Szigetvar 1566 - OTTOMAN WARS DOCUMENTARY

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    Our animated historical documentary series on the Ottoman history continues with the famous siege of Szigetvar of 1566, during which the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I fought against the Hungarian-Croatian army under Nikola Zrinski. This was another page in the Ottoman-Habsburg conflict and the final campaign of the Sultan Suleiman.
    Previously in our animated historical documentary series on the Ottoman Wars, we have covered the battles of Kosovo (bit.ly/2JI3F0p), Nicopolis (bit.ly/2zUNRre), Ankara (bit.ly/2uW7r0D), Varna (bit.ly/2JIK2VG), Second Kosovo, Constantinople (bit.ly/2uELWlI), Belgrade, Targoviste and Otlukbeli (bit.ly/2JOBlcQ), Vaslui, Valea Alba (bit.ly/2C9Cm0l), Skanderbeg's rebellion (bit.ly/2BYMYgW), Breadfield, Krbava, Otranto and Chaldiran (bit.ly/2DUa3mJ)the Ottoman-Mamluk War of 1516-1517 (bit.ly/2CxSkyp), siege of Rhodes in 1522 (bit.ly/2GHrRTC), the battle of Mohacs of 1526 (bit.ly/2V1YgeQ), the siege of Vienna of 1529 (bit.ly/2VRujdc), the battle of Preveza (bit.ly/2KR1uwf) and the battles of Gorjani, siege of Castelnuovo (bit.ly/2MoDZMa), sieges of Buda and Eger (bit.ly/2kcVkuK) and the Siege of Malta (bit.ly/374kXSh)
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  Před 4 lety +777

    We have finally been upgraded from killing the envoys to killing the personal doctors. GREAT SUCCESS!
    Oh, and, another video on Monday!

    • @Jodonho
      @Jodonho Před 4 lety +21

      W00t!

    • @Steven-fi4gf
      @Steven-fi4gf Před 4 lety +3

      Thanks for the upload! 👍

    • @abhisheknanda9956
      @abhisheknanda9956 Před 4 lety +10

      Plz do a anglo-indian war series(anglo-maratha, anglo-mysore,anglo-sikh,paika rebellion and Indian war or independence)

    • @denniscleary7580
      @denniscleary7580 Před 4 lety +4

      Still can’t wait for Spartacus baby 😁👍

    • @knightshade1297
      @knightshade1297 Před 4 lety

      Will it be about the 3 crusade?

  • @ErickTheRed1
    @ErickTheRed1 Před 4 lety +2382

    Zrinski literally held out long enough to see the Sultan die of old age

    • @yrlikng5767
      @yrlikng5767 Před 4 lety +160

      He didnt knew the sultan was dead tho, no one knew it

    • @grandadmiralzaarin4962
      @grandadmiralzaarin4962 Před 4 lety +207

      Suliman to his Pashas, "This is Zrinski, the man will fight to the bitter end...and then some!"
      Zrinski to the Austrians, "I don't think I can hold Szigetvar indefinitely, but I do believe I can make it a name that makes Ottoman Sultans cry at night."

    • @ilijaciceric2795
      @ilijaciceric2795 Před 4 lety +29

      Zrinski legendary says"GOOD is to high and the empire too far!

    • @maleficusvictor9887
      @maleficusvictor9887 Před 4 lety +13

      Imagine, he nearly of the st peters gate, and there is the Sultan, speaking with the angels, and both look each other and greeting in respect.

    • @grandadmiralzaarin4962
      @grandadmiralzaarin4962 Před 4 lety +21

      @@Billythetoaster2004 it is indeed that quote and I see you too are a True Bannerman of the Rightful King.
      However given Zrinski's iron heroism and unbending nature in this siege I felt the man worthy of such a comparison to the King I declared for.

  • @jackcroatan
    @jackcroatan Před 3 lety +199

    Nikola Šubić Zrinski comes from an old Croatian noble family which is one of the Twelve noble tribes of Croatia and a great noble house that constituted Croatian statehood in the Middle Ages. They held the county of Bribir (Varvaria) in inland Dalmatia. From them branched the prominent Zrinski family. Count Nikola IV Zrinski (born 1508) was the Ban of Dalmatia, Slavonia and Croatia, the commander of Szigetvár (from 1561), and the Habsburg commander in western Hungary (from 1563). He is considered the most courageous and prominent member of the Zrinski family, which together with the Frankopans was the most distinguished and famous noble family in Croatian history.

  • @savytraveler790
    @savytraveler790 Před 4 lety +317

    On one university in Japan, a song U Boj, from Opera Nikola Subic Zrinski is popular and all graduates are singing it.
    It is interesting how they learned about the song.. After the I WW, ship from Austrian Navy, was stuck in one coastal city in Japan, needed maintenance & repair, so the sailors stayed there for some time. Most of the sailors were Croats, Checks, Hungarians etc, and since they would sing a song about Zrinski, locals learnt it as well. Just recently, few years ago, the quire from Japanese university visited Croatia and sung the song about Zrinski, that they learnt from sailors after I WW. They performed in national opera house in Zagreb, and their performance was more then stunning.

  • @Fervellion
    @Fervellion Před 3 lety +121

    At the last charge, Zrinski filled his coat with gold coins saying that the man who killed him would not go unrewarded for killing a commander.

  • @anarrivingwingedhussar9692
    @anarrivingwingedhussar9692 Před 4 lety +255

    These types of battles are what I love about history and warfare. Nothing is more badass then being outnumbered and laughing in the face of death, before fighting to the last man. God bless the heroes of Szigetvar.

    • @tomislavmeeral3810
      @tomislavmeeral3810 Před 3 lety +17

      If only you arrived

    • @yeshwant5875
      @yeshwant5875 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tomislavmeeral3810 LoL.

    • @CrvenkapicaIVZNG
      @CrvenkapicaIVZNG Před 2 lety +20

      This is what the Croatian military borderr is used to. Hopelessly outnumbered, grinning contemptuously in the face of the enemy and death. That's what my ancestors (all military borderers) did for more than 400 years. Laughed in the face of the Ottoman Empire. I did that myself in 1991/92 against the Serbs.
      Das ist es, woran der kroatische Militärgrenzer gewohnt ist. Zahlenmäßig hoffnungslos unterlegen, dem Feind und den Tod verachtend ins Gesicht grinsen. Das haben meine Vorfahren (allesamt Militärgrenzer) mehr als 400 Jahre lang getan. Dem Osmanischen Reich ins Gesicht gelacht. Das habe ich selbst 1991/92 gegenüber den Serben gemacht.

    • @berkzyhd
      @berkzyhd Před rokem

      @@CrvenkapicaIVZNG at the end we got the last laugh we destroyed you and your friends even in battle where we were outnumbered like belgrade battle TURKIYE TURKIYE!

    • @eongerbe
      @eongerbe Před 10 měsíci +2

      ​@@CrvenkapicaIVZNGwell,that is just like any other balkan people of that time-kicking the shit out of the ottomans while heavily outnumbered,all in vain,as they sent another, and another army...
      May the memory of our brave ancestors live on,greetings from Moldova

  • @rexcroatorum7654
    @rexcroatorum7654 Před 4 lety +498

    Kings and Generals thank you from a croat for covering this battle. You have no idea what it means to me, a history fanatic, to see this event about my small but proud country on your channel.
    Thank you!

    • @rexcroatorum7654
      @rexcroatorum7654 Před 3 lety +15

      @@rocketleague2136 Aj mali spavat kasno je vec.

    • @rexcroatorum7654
      @rexcroatorum7654 Před 3 lety +39

      @@rocketleague2136 Dijete popij mlijeko i legni. Nije ti ovdje mjesto.

    • @rexcroatorum7654
      @rexcroatorum7654 Před 3 lety +17

      @@rocketleague2136 Nisu napadi, cinjenica je da si mulac. Po videima na tvom kanalu predpostavljam da nisi ni 15 godina napunio. Mlijeko i spavanac mali.

    • @rexcroatorum7654
      @rexcroatorum7654 Před 3 lety +35

      @@rocketleague2136 Daj mi broj od mame, moram malo ozbiljnije razgovarat snjom. 9 je vec a jos nisi u krevetu.

    • @samocovek9382
      @samocovek9382 Před 3 lety +3

      Not only Croats...There were Croats, Hungarians, Poles, Czechs, Serbs, Slovaks....

  • @thesenate8743
    @thesenate8743 Před 4 lety +442

    I live in Croatia, near the place where Zrinski lived. We have a statue of him and celebrate him as one of national heroes

    • @madcro8209
      @madcro8209 Před 4 lety +18

      @Selim Sultan Akbar Did you not watch the video? :D

    • @filipskalic3376
      @filipskalic3376 Před 4 lety +17

      Selim Sultan Akbar hello goatboy , when u coming back to balkans hah

    • @filipskalic3376
      @filipskalic3376 Před 4 lety +4

      The Senate what would croatian star wars fan choose for his avatar ? Sith lord character ofcourse haha

    • @think9747
      @think9747 Před 3 lety +4

      @@filipskalic3376 wtf we are in balkans idiot you are goat and pig we are not eating that like you

    • @imthatOlivia
      @imthatOlivia Před 3 lety +9

      There is a Zrinyi street in every Hungarian town and village.

  • @kinidiosodlosios6892
    @kinidiosodlosios6892 Před 2 lety +94

    Fun fact There is Croatian football club in Herzegovina name after him and it is most successful club in Bosnia

  • @maddocpax788
    @maddocpax788 Před 4 lety +315

    Nikola Šubić Zrinski was a Croatian noble in charge of a fortress in Hungary. He had enlarged prepared his garrison for just this; it numbered 2500 troops, about a third of them Hungarian, the rest being Croatian. He has been celebrated since as a hero both by Croatians and Hungarians (they call him Miklos Zrinyi).
    In the late 19th century his deeds were made into an opera by Ivan pl. Zajc (a rather good one). By a freak occurrence, the finale of this work was spread to Japan at the end of WW1 by some Austro-Hungarian sailors; the Japanese learned it by heart, but would not learn of its origin for another 60 years after 10 years of research. Today it is the anthem of the prestigious Kwansei Gakuin University in Kobe.

    • @greciawesomemangreciawesom8756
      @greciawesomemangreciawesom8756 Před 3 lety +3

      Zrinyi indulo, for as I know is one of the Hungarian versions of the melody

    • @kkkkk9815
      @kkkkk9815 Před 2 lety +5

      You mean mixed his mother was from Széchy family a hungarian family

    • @agytamas42
      @agytamas42 Před 2 lety +3

      His great grandson by the same name wrote a grand epic about the siege in hungarian, which was published in 1647-48, and translated to croatian by the brother of the author.

    • @earthlingavian1132
      @earthlingavian1132 Před 2 lety +17

      Bushido code, greatest honor is to die for your people. I am not suprised that Japanese would like this opera.

    • @kkkkk9815
      @kkkkk9815 Před 2 lety +1

      @Fatali khan khoyski 🇦🇿 No he mom was hungarian

  • @lecno1721
    @lecno1721 Před 4 lety +290

    Finally! Small Croatia receives some recognition! Thank you!

    • @ThePtoleme
      @ThePtoleme Před 4 lety +73

      They are a small people today because of the 4+ centuries of sacrifice to fight the Ottomans. But they were a great people before the invasion.

    • @stipegaspar3121
      @stipegaspar3121 Před 4 lety +37

      Find war story about Gvozdansko , you will see again what is croatian heroism.

    • @kristinalacic4782
      @kristinalacic4782 Před 4 lety +36

      We are small but We have balls

    • @holeephuk
      @holeephuk Před 4 lety +9

      @@kristinalacic4782 ti ih sigurno nemaš 😂

    • @kristinalacic4782
      @kristinalacic4782 Před 4 lety +34

      @@holeephuk ima moj muž, koji je i komentirao ovo, a nije primjetio biser da je na mom profilu 🙈

  • @neerajvishwanath3179
    @neerajvishwanath3179 Před 4 lety +817

    The Kings and Generals Ottoman series is one of the greatest historical docuseries no cap

    • @samratkharvel5361
      @samratkharvel5361 Před 4 lety +3

      chup dusmno ka Channel isashe nafrat kar ye bharat ka map aur itihash galat dikhata hai paschimi kutta

    • @hakimsen7147
      @hakimsen7147 Před 4 lety +3

      Abid Abrar Milky 2 And almost İtaly

    • @mahfuzannan8270
      @mahfuzannan8270 Před 4 lety +6

      @Boris Erdogan Only death of Sultan Mehmet halted the progress.

    • @Masaru_kun
      @Masaru_kun Před 4 lety

      SKANDERBEG

    • @abhisheknanda9956
      @abhisheknanda9956 Před 4 lety

      @@samratkharvel5361 gandu kiya galat dikhaya be.

  • @radogost1536
    @radogost1536 Před 3 lety +246

    Zrinskis great-grandson, Peter Zrinski, was also a military mastermind, in 1663 he ambushed around 10 000 bosnian/otoman raiders with only around 2500 men, 8000 enemies were killed

    • @radogost1536
      @radogost1536 Před 3 lety +5

      @Min Tin Yeah, there might be some bias but as far as im aware there is no otoman empire anymore, btw i hate when someone replies to my comment and youtube doesn't notify me at all...

    • @ahmadashraf2728
      @ahmadashraf2728 Před 2 lety

      @@radogost1536 if ottomans would.have been intolerant most of europe would have been muslim today

    • @radogost1536
      @radogost1536 Před 2 lety +7

      ​@@ahmadashraf2728 imo they were as equaly bad as the western catholics (at that time period, approximately...). Serbia for example chose to become a vassal of the otomans rather than becoming a catholic vassal (otomans gave serbs freedom of religion, western catholics would have likely converted them from ortodoxy to catholicism). Maybe your otoman ancestors would have accomplished something if they werent messing with the slavs 😂, one who tries to conquer slavic lands always ultimately looses.

    • @ahmadashraf2728
      @ahmadashraf2728 Před 2 lety

      @@radogost1536 Thats why when ottoamns landed in otranto with their navy in 1481 and massacred all people in naples and entire christendom and pope was peeing in their pants😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @muazzamshaikh2049
      @muazzamshaikh2049 Před 2 lety +4

      @@radogost1536 I think Serbia chose to become a vassal of the ottomans because they had no choice... There was no other stronger empire in that region. After the great Turkish war from which point the Habsburgs gained the upper hand, many Serbs fled to Habsburg empire. The Austrians were tolerant of the Serbs. In fact many Serbs regarded Austrians as their liberators from the ottomans. Relations between Austria and Serbia only became bad after Serbia gained its independence from the ottomans and the promotion of pan slavic ideology,which would indirectly lead to the great war

  • @RichardKalfic
    @RichardKalfic Před 4 lety +171

    Finally Croatia in the Kings and Generals! More videos about Croatia please 😊

  • @hajdukMikboban
    @hajdukMikboban Před 11 měsíci +47

    Nikola Zrinski was a great Croatian warrior who still gets great respect today,
    Even an opera was dedicated to him
    God save us all
    Greets and cheers ✌️✝️🇭🇷👍
    + MIK +

    • @szilvesztercsaszar4027
      @szilvesztercsaszar4027 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Croatian-Hungarian.

    • @hajduksplit_913
      @hajduksplit_913 Před 4 měsíci +5

      ​@@szilvesztercsaszar4027ethnic Croatian* but fought for Hungarian-Croatian Personal Union.

    • @szilvesztercsaszar4027
      @szilvesztercsaszar4027 Před 4 měsíci

      @@hajduksplit_913 precisely 🙂 but somehow he became Hungarian in Hungarian history books. or maybe I didn't pay attention 😃

    • @jednamalavjeverica
      @jednamalavjeverica Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@szilvesztercsaszar4027 he was a croatian nobel....

    • @szilvesztercsaszar4027
      @szilvesztercsaszar4027 Před 2 měsíci

      @@Ottomans54 who said that was a victory? it seems that you're having an imaginary argument

  • @attilakatona-bugner1140
    @attilakatona-bugner1140 Před 4 lety +977

    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    For a tiny castle
    20.000 will do.

    • @aoecenturion4713
      @aoecenturion4713 Před 4 lety +23

      give this guy medal ..

    • @Ray19888
      @Ray19888 Před 4 lety +3

      Clever very clever

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +17

      It was more than 20 000 maybe even 30 000

    • @maizen1403
      @maizen1403 Před 4 lety +10

      @@yit9893 they're are not even 20.000 European at Nicopolis xd

    • @maizen1403
      @maizen1403 Před 4 lety +24

      @@yit9893 well the Ottoman also took heavy casualties at Vaslui, 140.000, 220.000 during Skandeberg rebellion, 20.000 at Castlenuovo
      35.000 at Malta
      But then again I admit how powerful Ottoman Empire was

  • @fuac
    @fuac Před 4 lety +1321

    Video length is 14:53, I see what you did there :D

    • @TeutonicEmperor1198
      @TeutonicEmperor1198 Před 4 lety +12

      damn!!! 2 minutes late!!

    • @yaydinkara
      @yaydinkara Před 4 lety +77

      It says 14:54 on my device

    • @neversayamk
      @neversayamk Před 4 lety +21

      yeaaaaaah bittcheeesssss ottoman rulezzzz

    • @tamerkandemir
      @tamerkandemir Před 4 lety +6

      is the conquest history of istanbul.

    • @Thenoisyoneyes
      @Thenoisyoneyes Před 4 lety +26

      Guys please we all know it's 14:54
      Just pretend it's not for the sake of memes

  • @igorkovcin7112
    @igorkovcin7112 Před 3 lety +83

    As a Croatian i can say that we all knew and admire Nikola Šubić Zrinski. Honour to the fallen

  • @sreckocuvalo8110
    @sreckocuvalo8110 Před 3 lety +83

    Ottoman army: ''This will be a short siege.''
    Every singel defender of Szigetvar: ''So I took that personaly.''

    • @ehatipo4598
      @ehatipo4598 Před 2 lety +2

      I don't think they expected to be short as Szigetvar is a though castle composed of 3 different islands. Plus, their enemy knew the territory better than them, they probably expected to have more casualties but maybe not that many. This was Suleiman's last attempt to die as a soldier rather than on his deathbed. But, it made a great history and gave change Hungarians to defend their castle bravely.

  • @VladderGraf
    @VladderGraf Před 4 lety +401

    Finally, I thought: "How long till another Ottoman episode?" - this series is AWESOME!!!

  • @mario_1683
    @mario_1683 Před 4 lety +295

    Im Croatian and honored to see you portray Zrinski correctly!

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +36

      It's shame the title is in hungarian, it should be Siget, and Nikola Zrinski and his army was entirely Croatian.

    • @enesakhan4032
      @enesakhan4032 Před 4 lety +8

      @@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 well even if they were crotian they were under hungarian rule right? even in the ottoman or any other empires there are lots of commanders or soldiers that their ethnic roots are diffirent from their rulers.

    • @majorvincsenzo731
      @majorvincsenzo731 Před 4 lety +20

      @@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Many Hungarian blood was spilled for Szigetvár too

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +5

      D. A. Not really

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +6

      Enes Akhan it was personal union with Hungary, but later we joined Habsburgs.

  • @aliatack19
    @aliatack19 Před 4 lety +434

    As a Turk, I'd like to say that Zrinski is a real hero for Christians. I respect him because he was a brave commander. May both Sultan Suleiman and Zrinski rest in peace. They played their roles in this world and passed away. No need to have more clashes between people. This is history and past is past.

  • @mariotudor6735
    @mariotudor6735 Před 3 lety +81

    Nikola Subic Zrinski is one of Croatia‘s greatest national heroes. You can see his monuments even today in Zagreb, Vienna and Budapest

    • @ColorfulEscapades
      @ColorfulEscapades Před rokem +3

      Yeah my ass you can ...all overshadowed by Tudjman and Pavelic

    • @drogonaut2012
      @drogonaut2012 Před 9 měsíci +5

      @@ColorfulEscapades everyone can get your ass because you're that easy. Don't recall seeing a statue of tuđman and building a monument to pavelić is literally illegal

    • @richard_from_england333
      @richard_from_england333 Před 22 dny

      @@ColorfulEscapadesWhat's wrong with them?

  • @FiveLiver
    @FiveLiver Před 4 lety +311

    I am 60 and am sorry to admit that I have never heard of the Siege of Szigetvar - makes the Alamo look like a tea party.

    • @krugec23
      @krugec23 Před 4 lety +40

      the numbers arent important,its the sacrifise of men to delay invader army to save your country and people from death and forced conversion

    • @dare2630
      @dare2630 Před 4 lety +50

      @Boris Erdogan Croatian thermopylae basically.

    • @dorylaions
      @dorylaions Před 4 lety +6

      ​@@krugec23 alright so i normally don't bother responding to ignorant comments, but srsly wtf? More than half of the Hungary and the entire Balkans is under Ottoman rule at that point in the history. They weren't forced to convert. That's not how Ottos did things. It was perfectly possible to live as a non-muslim under Otto rule. Ottos were in empire business and when you try to establish and maintain a Roman/Byzantine style of a multi cultural empire, you don't force people to convert. Simply because it's not practical.

    • @dorylaions
      @dorylaions Před 4 lety +4

      Yeah well, are you guys really surprised to see a multinational empire incentivising their subjects to convert to their own religion?
      In compare with what the Iberians did to the Moors, non-muslim people of the Ottoman empire were quite fortunate.
      I understand that it hurts your national pride to admit that you've been mere petty vassals of a superior nation for centuries, but that is how history works. Strong preys on the weak. At the times, and probably even today to some extent, Balkan nations were pretty much free real estate.
      If you don't want to pay the additional tax, don't get conquered and dominated next time. ;)

    • @madcro8209
      @madcro8209 Před 4 lety +18

      @@dorylaions So you don´t have a valid respose because he´s right so your only option is to attack national pride?
      Weak...

  • @northernstar4811
    @northernstar4811 Před rokem +49

    Another Croatian warrior in the fight against the Ottoman Turks was Baron Nikola Jurišić (1490 to 1545 AD). He and his several hundred men defended the small Hungarian fort at Siege of Güns (Kőszeg) in 1532 AD, against an estimated Ottoman Turkish army of 120,000-140,000 who were advancing towards Vienna.
    I read somewhere Baron Jurišić survived 20 assaults on the fort before the Ottoman Turks decided to withdraw.

    • @setnjasrpskihopanaka
      @setnjasrpskihopanaka Před rokem +7

      700-800 Croats vs 100000-120000 Ottomans

    • @yasinkalyoncu5757
      @yasinkalyoncu5757 Před 6 měsíci

      Türklerden hepiniz korkuyordunuz.ordu sizle ugrasmaz bile.türk akıncıları sizi hallediyordu

    • @jaredjosephsongheng372
      @jaredjosephsongheng372 Před 3 měsíci

      1 year late
      Wasn't that battle talked about in the Battle of Gorjani and Castelnuovo video?
      Like that battle was definitely talked about in the Battle of Gorjani and Castelnuovo video

  • @thtkk
    @thtkk Před 4 lety +564

    As a Turkish i knew we had a victory on zigetvar but never knew how steel balled the defenders were. Huge respects to Zrynski and his soldiers

  • @raul-alexandrupetrescu4284
    @raul-alexandrupetrescu4284 Před 4 lety +80

    This is the definition of courage, heroism, and self-sacrifice

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +19

      We Croatians are like that

    • @kingkong2415
      @kingkong2415 Před 4 lety +10

      @@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 I saw that in the balkan war! 1991-1995

    • @raul-alexandrupetrescu4284
      @raul-alexandrupetrescu4284 Před 4 lety +2

      @@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Proud to hear that

    • @madcro8209
      @madcro8209 Před 4 lety +8

      @Lile Stojkovic And of course there has to be a serb who calls croats fascists while popular parties in your country have absolutely no problem burning the croatian flag in the middle of the capital city...

    • @CrvenkapicaIVZNG
      @CrvenkapicaIVZNG Před 2 lety +1

      In a period of more than 400 years, no one in my family knew his grandfather. I don't know mine either. For more than 400 years, my ancestors led the lance for the Holy Roman Empire. As the last my great-grandfather in the first WW as Imperial Royal Ulan. Siget is not the only example of Croatian courage, Croatian determination. We have dozens of such examples. Sisak, Sinj to name just two others. We are the wall of Christendom.
      In einer Periode von mehr als 400 Jahren kannte niemand in meiner Familie seinen Großvater. Auch ich kenne meinen nicht. Mehr als 400 Jahre lang führten meine Vorfahren die Lanze für das Heilige Römische Reich. Als letzter mein Urgroßvater im I. WW als Kaiserlich Königlicher Ulan. Siget ist nicht das einzige Beispiel für kroatischen Mut, kroatische Entschlossenheit. Wir haben Dutzende solcher Beispiele. Sisak, Sin um nur zwei weitere zu nennen. Wir sind der Wall der Christenheit.

  • @krugec23
    @krugec23 Před 4 lety +145

    Zrinski's head was later returned and buried in the Zrinski family tomb in Cakovec.
    the museum there also holds his sabre

    • @houseofsubic786
      @houseofsubic786 Před 4 lety +9

      House of Subic to which Zrinski belonged was from Bribir in the background of Zadar in Dalmatia, not from Cakovec. Zrinski was Dalmatian.

    • @mikeshogunlee
      @mikeshogunlee Před 4 lety +5

      I understand less than 80% of what either of you said,
      But I feel smarter for have read your comments.
      :)

    • @sircopperfield7420
      @sircopperfield7420 Před 4 lety

      *Between Zadar and Šibenik

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +2

      Zasto pisete na engleskom,kad ste Hrvati

    • @IvanKala
      @IvanKala Před 4 lety +6

      @@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 so that whole world can understand us.

  • @dominikJAX
    @dominikJAX Před 4 lety +199

    Interesting facts about battle of Siget in 1566:
    1. In the early stages of the battle Zrinski and his knights would ride out to raid Suleimans army and would come back to the fort with the heads of the Turks they killed tied to their horses.
    2. After refusing the offer of surrender Zrinski said to the defenders the reason why he refused the offer of becoming the overlord of whole croatia, he said: "No one will ever point at my children in discontent"
    3.Before the last stand and the breach to a heroic death Zrinski embroidered gold coins inside his robes as a reward to the man who kills him.
    4. He sentenced to death some of the inhabitants for looting during the fires and chaos of the battle

    • @thestatistician6076
      @thestatistician6076 Před 4 lety +10

      Well he got his head later sent to istanbul where they did not even bother to hang it at the gate of the city like they used to do to every important enemy they fought, so i guess the ottomans were better at that one. And even though he was a brave general i don't get the logic, he refused to be a vassal of the ottomans which could have granted him or his children the chance to break later from the rule of the sultan who was sick at the time( as far as he knew at that time) and knowing that his son was incompetent so i guess he had an excess of pride that denied him and his people their independence for over 400 years. I respect the coins move though, men like him on the battlefield are sometimes more precious than their kings who sit in their thrones and feast while their men die fighting their wars.

    • @dominikJAX
      @dominikJAX Před 4 lety +45

      @@thestatistician6076 well one could say he was a real life Eddard "Ned" Stark , his honor was not for sale i guess :)

    • @evansyed4960
      @evansyed4960 Před 4 lety +16

      @@thestatistician6076 The ottomans respected an enemy who was worth fighting

    • @thestatistician6076
      @thestatistician6076 Před 4 lety +2

      @@dominikJAX well still does not explain it, he has no problem with remaining under austrian rule with no chance to break free instead of falling under ottoman rule and having the chance to break up soon after.

    • @dominikJAX
      @dominikJAX Před 4 lety +46

      @@evansyed4960 he was a devout christian and ottomans did torture his lands for 150 years before that, for me that would be reason enough

  • @kaankaymaz9745
    @kaankaymaz9745 Před 3 lety +108

    As a Turk, I admired Zrinski for his superior effort and courage. He bravely defended Zigetvar against the Turkish army much larger than him and died. The life of our Sultan Suleyman was spent on horseback and on expeditions. He died during his last expedition. Undoubtedly, Sultan Suleyman is a magnificent leader and has written his name in gold letters in Turkish and world history. may Zrinski and Sultan Süleyman rest in peace.

    • @grandadmiralzaarin4962
      @grandadmiralzaarin4962 Před rokem +14

      They were both great men, valiant and proud to be sure. History is all the richer to study for such figures.

    • @istandwithuyghurs6672
      @istandwithuyghurs6672 Před 10 měsíci

      Kafirs dont go to heaven

    • @Armo12
      @Armo12 Před 10 měsíci +1

      You have F.C. Zrinjski in Mostar in normal Croatian Bosna.Luka Modrić play there

  • @vherox3826
    @vherox3826 Před 3 lety +103

    Fun fact: After this battle Zrinski was compared to Leonidas and this whole battle was compared to the Battle of Thermopylay

  • @cocknfire830
    @cocknfire830 Před 2 lety +14

    Because of battle of Siget and because of Zrinski Croatia is called the Wall of Christianity and Zrinski is immortalised by Croatias famous composer Ivan Plemeniti Zajc in the famous opera Nikola Šubić Zrinjski.

    • @kkkkk9815
      @kkkkk9815 Před 2 lety

      You mean Hungary

    • @dragodrazenovic1064
      @dragodrazenovic1064 Před 2 lety +6

      @@kkkkk9815 what Hungary?

    • @tombaur8316
      @tombaur8316 Před 2 lety +5

      @@kkkkk9815 no, Croatia, because the most and the longest defending battles with around 500 years agains the ottomans were led along today's border region between Croatia and Bosnia

  • @masijack5113
    @masijack5113 Před 4 lety +63

    Zrinski is that dude in monopoly who plays till the last dollar just to piss suleiman off.

  • @ivanrenic4243
    @ivanrenic4243 Před 2 lety +54

    Brothers forever🇭🇺❤🇭🇷
    Zrinski's speech before the final charge:
    “Let us go out from this burning place into the open and stand up to our enemies. Who dies, he will be with God. Who dies not, his name will be honored. I will go first, and what I do, you do as well. And God as my witness - I will never leave you, my brothers and knights!”

    • @user-hu1tf1xd9g
      @user-hu1tf1xd9g Před 3 měsíci +1

      Hungary is a Turkic country not a slavic country. You are Christian brothers maybe. Bot you are Turkic brothers with Ottamans and Turkey

    • @ivanrenic4243
      @ivanrenic4243 Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-hu1tf1xd9g yes, that's what I mean. Christianity is what connects us. I don't care where they came from or how they look

    • @user-hu1tf1xd9g
      @user-hu1tf1xd9g Před 3 měsíci

      @@ivanrenic4243 Ok. Also we are Turkic brothers TR HU 🐺

  • @Iron-Bridge
    @Iron-Bridge Před 4 lety +182

    Always wondered where the famed toughness of the Croatians came from. That resilience was forged centuries ago.

    • @joekerr9197
      @joekerr9197 Před 4 lety +59

      Centuries of warfare defending the border between Christian Europe and Islamic invaders from Asia tend to do that...my ancestors fought for centuries on that same border. Later they were used in various conflicts around Europe such as Napoleonic wars....I had at least three members of my family (that I know of) who lost their lives in those conflicts...two in Netherlands and one in Switzerland.

    • @filipskalic3376
      @filipskalic3376 Před 4 lety +4

      Joe Kerr only good for war and nothing else. We croatians are not ment to be independent. Thats why we were under monarchy and other western rulers and the world called us white word mercenaries

    • @GTAdudex2
      @GTAdudex2 Před 4 lety +5

      Back when Croats had honor... and balls

    • @onebadasscroatian7989
      @onebadasscroatian7989 Před 4 lety +85

      @@GTAdudex2 we beat the invaders in the 90's as well. Everything is still there.

    • @TheKres7787
      @TheKres7787 Před 3 lety +3

      Thanks for the respect you show us but name me 1 country existing today that didn't had similar out of this world historical characters. We can say we are all, all nations, existing on shoulders of giants that came before us. Somewhat arguable but mostly true !

  • @smartbaba1321
    @smartbaba1321 Před 4 lety +59

    He was brave, He fought till end.
    Respect from #India.

  • @Pokephosgene
    @Pokephosgene Před 4 lety +87

    Nice to see this battle showcased. Nikola Zrinski is indeed a massive historical figure in Croatian textbooks.

    • @benedeknagy8497
      @benedeknagy8497 Před 4 lety +29

      He is in the hungarian textbooks too, along with his great-grand son (also) Nikola Zrinski, who was a famous poet, writer and military commander. The Zrinski family is well liked in Hungary too, as many of them held the title of comes of Zala and Somogy counties in Hungary, captains of hungarian transdanubia, or even the captain of all hungarian forces, like the Nikola mentioned above.

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +7

      Hrvatski heroj

    • @karaya111
      @karaya111 Před 4 lety +3

      @@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Cristian hero.

    • @defactunit363
      @defactunit363 Před 3 lety +4

      Benedek Nagy Croatian soldier with Croatian soldiers 😉

    • @yusuf3005
      @yusuf3005 Před rokem

      Güzel mücadele etmiş ama sonunda öldürülmüş bir kahraman. Bu savaşta zafer pahalı da olsun patron Türklere ait.

  • @therav2278
    @therav2278 Před 2 lety +28

    We Croats were on the border with ottomans during the 15th and 16th century and often acted as the last bastion of Christianity between the Ottomans and the rest of the Europe. We were devout Christians and consider it a duty to defend to the last man if needed, however it has to be said that Ottomans were very often respectful and offered good treaties and held onto their words. In many ways I consider Ottomans to be among the most honourable and reasonable nations during medieval era, and they often offered really good terms to anyone who would show a degree of honor themselves.

  • @tugberksamur4545
    @tugberksamur4545 Před 4 lety +285

    "When I die, show one of my hand out of the coffin. Let people see that even Sultan Suleiman went away from this world empty-handed"
    Suleiman the Magnificent

    • @liagoutas
      @liagoutas Před 4 lety +25

      Same as Alexander the Great! Unbelievable

    • @timucinturkoglu6131
      @timucinturkoglu6131 Před 4 lety +19

      @@liagoutas cuz Süleyman had read the history of Alexander the great

    • @eri.ssddseff
      @eri.ssddseff Před 4 lety +31

      seems like stealing other people history and culture has deep roots in turkish culture

    • @IncoherentSchizo
      @IncoherentSchizo Před 4 lety +6

      @@eri.ssddseff How could alexander steal a quote from suleiman when alexander had been dead for thousands of years before suleiman was even born? That makes no sense. Also turkish culture is a blend of other cultures itself; taking bits and bobs from each country it conquered.

    • @Venstarful
      @Venstarful Před 4 lety +75

      @@eri.ssddseff
      t.persian
      Seem like having butthurt against Turks in ex-TURKISH ruled countries has deep roots in history. Understandable though. When your last 500 to 1000 years history of your country ruled by Turkish people, you can hardly masturbate to your scuffed, revisionist nationalism.

  • @hgkghkhgkgh8378
    @hgkghkhgkgh8378 Před 4 lety +171

    The Subic family one of the most influential and powerful aristocrat family from Croatia. Wiith the union of Hungary and Croatia they retained their powerful positions. For example Charles I of Hungary became king thanks to the support Paul I Subic. Later a cadet branch of the family recieved the Castle of Zrin as a fief. So they take the name Zrinski (Hungarian: Zrínyi) meaning "those of Zrin". The Zrinski family was a staunch supporter of the Habsburg family, until theeir fall from grace in the beginning of the 18th century.

    • @elitemangudai1016
      @elitemangudai1016 Před 4 lety +33

      The habsburg Austrians are opportunistic thieves. All the honor goes to hungarians and croatians.

    • @hgkghkhgkgh8378
      @hgkghkhgkgh8378 Před 4 lety +2

      Elite Mangudai Look up Türkenhilfe

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +11

      Pavao( Paul ) was actually de facto ruler of Croatia in 14th century.

    • @scottleft3672
      @scottleft3672 Před 4 lety +6

      Habsburgs gave the Croats to Italian nobles as pesants.

    • @houseofsubic786
      @houseofsubic786 Před 4 lety +10

      Central Europeans are indeed extremely opportunistic people. Subic family was from Bribir, Dalmatia.

  • @wilsontheknight
    @wilsontheknight Před 4 lety +66

    Just when you think the guy had nothing left he throws you a giant middle finger and kills 3,000 of your troops

    • @thegreatsallingerkaiser2545
      @thegreatsallingerkaiser2545 Před rokem +1

      The Ottomans literally lost half of their army by the end of August. For a little castle, they sacrificed more than 20,000 of their soldiers

  • @davidkardos2794
    @davidkardos2794 Před 4 lety +47

    Ezer köszönet Magyarországról !
    Many thanks from Hungary !

  • @jobo5300
    @jobo5300 Před 4 lety +312

    The last charge of Zrinski reminds me of helms deep when aragorn rallies the troops to ride out one more time. Sad that there was no Gandalf to help Zrinski.

    • @tich789
      @tich789 Před 4 lety +29

      @@LauftFafa You take sides if you are croatian like I am ;)

    • @QuantumAscension1
      @QuantumAscension1 Před 4 lety +1

      @@LauftFafa I'm with ya on that, though I'm a history major myself, lol

    • @hazabazza7425
      @hazabazza7425 Před 4 lety +3

      Well said Luftwaffe. Spoken like a true student of history.

    • @birocsabal
      @birocsabal Před 4 lety +3

      @@LauftFafa U R right. Taxation of the rajas is more profitable...
      Don't worry about decimated nations, and slavery and such nuances. Advanced social behavior is what matters.

    • @ibrahimheggy1032
      @ibrahimheggy1032 Před 4 lety +1

      @@LauftFafa i Salute you my friend.

  • @kamilszadkowski8864
    @kamilszadkowski8864 Před 4 lety +375

    Holy shit. Hats of to Croats and Hungarians. Time for Sabaton to write a song about this siege because boy it was epic.

    • @ramsaysnow9196
      @ramsaysnow9196 Před 4 lety

      i think there were germans to

    • @ZoltanHoppar
      @ZoltanHoppar Před 4 lety +65

      @@ramsaysnow9196 There wasn't. Habsburgs were always liars and traitors, even today...

    • @MK-vx4xy
      @MK-vx4xy Před 4 lety +1

      Kamil Szadkowski if sultan suleyman didnt die he would conquer the rest of europe

    • @ramsaysnow9196
      @ramsaysnow9196 Před 4 lety

      @Ahmet Sakızcı u mean plevna?

    • @kamilszadkowski8864
      @kamilszadkowski8864 Před 4 lety +12

      @@MK-vx4xy No, he wouldn't. No one would.

  • @dindek
    @dindek Před 4 lety +173

    WOW i would love to see movie about this siege,rescpect from Poland to Hungary and Croatia

    • @filipskalic3376
      @filipskalic3376 Před 4 lety +11

      dindek if only gandalf managed to arive with hussars this story would be even more amazing

    • @aronnemcsik
      @aronnemcsik Před 3 lety +3

      @@filipskalic3376 while the Winged Hussars arrived blasting in the background...

    • @greciawesomemangreciawesom8756
      @greciawesomemangreciawesom8756 Před 3 lety +11

      There is an opera called Nikola Šubić-Zrinski in Croatian

    • @francek3892
      @francek3892 Před 3 lety +20

      3000 Croatians vs 100 000 Ottoman troops. Poland and Croatia Slavic Brothers🇭🇷❤️🇵🇱 to bad that we are not neighbours

    • @BarileoBarilei
      @BarileoBarilei Před 2 lety +5

      @@francek3892 I would love to see Poland, Chech, Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia leaving EU and joining together in a less restrictive economic union. We all are border between east and west, and always getting f***ed up by both sides

  • @sandorkovacs7038
    @sandorkovacs7038 Před 4 lety +53

    All that I can say to Croatian bro's: Thanks to joined and lead the army of Szigetvar (gave us Miklós Zrínyi). What an epic battle was that (20.000 losses for the Ottoman army, unfortunately almost the entire defender army died) . This is one of the reason why I'm really happy that the Hungarian army modernization program called Zrinyi 2026.

    • @bongiovi7618
      @bongiovi7618 Před 4 lety +3

      Sandor Kovacs Just don’t forget that Hungary 🇭🇺 is an observer country at Turkic Council (Ural-Altaic Kurultaj) Hopefully Huns of Attila and, Bulgars of Volga 🇧🇬 will be strong again, religions age is over, Hajra Turan!

    • @radogost1536
      @radogost1536 Před 3 lety +1

      @@bongiovi7618 I spit on huns of bloody atila

  • @yuksel1981
    @yuksel1981 Před 7 měsíci +10

    Respect Croat warriors.🙏🇭🇷

  • @josiplisica93
    @josiplisica93 Před 4 lety +120

    Wow finally, nikola zrinski, and released on my birthday !
    Greetings from a Croat in Australia!!!!

    • @daz7122
      @daz7122 Před 4 lety +2

      Check this link out you will love it, from a Melbourne Croat
      czcams.com/video/lW3E5QP_9Yc/video.html

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +6

      Love from Croatia!

    • @REVHIGHTUNINGSOLUTIONS
      @REVHIGHTUNINGSOLUTIONS Před 4 lety +8

      Another Croat from Aus says hi!

    • @malcolmx9799
      @malcolmx9799 Před 4 lety +5

      greetings from Albania mate, how did u get there to Australia i would like to come there too :DD

    • @JirayuChai
      @JirayuChai Před 3 lety

      Australia here too, not Austria hhaa

  • @vikipedia5966
    @vikipedia5966 Před 4 lety +283

    U boj, u boj!
    Mač iz toka, braćo,
    Nek dušman zna kako mremo mi!

    • @tomimati1
      @tomimati1 Před 4 lety +36

      Za te sin svak u boj se kreće!
      Dome naš, ti vijekom stoj!

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +22

      U boj u boj! Za dom spremni!

    • @connannbarbarin3033
      @connannbarbarin3033 Před 4 lety +38

      @@takiranayaki7870
      To battle, to battle!
      Unsheathe your swords, brothers,
      Let the enemy know how we die!
      Our city already burns,
      The heat is already reaching us:
      Their roar resounds,
      Their rage is rampant!
      Our chests flare up as that fire,
      The roar is silenced by the rattling of our swords!
      All of you, kiss Zrinski
      As brethren would kiss one another!
      Follow him to the gates,
      You, faithful heroes!
      Now, brothers!
      Load the rifles, pistols,
      Our thunders, our bang,
      Let them roar, topple, harry!
      Let us grind our fierce swords,
      Make them cut harder, harder!
      Good bye and be well,
      Our home of old,
      Oh, good bye,
      From everywhere
      The grim enemy comes
      Already they plan
      To bury your sacred body,
      But they won't!
      All your sons move to the fight for you!
      Our home, you will stand forever!
      Into the fight, to the fight!
      For the home, for the home now to the fight!
      Even if the infernal might
      Raises its knife at it;
      To the fight!
      We are few, but courageous!
      Who, who will bring him down?
      Death to the devil, death!
      To die for your homeland - such a delight!
      Against the enemy! They must, they must die!

    • @usurper6147
      @usurper6147 Před 4 lety +13

      So "dusman" means enemy?

    • @vikipedia5966
      @vikipedia5966 Před 4 lety +3

      @@usurper6147 Yes.
      To battle, to battle!
      Swords from scabbards, brothers,
      Let the enemy know how we die!

  • @karolyerhard
    @karolyerhard Před 4 lety +416

    Dicsőség a hősöknek!
    Greetings from Hungary!

    • @Jellygamer0
      @Jellygamer0 Před 4 lety +19

      Hungarian's a cool-looking language :D

    • @barbaricvm0
      @barbaricvm0 Před 4 lety +58

      Greetings from Croatia !

    • @bloomberg6339
      @bloomberg6339 Před 4 lety +5

      As I'm aware, Hungarians are also turks, so why did you fight against your brothers.

    • @ibrahimbastug2896
      @ibrahimbastug2896 Před 4 lety +28

      @@bloomberg6339 it was just a war of supremacy. Unifying the world under one flag. İf you look at Turkish history, u will see that many Turkish states actualy destroyed by different Turkish tribes or states.

    • @sectorgovernor
      @sectorgovernor Před 4 lety +26

      @@Jellygamer0 Hungarian is Ugric branch of Uralic language family. It has two closer relatives, the Khanty and Mansi languages in Siberia. Our very basic vocabulary is similar,but the more than 1500 years separation and some vocabulary influence on Hungarian made Hungarian language incompherensible for Khanty and Mansi speakers. Khanty language has only few thousand speakers and Mansi is on the verge of extinction.
      Another more-known Uralic languages are the Finnish and Estonian. They are more distant from Hungarian.

  • @sircopperfield7420
    @sircopperfield7420 Před 4 lety +302

    Zrinjski is still celebrated as the greatest Croatian hero.

    • @hajduksplit_913
      @hajduksplit_913 Před 3 lety +45

      Zrinjski Mostar is a Croatian Football Club in the Croatian Part of Bosnia!

    • @__greG
      @__greG Před 3 lety +13

      Magyarországon is.

    • @mikereds2997
      @mikereds2997 Před 3 lety +28

      As he should be. It's an amazing story of bravery.

    • @csabakoncz8307
      @csabakoncz8307 Před 3 lety +50

      In Croatia, and in Hungary as well

    • @vbacs22
      @vbacs22 Před 3 lety +34

      He is also considered to be a national hero in Hungary. I guess we share this great man.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 Před 4 lety +438

    Szigetvar sounds like Helms Deep, but Gandalf never came...

    • @kamilszadkowski8864
      @kamilszadkowski8864 Před 4 lety +75

      He will. At Vienna.

    • @ggoddkkiller1342
      @ggoddkkiller1342 Před 4 lety +60

      @@kamilszadkowski8864 He said look to the east on the fifth day but showed up 117 years later🤣🤣

    • @szarvasy
      @szarvasy Před 4 lety +8

      @@kamilszadkowski8864 its more like Theoden at Gondor

    • @hallacson8535
      @hallacson8535 Před 4 lety +20

      Except orcs right?
      ...
      Right?

    • @abcdef27669
      @abcdef27669 Před 4 lety +41

      @@hallacson8535 "Orktomman" Empire.

  • @sarantissporidis391
    @sarantissporidis391 Před rokem +57

    Respect to the braves of Croatia from Greece.

  • @arongaspar2529
    @arongaspar2529 Před 4 lety +359

    Szigetvár means Island Castle (Sziget- Island, Vár-Castle

    • @matricious
      @matricious Před 4 lety +7

      now that you mentioned it... it is way easier to remember

    • @Royinszki
      @Royinszki Před 4 lety

      What about Zanzivar

    • @alexheloo
      @alexheloo Před 4 lety +4

      Hey! I'm going on a trip in Hungary for New Year. I'd love to know what means Székesfehérvár. I love Hungary! Thaaanks!

    • @Ironication
      @Ironication Před 4 lety +10

      @@alexheloo Szék -> chair, Székes -> with chair, fehér -> white, vár -> castle; so basically it means 'white castle with chair' - the town was a place to crown new kings and bury them in early medieval times which may shed some light on the odd name

    • @zoltanposfai3451
      @zoltanposfai3451 Před 4 lety +19

      @@Ironication While 'székes' also means 'with chair', the relevant meaning here is about the town of seat for the king. A proper translation would be akin to "White Castle of the King".

  • @LocalHeretic-ck1kd
    @LocalHeretic-ck1kd Před 4 lety +28

    Zrinski was a total badass. great video.

  • @vcxlll
    @vcxlll Před 4 lety +16

    What an absolute mad lad. The type of figure the world needs to remember.

  • @armanaldan3693
    @armanaldan3693 Před 4 lety +37

    What a great story! Thank you for popularizing such honorable men and their deeds!

  • @yaldabaoth2
    @yaldabaoth2 Před 4 lety +97

    Zrinski would have made for an extraordinary Astartes. What a badass.

  • @msc7594
    @msc7594 Před 4 lety +223

    Hey, Kings and Generals when can we get an in depth look at the Ottoman army? It keeps evolving and changing and we never really got a proper video (Like the one you guys have done for the Romans, the Greek, and the Macedonians).
    The Ottoman army as of this moment has already gone through 3 major changes since the start of the series: At first being a Seljuk like horse-army (Traditional Turkish cavalry heavy force) to a mix of European slave/Knight with Turkish Cavalry (Highlighted at the battle of Ankara against Timur), to finally the 'Classical' Ottoman army (Made up of a mix of European, Turkish, Infantry/Horse component further supported with auxiliaries which can be Tartar, European, Mamluke, etc, whatever is at hand). We haven't even gotten to the Sokollu Army reformations, followed up by the 17th and 18th century reforms, before finally the beginning of the Tanzimat and Hamidian reforms of the army.
    Awesome stuff like always, really appreciate everything you guys are doing.

    • @AdamNoizer
      @AdamNoizer Před 4 lety +14

      I second this, it would be a great documentary to make.

    • @ce8354
      @ce8354 Před 4 lety +10

      Mehmet Civelek maybe as a video at the end of the ottoman wars series, to conclude it would be very interesting

    • @msc7594
      @msc7594 Před 4 lety +2

      @John mark Ogayon fun fact, the Mamlukes as a ruling and military class were not eliminated until Napoleon's invasion of Ottoman Egypt in the early 1800s.

  • @matkokuljic374
    @matkokuljic374 Před 2 lety +12

    I am honored that my children bear this honorable Croatian surname .

  • @void-rg9hu
    @void-rg9hu Před 4 lety +82

    Amazing video, explaining everything very well and detailed.
    Long live Croatia and Hungary in brotherhood.

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +5

      Hungarian arent our friends

    • @kategoried7501
      @kategoried7501 Před 3 lety +2

      @Josip koju povijest da nauci, ovu jugokomunjarsku s kojom su nas trovali u skolama i pricali nam o madjarima kao vjekovnim neprijateljima, umjesto da su pricali to isto ali o turcima?

    • @dorzsboss
      @dorzsboss Před 3 lety +5

      @@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Helped you with weapons when you left Yugoslavia.

    • @CrvenkapicaIVZNG
      @CrvenkapicaIVZNG Před 3 lety +4

      @@kategoried7501 dobar savjet gospon. A po tim evropskim kljigama Madari nama nikad nisu bili prijatelji niti su to danas. Nikad se nisu mogli pomiriti sa cinjenicom, da smo mi Hrvati slobodan, suveren narod. Izgleda, da je to i vama promaklo. Ako su vam Madari najbolji prijatelji izvolite se preseliti u Madarsku.

    • @greciawesomemangreciawesom8756
      @greciawesomemangreciawesom8756 Před 3 lety +1

      Mislim, manje-vise dobro se slazemo tu u Baranji i sjevernoj Slavoniji i Osijeku, ali to je samo lokalno prijateljstvo i definitivno se ne odnosi na cijelu Hrvatsku. I činjenica je da su Mađari na crno nama prodavali oruzje za vrijeme embarga na Jugoslaviju 90-ih

  • @poshetkamil
    @poshetkamil Před 4 lety +66

    As a Turk myself, I watched the video with awe. What a heroic defense and what a heroic commander! Respect to those three thousand warriors and their leader Zrinski. This should definitely be made into a movie!
    Btw, the music in the end of the video... a nice choice!

    • @daz7122
      @daz7122 Před 4 lety +13

      all history now, the only time I want to see the Turks go down is in a World or Euro cup match against Croatia. hehe

    • @kategoried7501
      @kategoried7501 Před 4 lety

      @@croatianwarmaster7872 daj ne budi smijesan.

    • @Danko_Sekulic
      @Danko_Sekulic Před 4 lety +9

      I like it when Turks like you respect our heroes as honourable and worthy opponenets. Even back then, some Ottoman and Christian commanders could see past deep religious divides and have shown some genuine respect for their enemies' gallantry!
      PS
      My ancestors were Serbian Gränzers in Habsburg service, so it is especially interesting to share a perspective on those times with a descendent of our former enemies!
      Greetings from Slovenia!

    • @Physicist-
      @Physicist- Před 4 lety +1

      @@Danko_Sekulic only peasents who are ruled by religious law are obsessed with religion. the people of the past who were of nobility had a more vast outlook on the capabilities of their enemies and knew they were beyond just their religion. religion was just a tool to control the masses albeit it still is.

    • @76ers46
      @76ers46 Před 4 lety +1

      Bir türk olarak tabi ki saygı duyulması gerekene saygı duy ama videoda kesin bir türk zaferinin nasıl küçümsendiğini de görmeli ve gerçekleri kaynaklardan araştırmalısın.

  • @DominusZG
    @DominusZG Před 4 lety +26

    Nikola Šubić Zrinski and his men are true heroes of their time. He is immortal and in company with true God now, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit and all the heavenly host. He is an embodiment of true christian, a knight.
    Thanks K&G, I was waiting for this for a long time. Greeting from Croatia!
    +++ DEUS VULT +++

    • @DominusZG
      @DominusZG Před 4 lety

      czcams.com/video/Bbq4PXRiqTs/video.html

  • @davidkaaa
    @davidkaaa Před 4 lety +125

    Fun fact: the Hungarian Military Academy is to this day named after Zrinski (Zrínyi Miklós -- his Hungarian name).

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +63

      Funny how they named it after a Croat..respect from Croatia.

    • @Nobele28
      @Nobele28 Před 4 lety +14

      It is named after the poet and military strategist, not this hero, but same name so no fuss :D

    • @joekerr9197
      @joekerr9197 Před 4 lety +11

      @@Nobele28 Yes, it s named after his grandson if I am not mistaken.

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +18

      Vödör Dárt it aint my fault hungarians dont have a hero so you try to steal one from us.. HE WAS CROATIAN.

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +3

      István Czap back then it wasn't called Austria-Hungary, it was Habsburg Empire

  • @renatobegic9983
    @renatobegic9983 Před 3 lety +348

    Proud to be Croat🇭🇷 , we fought Otomans for 500 years and most of world today doesnt even know about that , such a shame...

    • @hakang1331
      @hakang1331 Před 2 lety +33

      Because Croatia lost against t he Turks and became a citiy of the Ottoman Empire. Why the world should notice what croatia did ?

    • @TheKumarImpressions
      @TheKumarImpressions Před 2 lety +12

      @@hakang1331 bcz late ottoman lost with Christian British....thats why

    • @hakang1331
      @hakang1331 Před 2 lety +14

      @@TheKumarImpressions
      Lost with christian british ??? First u should learn english

    • @misellijesnic8080
      @misellijesnic8080 Před 2 lety +58

      @@hakang1331 that is not correct sir, many parts fell but the entire nation never, there were always regions that were under the Habsburg monarchy

    • @hakang1331
      @hakang1331 Před 2 lety +4

      @@misellijesnic8080
      Yes thats right

  • @zoltankatona6828
    @zoltankatona6828 Před 4 lety +65

    Nikola Zrinski/Zrínyi Miklós is one of the greatest heroes in Croation and Hungarian history and a great example of courage and honor in a time when nationalism didn't matter that much. Back then every subject of the old Hungarian Kingdom protected his home against the foreign invaders. That's why we see Croats, Hungarians, Slovaks, Serbs, Poles, Czechs, Romanians fighting against the Ottomans under one banner.
    That's why we used to say in Hungarian: "they were between two pagans (Germans and Turks), fighting for one country".

    • @joekerr9197
      @joekerr9197 Před 4 lety +17

      Serbs never fought against the Ottomans until 18th century. They were traitors to Europe and Christendom. Battle of Nicopolis being one of the best examples of that when Serbs changed sides mid battle and brought centuries of struggle against foreign Islamic invader.

    • @zoltankatona6828
      @zoltankatona6828 Před 4 lety +5

      @@joekerr9197 I disagree. Serbs fought Turks in the 14th and 15 century. After their defeat in the battle of Kosovo (1389) some of the Serbian leaders allied themselves with the Hungarians and fought against the Turks. But after the Hungarian defeat of Mohács in 1526 the Serbs couldn't expect much help from Christian nations, thus they had to cooperate with Turks in order to survive. Wedged between to bigger force, no wonder they had to comprimise. We Hungarians also fought with the Turks against Christain powers occasionally.

    • @joekerr9197
      @joekerr9197 Před 4 lety +16

      @@zoltankatona6828 History disagrees with you. Name me one battle where Serbs resisted the Ottomans...you can't because there isn't one. Even at Kosovo they actually divided and betrayed each other, one side fighting with the Turks. They even fought entire battles for them such as Battle of Ankara. They allied themselves with Turks long before Mohacs. All in all their myths how they resisted and fought the Turks are just plain and simple outright lie and not just that, they are complete reversal and fallacy of historical facts.

    • @HeavyMetalorRockfan9
      @HeavyMetalorRockfan9 Před 3 lety

      @Josip hey man, you are aware that nationalism as an ideology was popularized in the late 18th century, and Hungary only got national self-rule in the 1860s. Magyarization policies did not come into being until the 1870s, and were actually probably the most mild form of expansionist nationalism that we have ever witnessed on earth. That is: requiring the speaking of a central language in order to be granted the right to vote, and government business being done in that language - contrast this with what we generally witnessed at the time being done by any nation capable of doing so: ethnic cleansing, forced imprisonment, the tearing apart of families and sending children off to schools away from their families and having their culture ripped from them (in fact, it was exactly these tactics employed by most post-Trianon nations against the Hungarian majorities living in the lands taken away from the Kingdom, though not Croatia).
      Hell we see these actions even today/far more recently (Azerbaijan, Turkey, Serbia, Iraq, China, Burma, Indonesia), and the reality dawns that Magyarization is not as abhorrent as it was made out to be, despite its very overt philosophical backing that Hungarian culture was superior to neighbouring Slavic cultures (in particular the attempts at Magyarization in Croatia were relatively minor, but ill-advised anyways because it was so overwhelmingly Croatian, and had a clear historical border with Hungary proper).
      This lasted a whole of 40 years out of a history between the people that is more than 1000 years long, which was overwhelmingly one of working together to fight against shared opponents. Hell, Hungary and Croatia are the Catholic border of Europe to the South and the East, and this was in a time when religion was far more important than nationality. Both countries suffered a similar fate - being forced to bleed out slowly over time as a consequence of being the frontline between the Ottoman Empire and Central Europe - and consequently having their development and people halted for 400 years. Horvath (the Hungarian word for Croat) is actually one of the most common surnames in Hungary and Croats are seen as brothers. Croatia is also the goto vacation destination :P.

    • @abcdefhjllopqqwerycz1415
      @abcdefhjllopqqwerycz1415 Před rokem

      Hahahaha religion christian fanatics.

  • @barbaricvm0
    @barbaricvm0 Před 4 lety +31

    Finally you listened to my request,thank you guys,great work ! :D
    Cheers from Croatia !
    U boj,u boj !

    • @barbaricvm0
      @barbaricvm0 Před 4 lety +8

      @@pajserbrigada1362 Nothing dude,Croatians don't even exist,they live on Jupiter in their fake croatian houses that they stole from serbs who live on Venus.

    • @barbaricvm0
      @barbaricvm0 Před 4 lety +10

      @@pajserbrigada1362Please contain yourself from these absurd comments.Of course it was a victory for austro hungary,but it was mostly croats in that regiment,with a croatian commander,and some hungarians.
      And that's what Croats today celebrate,their contribution to defending europe from the ottoman empire.
      We are not stealing anything from hungary,we are just aware of our contribution.So again,please contain yourself from making such absurd comments in public,you are bringing shame to your people.

    • @barbaricvm0
      @barbaricvm0 Před 4 lety +4

      @@pajserbrigada1362 Good God you have the intelligence of a brick.

    • @barbaricvm0
      @barbaricvm0 Před 4 lety +3

      @@pajserbrigada1362 Because they are not something to be proud of ?
      Jesus Christ,what the hell is your problem dude?
      What anger in real life made you so fucking hateful.

    • @milionST
      @milionST Před 4 lety

      @@pajserbrigada1362 And that minor historical figure, what was he called, something like Josip Broz? He was a Martian, right? First Partisan battalion was formed where exactly? On Mercury? Bro, we are aware of our history, the good and the bad, a history that is never black and white but gray like all things in reality are. Please, grow up and read some books.
      Honestly yours, a Croat that has immense respect to Serbian history.

  • @bilicbuilt
    @bilicbuilt Před 3 lety +12

    After watching video of "Siege of Vienna" couple weeks ago I commented how they constantly avoiding to mention or realis the video of "Battle of Siget" where 4000 Croatian fought against 100,000 Turks and surely there it is, thank you Kings and Generals

  • @Velkan1396
    @Velkan1396 Před 4 lety +46

    12:38 that's in between epic and hillarious
    Not even death could prevent a man of rejoicing after such a play.
    I'll remember Zrinski, and Sziegtvár.
    Great video guys

  • @ruslanfokichev6079
    @ruslanfokichev6079 Před 4 lety +37

    Wow, what a badass, and I've never heard of him before. Great vid.

  • @rhor1882
    @rhor1882 Před 4 lety +63

    The moment you mentioned Zrinski I somehow knew he would be a badass, and my god he was.

  • @ipoop4timesaday
    @ipoop4timesaday Před 4 lety +50

    Ottoman army mysteriously going idle was due to Suleiman forgetting to pause the game when he alt-tabbed.

  • @brany7171
    @brany7171 Před 4 lety +70

    I hope there will be more about the 100year Croatian-Ottoman war or wars against Bulgaria in 9st. or in the newer Croatian history, such as the Croatian War of Independence.

    • @StekliCujo
      @StekliCujo Před 4 lety +28

      @@pajserbrigada1362 I bet you`re an 14 year old. Now go do your homework and don`t come back till you`re at least 19.

    • @gong1616
      @gong1616 Před 4 lety +5

      Chill guys you were all fodder to the Ottomans and they banged your forefathers alldaylong, especially men in the open battles.

    • @StekliCujo
      @StekliCujo Před 4 lety +15

      Hm. I can argue with a couple of 14 year olds. Or I can go watch a new Invicta video on The battle of Midway.
      What to do, what to do?

    • @kategoried7501
      @kategoried7501 Před 4 lety +12

      @@pajserbrigada1362 lol good jokes the fact is that Sultzan Mehmed Pasha is reformer of the Pečka Patrijarsija(today servian ortodox church), so thanks to sultan servs exist today ;)

    • @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621
      @dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 Před 4 lety +14

      Саша 1 serbia only exists in 2006 lol

  • @darkprofile
    @darkprofile Před rokem +5

    The fun fact was it was a war between son of a Crotian Nobble and son of a Serbian Shepperd.
    Grand vizier of Ottomans Sokullu Mehmet Pasha was an ethnic Serbian.
    Suleyman was sick and Sokullu Mehmet lead the campaign.
    He was born and baptized as Boyka Sokulovich and taken to Ottoman Palace and converted to Ottomans.
    It shows the educational level of Ottomans. Taking son of a local Shepped and create a leader, commander from him.

  • @PeoplecallmeLucifer
    @PeoplecallmeLucifer Před 4 lety +306

    Suleiman: "I will make you the king of Croatia if you surrender the fort"
    Zrinski: "ok boomer"

    • @PeoplecallmeLucifer
      @PeoplecallmeLucifer Před 4 lety +3

      @Stavros S. and fucking proud of it

    • @bar1825
      @bar1825 Před 4 lety +2

      @@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 what is your problem with the Habsburgs? Just curious.

    • @markoskejic5028
      @markoskejic5028 Před 4 lety +9

      @TecumsehHe was Croatian

    • @ibrahimheggy1032
      @ibrahimheggy1032 Před 4 lety +6

      @@rolex1231 if ottoman did not invade, crusaders would invade just like Rome and macdonia.. stop throwing hate on ottoman.

    • @ThePtoleme
      @ThePtoleme Před 4 lety +9

      @@ibrahimheggy1032 To say that one shouldn't invade, is a word of hate for you? What a fragile person you are! And to compare crusades to Muslim invasions, you have to be also very gulible. The ideal target for cultural marxists.

  • @22vx
    @22vx Před 4 lety +12

    Excellent! Thank you for continuing to share!

  • @Vjeimy
    @Vjeimy Před 4 lety +25

    I can't of course verify that this siege was a direct tactical inspiration, but it is remarkably similar to the siege of Mesologgi during the greek war of independence 250 years later. The defenders even sallied out against the ottoman-egyptian army and a lot of them even made it out. This event is also immortalised in many paintings which also look similar to the picture shown in the video. Man, I hope we get to see that event later on in the series.

  • @NO1jkpg
    @NO1jkpg Před rokem +16

    Respect for Zrinski for his superior effort and courage. Even after they all were killed, they manage to kille 3000 more, that's just insane. It must been rigged or some suicide bomber, that did that. So many interresting stories and people that gave their life that is out their, it should be a Hollywood movie but unfortunely Hollywood only do same movie over and over, is sad.

    • @nicolashrv
      @nicolashrv Před 10 měsíci

      Women who remained in the citadel locked themselves inside the powder depot. When the ottomans advanced in order to capture them, the women agreed on a sort of mass suicide ritual, in order to avoid being raped and enslaved by the ottomans.

  • @sylvainfalquet6350
    @sylvainfalquet6350 Před 4 lety +13

    this entire series has so many crazy siege battles! love it

  • @thabomuso6254
    @thabomuso6254 Před 4 lety +29

    The defenders fought with a Samurai-like dedication. Very impressive.
    A repeated theme in these battles with the Ottoman Empire seems to be the slaughter of the elite Jannitsar troops used as cannon fodder in the frontlines.

    • @ardagurbuz6924
      @ardagurbuz6924 Před 4 lety +2

      Not really, i mean these were all siege battles, which were incredibly hard for attackers. I doubt other units could pull off such attacks on fortified positions.

    • @ardagurbuz6924
      @ardagurbuz6924 Před 4 lety +2

      @@OljeiKhan This was the case sometimes but mostly they died because taking fortified positions in those years was simply damn too hard.

    • @thabomuso6254
      @thabomuso6254 Před 4 lety +4

      @@ardagurbuz6924 with all due respect for assaulting strong points, there was no given outcome.
      First of all many defenders would have surrendered long before these guys did.
      And the Turks could have opted for a lot more artillery preparations before they launched their assaults.

    • @thabomuso6254
      @thabomuso6254 Před 4 lety +3

      On the other hand, the Ottomans deserve credit for such dedicated assaults.
      I have seen some siege battles in this war series were the defenders gave up way earlier. These men fought to the last.

    • @ardagurbuz6924
      @ardagurbuz6924 Před 4 lety +3

      @@thabomuso6254 Indeed, the garrison was really brave. Some other garrisons didn't even put up a fight. And i agree, i made my first comment before watching the video but that ambitious Ottoman general seems like he really used his best troops as cannonfodder, still impressive of those Janniseries to capture first two towns in a short time though. Many other units of the empire would probably lose morale after all those relentless assaults and eventually break off.

  • @hfar_in_the_sky
    @hfar_in_the_sky Před 4 lety +17

    6:14 Man, now THAT is an impressively built city/citadel!

    • @ardagurbuz6924
      @ardagurbuz6924 Před 4 lety +7

      No wonder it cost Ottomans a lot of men lol. Taking castles was hard as it is, add moats and narrow bridges to it and it becomes a meat grinder.

    • @pcslug3122
      @pcslug3122 Před 2 lety +2

      Medieval 2 river crossing battles.

  • @rydernigguh1703
    @rydernigguh1703 Před 4 lety +56

    And yet again, the "mighty" germans just watched it....

  • @majstorfantac9896
    @majstorfantac9896 Před 4 lety +14

    thank u for this video, greetings from Croatia!

  • @Dayo98
    @Dayo98 Před 4 lety +18

    Here in Croatia we have to learn the speech of Zrinski by heart. Its quite epic.

    • @covjekapsurda2673
      @covjekapsurda2673 Před 4 lety +4

      We don't. You must have conflated itwith a letter written by Petar Zrinski in 1671. to his wife Katarina, after he was caught by Austrians for inciting a rebellion against Wienna (with some help of the Ottomans also, to be fair) and sentenced to death, called "Moje drago serce" (My love"). That letter was part (i guess today also) of a high-school literature curriculum when I went to high-school, not the one from Nikola.

    • @Dayo98
      @Dayo98 Před 4 lety +4

      @@covjekapsurda2673 no, it was the speech or oath to his troops in siget. Well sorry for generalizing but in my school we had to.

    • @covjekapsurda2673
      @covjekapsurda2673 Před 4 lety

      @@Dayo98 Was it in a literature book or on your teacher own demand?

    • @filipsoldic6737
      @filipsoldic6737 Před 4 lety

      Koji k pricate engleski kad oba znate hrv

    • @Dayo98
      @Dayo98 Před 4 lety +12

      @@filipsoldic6737 da ameri razumiju kako smo pametni :)

  • @Meatlord69
    @Meatlord69 Před 4 lety +22

    We owe a lot to Zrinsky. What a hero.

  • @ninojelicic
    @ninojelicic Před rokem +19

    Croatia was named Antemurale Christianitatis (shield of Christianity) by Pope Leo X for a damn good reason

  • @Angelimir
    @Angelimir Před 4 lety +37

    Another fun fact:
    The great grandson of Nikola Zrinski (or Zrínyi Miklós in Hungarian), named also Nikola Zrinski, wrote the well-known Hungarian epic poem, The Peril of Sziget (Szigeti veszedelem), roughly 100 years later, as a commemoration of his ancestor's bravery, and to raise the spirit of the Hungarian nation that was by that time all but overwhelmed by the Ottomans.

  • @tristanthorburn8473
    @tristanthorburn8473 Před 4 lety +18

    Awesome defiance in the face of certain death. Seems an even greater feat of courage and grit and stubbornness than the 300 Spartans. 20,000+ wins by a massively outnumbered army. Truly awe-inspiring.

    • @tunnar79
      @tunnar79 Před 4 lety +1

      To be fair,what the fuck else can you do when all the diplomatic bridges have been burned? You'll be killed even if you surrender,so you might as well go down fighting like there's no tomorrow (because there literally isn't).

  • @sretnikdolaznik1863
    @sretnikdolaznik1863 Před 4 lety +33

    To battle, to battle!
    Unsheathe your swords, brothers,
    Let the enemy know how we die!
    Our city already burns,
    The heat is already reaching us:
    Their roar resounds,
    Their rage is rampant!
    Our chests flare up as that fire,
    The roar is silenced by the rattling of our swords!
    All of you, kiss Zrinski
    As brethren would kiss one another!
    Follow him to the gates,
    You, faithful heroes!
    Now, brothers!
    Load the rifles, pistols,
    Our thunders, our bang,
    Let them roar, topple, harry!
    Let us grind our fierce swords,
    Make them cut harder, harder!
    Good bye and be well,
    Our home of old,
    Oh, good bye,
    From everywhere
    The grim enemy comes
    Already they plan
    To bury your sacred body,
    But they won't!
    All your sons move to the fight for you!
    Our home, you will stand forever!
    Into the fight, to the fight!
    For the home, for the home now to the fight!
    Even if the infernal might
    Raises its knife at it;
    To the fight!
    We are few, but courageous!
    Who, who will bring him down?
    Death to the devil, death!
    To die for your homeland - such a delight!
    Against the enemy! They must, they must die!
    Text from the Croatian patriotic song that's sung on many sports events and others. From the Opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski that was based on the Battle of Szigetvar, it is said that Zrinski sung this song(U boj u boj, za narod svoj) as a part of the patriotic speech before and during the ride to meet the ottomans head on

    • @sretnikdolaznik1863
      @sretnikdolaznik1863 Před 4 lety +6

      @@pajserbrigada1362 Not really, it was a personal union lol. who fights for who is never so straight forward in this time of history, if it was, it would be simple af. The battle of Varna is a great example of that, where many nations that were mostly(except Poland) technically under one king but had their own regional voivods, bans, and the rest. The fourth crusade is another good example as well as the Despotate of Serbia fighting against the byzantines during the siege of constantinople...

    • @sretnikdolaznik1863
      @sretnikdolaznik1863 Před 4 lety +3

      wat

    • @milionST
      @milionST Před 4 lety +4

      @@pajserbrigada1362 Što je pjesnik htio reći?

    • @maxmustermann7954
      @maxmustermann7954 Před 4 lety +6

      @@pajserbrigada1362 Do you know how a state works? The Hungarian King ruled Croatia as King of Croatia not as King of Hungary, due to the fact that Hungary and Croatia were in a personal union - just like Austria-Hungary later on.
      As a matter of fact if one nation is to be held accountable for the Ottoman expansion it is Serbia. You expanded your borders to form a short-lived instable Empire at the cost of the Eastern Roman Empire that was busy fighting the Ottomans. That's a great idea. Stab your Christian neighbours in the back while theyre busy in the East.
      The selfish action of your beloved Душан lead to the demise of the Balkans and cost the entire Balkans their independence.

    • @s.a5332
      @s.a5332 Před 4 lety

      Why do they kiss each other sounds suspect lol

  • @mislavcovic2788
    @mislavcovic2788 Před 4 lety +60

    As soon as I saw the name of the video, I immediately clicked on the video :)
    Also please do the battle of Sisak in 1593 :)
    Love you guys! ❤❤❤❤

    • @user-fj5wn9iq5r
      @user-fj5wn9iq5r Před 4 lety +7

      It sue be but still battle of lepanto and battles with persia in 1580s

  • @RenegadeRanga
    @RenegadeRanga Před 4 lety +1

    Another phenomenal video with amazing production from the narration and research to the epic score that highlights the critical moment of the battle when the end is near. With all the elements coming together the hair stand up on the back of you neck and you live in hope for the miracle or are filled with inspiration at the last stand. Finally I love the sneaky powder keg tactics of the Hapsburg army.

  • @calidone7661
    @calidone7661 Před 4 lety +18

    According to some Turkish sources, the target of the campaign was Eger, which was previously besieged but not conquered. However in the meantime, Zrinksi was raiding into Ottoman territory, so they wanted to punish him.
    Overall historians also often mention that, there was peace with Habsburgs at that time, campaign was already needless and meant to be a respond to popular unrest due to unsuccessful Malta Siege, previous year.
    Suleiman was already very ill at the beginning of the campaign and prebably knew he won't see Istanbol again. He stilled marched at the head of army at the age of 72, which was very old for that century (still old as well)
    btw Eastern Hungary (Erdel) was an Ottaman vassal just like Wallachia and Moldovia. The map has a problem there.

  • @TGSSMC
    @TGSSMC Před 3 lety +9

    If today's Croatian politicians and leaders had only a fraction of Zrinski's honor and balls divided among the lot of them. Croatia would be not only beautiful land, but alltogether best state to live. Unfortunately we have what we have.
    Or as we say "Da baba ima k.. ac, zvala bi se djed"

    • @LECityLECLEC
      @LECityLECLEC Před 3 lety

      What's that line mean?!

    • @misellijesnic8080
      @misellijesnic8080 Před 2 lety

      @@LECityLECLEC if grandma had a dick she would be grandpa, thats what it means haha

  • @OttomanHistoryHub
    @OttomanHistoryHub Před 4 lety +29

    Suleiman: Whats a Szigetvar?
    Sokollu Mehmed: Can we just march on Vienna again?
    K&G: Szigetvar was no great prize.
    Zrinski: Am I a joke to you?

    • @AdamNoizer
      @AdamNoizer Před 4 lety

      Ottoman History Hub lol

    • @nedimsisic2370
      @nedimsisic2370 Před 4 lety

      @Luqman Osman No. Most people in Bosnia were of the Bosnian church, considered heretics and had crusades launched against them and slaughtered even by their king under pressure by the Vatican. Without any external support and with the gentle(by contemporary European standards) approach by the Ottomans most of those people converted to Islam by 1600(Bosnian Kingdom was conquered in 1463), although the last member of the Bosnian church died in 1870, it wasn't an immediate process, since it wasn't forced, more persuaded and incentivized. Today, most Bosnian muslims consider themselves Bosniaks, catholics Croats and orthodox Serbs.
      Besides, there were other notable people before Mehmed-paša Sokolović, like Isa-beg Ishaković, Gazi Husrev-beg and the like.

  • @stepanpytlik4021
    @stepanpytlik4021 Před 4 lety +169

    A small victory for a high price. Well done,Croats and Hungarians!

    • @76ers46
      @76ers46 Před 4 lety +2

      Being helpless enough to be happy to defeat :)

    • @sahipkran9447
      @sahipkran9447 Před 4 lety

      Have a look at this SLAVe being content after a defeat. Ironic

    • @filipskalic3376
      @filipskalic3376 Před 4 lety +2

      m. 7ero you call this a victory hahah

    • @sahipkran9447
      @sahipkran9447 Před 4 lety +1

      @@filipskalic3376 yugos are really dumb. Thanks for verifying this

    • @filipskalic3376
      @filipskalic3376 Před 4 lety +10

      @@sahipkran9447filthy goatlover talking about dumbness 😂

  • @terryharris1291
    @terryharris1291 Před 2 lety +11

    The Ottomans fell in their 1000's to a small Croatia force of brave Warriors who fought to the last.

    • @kkkkk9815
      @kkkkk9815 Před 2 lety

      “Croatia” well isn’t it weird the leader was half hungarian half Croat also szigetvàr is in Hungary with 90% Hungarian population

    • @kkkkk9815
      @kkkkk9815 Před 2 lety

      @Ben Dover if you pasted that from wiki here is what they say was a Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet. He was a member of the House of Zrinski, a Croatian-Hungarian noble family his mother was also from the Széchy family and even his dad side was most probaly mixed becuse his father father was from Szombathely a hungarian city with 0,6% croat population

    • @kkkkk9815
      @kkkkk9815 Před 2 lety

      @Ben Dover and becuse he was ban of croatia dont mean he was croat for example Louis I was the king of poland does that mean he was polish?

    • @kkkkk9815
      @kkkkk9815 Před 2 lety

      @Ben Dover i showed proof he was half croat half hungarian

    • @kkkkk9815
      @kkkkk9815 Před 2 lety

      @Ben Dover No his mother was from Széchy family a hungarian family

  • @fabi_66176
    @fabi_66176 Před 4 lety +35

    Do NOT mess with the powerful noble family "Šubić Zrinjski"

    • @CrvenkapicaIVZNG
      @CrvenkapicaIVZNG Před 2 lety

      Nikola Šubić Zrinjski was a member of this very powerful family. He only earned the addition "Sigetski" with his honorable death. There is no other powerful Zrinjski family. Just this one.
      Nikola Šubić Zrinjski war ein Mitglied eben genau dieser mächtigen Familie. Den Zusatz "Sigetski" hat er sich erst mit seinem ehrenvollen Tod verdient. Es gibt keine andere mächtige Familie Zrinjski. Nur diese eine.

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 Před 4 lety +19

    A pretty impressive video. The defenders were heroic to the end. My compliments to them.

  • @mikeshogunlee
    @mikeshogunlee Před 4 lety +41

    Ottoman:....well at least we got the Citadel!
    *BOOM*
    Ottoman:....I hate szigetvar....

  • @martindzaja7800
    @martindzaja7800 Před 4 lety +94

    Finnaly!!! I have waited for this so long, LONG LIVE CROATIA AND LONG LIVE HUNGARY!!!

    • @IvanKala
      @IvanKala Před 4 lety +5

      @Slave and follower come and get us if you dare

    • @IvanKala
      @IvanKala Před 4 lety +1

      @Slave and follower come and get us if u dare

    • @76ers46
      @76ers46 Před 4 lety

      So you waited for defeat like your dad zrinski:) interesting..

    • @kingkong2415
      @kingkong2415 Před 4 lety

      hahaha now you got it xD

    • @maserati969
      @maserati969 Před 3 lety +1

      the ottoman left a scar 😂😂😃