and thats why the emperors of the middle and latest byzantine times were greek in origin in contrast to the emperors who ruled the empire in the early byzantine times that were from places far away(such as Theodosios, Konstantine, Julian, Valentinianos etc).it is true that the name romans continued to exist but the reason was religious and that was the reason who it used. besides, in the roman empire, all its people considered romans whatever their origin was, if they lived inside the borders.
@nontin21 Well the Emperors of the later era were not Greek either in any ethnic term. While Greeks were the main ethnic core of the Empire, the Empire was multinational and that is why Emperors used the religion to bind it fighting against the "nationalists" (Ethnikoi - who were mostly the Greeks afterall, not just any pagan as people thought...). Most Emperors were from Minor Asia and were of Armenian, Amorian or Pamplagonian origins but then many of them had a Greek cultural consciousness.
after the lost of the provinces that were far away from the center of the empire, the empire started to become greek because the majority of the population that lived in Greek, Minor Asia and Thrace was in the majority greek, although that there were other tribes that they were the minority. Thats why the official language of the empire became the greek(it was latin) after the lost of the eastern provinces and the african provinces, as the main population was greek.
the people of Byzantine Empire called themselves Romans in the first centuries due to the prevailing of the christian religion. From then on, the name Hellenes or else Greek became outlawed and anyone who used it considered as a pagan. After 1204 the first people appeared who began to use the name Greek again because christian religion was not such a problem as it was in the first centuries of the latest antiquity or else early byzantine times(330-600).
To say that "Byzantium" (which is a made up term, because like I said, they considered themselves as, and were considered by others as simply the "Romans" and the term Byzantium was an academic concoction made in the 19th century) was merely a successor kingdom is to do a great disservice to both the Roman Empire and the Greek legacy, which are very much one and the same, especially during the time period under discussion.
@DiviAugustus Actually the earliest use of Byzantium and Byzantine was in the 16th century, a century after The Empire of the Greeks finally fell because Great Emperors are invariably suceeded by weaker ones who promote the downfall of their empire.
Um, this video seems to be trying to override or ignore a very important fact - Those "medieval Greeks" considered themselves to be Roman, because the cultures had merged together so heavily over the past centuries of the empire that the hellenistic tradition was no longer exclusively Greek but was rather Greco-Roman.
@cCcjanissarycCc Greedy nobles and incompetent emperors caused the army and administration to rot away. When the Seljuks attacked, they merely knocked over an empty husk. Alexios I managed to show that a competent emperor could still beat the Turks back, but after his dynasty ended, and especially after the Fourth "Crusade," the empire was doomed.
The Varagian Guard post 1066, was made up entirely of Englishman.Before that it was mostly Viking Danes or Norse. The Norweigian King Harald Hardrada was a Varangian commander before he was killed by the English at Stamford Bridge.
and i tell you bulgarians, arabs, and persians are not barbarians, see Greath century of bulgarian culture, see greath cultures in arabs and persians too
@protokrator who said they are barbarians? you know barbarians for ancient greeks meant "he who not talk greek"..They sound of non greek languanges soulds like var-var , thats how they called them barbarians.
nice movie but i can`t understand, part of solgiers have bulgariam war uniform, from midleages and on picture on Constantinopole wall romans have bulgarian uniform too
@bartieboy93 thats not right they call them selve orthodox christians but the romans done at too but between the views of both east and west empire were many difference what bring as result a complete split of the eastern(orthodox) and western(katholic) empire
The term ''Byzantium'' is false. The right term is Roman Empire or more correctly East Roman Empire. And the East roman army was not the strongest in Europe. The strongest army in europe were the Francs(germanic tribe) and later the ''Holy Roman Empire'' of the German Nation. The Vikings were amazing warriors too.
@megasayajinsongoku99, they were never called Vikings, and they weren't amazing, just pirate scum attacking defenseless villagers, no better than the Turks, same kind of scum mentality, rape pillage murder the innocent.
@TsarSamuil the ''Vikings'' were many diffirent individuals not a homogeny mass ... they were civilians, explorers, pirates , criminals , warriors , kings , soliders etc.
I said ''amazing'' warriors ..... that is a fact... the Norse Germanic tribes has a advanced warfare and specialy a advanced naval warfare ... they conquered almost all North Europo and colonized Russia and even North America ... In all Europe the Norse warriors were asked mercenaries....
@megasayajinsongoku99, don't make me laugh! Conquered Northern Europe my ass, just one got chosen to rule in Russia, doesn't mean it was conquest. Didn't Greece have German king last century, does that mean it was german conquest over the Greeks, lol?
The only thing they conquered was england n parts of France, but that's it. Back then Europe was disorganized and the "vikings" took advantage of the situation, once Europe started getting its shit back together, the "vikings" disappeared.
@TsarSamuil Actually they were also traders and settlers in the later period. I can give you about 200 words (and thats just what i know of) in the English language that are Norse/Dane origin. You mention the fact they conquered England, they did in some cases in others they settled. Alfred the Great beat them and made a treaty with them to settle in the North of England, his decendents slowly got that land back. 1/2
@TsarSamuil 2/2 They were kin to the Early English anyhow (Anglo Saxons) as they came from roughly the same area they were just seperated by about 300 yrs (The Angles, Saxons and Jutes, the people who became the English, were in effect the first Vikings.The Jutes actually came from Denmark),an Anglo Saxon Englishman would have been able to converse with a Viking with not to much difficulty. England was about 30% made up of Viking settlers and the last true English kings mother was one-Harold.
The term ''Byzantium'' is false. The right term is Roman Empire or more correctly East Roman Empire. And the East roman army was not the strongest in Europe. The strongest army in europe were the Francs(germanic tribe) and later the ''Holy Roman Empire'' of the German Nation. The Vikings were amazing warriors too.
@PublicNMEnumber1 Both songs have been created by Stamatis Spanoudakis the 2nd one you are searching is called "Tha 'rthei san astrapi"~ "He shall come like a lightning" and it is dedicated to the Last Emperor of the Empire Constantine XI Palaiologos a person of great value and dignity.
Clearly there was no, because the byzantines themselves called themselves roman, byzantium is a modern term to describe the east-roman empire, that was based on roman lax, greek culture and christianity.
I get it from the ether man....nah but seriously, don't you think that something smells about history so rounding Greeks, Serbs and these "east-Romans". They are not Romans man, they might have been ruled from Rome at some point but the Alatolian peninsula was populated almost exclusively by Serbs that spread from Bulgaria over the water, and they clearly have an Semitic element to them as well, but to say that they are even Turks is ridiculous simply because Turks look like Mongols originally.
i can cite you sources all afternoon, and i'm sure you will find a smart arsed answer to all of them.
research me this:
throughout western europe, find me one language aside from Basque that is a naturally and independently evolved language, and not an invention or derived from an invention such as Latin. Germanic language have an element of naturality to them but their grammar is Latin, an invention.
Serbian of old (or Old Slavonic) predates all of those languages.
Old Serbian (Srbica-Serbitsa) is found all over southern Europe disguised under many names by numerous mainstream historians.
Google "Vincansko pismo" - and compare one of the oldest civilized writings in Europe to modern Serbian Cyrilic script, and then compare it to Latin (this text is latin)
We hear all kinds of funny stories of how barbaric Slavic invaders begged the Greek to invent them a script, but the evidence on the table tells a whole different story.
LOL a linguist who does not know about indogermanic languages and their origin:))))
Go to your serbian village and cry about kosovo about Bosnia and about a stolen history that never existed and i´am still waiting for sources, which author said what and when and where is it documented
@miavaso Nation states as today didn´t exist in medieval times. You should know that as researcher ;-)
Holy Roman Empire also included massive non-German element, but nobody doubts that it existed and was dominated by Germans.
Also early serbian statehood was decisively influenced by Byzantines. It can be argued that thanks to this strong influence Serbs didn´t succumb to Islam like their bosnian neighbours.
Bosnians aren't all Muslims, we are Serbs, it's just that some of us turned to Islam, slots of Serbs from Serbia turned to Islam but were killed of by Karadjordje.
It wasn't a nation state, it was a realm. As Far as Svevladov clan could rule, they ruled. But since Serbian history is being concealed everyday because of Rusophobia, Slavophobia and lots of other phobias of the west, the general perception is that all states were Polis (city states)... which is acenine.
@OkurkaBinLadin This is folly to claim, as the Roman Empire was a nation, albeit an empire, but still a centrally ruled nation in a sense. It fell in 1453, which was well near the end of the medieval times and more into the renaissance. Chinese Dynasties also existed and were ruled from central points throughout the era coined the medieval ages.
But of course, this just brings up the point that anything not "western" history doesn't count, as important as Far Eastern history is. >.>
Miavaso, do you really believe this? What is the evidence for this great Serbian empire? What historians? What motive for a cover-up? What evidence of a conspiracy? Do you really think that a conspiracy of that magnitude would be possible?
Where's the archaeological evidence? Where are the manuscripts?
As for the Slavs, they did not fall from the sky. They migrated.
I'm sorry but your argument has no basis in historical fact. It is clearly motivated solely by a deep sense of national identity.
Good. You shouldn't. It really doesn't pertain to this conversation. I find, however, that in these conversations I often end up being accused of being a conspirator against the great such and such nation.
By the way, do you have anything to say regarding the Sanskrit origins of the word "aryan"? Or the Greek origins of the word "Persian"? Or the fact that Alexander and Philip both derive from Greek words?
Can you present any evidence for the Surbian empire?
I don't give a damn what those words mean in Sanskrit or Greek, because they are borrowed words. Lazar, Mitar, Sekul, Hram, Sarad, Serbid, Serban, Selam, Selo, Gorod, Baghdad (originaly Od-Boga-dat, which means from God given), are all names in Iran of places of Serb origin, except for Baghdad of course. Syria carries our name, and they don't even look all that Arabic...
Also Alexander is a clasical Greek name, in THAT FORM, however it's preceded by Serbian Aleksa...which is still disputable if you ask me, because the 'dar' at the end of the name is also a Serbian word, meaning talent or gift.
What evidence do you have that they are borrowed? What evidence do you have that the Serbian language even existed back then? Can you give me the name of one manuscript with attested Serbian dating to antiquity?
They conspired against us, they remove us from written history, and you (their children) have forgotten us, and therefore yourself.
Is Aleksandar a Greek name? No. Filip? No.
Who was it that Aleksandar 'recognised' as his own in the Indus valley? Answer is, Aryans. "Ariyevtsi", called that because their society was established by a man called "Arije" (Aries if you will), a Serb from antiquety. Another Serb who ruled Persia later was named Persa, a name we use today, the name of a whole empire.
How many names of cities and villages containing Serbian names need to be found before people start paying attention? Even the very topynoms "srb" "serb/p" How many coincidences are we going to allow for?
I once offended a Croat by pointing out that he has far more in common with a 21stC Serb than with a 19thC Croat, but the statement is almost certainly correct. Why is this?
My opinion is that however alien the 19thC Croat was, to a modern Croat he is "us", while a modern Serb - however similar - is "they".
As long as we have a world comprised of "us" and "them", we will have conflict and war.
Well that's just it between the Serb and the Croat - they disagree between the name, whilst yes we are pretty much all the same. I believe that we are all Serbs for the following reasons;
- We speak the same language to the extent of the following; They have named our language Serbo-Croatian, and divided it into three main dialects, the Stokavian, Kajkavian and Chakavian. Every Serb in the world speaks Stokavian, and 80% of Croats. the other 20% of Croats speak either of the other two dialects.
Now here is the disconnect. They are not dialects, they are completely different languages. Today Serbian and Croatian are considered separate languages, so if Stokavan is a dialect of Serbian, why isn't there another? We say Croats are Serbs, because it's far more likely that 80% of a 4.5 million nation are offshoots off their neighbors who number at around 10 million then the other way around.
I'm not saying that we Serbs are completely identical to anyone who lived 200 years ago, however i do have strong beliefs about there being a cover up about an ancient Serbia that had just as much influence on European civilization as Rome. Those people were different from us today but they carried our name, flags and spoke our tongue.
Up to about 459 there was a Serbian empire stretching from Alps deep into Iran, but as it got hard to control a Serbian state was established in the Balkans.
Those meanings are in Greek. But the names could just as easily have been taken from elsewhere. To me, he will always be Aleksandar Veliki Karanovich of Makedonija. The reason I believe all of our history is being Helenized and why Grcka (Greece) is being established as almighty by the Anglo historians is clear and simple. Serbs (Slavs) are too great in number and must not be credited with their past for if they are, it could prove troublesome. You should look at the alternative more seriously.
Just look at the "Slavic settlement of the Balkans" theory, it's been created solely to discredit us by stating that we are not on our own land. However Serbs are all of Dinaric sub-race, a sub-race that is the only true indigenous one of our regions, whilst the so called illyrians who are said to be represented today by the Albanians are alot more semitic looking. How do you explain all those things then? My problem is that they are not explained but conveniently swept under the rug.
I'm not saying that Greeks are lying about their past, no. But I'm saying that in this point in time they are misrepresenting themselves with a name that was more provincial then not, as the Greeks too are a part of our ancient Serbian empire, they didn't just fall from the sky. However the modern West will gladly enlarge Greece, because it alone is small and harmless. Try to see it my way, the culture was grander down south, but it was OUR common Serbian culture.
Greeks were only under serbian suzeranity for a very short period of time under Stefan Dusan. Greeks are not distorting themselves in anyway shape or form. The people of FYROM are slavs just like bulgarians and serbians. Slavs did not arrive in the balkans until the 6th century A.D. that is a simple fact.
the "slavic settlement of the balkans" is not a theory but a historic fact. The slavs and the slavic language was not known in the ancient world. Even the 8th century Byzantine Document called the "Chronicle of Monemvasia" speaks about the mass slavic invasion into the empire.
Alexander was Greek. Plain and simple. ONLY Greeks were allowed to participate in the olympics and both Alexander and his Father Participated. The new testament of the Bible was written in Koine Greek because Alexander the great spread the Greek language to the middle east and made it the Lingua Franca.
@zrah1092 Conquered Greece did he? really? interesting. Is that why Alexander spread the Greek langauge across the known world which is why the New Testament was written in Greek? Is that why he created the Corinthian League after the battle of Chaeronea? The Corinthian league was the first time Greece had been united as a country. It was the famous ancient Greek philosopher Isocrates who wrote a letter to Phillip asking him for a PAN-HELLENIC crusade against the Persians.
@zrah1092 Alexander and Phillip were of the Argead dynasty which was a GREEK dynasty. Sorry, the SLAVS of FYROM have nothing to do with the ancient Macedonians.
@witchcerridwen Koine Greek is just every day vernacular Greek. The word "Koine" in Greek means "common". There were different dialects of Greek in ancient Greece like Ionic, doric etc. Koine is simply what became the most common dialect and form of Greek.
@AegeanKing thank you very much for answering.i have a greek friend and i like the greek language very much.is there a big diffrence between old greek and new greek?i mean can u understand easily the old greek?maybe i will try and study greek.i just love it.its like music.my friend says its very hard to learn even for the greeks.well if you dont try you will never know.blessed be
@witchcerridwen It depends on what you mean by old Greek. Do you mean ancient Ionic or Doric Greek?? No, not really. Do you mean ancient Koine Greek?? If it is Koine then Yes, for the most part I can understand probably 85% of what is said or written. It would be like the difference between modern American English and Shakespeare English.
@nickpafras, for your Information the Lingua Franca of Mideast was Aramaic, not Greek before the rise of Islam! So was the language of Christ. The Byzantines called them self's Roman, not Greek. Your pride blinds you to the truth.
@ProfessionalWhiteGuy, partially correct? More like correct! They called Anatolia, Romania, and them self's Romanoi. I can read and write in Greek, but it doesn't make me Greek.
@nickpafras It's interesting. For a while, Macedon was considered a land of barbarians by the Greeks, but eventually, Macedon was so heavily influenced by Greece and probably had a fair amount of Greeks living in it that it pretty much became a specific part of the Greek World.
@14GloryofRome14 Such references can't be an indication because the Greeks always used to divide theirselves. Just like today we have Athenian hooligans calling the football clubs of Thessaloniki Bulgarian, similar things were happening back then. People from Athens or other advanced cities were calling barbarians people from rural areas like Macedonians, Epirots or Acarnanians. Even Plato in some of his writings claimed that Athenians were the only pure Greeks and called the others mongrels.
@nickpafras The Byzantine army was called Armeniacon,because Armenians had a huge role in forming the army.Also many Byzantine emperors were of Armenian origin.It's not nice telling only one side of the story.
ever heard of the Ancient historian Herodotus and his book "The Histories"?? here he quotes Alexander I King Of Macedonia (great Grandfather of Alexander the Great)
"Men of Athens... In truth I would not tell it to you if I did not care so much for all Hellas; I myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see Hellas change her freedom for slavery."
if you dont believe me, go to the book store and ask the people that work there "do you have the book by Herodotus called "the Histories"? open the book, turn to book 9 and chapter 45 and read it for yourself.
there is a difference between Greeks and Serbians. for one thing Serbs are much taller than the Average Greek. secondly, Greeks on average are much darker than serbians. the fact is, serbian, croats, fyrom and bulgaria are all slavic. you all speak a slavic language. The language of serbs and croats is officially known as Serbo-croatian.
It is said to have started 323 or 325 BCE. However it's wrong. OUR EMPIRE was already established deep into the Indus valley before that but it fell apart. Aleksandar was the THIRD Serb to establish it.
You, sir, are out of your mind. Alexander the Great was a Greek speaker from Macedonia. These Balkan nations did not exist at the time. To call Alexander the Great a Serb (or even, in truth, a Macedonian) would be entirely anachronistic.
As for a Serbian empire on the Indus? There was simply no such thing. Ever. It's absurd.
I think you and the person who posted this video are suffering from a case of historical revisionism. Try to keep national/political/identity issues out of history.
Really now? Based on what? Did 300 million Serbs/Slavs that populate the bigger part of Europe and Asia just fall from the sky - in 600AD - ?
Tell me drosera, if my opinion of there being two Serb invasions into the Indus valley before Alexandar are so obsurd, then who did he meet over there that he was able to understand and call "his own"?
Why are Serbs of Dinaric sub-race when we are said not to be from the Balkans?
Why are there Serbian looking people all over North India, Pakistan, Iran?
No, Those names are Greek plain and simple. The reason they have become so popular in the slavic world is because of Orthodoxy. Orthodox people usually name their children after Orthodox saints. Alexander and Phillip are names of saints. the name Dimitri is also of greek origin but is popular in places like Russia because of Orthodoxy.
This is untrue. The word Persia is derived from the Greek word which in turn is derived from the name of a people called the Parsa who lived in a province along the Gulf called Fars/Pars. This is where we get words like Farsi. Aryan is derived from the Sanskrit word "आर्य" or "arya". This word was used by early Indo-Iranians to refer to themselves in contrast to the word "anarya" which referred to "the other". There is no evidence that these terms derive from Serbian names.
Well drosera99, you have very conveniently skipped around the question i asked you and replied to another comment i made. But, i'm afraid you are wrong, again. You had only 2 types of state at that time, a Polis (city state) and a realm (as far as a ruler could reach and control). Only one of those was Greek, so don't fool yourself into thinking that the Greeks named anything over there. Persa was the first ruler of Persia, and that's why it's named after him, just as China is after Chin/Qin.
IMO the Byzantine Empire is really more Persian than Greek, at least compared to the Athenians and Spartans etc of the Classical age. Grovelling before crowned, purple-clad and absolute emperors, scheming eunuchs, religious extremism, professional armies and elaborate court ceremonials; these are all evocative of the Achaemenid Persians. The classical Greeks would have hated all of it. In fact, they would have called it "asiatic" and un-hellenic - Greek in language, nothing else.
They are a leftover of Greece in Roman empire and a leftover of Roman empire after the fall of western roman empire. They are a leftover of Roman empire and Greece after the fall of Western Roman empire.
The Greeks & Romans ruled the known world. They fought countless battles & won great victories, its true that there is an end for evry beginning & by time they both fell but there was nothing greater than being an ancient Greek or Roman battle-hardened soldier.
Well Byzantium never existed, it was called the Imperium Romanum Orientalis aka the Eastern Roman Empire. Had some things had happened, Rome would had become the European version of China, somewhat like it at least.
justinian almost restored the Pax Romana....and if Charlemagne accepted the byzantine emperor as his emperor the roman empire would have been restored and the earth would be a better place. long live byzantium!
But if the Roman empire had survived would we of had the emancipation of slavery in eroupe or the age of enlightenment probably the most important event in our species mental social & technological development?
Nice video but little unfair. The bad bulgarians came only to conquer you? Well just few decades after they came what happened in 718? Did they took Constantinople with the arabs or they defended the city from them :)
I'm surprised you didn't show anything about Belisarius, who I believe is the greatest Byzantine general. & it's shame I couldn't find much about him here on youtube!
fantastic work, i hope that Byzantium will take its real place in history of the world.
celsius33 1 month ago
where bizantiym people?:((
kobtubelove 2 months ago
and thats why the emperors of the middle and latest byzantine times were greek in origin in contrast to the emperors who ruled the empire in the early byzantine times that were from places far away(such as Theodosios, Konstantine, Julian, Valentinianos etc).it is true that the name romans continued to exist but the reason was religious and that was the reason who it used. besides, in the roman empire, all its people considered romans whatever their origin was, if they lived inside the borders.
nontin21 9 months ago
@nontin21 Well the Emperors of the later era were not Greek either in any ethnic term. While Greeks were the main ethnic core of the Empire, the Empire was multinational and that is why Emperors used the religion to bind it fighting against the "nationalists" (Ethnikoi - who were mostly the Greeks afterall, not just any pagan as people thought...). Most Emperors were from Minor Asia and were of Armenian, Amorian or Pamplagonian origins but then many of them had a Greek cultural consciousness.
TheusZeusDeus 6 months ago
after the lost of the provinces that were far away from the center of the empire, the empire started to become greek because the majority of the population that lived in Greek, Minor Asia and Thrace was in the majority greek, although that there were other tribes that they were the minority. Thats why the official language of the empire became the greek(it was latin) after the lost of the eastern provinces and the african provinces, as the main population was greek.
nontin21 9 months ago
the people of Byzantine Empire called themselves Romans in the first centuries due to the prevailing of the christian religion. From then on, the name Hellenes or else Greek became outlawed and anyone who used it considered as a pagan. After 1204 the first people appeared who began to use the name Greek again because christian religion was not such a problem as it was in the first centuries of the latest antiquity or else early byzantine times(330-600).
nontin21 9 months ago
What is the music from this video from?
BVargas78 9 months ago
@BVargas78 the 2nd song is: ΣΤΑΜΑΤΗΣ ΣΠΑΝΟΥΔΑΚΗΣ- ΘΑ ΕΡΘΕΙΣ ΣΑΝ ΑΣΤΡΑΠΗ /watch?v=ElYEKMJLItk
lolagras 8 months ago
@lolagras thank-you
BVargas78 8 months ago
battle of maqtzikert Slavic-Petzenegk mercenaries unruly
2) Frankish unlruly and abdandoning
3) Some of the Oguzk (christian) Turks joining the Seljuks
4) General Tarhaneiotis and his 25,000 ... "not finding their way"....
5) Emperor Romanos being left at dusk alone with a handfull of soldiers in the battle field
... all that give a very precise image that someone was trying really hard to make Romanos losing. And we know who was, it was the Komnenodoukes.
JIMY45GR 10 months ago
@JIMY45GR Romanus was a brave man, he deserved a better fate.
BVargas78 9 months ago
alexander not greek
legendofuyi 10 months ago
To say that "Byzantium" (which is a made up term, because like I said, they considered themselves as, and were considered by others as simply the "Romans" and the term Byzantium was an academic concoction made in the 19th century) was merely a successor kingdom is to do a great disservice to both the Roman Empire and the Greek legacy, which are very much one and the same, especially during the time period under discussion.
DiviAugustus 10 months ago 9
@DiviAugustus Actually the earliest use of Byzantium and Byzantine was in the 16th century, a century after The Empire of the Greeks finally fell because Great Emperors are invariably suceeded by weaker ones who promote the downfall of their empire.
Killtor448 8 months ago
Turkey needs to fall and the Greeks can get the land that is theirs back.
Killtor448 8 months ago
@DiviAugustus actually, the term byzantium was in limited use among the "byzantines". It was used to refer to Constantinople in some cases.
TheTokkin 8 months ago
Um, this video seems to be trying to override or ignore a very important fact - Those "medieval Greeks" considered themselves to be Roman, because the cultures had merged together so heavily over the past centuries of the empire that the hellenistic tradition was no longer exclusively Greek but was rather Greco-Roman.
DiviAugustus 10 months ago 3
na rwthsw,oi fototgrafies gia paradeigma sto 1:53 apo p einai?
orestisiv 1 year ago
im shiting your Byzantium walls everyday in istanbul LONG LIVE OTTOMAN TURKS
RainstRom1 1 year ago
@RainstRom1 Go back to the steppes.
Perilix 1 year ago
@RainstRom1
Chances are, you are descended more from Byzantine Greeks and Anatolians than actual Selijuk Turks.
ProfessionalWhiteGuy 11 months ago
What a brave end for the greek Emperor!!
antonis5784 1 year ago
and the germans again half naked and with a two-sided battle axe. what was the source? conan the barbarian? :P
Blindanddumb 1 year ago
If the byzantine army power such a wonderful strong, why everytime byzantine lose the wars against to Turkish Selijuks and Ottoman Empires?? :)
cCcjanissarycCc 1 year ago
@cCcjanissarycCc Greedy nobles and incompetent emperors caused the army and administration to rot away. When the Seljuks attacked, they merely knocked over an empty husk. Alexios I managed to show that a competent emperor could still beat the Turks back, but after his dynasty ended, and especially after the Fourth "Crusade," the empire was doomed.
jlop985 1 year ago
@cCcjanissarycCc You guys came when we were at our end. Byzantium lasted for 1100 years. Everyone has their time in the sun.
Discovios 1 year ago
@cCcjanissarycCc everytime?? even after several hundred years of war, the byzantine empire held off you mongol barbarians for many years.
Truejustice100 1 year ago
many of the byzantine emperors and generals had Armenian descent, i believe 20 or so Byzantine Kings had Armenian origin
ZeeGooner 1 year ago
Россия возродит Византийскую империю!!! Ура!!!
Evgeniy19800627 1 year ago
The Varagian Guard post 1066, was made up entirely of Englishman.Before that it was mostly Viking Danes or Norse. The Norweigian King Harald Hardrada was a Varangian commander before he was killed by the English at Stamford Bridge.
Saxonsoldiers 1 year ago
great vid , voted, lately i'm really getting more & more intrested in the Byzatine Empire & its great history.
KnightoftheCross1 1 year ago
and i tell you bulgarians, arabs, and persians are not barbarians, see Greath century of bulgarian culture, see greath cultures in arabs and persians too
protokrator 1 year ago
@protokrator who said they are barbarians? you know barbarians for ancient greeks meant "he who not talk greek"..They sound of non greek languanges soulds like var-var , thats how they called them barbarians.
Ksesikotheite 1 year ago 2
5:32
protokrator 1 year ago
nice movie but i can`t understand, part of solgiers have bulgariam war uniform, from midleages and on picture on Constantinopole wall romans have bulgarian uniform too
protokrator 1 year ago
Bisantin impire was strong from VII to XI ages becose only importing was who faith do u belong not etnicum !
Bisantin impire was strong becouse we serbs and bulgars stand in bisantin army anb for that impire was victorios against araps !
Nead to make tribute for that !
Only when greeks, serbs and bulgars agree to have aliance like then Constantinopole our holy city can be liberate !
BjelasCG 1 year ago
its not a succesor state, it is the same eastern roman state, the byzantines always called themselves romans
bartieboy93 1 year ago 7
@bartieboy93 at first it was a eastern roman state, when the western half of the roman empire collapsed it became a successor state
kidrussian555 1 year ago
@bartieboy93 thats not right they call them selve orthodox christians but the romans done at too but between the views of both east and west empire were many difference what bring as result a complete split of the eastern(orthodox) and western(katholic) empire
orfeas040619 1 month ago
5*****(favorite)
psilkakos 1 year ago
Excellent work. I have the military history magazines on the byzantine army until 1118. Very good stuff.
Gargantuus 1 year ago
Merlin's beard!!!
Sirchud68 1 year ago
OMG wats the name of the song
MisterRofltastic 1 year ago
The term ''Byzantium'' is false. The right term is Roman Empire or more correctly East Roman Empire. And the East roman army was not the strongest in Europe. The strongest army in europe were the Francs(germanic tribe) and later the ''Holy Roman Empire'' of the German Nation. The Vikings were amazing warriors too.
megasayajinsongoku99 1 year ago
@megasayajinsongoku99, they were never called Vikings, and they weren't amazing, just pirate scum attacking defenseless villagers, no better than the Turks, same kind of scum mentality, rape pillage murder the innocent.
TsarSamuil 1 year ago
@TsarSamuil the ''Vikings'' were many diffirent individuals not a homogeny mass ... they were civilians, explorers, pirates , criminals , warriors , kings , soliders etc.
I said ''amazing'' warriors ..... that is a fact... the Norse Germanic tribes has a advanced warfare and specialy a advanced naval warfare ... they conquered almost all North Europo and colonized Russia and even North America ... In all Europe the Norse warriors were asked mercenaries....
megasayajinsongoku99 1 year ago 2
@megasayajinsongoku99, don't make me laugh! Conquered Northern Europe my ass, just one got chosen to rule in Russia, doesn't mean it was conquest. Didn't Greece have German king last century, does that mean it was german conquest over the Greeks, lol?
The only thing they conquered was england n parts of France, but that's it. Back then Europe was disorganized and the "vikings" took advantage of the situation, once Europe started getting its shit back together, the "vikings" disappeared.
TsarSamuil 1 year ago
@TsarSamuil well wikings breed with the native population and in scandinavia they got christian.
wicNKWD37 1 year ago
@TsarSamuil Bulgaria had a German king idiot.
AegeanKing 1 year ago
@TsarSamuil Actually they were also traders and settlers in the later period. I can give you about 200 words (and thats just what i know of) in the English language that are Norse/Dane origin. You mention the fact they conquered England, they did in some cases in others they settled. Alfred the Great beat them and made a treaty with them to settle in the North of England, his decendents slowly got that land back. 1/2
Saxonsoldiers 1 year ago
@TsarSamuil 2/2 They were kin to the Early English anyhow (Anglo Saxons) as they came from roughly the same area they were just seperated by about 300 yrs (The Angles, Saxons and Jutes, the people who became the English, were in effect the first Vikings.The Jutes actually came from Denmark),an Anglo Saxon Englishman would have been able to converse with a Viking with not to much difficulty. England was about 30% made up of Viking settlers and the last true English kings mother was one-Harold.
Saxonsoldiers 1 year ago
The term ''Byzantium'' is false. The right term is Roman Empire or more correctly East Roman Empire. And the East roman army was not the strongest in Europe. The strongest army in europe were the Francs(germanic tribe) and later the ''Holy Roman Empire'' of the German Nation. The Vikings were amazing warriors too.
megasayajinsongoku99 1 year ago
What is the name of the song that plays from 2:32 onward? I'm doing a project on the Byzantines, too.
PublicNMEnumber1 2 years ago
@PublicNMEnumber1 Both songs have been created by Stamatis Spanoudakis the 2nd one you are searching is called "Tha 'rthei san astrapi"~ "He shall come like a lightning" and it is dedicated to the Last Emperor of the Empire Constantine XI Palaiologos a person of great value and dignity.
nasosromanos 1 year ago
The heirs to the Byzantine legacy are the orthodox christian countries.
BVargas78 2 years ago 2
awesome!! dude thanks,, very well explained, you just helped me to ged a very nice grade in history xD thanks :)
deussanctus 2 years ago
Fantastic video!!! Beautiful musics!!!
What are the titles?
EletroRafaVideo 2 years ago
5*****
psilkakos 2 years ago
Also delete this video because i have strong feeling that there never was a 'Byzantine' state at all.
miavaso 2 years ago
Clearly there was no, because the byzantines themselves called themselves roman, byzantium is a modern term to describe the east-roman empire, that was based on roman lax, greek culture and christianity.
livadi9 2 years ago
I get it from the ether man....nah but seriously, don't you think that something smells about history so rounding Greeks, Serbs and these "east-Romans". They are not Romans man, they might have been ruled from Rome at some point but the Alatolian peninsula was populated almost exclusively by Serbs that spread from Bulgaria over the water, and they clearly have an Semitic element to them as well, but to say that they are even Turks is ridiculous simply because Turks look like Mongols originally.
miavaso 2 years ago
You are cute, so everyone is serb according tou your opinion? LOL, Give me sources which substantiate your claim.
livadi9 2 years ago
i can cite you sources all afternoon, and i'm sure you will find a smart arsed answer to all of them.
research me this:
throughout western europe, find me one language aside from Basque that is a naturally and independently evolved language, and not an invention or derived from an invention such as Latin. Germanic language have an element of naturality to them but their grammar is Latin, an invention.
Serbian of old (or Old Slavonic) predates all of those languages.
miavaso 2 years ago
Old Serbian (Srbica-Serbitsa) is found all over southern Europe disguised under many names by numerous mainstream historians.
Google "Vincansko pismo" - and compare one of the oldest civilized writings in Europe to modern Serbian Cyrilic script, and then compare it to Latin (this text is latin)
We hear all kinds of funny stories of how barbaric Slavic invaders begged the Greek to invent them a script, but the evidence on the table tells a whole different story.
Cant post u a link, Youtubenono
miavaso 2 years ago
LOL a linguist who does not know about indogermanic languages and their origin:))))
Go to your serbian village and cry about kosovo about Bosnia and about a stolen history that never existed and i´am still waiting for sources, which author said what and when and where is it documented
livadi9 2 years ago
@miavaso Nation states as today didn´t exist in medieval times. You should know that as researcher ;-)
Holy Roman Empire also included massive non-German element, but nobody doubts that it existed and was dominated by Germans.
Also early serbian statehood was decisively influenced by Byzantines. It can be argued that thanks to this strong influence Serbs didn´t succumb to Islam like their bosnian neighbours.
OkurkaBinLadin 2 years ago
Bosnians aren't all Muslims, we are Serbs, it's just that some of us turned to Islam, slots of Serbs from Serbia turned to Islam but were killed of by Karadjordje.
It wasn't a nation state, it was a realm. As Far as Svevladov clan could rule, they ruled. But since Serbian history is being concealed everyday because of Rusophobia, Slavophobia and lots of other phobias of the west, the general perception is that all states were Polis (city states)... which is acenine.
miavaso 2 years ago 2
@OkurkaBinLadin This is folly to claim, as the Roman Empire was a nation, albeit an empire, but still a centrally ruled nation in a sense. It fell in 1453, which was well near the end of the medieval times and more into the renaissance. Chinese Dynasties also existed and were ruled from central points throughout the era coined the medieval ages.
But of course, this just brings up the point that anything not "western" history doesn't count, as important as Far Eastern history is. >.>
effigyoflight 1 year ago
Miavaso, do you really believe this? What is the evidence for this great Serbian empire? What historians? What motive for a cover-up? What evidence of a conspiracy? Do you really think that a conspiracy of that magnitude would be possible?
Where's the archaeological evidence? Where are the manuscripts?
As for the Slavs, they did not fall from the sky. They migrated.
I'm sorry but your argument has no basis in historical fact. It is clearly motivated solely by a deep sense of national identity.
drosera99 2 years ago
By the way, I'm of largely slavic ancestry. Just fyi.
drosera99 2 years ago
I don't care about your ancestry.
miavaso 2 years ago
Good. You shouldn't. It really doesn't pertain to this conversation. I find, however, that in these conversations I often end up being accused of being a conspirator against the great such and such nation.
By the way, do you have anything to say regarding the Sanskrit origins of the word "aryan"? Or the Greek origins of the word "Persian"? Or the fact that Alexander and Philip both derive from Greek words?
Can you present any evidence for the Surbian empire?
drosera99 2 years ago
I don't give a damn what those words mean in Sanskrit or Greek, because they are borrowed words. Lazar, Mitar, Sekul, Hram, Sarad, Serbid, Serban, Selam, Selo, Gorod, Baghdad (originaly Od-Boga-dat, which means from God given), are all names in Iran of places of Serb origin, except for Baghdad of course. Syria carries our name, and they don't even look all that Arabic...
Afghanistan; Sorab, Sabra, Sarban Kalay, Sabral, Sarband, Sarbaghan, Serbal, Tarlin Krovat (Hrvat/Croat);
In Greek mean???
miavaso 2 years ago
Also Alexander is a clasical Greek name, in THAT FORM, however it's preceded by Serbian Aleksa...which is still disputable if you ask me, because the 'dar' at the end of the name is also a Serbian word, meaning talent or gift.
miavaso 2 years ago
??? what sources you relie(chuckle) on honey ???
livadi9 2 years ago
What evidence do you have that they are borrowed? What evidence do you have that the Serbian language even existed back then? Can you give me the name of one manuscript with attested Serbian dating to antiquity?
drosera99 2 years ago
They conspired against us, they remove us from written history, and you (their children) have forgotten us, and therefore yourself.
Is Aleksandar a Greek name? No. Filip? No.
Who was it that Aleksandar 'recognised' as his own in the Indus valley? Answer is, Aryans. "Ariyevtsi", called that because their society was established by a man called "Arije" (Aries if you will), a Serb from antiquety. Another Serb who ruled Persia later was named Persa, a name we use today, the name of a whole empire.
miavaso 2 years ago
How many names of cities and villages containing Serbian names need to be found before people start paying attention? Even the very topynoms "srb" "serb/p" How many coincidences are we going to allow for?
miavaso 2 years ago
Perhaps. But who is "they" and who is "us"?
I once offended a Croat by pointing out that he has far more in common with a 21stC Serb than with a 19thC Croat, but the statement is almost certainly correct. Why is this?
My opinion is that however alien the 19thC Croat was, to a modern Croat he is "us", while a modern Serb - however similar - is "they".
As long as we have a world comprised of "us" and "them", we will have conflict and war.
Anekantavad 2 years ago
Well that's just it between the Serb and the Croat - they disagree between the name, whilst yes we are pretty much all the same. I believe that we are all Serbs for the following reasons;
- We speak the same language to the extent of the following; They have named our language Serbo-Croatian, and divided it into three main dialects, the Stokavian, Kajkavian and Chakavian. Every Serb in the world speaks Stokavian, and 80% of Croats. the other 20% of Croats speak either of the other two dialects.
elpparg 2 years ago
Now here is the disconnect. They are not dialects, they are completely different languages. Today Serbian and Croatian are considered separate languages, so if Stokavan is a dialect of Serbian, why isn't there another? We say Croats are Serbs, because it's far more likely that 80% of a 4.5 million nation are offshoots off their neighbors who number at around 10 million then the other way around.
elpparg 2 years ago
I'm not saying that we Serbs are completely identical to anyone who lived 200 years ago, however i do have strong beliefs about there being a cover up about an ancient Serbia that had just as much influence on European civilization as Rome. Those people were different from us today but they carried our name, flags and spoke our tongue.
Up to about 459 there was a Serbian empire stretching from Alps deep into Iran, but as it got hard to control a Serbian state was established in the Balkans.
miavaso 2 years ago
Alexander is an ancient Greek name and so is Phillip. These names have meanings. Google the Etymology of the names before you dumb comments.
nickpafras 2 years ago
Please Nick, you have the floor.
miavaso 2 years ago
Alexandros "defender of men," from alexein "to ward off, keep off, turn (something) away, defend, protect" + aner (gen. andros) "man"
nickpafras 2 years ago
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Philippos "fond of horses," from philos "beloved, loving" + hippos "horse."
nickpafras 2 years ago
Philippos "fond of horses," from philos "beloved, loving" + hippos "horse."
nickpafras 2 years ago 2
Those meanings are in Greek. But the names could just as easily have been taken from elsewhere. To me, he will always be Aleksandar Veliki Karanovich of Makedonija. The reason I believe all of our history is being Helenized and why Grcka (Greece) is being established as almighty by the Anglo historians is clear and simple. Serbs (Slavs) are too great in number and must not be credited with their past for if they are, it could prove troublesome. You should look at the alternative more seriously.
miavaso 2 years ago
Just look at the "Slavic settlement of the Balkans" theory, it's been created solely to discredit us by stating that we are not on our own land. However Serbs are all of Dinaric sub-race, a sub-race that is the only true indigenous one of our regions, whilst the so called illyrians who are said to be represented today by the Albanians are alot more semitic looking. How do you explain all those things then? My problem is that they are not explained but conveniently swept under the rug.
miavaso 2 years ago
I'm not saying that Greeks are lying about their past, no. But I'm saying that in this point in time they are misrepresenting themselves with a name that was more provincial then not, as the Greeks too are a part of our ancient Serbian empire, they didn't just fall from the sky. However the modern West will gladly enlarge Greece, because it alone is small and harmless. Try to see it my way, the culture was grander down south, but it was OUR common Serbian culture.
miavaso 2 years ago
Greeks were only under serbian suzeranity for a very short period of time under Stefan Dusan. Greeks are not distorting themselves in anyway shape or form. The people of FYROM are slavs just like bulgarians and serbians. Slavs did not arrive in the balkans until the 6th century A.D. that is a simple fact.
nickpafras 2 years ago
But how then are we of Dinaric race and appearance? Even the Russians are, vastly. Shouldn't we all look like Finns and Sweedes if we 'arrived' here?
miavaso 2 years ago
the "slavic settlement of the balkans" is not a theory but a historic fact. The slavs and the slavic language was not known in the ancient world. Even the 8th century Byzantine Document called the "Chronicle of Monemvasia" speaks about the mass slavic invasion into the empire.
nickpafras 2 years ago
Alexander was Greek. Plain and simple. ONLY Greeks were allowed to participate in the olympics and both Alexander and his Father Participated. The new testament of the Bible was written in Koine Greek because Alexander the great spread the Greek language to the middle east and made it the Lingua Franca.
nickpafras 2 years ago 20
@nickpafras yes it's right that he was greek, but he was acturally from Macredon, its two difference countries
snapypowerup 1 year ago
@nickpafras His mother Olympias was an Albanian hillbilly. His father a Macedonian goatherd who conquered Greece.
zrah1092 1 year ago
@zrah1092 Conquered Greece did he? really? interesting. Is that why Alexander spread the Greek langauge across the known world which is why the New Testament was written in Greek? Is that why he created the Corinthian League after the battle of Chaeronea? The Corinthian league was the first time Greece had been united as a country. It was the famous ancient Greek philosopher Isocrates who wrote a letter to Phillip asking him for a PAN-HELLENIC crusade against the Persians.
AegeanKing 1 year ago
@zrah1092 Alexander and Phillip were of the Argead dynasty which was a GREEK dynasty. Sorry, the SLAVS of FYROM have nothing to do with the ancient Macedonians.
AegeanKing 1 year ago
@nickpafras what is koine greek if i may ask?
witchcerridwen 1 year ago
@witchcerridwen Koine Greek is just every day vernacular Greek. The word "Koine" in Greek means "common". There were different dialects of Greek in ancient Greece like Ionic, doric etc. Koine is simply what became the most common dialect and form of Greek.
AegeanKing 1 year ago
@AegeanKing thank you very much for answering.i have a greek friend and i like the greek language very much.is there a big diffrence between old greek and new greek?i mean can u understand easily the old greek?maybe i will try and study greek.i just love it.its like music.my friend says its very hard to learn even for the greeks.well if you dont try you will never know.blessed be
witchcerridwen 1 year ago
@witchcerridwen It depends on what you mean by old Greek. Do you mean ancient Ionic or Doric Greek?? No, not really. Do you mean ancient Koine Greek?? If it is Koine then Yes, for the most part I can understand probably 85% of what is said or written. It would be like the difference between modern American English and Shakespeare English.
AegeanKing 1 year ago
@AegeanKing ok now i can understand it.american english and shakespear.good comparing of the two.thanks efcharisto
witchcerridwen 1 year ago
@witchcerridwen Also, the modern Greek language is called "Modern Koine". Greeks can understand the vast majority of ancient Koine Greek.
AegeanKing 1 year ago
@nickpafras, for your Information the Lingua Franca of Mideast was Aramaic, not Greek before the rise of Islam! So was the language of Christ. The Byzantines called them self's Roman, not Greek. Your pride blinds you to the truth.
Assyrianland2 1 year ago
@Assyrianland2
The Byzantines considered themselves Greek and Roman, so you are partially correct.
ProfessionalWhiteGuy 11 months ago
@ProfessionalWhiteGuy, partially correct? More like correct! They called Anatolia, Romania, and them self's Romanoi. I can read and write in Greek, but it doesn't make me Greek.
Assyrianland2 10 months ago
@nickpafras It's interesting. For a while, Macedon was considered a land of barbarians by the Greeks, but eventually, Macedon was so heavily influenced by Greece and probably had a fair amount of Greeks living in it that it pretty much became a specific part of the Greek World.
14GloryofRome14 1 year ago
@14GloryofRome14 Such references can't be an indication because the Greeks always used to divide theirselves. Just like today we have Athenian hooligans calling the football clubs of Thessaloniki Bulgarian, similar things were happening back then. People from Athens or other advanced cities were calling barbarians people from rural areas like Macedonians, Epirots or Acarnanians. Even Plato in some of his writings claimed that Athenians were the only pure Greeks and called the others mongrels.
panarkas 11 months ago
@nickpafras The Byzantine army was called Armeniacon,because Armenians had a huge role in forming the army.Also many Byzantine emperors were of Armenian origin.It's not nice telling only one side of the story.
titer2000 11 months ago
ever heard of the Ancient historian Herodotus and his book "The Histories"?? here he quotes Alexander I King Of Macedonia (great Grandfather of Alexander the Great)
"Men of Athens... In truth I would not tell it to you if I did not care so much for all Hellas; I myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see Hellas change her freedom for slavery."
"The Histories" Book 9, Chapter 45
nickpafras 2 years ago
All that can be written as easily as you just did to me :)
miavaso 2 years ago
if you dont believe me, go to the book store and ask the people that work there "do you have the book by Herodotus called "the Histories"? open the book, turn to book 9 and chapter 45 and read it for yourself.
nickpafras 2 years ago
swedes are not Slavic, they are Scandinavian.
nickpafras 2 years ago
Yeh i know swedes are not Serbian, but if we came from up north why don't we look like them, but like you?
miavaso 2 years ago
there is a difference between Greeks and Serbians. for one thing Serbs are much taller than the Average Greek. secondly, Greeks on average are much darker than serbians. the fact is, serbian, croats, fyrom and bulgaria are all slavic. you all speak a slavic language. The language of serbs and croats is officially known as Serbo-croatian.
nickpafras 2 years ago
you did not come from that far north. you came from what is today modern Ukrain and southern Russia.
nickpafras 2 years ago
listen, figure out what the "hellenistic age" is and when it started and you will have the answer to your questions.
nickpafras 2 years ago
I want to ask you a question. What is the Hellenistic age and when did it start?
nickpafras 2 years ago
It is said to have started 323 or 325 BCE. However it's wrong. OUR EMPIRE was already established deep into the Indus valley before that but it fell apart. Aleksandar was the THIRD Serb to establish it.
miavaso 2 years ago
Alexander the Great was NOT a serbian. just stop it. there is not a SINGLE credible historian that says that.
nickpafras 2 years ago
You, sir, are out of your mind. Alexander the Great was a Greek speaker from Macedonia. These Balkan nations did not exist at the time. To call Alexander the Great a Serb (or even, in truth, a Macedonian) would be entirely anachronistic.
As for a Serbian empire on the Indus? There was simply no such thing. Ever. It's absurd.
I think you and the person who posted this video are suffering from a case of historical revisionism. Try to keep national/political/identity issues out of history.
drosera99 2 years ago
Really now? Based on what? Did 300 million Serbs/Slavs that populate the bigger part of Europe and Asia just fall from the sky - in 600AD - ?
Tell me drosera, if my opinion of there being two Serb invasions into the Indus valley before Alexandar are so obsurd, then who did he meet over there that he was able to understand and call "his own"?
Why are Serbs of Dinaric sub-race when we are said not to be from the Balkans?
Why are there Serbian looking people all over North India, Pakistan, Iran?
miavaso 2 years ago
No, Those names are Greek plain and simple. The reason they have become so popular in the slavic world is because of Orthodoxy. Orthodox people usually name their children after Orthodox saints. Alexander and Phillip are names of saints. the name Dimitri is also of greek origin but is popular in places like Russia because of Orthodoxy.
nickpafras 2 years ago 17
like i said before, just google it.
nickpafras 2 years ago
This is untrue. The word Persia is derived from the Greek word which in turn is derived from the name of a people called the Parsa who lived in a province along the Gulf called Fars/Pars. This is where we get words like Farsi. Aryan is derived from the Sanskrit word "आर्य" or "arya". This word was used by early Indo-Iranians to refer to themselves in contrast to the word "anarya" which referred to "the other". There is no evidence that these terms derive from Serbian names.
drosera99 2 years ago
Well drosera99, you have very conveniently skipped around the question i asked you and replied to another comment i made. But, i'm afraid you are wrong, again. You had only 2 types of state at that time, a Polis (city state) and a realm (as far as a ruler could reach and control). Only one of those was Greek, so don't fool yourself into thinking that the Greeks named anything over there. Persa was the first ruler of Persia, and that's why it's named after him, just as China is after Chin/Qin.
miavaso 2 years ago
IMO the Byzantine Empire is really more Persian than Greek, at least compared to the Athenians and Spartans etc of the Classical age. Grovelling before crowned, purple-clad and absolute emperors, scheming eunuchs, religious extremism, professional armies and elaborate court ceremonials; these are all evocative of the Achaemenid Persians. The classical Greeks would have hated all of it. In fact, they would have called it "asiatic" and un-hellenic - Greek in language, nothing else.
Anekantavad 2 years ago
A little like England now in comparison to Victrian times?
stukasoverdisney 2 years ago
They are a leftover of Greece in Roman empire and a leftover of Roman empire after the fall of western roman empire. They are a leftover of Roman empire and Greece after the fall of Western Roman empire.
NuclearWarhead1111 2 years ago
Россия - наследница имперского величия Восточной Римской Империи.
Евразия неизбежна. Катехон грядёт!
V1ENYA 2 years ago
The Greeks & Romans ruled the known world. They fought countless battles & won great victories, its true that there is an end for evry beginning & by time they both fell but there was nothing greater than being an ancient Greek or Roman battle-hardened soldier.
Suppressingfire 2 years ago
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hakanturkucu 2 years ago
First flag with eagle is Vizantium!!!!!!! not russian...
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hakanturkucu 2 years ago
Gay barbarian how you dare to blame Romani clothes!
Dem0nZla 2 years ago
Well Byzantium never existed, it was called the Imperium Romanum Orientalis aka the Eastern Roman Empire. Had some things had happened, Rome would had become the European version of China, somewhat like it at least.
Why you ask? Ask right away
janissary211 2 years ago
Exactly, man who invented "Byzantine" name was... German ;]. That's tells all.
Dem0nZla 2 years ago
they gave it the name because
1 they couldnt call it the Eastern Roman Empire because the West fell
2 Constantinople its capital was built on the Greek city of Byzantium
tuskin4 2 years ago
Moscow is the Third Rome, Constantinople was Second Rome.
Now Russa is a new Bizantium Empire,
Russian Tsar Vasilij married Zoya Paleolog, the cusine of last Bisantiun Emperor Konstantine IXб црщ цфы лшддув шт 1453б 29 April.
That why two-heads Eagle in a state symbol of Russia, because Bizantium gave us Ortodox faith, state symbol and Ortodox goal
We are new Byzantium now.
sanchmas 2 years ago
buehehehe...Russians and their complexes :D
karol131281 2 years ago
No, simply historical truth :D:D:D:D:D:D
sanchmas 2 years ago
@sanchmas you mean Romana?
Alucardthedeadone 2 years ago
Difficult to answer couse I do not understand what do you want to ask :)
We are Third Rome.
Beleive, all Orthodox Russians would be happy if Second Rome again become alive! Hope it will be.
sanchmas 2 years ago
@sanchmas Romana is the Latin name of Rome, which the early ERE would have called it be speaking Greek.
Alucardthedeadone 2 years ago
That is not true. Maybe you and a small number of others nothing more.
DimitrijeKg 2 years ago
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AYTOKPATOPAC 2 years ago
my ansesters were Byzantine lol
apdaoud 2 years ago
Today Russia uses the symbol of Byzantine
LordLebu 2 years ago
And Serbia and Greece and Albania, lol
TehFridgeizEmptyz 2 years ago
where did you saw Russia uses that symbol ...
kultirizmus 2 years ago
check the state symbol of russia
LordLebu 2 years ago
do you know why russia uses that symbol?
nickpafras 2 years ago
ok nevermind u do.
nickpafras 2 years ago
whats the name of the music?
byzantinecaesar 2 years ago
the music is by stamatis spanoudakis
Laistrigonas 2 years ago
justinian almost restored the Pax Romana....and if Charlemagne accepted the byzantine emperor as his emperor the roman empire would have been restored and the earth would be a better place. long live byzantium!
byzantinecaesar 2 years ago
You relly think the world would be a better place if the Roman empire survived?
kingsman565 2 years ago
of course i think! the dark age would have never existed and we would be a more advanced civilization nowadays
byzantinecaesar 2 years ago 2
But if the Roman empire had survived would we of had the emancipation of slavery in eroupe or the age of enlightenment probably the most important event in our species mental social & technological development?
kingsman565 2 years ago 3
east of byzantium is armenia
west of byzantium is greece
narekjuu 2 years ago
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Guuucky 2 years ago
Turks are Siberians
LordLebu 2 years ago 4
Nice video but little unfair. The bad bulgarians came only to conquer you? Well just few decades after they came what happened in 718? Did they took Constantinople with the arabs or they defended the city from them :)
Keiserbg 2 years ago
I'm surprised you didn't show anything about Belisarius, who I believe is the greatest Byzantine general. & it's shame I couldn't find much about him here on youtube!
Nawas7 2 years ago 4
my video is not about generals but about the army of the empire!
belissarios was a very capable general but also in every period exist generals as capable as him
don't forget that the empire was at war from the beginning until the fall of trapezounta in 1461 a.d.
Laistrigonas 2 years ago
yeah ok, cu around!
Laistrigonas 2 years ago