Alexios I Grand Komnenos: Foundation of the Komnenian Empire
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- Alexios I Grand Komnenos, reigned from 1204-1222 and was the grandson of the emperor Andronikos I Komnenos (reign 1183-1185). This video looks at his reign and the actions of his brother David during the years after the fall of Constantinople in the Pontus.
Successor: Andronikos I Gidon
• Andronikos I Gidon: Gu...
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This is just what i needed now.
As a Greek I'd like to thank you for these videos, the Byzantine empire and its history are very dear to us.
Do Greeks refer to themselves as Greeks or Romans? Some videos I watch, some Turkish citizens refer to Greeks as Romans.
@@danialvereb In Greece we use the word Hellenes (Έλληνες) which is also used sometimes in English, like hellenic civilization etc., It is the equivalent of Greeks. The root Greece/Greeks/Grecia is of Latin origin and was primarily used in the west. However, in literature, music, and in the more broad and general Greek folklore and culture, you will often find words such as Romios (Ρωμιός) that means Roman, or Romiosyne (Ρωμιοσύνη) which could be translated as "Romanhood" or "Romanness" and almost always bears a more noble meaning,it is often used in poems about lost lands, former glory, about freedom and historic battles, etc. Therefore, Rome, especially Eastern Rome aka Byzantium is very closely tied to our national identity.
And indeed, sometimes in Turkey they may refer to Greeks as Rum - meaning Romans
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czcams.com/video/DN_CHtf_7Uw/video.html on the Alexiad, story of the reign of Alexios Komnenos.
Greetings from Georgia! We lost the best neighbor we have ever had
Trebizond was armoured with kartvelian arms, without Tamara the Great no Trebizond.
This is the truth
Love the vid. One thing to note: Generally in Greek, oi is pronounced like ee, so Komnenoi would be pronounced more like Komnenee, as opposed to Komnenoy.
Correct
I am afraid from a Byzantine Greek perspective ERH is actually correct. Whilst in modern Greek the pronunciation of the οι is like ee. The οι as seen in Byzantine Greek (itself having its roots in Koine and Attic) such as Κομνηνοί is pronounced as an oi. This is because of vowel shift over the course of two millennia. Linguistic scholars to the best of my knowledge have not been able to pinpoint when the shift occurs, but it is generally accepted as occurring in the seventeenth century when most of the Greek world was under Ottoman Rule. As a general rule therefore one is perfectly correct to pronounce the dipthong οι as an oi.
@@Athena-oh3uj Interesting. I'll have to research Koine Greek more
@@Athena-oh3uj I think you are referring to the erasmian pronunciation of the koine which is disputed by the majority of the linguists already . It is a clear -ee pronunciation of -oi even in koine. It goes the same with -ει also pronounced as -ee.
I enjoy this smaller video format. The longer videos are great for learning but sometimes I don't have time to really pump one of those out
Thanks for letting me know. Sometimes it is difficult to get a balance between details and concision.
Really underrated emperor
For a second, I thought this video was going to be about the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (I can see you made a video about him over a year ago, so I'm probably going to watch that as well). I still very much enjoyed this video, I know very little about the Empire of Trebizond, I found this video to be very informative in regards to its formation. I have noticed some parallels between Alexios of the Byzantine Empire and Alexios of Trebizond (notably, it seemed that both of them had to deal with the Latins and the Turks at the same time).
I think it's really unfortunate your channel isn't any bigger right now (though it is nice that smaller channels typically have more bearable viewers), the quality of this video was really well done and professional. There seems to be quite a shortage of Byzantine history on CZcams, this channel was a really nice find, I can really see your channel taking off in the future!
God, I love learning about thr successor states. Great work Daniel!
Thank you, I do enjoy the history of Trebizond
Love your works! Greets from Greece!!!
Hello
Too bad the Komnenoi and the Laskarids couldn't have allied instead of fighting each other.
I love your videos but man, that monster Hunter theme popping up around eight minutes got me so unquestionably excited for no Roman reason 😭
You're doing great
What a influential figure during a age of Byzantine uncertainty. Great video as always!
Thank you very much. I do find the empire of Trebziond quite interesting. Its ashame we know so little about what he got up to during his reign.
Can you do more videos in this style,its much more interesting
Sure, by style do you mean around 10 minutes long?
Eastern Roman History yes
@@rezak2 Righto
Many thanks and well deserved appreciation from a greek-swede of pontic-greek grandparents!
Do you have the time and interest to digg into castles and fortifications of Trebizond empire? Also more specific of the Trebizond army/militia and navy.
We know a little about:
- Minor standard army, 200 lost horse lancers in battle was considered a big loss.
- The Trebizond/laz archers and their skills.
- The more turkic way of fighting during 14th century, horseback and bearing turkish scimitars.
- The influence of the navy...
Many thanks!
Thank you very much. I do hope that an English study of the Trapezuntine Empire will be produced or a translation of Prof. Karpov's work will be produced to bring a major update to the study of the field into being.
I always enjoy researching about Trebizond although there are limitations due to the sources.
I can do a video about their navy and there army. I don't actually know where the Trapezuntine Archer comes from. I do know that their standing army was quite small around 600-800 men.
Thank you again.
Hello!
In some of the previous videos You said Byzantines were Catholic, what did you mean by this?
The Eastern Roman Empire might refer to my Constantine XI video. This is because through the union of the churches the Orthodox church had to adopt western doctrine. Thus Constantine and co followed the western rite. This deeply divided the empire as some rejected the union and others embraced it. A good example was Cardinal Bessarion of Trebizond. Isidore of Kiev was sent by the pope to Constantinople to begin the enforcement and conversion of the church and populace to the western rite. After the fall of the captial to the Turks the union was abandoned by the patriarch but people like Bessarion still were Catholic. this is what I mean in this case.
In relation to much earlier times, I believe I may have used it inprecisely. Many of the people in the empire in the 6th century belonging to the Latin speaking part of the empire were Calcedonian and fell under the see of Rome rather than Constantinople, such as Italy and Africa.
@@EasternRomanHistory Thanks! Both for the answer, and this great channel. :)
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When Alexios was taken after retaken sinople, and the people say he has growing sons, this must have been a ruse, as when he died his son-in-law ruled as his son was too young to rule, but i think it is silly, that the emperor would go hunting after taken a city with the enemy, still in the area, if he had gone back to his capital and then went hunting, he would have been safe and he would not have had to pay tribute
How he got captured who knows. The point to make I believe is that the emperor had an heir and so the defenders were not willing to give up their city for the sake of Alexios which explains why the Sultan resorted to torturing Alexios. It is possible that the Sinopians refered to Andronikos Gidon who was Alexios' son-in-law. Then again you might be right and a ruse against the sultan.
YOU HAVE George 4THr 1213 TO1223, YET YOU SAY IN 1212 HE GOT GIFTS FROM ALEXIOS 1ST[MISTAKE OR IS there AN OVERLAP OF HIS RULE WITH THE the Queen?
Yes, He was co-king with tamara in 1212 he became sole king in 1213.
The Komnenoi and their unrelenting will not to be defeated.
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Imagine seeing you here
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David should have attacked the Turks take as much territory as he could get peace and then go for nicean
Empire.
Anybody else see a lot of similarity with the current US situation and the Byzantine empire circa 541AD?
Care to elaborate what you mean?
Similarity yes, but very fortunately for us we are not suffering from the bubonic plague.
@@EasternRomanHistory Actually the coronavirus came soon after.
You have good videos but you need to stop calling it byzantine its roman theres no such thing as "byzantine" it roman or eastern roman
Thank you, generally I use both fairly interchangeably so that everyone know s what I am talking about.
@@EasternRomanHistory ok my friend keep up the good work but if u want to tell their real name as you know its Roman empire and Romans
I guess you can use byzantium after the death of Justinian