The Fall of Constantinople: The Great Siege of 1453 | Documentary

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  • Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest empires: the Christian Roman Empire, and the Islamic Ottoman Empire.
    This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453.
    When histories greatest fortification was stormed, and Europe’s largest cathedral was transformed into a mosque, the Empire formed by Romulus and Remus on the seven hills had finally come to an end. Europe shuddered. It had done nothing to help the ancient city. Now, it would suffer a renewed Islamic onslaught, not seen since the days of the great caliphs. The
    shockwaves caused by the fall of the city of Constantinople would echo through history, changing world history forever.
    A big thank you to Mattia Bosello and Rosie for proving the Italian narration.
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    Narrated by: Top5s
    Written & Researched by: Harry Palmer
    Edited by: James Wade
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Komentáře • 395

  • @Black-Sun_Kaiser
    @Black-Sun_Kaiser Před 3 lety +12

    I was actually researching this. Perfect timing!! Thank you 😊 💙🤍🇱🇷🙋🏼‍♂️

  • @johnweber4029
    @johnweber4029 Před 3 lety +30

    Great video ! I really appreciate the hard work and research put into this !!! 👍😎

    • @mylordslords6134
      @mylordslords6134 Před 3 lety

      God Save the Queen (Tuhan Jagalah Ratu)
      >بِسْــــــــــــــــــــمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِـــــــــــــــــــــــيمِ`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      (1) Bacalah dengan (menyebut) nama Tuhanmu yang menciptakan, اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ Aya-1.png​
      (2) Dia telah menciptakan manusia dari segumpal darah. خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ Aya-2.png​
      (3) Bacalah, dan Tuhanmulah Yang Mahamulia, اقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ Aya-3.png​
      (4) Yang mengajar (manusia) dengan pena. الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ Aya-4.png​
      (5) Dia mengajarkan manusia apa yang tidak diketahuinya. عَلَّمَ الْإِنسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ Aya-5.png​
      -Quran.com[Al-'Alaq:1-5]
      Surah Al-Kafirun​
      بِسْــــــــــــــــــــمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِـــــــــــــــــــــــيمِ
      (1) Katakanlah (Muhammad), "Wahai orang-orang kafir! قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ Aya-1.png​
      (2) aku tidak akan menyembah apa yang kamu sembah, لَا أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ Aya-2.png​
      (3) dan kamu bukan penyembah apa yang aku sembah, وَلَا أَنتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا أَعْبُدُ Aya-3.png​
      (4) dan aku tidak pernah menjadi penyembah apa yang kamu sembah, وَلَا أَنَا عَابِدٌ مَّا عَبَدتُّمْ Aya-4.png​
      (5) dan kamu tidak pernah (pula) menjadi penyembah apa yang aku sembah. وَلَا أَنتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا أَعْبُدُ Aya-5.png​
      (6) Untukmu agamamu, dan untukku agamaku." لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَ دِينِ Aya-6.png​
      -"Surah Al-Kafirun" Quran.com
      ********************************************God Save the Queen`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      God save our gracious Queen,1
      Long live our noble Queen,
      God save the Queen:
      Send her victorious,
      Happy and glorious,
      Long to reign over us:
      God save the Queen.
      O Lord, our God, arise,
      Scatter her enemies,
      And make them fall.
      Confound their politics,
      Frustrate their knavish tricks,
      On Thee our hopes we fix,
      God save us all.
      Thy choicest gifts in store,
      On her be pleased to pour;
      Long may she reign:
      May she defend our laws,
      And ever give us cause
      To sing with heart and voice
      God save the Queen.*
      * Bagian "her" diubah menjadi "his". Serta bagian "Queen" berubah menjadi "King".

  • @dawarrior95
    @dawarrior95 Před 2 lety +3

    One of the best videos I've seen on this battle. Thank you!

  • @garyweaver4435
    @garyweaver4435 Před 3 lety +6

    Did a great Job on this. Thanks from AL usa

  • @MAK9246
    @MAK9246 Před 3 lety +7

    Wow that was brilliant!

  • @fredk3859
    @fredk3859 Před 3 lety +3

    Very well done!

  • @gdan8259
    @gdan8259 Před 3 lety +2

    Outstanding!

  • @hamedlanon4693
    @hamedlanon4693 Před 3 lety +1

    Loved this video

  • @ewanbt4168
    @ewanbt4168 Před 3 lety +51

    This channel educates me on things I am so glad I now know

  • @bladimirastorga9308
    @bladimirastorga9308 Před 3 lety +5

    This channel is awesome

  • @altair458
    @altair458 Před 3 lety

    Thank you very much👍👍👍👍👍

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 Před 2 lety

    Nicely done video

  • @shirleyhernandez645
    @shirleyhernandez645 Před 2 lety +27

    After watching the movie Rise of Empire: ottoman, I started looking for more details about the war.

  • @GodmyX
    @GodmyX Před 2 lety

    Thank you!

  • @dirklogan4699
    @dirklogan4699 Před rokem

    Thank you for the bedtime story. It’s most refreshing and enlightening. 💡 😴

  • @heekyungkim8147
    @heekyungkim8147 Před 2 lety

    Great documentary.

  • @thebookofduderonomy
    @thebookofduderonomy Před 3 lety +10

    World history and the wars thereof? Be still my heart.

  • @keksterbojester818
    @keksterbojester818 Před 3 lety +25

    I was starting to get tired of WW2. I would love for the Battle of Carthage to be covered, or Gangus Khan's campaign.

    • @almighty5839
      @almighty5839 Před 2 lety

      Yesss the Mongols very interestint time period

  • @olddriver1402
    @olddriver1402 Před 2 lety +4

    Hey mate, I love the edit and information. I just want to recommend using a pop filter or at least a thicker sponge on your microphone as your "s" and "t" sounds cause spikes and make it harder to understand and slightly uncomfortable to listen to. Keep up the good work.

  • @nadiaakhsanda4118
    @nadiaakhsanda4118 Před 2 lety +2

    I'm here because i'm going to do college entrance exam and this material become one of the subject🤓great video btw👍

  • @marklander9177
    @marklander9177 Před 7 měsíci +2

    had trouble understanding narrators voice.

  • @ChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChin4

    Perfect voice for Deeper History lesson. saludos

    • @Michael_Veritas
      @Michael_Veritas Před 3 lety +3

      Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. The modern day invasion of Europe is underway. Instead of swords and cannon, they’re using so-called asylum seekers.

    • @ChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChin4
      @ChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChin4 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Michael_Veritas so sad it's happening right now.

  • @shellbell2167
    @shellbell2167 Před 2 lety +3

    Great content, but volume fluctuates and is often is not clear.

  • @Werewolf914
    @Werewolf914 Před 3 lety +42

    Yes!! going back to a much older War, don't get me wrong I love the other videos World War 1 and 2 are still extremely important and interesting to learn about, but I always found much older wars more interesting. Though I'll watch anything on this channel, War is the most interesting part of History in my opinion.

  • @justinriley9996
    @justinriley9996 Před dnem

    Great vidio really entertaining and educational

  • @lunapaloma_8127
    @lunapaloma_8127 Před 3 lety

    Wow love it

  • @roflc0re
    @roflc0re Před 3 lety +3

    Hope you cover the thirty years War ♥️

  • @livefire666
    @livefire666 Před 3 lety +21

    Why has an accurate movie on this battle not been made! It is literally the greatest battle in human history before world war 1!? And it was fought similar even though it was 458 years earlier!

    • @C0wb0yBebop
      @C0wb0yBebop Před 3 lety +5

      I agree bro, there is a mini series on Netflix.. which shows a decent story of the fall of Eastern Rome. Yet the story is very Turkish- sided and shows that he was destined to take the city and inherit the Roman Empire.

    • @livefire666
      @livefire666 Před 3 lety +7

      @@C0wb0yBebop Thank you! I actually discovered it soon after I left the comment. Finishing season 1 episode 5 right now actually. And yes, so far I can say if Constantine bought the cannons and if the napalm mission didn't fail this battle would of probably went for the Roman. And If eastern Rome didnt fall we would of had the industrial revolution maybe 400 years earlier...

    • @ScentsOfSouthJersey
      @ScentsOfSouthJersey Před 3 lety +2

      @@livefire666 it’s one of the best docuseries I have ever seen, Constantine XI’s last speech and final moments were bad ass

    • @RafaelMartinez-ex3jo
      @RafaelMartinez-ex3jo Před 2 lety

      It’s Turkish sided because they won

    • @KabbalahSherry
      @KabbalahSherry Před 2 lety +2

      @@C0wb0yBebop - What do you meant it's very "Turkish sided?!" 🥴 They won, you idiot. He obviously was destined to take the city. Only somebody truly special, was ever gonna do it. I'm no Muslim, but for f*ck's sakes, it's not hard to give credit where it is due. I understand white people really have a hard time doing that, and it's instinct for ya'll to immediately side w/anyone European, etc. but... this was destiny. And Mehmet was a pretty just ruler all in all. A lot better than many European monarchs, that's for sure.

  • @thedoruk6324
    @thedoruk6324 Před 3 lety +28

    Byzantine hereby Thanks to 4rth Crusade and the Decimation of Eastern Rome Empire and the Sacking beforehand(!)

  • @Voyager-mc8lg
    @Voyager-mc8lg Před 3 lety +9

    Everybody gangster till ships starts walking

    • @victork1971
      @victork1971 Před měsícem

      Pigs don’t eat it because they don’t know how.

  • @acg1970
    @acg1970 Před 3 měsíci

    Fenomenal trabajo. Enhorabuena desde España

  • @northernbohemianrealist1412
    @northernbohemianrealist1412 Před 2 měsíci

    Fantastic, awe inspiring presentation!
    Special thanks to Johnny Depp for the narration.

  • @vuvuzelaasesina7690
    @vuvuzelaasesina7690 Před 3 lety +2

    great video. odd choice of voice reading letter though

  • @Big-T-Raw
    @Big-T-Raw Před rokem

    Great documentary!
    I wonder how many people have watched the 2012 released movie ‘The Conquest 1453’ which is all about the conquest of Constantinople..?

  • @alsiyonealternate
    @alsiyonealternate Před 3 lety +13

    It is said that during the final days of the siege, some "miraculous" events happened which contributed to the morale of both sides:
    For the Byzantines:
    There was a prophecy that the city will not fall until ships sail overland... well, we all know what happened with this.
    There was also a prophecy that the city will stand as long as the moon is in the heavens. Then a bloody lunar eclipse happened. An eclipse that looked like the Turkish flag.
    People began to pray and hold processions in the streets to seek God's help and forgiveness. Unfortunately, a thunderstorm arrived with icy pellets from the sky. The icon of the virgin mary that they were parading a few moments ago was toppled from its stand. Those in the procession tried to put back the icon and continue the procession, but for some reason they were not able to lift it atop. The flood that ensued broke the procession. Then after the storm, the next day, a huge fog covered the whole city (and this is in the month of May). People began to believe that god was abandoning them. When the fog lifted, people saw strange flicker of lights appear and fade in strange places, but most horrifyingly at the top of hagia sophia's dome. The light on top of the dome was slowly fading upwards and was so noticeable, it looked like it was on fire (and the hagia sophia's dome never experienced fire before).
    The believers thought this was the holy spirit leaving the city. If you were one of the defenders of the city on that time, if starvation did not break your morale, these events surely did.
    For the Ottomans:
    The found the grave of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion of the prophet Muhammad, near the walls of the city. He died many centuries ago, during the failed attempt of the Arabs to take Constantinople. This was one of the holiest people in their religion and for them to discover this at this time was surely a divine blessing in their eyes. If you were one of the Muslim attackers at that time, this will surely boost your morale a hundred fold.

  • @cptbillhead
    @cptbillhead Před 2 lety +1

    Good video, difficult to clearly understand audio..

  • @C0wb0yBebop
    @C0wb0yBebop Před 3 lety +5

    I’m impressed brother! Your voice has a calm tho sad octave to it.
    Good music, and great artwork chosen for the video- I just wish you had used more emotion and energy while describing the defense of the city- the last citizens of Rome did believe they would be saved by the Christian god. Their was fear but hope as well.
    The Roman principality of Trebizond still existed after, as did the Potentate of Achae. But they would not be be able to hold long onto the last vestige of Roman presence.

  • @ChalkInTheLand
    @ChalkInTheLand Před rokem +1

    Excellent video. But did the narrator record his dialogue next to a sleeping baby? He's speaking so softly that it's hard to hear what he's saying sometimes

  • @ioannisii.komnenos5931
    @ioannisii.komnenos5931 Před 3 lety +7

    Everybody gangsta till Constantine XI leaves his marble form

  • @cidadao.romano
    @cidadao.romano Před 2 lety +2

    ótimo canal, parabéns pela qualidade!
    Congrats from Brazil!

  • @andreweden9405
    @andreweden9405 Před 3 lety +2

    OMG, the vocal fry at the end of EVERY word! Really??? It's like you stop breathing, and the final syllables of words don't even come out at times!

  • @UniqueMonique513
    @UniqueMonique513 Před 3 lety +1

    I got here by recently watching ( Rise of Empires) OTTOMAN.

  • @toxiczombiewolf5692
    @toxiczombiewolf5692 Před 3 lety +2

    All these wars it's sad. Let's hopecwe learn from these and not have anymore, all that death for nothing.

    • @xcv505p
      @xcv505p Před 3 lety +4

      There will always be people who will try to take what belongs to others

    • @Anonymous-pw3se
      @Anonymous-pw3se Před rokem

      ​@@xcv505p like americans are doing in middle east

  • @ok-pj4eu
    @ok-pj4eu Před rokem

    Very good documentary but the narrator is not talking loud enough, it sounds like he's whispering.

  • @cwinowich
    @cwinowich Před 2 lety

    cool video but fix your audio, its hard to hear you and hurts to listen to !

  • @Eazy-ERyder
    @Eazy-ERyder Před rokem +1

    This was VERY good. From the ashes of the legendary fall of Constantinople came the GREAT Italian Renaissance.

  • @aszhole7777
    @aszhole7777 Před 3 lety +1

    2:23 here you can see the first anime in history

  • @neoskaisaras3454
    @neoskaisaras3454 Před 2 lety

    1:55 -- yes 1000x

  • @GODCHOSEISRAEL70
    @GODCHOSEISRAEL70 Před rokem +1

    Do you all want to know a history fact. Did you know legally by law the city Istanbul is not actually called Istanbul because by law it's still Constantinople
    When Israel 🇮🇱 became a nation in 1948 they signed a declaration confirming it after 3,000 years
    The Muslims never signed a paper so by constitutional law it's legally still Constantinople
    Someone should tell the Muslims this

  • @miramax6165
    @miramax6165 Před 3 lety +17

    Seems that Costantinople's resistance in 626, 674, 717 was not in vain. Those great men like Voltaire and Montesquieu wouldn't have to make these comments 300 years later after the fall of the Queen of cities on their knees facing Mecca.. I suppose this is the way to say "Merci" in the 18th century. Thank Lord i was born in the 20th..

  • @tobyroyparkerjr.233
    @tobyroyparkerjr.233 Před 3 lety +5

    Started the age of exploration,end the middle ages, and age of colonialusm.

  • @user-Kermit2677
    @user-Kermit2677 Před 2 měsíci

    9:03 he starts to talk about mehmet

  • @vangelisskia214
    @vangelisskia214 Před rokem +1

    "With the collapse of the empire in the west, its eastern counterpart became, in reality, an entirely new and independent state, at once Greek by language and Roman in name: 'A Greek Roman empire'."
    Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, pp. 212

  • @bulumacpaul8917
    @bulumacpaul8917 Před 3 lety +5

    High quality presentation on the fall of the ROMAN Empire, reduced to a single, but mighty city...

  • @kingdedede9135
    @kingdedede9135 Před 3 lety

    Amazing presentation. Did you consult the Netflix Ottomans docu-drama for this? Haha

  • @wewanttruth8392
    @wewanttruth8392 Před rokem

    Not bad but if I didn’t already know about this bits would have been confusing

  • @ismailshah8154
    @ismailshah8154 Před 3 lety +1

    Sources plzzzz

  • @bvillafuerte765
    @bvillafuerte765 Před 6 měsíci

    1. The walls broke before the guard did - Giovanni Giustiniani Longo, Hero Of The Imperium.
    2. First and last words of Rome: For the city!

  • @amineusfi
    @amineusfi Před 3 lety +1

    that would be great to see about the conquest of Iberia ( ANDALUSIA )

    • @Astorath_the_Grim
      @Astorath_the_Grim Před 2 lety +1

      I prefer the reconquista push the Moors out of Europe

    • @hussainashraf5179
      @hussainashraf5179 Před 2 lety

      @@Astorath_the_Grim moors took you spainish to americas and even gave you the architect and culture

    • @Anonymous-pw3se
      @Anonymous-pw3se Před rokem

      ​@@Astorath_the_Grim I prefer the conquest of Al Andalus by Tariq ibn Ziyad

  • @walterpay341
    @walterpay341 Před 3 lety +1

    is it me or has there just not been any major films or shows about the Eastern Roman Empire

  • @antibolsevism9814
    @antibolsevism9814 Před rokem +1

    The most sad event on earth was the fall of Constantinople , the most unfair and unjust event , Id rather have 10 world war 2 than the fall of Constantinople .

  • @Carlo-zk2cy
    @Carlo-zk2cy Před 3 lety +4

    Roman Empire (27 B.C. - 1453 A.D.)

  • @saifthegamercyborgsg3233
    @saifthegamercyborgsg3233 Před 8 měsíci

    No one admire hasan who was the first men plucked the flag on the wall of constantinople the most interesting thing is that he was shoted by more than 20 arrows but still managed to plucked the flag that shows how determined turks are to conquer constantinople the city is destined to be an Islamic state later.

  • @Yunus0980
    @Yunus0980 Před 2 lety +1

    It's not ''The Fall'', it's the CONQUER of Constantinople, big difference mate.

  • @VienasKunasIrVienaDvaisa
    @VienasKunasIrVienaDvaisa Před 2 lety +2

    What a tragedy

  • @gayretullah01
    @gayretullah01 Před 3 lety +6

    Fatih sultan mehmet han

    • @Michael_Veritas
      @Michael_Veritas Před 3 lety +1

      Seems more like an old school terrorist.

    • @borabayulug4248
      @borabayulug4248 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Michael_Veritasthe man you call a terrorist is the man who started the Renaissance.

    • @Michael_Veritas
      @Michael_Veritas Před 3 lety +1

      Borabay uluğ Constantinople was upscale. Istanbul is Ghetto. The neighborhood definitely went down hill.

    • @borabayulug4248
      @borabayulug4248 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Michael_VeritasI think you are a prejudiced Turkish enemy

  • @julianmarsh1378
    @julianmarsh1378 Před 2 lety

    No resources to hire mercenaries...lacking the ability to make their famous Greek Fire, the few thousand defenders of Constantinople and their emperor, rank up there with the 300 Spartans.

  • @ralphc1405
    @ralphc1405 Před 2 lety

    What about the Venetian armada? How many soldiers were there? How long did they mobilize before they were too late in coming to the Romans aid???

    • @1992zorro
      @1992zorro Před 2 lety

      They never came, those traitors....

    • @edoardobergamo9888
      @edoardobergamo9888 Před rokem

      Honestly the Venetian armada (45 galley) was on his way to Constantinople but departs too late to save the city and it was in the Aegean when the city fell…..traitors I don’t think so because the Venetians were waiting for the crusaders from all Europe and honestly the Venetians tried eventually to defend the city not like your ancestors

  • @Hborn
    @Hborn Před 3 lety

    Did they have running water in there?

  • @user-oq8my3po7c
    @user-oq8my3po7c Před 3 lety +13

    If you want to blame someone, blame the Crusaders who occupied Constantinople, destroyed it, stole it, and killed its people, unlike the Muslims, who respected it, and chose Sofia as a sacred place of worship, not a museum that is trampled upon! You, too, have converted Muslim mosques in the Balkans into churches or bars. I have no problem converting them to churches for the remembrance of God, but if you convert them to animal corridors or a nightclub !! This is insolence!

    • @paulengstrom432
      @paulengstrom432 Před 3 lety

      turn them into casinos, to earn some income for the impoverished people there. bingo, anyone?

    • @ragael1024
      @ragael1024 Před 3 lety

      to be honest, i blame the romans most of all. they doomed themselves with their incompetence, while enemies around them only grew stronger. it was natural they would fall. still, places of worship should remain for their intended purpose and religion. turning them is sacrilege in my honest opinion. regardless by whom.

    • @OskarStoddart
      @OskarStoddart Před 2 lety

      It was the Seljuk turks, the mongolian-turkos who on their way killed so many of your brothers. Constantinople was basically Shia and the Turks Sunni

    • @Beltims
      @Beltims Před rokem

      Ottomans looted and pillaged the city for three days after it fell, enslaving, killing, and raping thousands of citizens. All sides committed atrocities against each other for hundreds of years. So don't act like all holy. None of those victims or perpetrators are even alive, so it's pointless to even lay blame.

    • @andersonmahoney2331
      @andersonmahoney2331 Před rokem

      Wrong if the Ottoman conquerors were to respect it they would not have raped girls and boys inside the Hagia Sophia. They wouldn’t have sold children for sexual slavery to pedophiles either. They were literally raping children.

  • @randommuslim2149
    @randommuslim2149 Před 3 lety +9

    Some say constantine :
    - Hanged himself
    - died in battle
    - escaped
    Its more probable that he was killed based on the eye witness and historian george sphrantez and others

    • @kulasirisiri1155
      @kulasirisiri1155 Před 3 lety +14

      He was a hero, he did not accept Sultan memed, demands to convert to Islam, he died defending the Christian faith,

    • @vidkit3595
      @vidkit3595 Před 3 lety +6

      @@kulasirisiri1155 No, that's not true. In reality there are usually one of three demands, number one convert, number two give up the city without fighting keep your religion you and all those inside including their possessions will be spared and finally if you don't like any of those, then fight till the end, he chose the last.

    • @ercanylmaz967
      @ercanylmaz967 Před 3 lety +6

      @@kulasirisiri1155 he died like a dog

    • @polbasilio8290
      @polbasilio8290 Před 3 lety +3

      @@ercanylmaz967 Lies

    • @azerty789100
      @azerty789100 Před 3 lety +2

      @@ercanylmaz967 dog is more valuable than your miserable existence

  • @obabas80
    @obabas80 Před 3 lety +4

    Constantinople used to be a world metropolis because it was diverse and drew ideas and strength from all over the world. Today it is just the largest city in Turkey and no longer has that world prestige. Sad, but the Turks cleansing the city and making it entirely Turkish is the cause of this. People from all over the world no longer flock to it, or see it as a mega city such as New York today.

    • @Aurora-dv5tx
      @Aurora-dv5tx Před 2 lety +3

      On the contrary, Istanbul continues to be the heart of the world.
      It is in a completely different position with its international historical ethnic structure.
      You cannot compare Istanbul not only with a city in America, but also with the whole country. Istanbul is a very special and privileged city.
      I have a family of Scandinavian descent. My family has been living in Istanbul for 300 years.
      full of people from many ethnicities of the world like me

    • @obabas80
      @obabas80 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Aurora-dv5tx Istanbul is like 95% Turkish. You have Scandinavian descent from 300 years ago because back then it was before Turkish nationalism and genocide and pogroms against all Christians living in the city. Today Istanbul is just the largest city in Turkey. No foreign minds really see it as a beacon of opportunity to bring their gifts to and make new ideas. This in essence is the major reason it lost its status as a world metropolis.

    • @chrisrose7286
      @chrisrose7286 Před 2 lety

      Naaaa that is bs. The greeks even killed all italians in the city not long before the muslims came. So they did the same as well… constantinople is not the same cause the world changed. Economics change. Superpowers change… so clearly the metropolis’s will be in the us or southeast asia or europe

    • @hussainashraf5179
      @hussainashraf5179 Před 2 lety

      @@obabas80 if ottomans would have been intolerant most of southeastern europe would have been muslim today

    • @Anonymous-pw3se
      @Anonymous-pw3se Před rokem

      ​@@obabas80 I feel sad thinking about what happened to Muslims and Jews in Al Andalus because of barbaric spanish inquisition

  • @steve5123456789
    @steve5123456789 Před 2 lety +2

    You forgot to mention a gate was left open by mistake.

  • @alexsiu8006
    @alexsiu8006 Před 6 měsíci

    Nevertheless, the strategy of Ottomans should be greatly appreciated:
    Instead of conquering the city (which was extremely well protected by high wall and seawater) directly, Ottomans had purposely occupied most of the original territories of the Empire first and the Empire thus became much weaker before the final war in 1453. Since the Empire had lost control of most trade routes in Argean Sea either, the 'Romans' eventually lacked any financial and material supports outside the city during the time of siege. The victory of Ottomans was then just a matter of time.

  • @morganfreeaimthebountyhunt7682

    If the Dos Equis guy was a city...

  • @Kamadev888
    @Kamadev888 Před 3 lety +6

    For a spectacular film version of this, watch "Conquest 1453".

    • @AndreyutzuBestBoy
      @AndreyutzuBestBoy Před 3 lety +1

      That movie makes the romans look very bad..

    • @WorldView22
      @WorldView22 Před 3 lety +3

      "For a spectacular propaganda", you mean.

    • @enricomanno8434
      @enricomanno8434 Před 2 lety

      A film made by the modern Turks... with pseudo historical facts

  • @mbcchase
    @mbcchase Před 3 lety +1

    Theres a Netflix show about this too

    • @Temuho
      @Temuho Před 3 lety

      Name?

    • @syedazam2568
      @syedazam2568 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Temuho Rise of Empires: Ottomans

    • @syedazam2568
      @syedazam2568 Před 3 lety

      @shark .mp5 Rise of Empires Ottomans

    • @elvenkind6072
      @elvenkind6072 Před 3 lety +1

      The book by Roger Crowley, that the show is based on, is much, much better.

  • @V.P.M
    @V.P.M Před 3 lety

    Great video but to much hyperbolic you better explain the mehmed II background than hyperbolic keep make video dude great work

    • @V.P.M
      @V.P.M Před 3 lety

      And your voice is to small

    • @alb_narco1809
      @alb_narco1809 Před 3 lety +1

      In islamic history is said that he died protecting his city .i am muslim but sulltam mehmed the conquerior the cesar has riconized his bravery .he was a brave man .sory for my english

    • @V.P.M
      @V.P.M Před 3 lety

      @@alb_narco1809 i cant understand what you say, what are your native leanguage? I am indonesian, and i am a muslim to

    • @alb_narco1809
      @alb_narco1809 Před 3 lety +1

      @@V.P.M i am albanian brother . He hasnt told why muslim want this city .the hadith of profet muhammed peace be upon him.he hasnt told nothing about sultan mehmed the cesar and the conqurior .he told that mulsims cilled the people when the decree of our sultan is still valid today and says that no one will be harmed when he enteree instanbul.he tell the story like christians not like it was . But thanks good that city and aya sophia are muslik places today

    • @V.P.M
      @V.P.M Před 3 lety +1

      @@alb_narco1809 wow albanian yeah he bias thats why i said to much hyperbolic, and i heard hagya sophia is become a masjid again,

  • @twirajuda
    @twirajuda Před rokem +2

    Constantinople was a shadow of its former greatness when the Ottomans took over. Even when it fell impoverished it put up a hell of a fight, unlike the last Ottoman sultan, who meekly abdicated his throne when his empire fell after WW1

    • @tanura5830
      @tanura5830 Před rokem

      Wrong comparison for various reasons. But yeah the last Ottoman sultan was pssy but new leaders that kicked him out made up for it

  • @HepatitisBChannelHepatitisB

    great vid very poor narrator voice..... whispering mumbling lisping

  • @tanura5830
    @tanura5830 Před 2 lety +2

    Rip Roman empire

  • @jaegershoemaker8959
    @jaegershoemaker8959 Před 2 lety

    way too many long af ads

  • @Gurziak
    @Gurziak Před 3 lety +4

    Someone has been playing Crusader Kings 2 lately

    • @Michael_Veritas
      @Michael_Veritas Před 3 lety

      This person is too busy deleting comments. Any criticism and your comments gets removed.

    • @cryosteam3944
      @cryosteam3944 Před 3 lety +2

      Michael X yet here your comment is

    • @Gurziak
      @Gurziak Před 3 lety

      @@cryosteam3944 wtf did I miss

  • @karlbahena1733
    @karlbahena1733 Před 3 lety +3

    Mark the end of middle ages

    • @enricomanno8434
      @enricomanno8434 Před 2 lety

      And the beginning of the Renaissance... create it in Italy ..in Florence
      Science... technology... perspective view... arts... and Banks

  • @john-doemcalias4759
    @john-doemcalias4759 Před 3 lety +1

    My guy the way you say sultan instantly reminded me of dude wheres my car 😂
    ZALT-HAN!!

  • @vangelisskia214
    @vangelisskia214 Před rokem

    "But the Byzantines did not understand this as a transfer of the capital; they conceived it as the transfer of the imperial rule, of basileia, to their city, to their land, thus ACTUALLY CREATING A NEW STATE. First and foremost, they considered themselves as descendants of Constantine the Great and not of Alexander the Great, David or Augustus."
    Malatras, C. (2009) ‘The perception of the Roman heritage in 12th century Byzantium’ Rosetta 7.5: 1-8
    Anna Komnene states that the imperial rule has been transferred:
    "to OUR OWN LAND and OUR OWN IMPERIAL CITY and so did the primacy of the sees".
    (Μεταπεπτωκότων γὰρ τῶν σκήπτρων ἐκεῖθεν ἐνθάδεεἰς τὴν ἡµεδαπήν τε καὶ ἡµετέραν βασιλίδα πόλιν καὶ δὴ καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου καὶ ἅµα πάσης τῆς τάξεως µεταπέπτωκε καὶ ἡ τῶν θρόνων ἀρχιερατικὴ τάξις)

  • @Mofifty31
    @Mofifty31 Před 3 lety +4

    So what was it blood ran in the streets or there were barely any people to man the walls? I'm confused

    • @ChesterCopperpot80
      @ChesterCopperpot80 Před 3 lety +1

      Blood ran the streets, but it was the unarmed civilians. The empire was depleted by that time. They had very few soldiers. The blood was from the massacre afterwards

    • @NA-ll2nf
      @NA-ll2nf Před 3 lety +5

      @@ChesterCopperpot80 what massacre of citizens are you talking about? The Muslims weren’t like the Christians when they took Jerusalem.

    • @ChesterCopperpot80
      @ChesterCopperpot80 Před 3 lety +3

      @@NA-ll2nf I’m talking about when mehmet killed and enslaved the entire civilian population that was left in the city for 3 straight days. About 30,000 got killed or enslaved

    • @katalinstefanikdr.5270
      @katalinstefanikdr.5270 Před 3 lety +1

      @@NA-ll2nf They were. They murdered circa 60.000 of unarmed civilians at once. And min.60.000 of greek citizens were delivered as slaves. Your belowed sultan ordered it. You'd like to deal with others war crimes very much, instead of yours onces. There is no pardon for you at all!

    • @NA-ll2nf
      @NA-ll2nf Před 3 lety

      @@katalinstefanikdr.5270 So you believe the propaganda given by the pope and his treason towards God? I am only speaking the truth take it or leave it

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple883 Před 2 lety

    Was constantinople classed as a country, kingdom, I'm a bit confused. How did the people turn to Islam so quick and why . I know it was conquer by the Muslims. Outside of that city who ruled and who were the people there who did they associate with.

    • @hussainashraf5179
      @hussainashraf5179 Před 2 lety

      There are 2 billion muslims in this world and 57 muslim nations😊😊😊😊

  • @jimmybolas9762
    @jimmybolas9762 Před 3 lety +6

    It was one of the “west” most defensible positions. China has had walls that double its size in width and height for millennia, they even lasted till the the 1800s.

    • @datukrajo1807
      @datukrajo1807 Před 3 lety +4

      R u kidding ? Chinese Walls is one the most useless wall in the history of human. Do you know how many nomads from the northern asia had invaded Beijing or China proper in the past ? Please explained about the invasion of Jurchen, Mongol, Manchu and many more. You pretend to be smart but you're not smart enough mate. Read more book then argue, okay !
      On the other hand, Constantinople only invaded twice in its lifetime
      1. Sack of Constantinople in 1204 by Crusader and Internal Conflict
      2. Siege of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks

    • @tanura5830
      @tanura5830 Před rokem

      China walls were so useless you could jump over them. Very bad comparison

  • @SymphonyBrahms
    @SymphonyBrahms Před 3 lety +8

    The fall of the Ottoman Empire came in 1920. The Ottomans had sided with Germany in World War I. The victorious Allies ended the Sultanate, and removed the Turks from the Middle East. All they had left was Anatolia, which is now modern day Turkey. The Allies should have also taken back Thrace and the city of Constantinople and given it back to Greece.

    • @ridaelmoutaoukki2047
      @ridaelmoutaoukki2047 Před 3 lety +5

      Nah, istanbul will always be for turks and muslims

    • @rakshitraina3203
      @rakshitraina3203 Před 3 lety +2

      @@ridaelmoutaoukki2047 Hubris

    • @talatguneyli2124
      @talatguneyli2124 Před 2 lety +2

      Read the history of Turkish independence and you will learn what happened. Istanbul was occupied by allied powers but they had to leave as they came.

    • @Emrah87ification
      @Emrah87ification Před 2 měsíci

      In your dreams 🤭

  • @golgumbazguide...4113
    @golgumbazguide...4113 Před 6 měsíci

    ok

  • @Agapy8888
    @Agapy8888 Před 2 lety +1

    It’s Konstantinopoli.

  • @ozzbaris1
    @ozzbaris1 Před 2 lety +2

    Byzantium was destine to collapse when declared a religion as an offical state religion. Then, the Scholastic fundamentalism become a notion of rulings of the Empire and resulted the underestimation of science. As it can be seen today, average people or countries that drifted apart from scientific and critical thinking, become miracle seeker, resist to changing, live in fear while the world around them changing. While Byzantium declined in science after official religion, Ottomans were advanced in technology and able to produce cannons that could beat the defence walls, the techniques that could help moving their ships over the land behind of the fortifications and placing mines under the defence walls that used in WW2 later. The fall of Byzantium, sparkled separation of state from the church, ended the darkness of Mediaeval and started Renaissance. When countries get conservative, traditionalist, patriotic and could not separate state from the church they would follow Byzantium.

  • @rockrock2587
    @rockrock2587 Před 3 lety

    Surah 9 : 29 calls for OFFENSIVE Jihad NOT DEFENSIVE.
    Ibn Kathir describe the historical problem as money problem,
    that led them to fight unbelievers to have Jizyah.

  • @antejuric-bare4858
    @antejuric-bare4858 Před 2 lety

    And then they came to croatia , antemurale christianitatis 🇭🇷🙏

  • @benquinney2
    @benquinney2 Před 3 lety

    Essex
    Nimitz

  • @Crashed131963
    @Crashed131963 Před 3 lety +2

    Why did they not take the city back in 1919 when France and Britain were cutting up the defeated Ottoman Empire like a pizza?

    • @shariqp3732
      @shariqp3732 Před 3 lety +2

      Muslim cuts ottoman empire you couldn't cut

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 Před 3 lety +3

      @@shariqp3732 France and Britain cut up the empire . There was no Turkey ,Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Modern Syria and Iraq countries and border until Britain and France made them up.

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 Před 3 lety +2

      @shark .mp5 Ottomans where sided with the losing side with Germany, Austria-Hungary Empire , and Bulgaria.
      The Austria -Hungary Empire all was dismantled also.
      After it was over Turkey a new country of the dismantled Ottoman Empire may have had a civil war.
      It's why the Middle East always fights. The Europeans who made up these new countries did not factor in Shia ,Sunni and Kurd populations and mixed them altogether.
      Israel was jut the cherry on top.

    • @cjclark2002
      @cjclark2002 Před 2 lety +1

      Because it was their national capital and turks would of vehemently refused to do so, plus the other powers were more focused on taking and splitting up between them the ottomans southern middle eastern territories and leaving the antiola mainland be.

  • @robinarden8877
    @robinarden8877 Před 3 lety +19

    The Russians still call it Constantinople, and so do I. (1453 was a Bad year). 😖😫😩🥺

    • @nevize6660
      @nevize6660 Před 2 lety +7

      Nah, call it istanbul, ottomans were great

    • @furkanbozdag8198
      @furkanbozdag8198 Před rokem +2

      How was it a bad year are you a greek

    • @robinarden8877
      @robinarden8877 Před rokem +2

      It was the fall of the Roman Empire... The end of the civilised world as we knew it... But the Ottomans were Defeated at the gates of Vienna, not once but twice... (By the Hasburg Holy Roman Empire)... Those were better days for Christianity

    • @eraybasmaya7704
      @eraybasmaya7704 Před 8 měsíci

      Thankfully we Turks don’t give a f-ck about what you think or call Istanbul 🤡 😂

    • @alvirarahman2690
      @alvirarahman2690 Před 8 měsíci

      @@robinarden8877excuse me? End of the civilized world? You r joking surely? Since when did Barbaric, uneducated Greeks create civilized world when all they had done was attack the neighbors and plunder their lands?

  • @destinyhenderson1144
    @destinyhenderson1144 Před 2 lety

    i like the info but why do all these channels have annoying voices narrating lol

  • @ardic66
    @ardic66 Před 3 lety

    For Correction City of Roman Catholism and not of Christianity. Because since the time Jesus nailed on the cross that was the start of Christian persecution by the Roman Empire and Jewish panatics to Judaism.