Ibn Fadlan: Greatest Traveller of the Middle Ages
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If you are into Turkic history, he is very important source for medieval Turks. It gives a lot of information about Turkic tribes such as Khazar, Bulgar, Karluk, Oghuz etc.
So a followup video on Ibn Battuta, sidequest survivalist extraordinaire?
4:19 📜 The message says: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.
sounds like propaganda
8:13 you say "Bashkorids", which is obviously ancestors of modern Bashkirs, yet you say "people that we know as Madyar"...seriously, I've seen you guys making mistakes in your videos, but this is to much
A lesser known fact about him is that he was played by Antonio Banderas in the movie “The 13th Warrior.”
Yes. I have seen that.
@@sagaramskp a lot of people hate that movie but but it will always have a special place in my heart due to my dad playing it all the time when I was younger.
@@heronofalexandria91 the Movie is awesome, a pearl of the genre imo
@@heronofalexandria91 i actually loved that movie, how it started off as a muslim not knowing their language... To him understanding it and became part of them in the end.
@@enfiive I loved the story, I like when he realizes the bear people are just men then he is able to actually fight without being paralyzed by fear.the soundtrack was amazing too.
We the Tatars respect this man very much. The territory of Idel Bulgaria and the city of Bolghar, Bilär are part of today’s autonomous country of Tatarstan. Bashkort people he met are highly likely the ancestors of Bashkort people living today in Bashkortostan; Jaiyq/Cayıq is the river in today’s Bashkortostan and Kazakhstan. As an Idel/Volga Tatar Turkic, I learned about him and his long and marvelous journey when I was a kid. I’m glad that more people are exploring this topic right now! Cheers! Räxmät!
What does your name mean?
Ibn Fadlan fighting the cannibal neanderthal's as the 13th Warrior is clearly the best of his super real-life adventures...
that film is based on a fictous book which is inspired by Ibn Fadlans chronicles. Ibn fadlan never wrote anything like that.
@@darkday8913 Yeah... That's uh... That's the Joke My dude...
@@darkday8913 So you're saying Ibn Fadlan didn't really fight any cave dwelling cannibal Neanderthals riding horses covered in bearskins...as a sidequest? Say it aint so...I'm truly shocked at this revelation.😱
@@tylerdurden3722 Dont believe him, hes just jelous.
With bravery
"Unfortunately because of the Khazar presence ... they had to go the long way around." Well, obviously. You can't Fast Travel when enemies are around, after all.
Ah, yes, the skyrim moment. But can't you use a bucket? Click on buckets and dtop them on their heads. Simple.
Yess...in muslim s history...khazars were the only one v mysterious..powerful ppl...n we cdnt defeat.There are reasons for that..some described some i wdnt like to comment on.They were described as beautiful ppl...black brown hairs n blue eyes..fair...brave intelligent ppl..later on we came to know they ve spread in the first wave of tribulations.Strange times we live in.
@@justamanofculture12 Just bring some plates and clip through a wall when they try to get you
Ibn Fadlan rahimullah was an amazing traveller may Allah grand him Jannah for his great expeditions he even had contact with Rus Vikings :)
@@ChristianAuditore14 Paradise
Ibn Battuta: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
"Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton is a fun book based on the adventures Ibn Fadlan. It's a largely fictional story but written very well.
They tried to make a movie of it back in the 90s. It went through several rewrites, a lot of production issues, and went horrendously over budget. It was eventually considered a turd, was given no marketing and promotion, and for whatever reason they changed the title at the last minute to "The 13th Warrior" (always a bad sign). I remember thinking it was okay, but no one liked it when it came out. Despite being a consultant on it, Chrichton himself disowned it.
@@Ishkur23 Actually I liked that movie very much. )))
@@Ishkur23 that was actually a nice movie
Crichton is tricky with his footnotes. Unless you're versed in the history of the ibn Fadlan's real journey, it's easy to miss when the book transitions from his account of real stuff into the fanciful plotline of the book. And yes, The 13th Warrior is a fun movie.
They did the movie 13th Warrior on this book, starring Antonio Banderas. Loved that movie, saw it on VHS 😁
If Ibn Fadlan was the greatest medieval traveler what does that make Ibn Battuta?
exactly. clickbait
Exactly, Ibn Battuta was one of the greatest Amazigh Traveler ❤️❤️❤️
I hope they do a video on Ibn Battuta
@@thetopfootycoach 'Knowledgia' just did that today but I haven't watched it yet
@@michaelleblanc7283 so did History Time channel 4 years ago
"Icy, cold land of darkness" They discovered New Jersey this early?
Didin't know there are too many Hobos too
You made me laugh at a bad day with this comment. Thank you
Looool
Finally, someone brave enough to take a swipe at New Jersey. 😁
His work is one of the earliest sources on ancient Russia and the first Arab account describing non-Muslims. In a section entitled ‘al-Rus’, Ibn Fadlan describes his encounter with a band of traders, west of the river Volga. Little would he have known that centuries later his observations would place him as an important source in piecing together the early history of Russia and its people, about which there is still no clear consensus.
There is info on the Slavs if you care to look. The Kingdom of the Slavs, read the original instead of Peter the Great Translation
I highly doubt his work was the first to describe non Muslims
I like it when you show the travels on maps. It gives us a good picture of the journey and geography. Loved the video! That's the only area of improvement I'd suggest. 😊
who doesn't love maps?
@@sizanogreen9900 infidels
He was the teacher for Chechens, Tatars, Bashkirs, Dagestanis, and other muslim people of Russia 🇷🇺 Federation.
The Chechens and Dagestanis converted during the golden horde era tho
@@guineesspirit7640 @Sev I knew it. The teaching of religion in Islam can be implemented directly or indirectly. By example, If we are the followers of madhhab Imam Shafi'i that doesn't mean we study directly with Imam Shafi'i but we can be considered the students of Imam Shafi'i.
@@sev8538 didn’t the Ottomans do that ?
First emissaries went there to Dagestan and Chechnya abot 8-9 century, but conversation went slowly
This channel is just hit after hit after hit. Thank you so much for your hard work.
Fantastic episode. Really love the stories from people traveling to foreign lands in the pre modern era. Since they are not immensed in the culture and most things are as alien to them as us, you get a very interesting insight. I recomend voices of the past for more of these tales.
Wasn't this the guy that Antonio Banderas character was based on in The Thirteenth Warrior?
Yes, but with a lot of Hollywoodic distortions
Yep
@@yousifabdalhalim514 a real life character placed in a Beowulf type story.
yes, he was
Yup
Love from Baghdad ❤
These explorers' chronicles are wonderful! can't wait for more
Awesome topic, incredible video, ultra awesome illustrations, my congrats to the talented artist 🐎
What an amazing video! A topic never touched on much
This is a well done video. My only question is, how do you come to the conclusion that the described "Bashkirs" (which actually are a still existing Kipchak-Turkic ethnicity) might be the early forefathers of the Hungarians, the Magyars (which are supposed to be a Finno-Uralic ethnicity and by modern historical estimates be placed somewhere in western Khazar territory near Crimea on their way to their modern homeland in Hungary by that age)?
The hungarians english = the magyarok huns! Sons of Atilla not turks! First the huns after the rouan-rouans and after the turks! Hungarians:huns and rouan - rouans and heptaliths and parthians! Álmos not muszlim! The hungarians brothers the baskhirs and the volga-bulgars! All huns,not turks! Turks the khazars! The finno-uralic it was a joke! This ethnic groups the north-urals! The hungarians the south-urals and the steppe not the norths! The hungarians not asians!
You guys are smart
The Finno Uralic connection is also a theory as well derived from the similarity of the haplotypes I thought?
@@MrDumbledick Hungarian language belongs to Finno-Ugric family.
@@m.r.raghunath2577 and Richard Sim. So it's just an assumption. No written language evidence is available to linguists. It's pure fantasizing.
Legit one of my,favourite topics to teach on!
Agree!
Its quite astonishing how big muslim empiers where.
*Empires *were
@@Not-Ap wdym maybe in west they are not known because the west is not educated about eastern history but in the Muslim world they are remembered plus the Abbasid caliphate lasted 800 years which is a long time.
How big they spread their clonization yes
If you all haven’t already, I highly recommend watch The 13th Warrior. It’s absolutely amazing
Not really, the movie sucked tbh
The only Viking movie Jackson Crawford likes
Or read Michael Crichton's original novel "Eaters of the Dead"
The ship was burnt on land and a mound was constructed on top of it... The visuals here indicate the Hollywood Viking burial
Top notch. No exceptions. I simply love this channel.
Another epic episode, great work 👏
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
Great video! Love these little vingets y'all are doing.
Love ur videos dude, really informative.
Loved it thanks for the video
Actually Bashkorts (Russian Bashkirs) are real people and real nation living in modern Bashkortastan. They are Turks of Kipchak origin the people let's say between Tatar and Kazakh.
Yeah I also don't understand how they come up with "probably Magyars"
@@HorvardPasha The Magyars and Baskorts lived in the same confederation at that time. and Arabs routinely confused the two. Magyar and Bashkhir sound very similar to arabs as the M and B sounds are interchangble.
@@teovu5557 With high regards, what confederation might that be? How do the Arabs "routinely confuse them", if they barely even travelled up north? And no, in Arabic you would write Magyar as "مجار" and Bashkir as "بشكير". The letters Mim م and Ba ب are not interchangable and even if they were, the words are written completely different. The Bahskirs lived together with the Magyars at around 500 AD. Around 750 AD they already settled to Levedia (western Khazaria/north-east of the Crimean peninsula between the Don and Azow). Also, the Magyars were part of a failed uprising between 820-839 AD against the Khazar Khan, which is why they had to leave that area as well and moved further West. Around 900AD they arrived and established a power base in Pannonia (modern day Hungary) from where they plundered all across Europe. So when Ibn Fadlan started writing his journey at around 922AD the Magyars already have been in Central Europe largely. Of course there might have been Magyars who settled during all these mass migrations here and there and maybe Ibn Fadlan met them without knowing in Bashkiria. But the possibility of this is very low as Bashkirs have been pagans back then for a very long time as well.
@@HorvardPasha I think it's likely that he might have confused the eastern Magyar population, who were leftovers from the Hungarian migrations mentioned up until the 13th century inhabiting Magna Hungaria, to the other groups living in the area like the Bashkirs. The language would have been really the only thing making them distinct from the surrounding Turkic people, but I doubt an outsider would taken too much of a notice based on that.
@@HorvardPasha Al-Garnati traveled from Baghdad north to Saksin and then north to the Bulghars. He left the Volga Bulghar capital in 1150. He headed west through Russia, Kiev, and Pecheneg land. Then he arrived in Hungary and stayed there for three years. He later returned to Saksin and finally back to Baghdad and wrote down his journeys. He wrote: "After I arrived in Unguriya, where there lives the Bashgird people." He calls the Hungarian king a Bashgird king, who is called Krali. "
Seeing rhinoceros on the Volga is strange because I remember similarl strange stories that deals with a woolly rhinoceros being part of the fauna in late antiquity and at the beginning of the medieval age. Sarmatians hunting them on horse and such, and that the unicorn is an ancestral remembrance of this powerful and very dangerous animal. Of course, I know they disappeared millennia ago, but the story was weird enough that it stuck with me.
Wtf!? How in the actual fuck Woolly rhinos manage to lived so very far into the far future as far as 1st millenium AD???
@@reteguy7338 The environment supported it basically. There are still ice age animals living in the russian steppe even today such as the siaga although not as many as there once were. As in the ice age humans are the main culprit for there steady depopulation. There are rumor's of mammoths and saber tooth cats in the most distant northerly parts of Russia and even Canada although these are unconfirmed.
@@Not-Ap that does make sense. Now that i think of it, i totally forgot that we still have some pockets of prehistoric megafauna still live and well today in some other parts of the world. Komodo Dragons and Cassowaries come to mind.
@@reteguy7338 did you know that lions lived in Europe before?
@@faisalalkhedhrawi7311 what? I only knew about caspian tiger. European lions...this is my first time.
Always a great journey in history. ✨
Masterpiece! Please also do a documentary about the greatest traveller of all times,Ibn Batuta.Thanks.
An excellently done video. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
10:55 i love how King abdulaziz is casually standing there. Great video as always
"My name is ahmad ibn fadlan ibn al-abbas ibn rashid ibn hamad" "what's his name?" "ibn.."
😂😂😂😂
That was awesome. Thanks.
I'd say that Ibn Fadlan's journals should be made into a TV series but we wll know Netflix, Amazon, etc. would ruin it
@@kaliber7270 how do you know? Never ever heard about that.
@@kaliber7270 can i get the info about it? Also what studio involved in it? Are they locals or internationals?. Also what platform the film would be broadcasted? I wanna watch it so bad.
add some gayness for no reason what so ever
His chronicler was discovered in a library located in Iran by a Turkish 19th century scholar
@SarrumSaBabilim lol zeki veledi togan had turkish citizenship
What a king. There should definetly be a full show made about him.
interesting history. The ending seemed familiar. seemed very reminiscent of the begining of the film 'the Thirteenth Warrior'. which I now know is based on a book by Michael Crichton who was clearly inspired by both Ibn Fadlan and Beowulf. the things you learn eh.
Really interesting video. I did not know a lot of that information
Very captivating! I enjoy all your videos! Please also cover about Ibn Battuta. I first heard about him from the educational animation, Procidis.
This guy from my city baghdad, make sure to watch warrior 13
Thank you for Kings and Generals for posting these videos. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. A less known facts in history. I learned lot of things from you. Also i noted down some details. Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤝🏴.
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Would love more videos on the history and culture/customs of the bulgars, both volga and danubian, as well as earlier
abusing my early access to beat you all into making a 13th warrior reference.
Beat me to it. :)
But where's the reference?
@@nothingtoospiffy7913 The arab in the movie, played by Banderas, is based on Ibn Fadlan; even has his name.
This dude deserves his own Netflix series like Marco Polo.
No one deserves a Wokeflix series full of fictional nonsense.
Great video ! The Rus story is a fairly well known story in the islamic world, and unique account as to what those pagan tribes customs were.
Later they become Orthodox Christians instead of adopting Islam only because they can't drink wine and vodka
This isnt Rus culture. This is a fairy tale.
@@raritica8409 This is culture Rus Viking In the Middle Ages . This is a true story, not fiction.
@@csypoygshovssutcgj9501 What other stories do your people have about the Rus? I am Russian from the North near Finland, and stories like that dont seem to be known.
@علي يا سر The Slavs inhabit Kiev and Russia. Rurik was a Scandanavian warrior who was chosen to lead Keiv Princepality by the Slavic Tibe that lived there. In the early Rus times there were many pricepalites, Novgorod, Vladimir many Kiev being a central point. Viking is a job title, Scandanavian is a people and Slav is a people as well.more.
Really impressive story. Can you guys do Algirdas next? He made Lithuania a powerhouse.
Would love to see more of the polish Lithuanian commonwealth
Yes lets see 🙂
Excellent comprehensive coverage i have read the book Land of Darkness based on Ahmad ibn e Fadlan diary notes also Hollywood has made a beautiful movie 13th warrior on the subject
I see some people arguing that Battuta was a greater traveller than Fadlan, would remind you that there are 4 centuries between the two hence Battuta had better conditions to travel
Enjoyed this very much. I have read this book and recommend it. The late Michael Crichton wrote a fictional extension and conclusion of Fadlan’s adventures, “Eaters of the Dead”. It was also made into a movie, “The Thirteenth Warrior”. I recommend them. Although fictional they are exciting adventures.
Such a fascinating story. Worthy of a movie.
it was already done , the movie named " the 13th warrior " by antinio banderas
@@00Abrams00 Ibn. 😁
Lo, there do I see my father. Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers. Lo, there do I see the line of my people, Back to the beginning! Lo, they do call to me. They bid me take my place among them, In the halls of Valhalla! Where the brave may live forever
As an iraqi, I feel proud of our great history
العراق تاريخ عظيم ... جمجمة العرب و ارض الحضارة العربية الاسلامية في عزها 🇮🇶
هسة يحكمة معممين جهلة جياف مجرمين وقطيع من الطليان المتربين على العبودية والجهل والتخلف.
And I was just in the mood to revisit Eaters of the Dead. 😻
I feel like I just watched the prequel to the movie "the 13th warrior" and seriously wonder if this real traveller was the inspiration for that tale. Great video!
The movie is inspired by this, yes.
@@SammyAgon it's a joke
Such a great show
Thanks for very good history
Between the movie about Ahmad ibn Fadlan and Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta, which one will people prefer between these two? This question also extended to the members of the team of this channel as well.
Ibn Battuta
Eban. His dog can jump.
We will need a series about ibm Battuta. The greatest traveler of all times.
Ibn Batuta was traveler but Ibn fadlan was in mession
Personally Ibn Battuta. After all, he'd arrived China.
great work
Awesome
A great video would be about the Ummayad Abdul Rahman Al Nasser who ran away from the Abbasids when he was 11 years old and stayed in Tunisia for a couple of years then ruled Spain for about 30-40 years and has done a great job building Cordoba mosque and Al Hambra as well as defeating the vikings.
Beautiful 💓
Great video! Really interesting topic.
The point that Ibn Fadlan story reaches us means he was able to get back home
A few days ago I read the pdf of the travelogue. I'm glad you're dealing with this topic. next one ibn battuta or Marco Polo ?
You did a video on Bar Sauma. You did one on Ibn Fadlan. Now you absolutely HAVE GOT to do one on Benjamin de Tudela!
Ahmad Ibn Fadhlan: My name is Ahmad Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad. Herger the Joyous: Eben? Ahmad Ibn Fahdlan: No, listen, My name is Ahmad Ibn Fahdlan. "Ibn" means "son of". Herger the Joyous: Eben.
New artstyle 🙌
🟩🟩🟩 a very nice video... I hope that the next one will be about the journey of Afoqai alhajari, which is the adventure of a Spanish Muslim escaping from the Inquisition courts and his travels to France and the Netherlands
Love from Bangladesh.☺️☺️
The endangered Chuvash language is the only living representative of the Bulgar branch, the earliest offshoot of Proto-Turkic (PT), which is in many respects opposed to the Common Turkic (CT) languages. Evidence from Chuvash is of vital importance in reconstructing Proto-Turkic, particularly its phonology. Chuvash represents characteristic features of the Bulgar branch, such as two types of rhotacism (PT *ŕ > CT /z/, Bulg. /r/; PT *δ > Bulg. /r/ with /j/, /d/, /t/ and /z/ in different subgroups of CT), lambdacism (PT *λ > CT /š/, Bulg. /l/), the “Bulgar palatalization” (PT *s- > Bulg. /š-/ and PT *t- > Bulg. /č-/ in certain contexts) etc. (Dybo 2010; Róna-Tas & Berta 2011). These correspondences provide a more complete reconstruction of the Proto-Turkic phonological system.
Yeah, but the Volga/Itil Bulgars are more connected with the nowadays Volga/Kazan Tatars than with Chuwash people.
This is total crap. Bulgar languaged died out along the Volga river. I'm afraid you have no clue.
That's well done video and the story it can be wonderful movie .
Very vivid and interesting story.
I have read the book . Thanks for resuming it .
Great video....Ibn fadlan is my favorite traveler other than Vasco da gama and Ibn batuta...
Good content
Yeah its great to be well traversed, journeyed, adventured, refined, redefined, and savy
You forgot the part where the Angel of Death makes him the 13th warrior and he has to travel to the north to help save king Rothgar's kingdom from the Eaters of the Dead.
13:43 Damn I didn’t know Ibn Fadlan met Obi Wan Kenobi
a bit surprised it isn't about Ibn Battuta,,but still an equally great video
The Bulgars were a Turkic tribal confederation that gave rise to the Balkan Bulgar and Volga Bulgar states. The ethnonym derives from the Turkish bulgha-, "to stir, mix, disturb, confuse." The confederation appears to have taken shape among Oghur tribes in the Kazakh steppes following the migrations that were touched off by movements of the Hsiung-nu. Later Byzantine sources (Agathon, Nicephorus Patriarchus, Theophanes) closely associate or identify the Bulgars with the Onoghurs, who were enemies of Sassanid Iran in the late 4th century. When or how this connection developed is unclear. If we discount several (most probably) anachronistic notices on the Bulgars in Moses Kliorenats'i (Moses of Chorene), the earliest references to them are perhaps to be found in an anonymous Latin chronograph of 354: "Vulgares." They are absent from Priscus's account of the migration, ca. 463, of the Oghuric Turks into the Pontic steppes, but by 480 they are noted under their own name as allies of Constantinople against the Ostrogoths. Amity with Byzantium was short-lived. By 489 the Bulgars had initiated a series of raids on Byzantine Balkan possessions. Their habitat, at this stage, appears to have been in the eastern Pontic steppes stretch-ing into the Azov region and North Caucasus. It is here that Jordanes and Pseudo-Zacharius Ithetor place them in the mid-6th century. Shortly afterward, they were overrun and subjugated by the Avars and then the Turks. When Turk rule weakened, sometime after 600, the Avars appear to have reestablished some control over the region. It was against Avar rule that the Bulgars-under their leader Qubrat, whom Heraclius had been cultivating for some rime (he and his uncle were baptized in Constantinople to 619)-revolted ca. 631-632 and founded the Onoghundur-Bulgar state. Some time after Qubrat's death (660s), this Pontic - Maeotun Bulgaria, whose Balkan descendents would also claim Attilid origins, came into conflict with the Khazar khaganate, successor to the Turk empire in western Eurasia. The Khazars emerged victorious from the contest, and parts of the Bulgar union broke up and migrated. One grouping under Asperukh in 679 crossed the Danube into Moesia and, having subjugated a local Slavic confederatton, there laid the foundation for the Balkan Bulgarian state. Yet other groups joined the Avar state in Pannonia (where some would prove to be rebellious subjects or took up restience in Italy around the five Rasennate cities, to live as Byzantine subjects.The other Bulgars either remained in the Pontic steppe zone the (the “Black Bulgars” of Byzantine and Rus’ sources) or later migrated (perhaps as early as the mid-7th century or as late as the mid-8th to early 9th century) to the middle Volga region, giving rise there to the Volga Bulgarian state, which remained, however a vassal of the Khazars. Balkan Bulgaria soon became an important element in Byzantine politics, on occasion supporting contestants to the throne and also helping to defeat the Arab attack on Constantinople of 717-18.The iconoclastic Emperor Constantine (741-775) began a series of wars against them that remained a constant theme of Byzantine-Bulgarian relations until the destruction of the first Bulgarian empire by Basil II (976-1025).In 864 the Bulgarian king Boris, outmaneuvered by Constantinople, converted to Christianity. Thereafter, the Turkic Bulgars underwent Slavicization, and Balkan Bulgaria became one of the centers of medieval Slavic. The Volga Bulgars, however, converted to Islam in the early 10th century and created a highly sophisticated, urbane, mercantile Muslim society that, after stout resistance, was conquered by the Mongols in the early 13th century. Bowersock, Glen W. & al. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World pp.354 Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-674-51173-5.
Another turk who thinks everyone from Napoleon to Julius Caesar was turk.
@@koliomasona4511 Harvard is my favorite Turkic university :-)
@@koliomasona4511 ahhahahah cry🤣
@@koliomasona4511 bulgarians were turkic.they later got assimilated in the balkans to slavs.
And yet Bulgarians have 0% Turkish DNA 🤷♂
Please make some more videos on early explorer.really Interesting 👍👍
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This should be made into a movie !
عسى الله أن يهدي طاقم القناة بأكمله للإسلام .. آمين 😌 May Allah guide the whole channel team to Islam .. Amen 😌
This Channel is an oasis in the desert of KZhead content for history lovers💥💥🎞
for those who dont know..the movie 13th warrior is based on this character (based in turn on the book "eaters of the dead'
If you are into Turkic history, he is very important source for medieval Turks. It gives a lot of information about Turkic tribes such as Khazar, Bulgar, Karluk, Oghuz etc.
@@jonijoestar6871 Very wrong direction, pal. Itil (Turkic word for Volga) Bulgars were Turkic. I actually hear for the very first time that there is a thesis that tells they have Slavic/Scandinavian roots lmao
@@jonijoestar6871 There are no real proves that Bulgars were of Turkic origin. Their origin is subject of dispute and was also probably mix of different groups. Modern genetic research points to an affiliation with western Eurasian and European populations. You will however see an army of Turkish trols trying to convince you the opposite.
Knowledgia makes video on Ibn Batutta and KG makes video on Ibn Fadlan, what a day
Can you do a video on the steppe just before/after the Göktürk conquests?
Unfortunately, Volga Bulgaria with a rich and long history is now under Russian occupation.
No Volga Bulgarians live in the Kama and Volga area now as their people were all slaughtered by Batu-Khan's mongols in 1236. Nowadays, it's mostly a Tatar populated area known as Tatarstan and a essential part of Russia's European heartland.
@@user-jw1eb9cy9d please don't speard Russian lies here The Tatar and Chuvash peoples are descendants of the volga Bulgarians and their Homeland is occupied by the Russians.
@@bitterballs356 Mama Russia has a short and fake history It even takes its name from a Germanic Viking tribe that has nothing to do with the Slavs. 😂
@@bitterballs356 Russia is a shambling corpse, it’s not really “there”.
@@khanqashqai they are not a descendants simple because this are was largely depopulated before the 14th century when Golden Horde colonists began living there. Basically, even if there were a small group of Volga Bulgarians after 1236(which is highly doubtful as Batu razed Bulgar and killed all of it's population as well as the population of nearby areas) they were assimilated by Tatar-Mongols. Kazan Tatars bear no sights of Bulgar's culture and the ruins of Bulgar towns are, well, ruins and weren't repopulated as Tatars created new ones(Kazan, Cheboksary, etc.). Regarding the occupation... yeah, Kazan was conquered by the forces of Ivan The Forth in 16th century and Tatars lost their independence. However, Russians didn't even try to convert them as there were simply a lot of people so culture remains intact and almost untouched by Russian influence. Kazan is a beautiful city and a fairly quiet one, when visiting Russia(including Moscow, Sankt-Petersburg, Vladimir, Tver, Tula, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, etc), one should definitely visit Tatarstan.
How civilised islam was in that time compare to europeans
@@Kingedwardiii2003 emotional damage
8:16 Despite the fact that the said area was probably Magna Hungaria (discovered by Father Julianus in the 13th c.), the early settlement of the Hungarians, the people living there at that time were already Bashkirs of Turkic origin, who still live there to this day. At 922 the Magyars already conquered the Carpathian basin. There was still some Magyar people around in the area till the 1200s. But in negligible numbers. and as far as I'm concerned the Magyars totem animals were the Turghul bird (Kerecsen hawk), deers (Tale of the miraculous deer), horses (horse sacrificies as religious rituals), and they were also fond of griffs (even so that these creatures were mythical). But I'd never heard of worshiping snakes and cranes. And eating lice is diffenetly out as the Magyars were sami-nomadic and had proper agriculture as well as herding animals. Or if its only the atribute of those Magyars who had stayed in the region, and picked up the habit from other cultures.
@SarrumSaBabilim the phallus element in worship has Khazar origins as far as I'm concern. I think even on this channel, there's a video about it.
Rus in arabic means The Russians. it was interesting story about Ibn Fadlan actually i like these stories and journeys which remind us of struggling and passion in travelling to other land and meet other cultures.
The Rus means The Rus. It was not even arabic, it was a general name. It's like saying the American is American in Polish. Of course it is. But we don't mean Native Americans when we talk about "The Americans"
Do not confuse the medieval Rus with modern russians of Russian Federation.
@@hannibalburgers477 the Rus of the 10th century got nothing to do with the Russians that came later, that place of the world knew a lot of demographic changes during and after that period
@@Yanzdorloph we still call them roos
@@Yanzdorloph why? that Rus are not slavic tribes like modern russians?