The (Staggering) Siege of Belgrade 1456

In 1453 the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire breached the gate to Europe: Constantinople was captured. And soon Sultan Mehmed II, known as the Conqueror, renewed his offensive efforts. On the 4th of July 1456 he arrived at the Hungarian border fortress of Belgrade with an army of about 40’000 men and 200 ships. This marked the beginning of a siege characterized by an unusual crusader army, a trap failing to spring, and a towering fortress. The siege of Belgrade or in Hungarian Nándorfehérvár ended on July 22, a day now celebrated as a national Memorial Day in Hungary. This is how contemporary historiography tells the story of the staggering siege of Belgrade.
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Chapters:
00:00-00:56 Intro
00:56-02:04 Ground News
02:04-07:57 Chapter 1: Where Do They Go?
07:57-11:40 Chapter 2: A Firm Grip
11:40-14:29 Chapter 3: The Battle on the Danube
14:29-16:42 Chapter 4: It's a Trap!
16:42-19:50 Chapter 5: A Trap Fails to Spring
Literature:
Ayton, A.; Price, L., The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Society, London 1998.
Nisbet, Bain, R., The Siege of Belgrade by Muhammad II, July 1-23, 1456, in: The English Historical Review, 7/26 (1892).
Pálosfalvi, T., From Nicopolis to Mohács. A History of Ottoman-Hungarian Warfare, 1389-1526, 2018.
Setton, K. M., The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Volume III: The Sixteenth Century to the Reign of Julius III. Philadelphia 1984.
Shaw, S. J., History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808, 1976.

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Feel free to suggest sieges that you would like us to cover below. We're planning the second half of the year and haven't decided which sieges we're going to prioritize.

[@clintmoor422]

uhhh, there are so many! please do some dutch sieges (80 years war)! Or some medieval ones like Jerusalem?

[@robertschwarz9052]

what software or tool did you use to make this siege map of belgrade?

[@mehmetozkan1276]

Hello I m from turkey 🇹🇷 can you make battle of otlukbeli (1473)?

[@gabrielvanhauten4169]

maybe siege of new amsterdam?

[@lerneanlion]

Hello! I know you through Hikma History! Also, can you cover both the first and second the Siege of Rhodes by the Ottoman Empire? Please!

[@Ganonmustdie2]

The addition of a 26000 man peasant army inexplicably raised up by an angry Italian clergyman unaffiliated with any government effort to bolster the defense of a Hungarian fortress against a Turkish invasion is one of those strange happenings of history that reminds me that you just can't make this stuff up.

[@carick235]

This whole battle and story around it could be made into a great movie.

[@c.h.9547]

@mr oko but turkey did fight hungary

[@c.h.9547]

@mr oko general, Hungarian, representative of Hungary, had connections with Hungarian nobles, fought on Hungarian soil, defended with a Hungarian garrison, Hungarian fortress, attacked by ottomans, from turkey, with the added benefit of a few peasants with pitchforks. Yup this definitely wasn’t Italy vs the ottomans, Hungary fought the ottomans, Hungary is not defined solely by its government.

[@cengizsogutlu]

@mr oko Turkey erase Hungary from history 1500s to 1800s what you talkin about men

[@wulfengel]

what simple faith can do.

[@mariushunger8755]

Hunyadi is one of the most underrated generals of history for sure.

[@Michaelkayslay]

I was one of his men, you’re definitely right. I had no issues following his orders

[@cirsteat]

Iancu de Hunedoara was a Romanian ethnic, so in Romania he is well remembered as one of the most important medieval historical personalities of our nation.

[@joeking3282]

Isn't that spelt Hyundai?

[@gehejjed1]

@@cirsteat He was Hungarian, not Romanian, don't lie!!!

[@cirsteat]

@@gehejjed1 He was Romanian 100%

[@EokaBeamer69]

This is easily one of the top 10 best history youtube channels out there. Entertaining animation style, immersive narration, excellent research work and a very interesting selection of topics. I am always happy to see a fresh upload from you.

[@cristianino5435]

First is mark felton

[@willkettle3959]

@@cristianino5435 mark felton is a hack fraud who plagiarizes from Wikipedia

[@NathanDudani]

@@cristianino5435 lmao

[@julesbaud]

@@cristianino5435 lol

[@alexanderdavid8441]

Well said!

[@crazyviking24]

Mehmet was an adventurer until he took an arrow to the thigh.

[@gabrielvanhauten4169]

no lollygagging!

[@vladtheimpaler5454]

​@@MultiAnt3 i guess you turks are happy being known as r4p4 babies..but nobody else is..

[@MultiAnt3]

@@vladtheimpaler5454 i'am not a turk 🤣. Serbians is, and also rapers and genocidal nation like their creators from Turkey. Family 🇷🇸❤️🇹🇷

[@Maus_Indahaus]

Fun fact: During the siege of Belgrade, the Ottomans also sent a smaller force to besiege Smederevo, capital of Serbia. After the Ottomans retreated from Belgrade, Hunyadi sent reinforcements that defeated the smaller Ottoman army at Smederevo. Nevertheless, only 3 years later the Ottomans attacked Smederevo again, this time successfully conquering it. Belgrade would only fall to the Ottomans in 1521, during the rule of Suleiman the Magnificent.

[@serenisma3402]

cool

[@themosticonicscenesinmovie8737]

I was in Smederevo in 2017. Impressive walls still stands!

[@ferencgyori7410]

@mr oko in 1683, yes. But it is in 1456. 230 years before the Polish Lion

[@abdueltio8512]

Look up when Suleiman the magnificent lived dude. Poland could never stand against him. Europe just covered after its walls and barely stood

[@kategoried7501]

BELGRADE was under turkish occupation for 500 years

[@oon5542]

Hunyadi was a genius commander, greetings to Hungarian friends from Serbia!

[@hilmermate317]

🇭🇺🤝🇷🇸🍻

[@claudefrollono1]

@@hilmermate317 Friends and allies at least since the time King Stephen Dragutin of Serbia took Princess Catherine Arpad of Hungary for his wife. 🇷🇸❤🇭🇺

[@RaulBabi]

Romanian.

[@WhatIsSanity]

These kind of videos are really important for me. I have trouble learning without a visual component, so I really appreciate the (staggering) amount of work that goes into creating them.

[@nenenindonu]

The 15th century was packed with great generals ; Zizka, Skanderbeg, Mehmed the Conqueror, Stephen the Great, Uzun Hasan, Ivan the Great, Matthias Corvinus, Murad II, John Hunyadi

[@kaletovhangar]

Don't forget Stefan Lazarević and Djuradj Branković

[@thegreatsallingerkaiser2545]

And Matthias Corvinus was the son of John Hunyadi

[@gabrielvanhauten4169]

duke of alba!!!

[@milovantolic8821]

Tamerlane?

[@flks7172]

@@milovantolic8821 15th century

[@mex_I.M]

Belgrade fortress still looks good even today. Greetings from Bosnia balkan bros.

[@SandRhomanHistory]

True but don't fortget that most of the fortifactions that exist nowadays were constructed later on. Mostly during the short period of Austrian rule (1718-1738) when the fortress was rebuilt and modernized.

[@dkz1302]

@@SandRhomanHistoryThe first bricks were laid by the Romans..

[@urosmarjanovic663]

@@SandRhomanHistory Bottom parts made from bricks are, but uppermost built from white stone are from way back.

[@amarillorose7810]

@@SandRhomanHistory The fortress has several parts from different periods, Roman, Serbian, Austrian and Ottoman. Traces of the Roman castrum can be seen today in the traces in the base of the northern and western ramparts of the Upper Town and they are made up of large regular carvings. The best-preserved part of the former Serbian Despot's Belgrade is the northeastern part of the Upper Town. In addition, a significant remnant of the despot's city is the entire eastern rampart of the Upper and Lower Town with the remains of the Eastern Gate of the Lower Town, as well as the northern rampart of the Upper Town. Among the Ottoman remains on the Belgrade Fortress, there is the fountain of Mehmed-pasha Sokolović from the second half of the 16th century (the Grand Vizier of Serbian origin, taken as a child to the janissaries). Austria took over Belgrade several times in 1688-1690; 1717 - 1739; 1789 - 1791 and some of the parts from that period are Leopold's Gate, Charles VI's Gate and the Roman well. The fortress was restored under Serbian rule in 1869, 1891, 1903, 1928 (after liberation and between the two world wars when it suffered minor damage). The fortress also has various underground tunnels that have not been fully explored yet.

[@urosmarjanovic663]

@@MultiAnt3 Ok ujkane.

[@nikolaresanovic8335]

Amazing video! Cohesive, well written and amazingly illustrated. Much love from Belgrade! ♥️

[@SandRhomanHistory]

thanks man!

[@nikolaresanovic8335]

@@SandRhomanHistory Thank you for your amazing content!

[@mik823]

@@SandRhomanHistory you are a liar. I checked out your references and they are not relevant to your claims in this video. You are a liar.

[@MultiAnt3]

Serbs have been Turkish servants for 500 years. They slept with their grandmothers and it is no wonder that today's Serbs have 49% of the Turkish gene, almost more Turks than Serbs. The Serbian government paid taxes to the Turks for the services of young Serbian young men who volunteered in men's brothels. it was a widely accepted job among Serbs in those 500 years. today they think they are brothers with the Russians, but they are not. The real Serbian brothers are in Turkey. Same blood. 500 years of love ❤❤❤

[@mik823]

@@MultiAnt3 where did you get this information ? What evidence do you have that Serbs are 49% Turkish DNA?what evidence do you have about serbs working in brothels? I think you are a racist liar...

[@Boris90PFC]

The port where Hunyadi battled Turkish river navy is Zemun (Serbian), Zimony (Hungarian) Selmin (German) It was important river port from roman times (Taurunum) and separate city until first half of 20 century when he became Belgrade municipality . Even today, many Zemun residents say that they are not citizens of Belgrade but they are from Zemun. In Zemun, there was a hill called Gardos, which was a perfect observation post that monitored the movement of Turkish troops during the siege of Belgrade in 1456.

[@nemacakademac]

Hi from Zemun! Correct, we don't consider being citizens of Belgrade. :) On Gardos hill there is also a tower named after Janos Hunyadi and a nice view of surroundings.

[@zimonyivilmos3031]

Zemun

[@Alvidius]

I have to say it, I just have to...Munze Konza💚💙

[@batonidaboni5029]

@@Alvidius Vaistinu konza✊

[@nikolamatic8684]

Exactly. Zemun citizens can separate and join Croatia

[@csabaszep8162]

I used to be a sultan myself but then I took an arrow to the thigh.

[@nilloc93]

The battle at the end of the siege is perhaps a good example of why late medieval/early modern commanders didn't try complex tactics. The co-ordination required for such things is perhaps too much to ask. That would have been the death knell for Belgrade and likely Hungarian independence but because the Ottoman cavalry were not in synch with the infantry fight it was the ruin of the army.

[@jellyjohnson7393]

Even more important you can imagine the coordination of the infantry quickly fell apart on the Ottoman side, it doesn't take long for an army to start fighting as individuals when confusion sets in.

[@calebr908]

oh ya. hard befire the invention of radios.

[@RandomGuy-df1oy]

It looks like sultan being knocked out was the man or one of the main reasons of the ottoman defeat

[@bZoleed]

Pope Callixtus III ordered the bells of every European church to be rung every day at noon, as a call for believers to pray for the defenders of the city.The practice of the noon bell is traditionally attributed to the international commemoration of the victory at Belgrade, since in many countries (like England and the Spanish Kingdoms) news of the victory arrived before the order, and the ringing of the church bells at noon was thus transformed into a commemoration of the victory. The Pope didn't withdraw the order, and Catholic and the older Protestant churches still ring the noon bell to this day.

[@Vladklx]

@N Fels Just because u didnt like it doesnt mean its not true..

[@chriswanger284]

@N Fels Educate yourself. Your country did not fight in such a civilization decisive scale of war, so you are envy.

[@Vladklx]

@N Fels Bruh western civilization was built by Frankish Empire & Catholic Church. Thats why Charlemagne is called as Father of Europe

[@samuraidom6542]

@N Fels it is actually true, why do you think Hungary is sometimes historically referred to as “The bastion of Europe”, when talking about the Ottoman conquests in the Balkans.

[@nimrodlutar1212]

@N Fels It's true, in Hungary mostly on county areas you still find this tradition

[@notsm]

Is there anyone else who, whenever it's said that a great person died of plague or another desease, is like "oh, c'mon!" or is that just just me?

[@Sturmtruppe1997]

I sometimes think, well his purpose was fullfilled.

[@theoutlook55]

I've been thinking about it ever since I was a kid and learned about how Alexander the Great died of typhus in Babylon. Having said that, for him to have been taken out while at the peak of his power, really helped immortalize his well-earned legacy.

[@lajosnagy6356]

@@Sturmtruppe1997 This ^

[@yja496]

This channel keeps getting and better. Belgrade changed hands at least 4 times before 1878.

[@WissHH-]

Entertaining, interesting and methodical work man, didnt expect less!

[@aleksamiljkovic3819]

Greetings from Belgrade ♥️

[@ancienthistorytube1921]

Love the illustrations. And very interesting video about Hunyadi. Congrats!

[@GoryWory]

Around the third of Belgrade garrison was consisted from Serbs, who the ottomans feared even more than the crusaders. Serbian despot Djuradj Brankovic (based in of Smederevo) sent a lot of help to the Hungarians, both in river ships and in light cavalry skirmishers who successfully crippled the ottoman supply lines. River force that broke through blockade consisted primarily out of Serb sailors and marines in small and nimble river vessels called 'šajka' There is also a legend about this battle: Fighting was so fierce that after the siege people found a dead sparrow lying in the field, pierced by 3 arrows. I say this, because I am surprised you didn't mention any of it :) This siege was really a positive example of joint Serb - Hungarian effort, and a lot of people are proud of it, even today.

[@GoryWory]

​@Dani Al they didn't rag doll it, they often made large concessions to the Serbs.. simply because Serbs rebelled on literally every sign of ottoman weakness... at least five major revolts broke during the ~350 years of occupation. At the end, Serbs won their freedom independently, through armed rebellion and careful politics. please educate yourself before writing bs

[@nekjevecnasrbijaisrbskirod]

@@GoryWory Man big respect for you. You are wise man that knows real truth about hidden history. All regards for you, im so glad people these days still consider truth and education important. Anyway i was so surprised and happy that you even know exact number of occupation years.

[@matehavlik4559]

There's the legend of "Dugovics Titusz", perhaps true, perhaps not, who, when a janissary climbed the tower with the horse tail flag, tried to stop him, but the Turk was too strong for him. So Dugovics grabbed him and jumped down the tower, pulling him down with him. I remember as a 5-year-old thinking, "Dugovics Titusz, what kind of weird name is that??" I realized later that it must have been a Serbian name, in Hungarian form.

[@huszar1075]

Yea yea man go back to the turkish stables

[@gyozop]

@@matehavlik4559 Be careful, the name was debunked, it is a scam from the 19th century. Actually it really happened, but nobody knows the name of the hero that threw himself down with the Turk and the flag.

[@szalard]

I read that the siege of the Helms Deep and Minas Tirith from the Lord of the Rings, was inspired by the Siege of Belgrade from 1456. Tolkien reading the storry of the Siege of Belgrade planned the stories of the great battles of his great novel. And if we compare the siege of Belgrade with the sieges from the Lord of the Rings, we see many similarities.

[@paulilipaulsen]

The second siege of Vienna has a much much stronger resemblance with the siege of Minas Tirith (and helms klamm to a lesser extend) though, not only because of the massive cavalry charge from atop the hillside but also because vienna was the capital of the holy roman empire at that time just like Minas Tirith was gondors capital It was also the battle that ended all westward expansion of the ottomans just like it was in LOTR for mordor

[@VojislavMoranic]

@@paulilipaulsen Yes but Belgrade or Beograd is litterally Serbian for "White City" as Minas Tirith

[@tamastoemoeri4689]

@@VojislavMoranic Exactly,as you say-"The White City". There were also "many" white cities or castles in the Karpathian-Pool, one is actually exist,called "SzekesFehervar"(where is fehervar is the exact translation of the white city from hungarian. There is another one to mention,called "Alba Regia"-which name is still exist in the name or brand of grocery in the garden- one of the biggest and tastiest "white pepper" which is basic ingredients of the "lecso" because of the pepper has a thick skin-which we use a word to describe a pepper is "meaty". 🙂

[@flks7172]

In my country there is still a belief that European antiturkish tenancy was so strong, tolkien imagined orcs as Turks. Well if the siege scene is related with Belgrade or Vienna sieges, it would support the belief more or less. And I understand the stereotyping against my nation but still, its 2022 and all the history is long gone. Yet when I saw square bullets were made just to kill Turks back in the day, i felt a bit chilled to be honest.

[@szalard]

@@paulilipaulsen I still believe that Belgrade 1456 was the modell for both Minas Tirith and Helms Deep. Look at the parallels. - Gandalf was a fighting magician, a figure inspired by a fighting priest like Giovanni Capistrano. Even their names start with the same letter: G. And both bring reinforcements, saving the besieged people. - the shape of Belgrade and both the castles from LOTR: encircled from three directions by natural defences: Belgrade by the Danube, Minas Tirith and Helms Deep by mountain. - the Orks are altered elfs, while the Janisaries are converted Christian children. But this was valid only for the siege of Belgrade because, in the late 1600's the Janisaries were recruited mostly from Muslim Turks. - Aragorn resemble with Hunyadi and his son Matthias, who became king. During his time it was widely believed, that although of humble origin, Hunyadi's ancestors were the Árpád dynasty, Hungary's oldest dynasty, which they believed that they were saints, and the only, who can rule rightly over Hungary. In reality not Hunyadi became Hungary's king, but his son, Matthias, who became one of the greatest kings of Hungary, bringing back her old glory, but still it resembles with the story of Aragorn, who was the only succesor of the great kings, - also the fact that in 1683 the Ortoman Empire, which passed its peak long time ago, was not so menacing and dangerous for Europe as it was in 1456. Then it really threatened Europe, which was not dominated by technological development, there were no colonial powers, which dominated other continents, like Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and England in 1683. In 1456 Europe really looked like a cornered, threatened land, menaced by a great evil empire. - in 1456 no country from Europe sent his troops to help, because of their quarrels with each other, this is why nobody came, except some peasants recruited in Moravia, while in 1683 a big alliance of Polish, German, Italian troops came to rescue. In LOTR we also cannot speak about a great alliance of the nations of the middle Earth, who came to rescue, only from a very limited help, which miraculously turned the tide of the battle, like at Belgrade.

[@Lawrance_of_Albania]

fun fact: belgrade is 10th most bessiged city in history

[@batonidaboni5029]

Crest on the flag? And nick "Lawrance of Albania" 👍

[@dzokidzo9084]

@@MultiAnt3 god will judge you on spreading hate and racism .

[@Valdor9707]

Did a history paper about Hunyadi and the Ottoman Wars back in high school. Easily one of my favorite characters from history. So glad to see more videos on this specific topic in comparison to finding almost nothing about it on KZbin back in 2014!

[@loading2256]

I really love love your content. Excellent job as always, super interesting.Thank you for your work

[@clintmoor422]

Yeah! Continuing the journey from your last video on Constantinople! Very cool.

[@pp7x79]

Omg! i was in Belgrade last month and i wanted to suggest it already. But then, we got treated to the siege of Constantinople :) Now this! you are amazing!

[@aizuuya]

Been addicted to these videos recently, really entertaining stuff you make. One of my new favorite history channels out there.

[@jaythompson5102]

These videos are.. staggering! Great job!

[@michimatsch5862]

6:07 "A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house." - Socrates

[@aleksandarmanojlovic4988]

Amazing video. It is so nice to live now in Belgrade and see the castle now knowing this event. I have never heard of it so detailed before, actually

[@petarpetrovic3813]

because you learn only lies, myths and stupiditi from your blasfemic sekt

[@sarahsidney1988]

As always, great video!

[@julio5prado]

Excellent as usual! Congratulations for the great work !

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Hunyadi was truly the Theoden… history would’ve been greatly changed had he not die of the plague.

[@Taltosmaster]

He was a great general (and also a very good statesman), but war is costly and the Hungarian Kingdom wasn't really in a great economical position. Plus, the high nobility in Hungary had a fierce dislike towards Hunyadi because most of them would've preferred to concentrate on increasing their own wealth and power instead of helping the country waging wars (that is why Hunyadi had so little military and financial backing from said nobles and had to rely mostly on his own income when the king's own treasury wasn't sufficient), which would've been much easier with weak puppet kings instead of the strong-willed regent Hunyadi was. They even tried to kill his sons after his death - and actually succeeded to kill the older son. So it is debatable if János Hunyadi would've been in the position to change the course of history even more. But then again, his younger son, Mátyás Hunyadi did manage to turn the situation upside down and became a legendary king for Hungary. So who knows... Edit: when the video said that most of the nobles supported Hunyadi, those were actually the lesser nobles who were much more in numbers than high nobles, but individually each of them had only a tiny fraction of the wealth and power what the top approx. 5% had.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Beating decisively mehmet ii s’army might turn the tides. Sometimes, one great battle can decide if an empire survives or fall

[@hectortroy8671]

Hunyadi lost every time he went on the offense against the Ottomans. He was great at defending.

[@oldgamer9992]

@@abcdefgh20561 Yes but lost battle of Varna 1444 and then another defeat at the 2 battle of Kosovo against Murad 2 father of Mehmet the conquer

[@chriswanger284]

@@Taltosmaster Hungarian kings were still better position than French king or the Emperor of that time, based on annual revenues.

[@cte4dota]

The walls and fortress stands firm even today, amazing to walk around wondering about all things happened there! inspiring.

[@killer9kid]

Great video as always! Please keep up the good work.

[@Catonius]

Always quality, Thanks Szand.

[@holymayo6417]

I'd like SandRhoman to direct the defense of Winterfell in Game of Thrones... would have been something B)

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Hah, would be difficult to do it better than the tv show. Start with using the wall instead of sacrificing half your men before the action even starts.

[@VojislavMoranic]

Fun fact. If it werent for Despot Stefan Lazarevic who got the fortress early in his rule and decided to move the capital of the Despotate of Serbia there turning Belgrade from a dilapitated town into a mini constantinople this battle would not have lasted nearly as long. Its honestly quite astounding how quickly castles were built during the despotate when they realized that there are no longer enough Serbs to meet the ottomans in the field and thusly needed much more castles. The Smederevo Fortress the largest lowland castle in Europe was built in just 3 years but because of the haste and ruthlessness of the Despotitsa Jerina Kantakuzenous the wife of Despot Djuradj Brankovic earned her the name "Accursed Jerina" and many legends were made about her by the people how she tore down every stone house she could find, how she confiscated all chicken eggs for mortar making etc, a human chain from Smederevo to quarries in the east that would pass stones to each other etc. A very fascinating time.

[@MilledSteel]

Great episode 👍

[@ferikiss5677]

Great video I Hope there will be much more from this region.

[@diebaronofg0nzo470]

Nice. BUT Hunyadi is always depicted with a large double edged sword (he was very good with it) and not a mace.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

He looks like Hercules with his mace, that looks like a club

[@ninetaniscov7495]

Hunyadi was romanian and his real name was Ioan Corvin de Hunedoara

[@onur3649]

@@ninetaniscov7495 he was hungarian ;)

[@awakened2emptiness]

@@ninetaniscov7495 There were no nation called Romanian, but Vlachia (Wallachia) was there and Hungarians call itt Oláh-ország (The Vlach-Empire). Hungarian surnames shows in many cases who your ancestors were, I mean it shows the origin of the person. Német(h) means German, Cseh mean Czech ... etc and Oláh means Vlachian what you call now wrongly Romanian. Oláh Miklós was born from Vlachian father and Hungarian mother who was sister of Hunyadi János and he was Hungarian historian and Archbishop of Esztergom. He never wrote about Hunyadi was Vlachian. He would have been the most proud Vlachian that Hungary got King with Vlachian roots, but he wrote about the origins of Hungarians and other genesis books.

[@ninetaniscov7495]

@@awakened2emptiness people from Wallachia, Transilvania and Moldavia is the same people with the same etnicity romanian .They speak the same language and they live here in this teritory from many thousand of years ,from the beginning.

[@miliba]

Ive been to Belgrade and enjoyed the visit to the fortress

[@dadno_sound4533]

excellent video as always

[@gabrielvanhauten4169]

Your videos are always awesome. keep it up.

[@blablableh724]

God bless Hungary

[@berkzyhd]

You got destroyed

[@petarpetrovic3813]

why?

[@Nebufelis]

You mention that the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia was hit by a cannonball. But … was he alright?

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

I don’t think anyone can survive a cannonball except Don Blas de Lezo Basque Spanish Commander

[@adampolyakovics2543]

You pronounced Nándorfehérvár very well! The video is also great! Greetings from HU!

[@tobias064]

This channel deserves many more subs.

[@firmanimad]

This reminded me how before radio and advanced communications, feigned retreats and complex maneuvers are extremely risky. Crazy how the Mongols routinely employed these tactics succesfully even way before this time.

[@luisromanlegionaire]

Alexander the Great pulled off complex maneuvers way before any of these guys

[@knoll9812]

They had excellent communications and practiced a lot

[@southernhungarian]

Thank you for doing content about Hungarian history. I hope you will make more videos about us Hungarians.

[@petarpetrovic3813]

🤣🤣🤣

[@southernhungarian]

@@petarpetrovic3813 Sta smejes ?

[@petarpetrovic3813]

@@southernhungarian zato sta si glup, očito te uvatia virus gluposti i laži živeć među poturčenim vlasima😂😂😂

[@lajosszel]

@@southernhungarian Cognitive dissonance. What's theirs now wasn't theirs before but they tend to think it was.

[@shadowwarriorshockwave3281]

Another day another great video about sieges

[@lhotakfpv4113]

Oh yes, Love it when you post a siege or a battle! Keep it up you just made my day :D

[@louisa.520]

"so much death. What can Hungarians do against such reckless hate?" "Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them!" already better tham Amzons Lord of the Rings.

[@gromhellscream1624]

Amazing video. Much love from Bosnia for the chanel and for our Serbian brothers. Had we not had internal problems with our church members being prosecuted and a battle for the throne at the time I am sure we would have sent troops as we did on Kosovo.

[@brokenpotato438]

Very under rated channel considering the quality of the content. Keep uploading videos like this however and the subscribers will continue to flow in.

[@OMGWTFBBQLMAOLOL]

man you are slowly becoming the best map chanel

[@nenenindonu]

Some key conquests of Mehmed II after the failed Siege of Belgrad ; Morea, Iconium, Trebizond, Crimea, Otranto, and much of the Balkan coast

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

:)

[@Gjfikfkfsjfjif]

@@papazataklaattiranimam :)

[@zetectic7968]

Another very interesting video! Eastern European history is not taught in UK schools

[@mik823]

@@MultiAnt3 where did you get your information from? You are liar and a racist.

[@mrdarklight]

Woohoo, a new video. This is one of my favorite channels.

[@veso5863]

My favorite channel releasing a video about my home city?? Broooo i can't watch rn but I already love it

[@aleksamiljkovic3819]

Најјачи су

[@wolfgangkranek376]

"Don't worry guys, it's just for 260 years." Presumably Prince Eugene of Savoy

[@gergingorunusluadam2993]

What do you mean by that

[@wolfgangkranek376]

@@gergingorunusluadam2993 232 years to be more precise. Siege of Belgrade (1688)

[@gergingorunusluadam2993]

@@wolfgangkranek376 Eugen took it in 1717, but we took it back after defeated austria in the war of hisarcık

[@wolfgangkranek376]

@@gergingorunusluadam2993 Prince Eugen took part in both sieges I referred to. Anyway, from that point on the Ottomans were always on the defensive on the Balkans followed by a succession of wars and military campaigns with changing fortunes and finally their retreat ending the occupation.

[@gergingorunusluadam2993]

@@wolfgangkranek376 yes, the ottoman was very bad in weapon technology after the 16th century. because of the stupid reactionary mentalities in the empire.

[@Szyperak]

I swear that at first I've heard that Mehmed took an arrow to the knee

[@Vivek788]

I have played the AoE custom campaign for this event,playing as Huniyadi. I loved this video. Thanks and keep em coming.

[@sevatar1331]

Great Video and nice LotR-reference !

[@innerparty1]

Hm, not a single word about Serbian defenders and their role? Strange.

[@MultiAnt3]

Serbs have been Turkish servants for 500 years. They slept with their grandmothers and it is no wonder that today's Serbs have 49% of the Turkish gene, almost more Turks than Serbs. The Serbian government paid taxes to the Turks for the services of young Serbian young men who volunteered in men's brothels. it was a widely accepted job among Serbs in those 500 years. today they think they are brothers with the Russians, but they are not. The real Serbian brothers are in Turkey. Same blood. 500 years of love.❤❤❤

[@MultiAnt3]

Serbians defend Belgrode with their asses for 500 years 😂😂😂😂

[@mik823]

@@MultiAnt3 where did you get your information? You are a liar...

[@gaja9092]

@@MultiAnt3 sorry catholic turk cope and seethe

[@richardkovacs2006]

It was a mixed army. Still served the Hungarian Kingdom, so it was a hu garian army. Everything in eastern Europe.is mixed...

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

Hmm. I didn't know about this first siege of Belgrade, I only knew about the successful Ottoman siege and capture of the city. May God be merciful to Jan Hunyadi.

[@thegreatsallingerkaiser2545]

In fact, there were 3 famous sieges of Belgrade in this era, all of which ended in Hungarian victory, except for the one in 1521.

[@jakehopkinson2031]

Your videos are a North Star to me in stormy seas.

[@SandRhomanHistory]

poetic.

[@DivergencesofHistory]

Please always add the music, even these simple and perhaps repetitive songs have such a great effect on my memory, it makes the details stick

[@mastermindd]

In Hungarian, we call it "the miracle of Nándorfehérvár", since that victory was nothing short of a miracle...

[@mynamejeef7166]

How tho? they very easlily won this like it was barely a fight

[@DernerAssaur]

@@mynamejeef7166 Please dont. Please go away

[@fehervari98]

No we don't. We call it the "nándorfehérvári diadal", which roughly translates to the "glorious victory at Belgrade".

[@mastermindd]

@@fehervari98 Nah. The "Nándorfehérvári csoda" is also a valid reference to this battle. And I personally believe, that this resembles the truth a lot more. I mean, we literally faced one of the strongest european armies ever seen at the time.

[@tristanstorm5608]

exellent video :) keep this up pls

[@Rol-E-Roll-da_real_1]

Great content, as always! Would love if you would do a video about the battle of Zenta, probably one of Prince Eugene de Savoya's biggest successes!

[@Cba409]

"For death and Glory" "For Hungary, for your people".

[@aleksapetrovic6519]

Hey that's my city! Hi mom, I am on TV!

[@johntitor1256]

Remember us little people when you're famous.

[@gabrielvanhauten4169]

your mom is busy!

[@jackoboyle7749]

After this exemplary piece I'm eager for you to do a video on the siege of szigetvár.

[@gabemccrea6220]

Yea basically your channel is sick dude Some of the best youtubw history content i can find

[@jaythompson5102]

So Belgrade today is the capital of Serbia. Can anyone explain how did Belgrade go from a city in the Kingdom of Hungary to a city in the country of Serbia? Im aware of the Ottoman occupation of the region, was the region always Serbian ethnically, if so why did they support the Hungarian army?

[@SandRhomanHistory]

can't lay it out fully, short answer is that at the time when the siege takes place, both the Hungarians and the Ottomans thought of Serbia as their vassal. Iut if you want to read up on it, google "serbian despotate". It's quite a fascinating period of history for Serbia.

[@carick235]

Yes basically whole area up to Danube where Belgrade was located was Serbian ethnicaly for centuries before this battle, and Belgrade was even capital of Serbian Despotate before being taken by Hungarians. Even in this battle Serbs were involved in large numbers on Hungarian side as their vassals, both garrison inside Belgrade and help coming from nearby Smederevo fortress held by Serb Despot (he sent boats to assist break of river blockade). And they supported Hungarians since they were both Christians and because nobody wanted to live under islam rulers. As for rest of the story how Belgrade is now in Serbia, many Serbs after the Ottomans occupied central Serbia fleeing from Ottoman terror later emigrated north of Danube (today province of Vojvodina), so that's why ethnic composition of that area slowly turned into more Serbian and eventually after WW1 united with Serbia, so that's why border with Hungary is now some 180 km north of Belgrade.

[@jaythompson5102]

@@carick235 thanks so much for typing all that out makes a lot of sense now especially Serbians moving north over the years

[@KoosovoIsSerbia]

@@jaythompson5102 but how we got first time Belgrade was a wedding present from Hungarian king to our Despot when he married Hungarian princess in 12 or 13. Century

[@Slavonski78]

At the time of that battle, Belgrade was still not a Serbian city, as evidenced by the participants in the battle. Belgrade was defended by Hungarians, Germans and Croats.

[@Glory264]

And 27000 crusader peasants lead by priest.

[@DizajnirajProfit]

There were alot of Serbs there too with Despot Brankovic

[@ShroomSnip3r]

Another amazing video for people with an interest in history, infographics, animation, and good content. (hint hint algorithm)

[@HellenicWolf]

Well made documentary.

[@SamBrickell]

Back when Europeans actually understood being conquered by muslims is a horrible thing.

[@belerux]

Bonus fact: the bells of the catholic churces all over the world, every day at noon ring to commemorate this christian victory as ordered by pope Callixtus III

[@dalloszsolti]

Man, this is some great quality content, but the way you visualize the back feet of those horses... It simply does not bend that way. It hurts just watching.

[@MintyLime703]

I just got done watching all of these, love it when that happens

[@XIXCentury]

Shout out to all my Serbs

[@andreweden9405]

I'm curious: can a Turkish person tell me... You heard him say "this source is unreliable because it's too pro-Christian." As Turkish people, do you ever hear Turkish historians say "well, we would trust this source, but we can't because it's too pro--Islamic, or too pro-Turkish"? Do you guys think about history this way, or is this only a Western thing? Thank you in advance for your feedback!...

[@mustafaoztoprak91]

yes, i recall some Westernised turkish historians saying this kind of stuff.

[@andreweden9405]

@@mustafaoztoprak91 , Thank you for your answer. One of my best friends from college is Turkish too, but I haven't talked to him in forever, and I don't want to contact him just for that!😁

[@1purpose482]

Im not sure about turkish history but in Islamic history scholars are very strict when accepting narrations linked to the prophet Muhammad (s) even if they are positive or beautiful in meaning, the source (chain or narrators) has to be reliable and pass severe scrutiny for it to be accepted as authentic.

[@mustafaoztoprak91]

@@1purpose482 👍👍

[@Asterix958]

@@mustafaoztoprak91 Westernized historian? Scientific Histogragraphy is invented by European, that is why Histogragraphy is western thing per se. Best Ottoman history books are written by Europeans as well. Turkey is more backward than Europa in Turkish history. As for this subject, both Ottoman and European sources wrote that Ottoman lost Siege of Belgrade and battle.There is no debate about this subject. If you saw sources of this time period, you would be astonished by their objectiveness. After 1960s, school education have taught people very sided history narration, people who grew up in these schools assumed that they are angel and their enemy is evil, in Medieval times, people didn't believe these nonsenses.

[@philippschwartzerdt3431]

Thank you for the Ground News Add in your presentation - I have signed up to it. Really an excellent and informative tool and source of information. 🙏🏻

[@McMxxCiV]

I don't know where exactly you are from (my educated guess based on your accent would be Poland), but regardless I'm incredibly impressed with how you pronounce names of people and places from all over Europe so accurately, something many English-speaking KZbinrs just don't bother with.

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Switzerland!

[@McMxxCiV]

@@SandRhomanHistory Well, I could say I wasn't far off geographically (even though you're closer to Belgium, where I live, than to Poland), but linguistically I was clearly very mistaken, for which I apologise. Is it the combination of German and French that gives you such wide pronunciation skills? And even then, the Dutch "sch" is still different, and you absolutely nailed "Schelde" when you discussed the siege of Antwerp in a different video.

[@southernhungarian]

János Hunyadi 🇭🇺

[@gergingorunusluadam2993]

Hunyadi who was humilated at battle of varna

[@stanleysmith7551]

Nándorfehérvár.*😏👌

[@SandRhomanHistory]

True, we settled on calling it out in the intro (although the pronunciation is certainly way off). Unfortunately few people know that name and since we have to choose titles that people recognized we went with Belgrade. Sorry for the inaccuracy.

[@mariushunger8755]

The white castle

[@stanleysmith7551]

@@SandRhomanHistory Doesn't really matter.

[@gergelysz2997]

@@mariushunger8755 yeah, the hungarian name is basically the same as the serbian one fehér+vár =white + castle. Only difference is the nándor word at the front, it's an older denomination for bulgarians.

[@nekjevecnasrbijaisrbskirod]

It is literally the same term and meaning for city, it's just two words from different languages.

[@seebybermo9167]

Excellent

[@farhadzaker2377]

Loved that lotr reference 17:36

[@anderskorsback4104]

If the Ottoman Empire had not conquered Hungary later during the 1520s, this siege would likely be remembered, instead of Vienna, as "the one that saved Europe from Ottoman conquest". Because somehow, curiously enough, Islamic invaders seem to always be stopped at the last possible instance, with all previous victories and defeats being irrelevant.

[@gergingorunusluadam2993]

you are absolutely right Also, for Solomon, taking Vienna was as easy as taking a toy from a baby's hand. But because my ancestor Suleiman went there to fight the army, the castle siege equipment was not taken and the weather conditions were very bad, but after Mohach, no one dared to do so. and suleiman directly besieged vienna

[@samuraidom6542]

Fun fact, our king, King Matthias Corvinus’ army (Hunyadi Mátyás, the son of Hunyadi János) was one of the only armies to ever conquer Vienna, even which the ottomans couldn’t conquer

[@Ramiiam]

Europe has need of Hunyadi again.

[@2012Budapest]

Hunyadi is still alive today. He fights as Orban.

[@Adam______________________]

@@2012Budapest He became very fat and ugly then...

[@Jesse_Dawg]

More siege videos please

[@user-oj7lq2xm5k]

Maybe you can make a video of siege of skopje 1689 or some earlier fights

[@takkorinus7909]

Iancu de Hunedoara, greatest hero of Romanians, Hungarians and Serbs! God bless him!

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Sad Ottoman noises😢

[@gaja9092]

Good.

[@AnatolianHittite]

@@gaja9092 another Loser Ottoman subject is here

[@RichiEnglish]

Love this vid. But I have noticed some spelling mistakes. If you want a native Hungarian for proofreading, do not hesitate to reach out. Anyway, thank you for this vid. I reckon, this event is kind of underappreciated in Europe. But also, kind of overhyped at the same time (by some people). All in all, respect and love to You, Sire.

[@iliriandedvukaj4022]

Can u do a documentary about the Skanderbeg and his battles against Ottomans. Siege of Kruje being one of the most famous battles!