the battle of manzikert

[KataKitchen]

Turks won the battle because muslim infantry has curved swords. Curved. Swords.

[dolconov]

what this thame song ?

[MrStergios76]

i dont find point to fucking wars every nation been empire that fall from time to time i agree to some persons that says goverments and ministers and kings are the true enemies of the people personal i will not serve any fucking king or general and i dont care if his name is richard the lionheart or arslan or alexander the great they were kill you if you disagree with them so die to hell all of this mother fucker generals that brings victory to every nation because the soldiers are so fool

[MrStergios76]

the roman army at matzikert were mercenaries from north europe

[Oyrad58]

battle of manzikert;

byzantine army ; 70.000 men (including european mercenaries)

Turkish army; 20.000

a crushing defeat ....

[Goy09]

@Oyrad58 It's false information. The Romans were betrayed by the Muslims who fought for them and contributed to the Turkish victory in this war.

[Oyrad58]

@Goy09 there were no muslims for fighting with roman side u dickhole. but there were christian Turks in roman army, just like Kypchaks and Pecheneks. losers always have excuses, the truth is Seljuks fucked and crushed huge roman army in the manzikert

[Ekremkral]

A watcher came in the tent and said:My SULTAN! Huge Crusader army coming!! Alp arslan replied:not a problem and we are approaching them.

[McKunikoS]

that is a good video with a nive music cover but those depicted in the images are gothic and teutonic knights not byzantine cav... also i disliked the nationalistic "grey wolf" sign at the end of the video. btw the discription of the battle is not at all detailed and it kind of shows a turkish one-side narration.

[Supervision39]

@McKunikoS yes you right pictures are false.. but if you know when first crusade army moving on anatolia they were 500 000 but when they reached tripoli they are just 75000 (it depends) and teutonic knights were crushed by TURK SIPAHI's and just first crusade can reach their goal others were shattered...

[VictumRoManius]

Today (26.08.2011) is the date when the battle of Manzikert was fought.

Arround 40000 Turkish muslims defeated arround 65000 Christian Byzantines.

[Justinian43]

@VictumRoManius yeah but they didn't defeat a byzantine army of Basill II, they defeated an army made up a large part from mercenaries and undisciplined soldiers.

[VictumRoManius]

@Justinian43 Many of those mercenaries where English, Frankish and Bulgarian soldiers. In addition had the Byzantines also a good amount of the Varangian guard. +++ That they had 5000 elite Roman infantry in their ranks.

No their army was diciplined and well trained... And they lost.

The Turks also had a good amount of Militia in their ranks so actually the battle was in favour of the Byzantines.

[Justinian43]

@VictumRoManius yeah but badly disciplined mercenaries under traitorous commanders doesn't help, or do you remember alexius commenus and his varangian guard as well, they did go deep into enemy lines, but in both situation (against normans under alexius and manzikert) the undisciplined mercenaries abandoned the advance leading the guard to be surrounded, thankfully alexius wasn't massacred but romanos wasn't so lucky and got captured. So you see, manzikert was just a show of the obvious!

[Justinian43]

@VictumRoManius look my friend, please read "lost to the west", i also thought manzikert was a defeat of the best roman army, you see due to the fear of the upper class under the macedonian rulers, after Basil II they placed weak people on the thrones, they weakened the mighty army that basil left to the point that the invincible army was in bad shape! The byzantine army at manzikert was both undisciplined and under traitorous commanders, byzantium was but a shell of the glorious past!

[Justinian43]

@VictumRoManius deremilitari(dot)org/resources­/articles/markham(dot)htm

[estagonandfire]

@cypriot1965 hate to blame it to you, but the holy land is not in muslim possession tard

[SultanTrk]

@estagonandfire holy lands isnt just jerusalem dik head its places in palestine and areas in syria to n they are in muslim possesion -.-

[fstav1]

We will take back our lands, You are the Htiler of Asia Minor, you are proud f;or stealing our homes. We hate you as we hate devil and Aghia Sofia will become soon christian.

A byzantine from Konstatntinoupolis

[Timurchin1]

@fstav1 i cant wait to chop your ugly head you mother fucker

[BALKANLI35]

@fstav1 You cant take one stone from us. Sorry for your lost but it happened many many years ago. Calm down, you can come and see the beauty of historical places when you want. We are not mosters like you imagine. We didnt destroy historical buildings. We are not evil people.

[TheTurkicWorld]

@fstav1 turks true homeland is china. china stole our lands. this is why turks move to west, and conquered weak eruopean

[stridertex]

Oh, btw, God called, and He wants the Haggia Sophia back.

[stridertex]

Haha! You muslims are unbelievable ... no wonder T. E. Lawrence called you "a childish people." First off, learn to speak English correctly. Second, get your history straight (Teutonic Knights 1120 at Manzikert 1071?! Please). Third, before you rant about how "unstoppable you Turks are" - just remember Doryleaum, Antioch, Lepanto, and Vienna (both times). And where are you know? That's right - kissing NATO's ass. Deus Vult!

[TheBlindPowerslave]

@stridertex I came here for the music. No need to praise long forgotten victories.

[TheBlindPowerslave]

@stridertex Another thing, Turkish people tend to regard arabs as inferior people so don't call me muslim.

[Darkhammer85]

@stridertex All European Countries against Turks that is what your worth is , that is only way to stop Turks ,We never relied on NATO or some other organization , tell me a single battle that Turks request help from nato , we didnt even requested from other muslim countries while we were fighting against european armies and their slave armies from their colonies in galliopoli.But we fought for nato and Un at korea , somalia , bosnia .....

[mertkalender123]

@stridertex you stupid.if you want me to remind you the battles we fucked your asses up,here they are:

Manzikert-Myriokephalon-Varna-­Kosova-Mohac-THE CONQUEST OF ISTANBUL-Gallipoli-Varna The Second-Bafeus.

I know yo don'T want to understand,but WE ARE THE MOST TALENTED WARRIORS IN THE WORLD.I told you the wars.Search them in Internet.You were more in those battles.We were less,but we won all of them.

Don!t forget the crusades:

We fucked you like these:

Christians:600.000

Selijuks:54.000!

[TzeentchChaos]

How funny, you didnt told us that the teutonic knights fought in the battle of manzikert with Great Árpád.

[3qUInOc]

it's just all about how Turks fucked them up properly ! :D:D:D

[SAMAND33]

ALLAHU AKBAR

[legendofuyi]

hahaha fuck greek

[mmsaleemshah]

we love turks... brave turks... my brother pray for a brave leader like alp arsalan and many more brave muslim leader and commonders ... we need again them... pakistan turky" zindabad"

[GSIsa1]

alp aslan destoryed them good :) what a hero .

[MegaYaseen123]

what is the soundtrack?

[3qUInOc]

You guys, you have a history, because of Turks. If you erase the Turks from history, Do you really have history!?

In the earth, all freaking govs have been attacking to the Turks to colleps the Turks nations

So what are you talking about!?

Try to get a history without Turks.

[ihavekankles]

I hope Turkey never gets into EU, nothing to do with race it's just because that Islam is such an evil and oppressive religion!

[ihavekankles]

Its a shame that the Byzantines lost Anatolia, the greatest civilizations of all time the Romans and Greeks were pushed out and replaced by a civilization that hasn't ever done anything for this world except kill and conquer -- the Turks. Shame indeed!

[Timurchin1]

@ihavekankles its a shame to be greec heh? no economy no money full of peasants begger and ass crowler

[ihavekankles]

@Timurchin1

And yet Greeks earn twice as much as Turks. If Greeks are peasants then what are Turks? Pieces of shit?

[Timurchin1]

@ihavekankles stop talking shit and go working to rule ur country

you greecs are only blah blah and blah

[ihavekankles]

@Timurchin1

I'm not Greek. In fact, my country has fucked your country many times in the past. Funny how you ignore the fact that Greeks earn twice as much as Turks just because you know how shitty Turkey is. Fucking Muslims.

[Timurchin1]

@ihavekankles blah blah blah u fucking balkan gypsy come and eat my muslim nuts

[ihavekankles]

@Timurchin1

I'm British. The Turks have only ever been fucked by the British. Why you mad bro? By the way the entire Islamic faith if retarded, and evil.

[Timurchin1]

@ihavekankles yeah but ottoman empire was callopsed be4 u attack ottomans

it was no more our glory time it was the end of the ottoma empire

but u got fucked by the young turks ;)

[Timurchin1]

@ihavekankles lmao turks fucked you in gallipoli very hard ;) do not forget

ottomans lost the ww1 cuz our allies collapsed first

[ihavekankles]

@Timurchin1

Funny, because the Turks suffered more fatalities than the Brits, so if anything Turkey got fucked. Furthermore Turkey's Empire was dead, basically the only thing Turkey still had just before the war ended was the land which it currently has. Everything not part of Anatolia had been conquered by Britain. Cry more. Turkey blows cock. So does shitty Islam. You know you worship a paedophile, right? Muhammad fucked a 9 year old girl.

[ggapem]

@Timurchin1 balkan for life motherfucking turk.PAOK SALONIKA COME AGAIN MOTHERFUCKER

[elazar79]

Alp Arselan the great Muslim warrior...

[TheJgonzalez7]

why do the Turks look like Mongols and Huns I always though they looked more like Arabs

[wertasss]

that is very unhistorical video- what are the Teutonic Knights doing in Manzikert??

The Emire of Byzantines had it's own soldiers, good foot infantry, and the best heavy cavalry in the region-the mighty Kataphractoi.

And what caused the byzantine defeat at battle of Manzikert? It destroyed the 1500 years of great romano-greek culture in the Anatolia.

[BALKANLI35]

@wertasss  Byzantines were old civilization but they were not really fighters like Turks. Turks fought against China many times and conquerd some land. Turks always fight against strong.

[estagonandfire]

@BALKANLI35 are you joking? ofcourse the byzantine empire had an army. They were quite simply outnumbered against the turks.

[SultanTrk]

@estagonandfire nope turks actually said lets not fight but because the byzantine emperor said no they did n the turks in the byzantine empire joind the seljuk army n then they out numberd turks

[TheCaptainAlatriste]

@TuncerWolf either way you all came from mongolia and thats the and of it dont try to hide you origins

[morerad123]

what is the song in the background called?

[Rocky9374]

YEAH THIS IS HISTORY AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL­LAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

[ARABIANHHH]

الله اكبر 

[GSIsa1]

alp aslan HERO OF ISLAM!!

[marcotiberio1]

sultan alp arslan rest in PIGS, you opened the BACK DOOR to ANATOLIANS and other young GAYS

[MooqleTV]

First TURKS are Scytia TURKS , Turks are not Mongol , not persian. TURKS ARE 2 TRIBE. EAST and WEST . EAST TURKS are Kipchaks. WEST TURKS are OGHUZS and HUNS.

[hajkakane]

did you create it ore did you steel it? just asking because you are...

[tuerkmen24erzincan]

SULTAN ALP ARSLAN REST IN PEACE, YOU OPENED US THE DOOR TO ANATOLIAN...THANKS MY ANCESTOR...TÜRKMEN ATAM

[elangel353]

inde puto decandence coepi Byzantium

[mariosathens1]

cool video dude, too educated

From Greece

its nice to watch the history of your opponet

you learn more

[Quikpro92]

i like the pictures of the teutonic crusaders... they just dont fit in this video

[MrXzenonx]

Alp arslan was a great MUSLIM leader and warrior so lets nt differ on what was his language turks persians i am egyptian and still proud of that great man and that victory allah akbar

[burakkk55]

We've destroyed the Roman and Byzantine......you'll recognize us again....

[Quikpro92]

@burakkk55 ....... nooo you didnt, good try though

[hajkakane]

@AZeRBaIJaNIeR I love you mongol people you have learned the world how to fight!

[muzaffer0618]

@hajkakane we are not mongol !!! TURKS ARE NOT MONGOLIC. TURKS ARE TURKS !!!

[hajkakane]

@AZeRBaIJaNIeR . I love you, mongol peouple!!! you have lerned the world...how to fight!

[GAZANUTYUN]

@TuncerWolf

Statistically speaking it is more likely that your ancestors were Christian Greek/Armenian s who were forcibly converted to Islam by the Seljuk or Osmanli turks, or your femail ancestor was kidnapped and raped by some turks and later taken into some turkish family.

Again, statistically speaking, 80% of today's turks, are not the mongoloid turks of central Asia, but european Greeks and Armenians. Enjoy.

[burakkk55]

@GAZANUTYUN fuck european and greek and other bastards..we are TÜRK.

and we will crush you again.....cooming soon!!!!!!

and fuck zionist İsrael....we fuck israel cooming soon!!!!!!!!!!!!the world will be peaceful........

[UBTUNE]

@burakkk55 As u said, "fuck israel, fuck europeans, fuck greeks and other bastards..". Good dont fight evil, because is good. Evil is selfdestructive. Nothing good can be expected from evil. so loving good doesnot make evil good. Like when u buy stolen goods, this does not make them legal. This is the reason evil is self destructive. U cannot win over Jesus Christ. The only think u will achieve is your selfdestruction. /watch?v=1HjeyxnvvuQ

[jojo51886]

i dont discriminate i hate them all turks arabs kurds afgans persians dont like any of them and i still think that we should pull out american troops and let the isralis have them but they would prolly start a new genicide if givin the chance

[BALKANLI35]

@jojo51886 why you hate eastern people? we dont hate western people. we are not racist like you. we lived together thousands year and still we live together.

[jojo51886]

@BALKANLI35 i shouldn't say i hate all of them I'm sry if that's the way u thought of it Ive lost a lot of friends fighting the Muslims a lot of them are missing legs arms both legs and both arms my best friend is dead he had his head blown off by a secondary IED there is no honor in the way they fight sniping using road side bombs explosives in the ground they dont even fight u man to man i have no respect for them

[BALKANLI35]

@jojo51886 Have you been in Irak? Terorism is much hard way of fight. We fight against terorists 30 years. I was 2. Lieutenant in Eastern Turkey. You always sleep half opened eye there. It broke my all psychology in 1 year.

[jojo51886]

@BALKANLI35 not iraq you know the feeling then you have honor cuz u fight head on like a man not like these terrorists

[BALKANLI35]

@jojo51886 Terorism is invention of big companies on the world I think. They want to control oil, minerals and some valuable resources. Than they use this terorist to make conflict in area. They use religius, ethnic differencies on the ground. I hate this terorists more than you hate them.

[jojo51886]

@BALKANLI35 i agree with u 100 percent and me and u the average person just trying to make it in this world get caught in the middle

[A7madS300di]

seljuks are muslims and that what is important ..... they kicked the romans away from anatolia :D

[ihavekankles]

@A7madS300di

They kicked the greatest civilization of all time out of their own lands? You must be so proud to be Turkish...

[oriocoookie]

@AZeRBaIJaNIeR muahahahahahahaha

[Shadowmaster888]

work on your English.Such horrible grammar.

[Deerfield1983]

which music did you use could you tell me pls?

[andreithegreat]

where can i find the picture or details of the 0:56 byzantine mosaic showing the emperor whom crown in being taken from his head ?

[andreithegreat]

i've found it tough, it's Christ crowning Roger II

[nickpafras]

Most Turks don't even know that the majority of the Byzantine Army were Turkish mercenaries.

[kutkinderen]

Becouse of this fucking battle armenia was 700 years under control of Turk Tirans

[vonderzipper]

yes I too really liked the that tune in the beggining.Perhaps the poster himself might help.erhangrmn???

[e138257]

Anybody know the name of the music which plays from the beginning to the second 1:11 ? Thanks!

[TheAtomicWave]

The gates of the Anatolia are also opened to Islam which brings there peace about 1000 years

[Dkouts57]

wow...being Greek i would have ot give some credit to this video for quality of production though where the fuk do u get Templars with Byzantines??

and if you're going to write English learn how to write it that someone who's mother wasn't raped by a Mongol can understand it please.

[XTR6602007]

Where do you see the bullshit?

I praised the nobility and respect that the two opponents had for each other.

Isn't that true?

Actually I prefer horse-shit !! LOLLL !!

[LutMcGregor]

Slavs,Persians,Bulgars,Arabs and all those barbarians tribes,they were trying to destroy the Byzantine empire over 600 years but Dokes were so ussless that destroy the empire in 40 years so when the Seljuk Turks come there was no economy and of course no ARMY only a few mercenaries to fight the Turks

[alxxz]

Turkey's greatest contribution to the world is the donnar kebab, the gay infested hamams, and the ottoman furniture that the western world uses to rest their dirty feet on today! Lol! ;)

Turkey the World's No.1 US/EU Ass Kissers! Lol! ;)

For an Islamic nation of pigs, it sure is funny & ironic that you dont eat them! :)) Lol!

[aradlithuen]

*alxxz

As far as I understand, you are one of the the dirty feet ones who still don't know what is being clean.

[EjenAmy]

@alxxz

hahaha. u must be Armenian

[ososxe]

what music did you used?

[knighttemplar6]

Seljiq dynasty died from Mongol Invasion

[fsm1453emre]

Ahahahahahaha

What the fuck are saying ? BASTARD !!!

[XTR6602007]

But Diogenes was not only betrayed in the battle. He found a new emperor when he returned to Constantinople, and his wife with cut hair jailed in a monastery.

He was humiliated and blinded.

But before he died 2 months later by his infected eye-wounds, he gathered all his remaining personal possessions and sent them to Alp Arslan, with his apologies, that he could not raise all the ransom they had agreed.

Respected men, respected opponents.

[XTR6602007]

Alp Arslan was a worthy opponent and an educated man. An excellent tactician, immediately grapped the chance after the Byzantine betrayal and destroyed them.

After capturing Romanos Diogenes, he offered him a personal tent and treated his wounds. A real appreciation was created between the two men as they honered each other.

When Alp Arslan released Diogenes, they agreed to a ransom to be payed, and they signed the requested Turkish demands.

[revolution4palestine]

sultan alp arslan captured the bazintine empror romanus as prisnor , the sutlan were generous to him and treated him as a empror. the sultan wondered if the empror will treating him good if the sultan were in the position of romanus unfortunatly the empror's intenion were compeletly the opposite.

respect to the seljuck empire and respect to the glorious Sultan ALp Arslan

ALLAH AKBAR

[altariongr]

Very good video bravo, and indeet Sulat Alp Arslan was a great warrior and good person.

But remember all that, emperor Romanus both generals betray him.

[alpaslanekrem]

what is it? değil yavrum MAlaZGİRT.. giren çıkan vardır tabi bazılarına... ama biz bi girmişiz iyi girmişiz maşallah... tarih nemli degil babalar.. onemli olan bu vatanı halen TÜRKolarak koruyabilmek... emanete zarar vermemek

[SultanGaliyev26]

gandallffff kardeşim çok doğru söylüyor.

Türklerin MÖ 2200 yıllarında Anadoluda olduğu artık belgelerle ispatlanmıştır. (Şartamhari Metinleri). MÖ 7. yüzyıllarda da da İSKİTLERİN Doğu Anadoluya 25 yıl hükmetmişlerdir.

[kwstas800]

but in the most critical momment of the battle the roman emperor was betrayed by his own greek general's (doukas and pselos) the conclution was that turkish horde enstamblish their foot in anatolia, and the emperor was blinded and send it to jail, after all DOUKAS HAS REACHED HIS GOAL THE BYZANTINE THRONE no matter if the turks were victorius in matzikert he took his revenge over romanos and the throne

[Mehmedilyas]

I do not agree with you, it was an outright defeat. A defeat in the hand of an army three times shorter than that of the Eastern Roman Caesar. According to the detail of the battle it is said that the army of Caesar was got into the depth of the Turkish cavaliers and then overwhelmed. The quarrel had begun on the border quarrels of Iran.

[sixamaras]

yes the turks deserved their win but the betrayal IS A FACT !

[Soldier1923]

I agree with you betrayal is the worst thing on the history.Ottoman-Timirid war Our left wing or something else betrayed us and nearly Ottoman Empire got destroyed

[kwstas800]

at 1071 ad byzantine empire was only a shadow of it great past, romanos really tryed to assemble a greek army but he couldn't find enough greek legionaries so he turnned to mercanaries, he hired germans bulgars, even turkmans!!!!! most of them were only peasents who were looking for looting.

[vizyontelealp]

gandalf, 1071 den önceki kavimler yani hititler,lidyalılar,firigler,g­rekler,persler,urartular (bunlar içerisinde peçenek ,kıpçak ve uzlarda var) hepsi rumlaşmışlardı.. o yüzden 1071 doğru tarih.. Türklerin gelişi ve anadoluyu türkleştirmesi açısından 1071 en gerçek tarih.

[burakkk55]

@vizyontelealp en iyi tarih dediğin 1071 yılı Müslüman Türklerin giriş tarihidir.o tarihden binlerce yıl öncede müslüman olmayan Türkler akın akın girmişlerdir anadoluya...

gandlfffff doğru söylüyor,fakat oğuz boyu olmalarının yanı sıra ayrıca Müslümandırlarda...

[gandalffffffffffffff]

Vidyo güzel ama bu 1071 tarihi yabancılar tarafından zorla bize kabul ettirilmeye çalışılıyor.Türkler 1071de anadoluya girmemiştir.Anadolu 7000 yıldır Türktür.1071de sadece bir tane oğuz boyu anadoluya göç etmiştir.

[10mali10]

king of the world

TÜRK OTTOMAN EMPIRES

[sabaths1fan]

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