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To this day, I can’t comprehend how Ottoman emperors and generals managed to lead armies of 100,000+ soldiers. From what I’ve read, the average Turkish soldier seemed to be well cared for, with plenty of food and good clothing (especially the paid ones like the Kapıkulu division.) I’ve even heard that when Turkish armies set up camp, they created little cities with tent shops and food markets. Which is reminiscent of our ancient nomadic way of life 😉 Anyway, great content, and warm regards from Türkiye!
Nikola Šubić Zrinski is a Croatian noble from one of the most imortant croatian noble families and most of of the garisson is from his personal levy of slavonian soldiers (I could be wrong on the last part tho)
Zrinski family was perhaps most important Croatian noble family from time of united kingdom with Hungary. Of course, nobility of that class intermarried across borders. As for Siege of Siget, his retinue was probably reinforced by hiring mercenaries from the wider region. Generally, if you were infantry soldier, garrisoning a fort was better job then serving in field. Unless main Ottoman army decides to besiege you. Still, their sacrifice deflected probably another siege of Wiena.
Austria is always getting the recognition for fighting the Ottomans for centuries, when in fact it was Hungarian soldiers in those garrisons and Austrian emperors were more than okay to keep up the status quo as long as it weren't Austrian lands getting devastated
Not only Hungarians, but Slovaks, Croatians, Slavons, Romanians, and soldiers of many nationalities were in the first line and defending the borders and sadly we're forgotten
Well... What I meant there were soldiers from Wallachia and from Transylvania also and modern Romania was formed from Wallachia and from the principality of Moldavia originally so I think we can say yes, there were some Romanians too for sure
@@HistoricalHavocHub I'm not sure Wallachian mercenaries were something regular, maybe a few adventurers here and there. I know Serbs were actually employed by Turks to garrison forts and castles inside Hungary, so Wallachians may have been employed by the other side, i mean Turks. Transylvania also wasn't majority Romanian yet - that's debatable, i know - and the Romanians were all lower class in Transylvania. The soldier class "végvári katonaság" was actually a social class of its own, being also half burgher, so "middle class" if we can even speak of such
@@kuro1132Not sure about Hungary, but in area south of Drava there was large migration westwards. In modern times Walachians (and also autochthonous Romanized Iliryans) were assimilated in Slavic population but if you look into surnames quite a few are non-Slavic. In 19 century Croat, Serb and Bosniak (Muslim) nations formed around religion.
Small point, about 6:37: Vienna wouldn't be threatened until 1863... You got all the correct digits, just the sequence of the middle ones is swapped. And about the end of the hungarian leader... the version i have read (because of your video) is a little less nice than the angels. Personally would prefer the angel version you mentioned, if it would be about my ending for sure.
Thank you for coming this way and watching my video. This video is part of a series about how the Habsburgs claimed Hungary and how the Austro-Hungarian Empire was formed eventually.
this is the link for the full paylist: th-cam.com/play/PLj9SneUL47XXSStX9N3GXh-f5BKeLbfUf.html&si=6v931U05pOoFWlRe
To this day, I can’t comprehend how Ottoman emperors and generals managed to lead armies of 100,000+ soldiers. From what I’ve read, the average Turkish soldier seemed to be well cared for, with plenty of food and good clothing (especially the paid ones like the Kapıkulu division.) I’ve even heard that when Turkish armies set up camp, they created little cities with tent shops and food markets. Which is reminiscent of our ancient nomadic way of life 😉
Anyway, great content, and warm regards from Türkiye!
Nikola Šubić Zrinski is a Croatian noble from one of the most imortant croatian noble families and most of of the garisson is from his personal levy of slavonian soldiers (I could be wrong on the last part tho)
Yes he was an important figure (hero) both in the Hungarian and Croatian history!
Zrinski family was perhaps most important Croatian noble family from time of united kingdom with Hungary. Of course, nobility of that class intermarried across borders. As for Siege of Siget, his retinue was probably reinforced by hiring mercenaries from the wider region. Generally, if you were infantry soldier, garrisoning a fort was better job then serving in field. Unless main Ottoman army decides to besiege you. Still, their sacrifice deflected probably another siege of Wiena.
Yet again I have learned something new. You are a gifted teacher sir. ❤🎓👏
Thank you very much! 🙂
Austria is always getting the recognition for fighting the Ottomans for centuries, when in fact it was Hungarian soldiers in those garrisons and Austrian emperors were more than okay to keep up the status quo as long as it weren't Austrian lands getting devastated
Not only Hungarians, but Slovaks, Croatians, Slavons, Romanians, and soldiers of many nationalities were in the first line and defending the borders and sadly we're forgotten
@HistoricalHavocHub Romanians? Not really
Well... What I meant there were soldiers from Wallachia and from Transylvania also and modern Romania was formed from Wallachia and from the principality of Moldavia originally so I think we can say yes, there were some Romanians too for sure
@@HistoricalHavocHub I'm not sure Wallachian mercenaries were something regular, maybe a few adventurers here and there. I know Serbs were actually employed by Turks to garrison forts and castles inside Hungary, so Wallachians may have been employed by the other side, i mean Turks. Transylvania also wasn't majority Romanian yet - that's debatable, i know - and the Romanians were all lower class in Transylvania. The soldier class "végvári katonaság" was actually a social class of its own, being also half burgher, so "middle class" if we can even speak of such
@@kuro1132Not sure about Hungary, but in area south of Drava there was large migration westwards. In modern times Walachians (and also autochthonous Romanized Iliryans) were assimilated in Slavic population but if you look into surnames quite a few are non-Slavic. In 19 century Croat, Serb and Bosniak (Muslim) nations formed around religion.
Small point, about 6:37: Vienna wouldn't be threatened until 1863... You got all the correct digits, just the sequence of the middle ones is swapped.
And about the end of the hungarian leader... the version i have read (because of your video) is a little less nice than the angels.
Personally would prefer the angel version you mentioned, if it would be about my ending for sure.
thank you for watching my video! damn indeed i mixed up the digits, i meant 1683 (i will blame shamelessly on that English is my second language 😬)!
Richelieu was a friend of the otomans
i think he was friendly with anyone who was against the Habsburgs
Yes, in Spain we know about him
Alliance of France with Ottomans goes back to 1536, established by Francis I and Suleyman.
Croatia shoud get more reckognition. Zrinski was Croat. And many more.
We know about it in Hungary at least. 🇭🇺❤🇭🇷