Battle of Achelous (Byzantine Empire vs Bulgarian Empire)

[@fa6673]

Respect for the cameraman who risked his life

[@KingExituS]

He wore plot armour, don't worry!

[@mfqbesty6582]

This battle was about 100 years ago this is acting I think

[@mfqbesty6582]

This is like a film don’t worry it’s acting

[@narlybarneytherapper3217]

Mfq Besty r/woosh

[@fa6673]

@@mfqbesty6582 i see you are master on history

[@nednedelkov7852]

I believe that there is a lot of material for new tv series regarding the Balkan conflicts and Bulgarian history. Netflix or HBO can make a masterpiece, following the history of these lands. Bulgarian lands are really complex and the drama here is 100% guaranteed. And like in "Vikings", the early Bulgarian history has gods and believes which are in confrontation with the Christian religion. There are glorious victories and unthinkable defeats. The outcome from all actions is absolutely dramatical. And there are a lot of legends and persons which deserve a TV show production.

[@jasip1000]

They would probably fuck it all up, just as they did in the HBO series Vikings.

[@charadradam9985]

@@jasip1000 its a movie.. generally in all historical movies and tv series - almost all in general- we can see mistakes and different persons, events or chronical actions. i guess that the important thing is that a movie be generally good and not totally wrong.

[@jasip1000]

@@charadradam9985 I think if you wanna make a historical movie or tv series, it’s important to get it as historical correct as possible. For instance I don’t wanna see a Mercedes Benz placed in a movie about the American civil war, and I don’t wanna see 14th century plate armor in movie that takes place around the battle of Hastings.

[@charadradam9985]

@@jasip1000 i totally agree with you. in this point of view all movies have mistakes.!!! hha

[@NikeBG]

I've often thought largely the same things as well. And not just about our country, but this whole region in general. Byzantine history, in particular, is an even better, truly excellent source for a movie or, better yet, a series. For example, when I was reading Michael Psellos, especially the part about Basil II, I thought "Damm, with a bit of skill, this could be made just as interesting as Game of Thrones" (that's while GoT was still good, of course). Respectively, the medieval Balkans in general and also much of Europe during the Early Middle Ages are highly underrepresented, while having quite a lot of potential. The same goes for much of the rest of the world as well.

[@mordredoforkney6185]

Krum is the man, a real "drink from the skulls of his enemies" type of hero.

[@mr.proper9860]

Наскоро разбрах за една археолотическа находка, доста сходна с черепа на Никифор. Археологът пил вино от тази чаша, след което мистериозно починал.

[@mordredoforkney6185]

@@mr.proper9860 0_0 Oh shit lol ONLY KRUM CAN DRINK FROM THE CURSED CUP XD

[@mr.proper9860]

@@mordredoforkney6185 That's why the archaeologist died xD

[@hristian74]

Actually that was an old Thrace ritual. Surely not invented by Krum.

[@Nomadicenjoyerplus]

Krum the FEARSOME

[@mirceaispas9714]

Bulgaria emerged as Byzantium's chief antagonist to its north, resulting in several wars. The two powers also enjoyed periods of peace and alliance, most notably during the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, where the Bulgarian army broke the siege and destroyed the Arab army, thus preventing an Arab invasion of Southeastern Europe. Byzantium had a strong cultural influence on Bulgaria, which also led to the eventual adoption of Christianity in 864. After the disintegration of the Avar Khaganate, the country expanded its territory northwest to the Pannonian Plain. Later the Bulgarians confronted the advance of the Pechenegs and Cumans, and achieved a decisive victory over the Magyars, forcing them to establish themselves permanently in Pannonia. During the late 9th and early 10th centuries, Simeon I achieved a string of victories over the Byzantines. Thereafter, he was recognized with the title of Emperor, and proceeded to expand the state to its greatest extent. After the annihilation of the Byzantine army in the Battle of Anchialus in 917, the Bulgarians laid siege to Constantinople in 923 and 924. The Byzantines, however, eventually recovered, and in 1014, under Basil II, inflicted a crushing defeat on the Bulgarians at the Battle of Kleidion. By 1018, the last Bulgarian strongholds had surrendered to the Byzantine Empire, and the First Bulgarian Empire had ceased to exist. It was succeeded by the Second Bulgarian Empire in 1185.

[@ivannikolov9261]

Atilla is from dulo clan like Kubrat creat Old Great Bulgaria Asparuh creat donau Bulgarian Empire Arpad from dulo clan creat hungary

[@biscolataman]

@@ivannikolov9261 both are turks

[@jbrev7951]

@@ivannikolov9261 Yes, both are Dulo. The tamga of Dulo was IYI , Ottoman clan also used the IYI tamga. All inherited from their forefathers in the steppes.

[@AndyIli]

I think Christianity (and specifically orthodoxy) was spread to Bulgaria by force. The Byzantines wanted to prevent the Roman pope from spreading his version of Christianity to the Bulgars. Or at least I think so

[@petertodorov1792]

@@biscolataman Fatlinda Islami You are not a Turk so why do you pretend to be a Turk? You are a 12 year old Albanian girl who lives with her mommy in Gostivar

[@ivantodorov9457]

Living in the town of Preslav, knowing how important and great my town was at that time, just gives me goosebumps.

[@OMGWTFBBQLMAOLOL]

epic Bulgarian history, the clip is insande dude keep up the good work!

[@diemeistenlandeninderholle8479]

JESUS CHRIST will come very soon!

[@gargantuapantagruelski7973]

It is authentic . Bones and rusty blades are still coming out in the " Bones " area between Nessebar (Messembria) and the Aheloy River.

[@RRSunknown]

Bulgarian cavalry were actually heavy armored with steel scales and armed with heavy spears and maces. Not this leather archers running in chaos.

[@lucasistrom]

Some of them had lamellar armor

[@НиколайКолев-ц6т]

Yes and they build a city’s of stone with bath and castles...in this video they introduced like barbarian orders ...xaxa read old historical autors not fake Communist history ,creating of Ussr historians

[@varsam]

@@НиколайКолев-ц6т Actually its french autors. In 18th centure 2 french autors write that bulgarians were savage turks, after the liberation there are no sources in the country so they rewrite what they can find. Bojidar Dimitrov explain that point when he was alive.

[@АлександърИванов-щ8ю]

@@varsam ottoman orienal slutty empire and greece forced genocide on over 300 BULGARIAN villages. They were banished from their land! Our land! I'm talking about 1900-1914. You can look it up. The borders of Greece, Turkey, Romania and Serbia were our cities and villages until the balkan and first world war. When all of them turned against us, and we had two national catastrophies!!!

[@varsam]

@@АлександърИванов-щ8ю wtf are you talking about? You are far from the topic.

[@velvetrain7890]

I do read all the shameful comments against the Bulgarian nation...I wonder what could have happened to Europe if the Bolgars didn't stop the Arab invasion (15 August 718)...the Muslim advance into Europe would have been irreversible process... But yeah, why would one think and preise it

[@antonangelov5490]

195sm 115kg. 😃

[@velvetrain7890]

@@antonangelov5490 I didn't get it lol Are these Khan Tervel's proportions or yours?

[@nikolaydimitrov1706]

We are used to our neighbors stabbing us in the back. We are a strong race, we are Bulgarians

[@TheBECK321]

@@nikolaydimitrov1706 you are slavic , while Bolgars was Turkic

[@louisxiv3850]

Bulgars & franks strong! 💪💪💪, both stopping islamic umayyad invasion to europe.

[@Japodian]

Watching this and remembering my homelands history which at one moment was Bulgarian western neighbor I am often amazed by our first king Tomislav. First defeating Hungarian army on Drava river and then Bulgarian army in Bosnia. Simeon's Bulgaria was an immense military power at the moment.

[@aleksk4151]

Bulgaria's only defeat at the time - by Tomislav. Bulgaria defeated Hungarians, Serbians and especially Byzantines. Simeon could have taken Constantinople but lacked the navy , so he allied with the Arab caliphate in a joint naval attack , but the Byzantines intercepted the plan and rained rich gifts to Arabs to discourage them.

[@ЧерноризецьХрабър]

Russians about that: "Under the Byzantine influence, the Serbian Zhupan Zakhariy rebelled against Bulgaria. In 924 Serbia was conquered and annexed to the Bulgarian kingdom, and Zakhari fled to Croatia, proclaimed a kingdom in 925 and a former ally of Byzantium [95]. A Bulgarian corps led by Alogobotur invaded Croatia (926), but was ambushed in the mountains of Bosnia and was defeated [7]. Fearing a Bulgarian response, the first king of Croatia, Tomislav I, agreed to dissolve the alliance with Byzantium and sign a peace based on the status quo [96]. After the conclusion of peace, Pope John X sent his legates Duke John and Bishop Madalbert to Veliki Preslav, who recognized (in the fall of 926) the imperial title of Simeon and the patriarchate of the head of the Bulgarian Church. So, there was no real war between Criatia and Bulgaria...

[@zarni000]

he defeated just a small contingent not the main army was a contingent lead by a general. nothing to do with what Simeon lead. Don't be so surprised. After he ambushed that contingent and destroyed it he knew that what was coming was going to end him so he sued for peace through the pope. Croatia gave up it's alliance with byzantium and there was no need for anything further. BTW that was only reason why Alogobotur and Marmais were sent to Croatia because Croatia took orders from Byzantium to attack Bulgaria from the rear.

[@zarni000]

BTW it's just pathetic how the Byzantines kept using Servia and Croatia against Bulgaria. We should have all slavs united against the romans who were the enemy. Servia was always a sell out to other interests. If slavs had united there would be no ottoman conquest and slavs would have dominated the balkans and roman empire would have been subservient.

[@МиленДимитров-и2ф]

Theophanes about Bulgarian siege of Constantinople: "Simeon arrived, leading a large army, which was divided into many squads, some armed with golden shields and golden spears, others with silver shields and silver spears, third with weapons of every colour and all dressed in iron." This video represent barbarian horde. Stupid prejudices and clichés!

[@gigasigma8373]

aint gonna lie, but bulgarian empire was quite developed for its time, no wonder it grew so big

[@andreasgiannopoulos1204]

respect for bulgar warrior race

[@МиленДимитров-и2ф]

@ArmedVendetta Bulgarian tactics were victorious. The Byzantines with their tactics were destroyed. Something unclear?

[@МиленДимитров-и2ф]

@ArmedVendetta If you had read Julius Caesar's "Comments on the Gallic War", you would have seen that very often he did not observe any particular fighting system, but constantly used the weaknesses of the enemy, the circumstances and the peculiarities of the terrain. Including in the battle of Pharsalus. Overwhelming majority in the Battle of Achelous was on the Byzantine side. Read some historical sources. Is this bigotry or what?

[@МиленДимитров-и2ф]

@ArmedVendetta I can't be sure about the accuracy of the first part of your statement, but I think you're right about the second. Аlso, Byzantium from the tenth century AD is not a beacon of civilization as Rome was a thousand years earlier.

[@symmetrymilton4542]

Came here because I'm a fan of Byzantine History, stayed for the Witcher soundtrack

[@saiien2]

Good combination with eastern roman armies vs barbarians with slavic soundtrack representing bulgars :D

[@saiien2]

There is also soundtrack from Ancestors legacy which was made by the same guys who made Witcher soundtrack ;)

[@symmetrymilton4542]

@@saiien2 Interesting

[@byzantinetales]

I agree that it sounds a more suitable soundtrack for the Bulgars. I would choose something different for the Byzantines

[@ahmedfaiyazazad8415]

No this is not barbarian armies

[@10minlaterugotdropoed88]

Worth mentioning that Simeon The Great lead his cavalry himself. Also that his time is remembered in Bulgarian history as "The Golden Age of Bulgarian language and culture"

[@zarni000]

yes and he lost his beloved horse in that battle. he talks about it in the correspondence with the byzantine. and actually when he appeared later at the gates of constantinople to negotiate with the roman emperor he was riding a white horse that had battle scars. obviously intended to point to the fact that byzantium attacked bulgaria without provocation and that is not forgotten.

[@kraljibi]

What is Byzantine? This state never existed under that name and was invented by a German historian in 1775. The only name of this state was Eastern Roman Empire.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

technically it called itself Imperium Romanum and Basileia Rhomaion, aswell as Romania (Ῥωμανία), ie the roman empire/kingdom. they stopped calling themselves the imperium romanum orientale when the west fell.

[@felisasininus1784]

Of course it's created by a German, the pretender 'Romans'.

[@sinisadabic5371]

so when you think about ,these germans falsificated history a lot, why always german historians ,who are they to talk about other people past, and now all think that bulgars were turkic while we croats and bulgars had almost identical tribe mix irano-slav although why are modern scholars are dividing slovene from iranian while it is the same thing, iranians are slovene ,always germans or french and always wrong, greeting from Croatia

[@petarlilkov6008]

There are so many battles between Bulgaria and the Byzantine empire that could be created very interesting historical series…

[@ЦанкоКалканджиев-й4в]

Велико! Браво на този, който го е направил, отлична работа! Пълният разгром на Източната римска империя (Визаантия)!

[@hristian74]

И кое е великото ? За Симеон няма почти нищо - а той е може би най-великият български владетел. Армията ни е представена като шайка разбойници, дезорганизирани, без ясно командване, без брони и биеща се като диваци и неграмотници. За капак римляните са подкупили и унгарците и печенегите да ни нападнат. Няма никаква конкретика за битката при Ахелой. Пълна боза е този клип.

[@SpartanLeonidas1821]

Bulgarians never completely defeated the Romaioi, however the Romaioi completely defeated the Bulgarians Didaxon Mathima! 😉

[@SpartanLeonidas1821]

@@bulgariainsight429 Basieios II !!!! 🙌🏻 Byzantines dominated Russians too, learn History! :)

[@stoja545]

@@SpartanLeonidas1821 Rly? Where is the Eastern RE now? Read more about the history of Rome! You are fake person! :D

[@Aralakh919]

@@SpartanLeonidas1821 That's fine. But Greece isn't Byzantium.

[@SLAVIMIR4O]

Epic!!! The Bulgarian Golden age is come with Simeon I The Great!!!

[@_im_stupid_]

And then came Basil II lolol. What he did to the bulgars was brutal lol

[@BinyoS]

And then came Kaloyan The Roman Slayer lol. What he did to the romans was brutal lol

[@123skillax]

@@BinyoS nah basil was just different gravy man and I am Bulgarian

[@_im_stupid_]

@@bulgariainsight429 but he still kicked yo ass

[@bulgariainsight429]

@@_im_stupid_ Russia help!

[@biscolataman]

The author has shortly surveyed the history of the widening of the term "Bulgar-Turkic phonological criteria". The last summary of the results of research on the Bulgar-Turkic criteria and their chronological validity was made by Lajos Ligeti in his monograph on Turkic-Hungarian linguistic interrelations (1986). In the paper the author has presented several recent Middle Bulgar-Turkic loans of the Volga Kipchak dialects, following Ligeti's criteria: (1) the prothetic y-; (2) the initial š < si/sï; (3) Ancient Turkic -n ∼ Chuvash -m.

[@petertodorov9540]

Fatlinda Islami What does this have to do with a 12 year old Albanian girl like you who lives with her parents in Gostivar?

[@НиколайМарковски-у9ы]

¡Viva Gran Bulgaria! Adelante! Siempre! Para Siempre! 🇧🇬 ❤️

[@ernikduo143]

Aheloy is a river in southeastern Bulgaria, Burgas district (Aytos, Burgas and Pomorie municipalities), flowing into the Black Sea. Its length is 39.9 km [1]. The Aheloy River is formed by the descent of the rivers Mangarska (left component) and Arnautska (right component) at 166 m above sea level. about 3 km exactly from the village of Beli dol, Pomorie municipality. Both rivers spring from the Aytos Mountain, right from the village of Dryankovets, Aytos Municipality, and the Arnaut River is considered to be the beginning. It flows in a wide valley, near the village of Alexandrovo to the east, and then to the southeast. It flows into the Black Sea to the Aheloy campsite, 1.2 km south of the town of Aheloy.

[@НиколайМарковски-у9ы]

Long Live Bulgaria! 🇧🇬 ❤️

[@favorius]

Bulgaria, Prussia of Balkans

[@ExtremeraDF]

hmm , could you elaborate this? im generally interested in hearing your opinion :)

[@hristian74]

@@ExtremeraDF Actually Bulgarians were called "the Prussians of the Balkans" about 1000 years later. Check German sources for this. This is their expression. And the reasons were the victories of Bulgarian Army during the wars after 1890.

[@ByalKanye]

@@ExtremeraDF Bulgaria was called Prussia of the Balkans by Otto von Bismarck himself!

[@eikoyaa]

@Jotaro97 Then tell us the information you got.

[@123skillax]

Difference Is. Bulgarian empire was stronger and more influential and has more history then the Prussian empire

[@HuubHeesakkers]

Well-made compilation! Greatly done, very creatively used!

[@KH-of2rb]

So cameramen have existed since the days of the Roman Empire! Wonderful!

[@ΜιχΛαζ]

A Byzantine empire series with accuracy in historical evidence would be great it had so many ups and down plots victories losses culture interest etc.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

*a Rhomaion empire series would be cool

[@SpartanLeonidas1821]

@@matthiuskoenig3378 These people are speaking Greek, regardless of what you call them

[@mhd2680]

Who smashed by the Arab Muslims

[@felipeurrea3638]

​@@mhd2680 no pudieron conquistar un imperio que está siendo atacado por múltiples enemigos si Roma no hubiera Sido atacado por todos lados los bárbaros árabes seguirían en su mugrienta península

[@mhd2680]

@@felipeurrea3638 ماذا تقول ياهذا ؟

[@valentinstoyanov304]

King Simeon the Great 893-927... For the past 14 centuries or so Bulgaria has been occupying the same core lands in Southeast Europe while Byzantine does not exist anymore. The Ottoman Empire may be considered a successor of Byzantine and modern Greece can be considered a bearer of its cultural heritage but Bulgaria is still called Bulgaria and is still around, unlike the Romans/Byzantines/Ottomans etc...

[@charadradam9985]

what ottoman empire has to do with the byzantine? also which byzantine empire? byzantine empire has totally different phases during its 1000+ centuries. the early period has nothing to do with the late period. not only in lands , but in many things. in the historical sources this difference is obvious. the early byzantine empire was more roman, or better romanized barbarian (i mean in its elite class, the emperors, and the way of life, of course because it was close to the ancient roman empire as a successor and continuer- but the late roman state of the east part has nothing to do with the early. from the elite class and the emperors, to the people and the cultural ressainance. especiall after 1204 we have a totaly different state in character than that of the 6th century for example.

[@ValerieTod]

Emperor Simeon the Great!

[@3dwaffle338]

Те и хуните са били наричани българи от италианската историография през 17-ти и 16-ти век. Булгар идва от болг, а така са се наричали скитите през древността. Още ни има, само да се признае реалната ни история. Завладявали сме невероятно количество земи.

[@DivineHellas]

Yet every single Bulgarian claim heritage of the ancient Thracian history. And no, we Romans/Greeks are still here..

[@DivineHellas]

And what on earth does Ottomans have to do with anything about Rome?

[@hauptsturmfuehrer]

LONG LIVE Bulgarian EMPIRE !

[@Ealdorman_of_Mercia]

Bulgaria lol.. It's the romans...

[@flamefox276]

​@@Ealdorman_of_Mercia no, dear, there were just two empires at this time : Eastern Roman and Bulgarian empire! Where are you then?😂😂😂

[@bartoszszczepaniak169]

​@@Ealdorman_of_Mercia It's the 10th century, Bulgarian identity and state were already cemented, you dunce.

[@bartoszszczepaniak169]

​​@@Ealdorman_of_MerciaThe Bulgarian identity and state (although that will unfortunately disappear, because it will be destroyed by Basil the Bulgarslayer) was already cemented, it's the 10th century AD.

[@notjx113]

Българите са изключително велика нация, която съществува и отбелязва своето място в историческите книги хаха

[@cheraldon]

It is historically wrong to portray the Bulgarian soldiers as Asian warriors during Simeon's reign - this battle occurred in the 10 th century, not the 8 th ! Most of the Bulgarian troops at that time would come from the Slavic population.

[@АнтонПавлов-ц4з]

There is no Slavic population. It took the Romans 280 years to conquer the Thracian kingdoms, as opposed to five years for the Greeks. There is a union of several parts of people having the same language, customs, traditions and blood. Simply and clearly explained. The theory that it was imposed, it was written by our enemies.

[@АнтонПавлов-ц4з]

71. And Vitalian, moreover, who was commander of the troops in the province of Thrace, being a man of perverse heart, hated Severus the saint of God. Now the emperor Anastasius had appointed Severus patriarch of Antioch in the room of the heretic Flavian, whom he had banished, when the orthodox bishops of the east testified in the favour of the former. 72. And Vitalian, whom we have just mentioned, raised a revolt against the emperor Anastasius, and seized Thrace and Scythia 206 and Mysia, and mustered a numerous army. 73. And the emperor sent against him a general named Hypatius. And when they fought together, he was vanquished by Vitalian and taken prisoner. And on the payment of a large ransom he was set free. 74. But immediately on his return to the emperor, the latter removed him from his command, and appointed in his room another general, named Cyril, of the province of Illyria. 75. And he also gave battle to Vitalian, and there was great slaughter on both sides. Cyril the general retired into the city named Odyssus, and stayed there while Vitalian withdrew into the province of Bulgaria. 515 AC!!! Province Bulgaria!!!!

[@asterisgiotas3332]

I love the History of the Byzantine Empire

[@ShahidMehmood-th3vy]

But ottomanians win

[@ShahidMehmood-th3vy]

1453

[@dimitris_lev.8947]

@@ShahidMehmood-th3vy still byzantine empire was greater as it had other things than only war like ottomans,ottoman stayed In these lands for 600 years and they didn't even make an upgrade or a good thing to these lands.

[@SuperTupcu]

@@dimitris_lev.8947 I guess you are confusing Ottomans with mongols. 600 years and no upgrade ha? What do u know about Ottomans? Art, arhitecture, poets, state management etc.? Of course you dont know about any of them and thought it was just about military bec. Ottomans usually beats its enemies. But if you make a research you will see that it is the second greatest empire after rome from every aspect.

[@dimitris_lev.8947]

@@SuperTupcu it was mostly about military , romans ,greeks ,Egyptians, indians left thousands of things before they vanished am I wrong? I don't see much architecture , philosophers , etc from ottomans at least like the others ,and you cant compare other empires like ,Roman,persians,hellenistic empire of alexander ,and many other to ottomans can you? Anatolia had better ancestors and they obviously took better care and left thousands of things behind their path, I have not problem with Turkey or ottomans but you cant compare them to other empires,ottoman was mostly militaristic,and barbaric, that was the type of the empire ottomans had ,others like greeks focused on civilisation,Indians on peaceful life and civilisation, romans on a little bit of everything,I am not saying that ottomans were shit or they werent worth ,but there are things that we cant compare,and you are right I don't know much about ottomans as I am focused on other empires that have better interests in me and history , and mongols and ottomans are pretty much the same thing ,a little bit by blood as ottomans came from asia ,and the thing that they were something like nomads ,and went to places they didn't belong and made empires ,the differences are that mongols were larger and they were way worse and obviously they killed thousands or even millions, now for ottomans they didn't burn and kill as much as mongols but they did rape and killed thousands especially in Balkans, and took kids ,now days even many of the turks are these kids as ottomans werent large in population at least when they first came ,other kinda of people joined them either forced or willingly, and that's why Turkey now says doesn't have clear dna and many have greek Armenian and other dna . Have a nice night.

[@tigranispiryan4865]

Fun fact the Byzantine military was mostly Armenian. Even the elite imperial guards, the Scholae Palatinae were mostly Armenians! :)

[@AfaqueAhmed_]

That's why I like edhaje 😃😃😃 And that's what battles are all about ... strategy and plans ...

[@Йордан1488]

България над всичко !!! 🇧🇬

[@Mordehaj2]

And now... Allah akbar.

[@jojosan9561]

@Einar Thorvaldsen where are you from? Btw the allies did horrible things too but why should i tell you that you dont have the brain cells to understand it :)

[@guitarstring109]

@@jojosan9561 i just wish for bulgarians to get along with other slavs. Only fact i dislike about bulgaria is that you guys had german dynasty on 20c.

[@ragnarok283]

@@guitarstring109 Too bad Russians are slavs too.

[@radio-active8522]

Bulgaria sent by god to punish the Byzantine. Our ancestors also defeated and the crusaders. No matter what i would say, wont be enough. Glorious past and men. Long live Bulgaria

[@_im_stupid_]

Haha Basil II goes brrrrt

[@radio-active8522]

@@_im_stupid_ Which country exists today Bulgaria or Byzantine

[@martiniliev4918]

@@_im_stupid_ your nickname says it all !

[@_im_stupid_]

@@radio-active8522 greece still exsists. You can think of byzantines as roman greece, so yeah boh of them exsist

[@_im_stupid_]

@@martiniliev4918 lmao imagine calling yourself stupid😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@vinceguerenski]

Bulgaria still in the same geographical location since thousand years ago incredible

[@meroqero1476]

ahahhahahha

[@meroqero1476]

I would be ashamed if my ancestors lived for only 1000 years were I live now.

[@meroqero1476]

@Jotaro97 It makes sense. Bulgaria was not there where it is for thousands of years. Before the Turkic Bolgars came to this place, there were Slavs who had totally destroyed the villages and heritage of the native Thracians.

[@cruelty5780]

@@meroqero1476 and there is no archeaology proof of any slavic tribers on balkan before bulgarians :)

[@meroqero1476]

@@cruelty5780 Yes. You are right. There is no archeological proof of any Slavic tribes before the settlements of the people who came in the 6th century to that region. Early Slavic archaeological findings are most often associated with the Przeworsk and Zarubintsy cultures, with evidence ranging from hill forts, ceramic pots, weapons, jewelry and abodes. However, in many areas archaeologists face difficulties in distinguishing Slavic and non-Slavic findings since the early Slavic culture over the subsequent centuries was heavily influenced by the Sarmatian culture from the east and by the various Germanic cultures from the west. The Proto-Slavic homeland is the area of Slavic settlement in Central and Eastern Europe during the first millennium AD, with its precise location debated by archaeologists, ethnographers and historians. Most scholars consider Polesia the homeland of the Slavs. The latest attempt of locating the place of Slavic origin used genetics and studied the paternal lineages of all existing modern Slavic populations. It placed the earliest known homeland of Slavs within the area of the middle Dnieper basin, in present-day Ukraine. This fits perfectly with I2a1b-Dinaric which comes from this exact region and spread during the middle ages. According to historical records, the Slavic homeland would have been somewhere in Central Europe, possibly along the southern shore of the Baltic Sea. The Prague-Penkova-Kolochin complex of cultures of the 6th and the 7th centuries AD is generally accepted to reflect the expansion of Slavic-speakers at the time. Ancient Roman and Greek historical sources refer to the early Slavic peoples as Veneti and Spori (allegedly from Greek σπείρω "I scatter grain") in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and later in the 5th and 6th centuries also as Antes and Sclaveni. The 6th-century Byzantine historian Jordanes referred to the Slavs in his 551 work Getica, reporting that "although they derive from one nation, now they are known under three names, the Veneti, Antes and Sclaveni" (ab unastirpe exorti, tria nomina ediderunt, id est Veneti, Antes, Sclaveni).[8] Procopius wrote in 545 that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Sporoi in olden times".[9] Later, in the 8th century during the Early Middle Ages, early Slavs living on the borders of the Carolingian Empire were referred to as Wends.[10][11]

[@lakosta4534]

Pozdrawiam Południowych Słowian, Sława!

[@НиколайМарковски-у9ы]

Да Живее Велика България! 🇧🇬 ❤️

[@businessman8172]

Современный болгары не имеет отношение древним болгарам

[@НиколайМарковски-у9ы]

@@businessman8172 Глупости! Ние сме едно цяло! Ние сме потомци на древните българи! Непрекъснати и неразделни! Да не сме се появили от въздуха! А те да не са някаква виртуална абстракция! Ние навсякъде, във всички Земи и Държави, които ги има, имало ги е и ще ги има сме Българи! Такива като вас и други гадни външни сили се постарахте да сме разкъсани, в различни Земи, но няма да ви огрее! Ние Земя, Страна и Народ, който единствен граничи сам със себе си! Това е Истината! Видно е и казано от много историци! Това е! Казах! 🇧🇬

[@businessman8172]

@@НиколайМарковски-у9ы древние болгары это булгары - тюрки манкурт!

[@ggmu5579]

@@businessman8172 Bulgarians-Iranic people,like Ossetians,Kurds,not Turkish.Your mather is Turkish.😀😀😀

[@Bulgaria632]

@@businessman8172 Напротив! Изследвания показват , че съвременните българи носят ДНК на древните българи от преди няколко хиляди години! Знам, защото съм българин и се интересувам от народа и историята си! Днешния македонски и гръцки народ , няма нищо общо с древния!

[@kaloyanrosenov2123]

Bulgarians : Asparuh crushed the byzantine forces at the battle at Ongal 681 leadeth by Constantin IV and take nordhern thrace , the byzantine emperor pays tribute ! Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians: Tervel crushed the byzantine army at Anchialus leadeth by Justinian II Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians: Vineh crushed the byzantine forces leadeth by Constantine V at the battle of rishki pass 759 ! Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians: Kardam crushed the byzantine forces at the battle of Markeli leadeth by Constantine VI 792 ! Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians: Krum destroyed the byzantine army at the battle of Pliska 811 killed the emperor and made a wine cup from his scul ! Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians: Krum defeathed the byzantine army at the battle of Versinikia 813 leadeth by Michael I Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians : Simeon defeathed the byzantine army at the battle of Bulgarophygon leadeth by Leo Katagolon 896 Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians : Simeon destroyed the byzantine army at the battle of Achelous 917 leadeth by Leo Phocas Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians : Simeon defeathed the byzantine army at the battle of Piggy 922 leadeth by Pot Argyros and Alexis Muse ! Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians : Samuil defeathed Bassil II Bulgarslayer at the battle of trojan gates 986 Greeks: Bassil II bulgarslayer defeathed Samuil at the battle of Kleidon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bulgarians : ok i heard abouth the battle of 1014 whats the point ???? Greeks : Byzantium was mo powerful than Bulgaria and crushed it !!! Bulgarians : WTF 😂 🤣 Greeks : yes

[@trotziger_emil]

You wasted your time writing all this, where you can't compare the most civilised and intense cultural empire with some peasants by some battles.

[@marindraganov8765]

@@trotziger_emil Well, there is a greater tragedy with Bulgarians, Emil: The whole time they were beating the Byzantine Empire they wanted to be part of it... In the end, they got what they wanted...

[@kaloyanrosenov2123]

@@trotziger_emil And from where you heard that the bulgarians were not civilizated and cultural ? The half world write with our alfhabet , when in Bulgaria the people wash themsews and were taking bath every day in the 8 century in Europe started to take bath 19 , 20 century , Preslav and Pliska the bulgarian capitals were magnificient like Constantinopole ( writed by byzantines ) only were smaller in size , you dont know noting abouth Bulgaria and old bulgars came on horses in 7 century but they fast increase a big standart of living come in Bulgaria to see our old capitals the baths the canalisation , the churches the palaces of the kings ( Tsarete ) and many more things , our you shoud first learn the history well , and mostly the spread of culture of the balkans !!!

[@DonDiego724]

@@trotziger_emil I heard your father is a galley slave and your mother a peasant. This explains why you are so enriched culturally and well-versed in understanding ancient and medieval civilizations.

[@aleksk4151]

hahahahaha sooo Trueee . :D that's pretty much their only real victory in a war against Bulgaria 967-971 the Russian won Bulgaria which is why John Tzimiskes easily occupied Bulgarian lands, cause we were already weaken by Russians. But he didn't dare attack himself . He had to plead the Russian for help. also Constantine V despite having few successes in battles failed to eliminate Bulgaria after 9 or 11 attempts. Basil II is their only real victory and lets not forget they lost first half of the war and Basil was defeated. But he came back and used the strongest ever troops against us and bribed a lot of allies around us. That's how he won!

[@boromircutezatoru2835]

Bulgaria is the country of my ancestors💪💪💪

[@емилславчев-г8у]

There is no " Byzantium empire " , the right name is the " East Roman Empire " .!!!

[@koksalceylan3934]

East Rum Empire was Pagan not the Orthodogs Byzantines.

[@bizybliztaverage9414]

Worse Roman Empire is a better name

[@stanbatakarata6081]

Titan of the ✝️ East Roman Empire Greece 🇬🇷 and Bulgarian Empire 🇧🇬

[@petertodorov9540]

BULGARIA = GREAT INDOEUROPEAN HISTORY

[@nikolavukicevic9799]

Bulgarians are Tatar Turks from Xiongnu Mongolia, you are not a Indo-European

[@petertodorov9540]

@@nikolavukicevic9799 Wrong There no evidence Of any Turkic origin of Bulgarians

[@nikolavukicevic9799]

@@petertodorov9540 Yes there is, the genetic and historical proof, Onogur Bulgarians are Kipchak Turks from Kazakhstan who settled in the Balkans in 678 ad. lead by Asparukh Khan and Volga Bulgaria in Kazanj Russia

[@nikolavukicevic9799]

@@petertodorov9540 Slavic race haplogroup R1A is a Indo-European race, South Slavs(Dinaric) race is I2A haplogroup Proto European. Thracians are Proto European who your ancestors mixed with 1100 years ago

[@petertodorov9540]

@@nikolavukicevic9799 Complete Nonsense Asparukh is an Iranian name Kipchaks appear in Europe in the 10th century Where are you getting your Misinformation ?

[@DimiiiV]

За Велка България 🏇🏻🏇🏻🏇🏻🤺🤺🤺 ☦️ чий образ имат! 😁

[@biscolataman]

It has been inscribed in two languages: on the obverse there is an Arabic-language inscription written in relief in the Thuluth style of calligraphy, while on the reverse a Turkic text has been inscribed in the Bulgarian variant of the Kufic style. There is also relief writing on the sides of the monument. Huwa-l-xäjji-l-läzi lä jämutu wä küllü häjjin säjämutu. Haẕihi rawḍatu-l-mästüräti-l-muṭahhiräti-ṣ-ṣalixäti-ṣ-ṣa’inäti-ṭ-tajfäti Šäkär-älči bint Gos̱man äl-Bolɣari. He lives who does not die, but every living thing dies. This is the plot of the chaste, devout, pious, caring, compassionate Šeker-elči, daughter of Osman the Bulgar.

[@petertodorov9540]

Fatlinda Islami What does this have to do with a 12 year old Albanian girl like you who lives with her mommy in Gostivar?

[@aghileshemdani3144]

@@petertodorov9540 ..what is wrong if Albanian girl saying this ?? What kind of jokes IS this ?

[@stanbatakarata6081]

Today is 1107 years from Great Battle .maybe 100000 +wariors in Battle .Glory for All Hetoes !

[@БориславЯкимов-в3г]

До кога,ще ни представят ,като диваци облечени в кожи?!!

[@MrAterik]

Какво общо има България? Става дума за Волжка Булгария.

[@alfa8617]

@@MrAterik БУАХАХАХАХАХАХАХАХАХАХ

[@abulgarianvoice8366]

Докато собствените ни казионни историци ни представят като такива, целият свят също ще го прави.

[@3dwaffle338]

@@abulgarianvoice8366 Има и яки историци, но не са популярни. Имаше един як, дето говореше на един мой познат за българи в Япония. Но това е само ако се приеме, че скитите са де факто древните българи, тъй като има теория как Киби е бил скитски.

[@yuriystefanov4069]

@@MrAterik Каква Волжка България?! Ти за Симеон I и битката при Ахелой не си ли чувал? Какво ви учат по история?

[@dimitriofthedon3917]

My gosh witcher music with beautiful byzantine history how my hearts filled so fully rn

[@anton4ul]

Fact is that's bulgarian folklore songs.

[@byzantinetales]

Kudos for the montage you did to assemble all these clips within context. I would tell you to check a little bit the greek phrases. Some of them don't even make sense!

[@МихаилДелсизов]

Да живее България вечна и слава.

[@jonhvargas7382]

Bassil says hello 🤗🤗👨‍🦯👨‍🦯👨‍🦯

[@МихаилДелсизов]

@@bulgariainsight429 Чети книги, а не гледай западни исторически предавания. Чети да си просветен, а не лъжи се с видяното, та да не си заслепен.

[@SpartanLeonidas1821]

@@Thracepirus_ball🌿🔪👀

[@SpartanLeonidas1821]

🌿🔪👀

[@МихаилДелсизов]

.!.

[@bulgarianguy7676]

NO ONE CAN COMPARE TO THE BULGARIA IN THE PAST!

[@pioterer79]

Basil II ,Bulgar Slayer’ said - Hold My Beer …

[@blu9371]

When vlachs and bulgars used to not be the absolute mockery of Europe... Good old times... Love from Romania.

[@sasho888prm]

The Macedonian army was ready to take on the winner. (Joking)

[@DDimov-nf8mi]

hahahaha that was the battle between Macedonians and Macedonians

[@antonangelov5490]

Haha

[@man33m]

Once upon a time there was one glorious and fearsome Bulgaria and bulgarians ulike this one nowdays, lost, selfish, corrupted and stagnating

[@simeonsimeonov5205]

@Achaean as the african of the greeks

[@nestororiginal2344]

@@simeonsimeonov5205 If Greek are African then Europe woulndt exist ,which is a Greek word.😉

[@simeonsimeonov5205]

@@nestororiginal2344 Are you so sure? After all there is nothing wrong being from Africa, man! People in the Balkans were very happy even before the Greeks, not only the word Europa is not a greek word either but a thracian word.

[@simeonsimeonov5205]

@Jotaro97 Ha ha ha ha, this is what you say. Any linguist would explain to you the truth, man. Has nothing to do with semitic words.

[@nestororiginal2344]

@Bulgarian Lion You are so funny, but reality hurts I know...Your country wouldn't exist without us, your language, your religion, even your land, nothing. So start respecting the civilization that built you!

[@denisdragnev1076]

We Bulgarians in this film are like crazy people dressed in skins

[@rhyzhenthioz]

It's nice to see your video again.

[@michaelorourke3674]

Recommend having your English text checked by a native speaker.

[@DickWeinerUSA]

Present tense.

[@hannibalkartargo9714]

@@DickWeinerUSA Not only was that the wrong tense to use it was also used wrong

[@sirdigbyofsmeg1191]

@@hannibalkartargo9714 tensd moment indeed

[@mwhd629]

the TENSions are rising in the comments

[@hannibalkartargo9714]

@@mwhd629 You mean tensdions :P

[@biscolataman]

Sample From Bulgar Language: Etil suwı aka turur Kaya tübi kaka turur Balık telim baka turur Kölün takı küşerür In Turkish: İtil suyu akar durur Kaya dibini oyar durur Bütün balıklar baka durur Gölü bile taşırırlar In English: Volga water is flowing He carves the bottom of the rock All the fish keep looking They carry the lake

[@petertodorov9540]

Fatlinda Islami What does this have to do with a 12 year old Albanian girl like you who lives with her mommy in Gostivar?

[@jadeimingan184]

If Old Roman Legends were to see this, they would shake their head in disappointment.

[@gabrielm.942]

Why’s that?

[@gabrielm.942]

@Physicalyx Hacks lol no they didn’t. Times change and so do the challenges. The Roman Empire is not at all guaranteed to have faired any better In fact the reason the Byzantine Empire was in this position was due to hundreds of years of Roman mismanagement.

[@skyshatter3633]

if you didnt know Achelous is a place where unknown amount of huge battles happened in the past. In one of them Romans got one with their biggest defeats

[@yaboidex4000]

@@gabrielm.942 yes the old romans were better in tactics and fighting learn sum history kid

[@gabrielm.942]

@@yaboidex4000 no they weren’t, Rome had so many failures in tactics it’s almost laughable. Everyone does and no one is perfect. However Roman didn’t succeed because it was innovative, but because their enemies were not. This isn’t the same case for Byzantium where all of their opponents were innovative and were far more competent then Romes enemies. Again, Rome while powerful, was not guaranteed to fair any better.

[@cosmopolitanbay9508]

You should re-edit the clip and add some maps, so people know what you're talking about and where it is happening.

[@2G00d_4U]

За Майка България.... На нож! 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬

[@Топлица-ы7в]

...на нож до пола , а од пола ...промените страну

[@fonthracian7042]

Bulgaria and Eastern Roman Empire two enemies two Christian empires... Image these empires allied together against islam 🇧🇬☦️. Roman empire was good enemy. Some day Constantinople/Tsarigrad will be free.

[@angelocoll7802]

Tsarigrad? Literally "City of Caesar/Zar", right? Is this the slavic name for Constantinople? Or is It a name for an OTHER city? I say for simple curiosity.

[@fonthracian7042]

@@angelocoll7802 Tsarigrad "the city of the tsars". It's Bulgarian name for Constantinople.

[@angelocoll7802]

@@fonthracian7042 Ah, that's new. Thank you, sir.

[@yaboidex4000]

Stfu

[@talridisblagoev242]

@@angelocoll7802 what he didn't tell you is that Tsarigrad(aka Constantinople aka Istanbul) is originally a thracian city build my the native population which was thracians(before the greeks came and later the romans). We can it Tsarigrad because that is its original traicion name :D

[@denkapeneva2018]

Attila will be very proud for bulgars

[@theundertaker7435]

We are not asians,why did you made every single soldier either like barbaric nomad or mongol archer???

[@sergeyatanasov1359]

Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Velika

[@alexparos2153]

Very good work. Congratulations

[@BinyoS]

Make a video for Tsar Kaloyan Romeokton (Greekslayer) (Romanslayer) also latin destroyer who comes after Bassil II

[@nishhnishh1088]

Are those really his nicknames? hahaha

[@МатьоХристов-ч3е]

@@nishhnishh1088 This is real nick of Kaloyan the Romanslayer

[@aleksk4151]

Kaloyan the Byzantine-slayer. Byzantine was mainly Greek at the time.

[@SpartanLeonidas1821]

@@aleksk4151Got b@tthurt after Greeks named Basileios Bulgaroslayer! 🤡🤣 🌿🔪👀

[@messiisthagoat2139]

Bulgaria and wins

[@vasil.kamdzhalov]

Great one

[@notjx113]

Eastern Romans and Bulgars/Bulgarians never stopped fighting haha, from the 7th century (First Bulgarian Empire) all the way up to the 14th century (Second Bulgarian Empire) they fought for centuries, what an incredible rivarly haha

[@АнтонПавлов-ц4з]

(AC 499.) Ind. VII, Joanne Gibbo solo cos. Aristus, leader of the Illyrician army, with fifteen thousand armed men, and with twenty hundred wagons loaded with weapons necessary for war, set out against the Bulgarians who were ravaging Thrace. A battle was fought near the river Zurta, where more than 4,000 of our men were killed, either in flight or on the precipitous bank of the river. There the Illyrician valor of the soldiers perished, Nicostratus, Innocentius, and Aquilinus being slain. This year a huge earthquake shook the province of Pontica. (AC 502.) Ind. X, Probos and Avieno coss. The common nation of the Bulgarians, which had been plundered many times, ravaged Thrace again, with no Roman soldier resisting. Amidas, the most opulent city, betrayed by the cunning of its monks, Choadis, king of the Persians, in the fifth month after he had begun to conquer it, broke into it, and cut down its betraying monks.

[@jay9220]

As with all empires, they rised and fell over times. Mostly due to internal conficts first.

[@anticommunist5899]

And soon we will refound it . We are the strongest in balcans so we can do whatever we want

[@RAY296]

2:09 Theodora from Civ V voiceline caught my ear

[@n1kobg]

Bulgarians didnt look like that. Its just cuts from different movies. We adopted a lot of Byzantines styles. After we got Christians the big cities looked similar to Byzantines. In the video they show some poor barbarian look peasants.

[@Agent-wp3yi]

I just wonder why in every film fighting scenes are so unrealistic 😅

[@chocodoco4855]

Roman: The Bulgarian """"" Empire """""" 500 years later: Ottoman: The Roman """" Empire """"

[@cruelty5780]

and 500 years later: NO ottoman empire on world map :D

[@chocodoco4855]

@@cruelty5780 500 years later: American: The Ottoman "Empire" 50 years later: You get the joke.

[@valcedricerames9977]

Eastern Rome really needed Belisarius during that time

[@USERCRETE]

basil II was the best option . Did the job perfectly

[@aleksk4151]

@@USERCRETE he still got beat by Bulgarians lol at sofia, trajan gates and pernik twice .

[@aleksk4151]

@@USERCRETE he did it at the end, but took him 35 years, and he had allies Russians, Croatians,Serbs,Hungarians. He should have done it without problem to be honest, but still good job.

[@williampaz2092]

I think they would have settled for Nicophorus Phocas or John Tziminkus.

[@aleksk4151]

@@williampaz2092 John Tzimiskes didn't dare attack Bulgaria , he was scared to cross "these dangerous lands" as he said. So he called the Russians to defeat Bulgaria and only then the Byzantine repulsed Russian and occupy a weaken Bulgaria. that's not a real victory. Basil II is their real victory in war against Bulgaria. Basil personally lost in 3 locations against Bulgarians, he never lost a battle before.

[@OLYMPIANgreek]

Fact they speak Greek is outstanding.

[@dimeradonjic8330]

Srbi i grci braca ❤

[@misakipan3412]

1:37 wolooloo

[@abdulhakimsaid9264]

Най големия чудо по тези видеоклипи е че когато някой преказва на български език всичко е ясно и чуе се хубаво,но когато някой преказва на други език много тежко чуе се нещо!!!Защо това?!?!?

[@simeonsimeonov5205]

Guys, the Bulgarian cavalry was composed by heavily armored horseman and also the horses were fully armored. You can see them in the Trayan’s column in Rome. They can't possibly win with only arrows from afar in a close fight with the roman cavalry? Cheers

[@petros311]

Trayans column depicts Sarmatian not Bulgarians! from all sources the early bulgarians were fighting like all nomadic people from central asia, with light horse archers, with a small percentage of an armoured elite class. they also employ light/medium infantry.

[@simeonsimeonov5205]

@@petros311 Not true man, there enough medieval sources that tells the opposite of what you say!

[@simeonsimeonov5205]

@@petros311 Romans were calling the Old Great Bulgaria only one state! The father of Italian historiography Antonio Ludovico Muratori in his work 'Annali d'Italia' points out that Bulgarians were the oldest and the strongest enemy of the Romans!

[@petros311]

@@simeonsimeonov5205 the early bulgarian armies were similar with the nomadic steppe armies mainly with horse archers, that its stated in many sources like in procopius etc. at some point they integrated slav light/medium infantry. apart than some small elite armoured cavalry. i dont know exactly the composition of the armies of krum and symeon but Samuel armies were fighting large guerilla and raid war and avoiding to fight in the open with strong byzantine armies. krum decition to make the skull of emperor nikephoros I, a drinking cup with silver depicts clearly steppe nomad customs.

[@petros311]

@@simeonsimeonov5205 not understanding what you meaning when saying old bulgaria only one state! bulgaria was enemy of rome and byzantium from 681ad if i recall corectly, from Heraclius time they were allies. not true the bulgarians were the strongest of the enemies of byzantium. byzantium always had the majority of its army stationed in asia minor due to constant muslim threat, ither from land or from sea. even before the muslim expansion again the majority of the roman armies stationed east to fight the Sassanids! maybe a 60-40% ratio. from the two comanding high military generals the magister militum of the east were superior of his colleage from the west. if you study you would see that the greatest bulgarian victories were always when ambushed the byzantines in narrow roads or otherwise. Samuel armies were inferior of byzantines, thats why he used extensivelly guerilla warfare and raids. he must also had shortage in money that prevent him to gather a large regular army. when Basill II conquered bulgaria he order that the taxes be payed in goods and not in coins as bulgaria had acricultural economy and coins were expensive to find, trading goods were more common.

[@SubaruImprezaWRXSti-fv8ng]

Great stuff you have a new subscriber

[@KaelanF]

Byzantines were called Roman's. It's the east Roman empire

[@Tom-bm2kt]

For a second the thumbnail soldier looked like Captain America.

[@theundertaker7435]

Why did you made our armies like barbarians they had armor too you know

[@hasgl1589]

Not in this era

[@apocalypsedude7490]

1:59 they just got out from the barber shop

[@Nomadicenjoyerplus]

You ask us also in your epistle: "Of what people, of what family, and of what tribe are you?" Know that we are descended from Japheth, through his son Togarmah. [In Jewish literature Togarmah is the father of all the Turks.] I have found in the genealogical books of my ancestors that Togarmah had ten sons. These are their names: the eldest was Ujur, the second Tauris, the third Avar, the fourth Uauz, the fifth Bizal, the sixth Tarna, the seventh Khazar, the eighth Janur, the ninth Bulgar, the tenth Sawir. [These are the mythical founders of tribes that once lived in the neighborhood of the Black and Caspian Seas.] I am a descendant of Khazar, the seventh son.

[@hristian74]

That's interesting. I've never come across this version of the origin of the name of Bulgaria. For some reason it is not popular.

[@kaloyanrosenov2123]

And why you called thoose people turks , they are not turks but ancient people who created many tribes that later create modern countries , to say that they are turks is like to say that they are bulgarian , in fact yes they are relatives but turks is something modern , combination of manny tribes and peoples like the modern bulgarians !

[@Nomadicenjoyerplus]

@Jotaro97 The Volga Bulgars were a Turkic-speaking people who established the second Muslim state in Europe (after the Emirate of Córdoba) in the early fourth/tenth century and ruled over extensive lands and a wide array of people around the middle Volga and Kama Rivers between the second/ninth and early seventh/thirteenth centuries. The Bulgars acted as middlemen between Central Asian merchants and the Rus, and the northern, mainly Finno-Ugric tribes whose main trading commodity was fur, which was greatly valued as a luxury item throughout the Islamic world. *Mako, Gerald. “The Conversion of the Volga Bulgars: Aḥmad b. Faḍlān b. Al-ʿAbbās b. Rāshid b. Ḥammād (Fl. Fourth/Tenth Century).” Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook, edited by Nimrod Hurvitz et al., 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2020, pp. 156-159.* The period is marked by the migration of the final “permanent residents” of the Balkan Peninsula to the region: these were, most important-because eventually most numerous-the Slavs, but also the Turks (first Bulgars and then Ottomans) *Wachtel, Andrew. “Early Balkan Everyday Life.” Everyday Life in the Balkans, edited by DAVID W. MONTGOMERY, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2019, pp. 9-21.* The Samara is the last westward migrations and military campaigns of, first, the significant tributary of the Volga; past the Samara, the rivers Turkic-speaking Bulgars *Mochalov, Oleg D., et al. “Historic Records of the Economy and Ethnic History of the Samara Region.” A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project, edited by Oleg D. Mochalov et al., Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press at UCLA, 2016, pp. 63-70.* The Volga Bulgars , a settled Turkic people, were a society that practiced Islam on the Eurasian steppe *“Siberia in Eurasian Context.” The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia, by Erika Monahan, 1st ed., Cornell University Press, 2016, pp. 71-104.* The Turkic Bulgars were among the first to benefit from the region’s commercial advantages by settling it in the fifth century c.e. and found- ing the city of Bolgar *“THE KAZAN SCHOOL.” Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration, by David Schimmelpenninck Van der Oye, Yale University Press, New Haven; London, 2010, pp. 93-121.* The confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers, to the east, was inhabited by the Bulgars, a Turkic people, and the southeastern steppes by the Khazars, another Turkic people who had formed a strong state in the seventh century, *“Russian Expansion in Kievan Times.” Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier to 1750, by George V. Lantzeff and Richard A. Pierce, McGill-Queen's University Press, MONTREAL; LONDON, 1973, pp. 21-30.* The Huns of the Western Steppe appear to have formed an element of the later Danubian Bulgars, a Turkic people who, under Asparukh, moved into the Balkans in 680 and founded *“The Age of Attila the Hun.” Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present, by CHRISTOPHER I. BECKWITH, Princeton University Press, Princeton; Oxford, 2009, pp. 93-111.* In the mid- ninth century Khan Boris ruled a pagan Bulgaria that was composed of both Turkic Bulgars and Slavs. *“The Micro-Christendom of Rus'.” Reimagining Europe, by Christian Raffensperger, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England, 2012, pp. 136-185.* the Turkic -speaking Volga- Kama Bulgars *“Muslims in Europe: Precedent and Present.” Muslims of Europe: The 'Other' Europeans, by H. A. Hellyer, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2009, pp. 101-120.* the Bulgars( Turkic speakers who invaded the Balkans in the seventh century) *“Round Two: The Rise and Spread of Agricultural Societies.” The Next World War: Tribes, Cities, Nations, and Ecological Decline, by ROY WOODBRIDGE, University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. 49-58.* served as the secretary of an embassy sent by the Caliph al- Muqtadir to the king of the Turkish Bulgars then living on the lower reaches of the Volga River north of the Caspian Sea. *“THE BIG CHILL.” Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History, by Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University Press, NEW YORK, 2009, pp. 69-95.* Turkic -speaking Bulgars into the region now known as Bulgaria failed to alter its predominantly Slavic char- acter. The Bulgar ruling class eventually abandoned its Thrkic language and adopted Slavic so completely that no trace of Turkicspeech patterns can be found in any Old Slavic texts. *“Languages and Literatures.” East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500, by JEAN W. SEDLAR, University of Washington Press, Seattle; London, 1994, pp. 421-457.* Byzantine power was challenged by Thrkic-speaking Bulgars from the Ukrainian steppe who carved out a tribal state from the empire's Balkan lands. *“Foreign Affairs.” East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500, by JEAN W. SEDLAR, University of Washington Press, Seattle; London, 1994, pp. 362-400.* When the Turkic -speaking Bulgars first occupied their present *“Nobles and Landholders.” East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500, by JEAN W. SEDLAR, University of Washington Press, Seattle; London, 1994, pp. 58-83.* and with the Turkic people, the Bulgars , on the east bank of the Volga. *“Conclusions.” Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier to 1750, by George V. Lantzeff and Richard A. Pierce, McGill-Queen's University Press, MONTREAL; LONDON, 1973, pp. 221-230.* alleged to be constructions of the Turkic Bulgars , are notable. *Pundeff, Marin. “Bulgarian Historiography, 1942-1958.” The American Historical Review, vol. 66, no. 3, 1961, pp. 682-693.* They colonised areas of the eastern Balkans and in the seventh century other Slav tribes combined with the Proto-Bulgars, a group of Turkic origin, to launch a fresh assault into the Balkans. *Crampton, R. (2005). THE BULGARIAN LANDS FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE BULGARIANS. In A Concise History of Bulgaria (Cambridge Concise Histories, pp. 1-8). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.* In my lecture I emphasised the fact that the ear liest written record the of the Bulghar- Turkic sound shift к > / could be traced even in the early Turkic loan-words of the Hungarian language. Róna-Tas, András. “WHERE WAS KHUVRAT'S BULGHARIA?” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, vol. 53, no. 1/2, 2000, pp. 1-22. followed by the Avars (Turki invaders of sixth to eighth centuries AD who were eventually evicte from Hungary by Charlemagne), the Bulgars ( Turkic speakers who invaded the Balkans in the seventh century) “Round Two: The Rise and Spread of Agricultural Societies.” The Next World War: Tribes, Cities, Nations, and Ecological Decline, by ROY WOODBRIDGE, University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. 49-58.

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@Jotaro97 Bulgars (Turkic bulgha-'to mix, stir up, disturb', i.e. 'rebels') A Turkic tribal union of the Pontic steppes that gave rise to two important states: Danubian Balkan Bulgaria (First Bulgarian Empire, 681-1018) and Volga Bulgaria (early 10th century-1241). They derived from Oghuric-Turkic tribes, driven westward from Mongolia and south Siberia to the Pontic steppes in successive waves by turmoil associated with the Xiungnu and subsequently by warfare between the Rouran/Avar and northern Wei states. in Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 0192562460, p. 271.. The area was thus intimately known at an early stage to the Byzantine Empire. By the late seventh century Bulgar ( Turkic ) tribes had crossed the Dan- ube southward and formed the basis of a kingdom under the khans. “Orthodox Life under and after Islamic Dominion.” The Eastern Orthodox Church: A New History, by JOHN ANTHONY McGUCKIN, Yale University Press, New Haven; London, 2020, pp. 181-214. On the other hand, Arzhantseva argues that some of the fortresses were captured by the Turkic peoples who were likely to be Kuban Bulgars Vorderstrasse, Tasha. “Buddhism on the Shores of the Black Sea: The North Caucasus Frontier between the Muslims, Byzantines, and Khazars.” The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers: From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea, edited by A. Asa Eger, University Press of Colorado, Louisville; Colorado, 2019, pp. 168-194. The Bulghars coming into the Balkans in the seventh and eighth centuries soon lost their Turkic language and accepted Christianity in its Greek guise. Amitai, Reuven. “ISLAMISATION IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT AFTER THE END OF FRANKISH RULE: SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS AND A SHORT CASE STUDY.” Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History, edited by A. C. S. Peacock, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2017, pp. 156-186. The Horde’s population was mostly comprised of different Turkic- speaking groups such as the Cuman-Qipchaqs and the Volga Bulghars KOVÁCS, SZILVIA. “Taydula: A Golden Horde Queen and Patron of Christian Merchants.” Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals, edited by Michal Biran et al., 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2020, pp. 194-212. now known to us only from fragments of the Turkic language of the Bulghars on the middle Volga in early Islamic times and from modern Chuvash Bosworth, C. Edmund. “THE ORIGINS OF THE SELJUQS.” The Seljuqs: Politics, Society and Culture, edited by CHRISTIAN LANGE and SONGÜL MECIT, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2011, pp. 13-21. in the 460s that we have firm evidence for Turkic-speaking peoples. The Oghuric Turks (Oghurs, Shara Oghurs, Ono- ghurs, Bulghars , and others), however, spoke a form of Turkic that is distinct from what has come to be termed Common Turkic. Golden, Peter B. “Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Turks and the Shaping of the Turkic Peoples.” Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World, edited by Victor H. Mair, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2006, pp. 136-157. The Volga Bulgars were a Turkic -speaking people who established the second Muslim state in Europe (after the Emirate of Córdoba) Mako, Gerald. “The Conversion of the Volga Bulgars: Aḥmad b. Faḍlān b. Al-ʿAbbās b. Rāshid b. Ḥammād (Fl. Fourth/Tenth Century).” Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook, edited by Nimrod Hurvitz et al., 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2020, pp. 156-159. Kama and the Volga, was dominated by the Bul- gars, a Turkic people who had settled there in the seventh century. “The Volga.” Rivers in Russian Literature, by Margaret Ziolkowski, University of Delaware Press, Newark, 2020, pp. 63-101. Bulgar - Turkic tribes known as Onogurs, us, there is much consensus regarding their cultural achieve- from which the name Hungarian derives. “Central Europe, 9th Century.” Historical Atlas of Central Europe: Third Revised and Expanded Edition, by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, Toronto; Buffalo; London, 2018, pp. 10-12. The Turkic -speaking Bulgars themselves appear not to have been very numerous, perhaps no more than ten thousand warriors who took over the leadership of a larger group Wachtel, Andrew. “Early Balkan Everyday Life.” Everyday Life in the Balkans, edited by DAVID W. MONTGOMERY, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2019, pp. 9-21. The Bulgar peoples had settled in present-day Bulgaria in the seventh century, forming the so-called First Bulgarian Empire. The Bulgars were originally a Turkic people who had intermarried with Slavs after settling in the Balkans. “Who Has Authority over Newly Christianized Nations?” Twenty Questions That Shaped World Christian History, by Derek Cooper, 1517 Media, Minneapolis, 2015, pp. 137-154. At the time,the new Khazar qaganate was expanding westward,squeezing out the Onogurs,or Bulghars as they begin to be named. One of the Kuvrat’s sons,the Asparuch (Asparux,Isperih) now celebrated as the founder of Bulgaria,forcibly crossed to the Danube arpund 679 to occupy imperial territory Moesia after defeating the forces of Constantine IV (668-685). The event is recorded in the preserved text of a Hebrew letter of a Khazar qahan,who wrote that the Vununtur(=Onogurs=Bulghars) has fled across the Duna,the Danube. Even if numerous for the steppe,Asparuch’s pastoralist warriors and their families were of necessity relatively few as compared to the agricultural Slav population that lived south of the Danube,and thus the Turkic-speaking Bulghars were assimilated linguistically by the Slav majority to form the medieval and modern Bulgarians. This particular ethnogenesis occuree gradually over a period of more than two centuries: there was the Turkic qan (or khan) Krum (803-814),Qan Omurtag (814-831),Qan Presian (836-852),then the wan who converted Boris I (852-889);then came Tsar Symeon (893-923), Tsar Peter I (927-970),and so on.But this transformation of Turkic shamanists into Slavic Christians did nothing to diminish the warlike character of the empire’s new neighbours. Because even warlike neighbours can be useful at times,the relations between the empire and the new Bulghar qaganate encompassed every possible variation,from intimate allience to all out-war,as exemplified by the career of the Bulghar qan or khan Tervel (or Tarvel-Terbelis in our Greek sources),the successor and probably son of Asparukh who ruled for some twenty-one years within the period 695-721,extant chronologies being inconsistent. “Bulghars and Bulgarians.” The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire, by EDWARD N. LUTTWAK, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England, 2009, pp. 173 The strategic and economic importance of this juncture is clear: in an age when much long-distance travel was by water, the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers provided a three-way maritime link between Europe, the Near East, and East Asia. The Turkic Bulgars were among the first to benefit “THE KAZAN SCHOOL.” Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration, by David Schimmelpenninck Van der Oye, Yale University Press, New Haven; London, 2010, pp. 93-121. The confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers, to the east, was inhabited by the Bulgars, a Turkic people, and the southeastern steppes by the Khazars, another Turkic people who had formed a strong state in the seventh century, barring alike the westward movement of other nomadic tribes “Russian Expansion in Kievan Times.” Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier to 1750, by George V. Lantzeff and Richard A. Pierce, McGill-Queen's University Press, MONTREAL; LONDON, 1973, pp. 21-30. The Bul- gars, a Turkic people, unlike the Slavic Croats and Serbs, moved south ofthe Danube in 679 and soon created a state, in which the numerically small Proto- Bulgarelement in due course became completely assimilated with the Slavic majority “Antecedents and Antipodes.” The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, by IVO BANAC, Cornell University Press, Ithaca; London, 1984, pp. 21-140. The word boyar is of Turkic origin, introduced into the Balkan Peninsula by the Bulgars in the 7th century. As the Turkic -speaking Bulgar conquerors became Slavicized, they joined with the Slavic clan chiefs “Nobles and Landholders.” East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500, by JEAN W. SEDLAR, University of Washington Press, Seattle; London, 1994, pp. 58-83. " Bulgar " originally designated a Turkic -speaking people; now it designates the Slavic-speaking people who assimilated them. “National Symbols and the International Recognition of the Republic of Macedonia.” The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, by Loring M. Danforth, Princeton University Press, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, 1995, pp. 142-184.

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@Jotaro97 haaa :DDDD source is *Khazar Correspondence*

[@Billswiftgti]

Porfyra is often mistaken for dark purple, it is not. It is deep red with touches of light purple. It is one of the most pleasing to see colours on Earth.

[@pradiptapal6655]

Thus byzantine bulgarian war and infighting amongst orthodox christian slavs romaniote greeks led finally to ottoman invasion

[@protogregorianvm]

Where is 29 July 1014, in the Battle of Kleidion?

[@stanbatakarata6081]

😂 Simeon the Great no Living 150 rears 😉

[@probutcher3308]

When will you add the titles of movies,shows you used? I want to watch them

[@kingrandomz9692]

It's in the description

[@ernikduo143]

Ахелой е река в Югоизточна България, област Бургас (общини Айтос, Бургас и Поморие), вливаща се в Черно море. Дължината ì е 39,9 км [1]. Река Ахелой се образува от слизането на реките Мангърска (лява съставяща) и Арнаутска (дясна съставяща) на 166 м н.в. на около 3 км точно от село Бели дол, община Поморие. И двете реки извират от Айтоска планина, точно от село Дрянковец, община Айтос, като за начало се приема Арнаутска река. Тече в широка долина, до село Александрово на изток, и след това на югоизток. Влива се в Черно море до къмпинг „Ахелой“, на 1,2 км южно от град Ахелой.

[@GeorgeKarayannis]

we need more East Roman series and movies

[@radovanprstojevic1060]

What a legendary edit! :DD

[@Antonio-qy4pc]

BULGARIA IS EMPIRE

[@ДженкаПавлова]

The earth trembles with our heavy horses, spears forward, ready to pierce every shield. and the king called the Bulgarians forward, God is with us, the first clash and the Romans turned to run. The emperor's army was chased and slaughtered, among the fallen he saw the Bulgarian king alive and bleeding. He got off his horse and said to him, Byzantium man deliver my words to Constantinople. I am Asparukh son of Kubrat from the family of Dulo, king of Bulgarians , I have shown you my power. Month August, day nine, year 6189. I, Asparuh, cut down the army of Bogonato, from today your empire will pay tribute if you do not want to see the Bulgarian sword

[@michalis101]

Great inmortal Byzantine Empire!!!

[@Rvscito]

Eastern Roman Empire*

[@Rvscito]

They still remains Romans, remember this

[@yoghurtmaster1688]

roman empire*

[@aleksk4151]

classic Greek right there :D

[@hristian74]

MIchalis, can you show me a document, written before the 14-th century, stating the name "Byzantine Empire" ?!

[@ionionescu6777]

nice , Battle of Kleidion next

[@aleksk4151]

Battle of Trajan gates before.

[@hypegaming5329]

България над всичко

[@sofiamariapetrou2794]

Bro what should i say i am greek/Bulgarian and i love both :)

[@SpartanLeonidas1821]

Greek* Capital Letter!!!!

[@stanbatakarata6081]

❤ epic battle.Two Titans for Orthodox Christian ☦️ love 🇬🇷 from 🇧🇬

[@explorer1968]

The Bulgarians developed feigned retreats several times and the Eastern Romans took the bite quite many times. Fortunately for the latter, that bad habit ended with emperors Jonh Tzimiskes and Basil II!

[@aleksk4151]

John Tzimiskes didn't defeat Bulgarian empire, he just occupied the eastern lands (not even whole of it) after Russians conquered Bulgaria. exaggerated coward , that's what he is .:)

[@explorer1968]

@@aleksk4151 Is that so? after centuries of constant defeats at the hands of the Bulgarian Empire, Eastern Rome started to reply good starting with the "coward" and following with Basil II. History is that curious...

[@vasil.kamdzhalov]

@@explorer1968 When you see that a tactic works why change it, it costed you more. For this battle in perticular we had the same number of soldiers, the reason at that moment they were less was that we had to deal with the Pechenegs and Serbs who too tried to rebel 3 times.

[@explorer1968]

@@vasil.kamdzhalov That's the point: the Bulgarian army was an expert on ambushes!

[@aleksk4151]

John Tzimiskes was the guy who avoided war with Bulgaria face-to-face and gave money to Russians to strike at Bulgaria , so Tzimiskes can collect the lands freely . Exaggerated character. Oh and let me remind you ....what happened after SAMUEL rose to power ??? where is this guy Tzimiskes??? Samuel returned everything even began conquering Greece, Serbia, Croatian coast etc.

[@regiltube7932]

When the Romans were not once they used to be before

[@Brexmachine00]

I would like to see video about Reign of Stefan Dušan

[@vasil.kamdzhalov]

Better ask of battle ( he hasn't done of a ruler explanation thing, only battles) here is more of a random one but hopefully you get one you like. I don't expect this battle to be shown of it wasn't one of the bloodiest in European Middle ages.