you :-)
I think you should also mention the fact that Ismael massacred around 1 million Muslims Sunni in Iran and converted the rest by force to Shi'a.
lol haha 1 million? are u fucking serious? Shah Ismail didn't find more than 60 thousands people to enlarge his army to fight against different enemies from different sides and yet he managed to kill 1 million people? how? ignorant child.
"When Shah Ismail entered Tabriz he didn't face any resistance (from the people) yet he slaughtered them. On his command, the bellies of the pregnant sunni women were sliced. The graves of Sultan Yaqub and others were opened and their bones were taken out and burned. The 300 prostitues of Tabriz were gathered on one place and they got cut in two with swords. The head of 800 people from the region Alwan were chopped off. The dogs of tabriz were killed too. After Ismail killed many people he ordered his mother to be brought to him. He learned that his mother married a commander from Bayandur dynasty and upon that he ordered (his soldiers) to chop of her head. I don't think after Neron, there was any opressor in history like him (Ismail)"
very very inaccurate information and impossible, illogical at the same time. You can easily find out that this information is bullshit by using your simple logic. Yes he killed some people just like any other historical leader but this numbers are highly exaggerated. You probably took it from some turkish ottoman fanboy/radical sunni guy who lives in his dreamland lol
How did Iran then Sunni for 900 years become Shi'ite all of sudden?!
False
Very nice Documentary
Thanks!
Yavuz sultan selim or in english selim the grim was a harsh ruler to say the least. There was a saying at his time which translates into something like: I wish youll be a vizier to selim. Sultan was infamous for executing his viziers or disobeying beys so thats how the saying has came to be.
By the way his nickname yavuz means brave or fearless but at his time yavuz meant brutal or cunning. He is by far the most interesting ottoman sultan.
Thanks for the video as always.
Thanks for watching! I am pretty sure that "Yavuz" means "terrible", as in "Ivan the Terrible".
@@KingsandGenerals yes exactly it meant terrible or brutal in his days. But now it changed as i said. Yavuz is a pretty common name in turkey actually.
Harsh for the sake of his people and Caliphate only. If you look it that way then he was a great leader indeed.
@@MarkhasSteelfort Yeah they defended Islam and Muslims for more than 800 years but no they are not Islamic. What a nonsensical thing to say!
Great work you guys!!!Greetings from Greece
Greetings!
My sunday is incomplete without a King and Generals Battle
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Plz made a video about Ottoman attack on Iceland
@BartinYer6 actually pirates in the Western Mediterranean raided Iceland by using the flag of Ottomans. One of the captains was a Dutch, who converted Islam Murat Reis. Others were mostly Algerian and other North African people
@Bingo DuffI know what I am saying. Though I am not an expert I read it from book of Turkish historian Emrah Safa Gürkan who is an expert on this. Corsairs were autonomous not necessarily linked to any Ottoman authority. I don't know if his book titled Corsair's of Sultan is translated to English. You can still read his article titled "“The Centre and the Frontier: Ottoman Cooperation with the North African Corsairs in the Sixteenth Century”, Turkish Historical Review 1/2 (2010): 125-163"
If you can't find his books then you can read his master thesis and PhD dissertation.
M.A. Thesis: "Ottoman Corsairs in the Western Mediterranean and Their Place in the Ottoman-Habsburg
Rivalry, 1505-1535"
PhD Dissertation: Espionage in the 16th century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-Betweens
and the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry
Well at last you started covering safavids.
Eager to see how it would go for ottomans when it comes to Shah Abbas the great of Persia.and also Nader of course.
They both were turks same as the safavid and qajar azerbaijan. They just used the persian language and customs that's all
Shah abbas the great of persia 😂😂😂😂😂 he were azerbaijanian turk idiot... like nadirshah... فارس های دزد بی تاریخ و بی هویت خجالت هم خوب چیزیه حالا اگر نادرشاه بیست تا از اجداد فارس ات رو با یک افغان تاق نمیزد و مردم اتو به سخره نمیگرفت یا شاه اسماعیل در اشعار تورکی اش خودش رو پیر تورکستان خطاب نمی کرد یا قزلباش ها مخالف به کارگیری فارس ها تو دولت و ادارات اون نبودند میتونستی با وقاحت و بیشرمی فاتحان سرزمین ات و قاتلان اجدادت رو پرشین خطاب کنی ولی دیگه نه با این شرایط
What name of song or the tune in the end of video please ...?
Love you guys...plz keep working on ottoman and Safavids 💖💖💖
We will, thanks!
Damn the Croatians were baited into open-field warfare. That was a catastrophic error, as that was Ottoman speciality.
One of the most awaited videos. Thank you!
Great video! Hope to see more of the Ottoman Wars soon!
More on the way!
Go visit Otranto, it's a beautiful city and you can go visit the skulls of the Martyrs in the cathedral. It's an impressive sight
I was asking that serie in my quiz so thank you so much
Thanks for watching!
Great series. I am Turkish and like that you cover Ottoman Wars but I am more interested with French Revolutionary and Napoleoic Wars (Coalition Wars) myself. We have left in Siege of Zaragosa and Battle of Balien in Peninsula during Napoleonic era , didn't we ? I also hope you cover Napoleon's Egypt and Middle East Campaigns , Battle of Pyramids , Naval Battle of Nile and Siege of Acre where Ottomans even in crumbling stage of their history managed to inflict Napoleon his first defeat