Turkey fought all of Europe

Battle of Varna. This Crusade was one of the most decisive battles in the History of Europe and Turkey. Between the Ottoman Empire and...most of Europe basically.
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00:00 Crusade of Varna
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[@MasterofRoflness]

What other ottoman battles should I cover next? Thanks to my Patreons: www.patreon.com/masterofroflness Discord: discord.gg/g2A92uCz6N

[@Melih1284]

Could you make a Video about Seyit Çabuk during WW1?

[@death-istic9586]

Love your videos!💚

[@shehryarashraf5840]

second battle of kosovo i guess. if we are going chronologically

[@guzoulou]

Battle of the Maritsa 1371

[@zydrate5098]

dude that battle's such a fuckin quality meme@@guzoulou

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

Fun fact! The dude who did that cavalry charge could have owned the entirety of eastern europe if he succeeded. He would have been supported by the pope as the rightful king of Poland, Lithuania, Hungaria, and Croatia. He would own eastern europe from coast to coast.

[@someones304]

An ambitious youthful ruler who has the potential to carve out a great empire killed before really achieving anything noticeable either by their arrogance, ignorance or just a simple case of luck being flushed down the toilet huh.. I wonder if there are more examples like this in our history.

[@karstenkunneman5219]

Sounds like an interesting alt-history scenario

[@lick3227]

Literally eastern Europe's cannon event

[@thefaramith8876]

Yeah and he got rekt. Skill issue. Another common TURK W.

[@karstenkunneman5219]

@@thefaramith8876 common Turk W? Turkey has barely progressed beyond 1700

[@nuralibolataev4474]

Murad realizing that he actually won the battle 3 days later is so fucking funny.

[@Borderose]

Murad: "I what? How?"

[@Rougealienpirate]

“I thought you were stronger…”

[@kemancash2812]

Fun fact: after battle of Mohács in 1526 Suleiman the Magnificent couldn't believe that he destroyed the entire Hungarian army he waited in the area for another army which does not exist.

[@unknownguyindo4356]

​@@kemancash2812I mean... I get what he's thinking, you think one of the kingdom that always tried to opposed Ottoman expansion through multiple crusade would be more than that. Instead Ottoman got "That's it? That's the Hungarian Army?!"

[@Rawarart]

@@kemancash2812 Lmao, you win so hard you didn't realize the enemy already gone

[@alicantuncer4800]

When I was in Poland, I encountered a drunk guy in a bar who started yelling at me that we should return their nobles' head after him learning that I am from Turkey. I never understood what he meant by that, but now I know, I must have missed that part of the history class.

[@mulawarmankwsuper]

Lmao they really held that grudge

[@yeahhhhhhman]

man you cant imagine how much grudge they hold against us in eastern europe. liike come on bro its 2023, battle of mohacs shouldnt be the first thing you ask me wtf@@mulawarmankwsuper

[@turinmormegil7715]

​@@yeahhhhhhman I mean .....the memory of the turks taking children away and crushing resistance with brutal torture (impalements) did traumatize Eastern Europe to a point of hating the Turks and making some see Vlad as a Hero. No Wonder a hate like that would take time to subside. Not like Turks don't resent Europeans too for dismantling their Empire nearly just now in history terms (World War I was yesterday after all)

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

Being a Turk, you reeeally gotta be specific about whose head you need returned. The Turks took a lot, and the list is long.

[@cengizhandemirbas8641]

"do you have any idea how little that narrows it down"

[@matyeszszilasi1372]

Fun fact: The venetians didn't fail, but offered the Ottomans to ferry them to the other side of the Dardanelles for one coin each.

[@Seyyah1360]

Wasn't it the Genoese that carried the Ottomans across?

[@Rawarart]

Bros is doing business

[@thuranz2773]

Sounds about right for the Venetians.

[@matyeszszilasi1372]

@@Seyyah1360 I think it was the venetians. Either way, the point is that the italians smelled business.

[@darkunor6687]

Capitalism's finest

[@jaghatai_bulut]

Whats funny is, Murad signed peace treaties with european kingdoms so that he could just retire. Yes, a literal emperor just wanted to let someone else rule the empire. He was super tired, lost a beloved son and was in grief. He just wanted a stress free life in some palace. He gave up the throne after signing peace treaties. Mehmed took his place as a child. (This was the one and only time an ottoman emperor willingly gave up his throne) Then crusade happened, and they didnt respect the peace treaties. Mehmed wrote a letter to his father saying "if I am the sultan, I command you to come and lead my armies. If you are the sultan then come and lead your armies" Murad had no other choice but to ascend the throne a second time and fight the millionth battle of his rule as a very tired and very pissed off old man. If eurooean kingdoms and crusaders respected the treaties, Varna would never happen. And perhaps Constantinople wouldent even fall. Europe literally fucked around and found out.

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

No. Constantinople would have definitely fallen. Ottomans had tried to siege the city several times and almost succeeded in 1402 but Timur fucked up the Ottomans

[@PitunghereTNOschizo100]

Byzantines and Ottomans were tired of the West and European Kingdom because they broke the treaty and crusade for the 1025th time.

[@Pal8Pale]

crusades was an old thing, and an disgraced one by who know what happen in it. but in today world, it was so embraced as most moral thing to do. what an weird time of history today is.

[@TheNapster153]

Yet another suffering from success case, but with cost.

[@MyUsersDark]

I couldn't find anything regarding Mehmed's letter. What I heard happened was Mehmed didn't pay the Janissaries their crown gift, and so they were on the verge of revolting before Murad came back. This would also explain why Murad kept the throne until he died in 1451 the second time. I believe Constantinople would still fall. Mehmed, even from a young age, showed interest in conquering Constantinople. That was his goal. After all, that's exactly what he did when he retook the throne.

[@Kingdemonpigfromhell]

loving this prequel lore to eu4

[@onlyme0101]

Everything is a prequel now :)

[@alexandererhard2516]

The usual start date of 1444 is just a day later if I'm not mistaken.

[@GarkKahn]

​@@alexandererhard2516yeah also the intro says that battle just happened and now the ottomans got the doors to europe open

[@tobilandsfried8083]

@@GarkKahn Yeah, that's why the Ottobros Manpowerpool should be tiny at the start but it isn't :(

[@jovancontreras]

1400 europe: "We literally an whole continent against one country, We sure this will be easy" Aslo 1400 europe: *Procede to each side go to their own even if they had less than 500 sick troops*

[@christianweibrecht6555]

coordination is impossible when too many people are glory hounds

[@haxel8929]

Tf is this english

[@Martin-iw1ll]

It was just eastern Europe, there was no German, French, Spanish, portugese, Austrian troops or low country troops in that battle

[@-Shadow__Rider-]

⁠@@Martin-iw1llthere were contingents as well as mercenaries from Austria, HRE, Spain etc. as well..

[@Kydino]

​@@haxel8929ESL is a thing bruv. Though too many people don't seek or have time to improve.

[@nenenindonu]

15th century mainstream Europe : Omg Wladyslaw is of such a royal lineage as a young monarch with so much potential he's going to stop the Ottoman onslaught ! 1444 Varna : Loses his head to a random Janissary :D

[@someones304]

I mean, if the man were to succeed, he could potentially be crowned the King of Poland, Lithuania, Hungary and Croatia with approval from the Pope himself. It a shame that he was killed by his own ambition and arrogant though, he probly knew he's destined for greatness, therefore eager to achieve greatness, which eventually lead to his downfall. Imagine an Eastern European Empire that stretches from coast to coast, shit would be lit.

[@obijuanquenobi1911]

@@someones304After watching AltHistoryHub’s vid on it, it really does feel like an author writing an epic war story about this great hero only to end it in a tragic twist

[@zydrate5098]

mercenary*

[@kompatybilijny9348]

@@someones304 He was a retarded gopnik

[@AnatolianHittite]

​@@someones304It's not ambition or arrogance, he just hadn't met the Turks.

[@alperbulut1267]

Pre eu4 lore is crazy

[@based_finn]

Average Ottoman Experience In Eu4:

[@bamantioindrahidayat1165]

Fun fact Murad II already decalred Mehmet II as the Sultan of Ottoman however during Varna Mehmet wrote a letter to his father that he couldnt refuse to do it

[@starplatinumsrightarm5155]

letter is not real. there is no evidence to support that

[@Saicofake]

Fella got forced out of retirement for this bullshit. I’d be very pissed.

[@AManWithNoName]

@@Saicofake And one of his sons died a terrible death from another battle so not only was he old, grieving and done with ruling the Empire, he was forced to now command another fucking war

[@kemancash2812]

-My sultan we have been victorius! + Yes, yes very funny ahmed now tell me how the battle is going on?

[@AManWithNoName]

- But my Sultan, we did win. Like, it's not a joke. + Wait, what?

[@RuzgarYldrm-zj9ec]

@@AManWithNoName THAT WAS İT ? THAT WAS THE " GRAND " COALİTİON ?

[@AManWithNoName]

@@RuzgarYldrm-zj9ec Sultan: THIS WAS IT? THIS WAS THE EUROPEAN COALITION OF CHRISTIANS THEY SO BOASTED ABOUT? WHERE IS THE BATTLE?

[@RuzgarYldrm-zj9ec]

@@AManWithNoName WHAT DO YOU MEAN "THAT WAS THE BATTLE " THOSE WERE JUST HUNGARİANS AND ONE POLISH CAVARLY CHARGE

[@AManWithNoName]

@@RuzgarYldrm-zj9ec IT WAS BASICALLY JUST POLISH CAVALRY, HUNGARIANS WITH SWORDS THAT ONE SERBIAN REGIMENT? THIS WAS THE COALITION?! MY MOOD IS RUINED!

[@someguysomeone3543]

You know it's serious when the papacy and freaking burgundy bring out their navies.

[@lettuceman9439]

*Everytime the papacy tries to mend the shism* Byzantium: Fuck another Crusade

[@PitunghereTNOschizo100]

Byzantine and Ottoman figured out that the treaty had been broken because the west and east kingdom in Europe started a crusade again: "Oh come on you dead ass we just want to peace for lord's sake...!!!!"

[@lettuceman9439]

@@PitunghereTNOschizo100 To be fair the Crusade was requested by the Byzantine Emperor given the situation and was expected to be the proof of Unity amongst the Two Church given that if The Crusade Succeeded, The Orthodox and Catholic Split will have to be reconciled and a Successful Crusade is a good conversation starter during the Ecumenical Council regarding the Reconcilation

[@revertrevertz5438]

@@lettuceman9439Also the reason the Crusades ended being problematic for the Byzantines is because at First the Byzantines made the crusaders oath to them. Later on the crusaders felt the Byzantine Emperor had fallen short on his promise and decided to ignore them or straight up challenge them.

[@christianweibrecht6555]

this is why a defined command heirarchy is needed for colition armies , team is a mere mob without coordination

[@andrpaulino]

well i think this case a rare exception, there were clearly respecting wladislaw (cant spell) wishes and properly advising him, he was the one who got too eager. but i think its reasonable to say he was the accepted leader of the christians.

[@Tomo_mo]

Yeah goodluck having a hierarchy amongst tens of kings and princes vying for the most glory. For real tho it shouldve been the papacy's job to somewhat organize the whole thing but i guess its next to impossible.

[@kurosu-samaklipleri7090]

Such kings like Richard the Lionheart, King of England can be directly influence and command coalition armies.

[@Rynewulf]

@@kurosu-samaklipleri7090and yet his coalition did kind of explode. The French king threw a hissy fit and went home, and the Holy Roman Emperor died before he made it. Luckily Richard was charismatic enough to unite the smaller knightly groups who stuck to the cause

[@MyUsersDark]

@@andrpaulino The individual units still did whatever they wanted to do

[@timesnewlogan2032]

The next day, Europa Universalis IV begins.

[@user-kl4iz8ut1w]

Turkey in the fifteenth century: swept across the Eastern Mediterranean, defeated the European coalition forces, conquered the Mamluks, and made the Ottomans invincible! Türkiye in the 21st Century: Do you want to try and steal the ice cream from my hand?

[@LucasImpulse]

the funny dondurma şaka thingie

[@k.sallar5218]

lol@@LucasImpulse

[@gankplankinportakalsular5077]

stop complaining and check out my new ice cream trick

[@Rawarart]

well they are clapped so hard during ww1 and the sultan is no more, so they are nerfed now

[@mangal_tadinda]

We are waiting for patches and fixes

[@Turgineer]

Ottomans: "I like these odds."

[@extrage3061]

300 Thousand turks vs 20 thousand polish riders, Polish victory. I like these odds? The only reason they won is because of the language barriers and uncoordination.

[@sbd03]

@@extrage3061 copium?

[@Entity69]

mmm i can smell the cope here @@extrage3061

[@mehmetkayraozer9164]

​@@extrage3061it was definitely not 300 thousand. These numbers are literally impossible.

[@thedstorm8922]

​@@extrage3061 Lol to much copium energy there lad

[@elkingoh4543]

The Crusaders:"I have many man, tons of weapons and strong armour!!" Turkish Ottomans:"We have guns......"

[@kaztarihtanu]

More like we are mobile and can retreat, can do the maneuvers all day long and make you lose to attrition for days. I think the main reason for european kingdoms to chase the ottoman forces was the high cost of maintaining large armies. That is why I think crusaders wanted to finish battle at one place at one battle. While turkish forces probably understood that and always forced crusaders to fight in nonfavorable terrains by constantly retreating.

[@valmid5069]

That Polish dude lost his head... *literally!*

[@gergelyhangodi9008]

Lesson of this story: always listen to Hunyadi, the most formidable bane of the Turks in that period.

[@PitunghereTNOschizo100]

Also never broke the treaty that they signed the day after the battle. Because everything will messed up, and no one can cover their bankrupt.

[@aeg9065]

Hungarians understand Turks

[@ErenViper]

​@@aeg9065hungarians are also turks

[@aeg9065]

@@ErenViper well, no but yes, we are all huns

[@osopenowsstudio9175]

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Murad: "I'm done being a sultan" **give his throne to his child Mehmet**

[@TheNapster153]

Mehmet: You are not done being sultan. Puts dad back on the throne

[@PitunghereTNOschizo100]

Murad: *A n g r y n o i s e s*

[@osopenowsstudio9175]

@@TheNapster153 Murad: **Angry old man noise**

[@kubat552]

Murad II is the most underrated person in history.

[@MyUsersDark]

Now THAT is a gigantic claim Even ignoring his son, who literally took Constantinople...

[@poffy02]

@@MyUsersDarkmehmet isn’t underrated, his father is the one who legitimately destroyed the empire, mehmet just had to seige it, which is pretty easy without any support from the crusaders

[@MyUsersDark]

@@poffy02 "pretty easy" and that's where you're wrong Had he taken too long more support would have arrived, there was opposition within the army, and he had to succeed quickly to prove he was a capable leader. He couldn't just sit there like in Eu4. Sieges are more complex than that, especially in this case.

[@poffy02]

@MyUsersDark Not possible. The Empire at this point only had the surrounding territories, it was a small kingdom with no support and allies. The defenders inside the city where too few to man all posts and provide enough cover to all sides. The Ottomans had the city surrounded, besieging it from Europe as well as Asia. Let us say that the sultan failed to storm the city, the canons weren’t enough, the defenders managed to keep them off the walls somehow. The city would fall in the next year or the on after. They didn't even have enough supply route, they were cut off. The Sultan would just have to wait a bit for his next assault. Byzantine Empire had fall long before 1453. The fall of Constantinople just made it official.

[@poffy02]

@MyUsersDark the ottomans didn't have opposition in their army at that time, do you have any sources for that claim?

[@danielzaba9913]

This is a certified hiperborean classic

[@user-yv1ty1ek1l]

"i won? lmao tell that to your mom" -murad on the day he won

[@artykhaan]

I loved seeing Star Wars The Clone Wars scenes in this video

[@celilbugrasevik3873]

This war has such an impact that you have to conquer Constantinapole to remain on the throne.

[@MyUsersDark]

What?

[@Sherlock-Eco]

History: Being honest and showing us the true nature of humanity so we all can understant eachother better without biases. Comment sections: "A is better then B" "No, C was never D it was E" "F is the best, keep coping" "skill issue" "(Something r-cist that not even related to the topic)"

[@chantssovietiquesetrussest2335]

if you think that historians are honest and unbiased you are either ignorant or dumb

[@wingedvictory8694]

so true

[@snowsoldier7779]

Unfortunately..

[@Tomo_mo]

Yeah seriously we have least nationalistic commenters here up on this comment thread. And its not even towards existing modern nations, but long gone kingdoms hundreds of years ago.

[@Rawarart]

we never learned arent we

[@kemancash2812]

Battle of Maritsa is an interesting battle as 800-4000 ottoman soliders defeated 50,000-70,000 Serbian army in a night raid. This battle weakened the Serbian Empire significantly.

[@Yominication]

Also this was after the empire has dissolved in smaller dutchy states

[@Sforza_1994]

50,000??? 😂😂😂😂 5,000* you mean

[@williamdavis9562]

Bro they were Serbs. What do you expect.

[@user-lc7jy4jd4y]

@@Sforza_1994 Yes, that's right, an Ottoman raider of 800 people destroyed a Serbian army of 70,000 people in a night raid. Only you, the western people, cannot stomach this and put forward false dates. For example, 300 Spartans is a complete lie.

[@arsalanalonto6056]

​@@Sforza_1994They got beated so hard that they try to downplay their own defeat lol😂

[@Lord_Genghis_Khan]

Turks = Thanos Europeans = Avengers Anatolia, Balkans, Cairo, Istanbul, Rome, Vienna = infinity gems

[@daithimcnally8212]

Here come all the EU4 players!

[@izzatsufian2796]

Least experienced Ottoman battles:

[@bananaJoe1008]

bhahahahahah great edits lmao.Nicely done mate

[@saloenjoyer3266]

Video Idea: Weakest hospitaller knights, during the Great Siege of Malta (1565) 2,500 knights of the hospitaller and some men from the spanish empire along with some militiamen defeated 35,000 - 40,000 ottomans who attempted to siege Malta. Around 80 years prior the hospitallers did a similar stunt (and win) which saw around 4,000 knights and soldiers square off against 70,000 ottomans during the Siege of Rhodes (1480). Rhodes was eventually taken after another siege (1522) which saw 5,000 knights and soldiers dead compared to 20,000 - 60,000 dead ottomans.

[@mulawarmankwsuper]

Isn't this the siege that made the Ottoman go bankrupt?

[@saloenjoyer3266]

@@mulawarmankwsuper I’m not sure but it did cost them resources as they fired more than 130,000 cannonballs over a 4 month period.

[@waltermelononcat]

its not easy to take a very fortified island that time of course the casualty ratio is 8 to 1

[@saloenjoyer3266]

@@waltermelononcat that doesn’t really explain it because prior they sieged and took 2 other Hospitallers garrisons with relative ease. It was a pure ottoman blunder. They thought they would take the island within a few days.

[@AnatolianHittite]

WTF!!! None of these are field battles and the figures are unrealistic due to propaganda.For example similar figures are also available for the Ottoman defence of Nagykanizsa Edit: Spelling error

[@sapphyrus]

And like that Murad II ends Crusader Kings and starts Europa Universalis.

[@rudolfkartoffeln4458]

When you breach the agreement that bonded with sacred oaths, you have to pay the price of it. It was a lesson that tell the Christian countries "Don't fuck with us.". It is said that after the war, Ottomans carried the written text of the Peace of Szeged and the head of King Wladyslaw (who breaches that peace agreement that builded up on sacred oaths) on a spear and carried it around the battlefield to show it to the Christian crusaders.

[@FalkyRocket2222]

that eu4 soundtrack hits hard as hell

[@danielgalusca6260]

Im still waiting for Battle of Vaslui to show up

[@ogiler]

Smallest conflict in the Balkans.

[@juliuszkocinski7478]

>Faced with overwhelming enemy force >Advised to stay in cover >Charges anyways >Almost succeeds >Refuses to elaborate >f-ing *dies* chad if you ask me

[@GarkKahn]

I took them more than a century to beat their worst enemy No, not the turks. Their lack of coordination

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

That young king deus vult'd a bit too hard, and discovered the harm side of haram... what a mad lad.

[@Tarik360]

And that's why my ancestors became bureaucrats to the Sultan. GGWP?

[@muzafferturhan]

Serb?

[@Tarik360]

​@@muzafferturhan Ye

[@multiversalman4270]

what classical music plays at the end?

[@deathstar9297]

2.Murat sen gerçekten müthiş bir komutansın

[@deathstar9297]

Allah rahmetinden bahşetsin 🙏

[@Talos3412]

Fun fact in Kraków there is a tomb for Władysław the third but it's obviously empty even though I heard once that inside of the tomb there's piece of ground from Varna (I'm not sure if that's true this is just a myth I heard once)

[@konradverner6326]

How about a vid on pierre terrail, the knight without fear and beyond reproach. He fought a 1 v 200 and then dipped.

[@AltaicGigachad]

In the west the Seljuq invasion of Asia Minor began the process which was to make it the modern land of the Turks and the base from which the greatest Islamic empire of the past 600 years would expand into southeast Europe .

[@captainmccuckin2698]

Hunyadi was supposed to be crowned Bulgarian Tsar if they managed to win as well

[@neogivxapwntcpaa]

1:22 how to google this sound

[@svon1]

That was pure luck ! I was not in control of that situation, AT ALL ! --Murad probably

[@AManWithNoName]

I JUST WANT TO FUCKING RETIRE! - Sultan Murad (Murat for Turks) the Second, probably in 1444 during Varna

[@demolitionwolf91]

Regarding fate of King Vladislav II's head. There's actually an account of this battle in "Memoirs of a Janissary" written by Konstantin Mihajlović who was a Serb that got drafted into Janissaries and served in Ottoman ranks from 1455 till 1463 when he was captured by Mathias Corvinus.He didn't witness the battle itself but was taught at the Ottoman court that King Vladislav II's head was taxidermied using cotton and aromatic herbs, his hair was finely combed and in such state, on top of a pole, the head was carried through major cities in Turkey, and for few years afterwards all of sultan's court servants wore one black and one red boot, for such was the color of boots king Vladislav 2nd wore.

[@MyUsersDark]

III*

[@demolitionwolf91]

@@MyUsersDark Well, I'll be damned, wall of text and I erred in basic title xD Thanks for correcting me, in my defense the chronicle just calls him King Vladislav.

[@MyUsersDark]

@@demolitionwolf91 No worries, was an interesting read!

[@Sejara1528]

In summary, this is Balkan version of Battle of Tours. However they didn't manage to capture/kill Sultan Murad like Abdul Rahman al-Ghafiqi.

[@fehervari98]

Not exactly last ditch effort. Even just a few years later, there was the Second Battle of Kosovo too.

[@agreatmanlookingtotheright]

And Hungary got annihilated thanks to Serbia giving the precise location and route of the Hungarian army while also stopping Skanderbeg from meeting with Hunyadi. Unironic biggest self own by Serbia after the Yugoslav wars.

[@sahilhossian8212]

Lore of Turkey Europe War be like momentum 100

[@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly]

*This was just one more giant step in the Ottomans eventually conquering Constantinople*

[@andrpaulino]

jokes aside, kudos to the Ottoman empire and its allies, because this battle really was a showdown that im sure theyre proud of. likewise, reminds me of the Battle of Lepanto.

[@noir1923]

we dont talk about lepanto around here,son.

[@Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmc]

@@noir1923 well then it just means the Turkish nationalists only talk about victories and not their losses

[@noir1923]

like spanish nationalists, or greek, or armenian, or serbian etc etc.@@Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmc

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

​@@noir1923"we do a little trolling"; -Eugene of Savoy after massacring onion hats at Senta

[@arsalanalonto6056]

Pardon me sir! But I also wanna talk about Battle of Preveza

[@alphaomega938]

Europe?

[@sarubet8725]

lol they fell for he hit and run tactic again

[@Karabiner792]

EU4 starts one day later!

[@AltaicGigachad]

Être fort comme un Turc ('to be strong like a turk'): This expression originates in the 15th century when the Turks had a reputation for being strong, almost unbeatable warriors due to their numerous victories. At the time, the Ottoman Empire ruled large parts of south-east Europe, north Africa and western Asia. It is said that François I, King of France, was gifted Turkish armour by Suleiman the Magnificent (the tenth and most famous sultan of the Ottoman Empire) during their alliance. When he wore it, he is said to have exclaimed: "Here I am now, strong as a Turk!" THE TURKS AND THE WEST from 11 days. Europe stood in awe of the Ottomans who crushed many states and conquered vast territories, going, as all patriotic Turks will proudly point out, "all the way to the gates of Vienna." European literature is replete with the depictions of the Turk as the hated enemy. The English often thought of the Turk as awe-inspiring and destructive. Thomas Fuller wrote in The Holy Warre (1639): "The Turkish Empire is the greatest... the sun ever saw. ...Grass springeth not where the grand signior's horse setteth his foot."

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

Suleiman lived in the 16th century not the 15th century

[@hawkingstar1698]

These ottomans sound pretty tough huh

[@yamibakura8597]

Medieval Christian Lords: Tactics? Strategy? What are you, gay?

[@Sercenkral31]

No ottoman sultan had one eyebrow

[@dermenore7162]

The frenchs can't be blamed on this one.

[@Mehmet-ww3th]

turkey mentioned auuuu

[@FelipeBuegos]

Se puede culpar a francia por esto?

[@beaub152]

Ottomans too op pls nerf

[@extrage3061]

they're non existant no need to nerf what doesn't exist lol, unless the turks are counted as ottomans then your plead for a nerf has been answered.

[@37boy60]

@@extrage3061 you're always coping in the comments bragging about your victory on a weakened ottoman state, what about your infamous partition

[@kurosu-samaklipleri7090]

Which one? The participation of 1772 or the 1775 or the 1779 or the 1918 or 1939?

[@37boy60]

@@kurosu-samaklipleri7090 damn the poles couldnt catch a break

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

They got nerfed in 1683

[@striker7469]

Yo! 🤣🤣

[@tavernburner3066]

who are the elves of the balkans?

[@arbuz_kawon]

there are no elves in the balkans

[@tavernburner3066]

​@@arbuz_kawon " alliance of men and elves" - the video

[@thefaramith8876]

@@tavernburner3066 yeah and orcs are Turks right... Disgusting. Keep coping.

[@DoofyGilmore1299]

there are no elves in balkans only easterlings, orcs and black numenoreans who want to eradicate each others

[@General_Universe]

Venetians maybe? Not sure... (They had holdings in the balkans)

[@overlordmgcover2262]

I am very curious how these videos will look when we eventually reach the points in history were the Ottomans had to take the L.

[@asd-ip5hj]

Hahaha Ottomans take L ?? Bro Turks literally came from the Chinese border and stood at the door of the city of Vienna. Europeans gathered together out of fear and tried to expel the Ottomans from Europe for 500 years. As a result, Turks own Istanbul, the holy city of Orthodox Christians, and the call to prayer is recited 5 times a day in Hagia Sophia. Turks own Anatolia, the land of Jesus' disciples. Moreover, they still own lands in Europe. Yes, the Ottomans took a L, try to convince yourself. 😂

[@overlordmgcover2262]

@@asd-ip5hj I am not religious so I don't give a damn. Also the Ottoman Empire isn't around anymore.

[@asd-ip5hj]

@@overlordmgcover2262 Don't worry too much about the names. The Turks replaced the Ottoman Empire with the Turkish Republic. Everything is the same, only the form of government changed and they became a republic. There is no British Empire, no German Empire, no Russian Empire, no Austro-Hungarian Empire anymore.

[@Flugs0]

@@asd-ip5hj how is the turkish economy doing? lol

[@MyUsersDark]

@@asd-ip5hj Yeah, sure, no L's... wonder how the Ottomans lost the Balkans then

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

1:20 THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!

[@Ultimate_Kars]

Europe and Ottoman history is Lord of The Rings on crack.

[@sii2420]

Bless the Ottoman Empire !

[@cpegg5840]

Hmm? Bless it? Why can't I find it on a 21st century map then? 🤗

[@mangal_tadinda]

@@cpegg5840because its collapsed what did you expect

[@RedMentalHM66]

​@@cpegg5840all of the empires collapsed bro

[@remsee1608]

When the winged hussars don’t save the day

[@noir1923]

when the winged hussars got butchered

[@roacktucktwist1163]

Instead sipahis arrived

[@falconeshield]

1565

[@Killerqueen69420]

We were this close

[@thegunslinger8806]

To say that the Ottoman Empire was where the current problems in the balkans begin would be an understatement and a bit of a discredit to the fact the USSR empoverished that area of europe, maybe forever.

[@mehmetkayraozer9164]

I mean, the Balkans were a pretty problematic region before Ottoman conquests.

[@pompom8315]

The USSR electrified and industrialised the whole of Eastern Europe. It brought this part of the continent to the modern age.

[@timesmy668]

Balkans were destined to be messed up

[@weirdguylol]

​@@pompom8315while taking everything valuable, ask the people living there how they felt while living under soviet occupation

[@pompom8315]

@@weirdguylol There's been quite a few polls about living standards in the former Eastern Bloc. Responses are far from being as negative as you're trying to imply.

[@someguysomeone3543]

Impressive,very nice, let's see the battle of Zenta.

[@noir1923]

we could see mohacs or karansebes

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

​@@noir1923or Lepanto or vaslui? Hell second battle of mohacs maybe?

[@Can-vl8sl]

@@hopeundertheblacksun Siege of Nagykanizsa

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

Ottoman-European Battles from the 1300's-1500's: Europeans amass a large army and are unified into one source. Are soundly defeat in an epic battle and the Ottomans Expand 1600's-1700's: The Ottomans square off against a less unified Europe,. results inconclusive most of the time 1800's-1900's: Ottomans lose against everyone including the Greeks and only win when European countries bail their ass out

[@PitunghereTNOschizo100]

2000's later: Everyone in Balkan, Greece, and Turkey was apeshit while they had sort of extremist side-by-side and started hating each other. Meanwhile other factions decide like screw this I'm done with those radicals

[@weplo1597]

Ottomans were in their prime to 1299 to 1700 after that it was pure downfall

[@PitunghereTNOschizo100]

@@weplo1597 To be fair that year was also in crisis because the problem was that the elites were corrupt. The next ruler was on fighting until the next successors realized that the Ottoman Kingdom needed to be revised and reformed. People of the Ottomans had support for good but the elites did not agree and decided to kill the Sultan, after that, it turned out the public going an uproar and became rowdier all of Sipahi, and even Jannies who supported the Sultans even people who decided to revolt. The revolt was so bad even the elites also had to deal side by side until the next sultans gave authority and calmed all sides for reconciliations and reforms.

[@weplo1597]

@@PitunghereTNOschizo100 That's right. But compared to 1840 to 1900's Ottoman empire was doing great. I think after II.Mahmud the empire really starts to have it's own downfall

[@kespec]

lmao what a copium induced take on history

[@user-kl4iz8ut1w]

Europa Universalis player: I knew these Catholics were unreliable! Let us, the Eastern Roman Empire, defeat these Turks ourselves!

[@kianakaslana1210]

Who do you think make Eastern Rome to be so weaken in the 1st place? 1204 ring a bell?

[@FelipeBuegos]

​@@Tyrach.Niceforo II patio a los arabes y los comnenos y laskaris derrotaron a los selyucidas los unicos enemigos de roma fueron ellos mismos y los cruzados

[@miketacos9034]

In E universe, Hunyadi succeeded

[@ls200076]

That's a lot of Turkey W's

[@apoorhorseabusedbycenk]

Modern day turks are at best 10% ottoman and most places it would be 5%

[@asd-ip5hj]

Poor European who thinks Turkey is just Istanbul. I recommend you to visit eastern Turkey and central Anatolia, you can even find people there who still wear fez hahaha Those people are 100% Ottoman.

[@apoorhorseabusedbycenk]

@@asd-ip5hj The ottomans are gone, it's people barely exist genetically. Over the pass few hundred years various ethnic groups weeded their way into the nation. It's the reason why the ottomans lost to serbs in the 19th century.

[@fathanthoriq2413]

​@apoorhorseabusedbycenk there's no such thing as ottoman ethnicity wtf are u talking about?

[@apoorhorseabusedbycenk]

@@fathanthoriq2413 At first there was.

[@Can-vl8sl]

@@apoorhorseabusedbycenk Ottoman were a dynasty and they were Turks who migrated from Central Asia to Anatolia.

[@AltaicGigachad]

The Turks were considered as the best warriors due to their horsemanship and skill in archery. Kaushik Roy., n.d. Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750: Cavalry, Guns, Government and Ships (Bloomsbury Studies in Military History). p.24. While there is much more than this to the Turks, it is true that Turks rank among history’s great empire-builders and rulers. Under the Ottomans they conquered vast territories in the Balkans and the Middle East and ruled for six hundred years. Turkey Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments pp.30 The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered. Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut p.44

[@LucasImpulse]

i think because they came from mongols though, the bearers of the almighty Genghis Khan himself, so no doubt.

[@mehmetkayraozer9164]

​@@LucasImpulseyou can see mongols in history as a great power only when Genghis Khan rose to power. Before that, all of the nomadic powerhouses which can be seen in Europe or Asia were of (proto)Turkic origin.

[@melaninfarmer]

@@mehmetkayraozer9164 Wrong, the Scythinans were not "Turkic". Especially the Western ones that had red and blonde hair.

[@mehmetkayraozer9164]

@@melaninfarmer having red and blonde hair doesn't make a person non-Turkic. Turks throughout history had a very cosmopolitic look. Don't think Turkic people are/were mongoloid people because they are/were not. Also I think there is a chance of Scytians being Turkic (maybe some of them). Their heritage is not certain.

[@Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmc]

@@LucasImpulse or it's the Jannisaries

[@JonasTheGrim]

Amount of butthurt of europeans is insane in comment section for an almost 600 years old battle.

[@AltaicGigachad]

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , understanding the Turks ‘ military organization , given the credit for the greatest empire since antiquity , became a major European preoccupation . Speake, J., n.d. Literature of travel and exploration. p.891. By the middle of the 16th century, the Turks arguably possessed the greatest empire in the world. A History of the Middle East Paperback - March 15, 2006 by Saul S. Friedman (Author) p.181

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

Turkey/ottoman hiperfans from indo: 😠😠😡😡🤬🤬

[@volkanozturkmen6245]

Europe🇹🇷

[@h.n.r.k2352]

wow they could beat them while having only twice as many men? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@HolyknightVader999]

All of Europe-not really. That's mostly just eastern rump states and some Italians. Spain, France, England and Germany didn't get involved. Neither did the Scandinavian states.

[@Can-vl8sl]

cope

[@HolyknightVader999]

@@Can-vl8sl It's the truth. You can't call it "all of Europe" when it was just the small dogs involved.

[@imperatorromanorum3150]

All of them were present at Battle of Niocpolis but it was still lost. You just can't hide how pathetic the crusades were.

[@HolyknightVader999]

@@imperatorromanorum3150 Then explain to me how Lepanto was lost by the Moors. Or how they lost at Vienna. Or how they lost Spain. Spain was retaken by Crusades too, y'know.

[@HolyknightVader999]

@@imperatorromanorum3150 Then explain to me how Spain was lost by the Moors. Those were crusades too. Heck, there were also Baltic Crusades that succeeded in Catholicizing the pagans in Lithuania.

[@HolyknightVader999]

Ottoman memes about how cool they were in defeating Europe. Me: Laughs in Lepanto and the Charge of the Winged Hussars

[@Can-vl8sl]

Siege of Nagykanizsa

[@volkanozturkmen6245]

The decimal system used by soldiers was invented by the Turks for the first time before Christ. The Turks carried the ships by land. The Turks destroyed Byzantium. Vlad Dracula was killed by the Turks. The first race to domesticate the horse was the Turks. The Turks brought the Pope to his knees. The Chinese built the Chinese Wall before Christ because they were afraid of the Turks. The Turks conquered all the continents and used powerful giant cannons. Turks built The Ottoman Empire used to be our 9 states. In history

[@Flugs0]

and today you are nothing on the global scale, how the mighty have fallen

[@FelipeBuegos]

All they dream

[@RuzgarYldrm-zj9ec]

@@FelipeBuegos tf you mean " all they dream " what you read in the comments are literally things we pulled off back in the day

[@RuzgarYldrm-zj9ec]

@@Flugs0 out side of economy we have a pretty good scale actually ... which is suprising i know trust me after everthing current president have pulled off we still have importance somewhat i really dont know how we do ...

[@paulleader4]

Then the British arrived with an actual battlship

[@agentwarroom0001]

weakest ottoman and islamic era you mean

[@paulleader4]

@@cenktuneygok8986 you may be salty about it but they did arrive and ruin your day/plans entirely lol Also where is the ottoman empire now? ...... their plans are ruined too.

[@The_Corporal]

If have sense don't fight the Turks

[@-V-_-V-]

Ottoman history in a nutshell: >Fights people in the balkins >Wins >Fighrs any other Europeans >Loses

[@-V-_-V-]

@@cenktuneygok8986 Oh really so the failures of the siege of Malta, Lepanto, and the 1525 siege of Vienna didn't happen?

[@-V-_-V-]

@@cenktuneygok8986> Retreating isn't losing Cope harder lol

[@-V-_-V-]

Also by the numbers the ottomans lost over 10 times as many ships at lepanto as Europeans lost at preveza just glancing at Wikipedia so you're just transparently wrong

[@Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmc]

@@cenktuneygok8986 strategy & skill over numbers, my man.

[@-V-_-V-]

@@cenktuneygok8986 Which would still be a worse ratio than the 1529 siege of Vienna, which you claim is insignificant. The fact that the Turks failed outside of the balkans/South Eastern Europe is still true.

[@kWa._aa]

world ws ottomans

[@doubleheadeagle4008]

Not Turks but Romelians, Kurds, Georgian Laz etc...

[@Sarukhan475]

They were Turks, cry about it.

[@Can-vl8sl]

lol

[@doubleheadeagle4008]

@@Sarukhan475 you cry there aren't turks hahahaha

[@doubleheadeagle4008]

@@Sarukhan475 you cry they aren't hahahahaha

[@Sarukhan475]

@@doubleheadeagle4008 Lmao wtf is that response? How old are you, 10?

[@Kyryyn_Lyyh]

Türkiye 🇹🇷 💪 🇹🇷

[@FarmerDrew]

Where would Western civilization be without Hurrem Sultan, one of the most powerful women in the world, rizzler extraordinaire

[@eaglesix6585]

Explain

[@mehmetkayraozer9164]

​​​@@eaglesix6585she was favourite of Suleiman the Magnificent. And she was a concubine which Sultan married (that was very rare). She made her son Selim II get the throne rather than Suleiman's more capable son Mustafa. Mustafa was strangled to death for preparing a coup (some people claim it was Hurrem's plan to eliminate Mustafa) against his father and Selim got his throne after his father's death. Well, Selim's management was a complete disaster, it was the Grand Vizier who saved the Empire from disasters. For me, him getting the throne also started problems such as disloyalty of the Janissaries.

[@FarmerDrew]

​@@mehmetkayraozer9164 thanks, that saved time