History of the Byzantine Empire
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- The history of the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire from AD306-1453.
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It's amazing how long did they lasted, considering the amount of civil unrest and rebellions that the empire had threw out it's entire history.
Throughout
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@@battlehymnoftherepublic6037 Russia considers itself the true continuation of the Orthodox church, called themselves the third Rome
Omg, imagine the headache of managing that, i almost have a headache playing as the Byzantines in video games, imagine managing the empire with real existential threats, palace intrigues.
When you think it couldn’t get worst, the black death arrives 😩😩😩
Greek Fire was important in that.
This stuff is seriously underrated.
"Present your shield, swords, arrows, and spears to them, imagining that you are a hunting party after wild boars, so that the impious may learn that they are dealing not with dumb animals but with their lords and masters, THE DESCENDANTS OF THE GREEKS AND THE ROMANS."
George Sprantzes - The Fall of the Byzantine Empire 1453 primary source from the war.
Constantine Palaologus XI speaks before his officers and allies before the final siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed Bey
753BC - AD1453
@Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Caesar True, but its more poetic and Trebizond wasn’t Led by The Roman Emperor. But They were definitely Roman.
Very good video! No one ever talks about what happens after the Romans reclaimed constantinople in 1261. They always say "while they did reclaim it, the empire was not the same and it would collapse in just 200 years" as if it was nothing to talk about. Thank you for discussing that time period!
The thing is it just gets sad after the venetians. I think the history of the Roman empire after the fall of rome can be summarized as following: One step forward, three steps and a couple civil wars backwards.
Thanks, the Late period I find really interestin and does not get the attention it deserves.
I think nobody mentions that because the battle that was "fought" for it... did not really happened. The latins were really bad at administering their "empire" and no reinforcements ever came for them, since their capture of Constantinople was not done with the Pope's blessing. Fun fact, out of the 3entities that split from the Byzantine Empire following 1204, the strongest was Epirus. Yet, it was the Empire of Nicaea that managed to reclaim Constantinople. Anyway, it's a real shame. Being a roman was smth to be proud of when the empire was at its best, and a shameful thing when roman killed roman for power, just to be killed in turn by a new enemy. This, and so many incompetent rulers... holy crap! Why were they ever emperors is beyond me
Yeah and noone talks about how Simeon the Great won the Macedonian dynasty in at least 2 major wars ....beating their allies too Hungary and Serbia. .
I have actually been to the Hagia Sofia, it is impressive and the fact that after 1485 years it still stands!!
Byzantium Forever!!! ✊⚔️🏰⚔️✊
Жора Абуев *Roman Empire！
@Just Man they also repelled over 20 sieges of their capital recovered numerous times from disastrous defeats well the Turks and Islamic world as a whole became largely irrelevant during the 18th century and never recovered.
Roman Empire, never "Byzantium".
yeah forever but Bulgarians crush them
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 Byzantime empire its a term for medieval roman empire and starts with constantine the Great who was half Greek it must be noted that borders were not the same as they are today and the east of roman empire was dominated by a core Greek and latter major Greek population, it had minorities yes but all the empires are multiethnic.Emperor Heraclius change the language from latin to Greek because he had a Greco-romam empire at this point. Historicaly the term byzantium is not bad but is not right for characters to call the empire byzantine in movies or games.tho saying that the eastern roman empire was no Greek its just sad For Romiosini ,modern Greek cuture (the closest thing to byzantine) and for the heroes like kolokotronis who saw themseleves as Romioi, a continuation of roman empire and were inspired from Constantine's 11th last stand
Great video! I enjoyed getting a summarized history of the Byzantines since I'm still in the class of people who are trying to fill in the blanks between Justinian I, Basil II, 1071, 1204, and 1453.
Glad it was useful.
you should read about Simeon the Great - that is a good fill up the blanks before they always skip to Basil
Ottoman here ? 🤔
Ottomanhistory is not turkish himself he makes videos about ottomans but he is surely american
God I’ll never grow tired of Roman and “Byzantine” history.
Awesome.
She survived from 4 century - 15 century, amazing how ERE survived for +1000 years with enemies on all side (and inside lmao), outliving many of her enemies. Enjoying golden ages/hegemonies and dark ages in a flash, being a scientific and cultural paragons, while being a badass dying defending a city versus a whole empire while being outnumbered af. *Tips hat*
literally the last roman emperor died tearing off his imperial diadems and charging into the enemy
@@hershkrukover7846 yes, constantine xi is a badass
One of the few who actually makes videos on the specific subjects of Eastern Byzantine history.
Great job on the video and explanation!
Very interesting time period.
Great overview
This one is amazing! The visuals and especially the content are off the charts. Having a recap really helps to put it all in perspective.
Than you very much
Great channel! I have already subscribed ! Finally some Byzantine history for us 😄
Great music choice!!!
Love your viedos. Keep up the stuff.
great job
Those dame civil wars
You have a lovely voice and this was really interesting.
Great history timeline of the Eastern Roman Empire！
@Just Man 1071
Byzantium 🤝 Russia
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@Nikos *Rhomaioi
@Nikos Indeed, but they still self identify as Romans, even they are speaking what modern day consider as a Greek language. In fact, the sense of nationality is always changing from times to times. As result, they are "Roman" in their consideration.
@Nikos An older example would be，before the Greco-Persian Wars, which city states fighting with Persian, there is no idea about been a Greek, but rather been the citizens or members of one's own polis. Only after the war, the idea of Greek has formed between those polis who fight off Persian.
Enjoyed ur video! Love the eastern Roman empire history! Too underappreciated in the west. One question on the Byzantine transfer of empire at the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Did the last emperors brother give imperial authority to the Spanish empire? Wasn't he in exile in Italy? Keep up the great work,we are watching!
Than you very much. I am afraid i don't know much about the post-byzantine aftermath. I do know that Thomas Palaiologos continued the good fight and tried to rally support from Corfu until his death. His son Andrew Palaiologos was maintained in Italy and tried to rally support but failed to achieve anything. David Grand Komnenos was executed by mehmed II after a revolt started to coaless around him.
Good video mentioning the small comebacks. Feel free to cover less known comebacks and victories more often I feel it’s lacking on the history format channels. I get it’s probably less of a view grabber.
Those last minutes, hurts a lot to watch.
The Qur'an includes the Surat Ar-Rum, the sura dealing with "the Romans", sometimes translated as "The Byzantines," reflecting a term now used in the West. These Romans of the 7th century, referred to as Byzantines in modern Western scholarship, were the inhabitants of the surviving Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. Since all ethnic groups within the Roman empire had been granted citizenship by 212 AD, these eastern peoples had come to label themselves Ρωμιοί or Ῥωμαῖοι Romaioi (Romans), using the word for Roman citizen in the eastern lingua franca of Koine Greek. This citizenship label became "Rûm" in Arabic.
The Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire traced its origin as an institution to the foundation of Constantinople as the new capital of the Roman Empire in 330 by Constantine the Great. The Byzantine Empire survived the 5th century, when the Western Roman Empire fell, more or less intact and its populace continually maintained that they were Romaioi (Romans), not Hellenes (Greeks), even as the empire's borders gradually became reduced to in the end only encompassing Greek-speaking lands.
Nicol 1992, p. ix.
The AOE tracks in the background tho.
God bless.
In about 1440 John Argyropoulos wrote of the struggle for the freedom of ' Hellas ' in a letter addressed to John VIII as 'Emperor of Hellas'. We have come a long way from the days when the ambassador Liudprand of Cremona was thought unfit to be received at the Court because his credentials were addressed to the 'Emperor of the Greeks'. But 'Graeci' was never an acceptable term. George Scholarius, the future Patriarch Gennadius, who was to be the link between the old Byzantine world and the world of the Turcocratia, often uses 'Hellene' to mean anyone of Greek blood. But he had doubts about its propriety; he still retained the older view. When he was asked his specific opinion about his race, he wrote in reply: "Though I am a Hellene by birth, yet I would never say that I was a Hellene. For I do not believe as the Hellenes believed. I should like to take my name from my faith and, if anyone asked me what I am, to reply "a Christian". Though my father dwelt in Thessaly,' he adds, 'I do not call myself a Thessalian, but a Byzantine. For I am of Byzantium.' It is to be remarked that though he repudiates the name of Hellene he calls the Imperial City not New Rome or Constantinople, but by its old Hellenic name.
Runciman, S. (1970). IMPERIAL DECLINE AND HELLENIC REVIVAL. In The Last Byzantine Renaissance (The Wiles Lectures, pp. 1-23). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
IMPERIUM ROMANUM
Just Man Uh no. Rome was finally destroyed by Western crusaders and turks.
@@avgvstvscaesar7834 True. It’s a great shame. Not just Charlemagne but historians after the final fall to further delegitimise the Empire in the east. Revisionists.
Though, in an alternate History Charlemagne might have been a way for the empire to Return. But his stupid kids would rather be Franks than rebuild some sort of Rome in the west.
What if the Hellenic independence war from the ottomans succeeded in taking Constantinople? Would the Roman State have been revived with the capital retaken? Since IIRC the Greek national identity was made in response to that failure.
they would probably revive the roman identity and the eastern roman spirit and nationalism would be on a huge rise especially since their legend of the marble emperor would come to be true
Most of the Greeks, especially in Anatolia, referred to themselves as Romans well into the 20th century .The Hellenic identity was reinforced by the Greek merchantile bourgoisie which was the main orchestrator and benefactor of the war of independence .The Roman-orthodox and Hellenic identities where thus merged during the 19th century . Greek irredentism though, was heavily centered on reclaiming Constantinople and reviving the Byzantine Empire which would be called "Greater Hellas" .Still , the problem was not in taking Constantinople as it was already surrendered to the allies post WW1 and its goverment capitulated . The kemalist grand assembly in anatolian heartland backed by the Soviets was the main adversary and the reason the Great Idea (revival of the Roman State and unification of places historically settled by Greeks ) did not materialise.This also explains the transfer of the turkish capital to Ankara and the renaming of Constantinople to Instanbul .
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 I dont get the point of your comment at all mate , sorry .
Hard to say, maybe they would had an existential crisis.
But the western powers called them Greeks so i think they would had remained with Greek identity but remember their « Roman » glory
Will you make a video about constantine v?
I plan to soon
What's the outro music? Chills for days!
It is called Healing Winds from the game Soul Calibur 2
Eastern Roman History Thanks!!!
this site began on 1 june 2018/soon it will be four years ago/what was your first video?
The medieval eastern Romans included many ethnicities with two things in common: the Greek language and the the Greek orthodox Christianity. They called themselves Romans till the end. It was an insult to call them Greek (although most of them were ethnically Greek) as the term meant "pagan "at the time. The Greeks still call themselves Romans ("Romioi") and the Turks also call them Romans ("Rumlar").
Roman Empire (Byzantium) and Constantinople Forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can someone tell me how I could learn ancient or medieval Greek? Thanks!
I can recommend buying a learning book such as Greek to GCSE and learn from that. That should give you a good grounding in the basics . There are others of course so have look and see what turns up.
Can't we just make a video about how awesome the empire was
Whats with Italy that causes allied powers to rebel and seek their own independence? The Lombards had been an ally during the fifth century, who had fought wars against their rival Gepids in the Baulikins, and had moved during the fifth century to support the decongest of Italy. They had been quite loyal, but not long after arriving in Italy, they ha rebelled and sought to form their own kingdom.
The Normals were Vikings, some of whom had served the Eastern Roman Empire themselves, before stalking their own claim on Northern France, England, and Southern Italy. It is they who would be a major thorn in Alexios side prior to the first crusade, and it would take quite some doing to get them to stop attacking the empire and join the common cause the crusade had been form to combat..
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@@Ghost-vi8qm ww must destroy them for good
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Don't do that. Don't give me hope.
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Great Est Roman Empire Bizantyne one of Great human empere in world history.Great and Migthy oponent for my Brave and Glorius Country.Bulgarian Empire only big oponent in Europa.7 century battle gloruis and epic battle mAlyans from Sige Constantinopol 717-718. ❤Greting from 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Istanbul was Constantinople... (I can't remember the rest of the words)... It seems like splitting the empire would have taken a lot of humility. It's very rare for people to give up power once they have it. But was that the downfall or what kept it alive for nearly another thousand years?
Practically, the empire was too large for a single person to rule during the constant state of war the empire found itself in from the third century and afterwards.
0:12 Who Said We can’t bring it back
The last stand of a once great people.
Lol,the romans and byzantines were Greeks all the same and i'm proud to be their descendant!
For starters, there were never "Byzantines". They were medieval Romans just like the Romans of classical times. And they were not "Greek". Only Greek-speaking. But I agree, that you should be proud of this history.
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 only greek kids are believing this nonsense🤣🤣🤣
Ostrogoth ? Odovacer was heruli
beg your pardon - Julius Nepos was sent in June 474AD by Emperor Zeno of the East Roman Empire[474-491] to be Emperor of the west[474-480] when he was assassinated and was the Recognized Emperor of the west till his death, by the East. but while he was the last Emperor of the West Recognised. He was not the Last Emperor of the west!.In Italy Orestes,the army commander of Nepos in Italy in 475, overthrow the Emperor in Italy!.Orestes installed his young son Romulus Auguslus as Emperor of the west[475-476].He was not Recognizied as Emperor outside Italy!.when news reach Gaul[northern france],one Syagrius was rised on a Shild as the Emperor of the west[475-486 when deated by King Clovis 1st ].Syagrius, while not being Recognied in Italy or by the ERE and Nepos climing the imperial throne,Syagius was Recogizied as Emperor of the west by those around his dominon and in the British islands who traded with the Romans of Roman Gaul.meanwhile, on Sept 4th 476,the 16 year old emoeror in Italy abdicted the Imperial office following a coup and death of his father and he retired with a pension due his rank to Eastes on the Gulf of Naples with a Bodygarud to live out his life .he was not the last of the Roman Emperors,The Western Empire did not end in 476,the Roman Senate at Rome sent word to Zeno that he was know sole Emperor of the Roman Empire[the east and the west[in thier eyes] and sent him the Imperial Robes of the western Emperor,but Zeno did not take the office of the Empoer of the west,but want on saying Nepos was the rightful Emperor of the west,yet he did nothing to bring Nepos back to Italy and acted more as overlord of the west[Italy] by given out ranks and tities to people in Italty!. Like Odoacer,leader of the Imperial German mercenaries who led the coup that led to the boy Emperor abdicating the Imperial throne , Odoacer took the title , king of Italy,which was not Recognizied by the east or Nepos!] and yet he was king!. in a face saving move that would show Italy was still a part of the Roman Empire of the west, with Nepos as emperor !, Zeno as the Sinor Emperor gave Odoacer a title that ment he had the right to rule Italy in the name of Nepos.with this lipservice to a man outside Italy,Italy was Official still part of the Western Empire,but in fact the kingdom of Italy existed and yet everyone show themsevles Romans and the Empire existed with Nepos as Emperor in name only in Italy [476-480] till his death in 480, when Zeno became sole Emperor of the Roman Empire[480-491] in fact, but in name only in Italy[while still not Reconizion the climes of Syagrius as the rightfill Emperor of the west, but only as Rex[king],so from 480 the Empire was reuited in name only under one Emperor and thus Italy was while a fully free kingdom, it was still seen as part of the Western/united Roman Empire!.Roman rule in Gaul ended in 486[real end of the Empire of the west outside of law ]and Italy remained this way till the East sent one to overthrow king Odoacer and he was also given a tile to rule Italy for the Emperor, but once he was in power, this strange legal law saving massure that overlooked how things really were,became more and more meaningless.Then Justian 1st the Great came to the Imperial throne with the aim to bring the west and most of all Italy back under direct Roman Imperial rule,it is clear however that he was acting as sole Roman Emperor and not as Emperor of the west[which he know was a dead Empire],but as all outside the kingdom of Italy was long lost to the Empire,maybe he shoild have just reimposed direct Roman rule over Italy and the islands and forgot about Gaul, Spain and Africa and thus his holdings in the west/Euope may have been held!.but yet he may have seen himself as Emperor of the west and thus overlord of the kingdoms to the west,as he used the legal point of being Empoor [overlord] to interfar in the affairs of the west in a way to reimose direct Roman rule.Many in the west keep seeing themselves as Romans under the rule of outsiders and at 1st would have welcomed the Imperial forces as Libertors and people subject to Roman rule saw the Empire as contining till the 1460's .Spain was added as the Government would make money from the rich trade from the ports on the coast and Silily and Africa would surupy Grian abd whreat and Rome and Ltaly were studus sybols to hold, but as the years went by!. the Imperial government had other things to consider[mostly in the east, so not for a long time, but over time, the areas that Roman dictrit rule were reimposed over were losted and while attempts were made to keep Roman Rule or reimpose it in Italy and Silily were made , they in long term, were not sussessful .
Wow!!!
"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit"
("Greece, although captured, took its wild conqueror captive") - Horace
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 The ancient Romans copied almost everything from the Greeks. Their arts, their statues, their alphabet, even their gods. The ancient roman civilization would never even have existed as we know it, if Greek civilization did not pre-exist. So maybe you should thank the Greeks, because without them , there would never have been ancient Rome at the first place.
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 Man, you made so many ridiculous - even fictional statements in just a couple of sentences! 😂
I guess your "education" on ancient history derives solely from TH-cam history channels and Netflix documentaries. Proper books from acclaimed expert scholars on the field (like the ones I stated as sources in a previous reply) must be like Japanese to you... 😂
So...According to you, "Greeks TOOK EVERYTHING from the Egyptians, Sumerians etc." and the Romans SIMPLY "TOOK THINGS from the Greeks and others and made them better". What an erroneous and even ridiculous comment that is! 😂
Read now below how wrong what you wrote is and how easily one can disprove such a non-factual statement..
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 Tell me please, from whom did the Greeks "take" the art of Drama?! Had the Sumerians, the Egyptians etc. theaters and playwrights?! 😂😂😂
Tell me please, from whom did the Greeks "take" the political system of Democracy? 😂😂😂
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 Tell me please! From whom did Greeks "take" Philosophy?! 😂😂😂
And tell me, from whom did the Greeks take the organized phalanx type of warfare, which by the way the Romans initially imitated and later evolved to another level? 😂😂😂
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 "Greeks took everything from the Egyptians, Sumerians, Phoenicians, Minoans and so forth." - TIE Interceptor 😂
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ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΩ ΕΝΕΡΓΟΠΟΙΗΣΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥΣ ΥΠΟΤΙΤΛΟΥΣ.
ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΏ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΗ ΣΥΧΕΧΕΙΑ.
Sad day in history when Constantinople fell, for many reasons.
As always, the Romans were always their own worst enemy.
@@dragonorka9165 true
;-)
"Καὶ οὕτως λογίσθητε ὡς ἐπὶ ἀγρίων χοίρων καὶ πληθὺν κυνήγιον, ἵνα γνώσωσιν οἱ ἀσεβεῖς ὅτι οὐ μετὰ ἀλόγων ζῴων ὡς αὐτοί, παράταξιν ἔχουσιν, ἀλλὰ μετὰ κυρίων καὶ αὐθεντῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀπογόνων ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ καὶ Ῥωμαίων."
Ὁμιλία τοῦ Αὐτοκράτορα Κωνσταντίνου ΙΑ’ Παλαιολόγου πρὶν τὴν ἅλωση τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως
Constantine Palaiologos himself in the end proclaimed Constantinople the "refuge for Christians, hope and delight of all HELLENES".
George Phrantzes, History, 3.6.
No Byzantine. Is Easter Roman empire.
We must restore Constantinople
1453, what about the Eastern Roman Rebellion in north Anatolia Which lasted a full year after Constantinople fell?
And thus, the Eastern Roman Empire showed the world how to suck at fighting its enemies rather than fighting itself. Shame, man :(
They were in it for the long game.
Eastern Roman History yeah... they could have survived till modern times if not for so much betrayal ... i wanted to meet the romans :(
@@ragael1024 I know 😢
"The Frankish court (during the 7TH CENTURY A.D) no longer regarded the Byzantine Empire as holding valid claims of universality; instead it was now termed the 'EMPIRE OF THE GREEKS'."
Fouracre, Paul; Gerberding, Richard A. (1996). Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640-720. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, p. 345
Nope. Roman Empire. Always. Nobody believes Greek nationalists. It must hurt to know the truth.
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 You are the "genius" who did not even know that the ancient Greeks INVENTED the art of drama and theater, the art of organized warfare, the Olympic games and sportsmanship, the political idea of democracy and philosophy among others and thought that Greeks took them from the Egyptians and the Sumerians?! 😂😂😂. And you come here to commentate after I have totally dismantled all the ridiculous statements you made in other postings?! I must tell you, you do not seem any convincing at all 😂😂😂
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 "Greeks took everything from the Egyptians, Sumerians, Phoenicians, Minoans and so forth." - TIE Interceptor 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 According to Greg Woolf (among many other scholars), "crucial to understanding Roman identity is that unlike other ancient peoples, such as the Greeks or Gauls, the Romans did not see their common identity as one necessarily based on shared language or inherited ethnicity".
Romans were neither Greek nor Italian, specifically. "Roman" had always been a rather general term, applying not to a specific race or ethnic group and instead to those with Roman CITIZENSHIP, born in a Roman province, or those who reflected the characteristics of Roman people.
@@locomotivebearingdown5381 "Most historians agree that the defining features of their civilization were: 1) Greek language, culture, literature, and science, 2) Roman law and tradition, 3) Christian faith.[88] The Byzantine Greeks were, and perceived themselves as, heirs to the culture of ancient Greece,[89] the political heirs of imperial Rome,[90][91] and followers of the Apostles.[92]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Greeks#Self-perception
Ostrogorsky, George (1969). History of the Byzantine State. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1198-6.
Baynes, Norman Hepburn; Moss, Henry St. Lawrence Beaufort (1948). Byzantium: An Introduction to East Roman Civilization. Oxford: Clarendon Press
Kazhdan, Alexander Petrovich; Constable, Giles (1982). People and Power in Byzantium: An Introduction to Modern Byzantine Studies. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks. ISBN 978-0-88402-103-2.
Runciman, Steven (1970). The Last Byzantine Renaissance. London and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kitzinger, Ernst (1967). Handbook of the Byzantine Collection. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks. ISBN 978-0-88402-025-7.
Haldon, John (1999). Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204. London: UCL Press. ISBN 1-85728-495-X.
Browning, Robert (1992). The Byzantine Empire. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-0754-4.
First Bulgaria Empire=Horror story of Eastern Roman Empire
Eastern Roman Empire=Horror story of The First Bulgarian Empire
@@bpsalami9864 Asparuh, Krum, Tervel, Simeon etc. Laughed :-)
@@papazataklaattiranimam I don't remember them conquering the whole Eastern Roman Empire. Unlike John I and Basil II who conquered the whole Bulgarian Empire for 160 years
@@bpsalami9864 They conquered Bulgaria from non-Bulgar dynasty aka Cometopuli. Ethnic Bulgars, on the other hand won 80-90% of their battles against Romans.
@@bpsalami9864 Battle of Pliska was one of the worst defeats of Romans :-)
A western European primary source from 1182 referring to the inhabitants of Constantinople as a "GREEK NATION":
"It is said that more than four thousand Latins of various age, sex, and condition were delivered thus to barbarous nations for a price. In such fashion did the perfidious GREEK NATION, a brood of vipers, like a serpent in the bosom or a mouse in the wardrobe evilly requite their guests-those who had not deserved such treatment and were far from anticipating anything of the kind; those to whom they had given their daughters, nieces, and sisters as wives and who, by long living together, had become their friends."
Holt, Andrew (January 2005). "Massacre of Latins in Constantinople,1182 Crusades-Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
you just very quickly said after initial setbacks the Byzantines destroyed the Bulgarian empire. Hold ON. First of all, these "setbacks" were some of the greatest defeats that Byzantine empire tasted ! check Battles of Achelous, Boulgaophygon and Constantinople. Simeon the Great almost kicked them entirely out of Europe. and banged his sword on Constantinople multiple times....the Byzantines were praying to saints and to GOD and throwing Arab captives desperately trying to stop the Bulgarian Power. Also, it was the Russians who weakened Bulgaria initially but even then Bulgarians recaptured everything from Byzantines.
okay?
Yes Basil II conquered Bulgaria and both sides took defeats! in fact Basil II and his entire army got crushed at the Battle of TRAJAN Gates and Pernik. Also many times Byzantines lost battles of Thessaloniki, Larissa, Bitola, Strumica before they managed to outbeat the Bulgarians. But even then Basil won by diplomacy trying to seduce Bulgarians of a great happy easy life if they surrender to him.
so don't make it seem like Byzantines are the superior the whole time. Bullshit
ERH covered 1100 years in one video how he is meant to mention these minor Bulgarian successes, bit unfair of you to expect that sort of thing. Lets not forget that the Bulgar wars were ultimately a triumph for Byzantium as the Bulgars were dealt blow after blow by the Boulgaroktonos.
@@Athena-oh3uj you seem to forget 1185 the Bulgarians revolted, won independence and re-emerged the Bulgarian empire. The Second empire won almost every fight against Byzantines even the last major battle at Rusocastro Bulgarians won.
So judging by "who won at the end" the Bulgarians triumphed
@@battlehymnoftherepublic6037 Bulgaria is that thing the West can never be. So glorious and high-spirit country
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HEY bro this video is very one-sided in favour of Byzantine. You missed to talk about SIMEON THE GREAT the Bulgarian ruler completely destroyed the Byzantines under Macedonian dynasty in at least 2 major wars and banging his sword on Constantinople multiple times. Wtf
As much as Simeon the Great was a great threat to Constantinople during his rule and inflicted a string of defeats, this video takes a very zoomed out view of events because it has to cover 1100 years of history in a brief amount of time. If there is a bias towards the Byzantines it is because this video is about Byzantine history and so the history is told from their point of view.
@@EasternRomanHistory okay fair enough. You try to be objective thanks.
Some truth ,some shit!Dude ,resurch more information about this ! Talking most of it is sht!
"after initial setsbacks against Bulgarians", ......and he skips all his crushing defeats quickly trying to finalize it with Basil II . hahahaha he is trying to make Byzantine look superior .
hey how about Second Bulgarian empire
hey how about Basil's greatest defeat in 986 and at siege of Pernik twice
hey how about Battles of Thessaloniki, Strumica, Larisa, Bitola and Bulgarians broke the wall at Thermopylae arriving at the Corinth canal
hey how about SIMEON the Great and his Battle of Achelous
how about the wars 986, 913-927?
There is no such thing as History of Byzantine. So fix your title.
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