Turkification of Anatolia - Nomads DOCUMENTARY
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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of Ancient Civilizations and Nomadic Cultures continues with a video on the Seljuk Turkification of Anatolia - the period that started in the XI century with the battle of Manzikert and was largely concluded by the XV century when the Ottomans rose to power, as the Seljuks and other Turkic peoples entered Anatolia, slowly pushing the Greeks and other locals to the coastal regions, slowly weakening the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Many of you expect a joke video on the 1st of April. The joke is practical - the joke video will come when you expect it the least.
So Emu War confirmed?
Do the history of rickroll. That will be legendary and unexpected lmao
The ~~Spanish~~ Turkish Inquisition!
Anatolia has never had a majority greek population. Hellenization of Anatolia was more of a greeco-roman cultural hegemony, deliberate destruction of local identities and cultures in favor of a greek language and roman identity than an actual migration.
@@NickStrife In the video, yes. You think Macedonians or Romans conquered these lands with flowers in their hands :) Btw the Seljuks were not even interested in Anatolia. Their main rival was Shia Fatimids, who were ally of the Romans. Unruly Turcomans constantly raided Anatolia and Roman Diogenes tried to get rid of the Seljuks for his personal prestige and gaining legiticamy but he failed badly. The main Turkic migration into Anatolia was after the Mongol Invasion. Before that, Turks were mostly busy with the riches of Iran and pastoral lands of Azerbajian and modern day Turkmenistan and Khorasan.
From Hittites to Assyrians, Persians or Alexander, Roman Empire and Byzantine, from Seljuks to Timur, from Suleiman to British invasion in Dardanelles... How many famous battles with great impact have been fought on this peninsula.
There will be more to come as well
Imagine to the greek peninsula too. We the Greeks have a war history kinda..full
Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂
@@user-wb7ur4yp6z booo
@@user-wb7ur4yp6z tiananmen 1989
I love how the channel is also dabbling with cultural history now, not just military history
Yeah, its great
Only just joined but haven't they always dealt with the cultural and social issues that resulted from the battles or at least the entire war? Has it just been a very focused look at a battle or war. Describing the tactics, the reasons behind decisions, the various units and what they did and wore as armour or used as a weapon, etc. I find that quite surprising but I can get in to that if the videos are as well made and researched as this one. It's just any battle to some extent and every war to a far far larger extent has an effect on the region and its culture and society, even if it just stays nearby the same with small changes etc. In many cases the context, reason for the battle or war is hugely important and so are the lasting and immediate effects that result and its odd to find a channel that's do focused on the battles alone as basically every other channel that does videos on battles, units of warriors, weapons etc still goes off on a tangent to examine the whys, what's and wherefores rather than sticking to the battle, units, tactics etc alone. Hmmmmm I think that'll be very useful and interesting definitely going to be giving the back catalogue a run through.
Kings and Generals and Stewards
Their cultural and social videos are quickly becoming some of my favorite, and may already be.
This will create fractures among its viewer.
This video is so well made that both Greeks and Turks can agree over it's quality And that's kings and generals is an achievement
Indeed
Hats off.
As a Turk, i agreed
Indeed, although Anatolia became the shithole of the world for a great period of time.
@@withspiros buthurt greek alert 🤣🤣🤣
That throat-singing in the background on every video featuring Mongolic/Turkic/Hunnic/steppe-y themes is hypnotising and chilling at the same time...! It makes a huge difference!
@TRUTH CENSORED Belgium
It's the main theme of Total War: Attila
@@simonedagostino9358 THANKS! I didn't even know there was such a TW!
@@pavlos-zinondimitrakos9616 It's the best Total War, love that soundtrack!
That's so annoying to me
Sales person : "slaps Anatolia" this bad boy can fit so many Turks in it Alp Arslan : do you take cash?
Ahahah lol
😂😂😂
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I don't understand
Seljuk Turks were about to form an alliance with Pechenegs to finish the Byzantine empire centuries before Ottomans but Alexios Komnenos prevented that by using another regional Turkic nomadic people, Cumans , against the upcoming threat indeed one of the greatest emperors of Eastern Rome
Yorumlara gelecek dolu troll
@@thewarriorfrog geldi bile
Indeed one of the best emperors cunning tactician great commander
Züğürt Tesellisi.
It would give fantastic results by the way, thinking of besieged by two nomadic armies from both Anatolia and Danube...
The Battle of Manzikert paved way for the Turkification of Anatolia which laid the seeds of the Ottoman empire which conquered Constantinople ending Rome and triggering the Age of Discovery which shaped much of the modern world,... A battle can only be this impactful
and conquest of anatolia is caused by battles between turkic nations and chinese empire, turks expanded through the west because of chinese suppression in the east asia which later caused the conquest of anatolia, and colonisation of world by western powers which also caused the fall of chinese empire and being a colony of western powers
Afshar Turkmen here. My great grandfathers in late 1800's, they were still living like notorious nomads around the Sivas,Kayseri and Adana. İt's great seeing this life in Kings and Generals too.
notorious nomads? did they come rifles blazing take all the rugs? come on tell me something like that
@@muksimulmaad7413 no, they were in constant conflict with the ottoman administration who tried to settle them down, in order to extract more "tax money".
@@muksimulmaad7413 nomads are not only hostile to the enemy but also to their own government. In fact the last Yörüks settled down in 2000's I believe.
someone please explain to avshars in turkey that they are turkic. a lot of them on the southeast are assimilated by kurds and literally even the tribes they claim they are a part of are well known turkmen tribes yet they believe they are kurds. well these outsiders who like to assume every turkic people out there are TuRkiFieD will never know or care about how turks are assimilated as we speak though.
peach soda biji Kurdistan
How can you guys make such long and quality videos that frequent, it's crazy!
It's called a content factory. They have a team of people who do this full time.
@@oneinca insanlarla nasıl iletişim kurulur öğretebilirim istersen birader
@@aysenur6761 Öğretir misin🐬🐬
@@oneinca aha liberal
@@aysenur6761 bu liberal trolleri çok takma, hoşlarına gitsen de hem fikir olsalarda yada çok alakasız bir yerde alakasız bir şekilde taşak geçmeye bayılırlar, bu şekil eğleniyorlar 😀
Oh boy, this'll sure rile the Greek and Turkish KZhead warriors. (Nice video btw) Edit: I was right. Though I'm pleasantly surprised that some of the comments at least were sensible and thought out.
They're coming
Im Greek, and not riles at all, its plain historical facts, we made a huge mistake and we paid for it, what can we do, only learn for the future if necessary
Probably they like... turks are turkified greeks, take contastinopole back from mongols etc..
@@valery2711 🤣🤣
Pretty much. I mean, the Seljuk Turks are nomadic peoples so wherever they go, it is technically their new homeland so I don't know what is up with some people just complaining about it or they probably want to look for something to get angry at?
By the way, my grandfathers were nomads (Yörük) and they used to migrate to cold places (yayla) in summer and hot places in winter :) Its still common thing in some areas in Turkey.
Chepni here, We still go to the plateaus in the summer and go to the cities in the winter. It used to be done for economic purposes. But nowadays it is held as a holiday.
Nomadic tribes (both Turk, Kurd and even Gypsies or what you call the Dom people) still travel the Anatolian countryside. Even indigenous locals who just adopted other cultures or in the borderlands a occasional rare bedouin.
I wish my family was yörük. The konar göçer lifestyle is so interesting to me. 🥺 Does your family still talk about tengri/shamanic rituals and stories?
Same as your family,actually most of the traditional Turkish people maintain this tradition but our new generations are starting to lose it
Yeylaq and qeshlaq :)
In my opinion early steppe nomads including the Turks were always strong warriors but they always fought between themselves until someone comes along unites them and then they wreak havoc in the world and then they split again and fight among themselves and this cycle repeats itself in history many times and Anatolia wasn't that different either when they first got there they still fought each other but this time they all agreed that they liked the place lol
@Paulo Ramos scythians - Turks - then Mongols....
@Paulo Ramos for gods sake. How can u be so naive and spreading false information. Aren't u guys tired of this. More than half of central asia belonged to turkic and Proto Mongol-Turkic tribes. Turks are many many different tribes who were blood related. It is not just the same family all the time. Huns, Proto Mongol-Turkic, ilkhaghnate, karakghanate, timuroids.. all were turkic !! Get ur facts right pls.
Seljuks were half-Persian at the time
@Paulo Ramosthe Steppes are the steppes and whoever came from there or raised from there are the nomads of the steppes turks/mongols or anyone else
@@Neversa yeah yeah of course. The whole Turks were persian right ? U guys are just naive. That is such an incorrect statement and a lie that has never ever been heard of
Grand stuff! "Hispanization of Americas" would also be very interesting.
Duly noted.
Hispanization. Thats a very interesting topic indeed, a combination of cultural assimiliation, sincretism and inmigration.
I don’t know much about the hispanic bois, but here in Brazil the portuguese just arrived in waves, mostly retired soldiers, expeled jews, poor peasants, and married the converted friendly natives. Then came the slaves whose freed descendants, who were fully luso-brazilians, married the settlers or catholic natives too.
Actually that happened after colonial period
And the whole arabization and re-latinification process in Iberia during the Reconquista
How many great videos will you make? Kings and Generals: yes
Anatolia I feel has one of the most interesting histories of any areas. Just rich with so many different cultures
same, anatolia, the balkas and the caucasus are to me the most interesting areas, as you said, the varios cultures, empires are so rich and interesting, to me is one of the most historic areas
not that much richness after a point in time. It has an amazing history up until the classical antiquety. Especially in the bronze age. Hittites lycians carians the legendary arzawans and troy and mycenean greeks , and then lydians and persians. After that it was hellenized and all these people just adopted the greek language and culture for the next 1500 years. Even after roman conquest region remained a greek world. Arab invasions were eventually succesfully beaten. Then Turks came.and history of the area became even more boring
Not just history but genetically it is one of the richest regions in terms of haplogroups. More than a dozen haplogroups from paternal line alone.
@@vonzuchter Not that much richness after a point in time? Boring?? on what scientific study are these claims based? one of those chauvinistic arguments.. one of those flag-waving, "we-are-the-best" people.. How could you be so prejudiced?! Why can't you be at least a little bit open-minded and objective enough to see that people throughout history moved from one place to another to be able to survive. Our distant ancestors got out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, ever since groups of people have been migrating across the planet. They have created different ways of living by doing so; various cultures and languages have come alive on this never-ending journey of ours. Then those people and cultures have met again and again, mingled with each other again and again, resulting in new mixtures. We are all related. We are genetically mixed, which is a scientific fact. AND We are the same species. We have made our mistakes so far. Let us stop pointing out fingers at each other.
@@sdtnyctk1406 You braindamaged? what scientific research makes something boring or not? it is what it is. Region has an amzing history up until the turkish conquest. Then NOTHING happened for almost 1000 years except the Timurid invasiom maybe. You have to go to the 1919-1922 war to find something interesting. Up until the turkish conquest region had amazing fasinating history with many emprires and cultures and conflicts an amazing mosaic of peoples and epic conflicts in the Bronze age in iron age in classical age in roman era , in bynatine era epic wars against the persians and the arabs. After Turkish conquest nothing. So yeah it became BORING.
Another great video as usual. For those who are curious about the ''responsibilities of the ghazi warrior'' mentioned in the video, one of the main factors that made Turks expand, I strongly suggest reading Halil Inalcik's books, which are also in English. He is considered the master of Turkish history, a lot of the things in this video also came through his researches which he spent his entire life on
I'm curious about the "Ghazi Warrior" concept... which of Inalcik's books would you suggest as a starting point to learn more?
@@jaang7424 As a start for the Ottoman state : 1 Halil İnalcık Devlet-i Aliyye 2Feridun Emecen Osmanlı imparatorluğunun kuruluş ve yükseliş tarihi 3 Mehmet Fuat Köprülü Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Kuruluşu but if you want to read books not only about the Ottoman Empire but also about other Turkish giants : Seljuks Selçuklular ibnü'l - verdi , Büyük Selçuklular Cihan Piyadeoğlu The book that starts from the Huns to the Uighur state : Bozkırın Kağanlıkları Ahmet Taşağıl only the European Hun state Attila ve Oğulları Hunlar Hüseyin Namık Orkun A book about Europe from the Huns to the Khazars : Türkler (Turkish) Theophanes Confessor'un Chronicle For general Turkish history : Türklerin tarihi (Pasifik'ten Akdeniz'e 2000 yıl) Jean - Paul Roux
I noticed that you used the Attila Total War theme , I love that you use Total War soundtracks Also great video by the way
while i love jeff van dyke attlia total war got some good tracks aswell.
I do believe this entire channel was somehow inspired by Total War games or others like ones made by Paradox Interactive, so it's quite natural for them to use media from fore mentioned sources.
@@alirezafalamarzi7062 indeed And I'm glad since i love Total War games (Especially Rome 1 , Medieval 2 , Shogun 2 and Attila)
thank you ı was triyng to remember the name of the theme
@@yigitaraz7101 you're welcome It's the theme obviously
13:16 The original Turkish salt guy
Lmao salt bae😂
It's Salt Bae for you
Lool 😂😂
Lmao
Can't believe nobody came up with this: he is Salt Bey, not Salt Bae.
I love that kings and generals not only have consistent uploads makes wonderful content honestly as an avid scholar of history I have found this channel to be a godsend
I think Turkification of Anatolia is one of the most overlooked world historical events
and a very sad thing too :(
@Huso Ucar Huso, its pretty bad luck buddy. No matter which way you skin it, your life, and the life of everyone in Modern Turkey would be infinitely better if you remained Hellenized and a part of Europe.
It's mind boggling how it happened. Maybe there's hope...
@@frostflower5555, It is not mind-boggling; Western historians simply didn't pay enough attention it deserved
@Elvis Presley your news is state run big guy. Greece is a paradise comparatively. Simple things, like not having propagandists run our news is a freedom youll never experience. Not everything is about debt, of which Greek bond yields were in the negative for, pre pandemic (not that you know what bond yields are.) Also, how can i turk talk about economics when your dollar has devalued x4 in the past year. Every turk oj planet earth is LITERALLY 4X POORER in relation to themselves, 1 year ago, let alone the rest of the world who is in a boom due to low interest rates. Ouch.
These videos are always a treat
I am so impressed by what Turkic people were able to achieve in Anatolia and Constantinople! to come from distant steppes of East and Central Asia and carve themselves a place in the centre of the known world and then rule over a vast Empire combining lands in Europe, Asia and Africa as Ottomans it was a really successful startup!
Right? Talk about enterpreneurship success story by being an immigrant.
History is filled with this Arabs Persians and Romans themselves were nobodies but they managed to carve empires that lasted for centuries whose legacy is felt even today
@@babitayadav4806 The world was a simpler place back then. Conquered unassuming, farmers and villagers is easy. All of these so-called success stories ended up getting their asses handed to them when confronted by an organized army.
@@yuripuri639 I am not sure if you are familiar with the examples I gave but romans defeated Greeks and carthagians and they had a "organised army" Persians defeated the Babylonians and Egyptians there armies were as good as can be in the iron age Carving empire wasn't taking farming villages it was conquering metropolises like babylon Carthage etc
They mostly destroyed.
The quality of this video is amazing!!
I was about to start my research on this to write for a story contest, and K&G hits me with it! This guys are awesome... It is like they knew what we need the most!
I was just wondering about this myself. Thank you for reading my mind!
Its a honor to be here early always glad to see you guys upload!
I was waiting for that video for so many time finally it's here thanks bro
I always like all of your videos because of the high quality of the animation and a really good storytelling.
My computer: It was released 5 minutes ago The Comments Section: 8 hours ago
patreon release
@@norsie45 I know.
Great work the quality of the video is insane!!
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My grandfather was a Nomad in Southern Anatolia from Taurus Mountains. The Nomads of Anatolia are called "Yörük-Türkmen" which means "walking Turkmen".
These Nomads were hated a lot by the Ottomans that wanted nothing to do with them. Ottoman dynasty was more related to their Balkan muslims, beys and Pashas such as Albanians and Bosniaks. They viewed these nomads as lower and dumb.
Did he rode ponies and living in Yurt?
@@hakanbaybars4435 In the 2nd half of the 15th century up to early 1800s most of prime ministers and important governors were Albanian and Bosnian. Some Georgians also. The Ottoman dynasty for a long period considered it an offence to be related to antolians turks. Is a fact.
@@torikeqi8710 there is a difference between dynasty and governors tho. Ottomans used educated slaves and non-Turks for high government positions because they are not noble or of Turkish blood so they can’t claim the throne. Also all centralized governments hated the nomads because you can’t tax them efficiently. But it is true that Ottomans didn’t associate themselves with their nomadic brethren.
@@ahmetaktas30 ottomans themselves used to be nomads, but by the time they created a kingdom which became an empire, they obviously didn't like nomads because all nomads are highly independent warlike people who hate any form of authority, meaning nomads didn't recognise ottoman rule, never payed taxes, and never acted as citizens or respected the sultan as every nomad is his own sultan
The in-depth and yet easy to follow, explainatory content of these videos is just top-notch! Hats off to the team in charge!
Your videos are amazing, I love history and the way you condese these topics into ~20 min entertaining videos is awesome, keep it up!
This should be displayed as history material at school.
@@paulcock8929 , yes
Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂
@@user-wb7ur4yp6z lol
@@thekhans2823 you don’t agree with what I say?
True :D
Great series, looking forward for the next episode
Nice video man, keep up the good work. It's very enjoyable to watch.
I was literally wondering about this yesterday
The best documentary channel ever, full stop...........
Normally people spin this from one extreme to another. Yet, I'm speechless. This was just a job well done!
Fascinating. As usual. Thank you!
I am absolutely loving this cultural documentaries as well as the military ones
Anatolia is one of the most historial intermixing periods. Rome, Greece, Turkey and battleground of one of the most interesting battles.
Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂
@@terrificsoprano5025 you need more education over mediterranian history to speak over such a matter....greeks are in the same region for over 2500 years. the origin of greeks comes out from language which is an indo-europian language not from dna .... and bulgarians are turkic tribe who came from todays ukraine to balcans not slavs.
@@basileusandy9798 Many of the people in Turkey, especially around the Western and Northern regions will have considerably more European descent than others elsewhere. This is due to them mixing. And population growth happened a lot since 1071, so those 50-100,000 nomads from Central Asia probably do have many descendants. Occams razor, the guess with the least assumptions is probably the correct one, if no one there is really Turkic, why do many of Asian looking Turks come from seemingly white parents? I know plenty of people who have white parents but look like your average Central Asian, it's not uncommon in Turkey. You would have to assume all the nomads came, then either died off with 0 descendants or left. So it makes more sense to guess that most of the 82,000,000 probably were descended from the Central Asians than the idea they just said, "screw it, not Greek or Armenian or Arab or whatever anymore, I'm Turkic."
Not only history but genetically Anatolia is very rich as well. In paternal line, y-dna haplogroups alone there are more than a dozen different haplogroups. It's like a bridge between Europe, Asia and Middle East.
@@terrificsoprano5025 Uh oh.. don't let the Greeks hear this. They imagine themselves as pure "Europeans" (whatever that means). In 1920s alone there were more than 2 million Anatolian Greeks and Muslims in Greece had to migrate in forced population exchange. Greeks from Greece looked down on Anatolian Greeks and called them "yogurt eaters."
Pretty cool, hope to see more videos that focus on topics like this...of course never stop the war videos too!
Allways excellent.Thank you to all involved.
How many well researched videos kings and generals have in their drawers to upload so quickly? Don't stop, I am your longest big fan
Yes
It takes a team, and Kings and Generals seems to have the best of the best
You guys are incredible! What a magnificent presentation. Teşekkürler!🙏🏽
Very fascinating, one of your best vids I swear
This was very interesting and informative
Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂
@@user-wb7ur4yp6z Why do you keep reposting this?
Great video, loved the breakdown of the cultural and religious changes, so often these kind of details are brushed over but I love to think about them.
Very good video. Thanks for all your work.
Video about Pechenegs would be amazing!!
I think Kings and Generals already made one; not sure, you should search.
@@NobleKorhedron not really but im pretty sure in the future we going to see a video about them
A good lmg with 100 bullet capacity
@@wololoooxd3288 not that type, the gun is named after the people
Another excellent video. I've always wondered exactly how Christian, Greek-speaking Byzantine Anatolia became Muslim, Turkish-speaking Anatolia, and this video did a great job breaking it down. K&G nails it again!
Hittites became a Greek-speaking people after Alexander and they became a Turkish-speaking people after Alparslan
@@frknmtl7832 then why do you look like Greeks. Take a genetic test and find out
@@frknmtl7832 Anatolian "Turks" have as much identity as white Americans in United States. That being said - none.
Classic greek who doesn't want to believe in how Turks kicked them out from Anatolia. Also, it is East Rome not Greece. Last roman empire is Byzantium and today's greeks doesn't have any tie with ancient Rome.
@@frknmtl7832 I mean, he has a point, go check out genetics results for Turkey. In the long history of the Ottoman Empire, there were plenty of Anatolian Greeks who convered to Islam in order to gain status. Their descendants would have eventually intermarried with the ethnic Turks. I guarantee you, a large chunk of modern Turkey is simply a genetic mix of Greeks, Turks, Kurds, Armenians, and even traces of the ancient Anatolians like the Hittites.
It feels like Armenians are surprisingly absent from this video? Wonderful video, I appreciate how direct it presents the information.
Armenians allied with Turks in Malzigert war. Byzantin church was trying to dominate them they were rivals.
The best video on this subject and objective . :D
@Kings and Generals Nice video! I love it! :)
An absolutely brilliant documentary. Kings and Generals giving us more cultural history.
A wonderfull gift for 1st of april.
This historical matter deserves hours of analysis. This is one of the best and most concise summaries I've watched. Excellent.
Seljuks are one of the most underrated political entities. They not only changed the political and ethnic make up of the middle east, but also created the Sunni Islam as we know it today.
@@UkranianStallion The Sunni Islam as we know it today with 4 different sects that acknowledge each other was built during the reign of the Seljuks. Obviously the belief was not created during the Seljuks, but Seljuks protected the faith and structured it.
@@HistorydeFacto No it wasn't lmao
I am working on a paper exactly on the subject, and this video comes out, crazy
It's a trap!
@@LuisAldamiz what do you mean Turkic genetics are missing in Anatolia? They for sure are not the dominant ones, but they are there.
@@LuisAldamiz yh exactly so turkification of modern turkey clearly didn’t reached into the genetics of the people
I would recommend Spiros Vryonis book for everyone willing go further on the decline of Byzantium and the rise of the Turks in Anatolia.
@@LuisAldamiz From genetic standpoint: Turks were never fully East Asian, we were Eurasian ( like Uralic people). Medieval Turks had between %45-%20 Eastern Eurasian admixture. Nowadays Kazakhs have around ~%60 Eastern Eurasian admixture while Anatolian Turks vary between %8 - %20. Both the Turkic people are mixed with other populations. I just wanted you guys to understand this. Medieval Turks were never looking like Mongols but rather like modern day Bashkir - Crimean Tatar - Uzbek. Since we were (Anatolian Turks) not fully East Asian like Mongols when we mixed with the natives our Western Eurasian components became even more prominent. And so we started to lose our "Central Asian" look.
Great work Kings and General. Turkic people history is so interesting.
Very good video as always, and this was also intersting
Proud Turkoman descendant here shout out to my Hellenic rivals.
Loved this video. It was very informative. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@KingsandGenerals---I enjoy all of your video's. I found your channel a year ago. And have since watched pretty much all of your video's. And left a comment. You people do great work. Hey have you ever considered making a video on "The Russian Dunkirk." It's a real event that happened. If I could I would help with the research.
Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂
@@user-wb7ur4yp6z yeah before you were remotely aware of those said places.... SO, thanks I guess.
@Üstün Dinçsoy google Tajiks of Xinjiang
Please keep making videos about this aspect of history. I love learning more about the cultural and social shifts in history.
You can look at arabization of North Africa and levant Mesopotamia Egypt too
Too nice historic video...thanks for sending..videos 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏼
It really clears some things up. Ive read about it. But seeing a map now makes clear that Cilician Armenia was directly next to the crusader states. That was the part that i did not understand. But now it is clear that it was next to the Mediterranean sea, and not next to Georgia. Therefore when people went to Jerusalem they had to go through Cilician Armenia (whenever they did not go with a boat of course). Any way, thank you for the upload! Greetings, Jeff
Awesome vid love historie thank you for this channel
I really like the military history stuff you guys do, but this sort of thing is for some reason even more interesting! I think that people talk about wars and stuff that you guys cover a lot, and it's great seeing you guys cover that too because you're good at it. But, when you cover cool topics that people look over or are not mentioned in history class, and you do it with the same depth and quality you give military topics, it's just next level and so absorbing.
The topic like this in this video shouldn't be teaching at school because it make cause some you know "conflicts" should I say.
well done, u keep surprising us
Great stuff. Fascinating.
on the other side of the mediterranean a similarly long lasting conquest was taking place. It also changed dramatically the cultural and religious outlook of the region. And it culminated in a global superpower as powerful as the ottomans. I just find it funny that Spanish and Turkish history mirror each other so well on this period.
But spanish case was reconquest
Scarily similar in so many ways.
@@Azhar_shaikh1 wow... first off conquistador is a name we use only when talking about the Americas. That's because they have certain quirks. They were frequently poor, pretty desperate people who went to the new world in search of riches...not unlike the Turk mercenaries we've seen in this video. They were brutal but not entirely dependant on the crown. They were essentially warlords vaguely promoted by the Spanish monarchs. Take into account that communication was pretty bad... Cortez conquered the Aztecs without permission...in fact, they explicitly told him not to do it. During the reconquista the prominent force were nobles and (in some cases) merchants, which had very different characteristics. Now, about Spain. Contrary to popular belief All Spanish kingdoms promoted Muslims and Jews to high ranks. If you've ever been Zaragoza you can just tell from the architecture. The society was pretty liquid. In fact our most famous hero El Cid Campeador, fought with the Moors against Christian kingdoms about as often as he did the contrary. Spain was about as multicultural as Europe got. it had problems but they were not genocidal terrorists. it was only at the very end of the reconquista that the Muslims and jews were expelled from the country...not killed. And I could talk long about why they did it. And then about the Americas...no Spain didn't genocide entire people's on purpose. Why? Because they wanted them to work and have children. Spain didn't send women to the new world, so the X factor had to come from somewhere. The best possible accusations are cultural genocide, mass rape, forced labour and accidental biological and viral mayhem, but Spain really wanted their natives to live and work. What did the conquistadores do?...well they were cutthroat mercenaries I expect about anything. I would be surprised to find a single honourable bone in Pizarro's corpse.
In the case of the Iberian peninsula, it resembles the komnenian reconquest, except that it was ultimately succesfull in preserving the the gains and repopulating the territory.
@@Vladklx well that term is misleading. Spain was Conquered rapidly in the 700's. By the 1200's can you really talk about a reconquest? Why? Because their grandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandparents (maybe?) lived there? Btw...I didn't exaggerate that's roughly how back you have to go
I've always wondered about the process of turkicization in Anatolia. There aren't many good explanations of it so I'm glad you touched on it!
@@williamdavis9562 This is correct.
@@williamdavis9562 If you go back far enough, everyone invaded some indigenous peoples land. That's just not good enough.
@@williamdavis9562 who was there before greeks invaded?
@@williamdavis9562 Sure. However, the Greeks and Turks are still around, but the native Anatolians, Hittites and others? Not so much.
@@williamdavis9562 It doesn't really matter. All that matters is what they identify as. For example many Greeks of Asia minor and their descendants identify as Turks at this point. It doesn't matter what they once were.
Yet another great video.
Beautiful content
As a Native American, crazy to know I share genes and how far my distant cousins with central Asian blood ended up in Europe.
Are we interesting 🤭Roman and Turkic=Turkish..😂 Ottoman moved Slavic, Caucasian. Albanian. There are native Arab, Kurd, Georgian, Laz in Turkey. Tatar turkic came later. . Syrian, Afghan, Paki came newly. 😂 We are funny.. 😂 Very much culture, race..
Half of the people of Turkey carry the genes of ancient Anatolians such as Lydians, Carians and Phrygians, who Hellenized and later Turkified, rather than the genes of Central Asian and Siberian Turks.
@@SurenaofParthiahaha öyle bir şey yok uydurma
@@muhammetcakmak713 biraz öyle biz geldikten sonra yerliler puf diye yok olmadı
@@SurenaofParthia Yunanlılar asimile olmadılar. 1.5 milyon Yunanı anavatanlarına geri gönderdik. Çok azı İstanbulda kaldı
I'm sure the comment section will be civilised.
XD
Look at the replies.
No chance of that. Nothing is, if it pit the turks and the greeks....
Nice joke 😅
It is actually
Great piece of work both historically and intellectualy, well done @kingsandgenerals
Very interesting, as usual.
Love the channel and the quality of the work you guys do, but being greek and since there are quite a few videos which are related to some parts of greek history over time, I have to mention this. Whenever there is a reference to a group of people and the word ends in "oi" the "o" is silent. in this case, for the word "mixovarvaroi" you can pronounce the "oi" at the end the same way you pronounce the "i" in Gallipoli for example. Or the same way you pronounce the "mi" in the same word. Again, many many thanks for the wonderfull work you guys do.
Amazing work guys! I have learned more history by watching all of your videos than i did 9 years in school
Dont take everything they say as accurate.
Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂
@Who are you? google Tajiks of Xinjiang before saying land of Turks
@Who are you? only 1% of Xinjiang is altai mountains , the Tarim basin used to belong to indo European tocharian and saka people (google Tajiks of Xinjiang )
@@user-wb7ur4yp6z chinese commie bot who support genocide said what?
Love this channel
Fantastic video. So interesting to finally be educated on how this transition took place.
Greek history just exists in cycles where the first half is nigh unimaginable glory and victory and golden age conquests, then the second half is just doomer regaling how it all fell apart.
greek history fail's start with Turks. (hunnic empire , avars , gokturks , seljuk...
Indeed. Thanks to Marxism and the leftists.
It's world history.
It’s sad. The romans have glorious sucessor states even in the modern era. The greeks have a failed small state.
@Cemil Ekici you don’t have leftists in Turkey.
Can you do something about Fulani conquest of west Africa .
Il sure you can it +500k with it all your video on African history hit the million 🙂
Fulanis are like the Turks they were nomadic pastrol herders while they were strong warriors too. Both played a role in the spread of Islam.
Holy shit I’m Fulani
@Mukhtar indeed my brother respect to the brave Somali warriors
Could Y make a video on Belgium ruling Congo ?
Great video, thank you
Nice video!
This guy deserves a golden model Man I’ve learned from his history channel more than my school + university + tales of elders Thx you +like 👍
Yes it's a great into but the real history is a lot more detailed. Much more complicated than it can be covered in a short KZhead video.
@@hurguler Yep that’s true But sometimes a picture is equal 1000 words I think reading all of these complicated history won’t be worth much as watching an episode or short video like this one with animation and simulation I prefer this kind of ways to explain the history
@@turkmapping130 Turkish animal?? Only in Turkey they existed?? 😂 Wolf is common animal and it’s everywhere even Arabia has some . Unfortunately they are in denger. That’s why I chose my name to be “ ArabianWolf”cuz this wonderful species are facing extinction
I hope the comments are peaceful
Me too my emperor
Emperor; if you pay your tribute we are so peaceful;)
@@berkin3086 yes yes we know very well how peaceful you are if you take if we give you your tribute
Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂
@@user-wb7ur4yp6z The irony is that China has been assimilating different people since several millenia, like Manchurians, Inner Mongolians, Uyghurs, Tibetans and native people in Southern China
Best history channel on KZhead
Amazing video!!!
A dark time in greek history
@@kayrannkanal2026 lol even Bad jokes are sometimes funny
Good time in greek history
@@karipopoaetos1288 you mean Alexander?
Let’s all appreciate that this is *FREE* to watch.
Devastatingly wonderful video! I immensely enjoyed the objective yet not restrained, "We know nothing" attitude but bravely giving the real history to us, the viewers was delicate. I thank you a lot, the fellow team behind Kings and Generals!
Great stuff! For the algorythm.
This is so interesting!
It is! Also how are you ?
Great! Love your content! Your fan from Central Asia!
Turkic? Tajik?
@@danielelyashiv1359 Uzbek
@@numenorian1161 nice so you mean you are turkic
@@numenorian1161 lol my family came from uzbekistan too
@@danielelyashiv1359 yeah
Great video!
Willing to bet some of your writers are re-listening to Patrick Wyman's "Tides of History". His episodes about the "Wild West" of Anatolia were on my mind as I watched this.