I think that 1204 was intense because it was the first time it fell in 1000 years, while 1453 was intense because there would be no more Constantinople.
Great video. Everybody in Europe knows Charles Martel but very few know Leo the third. I believe as time passes and prejudices dissapear Europeans will see the eastern Roman Empire for what it was actually. Culturally It was the continuation of the Hellenistic world and politically of that of the Roman political tradition. A Christian Greco Roman state or the eastern part of the Western civilization.
Glad you liked it, it was a fasinating topic to research. I would say it is less a question of prejudice and more a one of knowledge. The ERe being a dead empire and so far removed from other coutnries like France or England it does not really feature much in public knowledge or even a slightly deeper knowledge.
don't you think it's a shame that byzantium is not that mainstream? there are 50 movies of henry viii and how many of..... heraclius for example? you can also add me on discord to talk about byzantium : Proletariado#4420 I would be glad
That's a banger of a video! I know, from other Roman sources, that actually The Romans did not negotiate with the Bulgarians and when our armies came they first thought that we would join the Arabs, because Bulgaria was not a Christian state yet, but when they saw that we attacked the Caliphate cheers of joy came from the walls and people started chanting: "Christ has won, Christ has won!" Because they knew that the Caliphate was focked :)) Khan Tervel was later pronounced Saint Trivelius - the savior of Europe by both The Catholic and The Orthodox Church. I know the Bulgarians killed like between 40 and 60 thousand men in battle... No wonder then didn't come back for 7 centuries. And no wonder why they slaughtered us like animals when the Ottomans crushed us... They wanted us to have the same fear from them for 7 centuries, as they did towards us. Some sources say that from hunger the Caliphate army ate even stones... doubt that's true, but imagine what a horrible picture it was, if someone wrote that... 11:19, nice map, someone bothered to put the Frank Kingdom there, while Bulgaria - one of main players at the time and the oldest country in Europe is not even there. Solid work :)))
don't you think it's a shame that byzantium is not that mainstream? there are 50 movies of henry viii and how many of..... heraclius for example? you can also add me on discord to talk about byzantium : Proletariado#4420 I would be glad
And what did the Boulgars do. They waited for the war to end and ambushed and looted a retreating Arab army. They also profit from this war to conquer Byzantine territories. It was Byzantine who saved the day, destroying the fleet and an Arab army near Constantinople.
I'm french and in our country ,we have an other view about the islamic invasion of Europe because Charles Martel is considered like the savior of Europe whereas the battle wasn't really important .There was only razzia in South France .Glad to see videos where we can study others histories about the same evenement but with a different location and how important was this battle and how Islam is seen in european countries .In this case, I guess there is a major difference between France and Bulgaria for example.
Indeed. I am glad I could give a good look at what was happening in Eastern Europe at this time. The idea with the end part was to illustrate how this siege fitted into the wider context, history does not happen in a vacuum as they say. Nice comment.
Dear French guy. The campaign in south France was almost 20 years later then the siege of Constantinople and the Arabic army was 10 times less. The main Battle of Europe was this one. After the perfect military operation led by saint Terbelis Arabs never return back. Try to find out more about saint Terbelis. Until 18 century he was famous as a saver of Europe.
@@chipil0 Yeah... you know.. those fair, honest, tolerant Western Europeans, who love everyone, except the actual guys who literally saved their asses. After all, they are all about fairness and democracy, except, when faking history :) ;) There is a saying that goes: "History is written by the winners." Guess the gratitude was leaving us and the Eastern Empire alone against the Ottomans and after we got crushed erasing everything our nation did. After that sent troops to fight with the Ottomans against the Russian Empire to prevent Bulgaria from ever getting freed at all. The pathetic thing is that most of our idiotic nation actually keeps going towards the people who literally not only didn't give a single f*ck about them, but tried in some degree to help in the destruction of our nationality. Not only that, we give them 96%-97% of our gold now. For this level of pettiness and stupidity we are paying now, and a greater cost will be paid later, when we loose half, if not all of our territory again. If shit hits the fan they will throw us to the wolves without batting an eyelash, 7 centuries of slavery were not enough, hold on to your seat, brother, more is coming. Виж накрая на видеото, че картата даже не показва България. Пише "Авари". За какво говорим. Жив и здрав!
First King Pourquoi les misilmun ont- ils construit une disproportionée mosquée à Poitier à la mémoire des " MARRRTYRS masscrés par les Francs si ,comme vous le dites - suivant les toutes nouvelles niaiseries déconstructivistes de gauche-la bataille de Poitiers n' eut été qu' une escarmouche entre touristes maghrebins et un groupuscule de Francs en vacance en Aquitaine ? Seuls les cénacles de la gauche francaise dénigrent l ' effet éducatif du massacre des mahométans ,qui auront du attendre la 5 e république finissante pour renouveler leurs tentatives de conquète de l' occident.
Great historical topic and video on the Eastern Roman Empire! Not only that you used music from the Ogre Battle/Tactics video games. Both themes of heavy political stories and war tales.
This battle sounds like a fun one. It's end reminded me a but of the storm the Spanish Armada ran into after they failed to invade England. And also the storm that the Mongol Fleet ran into after they failed to invade Japan. Nice job with this video.
In Arab sources siege of Constantinople was devastating but battle of Tours barely mentioned, areas around Paris was raided but only in South France near Marseille and in Switzerland firm Emirates was established
Until 1204 Constantinople was the bastion of Christendom - 4th Crusade is a shame in European civilization. Leo III was a formidable general and greatly underrated. They prefer to talk of Charles Martel a small king who won one battle that "saved Europe" - Byzantines fought a hundred battles and by early 10th century they humiliated the invincible caliphate.
Thank you, for this. It was a fight for Europe. For centuries Romanland (Byzantium) was the bulwark that kept Asia from invading Europe. When Romanity fell, Islam reached the center of Europe. After 1453 scholars from Constantinople New Rome fled to Italy, mainly Venice. Thus the Renaissance started.
don't you think it's a shame that byzantium is not that mainstream? there are 50 movies of henry viii and how many of..... heraclius for example? you can also add me on discord to talk about byzantium : Proletariado#4420 I would be glad
@@EasternRomanHistory Those were nothing compared to Qadissyia Ctesiphon Jalulah Nahavand (the Arabs called it the victory of victories) Those were the Sassanids biggest defeats and the end of their empire
Regarding the Franks, the Arabs defeated them in the siege of Zaragoza and the battle of the pass, and the Spaniards were 400 years old while they were paying tribute to the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordoba. The Khazars were conquered by Marawan Ibn Muhammad 737 and killed 100 thousand Khazri and enslaved 120 thousand and became the Khazars, follow the Umayyad Caliphate, the Byzantines know whois Khaled Ibn Al-Walid, and the battle of That Al-Sawari .....😂😂
@@EasternRomanHistory Constantinople = Stalingrad for the Umayyad Arabs, the Arabs besieged Constantinople during the reign of Hisham bin Abdul-Malik 737 and twice during the Abbasid era (Muhammad al-Mahdi and Harun al-Rashid) the Abbasids were from the era of al-Saffah to al-Muqtafi. They had the ability to conquer Constantinople, but they were satisfied with the tribute from romens
Indeed, Tervel was integral to winning on land. Tervels encirclement of the Arab army meant that they could not exploit the countryside outside Constantinople. That is interesting, I did not know that Tervel is called Saint Tribelius.
@@EasternRomanHistory Bro, that just proves my point. Your making video about Siege of Constantinople 717: The Battle for Europe and yet don't know about the crucial part that Bulgaria had during this time. If it wasn't for our armies, Constantinople would have most likely fall 717-718. Wtf?
don't you think it's a shame that byzantium is not that mainstream? there are 50 movies of henry viii and how many of..... heraclius for example? you can also add me on discord to talk about byzantium : Proletariado#4420 I would be glad
@@EasternRomanHistory lol John of Damascus was arab no where it says he was arameans the arameans disappeared when the Arab Christian tribes migrated to Syria created Ghassanids tanukhids etc... John of Damascus never spoke aramaic he spoke arabic and so Leo III the Syrian he was fluent in arabic
@@rickyyacine4818 Assyrians homeland was in Northern Mesopotamia. The Levant and Mesopotamia were home to many Semitic ethnic groups including Arabs who got Aramized hundereds of years before Islam arrived. Arabic just replaced Aramiac just like Aramiac replaced those before it.
Maslama ❤ what warrior and what a great army.. the Umayyad empire was extending to the edges of the world. In just few years they reached the borders of Constantinople..🌙💛 Prince Maslama’s tomb in now in Turkiye
Which siege of Constantinople would you make into a film?
Eastern Roman History All of them if possible!
If I were to pick a single one over all the others, I'd say 1204, this one would probably be tied for my second pick with 1453.
@@darthhoovy8332 But if you had to choose just one?
@@robertfisher8359 I thinkboth are a good ones
I think that 1204 was intense because it was the first time it fell in 1000 years, while 1453 was intense because there would be no more Constantinople.
Out of 1800 ships sent to conquer Constantinople, only 5 returned. This always makes me smile :))
Haha. Same.
Me also, and those are staggering numbers!!!
Great video. Everybody in Europe knows Charles Martel but very few know Leo the third. I believe as time passes and prejudices dissapear Europeans will see the eastern Roman Empire for what it was actually. Culturally It was the continuation of the Hellenistic world and politically of that of the Roman political tradition. A Christian Greco Roman state or the eastern part of the Western civilization.
Glad you liked it, it was a fasinating topic to research. I would say it is less a question of prejudice and more a one of knowledge. The ERe being a dead empire and so far removed from other coutnries like France or England it does not really feature much in public knowledge or even a slightly deeper knowledge.
don't you think it's a shame that byzantium is not that mainstream? there are 50 movies of henry viii and how many of..... heraclius for example?
you can also add me on discord to talk about byzantium
: Proletariado#4420
I would be glad
Leo the III was Arab😊
Excellent video, as always. I love this channel.
Thank you very much, glad to hear it.
That's a banger of a video! I know, from other Roman sources, that actually The Romans did not negotiate with the Bulgarians and when our armies came they first thought that we would join the Arabs, because Bulgaria was not a Christian state yet, but when they saw that we attacked the Caliphate cheers of joy came from the walls and people started chanting: "Christ has won, Christ has won!" Because they knew that the Caliphate was focked :)) Khan Tervel was later pronounced Saint Trivelius - the savior of Europe by both The Catholic and The Orthodox Church. I know the Bulgarians killed like between 40 and 60 thousand men in battle... No wonder then didn't come back for 7 centuries. And no wonder why they slaughtered us like animals when the Ottomans crushed us... They wanted us to have the same fear from them for 7 centuries, as they did towards us. Some sources say that from hunger the Caliphate army ate even stones... doubt that's true, but imagine what a horrible picture it was, if someone wrote that... 11:19, nice map, someone bothered to put the Frank Kingdom there, while Bulgaria - one of main players at the time and the oldest country in Europe is not even there. Solid work :)))
Tervel is amazing. The arabs cannot win a "two front war".
GREEKS AND BULGARIANS Saved Europe ! This battle was more important, than the Franks one Charles Martel
Asmoh your mother is Turkic
don't you think it's a shame that byzantium is not that mainstream? there are 50 movies of henry viii and how many of..... heraclius for example?
you can also add me on discord to talk about byzantium
: Proletariado#4420
I would be glad
Khan TERVEL kesar
Leo III was Syrian you mean syrians saved Europe
And what did the Boulgars do. They waited for the war to end and ambushed and looted a retreating Arab army. They also profit from this war to conquer Byzantine territories. It was Byzantine who saved the day, destroying the fleet and an Arab army near Constantinople.
"The Battle for Europe"... this basically sums up the whole Greek history even to this day.
I'm french and in our country ,we have an other view about the islamic invasion of Europe because Charles Martel is considered like the savior of Europe whereas the battle wasn't really important .There was only razzia in South France .Glad to see videos where we can study others histories about the same evenement but with a different location and how important was this battle and how Islam is seen in european countries .In this case, I guess there is a major difference between France and Bulgaria for example.
Indeed. I am glad I could give a good look at what was happening in Eastern Europe at this time. The idea with the end part was to illustrate how this siege fitted into the wider context, history does not happen in a vacuum as they say. Nice comment.
Dear French guy. The campaign in south France was almost 20 years later then the siege of Constantinople and the Arabic army was 10 times less. The main Battle of Europe was this one. After the perfect military operation led by saint Terbelis Arabs never return back.
Try to find out more about saint Terbelis. Until 18 century he was famous as a saver of Europe.
@@chipil0 Yeah... you know.. those fair, honest, tolerant Western Europeans, who love everyone, except the actual guys who literally saved their asses. After all, they are all about fairness and democracy, except, when faking history :) ;) There is a saying that goes: "History is written by the winners." Guess the gratitude was leaving us and the Eastern Empire alone against the Ottomans and after we got crushed erasing everything our nation did. After that sent troops to fight with the Ottomans against the Russian Empire to prevent Bulgaria from ever getting freed at all. The pathetic thing is that most of our idiotic nation actually keeps going towards the people who literally not only didn't give a single f*ck about them, but tried in some degree to help in the destruction of our nationality. Not only that, we give them 96%-97% of our gold now. For this level of pettiness and stupidity we are paying now, and a greater cost will be paid later, when we loose half, if not all of our territory again. If shit hits the fan they will throw us to the wolves without batting an eyelash, 7 centuries of slavery were not enough, hold on to your seat, brother, more is coming. Виж накрая на видеото, че картата даже не показва България. Пише "Авари". За какво говорим. Жив и здрав!
First King
Pourquoi les misilmun ont- ils construit une disproportionée mosquée à Poitier à la mémoire des " MARRRTYRS masscrés par les Francs si ,comme vous le dites - suivant les toutes nouvelles niaiseries déconstructivistes de gauche-la bataille de Poitiers n' eut été qu' une escarmouche entre touristes maghrebins et un groupuscule de Francs en vacance en Aquitaine ? Seuls les cénacles de la gauche francaise dénigrent l ' effet éducatif du massacre des mahométans ,qui auront du attendre la 5 e république finissante pour renouveler leurs tentatives de conquète de l' occident.
U should learn from spain buddy
Great historical topic and video on the Eastern Roman Empire! Not only that you used music from the Ogre Battle/Tactics video games. Both themes of heavy political stories and war tales.
It has a bombastic feel which goes well with these majestic moments in history.
Wow this video deserves more popularity than it has got 👍👏😇!!
Thank you very much
This battle sounds like a fun one. It's end reminded me a but of the storm the Spanish Armada ran into after they failed to invade England. And also the storm that the Mongol Fleet ran into after they failed to invade Japan. Nice job with this video.
In Arab sources siege of Constantinople was devastating but battle of Tours barely mentioned, areas around Paris was raided but only in South France near Marseille and in Switzerland firm Emirates was established
One of the most important moments in History, this is the victory that save europe of islam.
"NOOOOO YOU HAVE TO LET US IIIIIN"
"ahahaha greek fire goes wwwwshhhhhh"
Mehmed with his big boy& crusaders : hello Little one...
@@alomaralsulaiman6501
Hussar:
Imma stomp ye.
Great video
Until 1204 Constantinople was the bastion of Christendom - 4th Crusade is a shame in European civilization.
Leo III was a formidable general and greatly underrated.
They prefer to talk of Charles Martel a small king who won one battle that "saved Europe" - Byzantines fought a hundred battles and by early 10th century they humiliated the invincible caliphate.
Regretfully they didn't stop the Turks so at the end we at the Balkans lived the islamic horror after all. And we still do.
wow, so amazing
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Absolutely! Very well deserved.
Thank you, for this. It was a fight for Europe. For centuries Romanland (Byzantium) was the bulwark that kept Asia from invading Europe. When Romanity fell, Islam reached the center of Europe. After 1453 scholars from Constantinople New Rome fled to Italy, mainly Venice. Thus the Renaissance started.
Who the hell is that helm in the start picture right under the "a" in Roman for? That thing would be too big for The Mountain if he existed.
Thanks to Kanas Tervel saved Europe and Byzantium
Let's be honest if Constatinapole fall next one was Bulgaria 🇧🇬 so Bulgaria helped themselves including foreign armies
Constantanople
Covadonga
Tours
Ardabil
The four horsemen of the arab apocolypse
Lol, I like it.
It makes up for:
Yarmouk
The Masts
Sebastopolis
Carthage
The four horsemen of the Byzantine apocolypse.
don't you think it's a shame that byzantium is not that mainstream? there are 50 movies of henry viii and how many of..... heraclius for example?
you can also add me on discord to talk about byzantium
: Proletariado#4420
I would be glad
@@EasternRomanHistory
Those were nothing compared to Qadissyia
Ctesiphon
Jalulah
Nahavand (the Arabs called it the victory of victories)
Those were the Sassanids biggest defeats and the end of their empire
Regarding the Franks, the Arabs defeated them in the siege of Zaragoza and the battle of the pass, and the Spaniards were 400 years old while they were paying tribute to the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordoba. The Khazars were conquered by Marawan Ibn Muhammad 737 and killed 100 thousand Khazri and enslaved 120 thousand and became the Khazars, follow the Umayyad Caliphate, the Byzantines know whois Khaled Ibn Al-Walid, and the battle of That Al-Sawari .....😂😂
@@EasternRomanHistory Constantinople = Stalingrad for the Umayyad Arabs, the Arabs besieged Constantinople during the reign of Hisham bin Abdul-Malik 737 and twice during the Abbasid era (Muhammad al-Mahdi and Harun al-Rashid) the Abbasids were from the era of al-Saffah to al-Muqtafi. They had the ability to conquer Constantinople, but they were satisfied with the tribute from romens
the savior is saint Tribelius ,or khan Tribelius ,for us bulgarians hi is khan Tervel
Indeed, Tervel was integral to winning on land. Tervels encirclement of the Arab army meant that they could not exploit the countryside outside Constantinople. That is interesting, I did not know that Tervel is called Saint Tribelius.
Eastern Roman History he was pronounced king of Bulgaria and the Eastern Roman Empire for short period of time.
@@EasternRomanHistory Bro, that just proves my point. Your making video about Siege of Constantinople 717: The Battle for Europe
and yet don't know about the crucial part that Bulgaria had during this time. If it wasn't for our armies, Constantinople would have most likely fall 717-718. Wtf?
@@stefanfilipov1574 Romans survived two sieges before this one without Bulgarians
Khan TERVEL
Eating dead corpses? That is a bit extreme, I could only stand to eat a living corpse.
So the Crusades Did Better Job at Conquering the City huh ?
Soy un estudioso de todo lo relacionado con el imperio bizantino......por favor sus videos en español
Sounds like Stalingrad
among with romans navy
don't you think it's a shame that byzantium is not that mainstream? there are 50 movies of henry viii and how many of..... heraclius for example?
you can also add me on discord to talk about byzantium
: Proletariado#4420
I would be glad
Haha 6:10 the Muslims broke the code
It's a T not a F. Okay!
Ironic how Leo III the Isaurian was arab
No he was not an Arab. He was a native Syrian.
@@EasternRomanHistory lol John of Damascus was arab no where it says he was arameans the arameans disappeared when the Arab Christian tribes migrated to Syria created Ghassanids tanukhids etc... John of Damascus never spoke aramaic he spoke arabic and so Leo III the Syrian he was fluent in arabic
@@EasternRomanHistory
Arabs like other ethnic groups are native to Syria. But they were all heavily influenced by Aramiac culture and language.
@@-3696 not native ur from saudi Arabia sirya is for Assyrian not arabs
@@rickyyacine4818
Assyrians homeland was in Northern Mesopotamia.
The Levant and Mesopotamia were home to many Semitic ethnic groups including Arabs who got Aramized hundereds of years before Islam arrived.
Arabic just replaced Aramiac just like Aramiac replaced those before it.
Maslama ❤ what warrior and what a great army.. the Umayyad empire was extending to the edges of the world. In just few years they reached the borders of Constantinople..🌙💛 Prince Maslama’s tomb in now in Turkiye
Look out!! A RABS!!!!!!
It’s not as dramatic as you think that battle was more of a revenge thing not really to invade all of Europe
really?
A Jew lying. What's new?
A RABS.