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Yes, but the Venetians achieved this goal mainly through commerce and not by conquer, looting and slavery like ottomans did. Of course we can't forget the fourth crusade and its huge impact. But that occurred only once and we can claim that it was not planned from the beginning. Also i have never heard that the Venetians flayed someone ALIVE, just like the Ottomans did to Bragadin and others.
Great video! I really like this ottoman series. More of these please! I would also love to see videos about Seljuk Turks, who were they, how they became so powerful and eventually fell.
Funnily enough, even though the war for Cyprus was the reason for the battle of Lepanto, the Holy League never actually mounted an assault to retake the island as it basically collapsed due to bickering after winning at Lepanto.
The Holy League could win at sea, but to mount an assault on land near to the coast of Anatolia was a completely different affair. 70 year later, in the Cretan war, Venice easily won all the sea battles, but in the end Lost Crete anyway, since the Ottomans could sustain 19 years of siege.
Another great video I absolutely love your channel. I'm a student of history and have been blown away with the information in these videos I'd love to see a bit about early Scottish history and monarch's done kings and general's style 👍
@@mmatadore1 No, in spanish we have two sounds the g can represent: The scottish "ch" sound in loch and the "g" in gain. The j always sounds like the "ch" of loch. So spanish in the left and spanish in the right: Ga- g sound Ge- ch sound Gi- ch sound Go- g sound Gu- g sound Gue- the u is not pronounced, and it's a g sound Gui- the same as with gue güe- this time the u IS pronounced and it's still a g sound Güi- the same a with güe
It's a shame people think the Ottoman Empire started to decline the second Suleyman the Magnificat died. Yes there were hints of decline during Suleyman's reign but the Ottomans would still be one of the most powerful states in the world going into the 1800s. Hopefully in the next video about the Battle of Lepento there won't be a "the beginning of the end" narrative for the Ottomans. As with many other empires like the Roman Empire, the Ottoman decline can't be traced to one specific event but a serious of events that spanned centuries. I know Kings and Generals won't make this mistake like so many over dramatic documentary's from over the years. If I learned something about the historical TH-cam community it's that we strive to learn about all aspects of history and not just a popular narratives. Love you guys and love all of your work! -Ege
selim 2 was competent sultan but inactive one who left all the work for the slave grand vizirs. He organised the succession system in the empire to almost perfect condition. All sehzades were kept in the palace only the oldest one went to a sanjak to learn statecraft and when the current sultan so his dad died he would come to the palace kill his siblings there, pay the janissary and become the new emperor. Better than the previous system where all sehzades would battle for the throne. The empire was too big to handle a crisis like that again. The empire needed stability. He knew how to use the religion when the divan was not okay with his decisions. When he ordered to conquer cyprus the divan did not agree so the day after he said that he saw the prophet in his dream and that he commanded him to conquer cyprus where then everyone obliged like a dog. New sultans could a) rule the empire or b) let the slaves run the empire which most sultans did the b option. But when Ahmet 1 became sultan he decreed to make sibling kill not legal anymore and then whenever a sultan wanted to rule he was deposed whenever a new sultan wanted to reform he was deposed etc. The slave system also was not practiced anymore the positions of grand vizirs etc were literally for sale by paying the janissaries and forcing the sultan to accept X as the new vizir. Ahmet 1 outlawing sibling kill contributed dumb sultans which contributed to the collapse of the devsirme system. Major event is ahmet 1 bro supporting events are american gold that inflated ottoman economy by 50% in one day, east west trade decline and industrial revolution ( which the ottomans had the basis for hundred years earlier than europeans but did not care; taqi ad din's work)
@ no read better selim 2 made it almost to perfection by not allowing all sehzades to go to sanjak only the oldest one and when sultan dies he goes to the capitol and kills every claimaint and everyone sucks him since the slaves cannot become sultan or other person since there is no artistocracy in the empire. 2 mehmed legalised 2 selim adjusted it since the empire was too big to handle a crisis. Ahmet 1 did kill the empire not selim 2 lmao. If selim wanted to reform the empire he could have done it but did not. When 2 mustafa,2 osman, 3 selim, 3 ahmet wanted to reform they were deposed or killed because of ahmet 1 when ascending the throne they were not allowed to kill their siblings so when they wanted to reform they were deposed and or killed. When mahmud 2 the reformer of the empire wanted to reform he killed all his brothers and claimaints and sent their bodies to the janissaries who wanted to depose him and the janissaries returned to their barracks. Then the sultan killed them and reformed the empire BUT IT WAS TOO LATE since the west had the upperhand which could not be reversed by that time lmao
The Ottomans were planning to open the Don-Volga Canal but the Crimean "allies" tricked Ottomans that it was "too cold" and there was "no food" and started rumors which ended up with military unrest. Crimean Khanate thought that if the canal opens it would damage their authority in the region. The Ottoman soldiers were unaware about the weather conditions in North so the soldiers were easily tricked. The construction of the canal was already started by the soldiers but with the military unrest Ottomans had to stop. Crimea literally helped Russians during this time.
Damnit! Just joined it. It's not in this video? It's going to be another month :/ Still hoping they are somehow able to get the Battle of Lepanto song from Europa Universalis 4 OST. If it fits in, that is.
5:51 What a beautiful choice of music, reflecting very well the long series of blunders after blunders doing Selims reign. Sokullu as emperor was much suited than Selim and history would have been different.
In a book by David Brewer regarding this time period it is said that baglioni was beheaded and his head was shown by lala mustafa as a trophy and bragadino had his nose and ears cut, as you mention as well. GORE ALERT But afterwards, as the book states, they utterly humiliated him by making him work as a slave having to carry heavy sacks of rocks on the walls that he defended, then they tied him naked on a pole in a central square and skinned him alive. After his death they took his skin and filled it with hay, put his clothes on it and paraded in famagusta with it on top of a cow.
Then this book is wrong, because first of all, being naked around people or even at home is restricted in Islam and looking at other people's private parts is also haram and those commanders who got the island of Cyprus were muslims. Therefore as author says, they conquered the island because of pirate attacks.
@@utkumazgal8555 I was brainwashed by my surroundings that's why I did sin.... It was already written in fate that after my death Islam will slowly loose It's power, dominance and glory......
@CyberPunker00 Because Venice was too far away from Cyprus it was a reason.... But more bigger reason was that those Venetians were using these Cypriots as a tool for their own.... They just wanted the money and taxes from Cyprus that's all.... Cyprots were used by the venetians at that time.....
Kaleye yapılan 7. ve son taaruzda kalenin en önemli 2 burcu ele geçirildi. O gece (1 Ağustos 1571) kale komutanı Bragadin beyaz bayrak çekip anlaşmak istediğini bildiriyor. Yapılan anlaşma gereği olan daha önce hacca giderken esir alınan 50 Türk hacının teslim edilmesi gerekiyor. Ertesi gün sabah kaledeki italyan ve venedikli ailelerin tahliyesi için Türk donanma gemilerine yükleme başlıyor. 2 Ağustos 1571 tarihinde veda etmek için Lala Mustafa Paşa'nın huzuruna çıkan Bragadin'e bu 50 kişi soruluyor. Çünkü anlaşma gereği kaledekilerin tahliye işlemleri başlamasına rağmen karşı taraftan esir edilen 50 hacı halen gelmemiştir. Bragadin "Anlaşma yaptığımız gece bnm haberim yokken o esirleri öldürmüşler. Hepsi ölü" diye cevap veriyor.. Bu cvp üzerine Paşa hiddetleniyor, Bragadin'e "madem öyle yaptınız, anlaşmayı siz bozdunuz" diyerek kendisini idam ettiriyor. Gemiye yüklenmiş olan eşyalar ve aileler geri indiriliyor. Kalede son kalan 3000 e yakın Venedik askeri esir edilip gemilere forsa, kürekçi yapılıyor.
@@NickStrife yeah you are right, europeans had no atrocities at all, everything was perfect. Man I wonder why whole America basically speaks 3 languages, very strange ;)
@@NickStrife welcome to history where the weak always got dominated by some empire. Wait a minute you're that idiot who hates every Turk for existing. Yeah, it doesn't matter what I'll probably tell you. So bye bye idiot
@@NickStrife It makes no sense discussing with a butthurt greek about these kind of topics. You will always keep living in your own version of history, like in a bubble. Maybe try opening both eyes and not just one when looking at history, cheers.
Sultan Selim II was addicted to wine! That is what cost him life! One day he swiped in the Hamam while chasing a girl! His sultanate marked the beginning of the downfall of Ottoman Empire!
Great video again ! Nice presentation of the general context and of the main characters. The battle itself is very well described on your always most appreciable dynamic note : keep up this great work !
This series of shows could be campaigns in an Age of Empires II Definitive Edition Expansion. Great stuff, lots of detail, and excellent presentation and narration. Keep em coming.
@Emre Al tbf to the Greek population of Cyprus, they were being led by a puppet of the Greek Military regime that fell later on. The Turks in my view did violate Cypriot sovereignty, but so did the Greece government. I understand why the Turkish intervention happened and that's acceptable
@Emre Al In 1974 no turkish cypriot was harmed before the turkish invasion, the Greek junta and the Greek Cypriot collaborators were killing Greek Cypriots alone...
Selim II is like Godfather part 3 Part 1 Selim I epic dude, Part II Suleiman the dude who used cheat codes to conquer everything he saw, Part 3 Selim II dude who had to trick his dad into killing his capable brothers.
It's quite interesting that the Greek population cared very little about the Ottoman invasion at the time. Malta and Cyprus were both colonies of Catholic powers, the Knights Hospitaller for the former, the Ventians for the latter. But the Maltese shared a religion with their colonial overloards, even if they dislkied them. and thus were more determined to resist an invasion by Muslim Turks. The Greeks on the other hand were Orthodox Christians and saw little difference in being ruled by Muslims or by Catholics. Indeed, the Ottomans mostly allowed the islanders autonomy in their own affairs. After Ottoman conquest, the effective government in Cyprus was the Orthodox church, who were responsible for collecting taxes and was the largest landowner on the island. The Turks largely left the Orthodox church in peace, unlike the Venetians before them.
@the Belgian Yes, that was barbaric but not unusual by medieval standards. Sieges were costly for the besiegers, so unless they immediately surrendered, there would be a sack. The Turks massacred and enslaved the people of Nicosia and Famagusta, but this was because they resisted the siege. Otherwise the Greek natives cared little that they had Muslim overlords instead of Catholic overlords.
So why did continental Greeks kept uprising sponsored by Venetians? According to the contemporary accounts I read, the Cypriots were simply extremely poor and mistreated by their local lords, not the Venetians, that's why they didn't care about defending the rulers like most of their contemporaries btw
@@MrAlexkyra Turks never killed the Greeks in Cyprus, stop lying, no historical source writes such a thing, the Ottomans recognized and re-established the Greek Orthodox Church on the island.
@@senseypires8817 poland didnt want to stretch except into the east and takeover russia or have them added into the commonwealth like Ukraine .never did poland actualy want to go for south or western powers
6:36 Selim, Ottoman Sultan, Emperor of the Turks, Lord of Lords, Kings of Kings, Shadow of God, Lord of Earthly Paradise and of Jerusalem , That's quite a title.
You felt like bashing someone this time? Dandolo's defense had been static, but he was outnumbered more than 10 to 1 (for example, the odds at Malta were much more favourable to the defenders, and the siegers were much less supplied), and Nicosia's walls, altough formidable looking (the project of Giulio Savorgnano was the best the defense tecnology of 16th century could offer, and would have still been considered formidable 200 years later), had been built in only 4 years and were far from completion. Without cavaliers, outer works, and with the ditches still not deep enough, they could offer little more resistance than a embankment, yet, the city resisted for a month and half and fell only to the 15th assault. For a comparison, in 1683 the odds at Vienna were much more favourable to the defenders, the fortifications were more complete, the defenders even had double the artillery than the Ottomans, that were farther from their bases, yet, after two months of siege, the city was about to fall (the Ottomans had already occupied part of the walls when the relief force arrived) and yet none accused the defenders of incompetence.
Greetings from Lemesos - Cyprus , amazing Video guys , I've been waiting a long time from you to make a video about this subject. Η Αλωση της Αμμοχωστου και η Ηρωικη αντισταση των Ελληνων κατοικων της και των Βενετων κατα των Οθωμανων κατακτητων.
Fun fact on Marcantonio Bragadin: he was flayed alive and then decapitated, his body quartered and distributed as a trophy to the Ottoman troops. The skin was then stuffed with straw, sewn together with the head and paraded on the streets of Famagusta, to be then brought back to Selim II in Istambul. Years later a venetian merchant stole it and brought it back to Venice. It is now buried in an urn in the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo.
Caravanserai of Life “our?” The ottomans are long gone, unless you were born before 1914 which is literally impossible at this point you are not an ottoman. Therefore it is not your defeat at all.
The campaign of the Humayun fleet to Cyprus led by Lala Mustafa Pasha began with several surprise naval raids launched by Damad Biala Pasha on the ports and factories of Venetian ships in Dalmatia, Crete, Italy and Venice itself, burning and destroying more than 200 ships and killing thousands of their men. A land landing of 60,000 men on Cyprus began on 1 June 1570, a Venetian army tried to repel them near Kyrenia, but were wiped out and lost 12,000 dead. On June 9, the Humayun army seized the city and 40 ventian ships and killed the rest of the remnants of the Venetians. Then the Humayun army seized Lefkosia after bombarded it for 49 days they sacked the city slaughtering 10,000 Venetians & 20,000 Greeks and seized 150 guns on 9 September.. Larnaca, Limassol, and most of the island surrendered without a fight Lala Pasha appointed Mustafa Pasha as governor of Cyprus and left him in Lefkosia with 2,000 men Then he headed to besiege Magusa with 40 ships, while Berto pasha headed with a fleet of 400 ships to Italy and landed in Sicily and managed to besiege the Crusader fleets preventing them of supplying Cyprus Humayni managed to capture Magusa after being starved for 13 months, & after the sixth assault on August 1, 1571, the entire garrison were massacred. In the Cyprus campaign, the Humayun army lost 20-25,000 men, the population of Cyprus decreased from 360,000 to 120,000 .. Thousands of settlers were brought from Andalusia and Anatolia, and they settled on the island.
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Albanian cavalry , always effective and fearless when used properly, since Skanderbeg's time....Famagusta commander Valioni knew the history of Skanderbeg from 100 years ago...amazing
albanians learned how bravery and how to fight from the Turks skanderbeg was trained by the Turks and knew us very well that is the only way they were able to defeat us we gave them something to be proud of lol
Ottoman Turks captured Cyprus in the year 1571 and the island remained under Ottoman control for the next 300 years (until 1878). Later on, when the Ottoman fleet was burned at Leponto, grand Vizier Sokollu Mustafa Pasha uttered these famous words to Venetian ambassador Barbora in 1573: "When you beat our navy in Leponto, you shaved our beard, but when we took Cyrus from you, we cut one of your arms. The shaved beard will grow even stronger but the severed arm will never grow back". Indeed, ottomans were able to build an even stronger navy within a year and continued dominating the Mediterranean for the decades to come.
They never dominated it again because uluc an the corsairs realized they didnt need them. All their power came from the barbarian barbary slave runner pirates to begin with
Was just in Famagusta/Gazimağusa this summer and had a lovely time. There was a mural by the city walls and port describing the battle. Thanks for sharing some of the history.
It surprises me how historically similar are Ottoman Empire and Western Roman Empire's fate. Roman Legionaries were the biggest factor of their rise. And ironically, their fall. It's the same thing with Ottomans. Their military machine got so powerful even the emperors couldn't control it eventually. Combine that with incompetent emperors and you have a fall of an empire. Decline of the Ottoman Empire has begun. We will see a lot of ineffective sultans and janissary revolts after this point. As usual, amazing video Kings and Generals
"Bragadino had his ears and nose cut off and after imprisonment, he was executed". Wow, what a sanitized presentation of that execution. Here's the gruesome details left out: The pasha was so enraged by the execution of the pilgrims (even though there is no historical evidence that that execution ever took place), that he pulled his sword and personally cut one of the Venetian's ears. Then he ordered that the other ear as well as the nose of the general be cut off, and then be put in jail. One can only imagine the agony of headache and lack of sleep during these two weeks of imprisonment. Even every breath must have been a torture. But the Ottomans had more in store. After they took him out of prison, he was taken on a ship where the Turkish sailors taunted and abused him. Then he was hanged and flayed alive. In order to maximize his pain during the skinning, the exposed flesh was sponged with salty water. After that and while still alive, he was quartered and the pieces were sent to Constantinople for display at the palace as was customary. The gruesome news reached Europe, and had a big impact on the fighting spirit of the Cristian soldiers and sailors during the Battle of Lepante.
Hector Torrealta Apparently he was and according to some source his corpse was stuffed with straw and sent back to Constantinople as a gift. Idk how accurate that is.
@@Thoreaue have you seen Cyprus castle s? O have seen Ragusa. Ragusa was alternative of Venice for ottomans. Because of that they had good relations. Ottomans liked master traders of Ragusa and support them. But had regular tribute. After ottoman decline in pover Ragusa lost her independence.
@@sukrudemirdak1827 True, Ragusa had very good relations with Ottomans and Venice was its main enemy, they even gave Neum to Ottomans just not to have border with Venice. Ragusa lost its independence to Napoleon and not by conquest.
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Our initial plan was to cover the battle of Lepanto next, but it was impossible to ignore Cyprus and the iconic siege of Famagusta. At the same time, we mentioned the first Ottoman conflict with Russia in a few sentences. Down the line, new videos will be made covering that conflict in detail. Thanks for being with us!
I wanted to say that your videos is amazing👍hopefully you will put every battle in history in your videos...
@Kings and Generals Dinosaurs actually participated in this war as some of the most effective pirates of the era
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@@icedogg111 You better play total war...total is very strategic game and also amazing
What about the new American Civil War videos
"I'm safe behind the pikemen"
Ottomans: _Just shoot them_
“Remarkably untalented”
I’ve gotta save that one for future use...
Very nice
kinda like Miley Cyrus
Lmfao that's funny
Dandalo's Mom: Why are you crying?
Dandalo: Kings and Generals called me a remarkably talentless commander!
The truth hurts.
*Dandolo
Enrico dondalo?😂😂
Kings and Generals : You are,without a doubt the worst general that i've heard of
Dandalo : But you have heard of me
@@pax4370 No. Nicolo Dandalo, Nothing to do with the Doge.
Venice: where were you when the conflict erupted?
The Coalition: I was at Crete readying for...
Venice: Cyprus is fell.
The Coalition: Nay.
Constantinople: Hey VENICE! Ain't so FUNNY now is it?!
@@ComptGeorges It was a reference to fourth crusade I believe.
@@mystic8265 No I think it was a reference to the fact that Constantinople wasn't given any help by Europeans other than some Genoan support.
@John Mason ok, fuck right off then
@@ComptGeorges we had our share when Napoleon came
400 years later :
Ahh shit here we go again.
what do you mean??
@@trollchannel6217 Turkey invasion of Cyprus
403*
Only in one part.
@@rezarailfans1514 u gotta save your citizens u know
That was maybe the best Episode of this series in total, can‘t believe how much you guys strangled my eyes on that Video. History is amazing just like your Channel 👍
Your cliffhangers.. Man I'm telling you, they keep me tuned into your channel.. Great job again guys.
I've been struggling all morning studying for a test for university, had to take a break and I told to myself that watching a few TH-cam videos may help me, and this is all I could ask for.
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Best of luck with your test brother.
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@@BALLARDTWIN its not the end
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They'd still do both man
Venice and the Ottomans, divided by war, united by their love of money.
more lke divided by war, united by their love of coffee
Better love story then twilight.
R3GARnator True dat. 😀
@STORM LORD Lol always the Jews.
Yes, but the Venetians achieved this goal mainly through commerce and not by conquer, looting and slavery like ottomans did.
Of course we can't forget the fourth crusade and its huge impact. But that occurred only once and we can claim that it was not planned from the beginning.
Also i have never heard that the Venetians flayed someone ALIVE, just like the Ottomans did to Bragadin and others.
Probably my favourite series of videos you guys make. Well done again KnG
Great video! I really like this ottoman series. More of these please! I would also love to see videos about Seljuk Turks, who were they, how they became so powerful and eventually fell.
Cheers to you K&G for achieving 1 mil, thoroughly deserved!
Funnily enough, even though the war for Cyprus was the reason for the battle of Lepanto, the Holy League never actually mounted an assault to retake the island as it basically collapsed due to bickering after winning at Lepanto.
Spoiler alert?
The Holy League could win at sea, but to mount an assault on land near to the coast of Anatolia was a completely different affair. 70 year later, in the Cretan war, Venice easily won all the sea battles, but in the end Lost Crete anyway, since the Ottomans could sustain 19 years of siege.
thanks for the spoiler dude i get it you read the manga but don't need to ruin the anime for us all
@@Shinge1 The "no spolier" rule doesn't apply to the classics. ;)
@@neutronalchemist3241 Just the fact that it took nearly 20 years to capture Crete shows just how Ottomans were becoming the "old man".
(Turks take Constantinople)
Venice: "I sleep"
(Turks try to take Cyprus)
Venice: *"REAL SHIT"*
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Another great video I absolutely love your channel. I'm a student of history and have been blown away with the information in these videos I'd love to see a bit about early Scottish history and monarch's done kings and general's style 👍
The fact You make so much quality content so often amazes me
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By the way, Juan is pronounced "huan" not "yuan".
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I tought in Spanish ''J'' is ''G''
No, it's pronounced "One".
It´s pronounced Johann
@@mmatadore1 No, in spanish we have two sounds the g can represent:
The scottish "ch" sound in loch and the "g" in gain.
The j always sounds like the "ch" of loch.
So spanish in the left and spanish in the right:
Ga- g sound
Ge- ch sound
Gi- ch sound
Go- g sound
Gu- g sound
Gue- the u is not pronounced, and it's a g sound
Gui- the same as with gue
güe- this time the u IS pronounced and it's still a g sound
Güi- the same a with güe
It's a shame people think the Ottoman Empire started to decline the second Suleyman the Magnificat died. Yes there were hints of decline during Suleyman's reign but the Ottomans would still be one of the most powerful states in the world going into the 1800s. Hopefully in the next video about the Battle of Lepento there won't be a "the beginning of the end" narrative for the Ottomans. As with many other empires like the Roman Empire, the Ottoman decline can't be traced to one specific event but a serious of events that spanned centuries. I know Kings and Generals won't make this mistake like so many over dramatic documentary's from over the years. If I learned something about the historical TH-cam community it's that we strive to learn about all aspects of history and not just a popular narratives. Love you guys and love all of your work! -Ege
selim 2 was competent sultan but inactive one who left all the work for the slave grand vizirs. He organised the succession system in the empire to almost perfect condition. All sehzades were kept in the palace only the oldest one went to a sanjak to learn statecraft and when the current sultan so his dad died he would come to the palace kill his siblings there, pay the janissary and become the new emperor. Better than the previous system where all sehzades would battle for the throne. The empire was too big to handle a crisis like that again. The empire needed stability. He knew how to use the religion when the divan was not okay with his decisions. When he ordered to conquer cyprus the divan did not agree so the day after he said that he saw the prophet in his dream and that he commanded him to conquer cyprus where then everyone obliged like a dog. New sultans could a) rule the empire or b) let the slaves run the empire which most sultans did the b option. But when Ahmet 1 became sultan he decreed to make sibling kill not legal anymore and then whenever a sultan wanted to rule he was deposed whenever a new sultan wanted to reform he was deposed etc. The slave system also was not practiced anymore the positions of grand vizirs etc were literally for sale by paying the janissaries and forcing the sultan to accept X as the new vizir. Ahmet 1 outlawing sibling kill contributed dumb sultans which contributed to the collapse of the devsirme system. Major event is ahmet 1 bro supporting events are american gold that inflated ottoman economy by 50% in one day, east west trade decline and industrial revolution ( which the ottomans had the basis for hundred years earlier than europeans but did not care; taqi ad din's work)
@ no read better selim 2 made it almost to perfection by not allowing all sehzades to go to sanjak only the oldest one and when sultan dies he goes to the capitol and kills every claimaint and everyone sucks him since the slaves cannot become sultan or other person since there is no artistocracy in the empire. 2 mehmed legalised 2 selim adjusted it since the empire was too big to handle a crisis. Ahmet 1 did kill the empire not selim 2 lmao. If selim wanted to reform the empire he could have done it but did not. When 2 mustafa,2 osman, 3 selim, 3 ahmet wanted to reform they were deposed or killed because of ahmet 1 when ascending the throne they were not allowed to kill their siblings so when they wanted to reform they were deposed and or killed. When mahmud 2 the reformer of the empire wanted to reform he killed all his brothers and claimaints and sent their bodies to the janissaries who wanted to depose him and the janissaries returned to their barracks. Then the sultan killed them and reformed the empire BUT IT WAS TOO LATE since the west had the upperhand which could not be reversed by that time lmao
Instant like, add to Watch Later, salivate for rest of the day.
the last soundtrack is a very touching Ottoman song, "Ey büt-i nev eda" from late 1700s
Oh be, bunu arıyordum yaşa
@@alpcan3264 Türkan Şoray'ın "Birleşen Yollar" filmini izlersen bol bol duyarsın :)
The Ottomans were planning to open the Don-Volga Canal but the Crimean "allies" tricked Ottomans that it was "too cold" and there was "no food" and started rumors which ended up with military unrest. Crimean Khanate thought that if the canal opens it would damage their authority in the region. The Ottoman soldiers were unaware about the weather conditions in North so the soldiers were easily tricked. The construction of the canal was already started by the soldiers but with the military unrest Ottomans had to stop. Crimea literally helped Russians during this time.
I too finally joined as your patreon! I owe your channel huge debt! 😀 You gave such great inspirations and wisdom which I shall never forget.
Desperately waiting for a video on The Battle of Lepanto.
Damnit! Just joined it. It's not in this video? It's going to be another month :/ Still hoping they are somehow able to get the Battle of Lepanto song from Europa Universalis 4 OST. If it fits in, that is.
Me too!!!
Also Ottoman-Habsburg wars on North Africa
And The Second Siege of Viennaa!
And I am looking forward for Battle of Djerba, which Ottomans destroyed a crusader navy.
5:51 What a beautiful choice of music, reflecting very well the long series of blunders after blunders doing Selims reign. Sokullu as emperor was much suited than Selim and history would have been different.
Ottomans !!
Greetings from Algeria 🇩🇿
Selam to Cezayir
you missed your fuckers and you send them greetings
cichlid we joined ottomans willingly.
Shall i tell to watch the previous episodes so you may know who was done with ?
Yes and France fucked turks and Algerians in North Africa and conquered it for 230 years
nth a 130
And it lost the independence war :)
In a book by David Brewer regarding this time period it is said that baglioni was beheaded and his head was shown by lala mustafa as a trophy and bragadino had his nose and ears cut, as you mention as well. GORE ALERT But afterwards, as the book states, they utterly humiliated him by making him work as a slave having to carry heavy sacks of rocks on the walls that he defended, then they tied him naked on a pole in a central square and skinned him alive. After his death they took his skin and filled it with hay, put his clothes on it and paraded in famagusta with it on top of a cow.
Also, this book states that lala mustafa knew about the hostages being killed, thus his motivations can only be speculated
Then this book is wrong, because first of all, being naked around people or even at home is restricted in Islam and looking at other people's private parts is also haram and those commanders who got the island of Cyprus were muslims. Therefore as author says, they conquered the island because of pirate attacks.
@@Leonfromre4and2 you are more than 100 percent wrong
@@Leonfromre4and2 and you can remember how christians killed muslims and jews in Jerusalem
Best defence he took was surrounded himself by the pikemans!!
I just laughed after hearing his strategy!!
noob square lmao
😂😂 same
@@utkumazgal8555
I was brainwashed by my surroundings that's why I did sin....
It was already written in fate that after my death Islam will slowly loose It's power, dominance and glory......
@CyberPunker00
Because Venice was too far away from Cyprus it was a reason....
But more bigger reason was that those Venetians were using these Cypriots as a tool for their own....
They just wanted the money and taxes from Cyprus that's all....
Cyprots were used by the venetians at that time.....
@Marcelo Henrique Soares da Silva
Serious?
If we used them they would've been muslims not Christians.....
Brilliant! I may like the Ottoman Battle series better than the Romans, it's definitely close! Looking forward to the next in the series.
As usual, more on both :-)
@@KingsandGenerals and I'm excited for both!
Kaleye yapılan 7. ve son taaruzda kalenin en önemli 2 burcu ele geçirildi.
O gece (1 Ağustos 1571) kale komutanı Bragadin beyaz bayrak çekip anlaşmak istediğini bildiriyor.
Yapılan anlaşma gereği olan daha önce hacca giderken esir alınan 50 Türk hacının teslim edilmesi gerekiyor.
Ertesi gün sabah kaledeki italyan ve venedikli ailelerin tahliyesi için Türk donanma gemilerine yükleme başlıyor.
2 Ağustos 1571 tarihinde veda etmek için Lala Mustafa Paşa'nın huzuruna çıkan Bragadin'e bu 50 kişi soruluyor.
Çünkü anlaşma gereği kaledekilerin tahliye işlemleri başlamasına rağmen karşı taraftan esir edilen 50 hacı halen gelmemiştir.
Bragadin "Anlaşma yaptığımız gece bnm haberim yokken o esirleri öldürmüşler. Hepsi ölü" diye cevap veriyor..
Bu cvp üzerine Paşa hiddetleniyor, Bragadin'e "madem öyle yaptınız, anlaşmayı siz bozdunuz" diyerek kendisini idam ettiriyor.
Gemiye yüklenmiş olan eşyalar ve aileler geri indiriliyor. Kalede son kalan 3000 e yakın Venedik askeri esir edilip gemilere forsa, kürekçi yapılıyor.
History is amazing
@@olumluhayatbugunvarsinyari1326 World History is amazing. National history is a very myopic view.
Papaza Takla Eşşeğe Künde Attıran İmam nah
@@NickStrife yeah you are right, europeans had no atrocities at all, everything was perfect.
Man I wonder why whole America basically speaks 3 languages, very strange ;)
@@NickStrife welcome to history where the weak always got dominated by some empire. Wait a minute you're that idiot who hates every Turk for existing.
Yeah, it doesn't matter what I'll probably tell you. So bye bye idiot
@@NickStrife It makes no sense discussing with a butthurt greek about these kind of topics. You will always keep living in your own version of history, like in a bubble. Maybe try opening both eyes and not just one when looking at history, cheers.
Literally decided to give Raid Shadow Legends a go after learning they'd sponsored such vids. Good stuff.
Imagine loving wine so much that you even begin the conquest of Cyprus because of it!
Now imagine trying to win that conquest to make your people drunk. ;D
Sultan Selim II was addicted to wine! That is what cost him life! One day he swiped in the Hamam while chasing a girl! His sultanate marked the beginning of the downfall of Ottoman Empire!
Great video guys, the otoman series is so good, keep em' comming, thanks K&G's
Anyone else found ironic a jew named “Nasi”?
I did
Feel bad for him :(
Nasi = Rice in Indo 😂
Whomever named him did Nasi that coming
The biggest group of Jews are called Ashkenazi.
Congratulations 1M 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Great video again ! Nice presentation of the general context and of the main characters. The battle itself is very well described on your always most appreciable dynamic note : keep up this great work !
As a Cypriot I am very grateful for this video.
This series of shows could be campaigns in an Age of Empires II Definitive Edition Expansion. Great stuff, lots of detail, and excellent presentation and narration. Keep em coming.
Another home run. Keep it up K&G!
About 400 years later history repeats itself when the Turkish army invaded Cyprus in 1974 eventually capturing Famagusta once again
@Emre Al the island including northern Cyprus was majority Greek so how can it be liberation?
@Emre Al tbf to the Greek population of Cyprus, they were being led by a puppet of the Greek Military regime that fell later on. The Turks in my view did violate Cypriot sovereignty, but so did the Greece government. I understand why the Turkish intervention happened and that's acceptable
@Emre Al keep your propaganda and provocative altitude to your country.
@@georgkorea3154 Its not propaganda its the truth
@Emre Al In 1974 no turkish cypriot was harmed before the turkish invasion, the Greek junta and the Greek Cypriot collaborators were killing Greek Cypriots alone...
Congrats on 1M subscribers!
Selim II is like Godfather part 3 Part 1 Selim I epic dude, Part II Suleiman the dude who used cheat codes to conquer everything he saw, Part 3 Selim II dude who had to trick his dad into killing his capable brothers.
This is the best channel on TH-cam
Finnaly! Battle of Lepanto is in next episode. Waiting for it so much and so looong. Thank you Kings n Generals for excelent job!
It's quite interesting that the Greek population cared very little about the Ottoman invasion at the time. Malta and Cyprus were both colonies of Catholic powers, the Knights Hospitaller for the former, the Ventians for the latter. But the Maltese shared a religion with their colonial overloards, even if they dislkied them. and thus were more determined to resist an invasion by Muslim Turks. The Greeks on the other hand were Orthodox Christians and saw little difference in being ruled by Muslims or by Catholics. Indeed, the Ottomans mostly allowed the islanders autonomy in their own affairs. After Ottoman conquest, the effective government in Cyprus was the Orthodox church, who were responsible for collecting taxes and was the largest landowner on the island. The Turks largely left the Orthodox church in peace, unlike the Venetians before them.
@the Belgian Yes, that was barbaric but not unusual by medieval standards. Sieges were costly for the besiegers, so unless they immediately surrendered, there would be a sack. The Turks massacred and enslaved the people of Nicosia and Famagusta, but this was because they resisted the siege. Otherwise the Greek natives cared little that they had Muslim overlords instead of Catholic overlords.
So why did continental Greeks kept uprising sponsored by Venetians? According to the contemporary accounts I read, the Cypriots were simply extremely poor and mistreated by their local lords, not the Venetians, that's why they didn't care about defending the rulers like most of their contemporaries btw
@@MrAlexkyra Turks never killed the Greeks in Cyprus, stop lying, no historical source writes such a thing, the Ottomans recognized and re-established the Greek Orthodox Church on the island.
always like before i even watch thats my rule in this ch
Really my lord as u say. It is verily true
Please supply me with management of this great channel of ur
Poland: our winged hussars saved Austria. Austria: thanks now I’m gonna take half of your empire with Russia and Prussia
poland never became a empire
@@senseypires8817 poland didnt want to stretch except into the east and takeover russia or have them added into the commonwealth like Ukraine .never did poland actualy want to go for south or western powers
Austria ruled by Habsburgs
6:36 Selim, Ottoman Sultan, Emperor of the Turks, Lord of Lords, Kings of Kings, Shadow of God, Lord of Earthly Paradise and of Jerusalem ,
That's quite a title.
He was a GOT fanboy
You guys are such teasers! I am looking forward to more videos "D
You felt like bashing someone this time?
Dandolo's defense had been static, but he was outnumbered more than 10 to 1 (for example, the odds at Malta were much more favourable to the defenders, and the siegers were much less supplied), and Nicosia's walls, altough formidable looking (the project of Giulio Savorgnano was the best the defense tecnology of 16th century could offer, and would have still been considered formidable 200 years later), had been built in only 4 years and were far from completion. Without cavaliers, outer works, and with the ditches still not deep enough, they could offer little more resistance than a embankment, yet, the city resisted for a month and half and fell only to the 15th assault.
For a comparison, in 1683 the odds at Vienna were much more favourable to the defenders, the fortifications were more complete, the defenders even had double the artillery than the Ottomans, that were farther from their bases, yet, after two months of siege, the city was about to fall (the Ottomans had already occupied part of the walls when the relief force arrived) and yet none accused the defenders of incompetence.
Great work guys...wonderful Ottomans serie keep up ;) ...grateful
Thanks for watching!
Cool! More Ottoman wars
Congratulations on the 1.000.000 Subscribers you totally deserve them. Also i cant wait for the battle of Lepanto ;)
Greetings from Lemesos - Cyprus , amazing Video guys , I've been waiting a long time from you to make a video about this subject. Η Αλωση της Αμμοχωστου και η Ηρωικη αντισταση των Ελληνων κατοικων της και των Βενετων κατα των Οθωμανων κατακτητων.
I play EU4 for a few hours, watch one of these videos, then boot up my PC with a sigh. Good job as always!
Just be honest - even Ottoman history remembers Selim as 'The Sot'. That's how lackluster his reign was.
lmao
The production value and quiality has increased so much by the years
Fun fact on Marcantonio Bragadin: he was flayed alive and then decapitated, his body quartered and distributed as a trophy to the Ottoman troops. The skin was then stuffed with straw, sewn together with the head and paraded on the streets of Famagusta, to be then brought back to Selim II in Istambul. Years later a venetian merchant stole it and brought it back to Venice. It is now buried in an urn in the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo.
Yes! Battle of Lepanto that I played on AOE2!
Yine osmanlıyı gördüm düştüm
One of the best channels about history.
Best history Channel
My guy really made a noob box when enemy brought artillery
Man, you should do it by looking at the Ottoman sources. Historical documentaries and objectivity are important.
Very few of them could read or write most of their commanders were kidnapped white people looking for booty and glory
I’m so hype for the lepanto one
Caravanserai of Life “our?” The ottomans are long gone, unless you were born before 1914 which is literally impossible at this point you are not an ottoman. Therefore it is not your defeat at all.
Very nice video! Great presentation. Well done!
The campaign of the Humayun fleet to Cyprus led by Lala Mustafa Pasha began with several surprise naval raids launched by Damad Biala Pasha on the ports and factories of Venetian ships in Dalmatia, Crete, Italy and Venice itself, burning and destroying more than 200 ships and killing thousands of their men.
A land landing of 60,000 men on Cyprus began on 1 June 1570, a Venetian army tried to repel them near Kyrenia, but were wiped out and lost 12,000 dead. On June 9, the Humayun army seized the city and 40 ventian ships and killed the rest of the remnants of the Venetians.
Then the Humayun army seized Lefkosia after bombarded it for 49 days they sacked the city slaughtering 10,000 Venetians & 20,000 Greeks and seized 150 guns on 9 September..
Larnaca, Limassol, and most of the island surrendered without a fight
Lala Pasha appointed Mustafa Pasha as governor of Cyprus and left him in Lefkosia with 2,000 men
Then he headed to besiege Magusa with 40 ships, while Berto pasha headed with a fleet of 400 ships to Italy and landed in Sicily and managed to besiege the Crusader fleets preventing them of supplying Cyprus
Humayni managed to capture Magusa after being starved for 13 months, & after the sixth assault on August 1, 1571, the entire garrison were massacred.
In the Cyprus campaign, the Humayun army lost 20-25,000 men, the population of Cyprus decreased from 360,000 to 120,000 .. Thousands of settlers were brought from Andalusia and Anatolia, and they settled on the island.
Congratulations for 1 M Subs
seems like clash of incompotent leaders from both sides huh :D and the biggest defeat of the ottoman navy is coming next
Enes Akhan nope, Ottomans had competent leaders except Sultan
@@umaransari9765 with leaders thats exatly what i meant :D ...
What about sinope or navarino?
Selim the Drunk.
@Kebab Seller are you so pathetic that you feel the need to respond to year old comments? nice
A ottoman episode my day got better
Kings and Generals.. Congrats on the Million subscribers! well deserved.
Really starting to hate raid shadow legenders sponsorships being literally everywhere. The games shit it's barely a game... I don't even need to play it to see that.
Waking up to another video from Kings 😁👍
Albanian cavalry , always effective and fearless when used properly, since Skanderbeg's time....Famagusta commander Valioni knew the history of Skanderbeg from 100 years ago...amazing
albanians learned how bravery and how to fight from the Turks
skanderbeg was trained by the Turks and knew us very well
that is the only way they were able to defeat us
we gave them something to be proud of lol
@@berkzyhd ..u do realize alexander was half albanian , right ( i am not albanian)
The Venetians had been using light cavalry from that region (Stradioti) for years.
Congrats for 1mil ! Keep it up with more Ottoman wars you are the best history channel in youtube !
Did you consider doing some economic videos on the Ottoman Empire or the Venetians like the ones you did about Rome?
"remarkably talentless" -a very rare feat ever achieved by any commander in kings and general documentaries.
Great! more about Venice and Genoa please
Battle of Keresztes PLEASE BEST BATTLE IN OTTOMAN HISTORY!
I can't wait to see Don Juan kicking ass at the Lepanto episode
Great video. Will you guys by any chance be covering the second ottoman Safavid war with Suleiman I?
Ottoman Turks captured Cyprus in the year 1571 and the island remained under Ottoman control for the next 300 years (until 1878).
Later on, when the Ottoman fleet was burned at Leponto, grand Vizier Sokollu Mustafa Pasha uttered these famous words to Venetian ambassador Barbora in 1573:
"When you beat our navy in Leponto, you shaved our beard, but when we took Cyrus from you, we cut one of your arms.
The shaved beard will grow even stronger but the severed arm will never grow back".
Indeed, ottomans were able to build an even stronger navy within a year and continued dominating the Mediterranean for the decades to come.
They never dominated it again because uluc an the corsairs realized they didnt need them. All their power came from the barbarian barbary slave runner pirates to begin with
Was just in Famagusta/Gazimağusa this summer and had a lovely time. There was a mural by the city walls and port describing the battle. Thanks for sharing some of the history.
Went there a few years ago. The food (haloumi!!!) was pretty good.
It surprises me how historically similar are Ottoman Empire and Western Roman Empire's fate. Roman Legionaries were the biggest factor of their rise. And ironically, their fall. It's the same thing with Ottomans. Their military machine got so powerful even the emperors couldn't control it eventually. Combine that with incompetent emperors and you have a fall of an empire.
Decline of the Ottoman Empire has begun. We will see a lot of ineffective sultans and janissary revolts after this point.
As usual, amazing video Kings and Generals
"Bragadino had his ears and nose cut off and after imprisonment, he was executed". Wow, what a sanitized presentation of that execution. Here's the gruesome details left out: The pasha was so enraged by the execution of the pilgrims (even though there is no historical evidence that that execution ever took place), that he pulled his sword and personally cut one of the Venetian's ears. Then he ordered that the other ear as well as the nose of the general be cut off, and then be put in jail. One can only imagine the agony of headache and lack of sleep during these two weeks of imprisonment. Even every breath must have been a torture.
But the Ottomans had more in store. After they took him out of prison, he was taken on a ship where the Turkish sailors taunted and abused him. Then he was hanged and flayed alive. In order to maximize his pain during the skinning, the exposed flesh was sponged with salty water. After that and while still alive, he was quartered and the pieces were sent to Constantinople for display at the palace as was customary.
The gruesome news reached Europe, and had a big impact on the fighting spirit of the Cristian soldiers and sailors during the Battle of Lepante.
Yes
Why have I only just found this channel? Today will mostly be spent binge watching
I read somewhere that Bragadino was flayed alive.
Hector Torrealta I read he was skinned alive as well.
Hector Torrealta Apparently he was and according to some source his corpse was stuffed with straw and sent back to Constantinople as a gift. Idk how accurate that is.
Ah that sounds fun
his skin is kept in San Giovanni e Paolo church in Venice
I heard they took his skin off
Well deserved 1kk subs finally achieved.
Congrats :)
Any idea what track is playing at 11:02 ?
Neat channel. Glad that I found it.
0:50 really cool animations.
Oh cool a video about the Ottoma----RAID:SHADOW LEGEND!!!
Dubrovnik, ie Ragusa, was never part of Venice as shown in your map. It was an independent city state (like Venice) on the Dalmatian coast.
Which paid tribute to ottomans.
@@sukrudemirdak1827 so did Cyprus didnt it, if it had Walls as Dubrovnik it wouldnt get attacked
@@Thoreaue have you seen Cyprus castle s? O have seen Ragusa. Ragusa was alternative of Venice for ottomans. Because of that they had good relations. Ottomans liked master traders of Ragusa and support them. But had regular tribute. After ottoman decline in pover Ragusa lost her independence.
@@sukrudemirdak1827 True, Ragusa had very good relations with Ottomans and Venice was its main enemy, they even gave Neum to Ottomans just not to have border with Venice. Ragusa lost its independence to Napoleon and not by conquest.
Oh boy Lepanto is right around the corner i can't wait.
Yay, more ottoman wars
Sorry that was the last one for about 300 hundred years...you will be served with Canakkale campaigns and Kut-ul amara next time...
Preveze sea war 👍