The Arabian Emperor of Rome - Philip the Arab #30 Roman History Documentary Series
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Intro: 0:00
The Arab Ascension: 0:25
Revolts & Defeat: 4:25
The First Christian Emperor?: 6:38
Final Thoughts: 09:10
Music
Eastern Sands - Total War Rome II OST
Sacrifice Total War Rome II OST
Gladiator Arena - Max Anson
Eir's Solitude - Guild Wars 2 OST
Magna Graecia - Imperator Rome
Relaxing Roman Music - Aetas Romana
Narration by: James O'Neil
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Arabs have a great history
Of course). For me personally i interested in pre-islamic Arabia.
@@Tigran-Abazyan nothing is really that interesting in pre Islamic Arabia, except of Yemen
@@hyamick7584 well because mostly aside from Yemen Arab tribes are just migrating from one side of the peninsula to the other?
I’m glad that you prioritize your audience and correct your mistakes. Thanks
He doesn’t. He still calls him an Arab while he was Aramean.
Well you can't blame him this was the crisis of the third Century unfortunately there are many different sources on the emperors during this period.
@@John-pk9rw philip is an arab, roman would have call him syrian or philistines or jew if he is the case Its hatred and bigotry to deny any arab existense in southern levant prior to islam
@@asmrnaturecat984 Guess what Einstein, the Romans referred to Syria (where he was born) as Arabia Petraea. Try again.
@@John-pk9rw Arabia petraea was just one part of Provincia Arabia. Provincia Arabia stretched from the nile to Euphrates. Arabia deserta was the desert, Arabia felix was Auranitis/Horan and Palestine, and Arabia Petreae the rocky part of the Jordanian/Palestine/Syria desert.
Philip's reign is certainly an interesting one and you can also see that the cracks are starting to emerge. Once again, great video.
Considering how, during the Crisis of the 3rd Century, a tradition of proclaiming younger and younger Emperors was established, I expected this to happen: Praetorians: "We have proclaimed a new Emperor" Senators: "Oh, yeah? And when will he be able to come to the Senate so we can ratify his title?" Praetorians: "In nine months..."
I think this was Shapur II’s origin where he was presumably crowned while inside his mom’s belly. Even if this is Persian case.
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Shapur was pretty clear in giving his point of view on Gordian III's death. From the Nash-e Rustam inscriptions (discovered in the late 1930s): “And at the frontier of Assyria in Mesichise (or Misiche) there was a great battle, and Emperor Gordian was killed and we annihilated the Roman Army. And the Romans proclaimed Philip Caesar.”
the modern Anti arab in levent say that he was an Aramaic and not an Arab because Syria was Aramaic at that time, but the Arabs also lived in south of Syria as Bedouins centuries before Islam, and there was Arab-Aramaic mixing in the regions of southern Syria and Jordan , especially since the Arabs and the Arameans are close because of their common Semitic origin
There's no way to know for certain but I tend to believe he was Arab likely with a mix of Aramaic.
Bostra is pretty inward, hencearabic influence.. Plus, arab were more accepted by the roman compared to jews Herod the Arab were proclaimed as the jewish king by the Romans
@@asmrnaturecat984 i think the Arabs were more accepted because they were polytheists so they were not hostile to Roman religion unlike the Jews who were monotheists and refused Roman religion
These are the syrianChristians who say this my friend all non Christians and kurds in syria consider themselves arab
The emperor himself uses the word Arab, not Aramaic, and this proves everything. Although the Arabs and the Arameans historically have a close connection. . Don't bother gossiping others
Girl 1#: "He didn't cry with Titanic! Can you believe it?!" Girl 2#: "Do boys even have feelings?" Gordian III: "It's pretty amazing to think the gods chose us to preside over the Millennium games, right, Philip?" 😊 True Men: 😢
Gallienus: I am sorry I have failed the empire... Trajan: No... The corrupt empire, senate and usurpers (Except Postumus and Odaenathus) had failed you... *shed in tears Both hugged each other and cried in heaven
im glad you excluded postumus,because he became emperor just to protect western provinces
@@irenepongarrang7386 Yes. Except for his disastrous decision about murdering Gallienus' son which had contributed to his desire to revenge against Postumus by invading Gaul several times
👍🌿😆🌿 Caveat Emptor
Heaven?
We Arabs respect the Romans they were our friends for a long time
@@Bcfcuklhpwalker bro what lol
@@Bcfcuklhpwalker wtf
@@Bcfcuklhpwalker it was an orthodox serb who shot ferdinand
Bro I'm an Arab but don't be a sucker just be yourself you could admire like the prophet did not suck them
Glad to see the video back.
Thank you for keeping it real
I’ve been looking to all your videos for months! Thank you for prioritizing your audience. Keep doing great content.
Thanks for the re-upload. I was about to do an Established Titles sponroship too but I found out about everything in the last minute.
I miss your voice James, that football comentator-like vibe. Gotta love that Saladin video in History Marches channel voiced by yours.
re-upload 🔥🔥🔥
Respect
I'm eager to see you discuss the reign of the emperor Probus - the "Senatorial emperor", who really comes off almost like a 2nd Marcus Aurelius, governing with wisdom, forethought, duty and lenience wherever possible, and unusually, maintaining good relations and the honour of the senate...a politicial institution which would be made mostly irrelevant just a few years later by Diocletian. So yeah, Probus is definitely one of my top 10 favourite emperors personally and I wish his reign hadn't been cut so short by a revolt.
Was uploaded just yesterday my friend, pop in
@@basedbulgar5240 sweet! thank you :)
Arab Legend
Before Mohamed.
Noble of you to reload it without that sponsorship.
@Unfriendly atheist yes
0:31 He was not born in Damascus, he was born in the Hauran Plain area (currently the Druze Mountain)
What’s the name of that chant used during the Christian part of the video
THIS WAS A GREAT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THIS GREAT ROMAN EMPEROR .HE WAS THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPEROR OF ROME FROM ARAB PARENTS .THANKS FOR SUCH AN INTERESTING HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Why is this out of order in the playlist? It comes AFTER #34
He was not the only Roman Emperor who instructed his commanders to call him Arab.
Careful with Arabicus. Could mean both "from Arabia region/desert" or "conqueror/g-------er of the Arabs". I saw a Romanian thinking Geticus meant "from the Getaes" lol
@@l-nolazck-rn24Yh and Roman emperor could just mean Phoenicians since they migrated over there 😂😂😂😂
@@jinnhuariya8737 ? This is just how these latin terms work, and the Phoenicians held colonies in Sicily and Corsica, so? You should try translate using words and phrases rather than sentences.
Heliogabalus was of course an earlier emperor of Semitic (Syrian)origin -his ancestors were priests of the sun god in the Syrian city of Emesa.
His name in arabic pronunciation makes more sense: aljabalus
He was an Arab
YEH HIS ARABIC NAME WAS AL JABALUS
@@asmrnaturecat984Depends on the meaning though, since that's actually a title he took on and kept as his same (similar to Augustus)
Emessa and other great cities were repopulated/founded by Greeks and later had Roman settlers. However, due to his religious beliefs, it's more than likely that was the case. Unlikely he was an Arab, both for location and religion, but they aren't that far from Arameans. I'd say Capadoccian or Armenian but I base this mainly on religion.
How great is the history of our ancestors, may God have mercy on them
Yo, your voice super familiar.
Syria never had aramean kingdoms nearly all the kingdoms were Arab origin as well as their religion was Arab paganism same as Bedouins. Qedarites, Nabataeans, Osroene, Ghassanid, Tanukhids, Salihids, Palmyra all are Arab dominated except only the language was Aramaic also with heavy Arabian influence. Palmyra temple is dedicated to Bedouin Arab goddess Al-Lat it was city where merchants from Arabian Peninsula came and go without any territory border.
ممكن الشام كانت بلاد للعرب في ذالك الوقت مثل الحجاز ونجد وليمن
@@a.vh.99بلاد الشام كانت تحت اقليم النجد في شبه الجزيره العربيه (غير عن اقليم نجد في وسط الجزيرة )
If Septimius Severus, a Carthaginian on his father's side can become Roman emperor, then certainly an Arab can.
Crthagians were Arabs as well
@@simsim6419 Not true, Carthaginians were Phoenicians. Doesn't mean that they are all in the middle east that they are Arabs.
@@mahmoudfathy2074 Phoenicians come from the Arabian Peninsula according to Herodotus, which does not make them vikings, rather Arabs
@@simsim6419 You do realise you’re using herodotus as a source? he’s incredibly unreliable. either way phoenicians were certainly closer to ancient and medieval arabs than any modern day “arab” of the gulf and yemen
@@simsim6419 Now you're being sarcastic and the jokes are on you. So dumb to think "Everybody out there look like Arab to me" .. "All Asians are Chinese too !! Why not then" Herodotus to me speaking about this is like Aristotle speaking about the natives in the Americas. And if you think Phoenicians are Arabs because language sounds similar then Hebrews are Arabs also.
Where is the video about the emperor valerian. Looks like you skipped it. Hope nit
Philip - Decius - Gallus - Aemilianus - Valerian - Gallienus
OK, you seem to have an error in your way of calculating years from BC and AD era, SPQR Historian. You have "corrected" the 1,000-year celebration in 248 to be 1,001 years. If Rome was founded in 753 BC and you subtract 753 years from that, you get 0. Then, you get to the year 248 by adding 248 years to that, and if you add the previous 753 years to that, you get 1,001 years. However, in calendar chronology, "year 0" does not exist. Immediately after the year 1 BC ends, the year 1 AD begins. So when adding the "BC years" to the "AD years", you have to subtract one year from the final result in order to get the correct amount of years. Thus, when the narrator in this video says "it had been 1,000 years since the city of Rome was founded", he is correct. The correction "1001 years" is not.
To make you aware: This episode is missing from your Roman Emperors playlist.
*VIII...*
Will the Actor RYAN PHILLPE get to portray PHILIP THE ARAB in a future film? he closely resembles Him!
RYAN LOOK TOO WESTERN/SCANDINAVIAN, NEED SOMEONE WITH MORE SOUTHERN EUROPEAN FACE.
I disagree! Ancient Romans oddly enough had many characteristics that HINT AT their more distant connection to the northern Peoples, which in their time they couldn't possibly have understood or comprehended BEING MERE BARBARIANS on the level of the STONE AGE in utter contrast to the high standard of classical Mediterranean culture then prevalent because many more migrations from northern peoples Millenia before had preceded ROMULUS and REMUS though blended with the typical Mediterranean Peoples of Today from Medieval Times.@@wewenang5167
Isn't this re-upload ?
Yes It is
It's a re-upload of a re-upload
Wow 😯 never realized the stuff about him being on Syrian bank notes 🗒️
Syirian is not an etnicity he is an arab
Was his son crowned as Emperor?
I cant get why Decius did not suggest he takes over from Philip instead of convincing him to stay then murdering him!! Unless Decius was good then and turned bad either way not nice I am happy Decius met a rather gruesome and ignominious in 251 serves him right. I do not like the fact Philips young son was killed that's why I condemn Decius. Form a Numismatic aspect Decius is good as he issued a fairly large amount of Gold Aurei in his brief reign they are far more common than the aurei of Philips reign which are very rare and cost a lot usually.
Shapur I changed the battle tactics of the Iranian army into more effective one in case of fighting Roman armies and was fighting an opponent that had battle equipments equal to his men if not better and armies that surpassed his own, in numbers Before he became king, he fought in his father's army in conquest of the Parthian empire at the battle of Hormozdgan and also in his father's raids in the Roman territories and at the battle of Ctesiphon 233 (and probably in the clash between two Roman and Sassanid armies before that which was also a Sassanid victory) all which were successful for the Sassanids After he became Shahanshah, he defeated 3 Roman emperors and even captured one of them personally and probably even killed one according to the Sassanid sources Based on one of the Sassanid tablets, Gordian III died in a Sassanid ambush at the battle of Misiche Each Roman army had between 60,000-70,000 men Although the only information we have about Shapur's numbers is at the battle of Edessa in which he had 40,000 men It's probably safe to assume Romans were outnumbering Shapur 2-1 in his battles He won the battle of Misiche (60,000 Romans), battle of Barbalissos (60,000 Romans), battle of Edessa (70,000 Romans) and plundered 36 Roman cities which the two most known and famous ones are siege of Antioch 253 and siege of Dura Europos 256 After his clash with Odaenathus, Shapur raided eastern parts of Odaenathus kingdom and even won against him at the battle of Ctesiphon 263
What? Odhaina defeated Shapur, things ended up for Odaina favor.
@@ibnismail3386 You mean Odaenathus ? It's said that he defeated Shapur on his way back to the Sassanid borders in an ambush BUT it's also reported that Shapur plundered the eastern parts of Odaenathus kingdom RIGHT AFTER that clash in the same year on his way back If he was indeed defeated by Odaenathus, and if Odaenathus was chasing him and his supposedly defeated army, how and why did Shapur, an experienced military commander, who could clearly tell when to back off and when to stay and fight (given that he didn't leave garrisons in the plundered Roman cities since he knew his limit), took/wasted his time raiding and besieging towns and cities of a whole region with a Roman army on his tail ? No one would have risked such a thing because the results would have been catastrophic had the enemy army caught up with them It's also reported that Odaenathus marched to Ctesiphon twice but failed to conquer/sack it with the most known one being the battle of Ctesiphon 263 in which Shapur won and Odaenathus along with his army was repelled
@@ramtin5152 "also reported that Shapur plundered the eastern parts of Odaenathus kingdom RIGHT AFTER " ٍSource?
@@ibnismail3386 A combination of several different sources from different eras have been used to write about his life Read his military career It's stated at the end of it
@@ramtin5152 No, that's wrong. The Arab Odhaina defeated Shapur and you need to cope with that.
He even appears in the Syrian currency today🧐
Awesome mate)))
Steve Jobs is also of Syrian origin. Maybe he hails from Philip the Arab 🧐
It’s fascinating history fans disregard byzantines as Romans because they were too “Greek” but a guy who is literally Arab and no one bats an eye.
Arabs became Roman citizens during the severan era
I understand he’s the only Arabian emperor of Rome however many emperors come from countries that are Arab today
Not the only one. Elgabalus was also Arab, Julia Domna was was also Arab
Avidius cassius, odaenathus, severus, were the greatest Arabs to exist
@@badgoy534 siptimos arabicos also
Zenobia too
Italians are more close to Arabs and Berbers than European Germanic barbarians I can see the barbarians loosing their minds in the comments 😅
@@doflamingo583 that’s why they were antigermanic
Those comments are from Celts. We Germanics feel superior to Roman Gays.
@@femmis-bm4ss are you German brother
@@mrjugurtha4077 American German, Norwegian, Dutch, and Alsatian Frankish, but I hate France 🤮
Celts fought against the Romans they didn’t like them
This somewhat proves that they had a great relationship with the Arab tribes, such as the Nabataeans and others kzhead.info/sun/arCTobpseoeHhIU/bejne.html
The Severan dynasty was partially Arab "Septimius was not an Arab but a “Phoenician” from Leptis Magna; his wife, however, was descended from the line of Arab priest-kings that had ruled Emesa in Roman times for a long period after the Settlement of Pompey. It was Julia Domna who provided the Arab element to the Severi, directly as the wife of Septimius Severus and the mother of Caracalla, who was thus half- Arab" - Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs
Phoenician didn't even a thing in the last 2000 years
Water is Water
Zenobia is an earlier ancestor from the "Septimus" Arab branch
Phoenicians came from the Arabian peninsula according to Herodotus. This makes them Arab. They were famous for their red dye, the one found on the Qatari flag, where the snails that produce that rare dye almost exclusively live in the Arabian gulf
@@badgoy534 nah they are not
Why is his name philip not an arabic name whats the name of his father is it arabic what is his family name
Philip means Horse lover, which makes sense, Arabs gave the world the best horse breeds
It is said that he is from the Arab Ghassanid tribe
@@a.vh.99 Well Ghassanids are christianized arabs and in the future are byzantine foedarati.
@@a.vh.99 No not from the Gassanids but from the Nabateans.
Honestly I don't see why the ancient Arab world would have found Phillip's reign relevant considering the way things were back then. First of all, culture was above ethnicity for the majority of countries, specially Rome and the Arab semi-nomadic states in the frontier. For the Arabs he would have probably been another Roman, or an Arab made be one of them. Then for a Roman, he was more than a romanized Arab, a romanized provincial. So we're talking about someone seen equally to Cicero (who was a provincial, back then considered not roman enough if Roman even). Furthermore, if arabs considered him of his own, he would have been considered one of a certain cultural/regional group. Or one of an specific tribe which settled in Aramaic lands. Which comes to the next issue, which is that more than likely he was part Aramean. And since it was an Aramean region, most arabs unknowingly would have thought he was an Aramean. Like concepts as greater cultural groups such as Germanic, Arab, Slav or Anatolian weren't a thing until later centuries and some into modern times. A Goth considered Burgundians as "others" (even though both being East Germanic peoples) and only did they considered Gaepids (and possibly Herulians and Scirians) as "distant relatives". Though it would have been very important for his region which may have lead to eventually the creation of the Palmyrene empire. For contrary to what is described in the sources from the time period. They probably would have seen themselves as true Romans taking control of the east and seceding from the larger empire. Rather than a new foreigner power rising up against Rome, no matter how Aurelian would have wanted to brand it like. That being said, this being relevant to the Arabs of the Islamic jihadist conquest? Doubtful. They were from the middle and south. The north of Arabia was Christian by that point. If anything it could have made local Christian Arabs feel more identified with Rome and envigorated to fight the Islamic foreign invaders. For they felt as Roman as any ever since, Philip the Arab. Modernly though, yeah, I do see why Syrians over all would be proud of him.
No, culture was not above ethnicity for Arabs.
If someone were to show Frump this video, he would quip that Philip the Arab was the Barack Obama of the Roman Empire. 😆😆
He was not an exception
He was not the only Arab emperor
Must be costing you a fortune letting that guy live in your head rent free.
He wasn't black like obama
Actually there is many of them Leo nicephorus
Phillip the syrian
There was no Syria back then
phillip the immigrant
@@user-cp2fw3sq8k there was. read the history
@@aram226 no there wasn’t, it was called Provincia Arabia back then
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Philip I, also known as Philip the Arab, was born to a Roman family in the city of Philippopolis in Arabia Petraea (modern Shahba, Syria). Despite his nickname, he was not an Arab: the moniker derived from his having been born in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, in the district of Trachonitis which had previously formed part of Roman Syria Palaestina. His full name was Marcus Julius Philippus. He was the son of Julius Marinus, a Roman citizen whose name indicates membership in the gens Julia (a family of Latin origin from Alba Longa). His mother is unknown. His brother was the praetorian prefect Gaius Julius Priscus.
He was born in Arabia Felix, Shehba in Felix not Petrea. Arabs became the Roman citizenship during the Severan era. There was no documentation of Italians settling in Provincia Arabia. Yes he was an Arab Roman citizen. He was not the only Arab emperor though
@@badgoy534 He was not an Arab, his father was already a Roman citizen before the Edict of Caracalla, outside Rome, citizenship was restricted to Roman coloniae. If someone has a Latin name (like Philips father) linked to a particular gens, then they ought to be assumed to belong to that family. It is up to someone to demonstrate the contrary (i.e., that it was passed down through adoption or adopted later in life). There are several instances in which ancient Roman sources explicitly say that a particular person had adopted a name (and therefore did not belong by origin to that gens); but in the absence of such an explicit statement, the belonging must be assumed.
@@Lion718 his people were naturalized during the reign of Septimius Severus Arabicus. Fun fact: Caracalla means the Fortress of GOD in Arabic, he is the son of the Arab empress Augusta Julia Domna of Emessa
He was half arab
@@goyimkiller69Full Arab, his mother was also most probably Arab. Arabs don’t marry off their women to non-Arabs. This was one reason why Arabs in Iraq rebelled against the Sassanids just before Islam
Wow, you mix up a lot of inaccurate historic nonsense together.. The Persian King, Shapur I (son of Ardeshir) Captured and arrested both Roman emperors, Philip the Arab and Valerian. There were some 7 Roman emperors defeated by Persians.
Probably a persian plant
I am Germanic, but most Roman Empire is in Arab World. I don't identify with it because we are superior and had conquered Queer Mediterranean Men 😂.
If he was an arab ruler of rome then he must have a arabian name
not all arabs have "arabic names"
Philip means Horse lover, which makes sense since Arabs gave the world the best horse breeds
I am Saudi we have never heard of philip. Also syria is ruled by a non-Arabic ethnicity Alawi Assad family since the 60's from the levant so they r not arabic Philip is not known character in Arabi history
لست سعودي انت كذاب
ليس بالضروره ان تعرف
@@Dvcxl اقوى جواب😁
Sunni bull shit
The Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula constituted only two-thirds of the Arabs of the Middle East
I hope the Arabs realize that Philip was a Roman, he was just from the province of Arabia; he was as Arabian as Lawrence of Arabia was.
Arabs became Roman citizens during the severan era, yes he was an Arab Roman.. he was not the only Arab emperor though
@@badgoy534 Arabic in your title, which means you're biased
@@badgoy534 Arabs did not exist within Roman territory until after the 5th Century when Saracen raiders began invading Mesopotamia and Arabia Petra. There were Saracen auxiliaries, but none of them were Roman citizens, nor would they have been inducted into the Praetorian Guard due to the ominous nature of their color and culture, as dictated by Septimius Severus, who was superstitious of anyone with foreign looks.
@@DISTurbedwaffle918 this still doesn’t change the fact that Arabs were Roman citizens, and rather patriotic. They saved Rome from the persians over centuries
@@DISTurbedwaffle918 Arabs existed long in Rome, they actually wrote Rome’s history and under their rule had Rome its greatest expansion during the severan era
Some say a person named Sponsian was an emperor before Phillip and was himself Christian and was taken out because of it, and subsequently removed from historical reference to help the cat hole lick cult who liked Constantine as their god head figure.
As an historian and archeologist i can state for sure that the comment section is an epic poem of demential and fantahistoric things, merged with modern ultranationalistic and ethnic claims. Pater jupiter please save me. Enjoy history for what it is guys, not for what you would it was. You have both right and wrong at the same time. And no probably he wasn't a Christian, but being from the eastern provinces he was very tollerant about christians and probably had even christian friends at court, even some coincillor or advisor too, possibly. But an emperor was called to pratice and respect roman national religion (based on the capituline triad, jupiter, janus and juno) and christians like the jews would have never praticed these rituals. The emperor was even pontifex maximus, the chief of religion. No one in 247 ad with the persecutions against the christians that sometime in some province did rose up again by some provincial governor, would have accepted a Christian emperor. But yes he was very tollerant about christians and probably had even several christians in his entourage
This is incorrect. The Lavant did not become populated by Arabs until near to the time of the Ghassanid and Lakhmid Byzantine era which way after this. The majority of the Levantines have Assyrian, Phonecian, Chaldean blood. They only became Arabized by language and culture after the Islamic conquest.
No my friend he is a Nabatean he comes from the province of Arabia patraea. He was from modern day south Syria but he was arab
@@trillmoney263 Nabatean. Okay that makes sense then. But wow, shocked. As a Muslim we know that it may have been the South Syrian Nabateans who brought the Arabic language into the Arabian peninsula and it was adopted as a lingua franca by the Gulf Arab regions and Yemen. Wow, okay, this changes everything then. The Arab identity was alive and well in the Levant with the Nabateans that's true. Thanks for enlightening me. I almost forgot.
@@almurabitun the Nabateans are descendants of Ishmael. The qedarites Nabateans and gerrha kingdoms and characene are well known kingdoms of Ishmael descendants
@@almurabitun Assyrians are Anatolians and Iraqis not Levantines.
@@mrad6707 what does have to do with that?