Greek War of Independence 1821-32 - Greek & Ottoman History DOCUMENTARY

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    Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the early modern history, as well as the history Greece and the Ottoman Empire continues with a feature length video on the Greek War of Independence of 1821-1832, as we see how the modern Greece was born and how it got its independence from the Ottoman Rule. This video will cover political, diplomatic and geopolitical events surrounding the war, as well as the battles of Missolonghi, Alamana, Gravia Inn, Valtetsi, Peta, Dernakia and Navarino, as well as the aftermath of the war and the formation First Hellenic Republic and the Kingdom of Greece, the London Protocol and the Treaty of Constantinople.
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  Před rokem +159

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    • @josephsarra4320
      @josephsarra4320 Před rokem +9

      Hey Kings and Generals, I wanted to say this briefly, I have to say that regarding for the Greek War of Independence, you guys did a good job explaining about the war as it is. And yeah, I enjoyed it from beginning to end. And since you finished the story of the Greek War of Independence, why not do a documentary series based on the Serbian Revolution 1804-1817 and the also peace that came afterwards 1817-1835? It basically marked the foundations for the country of Serbia 🇷🇸. So yeah, if you can do it, I’ll forward to that documentary series. Thank you and please let me know what you think.

    • @meme2287
      @meme2287 Před rokem +37

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    • @jiesheng90
      @jiesheng90 Před rokem +50

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    • @RDG99
      @RDG99 Před rokem +53

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  • @tahabutt8088
    @tahabutt8088 Před rokem +927

    I’m from 🇵🇰 and have a massive amount of respect for Greek culture, Greek orthodox religion and their struggle for freedom as a nation. Love from Pakistan

    • @bladey_0_10
      @bladey_0_10 Před rokem +16

      What's your indigenous culture?

    • @feza9804
      @feza9804 Před rokem

      I'm turkish who was massacred by greeks in 1821 in athens surroundings. Those greeks applied genocide against to civilian neighbour turks, the history never saw those kind of brutual torture against to any human except the greeks. Understand what am I talking pakistani greek lover? The greek history written by massacred turks' blood by so called civilan greeks' bloody hands... history never forgets what the greek killers did against to turks..

    • @bladey_0_10
      @bladey_0_10 Před rokem +2

      @@feza9804 lol Turks have no right to cry victim on genocides.
      After What you've done to Armenians, Greeks, Kurds etc and if we look at Turks as the Central Asian nomads, then everything you've inflicted on Central Asia South Asia and Western Asia is too much to count. The most barbaric ethnicity ever.

    • @SacredDreamer
      @SacredDreamer Před rokem +39

      Me also, May Christ Shelter them and keep them protected .

    • @tahabutt8088
      @tahabutt8088 Před rokem +7

      @@bladey_0_10 I’m not sure what you by that but I’m Pakistani or south Asian of the northwest

  • @RDG99
    @RDG99 Před rokem +696

    The Greek commanders' mustaches paired well with their massive balls of steel

    • @alexvlaxos6620
      @alexvlaxos6620 Před rokem +37

      Excelent comment!

    • @panstantzos3013
      @panstantzos3013 Před rokem +3

      @@maskinisten019 ohhhh dude with your stupid braiwashd excuse for a mind go fuck your self

    • @alexvlaxos6620
      @alexvlaxos6620 Před rokem +4

      @@maskinisten019 95%of albos fought for the turks.The rest were highly mixed with Greeks,and thats why they killed albanians with pleasure

    • @__MaReX__
      @__MaReX__ Před rokem +72

      @@maskinisten019 that is not a fact. Albanian or Arvanitan folk did not sport a long mustache like the greek but a mix of said mustache with big beards.

    • @alexvlaxos6620
      @alexvlaxos6620 Před rokem +3

      @@maskinisten019 Dude,are you all trained in a soviet style brainwash program?Why am i even asking..
      And since you have no knowledge of previous uprisings should i be the one to inform you? Wont it be "GrEk PrOpAganDA"
      I have never seen a people with more inferiority complex,clinging to whatever connection they can get with whatever is Greek.
      Wish you well in life though

  • @redwanrahman468
    @redwanrahman468 Před rokem +539

    Respect to all Greeks.
    Admire your history culture and the beautiful country itself.
    Hope all of your economic woes are solved and your people and the nation regained its former glory.

    • @user-om9cb1hl2f
      @user-om9cb1hl2f Před 11 měsíci +10

      thank you very much

    • @christoschristos7805
      @christoschristos7805 Před 11 měsíci +8

      Thank you very much

    • @chrisza7938
      @chrisza7938 Před 11 měsíci +8

      You're so very kind. Thank you.

    • @jthomas8263
      @jthomas8263 Před 10 měsíci +1

      After the Lions became Extinct in Ancient Greece.

    • @jthomas8263
      @jthomas8263 Před 10 měsíci +1

      ​@@user-om9cb1hl2f 😁🦁 After the Lions were killed off in the Titanic Ancient Greece and becoming Extinct.

  • @eyeballbilly
    @eyeballbilly Před rokem +767

    The survival of the Greek language in the lands the language was created from ancient times to modernity is proof of some considerable direct ancestral connection.

    • @laughingvampire7555
      @laughingvampire7555 Před rokem +52

      that is thanks to Greek being the Lingua Franca of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Greek kingdoms Post Alexander the Great

    • @eyeballbilly
      @eyeballbilly Před rokem +58

      @@laughingvampire7555 very minor point, Greeks would never settle for a less than language

    • @thewarriorfrog
      @thewarriorfrog Před rokem +34

      Ancient Greek and Standard Greek are not even mutually intelligible but you think there is a direct connection between them.🤓

    • @thewarriorfrog
      @thewarriorfrog Před rokem +46

      People's awareness of Greek civilization and identity came away gravely damaged after the decline of the Byzantine Empire and Ottoman rule. “Hellene,” the appellation that defined the Greek people, had been abandoned: because Byzantium was part of the Roman Empire, the Greeks had taken to calling themselves Romans, Ῥωμαίοι. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as Ottoman rule waned and Greece regained a sense of its own identity, the language situation was, to put it mildly, paradoxical. The traditional written language had remained largely faithful to ancient Athenian-based Koine, yet it was so removed from the language then spoken that people no longer understood it. And there was no one cultural, political, or social identity strong enough to impose its language on the new Greek society. The only center to safeguard Greekness over the centuries had been the Church, which had done so by conserving ancient Koine. So, people looked to it to provide the revival of Hellenism with a common language.
      When the Greek War of Independence came to an end, the one way to recover a common outlook was to take a step back in time- two thousand years back. In fact, in its infancy, modern Greece established its identity by returning to its roots in Pericles' Athens of fifth century BC. Therefore, the written language that originated from Hellenistic Koine, which itself originated from the lonic-Attic dialect, gave Greece a united language that corresponded to their reacquired sense of national unity.
      Modern Greek pronunciation was achieved by keeping what was common to the majority of Hellenes and eliminating all local quirks. The vowel sounds of Koine remained intact, as did its written form. Modern Greek phonetics is the same as Hellenistic phonetics, though some consonants are pronounced differently. Although the grammatical forms that had disappeared thousands of years before, like aspect, dual number, the optative, and the dative, could not be resurrected, in many regards modern Greek remained ancient. The current language continues to draw a distinction between the present and aorist, retaining all of that distinction's semantic value, and still uses the accusative, nominative, genitive, and vocative cases (though the plural genitive is rarely used, and the nominative and vocative are often mixed up).
      Modern Greek made two surprising innovations. It got rid of infinitive verbs-a feature it shares with the languages of the Balkans-and invented a future tense by paraphrasing the verb "to want": "I will judge" is expressed as a кpivo, "I want to judge"-and therefore "will judge."

    • @Drewe223
      @Drewe223 Před rokem +115

      @@thewarriorfrog Old English and modern English are not mutually intelligible. Old Norse and modern Scandinavian languages are not mutually intelligible. What’s your point?

  • @bruceroberts8614
    @bruceroberts8614 Před 7 měsíci +143

    31:30 as an African American Greek Orthodox who marched in the Greek Independence parade, I was thrilled to learn there was one who took up arms for our Hellenic brethren!

  • @SlenchFan
    @SlenchFan Před měsícem +11

    Kolokotronis was my ancestor… I’m very proud of this.

  • @gilpaubelid3780
    @gilpaubelid3780 Před rokem +82

    According to the primary sources the Byzantines/Medieval Greeks used for themselves the names: Έλληνες/Hellenes (Greeks), Γραικοί/Graikoi (Greeks), Ραικοί/Raikoi (Greeks), Ελλαδικοί/Helladikoi (Greeks), Ρωμαίοι/Rhomaioi (Romans) (an ethnonym that derives from the fact that medieval Greeks had Roman citizenship and had taken under their control the Roman state during the byzantine period) and Ρωμέλληνες/Rhomellenes (Roman Greeks) .
    Greeks during the ottoman period used the names: Έλληνες/Hellenes (Greeks), Graikoi/Γραικοί (Greeks) and Ρωμιοί/Rhomioi (Romans). These are the names that are used by Greeks today as well. All of these names are used as synonyms and mean "Greek" in the Greek language. Including the term "Ρωμιός" that is used with the definition that the byzantine Greeks were using it and not as an identity separate from the greek one.
    Based on the greek sources (both from the byzantine and ottoman period) Greeks never stopped identifying as Greeks and never stopped considering ancient Greek their ancestors. So where exactly are you basing your claim that the concept of greek or hellenic identity had not existed for centuries and for early modern Greek-speakers the heroes of Homer were mystical giants and not their direct ancestors? I have seen only one source where someone was calling ancient Greeks "giants" and that was as a praise, not because he didn't consider him his ancestors.

    • @tasosgr1000
      @tasosgr1000 Před rokem +4

      This comment deserves more likes. As a Greek I got a little bit confused on this part of the video, but I know that our history is confusing to foreigners.
      For them seeing 3 different words and one of them translating to "Romans", makes them think that we think of ourselves as Romans or something. I dont know 😂

    • @thewarriorfrog
      @thewarriorfrog Před rokem +2

      Au contraire , with the introduction of Christianity the Greeks of old Hellas , who in part had remained heathen , ranked as second - class citizens ; with the introduction of Christianity the Greeks of old Hellas , who in part had remained heathen , ranked as second - class citizens ; the word “ Hellene " in Byzantium had meant the same as " barbarian " since the third century . The representatives of Byzantium who spoke koine and who called themselves Rhomaioi ( " Romans ' , i.e. ' East Romans ' and not Greeks ), did not bother very much about the rural Greek-speaking popu-lation of Old Hellas, who spoke a tongue drawn from the dialects and sharply diverging from the high reputation of the koine.

    • @thewarriorfrog
      @thewarriorfrog Před rokem +4

      People's awareness of Greek civilization and identity came away gravely damaged after the decline of the Byzantine Empire and Ottoman rule. “Hellene,” the appellation that defined the Greek people, had been abandoned: because Byzantium was part of the Roman Empire, the Greeks had taken to calling themselves Romans, Ῥωμαίοι. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as Ottoman rule waned and Greece regained a sense of its own identity, the language situation was, to put it mildly, paradoxical. The traditional written language had remained largely faithful to ancient Athenian-based Koine, yet it was so removed from the language then spoken that people no longer understood it. And there was no one cultural, political, or social identity strong enough to impose its language on the new Greek society. The only center to safeguard Greekness over the centuries had been the Church, which had done so by conserving ancient Koine. So, people looked to it to provide the revival of Hellenism with a common language.
      When the Greek War of Independence came to an end, the one way to recover a common outlook was to take a step back in time- two thousand years back. In fact, in its infancy, modern Greece established its identity by returning to its roots in Pericles' Athens of fifth century BC. Therefore, the written language that originated from Hellenistic Koine, which itself originated from the lonic-Attic dialect, gave Greece a united language that corresponded to their reacquired sense of national unity.
      Modern Greek pronunciation was achieved by keeping what was common to the majority of Hellenes and eliminating all local quirks. The vowel sounds of Koine remained intact, as did its written form. Modern Greek phonetics is the same as Hellenistic phonetics, though some consonants are pronounced differently. Although the grammatical forms that had disappeared thousands of years before, like aspect, dual number, the optative, and the dative, could not be resurrected, in many regards modern Greek remained ancient. The current language continues to draw a distinction between the present and aorist, retaining all of that distinction's semantic value, and still uses the accusative, nominative, genitive, and vocative cases (though the plural genitive is rarely used, and the nominative and vocative are often mixed up).
      Modern Greek made two surprising innovations. It got rid of infinitive verbs-a feature it shares with the languages of the Balkans-and invented a future tense by paraphrasing the verb "to want": "I will judge" is expressed as a кpivo, "I want to judge"-and therefore "will judge."

    • @pranveraohri1204
      @pranveraohri1204 Před rokem +2

      ELLINI=ILLINI=ILLIRI.N(geg dialect) = R(tosk dialect) like in AlbaNia=ArbeRia.The romans called the peninsula ILLYRICUM. The story of Greece is a pellasgo-illyrian one.

    • @sgourkon8742
      @sgourkon8742 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@pranveraohri1204😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @xrhstoscbp0774
    @xrhstoscbp0774 Před rokem +158

    i still say it to this day if kapodistrias remained the prime minister back then, greece would have probably grown way stronger than it did. Its insane how greece after all this misfortune since indipendence is still standing

    • @noqueq9003
      @noqueq9003 Před rokem +16

      What you mentioned is the exact reason why Kappodistrias was murdered.

    • @xrhstoscbp0774
      @xrhstoscbp0774 Před rokem +13

      @@noqueq9003 kappodistrias wasnt pollitically assasinated.. the brother of a big greek mafia boss at that time killed him because he putted him in jail

    • @noqueq9003
      @noqueq9003 Před rokem +20

      @@xrhstoscbp0774 Yes..that is the mainstream explanation that suits those in power. He was murdered by greek hands in cooperation with foreign powers. For the very reason of not allowing Greece to become independent or strong.

    • @spartan9540
      @spartan9540 Před rokem

      @@xrhstoscbp0774 did you just call Petros Mavromichalis a mafia boss?? Bruh there’s no way you insulted the most powerful Greek of the 1800s in that way. He was an independent Greek Prince of the Maniots even before modern Greece existed. He created modern Greece. Without Mavromichalis and the Maniots, you can kiss goodbye to the Greek state. Ungrateful Vlachs.

    • @xrhstoscbp0774
      @xrhstoscbp0774 Před rokem

      @@spartan9540 i know that he helped a lot militarly in the greco-turkish wars but politically he was a dumb motherfucker seaking for personal power insead of establishing a strong nation

  • @BurePiva
    @BurePiva Před rokem +207

    As a Serb, if I ever ended up waging war (which I hope will never happen) and had to choose one other nation to fight alongside me, it would would be my brothers from the south, no doubt 🇷🇸❤️🇬🇷

    • @Jason-cu2tz
      @Jason-cu2tz Před rokem +23

      We are not brothers with slavs

    • @svenzia
      @svenzia Před rokem

      @@Jason-cu2tz shut it, nerd. Serbs and greeks are Brothers.

    • @mczaga
      @mczaga Před rokem +2

      ​@@Jason-cu2tzbecause of christianity genocides?

    • @irgen7325
      @irgen7325 Před rokem +7

      ​@@Jason-cu2tz Well said .In balkan the people who are brothers are Albania ,Greece ,South of Italy ,most of europian Turkey ,Macedonian (the albanian ) in Macedonia ,Croatia ,Romanian .Having the same religion does not mean brothers in DNA dear Slavic

    • @JGLeber
      @JGLeber Před rokem

      Unfortunately ,Greece has been Bought off by Demonic west . Lock stock and barrel. The Same crowd that destroyed Yugoslavia! My ancestors came from Greece my grandma on mother's side was born in a Sla vic named village.Greeksbof coarse since Slavs have been in Greece since Byzantine Empire. Poor Serbia is surrounded by NWO. Greek military and dirty Greek politicians sold Greece down the river.

  • @timothybean3451
    @timothybean3451 Před rokem +228

    I want to personally thank you for your time and research into the Greek Revolution. I am aware of the considerable time and effort it takes to complete this documentary. I have searched to find a video on the revolution and found a partial one in Greek. I don't speak Greek so it was useless to me. I enjoy your documentary's because they are thouough and the explanation of the battle scenarios are brilliant. Thank you, I enjoyed this installment as I have the others. Keep up the good work. Please, don't let it drive you to illicit vice. Just a little friendly advice.

    • @pranveraohri1204
      @pranveraohri1204 Před rokem

      Hi!I advice you to watch a documentary about the Greek Revolution produced by greek TV SKAI sutitled in english. It's censured by the greek authorities but because of the naked truth but it's still available on line. Just type down "The greek revolution 1821-1831 ".Enjoy it.

    • @jthomas8263
      @jthomas8263 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Timothy, 🙂🦁 since, after the Lions were killed off and became Extinct in the Proverbial Titanic Antiquities of Ancient Macedonia and Ancient Greece. 😏 Despite this, 😢😞😥 the Modern Greek Nation was born in the relatively recent 19th Century, forged by revolutionaries who knew only Turkish Domination, and for whom 'Greece' was merely an idea that had to be manifested with blood. This is the Story of the Greek War of Independence, from It's Origins in shady secret societies, to the Years of brutal, harrowing struggle against the Sultan and his Vassals, to the final intervention of the Great Powers, 🥹❤ as Free Hellas becomes First Nation-State in History to achieve full and total Independence from the Ottoman Empire.

    • @michaelhadjimichael4778
      @michaelhadjimichael4778 Před 8 měsíci

      Does the owner of McDonald's work at he's shops

    • @DonnellGreen
      @DonnellGreen Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@jthomas8263 So do you guys just forget that you were Romaioi (Roman) for 1000 years or what?

    • @SaraFlyn-vk2vz
      @SaraFlyn-vk2vz Před 15 dny

      In the meantime the West referred to the “Byzantine Empire” as Imperium Greacorum which translates to the “empire of the Greeks” a term used both within and outside of the Byzantine lands since at least the 8th Century. The Libri Carolini published in the 790s made the first mention of the term "Empire of the Greeks" (Latin: Imperium Graecorum) and Imperator Graecorum for the “Emperor of the Greeks”. To further emphasize this, I will point to a few examples taken from actual primary sources.
      Latin Bishop Liutprand of Cremona's summary of Constantinople from his AD 968 visit on behalf of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I. Liutprand consistently uses the term "Greeks" when referring to the inhabitants of the Byzantine Empire
      “The emperor of the Greeks is falsely humble, miserly, and greedy; lives on garlic, onions, and leeks, and drinks bath-water. The king of the Franks, on the contrary, is beautifully shorn ; wears a garment not at all like a woman's garment, and a hat; is truthful, without guile, merciful enough when it is right, severe when it is necessary, always truly humble, never miserly; does not live on garlic, onions and leeks so as to spare animals and, by not eating them, but selling them, to heap money together."
      and furthermore:
      "there came-an evil augury for me-envoys of the apostolic and universal pope John, through whom he asked Nikephoros, 'the emperor of the Greeks' to close an alliance and firm friendship with his beloved and spiritual son Otto august emperor of the Romans."
      ----------------------
      It seems that the commoners in the West used the term "Greeks" more often. Even Varangian guards called their employers Greeks ("Grikkland"), according to the "the Greece runestones". On these runestones the word Grikkland ("Greece”) appears in three inscriptions. The word Grikk(j)ar ("Greeks) appears in 25 inscriptions. Also two stones refer to men as grikkfari ("traveller to Greece") and one stone refers to Grikkhafnir ("Greek harbours").
      see Jesch 2001:99 - 2001:13 - 2001:100
      ---------------------
      The large number of men who departed for the Byzantine Empire is indicated by the fact that the medieval Scandinavian laws still contained laws concerning voyages to Greece when they were written down after the Viking Age.
      Jansson 1987:43
      The older version of the Westrogothic law, which was written down by Eskil Magnusson, the lawspeaker of Västergötland 1219-1225, stated that "no man may receive an inheritance (in Sweden) while he dwells in Greece". The later version, which was written down from 1250 to 1300, adds that "no one may inherit from such a person as was not a living heir when he went away". Also the old Norwegian Gulaþingslög contains a similar law: "but if (a man) goes to Greece, then he who is next in line to inherit shall hold his property"
      Blöndal & Benedikz 2007:223
      ----------------------
      Among the runestones of the Viking Age, 9.1-10% report that they were raised in memory of people who went abroad, and the runestones that mention Greece constitute the largest group of them.
      Jansson 1987:42
      --------------
      However, Blöndal and Benedikz (2007) state that although there were other reasons for going to Greece, it is certain that most of the runestones were made in memory of members of the Varangian Guard who died there in service to the Byzantine Emperor.
      --------------------
      Sir Edwin Pears' preface to his treatment of the fall of the Eastern Empire is likely useful here, and it concurs with by J.B. Bury’s account of the use of the term "Greek". I am quoting Sir Edwin Pears below from his book “The destruction of the Greek empire”.
      “As being a continuation of the Roman Empire whose capital was New Rome, the name has the advantage of always keeping in view the continuity of Roman history. It was the Eastern Roman Empire which declined and fell in 1453. But it must be remembered, not only that its characteristics had considerably changed, but that to the men of the West it had come to be known as the Greek Empire”.
      Further more the quote continues with a justification.
      “The Orthodox Church, which aided as much as even law in binding the inhabitants of the country together, employed Greek, and Greek almost exclusively, as its language, and, although the great defenders of the term Roman as applied to the population are found among its dignitaries, the Church was essentially Greek as opposed to Roman, both in the character of its thought and teaching and in the language it employed. Hence it is not surprising that to the West during all the Middle Ages, the Empire was the Greek Empire, just as the Orthodox Church was the Greek Church. The Empire and the Church were each alike called Greek to distinguish them from the Empire and Church of the West. It is in this general use of the word Greek that I find my justification, for speaking of the capture of Constantinople, and the events connected with it, as the Destruction of the Greek Empire."
      ----------------------
      Post-Charlemagne Western Europeans most commonly referred to the Eastern Empire as "Empire of the Greeks". Other names were also in use, such as above mentioned Eastern Empire.
      Source: "The Cambridge Medieval History" by J.B. Bury

  • @perryman9929
    @perryman9929 Před 7 měsíci +133

    Ok it’s official. Greeks are amazing warriors. After all THIS IS HELLAS !!!!🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 ps I am a 16 year old American and I am learning modern Greek

  • @GreenMarkoulis13
    @GreenMarkoulis13 Před měsícem +14

    The Souliotes were not orthodox albanians, they spoke the greek language. What a great video other than that!

  • @basj6579
    @basj6579 Před rokem +238

    There were also a lot of prominent women that significantly contributed to the Greek cause like the Souliotisses martyr women, the naval commander Laskarina Bouboulina, and the benefactor Manto Mavrogenonous

    • @gezimgjoka8740
      @gezimgjoka8740 Před rokem +17

      Albania souliotsses and Arvanitas speek Albania lengue

    • @LeonLeon-jg2ne
      @LeonLeon-jg2ne Před rokem +1

      @@gezimgjoka8740 Greeks ortodox suliots my friend Greeks put it on your mind they fought against Turkalbanians. Marko Botsaris Kitso Tzavelas they destroyed you guys.

    • @snow_bee8733
      @snow_bee8733 Před rokem +36

      @@gezimgjoka8740 not exactly.

    • @tonisula7626
      @tonisula7626 Před rokem +10

      @@snow_bee8733 100% exactly just different tribal dialect

    • @denissaliaj9459
      @denissaliaj9459 Před rokem +9

      @@snow_bee8733 its a tosk dialect. Way closer to standart albanian than nothern albanian

  • @beachboy0505
    @beachboy0505 Před rokem +127

    Excellent video 📹
    Just been on a 1 week holiday to Athens 🇬🇷
    An ancient and amazing civilisation
    Everyone must visit the Acropolis.

    • @sgourkon8742
      @sgourkon8742 Před 10 měsíci +5

      ​@@nitroallByzantines were those who study Homer and Ancient Greeks.

    • @kristaps5296
      @kristaps5296 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@nitroall
      You're right, they banned ⲣⲉⲇⲟⲣⲏⲓliⲁ and gave rights to women, such horror.

  • @hiddenhist
    @hiddenhist Před rokem +152

    I don't know who wrote this videos script but very entertaining and caught me off guard. Also, love that we all just _understand_ when Napoleon is introduced as "the Corsican dude".

    • @irakliskazantzidis1147
      @irakliskazantzidis1147 Před rokem +13

      .. Napoleon he has roots from Mani too

    • @stevemc01
      @stevemc01 Před rokem

      What time stamp?

    • @issith7340
      @issith7340 Před rokem +2

      I agree with you. Actually it has almost no historical inaccuracies inside. I congratulate the ones who did the research.

    • @jauregi2726
      @jauregi2726 Před rokem +3

      le Corse le plus célèbre du monde

    • @Rorynes
      @Rorynes Před rokem +1

      @@irakliskazantzidis1147 There is no evidence about this.He is a Corsican of Italian descent.

  • @manugamer9984
    @manugamer9984 Před rokem +81

    38:22
    I’m sure just the name “Athens” sent a shiver down many spines. Very few cities in the world have such a gigantic reputation

  • @delavalmilker
    @delavalmilker Před rokem +228

    Well done! So little of this history of Greece is studied, or even known about, in the West.

    • @ilon1407
      @ilon1407 Před rokem +7

      Yes because its albanian 🇦🇱

    • @Hellenic_Empire
      @Hellenic_Empire Před rokem +33

      @@ilon1407 (nope)

    • @georgelev7335
      @georgelev7335 Před rokem +6

      @@ilon1407 😂😂

    • @jimakisspd
      @jimakisspd Před rokem

      @@ilon1407 Albanian is not a nationality, it's a job. Cause both as individuals or ''nation''(ROFL) they do nothing other than stealing, wallets, cars, history etc.

    • @snow_bee8733
      @snow_bee8733 Před rokem +5

      @@ilon1407 lol🤣🤣

  • @georgiosvladimiridis9679
    @georgiosvladimiridis9679 Před rokem +100

    Remarkable work !
    Detailed and accurate explained !
    As a Greek I feel touched and your approach was excellent.
    Also I would like to add that all the help from the volunteers didn't end well as the free Hellenic nation started directly civil war and the soldiers that came for aid Hellas were in the middle of a conflict that they didn't want to participate, and soon ended their life's cause of the mess between the Hellenes.

  • @scarespooks
    @scarespooks Před 3 měsíci +19

    As a Greek thank you for sharing others about our independence ΖΗΤΩ ΤΟ ΕΘΝΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ!!! 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

    • @larrynivren8139
      @larrynivren8139 Před měsícem

      Greek Byzantine Empire saved Europe to have their own culure (and greek byzantine empire is part of europe) and not to be forced to be standard muslims. Today EU community has 400 million People.... Much more than Russia and USA together.... and much more economical power if WE JOIN than USA china and ussia together..... just do it like BYZANTINE EMPIRE and see again after 1000 years....

    • @elpolloguapo530
      @elpolloguapo530 Před 26 dny +1

      @@larrynivren8139 You can't even keep your own countries Christian, lol.

    • @SaraFlyn-vk2vz
      @SaraFlyn-vk2vz Před 15 dny

      @elpolloguapo530 Who is getting bombed the f*ck out of their lives right now Muslim?

  • @blablableh724
    @blablableh724 Před rokem +289

    God bless the Greeks.

  • @RJavierYepesDeV
    @RJavierYepesDeV Před rokem +16

    One of the best and most entertaining videos I have seen. Lost my sleep over this.
    Quito-Ecuador 🇪🇨

    • @panosant3960
      @panosant3960 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Kolokotronis was the chief of Guard of our Emperor 400 years non stop wars against Islam, and imagine our capital city is unter occupation

    • @RJavierYepesDeV
      @RJavierYepesDeV Před 7 měsíci

      @@panosant3960 I can only imagine.

  • @promy563
    @promy563 Před rokem +18

    Just amazing! Thank you for the documentary!

  • @mihaiionita5648
    @mihaiionita5648 Před rokem +182

    The video itself is great and informative as always, but I believe it useful to mention that Kamikoto knives is owned by the same company as Established Titles and their claims have about the same level of truthfulness (I.e. very little). Their knives are mass-produced in China, the only thing Japanese about them is the name.

    • @the5gen
      @the5gen Před rokem +5

      Your right, checking Google, its made in Yangjiang, China

    • @kunstsein
      @kunstsein Před rokem +7

      It's also worth mentioning, that the used steel is one of the cheapest that is available. Real value may be around ten bucks, not hundreds of dollars, contrary to the marketing wank.

    • @rker
      @rker Před rokem

      literally everything is made in china you know
      it's so cheap

  • @NikosJonathan
    @NikosJonathan Před rokem +31

    Great documentary, thank you so much! I believe the battle of Maniaki against Ibrahim and Papaflessas were worth a mention

  • @user-hf9jx4yq2z
    @user-hf9jx4yq2z Před rokem +9

    I admit that it is a very good documentary like all others I'veseen in your channel. Your side notes are great for those who like details.

  • @_nske
    @_nske Před rokem +18

    It was great to watch such a good summary of the Greek war of independence in English, thanks! There are many more interesting details that can be studied from this time, like the actual representation and fight for influence of the three foreign powers in the political scene through actual parties of corresponding names -i.e. Mavrokordatos, who regardless of his failures, I think deserved some more credit was leading the English party. One of the notable lessons that I kept from this part of our history is that military geniuses, war heroes, even those with character of unquestionable integrity, like Kolokotronis unfortunately could not make good leaders outside war -but, I guess understandably, could not accept surrendering power to people who didn't prove themselves by the sword, but objectively were much more skilled in organizing a state and conducting diplomacy.

  • @innocentmushi3036
    @innocentmushi3036 Před rokem +8

    Wonderful narration, we need a movie a series to show these events in details and in its wider range.
    Congratulations 🎊

  • @danielespinosa2324
    @danielespinosa2324 Před rokem +7

    Big fan of these long re upload d of your smaller videos. It would be helpful if we had a playlist with them to reach them easier. Keep doing your great work y’all!

  • @thehermit8723
    @thehermit8723 Před rokem +42

    This needa to be a movie, so interesting

  • @denniscleary7580
    @denniscleary7580 Před rokem +11

    thank you guys so much for covering this 👍

  • @demetrisdemetriou7156
    @demetrisdemetriou7156 Před 10 měsíci +10

    Well presented, and historically accurate with significant details. Well done!

  • @BillieSwift
    @BillieSwift Před rokem +8

    Really love this long video format. Thanks K&G!

  • @rudywooders9602
    @rudywooders9602 Před rokem +38

    nice documentary. Its also worthy to take a look to the bios of the protagonists of revolution. For example The Heroine Manto Mavrogenous. She donated whole vast family fortune to the revolution. She fought personally ,she got betrayed by the politicians, her home was burned by politician bouncers and she died at 44 years old ,very poor ,in the house of another co-fighter living as guest. Before she die she went to the government to ask for a tiny pension of veteran. The public servant asked her "what have you done for Greece and ask pension? and she said "What I Manto Mavrogenous have done for Greece? I did NOTHING" and she left.

  • @nektariostsakas7266
    @nektariostsakas7266 Před rokem +34

    One million Greeks lost their lives during the war of independence. That was one-quarter of the population considering that the people of Greece was 4 million at the start of the ten-year struggle.

    • @jthomas8263
      @jthomas8263 Před 10 měsíci

      Nektarios, 🙂🦁 since, after the Lions were killed off and became Extinct in the Proverbial Titanic Antiquities of Ancient Macedonia and Ancient Greece. 😏 Despite this, 😢😞😥 the Modern Greek Nation was born in the relatively recent 19th Century, forged by revolutionaries who knew only Turkish Domination, and for whom 'Greece' was merely an idea that had to be manifested with blood. This is the Story of the Greek War of Independence, from It's Origins in shady secret societies, to the Years of brutal, harrowing struggle against the Sultan and his Vassals, to the final intervention of the Great Powers, 🥹❤ as Free Hellas becomes First Nation-State in History to achieve full and total Independence from the Ottoman Empire.

  • @jaywalker-.-2583
    @jaywalker-.-2583 Před 7 měsíci +17

    We are not afraid of anyone! freedom or dead🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 We honor our ancestors forever 🙏 thank you for freedom from the barbarians

  • @KT-sl4js
    @KT-sl4js Před rokem +46

    What an incredible documentary. Thank you so much for producing these!

  • @DryNox
    @DryNox Před 4 měsíci +4

    2:00 Rum Millet
    3:00 distant pagan past
    4:00 Klephts
    5:00 Maniots
    6:00 Kapodistrias
    7:00 Filiki Etaireia formed 1814
    8:00 time to initiate revolt
    9:00 Battle of Dragasani 1821
    10:00 Battle for Greece had begun
    14:00 Athanasios Diakos impaled 1821
    15:00 Battle of Gravia Inn 1821
    17:00 Battle of Gravia Inn 1821
    18:00 Ottomans prevented from entering Peloponnese 1821
    19:00 Siege of Tripolitsa 1821
    20:00 Battle of Valtetsi 1821
    22:00 Valtetsi crucial watershed moment
    25:00 Gregory V hanged 1821
    28:00 declaration of independence 1822
    30:00 Chios massacre 1822
    35:00 Battle of Peta 1822
    38:00 Siege of the Acropolis 1821-1822
    48:00 Second Siege of Missolonghi 1823
    49:00 Theodoros Kolokotronis resigned 1823
    52:00 First Greek Civil War 1823-1824
    53:00 Muhammad Ali of Egypt
    54:00 Crete smothered 1823
    55:00 Egyptians landed in Morea 1825
    1:00:00 Third siege of Missolonghi 1825-1826
    1:15:00 Anglo-French-Russian fleet sailed to Greece 1827
    1:23:00 French landed in the Peloponnese 1828

  • @31husnucoban
    @31husnucoban Před rokem +113

    "The Turk came upon us as a rapacious marauder," Kolokotronis said. "He put to death some of our people and made slaves of others, but when our King in Constantinople fell in battle, he made no treaty with the Turks but left a bequest bidding his people carry on the war. His garrison has never given up and his fortresses have never capitulated."

    • @fratsan9979
      @fratsan9979 Před rokem +3

      şu dangalakları övme , bir avuç işe yaramaz köylü isyanı

    • @alexvlaxos6620
      @alexvlaxos6620 Před rokem +6

      That's beautifull my turkish friend.Thank you

    • @Ntopios
      @Ntopios Před rokem +11

      It is really beautiful what the great chieftain said. Makes us feel proud and patriotic.
      What I don't understand is why a Turk would bring this up, since we are enemies. This is seriously weird dude.

    • @ElambrosG
      @ElambrosG Před rokem +8

      @@Ntopios We are not enemies anymore. Both us and Turks can live in harmony if we will so.

    • @tylerclayton6081
      @tylerclayton6081 Před rokem +3

      @@NtopiosTurkey and Greece are allies within NATO. They can never go to war against one another

  • @rasallyjohansen3951
    @rasallyjohansen3951 Před rokem +85

    RIP Kapodistrias he did all he could for the greeks and trying to strengthen the central government and democracy only for corrupt oligarchs and mafias to assasinate him and replace him with a puppet german king, he worked tirelessly and deserved better

    • @kounias5108
      @kounias5108 Před rokem +15

      anglosaxons killed him

    • @yiannimil1
      @yiannimil1 Před rokem +1

      @sunmoonlightning
      the Maniots struggled only for themselves. numerous authors attest to this. eventually they were going to submit to the turks if the revolution was lost like the one 50 yrs before. after all, only they carried the title of Bey!
      kolokotronis probably sensed this. he changed camps in the 2nd civil war. he realized they were no longer able to protect him or his clan.
      and they were not even hellenes. being the last remnants of sclavonic tribal admninistrations in the penissula. some were even unbaptised until the 17th cent!!!

    • @yiannimil1
      @yiannimil1 Před rokem

      @sunmoonlightning
      Kapodistrias, as well as others in the Diaspora, realized very early that in order to unify the new state of "Hellenes", he had to break down ethnic, linguistical and cultural differences to amagalmate a new Hellenistic culture.
      More or less this too has remnants in today's Greece.
      They were not submitting to anyone! Did they not fight for independence for a new Democratic state? Or were they just taking advantage of a new Opportunity and would return to their way of paying off the Turk from the spoils of piracy and stealing from their neighbors, as was their historical legacy, in order to retain the Beylik?
      As far as their descent from Lacedemonians, between the Theban Wars and the later Roman conquest, I doubt if there was a significant population to contiue as a unique polity. The population of Maniots were Sclavenioi pushed by the Byzantine reconquista of the Morea (which is also a Sclavenian term, having nothing to do with the mulberry tree) to the mountain ridges of Taygetos and Panahaiko to the northwest. Read the Byzantine sources.
      "Turks never managed to step into Mani", true. They did not have to.
      That narrative is common in the Morea. And why would they? If they got paid why waste manpower and resources, there or in The Archipelago were the kehaya held the local Christians in check.
      Increased migration of Turks to Morea put pressure on the Christian inhabitants to try to secure what was left. Thus, the revolution. I doubt that the Maniots, having quasi-accepted the religion so late, had a "nationalistic" perspective and would have had a different outcome than the Souliots had farther north.
      Both were not in control of rich arable land, producing rich surpluses. If that was the case, the Ottomans would have tsifliked the area long before.
      Now, if it became an issue, as the need for tighter ethnocentic control by the Porte, as it developed in the years after the French Revolution, the Divan would have proven more strigent towards the Maniots and would have probably dissolved such remnants among their Milliets.

    • @aris9560
      @aris9560 Před měsícem

      The english killed him not the maniats

  • @chiangju-an2330
    @chiangju-an2330 Před rokem +57

    Good Job & Well done!
    I've just read Roderick Beaton's book "Greece :Biography of a modern Nation"
    Your animation is the best method for me to sense history narrative vividly.
    By the way, there are many military events even after Greece independent.
    Hopefully, we are able to see them all in the future.

  • @barnabaszu
    @barnabaszu Před rokem +9

    Amazing work, thank you

  • @georgezachos7322
    @georgezachos7322 Před rokem +10

    Thank you for this one.

  • @abderrahimbenmoussa4359
    @abderrahimbenmoussa4359 Před rokem +13

    My gosh how I love those long form videos !

  • @Animaduniversum
    @Animaduniversum Před 5 dny +1

    watching this from the shores of navarino. thank you for adding a deeper understanding of my travels and surroundings. what a great video

  • @pamelaellis2709
    @pamelaellis2709 Před rokem +31

    Excellent detailed account....I really appreciated all of the details about the battles, the generals, the Ottoman rule, the development of Greece....and the ultimate creation of Greece

  • @user-iq2of1ih3w
    @user-iq2of1ih3w Před rokem +3

    It's a very good video, well explained. Thank you!

  • @Elgar337
    @Elgar337 Před rokem +21

    I'm shocked that there is no mention of Georgios Karaiskakis.

    • @intelliGENeration
      @intelliGENeration Před 6 měsíci +2

      Or Bouboulina… or Androutsos… or Nikitaras… or Miaoulis… or that the Greeks were All Albanians that fought for the Hellenic Myth.

    • @Elgar337
      @Elgar337 Před 6 měsíci +4

      @@intelliGENeration Ok dude

    • @degoose2447
      @degoose2447 Před 3 měsíci +4

      @@intelliGENerationshut up

  • @antonis_b
    @antonis_b Před rokem +2

    Great job! You covered pretty much everything!

  • @djoker3915
    @djoker3915 Před rokem +9

    Very good videos. You earned a subscriber. Can't wait for more Greek history videos

  • @AdmiralKarlDonuts
    @AdmiralKarlDonuts Před rokem +51

    Interesting!
    I was just reading an alternate history story about Greece that starts with the Greek War of Independence and CZcams notified me of this video.

    • @myrdraal2001
      @myrdraal2001 Před rokem +6

      What's the name of the story? Got a link to it? I'd love to read it.

    • @nemoniemand9264
      @nemoniemand9264 Před rokem +5

      Well, at least the spying of our google overlords can be conforting

  • @davidbjrndameson5933
    @davidbjrndameson5933 Před rokem +2

    This is just amazing. Thank you a thousand times!!!

  • @NicolasVDN
    @NicolasVDN Před rokem +2

    What an excellent documentary. Thanks a lot for this knowledge.

  • @christbanner3219
    @christbanner3219 Před rokem +56

    During most of the Byzantine Empire, Romios was synonymous to a Greek not a Roman. It is still the same today. Greeks had a knowledge not of the Roman history but of their own, facilitated by the church. It's referred to in many Ottoman era documents, especially where the language and education is concerned. The myth that the Rums did not know anything about their ancient past is propagated by those who have an interest to deny the Greekness of certain areas they now posses, or want to possess. I see much of the Turkish view of things in this video eg the claim that "parents volunteered their children for devshirme". Not that the creators and owners of this space are Turkish and Azeris has anything to do with this...right...? Right....?

    • @sgourkon8742
      @sgourkon8742 Před 10 měsíci +3

      He mentions a lot false information in video.

    • @user-ft1tn2rx9t
      @user-ft1tn2rx9t Před 9 měsíci +1

      ΕΛΛΑΣ - ΕΛΛΑΔΑ 💪

    • @kocoqape8061
      @kocoqape8061 Před 8 měsíci

      i dont understand you,what you have in Byzant ?,tell me something Greek from Alexander time until 1821 ? Hellenic are not Greek ,and Greek are not Hellenic .Language is different,Greeks are from Asia ? which one wrote something about Greeks in Byzynt ? and Byzant was all Empire .not only Athens ? Guys are ok or to much Xaxiki mace you stupid ..is not joke .

  • @tomlarham8233
    @tomlarham8233 Před rokem +119

    It would be so good to see where the story goes in this David and Goliath epic after 1832. Any further revolts or territorial gains in the latter half of the 19th century, for example.

    • @bariuslippius
      @bariuslippius Před rokem +20

      Oh man ur in for a ride alright

    • @konstantinostourl1722
      @konstantinostourl1722 Před rokem +17

      Well there were some instances of territories changing hands, mostly at the expense of the Ottomans and benefit to the Greeks and other Balkan peoples but the real break for the Greeks would be the Balkan Wars preceding the first world war, where Greece took a shape mostly similar to the one it has today.

    • @aleksaradojicic8114
      @aleksaradojicic8114 Před rokem +5

      We are also missing Serbian revolution from 1804-1835, or better say war parr of it that lasted up to 1815.

    • @irianna44
      @irianna44 Před rokem +8

      I mean my Island had a semi autonomous state, the principality of Samos, which lasted from 1834-1912. So there's that for example.
      Crete also had its own thing for a brief period of time.
      However, the war of independence was over sure, but many battles took place later on, and piece by piece, Greece came in its current formation in 1947!

    • @tomlarham8233
      @tomlarham8233 Před rokem +6

      @@irianna44 Next stop Constantinople!

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE Před rokem +1

    Thank you for the video it was good and filled with a lot of information

  • @sakdavid
    @sakdavid Před rokem +16

    I am a little bit disappointed that no reference was made to the Greek revolutionary activity in my home island of Euboea, but I still have to admit that this was an excellent video.

  • @peterbenke1962
    @peterbenke1962 Před rokem +3

    Even your sponsor vidoes at the start are funny and interesting. Best documentary animator on here by far.

  • @V-man117
    @V-man117 Před rokem +118

    From Ancient Greeks, to Byzantine empire, to modern Greece 🇬🇷

    • @likestarsonearth3393
      @likestarsonearth3393 Před rokem +8

      Intensifying hostility in the 12th century to Italian trade led to anti-Roman Catholic policies and marked a changing relationship with the Western Holy Roman Empire, ultimately leading to the replacement of Latin with Greek as Byzantium's official Imperial administrative language.. East Rome not Byzantine

    • @swordofjustice31
      @swordofjustice31 Před rokem +10

      Byzantine??? They were not even Hellenes

    • @marjo7467
      @marjo7467 Před rokem +12

      Byzantine Empire was multiethnic and roman.

    • @axelexiscus8660
      @axelexiscus8660 Před rokem +23

      @@marjo7467 Except that the byzantine empire considered languages other than greek uncivilised and faiths other than orthodoxy heathenous
      or how the empire of Nicaea was the first state in history to call itself Greece, before it restored Rome? With its emperors knowingly starting what would eventually become modern Greek nationalism, making fitting statements about it as well.
      or how, with the Komnenoi onwards, faith wasn't what distinguished a roman from a barbarian alone anymore?
      It had to come through the Greek language, the Greek orthodox faith, and Roman citizenship.
      How Constantine XI went out of his way to say that Greek and Roman is the exact same thing, and that he and his compatriots were both?
      It was multiethnic, sure, but it was obvious who had the reins, beginning, middle, to end.

    • @lagjescuni5482
      @lagjescuni5482 Před rokem +6

      almost all Greek heads of state and their national heroes are of Albanian origin.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Albanians_in_Greece

  • @willu842
    @willu842 Před rokem +1

    Ya'll do such a good job with these videos I cannot believe this is free. Thanks for all you do

  • @mikkayosef8008
    @mikkayosef8008 Před rokem +1

    This channel is gold!! I've learned so much watching K's & G's!!

  • @damienm
    @damienm Před rokem +3

    Another great quality video!

  • @billchristo7894
    @billchristo7894 Před rokem +3

    That was excellent. Well done!

  • @salsasydneyacademy8036
    @salsasydneyacademy8036 Před rokem +2

    Thank you to the work u have put in to provide us this history

  • @chrisbostan5410
    @chrisbostan5410 Před rokem +31

    We Greeks are capable fighting someone for our independence and at the same time fight a civil war... Long live the Greek spirit of independence. Thank you for this awesome documentary 🔥

    • @furkannarin2844
      @furkannarin2844 Před rokem +9

      dude even your last name is turkish lmao

    • @besnikbrezhnica6120
      @besnikbrezhnica6120 Před rokem +7

      Greek War of indipendence.... between orthodox and muslim albanians!

    • @chrisbostan5410
      @chrisbostan5410 Před rokem +8

      @@furkannarin2844 Bruh I'm Greek 😂 my last name comes from the Greeks of Asia minor

    • @furkannarin2844
      @furkannarin2844 Před rokem +4

      @@chrisbostan5410 i can tell. "bostan" means garden in turkish :D there is a neighbour called bostanci in istanbul too

    • @chrisbostan5410
      @chrisbostan5410 Před rokem +4

      @@furkannarin2844 I know bro I had researched about my last name 😂

  • @developer3406
    @developer3406 Před 9 měsíci +5

    Just want to add one tiny detail to this historical video. In 1779, with Catherine the Great’s permission, the entire population of Crimea, predominantly consisting of Christian Greeks, relocated to Pryazovia. They established 19 settlements, including the city of Mariupol, and have since continued to reside in the region, identifying themselves as Greeks.

  • @user-nk3su1wf5l
    @user-nk3su1wf5l Před rokem +18

    Modern Greek Wars of Independence and Anatolian Excursion should be being taught in every European school. Just look at how the map looks in 1920, the political trends in the continent and the influence of the greek elites since the Enlightment already, when many of the intellectuals and merchants had to flee from the Ottman Empire to Paris and co. Look at how the population exchange lead to new levels of state aggression towards minorities, i.e. during WWII. Look how the class divide within the Empire brings first young Greece hanging from a thread and less than a century later nationalism in Turkey. We can try to condensate history as much as we want, but apparently reality is way wilder than even the wildest of imaginations.

    • @qselector
      @qselector Před rokem +3

      If Russians wouldn't help, Anatolia would be Greece too.

    • @jthomas8263
      @jthomas8263 Před 10 měsíci

      🙂🦁 since, after the Lions were killed off and became Extinct in the Proverbial Titanic Antiquities of Ancient Macedonia and Ancient Greece. 😏 Despite this, 😢😞😥 the Modern Greek Nation was born in the relatively recent 19th Century, forged by revolutionaries who knew only Turkish Domination, and for whom 'Greece' was merely an idea that had to be manifested with blood. This is the Story of the Greek War of Independence, from It's Origins in shady secret societies, to the Years of brutal, harrowing struggle against the Sultan and his Vassals, to the final intervention of the Great Powers, 🥹❤ as Free Hellas becomes First Nation-State in History to achieve full and total Independence from the Ottoman Empire.

  • @michaelwilson5591
    @michaelwilson5591 Před rokem +1

    Loved this video! Can't wait to see more

  • @peterkyriopoulos2684
    @peterkyriopoulos2684 Před rokem +1

    Thank you so much for this video.

  • @ag.m.2280
    @ag.m.2280 Před rokem +48

    Incredible video. This is better than most Greek school books!

  • @knightofhistory
    @knightofhistory Před rokem +7

    I love these videos. I've been a massive fan for years! So much so that I actually made my own channel (it focuses on History as well) thank you for the inspiration! I wish I had the same cartoon style you have but... I'm just a small CZcamsr

  • @alishera.2540
    @alishera.2540 Před rokem +1

    Very detailed and interesting video! Appreciate it

  • @tomsmith4542
    @tomsmith4542 Před rokem +2

    thanks for the DOC !!

  • @minoru5760
    @minoru5760 Před rokem +50

    I believe that Greek independence could be one of great milestones in collapse of Ottoman and widespread of Western diplomatic framework to the world. Thanks to K&G for covering this conflict

    • @mczaga
      @mczaga Před rokem

      Without Russia there wont be named Greece its made from western countries and Russia like cyprus rum zone government they are all fake.They created using with genocides like instance Mora Muslim genocide at ottoman era like anadolu occupy try at ww1 like cyprus eoka genocide.When the time comes u will see the truth.

  • @raykaelin
    @raykaelin Před rokem +2

    Well done sir! Very well done!

  • @dimitris56403
    @dimitris56403 Před rokem +2

    good job lad.You did a fine research congratulations

  • @jackjones9460
    @jackjones9460 Před rokem +32

    I really enjoy the sound effects! Crickets at night, swords for a battlefield clash, even seagulls for naval actions were included.

  • @AllMusiChannelGroup
    @AllMusiChannelGroup Před rokem +33

    1:32:28 of excellent artwork, animation, narration etc...
    I deeply thank you for this treasure!

  • @Pelasgos14
    @Pelasgos14 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Excellent work all the way. Accurate and detailed enough. Greetings from Hellas.

  • @enriquepadilla8137
    @enriquepadilla8137 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Awesome video! So entertaining and instructional

  • @Mrprodromomos
    @Mrprodromomos Před 4 měsíci +3

    Watched this from start to finish, you did an amazin job. I'm Greek and have elevated respect for my people because of your hard work

  • @user-vx2hb6nt5l
    @user-vx2hb6nt5l Před rokem +13

    I can't believe that there is a documentary about the Greek War of Independence, 1821... and there is no any mention of the great Greek heroes, such as Georgios Karaiskakis... Grigorios Dikaios Papaflessas... Laskarina Bouboulina... and Manto Mavrogenous !!! Also, there is no mention of Papaflessas self-sacrifice at the battle of Maniaki against Ibrahim Pasha...

  • @soniafoustou5236
    @soniafoustou5236 Před rokem +1

    Brilliant. Thank you

  • @christossaripanidis274
    @christossaripanidis274 Před rokem +2

    Great history Vid Great work !

  • @admiralsfleet2668
    @admiralsfleet2668 Před rokem +25

    Amazing, an hour and a half of kings and generals to listen in the background while doing some house work/food prep

  • @Cipricus
    @Cipricus Před rokem +7

    I hope you do one on the Crimean War, a rather forgotten war, but with contemporary reverberations!🙏

  • @yannisnikolopoulos8014
    @yannisnikolopoulos8014 Před rokem +2

    Excellent video!

  • @1Hannigan1
    @1Hannigan1 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Very interesting, I didn't know Cochran played a part. Your wording on certain people or terms is quite entertaining. Thanks.

  • @JC-mx9su
    @JC-mx9su Před rokem +8

    Kings and Generals, I hope you make a video Spanish American Wars of Independence and its campaigns or battles on how each countries get their independence from Spain, This is an interesting topic to watch on your videos.

    • @logangustavson
      @logangustavson Před rokem +1

      Yes please! That is am area of World History I know staggeringly little about and would love to be educated about!

  • @user-sb2zw5gi8v
    @user-sb2zw5gi8v Před 10 měsíci +3

    Έχεις φτιάξει το ίντερνετ σέ ένα ποιοτικό επίπεδο, συγχαρητήρια 😊❤

  • @atrides7
    @atrides7 Před rokem +2

    very very good video sir ! thank you!!!!!!

  • @agramatos8333
    @agramatos8333 Před rokem +2

    Well researched video!

  • @user-wn6yh2vo1q
    @user-wn6yh2vo1q Před rokem +81

    Great video. One important thing you got wrong was the greek identity. If you read the speeches of the last 300years of byzantine emperors they refer to their subjects increasingly as Hellenes. Usually as Romans and Hellenes. So, by the time the loss of Constantinople happened, the greek people were refering to each other as hellenes. That is why during the years prior the rebellion it was usual for parents to give their children ancient greek names. It is not hellene or roman. Our identity since 1200, and i would argue up to now, is the combination of roman and hellenes. It was (is)not one or the other. But both.

    • @Nomadicenjoyer31
      @Nomadicenjoyer31 Před rokem +8

      Malakka copium

    • @miastupid7911
      @miastupid7911 Před rokem +15

      @@lagjescuni5482 The Hellenes had a Christian Orthodox identity because they wrote the New Testament in the Hellenic language. Most importantly, Christ Himself when meeting the Hellenes who had sought Him, exclaimed: "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain. The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in the world guards it for eternal life. If anyone wants to serve Me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him." This is in the Hellenic DNA.

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 Před rokem +1

      Correct, Moden Greek period starts with Emperor Theodore Laskaris

    • @Nomadicenjoyer31
      @Nomadicenjoyer31 Před rokem

      @@miastupid7911 But you Greeks have almost no Hellenic DNA lol

    • @miastupid7911
      @miastupid7911 Před rokem +8

      @@Nomadicenjoyer31 and how would you know? Really, how exactly would you know that? Even the DNA results posted by Greeks on CZcams are over 60% Greek-70% Greek (and that's just a very minor fraction of people getting tested). There are at least 4 that I've encountered on CZcams that are 100%! Add in the Greek diaspora (even the ones that in former Greek territories) and there is enough Greek DNA in every corner of this world. We are still here.

  • @anesbrkicevic1060
    @anesbrkicevic1060 Před rokem +103

    Greeks are amazing warriors and i cant explain how glad i am that the greeks recovered their national identity,nation,and religion unlike bosnia for example 😑

    • @FearTheNorth
      @FearTheNorth Před rokem +31

      God bless you Brother. All the best 🇬🇷🇨🇾☦

    • @Nomadicenjoyer31
      @Nomadicenjoyer31 Před rokem +13

      Hellenic peoples were jokes not great warriors😂

    • @anesbrkicevic1060
      @anesbrkicevic1060 Před rokem +39

      @@Nomadicenjoyer31 greeks built civilization mate 😉and dont forget leonidas and his 300 man

    • @kounias5108
      @kounias5108 Před rokem +8

      recoverd? look iam greek the greek state liberated from kleftes mountain horila warriors. kleftes or evzones these guys was the guard of our emperor. that guarf had war since 500 years against othomans our emperor died at 1453 in constantinoupole. greeks never forget their emperor constantine xi. the capital constantinoupolw and the faith orhodox christianity these 3 thinks make us to restore our lands but never our capital.

    • @anesbrkicevic1060
      @anesbrkicevic1060 Před rokem +13

      @@kounias5108 well i meant after the fall of constantinople and the death of constantine XI itmarked as the fall of the byzintine empire and greeks then the fight for independance began while the turks did their best to destroy croatian,greek,bulgaian,bosnian and serbian cultures

  • @charlesedwardandrewlincoln8181

    Absolutely loved this video!

  • @alexc1561
    @alexc1561 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Awsome content🎉🎉

  • @costasonix
    @costasonix Před 11 měsíci +8

    I enjoyed this video as many others from your channel Kings & Generals.....i am from Greece and i found in this story many true things... history is a difficult thing to narrate it and discuss about it because every man and woman has his/her own ideas,feelings etc and cannot see clearly how the things really happened....😊😮

    • @kocoqape8061
      @kocoqape8061 Před 9 měsíci +1

      yes true have many true story but not at all,first i cant see on Koine Greek in all fights ,all names are Orthodox Albanians,and why write kolokotroni ? in this time they have the name Cergini=Cergjini in Arvanitika ,and all so the Pictures i see just Foustanella ,is not Greek is Albanian costum .And in this time the Arvanites dont understand other language .many Questions in all the war i see just Ethnics Albanian to fight and all so in Pictures just Foustanella..

  • @murder13love
    @murder13love Před rokem +13

    My favourite series by far 😁🤘

  • @hassanminbaghdad
    @hassanminbaghdad Před 10 měsíci +17

    What a story. I love how you bring the events to life
    Please make one on the Serbian independence which is just as interesting a story that would easily take more than an hour to cover!

  • @eddyalexiou9951
    @eddyalexiou9951 Před měsícem

    Exceptional work 👍