The Third Balkan War - Explained in 20 minutes | Balkans during WW1

[@Knowledgia]

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[@yazbaktheprogamer1507]

It’s great thank you 😊

[@KokenyRichard]

Hey man, wasn't austria who declared war, the deep state was who made them, the deep states freemasons declared it. Stop lying all around, and say the truth. It's disgusting that it's a sin to say the truth, and it's allowed, not just allowed you MUST lie! It's glorius to lie, instead of it being a shame. This deep state is now killing the white european people with pumping in the immigrants, and mixing the nations, killing Christianity and the huge old culture of Europe. This deep state wich made all wars on world, and still fighting a war against all people has no ethics, it's corrupt, immoral, rotten, unprincipled, meretricious and profligate. This is not CONTEO, this is conspiracy without theory.

[@skamazbg5675]

Why wasn't battle of Doiran mentioned. 6 devisions destroyed by 1 Bulgarian.

[@abloodorange5233]

Thank you can’t wait to watch

[@rebelsj2159]

Wow 200 hours jesus

[@Eliphas_]

“When the Balkans promise to go to war, they keep their word”

[@Eliphas_]

@Morgan W Rees its not lord of war, its warlord

[@skelet8337]

Balkns away find the tiniest problem to fight over that region is on another level

[@doomdrake123]

@@skelet8337 "What??? The serbs claim that they invented rakija?! Call the mobilization!"

[@100СРБИН]

@@doomdrake123 Yes we did and feel free to mobilize and lose again :)

[@ГеоргиСтатев-л6о]

@@100СРБИН The last time i checked your country was occupied twice... and you won cuz of the french and the british.. Don't act tough.. you couldn't win against the albanians ...lol

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ― Plato

[@nestororiginal2344]

@Kadir Garip Well actually it's one of the most intelligent philosphers of the past, but your country never had intelligent people so I unterstand your frustration.

[@nestororiginal2344]

@Kadir Garip turkish philosophy 😂😂😂doesnt even exist. 2000 years ago there was no turkey only Mongolia hahah🤣🤣. Platon is Greek there is nothing to be discussed.

[@nestororiginal2344]

@Kadir Garip Even the word you used "xenophobia" or "Grekophyl" are Greek words. But forget it man, in terms of history turkey was no change against Greece, cause they got no... One ottoman empire only about 500 years. That's it. Greece has a Lot more. Alone the byzantine empire was greater and lasted over 1000 years.

[@nestororiginal2344]

@Kadir Garip yeah that's true the first mongolian language reach up to 4rth century bc, but why do you use the latin alphabet which comes from the ancient Greek, which is the mother of all European languages? The byzantine empire wasnt built by scratches it was the greatest culturaly militarily and economically in all of Europe. The Patriarchat in Konstantinoupoli was the most powerfull next to the pope. Nur in that time turks were still in Mongolia speaking Chinese haha. You have no language, your language is mixed up by Greek,kurdish,arabian and persian, you have no culture, as you stole so many things from the Greeks like Lyra or horos, which even is a Greek word, you stole the names of our citie-names for your cities (Smirni,Ankara,Trapezounta) and even your greatest monument and church Hagia Sophia are Greek (names and built). So what do you want to tell me about your history?That you stole half of the world and one live long you try to conquere and conquere and nothing else? You were a nothing you are a nothing and it will be soon time for your fake-country to disappear from the map, so that the Greeks,Armenians and Kurds who (some of them) today are brainwashed turks ,get liberated in every corner of the country.

[@nestororiginal2344]

@Kadir Garip I think you didn't her me right. I was talking about the fake- country of turkey not about turkic, which I don't even what that is. Turkey is a country that uses the latin alphabet which again was copied and changed by the Greek alphabet. Culture is Not only language but also tradition. And Greek tradition is for example the Lyra which is still used in turkey sometimes. Also the turkish population isnt even turkish,it has Greek, armenian and kurdish origins. How about the city names, are they turkish too? And a conquest is not a good act, because genocides are the worst actions that ever happened on this planet. Also Greek city states were COLLONIZING the mediteranian whitout killing anyone so that is legal. What is illegal is to commit genocides and to kill so many people (innocent). The byzantine empire was the Greek succesor state of the roman army, it didn't conquere, the empire just tried to get the lands of the other empire back. So now you can see how fake the country of modern turkey is. Again I am Not talking about turkic. Though I think there is a difference. Turkey is a fake country and I allready explained why...Using an alphabet from other countries, adopting Greek culture, stealing Greek cities and monements and churches like the Agia Σοφία.

[@Saygex45]

Romania: Joins the war for a second time Central Powers: *Wait that's illegal*

[@Knowledgia]

😅

[@etherospike3936]

So is betraying your allies and let them alone in the Central Powers onslaught !

[@wallachia4797]

@@etherospike3936 what?

[@Shadow.24772]

@@etherospike3936 is this a pasta(italian) reference?

[@etherospike3936]

@@wallachia4797 Cazacii lu' toarashu , au dat bir cu fugitii si ne-au lasat de izbeliste, la ce te poti astepta de la niste rusi tradatori ?

[@jaabaadaabaaadoo]

Serbs didn't stay in mainland Greece but retreated through Albania to the Greek Corfu island. After heavy losses from Albanian winter and starvation they kept dying weeks after arriving in Corfu. When they recovered, full assault was made on their enemies and they liberated their country Serbia. Read more about "Serbian exodus through Albania".

[@100СРБИН]

@Balsha II no because of the cold.

[@ilijajosivljevic5690]

@Balsha II What do you have Balsic banner in your profile?

[@ilijajosivljevic5690]

@Balsha II The Balsic family was first mentioned in a charter of Emperor Stefan Uroš V, dated 29 September 1360. Due to sources having nothing reliable to say about their ancestors, there has been speculation on their origin, which some deem unknown. Apart from Mavro Orbini's tale, there are really no other accounts on their origin.

[@ilijajosivljevic5690]

@Balsha II But in modern scholarship John Van Antwerp Fine Jr, Donald Nicol,Peter Bartl view the origin of the Balsici family as Serbian. According to Noel Malcolm, the Balsiciwere a Serbo-Albanian family. So its probably that their were mix.

[@ilijajosivljevic5690]

@Balsha II I respect you really i dont hate you guys because i am not that big nationalist. We were christians and good friends but the only thing that seprate us is religion just like we have with Bosnians and Crotians.

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” ― Aristotle

[@Jannis777]

@Smoke Deeper Stop smoking weed so deep..

[@trentfila6186]

You organise the peace by killing the government who started the war.

[@goshu7009]

Aristotel - one of the Last Jewish Teachers.

[@goshu7009]

@Tom K Yes. Greeks are famous with this name after 1860, before that they are know as ,,danayans". This people never had Mythology of their own, nor alphabet, nor civilization. They were one of the ,,sea people", also known as pirates. There are other peoples who lived back then - Syrians, Armenians, Bulgarians and so on. Jewish too. As you know later in Christianity - many Christians were Jews and became Christians. Greeks literally put took the antiquity History of Jewish, Bulgarians, Armenians and more.... they ,,privatisated" Byzantian Emire, while they had only 2-3 imperators for 1 000 years >< But Syrians, Armenians and Bulgarians had more then 10-20 imperators. MOdern State of Greece is created by British Empire as an off-shore zone to drain the Balkans. Isnt it obvious? Pirates help each other, against continental part - even today :P

[@ΗκαλήΧαμογελαστή]

@@goshu7009 he believed in the Greek Gods

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Balkan history is always interesting

[@Fudz4]

Ye until some Albanian pops up in the comments to explain how the Ancient Pharaohs were Albanian Akshually and the Gods granted Planet Earth to glorious Albania. ... Or something like that.

[@Fudz4]

@@Amlaeuxrai Oh don't encourage them!

[@unkown686]

And scary.

[@HuzeyfeTVizle]

And bloody

[@Fudz4]

@Ari The Bird lmao. Its a joke but take a look yourself. twitter.com/CursedBalkanYT?s=09

[@nickd8621]

Austria-Hungary and Germany when they invade Serbia: Yay we won! When Serbia keeps fighting in Greece: Wait that’s illegal

[@antond92]

AH never conquered Serbia. German empire did. AH failed miserably time and time again until the Germans joined.

[@nickd8621]

@@antond92 that is true I will change it

[@VersusARCH]

@@antond92 It was a joint effort with the Bulgarians actually delivering the decisive blow (cutting the Belgrade-Salonika rail line that brought Entente supplies to the Serbian army and Serbia in general). The Entente reinforcements that were supposed to hold that part of the front were late in their deployment, so it was covered mostly with raw troops recruited from the areas acquired in the Balkan Wars just a few years earlier, but those troops were inferior to the regular Bulgarian and Serbian troops.

[@kepler7453]

@@antond92 @nick D If it wasnt for bulgaria they would've struggled

[@AleksandarBosnjak]

@@antond92 Nop, even the Germans failed, there were goverment established inside Serbian soil, people rise rebelions every year and menage to free at least one city at the time. Serbia and Montenegro were never conquered ! Rember that !

[@petartoshkov2076]

Germany: Attack Serbia Bulgaria: no Germany: We will restore Bulgaria to its size at the Treaty of San Stefa... Bulgaria: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! BULGARIA ON 3 SEAS!!!!

[@allday1377]

Only 3 we had 5

[@Uc9uE3pKsS6uQ]

we Bulgarian are on 2 seas, no matter political map upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Bulgarians_in_1912.jpg

[@petartoshkov2076]

@@Uc9uE3pKsS6uQ Well, not really. As the modern Bulgarian state has reached 2 seas at most, during Khan Presian's reign Bulgaria was in fact on 3 seas, owning a small coastline on the Ionian and Aegean seas and a big coastline on the Black sea. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Bulgaria_under_Presian.png

[@yoshimitsu6333]

I think this promise was only to involve Bulgaria in war, because Austro-Hungaria plan was to make Ethnic Albania (not with all lands) for her politics, but anyways yes, Bulgaria could be great again.

[@voanirges]

it was tragedy, why Serbia did not get Bosnia and Bulgaria Macedonia, we could take whole Balkans...but, it is not for greedy and stupid peoples, "ako brat nece brata za brata, oce tudjina za gospodara" pozdrav ot Srbija

[@slavicindo5763]

As a Bulgarian, I can say that the balkan countries are like siblings. We all fight for stuff we are supposed to share. Edit: At 3:07, it kinda says choose your teams, but the word Eкип can also mean equipment.

[@Knowledgia]

Thanks for telling us! Hope you enjoyed the video :)

[@stung39]

it would have been better if Romania joined you but hey if you lose or win we still say GG

[@slavicindo5763]

@Dr ROLFCOPTER! exactly : )

[@skelet8337]

Yes the word отбор is better to use in this case

[@skelet8337]

@Dr ROLFCOPTER! yes

[@ΚωνσταντίνοςΠετρίδης-π2κ]

"There wasnt another isolated war in the Balkans" Laughs in Yugoslavia

[@JustJake951]

Tyler Hendrix do we talk about the war crimes committed by the Serbian officers that were later tried in recent years?

[@zeljkop9923]

@@n.m.8802yes you should believe CNN and Fox news because you are braniwashed.

[@Grebutin]

@@Isometrix116 I am from Serbia, and I can confirm that the official stance from any Serbian government source is that during the war in Yugoslavia, Serbian forces were either trying to protect state of Yugoslavia and everyone who disagreed with secession of territories as independent states, or was protecting Serbian people living outside Serbia, in various parts of Yugoslavia. And there were many people to protect... as even today, Serbian minority is the largest minority in every states that seceded from Yugoslavia union. There might be a few "bad apples" in this process, but it's certainly not viewed as systematic cleansing. So yeah, there's no point in "trying to explain to a child, that their parents are wrong". From children's perspective, their parents are always good and right. Similar thing is still going on in Japan, as there is still no public recognition of mass rape of Korean women, aka "Comfort Women", 75 years later.

[@freestyle8886]

Well, there was NATO involved there...

[@1998-h1r]

💪🏻🇦🇱💪🏻🇦🇱💪🏻🇦🇱💪🏻ETHNIC ALBANIA💪🏻🇦🇱💪🏻🇦🇱💪🏻🇦🇱💪🏻🇦🇱💪🏻

[@vattghern257]

Serbia is a preview version of Poland in World War Greetings from Poland to brothers on the south !

[@pantelisdalezios811]

Ehm no, the Poles were crushed from the beggining by the Germans. I can see SOME similarities in position towards the war, but too many unsimilartiries. Jerk

[@vattghern257]

@@pantelisdalezios811 well, congratulations on noticing that these were a different situation. Clap* Clap* Clap* Jerk

[@AkakaDomenjer]

@@pantelisdalezios811 that is a lie. Germany had peace deal with Poland. Learn history.

[@pantelisdalezios811]

@@AkakaDomenjer Looooool your brain cells must be less than my cats ones

[@pantelisdalezios811]

@@vattghern257 Lol I would bother to name the facts, like the one that Poland did NOT do well unlike Serbia and that truly offended the German by not offering Danzig.

[@DelijeSerbia]

Video is missing some important parts. Serbian army didnt retreat to the Greek border and formed a front there, it was evacuated to island of Corfu. Only later it was reformed and sent to Thessaloniki. Greece had a huge political crisis during that time, as their King was pro German and wanted Greece to be neutral, but many members of the government wanted to join the Allied/Serbian side. Greece was ready to support Serbia if the Bulgarians joined the war, but they needed Serbia to send 150k troops south and for Romania to join. Serbia couldnt spare troops as they were fighting much larger Austrian force so Allies send two divisions to Thessaloniki even tho Greece was still technically neutral. Greek parliament voted for joining the war on Serbian side but the decision was blocked by their German King. When the Bulgarians attacked Serbia, French troops tried to link up with Serbian Army but they were ordered to stop, so Serbs had to retreat through albanian mountains. When Austrians and Bulgarians reached Greek border they wanted to continue and destroy Serbian army and expel Allies from Thessaloniki but they didnt want to bring Greece into the war.

[@cgt3704]

You have to admit. Constantine kept his word on being neutral. And he was of Danish ancestry not German

[@Jim-fi4dc]

He was danish and favoured neutrality since no one was sure which side will prevail. Greek people were divided as always.

[@PutinIsKing]

Some important missing info there ! Thanks

[@boyanpenev5257]

The last part is a bit wrong there buddy, let me explain: French and English troops landed in Thessaloniki in 1915 and marched north to help the Serbs who were quickly being enveloped. The Bulgarian Second Army was redirected to meet them and defeated them in the battle of Krivolak (not sure how its written in english). Meanwhile the Serbian withdraw trough Albanian mountains had begun. The Bulgarian army followed the retreating French and Englishmen to the Greek border and could have easily defeated them (they were disorganized and all) but the German High Command forbid them from continuing the offensive. They wanted a Balkan front to exist in order for the Entente to divert more troops from the German fronts and therefore making it easier on the German army to continue the war (poor team play there from the German High Command) Plus they were hoping (rather wrongly) that Greece may join on their side. But anyone who knew what had happened in the past 5 years knew that that would be impossible. A lot of heroism was shown by the Bulgarians in this war and I am a bit sad that the video failed to show it since there were a lot of examples. The Bulgarians were outnumbered heavily but they did their job and held their ground as best as possible no matter the cost. The famous Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Doiran where there were 7 Entente soldiers for every Bulgarian one shows how hard they fought for their National Unification. Cheers!

[@panosnaselos9118]

@@Jim-fi4dc danish of course but married with german kaiser's sister....thats why he insisted greece to stay neutral against the national interests...but in 1917 we officially joined the war under government of venizelos and we defeated bulgarians in battle of skra!!!

[@Armorius2199]

Could you cover the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, which lead to the Independence of Romania, Serbia, Montenegro and the Autonomy of Bulgaria. Great content keep it up.

[@narutomgm]

We will call it Balkan War Zero Lol

[@justarandomdude7754]

@Fabian dude his comment is very friendly u are being racist right now

[@younghefner8343]

@phantom You it that the reason made your country was to not be compared to the Ottomans and to remain turkic and not become arab?

[@АнтонДимов-ч8ъ]

@@narutomgm haha so true

[@galinstoev570]

Our autonomy is 95 % ours and 5 % russian

[@rohandalvi6476]

In 4000 CE people So we learn about the 101st Balkan war

[@Knowledgia]

I hope not😅

[@hiroklobus87]

@@Knowledgia But provably yes :/

[@MCorpReview]

Super confusing. Then again, it’s the balkans. Greece actually split into two camps. Wow!

[@stung39]

@@Knowledgia You do know WW3 will happen between now and 30 years

[@skelet8337]

Balkans probably have the most battles between each other than any other countries

[@meganoobbg3387]

You got one thing wrong about the Thessaloniki front. Lack of logistics and limited power was not the reason not to plan an attack. It was the germans excuse. It was a conflict of interests between Germany and Bulgaria. At the beginning of the war fieldmarschall Hindenburg asks general Nikola Jekov: "Will Bulgaria send troops on the west or eastern front?" General Jekov answers: "No, bulgarians fight for their own land." This is the reason why the german command stopped the advancing bulgarian army which had intercepted the Entante troops who entered Macedonia. The bulgarian army had the capacity and logistics to take over Thessaloniki and close down the possibility of a Southern front. German command however was afraid that once the Balkans are secured, Bulgaria could just exit the war with its new territories, so they decided to keep Bulgaria in the war by keeping a Southern front where Entante troops to be relocated from other fronts. Not to mention it was fieldmarschall Mackensen's fault the serbian army escaped at all. His directives were to secure the path to the Middle east, not to eliminate the enemy. Bulgarian generals insisted to attack not because they were overestimating their armies, but because they knew Bulgaria is not ready for a drawn out war, thats why they wanted to attack Greece while they already had the french and british on the run.

[@skamazbg5675]

И аз съм гледал ,,помни войната" брат.

[@meganoobbg3387]

@@skamazbg5675 лол и аз, жалко че германците се вслушват в съветите на нашите генерали чак в следващата война

[@skamazbg5675]

@@meganoobbg3387 германците са прекалено самоуверени. А тези малячета и пишкопоклонници в коментарите се радват въпреки факта че са били най-малко 8 пъти повече. Велик е нашия войник!!!!!!🇧🇬☦

[@vasil.kamdzhalov]

@All Knowing 369 Sorry but this looks more of a drawing than a map with real information.

[@Bulgarian_corps]

You can find the sources in Kajmak Chalan book

[@koprotheka6055]

After the Entente Invasion of Athens failed, the Entente labelled the Greek King as "The Second most hated person in Europe after the Kaiser".

[@koprotheka6055]

@ yep

[@Cornel1001]

Serbian government accepted even the last demand. Belgrade was more aware to avoid a war, who is a paradox. But I can imagine the Vienna -Budapest expansion program was more complicated than we can picture.

[@azzeloth9368]

My great great grandftaher fought in battle of cer, he lost his life there. and other great great grandfather died in the retreat through albanian mountains. god bless their souls. both where verry brave and that bravery cost many serbian lives in this war. becouse they where fearless

[@diegoidepersia]

@Angel Navarro our "Revolution" really was an enormous civil war

[@branilavvasic9727]

Večna im slava. Moj cukundeda je preživeo povlačenje preko Albanije i kasnije iso u proboj Solunskog fronta.

[@unforgettable31]

How is it a bravery to kill 30.000 Albanians just in 1913 alone?

[@azzeloth9368]

@@unforgettable31 there where many atrocities in ww1 i was talking about bravery of soldiers who fought against the odds

[@azzeloth9368]

@@unforgettable31 germans did terrible things to belgians so did austro-hungary to serbian populatio as well the turks against armenians

[@MinecraftGamerYOLO]

The Greek army also fought after 1917 and although the push started from Greece you don't have any single Greek division participating in the offensive.

[@aleksk4151]

Greece was not active in the war, only at the end helped a bit but not much.

[@liamw6562]

@@aleksk4151 from 1917 they did have an army that participated in battles, especially with the french but greek involvement in ww1 was overshadowed by the Greco Turkish war later on

[@kayagurcu2814]

Yet, Greece claimed such a big part of lands of former Ottoman Empire after the war. Eventually, they got nothing thanks to Turkish army lead by Mustafa Kemal.

[@Jim-fi4dc]

@@kayagurcu2814 You mean thanks to the incompetence of our leaders and the betrayal of the allies , especially France and Italy which came into secret negotiations with Kemal’s government.

[@kayagurcu2814]

@@Jim-fi4dc well, russians and europeans were standing along with you when your independence war started. They were backing you throughout your expansion towards ottoman empire in the name of "megalo idea". Minor asian catastrophe was the only time in modern Greek history that you guys were fighting alone, non-allied against Turks and result is a defeat.

[@HistoryHustle]

Really interesting and well made video about an often overlooked theatre of war. Can't wait for the WW2 edition.

[@Veriox22]

When bulgaria declares war to its former allies to gain land but loses and then is like: *I WILL DO IT AGAIN!*

[@papajoe4769]

Same with Romania Serbia Ottomans and Greece

[@Terter1551]

Well, actually it was the former allies that declared the war...

[@Veriox22]

@goran stojanovic if serbia took albania, probably there would be no 2 balkan wars

[@Veriox22]

@goran stojanovic also greece took its rightfull ethnic land. What are you talking about?

[@skelet8337]

First of all Bulgaria declared war just for Macedonian second off all she was winning until Romania decided to do the same

[@wolf8918]

What the Serbian army did in ww 1 went down in the annals, they fought to the last. That gene of a Serbian soldier cannot be destroyed by anyone. When they were returning from Greece to liberate the Serbian lands, the rulers wanted their country and home, so that the allies could not reach them. They were just pushing forward. There are known battles where they were three times more attacking, but they stood out but won!

[@zoranjankovic7155]

problem is that someone like Croatia doesnt have any respect, we saved their butts..... after in ww2 they killed more then 700.000 Serbs......

[@Akcija1930]

@@zoranjankovic7155 and even more bizarre thing is that after their loss in ww2 we again formed common state, and when that common state fell apart they expelled over 250 000 serbs from croatia...

[@alexanderballa6152]

Gene?

[@Akcija1930]

@@alexanderballa6152 yes. they are now in big breakdown and are hoping to form yet another state with us and to repeat history. but we are not that stupid and naive lol

[@wolf8918]

Uou know very well what I'm talking about, and you obviously understand 😉

[@manlikederek925]

Just finished reading July 1914, which is a great book about the diplomatic blunders which lead to a world wide conflict. This video was great for reinforcing the geographic bits of the book

[@uncleflagzz]

Central Powers: "Stay down, final warning" Romania: _"I can do this all day"_

[@generalgrievous9987]

They dont focus on you romania because they got more from russia during this time

[@michalreingraberskaliasmiz185]

@Liviu Dragnea Have you heard about Brusilov offensive? It was one of the most successful offensives in WW1. Throughout this offensive, Russians caused heavy losses to Central Powers, almost destroying the Austro-Hungarian army. This offensive was important for the allies because Germans had to withdraw many divisions from the western front to stop Russian breakthrough. This helped Entente to withstand Germans at Somme. Russians also weakenned the Ottoman army. So Russia was not useless in WW1.

[@za.monolit]

@@michalreingraberskaliasmiz185 nah russia was useless

[@michalreingraberskaliasmiz185]

@@za.monolit Did you read my comment right?

[@leventetombacz6083]

Romania was useless and a bad ally

[@vladmatei1958]

I liked the motivation given in the video for the Romanians to invade Transylvania: the Romanians were most of Transylvania's population. Simple and elegant. No endless discussions about hungarian and romanian claims over transylvania. One more thing: after a 1000 years of hungarian occupation in Transylvania, romanians were still a huge majority. After 50 years of russian occupation of Basarabia, most of romanian population have been decimated, sent in siberia's gulags and replaced with russians. It seems Merkel learned something from russians, in today's rythm, in 50 years Europe's population won't be caucasian nor Christian.

[@imresebok1140]

i dont think so.transylvania not occupied by hungary.romanians occupied

[@vladmatei1958]

@@imresebok1140 You don't think so what? My whole point was that the narrator didn't talk about who occupied whom, just that the Romanian population is far more numerous.

[@greggor07]

What a stupid analogy, you racist bozo. Merkel is the chancellor of the most powerful European country. Europe needs workforce. It's not Merkel's fault that Europeans have negative birth rates. Besides, every empire ever, has been multicultural. And christianity? Who effin cares.

[@armaholic5949]

Exactly the same happened to the Greeks of Anatolia who were still there after many centuries.

[@vladmatei1958]

​@@greggor07 I disagree. Governments can and should enforce pro-family politics. Europe, for reasons we see now, did the opposite, lead anti-family politics. And after decades of anti-family and anti-youth politics, European leaders say "oops, no workforce, lets import millions of people with not a drop of respect to our cultural values". Also, someone is not racist by not agreeing with demographic changes. 30 years ago, near my house and near the Faculty of Medicine, there were African teenagers only, all students to become doctors. We passed the time together and never had the slightest problem. I have a problem however with recent Africans that pass their time insulting, spitting and even hitting elder people and women in public transportation.

[@lukapo2899]

The Balkans have been split apart in so many ways from each other by , especially the southern slavs, and i think most hatred between us has not been caused by our own conflicts, but by superpowers taking advantage of our territory and separating us from each others for literally more then a thousand years.

[@derpanzerschrank9054]

Im albanian and my homie you are very right about that.The real balkans died after skënderbeg died.As the sultan of that time said:"Now europe its vulnerable without her iron curtain(Skënderbeg)."I don't want to start the neverending discussion about skënderbeg's origin so im not going to talk.The serbs had great kings at the time,Montengro and Macedonia too and ect.But the real serbian,albanian and others bloodline had been erased by let's call it ottomanism of balkan population.So I can clearly assume that the real Balkan has died 500 years ago.

[@Happy-cw6jx]

Your mind on propaganda... The Balkans were purposely destabilized by the surrounding Empires for CENTURIES (The Ottomans, the Habsburgs, the Russian) only when the united kingdom of SHS and Yugoslavia was there peace, which was then destroyed and destabilized again and ruined by, you gusessed it :*Western empires*)

[@qa1e2r4]

Don't worry the true heart of the balkans was always bulgaria. and we never die. Fuck the other powers. The only reason for all these conflicts was because people with no meat on the table keep trying to screw us over and incite confict to promote their shitty agendas. If the balkan states are left to solve their own issues without foreign interventions we would have done it long time ago. We managed to endure the ottoman hegemony, byzantium, eastern rumelia, rome, tatars and were always helping each other out. Only after the big powers started meddling in our matters and feed people greed with unrealistic promises shit started happening. aka. ww1/ww2 The solution is simple. Think carefully when and why was the balkans the most prosperous and most peacefull? And when we faced the biggest wars and turmoils. The answers are the same. :D

[@glaonrielelsinoth7243]

Who is getting ready for the new Hoi4 DLC?

[@notlucas6859]

battle for the Bosporus baby

[@sap9245]

Hell yeah

[@the_feedle]

Byzantine Empire reborn!

[@dutch148]

@@the_feedle Ottoman reborn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@the_feedle]

@@dutch148 genocide empire reborn?

[@byzantinetales]

Saw the title third Balkan war. I started looking all around me. Then saw WW1 . I can watch now relieved 😅

[@skelet8337]

I would not be surprised if it actually happened

[@blu9371]

The romanian part of the war is something I learned from "The last night of love, the first night of war" by Camil Petrescu, the BEST book the educational system has ever given us for bacalaureat. It is such an amazing book....It describes the division from Rucar, and lowkey the one from Azuga (where I live😇). Every time I go to the monument of the killed from Azuga, I do a cross and stay there for around 10 seconds.

[@erockstoenescu6171]

I’m gonna have to read it!

[@etherospike3936]

Too bad that Ursus killed the beer factory in Azuga !

[@jreiland07]

14:24 “Three alpine divisions and an Alpine corpse” *Three divisions of men show up with Otzi the Iceman*

[@minunileinternetuluioficia1177]

History...the best story😊 Make love not war !!! Love and peace from Bucharest-Romania ❤️🇷🇴❤️ What it was it was...let’s be friends together and drink a beer,walk in the park,smile...

[@npocToBaT]

@Minunile internetului Oficial It would be great. At first, officially acknowledge the crimes against the Bulgarians in the period 1913-1940, as well as the repressions of the Bulgarian population after 1878. Renounce the propaganda that you are Latinized Dacians. Stop talking against Bulgaria and inventing false historical facts. Then we can drink good brandy.

[@dariusalexandru9536]

@@npocToBaT he can t acknowleadge his crimes because they didin t exist ,was not genocide made by roumaninens agains bulgar people if ,if you mean discrimination that happend everywhere at that time so every nation commited that crime even Bulgaria ,and at the originis roumaniens are daco-romans their language is 60 % formed from latin originated words.

[@NASAE-wt1ec]

@@dariusalexandru9536 ,we are just geto-dacians!

[@dariusalexandru9536]

@@NASAE-wt1ec yes we were ,until the romans change that

[@atesh507]

As a Turk Most of the Balkans probably hates us but i also wish that kind of friendship between us... Pluss i am getting tired of all this collection of hate and Tragedy Called History. All Nations have their Values, principles and Families... We have to learn respect each others or we are doomed to lose people we love and care, the soil that feed us, the flag symbolize our freedom. I think there is very few things that worth such a cost. Loves to Balkans From Turkey

[@flutterflowexpert]

Welcome to the third Balkan war in the comment section!

[@ianbenjaminque2011]

Consider it the 4th.

[@stefanjelin1902]

@@ianbenjaminque2011 5th

[@nikobellic1529]

Very nice my friend.

[@Knowledgia]

Thank you, Cousin!

[@miliba]

lets go bowling

[@dkgamers1385]

Greek names exist : Knowledgia : nervous sweating

[@alexkermias]

As a Greek the way he pronounced Elefuerios Venizelos killed me 😂

[@94Miker]

Waw, this is the first video to show the 1917 battles in the Romanian front - Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz! Every other video out there focuses on the 1916 Debacle, but fail to mention that von Mackensen wanted to completely obliterate Romania in the summer of 1917, but the Romanian forces, trained and aided by the French, repelled their attack. Sure, after Russia collapsed due to the Revolution, we were forced to sign the Buftea Peace Treaty, but just as the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, it became null and void after the Allies won the war. And, boy, did Romania pay a heavy price for the Allied cause - 14% of the pre-war population. Thank you, Knowledgia!

[@fhffvgju6299]

I'm Bulgarian so I know these stuff and I hate being reminded about it. Because it's so depressing but I'm also interested in what people outside the Balkans think about these wars

[@cgt3704]

Dont worry Bulgaria. We Romanians still think you are cool

[@fhffvgju6299]

@@cgt3704 thanks :)

[@bensmith9260]

I think people everywhere need to watch out for their governments - sometimes they are too ready to send the kids off to die, to try to advance the interests of the rich

[@smaragd_]

Great video. But one important detail. Serbia breaking through the south was first major front line movement of allied forces and turn-table moment in the war. French general said let them free their own country and casually followed behind Serbian forces. French even SOLD us wrong size of cannon balls. There was even a saying later - How fast Serbian infrantry was advancing French cavalry couldn't catch up.

[@ML-db5hs]

True!

[@7macfly2]

its literally the french cavalry who broke the front line at Dobropolje in 1918

[@gattagoblin]

Few additional details: Austro-Hungarian empire was provoking Serbia to war for sereral years, they kept sending unaceptable demands and mobilizing (3 times), only for Serbia to accept the terms and forcing AH to demobilize. Serbia did not want another war, coming out of two balkan wars, it was just not feasable. Gavrilo Princip was said to be working on his own, having had enough of AH opression. Duke Franc Ferdinand was apparently not liked much back home, since he was sent with less than minimal escort even after receiving a warning from Serbia of a possible assassination attempt. Security was only provided by local police. First assassination atempt by Gavrilo Princip failed and instead of rushing to safety, they circled another round of Sarajevo, even getting lost in the small streets, running back into Gavrilo Princip who was at this time sitting in a tavern drinking his failure, giving him another chance. Thing that AH military did not take account into was that Serbia just finished two wars, contrary to AH mostly peacefoul service. Serbian military was at that time modern and drilled, huge suprise to AH military was introduction of hand grenades. Also Yugoslavia formed at the end of World War 2, not after WW1. I liked the video :)

[@teodorbabic8007]

Princip wasn't working on his own and his employer wasn't anyone of Serbian ethnicity

[@wallachia4797]

Yugoslavia formed at the end of ww1, not ww2

[@gattagoblin]

@@wallachia4797 After WW1 it was Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. But looks like I was at bad also, in 1929 it adopted the name Yugoslavia, not after WW2, sorry my bad. Edit after WW2 it became Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia.

[@gattagoblin]

@@teodorbabic8007 Yes, I meant he was not directed by Serbia as it was noted in the video

[@valentingeorgiev6510]

serbian army wasnt very modern, just some artillery tactics and granades

[@k9cobra728]

Everybody gangsta until Montenegro sends 6 divisions to the Austrian border

[@niskoprizemlje8910]

Best country of the balkans

[@niskoprizemlje8910]

@MASK3D- B4TT4LIONS who then

[@pplayer666]

@@niskoprizemlje8910 all are the best and should develop a way to exist in unity.

[@teodortodorov1662]

Serbia: _You what?_

[@GameandComedy]

Montenegros fighters were, and still are, the bravest in the world

[@panichidaniel5044]

Big hugs from Romania to Serbia 🇷🇸. We love Serbian patriotism.

[@mikehawes4935]

Absolutely marvellous seeing this it's a fascinating and little known part of WW1. How different it could have been had we prevailed at Gallipoli

[@mihajlobujisic2006]

Immense respect for Romania!

[@fabiandanesti1497]

Thanks

[@alexateodor]

Thank you very much dear brother 🤍

[@mad1478]

People: "America is the only country that starts a war every century" The Balkans: *slowly walks back into a hedge*

[@akidalaki]

Amazing video as always! Really interesting

[@gamurarandrei2657]

Amazing video. Greetings from Moldova

[@ianokan9120]

A minor correction. Bulgaria didnt stop viewing the turks as enemies and it wasnt certain who we would join.

[@kayagurcu2814]

Yes we all know they didnt stop viewing Turks as enemies and they are still viewing us as enemy. They deported most of the Turkish minority at 80's (1980's) to Turkey or tried to make them Bulgarized and remove their Turkish identity. What a shitty EU member...

[@cornelccc5888]

ROMANIA what a come back 👏👏👏👏

[@Zottyo]

what a backstab... as always

[@ferdinand8994]

@@Zottyo 😂😂

[@MrRappy999]

20:45 Romania looking good! :)

[@ArmaBulgarian]

nah, it has too much territory.

[@etherospike3936]

@@ArmaBulgarian That is Dacia , country of Romanian's forefathers !

[@wallachia4797]

@@ArmaBulgarian I mean you got southern Dobrogea back so surely we're cool, right?

[@MrRappy999]

@@ArmaBulgariando you know that Bulgarian and Romanian people's are blud brothers from the ancient period? At least the thracian population who been on lower Danube territory. (Slavic tribes mugrated here after 6th 8th century and mixed with thoracic population). Romania - getae, dacian population related to thoracic people's, many scientists say dacias are ancient thoracians.

[@theotheagendashill818]

@@wallachia4797 Yeah we Bulgarians love Romania but I kinda feel sad for Hungary as you got too much land from them. The anexation of Bessarabia however was nice and I wish Romania and Moldova will unify again

[@elkageorgieva8515]

Its good to know that Bulgarians invented the air craft bombings for first time ever . Plus dozens of other huge things. For certain they are very intellectual nation.

[@valentinstoyanov304]

Pretty objective. I hope that some day the entire region will find peace and prosperity in the ever growing European Union.

[@kasadam85]

@David Compestela refugees should be able to have a choice to where to go, Turkey's merely opening her borders. Nobody's forcibly sent to Europe.

[@kasadam85]

@David Compestela They can keep them waiting in the door too if they wish , that's not Turkey's concern but the world will definitely judge it which is I suppose what Turkey aims to do. Reputation matters.

[@elporompopero8566]

20:08 ''we called this video the thrid balkan war ,not because it was an isolated war but beause WE WANT MORE VIEWS AND WE THINK A CLEVER NAME 2 TAKE. ''

[@tomaattiX]

The explanation did Make sense

[@a.j.fenwick7232]

Fun fact: The broad idea and overall strategy that eventually became the Gallipoli campaign was first devised by Ioannis Metaxas, a career military officer and future Prime Minister of Greece. Prior to the outbreak of WW1, tensions between Greece and the Ottoman Empire were reaching boiling point as a result of Greece's recently-acquired Aegean islands (during the Balkan Wars) and the Ottoman Empire's continuous persecution of its Greek communities. Metaxas had envisioned landing a very large force (divided) on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula, in the middle of the night without officially declaring war. The objective was basically to occupy Constantinople by the morning so that the Ottoman government would arise from their beds with their capital occupied, which would be used as a bargaining chip by the Greeks; being thus able to negotiate with the Turks from a position of strength. The Greeks were very close to initiating this campaign, but were stopped by the outbreak of the First World War. Metaxas had communicated the plan to the British High Command which took great interest in it. This plan formed the basis for the eventual Gallipoli campaign. However, the British altered the original plot, rendering it less feasible. The crux of the plan was the element of surprise, without which it would be virtually impossible to succeed. The Turks had weeks to months to prepare, with the assistance of the Germans, for an Allied landing in and around Gallipoli. The Brits officially invited the Greeks to partake in their version of the plan, dangling the prospect of territories at Turkey's expense as a carrot, but were rebuffed. Metaxas had apparently considered it utter madness to embark on an expedition according to the British modifications. How right he was. He was also completely opposed to Greece's 1919 invasion of the Ottoman Empire, considering that utter madness also. He suggested that the Greeks would eventually be abandoned and/or betrayed by their partners, and end up caught in a quagmire very far from their shores and supply lines. Again, how right he was.

[@kayagurcu2814]

Respectfully, i disagree. First fortifications around Dardanelles have been built in Sultan Abdulhamid's reign around 1890's. Second time they were better improved in first Balkan war. Ottomans were highly aware of dangers of being invaded by a naval armada through Dardanel straight and Gallipoli. Their navy was so weak to protect its shores and its straights towards their capital. The main reason why Mustafa Kemal selected Ankara instead İstanbul(Constantinople) as capital is İstanbul's vulnerability to be open for an attack from both Blacksea and Aegean Sea (mediterrenean).

[@ioulianosparavatis2756]

Regarding the failed invasion of Greece in the Ottoman Empire in 1919, it didn't fail because the allies turned their back to Greece. To be more accurate, that wasn't the only reason! The main reason was that Venizelos declared elections in the middle of war. As a result he lost the election and those who won were those who promised to stop the war, the King's party. But they didn't stop the war! They in fact replaced all experienced captains with others totally inexperienced. Also, instead of waiting for turks to kill each other during their civil war, the new Greek government started a campagne to take Ankara! I think it's obvious that it was a series of mistakes.

[@MarcusML]

You didn’t say that the the alliance lost in Doiran - in all battles.

[@ChannelBerpindah]

I am always fascinated with the Balkans. Great kontent.

[@TheStraha216]

"Teams have been autobalanced" Gold lol Thanks for the video, great information in regards to the Balkan conflicts

[@alexanderbogdan8327]

Is it just me or every bit of history related to Romanian seems just so damn interesting?

[@skelet8337]

Not only Balkans have one of the most rich histories and most is war

[@cgt3704]

Why do so many people skip over these 3 great battles. My country was also a winner

[@cgt3704]

@ yes im from romania and Codreanu was a criminal

[@raulaurelpienaru6737]

@@cgt3704 Vorbești prostii!!!

[@cgt3704]

@@raulaurelpienaru6737 tu vorbesti prostii. Codreanu nici nu era de origine romana

[@carlosramos-yf8ns]

there are few mistakes in video, especially linking Young Bosnia to the Royal Serbian Government, and Black Hand (it is established in history that Pasic's Government wasn't involved at all, and when it learned of the plot it tried to warn Vienna to no avail), part of southern Serbia being liberated since 1916 (Kajmakcalan Peak), but all in all, nice video!

[@sarpkenar1848]

Ottoman Empire's capital was Constantinople (Istanbul) not Ankara. Ankara is the Republic's capital because of the revolution in Turkey under the command of Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Later he was given the surname Atatürk meaning father of the Turks, Pasha is the name given to the military generals and government officials and it is still used in Turkey as a nickname.)Btw cool video

[@bacepesho]

Great video but you forgot the fact that serbia actually had an army ready on the bulgarian border a little before bulgaria invaded it.

[@AbdulRahman-uw4nd]

5:10 Serbia actually tried really hard to stop a war and tried to follow the ultimatum but it didn't completely fulfill the requirements.

[@IronWolf123]

Wasn't Italy the one that joined later in the war against her former allies?

[@urosvesic9520]

Allies: We are losing the war, Italy, what are we going to do? Italy: *change teams* new phone who dis?

[@wallachia4797]

They weren't allies.

[@alinalexandru2466]

@@wallachia4797 Italy was part of the Triple Alliance (which became the Central Powers) and left in 1915 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1882)

[@wallachia4797]

@@alinalexandru2466 Italy was not obliged to join the war against the Entente, therefore they did not betray anyone.

[@michaelvonbiskhoff7771]

@@wallachia4797 Romania also signed a defensive alliance with A-H in 1883. Based on that, A-H actually asked Romania to join against Serbia in 1914.

[@bigdbigooo7829]

The problem was there were like 15 different languages being spoken in the AustroHungarian Armies.

[@СрбјеХристоврадујесесмрти]

So basically there seems to be that Romania all time kinda hold backs pf Serbia and Montenegro, and basically had a same problem with Austria-Hungary (having a big amount of their nation into the Austro-Hungarian teritory, just like Serbia and Montenegro did), now i see much more how we actually were connected 🇷🇸🇲🇪❤️🇷🇴🇲🇩!

[@JDDC-tq7qm]

It's mind-blowing to think the fact in WW1 5 European empires collapsed Russian empire , German empire, Austro-Hungarian empire, Bulgaria empire and Ottoman empire

[@ErayKizil]

It's amazing, the blogger is really creative and worth watching

[@destubae3271]

The amount of sequels for the Balkan War gets up to DreamWorks movie levels

[@elgato6]

When I heard about Oituz I was so happy,my home village :D We didn't lose our faith through the war.

[@stefanmandic4438]

Just to point out; much more Serbs lived in the Bosnia back then therefore Austro - Hungarian decision to anex Bosnia found rejection. Furthermore, Franz Ferdinand ordered parade in Sarajevo on the same day that Serbian medieval kingdom at it's peak fell to Otomans in 1389 in the battle caled Kosovo battle. That defeat has enormous place in Serbian history and folklore , it is never overcome sadness of the nation, after which Balkans were next 5 centuries under Otomans. Children were being taken away from their mothers and recruited in Otoman army and many people were forcefully converted in islam during that period. Franz provoked so he was killed.

[@celloswiss]

What a heap of simplistic and nonsensical Serbian propaganda.

[@TheFuturistTom]

I love Knowledgia! They inspired my sci-fi/futurist channel!!

[@fidodido664]

As a Greek...i will always have a place in my heart for Romanians and Vlad the impaler for the punishment he served on the turk mongols.

[@alexkastrinakis3247]

Great video and explanation! You worked hard to prepare and present such material, yet you forgot to mention the presence of the greek army and the importance of the battle at the Skra (Paiko mountain) it fought, which opened the bulgarian heartland to allied occupation in May 1918. A year earlier, in March 1917 I think, the french army had tried to dislocate the bulgarian forces from their well fortified positions around that mountain, but without success. The greco-bulgarian battle of Skra in 1918 played a key role, as the Bulgarian positions on the high ground assisted by the German-Central Powers, were considered impregnable. The loss of such a strategic point weakend considerably the bulgarian line of defence, despite the fact that Bulgaria had the strongest, well prepared and better organised army in the Balkans.

[@skamazbg5675]

In the battle of Skra the greeks had 3:1 advantage and took the hilltop in the early day. In 2:30 am in the next night the Bulgarians retook it. The night after that the greeks returned with french support and took it back. There were no germans on the hilltop only Bulgarians. The breakthrough came only 2 months later in the Battle of Dobro pole when the serbs and French when they got 8:1 advantage I am not trying to downplay the Greek accomplishment,they did better then the British who lost to the Bulgarians at Doiran 1918 despite having 6:1 advantage and 2/3 of them died- 47 000 British casualties,less then 500 killed.

[@aleksk4151]

@@skamazbg5675 it's funny how they teach Greeks at schools how glorious warriors and heroes they are ...while they fight with 3X more soldiers and equipment than their enemy loool

[@skamazbg5675]

@@aleksk4151 и Губят. Битка за кресна 1913;).

[@aleksk4151]

@@skamazbg5675 smeshki takiva . Nishto neznaiat za slavnite i strastnite ni usilia da se zapazim kato natsia , ezik, kultura, religia. Kakvi bitki sme vodili kato luvove. zaslujavat iak perdah . Ama goliam e Kemal Ataturk hubavo gi eba tezi otvorki

[@aleksk4151]

@@skamazbg5675 da i az viarvam taka, makar che e usporvano. Dori Garcite prisvoiavat tiahna pobeda haha "otbranitena grcka pobeda"

[@dams6829]

When I saw the title I got confused and thought this was some joke or something.

[@nightviber2097]

There was no Third Balkan War man! You gave me a fucking stroke and i almost died!

[@Lawrence.Laurentius]

WW1 had a horrible price for all countries involved. Even winners payed a high price. If the Sarajevo event hadnt happened, imagine how different the world would be now.

[@WOLF36554]

Thanks for making this. At school I learn about the history of the Balkans because next year in june I'm going on a school trip to Novi Sad, Serbia to learn about the problems in the region.

[@petsaa]

Its not Black Hand, their official name was Unity or Death

[@cossackhistorian7425]

But that Slogan is used by 1000 other South Slav groups too lol

[@DelijeSerbia]

Unity or Death was formed by ex members of Black Hand, and Princip was a member of Young Bosnia, an organization that was not part of UoD. But they did have a connection.

[@hikodzu]

Bulgaria be like: cmon man, I'm the one who carried this game, give me Thessaloniki

[@oglinda]

ROFL

[@pasdpasse439]

Mersi pentru video. Foarte interesant povestiți

[@pasdpasse439]

@The Crusader Numele este plus-minus românesc, Constantin, doar că este scris în chirilică. Cu aceeași logică, de ce nickname ul tau e scris în engleză, dar tu vorbești româna?😅

[@pasdpasse439]

@The Crusader cam nu are nicio legătură alfabetul chirilic din Basarabia, care deja a fost schimbat cu cel latin, și numele meu. Emailul dat îl foloseam pentru freelance pe piața rusească, de aici și așa nume.

[@pasdpasse439]

@The Crusader dacă crezi că toți moldovenii sunt așa cum ai specificat tu, atunci mi se pare că ai probleme. Lumea nu se împarte în alb sau negru, în rusofil sau rusofob. Limba rusă am învățat-o din necesitatea, la fel ca și limba engleză și cea franceză. Nu văd nicio problemă să cunoști mai multe limbi, aceasta te va ajuta să te discurci mai bine în viață.

[@rizzeh7444]

My great grandfather fought in Mărășești He used to tell stories to my mom about how the germans came while they were bathing and they had no time to get dressed so they fought naked. He said the germans thought they were crazy and panicked

[@Brock-jz3cw]

Please make the video for the fourth Balkan war (WW2)!!!

[@jangelbrich7056]

I wonder how Kaliningrad General would map this into Countryballs ... with Sr Pelo references of course

[@chipil0]

There are some errors in that video. Greek Macedonia was populated more with Bulgarians than Greeks until the end of WWII. The French made a breakthrough in the Bulgarian defense, but the capitulation was signed after the French got stopped. The foreign army never entered during Bulgaria in WWI. and Bulgarian Army stoped on the Prut river not on Danube as it is shown in your video.

[@HolyShitNew]

17:28 when you lose a war but get territory *visible confusion*

[@Astro75mm]

They won the 3 battles, and lost the war when their russian pseudo ally signed a peace treaty , the territory they gained was ethnic Romanian and was under occupation for a century by their "allies" who stabbed them in the back. They didn't gain territory at that point from the central powers, but rather from russia.

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Bulgaria: AHEM!

[@tedv8323]

It feels like people only remember wars with their glorious battles, noone talks about the dead civilians and the horrors that war brings.

[@dickmantsarnaev8624]

This series is without a doubt one of the greates things ever, and it’s not even a real movie it’s history

[@imperialmapping2052]

Balkans having a serious war. God ; Its a fun time.

[@bigjotzin8566]

You didn't speak about the Battle of Skra where Greece defeated Bulgarian army. My grandfather's uncle fought on this battle with the Archipelagos Division and he died there.

[@skamazbg5675]

In Skra the greeks had 3:1 advantage and after the Bulgarian counter attack they lost the hilltop. So they asked the french for help and after having a 5:1 advantage they finally took the hilltop. I am not hating on Greece but you shouldn't be presenting it like some glorious victory against unfavorable odds when it wasn't. I hope your grandfather's uncle rests in peace though.

[@bigjotzin8566]

@@skamazbg5675 the bulgarians did launch an attack but they were repelled by Crete division. French army was already there, but their importance wasn't that necessary. I don't want to praise the Greek army's win, but the importance of the outcome. It was the first battle that broke the Bulgarian defences and whatever the sides, the battles should be remembered because people died there. Thanks for your good words my friend.

[@skamazbg5675]

@@bigjotzin8566 nope the greeks took the hilltop,but the Bulgarian counter barrage from 1 artillery piece was fearce and shortly after 2am in the next morning the Bulgarians retook it. The greeks had 2 divisions not one. They asked the french for help and french and greek soldiers took the hilltop the night. Also it's like really impressive that the Bulgarians managed to retake it since they were outnumbered. And yes they were outnumbered 3:1 in the beginning and 5:1 in the end. And 75% of the 2 greek divisions were obliterated. So yeah it was a costly victory against outnumbered enemy. It's not exactly glorious. And I agree that it's sad people die. Only peace can solve our problems. I hope that the Azerbaijani and Armenians will understand it soon.

[@skamazbg5675]

@@bigjotzin8566 the first push was done here kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGipgWiXnt-FZsU Turn on English subs.

[@bigjotzin8566]

@@skamazbg5675 I never said that Greece had one division, I just said that the Crete division repelled the Bulgarian counterattack. French where already there, they were not invited. If you whish to have a better perspective about history don't trust a native channel of your country. That's what I do because they are not accurate and they are talking in favour of their country. Trust foreign channels like the Great War, the front, kings and general etc. Peace to you friend and I hope you are well.

[@dekibrebre]

I have watched your video carefully and thank you for the effort but has some big holes and missing parts as well as wrong facts which are extremely important for understanding the circumstances and give a better light on the story, so it is more understandable. - Gavrilo Princip was a member of the organization Young Bosnia (Mlada Bosna) which had members from all nationalities even one of the potential assassins was a Bosnian Muslim (Muhamed Mehmedbasic) who was also a member of the same organization. Just to avoid the confusion that someone thinks that he was a member of the "Black Hand" (Crna Ruka) organization. - It is very important that not just Serbs wanted freedom for Bosnia but any nationalist Croat or Muslim who wanted to stop the occupation of Bosnia from Austria. Of course, Serbs were the most interested in this change since they only have an independent and free state Serbia while others (Croats, Slovenians, Muslims) were under the rule of Austria anyway. Austria on the other hand just uses the own power to take over the land that was previously occupied by another superpower at the time Ottoman Empire that was in the big decline for many years. - Why Archduke Franz Ferdinand visited Sarajevo on the 28th of June? Just to provoke the Serbs because the 28th of June is one of the biggest holidays and historical dates for the Serbs which is deeply carved in the national identity. The 28th of June is the Serbian national holiday (Vidovdan) and the day when the Kosovo battle in 1392 happened which has mythical importance for Serbia and Serbs. So anyone who wants to provoke Serbs knows how to abuse this fact. Could he visit Sarajevo some other day? Of course, and probably it should have but the intention was different for sure. - Why Archduke Franz Ferdinand was visiting Bosnia and Sarajevo anyway? He visited Bosnia to personally be informed about ongoing military exercises of the Austria-Hungarian army in the area. What the army was practicing? They were not exercising for fun they were exercising the future war with Serbia that would happen anyway one way or the other. Sarajevo assassin just speeds up the process. - Why Austria wanted the war with Serbia? Serbia was the only country on the way for imperialistic ambitions and big business greed so the rich become richer since Austria wanted an easy connection with the Ottoman Empire and further to the east. There is even an Austrian movie (Sarajevo) about this explaining much better the actual event in Sarajevo. - I know that the main focus is not Sarajevo assession but Gavrilo was luckier than a good shooter in order to be successful. Imagine this, there was the first attempt to murder Ferdinand on the same day, and there were several casualties on this first attempt, and then arrogant, and ignorant Ferdinand drives through the city and crowd again just a few hours after the first attempt. The bad security organization of the event and the driver makes a wrong turn and stops just a few meters right in front of the Gavrilo were the biggest factors why assession was successful. - If Austrian security had been more aware of the fact that Serbs are prepared to assassin even own kings just because they prefer freedom over occupation or rule of power they would have been better organizing the event but unfortunately, they were not, and the typical behavior of many sloppy and dying Empire counting the last days of the existing lead to the outcome that we all now know.

[@bladestrike8045]

17:00 Romania: _We managed to stabilize the front, we might actually survive this!_ Russia: _Not feeling so well....._ Romania: _What?_ Soviet Union: _Peace out....._

[@haristhebosniaklion8584]

As a Bosniak , it upsets me that things have calmed down to the point that my own people even befriend Serbs,yes,the aggression on Bosnia,Srebrenica ,and thousands of Bosniak women and young girls that were raped did happen a long time ago,but this does not mean all is ok and let’s drink some coffee togheter and date.Yes, many girls even Bosniak girls called me ugly when it’s not my fault and were so mean to me but I still ❤️ them and feel bad.I’m here to make sure the injustice against Bosnian Muslims is not forgotten.✌️,Also so many of them still support the evil ,just ,some openly ,some secretly,not always easy to spot em,but I’m one of those non-naive Bosniaks.And should THEY be tortured in hell forever and ever for all that??

[@shanemize3775]

Very well done! As tangled and confusing as the history of the Balkans is, you managed to make it very clear, understandable, and incredibly interesting. I really enjoyed how you related The Great War to essentially being a Balkan war writ large, which it absolutely was, though it never really is recognized as such. That powerful concept explains so much about WWI. I just can't express enough how much I enjoyed this video and how well done it was, both in content and in graphics. Thanks so much for sharing this with us! Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!

[@skelet8337]

It was basically the Balkans war + the war on the German French border

[@whitestag5229]

Dvanaeste, dvanaeste Turke isterala, trinaeste, trinaeste pred Bugare stala, četrneste, četrneste Švaba udario, osamnaeste, osamnaeste Srbin pobedio!

[@monsieurtyrell9652]

Boy you scared me, i thought they started sumn again

[@paulmayson3129]

If there was an other war in the Balkans, it would be the Sixth Balkan War.

[@DailyDoseDocumentary]

Austria convinced Bulgaria to join their war efforts against Serbia...and then Britain, France, and Italy declare war on Bulgaria... I can just hear the commanding officer now: "Nevermind boys, about-face, our fight's back this way"

[@libertyisparamount1443]

Wrong. We kicked their asses with honor. One of our generals (Vazov) was received in London and formally saluted as a victor. The French also gained a lot of respect for the Bulgarian army, and one of their generals has been quoted saying "I don't need any Great Power allies, I just need 100,000 Bulgarians".

[@libertyisparamount1443]

​@A M I am talking Britain and France as it should be obvious, that is OP's point too. Serbia is different as they attacked us prior to that when we united the two Bulgarian principalities literally for no reason, even their army thought until the last moment that they will be helping us. From that point on there was no fair play on either side. Austria needed Serbia to fall asap and yes, they got screwed by us without a war declaration.

[@TheRealNTSBlol]

I'm romanian! I love my Balkan Comrades. They rock! Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Monty (thats what i like to call montenegro) and serbia forever!!!!!!!!!!!

[@whamsdram]

Great work following on from First and Second Balkan Wars - some errors and omissions - but a excellent overview

[@RaichoNikolov]

My son has an important question: What is the software which you use to create the animation?

[@petartoshkov2076]

For some reason I expected for him to explain the Third Balkan war in Kaiserreich lore...

[@filiosstangos]

So funny that in the final stages of the war (after min. 17:30) you couldn't find one single greek flag to represent the fact that 1/3 (10 out of 29 divisions) of the Entente forces were Greek

[@AntonioDimitriadis]

do not confuse north macedonia with ancient macedonia; the territory to the north of ancient macedonia (macedonia prima) was called macedonia secunda or macedonia salutaris by the romans, currently it is called north macedonia, only half of this territory was conquered by fillip II, that leaves skopje in the kingdom of dardania