The Turks Enter Anatolia (1016-1071)

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[@robinannaniaz9670]

I'm Central Asian Turkmen. I went to a boarding school run by Anatolian Turks. When I asked my Turkish teacher if we were cousin nations, he said "No, we are literally one nation, separated by the Iron Curtain for a generation". This makes our relationship with the Anatolian Turks, and other Middle Eastern Turkmen, much closer. We are not just one of the Turkic nations, like the Kazakhs or Kyrgyz. Historically speaking, until very recently, all the Oghuz Turks were called Turkmen. I have met people from these countries. From Turkmenistan, to Iraq, Syria, Azerbaijan, and Turkiye, there is a linguistic and cultural continuum. I can't begin to explain the warm and brotherly feeling I got when I met them for the first time, and realized our dialects are for about 70% mutually intelligible, and that rises up to 95% after listening to each speak for few hours. I get emotional just talking about it 😅 Thank you for making this 🙏 Much love from the Netherlands

[@Kaniyesi]

Bro how the fuck you ended up in netherlands

[@Dani-hq2un]

Love seeing another person from the netherlands in the comment section. (: I'm 100% dutch myself, but It's bizzare to me how I (and prob on most dutch school's) never got taught about this history.

[@edmondatakhanian1442]

YOU NEED & SHOULD RETURN TO YOUR MOTHER LANDS & START BUILDING YOUR OWN COUNTRY . MUCH OF YOUR LAND IS DESERT BY NATURE BUT LOOK AT SAUDI ARABIA , BUILDING CITIES ON DESERT SANDS JUST BY SELLING OIL & GAS . RETURN TO YOUR MOTHER LANDS 1_ ANATOLIA 2_ KILIKIA ARE NOT TO WHERE YOU BELONG TO . 1_ ARABS 2_ OSMANIAN KIDNAPPED & TRANSPORTED YOU TO ANATOLIA , KILIKIA TERRITORIES TO USE YOU AS MERCENARIES FOR ATTACKING CHRISTIAN NATIONS , EASTERN EUROPEANS NATIONS . DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH AGAIN TO FIND OUT 1_ HOW LONG AGO TURKIK SPEAKING POPULATION HAVE BEEN TRANSFERED TO ANATOLIA , KILIKIA ? 2_ WHAT OTHER INDIGENOUS - NATIVE POPULATIONS ARE & HAVE LIVED ON ANATOLIA, KILIKIA LANDS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS . DO NOT LISTEN TO OSSMAN _ TURKIK SPEAKING RULERS IN ANATOLIA , KILIKIA , CONSTANTINOPLE TERRITORIES... I AM A NATIVE ARMENIAN CHRISTIAN , WE HAVE SUFFERED FROM ATTACKS BY 1_ MONGOLIANS OSSMANIC TURKIK SPEAKING POPULATION IN PAST 200 HUNDREDS YEARS : NOT ONLY US BUT 1_ GREEKS 2_ PERSIAN 3_ RUSSIAN 4 _ ASSYRIAN & MANY OTHER INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING ON TERRITORY THAT IS NOT A " DESERT" BASED LAND . YOU MONGOLIANS OSSMANIC TURKIK SPEAKING POPULATION ATTACK & KILL THOSE NATION_STATE PEOPLE WHO ARE CHRISTIANS WITH FERTILE LANDSCAPE , YOU MONGOLIANS KILL WOMEN & CHILDREN TO " DEPOPULATE" THE CITIES , VILLAGES , SO YOU ( TURKIK SPEAKING POPULATION ) CAN RESIDE THERE & USE THE HOUSES , GARDENS, FARMS,FARM ANIMALS . YES MY FRIEND ; DON'T JUDGE BY USING YOUR " EMOTIONS " , JUDGE BY THE FACTS OF 1_ HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 2_ INFRASTRUCTURE OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION ON ANATOLIA , KILIKIA & CONSTANTINOPLE 3_ CHRISTIAN CULTURAL EVIDENCE PRESENT IN KILIKIA , ANATOLIA . I AM SURE THESE COUPLE OF PARAGRAPHS MAKES YOU THINK TO KNOW ABOUT " MONGOLIAN _ OSSMANIC" HISTORY , BACKGROUND , CULTURE & MORE & THINK OF BUILDING YOUR OWN HOUSES & BUSINESS & SCHOOL INSTEAD OF STEALING OTHER NATIONS BELONGINGS BY MASSACRE, KILLING THEM ... IF YOU NEED TO KNOW MORE TRUTH ABOUT MONGHOL_ OSSMANIC HISTORY OR A DIALOGUE PLEASE REPLY TO MY WRITTEN STATEMENT...

[@odalv316]

Proto turks have nothing in common with modern Turks. They had Asian features while modern Turks are mixed mostly resembling Arabs.

[@edmondatakhanian1442]

COULD ONE OF YOU " TURKIK SPEAKING INDIVIDUALS " 1_ WRITE OR 2_ DOWNLOAD A PICTURE OF TURKIK LANGUAGE " ALPHABET , PLEASE , THANK YOU .

[@georgemarsh9849]

I am 76 years old and consider myself and educated man. Yet, I have never heard any of this remarkable history. This knowledge is essential to begin to grasp the state of the world today. Thank you for the production of this work.

[@jmavyan818]

This man deserves much praise for commitment to chronicling accurate and detailed history.

[@BrandonSmith-qx8jx]

"Consider myself and educated" Tard

[@issaikh]

The real thanks needs to be given to anyone who appreciates learning, regardless of age. Practical wisdom is accepting that we always have much to learn, regardless of age. In other words, that you still keep yourself open to learning, despite having experienced so much, is the real triumph, and deserving of admiration.

[@selcuk32adana]

zionist dont want you to know this history because they fear them

[@TheGreatResist]

This sort of knowledge is obscure for a reason.

[@polandballhistorian8537]

Shit, Turkish history is wildly interesting! And I don’t mean Turkeys history, but the history of the Turks and Mongols. I wouldn’t be apposed to seeing a 30 hour documentary on a Turkish history with detail like this!

[@vapingcat5406]

I'm working on a VERY VERY huge documentary, I will send It to you when I finish it, I just started today :)

[@kamilgoksu4130]

@@vapingcat5406 can u send me too?

[@vapingcat5406]

@@kamilgoksu4130 Yeah sure i will send the link here when i finish it, it can take my 2 weeks and i will work 17 hours on it every day, except 2 days, i will explain Turkey's history only, Gokturks to modern Turkey :)

[@argishtenterprise]

To have history you have to create, not destroy

[@vapingcat5406]

@@argishtenterprise Turks didnt destroy anything sir, In war anything can be destroyed, everyone In this world has destroyed something, does that mean no one have a history? To have a history you have to live through It and Turks did It, I don't know what you are talking about tho, a lot of touristic places In Turkey was build by the Turks, I'm not even talking about the other ones.

[@azmhyr]

Actually, the Byzantines and Armenias had prior knowledge of the Turks when they were still known as the "Western Göktürk Empire". They had good relations with the Byzantines, and were allied with them against the Persians. So the Byzantines knew much about the Turks, and their ways, and probably so did the Armenians.

[@bigsmoke1787]

yes, the byzantines and Göktürks tried to build and alliance to crush the Persians but at the end it never happened

[@OljeiKhan]

@@bigsmoke1787 it did actually happen , the Sassanids were blockading the Eastern Romans from the Silk Road trade and the Gokturks would open a new route through Central Asia and Crimea. This act of securing the passage of trade from China to Crimea allowed the Byzantines to be capable of waging war on the Sassanids. If not for this trade route they would crumble under the blockade. Gokturk armies would also help the Eastern Romans against the Sassanids in the Caucasus region. The Gokturks would also capture the region known as "Transoxiana" during these events.

[@bigsmoke1787]

@@OljeiKhan sağol aga

[@batuhanemir9682]

Eastern Roman Empire had units of Turcoples cavalery units in their army long before seljuks came to anatolia

[@MbisonBalrog]

There also the Khazars. And Basil who is mentioned early in this vid is known as the Bulgar Slayer, and the Bulgars are nomads. Plus the Khazars that helped the Byzantines against the Arabs.

[@TheArmchairHistorian]

Thanks for the shout-out History Time!

[@alexwhale1435]

🙋

[@alexkosh3148]

Armchair historian sucks fuck him

[@qlasqq1]

shut up and continue your fairytale on your channel

[@redlaserfox3988]

@@alexkosh3148 Ouch shots fired

[@TheArmchairHistorian]

@@ernest73 teleports behind you

[@ramsay9788]

Ebediyete dek buradayız.

[@1212-m6b]

Turk balasi Qurt olur Basan yeri yurt olur!

[@tbeckzuck]

Turk eline chon salam! Zhashasin Turktor!

[@jivanselbi3520]

Türk ülkelerine esenlik, yaşasın Türkler

[@baykalb]

Aleykum selam gardaş

[@baykalb]

Türkiye,den size selam olsun

[@gokhangokhan5705]

aleykum selam my brothers

[@MysteriousLadyG]

Aleyküm Selam Türk kardeş🐺

[@hannibalbarca2928]

1-)The military success of the Turks was so high that they managed to establish 11 states in Iran.(920 years) 2-)India was dominated by Turkic states for 1000 years.(Mughal,Delhi,Hepthalites,Ghazne) 3-)They managed to establish seven states in Europe. As a Tatar, maybe I may not look at the objective, but I say that military service is our job.

[@mehrdad5767]

Fuck off idiot dont joke mongoli

[@qus.9617]

2) Not exactly true. We are only talking about northern India here. And this is bound to trigger some folks... but by no means is India dominated if the rest of India had being un-breachable from the north. When you talk about domination, do you mean mostly culture, military positions, governance or men of arms? For example, let's say that a Turkic state had controlled a patch of Northern India for about 100 years or more. The same former empire used to have contentious wars with their neighbouring kingdoms to the south. Then wouldn't you say that by then, even the majority of natives will define themselves as being a citizen of that dynasty? So when they fight and make incursions down south, would that be a Turkic military endeavour or 'Indian'? Truth of the matter is when analysing past history through modern lens, we add inaccurate unnecessary labels and assumptions about the past.

[@hannibalbarca2928]

@@qus.9617 ghazne,mughal and delhi is turkic state.It was founded by the Turks and all the rulers were of Turkic origin.and states belong only to the monarchs, and because they had a monarchical reign.The rajputs were the sex slave of the Mughals.Stop steal someone else's states. What's that got to do with it, stupid? is Brazil a Portuguese state then?She spoke Portuguese, didn't she?geography Portugal geography is not it?The state culture is the same Portuguese culture.Well then why doesn't anybody say that Brazil is a Portuguese country?Because it's ridiculous and stupid. For example Countries that use Spanish as an official language: Spain, Cuba, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela.and all of them in Spanish geography.but no one is concerned with it.

[@qus.9617]

@@hannibalbarca2928 I am sorry to say that your entire comment was a waste of time to read. I ask a few questions about the actual impact of native and turkic culture in northern India, among other things. I also questioned your claim that it dominated India for 1000 years if most of the history many independent Hindu kingdoms survived and thrived in the plateau and in the tip of India. I also merely mentioned the powerful impact that the vice-versa of culture had on the rulers and Turks coming into India and the overall contributions of natives to a new dynasty after the centuries of initial rule. Though I presume it must be nice to have black and white cookie cutter analysis from an armchair general like yourself. Where entire regions simply become coloured one dye after a few selective factors. And you proceed to rant about the Spanish language, colonial Brazil (which was composed of African, Japanese, Italian etc culture which exactly proved my point ironically about Brazil not being a Portuguese culture genius) and sex slaves. The only disingenuous one here is you buddy. Unless you're interested in a discussion, I have no need to waste further time on you. I must have hit a nerve to illicit such a vile unwarranted response. Maybe because a matter of fact is, your cultures have always had to rely on more advanced cultures to elevate your own culture to a higher cultural point of development, which is almost always one direction. Hell, if you're proud of your culture's achievements at being good at killing people and stealing people's ideas, more power to you. You must also can't stand the fact, that the country continue to run itself through the expertise of the natives, with nothing more than a regime change and a new parasitic class needing welfare to stay on top, as was the case for many nomadic conquerors. At least the Brits and Romans brought ideas to the table.

[@predatorsorin8402]

@Kayserili38ification you are wrong men as the raj put clans the children of huns heptaliites avars xionites tocharyans we was zorroastrians Delhi sultanat was turks even as the rajputi the rajputi city was independent city's the turks Dinas ties used our soldier's rajputi ksatrya clans against mongols in Delhi and as we eat cows we venerate sun worship and Saint fire's men . After the city of rajput was in war with ghaznavids ruler in somnat temples we take prisoners the soldiers even they sultan but we show mercy and respect for them and released them to go home in khorasan big mistakes the ghaznavids they come in rajput and takes moore then 100 hundreds soldier's lion heart descendents of hunns avars tocharyans and took them in khorasan and surprise the turks khazars Jews is elibereted our men from ghaznavids khorasan and they was called turks selciuks the prisoner's even in clips here is speak they was descendents of huns and veteran's warrior's they not was slave becouse as we respected the ghaznavids soldiers prisoners even they sultan prisoners of as the rajputi ksatrya clan's from huns avars. After is normal the turks dinasties is take all good warrior's from north india against bizantins army the varengians and knights of crusader becouse we crash mongols army 6 times in North India on raving river 1306 men we are turkhis origins from avars tocharyans heptalites is in our blood's but to speak bullshit sex slave to who you are stupids imbecil even your turks selciuks was our soldier's rajputi roma indo iranians who comes in europe with ottoman, but indeed the turks was ruled in Delhi with respects like good ruled 1000 year's before a rived the fucking mughals mongols with gun power against as the rajputy as we lose in panipat at 1430 against babur gun power and all soldier's we go with ottomans army becouse all india was fall in the hands of mughals so show some respects men we are descendents of huns avars the children bloods of avars and other tribe kashmir and jamu was goings with u my ad empire's in Spain granada so called sephardics Jews and flamenco tribes from Spain was our tribe's from huns xionites .The khazars jews the big boss who give a land for turks anatolians and as we are in eastern Europe after the fall of empires ottomans so show some respects turks for roma indo iranians we fights for your homeland in historyes big mistakes it was good to go with u my ad empire's not with ottomans but we helped our ancestor's huns khazars xionites sionites jews asiatics becouse we are huns xionites men.as the roma indo iranians from eastern Europe from huns khazars jews

[@tahak.9275]

"These populations are long haired, good archers, very skilled in carving ram and horse statues from stone. They called their God Khan-Tengri." (Moisey Kagankatvasi, The History of Agvan, Regarding Turk existence in Eastern Anatolia in 7th century)

[@tengri4231]

@@OXY187 siz de araplarin yaptiğı taşın etrafinda dönüyosunuz ne farkeder

[@OXY187]

@@tengri4231 seni gelip öyle bi döverim ki yalvara yalvara müslüman olursun. Tengricilikten haberin yok İslam'a saldırıyorsun durduk yere. Senin o Arap yapımı dediğin taşın yapımı İnsanlığın başlangıçlarına dayanır

[@OXY187]

@@tengri4231 tengriciliği bi araştır önce sadece tengri demekle tengriye tapılmıyor

[@OXY187]

@@tengri4231 senin evini yurdunu bilsem gelip öyle bi döverim ki haberlere çıkarsın

[@OXY187]

@@tengri4231 sen önce gidip bi tarihi araştır dinleri araştır ondan sonra gel buraya otur tartışmaya gir. Bana buradan küfür etmen kolay nasılsa ismin cismin belli değil istediğini diyebilirsin. Beğenmediğin İslam sayesinde şuan oturduğun yerden ahkam kesiyorsun eğer ataların İslam'ı seçmeseydi şuan hala Orta Asya bozkırlarında dejenere olmuş, koyun otlatıyordun. Sen biraz araştır ondan sonra gel buraya. Kuran'da yazan barış ve kardeşlik sadece Müslümanlar iktidara geçtiğinde ve ortada düşman kalmadığında geçerlidir.

[@behindthecurtain8461]

Greetings from greece! Always nice to see part of our common history with turks

[@tibera6755]

Niceeeee👍

[@brainblox5629]

Your people are still part of our life today. Just converted to Islam (good or bad, who knows) and sadly forgot their old language.

[@cormacmcquillan7093]

Most Turks are actually of Greek descent. The turkish genes are a minority.

[@brainblox5629]

@@cormacmcquillan7093 well its more like most Greeks are ethnic Anatolians i think and not originally from the islands. Most christians who could speak fled to Greece.

[@cormacmcquillan7093]

Most of the Greeks from the population exchange came from the costal areas where Greek migration had always been strong. The central anatolian areas were turkified heavily earlier on.

[@TechnologicZb]

Man, I am glad Armchair Historian gave you that shout out. This is some high quality content!!

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks for watching!

[@SigaralarSnavda]

a food shortage in mid asia changes the world history :d

[@rumo893]

*once more

[@nickshen2318]

Central Asia you mean. I through oghuz turks immigrate to Anatolia when mongol attack us by 12 centres

[@rumo893]

nick shen Not sure what you are saying, but with „the Mongols“ usually refers to the Mongol Empire, which was mostly made up of Turkic Peoples, but ruled by mongols

[@empirehistory4055]

‘’The History’’ was written by the Largest Empires such as British, Mongol, Great Selcuq, Ottoman, Russia, Spanish, Ummayad, GokTurk Khaganate, Khazar Khaganate, Roman, Timurid etc. They had built the world map, while others were living under their rules. Possible ways of measuring their size include area, population, economy, and power. They had consistent power and strategy to spread across the Continents and huge areas and build a system to manage countries and its people. There are many nationalities, unfortunately, who had been disappeared as a result of the war. They are those, who resisted without having compatible capability and resources. BCE (Before the Common Era) etc that people share today, are Purely Myth and subjective views of some individuals. Last 1000 years still may have more relevant and accurate information, which still being interpreted by people. However, sounds like only Turkish Empires/ Dynasty has left huge Turkish countries who is in current world map. They are Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan.

[@nickshen2318]

@Imran Akram yes, I do believe that, I am from Naiman tribe of kazakh, its very hard to tell the difference between us and Mongolian just by looking .

[@dinislamgozhoiarov3632]

Salam aleikum all my Turk and Muslim brothers from Kyrgyzstan

[@denizonal7044]

Aleykum selam gardas

[@Tozkoparan69]

VAR olsun TÜRK MİLLETİ 🇹🇷🇦🇿🇰🇬 Allah devlete millete zeval vermesin amin

[@kespec]

people are so obsessed with mongols that they don't realize mongolian armies were mainly turkic. those who didn't submit to the mongolian rule migrated to west, conquering all the way to balkans.

[@UnderakerMr]

Source?

[@jetli2086]

The term Turkic was generic term for Nomadic people north of China not particular ethnic group back in the day like how name Tatar was applied to the nomadic people from the north as well . Back then you had so many different clans with similar life style who sometimes spoke different languages but had same religious (tengrism) For example Mongol was just a sub tribe but because the ruling class were them that is why the Mongol empire was named after them similar to how Gokturk was named after the blue Turks or the Ashina clan even tho the majority of the army was Tiele people Even Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him when talking about nomads or people from Siberia and north Asia he called them Atrak or Turks

[@jetli2086]

@@kila200 Yes they were . But I am saying the Gokturks were name of the empire because of the family that ruled it the Ashina or the blue Turks even though like I have said the majority of their forces were from 40 tribes of Tiele and other Steppe nomads including Mongolic tribes

[@selimsahkulu78]

@@jetli2086 Turkic people have mostly same ethnic background

[@BALLARDTWIN]

I dont know if you've watched the Netflix series Marco Polo But it shows that one of the subjects of the Yuan mongol led dynasty of china was the Uighur tribes Its mentioned in a scene when they were discussing taxes and tributes

[@mymailkz]

Hello from Kazakhstan! Qazaqstannan salam!

[@yali9268]

Alga Kazakhstan 🇰🇿🇰🇿💙💙

[@Bubnova]

Maraba Kazak gardaş

[@emrckr33]

nik moralis ok

[@saragoza6270]

@@nikmoralis6710 calm down it is ok man ,just wear your pants

[@devetuccari]

@@nikmoralis6710 dont cry anymore enought

[@ELTURCO-u9y]

There were no Kurds in Anatolia. Kurds are just Iranian Nomads from the Iranian plateau. Anatolia was entire Christian.

[@blackstar19gammaburst85]

They will probably believe they were in anatolia before Turks

[@harrank2786]

Kurds are the descendant of Hurrian/Mitanni, and Meded empire. Kurds were in Anatolia before any religion, before Jewish, Christian, and muslim.

[@Rogerrramjet1]

You are right

[@Rogerrramjet1]

@@harrank2786 you are full of shit,, learn history 3rd world gypsie,, Babylonians were there before kurds

[@Rogerrramjet1]

@@harrank2786 its like me now strolling walking along and I say,, I like your land and now its mine???? this is iranian nomads mentality

[@fadlya.rahman4113]

The strength of the this steppe nomads is not in their horse archery. It's in their nomadic lifestyle. This nomads travel in caravan, with their families and livestock in tow. They are essentially a self-sustain army which help contribute to their impressive display of mobility. They are also used to live a frugal lifestyle, so they can go a long way with very little. Compare this to the settled people. Their army need a long and vulnerable supply line and a substantial amount of creature comfort just to keep their moral.

[@Ouzconqueror]

Strenght is technology Rahman..While % 99 of world live in Bronze-Crapy iron age Turks was mastered every single metals..They found a Damascus steel secret..can you imagine how powerful tech is it ? you are a enemy with sword 5kg crapy iron you try to swap it..And the Turks normaly no need to even jump down from horse can head shot you from 100 yard anyway but lets say he wanted to face to face..with 500 gram sword cutting 5kg iron shit like cheesee...Strenght is Sultan Mehmet and made Şahi cannons..one bullet ripe Whole byzantine walls..like Atom bombs of 1400ish...so if you wanna taste strenght..in any age you must hold the technology and move with new age..

[@firstlast-pq1tx]

Its both

[@MbisonBalrog]

@mahmut mahmutoglu How is that even possible? Settled peoples have specialization. Settled peoples always had advantage in tech. Did the nomads have a segment of their population that know how to mine for iron? I doubt it. They must have bought their steel from settled peoples.

[@chunguskhan912]

@@MbisonBalrog its a bit complicated turks were nomads so there is no detailed history about turks but they were great blacksmiths for the damascus steel turks are the one who made it

[@shaunakj8081]

@@MbisonBalrog Weren't the Gokturks originally blacksmiths?

[@arghunpride5704]

Remarkable video! Greetings from Kazakhstan!

[@takshashila2995]

Nice pottasium bro.I always buy kazakh pottasium and not uzbek,they got low quality.

[@PNJB_R]

Much love from Uzbekistan my brother

[@PNJB_R]

@Ruslan Achmetov ?

[@arghunpride5704]

Ruslan Achmetov You’re might be confusing me with someone,.....or I’m pretty sure that you are moronic idiot without any logic and with low IQ.

[@arghunpride5704]

OwnTrick In Romania, more precisely in gypsy village of Romania, from Sacha Baron Cohen comedy.

[@donluchitti]

nobody and I mean NOBODY covers this period well. What youtube needs is more history channels like yours that glue together the whys and hows of the all too well trod dates and great man theories of History that leave us failing to understand REALLY what life was like back then.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks so much my friend. Really glad you enjoy the channel.

[@nedzadeljazovic3594]

great video. It bothers me a bit that there is no Bosnia on the maps, between Serbia and Croatia.

[@direnius]

@@HistoryTime He's absolutely right. You have an incredible channel.

[@dondinodon]

I never ever saw a documentary about the Turks so neutraly, very good to listen aswell, Respect. Indeed Anatolia belongs almost a millennium to the Turks and no way to change that. Battles are the evidence to it. Crazy nomads. Anyway thank U for this proper education🙏🏼♥️ to others who don't know our history yet this is a correct explanation in short but it's the right one. But this one is Nr 1 documentary... 🙏🏼♥️🇹🇷

[@RobitGalaxy]

Then Palestine belongs to Israel from this perspective

[@alexmirhos1642]

@@RobitGalaxy It is human history, new nations arise while others decline or perish. Future generations have nothing to do with it . Live and let live and accept or respect facts on the ground , otherwise endless wars brings nothing but calamity.

[@sersipahi]

birader kan dökücü Türkler, çıkarları doğrulsunda din değiştirmişler, müslüman bile olamamışlar müslümanlarıda kesmişler diyor. bunlar ufaka kabilelerdi diyor küçümsüyor. Siyasi yorumlar yapıyor... Sende diyorsun ki tarafsız olmuş...Pes doğrusu.

[@onurcan8434]

Anatolia is full of 6000 years of archaeological - historical - scientific and linguistic evidence belonging to the Sumerians, who were proven to be of Turk origin 100 years ago, but do you call this historiography and my history? 1016 huh! We are the indigenous race of Asia and we do not have the African gene in our Y DNA, nor did we spread to the world through Africa!!! We now have 40,000 years of genetically proven history. geneticist doctor Spencer Wells, dated 2005. Middle Eastern tribes do not come from the same origin as Africans, but they lived together for a long time and mixed with each other. The entire humanity of the world consists of the people belonging to these 3 races and the mingling of the tribes belonging to these 3 races. Jews and Palestinians are both middle eastern races but they are not like us! we don't kill our blood brothers who are aware of who they are, but they kill and murder without even looking at the tears in their eyes!!! I suggest you learn who really is who and what..!

[@Ismael_Malikshahi]

​@@RobitGalaxyIsrael stil 70 years old not 1000 years

[@Reader_curiosity]

Video contains errors and Superficiality. In philosophy, what is built on a false introduction gives a false result. - Building that era on climate change. - To spread a certain culture to all Turkish peoples. There are Turkish kingdoms and empires that appeared before the Seljuk Empire for hundreds of years. At that time there were Islamic Turkish kingdoms, namely the Ghaznavid Empire and the Karakhanid Kingdom since the 9th, 10th and AD centuries. Prince Seljuq broke away from the ruler of the Oguz in Central Asia because of internal conflict and went to the Samanid state. The Samanid state relied heavily on the Turkish element and tried to expand in the Turkic country. The Seljuks maintained allegiance to the Samanid until the last moment. After the collapse of the Samanid state, the Seljuks went to Khorasan. The Ghaznavids had a major goal of controlling India, which was rich in its wealth, an extension of the Kushan and the White Huns, and did not care about the Khorasan. This helped the Seljuks and gave them legitimacy to control the Orient There were problems in the Middle East: the conflicts of the Buyid state that were not mentioned in the video, the struggle for succession between the Abbasid and Fatimid branches, the expansion of the military Byzantines. This environment created an environment and legitimacy for the expansion of the Seljuks to the west and the achievement of several objectives, stopping the Byzantines and maintaining the Abbasid caliphate and reshaping the Islamic world. This is true. There were problems with the tribes, but there was a state and a Sultan subject to it and dealing with problems. If the conflict was political and religious. The second mistake is the socialization of all Turkish peoples. Firstly, nomads is a common culture among all the peoples of the world. It is subject to geographic and economic data, not a defect. History books have mentioned several peoples of nomadic origins who have made civilizations. Turkish people pride themselves on their cultural diversity and roots. Second, not all Turkish people were nomads. All elements of urban life were found by the Turks more than 2,000 years ago. You mentioned the karakhanid and they were stable people and people of cities and countryside in central and interior Asia, where there is a vast Turkish region From North of the Syr Darya to Lake Isik known by the Turks as the province of Argo. Ghaznawis in the south of Khorasan and the city of Ghazni. The kingdom of the Khazars was a stable people in the Volga and Caspian region. Uighurs have a stable people in Tarim and Mongolia. And others ,,,, Not all the people of the Oguz were nomads, they were a diverse society with cities and towns, probably true, most of them pastoralists. Fortunately, there is an ancient Turkish dictionary in the Middle Ages that contains hundreds of vocabulary in urban and rural life. The rise of the Turkish people and their sovereignty in the world is a historical inevitability, which took place under objective conditions, created civilizations and left many imprints on human cultures. A Coptic historian named John of Nikiû wrote this phrase in the seventh century AD: "God conquers the Romans with Arabs and Turks." Arabs with the Caliphate Empire. turks With the kingdoms of the Bulgars, the khazars and the Avar, who besieged the Byzantines in Europe. And in the East with the empires of Goktürk, Shahi Turk and Uyghur. Unfortunately, there are ugly racist comments, military expansion is the character of the ancient world, the Greeks with Alexander the Great, Romans, Persians, Assyrians, Arabs and others. Some of these comments attack the Mongolian race, which has made great civilizations and global empires. This Western racist forgets the Western expansion of the American continent, the removal of the maya civilization and Aztec civilization, the cultures of indigenous peoples, the expansion of Africa, the theft of its wealth, the expansion of East Asia and the wars of opium. I apologize for my broken English.

[@Reader_curiosity]

Illustration: In the Uighur people, Tarim is the province of Xinjiang in western China known as East Turkistan. In the quick response to racial comments, since the Turks have been ethnically mixed peoples since ancient times, there are many racist comments attacking the Mongol race spread in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Americas. People belonging to the Mongol race are human beings like the rest of humanity Belonging to other races. People belonging to the Mongol race have created many civilizations and world empires, and have the most powerful economies in the world. The Mongol race has different colors, different features and special beauty standards.

[@shalaby8968]

@@Reader_curiosity I would really recommend you to just ignore these ugly racists they would never understand that god created us different from one another and no race or colour is better than others so don't waste your time explaining that to them if they don't believe in these simple facts.

[@bluestar4324]

Finally a logical comment. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Don't mind racists. They know the truths but they just close their eyes. I hope you have happy days thorough your life.

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

@@shalaby8968 there is no god.

[@shalaby8968]

@@TheTariqibnziyad prove it

[@LucasDimoveo]

History is so incredibly complex. Central Asian, even more so! I wish people did some deep reading into history before using what little knowledge they have to build their opinions

[@HistoryTime]

It is indeed incredibly complex. It's a glorious rabbit hole you fall into.

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

Well said.

[@FOtus-yw1rr]

But, but, but, if it was not for R..n it would not be complicated.

[@SupercleverTurk]

No actually it is very simple.1000 years ago every country was Turkish.See,in 1 sentence.

[@crazyayhan7533]

Man I can't tell you how right you are!

[@honeymr.latenight5714]

Assalamalleikum, for all Turkik brothers!!!

[@aliayub2216]

Wa alaikum assalam from uyghur turk , from east turkistan. From Kashgr wilayah. Kashgar Is One of the major city of kharakhanid turk empire. Turk wa musulman kardaslarga salam.

[@johnysilverhand7905]

Aleykumselam Brother

[@oroboros4858]

Salam kardash

[@alaaddinaksu]

ALEYKUM SELAM MY BROTHER

[@yoh923]

my grandfather and grandmother are nomadic people. Although Ottoman nomadic Turks make a lot of effort to settle down, nomadic life is indispensable for Turks. As our ancestor Dadaloğlu, a nomadic Turk, said the edict sultan's mountains are ours.

[@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt]

😂

[@_Ahmed_15]

What about the Hungarians? They were nomads from beyond the Ural Mountains who also settled in Europe

[@smartpredator7469]

ANSWER IS SIMPLE HUNS TRIBE HUNGARY only to not by racist with our huns roma indo iranics from hungary becouse much peoples is racist with our tribes who remains there in times of old huns who was decimated by franks and maghyars dont know the roma hungro is from huns our tribes from estern europes

[@TheSunderingSea]

Karl The Magyars crossed over the Carpathian’s about a century before, and were largely of Finno-Urgic origin rather then their Turkic neighbors, enemies and sometimes allies.

[@ibrahimalmc1824]

@Alt Metin Actually we can't say that since Turks like adopting nicknames of epic generals or kings. For instance name "Fatih" is actually a nickname or epithet but we use it as a regular name now.

[@donarw1064]

definitely not , Hungarians are not Huns , their DNA is almost similar to the neighboring Slovaks

[@Keyhan-c8c]

finlands and hunfary were scythian related, they llived at north caspian sea and by the first turkish rush to west they moved to east europe. i mean its in attila history .

[@Hakanerdmmm]

Turk Bod’ununa Salam Bolsun arqadaslarga 🇹🇷🇰🇬🇦🇿🇺🇿🇰🇿🇭🇺 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺

[@metex.1155]

@Viking Pride Turkish blood in your blood

[@matanatzeynalova5568]

Turkmenistani unutmusan adə

[@jackhakken]

Idiot.

[@turalijaehwadti785]

Aleykum Salam

[@m3t4l-thr36]

🇹🇲🇹🇲🇺🇿🇺🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇹🇷🇹🇷🇰🇬🇰🇬🇰🇿🇰🇿

[@precursors]

I don't understand why this video has so many dislikes. It's only a video about actual history in great detail.

[@gecegece1552]

we call it butt hurt :D

[@RobertMeersman]

When people try to retrofit their current political beliefs onto a historical narrative and discover stuff they don't like

[@RobertMeersman]

This said I also disliked because of the repetitive hodgepodge of incompatible and often irrelevant maps

[@timuraktolga5698]

''The Turks and Franks are of the same stock; and only these two people are born to be warriors. If the Turks had but the Christian faith; you could not find better, braver warriors than them'' -Gesta Francorum (Norman Crusader Chronicle written during 1st Crusade in 1097).

[@MeoVatosLocos]

Islam kept them stupid . with no religion they would conquer the world but yeah they sold them selfs to the devil like al others who converted to islam except the arabs cause they came with it

[@raheemaah8914]

MNF.gabber_ Cc Islam kept them strong coz faith is patience during difficulty and thankfulness prosperity

[@user-jh9nx6tl1n]

@@raheemaah8914 nah tengri was better

[@TahaAlZadjali]

there was one incident when the moguls came for Baghdad then the slave army where expected (paid army) came out to face them ... they did came out but to join them ,,, so they drop their arms expecting that their cousins (the moguls) will accept them as their own... sadly they where slaughtered till the last man.

[@bluestar4324]

@Xaris Xeros Bedtime stories for children eh? They were too crowded but they run away and killed civilians. Lol. That reminds me of Greek retreat in 1922. Killing civilians. Ask it to the west europe. Brits literarily stole the wealth of India. And killed every civilian who opposed them. I don't want to count rape of Africa by western Europe. And every single european I came across up to now said to me that Africa is undeveloped because their ıq is low. And most of them claim they have values and they are humanists. That is just disgusting. Pure hypocrisy.

[@spookyshadowhawk6776]

At last, a History of this part of the World, from their viewpoint! Most of what we have is from European sources, tainted by their past Political and Religious Aditudes towards this part of the World. What I like most about your channel, is your ability to show all sides of History, without bias towards any one side and how they inneract with each other over time. Most of the older European History, is written as seen by the Culture or Nation of the Historian and often modified to fit their views of people's seen as Historical enemies of Europe. We want to look at the History of these People through their own eyes, to see them as they see themselves, the True History. Keep up the Great Work!

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks so much. Glad you like the channel!

[@spookyshadowhawk6776]

@@HistoryTime You earned it, reliable History without bias is a rare treasure in today's world! Looking forward to seeing the one million subscriber Party!!!!

[@spookyshadowhawk6776]

@@fvefve12 I'll check that out, to truly understand History you have to see it from all sides, not just one. Its like learning about the Second World War with the American History taught in Highschool, a very condensed one sided version of what actually happened. By its nature, it only shows a brief version of what one Country did, leaving out ninity percent of what actually happened. For the other Countries involved, you get less than a paragraph, sometimes only a sentence or two. They encourage you to study the War on your own, as the library has much more detailed book's on the subject, few do and have a very one sided veiw of the War. I've read over twenty book's from different Countries and still learn new things I hadn't heard of, you just can't cover six years of a World War in any one book. History isn't the story of just one Country or Culture, it's a record of Humanity and how it inneracts with itself through time. If you just know about Germany from what Highschool History says, you think Evil Nazis! But if you study Germany from 1918 to 1939, you understand why Germany took the path it did and how the same thing could happen again. Thanks for the Information! The Crusades and the Politics/Religion behind it is a very convoluted time in History, with things like the Children's Crusades, which is very hard to understand today!

[@FOtus-yw1rr]

@@fvefve12.. there is a documentary about "Crusades from an Arab Perspective" done by Aljazeera.

[@aydnmesuttorun8397]

@TheoXaris lmao what a hater

[@salehmehdizade]

Hello from Azerbaijan. Even though it is ancient name for our country we often unofficially call it "Oguz Eli" Land of Oguz

[@salehmehdizade]

@@basirj8578 They are turkic and that is end of the story. You cannot assume one's identity based on your ideas

[@kubat552]

@@basirj8578 lol no

[@iskambillordu]

@@basirj8578 another persian who claims even germenic people are originated from persians.d

[@iskambillordu]

@@basirj8578 first of all im not a azerbaijani. And azeris settled caucasia during the seljuk empire times. And that nowruz and other things because of turks become muslim by iranians. You can see similarities in anatolian turks. But unlike anatolian turks,azeris ruled by persians for a long time. That similarities between azeris and persians depends historical ties. Not by blood.

[@iskambillordu]

@@basirj8578 wtf bro. İ said turkic cultures have nowruz because they become muslims by iranians invitation. And my name is arabic but im turkish. And azeris turk by blood,language,culture and everything.

[@kuvanishbeksaltukbekov4627]

Anatolia = All Turks Land Greetings from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 🇰🇿🇰🇬🇺🇿🇦🇿🇹🇲🇹🇷

[@deeplorable8988]

Could you explain to me why Turks are so ugly?

[@kuvanishbeksaltukbekov4627]

Dee Plorable what have we done to you?

[@kuvanishbeksaltukbekov4627]

Dee Plorable we fucked, right

[@kuvanishbeksaltukbekov4627]

EXTRA LARGE True :) Mongolia, Central Asia, Caucasus and Anatolia = Turk Land :)

[@kuvanishbeksaltukbekov4627]

EXTRA LARGE Mongols and Turks are Brothers.

[@ilnigromante666]

"What would you do if you were the victorious and I the vanquished? "Drag you in an iron cage through the streets of Constantinople." "My punishment is far heavier. I forgive you and set you free." Allegged exchange between Alp Arslan and Romanos IV after the Battle of Manzikert.

[@s4bc]

Set him free? Wasn't there an absolutely insanely high ransom for Romanus?

[@ProfessorOFanthropology979]

Daniel D that was the punishment. He returned to Constantinople and was deposed,killed and blinded by his political rivals

[@ellin67]

Well, he blinded Romanos before he set him free, though

[@ProfessorOFanthropology979]

ellin67 no he didn’t. The Seljuks had a policy of not harming royals. Alp arslan was also negotiating with romanos and wanted to exchange towns and pastures for Presents and gifts. While still captive he was overthrown in a palace coup, and when released he was quickly defeated and detained by members of the Doukas family. In 1072, he was blinded and sent to a monastery, where he died of his wounds.

[@Radbot776]

boxhead mcparcelson not quite he didn’t die in the monastery and he wasn’t just blinded but also castrated and some princess took power, he became emperor again, he killed the queen, ruled for several years before he was killed by assassin

[@gogeyeryuzune9095]

Ne de güzel girdi atalarımız!!! Yürüdük, savaştık, birleştik, bölündük, dağıldık, kim bilir belki de birleşiriz bir gün. Esenlikler.

[@BenDover-ud7vs]

Bunların hepsi Oğuz zaten. Oğuzlar da Türkiye ile Azerbaycanda. Ne birleşmesi.

[@gogeyeryuzune9095]

@@BenDover-ud7vs Türkmenistan da yoğunlukla Oğuz olarak anılıyor. Türkiye'ye yalnızca Oğuzlar girmedi, ancak tabii büyük çoğunluğu onların oluşturduğuna inanılıyor. Ben tüm dünyada Türkçe konuşan Türk geleneklerini sürdüren toplulukların düşünce ve yapıda birleşmesini kastetmiştim.

[@BenDover-ud7vs]

@@gogeyeryuzune9095 Türkiye ve Azerbaycan nüfusu birlikte 90 milyon, türkmenistan nüfusu 5 milyon olan tamamen çöllerden oluşan kuzey kore ayarında diktatörlük. Olsa ne olmasa ne. Anadoluya da sadece Oğuzlar geldi sadece. Ayrıca Kazakistan, Kırgızistan gibi devletler Türkçe konuşmuyor ve Türk değiller. Türk; Türkiye, Azerbaycan, ortadoğu ve balkanlarda yaşayan oğuzca konuşan halka denir. Mesela Kazaklar Türki diller ailesinden bir dil konuşan ayrı bir millettir. Kültürel olarak Yunana daha yakınız onlara olduğumuzdan. Dilimiz ayrı, mutfagımız ayrı, fizyonomimiz ayrı. Kürtler daha çok Türk onlardan. İngilizler ve Almanlar gibi. İngilizler Cermen dili konuşuyorlar ama alman değiller. Türki diller de böyle bir dil ailesidir. Zaten adamlar kendilerini Türk olarak görmüyorlar. Bi sizler kendi kendinize gelin güvey oluyorsunuz.

[@emrecanarduc4378]

@@gogeyeryuzune9095 Türkiye'ye sadece Oğuzlar göçmedi zaten. Bir çok Türk boyu ve kavmi geldi Kıpçak, Özbek, Tatar, Kuman, Hazar vs. yani her türlü kavmi var Türkiye'de

[@neotrnty4717]

Her milletin yukselme ve geri gidisi vardi bizim yukselme donemimiz TURKLERIN gocebe oldugu ve islama gectikleri ilk 500 600 yil sonra TURKLER kendi kulturunu unuttular isimler arap oldu giyim fln mahvolduk yigenim

[@dassarkhailjadoon9970]

Turks Are Real Lions Love you from pakistan

[@MrNomad-vy8yl]

@Hassan Abdulsalam Low IQ Kurd detected

[@hannibalbarca2928]

@Hassan Abdulsalam We're not talking about the Kurds.The issue is the Turks and they are the nation that establishes the most states and destroys the most states.

[@precursors]

"Khazar" is pronounced as you would pronounce "Hazard" in English (minus the "d") It's not pronounced as "Kaiser" Also, in Turkic languages the Caspian Sea is called "Hazar Sea"

[@rda9515]

fiery greetings from KYRGYZ 🇰🇬

[@Kinghassz]

ꄃЭRланDжaꄃ peace be upon you from an arab originally from the levant but living in Australia.

[@aydnmesuttorun8397]

@@Kinghassz i believe he was greeting his kinsmen, the Turkic people.

[@sananebanane7327]

@@aydnmesuttorun8397 hahaha olum bırak iste selam vermiş kim alıosa alsın :)

[@zeyneptoker44]

Hassan Droubi As a reply told you he said it to us,Turks not you.Please make comments to your own history videos.

[@zeyneptoker44]

sanane banane ama Aydın bey haklı ya adam onlara dememiş ki 😂

[@joihnbrown1889]

Turcja. Wspaniały kraj ze wspaniałą historią.

[@VB-mv7mf]

It is not Turkish history it is Anatolian history Turkey is a new country

[@bruhovski7554]

@@VB-mv7mf 💀 so much cope Its history of the TURKISH people, the people who have come to these lands and established the country of TURKEY in the same lands. The video is talking about how those people who established turkey came to these lands, therefore it is undeniably turkish history. By your logic history of prussia isnt history of germany because germany is a relatively new country and that it doesnt even own prussia anymore. or history of the ussr and the russian empire arent russian history because the russian federation was born only 30 years ago. And dont even try to argue “uhhhhh turks only have 30% central asian dna therefore theyre all not turks!!!” The turks have assimilated many peoples throughout their history but they still have kept their languages and traditions while accepting and adopting some customs from the locals, would you rather they employ the same tactics the south africans used to keep themselves “genetically pure”? It doesnt matter at all whose blood you got, the thing that matters is the language that you speak and your loyalties, and many countless turks have demonstrated this throughout history and even recent history. You could literally make the claim that history of the ottoman empire is greek history because the sultans married greeks and had their blood in them, a claim which will honestly be immediately rejected by any greek or turk.

[@anlugurlu907]

@@bruhovski7554👏👏

[@PsychMaxing]

@@VB-mv7mf 😅😅

[@kadircanyldran1849]

@@VB-mv7mf yes we are 100 years old bitch!!! wtf my mother side is from horasan other is Yörük wtf u mean?

[@AlexKomnenos]

Your picture of Tughril isn’t Tughril, that was a picture of Mehmet II during the fall of Constantinople in 1453

[@freetube5304]

Thats seljuk Sultan Kaykubad

[@mulayimbombac8034]

@@freetube5304 o, fatih'in portresi. İstanbul'a girerken.

[@errnesfpv]

omer yalçın I heard he was 21yo when he conquered Constantinople

[@omeryalcn2297]

@@errnesfpv yes you are right, he had started preparings at 19 years old and conquered at 21.

[@sirjuju4766]

I guess u would've also thought to clear/cut down miles of trees located on a hill then pull and push your war ships up and over that hill in order to win the battle too? Let's not forget that a 21 year old accomplished the mission.

[@mechanicalengineering5749]

I am Pechenegs Turks. My origin. 🇹🇷🇹🇷

[@aiurea1]

Pechengs and Cumans fought against the Turks except for 1071.

[@gozdea5548]

@@aiurea1 it is not a suprise that Turkic people also fought with each other. Turks were composed of many tribes. For example ottomans were one of the many Turkic beyliks (kingdoms) in anatolia.

[@aiurea1]

Many many Turkic tribes

[@yigitgorkemulker1381]

@@aiurea1 They changed their side at the battle. They fought against byzantine with Seljuk Turks

[@precursors]

@@aiurea1 Correction: Turkic tribes fought between each other. Pechenegs, Cumans and Oghuz were all Turkic tribes.

[@iLLeag7e]

I took my pm meds and drifting off to sleep much as I usually do whilst enjoying an hour or two of fascinating, chill history. It's a college lecture in the best way possible.

[@hiukas.]

Poor Byzantium. They where getting hammered by every neighbor for a thousand year's. Its a miracle they even held for a thousand year's.

[@sasavrbanic2065]

Poor east roman empire man they represt evry nation onBalkan they got wht they deserve

[@robertmccance7605]

They also held off an arab invasion which would've seen islam in the balkans and eastern europe as early as the 700s, let alone anatolia.

[@sasavrbanic2065]

@@Hellspawn16 j m a Serbian not Bulgarian...

[@jackhakken]

@All Knowing 369 and you have some serious braindamage.

[@iskambillordu]

@@robertmccance7605 they didnt. What stops arab is anatolian highlands. These lands are foreign to arabs.

[@saritorbanizgeldi9875]

Sonsuza dek burdayiz burdaydikta 🐺🐺🐺🐺

[@Vitalis94]

Good timing! History of Byzantium podcast just begins to cover this period. So having a video talking about the primary sources is a great thing to have. Many thanks!

[@HistoryTime]

One of the best podcasts!

[@sandrojones8068]

@@HistoryTime Byzantium doesn't exist. ERE Edit: Eastern Roman Empire.

[@MrVibriocholerae]

@@sandrojones8068 of course it does

[@judsonwall8615]

@@sandrojones8068 Or, just the Roman Empire. I sometimes use the later Roman Empire.

[@itsatrap8283]

In TENGRI we trust !!!

[@Emre-kc2mz]

Tengriism is still very much alive in Turkish culture and Turkish islam.

[@MrTimurLP]

how?

[@brydenholley1904]

I love this documentary. Thank you for posting! It's amazing how talented young people today can create something that gives me a more interesting watching experience than documentaries made by 'official' TV channels. Thanks again

[@TheSamuraijim87]

A really excellent video! I had had no idea about the process of the climate change in Asia affecting the Turkic migration. That's a really interesting idea. When i was at university, the teaching centred on the need to bring the feudal nobility of Frankia under control. I'm deeply impressed with such a quality video. The maps in particular were exceptional too. Great work.

[@HistoryTime]

Really appreciate you watching my friend! Don't get me wrong, expansionism certainly played a massive part, but the initial catalyst in my opinion, for the decline of Eastern Rome and the Caliphate, and ensuing wars that followed was the climate catastrophe. These things are always more complicated than they first seem

[@TheSamuraijim87]

History Time even though I did my honors thesis at uni on the interaction between the Greeks and the Seljuks, and this is a topic that does very much interest me, I'd like to add my voice to those who are asking for a Ghaznavid Video, and to bring your series on the Great Seljuks all the way down to the end of the dynasty in 1194.

[@RaulEndymionOfHyperion]

Wow, fantastic video! Who needs TV when you have quality content like this available? I'm loving the back and forth here in the comments too. 🇹🇷⚔️🇬🇷⚔️🇦🇲 👍

[@HusticeBoxer23]

Turks easy win

[@NNNGun]

How you know easily??

[@bordoenes6217]

This is amazing content. Very detailed and interesting video. Even as a Turk there are things i simply didnt even know about that turn out to be crucial and bigger deals then initialy thought.

[@asphaltrider_699]

*Then the fire nation attacked*

[@sandrojones8068]

RECLAIM CONSTANTINOPLE! DEUS VULT!

[@archenema6792]

@@sandrojones8068 Take back the Golden Horn!

[@takshashila2995]

I don't understand this meme.Can someone explain it to me?

[@TurquazCannabiz]

Lol this comment is funny since you are Greek and it's kinda true in your case

[@Oghuzpervert1]

@@sandrojones8068 Last time you did that you sacked Constantinople.

[@izmiryldz6995]

Congratulations. Perfect history knowledge and fair interpretation based on historical documents. I'm very surprised to see such a high level of history in a youtube channel. Thank you !

[@ZihniYalcin]

saka mi ediyorsun yoksa hic mi ingilizcen yok? adam oyle bir uyduruyor ki barbar hacli seferlerinin bile Turkleri durdura bilmek icin basladigina getiriyor..."high level of bull s#it" more likely.

[@metehanylmaz8172]

Greetings from Tatar Turks who migrated to Anatolia 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

[@iTechRevolutionTV]

24:17 the man displayed there isn't Tugril but Mehmed the Conquerer (Ottoman Sultan)

[@Yarluqaduq]

@Bozkurt postuna bürünmüş yobaz AraB devesi Tughrul is name for an epic falcon in Turkic mythology actually. Hungarians calls it as ''Turul''

[@Passion4History]

One of the most beautifully made historical videos of all time! I am genuinely impressed by how much hard work, research and dedication has been put into the making of this video. Absolutely gorgeous, can't wait to watch more.. the entire atmosphere of the video just transcends me into the essence and spirit of those times - good job! (Shout-out to the armchair historian for linking me to the video) P.S Can you make a video about the Bulgarian empires someday please? :)

[@honeybadgerisme]

Well--I really like this and the style you did it in! Thank you!

[@amazingblogger]

Your videos are amazing, you cover topics from a unique perspective that you really cant find anywhere else, its such a pleasure to watch!

[@nomeyodomar]

Complete unbiased and well made! Thank you!

[@bluestar4324]

It won't be even enough if I say thank you for a thousand time. I have never seen such an objective perspective while watching about history. You told both good and evil sides of every subject in the video. World needs more people like you to learn about history. I am grateful for your hardwork. Thanks and thanks again!

[@aasemahsan]

3:44 Matthew of Edessa's account 5:41 Vaspurakan King gives up his realm to Basil II because of Turkish threat 6:22 Hypothesis about Seljuk migration & Crusades Steppe traditions among the early Turks 15:14 Origin of Seljuk Turks 22:23 28:06 Family Tree 24:49 Relationship between Seljuk ruler Tughril & Abbasid Caliph Al Qa'im Animosity against Fatimids & Byzantines & continued attacks on the latter 31:03 Alp Arslan takes command after Tughril's death 31:57 Turkmen who weren't under the Seljuks 33:49 Other invasios of Byzantine Empire Normans in Italy Pechenegs & Uses in the North Romanos IV Diogenes replaces Constantine X Doukas as Emperor Seljuk victory in Manzikert 35:51 Short-lived peace treaty ( Romanos deposed & blinded, Alp Arslan killed in the East) 38:01 Malik Shah becomes Seljuk empire Sultanate of Rum under Suleiman *Book recommendations* The Crusader Armies (by Steve Tibble) The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean (by Ronnie Ellenblum) Collapse:How societies choose to fail or survive (by Jared Diamond) Cotton, Climate And Camels In Early Islamic Iran (by Richard W. Bulliet)

[@silentbullet2023]

👏

[@turksavuncu4880]

Anatolia : Exists Oğhuz Türks : Is Ths Free Real Estate

[@ateram]

@Rep 101 you should stop lying about where you're from too. Don't believe me, take a DNA test

[@anoldtimer]

Rep 101 wowwwww so knowledgable, yeah im pretty sure once you’re in a place for a long time you’re basically from there and Turks are from there, OG Turkic people are not, so yeet stupid, they are from Anatolia

[@rylodimadperoksizko5129]

@Rep 101 Why all of you calling us mongol ? is that a insult ?

[@eren9001]

@Rep 101 stop crying that your ancestors got conquered by turks we are in 2020

[@yorukoglu8937]

@Rep 101 Turks and Mongols are cousins. Their language is the Altaic language. Turk => 230 million Mongol => 4-5 million

[@mamlukkonez8297]

RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME!!! HATS OFF SIR FOR EVERYTHING FROM RESEARCH, CONTENT & HOW YOU TOLD THE STORY.... EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL......

[@bedouinknight9437]

The Quality in your videos is totally amazing, great job.

[@hendricusderuijter9671]

one of the most epic video's in youtube history right here. 40 minutes of flawless articulation and construction of narratives, everything just flows together, and the detail in some of these stories is just unheard of to my also i would suggest you make a video about the vandals and alans, and their kingdom in africa!

[@tigingemici5121]

If Saxons leave Britain and Franks leave Gaul; we will leave Anatolia, I promise.

[@msxavier8519]

Deal

[@BlueBird-wb6kb]

The problem is that you Banned PORK , MY Yummy Pork !

[@nikosiderakis7105]

Sultan's Children Taker by Nicholas Siderakis A Hellene breathes in the fine misty air His ancestors souls whispering in the breeze Mothers shout cries of agony So that the Sultan's children taker would not confiscate their boys A savage lurks in the shadows Your child's pulse shall palpitate with fanaticism Emanating from a trigger happy janissary Ready to cut down his own flesh and blood Keep your boys safe So one day they shall not turn against motherland Raise them so they shall eat bread from your hand Tell them about their fathers: Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, and Constantine Let them breathe in the wisdom of the Hellene air Keep the candle lit so their hope will stay alive

[@tirig6346]

They are Europeans living in European lands, not Asiatic invaders

[@nikosiderakis7105]

@@tirig6346 If someone enters a country ILLEGALLY then, like President Trump said are considered invaders. There are international laws against illegal immigration. Vice versa, if a European entered your country illegally, then he/she would be considered an illegal alien. They are Europeans if they possess a European Union passport. That's the LAW.

[@ogulcankrmzaltn4531]

Comment section 1/4 People saying Nationalists coming 1/4 Nationalist insulting others and saying "we are better" 1/4 Normalish comments wanna know more etc 1/4 People who wants see what the Nationalist doing

[@ogulcankrmzaltn4531]

@@c.c.9539 Nationalism is always good if it makes competition but Extreme nationalist like Nazis etc. they are not good for no one

[@wael4070]

Here's my recommendation man, enjoy the video and scroll down the comment section, u will learn something new and have your peace of mind at the same time

[@andrewgu2457]

Where’s the enlightenment in enlightened nationalism? Why do values have to be organized along national lines? Not trying to incite a flamewar here, just asking a couple questions.

[@GODOBER]

A Turk complaining about Nationalists... Your scum nation to this day erases the true history of its nations and claims that the Hittites, Hatti, Laz and other Anatolians were Turks. Up until the early 20th century you were forcefully converting Christians and killing those who didn't. Even today there are so called crypto-Armenians who are afraid of revealing their identity. In the 20th century you had a political initiative "Speak Turkish Citizen!", which didn't even let children at school speak their native language with other children. You were resettling hundreds of thousands Kurds, Armenians, Georgians, Circassians, so you could mix them up to erase our identity and you call someone bad because he is a nationalist? You are the biggest scum of the world right now, not even paralleled by Russia or America.

[@GODOBER]

@@andrewgu2457 Societal organization along national lines proved to be the most durable model which gave the strongest group identity to a large mass of people. Which country or culture will develop if in a situation of war half of its population flees somewhere and the rest surrenders? That kind of society is bound to be destroyed. Think with your fucking head for a minute, it is common sense that 10 year olds can understand.

[@alecpayne18]

Fascinating, thank you so much. Really happy about your subscriber increase as well, we appreciate your diligent work. I never thought the turkish entry into the middle east had anything to do with the crusades, nor was based on climate changes.

[@aliuzaypeker3481]

The Turks who entered Anatolia were not only herders. Just study art and architecture of the Seljuk cities in Anatolia! Turks brought a matured urban culture to Anatolia together with its architecture. It was a process begun in Iran and Central Asia in the 8th century. Western Orientalist historians tell tales to themselves then to the world and expect us to believe this nonsense. We are fed up with Western superiority complex and its products like this propaganda. We know the realities since we know our history better then you now. Forget about these nineteenth century colonialist, imperialist, racist nonsense and start to read on Seljuk and Ottoman art and architecture which was based on Early Islamic prototypes but also well advanced thanks to the scientists and craftsmen of the period. Turks are great creators and sponsors of art. Just see Caghatai emperors in India, Safavids and Ottomans.

[@RICO_SUAVE_86_]

My farts create better "art" than that of the Turks.

[@soran1461]

Only! Nothing else ,and we told ordugan in the parliament, turks brought curse to our sacred lands ,the land of the kurds

[@the.pandamonium]

The production value of this video is crazy! Glad I bumped into this channel.

[@ottomanmapper3502]

Muslim Turks came to Anatolia in 1071, Christian Turks came to Anatolia in 1048.

[@alkarisi2585]

Jewish Turks: It's a free Real estate *came to Anatolia in 700s*

[@vitalalive69]

Tengri Biz Menen ! Greetings to all the Turan people from Turkey.

[@nazlondon6260]

vitalalive69 tengrimi. Senin beyinsiz

[@mmithandir3115]

@@nazlondon6260 sana ne ister tenfri der ister god der sana ne oluyor belki adam Müslüman değil

[@vitalalive69]

@pc gold You idiot Turan is the union of Turkic speaking peoples or countries, your comment is pointless.

[@shah.w]

I'm an oguz Türkmen, our ancestors were Seljuqs Turkmens. The Seljuqs, and thier descendant Ottomans were rulers of the world had brought prosperity, freedon and equality for all for many centuries. Thank you very much for sharing this history.

[@isthatskk7042]

Wali Farhang Wht do u have ur profile picture of the American flag?

[@shah.w]

@@isthatskk7042 I'm a Turkmen American U.S citizen

[@armans4306]

You are proud of murders and invaderors. Fuck you

[@shah.w]

@@armans4306 I disagree with you! I feel bad for both sides who had lost their life in the battlefield.

[@baykalb]

Türkiye,den diğer Türk diyarlarında yaşayan kardeşlere selam olsun..

[@ozanjst]

Türklerin arapça ''selamı' diyerek, veya farsça-kürtçe ''merhaba'' diyerek selamlaşmalarına üzülüyorum. Karşılaşmalarda ; Esenlikler dilerim Ayrılırken ; Esen Kal

[@baykalb]

@@ozanjst Esenlikler dilerim. Aslında amaç; kardeşlerle gönül bağı tesis etme gayretindeyiz. Bunu yaparken dediğiniz gibi (esenlikler dilerim) yapsak bişey kaybetmeyiz. Fakat karşıdakine kendimizi anlatabilir miyiz onu bilmiyorum. Ama bunu yinede yayginlastirmaliyiz.. uyarı için teşekkür ederim. Esen kal kardeşim 😃

[@ozanjst]

@@baykalb Doğru söylüyorsun bilmeyen birine Esenlikler dilerim desen ne diyor bu der yada dalga geçtiğini zanneder :) ben günlük hayatımda selam merhaba yerine genellikle 'günaydın'' ''iyi günler'' ''iyi akşamlar'' kelimelerini kullanıyorum . Öz Türkçe kelimeler kullanmaya özen gösteren insanların sayısı yavaş yavaş artıyor , dilden tamamen silmek tabiki imkansız ama en azından ibranice salom kelimesinden arapçaya ordanda bize geçen selam ve farsiler ve kürtlerin öz selamı merhaba yerine öz Türkçe kelimelerle birbirimizi karşılamak halini hatrını sormak daha doğru diye düşünüyorum. Uyarı değilde bir serzenişti .Esen kal andam.

[@democlesdem9252]

@@ozanjst Merhaba da arapça, farsça değil.

[@aydnmesuttorun8397]

@Jonathan Kimberley var dostum yanlis anlama taraflarinda degilimde kurtce iran dilleri icindr bir dildir.. iran ve tacikceyle yakinlim gosterir

[@christopherfernandes4401]

Fantastic. The commentary is superb. Loved it.

[@Aku6Soku1Zan]

O zaman "Tengri biz Menen" diyelim

[@emir-8165]

Son of Mountain Kurdistan is dead... and will never rise... moron of the ideology by Hitler called Aryan..

[@emir-8165]

Imran Turkmen TengriBizMenen

[@emir-8165]

Son of Mountain yup and fought byside with the Turks ;) and that spot is in Iraq as a autonomous Region

[@emir-8165]

Son of Mountain Ataturk didnt lie the Kurds... he killed every ultra islamist that he found. Those were Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Arabs and whatsoever... Many Kurds those times (1922) where the ones who fought most and suffered most to save a dead empire byside with Ataturk... *one of the most* Ataturk called everyone to fight for a dead empire... a lot of Laz, Zaza and Kurds helped Ataturk... even Ataturk had Kurdish friends even Armenian friends... who called themself as Turks. even to save todays Syrian/Turkish borders in those times did the Kurds fight a lot... well.. in a other way are you right... Ataturk did ultra islamists also those who would be a threat for turkey after like many many years... for example is the usa trying to use the kurds in splitting Turkey... (thankfully are most for Turkey, can also write why if you want) and Ataturk knew that something like this would happen... in a other way do the Kurds need to be thankfully towards Turkey... in the iraq-iran war... 500k Kurdish refugees had been taken into Turkey (which are now up to 12/14% turkeys population) Even today.. in those 4m refugees are up to 300k Kurds.. which even todays Kurdish citizens of Turkey dont like to have them in Turkey... (can tell aswell why if you want).. Yes there are many Kurds who want a Kurdistan... and those are up to 3% - 5% of kurdish population in turkey.. also in my mind do they have nothing to do in Turkey... I would kick them out..

[@neotrnty4717]

Saruv Bet fuck your allah arabs fake god

[@robertabrahamsen9076]

The trend of interpreting Eurasian history through the lens of broad, multi-society conflicts between settled and pastoral peoples is a positive development. It also recalls a central thesis in the work of the great Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406).

[@AFK_AFK]

Dear @HistoryTime Turks enter Anatolia much much before the 10 and 11th centuries. Avars, Huns, Pechenegs went to mid-Europe between 5-10th centuries. Avars laid siege to Istanbul. Also Pechenegs served Byzentines-II. Roman Empire as mercenary. And they made wars in Anatolia and therefore settled in Anatolia. Also Etrusks in Italy are very early age civilization whose language is not belong to Indo-European Language family. But their roots are coming from Anatolia according to many grek historians including Heredotus. So their roots coming from Anatolia but language is not Indo-European. So their root may come from Turkic tribe.

[@gregspoony7691]

Oh boy here I go again learning history!!!

[@신작귀무자검의길]

From the 7th to the 9th centuries, Emperor Taizong of Tang of China's Great Tang Empire, the world's most powerful nation, invaded the First Turkic Khaganate. And the East Turkic Empire, which became the conquered area of the Greater Tang Empire of China, was conquered by the Greater Tang Empire, and the surviving Western Turkic Empire moved west toward Anatolia and established the Seljuk Empire. Later, in the 13th century, the Mongol Empire, the world's most powerful country that conquered the world, invaded the Seljuk Empire. The Seljuk Empire becomes a colony of the Mongol Empire. And the Timurid Empire, a descendant of Genghis Khan, invaded the Ottoman Empire again and took Sultan Bayezid I as a prisoner of war, turning the Timurid Empire into a semi-colony. Whenever I study world history textbooks, I think that world history always flows towards the history of the strongest hegemon.

[@robertoeverton6473]

Love your videos, you're a great story teller!

[@theSalman128]

Fantastic video, well researched and presented on a something I was largely ignorant of. I've decided to support on patreon after watching this. I hope you keep putting out quality material.

[@tunitotunito]

was great to see Bulgaria the Danube on the map.., Veliko Tarnovo, my home city (Sexaginta Prista) Ruschuk a.k.a little Viena, Ottoman's empire most important point on the Donau in 1595, and a hiding place for many revolutioners during the decades, and with a wonderful architecture at the moment.., its really nice to know where your roots are coming from, im a proud turk person although i never been in Turkey i can truly feel it, turkish people are a friends of the world and love everyone as their brothers.

[@grizla1895]

Thank you for all of your hard work. These videos are really special.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@that4711]

Very interesting video! From what i have read so far regarding Anatolia it seems that it's population today is a mix of all the people who have passed from that region such as Hittites,Greeks,Armenians, Kurds, Nomadic Turks and others. A mosaic of peoples.

[@moonday3761]

@@akammido7481 Lol shut up. You guys are native to only Iran!! Stop lying about being in Anatolia for thousands of years. If we didn't let you come to Anatolia in 16 century you guys would get killed because of being Sunni Muslim. The Shii kurds stayed in İran. Go want land from Iran not us!!! We saved your lives that's how you thank us??!!

[@johnsaint4220]

@Nadir Kuleli Turks history just full of lies. Kurds are descendants of hittites. The language tells the truth. Türks are from far East asia, you idiot. Your forefathers are kurds.

[@johnsaint4220]

@Kayserili38ification your version is full of turkish lies. Land of karda mentioned by romans and greeks. Kawa, the founder of the persian empire were kurd. You don't want to accept the existence of the kurds.

[@asdwq2868]

kurds? who are they? You mean gypsies of nothing? no history and no leader. no state ? So, who are they?

[@eternalm3859]

I like your style, gives me back that feeling of the good old documentaries, this is the modern form they should have evolved into.

[@bilalhijjawi8860]

Seriously impressive work. Thanks for presenting us with a non mainstream account of history. It’s true that most impressions of history are reduced to clashes of religious ideas,7 when religion is merely a thin cover for ingrained lust and lore among all humans; it’s who we are really, territorial animals in human form. Such truth continues to this day.

[@levanyashin]

This is a very good video, glad I stopped by your channel. The Project is very informative and looking at the subject from a different angle (Not just one sided). The narrator's voice is very calm and pleasant to the ear. He explains the subject piece by piece like a TV documentary. Awaiting new episodes on the series, cheers !

[@feelsgoodman9751]

I haven't watched it yet but i wanna thank u for making this video. I'm Turkish and yeah, our entry into Anatolia is part of the worlds neglected history :) a video about the Göktürks would also be nice

[@HistoryTime]

More Gokturks coming in 2019!!

[@Aku6Soku1Zan]

@Son of Mountain sorry about Afrin little kurd.

[@Aku6Soku1Zan]

@Son of Mountain lol

[@anankedell]

@@fakofakooglu7460 coman brothers stop these stupid talk. I am from Iran and my dad is irani_kurdi and my mum is iraniAzeri_turk I born tehran myself. There is no difference between us. The where I grew up it was all kind background from all round iran farsi/turkmen/kurd/lur/arab/Azeri and so on but we all lived in peace and harmony.

[@fakofakooglu7460]

@@anankedell we are living in peace. I have no problem with Kurds. But he is a toxis terrorist. Disgrace to his nationality.

[@13minutestomidnight]

You managed to give such a complex topic a diligent and intelligent analysis and presentation, so well done. Not very relevant over a year later, but in any case when you tackle complex topics like this in the future, the presentation side of things could benefit from some more clearly-delineated organisation, breaking-up or signposting the topic into sections (either using visual or auditory cues). It just might make it flow more easily.

[@HxH2011DRA]

Ahhhhh new sources and reading material, thankies~

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks for watching!

[@WarDogMadness]

amazing bro as usual.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks!!

[@ceviricitranslator8583]

I'm Turkish and my DNA test is the only thing which is more mixed than my pencilcase :) %21 Central Asian %19 Caucasian %13,5 South Slav %12 Greek %10 Mizrahi Jew %9,5 Siberian/Eskimo %6 Mongolian %3 İrish ???? %2 Nigerian ???? %1,7 Japanese %1,3 Arab Hello all of my cousins!! (Aisaku/Koktorngi Clan!!!)

[@Ouzconqueror]

@@Virtual_Citizens_Gaming We are Turk ofc must be bit complicated..You are oldest nation of world..move every place in every age..conqueror places or migrate places so you cant live in WHOLE world without merge or marry sexy girls..Oghuz Turks never gave their girl to X nation..whole those Dna come from our mens marry with x nations womens ..in the end its same but still..we not let the our enemy fuck our girls until last 100 years...Now everyone marry anything..

[@uptheblues1875]

@East West sounds pretty accurate considering the geography of the ottoman empire and its demographic, but if u think about it, that guys family almost changed origins every generation it seems.

[@itzz-monster6272]

Look u have mix of Greek and Mongol There is nothing called Turk it's mix of Greek and Mongol and Arab and Kurd

[@metinenes1405]

@@itzz-monster6272 you are mix of your mum and me

[@uggfx4447]

@@itzz-monster6272 then I can say kurds are arabic

[@freedinner886]

This is done really well... Enjoying this a lot.

[@afptoronto1]

Absolutely fantastic work sir. I discovered your work through that maritime history series you participated in and have been hooked by (what seems to be at least) your excellent distillation of scholarship. Thanks for doing this. One suggestion: would it be possible to include a bibliography of sources in the show notes?

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

Even after almost 1000 years you land lords still struggle to understand the Horse lords!! Seljuk empire never ever had a centralized political structure like Byzantine, Fatimids or Mongols etc rather it was kinda a defensive alliance of Oghuz Turks that all tribes had to defend the empire in case of an attack and it would be seen as a great cowardliness to refuse so regardless they liked or not all tribe leaders had to support Seljuk sultans during defensive wars but during peace times or offensive wars tribe leaders didn't have to follow Seljuk sultan rather often they went for their own advantures to plunder or capture smaller towns closer to Sultan's target. For doing that they had to recruit soldiers and prepare their own armies, that's why pretty much all Seljuk Beys were going back to Central Asia for recruiting more Turks and those Turks were bringing their families with them who followed the main armies from behind and this is why Seljuk armies were pretty much undefeated expect some minor raids as if they bailed out and ran away that certainly meant their families would get slaughtered as they could only travel in slow speeds!! For example it is documented that Suleiman son of Qutalmish gathered a great army in Central Asia around Tashkent in 1072 and returned to Anatolia capturing a dozen cities including Iconium and Adana, also ending the kingdom of Cilicia until 1082 and his army had a follower army of soldier families all around this route and while they slowly migrated to where they liked. Turkish tribe system wasn't forceful in any time period and tribesmen were free to change their tribe or form their own tribes-families by migrating a seperated land from their original tribe. So big tribes were like big cities which offered more protection and better standards of living while small tribes were small cities with less protection and risks of failures even so countless advanturers formed their own tribes that one of them was Selçuk Bey who was just a Turkish general until he decided to form his own tribe which later became Seljuk empire so i must say Arabs have a fine nonsense there as ''Nawakiya'' tribe which was supposedly rivals of Seljuks, sadly Arabs liked to fabricate weird things about Turkish invasions.. Which means if Romanos didn't break non-agression pact with Seljuk empire that he signed it himself and attack Seljuk empire, it was very well possible Seljuk empire never was going to get enough power to defeat Byzantine empire as Seljuk sultans had much weaker armies during offensive wars!! It is also known that Alp Arslan ordered tribes not to raid Byzantine lands while you are claiming that he sent those Turkish tribes but care to explain why he signed a non-agression pact then??? That you also somehow failed to mention even if it is recorded by both Byzantine and Turkish sources such a document was signed!! Anyway, because it was a defensive war all tribes (Close enough to catch) joined Seljuk sultan's army during the battle of Manzikert and even then Seljuk army was outnumbered at least 3 times according to all sources and that's why Seljuk rulers were focusing on Fatimids as they were thinking they couldn't defeat Byzantine with their current strength but thanks to the extreme miscalculation of Romanos and the betrayal of Andronikos doukas who left Emperor Romanos alone in the battle field and returned to Constantinople with his 30,000 troops Turks managed to destroy majority of Byzantine's army and gain military superiority over them forever then Anatolia became a main target for Turks!! If Romanos just stayed in Constantinople and chilled out next to bosphorous perhaps there was a Turkish Egypt today while Anatolia remained as Roman??? Just joking, we would most probably return after capturing Egypt as we never liked deserts but who knows it is possible.. Pretty much all Nomadic nations had same culture and from Hunnic empires (In Nomadic history we consider Xiongnu as Asian Hunnic empire) to Göktürk empire, all of them were Nomadic confederations which acted as a defensive alliance rather than a centralized empire and from Turks to Mongols there were very nations under them while for Seljuk empire it was much smaller scale as only Oghuz Turks joined the empire. Mongol empire is an exception due Genghis Khan became so powerful he somehow managed to centralize his empire with an extreme brutality but this also ended his empire in less than 100 years due as soon as Genghis Khan died there were rebellions all over Mongol empire and Turkish invasion was a gentle touch compared to Mongols or crusaders or do i have to quote some lines about how hundreds of thousands got killed and entire cities got burned when Mongols captured Baghdad and Tashkent or when Crusaders captured Antioch, Jerusalem and even Constantinople??? :)) So assuming that crusades were against Turks is just complete nonsense as first of all crusaders were the real barbarians who were destroying everything on their routes as they were starting to raid in even Europe!! Early crusades never ever targeted Turks specifically as the first crusade just went through Turkish Anatolia and captured first Antioch then Jerusalem including surronding cities instead of trying to push Turks out of Anatolia!! And the most important majority of Catholics didn't even consider Orthodoxs as true Christians back then rather as heretics and often razed Orthodox cities and also Jewish ones so i guess you watched too much western movies where crusaders are pictured as ''defenders of Christendom'' somehow while in reality they were only defenders of gold and glory...

[@subutaynoyan5372]

Finally, someone juat fucking explained it. I always lose the point and my way in pointless details when I'm trying to explain all this. Early confederations were just tribes getting together like large warbands. They were nor even states as much, let alone empires. Even the nerdiest history geeks I've known from europe can't grasp that.

[@TheAshotovich]

You failed to mention that all those small kingdoms like Vaspurakan and Tao, were just small Armenian principality who had gained too much autonomy. One of the most important things was that Armenian kingdom was fractured which made the work of Turks that much easy. Fuck this shit man... i just don’t understand why everyone just simply avoid mentioning Armenians..

[@urartuqueen6205]

I agree with you.

[@bozkurt2731]

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[@brostelio]

Beautifully done. Very concise and informative. Excellent job

[@Newidhan]

Finally someone who doesn't use the made up term "Byzantine Empire"

[@cetin1864]

Yes, i always think about this because name of "Byzantine" came from HRE who want erase Rome name from Eastern Rome. Because they want to be a only Rome in around.

[@Newidhan]

Gökay Göktuğ the name Byzantine empire was never used while the Eastern Roman empire was around. It was some time after Constantinople fell that it was first mentioned and it was only popularized in the 19th century.

[@robertmccance7605]

@Armin S Of whom their inhabitants identified as Roman and had been the continuation of Rome after the split.

[@wildfire9280]

@Armin S I bet you're one of those people who think all Italians are somehow Roman.

[@shadowthehedgehog3113]

@@wildfire9280 Well they are.

[@kbayraktar4022]

Ohhh I pray for Tuğrul and Çağrı Beys as well as Alp Arslan when I remember. They gave us a great land.

[@Tapostlevonesus]

I see Armenians and Greeks are still on fire because of the kick we gave them years. Cry more guys.

[@vlkngrt8805]

We were barbars, we were nomads, we had no culture but interstingly:) we created national countries nearly all over the Asia and half of the europe. We governed a lot of nationalties. When we lose those lands they continued to live their own culture, religion and talked their own language. Yes we were barabaric nomads. You can believe it. We know who we are.

[@predatorsorin8402]

Real word's touching god bless you but in muslim is nothing saint's real god is jesus christ if somwhone want ask me to by Muslims a by muslim but a pray to jesus christ the king of universe

[@moonday3761]

Vlkn Grt EXACTLY

[@otgunz]

Yeah but the times past and man proceeded in the teachings of the universe. And Turks stayed behind everywhere they belonged in the means of wisdom, knowledge, rights, technology, and arts. We were not barbars back then, we are barbars today thats why they called us barbar back then because of envy while today they call us barbar to demonize and patronize us.

[@zuzudernegger9721]

We? Mostly no - and mostly reused already existing countries.