Siege of Constantinople 717-718 - Arab-Byzantine Wars DOCUMENTARY
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The forces of the Rashidun Caliphate achieved a decisive victory against the Byzantines at Yarmouk in 636. This allowed the Muslims to take over Syria and Egypt. But the Eastern Roman Empire was still strong and continued its resistance. The next 80 years Byzantines fought against the onslaught and the Arab-Byzantine wars reached their peak during the Siege of Constantinople in 717-718 where emperor Leo assisted by the Bulgars of Khan Tervel faced the overwhelming odds against the Umayyad forces. This battle is often overlooked in comparison to the battle of Tours that happened in France, but it was bigger and scale and had an even bigger impact on the fate of Europe.
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"Allah will protect Bagdhad no biggie"
How many sieges and battles did you face?
Constantinople: *Yes*
Ottoman at that time: hello
@@attilapusat4228
Ottomans:
We took a weakened city. We are heroes.
Eveyrone:
Sure. Sure. Now try that at Viena.
"Byzantium calls for aid"
"And Bulgaria will answer"
"Since when has Tzar Krum the wise abandoned reason for madness"
*Master the Bulgahirim*
@@vitalymaliarov696 Maybe some of the details, but I think there are more parallels with the Battle of Vienna
The Roman Blood is all but spent, His pride and dignity forgotten!
looks like constantinople seen more history and battle than rome.
Rome has seen its share of action, but, yes, Constantinople was threatened more often.
on second thought, looks like no city has seen more battle than constantinople and survived
@@KingsandGenerals yeap Constantinople is a crossroad from ancient times from Troy...cuz who ever control the city control the black sea
@Cyril 88 nope... Constantinople came third in Division
1:Rome
2: Lyons
3: Constantinople
Thats happened after the 1204
O O
Jerusalem might’ve seen more action. It’s been under siege 23 times, conquered and recovered 44 times, and attacked 52 times.
Props to Theodosius III for putting the interests of the country before himself!
Some heroes don't wear capes.
JimOriginal well technically, he took it off for his country, which is why he is a hero without his cape.
Well he never wanted to be emperor. He was proclaimed by rebels against his wish. Also when new started to arrive that the Arabs were gathering stuff for a great siege of Constantinople he was actually terrified. He built up the defences of the city but still hated the responsibilities he had. So when Leo was proclaimed he was more than happy to leave the role of leader of a state at death's door and get all the blame.
@@Jim-fi4dc 😂😂👍
Bolghars saw the big picture and understood if Constantinople fell then they can do nothing to stop Arab armies. So they decided helping Byzantium was their only choice. Tervel was a wise man
Anantha Padmanabhan
We need a new Byzantine army to hold back the tide of the Mohammedans.
@@RedVelvetBlackleather What new tide? What new Byzantium? Are you stupid?
There is no new tide, and there will be no new Byzantium, let it go already, it's Turkey now.
Anantha Padmanabhan You mean the Bulgarians, thats what they called themself
@@JohnDoeTheGoodGuy In a 1000 years when everything is changed and all the nations of today have gone with the test of time. Someone will say let it go. It's not Turkey anymore.
@@antiochusiiithegreat7721 Indeed, but it's kind of redundant to tell someone this. Anyone who denies that nations and humans are ephemeral is only kidding himself.
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The wars between the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires that came after this battle have to be the most underrated chapter in history
Everyone either skips talking about the Bulgarian Empire, or mentions it when it is in its weakest times.
Ivan Borisov Nah everyone heard about Khan Krum and how he embarassed Nikephoros.
Not really interesting
@Васил Петков bulgars is just another nomads behind european door.
zarni000 Yeah you’re right embarrassed is an understatement. Krum literally turn Nikephoros’s skull into a mug.
Personally I think this battle is more significant than the Battle of Tours. Had the Arabs conquered Constantinople, the great bulwark of Christendom against the expansion of Islam would have fallen 700 years earlier (before the Middle Ages had even started). The Arabs may well have expanded into southern Europe, possibly conquering the whole Mediterranean and cutting off the Germanic kingdoms of Western and Northern Europe from the legacy of the Greeks and Romans. World history would be very different.
True as Arabs had not tried to conquer Frankia. Martel defeated a raiding party but the battle has been so romanticised as its like they avoided Europe from a muslim invasion.
@@RandomGuy-df1oy Iberia was taken, it was a muslim invasion... Winning that battle turned the tides in the region and prevented that army from furthur pushing into europe...
@@RandomGuy-df1oy Well tbf, if they won against the Franks nothing would of stopped them from actually occupying at least southern France.
@@Daneclaw well it was a raiding party, they would do much damage to France and even they could br encouraged to conquer if they had won. Btw they actually had a part of Southern France
@@notsoprogaming9789 yes iberia was an ivasion, but france was a raiding thats it. There is no need to romanticise it. Size of the armies that the Franks faced is a conpletely joke compared to that of Romans faced in the East.
Arabs, Turks, Bulgars, Goths, Venicians, Vandals, Avars, Huns, Slavs, Persians, Mongols.
It would seem as if the whole world was against the Eastern Roman Empire.
becuase they were oppressive. It All Allah plan
Not us Chinese (Tang Dynasty). We just stay in the corner and watch you guys fighting until get kicked by arabs in the battle of talas.. Byzantium and us were trade partners back in 8th century. But what puzzled us was you were rivalies to the caliphate, turks and Mongols, which were out rivals as well. But we were also allied to Persia, whom you had tough fights before. This just reminds me of the time when I use Ming and ally France/Austria at the same time. Never mind, at least we Chinese back in middle ages were neutral to Byzantium.
China deserves a lot of respect. It endured a lot and now they are top 3 in the world.
Monsterxdude Thanks bro. Btw, I like Greece and Byzantium. my father used to stay in Greece for a year and he told me the people were very hospitable. (nice olive oil as well) Also, if you have time to visit the museum in the capital of Tang dynasty, Xi'an, you can actually find golden coins and glasswares imported from Byzantium, which prove our long trading partnership.
Son of Kemet, the Byzantines were a 1500 year old empire how they treated their people changed with the time the Byzantines of 800s to 1200 were far more tolerant and humanitarian then their Arab neighbors. After the Abbasids decline no Arab power could compare to the Byzantines.
JRR Tolkien was inspired by this history: Gondorians are to Byzantines as Rohirrim are to Bulgars.
Same thing was told about the siege of Vienna. About Leh riders and Ottomans
Same thing was told about Game of thrones: Battle of Blackwater
I think that Saxons were the nation Who inspired JRR Tolkien. Bulgarians were though , great equestrians warriors like all Turanic tribes.
@@chrisg.k487 Yes and no. The middle earth is a "fictionnal great britain" but Gondor is based on the eastern roman empire (surviving half of a bigger empire, city-state, etc)
Isn't minas morgul supposed to be the fallen constantinopole ?
This battle dwarfs Tours in importance and magnitude. Probably the most important world battle since Yarmouk in the 630s, and arguably since Catalonian Fields against Atilla in the mid 400s, Adrianople in the 370s, or beyond. One of history’s significant battles.
no it doesn’t dwarf Tours, if the Umayyads took France Europe would absolutely be open to them, Rome would have been under their flag not to mention the rest of German lands, this just opens the Balkans up just like it did for the Ottomans
@@johnnyboy3410 But it opens the Balkans up almost 1000 years earlier. Islam would’ve potentially spread much further up the balkans and Danube than it did, because it would’ve had a lot more time, and because Christianity wasn’t as ensconced as it was in the 1400s.
I think this battle was far more important. The Muslim capital was only a few weeks’ march from Constantinople, and from there the balkans. By contrast, the Muslim center was thousands of miles from France, and they were reaching their natural extent anyway (they had reached India, southern France, Central Asia, and the Caucasus and stopped at all 4 around the same time). I don’t think they would’ve or could’ve held France for long, regardless of how the battle of Tours went. To my mind, the 717 Siege of Constantinople was one of the world’s most significant moments. A history changer, for sure. Tours: maybe, but probably not imo.
I'm always amazed how much details you guys are able to squeeze into relatively short video. The siege of Constantinople is so underrated and often overlooked in favor of Battle of Poitiers (10 October 732). I'm glad that you guys bring attention to this event.
Thanks for being with us. :-)
I'm always around ;)
It only shows the ignorance of the Latins. To consider Poitiers important to the survival of the Christianity, while it was nothing more than a raid, while undermining the importance of the siege of the Constantinople, siege that, if ended with Arab victory, would change the world completely. But then, the same people that hyped up the Battle of Poitiers were the same that downplayed the role of the Romans, slowly destroying their legacy, calling them nothing more than Greek imposters.
+Vitalis This is exactly my point mate. There is definitely a problem of western-centrism among western historians. British historian Norman Davies is trying to address that, among others, in his book "Europe". He points out that even books about the history of whole Europe, in reality, are just about Western Europe often almost completely skipping the history of Central and Eastern Europe as well as Balkans.
I agree but Poitier was important too. You cant scrap it just because Constantinople was more important.
This event is probably the most underrated event in European history relative to the impact it had. Had the Bulgars not helped and had the Romans been weaker it's quite possible you would have seen an Ottoman style invasion of the Balkans 700 years early. It truly was a great underdog story and the Roman/Bulgar resistance is stuff of legends.
Although in the context of the bigger picture it's kind of bittersweet that the underdog (Romans) ended up falling anyway, but atleast they managed to delay it by 700 years, which certainly shouldn't be understated.
marvelfannumber1 Yeah, sadly lesson not learn and few centuries later the end for both Byzantines and Bulgarians
+HARUN AL-RASHID التميمي
Not in 1967 it seems. Infact since 1967 it's kept losing.
HARUN AL-RASHID التميمي
Battle of Tours, The Reconquista, Siege of Vienna, The Second Siege of Vienna and wait there's more
Nicely put
^This guy hahah
Constantinople calls for aid!
-And Bulgaria will answer!
When "The Lord of the rings" was not mainstream :)
you do realize that the bulgars this video is talking about were turkic nomads, right?
@@ulverup Do you understand that Bulgarians have never been Turkic nomads, as much as you wish? Nothing, but nothing proves your ridiculous thesis.
@@bogdanharalampiev2875 " My " ridiculous thesis is what every historian outside of your country believes. The word Bulgar itself is of turkic origins. Or maybe do you feel like disagreeing with professional linguists too?
@@ulverup how does it matter anyway? Bulgaria is a direct continuation of this same bulgars u are talking about
Whatever their origin was
A HBO mini series covering this period is so needed!
Kopite4life12 true!
So they can shit on facts and turn it into crusaders fanboys fantasy
@@imadgrim exactly what i thought
Imad Helwani Nasibi mad
@@imadgrim You mad bro?
You forgot to mention how grateful Yustinian was to Tervel. He even gave him the title "ceaser" and a lot of gold, but later violated the peace treaty with him and Tervel defeated him nontheless.
Justinian was ungrateful he later tried to take back that land, but was defeated.
Guess once a traitor,always a traitor
Worst name for a traitor: Justinian.
Not much attention is given to this siege, despite its massive impact.
How does this siege fuel islamophobia yet Tours doesn't?
Maybe because it doesn't have an impact?
That is because Catholic western dose not care about orthodox
Darth FatCow because it shows the true side of the christians, they are not to be trusted in any cirumstance.
@@Ryo-xx1lm the U.S. can beat anyone so who cares.
In all honesty, it looked like the Arabs were besieged, not the Byzantines.
Well done
You played yourself
for 1 year khan tervil ""besieged"" if you know what arabs had to do to survvive:D you laugh your ass off:D
@@Huyedelomalo Bulgars? its bulgarians. and the arbs violated there own human rights?:D by starving(it says by historians they started to eat 1 there horses. 2 the horses shit :D. 3 there own dead(arab corpses). and 4 it even said i dont know how :D but there eating small rocks(pebbles). just so they can fill their stomach with something.(case obviously the hunger was way to unbearably horrible).
@@ryunakazawa947 buddy its the facts of history dont like pls dont whine on me about it if you can go back in time and chage it. or at least rewrite the historical chroniclers
you cant do anything about it. :D there is other things you dont want to know that i dident botter telling so your welcome.
@@ryunakazawa947 o no dont give that bullshit excuse about you werent there what do you know about it?:D that excuse in for noobs. how about? history facts by those that were there?:D Arabic chroniclers and Byzantines, and even the Byzantines have their drawings: D historical evidence we got that in that time now apply some logic with your brain that makes sense and you have to some good history? :D your a bit of a idiat arent you? or you just dont want to accept the true history that arabs got raped in that fight big time here one for you of 1800 min to 2200 ships arabs had only 5 make it back home so do the match how many survive :D go ahead come in a history museum in bulgaria you can read about that battle there is a lot facts about it stude them if you want still if you dont like them you cant chage them. like i told you if you dont like it make a time machine go back in time get the arabs to win so you can rewrite history. :D
Charles Martel:
I saved Europe.
Leo III and Tervel:
Sure, buddy. You surely did.
Trivia: When the Caliphate took Rhodes, it turned what remained from the Colossus statue to coins...
V. Athanasiou I would do that to. >:D
Spoils of war... But still that sucks
Umm no, kratos killed it.
Dillon Bruyer it was destroyed 1000 before,when the arabs came they just turned the remains into coins
Ablaikhan Bennett it was destroyed 1000 before,when the arabs came they just turned the remains into coins
The beacons are lit! Byzantium calls for aid! And Bulgars will answer.
Pretty much. Didn't think about this parallel, thanks. :-)
El Bandito you sir, got the perfect comment!
It's worth to mention that Bulgars weren't even Christian at the time, they simply realized that if Constantinople was to fall, they would be next. So it's better to aid the enemy you know than to watch it fall to completely foreign one.
Literally just after I watched Return of the King. Timing: 10/10
Vitalis Well Bulgarians were partially Christian already, and Tervel himself was Christian for sure.
You could have mentioned that Tervel got the title Caeser from Justinian. And after the siege of Constantinople he was Canonized as the Savior of Europe.
The Bulgars did pretty well for themselves it seems.
Nice work as always
Thanks! Indeed, this siege allowed them to rise as a sovereign kingdom.
the First Bulgarian empire
The counter-siege laid by the bulgarians was a massive hit on the supply lines and resource gatherings of the arabs. This together with the few decisive victories against the arabs was a help without which the byzantines were lost.
They later got rapes by the Ottomans lol
Ben je echt nl?
Can never get enough of the Byzantines.
There will be more.
no name nah, Mamluks lol
FROM MACEDONIA FOR MACEDONIA, cough cough eastern rome stoped existing in 480 after xeno disbanded the co emperorship with support from both romes and constantinoples senates, it's just Rome.
Well...u should my friend...cuz we ate the persian and the roman empire in just 150 years...the roman lake(meditarian sea) was vanished and it was time for the empire that stretched from China to spain
+U.S.S.R COMUNISM PIG
The Wars between Romans and Arabs are really a legendary historical events for both nations
Many people's think that it started in the 7th century but the first clashes between Romans and Arabs was during the Roman Campaign on Yemen in 26 - 24 B.C
Also Trajan's Siege of Hatra the capital of Kingdom of Araba in 117 A.D
Greeks*not romans
And that's why I respect the Romans/Greeks, they're one of few who stood a chance against us.
@@hotsauce153 nice, not like coward Persian hahahahaha
Bulgarians won Romans, Greek, Arabs
@@aleksk4151 *Turkic Bulgars.
It's so gratifying to see Constantinople winning on this one.
Komnenit not for long 😂
@@piraliraza not gonna lie after the umawi dynasty corruption started spreading and a huge civil war occurred
@@piraliraza Yes, for long, actually. 700 years is a very long time.
Until 1453 fetih destroyed the bizantines
lol,its sooooooooooooo gratifying to see that mehmet smashed constantinople and now the beautiful voice of muslim athan is echoing through Constantinople,oh sorry,i meant istanbul!!!!
3 years of food? In a pre refrigeration age. Even today that would be very difficult for a city to stockpile without an internal revolt
Well considering what people ate at the time , its not that difficult. Mostly weat and barley + cured meat and fish.
As long as you keep grain dry and cool it won't ever really go bad.
Grain + flour + salt + some cured meat for the holidays + fresh fish being plentifully available from the surrounding sea + seasonal fruits and vegetables from the garden, for those who had gardens... 3 years? Easy Peasy... No refrigeration needed...
Seriously impressed how frequently you guys are putting out these videos at the same consistently high quality recently.
It is a grind. :-) Thanks!
The Bulgrian army was the strongest land force in this battle and the major player on land while Romans were dominating over sea. The Bulgarian role was so huge that Romans made Khan Tervel a saint! Without Bulgarians the Europe would be different in noadays.
Greeks not Romans.Byzanyium was Greek after 450+- AD.
@@user-pj4ql2kw4e You can just as easily call them Romans, the upper class romans spoke greek anyway and no one called them byzantines untill the renaissance, themselves and most of the rest of europe thought of them as romans
True...
@@user-pj4ql2kw4eро romeii, they called themselves romeii (Romans) in all historical sources. Not only Greeks but also many other ethnic groups lived in the Eastern Roman Empire and the emperors were also different origin, not only Greek. Be careful what you write because here there are people who understand and read more than you can imagine...
@@user-pj4ql2kw4e You are fake news like all greeks. Byzantians was not a greek state. There were emperors who were syrian,arabian, thracian,armenian,slavic and others
This is why I loved the Byzantines, those guy's inherited the Roman tenacity of the early empire and managed to hold out longer as an empire than most nations in history.
The ottomans distroyed them
@88 88 who the thought you history the ottoman empire is the longest empire in human history
ADEL RAAD r ya dumb
@@adelraad891 THE MOST LONGEST EMPIRE WAS BYZANTINE EMPIRE 330--1453
you ottoman empire 1453-1922. LEARN HISTORY DIRTY TURK
@@brandonbohr.7301 Even more because the byzantine empire was simply the Roman Empire before, the territories had been roman for more than 500 years by 330, so it lasted almost 3x longer than the Ottoman Empire.
The Greeks ruled the seas, the Bulgarians ruled the land.
Българи къде сте? За мен е гордост да принадлежа към тази нация и точно както това за мен е най-големият ни принос към световната история, да напиша това видео беше моят най-голям принос към България. Ако има достатъчно лайкове този коментар ще направим цяла серия за България, така че нека покажем как Сдружението прави силата!
Niet!
George Kolev И аз се радвам, че съм българин!
Няма как да не спомена, че в клипа Тервел беше споменат като хан, въпреки че носи титлата кесар, както и факта че Тервел е най-влиятелният човек в Източна Европа, сваляйки и възкачвайки всичките 6 императори, за които се спомена в клипа. Иначе като изключим тесногръдите постове на гърците всичко е ОК.
Da...?
Huh? Forgive me I only speak English but would like to know what you said?
right click the text and select translate.
Greek Fire!!!Yay! Finally !One of the Most Mysterious and Awesome Weapons of War in History!!!!
The Resurrection should have been used more frequently
Christian Lebanese Nationalist It was pretty expensive and there was the danger of wind throwing the flames back at your own ships. Greek fire may be shown as something amazing in history, but it's just a fact that it also had many downsides, as it is with every weapon you use fire so openly (another example is the flamethrower in the first world war which was pretty effective for infiltrating but one shot in your fuel caused a massive explosion with the result being you dead and your comrades too)
I wonder where GRRM got the idea of wildfire from...
Like the one depicted in GOT
@@ibrahimyilmaz4861 I totaly agree with you but dude it was in the year 600-700 and nobody was able to use that effectively.
For his significant role in these events Ceasar Tervel of Bulgaria was proclaimed Saint under the name Saint Trivelius Teoktist, The Saint and Savior of Europe (prior to these events Tervel had helped to restore Emperor Justinian II to the Byzantine throne and therefore he had been rewarded with the title “Caesar.”)
The truth is that I studied this campaign under the leadership of a Muslim, and it was not as I mentioned. Unfortunately, you are biased. The Muslim army was 240,000 fighters or 200,000, and Caliph Suleiman did not send 20,000 help and did not kill the rear of the Muslim army. Muslima did not lose in any battle and conquered most of the cities of Anatolia with the sword and made the emperor of the Byzantine state He asked for peace after a long siege, so Maslama agreed on the condition that he entered the city alone and the gates were opened and his army was in front of the door so that he would not fall into a trap, so the Byzantine emperor agreed and entered Maslama and entered the church and smashed a cross inside the church
@@user-gm6xy4qd3knice joke
Greetings From Greece. I dedicated a day in seeing all your beautiful history videos. Love your stuff @Kings and Generals,keep up the good work.
Thank you! :-)
Best episode until now from my perspective! Thank you guys! Greetings from Varna, Bulgaria!
Hey, Petar, hope you are having a great day.
You know it is gonna be a good day when Kings and Generals uploads a video!!
More on Sunday. :-)
I will watch the Sundays' video on Monday because we have to celebrate here (in Greece) the Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence in 1821
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Great video!
A minor correction though - Justinian II's campaign against the Bulgars and the Slavs wasn't against Asparukh's Bulgars (in Danubian Bulgaria), but against Kuber's Bulgars in the Pelagonian field, modern Macedonia (hence why they later refused Tervel's offer to help Justinian regain his throne in 705). Also, it's doubtful if there was any such alliance between Bulgaria and the Romans - there was a peace treaty from 716, but we have no information about any alliance clauses in it. On the other hand, at least one source reported that the Arab forces entered Bulgaria during their foraging expeditions, which is what prompted Tervel to attack them and join the war.
This was a great video. I love watching videos about the Byzantine empire.
Hello, from a proud Bulgarian :)
Thank you for making this video! Bulgarian history is full of events, each of them more interesting than the other, but unfortunately we see very little representation of those in such videos. I love your channel and it will make me very happy to see other videos, such as this one.
Other important battles, from the Bulgarian history:
- Battle of Vărbitsa Pass (Battle of Pliska ) - 26th July 811
- Battle of Achelous - 20th August 917
- Battle of the Gates of Trajan - 17th August 986
- Battle of Thessalonica (battle of the blinded army) - July 1014
- Battle of Adrianople - 14th April 1205
- Battle of Klokotnitsa - 9th March 1230
- Siege of Tarnovo - April - 17 July 1393
- Battle of Shipka Pass - July 1877 - January 1878
- Battle of Slivnitsa - 17 November 1885 - 19 November 1885
- Siege of Adrianople - 3 November 1912 - 26 March 1913
- Battle of Turtukan - 2 September 1916 - 6 September 1916
- Battle of Doiran - 1916 + 1917
Hey! Some of those are on our list, actually more than half. :-)
You just made my day :)
freaking ottomans
battle of Kleidon.
The battle of the blinded army, which caused Samuil's death and Basil's victory, was the battle at the Kleidion Pass.
You forgot the Battle of Tryvana, 1190
Now i can understand this war thx 😊
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Love this channel! Really proud with the Bulgarian contribution in this war! Would love to see more of that. :)
Thank you! More videos planned.
Arabs: Leeet me iiiiinn
LEEEET ME IIIIIIIIIIIIN
mehmet:let me in
constantinople:welcome!
Alex Triboi
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@@user-pz8pe4wl5s هذول شو عم يتمظرتون 😑😑😑
@@user-sq9sf2io4c هذا meme اكتب في قوقل let me in
@Zoran Novosel sure because everybody that walks can walk in. Are you angry with the Arabs?
The quality of your videos are getting awesome. I get excited when you post.
Thank you! :-)
Our great Bulgarian ruler Asparuh was at last a series and I thank him greetings from Bulgaria
which was a Turkic man
A cool historical event that you forgot to mention is that after everything that happened, Justinian II named Tervel a Caesar (co-emperor), making him the first foreigner to receive this title.
Justinian II was dead by the time the Siege had even begun, let alone by when it was over
Thank you so much for making this video. You are awesome guys!
Thank you very much!
Great vid! Loved the build up to the siege. The intensity! Always enjoy learning about Byzantine history.
Thanks! :-)
Great video! Feels really good to be able to watch something regarding Bulgarian history rather than just reading it in a book.
Thanks, there will be more! :-)
“We will take Constantinople”
Famous last words spoken by numerous enemies of Rome
But it was later conquered by sultan Mehmet the conqueror
@@liyaqatmuqeem7155the ottomans tried 4 times and failed the first 3 times. Mehmed got really lucky
@@DavidWillisSLS what about Latin empire
@@liyaqatmuqeem7155 their first siege failed. It was one the second one, when they already had access to the city that they suco
@@DavidWillisSLS still they conquered it....
From ceantral Asia to southern France , i love you Umayyad Caliphate ❤👌🏻الخلافة الأموية
From China to southern France
732 we defeated the terrorists
@@mariusbrault2270 711 we also defeated terrorists
@@mariusbrault2270
The caliphates always defeated the Terrorists 💪💪💪☝☝☝
Alhamdoulilah
@@mariusbrault2270 Christan: treat us as equal citizens
Muslim: yes offcourse, u r incharge our ships
Also christans: backstabding muslim
Nice video. I love this Sponsor feature.
And I am kinda envious of the icon in front of your handle. :-)
I love the logo. Too bad I can't use it on all channels.
Greek fire was amazing super powerful weapon in this Era, like nuclear bomb or air superiority these days !
It was produced with Caspian oil. Later the Byzantines lost access to it.
It’s more like a machine gun. It isn’t going to wipe out an entire city but it is going to certainly wipe out an army.
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@10:10 that music. You Knew shtt was going down when tervel got there. I love this channel. Consistently quality content. Cheers 🍻
Thank you!
That battle wasn't the reason for the Umayyad dynasty fall the Umayyads later conquered almost half France and in 737 they conquered Khazaria and subjected the Khazars however the battle between the Iraqis and the Umayyads for almost 100 years was the main reason and later the Abbasids joined them
also the Berber revolution
But The Umayyad Caliphate survived in Andalus until 1030 AD .
Мустафа иракский 👍
Cosmopolitan Bay but we conquered khazaria and defeated the turks
@@HSQtr And later lost control because of the Abbasid revolution. Also the some of the Turks converted to Islam and dominated the Arab world.
@@cosmopolitanbay9508 the arabs won the wars.
They got defeated at first but at the end they won.
@@cosmopolitanbay9508 yep when the Rus Prince strated to devastate their state they turned to the Khawrazemshah
Great video! Hope you include more of the rich bulgarian medieval history in your future videos! Keep up the excellent work.
Като горд българин не мога да спра да гледам вашите клипчета. Използвайки интересната история на българия съм сигурен, че ако започнете серии по историята и ще имате много забавление и ще направите цяла нация щастливи и горди. Благодарим!
10:10 WHEN THE KHAN'S BULGARS ARRIVED
I have heard that the Muslims were fuking the Bulgars for 500 years during the time of the Ottomans In addition, after this siege of Constantinople, the caliph sent an army to discipline the Bulgarians, and indeed the Bulgarian armies were annihilated and revenge was taken.
Поздравления за добрата работа !
Удивен съм, колко много изследвачи с академични познания относно произхода на българите има :)) Не е нужно обаче, който си няма история да рови в чуждата. Ние нашата си я знаем. Няма да си правя труда да го пиша на английски. Начетените господа лингвисти би следвало да го разберат и на български :)
Great video as always, I'm from Bulgaria, so this is a special treat for me. :)
Glad to hear that! :-)
When youre just a small Christian merchant but your employer is a muslim and you kinda wanna crusade. DEUS VULT!
See, being a merchant doesn't mean a bad crusade, like the 4th. :D
Chris Zegarra
Whenever I see a muslim say aLlaH aKbAR! I can only think of one thing: DEUS VULT!
The Christian merchants were traitors though, no other way around it.
Pussy armchair crusaders! Lol
Ohh That's why Christians in those days are considered as traitors 😂
It is a huge difference if Constantinople had fallen somewhere between 717-718 instead of 1453. This, when the Eastern Roman empire was a blockade against invasions to the west from the east during the dark ages. In 1453, the Eastern Roman Empire consisted only of Constantinople with an epic last stand compared to how the Western Roman Empire fell in 476.
Bro bro .Respekt for my brave country bro.Leo 3 no ask Help for Bulgarian ruler Tervel.Mighty cavalery i 5 century in Europe Bulgarian no defend in land 22-30k Powerful Arab army.Bro Charles Martel and Poties is kid game vs Sige Constantinoplol.Bizantyne empire and Bulgaria no stop arab .Franks army never defend 100k army and Europe los .
@@stanbatakarata6081 The details are there and not forgotten. Of course, history knows about the contribution of the Bulgarians in this siege.
How the Roman Empires died:
West: with a whimper
East: with a thunderous applause
Have enjoyed your channel for a while well deserved sub man keep this up!
Amazing stuff again. One of my favourite battles. Great background.
Just wish you had felt comfortable making it longer by adding all the fascinating details from the battle. Maybe by making it a 2-part video? Or making a long and a short version?
Still really great stuff!
Thank you very much! Unfortunately, youtube punishes 2-3-4 part videos. The second episodes get 50% of the views of the first one, the third just 25%, so it is not viable.
Kings and Generals ahhh i see. Stupid TH-cam. Too bad!
The byzantines were always invaded by someone...
Ofc everyone wanted the place where the three continents meets.
@Marxine St.Arline u mean like Rome!? Or what exactly!?
@@napolien1310 Europe, Asia and ???
@@abdul-basiyribnmarcus8640 shhh no one relies that
Oh Westerners, you should stop drinking and eating pork
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The glass breaking is really the best part of these videos. So satisfactory especially when the side you’re rooting for is doing the cracking!
Glad you enjoy it. :-)
7:52 funny thing about Theodosius III is he never wanted to be emperor. He was a respected, random tax collector a rebel army forced onto the throne. When Leo revolted Theodosius peacefully abdicated and became a bishop.
Finally! been waiting for this video.
Justinian II was an ungrateful backstabber, Tervel helped him to regain the Byzantine throne and he paid him back by attacking him after that.
Hopefully, you enjoyed it. :-)
Christians tend to prefer the 717/18 siege while Muslims tend to prefer the 1453 siege.
Point is in 717, the Byzantines had more advantages while in 1453, the Ottomans had more advantages.
it's no surprise which side won.
BTW, it's not just a numbers game.
But prophet Muhammad peace be upon him is prophecy succeeded at the end. If u read the hadith regarding it u will know.
In 717 a great empire fought against another great empire.
In 1453 a very weakened empire lost against a vastly rising empire.
Do you see the difference? These are not comparable.
Mr.Bombastic
The Byzantines had the Theodosian walls, had prepared for a siege, had Bulgar allies, large amounts of Greek fire and a large garrison with reserves in the city facing the Arabs who weren't used to the European climate and who were outflanked and out commanded by the Byzantine Emperor. The winner is obvious.
Well, the Arabs were on the offensive. They had a large fleet, large army and were prepared for war. The winner isn't obvious. They new what they were facing.
When it comes to the 1453 siege were the Ottomans had an army of 120K, a fleet of 80 ships and artillery. Compared to a city with only 8K soldiers, no fleet, a chain, and walls. That's what I call heroism.
Old Bulgars were not really nomads. They were city builders. Wherever they settled they built great cities - Fanagoria in Russia, then Pliska, Preslav on the Balkans and Bolgar on Volga.
Kings and generals, thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Battle that saved civilization...
www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+forgotten+hero+the+saviour+of+europe&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjg46jq4unhAhWx3eAKHSBkDg0Q_AUIDygC&biw=1366&bih=657#imgdii=ePyl-QNy85gs7M:&imgrc=d19P_Yj7KeOYuM:
if you ever read history usually like 99% of times civilization came from mostly middle east countries ..
Its the byzantines that were breaking truces they provoked arabs themselves thats why arabs decided to invade constantinople and you say that this saved civilization
Love your videos. I cant for you to finish the Mongol series and cover the battle of Ain Jalut. Really excited for that one.
Soon. :-)
Most of those facts you mentioned in your video we did not study it in schools before thanks for sharing all of those info with a great video and graphics plus the information
Thanks for watching!
Wow.. ANOTHER excellent video! The commentators voice is excellent for this types of documentaries. Kings and Generals is my fav channel!!
This video was highly informative. Nice job to whoever made this video a reality.
Thanks for this! :D
Thanks for watching!
What a nice surprise when I got the Kings and Generals notification on a Thursday! Hope we are still getting a video on Sunday?!?
Yes, sir, you will. :-)
Kings and Generals Awesome, thanks for the extra video!
Thanks for being with us. :-)
Thanks for video!Amazing job!!👍
Thanks for watching!
This is certainly an era that I personally have little knowledge of. But, once again, thanks to Kings and Generals, iv gained great insight into this conflict and can agree with other subscribers that this siege is definitely underrated within European history. Many thanks for the video and its fantastic narration and splendid detail.
Thanks for watching!
that was as usual a great video!! still waiting for Hannibal campaigns
Thanks for watching! :-)
By the way,2 verry important things were left out:
After the siege ended Server,who was a son of Asparuh was called the saviour of Europe in the Papal documents in the Vatican,here is a link to it: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tervel_of_Bulgaria
And before that,when Justinian II was deposed the first time(in total he was deposed twice),it was Khan Tervels troops who reinstated him to the throne.For that,Bulgaria received the region of Zagore. This can be read in the wiki link above as well.Oh,and another thing-after the first time Justinian II was deposed,his nose was cut off in order to humiliate him.
Yep, should have mentioned the first. Regarding the 20 Years' Anarchy, it was deliberate - decided not to cover it.
I mentioned it,because after that Terver became Kesar,meaning the second in command in the Empire after the Emperor.And that is the second time a Bulgarian ruler got that title.The first one was Kubrat-the father of Asparuh.Last but not least,the other brothers of Asparuh created Volga Bulgaria,which as We know existed for several centuries until the Mongols destroyed it.
But there is a lot of things to be mentioned for this period,so several can be missed.
They did it for a reason-the Emperor could Not have visible scars,just like the Pope can't.
Check it out if You don't believe me-rulers and Popes are supposed to be without scars.And that is because both were supposed to be ideals of perfection,since power came from God and imperfection would mean God does not support You.
Love this channel !
These videos are clutch! I joined March of Empires to help out. I will soon contribute to your Patreon. Thanks for these history lessons!
Thanks for considering it!
@Kings and Generals one more thing you might not know or might know but didn't mention
is that Khan Tervel was graced by the title of Caesar by one of the Byzantine emperors which made him the 2nd most important person to the empire after the Emperor himself, though not sure which emperor bestowed him with that title cuz I'm a little rusty
but it's a quite famous little fact in Bulgarian history
هذه المعركة قرأت عنها كثيرا و منذ سنوات عديدة (مصادر اصلية عربية،مقالات ،ويكيبيديا)لكن لم استطع تصورها بشكل جيد حتى شاهدت هذه القناة 🌷
شكرا جزيلا
اول تعليق عربي الي قرات تحت هالفيديو، الله يبارك فيك
I'm a big fan of your channel. Thank u for the documentary
Great videos. Your channel got me playing total war again
Thanks! :-)
I love when two kingdom help each other like Bulgar and Roman and like Serbian and Ottoman.
Hahahah, good one :D
Abu Ubaidah, I mean in both those scenarios they were enemies too.
And Sassanid and Byzantine
Abu Ubaidah, that happened like once fighting each other is what killed one and weakened the other for 200 years in the first place.
김성산, I don't know about that saying as how the bulgars didn't have the ability to take Constantinople and had just entered an alliance with the Byzantines before the siege.
The Byzantine-Bulgarian victory of 718 and the victory stopped the Arabic advance in the interior of Europe. A decisive role in the victory played the Bulgarian Khan Tervel proclamed by the Orthodox Christian Church as Saint Trivellious. I would like to thank the the authors of this movie for making this fact clear. The siege of Constantinople and the advance if the Arabs in Europe would take place without doubt, if Tervel had not reacted on the request for help. For that reason some historians name him the Savor of Europe.
@@noblenormie1179 shut up incel
May god be with you :)
ignore the other comment but that’s the first time i see him named Savior of Europe, he was in an alliance with the Byzantines and he honored the pact, nothing more
@@johnnyboy3410 Yeah, it seems like this claim only comes from modern Bulgarians. It wasn't even clear that the Bulgars were acting in alliance with Byzantine or just retaliating against Umayyad foraging in their land. Regardless, the siege failed mainly because of Byzantine's superior navy through Greek fire, Constantinople's impregnable walls, and the harsh winter of 717. The Bulgar raids certainly helped, but it was nowhere near a deciding factor that some comments here insist.
The even more outlandish claim is that Tervel was proclaimed Saint by the Orthodox Church, which is demonstrably false. He being the first foreigner to receive the title 'caesar' is true, though.
@@TheYoudontknowwhotervel is actually a saint in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and his intervention like it or not was quite a deciding factor in the siege.
He is not a savor he is a guy who made Europe go in dark ages if Islam opened Europe back then people will live gooe
Outstanding video!
THIS EPISODE IS LIKE WATCHING 300 SPARTANS. AMAZING ! THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING, WELL DESIGNED, EXPLAINED, SOUNDTRACK BEST VIDEO OF YOURS! BRAVO :) and thank you for including BULGARIA. was awesome
Thanks for watching!
Thanks to the Byzantines who defend Europe! And thanks to Bulgaria who helped of course. By Greece.
you're welcome ready to defend Europe again? ;)
@@aleksk4151 I guess you're from modern-day Bulgaria. But the Bulgars mentioned here have nothing to do with modern slavic Bulgarians. The Bulgars were a nomadic Turkic nation, just like ancient Xiongnu, later Huns, Avars (not to be confused with Caucasian-speaking Avars), Khazars, Kipchaks, and more modern Seljuqs, Ottomans, Safavids, and etc. Examples of modern Turkic nations: Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and many Russian subjects like Sakha(Yakutiya), and so on. Examples of modern slavic nations: Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, Macedonia. Completely different people, languages, cultures, and histories. I see many people confused in the comments about these two notions, even some modern Bulgarians taking credit for ancient Turkic Bulgars
@@FH_9 Turkic doesn't mean Turkish
Also there are more speculations now from historians that the old Bulgars are IRANIC
@@aleksk4151 I've never heard of anything like that. Evidence clearly points to TURKIC origin of Bulgars, which modern Bulgarians are not.
I miss you, Greeks, our historical neighbors😢. I would rather keep fighting you forever than be neighbors with these non-Muslim Turks. Please return to Constantinople. Great love and respect from southern Iraq to Greece, Cyprus and Anatolia, the land of Greece.🇮🇶🇬🇷❤️
بعد روح قبل
Bro Turkey is Muslim are u crazy
This is awesome. I never even knew about this monumental event before.
Thank you for watching!
what a great job. thanks
Nice video, would be interesting to see more videos about Bulgaria and the Byzantium empire
More on our list.
More significant than Tour, but mostly underrated
Your video is improving better and better. I love it
Appreciate that. :-)
Great video, well done 😎👍