The Ottoman Invasion of Italy in 1480

The Ottoman Empire is famous for its many wars and sieges in mainland Europe and the Middle East. You have already heard of the Battle of Kosovo, the Naval Warfare at Lepanto and the Siege of Vienna. But outside of this narrative of famous battles and sieges, there were other military operations that were just as decisive for the fate of the Empire. And many of them were located well beyond the realm of the Ottomans.
This series aims to raise awareness of these certainly adventurous expeditions. We are going to recount six particularly important events that took place between the years 1480 and 1565. In the first episode we deal with the Otranto campaign, an expedition of the Ottomans to Apulia in Southern Italy. Mehmet II. had by then ruled the Ottoman Empire for nearly thirty years. His reign saw the famous conquest of Constantinople, the rebellions of Skanderbeg in the Balkans and the slowly-but-steadily expansion into Anatolia against the Karamanids, Ak Koyunlu and other Turkish kingdoms and empires. But just shortly before his death, Mehmet set his eyes on the Italian peninsula.
Produced by Emre Yavuz
Narrated by Troy Dolyniuk
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Additional Music by:
Hamdi Aslan
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[@KhansDen]

Of course, "Neaples" is actually spelled Naples. :-)

[@The_ZeroLine]

Literal quote from Mehmed: “I will surpass Caesar, Alexander and Xerxes by far.” Proceeds to get absolutely smashed by tiny Romania. And when he tries the peninsula, captures the grand total of one small port city.

[@thegreatmussolini7650]

he died the young age of 48 and he literally made an empire bigger than byzantine itself, he conquered the anatolian beyliks and united the todays borders of turkey and still were expanding on europe while doing so, Yavuz Sultan Selim which is his son expanded more on balkans easily because of the wars his father made before weakened the coalitions of europe, while not conquering more lands than caeser and alexander he formed an empire which were more steadier than those two combined

[@cartesian_doubt6230]

@@thegreatmussolini7650 Except that he didn't Mehmed II did not build the Ottoman empire. The empire already existed. Yes, he expanded the territory, but not bigger than the Byzantine empire. The Byzantine empire at its height controlled more territory than the Ottomans.

[@burqut]

An interesting and informative video, thank you!

[@sufianmassalema]

well made!

[@pappapata]

Hej👋 I know a bit or two...and this series is a wonderfull and beautiful way to learn 3, 4, 5 & 6 also😉😊... TU 🙏

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

Fun fact for those who want to dispute Ottoman Turkness, Ottoman historian from the early 15th century (Yazicioglu Ali) traced Osman I genealogy to Oghuz Khan. Ottoman Sultans held motivational pre battle speeches about Oghuz Khan and other Turkic legends. Ottoman historians always referred to the Ottomans and their soldiers as Turks etc etc not to mention literally everyone else, friend or foe referred to them as Turk. It's kinda weird people would question that now The Ottomans were in all aspects Turks and that's how they considered themselves. Only people who deny this are 1. Some Turkish people who believe that being pro Ataturk or Kemalist means that they need to reject or belittle Ottoman history which is incredibly ignorant and short sighted 2. Turcophobes who at every turn try to downplay Turkic people, their origins, their culture etc etc

[@murtaza3156]

@Chief Sitting Feather (We'z fake Indigenous!!) 30-35% percent of the genetic makeup of Turkish people is Turkic.

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

@@chiefsittingfeatherwezfake155 Turkic invaders literally displaced the great majority of the local populace who in turn were NOT native to the land.

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

@@ok00001 as with the other Turcophobic guy. Turkic invaders actually came in huge numbers and displaced the majority of the local populace. Kings and Generals made a decent video about the Turkish conquest of Anatolia. No Turks didn't just "influence" those people. Are you people really simple enough to believe a nomadic warrior people came in small numbers and the entire local population decided to just adopt their language, religion, culture etc? If you want an example of what happens in such scenarios look at Bulgaria. A country that has its name from a Turkic nomadic people that conquered it. Then quickly and completely assimilated into the local Slavic people. Arabs settled north Africa in large numbers, they settled lands as far as Spain ffs. Most Muslims in Person were Arabs and north African converts. They didn't just influence people. A large part of North Africa is Arab, period. Moreover Arabs actually had their religion and the zeal that brought to "culturally convert people" and even then they couldn't turn moet Muslims into "Arabs" culturally

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

@@chiefsittingfeatherwezfake155 nice counter arguments simpleton

[@Dragonman998]

Ottomans like Byzantines traced their origin in ancient past. But nevertheless being an Turkish or bilingual speaking Ottoman especially in the Classical period (1453-1683) was considered more like muslim Roman member of the ruling class of the empire rather than Turk in modern ethnic definictions. The term 'Ottoman’ today is used interchangeably to describe a historical timespan, a material culture, a geographical location, and a personal identity. Though these concepts are related, they are not identical. Many modern historians tend to have a preferred idea of what being Ottoman meant, so-called ‘Turks’, but this was a term rarely almost never used in Ottoman ruling society itself. Like all identities, the identity of ‘Ottoman’ was flexible, dynamic and multi-layered, and never static or unchanging. Given that Ottoman Empire was a geographically vast and chronologically long-lived state, there is no simple definition of what being Ottoman meant and naming ethnical and cultural definitions were inconsistent already in antiquity and middle age. Nevertheless, some Turkic cultural elements remained common throughout much of Ottoman history. Some Ottoman scholars considered aspects such as geography, language, and ethnicity as important markers of Ottomaness whereas most saw Islamic belief and culture or behaviour as more important. At the height (1453-1699) of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman identity formed a collective geopolitical identity, extended to nearly all subjects of the Ottoman emperors and encompassing vast regional and ethnical diversity. Often, what (often non-turkic muslim) individual believed and did for the Porte was far more important to the concept of Ottoman identity than long bloodlines and shared descent. The key to 'Ottomanness’ in the minds of most was keeping with Islamic tradition and serving the Sublime State of Osman. Throughout its history, Ottoman Empire proved to be uniquely capable of incorporating and integrating other peoples, so it’s easy to conclude that during 16th, 17th and 18th centuries the Muslim ruling elite of the empire by ethnic and geographical origin could be considered as European Muslim society rather than persianised Turkic tribal society. Although western authors from the foundation of the Ottoman Empire referred to the empire as "Turkish" and its inhabitants as "Turks", this was not the identity adopted by the empire itself or its populace. Though early sultans had at times emphasized their descent from the Oghuz Turks and Seljuks of Rûm (Konya) when competing for domination with other Anatolian beyliks, and regional turkic dynasties, the emphasis on Turkish identity by the sultans and their subjects rapidly faded away after they began claiming the inheritance of the Greco-Roman world since 1453 up to 1550s when harsh political and religious rivalry in Iran with another turkic but typicaly persianised dinasty of Safavids gradually transformed the Ottoman empire into more traditionalistic panislamic turkish speaking oriented rather than persian or roman one. Term “Turk" and "Turkish" became derogatory terms used by the Ottoman elites (mostly of Balkan origin) for nomadic and semi-nomadic Turkic peoples and the Turkish-speaking peasants in Anatolia and Balkans (Yöruks, Kayilars, Manavs, Turcomans and Çepnis), thus calling the majority (non-turkic) Muslim inhabitants of Rumelia (Balkans) as “Turks" would thus have been regarded as insulting. In the early modern period, many turcophone, bilingual or multilingual Ottomans especially those who lived in the cities and were not part of the military or administration, instead commonly self-identified as Romans (Rūmī) as inhabitants of Rumelia or former Byzantine territory. The Ottomans were widely recognized as "Muslim Romans" in the Islamic world. In the 16th to 18th centuries, Ottoman administrators sent to govern Egyptian and Arabian territories are almost always referred to by contemporary Arab writers as ‘Arwam’ (Romans). Some authors and historians of other persianised turkic rival dynasties (Safavids) reffered Ottomans as Rum. The emperors of the Mughal Empire recognized the Ottomans as Roman emperors, several Mughal documents refer to the Ottoman sultans as Qaiser-i-Rum, Sultan-i-Rum ("Sultan of Rome") or Khawandkar-i-Rum ("Lord of Rome"). A handful of sources from outside the Islamic world also connected the Ottomans with the Romans. 16th-century Portuguese sources refer to the Ottomans they battled in the Indian Ocean as "Rumes”and the Chinese Ming dynasty referred to the Ottomans as Lumi, a transliteration of Rūmī, and to Constantinople as Lumi cheng (“Lumi city", i.e. "Roman city").

[@bizmyurt8582]

Forgot to mention that Fatih Sultan Mehmed started a new huge huge campaign/march with secret destination but he died soon after start of the march a lot of it tells he was maybe on his way to Italy. Even some believe he was poisened by Pope sent Venetian or something doctor. So they were lucky the italians.

[@derhutchenspieler2838]

👍🏼💯👍🏼

[@alfista1994]

Salento power 🇮🇹☀️🌊🌪️

[@bozkurtkara8337]

legend says the napels king bought the remaining Turks in toronto and conquered whole of italy

[@DraganIGajic]

Canada is turkish!!

[@hollyarandelovic1158]

@@DraganIGajic what do u mean by that.I live in Canada.Canada is Turkish, who the native Indians.Explain to me

[@hollyarandelovic1158]

Yap Memeds mother not real mother was Serbian.He respected her and looked for her advice. I know Ottoman history.From mouth to mouth by my grandfather. His father and so on and so on.

[@turkunoguzsoyundan6003]

Osmanlı ailesi Oğuz soyundan geliyor fakat 2.kağan olan Orhan dan sonra hiçbir kağan Türk bir kadınla evlenmiyor Bir tek Süleyman nın babası Kırım hanının kızıyla evleniyor onun dışında tüm Kağan’lar farklı milletlerden kadınlarla evleniyor ama o dönemde ata erkil ilk yaygın soy babadan gidiyor hepsi tüm Kağan’lar kendine Türk diyor Halk olarakta zaten Osmanlı nın yıkılışı Türk olmayan tüm milletlerin ayrılmasını beraberinde getiriyor yani Türk olmayan tüm milletler kendi milletini alıp Osmanlı’dan ayrılıyor Türkiye cumhuriyeti Osmanlı’nın devamı dır bir nevi Atatürk ün dediği gibi "ne mutlu Türk üm diyene" bu devlet bu söz ile kuruldu burası Türk toprağıdır

[@frknmtl7832]

Omg i did not understand anything at all. Your english is not very good. Can you use translate and then copy-paste it, please ?

[@swisscakir7671]

OTTOMAN ☪️💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@nomanor7987]

How Turkic were the Ottomans anyway? We’re they conscious of their Asian heritage? Did the know about the Seljuks, the Mongols and Ashina dynasty of the Gokturks? Did the Ottomans know about China and the Tang and Ming Dynasties??

[@hado2572]

You should watch the whole series again, review it a bit, let it sink in and then form your opinion on it. How italian was rome empire? How mongolian was Çengiz han's empire. How british is britain? How french is france nowadays? Is germany still germany?

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

Ottoman historians from the 15th century literally traced Osman the first's genealogy to Oghuz Khan. Ottoman Sultans would hold motivational speeches about Oghuz Khan and on the bravery of Turks. Similarly Ottoman historians would write on the bravery of the Ottoman soldiers referring to their Turkishness over and over They were Turks. Period. They ruled a multi ethnic empire (which is literally what every empire is). But that doesn't change that they were Turks, Oghuz and very very aware of it.

[@earlmahmud9637]

Ottomans probably know Gokturks because sources like Firdewsi,Taberi etc mention about them

[@nomanor7987]

@@godofchaoskhorne5043 I have always wondered if the Ottomans and the people of Turkey know that the reason they are inhabit Anatolia is because the Chinese fought wars against their ancestors and destroyed their empires.

[@nomanor7987]

@@hado2572 but the Ottoman Turks have very little Turkish blood … they are mostly Greeks and Slavs.

[@fatmirzekaj5582]

You forgot to mention how the Turks massacred 12.000 civilians and enslaved 5.000 more.

[@frknmtl7832]

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[@jacobjones5294]

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[@irriducibili900]

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[@turky6834]

he mentioned actually

[@dr.umarjohnson2453]

4:50 kosovo is serbia

[@bahstudio4463]

Serbia is ottoman💀

[@nicholascroixet8089]

Based

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

We ruled Italy 🌝 Turk power ❤️

[@ihatepartisans.7198]

no you didnt lol

[@ihatepartisans.7198]

Did you not watch the whole video?

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

@@ihatepartisans.7198 It's obviously a troll mate. Any video, post etc about Turks will attract trolls and Turcophobes

[@enricomanno8434]

You never ruled Italy..and you never will... Go back to the steps of Asia

[@KhansDen]

Hey Enrico, if you somehow managed to gift the Anatolian Turks all of the lands of Central Asia and give them permanent settlements, I am sure they would gladly accept - simply to escape all the chaos, wars, migrations and especially the ignorance that they have been bombarded with for years. Notwithstanding any political conflict, at least Central Asia is full of mostly untouched nature. I am not so sure if the same can be said about certain other countries west of Turkey. Have a nice day! ;-)