Early South Slavic History

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0:16 There where obviously more towns/cities then just shown on this map.
0:38 Even though the Greek culture and language spread, the Greeks mostly stayed below the line shown before.
1:09 Or any other farmers from the people groups mentioned before.
8:19 Along with some Germanic Farmers like Lombards, Ostrogoths and Franks.
8:47 Even though Carantania would later on become Germanic at this point it was mostly Slavic and there are even records of Slavic farmers staving off Germanic Settlers coming from the West.
10:05 This is not to say that the Huns where Indo-European, this was a pour choice of words on my part. However it is believed that the Huns did control Indo-European tribes whilst in Europe and some of these tribes got then assimilated in to the Bulgar tribes.
12:20 This is just a snapshot of the Bulgar Empire at it's largest expanse, however this doesn't reflect the borders of the Bulgar state throughout most of it's life which where much smaller.
13:56 Boris didn't die in 889, just abdicated, he died in 907.
14:37 The coastal city states shown here under Byzantine control had a very complex political structure and not all of them where under a complete control by the Byzantines but it was simpler to just show them this way on the map.
15:05 It is not completely known whether both where either vassals or part of the empire, but considering the events that followed, I went with the most plausible statement.
15:59 It is still debated if he killed Radoslav or his son Prosigoj.
16:36 With a brief disruption in the middle by the Domagojevic dynasty.
17:40 It is also debated that around the middle 9th century the Serbians may have been forced alias or even vassals of the Bulgars for a while.
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#History #SouthSlavic #Balkans

[@Cardan011]

Sheit history of Balkans is like 1000 seasons of game of thrones

[@TheWolfDude91]

bruh, you have no idea :D

[@georgegkoumas5026]

Keep in mind that this is just early south Slav history, this doesn't mention anything about ancient Greece, the Ottoman empire and ofc the Balkan wars. Also the Byzantine empire is briefly mentioned ofc because the point of this video is the Slavs not the Greeks.

[@tarkalak]

*of Europe

[@djsonicc]

@@georgegkoumas5026 those could be spin-offs lol

[@krupam0]

6:34 "So the Balkans were in this constant flux of uncertain political control by various groups." Huh, and they say history doesn't repeat itself.

[@sciolist3109]

Said nobody ever The actual saying is that history DOES repeat itself.

[@SlimRolla1]

"History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes."

[@captainjackpugh6050]

Where did you find that information

[@mrs.hancock4124]

The difference between today and then was the fluxing within ethnic tribes of Europeans.

[@99Boiko]

Yep, especially when history is helped along the way by outside forces.

[@mza1409]

I wonder if our ancestors also wore Adidas tracksuits?

[@timax4114]

Lol, ofcourse they did eating semechki and drink slivovitza

[@dacho707]

@@timax4114 the fuck are semechki, south slavs aren't russians you know?

[@andrewmorisseau2575]

Haha, I'm not a slav, but I'm living in Macedonia and wearing an Adidas tracksuit right now!

[@timax4114]

@@dacho707 semenke?

[@dacho707]

@@timax4114 semki

[@biff-6603]

The main reason why Bulgaria was so successful is because Asparuh convinced local Slavs to join him in the battle against the Byzantines. When they won he founded Bulgaria as a country of both Bulgars and Slavs together. Bulgar nobility ruled exclusively for a few generations initially but regarded both peoples equally and they soon merged into one culture. The early rulers practiced genuine nation building in a style reminiscent of Thracian nobility. Thracian scripts may have also been a basis for the Cyrillic script.

[@nizam-alem6761]

can you give me sources about the nation building in a style of thracian nobility?

[@Fruzhin5483]

Correction about Boris 1 of Bulgaria - He didn't die in 889. He abdicated that year to his firstborn son - Vladimir Rasate, who, in turn, got taken down after trying to bring back paganism. In 893 Boris called a concil with which was decided that Boris's third son Simeon would take the throne. Also the map of the ninth century is incorrect on the Serbo-Bulgarian border

[@Siapanpeteellis]

This was the best explanation of how the Balkans became Slavic that I have encountered. Much better than the many books I have read on the subject and superman myths. Awesome.

[@pevajmuziku3235]

Hahahah

[@kaligulajovanovic]

Maybe it is the best, but the problem is that it never happened.

[@makavelimaka8035]

Slovenes are natives prior to Roman expansion. Sarmatians that came into Balkans in 7 century assimilated Slovene language to some extent and SerboCroatian was born. That's how they became Slavic.But not all of us.

[@miloshp7399]

​@@kaligulajovanovicYour education never happened 😂

[@doomdrake123]

Small corection - Boris the First died in 907 not in 887. I see why you may have been cnofused since he abdicated the throne to his firstborn and the thirdborn son (hella of a infighting)

[@antegelo8809]

Ah that lovely balkan.... The place full of peace and fights, what to say, arguing is in our blood.

[@fpsserbia6570]

well Balkan is cross road for North - South and West - East , we are not strong enough to be able to have our own interest so we follow interest of other Imperial countries that is why there were and still is a lot of wars in the Balkan.

[@vladimirjevremovic4449]

We are never bored... :D

[@ivanpetkovic2130]

Najbolja stvar kod nas je to što uvjek znaš ko je pobijedio u argumentu, onaj koji nema sjekiru u lubanji:D

[@austenhead5303]

Less blood, more geography. Every single empire just has to expand into the Balkans.

[@user-gg4dh7yj9l]

🖤🇦🇱AUTOCHTONOUS SHQIPTARIA🇦🇱🖤

[@piotrwiara1564]

Greetings to Slavic brothers from Slovenia Serbia and Croatia. Pozdrowiena dla braci Słowian Słoweńców Serbów i Chorwatów !!!!

[@tihi1788]

pozdrav brate moj

[@ricmamaddafakka7248]

Pozdrav braćo Slovenska svih denominacija, vera i religija. SLOVENI UJEDINIMO SE.

[@i1bike]

Nice sense of humor

[@Gorrano985]

Pozdrav iz Slavonije brate

[@roby1251]

Ey dipshit you left out Bosnia and Hercegovina.

[@tijanagojic1995]

I had to pause several times so that the narrator could catch breath.

[@zzap4922]

Holy crap. Never even knew the story of the Bulgars and Bulgaria was so interesting. Amazing video. Regards from Lithuania!

[@aleksk4151]

Cyrillic script is created in Bulgaria and used first by the Bulgarians before ALL other slavs

[@GK-fc8bu]

Thank you zZap! Comments like this always makes me happy.

[@kategoried7501]

@@aleksk4151 serbians says that cyrilic script is created by them :D

[@begemod1743]

@@kategoried7501 very common for the serbs Claiming things for them selfs. No Matter who you ask in the Balkans, they will say the Serbs are claiming what their eyes see

[@chriskechagias5360]

@@aleksk4151 by whom?

[@djziomsuper]

Wow, never heard that Bulgarian people lived originally in other side of the sea which is called "Great Bulgaria". Really interesting video!

[@WindWaker1233]

Those are the bulgarS, just 1 of the 3 main ethnic groups that form what are today the bulgarIANS. they were the political and military elite and were quickly assimilated in the local population, today we have even less than 1% of their dNA (however this is disputed because even the bulgar origin is uncertain, so no need to go deeper)

[@99Boiko]

Yeah but it also causes confusion. One needs to distinguish the proto-Bulgars from the modern day Slavic Bulgarians. In short, the two nations mixed, and got on, and the Empire eventually adopted a Slavic personality due to the fact that the Turkic Bulgars assimilated. However, for one to be a Bulgarian in 2021 does not necessarily spell proto-Bulgar ancestry, while the Bulgars in turn settled across on the lands on both sides of the Adriatic (ex-Yugoslavia and Italy).

[@westsidermetalhead4997]

Get this, there was a time where 2 Bulgarias existed. This one and Voljka (Volga) Bulgaria. Voljka Bulgaria got destroyed and wiped out by the expanding Horde of Genghis Khan, later transforming into the Golden Horde that also almost wiped out the entirety of the Rus Principalities during the early 1200s.

[@neamnervi]

Bulgars are NOT TURKISH!!! Bulgrs are from Alano-Persian group! And they are about 90% similar to today's Bulgarians!

[@neamnervi]

Your maps are not exact

[@KingsandGenerals]

What a great video!

[@hugrit4027]

Indoeuropean roots. Lot of words has same root, for example: Steel, Stahl, Stal / Iron, Icen, Acero, Acier / Sun, Sonne, Sol, Słońce

[@hugrit4027]

Actually no, indoeuropean words have a root in common and the use varies in diferent modern languages. An excellent example is the word "wòrd" wich means water, this word become unda in latin and is onda in spanish, onda means wave. You can see that words declinate from the common root

[@neilmccauley690]

All this Slavs are one big nation,separate on tribes with diferent names from diferent regions but it was one big nation with same language and dna.There is no migration they just changing names of tribes tru history.

[@Dmdm_dm]

At 13:08 it's inaccurate though. There was no division between Rome and Constantinople in terms of the religious doctrine.

[@joshgraham8209]

Your channel is one of the best on YT!

[@fairextl]

Actually, the origins of the Bulgars are largely unknown. There are sources from Armenian writers telling us Old Bulgarians inhabited the Caucasuses for a period of time and that they had great stoneworking abilities and built stone houses when they migrated to the area. Because of all the evidence there is a newer theory regarding the origins of the Proto-Bulgarians, that states they are from Iranian descent and the Turkic elements we see in their culture were picked up later on, as many Turkic tribes migrated from Asia into the lands inhabited by the Old Bulgarians and vise versa.

[@MLaserHistory]

Could be, but I think more research has to be done in to that as the current facts do present a valid argument but not necessarily a closed case.

[@fairextl]

@@MLaserHistory That's the case with all theories about Proto-Bulgarian history of origin, sadly. We just don't have the evidence to make some kind of a solid conclusion.

[@kategoried7501]

from river volga i think

[@InauguralAgate6]

Thank you for this video! It provides the context for some of the things you mentioned in your western slavic history video while explaining southern slavic settlement in a straightforward way. I look forward to your eastern slavs video!

[@Fruitekk]

You have great videos! Very complicated topic with a lot of missing puzzle pieces, but explained in a very simple and understandable way

[@donjon9853]

It's always a blessing seeing my country Slovenia mentioned anywhere. I know it's corny, but we are always forgotten by everyone.

[@Frosty-ky7ci]

Bruh same for macedonia

[@00opiumm]

@@Frosty-ky7ci maybe because your “country” started existing 5 years ago and has been historically always a part of bulgaria yet now you are descendants of alexander from thousnads of years ago

[@Frosty-ky7ci]

@@00opiumm 5? Try 100 and also it was occupied by you guys but never urs

[@00opiumm]

@@Frosty-ky7ci yes we are facist occupators

[@00opiumm]

@@Frosty-ky7ci we are also tatars and mongols snd gypsies abd turks

[@historyrhymes1701]

Your channel is simply amazing and very underrated

[@nedimistanojen7070]

Serbian territory it's a OLD COUNTRY BULGARIA.

[@dimiturslavkov231]

there is so many versions..

[@frankies7468]

@@kategoried7501 Patria is a greek word

[@kategoried7501]

@kim a hellens was just a small tribe

[@zeljkostanisic4299]

@@nedimistanojen7070 hahahaa Who no that ? History change face Day by Day

[@Moredread25]

One thing that I always think is important to mention about ancient settlements in the Balkans is that we have to remember that they didn't have access to the New World vegetables like potatoes which are better suited for mountainous areas. Good presentation. South Slavic history is complicated because of how many people move into and around the area and how political the history is today.

[@mg4361]

A great video! In the end you say that the slavic Balkans wasn't completely slavicised and that there were a lot of non-slavic speaking groups. This is very true. I know that in Croatia, the dalmatian cities were not fully slavicised until well after the middle ages, with the last speaker of the Dalmatian Romance language having died in 1898. In parallel, many speakers of eastern romance languages lived in the hills and became Vlachs and Morlachs, leading a transhumance pastoralist life. The actual Slavs initially mostly inhabited tha pannonian part of Croatia and the fertile parts of the coast, leaving the cities, the mountains and the smaller islands to the romance speakers. The romance languages later faced a double pressure to assimilate either into slavic speakers or into Venetian/Italian, which accelerated their disapparence.

[@trashbockmist9077]

A great Comment!

[@cizma27]

I am really disappointed that Delmat language is dead. It looks like a pretty language

[@goranmiljus2664]

Many were also ETHNICALLY CLEANSED to Italy by the USTASHA.

[@zivkovicable]

Substantial remnants of Dalmatian Romance language survive in the dialects of the Dalmatian Islands today, many of which are uninteligable to most mainland Croatians. Some ethnic Italians from Istria & central Dalmatia slavicised their names during the course of the 20th century, my mothers family included.

[@Livanz1]

You are absolutely right about the non-slavic speaking groups , there must have been lots of them and the slavic ( then ottoman ) pressure did accelerate their disappearance south of the Danube but look at what happened on the north side ...

[@stefanogattoCH]

your video is great! You cover a period that was totally unknown by me, but actually it helps quite a bit to explain where we stand today. Thank you!

[@mmitak]

Thanks for a great overview! Some details I've pick up for myself over the years I can share for expanded context around what constituted the First Bulgarian state: - The tribe that gave us our Bulgarian name(or at least a tribe by that name) is mentioned in Chinese sources a heck of a long ago in BC times already; that tribe arrived in the moder-ish day lands of Bulgaria with around as little as 100 000 people, 10 000 of them as a cavalry-dominant khan’s army - They integrated with a local populace of ~2-2.5 million people, mostly Slavic tribes but also substantial numbers (maybe up to 40%) are still Thracian tribes and romanized urban populations - It is not exactly clear if that integration was by force or by synergy - Slavic tribes were a predominantly infantry-centered force, and vastly outnumbered the Bulgarians, yet the Bulgarian clans held the succession of titles - Converting to Christianity was a way to both centralize power and unite the populace. The son of Boris when he took over power reverted the change, so old Boris had to step away from the monastery, grab his sword, and have a counter-revolution ending with the blinding of his son.

[@mimisor66]

As I understand, the Slavs had a very welcoming society and easily integrated outsiders. This can explain partially the assimilation of the Romanized Thracians still living there. Plus, after the imposition of Old Slavonic as liturgical language of the local Christian church, this helped Slavic language become the prestige language and slowly replace other languages (slowly, because mentions of the Vlachs, a Romance speaking population, appear for centuries after. In fact, only after the apparition of the independent nation states in late 19th century with their nationalistic policies were they thoroughly assimilated).

[@barbaricvm0]

AHH FINALLY THE DAY HAS COME,I CANNOT WAIT TO WATCH THIS. EDIT : I love you,it was worth waiting more then half a year for this video,and you managed to stay perfectly unbiased.Seriously you deserve a fucking medal for this video.

[@logansheat6720]

Nobody: Alcek: Southern Italy it is!

[@hugo57k91]

Yeah I wonder what happened there

[@MarinKarimov]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celle_di_Bulgheria

[@Alienhos]

There's a statue of Alzek in the small city named after the Bulgarians who settled there

[@filipkralj2618]

7:01 that moment when 2 crazy guys crash the party

[@sokolsrna1048]

true story. Every great europian empire got fucked when that happend.

[@ivanpetkovic2130]

We didn’t crash the party we started it

[@dusandotlic3713]

@@ivanpetkovic2130 preach brother

[@medarismuhibic5335]

@@ivanpetkovic2130 everything was great until two brothers appeared

[@ercoleborgiano]

Eeeey there were just late a couple minutes!

[@KraliMishev]

Thank you. Finding a good and unbiased video about the Balkans made by brothers usually goes south real fast.

[@kristianangelov3719]

by accident I found ur channel, with the very first video, you won a subscriber. the way u showed the information is remarkable - very distinctly and accurate, subaltern on facts, no sci-fi, straight on the point.

[@gaetano_kojj]

I really like your videos, everything is presented very clearly and reasonably. I can see the huge ammount of work you put into this. Keep up the great work. Pozdrowienia z Polski! :)

[@damianmatras8568]

I love your animation skills. And I love the use of very detailed map, very very detailed map with detail rivers and mountain heights showed in colours; with such map you can see different layers of history.

[@bigozimak]

Honestly, that was the best video on this subject I have ever seen! Congratulations!

[@pepperVenge]

Great video! Such detail. I really enjoyed this!

[@darkopenovski9618]

Love your channel. Greeings from Sirmium!

[@chunkychew6995]

Byzantium: *exists The Entire Known World: GANGBANG

[@JoCE2305]

You hate to see it

[@capulet6669]

Sadly true

[@wankawanka3053]

Byzantium :can i get a break ? World around them :no

[@jangelbrich7056]

Thanks for not only painting these maps, but also mentioning what information sources we have, and which we dont have. Also, using the geographic map as underlying base is a very good idea!

[@colincbatch]

I can't wait for your later histories of the Slavs! Молодец!

[@damjanfilipovski5256]

Wow keep up the good work, great vid :)

[@StefanMilo]

Great video man. Really thorough! Your effort really shows.

[@nikolayhmn]

Good stuff, would love a video more focused on Bulgaria

[@bookwyrm4559]

Absolutely phenomenal video

[@bulgariangamingbatlefieldb3177]

I really like your videos because they are accurate and you talk about things we actually learn in school

[@bigger_mibber6029]

@@leckyboy1475 But they are?

[@00opiumm]

@@leckyboy1475 ive seen you comment twice on this video and both times has been about this

[@jozejerse6777]

Good representation of Slovenia. Even Slovenes rarely know of the fact that we have common roots with Czechs and Slovaks. Even though we no longer share national or cultural border, we still have more in common that with our southern neighbours.

[@andreman2767]

Anyway all slavs share a lot of common stuff

[@Svevladovich]

@Washing Machine Mine from Czechia.

[@Richardrbhs]

Thank you so much for your work in putting these videos together.... I have learned a great deal and look forward to more of your videos Again thank you

[@user-wn5pv9ng8x]

Awesome video! I wish you do make a video about the bulgarian history . Keep it going !

[@jonatankelu]

Well done! Keep it up.

[@keeganmoonshine7183]

wow you are the first person I've ever seen mention that part about one of the brothers taking his people to modern-day macedonia. very interesting to think about. Always assumed that the Bulgarian migration occurred after this time period when Bulgaria was more established and migrants started to move south.

[@IK-so2bm]

One of the brothers settled in today's Italy, hence you have last names such as Bulgaro, Bulgari, Bulgarini, Bulgarelli, etc. and a town in central Italy called Bulgare.

[@00opiumm]

Yeah and macedonians still claim to be descendants of alexander

[@chriskechagias5360]

@@00opiumm thanks for your comment xD

[@elizaiv]

Dude, I have studied Bulgarian history quite extensively and I still learned new things about our own history, really impressive! Great overview of the region's history, gives great perspective and I love the animations - thank you for the great work!

[@SatiLord]

Loved your video! Please make a video about East Slavic History. Thx!

[@wenqiweiabcd]

7:05 Aww, they come to the Balkans holding hands. They are going to make such peaceful neighbours.

[@mamaluigi1438]

Some time later...

[@rbereee]

@Јован Јованчевић lol

[@Awakeningspirit20]

They were the two young bucks who grew up together and thought they'd be best friends forever, think of all the conquering and the wars and the women we will get together!... and then they grow old and turn into the fiercest and worst of enemies. So tragic.

[@MrMadRade]

We have still a love hate relation. In open there is anymosity, but in the background we sit together in kafana and enjoy eacb other differences and similarities

[@Svevladovich]

Most of Croats and Serbs hang out besides politics and trying to push bad history and habits away. Hope our future to be better.

[@panikwe]

Very good video! Greetings from Slovenia!

[@stjepansalopek8600]

13:48 The reason for the invention of Cyrillic script may not have been the fact that Glagolitic script was not suitable for Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic, since both Glagolitic and Cyrillic script had had pretty much the same letters (for comparison visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script#Characteristics ), including the Slavic letters such as "Yat". Perhaps the reason was more the fact that Glagolitic script is more difficult to learn / teach / read. That's not to say that Glagolitic script is worse (but it is more difficult). It is arguably one of the most beautiful scripts, similar to the current Georgian script, and also, a lot of the letters that sound the same, e.g. "G" and "H", also have similar looking letters (Ⰳ and Ⱈ), which is not the case in, for example Latin alphabet.

[@levilainpetitfanfoue]

thanks for your work. it's amazing,

[@godofthegreatkurultaj4302]

A video about the avars would be great. Really liked this video

[@tomorkaralliu5282]

Check Bavaria the only name in Europe that has as a root the word Avar. I know the helens say that Albanians are of avarian origin ,and is true that in albania the last name avari exist but that should not confuse us, the name alba, or arvani or arber cannot arrive from the root avar.

[@hotrodjones74]

Informative and highly interesting. Спасибо большое!

[@MikeMaris]

I know this is unrelated, but how did you make those maps? Also, I love all the detail you put into a subject people tend to generalize!!

[@innosanto]

Man great work!! Kudos!

[@TheFiddle101]

Superb presentation. Thank you.

[@velislavlonev196]

You did your homework bro, thats a hard history to follow good job.

[@Blalack77]

These are the places I'm most curious about and would most like to visit - along with Anatolia and the -stan countries. They're fascinating to me since they're kind of like border areas between multiple cultures - at least historically.

[@leopoldivesic4872]

Very informative and useful thank you

[@achelnokov]

grear job mate, keep it up

[@bordoenes6217]

This is great content! Would you like to do some on Turkic, Iranic or Uralic(Hungarians mainly) groups next?

[@Bra1nSicK]

Good and accurate video! Keep up the good work and greetings from Bulgaria! :)

[@intel386DX]

thanks for the great history video :)

[@phiszabo2]

Awesome video, though i'm of the Danau Swab decent i do carry one line of serbian lineage and my family prior to the US lived in the balkans for several hundred years. Great video thoroughly enjoyed this one!

[@saturnproductions1827]

Proud to be South Slavic

[@puppy5463]

Great video! Its was surprisingly well actually! One of the best videos on this subject, good job!

[@yesid17]

fantastic video thanks!!

[@stephanmarinovic1180]

Great video. With so much information, I know that it is impossible to mention everything. I do have a couple of small details that were not mentioned as it pertains to Croats settling the area. The first being that there was some kind of treaty or offer of settlement (contingent on Christianizing) from either Rome or Byzantium extended to Croats to settle the region after it was largely vacated due to raids and economic ruin. For the life of me, I can't recall the name of the document or where it can be found. A similar situation may have occurred with Serbs, given that they entered the area around the same and managed to unify the Slavs who were there before them. The other thing I would mention was that the Croatian Kingdom allied with Byzantium during one of their wars with the Bulgarian empire. As such, they were rewarded with Southern Dalmatia, which demographically, had already become largely Slavic any way. The Adriatic coast remained largely Slavic demographically until later Venetian colonization which brought back some Latin populations.

[@np4653]

United we stand, divided we fall.

[@hawke8028]

Wow, great video! Very detailed and informative, thanks for your work, you earned yourself a new sub :)

[@iliabrus434]

Brilliant video man

[@mikara518]

Amazing video!

[@antegelo8809]

Actually this is a good video dude

[@danieliliev5236]

Easily one of the best videos covering such an all-encompassing and impossibly complex topic. I want MOAR!

[@tommy-er6hh]

Looks great! Look forward to the last of the series. are you going to make them a play list? Suggestion - why not do the origins of the norse-germanic, ie the Goths and Vandals and Gepids ending with the Lombards - an show how they moved in the migration period? You might even intertwine the Wends with them.

[@filipkomljenovic8208]

Ive been lookinf for a vid like this

[@runegold321]

Really good video, my man! Great job, keep it up!

[@hippityhop9522]

Also you forgot to mention Croatian-Bulgarian Wars in which Croatia gained a lot and Raška(aka Serbia) became Byzantine vasal. Byzantine empire sent gifts and land consessions to Croatian Kingdom (Byzantines gave islands in Dalmatia, scepter and a crown to Croat king).

[@andrejristic6864]

Ne moze da pomene nesto sto se nikada nije desilo .Posalji nam Romejski izvor tvoje tvrdnje ,posto su Romeji sve evidentirali .

[@senon4482]

ahahahhaha

[@ML-zg9im]

@@andrejristic6864 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Dr%C5%BEislav "During Byzantine emperor Basil II's war against Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria who in his conquest became neighbor of Croatia, Stephen Držislav actively allied with the Byzantines.[1][4] After Basil managed to defend every single Adriatic coastal city during Samuil's rampage towards Zadar in 986, the cities were returned to Croatian control. In an effort to compensate and award Držislav for his alliance, the Eastern Roman Emperor between 986 and 990 named Stephen Držislav Patriarch and an Exarch of Dalmatia, which gave him formal authority over the Theme of Dalmatia (but some historians believe not over the Dalmatian city-states).[1][4] According to Thomas the Archdeacon, Stephen Držislav received royal insignia and the titles as an act of recognition from the Byzantine Emperor,[4][5] becoming reges Dalmatie et Chroatie and his descendants having the same titles."

[@izvedimeleoparde8577]

Wow! nice work

[@pivo2k]

How did I live without this channel? 🤩👍👏

[@colincbatch]

Laser, You are great! What detail! Fantastic story/history telling! вообще отлично! я поражён! великолепно!

[@kauemoura]

Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro make me think a bit of the Catholic and Protestant Irish. ~Look, we're the same people, our ancestors decided that this tiny difference between us was a reason for us kill each other, so we kept on disliking each other because we've harmed each other in the past.

[@hladanbeton3974]

But the Troubles ended up working out brilliantly for Ireland, unlike our trashy system of banana-republics

[@TS-zs4un]

Probably we are not the same people and we have never disliked each other through out the whole history just up until recently, Germanic people are much wilder and aggressive but they were on the right side of the history so because of their interest and interests of the other major powers it was convenient to stick that label of primitive tribes fighting each other to the Balkan people although that couldn't be far away from the truth

[@abpast5319]

We have difrent r1a subclades of slavic haplogrups so no

[@PSL_European]

Well before the ottomans fucked it all up for us

[@herbert4725]

Great video

[@donallen5798]

great video well presented thanks

[@raritica8409]

Southern Slavs are so cool to me, love from an Eastern Slav!

[@northernstar4811]

In 925 AD Croatia was recognised as a Kingdom by the Pope in Rome. In 925 AD Croatia had a common border with Bulgaria on the Drina river. At that time "Raska" (now called Serbia) was a region of Bulgaria ruled by Simeon I of Bulgaria.

[@liteomegapkm]

Very interesting video thanks!

[@silentone11111111]

Great vid. That was really complicated 😀

[@ivanemilov522]

Great, accurate and unbiased video great job and greetings from Bulgaria!

[@anurdelic]

I hope there will be another video because balkan history is very complex and a lot of other kingdoms form and get involved.

[@dejangeorgiev8161]

Great video!

[@ocilek]

Před pár dny jsem objevil tvůj kanál a zamiloval jsem si ho. V jednom videu máš obrovské množství informací. Anglicky umím relativně dobře, ale tak velké množství informací by se mi lépe vstřebávalo v tvém rodném jazyce. Mám rád historii a miluju mapy, takže takže tvůj kanál je přesně pro mě.

[@dragomiryankov2461]

Great Video...and really accurately presented the Bulgarian part

[@bobantheighty6141]

The truth about Macedonia... There is tons of evidence that almost all the national heroes we have considered to be Macedonians in Republic of Northern Macedonia so far have considered themselves as Bulgarians in one way or another! Even the father of the so called Macedonian nation, philosopher Krustyo Petkov Misirkov is a pure Bulgarian, born in 1926 in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria! He is also often regarded as "the founder of contemporary Macedonian literary language". Gorche Petrov proudly states this in his book "Study Materials about Macedonia". There he writes that the Macedonian population is made up of Bulgarians, Greeks, Turks, Arnauts, Roma and Vlachs, but the Serbs are not mentioned anywhere! All this is described in detail in a literary Bulgarian language in a book with over 700 pages in 1896. The motto of all Bulgarians from the Macedonian region has always been only one ... 🦁FREEDOM OR DEATH🦁

[@spiritwildfiregaming1975]

@@bobantheighty6141 Actually, in Bulgaria we even joke by calling it "Macedonia Bulgarian (Македония Българска)" Some people that are more serious about history are kinda...pissed at you, but most of us just joke. No offense intended, of course.

[@user-ku5br8zc5f]

@@leckyboy1475 македония е българска.

[@jordan9339]

@@leckyboy1475 Maybe that's because my grand grandfather is from Stip, and my other grand grand father is from Drama region in Greece, which is also Macedonia. And that applies to at least 1/3 of Bulgarian people, because we had close to 1 million refugees after the Balkan Wars and First World War from Aegean and Vardar Macedonia. At that time Bulgaria was less than 4 million. And that is one thing that was hidden for you for many years. Among many other things.

[@ercoleborgiano]

Ah, Bulgarians, the people who assimilated their own conquerors, also took their Turkic name but didn't give a single fuck like a boss lol

[@TheJohnnyrosko]

cool video bro. however thou around 400-500 there were already bulgars in the balkan peninsula check khan zabergan and hadrian walls

[@Matt_Silverwolf]

I have learned more about the history of my country from a 19 min youtube video than I have from 4 years of history class in school

[@teguy5]

Thank you for this informative and unbiased presentation.

[@Bebebeuie]

Damn this is such a good video

[@dododimitrov9657]

It is an irony that our Macedonians friends call us Tatars, but they share same heritage when it comes to the indo-european tribes.

[@miseee007]

Not all us Macedonians call you Tatars just a minority like you have a probably a minority of people that calls us Bulgars and thats like Croatian telling to a Serbian that he is Croatioan, its just offensive and provocative. We have thousands of folklore songs and stories how brothers were forced to fight brothers, We share a lot of history but we dont like being infringed on our identity which we have spilled blood for. But i have to admit even tho i am Macedonian we were conquered and reconquered for many times and our history got lost and now there are many uneducated and angry Macedonians who are living in a grand delusion state thinking God is from Maccedonia and everyone else like we are the center of the world.. which is very stupid.. but you have to understand we were brainwashed by soo much Greek, Serbian and Bulgarian propaganda that led us to this point.

[@R3AktoRMacedonia]

Nah, we're just trolling because you're getting triggered

[@miseee007]

Then you must be very dumb, or didnt read or understood my comment.

[@JD-vi7pk]

Once a friend from Macedonia told me(I'm Bulgarian): We're just one nation, but two countries.

[@IK-so2bm]

@@miseee007 One thing is quite obvious that Bulgarian and Macedonian languages are IDENTICAL.

[@bbpoisonn]

Can we just stop arguing about macedonia? Even though it’s my home country I do not want to argue any more. Why should we hate each other when we are basically the same? Glory to all Slav countries.

[@utvara1]

Only Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbians dispute you. Greeting from Croatia.

[@user-zp5bd4dq4p]

Няма смисъл и да спориш, защото всичко в македонската Уикипедия и учебници са лъжи, пропаганда и манипулации...

[@JD-vi7pk]

Няма смисъл от цялата омраза

[@georgitemelkov9995]

Cuz you are trying to steal our own herritage ! Greetings from Bulgaria and do you like our no for EU ?

[@bbpoisonn]

Stomio ah yes and what happened to the ancient macedonians that lived there once the Slavs came? They just disappeared without a trace of course

[@dios1ish868]

This is really e good video that shows the migration of Slavs into the Balkan or Illyrian Peninsula.