"No have fear for the multitude of your enemies. With the help of Heaven, one Roman may triumph over one thousand Barbarians. But if you dedicate your life for the salvation of our brothers, we will get the crown of martyrdom, our immortal reward will be paid largely by God and posterity. » Eraclius I Byzantine Emperor
Roman March-681 AD <- SICKEST PANslavic PROPAGANDA AGAINST THE GREEK PEOPLE. ALL BYZANTINES HAVE GREEK NAMES. THE BYZANTINES ARE GREEKS. THE LAST BYZANTINE BASILEUS OF BYZANTIUM, THE CONSTANTINUS PALEOLOGUS SAID I AM GREEK / HELLENE
The marching scenes with the legions were impressive but the uniforms, the helmets & shields for example were totally obvious plastic bulgarian quality CRAP & actually the whole movie sucked & the director was an untalented asshole that used the communist party's money to cover the own lameness....the movie had to bring some visual idea about the foundation of the Bulgarian State in 681 & be a prominent part of the celebrations of the 1300 years jubilee......
@GrrrIamMad CGI always looks fake, especially when depicting humans. The best computer just can't reproduce the million different shadings and the thousand different ways a thousand real men actually move.
Like the ballyhooed "Troy"---a bunch of CGI-generated digits all moving the same way. A blind mind could see it was fake.
Oh.. This is the Byzantines (Eastern Roman Empire). When I saw Roman Empire 681 A.D. I was wondering wth? The Roman Empire (West as far as I know was considered the Roman Empire) fell in 476 a.d. Interesting film though. More films need to be made showing the later "Roman Empire" Byzantines.
@AetiusPraetorian This. The Byzantines were not known as "Byzantines" while they were around. To them, they were still Roman until Constantinople was taken by the Ottomans in 1453.
@The23april2005 Not true, greek illiterate buddie! Don`t forget the Roman heritage. They (so called 'byzantines') were speaking and writing in greek, but they were living officialy in the "Roman Empire", not Byzantine Empire! This phrase is introduced from some historians 3 centuries after the doom of the Roman Empire at 1453 when Constantinople is conquered by the ottoman hordes. Better read some books before trying to make an impression, cause the only result you gain is laugh.
@MarkCicerone True. They never called themselves "the Byzantines" or their empire "the Byzantine Empire". They always thought of themselves as Romans and that they were "the Roman Empire". If you could go back to the 7th century, and start talking about "the fall of the Roman Empire" they would have said it hadn't "fallen". They would have replied that its capital was Constantinople and the emperor there was the Roman Emperor.
It's the Bulgarian People's Army at that time(1980s) we could spare 40 000 men just for this movie.
At these years the army of the country was between 100 000 and 800 000 men for a country with population of about 8 000 000 (it was the Cold war period, after all).
@hatemf23 Haha, not exactly :) It`s because back then there was a military service (between 2-4 years that time, depending of the branch), so every single man had to go through this. This was not a proffessional army like nowadays, in which you`re soldier on contract. Only the high ranks were proffessional, but this military service was very hard and gave a real preparation for war, so even it was not a proffessional army, it was still staffed of high qualified soldiers :)
Really impressing, I don't understand why it isn't as famous as other roman movies as "the fall of the roman empire". Is it because it is Romanian or something. And There are even more of this kind of Romanian movies: Dacii (the Dacians) and Collumna (the collumn) both from 1968 all without computer but terrible music!
thats supposed to be romans????what crap,who they get to do the prop dept?this is utterly unrealistic as 300....as a avid history buff this is apalling!
@keithehlert it's the medieval Byzantine army you retard. Were you expecting Ben Hur type legionaries? Study some more history before making an idiot of yourself you fucking tard
@keithehlert You're a fucking idiot. Some history buff you must be, as LuciusSuperbus stated, this is 7th century Byzantium, not first century Rome. The army's depiction here is actually extremely accurate, and very impressive.
Hell, lorica segmentata was widely out of use by the 3rd century. This is 400 years after. Save next months allowance from mommy for a history book.
These guys aren't really suppose to look like romans, they're suppose to like byzantines, the the final descendants of the roman empire. Byzantine troops of this time looked a lot different than the actual roman troops.
@onedOLlarDuDE They are Romans regarless! The Republican Troops and Imperial Roman Troops didnt look smilar but they were both Romans! Is a joke to suddently cut (in wich date by the way to you cut the Roman and Byzantine phases) a timeline that goes back centuries. The Byzantine Empire is the Roman Empire! There is no Byzantines they were Romans
You've gotta be kidding me. They didn't even control the city of Rome, and therefore none of them could not possibly be Romans. And by 681 most of the pure Romans that lived in Byzantine probably had blended with the Greeks, Turks, Crimeans, ect. Even their culture was only a shadow of what it was in the ancient times.
So what? If Hannibal had taken Rome there will be no more Romans to figh him?! Ridicolous! This why Hannibal didnt take Rome even if had taken Rome would be a lot more than just rock! Ist a ideal a symbol an abstract creation there will be Romans withoud Rome I assure you. Of course Romans were Romans! In fact the Eastern Half of the Empire was always more urbanized intelctualy and culturaly developed than the western half you think that in Britannia or Hispania were more Roman?
As for the blending first Turks came a lot after this happened and Turks were one of the worst (if not the worst) enemies of ERE and of course the ones that finaly put an end to it as for Crimeans I dont know or hear of Crimeans as people I hear about Goths in Crimea or Mongols in Crimea now Crimeans? What people is that? And Romans were always blended people what you think that people that adopt clothing military tactics arquitectual strutures and mythology from other peoples(like Greeks!) was
"pure"?! This is ridicolous not even the original romans the ones that hang with likes of Romulus werent pure a mixture of etruscan sabines and latins more likely. Rome was always a superpower of many cultures Italy was full of different cultures from Etuscrans to Greeks and Samnites you think that Rome conquer them how? By adopting many of their matters and thus they were higly sucefull it was same thing for rest how you think Gladius come from? It came from Iberian Tribes!
And as anny good Empire people that are conquered become part of those that conquered them in time many Hispanic Gauls Britons Greeks etc would be proud Romans withoud losing their original ethos their gods were sill worship since Romans were mainly sincretic until Christianity not only locals mix their gods with Romans/Greeks ones that even Romans themselfs adopt gods from others peoples Isis was worship in rome! Many of III century emperors worship oriental gods from Mitra to Sol Invcitus
Doesnt mean that old gods die out because Jupiter and Mars were sill worship is just that more Gods were part of the Roman World thus was true for all culture aswell since early age Roman Gods were Greek gods culture cloths everything came from some greek origin. So when did you make such hard disction betwen Greeks and Romans? Greeks conquered and mix a lot of cultures in East the Romans just continue this action Eastern Half was always more Greek than Latin but still they were Romans
Many Roman leaders spoke more Greek than Latin Hadrian for example or the famous pilatos in time of Jesus Christ the lingua franca of Holy Land wasnt latin but greek! So you teeling that those same people that were Romans in time of Hadrian werent in time of Justinian that man that sough to reconquer the lost parts of Western Roman Empire!? Then check yourself in asylium because your clearly delusional! Roman wasnt blood thing more than cultural one with exception of Jews many peoples were Roman
Oh wow, do you really like typing or is it a touchy subject? :D
That's too much text for me to bother reading so soon after waking up, so I didn't really read it, but you're still wrong anyway. This discussion's over for my part, so don't bother writing another novel as a reply because I won't be reading it.
@teremi1 The name byzantines is given by historians in recent years .Back then they called themselves romans (romei) and retained some similarity with the roman empire .
@k1ller1988 It is not interesting that byzantines called themselves as roman empire. It was called Greek Empire in the medieval west, the ruler was called emperor of greeks. Constantinople was a greek speaking city with greek identity after the death of the last latin-language emperor Iustinian the great.
@stears555 The Franks called them Greeks (Γραικοί) with scornful meaning, but they called themselves mainly Romans. Every emperors was crowned as βασιλεὺς τῶν Ῥωμαίων. All the non Frankish people called them Romans too. E.g. The Turks & the Arabs used the word Rûm (Roman).
See: Quran, surat 30; the name Sultanate of Rûm; the title kayser-i-rum that Mehmed II used for himself after the fall of Constantinople; the title Rûm Orthodoks Patrikanesi which the Turks used until today for the Patriarchs.
@Lhein33 No, the roman popes started to called them "Emperor of Greeks", that's why catholic franks also used that term. Don't forget, the total population of Eastern Europe that time didn't reached the population of medieval France. (including Balkan). Due to signifficantly higher population density of medieval west, the 80% of Medieval Europe were catholics.
@stears555 The popes were gradually joining forces with the Franks since the time of Pepin the Short. Some of them tried to resist and not fully succumb to the Franks; e.g. pope Leo III didn't accept the filioque, that Charlemagne's council in Aachen had adopted, and pope John VIII recognised Patriarch Photius and accepted the desicions of the VIII Ecumenical Synod.
It was Charlemagne who condemned the desicions of the VII Ecumenical synod and used the word Graecia with the meaning of "heretic".
Whoa, I didn't think Bulgarians could do something like that, I'm from Bulgaria. I wonder where they got all the money for the clothes and so many people.
In Bulgaria we call the movie just "Khan Asparukh". This is from the shorter (and better) version - "The Greatness of the Khan". Not a bad movie although a little bit overpatriotic and slow. The movie was part of our national propaganda around the 1300th year of the battle of Asparukh against the Byzantines and the founding of the Bulgar(ian) kingdom on the Balkan peninsula.
Romans had more of a cavalry army in the VIIth century, not all those obsolete infantry legions.
you know it was common place for rome to field armies of this size back in the day also there is a story in history of the romans building a bridge to get at an enemy fort they took it of coarse
People this is not CG, this is an old Bulgarian movie, and that is the ACTUAL Bulgarian army dressed as Romans. It's amazing, movies nowadays rely too much on CG to do their armies.
Actually what was left of the Roman Empire survived in the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, but as time went on it lost more and more land until eventually the capital, Constantinople, was captured by the Ottomans in 1453.
@weaklymeat117 The western Roman Empire officially died in 476 with the deposition of Romulus Augustus. The other Roman empire, the byzantine empire, survived untill 1453. It's standarts are now in Russia, the unofficial heir of the empire.
@Refragatio yes, but we bulgarian have a word for byzantine ppl and it's close to roman - "romei". At the time 681 it was the Byzantine Empire the bulgarians had to fight against. Rome fell during the 4th century :)
@glavorez Rome never fell it remianed a city controled and ruled by a person you probaly have hear him the Pope XD. If city fell to something was Catholocism
They did, yes, but even to the days of their deaths, if you asked them, they would have said "The Roman Empire", even at their death, they weren't Roman and they weren't an empire.
@carthagertw In fact they called themsefls Romans Byzantines is western term to distingue the Ancient Roman Empire and Medieval Roman Empire they are romans neverless.And in east byzantines are generaly called Romans
This movie is about the Byzanyine -Bulgarian wars .This is the battle at Ongalus near The Danube river .The Movie is called "681 - Velichieto na hana" wich means" the glory of the khan ".Just type Asparuh in the search bar to find more materials.
wow thats a lot of Ppl with alot of free time! lol but awesome idea though! I always wanted to see what a 100,000 Ppl would be like if they were marching like one army! I mean I have seen a 100.000 kinda of too many around me, but it was just a mob, but an army! SWEET, but hella expensive to feed and cloth them though! Especially nowadays, you just cant get the numbers and also make it cost-effective!
I was in the army in that time and we all play in the movie the number of people involved int he shoting was over 100 000 the plan was for 150 000 but the guverment sau 100 000 is what they can do
@sergeant07 It was communist days if they tell you to jump u jump .No one of my devision was payed .Thank god no one attacked Bulgaria at this time 10% of the army was to fight with bows and arrows haha
LOL in 2:07 one of the soldiers have modern shoes :-) .
The1deratyzator 1 month ago
Wow amazing, I hate CGI, it all looks so fake to me, they can't even get water to look right yet
Phoenixkidd 1 month ago
No wonder the Bulgarian Communists had 'full employment' - if anyone was out of work they dressed him as a Roman and put him in a bad movie.
poetcomic1 1 month ago
"No have fear for the multitude of your enemies. With the help of Heaven, one Roman may triumph over one thousand Barbarians. But if you dedicate your life for the salvation of our brothers, we will get the crown of martyrdom, our immortal reward will be paid largely by God and posterity. » Eraclius I Byzantine Emperor
Phantasos25 1 month ago
The Byzantine empire was the natural continuation of the East Roman Empire. One Day we will must take Costantinopolis back.
Phantasos25 1 month ago
what kind of a bullshit movie is this?? the roman empire was already gone and finished by the year 420AD
Castilliaisme 2 months ago
@Castilliaisme
But not the east part of the empire. The "Bizantynes" always called themself "Romans"
C6H12O6ish 1 month ago
@Castilliaisme Its Eastern Roman Empire...Byzanthians...read more historical books or use wikipedia or google..
hipestz 1 month ago
Roman March-681 AD <- SICKEST PANslavic PROPAGANDA AGAINST THE GREEK PEOPLE. ALL BYZANTINES HAVE GREEK NAMES. THE BYZANTINES ARE GREEKS. THE LAST BYZANTINE BASILEUS OF BYZANTIUM, THE CONSTANTINUS PALEOLOGUS SAID I AM GREEK / HELLENE
unfukkkmee 2 months ago
@unfukkkmee
Don't be stupid, they were Ῥωμαίοι.
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unfukkkmee 2 months ago
Wow! A cast (literally) of thousands!
farmerne 2 months ago
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paienne14 2 months ago
There's no 3:00!
allforable 2 months ago
The marching scenes with the legions were impressive but the uniforms, the helmets & shields for example were totally obvious plastic bulgarian quality CRAP & actually the whole movie sucked & the director was an untalented asshole that used the communist party's money to cover the own lameness....the movie had to bring some visual idea about the foundation of the Bulgarian State in 681 & be a prominent part of the celebrations of the 1300 years jubilee......
NEFERHOR666 2 months ago
whats the movie name? if there is an english name it would be easier for me beacouse idont understan bulgarian:P but hte movie looks really cool
Narjoso 2 months ago
@Narjoso I put the english version as a video response to this video.Check it out!
k1ller1988 2 months ago
@Narjoso "Khan Asparuh" (aka "681 - Glory of the khan"),
aeonflux67 1 month ago
@Narjoso
Aszparuh (1981) - imdb com / title /tt0275942/
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The23april2005 2 months ago
como se llama esta pelicula
Djjavic 3 months ago
only seen to Bulgaria movies, both movies so far have been my favorites.
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The23april2005 3 months ago
SLAVOMONGOLIAN STEALERS OF GREEK TERRITORIES
The23april2005 3 months ago
@The23april2005 There is no such thing in History as "slavomongolian". You really disgrace yourself by posting your nonsense here.
MarkCicerone 2 months ago
Oh man I love these old movies that actually had thousands of people instead of stupid CGI armies.
GrrrIamMad 3 months ago
@GrrrIamMad CGI always looks fake, especially when depicting humans. The best computer just can't reproduce the million different shadings and the thousand different ways a thousand real men actually move.
Like the ballyhooed "Troy"---a bunch of CGI-generated digits all moving the same way. A blind mind could see it was fake.
farmerne 2 months ago
WOW the casting of the movie is great!
Fifotsariat 4 months ago
i wonder how many men they hired for this movie
Solalee1 4 months ago
Oh.. This is the Byzantines (Eastern Roman Empire). When I saw Roman Empire 681 A.D. I was wondering wth? The Roman Empire (West as far as I know was considered the Roman Empire) fell in 476 a.d. Interesting film though. More films need to be made showing the later "Roman Empire" Byzantines.
AetiusPraetorian 4 months ago
@AetiusPraetorian This. The Byzantines were not known as "Byzantines" while they were around. To them, they were still Roman until Constantinople was taken by the Ottomans in 1453.
IrishFlogger 4 months ago
@IrishFlogger IRISH ASS BARBARIAN. LISTEN TO ME
THE BYZANTINES ARE GREEKS. AND, THE ROMANS HAVE GREEK ORIGIN.
The23april2005 3 months ago
@The23april2005 Not true, greek illiterate buddie! Don`t forget the Roman heritage. They (so called 'byzantines') were speaking and writing in greek, but they were living officialy in the "Roman Empire", not Byzantine Empire! This phrase is introduced from some historians 3 centuries after the doom of the Roman Empire at 1453 when Constantinople is conquered by the ottoman hordes. Better read some books before trying to make an impression, cause the only result you gain is laugh.
MarkCicerone 2 months ago
@MarkCicerone True. They never called themselves "the Byzantines" or their empire "the Byzantine Empire". They always thought of themselves as Romans and that they were "the Roman Empire". If you could go back to the 7th century, and start talking about "the fall of the Roman Empire" they would have said it hadn't "fallen". They would have replied that its capital was Constantinople and the emperor there was the Roman Emperor.
farmerne 2 months ago
@farmerne You should read up more on St Augustine. Romans did believe that Rome fell after Christianity took over.
WongGeGe48 2 months ago
I'd always like to see a film that displays the splendor of the Eastern Roman Empire, as talking about Western Roman Empire alone is incomplete.
Thank Bulgaria for making this film. It's amazing that after so much fighting, now the Slavs inherits the culture and religion of the Eastern Romans!
MingDynasty700 4 months ago in playlist Roman World
0:25 how did they do this?? if no CGI then they had 10,000 extras???
hatemf23 4 months ago
@hatemf23
It's the Bulgarian People's Army at that time(1980s) we could spare 40 000 men just for this movie.
At these years the army of the country was between 100 000 and 800 000 men for a country with population of about 8 000 000 (it was the Cold war period, after all).
firedragonv92 3 months ago
@firedragonv92 Impressive :) but with these numbers I expect most of the male population for recruiting age (18-40) was already in the military?
hatemf23 3 months ago
@hatemf23 back then 16 was considered adult hood acually.
Terlin1466 3 months ago
@hatemf23 Haha, not exactly :) It`s because back then there was a military service (between 2-4 years that time, depending of the branch), so every single man had to go through this. This was not a proffessional army like nowadays, in which you`re soldier on contract. Only the high ranks were proffessional, but this military service was very hard and gave a real preparation for war, so even it was not a proffessional army, it was still staffed of high qualified soldiers :)
MarkCicerone 2 months ago
terrifying
Bruce99100 5 months ago
Yes i would start running
Bruce99100 6 months ago
There is my personal bodyguard that sleeps in my wc. (if wc is that big, imagine my bedroom...)
;)
TheRomanRuler 7 months ago
Really impressing, I don't understand why it isn't as famous as other roman movies as "the fall of the roman empire". Is it because it is Romanian or something. And There are even more of this kind of Romanian movies: Dacii (the Dacians) and Collumna (the collumn) both from 1968 all without computer but terrible music!
27twilightmoon 7 months ago
It's a Bulgarian film funded by the Bulgarian government in 80s.
The Bulgarian government supplied 100,000 soldiers for the production--to march as the massive invading Byzantine host.
Absolutely amazing sight to behold!
PhDSanchez 7 months ago 11
@PhDSanchez, wow that is a real army for real in the film indeed.
Wolfen443 1 month ago
THIS is true filmaking!!! Not the new CGI armies with CGI catapults and horses!
Justinian43 8 months ago
lol so all that men in the begining are real =O
Andreas980609 8 months ago
original sub in english??
majinleoking 8 months ago
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I am from Romania. I WANT to see this movie !
Centurion7882 9 months ago
Bulgaria was destroyed by Basil II
mmadonna62341 9 months ago
thats supposed to be romans????what crap,who they get to do the prop dept?this is utterly unrealistic as 300....as a avid history buff this is apalling!
keithehlert 10 months ago
@keithehlert it's the medieval Byzantine army you retard. Were you expecting Ben Hur type legionaries? Study some more history before making an idiot of yourself you fucking tard
LuciusSuperbus 9 months ago
@keithehlert You're a fucking idiot. Some history buff you must be, as LuciusSuperbus stated, this is 7th century Byzantium, not first century Rome. The army's depiction here is actually extremely accurate, and very impressive.
Hell, lorica segmentata was widely out of use by the 3rd century. This is 400 years after. Save next months allowance from mommy for a history book.
MCJeeba 9 months ago
@keithehlert
These guys aren't really suppose to look like romans, they're suppose to like byzantines, the the final descendants of the roman empire. Byzantine troops of this time looked a lot different than the actual roman troops.
onedOLlarDuDE 8 months ago
@onedOLlarDuDE They are Romans regarless! The Republican Troops and Imperial Roman Troops didnt look smilar but they were both Romans! Is a joke to suddently cut (in wich date by the way to you cut the Roman and Byzantine phases) a timeline that goes back centuries. The Byzantine Empire is the Roman Empire! There is no Byzantines they were Romans
ImperialGuard9001 7 months ago
@ImperialGuard9001
You've gotta be kidding me. They didn't even control the city of Rome, and therefore none of them could not possibly be Romans. And by 681 most of the pure Romans that lived in Byzantine probably had blended with the Greeks, Turks, Crimeans, ect. Even their culture was only a shadow of what it was in the ancient times.
onedOLlarDuDE 7 months ago
So what? If Hannibal had taken Rome there will be no more Romans to figh him?! Ridicolous! This why Hannibal didnt take Rome even if had taken Rome would be a lot more than just rock! Ist a ideal a symbol an abstract creation there will be Romans withoud Rome I assure you. Of course Romans were Romans! In fact the Eastern Half of the Empire was always more urbanized intelctualy and culturaly developed than the western half you think that in Britannia or Hispania were more Roman?
ImperialGuard9001 7 months ago
As for the blending first Turks came a lot after this happened and Turks were one of the worst (if not the worst) enemies of ERE and of course the ones that finaly put an end to it as for Crimeans I dont know or hear of Crimeans as people I hear about Goths in Crimea or Mongols in Crimea now Crimeans? What people is that? And Romans were always blended people what you think that people that adopt clothing military tactics arquitectual strutures and mythology from other peoples(like Greeks!) was
ImperialGuard9001 7 months ago
"pure"?! This is ridicolous not even the original romans the ones that hang with likes of Romulus werent pure a mixture of etruscan sabines and latins more likely. Rome was always a superpower of many cultures Italy was full of different cultures from Etuscrans to Greeks and Samnites you think that Rome conquer them how? By adopting many of their matters and thus they were higly sucefull it was same thing for rest how you think Gladius come from? It came from Iberian Tribes!
ImperialGuard9001 7 months ago
And as anny good Empire people that are conquered become part of those that conquered them in time many Hispanic Gauls Britons Greeks etc would be proud Romans withoud losing their original ethos their gods were sill worship since Romans were mainly sincretic until Christianity not only locals mix their gods with Romans/Greeks ones that even Romans themselfs adopt gods from others peoples Isis was worship in rome! Many of III century emperors worship oriental gods from Mitra to Sol Invcitus
ImperialGuard9001 7 months ago
Doesnt mean that old gods die out because Jupiter and Mars were sill worship is just that more Gods were part of the Roman World thus was true for all culture aswell since early age Roman Gods were Greek gods culture cloths everything came from some greek origin. So when did you make such hard disction betwen Greeks and Romans? Greeks conquered and mix a lot of cultures in East the Romans just continue this action Eastern Half was always more Greek than Latin but still they were Romans
ImperialGuard9001 7 months ago
Many Roman leaders spoke more Greek than Latin Hadrian for example or the famous pilatos in time of Jesus Christ the lingua franca of Holy Land wasnt latin but greek! So you teeling that those same people that were Romans in time of Hadrian werent in time of Justinian that man that sough to reconquer the lost parts of Western Roman Empire!? Then check yourself in asylium because your clearly delusional! Roman wasnt blood thing more than cultural one with exception of Jews many peoples were Roman
ImperialGuard9001 7 months ago
@ImperialGuard9001
Oh wow, do you really like typing or is it a touchy subject? :D
That's too much text for me to bother reading so soon after waking up, so I didn't really read it, but you're still wrong anyway. This discussion's over for my part, so don't bother writing another novel as a reply because I won't be reading it.
onedOLlarDuDE 7 months ago
@onedOLlarDuDE Oh yes is touchy matter I am Roman from ERE
ImperialGuard9001 7 months ago
@onedOLlarDuDE These guys are byzantines from Byzantium, the title of the clip si wrong.
teremi1 6 months ago
@teremi1
I know, that's exactly what I said.
onedOLlarDuDE 6 months ago
@teremi1 The name byzantines is given by historians in recent years .Back then they called themselves romans (romei) and retained some similarity with the roman empire .
k1ller1988 6 months ago
@k1ller1988 It is not interesting that byzantines called themselves as roman empire. It was called Greek Empire in the medieval west, the ruler was called emperor of greeks. Constantinople was a greek speaking city with greek identity after the death of the last latin-language emperor Iustinian the great.
stears555 5 months ago
@stears555 The Franks called them Greeks (Γραικοί) with scornful meaning, but they called themselves mainly Romans. Every emperors was crowned as βασιλεὺς τῶν Ῥωμαίων. All the non Frankish people called them Romans too. E.g. The Turks & the Arabs used the word Rûm (Roman).
See: Quran, surat 30; the name Sultanate of Rûm; the title kayser-i-rum that Mehmed II used for himself after the fall of Constantinople; the title Rûm Orthodoks Patrikanesi which the Turks used until today for the Patriarchs.
Lhein33 5 months ago
@Lhein33 No, the roman popes started to called them "Emperor of Greeks", that's why catholic franks also used that term. Don't forget, the total population of Eastern Europe that time didn't reached the population of medieval France. (including Balkan). Due to signifficantly higher population density of medieval west, the 80% of Medieval Europe were catholics.
stears555 5 months ago
@stears555 The popes were gradually joining forces with the Franks since the time of Pepin the Short. Some of them tried to resist and not fully succumb to the Franks; e.g. pope Leo III didn't accept the filioque, that Charlemagne's council in Aachen had adopted, and pope John VIII recognised Patriarch Photius and accepted the desicions of the VIII Ecumenical Synod.
It was Charlemagne who condemned the desicions of the VII Ecumenical synod and used the word Graecia with the meaning of "heretic".
Lhein33 5 months ago
@Lhein33 very informative thank you
Bruce99100 5 months ago
The guy with the white sneakers at 2:08 clearly doesn't give a shit about historical accuracy xD
TrollogyExpert 10 months ago 7
@TrollogyExpert HAHAHAHAHa!!
Gilgamesh149 2 months ago
Да живее България!!!!
TheNapoleon1805 11 months ago
This was a great battle. A hand full of Bulgars and Slavs defeated 50 000 Byzantine soldiers with cavalry and siege weapons.
Bulgarboy1 1 year ago
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckin hell!
dAKarkoloAb 1 year ago
what a anoying sound
444coole444 1 year ago
more precisely this should have been called the "Byzantine March"
tacotony24 1 year ago
Wow not special effect ? this is enormous ! this is epic this the war !
jbcg1995 1 year ago
Oh my god... this must be one of the best cinematic moments in history!
Learil 1 year ago
Whoa, I didn't think Bulgarians could do something like that, I'm from Bulgaria. I wonder where they got all the money for the clothes and so many people.
InsanePoopMaster 1 year ago
0:07 guy who played sheriff of nottingham in mel brooks "robin hood: men in tights"
incinerator327 1 year ago
In Bulgaria we call the movie just "Khan Asparukh". This is from the shorter (and better) version - "The Greatness of the Khan". Not a bad movie although a little bit overpatriotic and slow. The movie was part of our national propaganda around the 1300th year of the battle of Asparukh against the Byzantines and the founding of the Bulgar(ian) kingdom on the Balkan peninsula.
Romans had more of a cavalry army in the VIIth century, not all those obsolete infantry legions.
glishev 1 year ago
you know it was common place for rome to field armies of this size back in the day also there is a story in history of the romans building a bridge to get at an enemy fort they took it of coarse
ruku871 1 year ago
Thats only one cohort....XD
TheRomanRuler 1 year ago
Looks pretty awesome, with those armies marching.
mark444444444 1 year ago
Which movie?
crysiseternity 1 year ago
@crysiseternity 681 AD: The Glory of Khan
k1ller1988 1 year ago 5
@k1ller1988 SHAO KHAN
The23april2005 3 months ago
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hollywoodwerewolf 1 year ago
looks awesome, except the audio - it is distorted. Why is it?
MiracleKD18 1 year ago
Its a bulgarian film
Botev1912Botev 1 year ago
People this is not CG, this is an old Bulgarian movie, and that is the ACTUAL Bulgarian army dressed as Romans. It's amazing, movies nowadays rely too much on CG to do their armies.
TheBiggestWolf 1 year ago
This is war between byzantines and Bulgarians !!!
Angelchovv 1 year ago
1:45
Is it me, or is that some kind of total ripoff of LOTR 2? When the Uruk's march on Helms Deep?
WolfytheWolf5667 1 year ago
@WolfytheWolf5667 you are a fucking idiot. This was years before the movies.
danuisortiz 1 year ago
@WolfytheWolf5667
Yeah sure it is, given that LOTR was made after 2000 and this movie is from 1981, lol
kurja77 1 year ago
its one of my favorite movies
Shotokan53 1 year ago
this is the movie Khan Asparuh (about Bulgaria) and those that are like romans are byzantines
Shotokan53 1 year ago
this is quite spectacular
lennydale92 2 years ago
I am soldier of the Byzantine empire
normannodelsud 2 years ago
there were no romans in 681 the western Roman Empire fell in 462 AD
weaklymeat117 2 years ago
This is the Eastern Roman Empire, that historians call Byzantium. The battle took place in the Balkans.
shamanata 2 years ago
Haven't you heard anything about the eastern roman empire?
Medieval1991 2 years ago
Actually what was left of the Roman Empire survived in the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, but as time went on it lost more and more land until eventually the capital, Constantinople, was captured by the Ottomans in 1453.
saiyanprince09 2 years ago
@weaklymeat117 The western Roman Empire officially died in 476 with the deposition of Romulus Augustus. The other Roman empire, the byzantine empire, survived untill 1453. It's standarts are now in Russia, the unofficial heir of the empire.
Refragatio 2 years ago
ya so its byzantine not roman
weaklymeat117 2 years ago
@weaklymeat117 It's roman before it's byzantine.
Refragatio 2 years ago
@Refragatio yes, but we bulgarian have a word for byzantine ppl and it's close to roman - "romei". At the time 681 it was the Byzantine Empire the bulgarians had to fight against. Rome fell during the 4th century :)
glavorez 2 years ago
@glavorez Rome never fell it remianed a city controled and ruled by a person you probaly have hear him the Pope XD. If city fell to something was Catholocism
ImperialGuard9001 1 year ago
@ImperialGuard9001 pope is the pontifex maximus Until the rise of protestants the pope ruled catholic europe amost like a high king or an emperor.
jrnesbit 1 year ago
Although called Byzantines, they always thought of themselves as 'Romans'.
carthagertw 1 year ago
no they thought themselves greek and even changed official language to greek converted laws and religious texts to greek
vallecaucano114 1 year ago
*sigh*
They did, yes, but even to the days of their deaths, if you asked them, they would have said "The Roman Empire", even at their death, they weren't Roman and they weren't an empire.
carthagertw 1 year ago
@carthagertw In fact they called themsefls Romans Byzantines is western term to distingue the Ancient Roman Empire and Medieval Roman Empire they are romans neverless.And in east byzantines are generaly called Romans
ImperialGuard9001 1 year ago
yeah, execpt the Byzantines
SmilieisBeast 1 year ago
@weaklymeat117 The Roman Empire fell in 1453
ImperialGuard9001 1 year ago
what is this movie about?the wars between byzantines and arabs??since the byzantine-persians wars ended in 629 AD
dreed1984 2 years ago
This movie is about the Byzanyine -Bulgarian wars .This is the battle at Ongalus near The Danube river .The Movie is called "681 - Velichieto na hana" wich means" the glory of the khan ".Just type Asparuh in the search bar to find more materials.
k1ller1988 2 years ago
thanks!!very interesting!
dreed1984 2 years ago
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@k1ller1988 hi full movie episode 3. w ww.youtube.com/watch?v=S97_0Xa_Tj0
yavor8310 4 months ago
its between romans and bulgarians
quashie 2 years ago
Byzantium and Bulgarians that come from east north, over Cherno More.
Dimitrar 2 years ago
cool rome total war
EmoLonely6 2 years ago
What movie is this?
CrimsonGuard1992 2 years ago
These are the Byzantines.
JimmyeDallas 2 years ago
Wow awesome
AntoniustheGreat 2 years ago
so many ppl cool
Suppressingfire 2 years ago
CONTINUE??????
estronquer 2 years ago
yeah its awasome, i'm from bulgaria and i love this movie
lachotom 2 years ago
wow thats a lot of Ppl with alot of free time! lol but awesome idea though! I always wanted to see what a 100,000 Ppl would be like if they were marching like one army! I mean I have seen a 100.000 kinda of too many around me, but it was just a mob, but an army! SWEET, but hella expensive to feed and cloth them though! Especially nowadays, you just cant get the numbers and also make it cost-effective!
TheLightningKing 2 years ago
I was in the army in that time and we all play in the movie the number of people involved int he shoting was over 100 000 the plan was for 150 000 but the guverment sau 100 000 is what they can do
yavor8310 2 years ago 20
@yavor8310 you were in the army in that time? wow are you like some sort of a zombie mate?
dAKarkoloAb 1 year ago
@dAKarkoloAb He was in the army that is in the movie as an actor, you dumbass. I will piss in your mouth.
Snakezzz 1 year ago
@Snakezzz it was a joke...
dAKarkoloAb 1 year ago
@yavor8310 My brother was in the army also :)
teremi1 6 months ago
@yavor8310 Even 100000.....is amazing!
ElGladiateur 5 months ago
@yavor8310 what that was fucking a huge movie budget is it volunteer or the production manager payed you all?
sergeant07 4 months ago
@sergeant07 It was communist days if they tell you to jump u jump .No one of my devision was payed .Thank god no one attacked Bulgaria at this time 10% of the army was to fight with bows and arrows haha
yavor8310 4 months ago 2
@yavor8310 in what country?
hatemf23 4 months ago
holy shit...thats a lot of people
Konane117 3 years ago
thats a lot of extras
MyXboxIsBroken 3 years ago
Awasome scene, imagine how the barbarians observed the Roman march in Teutoburg Forest before slaughter. the sound of video one word disaster!
dovlex 3 years ago
its impossible for Hollywood to make that kind of scene without CG crap!
chaloner 3 years ago 10
its not hollywood its Bulgaria movie studio and the bulgarian army dressed as romans
k1ller1988 3 years ago 11