I have feeling that if the west didnt betray greece in 1204 constantinople would still be a greek city today,I have no hate for the Turks,the west was the real enemy of greece in the fall of constantinople.
The reason for Constatinople's fall was because Greece got betrayed by the west,they sent for help nothing came.The Greeks defended Constantinople bravely,I have alot more hate for the crusaders of Europe than I will for any turk,the Turks took it over and did some bad things yes,but the so called christian ''allies'' of Greece took over Constantinople and did stuff even the turks would not do,and the turks are muslims the crusaders were christians.
LONG LIVE THE KING! WE WILL NEVER FORGET HIM: CONSTANTINE PALAIOLOGOS "IA" WHO WAS KILLED IN THE FIELD LIKE A COMMON SOLDIER. A TRUE HELLENE, A TRUE "SPARTAN", A TRUE LEGEND.
WE BOW BEFORE HIS SACRIFICE. MAY HIS MEMORY BE ETERNAL. CONSTANTINOPLE IS ALIVE THROUGH US. WHEN WE VISIT CONSTANTINOPLE (ISTANBUL) OR ROME WE HELLENES FEEL LIKE WE ARE HOME BECAUSE IT SIMPLY IS.
the sack of constantinople was 50 years prior. the reason the city fell was because it only had 50,000 people in it. in better times the city had close to 1,000,000+
the city was a skeleton of its former self before the attack happened.
This is a classic example that when the civilised world was divided, it never contributed to peace and safety within it. Papist Rome had its responsibility.
He threatened the Sultan that if he would not pay him lots of money he would free an Ottoman family member who was captive by the Byzantines(And then that family member would possibly try to become Sultan). The Byzantine emperor thought that Sultan Mehmed II was young and would be scared. Mehmed II said that he would give an answer very soon
@Fantomenace Actually they werent trying to get to the middle east the crusaders decided to attack constantinople instead of jerusalem after they attacked zara and were excomunicated.
Because at that time Agia sophia was the symbol of the Orthodox and christians after vatikan.And we convert this symbol as amuslim symbol.When you go to greece or bulgaria now you can easily see the mosques that were converted to churches why? you need to enlarge your perspectives to the circumstances in the history. Can you give the answer for that question? why nowadays they have converted all the mosques to churches?
that's false.not a single mosque has been converted into a church...don't believe everything they tell you.come here in greece and see for yourself.we still maintain most of the old mosques intact as museums/ancient relics and we even renovate/restore them from time to time...
@melih80m All the mosques in greece that the ottomans left behind had left as they were. None of them has been converted to church , cause during the ottoman era we have our own churches all the mosques left here still remain as untouched because they are supposed to be a cultural heritage.We respected what you left behind.
Please may I ask any muslim why Agia Sophia was converted to a mosque when Constantinople fell in 1453? When Umar ibn al-Khattab took Jerusalem in April 637 after a prolonged seige, Umar came personally to receive the key to the city by the Greek Orthodox patriarch, Sophronius, who invited Umar to offer Muslim prayers at the Church of Holy Sepulchre. Umar chose to pray some distance from the Church, so as not to endager its status as a Chrisitan church. Why was this precedent not followed?Thanks
The Hagia Sophia was in ruin, to my knowledge most prayer services and masses where at the church of the holy apostles. The Byzantines just seemed to abondon the Hagia Sophia, just when the city needed it the most
I as a Turk think it was a political statement rather than a religious motivation, if we look back from the point of view of the sultan.. he considered Constantinople his great prize as well as the thorn which protruded from the centre of his empire. I think he wanted to make grandiose changes to the city to mark his conquests. Building or creating mosques is one way of ensuring loyalty of his people as well as marking ones achievements in Islamic history and defo not a attack upon Christianity
It is interesting that both Mehmet The Conqueror and Empire Konstantinos Palailogos were far relatives. Both men had blood link.
Sultan Mehmet's grandmother was a pure Kantakouzenos and from the royal family. Also mother was Orthodox Christian and never accepted Islam. Mehmet was speaking Greek very well.
sure greek side of the history, please, now the ottoman side:
Sultan Mehmet II. grandmother has converted to islam. be sure, because all Females in HAREM, must be converted to islam. not 1 christian was ever in HAREM, until 1919... (moslems is so)
Mehmet had spoken 7 (SEVEN) languages, but not greek, (better: BYZANTINE) those 2 is different languages...
Ottoman Dynast was ruled 700 years by 1 (ONE) FAMILY!!!
696 years kayi boyu came to anatolia and concuered their first lands. the first it was ertugrul gazi father of all the sultans of ottoman empire this is why we say 700 years
@ottomanHero of course not why do u think this byzantine greek and modern greek are the same, you should read a text in ancient Greek in Byzantine Greek and in modern Greek u will see it is very similar, I speak modern Greek and i can understand ancient Greek with a little difficulty and byzantine greek easily
if constantinople didnt ''fall'' in 1204 the fall of 1453 would never have happened and probably constantinople would be the capital of Greece and Greece would have big parts of Anatolia nowadays. i love byzantine empire (and greece)!
the hungarian christian was urban.he was unaware of balistics calculations of artillery.whole artillery pieces made by greek muslim and turkish muslim commanders and arthitects .urban died one of these blasts in experiment level of artillery. and the myth of open gate under the AYASROMANOS (TOPKAPI) which is called kerkoporta totatly fantastic dreams seen by byzantine lovers. whole city walls was totaly ruined before the great attack on the night of 29 th may
Many of the Byzantine buildings still stand in Instanbul. The only church(that is STILL a church) that dates back to the Byzatine Era is the Church of St. Mary of the Mongols. The rest have been converted to other purposes. The walls, gates, some roads, aqueducts, and other Byzantine structures can still be seen.
The term empire,however,is a misnomer,given the new condition of the Byzantine state.limited in in territory,with a weakend economy,and debilated by the Black Death,the state was constantly threatened on all sides by powerful enemies,its territories overrun by Italian merchants,Western mercenaries,Slavic princes,Pirates and most important,Turkish Warlords.The story of the last two centuries of Byzantine history is one of steady diminution of territory and power,until at the end in 1453
without the sack of constantinoupolis the byzantines could have easily pushed the turks out of anatolia... it was a cowardly trick of the greedy barbarian crusaders, because they could get across all the defenses because they were let too by the byzantines themselves because they thought they were just allies like they were allways...
well to me the most epic moment of byzantine history was the second siege of constantinople by the arabs in 717-718. tottaly saved europe from islam. look it up in wikipedia. look at the arab losses. out of 2600 ships only 5 return in syria... after the 11th century the empire was so weakend and corrupted by bad leadership and greed that it was easy pray. still they lasted 3 more centuries fighting both the western barbarians and the turks.. amazing.
Thats true whovever doesnt believe this listen to how rich the Byzantines where. 2/3 of all Europes wealth was in Constantinople. So when the crusaders got in the city the fourth one. They said screw the Muslims while sack the city. There was no fight the Byzantines were tricked. Thats why Orthodox greeks dont trust the Cholic Latins... Even to this day which should exist. We had the greatest empirefrom Europe. The Turks took over a city that was not its former self
And why did the crusaders take a detour to Constantinople? Because the Greeks killed Frankish, Venetian and Milanese merchants only a year before in a massacre because they were Catholic. Many of these merchants were related to the nobility in western Europe.
The 4th crusade was a mistake but it can't be blamed entirely on westerners.
Besides we (westerners) were still there to help when the city fell!
Is that out of a Catholic Book? ( I am married to a Catholic and have no ill will with the Catholic People) At fault is the Pope then and until today he misrepresents the word Catholicos.
I always thought that Constantinople was the greatest city in the world. Better than even Rome, and tyhat says something. Too bad the Crusaders had to weaken it so the Turks could conquer it later.
anyway turks would take it..in 1402 turks lost to another middle asian turk in anatolia(ankara war)...and for 10 years there were no sultan in the empire...if there was no this event...turks could take the city more earlier
@Boelcke1916 Yes sadly the relationship between Crusaders and the Byzantines was poor and full of mistrust, no side was more or less to blame than the other, if only the two worked together Constantinople and the Crusader states would of lasted longer.
Η φορητή εικόνα που εμφανίζεται πριν τον Κωνστ. Παλαιολόγο, με το χρυσό φόντο, ανήκει στον Μέγα Κωνσταντίνο, το δημιουργό. Κωνσταντίνος την έφτιαξε, Κωνσταντίνος θυσιάστηκε, Κωνσταντίνος επανέρχεται.
The original Crusades were a response to a call for help from the Byzantine emperor to fight the Ottomans. They weren't supposed to have attacked Constantinople. Armies were less disciplined in those days...
The 1204 crusade was supposed to go to Jerusalem. The Venetians proposed they take Constantinople first to pay for passage to the Holy Land. Some crusaders would have nothing to do with this - others were motivated by greed as much as the Venetians. PS Where do you think the fours horses on St. Mark's came from, as well as a lot of the columns on the facade. Constantinople!
I think it is the biggest lost for Greek I'm sorry to say it but I can really say that it was full of history and i think it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world and also most beautiful women I've seen it was in Istanbul and also in Ankara
it is the greatest loss for the greeks, but the fall of constantinople is one of the greatest turning points in western history, the course of human history would have been much different of the city remained in teh hands of greeks. Instead of columbus of genoa, genoa a huge byzantine benefactor, instead of goign west for china and india columbus would travel to constatinople to pick up spices and silk. Fall of constantinolpe triggered the modern age with the age of discovery.
it is a great lost for the greeks. But historically overall the fall of constantinople is a major turning point in western history. Example Genoa is a huge byzantine benefactor and trading partner. Columbus is from genoa, if constatinople never fell columbus would have went to constatinople to get spices and silk instead of traveling west to reach the east and accidently discover a new world. The course of human history would have been totally diffferent, if constatntinople did not fall!
I've been in Istanbul and it is a very very beautiful city with th smell of history. You can still smell Greek influence in that city. And even if you stay there for 1 motnh you won't finish the places to visit there are lots of things to see.
Constantinopla, in 1453, was just a shadow of the bizantine empire; it was nearly finished. In fact, the latins caused much more damage to that empire than the turks (just take a look at the venetians, in 1209... pff). I can not justify aggresions, but if I had to choose a master, turks were much better than latins. In fact, the ottoman period was a renovation for the eastern mediterranean cultures; they were tolerant. The cross over Hagia Sophia? Istanbul alone has more population than Greece.
Some of my favorite music, one of my favorite cities, and one of my favorite topics of history. The Byzantines almost always fought outnumbered, but they had Greek Fire, which gave them a huge advantage. In one of the first Arabic sieges, they killed many times they're number and a storm sunk all but 5 of the ships. It was a huge city in history. It was the greatest city after the fall of Rome. I think this is a great video. Only untill our previous pope, no one appologized for the crusade
Yes, in Yarmuk, the arabs destroyed a huge byzantine army; and also the turks in Mantzikert (1071) destroyed a big byzantine army. Byzantines defended Constantinople very well, in many sieges, but the movility of light cavalry always caused serious trouble to their heavy cavalry.
Not to mention vikings constantly "asked" for bribes to not raid the coasts of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire. The turks took down what was a crippled yet still mighty empire. It lives in history. When we think of Byzantium we think of all the great things it did. When you think of the Ottoman empire you think of genocides.
You think the middle ages was peaceful if you lost a war your family were either turned slaves or slaughtered. Thats how it was back then, if there was Genocide during the ottoman times there is no record. There is what Turks call a civil war but Armenias call Genocide, but we don't know what really happened because Armenia refuses to open their archives for historian to judge. Until that happens Armenia is just hiding the truth and has no case.
I agree. When I think of the Eastern Roman Empire and Greece I can only think of great things. When I think of the Ottoman Empire I only think of genocide and invasions. I'm British so don't accuse me of being some Greek nationalist, anyone.
tyxainei na kanw mia ergasia panw sto thema kai auto to videaki anaparista ta gegonota se megalo vathmo. mia eikona=1000 lekseis.. exw sygkinithei poly ap to thema. mono an skeftite oti autoi itan 150000 kai emeis 7000 kai kratisame 1,5 mina.. o mwameth itan etoimos na fygei, alla auti i katarameni kerkoporta itan to telos tou byzandiou..
i wish that we wouldn't have to look on war and to conquer land. i wish that we can just be together, no matter our difference in religion, blood, color, age, so on. i wish that greeks and turks would stop fighting and being greedy and insted forget the past and look onward to a brighter, more unfied future
No there is not movie on this, althought it should be made. At least non of west european production or american. And if you think to learn history from youtube it is really hard to do, rather find some book.
I think they should make a movie about the siege of constantinople myself, hopefully it directed by ridley scott who filmed 1492 and the kingdom of heaven. IF they did make a movie about the siege, the movies protaganists should be an italian mercenary who is helping his greek brothers fight off the turks or even better the lone spaniard a castilian count who added constatine XI during the siege. I movie about 1453 will reopen wounds espicially in europe like 1492 and kingdom of heaven.
hmmm. Agia Sophia. such a beautiful CATHEDRAL! i can not blieve such an iconic and beautiful worship place could be turned into a mosque to house heretics and freaks of turkish islam
This is a city that was sacked by a bunch of ruthless latins sent by their pope.They did not have enough money to reach Egypt their original destination,so their answer to a complete monetary problem would be to sack their sister city and the Home of First Apostle Andrew,hand picked by Jesus,remember he did not hear the Rooster crow three times,nor was his name changed to the Rock but a simple apostle,so the city was sacked so there you have it,if I am lying read your history!Opening the drs 4
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked: 'What city will be conquered first, Constantinople or Romiyya?' He answered: 'The city of Hirqil [i.e. the Byzantine emperor Heraclius] will be conquered first
turks really have been the soul enemy's of europe since the beginning of time. Its funny how they want to be considered european now because they stole bits and pieces of land, they are still sand niggers.
The Cathedral is Aghia Sophia, it was Consecrated by the Fathers of the Church to the Holy Spirit and the Theotokos, you can Claim it all you want but it belongs to Jesus Christ this cannot be changed by Minarets and desecrating the Cathedral,Jesus is patient very patient he awaits,he does not hate you, he awaits you to repent when you are ready,because you have a lot of genocide to account for.
"Crusaders defeated at Varna, in 1444, nothing left to Constantinople but to perish honourably. Reunion with Rome, accepted at Florence, was at last proclaimed officially in St. Sophia by Cardinal Isidore, Metropolitan of Kiev(1452). It was thus fated that Emperor Constantine Dragases, the last heir of the great Constantine, was to die in the Catholic Faith."
"1439:Council of Florence, Greeks again declared themselves Catholics. Imposed by emperor and again rejected by Greek nation, could not be proclaimed even at Constantinople, in spite of a patriarch favourable to Rome, and Western promises to help Greeks with men and money."
hey i would like to see a movie of this..also the turks were very cruel they captured young christian boy forced them to convert to islam and made them fight the against the dying roman/greek civilisation
and the greeks and romans were so gentle to their enemies. Actually the Turks were the only ones who were cruel to their enemies. The greek army in 1922, after defeated in anatolia peacefully retreated without and pillage or raping. You guys are so funny.
'It was too, a great cosmopolitan city where along with merchandiseideas were freely exchanged and whose citizens saw themselves not as a racial unit but as the heirs of Greece and Rome, hallowed by the Christian faith'
...an art that arose from an ever varying blend of the cool cerebral Greek sense of the fitness of things and a deep religious sense that saw in works of art the incarnation of the Divine and the sanctification of matter."
For eleven hundred years there had stood on the Bosphorous a city where the intellect was admired and the learning and letters of the classical past were studied and preserved. Without the help of Byzantine commentators and scribes there is little that we would know today about the literature of ancient Greece. It was too, a city whose rulers down the centuries had inspired and encouraged a school of art unparalleled in human history,...
"He had destroyed the old crumbling metropolis of the Byzantine Emperors, and in its place he had created a new and splendid metropolis in which he intended his subjects of all creeds and all races to live together in order, prosperity and peace." Runciman, S., 1965. The Fall of Constantinople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A glorious end for the sons of mars and preachers of God, A glorious end for the last imperator.
Because there was no other way for the Romans to leave this world than figthing to the end as they did against Hannibal , Attila and many others, however after 2000 years their time had come.
Some days ago I finished reading Sir Stephen Runciman's 'The Fall of Constantinople'. A great theme for movies like 'Kingdom of Heaven' (but better movies, please) or maybe for a novel. Constantine the Emperor, Mehmed the Sultan, Giustiniani, Lukas Notaras, George Sfrantzes and the rest are a good stuff for film characters.
I think Lukas Notaras was negotiating with the Sultan the "day after" while the last emperor of Konstantinople was trying to rally support and fight. And many like Lukas Notaras felt that it would be better to be under the Sultan than under the Pope. Maybe Byzantium had been cut off, too isolated from western Europe.
I dont know why anoyne not do a movie about the Fall of Constantinople I think that the courages of the Byzantines is forget the Byzantine Empire is a empire forget few documentaries are made about this Empire.
I have good explenation for this! first there is still some misunderstandings, betwen greeks and west catholics,then the russians are proclaiming that they are the heir of the byzantines, ( thats is not true) but its makes not very good atmosphere! ( west dont like Russians- they are not democratic and always autocratic less civilized empire on the eastern Europe)thirdly, the USA are ally with Turks ( agains other muslims and Russian)
You bring up some interesting points. In the U.S.A orthodox Christians are almost unheard of as being distinguished as so. The Russians after the fall of Constantinople claimed to be the heirs (the third Rome) of the Roman tradition - which was only pushed by the lack of a cultural indentity in Russia at the time. I agree with you completely that the U.S.A would not make a film about this event as this event would infiltrate hatred against a so-called U.S. ally.
Well, if you do it right, it won't give a perception of hatred against anyone.
For example, though the Turks would claim otherwise, Mehmet was not completley Turkish, nor did he want Constantinople for strictly faith-related reasons.
Constantine was not completley Greek, and his whole force consisted of Greeks, Italians, one Scotsman; Orthodox and Catholic Christians.
Essentially what it was was the last of the Roman Empire against the rising Ottoman Empire.
and they dont want to make trouble! so this is the mainly reasons why the byzantines and Constatninopol are less documentaries and and there is not any movie abaout the Fall of Constatninopol
Possibly. I would love to see a movie be made out of this historical event. In the sense that, as the Roman Empire of the East died out via the Ottomans its cultural instititions survived in the West by the means of its elite that fled to the costal cities of Italy which they boosted the cultural learnings of the ancients and what not - i.e. the Renissance.
In the end, the Roman Empire still lives on in the West sadly I cannot say the same about the East as they were regressed by the Turks.
The wrong part of the story is, Turks never took Christian babies by force. Christian families willingly gave their children, because they could return great opportunities to their people after they completed their military and scientific education and reached to important places in army or at govermental positions.
Turks took Romanian boys too and turned them into Janisaries. Need I remind you of Vlad Tepes Dracula? The man who humbled the Turkish Fatih Mehmed II?
Ehetai hazepsi ligo! Look it up, The Turks definitely took babies from families...THAT'S WHAT JANISSARY'S WERE! WOW!!!!!!!! Why would anyone willingly give the oppressor their child? would you?
Actually Carmina Burana was a set of music/poem written during the early middles ages in the, then, the germaic region of said time, not 16th c. as someone said.
It is Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana." The music was written in the 20th century (1937), and the sixteenth century poems which provide the lyrics on has nothing to do with the Eastern Empire of Byzantium, which Constantinople was the Capital of. 'Cept the last half of the vid which is friggin EPIC!
Congratulations fedonoly! Your video is very impressive, but also very sad. The Byzantine Empire is the most glorious medieval country. But the fanatic Turkish hordes desecrate the Holly town of Constantinople. Centuries ago they are the opressor monster on the Balkans, but in the I world war they pay their sins...and they still for them.
After the sack of constantinople, Byzantium was split into smaller political enteties of Epirus, Nicea & tribzon(d). This split has prevented the Byzantines to be united against the nomadic barbaric invasion of the turks , but at least they fought like tigers for the defence of city and land! Their (better say our & yours)culture survived up this day.
Well, many things had been taken by the Venice at 1204. However this doesn't change the aggressivness of Turkey. They destroyed many paintings in Saint Sofia and killed many innocent people such as old people and children.
did the turks got large booty in the city? from what I learned, the empire was pretty much bankrupt... & all the good things having been carted off to Venice & the west after the 1204 sack.
I should also remind that it was in 1204 that the City of Constantine was deavstated. Where are the Horses form the Hippodrome? They are still fine, but now it is San Marco squire that enjoys their beauty.
It's quite impresive, but I'm sorry since to my limited knowledge, at least the slides on 1:50, 7:50 and 9:09 do not refer to 1453, rather to 1204. I understand your sorrow, but one shouldn't blame Turks for all your problems. After all Byzantine had as much troubles coming from West as from east, be that Bulgaria, Venice or Papal Rome.
If a city is owned for 500 years by a nation, it is not considered as occupied my funny friend. It is named Istanbul which is a Turkish city and it will remain like that for many more years so I suggest you deal with it.
which is turkish and i think i dont need to explain the word "islam" and "bol" is turkish and means something like "full" oder "full of" there isnt a direct translation for the word but it means somethink like full of
@BerlinMeinLeben@BerlinMeinLeben no my friend istanbul comes from the greek phrase "εις την πόλην" (is tin polin) which means" to the City". Before the fall of Constantinople when the Turks asked the Byzantines who were heading to Constantinople were they were heading they used to answer "is tin Polin"(=to the City) . The greeks used to refer to Constantinople( which in Greek is pronounced as Constantinupolis) just as "City" ("Polin"in greek).Istinpolin became istanbul
lmao in 1918 with the anatolian invasion of greek istanbul was hellenic heritage lmfao. we marched all the way to ankara u piece of crap. and yes istanbul is from the greek sentence Is Stan Polis which is pronounced istanpoli which means i am going to the city, which many greeks said when they went to the city of constantinoupolis to the turks.
nice clip
mustafac1979 11 months ago
Constantinople ? This is not Constantinople ! Thiiis iiiiiisss İSTANBUL =)
psdbasic 1 year ago
I want to make crusade when I'm watching this ..
DisturbedRaziell 1 year ago
250000 turks against 7.000 greeks ..
thats the brave story of the fall of contantinople
7000 greeks against 250000 barbarians nomads
konstantinos the last autokrator of Polis died in the front line of the battle ,when the turkish sultan was siting like a girl in his tent
saltadoros08 1 year ago
Welcome to ISTANBUL
Mattmete 1 year ago
I alwayer have tears in my eyes when i see what Turks stoll from us !
We must liberate Constantinopole and Asia Minor from Turks !
BjelasCG 1 year ago
I have feeling that if the west didnt betray greece in 1204 constantinople would still be a greek city today,I have no hate for the Turks,the west was the real enemy of greece in the fall of constantinople.
VasiliosMakedonas 1 year ago
The reason for Constatinople's fall was because Greece got betrayed by the west,they sent for help nothing came.The Greeks defended Constantinople bravely,I have alot more hate for the crusaders of Europe than I will for any turk,the Turks took it over and did some bad things yes,but the so called christian ''allies'' of Greece took over Constantinople and did stuff even the turks would not do,and the turks are muslims the crusaders were christians.
VasiliosMakedonas 1 year ago
WE LOST CONSTANTINOPLE FROM ONE FUCKING POLISH
JESUS HATES SLAVS
ANTI-MONGOL SINCE 1821
unfukkkmee 1 year ago
Take a lesson from history. Don't stand in the way of the Muslims.
halofreak41 1 year ago
LONG LIVE THE KING! WE WILL NEVER FORGET HIM: CONSTANTINE PALAIOLOGOS "IA" WHO WAS KILLED IN THE FIELD LIKE A COMMON SOLDIER. A TRUE HELLENE, A TRUE "SPARTAN", A TRUE LEGEND.
WE BOW BEFORE HIS SACRIFICE. MAY HIS MEMORY BE ETERNAL. CONSTANTINOPLE IS ALIVE THROUGH US. WHEN WE VISIT CONSTANTINOPLE (ISTANBUL) OR ROME WE HELLENES FEEL LIKE WE ARE HOME BECAUSE IT SIMPLY IS.
drobezisi 1 year ago
the sack of constantinople was 50 years prior. the reason the city fell was because it only had 50,000 people in it. in better times the city had close to 1,000,000+
the city was a skeleton of its former self before the attack happened.
ThunderFarts420 1 year ago
This is a classic example that when the civilised world was divided, it never contributed to peace and safety within it. Papist Rome had its responsibility.
legemeotithes 1 year ago
He threatened the Sultan that if he would not pay him lots of money he would free an Ottoman family member who was captive by the Byzantines(And then that family member would possibly try to become Sultan). The Byzantine emperor thought that Sultan Mehmed II was young and would be scared. Mehmed II said that he would give an answer very soon
Nickname997 1 year ago
pali me xronia me kairous pali dikia mas thane!
gorosXimarra 2 years ago 3
only reason why it fell was because of the crusades the walls were ruined by europe's armies trying to get to the middle east
Fantomenace 2 years ago
@Fantomenace No it fell because the ottomans found a unlocked gate and swormed through
ROBHUGHES1453 1 year ago
@Fantomenace They werent trying to get to the middle east. The fourth crusade was a direct attack on Constantinople not the holy lands.
ROBHUGHES1453 1 year ago
@Fantomenace they had 200 years to repair.
DonMeaker 1 year ago
@Fantomenace Actually they werent trying to get to the middle east the crusaders decided to attack constantinople instead of jerusalem after they attacked zara and were excomunicated.
ROBHUGHES1453 11 months ago
what´s the name of the first song in this video?
lkrachi18 2 years ago
carmina burana
fedonoly 2 years ago
yes turk fight very bravely as well 1453 since sultan was only 20 young man haw many people you know they make history when were 20 be honest
1971228 2 years ago 6
Constantine XI Dragases died heroically defending the city......
divustitus 2 years ago 4
he lost the war! lol
wtfidascrappy 2 years ago
Palaiolgos...
nickpafras 2 years ago
Because at that time Agia sophia was the symbol of the Orthodox and christians after vatikan.And we convert this symbol as amuslim symbol.When you go to greece or bulgaria now you can easily see the mosques that were converted to churches why? you need to enlarge your perspectives to the circumstances in the history. Can you give the answer for that question? why nowadays they have converted all the mosques to churches?
melih80m 2 years ago
that's false.not a single mosque has been converted into a church...don't believe everything they tell you.come here in greece and see for yourself.we still maintain most of the old mosques intact as museums/ancient relics and we even renovate/restore them from time to time...
steveharrismetalgod 2 years ago 2
@melih80m All the mosques in greece that the ottomans left behind had left as they were. None of them has been converted to church , cause during the ottoman era we have our own churches all the mosques left here still remain as untouched because they are supposed to be a cultural heritage.We respected what you left behind.
terraprod 1 year ago
Please may I ask any muslim why Agia Sophia was converted to a mosque when Constantinople fell in 1453? When Umar ibn al-Khattab took Jerusalem in April 637 after a prolonged seige, Umar came personally to receive the key to the city by the Greek Orthodox patriarch, Sophronius, who invited Umar to offer Muslim prayers at the Church of Holy Sepulchre. Umar chose to pray some distance from the Church, so as not to endager its status as a Chrisitan church. Why was this precedent not followed?Thanks
PebbledBeach 2 years ago 3
The Hagia Sophia was in ruin, to my knowledge most prayer services and masses where at the church of the holy apostles. The Byzantines just seemed to abondon the Hagia Sophia, just when the city needed it the most
Yashin9109 2 years ago
I as a Turk think it was a political statement rather than a religious motivation, if we look back from the point of view of the sultan.. he considered Constantinople his great prize as well as the thorn which protruded from the centre of his empire. I think he wanted to make grandiose changes to the city to mark his conquests. Building or creating mosques is one way of ensuring loyalty of his people as well as marking ones achievements in Islamic history and defo not a attack upon Christianity
ed291 2 years ago
It is interesting that both Mehmet The Conqueror and Empire Konstantinos Palailogos were far relatives. Both men had blood link.
Sultan Mehmet's grandmother was a pure Kantakouzenos and from the royal family. Also mother was Orthodox Christian and never accepted Islam. Mehmet was speaking Greek very well.
Tenedos2008 2 years ago 4
@tenedos2008
sure greek side of the history, please, now the ottoman side:
Sultan Mehmet II. grandmother has converted to islam. be sure, because all Females in HAREM, must be converted to islam. not 1 christian was ever in HAREM, until 1919... (moslems is so)
Mehmet had spoken 7 (SEVEN) languages, but not greek, (better: BYZANTINE) those 2 is different languages...
Ottoman Dynast was ruled 700 years by 1 (ONE) FAMILY!!!
only longer was just Japan, (Japanese Dynastie)
peace
ottomanHero 2 years ago
Hey idiot, Byzantine Greek and modern Greek are the exact same language. Byzantine Dialect is what they speak in Church.
nickpafras 2 years ago
btw, the ottoman empire lasted 624 years not 700. (1299-1923). It is embarrassing when a Greek has to teach you your own history.
nickpafras 2 years ago 4
@nickpafras
at least he didnt said that alexhander was greek :)....even byzantine empire was a part of roman empire...
peyotemania 1 year ago
when Greeks say the "Lords prayer" in Church, it is ALWAYS said in the Byzantine dialect of Greek.
nickpafras 2 years ago
696 years kayi boyu came to anatolia and concuered their first lands. the first it was ertugrul gazi father of all the sultans of ottoman empire this is why we say 700 years
crazybarmanjames 2 years ago
@ottomanHero of course not why do u think this byzantine greek and modern greek are the same, you should read a text in ancient Greek in Byzantine Greek and in modern Greek u will see it is very similar, I speak modern Greek and i can understand ancient Greek with a little difficulty and byzantine greek easily
terraprod 1 year ago
what is constantintintinpoltin?
blacklord42526 2 years ago
The pillars of the mosque looks like a missle...
umeshway 2 years ago 3
Ottoman Sultan,Conqueror Sultan Mehmet said:
"My great God gave me a duty;"Conquest Of İSTANBUL". I get the İstanbul or İstanbul gets me but I never go back from here."
İstanbul(old name Constantinople)
LastExtraPower 2 years ago
watz tha title of tha 1st song?' =]
lilrast09 2 years ago
carmina burana
fedonoly 2 years ago
we have discussed this in our class!
damn!
its so beautiful^^
btw, where d'you got these musix?'
or these songz?'
so kooL!!! its like a trailer or whatever! =]
lilrast09 2 years ago
if constantinople didnt ''fall'' in 1204 the fall of 1453 would never have happened and probably constantinople would be the capital of Greece and Greece would have big parts of Anatolia nowadays. i love byzantine empire (and greece)!
im from brazil =]
byzantinecaesar 2 years ago 3
the hungarian christian was urban.he was unaware of balistics calculations of artillery.whole artillery pieces made by greek muslim and turkish muslim commanders and arthitects .urban died one of these blasts in experiment level of artillery. and the myth of open gate under the AYASROMANOS (TOPKAPI) which is called kerkoporta totatly fantastic dreams seen by byzantine lovers. whole city walls was totaly ruined before the great attack on the night of 29 th may
rausch34 2 years ago
Whats the 2nd songs name
Jose04811 2 years ago
Requiem for a dream - Clint Mansell
fedonoly 2 years ago
thanks...its a cool song
Jose04811 2 years ago
what happend to the ancient ruins of constantinople there is none left, rome still stands in ruin?
mems3210 2 years ago
Many of the Byzantine buildings still stand in Instanbul. The only church(that is STILL a church) that dates back to the Byzatine Era is the Church of St. Mary of the Mongols. The rest have been converted to other purposes. The walls, gates, some roads, aqueducts, and other Byzantine structures can still be seen.
joel1923 2 years ago 2
The term empire,however,is a misnomer,given the new condition of the Byzantine state.limited in in territory,with a weakend economy,and debilated by the Black Death,the state was constantly threatened on all sides by powerful enemies,its territories overrun by Italian merchants,Western mercenaries,Slavic princes,Pirates and most important,Turkish Warlords.The story of the last two centuries of Byzantine history is one of steady diminution of territory and power,until at the end in 1453
Ulubattlihasan 2 years ago
without the sack of constantinoupolis the byzantines could have easily pushed the turks out of anatolia... it was a cowardly trick of the greedy barbarian crusaders, because they could get across all the defenses because they were let too by the byzantines themselves because they thought they were just allies like they were allways...
gaastra12 2 years ago 3
well to me the most epic moment of byzantine history was the second siege of constantinople by the arabs in 717-718. tottaly saved europe from islam. look it up in wikipedia. look at the arab losses. out of 2600 ships only 5 return in syria... after the 11th century the empire was so weakend and corrupted by bad leadership and greed that it was easy pray. still they lasted 3 more centuries fighting both the western barbarians and the turks.. amazing.
vonzuchter 2 years ago
Thats true whovever doesnt believe this listen to how rich the Byzantines where. 2/3 of all Europes wealth was in Constantinople. So when the crusaders got in the city the fourth one. They said screw the Muslims while sack the city. There was no fight the Byzantines were tricked. Thats why Orthodox greeks dont trust the Cholic Latins... Even to this day which should exist. We had the greatest empirefrom Europe. The Turks took over a city that was not its former self
MurdingMonster 2 years ago 6
And why did the crusaders take a detour to Constantinople? Because the Greeks killed Frankish, Venetian and Milanese merchants only a year before in a massacre because they were Catholic. Many of these merchants were related to the nobility in western Europe.
The 4th crusade was a mistake but it can't be blamed entirely on westerners.
Besides we (westerners) were still there to help when the city fell!
Dorkus89Malorkus 2 years ago
You were there to help when the city fell?
Is that out of a Catholic Book? ( I am married to a Catholic and have no ill will with the Catholic People) At fault is the Pope then and until today he misrepresents the word Catholicos.
Colts4ever123 2 years ago
I always thought that Constantinople was the greatest city in the world. Better than even Rome, and tyhat says something. Too bad the Crusaders had to weaken it so the Turks could conquer it later.
Boelcke1916 3 years ago 19
@Boelcke1916
anyway turks would take it..in 1402 turks lost to another middle asian turk in anatolia(ankara war)...and for 10 years there were no sultan in the empire...if there was no this event...turks could take the city more earlier
peyotemania 1 year ago
@Boelcke1916
Rome was the greatest :))
DisturbedRaziell 1 year ago
@Boelcke1916 Yes sadly the relationship between Crusaders and the Byzantines was poor and full of mistrust, no side was more or less to blame than the other, if only the two worked together Constantinople and the Crusader states would of lasted longer.
ADZ01982 1 year ago
Εξαιρετικό βίντεο φίλοι.
Η φορητή εικόνα που εμφανίζεται πριν τον Κωνστ. Παλαιολόγο, με το χρυσό φόντο, ανήκει στον Μέγα Κωνσταντίνο, το δημιουργό. Κωνσταντίνος την έφτιαξε, Κωνσταντίνος θυσιάστηκε, Κωνσταντίνος επανέρχεται.
healingreiki 3 years ago
The original Crusades were a response to a call for help from the Byzantine emperor to fight the Ottomans. They weren't supposed to have attacked Constantinople. Armies were less disciplined in those days...
mwe1967 3 years ago 5
The 1204 crusade was supposed to go to Jerusalem. The Venetians proposed they take Constantinople first to pay for passage to the Holy Land. Some crusaders would have nothing to do with this - others were motivated by greed as much as the Venetians. PS Where do you think the fours horses on St. Mark's came from, as well as a lot of the columns on the facade. Constantinople!
theophano 2 years ago 2
I think it is the biggest lost for Greek I'm sorry to say it but I can really say that it was full of history and i think it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world and also most beautiful women I've seen it was in Istanbul and also in Ankara
ozianna 3 years ago
it is the greatest loss for the greeks, but the fall of constantinople is one of the greatest turning points in western history, the course of human history would have been much different of the city remained in teh hands of greeks. Instead of columbus of genoa, genoa a huge byzantine benefactor, instead of goign west for china and india columbus would travel to constatinople to pick up spices and silk. Fall of constantinolpe triggered the modern age with the age of discovery.
Bronxguyanese 3 years ago 3
it is a great lost for the greeks. But historically overall the fall of constantinople is a major turning point in western history. Example Genoa is a huge byzantine benefactor and trading partner. Columbus is from genoa, if constatinople never fell columbus would have went to constatinople to get spices and silk instead of traveling west to reach the east and accidently discover a new world. The course of human history would have been totally diffferent, if constatntinople did not fall!
Bronxguyanese 3 years ago
I've been in Istanbul and it is a very very beautiful city with th smell of history. You can still smell Greek influence in that city. And even if you stay there for 1 motnh you won't finish the places to visit there are lots of things to see.
ozianna 3 years ago
smells nice
adyingbreed82 3 years ago
I hope one day the cross will crown the Hagia Sophia. 500 years of occupation is too long.
elysium76 3 years ago
Constantinopla, in 1453, was just a shadow of the bizantine empire; it was nearly finished. In fact, the latins caused much more damage to that empire than the turks (just take a look at the venetians, in 1209... pff). I can not justify aggresions, but if I had to choose a master, turks were much better than latins. In fact, the ottoman period was a renovation for the eastern mediterranean cultures; they were tolerant. The cross over Hagia Sophia? Istanbul alone has more population than Greece.
Traianus1981 3 years ago 6
Some of my favorite music, one of my favorite cities, and one of my favorite topics of history. The Byzantines almost always fought outnumbered, but they had Greek Fire, which gave them a huge advantage. In one of the first Arabic sieges, they killed many times they're number and a storm sunk all but 5 of the ships. It was a huge city in history. It was the greatest city after the fall of Rome. I think this is a great video. Only untill our previous pope, no one appologized for the crusade
Bizet909 3 years ago 3
yea they were outnumbered at the battle of yarmoc were they
Quentin0000000000 3 years ago
Yes, in Yarmuk, the arabs destroyed a huge byzantine army; and also the turks in Mantzikert (1071) destroyed a big byzantine army. Byzantines defended Constantinople very well, in many sieges, but the movility of light cavalry always caused serious trouble to their heavy cavalry.
Traianus1981 3 years ago 2
Not to mention vikings constantly "asked" for bribes to not raid the coasts of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire. The turks took down what was a crippled yet still mighty empire. It lives in history. When we think of Byzantium we think of all the great things it did. When you think of the Ottoman empire you think of genocides.
IchKommeAufJotunheim 3 years ago 18
@IchKommeAufJotunheim -
You think the middle ages was peaceful if you lost a war your family were either turned slaves or slaughtered. Thats how it was back then, if there was Genocide during the ottoman times there is no record. There is what Turks call a civil war but Armenias call Genocide, but we don't know what really happened because Armenia refuses to open their archives for historian to judge. Until that happens Armenia is just hiding the truth and has no case.
levendful 1 year ago
@IchKommeAufJotunheim
I agree. When I think of the Eastern Roman Empire and Greece I can only think of great things. When I think of the Ottoman Empire I only think of genocide and invasions. I'm British so don't accuse me of being some Greek nationalist, anyone.
ihavekankles 1 year ago
it was a tuesday when constantinople fell, and it is still a unlucky day for greece today
peace, unless ur a facist/nationalist!
berkbbx3 3 years ago 3
schöne Doko.
wiesnase8 3 years ago
i,m muslim i like ur video
jutatawanGilaBayang 3 years ago 3
i like your video
unitedstatesofislam1 3 years ago
tyxainei na kanw mia ergasia panw sto thema kai auto to videaki anaparista ta gegonota se megalo vathmo. mia eikona=1000 lekseis.. exw sygkinithei poly ap to thema. mono an skeftite oti autoi itan 150000 kai emeis 7000 kai kratisame 1,5 mina.. o mwameth itan etoimos na fygei, alla auti i katarameni kerkoporta itan to telos tou byzandiou..
marilynsweety 3 years ago 2
ine i arxi mias megalis ideas... to patriarxio sinexizi tin paradosi
JIMY45GR 3 years ago
that was sad..
Dykefalos 3 years ago
very true
Ulubattlihasan 3 years ago
yes very true
Ulubattlihasan 3 years ago
i wish that we wouldn't have to look on war and to conquer land. i wish that we can just be together, no matter our difference in religion, blood, color, age, so on. i wish that greeks and turks would stop fighting and being greedy and insted forget the past and look onward to a brighter, more unfied future
ocachisu 3 years ago 5
slowly but its already happenning the turkish and greek governments are starting programs to bring the 2 nations closer
mems3210 3 years ago
you have a rare personality and its awsome
5starskills 3 years ago
even their dreams can not reach where our power can
harasaltuk 3 years ago
Είναι αλήθεια ότι έχει βγει ταινία σχετικά με την πτώση της Κωνσταντινούπολης?Αν γνωρίζει κάποιος ας μου απαντήσει
Biribibom 3 years ago
Apo ta kalytera video pou ehw dei.bravo!
selaniksahili 3 years ago
ΤΕΛΕΙΟ!
selaniksahili 3 years ago
ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΚΑΛΥΤΕΡΑ ΒΙΝΕΤΟ ΠΟΥ ΕΧΩ ΔΕΙ.
ΕΙΝΑΙ ΠΟΛΥ ΠΡΟΣΕΓΜΕΝΟ.ΕΧΕΤΕ ΔΙΑΛΕΞΕΙ ΤΙΣ ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ ΜΙΑ ΜΙΑ.Η ΔΕ ΕΠΙΛΟΓΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΤΕΛΕΙΑ!ΑΠΛΑ ΚΑΤΑΠΛΗΚΤΙΚΟ!
selaniksahili 3 years ago
nice video
maligunduz 3 years ago
I want a history lesson on this, anybody got amy good links youtube videos?? I heard there was a movie, any one how what its called??
professionalwid0w 3 years ago
No there is not movie on this, althought it should be made. At least non of west european production or american. And if you think to learn history from youtube it is really hard to do, rather find some book.
azamemnius 3 years ago 3
I think they should make a movie about the siege of constantinople myself, hopefully it directed by ridley scott who filmed 1492 and the kingdom of heaven. IF they did make a movie about the siege, the movies protaganists should be an italian mercenary who is helping his greek brothers fight off the turks or even better the lone spaniard a castilian count who added constatine XI during the siege. I movie about 1453 will reopen wounds espicially in europe like 1492 and kingdom of heaven.
Bronxguyanese 3 years ago 5
a varangian would be more cool than an italian
Vladutz2000 2 years ago
the true capital of greece
dagibbons 3 years ago
i guess u must be making joke
SpeedyWatcher 3 years ago
No,no,no!! You are wrong in your opinion that it should be in the contrary way! I guess Athens must be our land again like it was some years ago.
furky2011 3 years ago
hmmm. Agia Sophia. such a beautiful CATHEDRAL! i can not blieve such an iconic and beautiful worship place could be turned into a mosque to house heretics and freaks of turkish islam
vlakamalaka93 3 years ago
This is a city that was sacked by a bunch of ruthless latins sent by their pope.They did not have enough money to reach Egypt their original destination,so their answer to a complete monetary problem would be to sack their sister city and the Home of First Apostle Andrew,hand picked by Jesus,remember he did not hear the Rooster crow three times,nor was his name changed to the Rock but a simple apostle,so the city was sacked so there you have it,if I am lying read your history!Opening the drs 4
Colts4ever123 3 years ago
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked: 'What city will be conquered first, Constantinople or Romiyya?' He answered: 'The city of Hirqil [i.e. the Byzantine emperor Heraclius] will be conquered first
algoumari 3 years ago
Wow 50/50 even a retard like Muhammad can guess correctly hahaha
TottingCowboy 3 years ago
hahaha soo true
Takis48 2 years ago
turks really have been the soul enemy's of europe since the beginning of time. Its funny how they want to be considered european now because they stole bits and pieces of land, they are still sand niggers.
savage177 3 years ago
The Cathedral is Aghia Sophia, it was Consecrated by the Fathers of the Church to the Holy Spirit and the Theotokos, you can Claim it all you want but it belongs to Jesus Christ this cannot be changed by Minarets and desecrating the Cathedral,Jesus is patient very patient he awaits,he does not hate you, he awaits you to repent when you are ready,because you have a lot of genocide to account for.
OMGtheOwner 3 years ago 4
what's the name of this music??i mean song...
Coldstonz 3 years ago
Carmina burana and Requiem for a dream
fedonoly 3 years ago
the west sold out constantinople starting with Humbert.
Colts4ever123 3 years ago
"Crusaders defeated at Varna, in 1444, nothing left to Constantinople but to perish honourably. Reunion with Rome, accepted at Florence, was at last proclaimed officially in St. Sophia by Cardinal Isidore, Metropolitan of Kiev(1452). It was thus fated that Emperor Constantine Dragases, the last heir of the great Constantine, was to die in the Catholic Faith."
wutru 3 years ago
He only agree because of Otomans were so near and he was still ordotox in Heart
ImperialGuard9001 3 years ago
"1439:Council of Florence, Greeks again declared themselves Catholics. Imposed by emperor and again rejected by Greek nation, could not be proclaimed even at Constantinople, in spite of a patriarch favourable to Rome, and Western promises to help Greeks with men and money."
wutru 3 years ago
hey i would like to see a movie of this..also the turks were very cruel they captured young christian boy forced them to convert to islam and made them fight the against the dying roman/greek civilisation
preavetor 3 years ago
Like a Hollywood movie? that would be awesome!!!
JaredPoet75 3 years ago 2
and the greeks and romans were so gentle to their enemies. Actually the Turks were the only ones who were cruel to their enemies. The greek army in 1922, after defeated in anatolia peacefully retreated without and pillage or raping. You guys are so funny.
enginnnnn 2 years ago 2
its not fall of constantinople conquer of Istanbul:)
airboy52 3 years ago
'It was too, a great cosmopolitan city where along with merchandiseideas were freely exchanged and whose citizens saw themselves not as a racial unit but as the heirs of Greece and Rome, hallowed by the Christian faith'
That was Runciman as well.
nomust 3 years ago 2
...an art that arose from an ever varying blend of the cool cerebral Greek sense of the fitness of things and a deep religious sense that saw in works of art the incarnation of the Divine and the sanctification of matter."
That was Runciman.
nomust 3 years ago
For eleven hundred years there had stood on the Bosphorous a city where the intellect was admired and the learning and letters of the classical past were studied and preserved. Without the help of Byzantine commentators and scribes there is little that we would know today about the literature of ancient Greece. It was too, a city whose rulers down the centuries had inspired and encouraged a school of art unparalleled in human history,...
nomust 3 years ago 2
"He had destroyed the old crumbling metropolis of the Byzantine Emperors, and in its place he had created a new and splendid metropolis in which he intended his subjects of all creeds and all races to live together in order, prosperity and peace." Runciman, S., 1965. The Fall of Constantinople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
prednisolon 3 years ago
here is our diamond here is our heart..we have watered this place with our blood..and here will be always istanbul lıke old...
wiorren 3 years ago
A glorious end for the sons of mars and preachers of God, A glorious end for the last imperator.
Because there was no other way for the Romans to leave this world than figthing to the end as they did against Hannibal , Attila and many others, however after 2000 years their time had come.
JUANINU20 3 years ago 8
my friend what a glorious words! great respect to you!! brother
kyroz2 3 years ago
Η σκλάβα η Πόλη κάθεται στο Βόσπορο και κλαίει
Κι ο φιδωτός ο Βόσπορος την συμπονεί και λέει :
«Πες μου κυρά μου ζηλευτή, πεντάμορφη κυρά μου,
Γιατί ποτίζεις δάκρυα τα γαλανά νερά μου;
Σαν τι είναι που μου ζήτησες κι εγώ να μη στο φέρω
Μήπως σ' ελύπησα ο φτωχός και δίχως να το ξέρω;
Στα κάτασπρα τα πόδια σου δεν πέρασεν ημέρα,
που να μη σούφερα σκυφτός δώρα απ τον κόσμο πέρα.
nomust 3 years ago
Wonderful video. Five stars.
slavophile1 4 years ago 2
Some days ago I finished reading Sir Stephen Runciman's 'The Fall of Constantinople'. A great theme for movies like 'Kingdom of Heaven' (but better movies, please) or maybe for a novel. Constantine the Emperor, Mehmed the Sultan, Giustiniani, Lukas Notaras, George Sfrantzes and the rest are a good stuff for film characters.
glishev 4 years ago
I think Lukas Notaras was negotiating with the Sultan the "day after" while the last emperor of Konstantinople was trying to rally support and fight. And many like Lukas Notaras felt that it would be better to be under the Sultan than under the Pope. Maybe Byzantium had been cut off, too isolated from western Europe.
CeaserXIX 3 years ago
I dont know why anoyne not do a movie about the Fall of Constantinople I think that the courages of the Byzantines is forget the Byzantine Empire is a empire forget few documentaries are made about this Empire.
ImperialGuard9001 4 years ago 7
I have good explenation for this! first there is still some misunderstandings, betwen greeks and west catholics,then the russians are proclaiming that they are the heir of the byzantines, ( thats is not true) but its makes not very good atmosphere! ( west dont like Russians- they are not democratic and always autocratic less civilized empire on the eastern Europe)thirdly, the USA are ally with Turks ( agains other muslims and Russian)
kyroz2 3 years ago 2
You bring up some interesting points. In the U.S.A orthodox Christians are almost unheard of as being distinguished as so. The Russians after the fall of Constantinople claimed to be the heirs (the third Rome) of the Roman tradition - which was only pushed by the lack of a cultural indentity in Russia at the time. I agree with you completely that the U.S.A would not make a film about this event as this event would infiltrate hatred against a so-called U.S. ally.
Wtayz 3 years ago 2
Well, if you do it right, it won't give a perception of hatred against anyone.
For example, though the Turks would claim otherwise, Mehmet was not completley Turkish, nor did he want Constantinople for strictly faith-related reasons.
Constantine was not completley Greek, and his whole force consisted of Greeks, Italians, one Scotsman; Orthodox and Catholic Christians.
Essentially what it was was the last of the Roman Empire against the rising Ottoman Empire.
JonnyLightning 3 years ago
and they dont want to make trouble! so this is the mainly reasons why the byzantines and Constatninopol are less documentaries and and there is not any movie abaout the Fall of Constatninopol
kyroz2 3 years ago 3
Possibly. I would love to see a movie be made out of this historical event. In the sense that, as the Roman Empire of the East died out via the Ottomans its cultural instititions survived in the West by the means of its elite that fled to the costal cities of Italy which they boosted the cultural learnings of the ancients and what not - i.e. the Renissance.
In the end, the Roman Empire still lives on in the West sadly I cannot say the same about the East as they were regressed by the Turks.
Wtayz 3 years ago
knighttemplar6
At that time noone could have gathered an army of 300000 strong.
There was a detachment of Turks (under he command of a Turk named Dorgano by the Greeks) in the city fighting against the Ottoman Turks.
There were many Greeks, Slavs and Christians fighting for the Ottoman army.
I suggest you to read Nicolo Barbaro's diaries.
esgokpinar 4 years ago 2
The ones that fought for the Ottomans was because they did not had any other choice...
Here in Greece during the Ottoman days the Turks were taking Greek babies from their Greek mothers and they turned them into Janissaries
The Turks brainwashed the little ones and trained them as Ottoman soldiers when they were becoming adults
qwertdfsf 4 years ago 6
come on dude.
grekos fought with ottomans because they were sick of Latin barbarians coming from europe.
grekos are not masscared after 1453, they have lived in istanbul until 1900s.
mehmetaydin68 4 years ago
The wrong part of the story is, Turks never took Christian babies by force. Christian families willingly gave their children, because they could return great opportunities to their people after they completed their military and scientific education and reached to important places in army or at govermental positions.
hydrocarbonus 4 years ago
Turks took Greek babies and made thenm into janissarys.. its in history.
Divius 4 years ago 19
Turks took Romanian boys too and turned them into Janisaries. Need I remind you of Vlad Tepes Dracula? The man who humbled the Turkish Fatih Mehmed II?
Twycross 4 years ago 5
Ehetai hazepsi ligo! Look it up, The Turks definitely took babies from families...THAT'S WHAT JANISSARY'S WERE! WOW!!!!!!!! Why would anyone willingly give the oppressor their child? would you?
Takis48 2 years ago
Actually Carmina Burana was a set of music/poem written during the early middles ages in the, then, the germaic region of said time, not 16th c. as someone said.
mikaela87 4 years ago
It is Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana." The music was written in the 20th century (1937), and the sixteenth century poems which provide the lyrics on has nothing to do with the Eastern Empire of Byzantium, which Constantinople was the Capital of. 'Cept the last half of the vid which is friggin EPIC!
No business like show business. 5 stars!
just2w4tch 4 years ago
that is so medeval total war but good job
Hye121212 4 years ago
Congratulations fedonoly! Your video is very impressive, but also very sad. The Byzantine Empire is the most glorious medieval country. But the fanatic Turkish hordes desecrate the Holly town of Constantinople. Centuries ago they are the opressor monster on the Balkans, but in the I world war they pay their sins...and they still for them.
ArchangelTyraelski 4 years ago
300.000 turks and mercenariew
VS
5000(2000latin)
result
the medieval Leonidas
Heroes fight like the Greeks!!!W tsortsil
knighttemplar6 4 years ago 4
Thank you my Greek brother for this video!
gorazde 4 years ago 5
twas a good video, i enjoyed the music.
ByzantineWarrior 4 years ago 5
After the sack of constantinople, Byzantium was split into smaller political enteties of Epirus, Nicea & tribzon(d). This split has prevented the Byzantines to be united against the nomadic barbaric invasion of the turks , but at least they fought like tigers for the defence of city and land! Their (better say our & yours)culture survived up this day.
kanibal0311 4 years ago 5
Well, many things had been taken by the Venice at 1204. However this doesn't change the aggressivness of Turkey. They destroyed many paintings in Saint Sofia and killed many innocent people such as old people and children.
fedonoly 4 years ago
Venice took horse statues.. the Turks took everything else.
munkeeguy 4 years ago 6
did the turks got large booty in the city? from what I learned, the empire was pretty much bankrupt... & all the good things having been carted off to Venice & the west after the 1204 sack.
vsovereign 4 years ago
very good video.I am impressed:)5 starzz!!
PersefoniHELLAS 4 years ago
I should also remind that it was in 1204 that the City of Constantine was deavstated. Where are the Horses form the Hippodrome? They are still fine, but now it is San Marco squire that enjoys their beauty.
werten 4 years ago
It's quite impresive, but I'm sorry since to my limited knowledge, at least the slides on 1:50, 7:50 and 9:09 do not refer to 1453, rather to 1204. I understand your sorrow, but one shouldn't blame Turks for all your problems. After all Byzantine had as much troubles coming from West as from east, be that Bulgaria, Venice or Papal Rome.
werten 4 years ago
But Bulgaria, Venice and Papal Rome arent in control of Constantinople today and havent occupied the city for over 500 years.
munkeeguy 4 years ago 2
If a city is owned for 500 years by a nation, it is not considered as occupied my funny friend. It is named Istanbul which is a Turkish city and it will remain like that for many more years so I suggest you deal with it.
enginnnnn 2 years ago
istabul is a greek word comeing from constatinopal. it means to the city. ook it up mate right
cyprussunizhot 2 years ago
istanbul comes from islambol
which is turkish and i think i dont need to explain the word "islam" and "bol" is turkish and means something like "full" oder "full of" there isnt a direct translation for the word but it means somethink like full of
BerlinMeinLeben 2 years ago
no instabul means in town
piratesofamarynthos 2 years ago
more like "bull". Istanbul is just a corruption/mutation of Constantinople. Like "Maccers" for McDonalds. (or Laugh Out Loud -> LOL -> LULZ)
hatchedarea 2 years ago
@BerlinMeinLeben @BerlinMeinLeben no my friend istanbul comes from the greek phrase "εις την πόλην" (is tin polin) which means" to the City". Before the fall of Constantinople when the Turks asked the Byzantines who were heading to Constantinople were they were heading they used to answer "is tin Polin"(=to the City) . The greeks used to refer to Constantinople( which in Greek is pronounced as Constantinupolis) just as "City" ("Polin"in greek).Istinpolin became istanbul
terraprod 1 year ago
lmao in 1918 with the anatolian invasion of greek istanbul was hellenic heritage lmfao. we marched all the way to ankara u piece of crap. and yes istanbul is from the greek sentence Is Stan Polis which is pronounced istanpoli which means i am going to the city, which many greeks said when they went to the city of constantinoupolis to the turks.
gaastra12 2 years ago 3