Balkan Wars | 3 Minute History

[@gomiladroogies5951]

One does not simply mention the words "balkan" and "history" without raising hellfire.

[@zhcultivator]

IKR

[@JavRexgteneg2pIift]

Otto von Bismarck was on to something.

[@countrystuffmapping5686]

Comment sections should be illegal in videos about the Balkans.

[@frenchmasterrace574]

I'm Bulgarian and I agree with that!I can't control my anger :)

[@azaghallordofbelegost1880]

I am curious what do Bulgarians think about Serbia and Serbians today?

[@yoandimov8236]

We like them because they're the only country with Macedonia who is still slavic like us.

[@vucko8323]

So you are saying that Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia are the most Slavic countries

[@yoandimov8236]

In that region, yes. Russia and Ukraine would be just as much or even more slavic than us though.

[@reggiekrager5411]

3rd Balkan War =this comment section

[@reggiekrager5411]

KosovoSizzerb I'm romanian not croatian

[@gesman5000]

It's Serbs being Serbs.

[@christianschannel7403]

Freedom To Albanian

[@markojovanovic6266]

Racist...

[@ahmedkeremsayar]

viva albania

[@nebeskisrb7765]

2nd Balkan War: "Hello, I'm Ferdinand, and welcome to Jackass"

[@horse7858]

LOL :D

[@frenchmasterrace574]

Marko Antic :(

[@MMFan2004]

Agreed.

[@timax4114]

Wanna hear a joke? Peace in Balkans

[@coinreviewer6196]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Veriox22]

Dude you should go in (insert country) got talent

[@wyte4410]

We serbs dont get it

[@_.________.]

Haha

[@tazika2988]

"Peace in Balkans" is opposite of a joke. This is the most tollerant and peace-loving part of Earth ONLY IF BRITO-SERBIA WILL FINALLY STOP FIGHTING BALKAN OCCUPYING WAR THEY STARTED 200 YEARS AGO.

[@INODEUX]

the balkans is a mess

[@ajmerthethy6724]

The Balkans is a shithole,

[@Sloth3321]

You probably my rotting country bulgaria

[@frenchmasterrace574]

INODEUX your fucking face is a mess

[@frenchmasterrace574]

Sloth3321 DONT SAY BULGARIA IS ROTTING

[@INODEUX]

***** thats why they are evil coz they dont think they only want want want money on other peoples expences

[@kumorishumi2536]

Bulgaria be like : *TOP 10 ANIME BETRAYALS*

[@dgdbg]

The comment section is a total shitstorm.

[@JabzyJoe]

+dgdbg I get notifications all the time from this video. It's weird to be called a liar and a propagandist by all sides.

[@crogameri]

+Jabzy its only 1 balkan war

[@imme12]

It is sad that some comments are so abusive but people use bad language when their arguments are weak or if they feel they can't win an argument by reasoning. I'm sorry to see you personally being attacked but unfortunately you touched a very sensitive matter with multinational interests and as you can see we all went to school and studied our history books but the facts are either contradicting or missing in some books :-) I'm sure the historical sources you used told you exactly what you narrated in the video and it is not your fault if some facts are incorrect or totally missing. I'm Bulgarian and I love my country and I loved reading history and I still do but the problem is that we all see the history via our own prism of national pride and emotions. However, I deeply believe that my country's history is seriously over sighted and neglected and there have been lots of misconceptions around us, our lands and history, including the very ancient times (when we were in Asia) I wish the countries' historians sit around one table and agree on the facts based on facts and not emotions! And I wish that our neighbouring countries stop hating us and ridiculing us so much! This doesn't do them any justice.

[@JabzyJoe]

Ha, don't worry, my feeling are not hurt by them. Personally, I don't mind people being patriotic, but I can't stand nationalism. I'm sure there's a difference between the 2, but I find it hard to explain. Nationalists are usually pretty easy to spot in the comments section and I'll often argue back if I feel like it. From what I can tell historians have been some of the most dangerous people. They've created nationalities out of nothing and justified any deed committed. Marxist, Nationalist, Whig etc. It's not the job of a historian to tell you the facts but give an argument. And they are instrumental in putting every event into a grand narrative.

[@НемањаСпасић-ч6д]

+Jabzy listen bro,we Serbs are strange,really strange. I don't really know how to explain it but we took a lot of shit thru history and now so called "Independent Kosovo" exist ,actually it does not . Your videos are really educational and really interesting. Keep up your great and if I may say awesome work peace bro ✌

[@SyntheticParanoia]

There is still bitterness from those events here in Bulgaria. Now we get along with most of our neighbors, but that salty taste you get after everyone turning from your ally to an enemy is still not gone. Even with all the bad blood between Turkey and Bulgaria I must give them that - at least they were open with their stand and never stabbed in the back the way other neighbors did in the past. But history is history - good or bad.

[@KosovoReport]

TATARS

[@SyntheticParanoia]

Should I be offended at something, or happy for you that you learned how to type a word? Pro tip - lay it easy on the caps lock. You might pass the wrong first impression to people.

[@KosovoReport]

HAHAHAHA U TATARS. FUKC YOR CHALGA. AZIS

[@SyntheticParanoia]

I take my advice back - you really deserve the first impression you make. And in addition - it is spelled "fuck" (first C and than K) and "your" (with an U in it) and if you are not 12-years-old - don't just write U instead of "You", it just looks embarrassing. Take care.

[@KosovoReport]

BULGARSSS FUCK YOR CHALGA

[@errornamenotfound3983]

1:51 there was a mistake. You said the Montenegrins expanded west but they actually expanded east.

[@JabzyJoe]

enternamehere Cheers, I should have really spotted the fact they can't expand into the Sea. I'll add an annotation.

[@MilanRubiksCube97]

enternamehere Yes. And they took cities of Istok, Pec and Djakovica.

[@dragoljubjablanovic3155]

Tu dosta stvari nije tacno ti to ne mozes da shvatis jer nisi iz balkana...

[@viktorpopovic946]

+Dragoljub Jablanovic upravu si

[@aleksgojcaj8010]

+Dragoljub Jablanovic kocobo je albanska

[@dand7763]

The Balkan Game of Thrones at his finest !

[@zhcultivator]

Indeed

[@THECOMMUNISTCHANNEL]

Revolutions: *exists* Ottoman Empire: Ah shit here we go again

[@cutepawskittens3363]

I know I’m late on this video because I’m commenting in 2018 and this came out in 2015 but still need to express myself. As a Macedonian i feel really...really sad when looking into this. Im not one of those idiots that believe we are ancient Macedonians and that Alexander is ours.I’ve been studying this for almost a year and now i know everything.If i have to talk honestly this is what i think.Historically we were Bulgarians because there is a lot of evidence to prove that,but after WW2 we officially became part of Yugoslavia and Yugoslavians, but of course that doesn’t change who we are, but its been 73 years since being with Bulgaria.Today its safe to say that Bulgarians are the closest relatives according to our language and ethnicity.If you ask me on my opinion about Macedonia joining Bulgaria it depends, in the moment no i think we cant really do that since both of the country’s been apart from each other for at least 73 years and both of the country’s have there own government’s and problem’s but i really hope we become really good friends even tho we are by now i can tell that there is A LOT of improvement in the relationship,but its not enough i really want my country and Bulgaria to be even better friends than now and move on from the past and hope that my country learns to except the real history.

[@cutepawskittens3363]

thepantomimegoose ss what??if your talking about me no,I’m not Albanian,but if your talking about the country and nation itself still no,35% are Albanians while 65% are Macedonians

[@cutepawskittens3363]

diamantidis 13 well same for me i dont really care about if we are going to unite or not,but we have to think for the others because not all will agree and it can cause MASIVE protests in our country and i dont believe that Albanians will be also happy with this decision too.These two country’s have been apart for about 73 years and thats not a little number so in some way we have differences and not to mention almost all of the adults of macedonia are blinded with Yugoslavian and Serbian propaganda and i know this because of my mom and my grandfather who are huge nationalist and also because of gruevski.believe it or not during yugoslavia they NEVER learned about how alexander was theirs and the rest of that bullshit ofa history,the only thing the had during Yugoslavia was only the name and i know this because my grandmother told me and somehow got that out of my mum to tell me that.Nonetheless the idea for uniting is a tricky idea that can cause a lot of drama

[@NG-ry9ol]

I'm so happy to see that there are "Macedonians" which know that we are just brothers! (from Bulgaria)

[@mxm742]

@@NG-ry9ol last summer I was in bugaria! I'm Macedonian and I think we shouldn't argue, we need to forget the past! People in Bulgaria were very friendly it was beautiful and our languages were similar!

[@makutas-v261]

The first honest "North Macedonian" I have ever seen it's true, you are West Bulgarian.

[@emilavramov8245]

And that is why, on the Balkans we all love each other, UNTIL someone brings up politics and history :D

[@katie8157]

underrated comment (from a bulgarian :] )

[@ilijalevskar2819]

Serbia & Bulgaria have to stick together!!!

[@veljkosimovic6779]

+Nikolay Ganev Look at history and stop being blind because of your nationalistic hatred! What have you done to us Serbs? Or are you trying to say that you Bulgarians were always with good intentions, helping everybody, angel like nation, and then Serbs came out from the pits of Hell and 'betrayed' you?! Come on man! Look at your Tsar Ferdinand, look what you have done in both WWI & WWII !!!

[@emilpenkov6279]

Veljko Simovic It was Serbia which invaded Bulgaria after our independance. Rather than helping a nation with which you have so much in common you decided to spit in our faces. Anyways I'm looking forward to all balkan nations finally cooperating with eachother in the future. This hatred has to stop.

[@lonewaffle231]

Tonight The Night ne

[@zak8458]

Petko Apostolov Nema tol'ko vrba kol'ko ima Srba....i da, sram te bilo!

[@lonewaffle231]

Petko Apostolov pointless....

[@HiHello-dq3zj]

Disclaimer:It takes more than 3 minutes

[@rayzedark1353]

I love the balkans such beautiful people and land I really wish there wasnt a war there they all seem so similar but just those tiny things that they hate each other for

[@dannnsss8034]

Don't be racist

[@jamesdaman12345]

Your vids are great man

[@cnsmp770]

If you could add subtitles it would be very helpful!Btw you are doing a great job ;)

[@nikolatasev4948]

As a Bulgarian, I would just like to add something that I believe is important. The Ottoman empire has all Balkan nations subdues for centuries, so it was natural to consider it the natural enemy. During the First Balkan War Bulgaria had 450 000 men fighting - more than all the other allies combined. This is why they fight more battles, and got disproportionally more casualties, feeling they deserve the lion's share of the spoils as well. During the Second Balkan War the now former allies wielded much larger armies - they fought Bulgaria with much greater effort than they were fighting The Ottomans. This, understandably, led to some very hard feelings. In all, the Second Balkan War is now in our history as the First National Catastrophe, preceding the disastrous results of WW1.

[@strahinjatopalovic2540]

By my serbian history book you Bulgarians didnt send enough troops to Macedonia, and didnt even take the land you wanted like Trnovo (Im not sure if its called like that), and we had to help you. Austro-Hungary fucked everything by making Albania.

[@nikolatasev4948]

@@strahinjatopalovic2540 We learn that Bulgarians did not send enough troops to take Macedonia because we sent troops to fight the main Ottoman armies. We were closest to their capital and reinforcements. The nations were in a war together, helping each other was the main idea - not an excuse to break the pre-war treaties. Who took what first should not be as important as what was agreed upon. Things like these led to Bulgaria attacking Serbia in WW1, with tragic consequences for both sides. I'm not saying this as an accusation, or out of spite. More than 100 years have passed, and these old grievances will not cause any new wars. Who was right and who was wrong matters little, when both the wrong and the right are long gone, and history is not likely to repeat itself. I much prefer the modern Balkans without wars. But it is interesting to learn what other's history books view the same event. Thank you for sharing.

[@stanbatakarata6081]

​@@strahinjatopalovic2540😂 Brother Bulgaria 🇧🇬 have 500k army Serbia 🇷🇸 230-250 k 😉

[@agonistadenoche7806]

Shitstorm of the year >A serb >A bosniak >A croatian >Arguing who would win a fight between a tiger, a lion and a bear

[@agonistadenoche7806]

KosovoSizzerb I'm not even european lol (no, I'm not canadian either)

[@agonistadenoche7806]

KosovoSizzerb what part of "Not European" you don't understand?

[@KosovoReport]

Okapi Jirafa YOU MUST BE A GYPSY

[@agonistadenoche7806]

KosovoSizzerb Hint: New Continent

[@KosovoReport]

Okapi Jirafa YOU FUCKING TURK

[@Mankindatwar]

RESTORE CONSTANTINOPLE. DEUS VULT

[@nousername3887]

Mankind at war DEUS VULT

[@restoretheempire3866]

Jimi Noil Constantinople shall be reclaimed!

[@thesignof33]

Sure.. Dreaming helps.

[@Deniz1923]

İstanbul :)

[@rbshnsaesthetic246]

"yawn Istanbul has been in muslim hands since 1453 let's see you try" yeah no wonder its such a shithole

[@alexkav1661]

well the serbians greeks and bulgarians due to non aggrement how to split the territory they agreed to that "whoever's army arrives first keep that territory".

[@danielninchev724]

That is not true. The Bulgarians had agreement with Serbia for Macedonia. They didn't have any agreements with Greece though.

[@filipsam789]

Finally a smart person who distinguishes ALL OF MACEDONIA and not only Vardar region

[@UorykSoalokin]

I am Greek and I deeply appreciate you saying Constantinople instead of ''istambul''. I have to say, you have a lot of interesting video. I 've seen some of them, and I liked them too.

[@JabzyJoe]

Uoryk Soalokin Cheers

[@MsSomeone98]

What difference does it make?

[@tiredvideos5341]

Uoryk Soalokin Constantinople is the name, not Istanbul. /watch?v=2KFWk-5bZuI Support from Serbia, brother :)

[@Foyoon]

Uoryk Soalokin well during that time it was still oficially called constantinople now its officially called istanbul and it once was called Byzantion names Change

[@zodyak9213]

Uoryk Soalokin its hard to understand. constantin is just an old king's name, konstantinepolis's mean konstantin's city. past 550 years istanbul belong to us. so what you feel when you keep saying konstantinople? sorry brother, you just lost that place many years ago. is that look to you logic turk's call athens another name? you know, athens was belong to us almost 350 years. weird.

[@icyflipfloper]

I suggest we stop the hate. Stop discussing who's land's who's. Why not let things go and try to focus on getting on better. It would be better for everyone.

[@Mryscher]

Thanks for uploading this!

[@psdavitko942]

Dangit i feel bad for Bulgaria...

[@vaniog29]

+PSdavitko this video pretty much sums up why Bulgaria sided with Germany in both world wars , it just couldnt trust its neighbours, and its perfectly understandable why

[@psdavitko942]

+vaniog29 May i ask where are you from

[@vaniog29]

+PSdavitko Bulgaria

[@psdavitko942]

+vaniog29 Thats nice Like i really feel bad for Bulgaria because they are potrayed as the bad guys in the balkan war but the ad guys are the Greeks,Serbs and Romanians who attacked Bulgaria

[@vaniog29]

+PSdavitko pretty much , it was a very pointless war , I guess all of the nations in the balkans acted reckless. and ultimately led to Bulgaria siding with Germany because it wanted to regain its territories. None of this probably would have happened if Serbia didn't just give back Macedonia as promised. Joining the allies would have been more advantageous for us then. Where are you from?

[@razvanalbu2104]

please do a video about the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish war or how we call it in Romania - The Independence War

[@JabzyJoe]

Răzvan Albu I'm researching this one, but I'm afraid my videos are the First Italo-Ethiopian War, First Crusade and Six Day War. Once I get these up I'll go back to the research

[@noahoskow4551]

Jabzy Very much looking forward to the 6 Day War.

[@JabzyJoe]

Noah Oskow It should be up within the hour. I've tried to keep it as neutral as possible, but I still feel like people will get angry about it.

[@borilboyanov5544]

We should make our own Balkan Union or United Balkan States, with it's parliament, union laws, and common economy. Viva la Balkan Union!

[@borilboyanov5544]

infested9846 That wasn't a union but a fake communist country

[@DannTeBg]

infested9846 I dont hate anyone, everyone is welcome!

[@borilboyanov5544]

infested9846 Yes, it is said that traditionally we hate each-other. A lot of things are "being said" and written. But It wouldn't be a stretch to say that also we've been pawns in the hands of _bigger powers_ for a lo-o-o-ng time. It's normal to be territorial if your territory is constantly being questioned by bigger powers using your neighbors. Hence the factual _history_ of the 20th century. As for the actual hate, here's what a revolutionary of ours said about what Bulgaria should be: "All nations (ethnicities) in it (Bulgaria) will live under pure and sacred laws, the way that it is given by God for man to live by. And for the Turk and for the Jew and for whomever they be, it will be the same and it will only be, if they recognize the laws side-by-side with Bulgarians." And think for yourself for a second: why do you think that the western nations got so big after the Renaissance? (Why did the Roman Empire got so big? The Turk/Osman empire?). I will tell you why: It's simple: Money/Wealth and Willpower for organisation. It is money that allows you to have the armies in order to oppress population into submission (and don't have "hate" on yourself, at least in public ;)). And it is the Will of thousands of little knights, barons, kings and emperors to utilize that wealth in conquering "fashion". So, you "bigger" nations have "a finger" in that "traditional Balkan hate" to begin with. Just because you were so lucky to find out that suddenly "hey there's gold/money in that"

[@alexduval4740]

Borilius Belatorium great idea in practice.....but corruption....

[@albanianfirebrand1690]

Borilius Belatorium Nigga, you will swim back to the islands after Albania and Turks launch attack for land that belongs to us, bitch.

[@justdriving9797]

im bulgarian and i cry when i watch :D love

[@СилвияКирова-ч3п]

"~Trust no one" The Balkan nations are like the sons of a king. They hurt each other no matter if they are family. Its strange how the ones who are supposed to be friends are the ones who hate each other the most. We all should be together. Because nobody survives if he is all alone.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

So, greeks, slavs and mongols are... brothers? How?

[@akhsdenlew1861]

@I Stole your Cookie while you read my username Please tell me what kind of point should i get from a sentence like: The Balkan nations are like the sons of a king. They hurt each other no matter if they are family.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

@I Stole your Cookie while you read my username War is stupid anyway,,, that's common sense, no poetry needed for that. It's not like we have to be friends/brothers or in war. We can just mind our own buisness and stop getting into each other's way to avoid conflicts..being friends sure helps but being brothers is like... wtf xD Some countries have too much blood on each other and too much harsh history to accept that anyway.

[@Newbturgangur865]

I LOVE YOUR VIDS! Keep up the great work!

[@brennusduxgallorum]

Greece was independent since 1828, but got recognised by the rest of the countries in 1832.

[@JabzyJoe]

brennusduxgallorum Maybe it's not for everyone, but for simplicity sake in these videos I just go off when the independence is recognized by others. In terms of Greek independence I think 1828 works, but in other situations, an unrecognized independence is an incredibly confusing situation.

[@dmd6227]

As a bulgarian I can say that nobody can dominate or control the Balkans! The turks have failed multiple times, greeks failed in the past, Bulgaria tried hard several times, Yugoslavia become a total disaster... We are so close connected nations and we must make either a Balkan Union or a Balkan Federation between greeks, romanians, bulgarians, serbs, croats, albanians + smaller nations like Montenegro, macedonians, bosniaks and pomaks!

[@falxus9962]

D. MD ,Romania are not in Balkans!!!And never was pashalik in Ottoman Imp.!!!

[@ЛюбоКръстев]

thats because bulgarians took every strike and there were almost no more forces left for romania ;O

[@rumelia]

The 1st half of your argument is understandable, but the second smells of discrimination and is logically faulty: 1-you forgot Turks in your potential union 2- Why would Bosniaks would be "smaller nations", that is, assuming that's a valid classification in the first place. Or Macedonians. for that matter. Albania's population is just over 2M for goodness' sake. Same as Republic of Macedonia. Anyways, federations are dead. Certainly cannot and won't be revived in Balkans. Jugoslavija as you said broke apart disastrously. Maybe a new cooperation pact of a sort.

[@willamdafoe9300]

I agree with this!

[@albundybudbundy3714]

@@rumelia you got it wrong. Albania after 20 years of exodus is 3.2 mil ( 2 mil immigrate the last 20 yrs)+ 2 mil in Kosovo. + 1.2 mill in Montenegro + 6 mil in Turkey declared Albanians , so almost 12.5 mil Albanians. 10 mill just in Balkans. , 50% of Greeks have Albanian background ( Albanian orthodoxs) not counting on that though

[@andrezits9723]

Rest of modern Europe: yo let's chill The balkans: *peace was never an option*

[@blockbustervhs]

Now do the 2nd Balkan war YUGOSLAVIA War! :D

[@williamdesmond1742]

That's considered the 3rd but I agree.

[@meemstar2333]

Bruin Wargame he did both balkan wars in this video

[@blockbustervhs]

stefan Bogdanovic Yugoslav breakup

[@awesomeguy17ful]

Wrong, The great war is the third Balkan war and The Yugoslav Wars are the 4th and 5th Balkan wars.

[@БогданИлић-з8ц]

1.ausro hungary formed albania 2.austro hungary ordered bulgaria to attack serbia 3.bulgaria didnt send the promised army in the balkan war

[@1GTX1]

I just read that deal was made that one bulgarian division was to be put into Serbian second army, but when war started they refused to take orders from Serbia as was agreed. Even though deal was broken by Bulgaria, Serbia sent 2 divisions to help Bulgaria take Adrianople. Bulgaria didn't say: we don't need help, and didn't even say thanks after the war. It was obvious that Bulgaria was onto something. Isn't it ironic that if they said thanks and didn't start a new war. Adrianople would be part of Bulgaria today.

[@tashakazulu8737]

@@1GTX1 its ironic that serbia attacked bulgaria, because of the of king milan dreams of imperealism. and their army got beatean by bulgarian peasants

[@vrelo961]

@@lukah.60 mrš u vijetnam ahahha

[@filipkaradzic4794]

@Genti when we stole kosovo and from whom?

[@Gamesbozz]

@@filipkaradzic4794 Albanians

[@abbieamavi]

these videos are so fun to watch, even if it is for school essay :) thank you good sir for this!

[@mariaa.t.48]

Balkan countries really do feel unnecessary hate towards each other.In every one of those countries in school during history classes kids are though whatever the people in the country want to believe. Thats why for example macedonians think that their country is 2000 years old and the universe revolves around them. Plus a lot of macedonia's seem to have the idea that Mc donalds is macedonian. ( True story)

[@janeza382]

+Maria A.T. Greeks belive that they are first Christians and speak Macedonian practicing borrowed language and religion not makes them exclusive ancient Hellene as Albanians are not ancient Illyrians. You dont know whole story young girl. I can marry Bulgarian girl and she can be Macedonian bride.

[@aquaticflames]

Maria A.T. Look we have nutjobs just like every other country, that claim ridiculous ideas like how the old Greek Macedonian empire belongs to us or how we are mentioned in the Bible (yes I'm being serious about this one of the proffesors at my uni was at a talk show and said this), but that doesn't mean that all of us are crazy. We are a split nation on topics from politics to religion, from culture to heritage, ect. just like how US is with Republicans and Democrats. Don't just watch the surfice that is covered by the media, dig a bit to find something for yourself. P.S. We aren't taught in schools that the Earth is 2000 years old, that is bs. We learn about the formation of the Earth's layers like every other country.

[@DacLMK]

Are you stupid? There is no McDonald's in Macedonia since 2013.

[@АлександарСтефановић-у7ы]

Aqua She was not talking about earth being 2000 years old. She wrote that people from FYROM thing that they are ancient macedonians...

[@Ashish447]

Çamaşır Suyu seriously?

[@ПетърПетров-и7ы]

As a bulgarian, I am glad, that foreing historians tell exactly the same story as bulgarian historians do. And it confirms(at least for me) and at least once, that our complain that we deserve more than we have are justified. Our predescesors were kind of heroic and the only reason for our loss, were weak diplomacy and kind of immoral acts done by our enemies.

[@VanaeCavae]

The conflict in the Balkans sure was complicated.

[@KosovoReport]

Yes true, check out my newest documentary on the Balkans

[@anikolla4023]

I wish whole Balkan was one nation!

[@goldeneagle8721]

+A Nikolla You can be a whole country if you want but without Greece

[@rightwingreactionary]

+Glory to Golden Dawn Count Bulgaria out too.

[@magnvsmarcvs]

+A Nikolla It is......mentally

[@RushitTahiri]

+ A Nicholas KISS MY ASS how can it be all one dumb bitch

[@kulehermanio]

+Golden Eagle why? because they're not slavic?

[@vlasisapousidis6786]

My great great grandpa fought and died in the 2nd Balkan war

[@aleksk4151]

in which battle

[@joshuacondell1686]

This is one of the most complicated wars I've ever heard about

[@maciekGTR]

1:30 "they were joined by their allies on the 17th of FUCKtober"

[@mariosathens1]

Actually, the Balkanik Slavic alliance didn't invite Greece from the beginning. They didn't want more competitors in the Regions of Ottoman Macedonia Thrace, Illyria. . The Greek Prime Minister Venizelos who is being Honoured in Greece as a Great Political Leader send a message to the Balkan neighbors

[@realtrickybilly]

Subscribed, do Hungarian history too, please :)

[@JabzyJoe]

trickybilly Anything in particular?

[@Osvath97]

Jabzy The Revolution of 1956, please. Otherwise the Hungarian struggle versus the Mongols or the Hungarian struggle versus the Ottomans. Or the Revolution of 1848, the conflicts related to the Honfoglalás. Well, you get the point, there is a lot of history!

[@realtrickybilly]

Jabzy Let it be your choice, what you find the most interesting. I really like your channel. As a suggestion maybe your viewers would be interested in history videos that summarize the most important events of a country's entire history. Like Hungarian history in a nutshell - 5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc. For example I have learned Hungarian history, but the history teachers were so focused on minute detail that the big picture is blurry. In other words it is the "You cannot see the forest from the tree" effect

[@sherifelsharkawyful]

The Balkans in the late 1800's and early 1900's was a powder keg; even Otto von Bismarck said on his death bed "I see a Great War, and it will come from the East". It was the nationalism of the Balkans that triggered the Great War, Otto von Bismarck knew the war was coming form the East since conflicts were constantly going on, whether it would be nations proclaiming autonomy or desiring to expand, this created a fire fueled by nationalism. Coupled with how some leaders in the Balkans, like the Carol I of were Romania who was the cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm II, had ties to the Great Powers, this would inevitably lead to the first World War.

[@TheKriviful]

+Sherif El Sharkawy The nationalism of the Balkans triggeered the war but it wasn't the cause of war. The main cause of war were the desires of the superpowers in Europe. Unified Germany and Unified Italy were formed quite late compared to the other nation - countries. Because they formed late, they didn't get as much territory as they wanted to. They wanted to expand. Austria - Hungary was starting to fall, because of nationalist movementes inside itself. Slavic peoples from there wanted independence, or at least a great degree of autonomy, Hungarians wanted their own state, and the Emperor of Austria and Hungary wanted to persevere the Empire. Also there wasn't a single Empire that controlled all of the Balkans. A-H, and the Ottoman Empire both wanted full control over the Balkans throught history. Also Russia wanted a foothold in Balkans, to get access to Adriatic, and over it to Mediterranean. And by the end of 19th and start of 20th century, the Balkan states finally succeded in getting their independence from the Ottomans who have ruled there for about 400 years. South Slavs felt that they needed their own state, and since Serbia and Montenegro were the first South Slavic states to gain independence, they could work more freely towards making a unified South Slavic state. The movement for a unified South Slavic state was quite strong in Croatia and Slovenia, and when A-H saw that Serbia and Montenegro gained independence the Empire felt threatened because a unified South Slavic state was closer to realization, and that would make A-H lose a big amount of their lands. As you can see Europe was in a bad situation, where everyone wanted something from someone else. Everyone was waiting for a trigger. A-H needed wanted to go to war against Serbia ever since Serbia got its independence, but it didn't have a justified reason or excuse to attack it just yet. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was that reason A-H needed to start a war. And after that when war broke out between A-H and Serbia it triggered a chain of declarations of war by the allies of the 2 countries which started the fight.

[@sherifelsharkawyful]

gooka boo There are no limits to the expansion of the Great Powers of Europe. Simply put, the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empire were always hungry for land; they were the sick men of Europe losing their prestige, power and influence in Europe and declining as the Powers of Europe. On your question of what Greece and Serbia brought to the world, the former had the 2nd best economy on Earth after Japan between the Civil War in the 50's up to 1973 and Serbia created Yugoslavia under Tito, which eventually went down only because Tito brought the Balkans together very well until he passed. I do somewhat concur, the Serbs were savages in the 1990's with their ethnic cleansing of my fellow Muslim brethren in Bosnia, but the Balkans aren't all useless. Under the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empire, they faced deep oppression and indifference due to separate cultures and religions(Greeks are Orthodox, Ottomans are Muslim, Hapsburg are Catholic). I personally think that Bosnia and Albania should've stayed Ottoman or at least as client states due to their cultural and religious ties, but the Balkans were meant to be free since they can't let Empires with a completely different culture and religion decide on their fate without them having say.

[@sherifelsharkawyful]

Zmajeviti Respect to you as well friend, an objective prodigy of history and politics. The issue of the Balkans is a controversial one, and we can all agree that the intervention of the Great Powers into Balkan affairs stirred nationalism along with the seeds of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke, the philosophers of the social contract and constitution; however, the people of the Balkans did at times escalate it to radical levels. Groups like the Black Hand that assassinated the Archduke of Austria-Hungary and the desire for vindication against the repressive Empires of Europe led them to annex lands belonging to the Sick Man of Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and entice radical political separatism in places like Bosnia in Austria-Hungary. The Great Powers did their part to escalate the level of nationalism and inevitably foster the seeds of the Great War, but the Balkan peoples with a desire for regional prestige and Independence also contributed to the start of the World War. Though, I don't blame the people of the Balkans for starting the war, their monarchs were almost always non-Balkan(Carol of Romania a Prussian and Otto of Greece a Bavarian) and installed by the Western power and they were stuck in between the haggles of the Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires who greedily eyed the Balkans with a lust for prestige and an opportunity to regain lost honor and glory when their territories seceded, industrialization failed and reactionary monarchs preserved the status quo ante bellum. They were mere victims of the imperialists of Europe and I sympathize with their struggle, even though my background is Ottoman-Egyptian!

[@sherifelsharkawyful]

Johnny Blaze Sounds familiar, doesn't it when a country uses others for their own personal gain? Much like the US with every autocratic regime opposed to communism such as Duvalier, Trujillo, Mobutu Seso Seko, and Suharto. The struggle of countries like Serbia and Greece towards the end was filled with greed and a desire for tyrannical rule and revenge, but their struggle in the early 19th century was a noble one, they were unrepresented people whose fate was often decided by the reactionary rulers of European powers who desired nothing but their own foothold in the Balkans to simply have more land to brag about it and actually have a chance to compete with other powers. I still loath the Serbian wet dream of a greater Slav nation and their atrocities and I see the Greek military Junta as a savage regime that brought stagnation to the entire country and crushed their economic boom; however, I think these people should at least deserve their autonomy and self-governance.

[@LukaS-iy1gs]

+TheKriviful This guy is on point!

[@ΣπαρτιάτηςΕθνικιστής]

FYRO"M": They were not called "Macedonians" at that time. They were called (by everybody) "Bulgarians". Don't teach history by today standards. Alexander the Great was Macedonian or Greek????? He was both.

[@JabzyJoe]

+Σπαρτιάτης Εθνικιστής I'm afraid there were people called Macedonians. For instance the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization was set up in the late 19th Century. Sure, it was a modern Slavic organisation with a pro-Bulgarian stance, but by this war thats what they called themselves.

[@ΣπαρτιάτηςΕθνικιστής]

+Jabzy When they were saying "Macedonians" they meant all people who live in Macedonia. It was not an Ethnic group (Ethnicity). Its like today we say Balkans, we mean all Ethnicities that leave in the Balkan Peninsula. There is no "Balkan" Ethnic group. People who leaved at FYRO"M" had Bulgarian surnames, Titos political party changed them so he could create an Ethnogenesis... the birth of a new Ethnos (Etnic group). Today people who leave there are saying fanatically that they are "Macedonians", but their great-grantparents were calling themselves "Bulgarians" just 70 years ago. People who leave in Thessalonika are calling themselves -Greeks- for the last 3000 years.

[@janeza382]

+Σπαρτιάτης Εθνικιστής Macedonians live in Republic of Macedonia, Greek Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia. Also they live abroad in Germany , Sweden ,Swiss and overseas Canada USA and Australia.

[@cekodoto9052]

+Σπαρτιάτης Εθνικιστής alexandar was fron the state from macedon yet that doesnt mean he has conection to the brainwashed slavic FYROManians.

[@johnplays9654]

he is trace

[@ronanmahaffey2996]

thank you this was very informational

[@andrewmorisseau2575]

Ahh, the Balkans, where no one gets along, work is 2 hours a day, and coffee is a lifestyle!

[@LukaPavlovic1]

Andrew Morisseau 8 hours*

[@stevan546]

When you expand your territory to the sea and then bigger powers just do: “hippity hoppity, time to make Albania property”

[@aa-yf7qw]

They were there before slavs came

[@Gamesbozz]

Albania was still independent in that time though and we demanded way more land then we got too you were lucky 😂

[@Suleei]

i dont know why people constantly complaining about the art, asking to be improved!this simple art makes the presentation even more simplyfying.

[@nickn9040]

This series is perfect for making me quazi-intelligent for the sole purpose of arguing with people and seducing women. Just kidding. Great series. I like that I can get very well done summaries of many events I've never actually read much into (E.g. Falkland Islands which I'd heard of but never read a thing about and this which I'd known some general overview but never the more important details). After one of these videos it's easy to decide which events I want to read into more. Thanks for these!

[@ParidTvShow1]

Albanian traditinal hats are hite not brown or red like turks. That's a dissaster.

[@joshuajwars4271]

Jabzy you just mentioned Great War and Wonder Woman 2017 summary in turn. Wow a conflict for super-heroine to rise up.

[@James--Parker]

Are there any good longer videos on the first bulkan war? This is the only decent one I could find, but it's to short.

[@Tg_tng]

Actually the historical factual truth is Bulgaria began picking up momentum and started repulsing and defeating the Greeks and Serbs, the two were afraid of a Bulgarian invasion upon there lands and quickly sued for a ceasefire, the Romanians and Ottomans received absolutely no fight or resistance due to the concentration to the south and west, the war was an overall draw for Bulgaria, the great powers simply took advantage of it and took away important land along with granting partial land to Bulgaria, a pointless war for all the nations, could have easily been prevented

[@atouloupas]

Yes! Exactly. Thats the 2nd Balkan war in a nutshell.

[@slobodanstojanovic8125]

Yes we Serbs were very affraid of Bulgaria,nobody ever saw better bigger skilfull armed army as bulgarian and even tho we won all wars with bulgaria we were so feared by tatars

[@slobodanstojanovic8125]

Ahh this keyboard bulgarians

[@rangedkid]

"A lie, trait of our patriotism" “We lie to deceive ourselves, to console others, we lie for mercy, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our and somebody else's misery. We lie for love and honesty. We lie because of freedom. Lying is a trait of our patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence. We lie creatively, imaginatively and inventively." - Dobrica Cosic (serbian president & highly respected by serbs)

[@CrapeCraft]

Damn, Montenegro declared war on the Ottoman Empire?

[@wendigo017]

They also declared war on Japan to support Russia in 1904.

[@ferbintegabriel4714]

Montenegro is always in the shadows, you dont know when they will pull the red buttom and explode the entire turkish population and cities XD

[@wendigo017]

It is kinda funny that Montenegro actually demolished Ottomans in second Montenegrin Ottoman war. Turkish casualties were around 40.000 compared to Montenegro's 4-5k LMFAO

[@wendigo017]

@munze srb Yeah, Montenegrins are in fact Serbs just living in the historically diverse and separate country with it's own history. I am Scottish but I live in Montenegro 🇲🇪

[@monkata8]

As a Bulgarian: *cough Traitors *cough

[@Just_a_Lad]

Exactly. We fought the most and at the end everyone decided to stab us in the back.

[@wankawanka3053]

Bulgaria was the traitor because of its ambitions😆

[@zaxa321]

a thing you missed to describe: 1) alliance agreement divided currect day FYRM by Serbia and Bulgraria in half, and by the same agreement Serbia and Montenegro were to get Albania and all the sides were to help eachother if Austro-Hungary/Romania was to intervene 2) Austo-Hungary did intervene, demand independance for Albania and threaten a war because of it. Bulgaria didn't send troops to prepare defense against Austro-Hungary and demands were accepted, with Serbia and Montenegro losing territories that were theirs as part of agreement. Serbia, though maybe the strongest one of the allies, was in specifically bad position since it didn't have access to the sea. 3) Serbia helped ally operations to the end, for example by sending army to siege of Edirne, which had nothing to do with Serbia 4) Bulgaria didn't recognize any of these to Serbia. Serbia asked Russian tsar to mediate between Serbia and Bulgaria, Bulgaria didn't wait for it, but attacked instead With all being said, I think that Bulgaria was not constructive side in this conflict. Before that, Serbia randomly and without any good reason attacked Bulgaria in 1885, and suffered humiliating defeat. These two came from bad leadership, created a gap between Serbs and Bulgars, that later left them on different sides on both world wars. That's really really sad, Serbs and Bulgards are close in many ways, but formed as totally different and conflicted nations by these events.

[@_kalash47]

I am happy because i am Romanian ! :)

[@ferbintegabriel4714]

Toti Romani suntem! :D

[@rumelia]

Don't be: Romania was suffering from terrible poverty at that time.

[@mihailnikoloff2554]

Romania is a country invented in 19th century. You have Bulgarian roots. First Wallachia dynasty of Bessarab was Bulgarian.

[@ÆØÅ-y9d]

@@rumelia "That time" But now it's not as bad as you may think, i was there 6 months ago and they really have cleaned up Bucharest.

[@ÆØÅ-y9d]

@@mihailnikoloff2554 Nobody cares

[@Caboose4859]

If the Italians can do it, anyone can.

[@_Jebb_]

Bulgaria is like a cute little puppy who trusted and loved it's neighbours, if only the Serbs had the same opinion on Bulgaria... I love you Bulgies, to me, you are our dorky little bros with a funny language :) No hate Only love ♡ -an ashamed South Slavic brother

[@katie8157]

lol. love you too serbies :]

[@Met4lN1kos]

how could you call the area serbia occupied in southern balkans macedonia when the slavs only claimed that name in only 1992 ... this is absurd

[@sarban1653]

He doesn't want to offend Fyromians.

[@Met4lN1kos]

Sarban well he offends a much larger portion of people

[@Prebondus]

And how would you call that territory sir?

[@Met4lN1kos]

MrDockas it is part of different territories

[@ioanniskoletis8300]

Καλα το ειπε.Βαρδαρ Μασεντονια.Τη γεωγραφικη περιοχη της Μακεδονιας εννοουσε,οχι ότι η Μακεδονια ειναι σλαβικη.Πως αλλιως να το ελεγε.Οτι πολλες δυναμεις διεκδικουσαν τη Μακεδονια.Οπως ειπε ότι η Ελλαδα κατελαβε τη Βορειο Ηπειρο.

[@hristopan]

ВЕЧНА СЛАВА, ГЕРОИ!! Мизия, Тракия, Македония.

[@silendboy997]

Од мајкати пичулетоза 2 червени племе татарско

[@letslearnuke7644]

Thank you I have a history test tomorrow

[@jothegreek]

One bulgarian one time tried to convice me that Bulgaria had stronger navy than Greece in Balkan wars . You realize now why Bulgarian lost the Balkan war too much ambition there . Bulgarians should be more realist this would not left much ground to the Turks in Europe.

[@wankawanka3053]

Bulgaria didn't even have a navy

[@Luredreier]

There's so, so, so many more nuances involved that this seems a bit... limited... in scope...

[@JabzyJoe]

+Luredreier "3 minute history" - what did you expect?

[@Luredreier]

Jabzy Perhaps, but the essence of the war has more to do with the history of the place as a border area between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire and later between the Muslim Ottomans and the Christian world. The religious and cultural differences caused by that, as well as the history of wars between and against those ethnic and religious groups... The actual battles actually seems less interesting to me then all of that background...

[@JabzyJoe]

I mean what you said was essentially the people were different. Well yeah, but thats like explaining WW2 by explaining the migration of Germanic and slavic tribes. And I'd say it was more to do the creation of nationalism in the 19th Century.

[@Luredreier]

Jabzy I think it's more then that... *shrugs*

[@spartansofthebalkans5439]

Jabzy do you know that Albanians saved greece from the ottomans Albanians in greece called arvanites look at all of Their national heros these Are Albanians Marko bocari,bubulina,theodoros kolokotronis

[@JIMY45GR]

Only 24 hours after the start of the Greek-Bulgarian clashes, Thessaloniki was disturbed again by gunfire. On 17 June 1913, the refusal to surrender of the formerly allied Bulgarian detachments who were billeted in various parts of the town, led to heavy night-long street fighting with the Cretan gendarmes and units of the 2nd Division. By 7 a.m. the following morning, the whole Bulgarian force had been captured. Although the city was to have much experience of war up until the mid-20th century, the Greeks were now indisputably in possession of it.

[@komamurataichou2655]

Ottoman Empire In A Nuttshell: Bulgarians Got Independence, Russians Attacked Ottomans, Bulgarians Got Rekt, Greeks Slaughtered Turks, WWI Starts, Bulgarians Fight In Ottoman Side, M.Kemal Ataturk Saves Turks, The End

[@xxchris960xx]

lol, i like the greeks slaughter turks thing when the fuck did that happen did you mean the turks start the pontic genocide?

[@justwondering7719]

Dont get me started about what happened in Turkey when the Greek King invaded Anatolia. Do you really know how many villages, cities were burned down? Smyrna was one of them which is where I am living in. When you research something, research both sides. I know the slaugthers commited by Ottoman Sultans and honestly I am ashamed of that. More than 2.5 million ethnic Turks died in the Greek invasions. Thank god Mustafa Kemal saved us or I can't imagine what these cities would look like.

[@only_North]

Greece and Serbia friends

[@metinkucuk]

If you know much about Balkan Wars, i can recommend Leon Trotsky's The Balkan Wars books. He was in the Balkans whilr the war rages on.

[@87licorice]

state of the art graphics

[@markod.niciforovic8225]

Which albanians lands?Before turks albanian been split between Sebrian empire and Greeks.After fall of Sebrian empire some Italian states take some places near see.Albania controled Kosovo only in WW2 together with Italians.That is 4 years in 1200 years.

[@janeza382]

Before Ottomans Albania as a name did not exist. Name was given as Ottoman province in changed people structure over time. Today Albania in middle age was under influence and "chained" by Venice like under Ottomans as in ancient under Hellenic.

[@cv4809]

Jane Za Albania is mentioned by Byzantine and Bulgarian chronicles before ottoman showed up

[@lonewaffle231]

Onis su lažna nacija, tehnički one ne postoje kao narod

[@lonewaffle231]

Mario G fuck you! You don't have any history.

[@MrDetroitstyle]

Marko D.Niciforovic Serbia never been an Empire :) :) . Or if it was for empire for what about 30 years?

[@studior6531]

When your country is older than Russia and people tell you to go back from there ...

[@comingafteryou5352]

Grigor Grigorov Which country are you talking about?

[@leonb7240]

Serbs aren’t native to the balkans. Your native to Europe, but not the Balkans.

[@sleeper7271]

Why didn't you mention that most of the fighting against the Turks was made by Bulgarians?

[@mrvrangel3042]

Serbia first started uprising in 1804. Greetins for all Ortodox in the Balkan's!

[@Joebunkyss1]

always illuminating....as ever.

[@JabzyJoe]

+Scott Awaywithit Thanks for that

[@אהרוןהוט]

Serbs never forget !

[@glimmersank18]

Serbs forgot to give Vardar- Macedonia to Bulgaria as promised, so apparently you do forget a lot!

[@אהרוןהוט]

Viktoria Bridge Who told you that we forgot?!?!

[@glimmersank18]

The history books for example...

[@אהרוןהוט]

Viktoria Bridge They are 2 things to promise something and to do it and to promise something and not to do it.

[@glimmersank18]

There are two things- to sign a pre-war agreement and stick to it, and to sign a pre-war agreement and take the consequences for not sticking to what you signed and agreed on!

[@thewoodenbowl9947]

Yikes! Poor Bulgaria, they were promised land then backstabbed from Serbia, and Greece and then Romania comes in, in a war that didn't involve them at all! And this is coming from an Albanian, out of all people!

[@pentrutarameamare8396]

+The Wooden Bowl Bulgarians should take constantinople not serbia or greece territories...

[@mariosathens1]

+The Wooden Bowl They were promised lands from whom? From USA? From Ottomans? from God? The Bulgarians proposed to Greek and Serbs that "each country should take every city that her army will liberate from Ottoman guards" since borders didn't exist for 400 years. This proposal made because Bulgaria thought that Greek and Serb armies couldn't defeat the Ottomans and they will stuck, so the Bulgarian army who was trained by German officers will have enough time to take the most cities in Macedonia and Thrace. But Bulgarian dreams failed because both armies defeated the Ottomans and marched fast. Especially when the Greek army arrived first at city - port of Thessaloniki something that made Bulgarians furius. This is the reason that Bulgarians started Balkan war 2 and attacked both Greece and Serbia. The reason that you described is only for you to saw your anti-Greek and anti-Serb feelings as a pure Albanian.

[@pentrutarameamare8396]

Bulgaria always sucked turkeys cock

[@mariosathens1]

PentruTarăMeaMare Bulgarians organized the Balkan nations and lead them to war against Ottomans, liberate Balkan peninsula. So stop bullshits

[@pentrutarameamare8396]

Δαιδαλος sure could be, but i dont see that these days annymore...

[@maryantalevski2403]

Our motherland Bulgaria suffered all the injustice in the Balkans.. everyone else got more than they deserved or ever had and changed culture and language in that region by force. Modern Macedonia is Bulgarian, so is Greek Macedonia, so are many other parts. That is how it was for 11 centuries and that is why you will find Slavic speaking people in all of these regions, with a Slavic language closer to Bulgarian than any other Slavic language. Nothing is random. Cheers from nowadays North Macedonia, hopefully we will unite with the motherland one day.

[@comingafteryou5352]

Nope greek Macedonia isn't bulgarian and belonged to Greece since 808 bc

[@maryantalevski2403]

@@comingafteryou5352 It was not Greek BC, it was an Ancient state as many other on which territory in the 6th century is formed the Bulgarian Empire. It was taken by Greeks during the Greek Civil War, check in the video how large was Greece when you were liberated from the Ottomans - that is what is truly Greek.

[@ddpmk355]

Thanasis Sideris Yes Macedonia was Greek in antiquity, Bulgarian and Greek in the Middle Ages, and again Greek today.

[@comingafteryou5352]

@@ddpmk355 Be careful of what I said greek Macedonia not just Macedonia.

[@ddpmk355]

Thanasis Sideris I know. Do you know who were those Bulgarians defeated and blinded by Basil II the Bulgar Slayer? The ancestors of modern Slavophone Greeks and Skopians and a small part of modern Bulgaria. After the subjugation, this territory became “Theme of Bulgaria”.

[@aragorn4884]

So many racist trolls here

[@shariumjassic837]

There are also homophobic and islamophobic trolls

[@ivanpetrov5258]

Soo many dumb snowflakes here

[@bigger_mibber6029]

@@shariumjassic837 "If somebody has different views than me, he must be a troll!"

[@cryocryptic967]

Kosovo is Serbia

[@memer7118]

Kosovo is Antartica

[@imperion8238]

Serbia is Kosovo

[@Dr.Goldstein]

The Balkan Area of Europe has a LONG History, and I'm still having a challenging time comprehending everything that happened during the yugoslav wars!.

[@kriskokucheka1579]

The Russo Turkish war is a good suggestion about a future video. hint: Russia didn't help Bulgarians so much :/

[@JabzyJoe]

+mustaka chan Already covered the one in 1877.

[@imme12]

Disinformation due to ongoing anti-Russian propaganda being built for so many years now. Some facts show different geo-political interests yes, and with due respect why should we expect from the Russian Empire to be the perfect Saint country?!! But the fact is that if it was not to the Russo-Turkish war Bulgaria would have been dreaming for its liberation for longer (all our attempts to rise against the Ottomans had ended in massive massacres and were stopped; without the help of another country with strong army it would have been extremely difficult task for the ordinary Bulgarian citizens to withstand the regular Turkish army even in its weakest times) The matter of fact is that even if some Bulgarian interests were not supported by Russia back then, majority of them were in line, whereas Great Brittain and France played very bad role in our post-liberation years (they were the reason for half of the liberated lands to be given back to Turkey so we had to try and reunite in 1906.)

[@imme12]

After the reunion Turkey claimed that Bulgaria has to pay them compensation for losing these lands again. It was Russia who told Turkey off for this claim and said that instead of asking Bulgaria to pay, Russia offered to Turkey to reduce some of the Turkish debts towards Russia after the Russo-Turkish war. If Russia was to ask from Bulgaria later on to pay some of this lost money back to them - it would have been kind of fair but at least not in the scale in which the Turkish were initially claiming it should be! Anyway, people read the history the way they want - they want to see Russia the never ending evil, they see it like this (by ignoring the whole picture and emphasising on particular elements and fragments, or half-facts)...

[@kriskokucheka1579]

acctually while russia was "saving" bulgaria from Osman Pasha the bulgarians were fighting Syoleiman pasha's army on shipka ALONE.when the russians arrived with a few soldires the bulgarians defeated almost the whole army so russia just did some support there.

[@kriskokucheka1579]

+gooka boo www.slovo.bg/showwork.php3?AuID=283&WorkID=10654&Level=2

[@МихајлоЗорић]

Serbia didn't signed anithing with Greece we are just brothers we don't need to sign anithing 🇷🇸🇬🇷

[@tsvetomirivanov1330]

Lmfao

[@redgalaxy2059]

Hahahah

[@Ne0LiT]

3:25 wait,greeks never did enter bulgarian territory in second balkan war until SOfia was under threat,neither did the serbians manage to hold us off,infact in the 14 day 2nd balkan war not a single bulgarian army was defeated,infact they were slowly pushing back the serbians and greeks since the bulgarian army outnumbered both the serbian and greek armies taken together,but then the bulgarian armies rebelled against the politicians and voluntarily went back and besieged the capital in a protest,lol (or something among those lines,but historically the only reason Bulgaria was defeated in 2nd Balkan war was the backstab from Romania(yeap our dumb politicans(as always) actually turned them down and neglected them when the romainians had their demands) and the aggression from Turkey/Ottoman empire

[@JabzyJoe]

Ne0LiT The Battle of Bregalnica was a Serbian victory, Greece won at Doiran and Kilkis-Lahanas.

[@albanianfirebrand1690]

Ne0LiT You spoke the truth, and Bulgaria did most of the fighting.

[@billmichalis8943]

Yeah ok you and Skopje someday will fall and Greece and Srbia wil take over you

[@albanianfirebrand1690]

***** Greater Serbia suffer huge embarrassment, nigga.

[@soupofcan9697]

Battle of Kilkis Lahanas? Battle of Doiran? Battle of Demir Hasar? The Greeks defeated the Bulgarians in 3 battles and you say Bulgaria has never once been defeated? The Greeks pushed back the Bulgarians and they almost completely destroyed the Bulgarians in the Macedonian front if not for the stalemate at Kresna Gorge, which allowed Bulgarian troops to escape. The Greeks completely owned the Bulgars. As for Serbia? They did beat the Bulgars in the battle of Bregalnica. So? Were the Bulgars never defeated?

[@palenoise]

"Vardar-Macedonia"? Macedonia as a name was not used to describe Vardar or its Slav, Albanian and Bulgarian population before Tito. If you're going to upload a history video, try to be informed or don't do it at all.

[@zonxo]

YES..IT NAME WAS VARDARSKA BANOVINA FOR 37 YEARS..FROM 1912 WHEN SERBS TOOK SKOPIAN PLAINS, TILL 1949 YEAR, WHEN TITO CHANGED THE NAME VARDARSKA BANOVINA--TO **HELLADIC NAME MAKEDONIA** AND GAVE REPUBLICAN STATUS IN INNER NEW SOCIALISTIC YUGOSLAVIA , TO THIS SMALL TERRITORY. !!

[@markomarkovic5729]

Before that happend, that part of land was called Old Serbia or South Serbia

[@imme12]

With all my due respect the information to this video is poorly combined with sagnificant gaps and data skipped and leading ultimately to some disinformation (example is mentioning the first regaining of territories by the Bulgarians - that was not an act of self-liberation by the Bulgarians as all Bulgarian attempts to rise and fight for freedom were brutally stopped by the Ottomans. It was the ongoing Russo-Turk war that led to the Russians liberating the north part of Bulgaria while the French and British military professionals were fighting on the side of the Turks)...I know that the Balkan countries might see the conflicts from their own prism of national interests, that includes my own home country Bulgaria, but it is quite sad to see the way foreigners read into these conflicts without going to the focal point: these lands were occupied by the Ottomans for over 500 years, during which consistent and horrific killings of the local Christian population was the daily reality: the Christians were forced to converting to Islam by unseen means of cruelty and any attempt to regain their freedom was followed by massacres, rapes, distinction of whole villiages and cities. For us Bulgarians the Ottoman rule was centuries of yoke - the darkest times of our history, and we know that foreign researchers wouldn't go into so much deapth and usually will read the facts like a mainstream media review. This approach to the history of the Balkans is extremely wrong and will always result to misinformation. Little example, The Balkan War started due to the increasing need to regain back the occupied territories and stop the massacres which the occupiers (the Ottomans, than Turks) were performing continuously... The secret agreement between Serbia, Greece and Romania happened while the Balkan War was still ongoing. The end result was that the alliances of Bulgaria breached the trust and betrayed us, leaving the Bulgarian army to fight on the south east front with the Turks while the Serbian, Greek and Romanian armies entered the Bulgarian territories and start claiming lands. The Bulgarians ended up fighting on all four boarders, loosing lands and being cornered. The so called Bulgarian threat is quite of a big statement as Bulgaria had never regained back its territories the way they were before the Ottomans occupation. We know that Serbians, Romanians and Greek have their own statements in relation to territories and we all have our role in killing each other but Bulgaria was the only country that was the one most betrayed by all parties (alliances, Great Powers etc). That is one of the main reasons why Bulgaria chose to join Germany side during the World War I and ended up fighting along side the Turks against the rest on the Balkan Peninsula countries which was quite controversial thing for us after the 500 years of Ottoman yoke! but we were surrounded by countries that couldn't be our alliances as they betrayed us and used any opportunity to gain as much as possible more territories...using the so called "Bulgarian threat" argument! Well, history is there to teach us something but people don't learn from history unfortunately...and the popular history books are written by the winners often missing some facts or changing others!...However, thank you for trying to educate with these short videos and I respect the work and thought behind that.

[@JabzyJoe]

+I'm Me You do realise that this video is 4 minutes long? I think most people grasp that these videos are only supposed to serve as an introduction to the topic. If you know a great deal about the wars then these really serve very little purpose. Think of it like a Doctor sitting in a primary school biology class. I doubt he would say 'I think it's sad how teachers who aren't doctors aren't telling them about Ossification.' If I was to talk about the Turks ruling for 500 years in Bulgaria, would I not have to do the same for Serbia, Greece, Romania and discuss the independent status of Montenegro. Then of course, if you want to discuss the focal point, why not begin with where the ethnic groups came from, the medieval Bulgarian-Serbian rivalry, the Turkish invasion, rise of nationalism etc. etc. etc. But I suppose that would probably be better in a book or full length documentary than a '3 minute history' video.

[@imme12]

+Jabzy Dear Jabzy, I do realise that and I'm not expecting the full details, but thought that the narrative could have been slightly different, as in its shortness brings a bit different message. However, as I mentioned also I do respect the intend and effort in putting these educational videos :-)

[@JabzyJoe]

I try my best to avoid putting any sort of narrative in. There's far too many book and documentaries detailing events to give a perspective. Whether that be Marxist, Nationalistic, Revisionist or Whig. Similar to what you said in your other comment, it's best avoided.

[@petarpopara5313]

yes poor Bulgaria was betrayed when they join to the Austrian Hungarian army then later was again betrayed when they join to the Hitlers army ( first time it can be called mistake but second time i can call you stupid and third time when you offer airports for NATO airplanes to bomb Serbia i can name you idiot but hey in all those deals you had secret agreement thing ) ..lol and bullshit stories about some secret agreements always comes up when you cant show us " paper document " so lets call it secret lol ohhh poor Bulgarians

[@imme12]

+Petar Popara We are commenting about a particular moment in the history. What happens after is a subject to another discussion, especially US (not NATO) bombing Serbia - all Bulgarians were against it but the politics are a dirty thing - many decisions were taken without asking the people of Bulgaria. Secret agreements existed and proofs are available - you need to research a bit more (in different sources, not only Serbian) Note: this video mentions the secret agreement between Serbia and Greece (and this is not a Bulgarian source). The truth for us on the Balkans is that Bulgaria was backstabbed many times by its so called alliances and had to find ways to recover her territories through new alliances: that was the case for the WWI. As far as WWII the story is quite different: Bulgaria wanted to stay neutral, instead received an ultimatum from Hitler Germany stating that the German army can either march through Bulgaria as alliance or as occupant! So very different circumstances!.

[@ChickenDelivering]

Austria-Hungary: collapse Yugoslavia: collapse Czechoslovakia: collapse What's next?

[@lelemudpalamudic7134]

Bosnia

[@stavcho]

If u were fighting one by one Bulgaria , u do understand that all of the Balkans today would be called Bulgaria ? Including Constantinople...

[@comingafteryou5352]

IshiAza Ishev Not true at all.

[@Noname-no5qf]

IshiAza Ishev Good joke

[@nursezatufek5716]

It's Istanbul you bafoon

[@Jim-fi4dc]

@@nursezatufek5716 We call it Constantinople you Buffon. Whats your fucking problem.

[@wankawanka3053]

Lol nice joke 🤣 bulgaria throughout its history never had control over the balkans and even when they did expand it hardly could last

[@badmanbalkan5319]

My heart goes out to bulgaria

[@nikolagerginekov883]

+Bad Man Balkan good

[@יהושעאלכסנדר]

Your heart? What heart you fascist maniacs?

[@johnplays9654]

+MOSSAD ok i was going to say something really really racist bulgaria is cool the tzar was just dumb

[@comradedimitry1349]

Emm they attacked their own alliance so they were asking for it

[@studior6531]

+manisfatsa Bulgaria attacked its own alliance .. hmm guess that is the reaction when you dont give land that Bulgaria entered the war for

[@mistalion1]

The main problem was; there were political conflicts among the commanders of Ottoman Empire. They didn't assist eachother and even didn't consider eachothers' favour.

[@azaghallordofbelegost1880]

There would be no 2nd Balkan war if Great powers did not make Albania and gave it the Serbian city of Skadar

[@azaghallordofbelegost1880]

Well how you explain then the last census on Kosovo done by the Ottomans which was in 1902,1456 serbian houses on 13 or 14 albanian ratio?And Bulgarians in eastern Kosovo? just keep dreaming m8 there are lot of you in eastern macedonia,yes but not in Kosovo

[@azaghallordofbelegost1880]

Look you can go and talk that nonesense to some Bulgarians over there but not to a actual historian like my self and while it is true that you ruled most of Kosovo for a time that does not mean Bulgarians lived there emperor Dušan owned basicly all of the balkans and that does not mean that whole of the balkans is Serbian,and how is it that you made Belgrade when it was already made by the Celts before Christ?But I will not tell that history of Bulgarians is full of lies and hipocrisy because you are just like us strong,brave,vigilant people and I think our two nations should stop fighting one another we are orthodox brothers after all

[@kanarevobrdo279]

Velik_Bulgarin mate you are just a serb hater, thats all.....

[@arberor4597]

Skader? You mean shkoder? That city is over 2000 years old and was the capital of the Illyrian kingdom meanwhile you Serbs only set foot in the Balkans in the 7th century as migrants Additionally The Siege of Shkodra of 1478-79 was a confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and the Albanians, Franz Babinger called the siege “one of the most remarkable episodes in the struggle between the West and the Crescent. 1600 Albanians fought 150,000-350,000 Turks. Resulting in the death of over 12,000 Turks and 1000 Albanian.

[@azaghallordofbelegost1880]

Please stop with Albanians are Illyrians bullshit that is just pile if rubbish.The only thing you have in common with them is part of their teritory,totally different language totally different culture,by DNA tests even we have more Illyrian blood than you,while you have a great percentage of Slavic blood so you are more simillar to us than Illiryians .Albanians in history are first mentioned in 11th century and Skadar was capital of Serbia more than 400 yrs before that so please lay off a bit.I dont have time for people like you

[@szunszanczunszan6125]

Serbia had all Balkan state(little Greece). Car Stefan Uroš Dušan IV Silni Nemanjić was great Serbian tsar and he get killed by Greeks. Serbian and Greek army defended Contantinopolis 1340.and we lost next years. Serbian Empire get fall 1464. Last Serbian country was Bosnian Kingdom,and it's fall 1470. And all world support Poland and Greece and maybe Russia for their defend,and nobody didn't support Serbian people? Bulgarian ? Romanian ? Who gives life for their countryes? We,of course. Who say "thank u Serbia,Bulgaria,Romania"? - Nobody. Slava Srbiji. Slava Bugarskoj. Slava Rumuniji. Слава Србији. Слава Бугарској. Слава Румунији. Glory to Serbia. Glory to Bulgaria. Glory to Romania. 🇷🇸🇷🇴🇧🇬

[@ЛюбоКръстев]

u know that bulgarians had it too? and our country have way longer history than yours

[@ferbintegabriel4714]

BALKANS BROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ferbintegabriel4714]

hey mate you got cheaper oil :))))) and food thats why our borders are so lets say used XD

[@spartakbugarski3281]

Dushan IV was half Bulgarian, he spoke Bulgarian language at home. He married Bulgarian woman. From there on his children were more Bulgarian then Serbian. Only the name of the country was Serbia.

[@mihailnikoloff2554]

what the fuck actually lmao

[@owencanez8280]

Reads the tittle and gets popcorn. Let the comments reading begin

[@ahmetilberbektas60]

PathShadow holy shit you are doing the same thing like me XD its so cool that there is shit storm down there :D

[@CM_Burns]

This video is wrong. Macedonia is the northern region of Greece. When the author refers to Macedonia, he's actually referring to FYROM!!!

[@JabzyJoe]

+FetaCheezz Well the FYROM didn't exist then so I was referring to the region that is now part of Greece, FYROM, Bulgaria and Serbia, which had Greeks, Turks and Slavs living there.

[@janeza382]

+Jabzy Macedonia is one and ancient.My country official name is Republic of Macedonia.Macedonian ethnicity lived on Balkan before Slavs came then they amalgamated in our culture reciving Christianity. To describe our common language term south-Slavic is used.As Slavs not determinate a nation and ancient Hellenic religion and language is not practiced in kingdom of Greece 1830 , Turks are generalized as muslims, Christian Turks become Modern Greeks educated in variant of Hellenic alphabet. Greek region Macedonia is taken by act of war 1913 treaty by Empire states in Berlin and Bucurest congress .

[@hyperquantum3020]

+Jane Za Stfu gay slav