Vlad the Impaler tries to kill Mehmed the Conqueror - Battle of Targoviste 1462 (ALL PARTS)

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If you want to learn all about the conflict between Vlad the Impaler and Mehmed the Conqueror, check out the work of our co-producers:
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📚 Sources:
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"Roots of Balkanization" - by Ion Grumeza
"Dracula" - by Matei Cazacu
"Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time" - by Franz Babinger
"Vlad der Pfähler - Dracula" - by Thomas M. Bohn, Rayk Einax, Stefan Rohdewald
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[@HistoryMarche]

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content ❤❤❤❤

[@genytal2191]

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[@matschmoon399]

Hey, what happened to the audio? The sound really hurts my ears, sorry. New mic? Reset the preferences?

[@matschmoon399]

Addendum: 3:20 .. what is this?? .. crappy sound, disneyfied, .. do you really wanna loose subs??

[@matschmoon399]

Addendum 2 .. 4:55 you've lost a sub and gained a quit! 🤷

[@tkling5909]

Don't you just love it when the crusaders abandon their allies at the moment of need?

[@tuff9486]

the Hungarians. The Crusaders where busy elsewhere, not to mention that most countries where now going to focus on the conquest of the new world. Not as many crusades

[@leoghigu]

​@@tuff9486Pretty much, although there were no crusaders anymore at that point. The Varna Crusade some 20 years before had been the last.

[@Ganeshspai]

considering that they technically won because its the Jewish-Christian alliance that controls Jerusalem, of course you gotta love your small victories :)

[@thela255]

That's because politics comes first before religion. Some just use religion to gain support.

[@rod2d2rs]

I've read in the title "Vlad the Impaler tries to kill me..." and then I saw in the thumbnail "Im coming for you". Makes you think about your choices in life and if you were in fact a good boy.

[@HistoryMarche]

rofl, that wasn't intentional

[@SultanAhmetofOttomanEmpire]

Lmao😂😂😂😂

[@rod2d2rs]

@@HistoryMarche really funny anyway

[@Kimgangze]

Why Turkish don't support israel we are also khazar khaganate

[@BOZ_11]

@@Kimgangze Israel banned ancestral DNA testing (sans a court order), since they are all European and not from the Levant

[@bentlohse1715]

I never realized that Columbus and Vlad lived around the same time. Feels surreal.

[@schlauspieler1991]

Why?What makes them seem from different epochs?Eastern Europe was always a couple of centuries in retardation from western one.

[@arnljot9030]

@@schlauspieler1991 That's not true.

[@bentlohse1715]

@@schlauspieler1991 Never really thought about when Vlad was alive. I know of him and his story but didnt know the time he lived in

[@ChUnGuShh]

😂😂​@@schlauspieler1991

[@schlauspieler1991]

@@user-kx6wl8hz8v what about the polish?poland just lived off lithuanian conquerings and sucked evem from low-population swedes.they stupidly missed the chance to end muscovy in the time of troubles and sucked from cossacks and tatars,avoiding serious fights with the turks.the poles still are religious rednecks who buy russian grain and sabotage ukraine.poland was never avangarde of civilization,just better than more primitive slavs.

[@moohaameed]

Vlad and Mehmet went from being childhood friends to eternal enemies. Their battles represent the personal battles between them two. Great to have David narrating the Wallachian - Ottoman war. 💯⚔️

[@fgvfgv5976]

Invader muslim never can be a real friend Vlad understood this.

[@adamelghalmi9771]

@@fgvfgv5976 serbian?

[@moohaameed]

@@fgvfgv5976 So you mean that Vlad would consider a non Muslim invader of his nation as his “real” friend?

[@hamzaayaz7482]

@@fgvfgv5976Ahh yes, the 'real' friends of the Christians of the Balkans, like the Hungarians who were so anti -orthodox the Christians fought WITH the Ottomans against them because the 'muslim invaders' were much more tolerant to other Christians (and the Hungarians also massacred whole cities of their 'friends'), and the french who would kill whoever they wanted because they were the shining paragon knights of Europe who considered everyone else as 'peasants' or the Habsburgs who often had to put guards in their borders to stop their own people from migrating to the 'invaders' lands because they had better tax conditions, religious tolerance, and land opportunities. Buddy, the Ottomans did 1000 times more for the Christians of Balkans than European nations ever did and were much more tolerant of them. I believe that even the prime minister of Romania once said that had the hungarians conquered romania instead of the ottomans, Romanian identity might have been eradicated. While tragedies did occur, rule under Muslim lands was much better than the same 'real friends' you think so highly of. Maybe, instead of judging a nation based on religion. we should also look at their actions to see who were the better friends or enemies (true friends generally don't exist in politics, but you know what i mean)

[@fgvfgv5976]

@@moohaameed I mean only muslims like you are did invaded his lands.

[@ThePoutinePrince]

Beating a man in a duel and forcing him to dig his own grave in front of his whole army is cold as hell.

[@BOZ_11]

Vlad was so beloved by his own people, he suffered a revolt after he pushed out the Ottomans, since the taxes he brought to bear were so onerous, the Ottoman tribute they were used to paying, was actually cheaper 🤣🤣

[@goyonman9655]

​@@BOZ_11 Better to be ruled by your own for a higher tax than to be subjugated by a heathen foreigner for a smaller tax.

[@mrcazzovic7960]

@@BOZ_11 yea türks always claims their jizya and zakat is cheaper then others but i is the Ruler who decide what u have to pay 🤣🤣

[@brav0wing]

11:05 - And 133 years later, at Giurgiu, Michael The Brave would eventually end the Ottoman's desire to transform Wallachia into an Ottoman province by humiliating Sinan Pasha and ending his career but also ending the Ottoman's use of the Akinji raiders (all of them all slaughtered). 25:00 - On a side note, my family's house is in Lucieni, the village north of the forest from where Vlad launched his attack. Today, in front of the Lucieni school is the bust of the Voievode, the one and only, Vlad Tepes.

[@Beencheeling]

@@brav0wing Many Romanians still at the very least respect the figure that Vlad Tepes once was. Much of the history of Romania has been marked by fighting for their freedom as a nation, since Mircea cel Batran, the people of Wallachia have been struggling amongst their fellow Romanians for the likes of the Moldovans to fight off the hordes of the Turks, Mongols, and Hungarians..

[@akshatparag2884]

The real Vlad makes Dracula look like a middle-class school boy. Mehmets life... There was no more epic novel written in history...His wars with Konstantin, Vlad, Skanderbeg, Uzun Hasan ,Hunyadi, the karamans,the venetians,... Stuff for a lot of more series

[@kingofcards9516]

Mehmet the homosexual.

[@turkishpatriot9318]

​@@kingofcards9516don't talk about your mom

[@kingofcards9516]

@@turkishpatriot9318 so you're saying Mehmet was a woman.

[@LORDMEHMOODPASHA]

​@@kingofcards9516 Are YOU implying 15th century christian europe, a world of manly men, was being defeated, slowly conquered and in constant fear of a homosexual?! If so, then that says alot about how pathetic and weak the west was even 500+ years ago.

[@hassanbaig5238]

@@kingofcards9516what I’m pretty sure he had a wife

[@dand7763]

Vlad Tepes (The Impaler) founded in 1459 București (Bucharest) the nowadays capital of Romania

[@KHK001]

One of your first videos, yet still as impressive! thanks for your hard work HM.

[@HistoryMarche]

Much appreciated!

[@wladyslawderstreiter9078]

yeah but the old narrator was far better

[@N00bStArDamuS]

​@@wladyslawderstreiter9078okay but did anyone ask ? Lmao

[@derrickstorm6976]

First videos?

[@antonyjoseph8231]

I have watched this documentary a number of times, but this time round the amount of details shared in here are amazingly surprising. The work put in here is incredible. I commend the efforts and the product. Job well done.

[@brainflash1]

Its so infuriating watching Dracula get betrayed over and over again.

[@jahinsadman1505]

tends to happen with rulers that rules with such iron fist that he would burn people that are burden on society instead of helping them. You make enemies of your own that way

[@brainflash1]

@@jahinsadman1505 You know damn well that had nothing to do with why he was betrayed.

[@ahmadnaser8172]

@@brainflash1 yes it did duh,, he ruled through fear ,, the people at that time saw difference between ottoman rule or wallachian rule,, but when you are cruel and the ottomans arent it is clear whom they will choose

[@brainflash1]

@@ahmadnaser8172 You know it didn't because the people weren't the ones who betrayed him. It was the greedy boyars who sold out their country for money.

[@Hero-yu4om]

it's vindicating.... watching a criminal like him be abandoned

[@michalkurosa6841]

My one my fav. Leader and strategist and warrior. Greeting Romania. 🇹🇩from Poland 🇵🇱. You had Vlad we had Jeremy Wisniowiecki.

[@djprojectus]

Love Poland from Romania ❤

[@michaelbleier2617]

Obviously this is better than Netflix

[@AugustusHistory]

I will instantly click on anything about Vlad the Impaler!

[@arko966]

Me too

[@SuperGucker]

Cause he fucked up his life and his head is on vacation in Istanbul?

[@tedcrilly46]

Vlad is a definite candidate for having the biggest ones in all human history. 1 vs 1 champion fights, yep. Leading night attacks, yep. Taking beatings and not changing, yep. War campaign against a far bigger force, yep. Pure brass.

[@SuperGucker]

@@tedcrilly46 .

[@BOZ_11]

@@tedcrilly46 Yes, taught by the Ottomans he was ethnically Ottoman Turkish (ethnicity is culturalization and socialisation, not race)

[@mo07r1]

“Good fences make good neighabors” Vlad- “bad neighabors make good fences”

[@MUSLIM.BOSS69]

yes by killing innocent thats why we say christianity spread by blodd

[@igormarins1227]

Vlad x Mehmet should gain their own movie.

[@Ghjkoplokkp]

Netflix made one kinda. Rise of empires: Ottoman. 1 and 2

[@AnatolianHittite]

Wtf!! Mehmet the Conqueror VS Uzun Hasan, Karamanids, vlad, hungary, pope state, eastern rome, venice, skaderbeg etc HAHAHA

[@spartacus2650]

Though more fictional Dracula Untold with Luke Evans.... Not a great movie for me

[@stephenpingol760]

Netflix has one, its sort of a mix between a movie and a documentary and it is Rise of empires : Ottoman Empire season 1 is conquering Constantinople and season 2 is war with the Wallachians aka Vlad III the impaler.

[@arko966]

@@igormarins1227 they do have much better than a movie. A series in Netflix.

[@Beencheeling]

King Mathias of Hungary was most definetly the definition of a coward. Long live the name of Vlad the impaler!

[@silasz5553]

Learn history from other sources beside Romanian before You burp this bullshit here ...

[@KGF-zf2qj]

This got to be One of the craziest moments in military history🥶🤯

[@derrickstorm6976]

Moment? This is a whole campaign lol

[@KGF-zf2qj]

@@derrickstorm6976 I meant when he charged the camp all the way to the sultan’s tent trying to kill him

[@robertroventa2234]

Thanks for the amazing video, HM! Splendid work with the resourcing materials as always! Massive fan here, I do not think there was a single medieval warfare video I haven't watched from you guys. I salute your work and hope to see more videos around the Romanian Principalities in the future. Greatest regards, A true Wallachian

[@TOKMAKCI_BASPAPAZ]

Turkish sultans were known in the West as great warriors and conquerors , but they were also famous for killing the other members of their nuclear fam- ily and for suddenly ordering the execution of trusted advisors

[@hamidious]

Yeah they were brutal. I wonder how their religious advisors justified their murders since Islam prohibits murder, more so for their own kin. They must have been paid handsomly to jump through some theological hoops

[@FREECIVVIE]

@@hamidious Same way the popes did.

[@chedabu]

Nah they're not known here for being great anything. Just genocidal tyrants..

[@ahmet4093]

Cübbeli Ahmet Hocan'ın Cübbesi

[@gryph01]

They learned that from the Romans/ Byzantines

[@sockymonkie]

Vlad REALLY needs to be playable in Civilization 7.

[@alzarinsardek3669]

Always interesting to think how much different things if at all could have gone in the Balkans if Skanderbeg or Vlad had gotten much broader support. These guys were intimately familiar with the Ottomans and knew how to fight them, not just a bunch of French Knights doing a suicide charge. They still seem important because they muddied things up and slowed the Ottomans down and gave the Venetians, Austrians and others more time.

[@BOZ_11]

To be fair, Vlad and his ultimately useless escapades had no relationship/bearing on the siege of Vienna, which happened later and under a different Sultan (lots of reasons for the failure of the siege but Vlad isn't one of them)

[@mrcazzovic7960]

@@BOZ_11 your a türk and dont like vlad ok what know kiddo he did a great job in buying time and paying the türks back what they did since the Göktürk empire 🤣🤣🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ RIP Vlad and RIP Mehmet one of the best Ottoman Ruler alongside Suleyman

[@homelessjesse9453]

Man. Vlad was a true military genius. He just never had the resources to properly fight the Ottomans.

[@ayguctonyukuk3764]

No European nobleman or commander living at that time was genius enough to defeat Mehmed.

[@john0doesnt]

​@@ayguctonyukuk3764Mehmet was not very good, he just had bigger armies than all neighbors

[@ariyoiansky291]

Would have been interesting to see just how much Vlad would have been able to achieve if he had the same money, resources, and military numbers as Mehmed.

[@Spartan_Disiplin]

​@@john0doesnt He just conquered Bosnia in 3 weeks despite medieval conditions and routed army of Uzun Hasan, a man who destroyed Timurid Empire. I don't even mention conquests of Greece, Serbia,Albania because you give funny excuses like their armies are less than the Ottomans and just completely ignore the difficulty of conquering countries that are in mountainous regions and full of castles. He was more capable than many of his contemporaries and ancient times. Especially far better than your hero ''Basil the Bulgar Slayer''.

[@john0doesnt]

@@Spartan_Disiplin he had trouble against tiny armies in Albania and Wallachia lmao. Every time he was routed and needed to come back with an army twice the size

[@abhishekpawar8458]

Love you HistoryMarche !! ❤

[@figinmin]

Vlad is such magnificent figure, he's dare enough to fight mehmed after what mehmed did to constantinople.

[@furkannmdgn]

The person you are defending is someone who killed thousands, even tens of thousands of people, impaled them, and tortured them in all kinds of ways. If a Turk had done the same things, you wouldn't say these things. Liar.

[@user-qh8po5hd9m]

Excellent work. I wish it was longer with more details to watch. I’m glad you made an episode with Vlad’s history.

[@ravensmill3927]

Loved the little R. Lee Ermey caricature! Viva The Gunny!

[@XxLIVRAxX]

Loved his show on the History Channel.

[@emreyldz4324]

Hi,a turk here. There should be 3rd season of rise of empires ottoman skanderbeg season or some other series from the beginning of battle martzha or kosovo Vlad, Radu, Mehmet, Constantine, Skanderberg, Mathias Corvinus, John Hunyadi, Brankovic,Uzun Hasan, Walislaw, Setefan Lazerevic, Bayezid, Sigismund, stefan the great, Timur.... How many amazing leaders packed so liittle of a time frame.. There should be internationally collebrated TV series..

[@SolidAvenger1290]

I agree highly with this; however, Netflix has an agenda to uphold that tends to ruin or taint the legacy of many significant historical figures (especially those who come from Western Civilization, etc.). The Ottoman show is good, but it has some historical flaws that omit some known facts (Ex, how Mehmed slaughtered close to 10,000 civilians around the Hagia Sophia church after breaching the Constinolople, which the show doesn't highlight/show except him saying that it will be a Mosque after omitting the fact that his Janissaries committed a massive massacre & rape of innocents) Like the Roman Empire series, which already had three seasons, many facts were blindly missed and ignored given how heavy-handedly they presented the story of Julius Ceaser, Caligula, Tiberius, Marcus Aurelius, and later Commodus.

[@eddiOrtiz]

u forgot Stefan The Great of Moldavia

[@sieuvreau7784]

​@@SolidAvenger1290True, netflix does have an agenda. The Cleopatra documentary being the last example.

[@emreyldz4324]

@@SolidAvenger1290 Hi a Turk here. I agree that didn't mention that there were mass killings and enslavements by the Janissaries but Mehmed didn't order on the contrary after the third day he got sick of dead and on the contrary he ordered the stop of enslavements and lootings. Because Ottoman army died in mass in sieges, because the defenders didn't accept most of the time the peaceful surrender offer at the beginning, it was considered their "sword and blood right". I know it does not look civilised, siege of jerusalem and 1204 sack of constantinople were way worse. Mehmed wanted Constantionople to be a multi ethnic and cultural city. He wanted raise both Greek, Genose, Jewish and Turkish population of the city.

[@emreyldz4324]

@@eddiOrtiz For sure mate. I was a little bit high when i writing the comment, so sorry.

[@D3monL3A1]

So this mad chad vlad basically built what is now modern Romania and also its capital Budachrest what a legend .

[@shehansenanayaka3046]

Brilliant content. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Love and appreciation from Sri Lankan fan of you.

[@blinkwin]

I am born in modern day Wallachia (Romania), we have poems, many stories about his doings and sayings, Vlad, one of the greatest leaders to ever walk this lands, he is respected and remebered to this day by everyone, the city he founded (Bucharest) is now the capital of our country

[@LightYagami-zs2ty]

Mehmed - I was called here by humans who wish to pay me a tribute. Vlad - Tribute!?! You steal men's souls and make them your slaves!

[@uria3679]

One of the few people of the 13th century to achieve immortality

[@Trancymind]

You mean 15th century. You missed it about 200 years bruh.

[@mustafademir2116]

@@Trancymindbecause he achieved immortality the time suddenly doesn’t matter anymore.

[@Trancymind]

@@mustafademir2116 Not to him but it sure does in our perspectives since we are both 100% mortals.

[@mustafademir2116]

@@Trancymind well I hope I’m immortal too.

[@ehsanmoradkhani-xh1yq]

Thanks for your excellent presentation of this historical event

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

The Scourge of the Ottomans! Thanks For this 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@DarkKhan04]

It is very difficult to overcome the Janissaries even for Vlad

[@sureeeee1494]

It would had been very easy if his commander didn't betrayed him

[@drip_ranger3865]

@@sureeeee1494its still not clear what happend

[@Rude_Thunder]

He was a janissary Himself 😂

[@BOZ_11]

Or we could say: despite his being a Janissary, raised in the Ottoman court, with intimate knowledge of Ottoman military workings, he still managed to f*ck everything up 🤣

[@leoghigu]

​@@BOZ_11True, true, he didn't know how to properly leverage the fact that he had a far larger population, exponentially higher revenue and much larger state size… Oh, wait, wasn't that the Turks?

[@roykay4709]

Great info on a situation previously only alluded to.

[@ProfessorM-he9rl]

Thank you for this post, very interesting.

[@TheDevilMethod]

Ah deadly snakes and mosquitos... perfect place for my capital.

[@Peetfighter]

It still bugs me that this series about my favourite person from history remains unfinished. Vlad returned to Wallachia as mentioned in footnote 1 and still achieved some successes until being killed in action.

[@furkannmdgn]

The person you are defending is someone who killed thousands, even tens of thousands of people, impaled them, and tortured them in all kinds of ways. If a Turk had done the same things, you wouldn't say these things. Liar.

[@BOZ_11]

Why is he your favourite? He was taught how to fight in the Janissary corps, was partly Turkified having grown up in the Ottoman court; a sadist who loved lodging wooden steaks up sphincters, before being killed by Ottoman troops who had his severed head sent to Mehmed II, who displayed it for all to see on a pike in Anatolia. Despite intimate knowledge of Ottoman workings, his best idea was a cowardly raid on a tent, instead of lining his boys up for battle. He wasn't a great general like Hannibal, but a guerilla fighter. He was so beloved, that even his own brother stuck him in jail. His most outstanding achievement was in buying a house 🤣🤣 The only reason anybody bothers to learn about this ineffectual ruler is because a bored Englishman with too much time on his hands wrote a fictitious novel based on him

[@Peetfighter]

@@BOZ_11 Because he was mad crazy but at the same time a brave and strict ruler who achieved some major successes against the Ottomans despite the odds, that is what makes him fascinating to me.

[@BOZ_11]

@@Peetfighter To each their own, but when I think of great military minds, Vlad doesn't make the cut. Subutai, Ibn Walid, Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Mehmed II, Alexander, Caesar, Cyrus the Great, Saladin, Suleyman, I could go on a while Ambushing Mehmed's caravan is not a pitched battle victory 🤣

[@Sanj1n]

Another excellent video ❤

[@thunderbolt866]

I love your videos thank you so much

[@Fausto4197]

Hello, here is a Transylvanian. I am pleased to see someone saying Romanian words almost well, few make the attempt to understand our language. I wanted to tell you that Vlad never formed a chivalric order traditionally, but rather an elite unit, as you said, it is the order of "the brave" or "the heroes."

[@VladFaraonel]

Vlad Țepeș was a f** badass surrounded by cowards and idiots. This video presented the life of Țepeș better than my history teacher and I say this as a Romanian!

[@Hasanbas-rv3vm]

Vlad was cuman turk

[@tictcha612]

Super vidéo !

[@reksmeyok1957]

The most fascinating history video.

[@StrigoiVampire]

24:59 A night attack is exactly what a vampire would do.

[@MUSLIM.BOSS69]

coward also

[@boomerr1043]

​@@MUSLIM.BOSS69that's a strategic attack, Khalid ibn walid did that too

[@HittiteHorseArcher]

The personality of Mehmed II the Conqueror (1432-1481) is portrayed with considerable variations in the chronographies, the histories, and the multi- farious other texts that pertain to the conquest of Constantinople and to the establishment of the Turks as the dominant power in the Balkan penin- sula. Theologians saw in the young conqueror the new Sennacherib, the precursor of Antichrist who was to destroy the Church of Christ', while se- veral humanists, historians, and scholars adopted a milder and often am- bivalent attitude. They described the Turks as "Asiatic barbarians" who might destroy the ongoing rebirth of the Greco-Roman culture, but at the same time evidently reflecting the Renaissance concept of the ideal prin- ce-they did not hide their admiration for Mehmed's strong personality, his administrative ability, his religious tolerance, and his military genius. In this spirit they did not hesitate to connect him with the Classical tradi- tion and draw parallels between the young sultan and Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Sometimes Mehmed was even portrayed as an exemplary leader, a "philosopher king" surrounded by artists and men of letters, a prin- ce who divided his time between victorious campaigns and leisurely academic pursuits reaching so far afield as to embrace Greek and Latin literature.

[@rc8937]

Maybe Mehmed II will be recognized as an LGBTQ+ icon.

[@AnatolianHittite]

​@@rc8937Please do not confuse him with gay Alexsandr

[@rc8937]

@@AnatolianHittite Radu III was Mehmet's Hephaestion.

[@catalinfrasineanu9475]

Please continue ❤

[@AbhyudayaSinh]

Very informative ❤❤

[@ruttiger500]

That’s cold blooded he says “they depart earthly sufferings for a better afterlife “

[@murda9324]

Holy Dracul!! Mighty dragon and defender of the christians. Got a Voïvod badge on my jacket. Thx for the vids and cheer from France!

[@MUSLIM.BOSS69]

yes by killing innocent thats why we say christianity spread by blodd

[@kalaoahaole]

Love David's voice and the concise imagery.

[@Raao1]

I like how in reality he did so many "night" attacks, thus adding to his modern lore as a creature of the night.

[@justjosie1163]

Dracula was a true hero. Even after being betrayed he kept battling. It is a shame that more people in the West do not understand what an incredible man he was. Sadly, they watched a movie and let that makeup their minds.

[@Hasanbas-rv3vm]

Vlad was cuman turk😊

[@brav0wing]

​​​@@Hasanbas-rv3vmWow, that is one of the most idiotic comments ever with no proof whatsoever. Not even the Ottoman's chronicles states this.

[@Raao1]

​@@Hasanbas-rv3vm what a little sad person you are.

[@anujsaxena2861]

This is so refreshing, after seeing the Netflix series Mehmed vs Vlad. Being produced by Turks, no wonder it painted an extremely skewed version of history. It feels really good to view this unbiased rendition of events.

[@Schawzn-ns7ro]

I think you are the best channel in this business.

[@bogdanenache5794]

hello from targoviste! the real story is here😁👏👏

[@rextucker3184]

One look at that mustache and we knew this Impaler fellow meant business. That mustache is so badass, brother, that we haven't seen one like it since. It's, like, unique.

[@Hasanbas-rv3vm]

He is cuman turk so of course he has a turkish mustache 😊

[@rextucker3184]

@@Hasanbas-rv3vm I'd be reluctant to wear one as it may cause his many enemies to think I just might be him and why take chances.

[@rarescevei8268]

​@@Hasanbas-rv3vm The family he was from had cuman roots, but nothing in the actual way of culture, beliefs, or traditions, not even acknowledgement.

[@Hasanbas-rv3vm]

@@rarescevei8268 still he had cuman blood in his veins

[@Njanja-po3qe]

Cursed moustache. 😅

[@tadijastankovic4350]

i like the style used for troops, maps etc. its reminicent of your older videos

[@Markjr778]

Thanks for more on the old world 🌎

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

The bird of hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me Tame

[@hentaioverwhelming]

Jesus Christ is in Heaven now

[@seanfenrir]

I was taught that Vlad "the impaler" was a tyranical bloodthirsty monster who got his nickname by impaling his subjects for no reason. It's only through research that I learned that (like most things) there was nuance to his rule and that theres a reason he is a hero to Romanians.

[@wawaweewa9159]

He did impale people and that is monstrous loll

[@drip_ranger3865]

The video even sayed it he imapled innocent in northern bukgaria and he killed more innocent then guilty most probably

[@BOZ_11]

@@drip_ranger3865 oh 100%. This guy filled whole fields with impaled people; the idea that he was some sort of punisher of the guilty is absurd

[@MUSLIM.BOSS69]

yes by killing innocent thats why we say christianity spread by blodd

[@JustAllinOneResource]

Thank You.

[@orrointhewise87]

I'm impressed, not a single mention of Dracula in the entire video 😂👏🏼

[@1claudiusgothicus]

Skanderbeg and Dracula. Nuf said

[@SamBrockmann]

Vlad probably should be recognized as one of the great generals of his time. He only failed, because he counted on ezternal support that never came. The Hungarians were the true villaina of Vlad's tale.

[@عليياسر-ك9ظ]

He lost because he was torturing his people and because he was stupid 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@icannotfinda]

Muslim Detected. He was no idiot; and he tortured men who weaken his state.

[@SamBrockmann]

WE FOUND THE R-WORD MUSLIM LOVER! Vlad defeated Mehmet II multiple times, with less men and less resources.

[@caboosej8749]

@@عليياسر-ك9ظ you sound mad bro, you should always respect bravery even when its your enemy who is showing courage

[@schlauspieler1991]

​@@عليياسر-ك9ظyou are the stupid one.And the muslim empire incapable to take the small Wallachia with their tons of gunmeat.

[@Saif0905]

You’re doing a great job. Is there any possibility of a video on the battle of Qadisyah?

[@erwinrommmel2456]

We definitely need a detailed video about battle of Albulena 1457

[@Zaeyrus]

For the Algorithm!

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

12:40 Since Dacian times⁉️ You mean Roman times brother, _Vlach_ is an exonym for Romanians meaning "People speaking in the tongues of the Romans".

[@floflo8461]

Dacian you noob,Dacia was never conquered,only 20%.This thing with romans and latin language is false,show me on paper how the latin languages was formed:),i tell you you will not find😂

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

@@floflo8461 Bahaha, what a dacopath baha. Trajan conquered in fact 90% of the entire Dacia, destroying the population entirely in 105-106 ad. Eutropius writes that Dacia was repopulated entirely by Romans from across the Empire. In 117 AD, Hadrian abandoned much of the territories acquired by Trajan, hence you say "20%" but you don't even realise that you are confusing the two phases of Roman Dacia (the one from 106-117, and the other 117-271). Theories of the origin of the Old Latin language (the one spoken before Classical Latin), is the Aetolian origin theory. Which argued that Latin was a Greek dialect from Aetolic, which Aeneas spoke when he came to _Latium Antiquum._ That's one, however linguistical research argues that Latino-Faliscian came from Proto-Italic which was formed from PIE language language around 11th century BC‼️We still have surving writing's and inscriptions from the Old Latin language which enabled the linguists to conclude an origin from Proto-Italic steeming from PIE💯😁 Salut din Oltenia👏🏻

[@floflo8461]

@@InAeternumRomaMater romanofon de kkt,habar nu ai,mai citeste

[@floflo8461]

@@InAeternumRomaMater the latin didn’t come form italy,and under ocupation they stayed 165 years,only to exploits the regions with gold and salt.After Trajan’s death the Dacians attack every 2-3 years some regions and you say they were destroyed😂.If it is like this why the greeks doesn’t speak latin or the jews who stayed under roman rule 300-400 years? how can someone under occupation forget their language and take the latin? they came to take resources nothing more,you think dacian women’s was kind with invaders and opened their legs? how can you believe this if you don’t have a proof?

[@sumazdar]

Dziękujemy.

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you for the support. Much appreciated!

[@DJBI556]

The thumbnail, very Night Lords. I love it.

[@SolidAvenger1290]

"He was a military genius, the founder of Bucharest, a valiant ruler. It's true he killed and impaled, but it's not that the Turks were any nicer to the Christians. Today we would perhaps talk about crimes against humanity. But it was normal then." - Francis Ford Coppola, Movie Director who produced Bram Stoker's novel Dracula

[@jahinsadman1505]

but burning his own for being burden to society? thats some nazi level shiz

[@DragovianMythiX]

And alas, so the christians condone all brutalities done by them. The Turks were definitely nicer to Christians than certain Cristians were to certain other Christians. The Turks did take Christian boys and commit raids here and there, but there was never indiscrimate killing of kids, women and civilian men, unlike certain Christians (cough, especially Western/catholic christians cough) who would not only kills Turks, but also Orthodox christians, sometimes even after promising to them that they would only kill the Turks. Yep, suck it and your 'humanity'.

[@SimpleReally]

greece was occupied for over 400 years and yet christians didn't get massacred and are the majority there. coppola has no clue what he's talking about

[@JLHFans]

Amazing

[@MoroccoGamer]

nice video

[@Cormano980]

The Great Mehmed, barely escaping in his pajamas 😂😂😂

[@MUSLIM.BOSS69]

cry still head in instanbul

[@RowdyRana-zc5gl]

😂😜👍🏻

[@ComboMuster]

Ah, good old times when the rulers were fighting one-on-one on the battle field while the soldiers stood by cheering them on! bring back those time please and I guarantee there will be no wars these days 😁😁😁.According to the turkish chronicles of the time Mehmed The Conqueror bribed King Matthias Corvinus (for a large sum of gold and promise of non-aggression pact) to apprehend Vlad Dracula. It is way cheaper to bribe than to conduct an immensely expensive expeditionary force. It is extremely difficult to access medieval turkish chronicles due to immense bureaucracy and secrecy (don't ask me why). On another if Stephen the Great (Moldavian king, another legendary warrior, given the title Champion of Christendom by the Pope) would've united with or helped Vlad Dracula the results would've been very different. Mehmed the Conqueror was the greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire, a shrewd diplomat and a great general (he personally conducted hands on all his military endeavors). Given all these circumstances Vlad Dracula is my favorite champion, he stood fast against insurmountable odds yet he did not budge. Legendary figure in history.

[@BOZ_11]

Why is he your favourite? He was taught how to fight in the Janissary corps, was partly Turkified having grown up in the Ottoman court; a sadist who loved lodging wooden steaks up sphincters, before being killed by Ottoman troops who had his severed head sent to Mehmed II, who displayed it for all to see on a pike in Anatolia. Despite intimate knowledge of Ottoman workings, his best idea was a cowardly raid on a tent, instead of lining his boys up for battle. He wasn't a great general like Hannibal, but a guerilla fighter. He was so beloved, that even his own brother stuck him in jail. His most outstanding achievement was in buying a house 🤣🤣 The only reason anybody bothers to learn about this ineffectual ruler is because a bored Englishman with too much time on his hands wrote a fictitious novel based on him

[@MUSLIM.BOSS69]

yes by killing innocent thats why we say christianity spread by blodd

[@ahmet4093]

Will you cover the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty? Especially the Battle of Yehuling 1211?

[@Supremebrawler07]

I like your accent david amazing narrator you make me feel like im in it

[@westernculturethroughgodseyes]

Hannibal episodes got 2,700,000 (#1) -> 445,000 views (#19). And the most recent videos have gotten below 445,000 views. Just sayin 😉😏 The people prefer the Hannibal series to these misc. medieval videos. And you get more famous and make more money that way. Win-win. So *when* will we get Hannibal #20?? 🤓😎

[@PSe5462]

Vlad with few men was nightmare for Turks and Mehmed the vulture😂

[@Spartan_Disiplin]

All he did was escaped without causing any significant damage to the Sultan's army (contrary to what is shown in this stupid video) and all the boyars in his country swore allegiance to Mehmet II and Radu. Vlad was a footnote in Ottoman history.

[@rarescevei8268]

​@@Spartan_DisiplinHe also made the Ottoman army retreat.

[@robbabcock_]

Awesome documentary! Although it's a serious oversight to omit Vlad's meeting in the cave with the vampire king! 👑🧛‍♀🦇

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

I actually just watched parts 1&2 this morning. lol

[@caboosej8749]

Vlad sure was the best chance of recapturing the western Bosporus region from the Ottomans but it seems the European kings would rather perish then unite in a single goal.

[@adamelghalmi9771]

no lol, he was a brilliant military strategist, but the ottoman empire had something like 3x their population, besides varna taught the western europeans that coalitions never work. beat them alone or not at all

[@charlesanastasia7574]

@@adamelghalmi9771history is so fascinating I remember years ago I read that popular belief was Vikings would raid with one lord maybe another man with a sword possibly a couple with axes but most with spears no armor besides the lord. Then they found sunken ships graveyards essentially of ships sunken and they realized they weren’t just one armored man and a bunch of men with sticks lol. They all had armor shields axes swords bows shock troops.

[@adamelghalmi9771]

@@charlesanastasia7574 wait they were actually well equipped? dang i didn't know that, really interesting. when i think of "vikings" all i think about is some large men with hatchets and smaller weapons, with their pointy little helmets wearing normal clothing, just attacking off coasts or something

[@charlesanastasia7574]

@@adamelghalmi9771 my college roommate wanted to be Indiana jones he would get archeological magazines. I read the article in one it was a long time ago. If memory serves me correctly not all raiding parties were equal I think it depended upon where exactly the raiders came from the Danes and Swedes were better equipped than the Norwegian ones I guess the southern Norwegians were better equipped than the northern ones as well. It’s super fascinating I kinda pictured like you said basically rowdy Vikings with axes lightning strike. I guess these a sites uncover warriors in chain mail two of the ships every man had a sword those were super expensive that’s why it was popular belief they fought with a lot of spears or axes. Don’t quote me on this part I think they had axes as well also it was probably depending on the time period as well

[@somethingelseidk1035]

@@adamelghalmi9771I mean it depended on the warlord who recruited them.

[@tomislavpetrov1179]

Vlad II Dracul (Dracula the Impaler) was Voivode of Wallachia (1436 - 1442, 1443 - 1447). In 1442, János Hunyadi, Voivode of Transylvania, invaded Wallachia and made Vlad's cousin, Basarab II, voivode. In 1443, Vlad II Dracul was restored in Wallachia with Ottoman support. In 1447, János Hunyadi, Regent of Hungary, invaded Wallachia, forcing Vlad to flee from Târgoviște in late November, where he was killed at a nearby village. János Hunyadi was Regent of Hungary since 6 June 1446.

[@brav0wing]

Vlad II Dracul was Vlad the Impaler's father not Vlad the Impaler or Dracula the Impaler.

[@radu9150]

This documentary…is way better than Netflix :)) ❤

[@eqbal321a]

that is one tough man

[@aminhemz4518]

Vlad ran a crazy army that attacked and killed so many including his own people who were Christians as well as the might and mighty of his own kingdom and neighbourhoods. Even without mehmed, he wouldn't have stayed long. He was soon turned into a local bandit or better still, Vlad the blood thirsty vampire as he was to be called by his own people till date

[@kmoney3066]

No matter what people say, Vlad is a beast. I’ve loved his story since I was a child, and I will always defend his name! Thanks for the new video HM

[@adamelghalmi9771]

there was that part where he brutally murdered tens of thousands of men, women, and children via burning, the cross (sometimes while burning) and that thing he got his name for

[@ceoofuzbekistan4025]

@@adamelghalmi9771cool, but in Romania we view him as a defender against the turkish invasion. Medieval leader doing medieval leader stuff

[@kmoney3066]

@@adamelghalmi9771 yeah it’s called reality and warfare. When you had power back in those times you HAD to do unspeakable things at times.

[@adamelghalmi9771]

@@ceoofuzbekistan4025 ok, but didnt he lose the war against the ottomans, with romania (or wallachia) becoming a vassal?

[@WarriorofChrist612]

@@adamelghalmi9771Like the Ottomans were any better. Really just shows how sheltered you are from reality. Thousands of men die in each battle. Going by your logic every commander is evil.

[@Schawzn-ns7ro]

Thanks for the Turkish subtitles

[@Leo-ud2iz]

Exelent

[@johnquach8821]

Vlad the Impaler: "Oh? You're approaching me"? Mehmed the Conqueror: "I can't beat the crap out of you without getting closer"

[@rarescevei8268]

Moments before retreating from Wallachia

[@Novgorod_Republic]

Desperate times - desperate measures. If only other Christians, at least in the Balkans, were as decisive as Vlad. That guy sure had balls.

[@SLshowsuyash]

I like everything from you, I just need to know why did it take 6 years for this? Like your content.

[@deamonomic]

Was that the "The more you know" comet?

[@673-t3]

Dracula's father sent his two sons, Vlad, and his brother, Radu, to grow up in the Ottoman court. Vlad and Mehmed grew up in the same court, but Mehmed was smarter and stronger, Vlad envied him and hated him.

[@marcussamborski7472]

Mehmed ll was one of the greatest sultans if not the greatest sultanate of the Ottoman Empire. To be great he had to be authoritative and respected by his subjects. He excelled in psychological warfare and intimidation, but Vlad Tepes was an even more intimidating and psychologically cruel leader than Mehmed was. He used mehmed’s own methods and tactics against him to defeat the sultan and at times used his own methods to keep the Ottomans at bay. Definitely 2 unique figures of the age.

[@_metal_militia773]

so when does he turn into a vampire lol :P. great video !