Turkification of Anatolia - Nomads DOCUMENTARY

[@KingsandGenerals]

Many of you expect a joke video on the 1st of April. The joke is practical - the joke video will come when you expect it the least.

[@sirunklydunk8861]

So Emu War confirmed?

[@Galland780]

Do the history of rickroll. That will be legendary and unexpected lmao

[@richraichu4068]

The ~~Spanish~~ Turkish Inquisition!

[@thewarriorfrog]

Anatolia has never had a majority greek population. Hellenization of Anatolia was more of a greeco-roman cultural hegemony, deliberate destruction of local identities and cultures in favor of a greek language and roman identity than an actual migration.

[@RandomGuy-df1oy]

@@NickStrife In the video, yes. You think Macedonians or Romans conquered these lands with flowers in their hands :) Btw the Seljuks were not even interested in Anatolia. Their main rival was Shia Fatimids, who were ally of the Romans. Unruly Turcomans constantly raided Anatolia and Roman Diogenes tried to get rid of the Seljuks for his personal prestige and gaining legiticamy but he failed badly. The main Turkic migration into Anatolia was after the Mongol Invasion. Before that, Turks were mostly busy with the riches of Iran and pastoral lands of Azerbajian and modern day Turkmenistan and Khorasan.

[@CrimeanHorseArcher]

From Hittites to Assyrians, Persians or Alexander, Roman Empire and Byzantine, from Seljuks to Timur, from Suleiman to British invasion in Dardanelles... How many famous battles with great impact have been fought on this peninsula.

[@gmeme9252]

There will be more to come as well

[@chrisrnt2548]

Imagine to the greek peninsula too. We the Greeks have a war history kinda..full

[@太守苏定交趾]

Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂

[@giorgijioshvili9713]

@@太守苏定交趾 booo

[@Neversa]

@@太守苏定交趾 tiananmen 1989

[@TheGetout04]

I love how the channel is also dabbling with cultural history now, not just military history

[@joshuapilling3641]

Yeah, its great

[@itarry4]

Only just joined but haven't they always dealt with the cultural and social issues that resulted from the battles or at least the entire war? Has it just been a very focused look at a battle or war. Describing the tactics, the reasons behind decisions, the various units and what they did and wore as armour or used as a weapon, etc. I find that quite surprising but I can get in to that if the videos are as well made and researched as this one. It's just any battle to some extent and every war to a far far larger extent has an effect on the region and its culture and society, even if it just stays nearby the same with small changes etc. In many cases the context, reason for the battle or war is hugely important and so are the lasting and immediate effects that result and its odd to find a channel that's do focused on the battles alone as basically every other channel that does videos on battles, units of warriors, weapons etc still goes off on a tangent to examine the whys, what's and wherefores rather than sticking to the battle, units, tactics etc alone. Hmmmmm I think that'll be very useful and interesting definitely going to be giving the back catalogue a run through.

[@TheTfrules]

Kings and Generals and Stewards

[@general2109]

Their cultural and social videos are quickly becoming some of my favorite, and may already be.

[@shahalam-ur6wr]

This will create fractures among its viewer.

[@pavlos-zinondimitrakos9616]

That throat-singing in the background on every video featuring Mongolic/Turkic/Hunnic/steppe-y themes is hypnotising and chilling at the same time...! It makes a huge difference!

[@pavlos-zinondimitrakos9616]

@TRUTH CENSORED Belgium

[@simonedagostino9358]

It's the main theme of Total War: Attila

[@pavlos-zinondimitrakos9616]

@@simonedagostino9358 THANKS! I didn't even know there was such a TW!

[@User-xw5mk]

@@pavlos-zinondimitrakos9616 It's the best Total War, love that soundtrack!

[@艾伦诺塔斯基]

That's so annoying to me

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

This video is so well made that both Greeks and Turks can agree over it's quality And that's kings and generals is an achievement

[@alpcankarademir1991]

Indeed

[@direnius]

Hats off.

[@fwrususes5125]

As a Turk, i agreed

[@withspiros]

Indeed, although Anatolia became the shithole of the world for a great period of time.

[@fwrususes5125]

@@withspiros buthurt greek alert 🤣🤣🤣

[@thewarriorfrog]

The Battle of Manzikert paved way for the Turkification of Anatolia which laid the seeds of the Ottoman empire which conquered Constantinople ending Rome and triggering the Age of Discovery which shaped much of the modern world,... A battle can only be this impactful

[@nickmarco9259]

and conquest of anatolia is caused by battles between turkic nations and chinese empire, turks expanded through the west because of chinese suppression in the east asia which later caused the conquest of anatolia, and colonisation of world by western powers which also caused the fall of chinese empire and being a colony of western powers

[@nenenindonu]

Seljuk Turks were about to form an alliance with Pechenegs to finish the Byzantine empire centuries before Ottomans but Alexios Komnenos prevented that by using another regional Turkic nomadic people, Cumans , against the upcoming threat indeed one of the greatest emperors of Eastern Rome

[@thewarriorfrog]

Yorumlara gelecek dolu troll

[@scourgeofgodattila579]

@@thewarriorfrog geldi bile

[@Montechristoss]

Indeed one of the best emperors cunning tactician great commander

[@ramsay9788]

Züğürt Tesellisi.

[@housestark4881]

It would give fantastic results by the way, thinking of besieged by two nomadic armies from both Anatolia and Danube...

[@verysmartultrahuman939]

Sales person : "slaps Anatolia" this bad boy can fit so many Turks in it Alp Arslan : do you take cash?

[@thaariqulakwa8834]

Ahahah lol

[@AhmedMohamed-pg2bb]

😂😂😂

[@bosniencommie1202]

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[@DARk-mm4lh]

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[@DARk-mm4lh]

I don't understand

[@mohmu9]

In my opinion early steppe nomads including the Turks were always strong warriors but they always fought between themselves until someone comes along unites them and then they wreak havoc in the world and then they split again and fight among themselves and this cycle repeats itself in history many times and Anatolia wasn't that different either when they first got there they still fought each other but this time they all agreed that they liked the place lol

[@skullsforerlikkhansthrone9306]

@Paulo Ramos scythians - Turks - then Mongols....

[@ismetkorayozhan7491]

@Paulo Ramos for gods sake. How can u be so naive and spreading false information. Aren't u guys tired of this. More than half of central asia belonged to turkic and Proto Mongol-Turkic tribes. Turks are many many different tribes who were blood related. It is not just the same family all the time. Huns, Proto Mongol-Turkic, ilkhaghnate, karakghanate, timuroids.. all were turkic !! Get ur facts right pls.

[@Neversa]

Seljuks were half-Persian at the time

[@mohmu9]

@Paulo Ramosthe Steppes are the steppes and whoever came from there or raised from there are the nomads of the steppes turks/mongols or anyone else

[@ismetkorayozhan7491]

@@Neversa yeah yeah of course. The whole Turks were persian right ? U guys are just naive. That is such an incorrect statement and a lie that has never ever been heard of

[@aysenur6761]

How can you guys make such long and quality videos that frequent, it's crazy!

[@chrisucl]

It's called a content factory. They have a team of people who do this full time.

[@aysenur6761]

@@oneinca insanlarla nasıl iletişim kurulur öğretebilirim istersen birader

[@oneinca]

@@aysenur6761 Öğretir misin🐬🐬

[@yusakuzgun2824]

@@oneinca aha liberal

[@yusakuzgun2824]

@@aysenur6761 bu liberal trolleri çok takma, hoşlarına gitsen de hem fikir olsalarda yada çok alakasız bir yerde alakasız bir şekilde taşak geçmeye bayılırlar, bu şekil eğleniyorlar 😀

[@Lazaphaza]

These videos are always a treat

[@Pemmont107]

Oh boy, this'll sure rile the Greek and Turkish KZbin warriors. (Nice video btw) Edit: I was right. Though I'm pleasantly surprised that some of the comments at least were sensible and thought out.

[@beastdeas7250]

They're coming

[@SpyrosKos10]

Im Greek, and not riles at all, its plain historical facts, we made a huge mistake and we paid for it, what can we do, only learn for the future if necessary

[@valery2711]

Probably they like... turks are turkified greeks, take contastinopole back from mongols etc..

[@thewarriorfrog]

@@valery2711 🤣🤣

[@russki_dabb872]

Pretty much. I mean, the Seljuk Turks are nomadic peoples so wherever they go, it is technically their new homeland so I don't know what is up with some people just complaining about it or they probably want to look for something to get angry at?

[@Cormac791]

Afshar Turkmen here. My great grandfathers in late 1800's, they were still living like notorious nomads around the Sivas,Kayseri and Adana. İt's great seeing this life in Kings and Generals too.

[@muksimulmaad7413]

notorious nomads? did they come rifles blazing take all the rugs? come on tell me something like that

[@ahmetturkmen0011]

@@muksimulmaad7413 no, they were in constant conflict with the ottoman administration who tried to settle them down, in order to extract more "tax money".

[@attilaseyfullah8522]

@@muksimulmaad7413 nomads are not only hostile to the enemy but also to their own government. In fact the last Yörüks settled down in 2000's I believe.

[@md-dp5bo]

someone please explain to avshars in turkey that they are turkic. a lot of them on the southeast are assimilated by kurds and literally even the tribes they claim they are a part of are well known turkmen tribes yet they believe they are kurds. well these outsiders who like to assume every turkic people out there are TuRkiFieD will never know or care about how turks are assimilated as we speak though.

[@beautifulaffliction1742]

peach soda biji Kurdistan

[@bakarandguladze]

Grand stuff! "Hispanization of Americas" would also be very interesting.

[@bakarandguladze]

Duly noted.

[@XxLIVRAxX]

Hispanization. Thats a very interesting topic indeed, a combination of cultural assimiliation, sincretism and inmigration.

[@Nimai_Aquino]

I don’t know much about the hispanic bois, but here in Brazil the portuguese just arrived in waves, mostly retired soldiers, expeled jews, poor peasants, and married the converted friendly natives. Then came the slaves whose freed descendants, who were fully luso-brazilians, married the settlers or catholic natives too.

[@rodrigoe.gordillo2617]

Actually that happened after colonial period

[@joseandrade7392]

And the whole arabization and re-latinification process in Iberia during the Reconquista

[@mightykurgan3444]

How many great videos will you make? Kings and Generals: yes

[@oscarscribner7702]

I love that kings and generals not only have consistent uploads makes wonderful content honestly as an avid scholar of history I have found this channel to be a godsend

[@ev3rnight356]

Anatolia I feel has one of the most interesting histories of any areas. Just rich with so many different cultures

[@andresousa3072]

same, anatolia, the balkas and the caucasus are to me the most interesting areas, as you said, the varios cultures, empires are so rich and interesting, to me is one of the most historic areas

[@vonzuchter]

not that much richness after a point in time. It has an amazing history up until the classical antiquety. Especially in the bronze age. Hittites lycians carians the legendary arzawans and troy and mycenean greeks , and then lydians and persians. After that it was hellenized and all these people just adopted the greek language and culture for the next 1500 years. Even after roman conquest region remained a greek world. Arab invasions were eventually succesfully beaten. Then Turks came.and history of the area became even more boring

[@hurguler]

Not just history but genetically it is one of the richest regions in terms of haplogroups. More than a dozen haplogroups from paternal line alone.

[@sdtnyctk1406]

@@vonzuchter Not that much richness after a point in time? Boring?? on what scientific study are these claims based? one of those chauvinistic arguments.. one of those flag-waving, "we-are-the-best" people.. How could you be so prejudiced?! Why can't you be at least a little bit open-minded and objective enough to see that people throughout history moved from one place to another to be able to survive. Our distant ancestors got out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, ever since groups of people have been migrating across the planet. They have created different ways of living by doing so; various cultures and languages have come alive on this never-ending journey of ours. Then those people and cultures have met again and again, mingled with each other again and again, resulting in new mixtures. We are all related. We are genetically mixed, which is a scientific fact. AND We are the same species. We have made our mistakes so far. Let us stop pointing out fingers at each other.

[@vonzuchter]

@@sdtnyctk1406 You braindamaged? what scientific research makes something boring or not? it is what it is. Region has an amzing history up until the turkish conquest. Then NOTHING happened for almost 1000 years except the Timurid invasiom maybe. You have to go to the 1919-1922 war to find something interesting. Up until the turkish conquest region had amazing fasinating history with many emprires and cultures and conflicts an amazing mosaic of peoples and epic conflicts in the Bronze age in iron age in classical age in roman era , in bynatine era epic wars against the persians and the arabs. After Turkish conquest nothing. So yeah it became BORING.

[@GanjaMasterBlaster]

I noticed that you used the Attila Total War theme , I love that you use Total War soundtracks Also great video by the way

[@marcus4046]

while i love jeff van dyke attlia total war got some good tracks aswell.

[@alirezafalamarzi7062]

I do believe this entire channel was somehow inspired by Total War games or others like ones made by Paradox Interactive, so it's quite natural for them to use media from fore mentioned sources.

[@GanjaMasterBlaster]

@@alirezafalamarzi7062 indeed And I'm glad since i love Total War games (Especially Rome 1 , Medieval 2 , Shogun 2 and Attila)

[@yigitaraz7101]

thank you ı was triyng to remember the name of the theme

[@GanjaMasterBlaster]

@@yigitaraz7101 you're welcome It's the theme obviously

[@tywinlordlancaster8284]

How many well researched videos kings and generals have in their drawers to upload so quickly? Don't stop, I am your longest big fan

[@thekhans2823]

Yes

[@genericusername4316]

It takes a team, and Kings and Generals seems to have the best of the best

[@aaronmarks9366]

Another excellent video. I've always wondered exactly how Christian, Greek-speaking Byzantine Anatolia became Muslim, Turkish-speaking Anatolia, and this video did a great job breaking it down. K&G nails it again!

[@tengiz]

Hittites became a Greek-speaking people after Alexander and they became a Turkish-speaking people after Alparslan

[@gamehacker2801]

@@frknmtl7832 then why do you look like Greeks. Take a genetic test and find out

[@mirianvanidze3280]

@@frknmtl7832 Anatolian "Turks" have as much identity as white Americans in United States. That being said - none.

[@emooo784]

Classic greek who doesn't want to believe in how Turks kicked them out from Anatolia. Also, it is East Rome not Greece. Last roman empire is Byzantium and today's greeks doesn't have any tie with ancient Rome.

[@aaronmarks9366]

@@frknmtl7832 I mean, he has a point, go check out genetics results for Turkey. In the long history of the Ottoman Empire, there were plenty of Anatolian Greeks who convered to Islam in order to gain status. Their descendants would have eventually intermarried with the ethnic Turks. I guarantee you, a large chunk of modern Turkey is simply a genetic mix of Greeks, Turks, Kurds, Armenians, and even traces of the ancient Anatolians like the Hittites.

[@dogusPiyadeci]

Another great video as usual. For those who are curious about the ''responsibilities of the ghazi warrior'' mentioned in the video, one of the main factors that made Turks expand, I strongly suggest reading Halil Inalcik's books, which are also in English. He is considered the master of Turkish history, a lot of the things in this video also came through his researches which he spent his entire life on

[@jaang7424]

I'm curious about the "Ghazi Warrior" concept... which of Inalcik's books would you suggest as a starting point to learn more?

[@turkishempire1923]

@@jaang7424 As a start for the Ottoman state : 1 Halil İnalcık Devlet-i Aliyye 2Feridun Emecen Osmanlı imparatorluğunun kuruluş ve yükseliş tarihi 3 Mehmet Fuat Köprülü Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Kuruluşu but if you want to read books not only about the Ottoman Empire but also about other Turkish giants : Seljuks Selçuklular ibnü'l - verdi , Büyük Selçuklular Cihan Piyadeoğlu The book that starts from the Huns to the Uighur state : Bozkırın Kağanlıkları Ahmet Taşağıl only the European Hun state Attila ve Oğulları Hunlar Hüseyin Namık Orkun A book about Europe from the Huns to the Khazars : Türkler (Turkish) Theophanes Confessor'un Chronicle For general Turkish history : Türklerin tarihi (Pasifik'ten Akdeniz'e 2000 yıl) Jean - Paul Roux

[@SerxhioGjata]

@@jaang7424 Ghazi just means "warrior". Ghazi is a person who engages in the pastoral lifestyle of the ghazwa, was a form of limited warfare verging on brigandage that avoided head-on confrontations and instead emphasized raiding and looting, a term coming from Bedouin culture. Basically a Ghazi is a full time soldier, and as such he can maintain his profession only by partaking in raiding and expeditions regularly and as a full-time soldier he had a responsibility to expand the domains of his ruler and find plunder to maintain his property and weapons

[@jaang7424]

@@SerxhioGjata Very interesting. Thank you for the explanation.

[@cadenvanvalkenburg6718]

My computer: It was released 5 minutes ago The Comments Section: 8 hours ago

[@norsie45]

patreon release

[@cadenvanvalkenburg6718]

@@norsie45 I know.

[@syedazam2568]

Anatolia is one of the most historial intermixing periods. Rome, Greece, Turkey and battleground of one of the most interesting battles.

[@太守苏定交趾]

Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂

[@δανιηλπαλτογλου]

@@terrificsoprano5025 you need more education over mediterranian history to speak over such a matter....greeks are in the same region for over 2500 years. the origin of greeks comes out from language which is an indo-europian language not from dna .... and bulgarians are turkic tribe who came from todays ukraine to balcans not slavs.

[@pressftopayrespects6325]

@@basileusandy9798 Many of the people in Turkey, especially around the Western and Northern regions will have considerably more European descent than others elsewhere. This is due to them mixing. And population growth happened a lot since 1071, so those 50-100,000 nomads from Central Asia probably do have many descendants. Occams razor, the guess with the least assumptions is probably the correct one, if no one there is really Turkic, why do many of Asian looking Turks come from seemingly white parents? I know plenty of people who have white parents but look like your average Central Asian, it's not uncommon in Turkey. You would have to assume all the nomads came, then either died off with 0 descendants or left. So it makes more sense to guess that most of the 82,000,000 probably were descended from the Central Asians than the idea they just said, "screw it, not Greek or Armenian or Arab or whatever anymore, I'm Turkic."

[@hurguler]

Not only history but genetically Anatolia is very rich as well. In paternal line, y-dna haplogroups alone there are more than a dozen different haplogroups. It's like a bridge between Europe, Asia and Middle East.

[@hurguler]

@@terrificsoprano5025 Uh oh.. don't let the Greeks hear this. They imagine themselves as pure "Europeans" (whatever that means). In 1920s alone there were more than 2 million Anatolian Greeks and Muslims in Greece had to migrate in forced population exchange. Greeks from Greece looked down on Anatolian Greeks and called them "yogurt eaters."

[@serialchiller4124]

This should be displayed as history material at school.

[@thekhans2823]

@@paulcock8929 , yes

[@太守苏定交趾]

Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂

[@thekhans2823]

@@太守苏定交趾 lol

[@太守苏定交趾]

@@thekhans2823 you don’t agree with what I say?

[@omerpasa3328]

True :D

[@inferno0020]

I think Turkification of Anatolia is one of the most overlooked world historical events

[@frostflower5555]

and a very sad thing too :(

[@killa4life3333]

@Huso Ucar Huso, its pretty bad luck buddy. No matter which way you skin it, your life, and the life of everyone in Modern Turkey would be infinitely better if you remained Hellenized and a part of Europe.

[@frostflower5555]

It's mind boggling how it happened. Maybe there's hope...

[@inferno0020]

@@frostflower5555, It is not mind-boggling; Western historians simply didn't pay enough attention it deserved

[@killa4life3333]

@Elvis Presley your news is state run big guy. Greece is a paradise comparatively. Simple things, like not having propagandists run our news is a freedom youll never experience. Not everything is about debt, of which Greek bond yields were in the negative for, pre pandemic (not that you know what bond yields are.) Also, how can i turk talk about economics when your dollar has devalued x4 in the past year. Every turk oj planet earth is LITERALLY 4X POORER in relation to themselves, 1 year ago, let alone the rest of the world who is in a boom due to low interest rates. Ouch.

[@kr4yzie658]

Great work the quality of the video is insane!!

[@KingsandGenerals]

🙌

[@noname-ml7lm]

Video about Pechenegs would be amazing!!

[@NobleKorhedron]

I think Kings and Generals already made one; not sure, you should search.

[@noname-ml7lm]

@@NobleKorhedron not really but im pretty sure in the future we going to see a video about them

[@wololoooxd3288]

A good lmg with 100 bullet capacity

[@ProfessorOFanthropology979]

@@wololoooxd3288 not that type, the gun is named after the people

[@afsharkaghan5534]

My grandfather was a Nomad in Southern Anatolia from Taurus Mountains. The Nomads of Anatolia are called "Yörük-Türkmen" which means "walking Turkmen".

[@torikeqi8710]

These Nomads were hated a lot by the Ottomans that wanted nothing to do with them. Ottoman dynasty was more related to their Balkan muslims, beys and Pashas such as Albanians and Bosniaks. They viewed these nomads as lower and dumb.

[@cool06alt]

Did he rode ponies and living in Yurt?

[@torikeqi8710]

@@hakanbaybars4435 In the 2nd half of the 15th century up to early 1800s most of prime ministers and important governors were Albanian and Bosnian. Some Georgians also. The Ottoman dynasty for a long period considered it an offence to be related to antolians turks. Is a fact.

[@ahmetaktas30]

@@torikeqi8710 there is a difference between dynasty and governors tho. Ottomans used educated slaves and non-Turks for high government positions because they are not noble or of Turkish blood so they can’t claim the throne. Also all centralized governments hated the nomads because you can’t tax them efficiently. But it is true that Ottomans didn’t associate themselves with their nomadic brethren.

[@hassanabdikarimmohamed2505]

@@ahmetaktas30 ottomans themselves used to be nomads, but by the time they created a kingdom which became an empire, they obviously didn't like nomads because all nomads are highly independent warlike people who hate any form of authority, meaning nomads didn't recognise ottoman rule, never payed taxes, and never acted as citizens or respected the sultan as every nomad is his own sultan

[@garabic8688]

This was very interesting and informative

[@太守苏定交趾]

Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂

[@WMFilms25]

I was just wondering about this myself. Thank you for reading my mind!

[@hantingliu882]

13:16 The original Turkish salt guy

[@sap9245]

Lmao salt bae😂

[@ManAssome]

It's Salt Bae for you

[@LetsRock1t]

Lool 😂😂

[@LetsRock1t]

Lmao

[@SM-zl4zd]

Can't believe nobody came up with this: he is Salt Bey, not Salt Bae.

[@yoban360]

As a Native American, crazy to know I share genes and how far my distant cousins with central Asian blood ended up in Europe.

[@meralkeskin8511]

Are we interesting 🤭Roman and Turkic=Turkish..😂 Ottoman moved Slavic, Caucasian. Albanian. There are native Arab, Kurd, Georgian, Laz in Turkey. Tatar turkic came later. . Syrian, Afghan, Paki came newly. 😂 We are funny.. 😂 Very much culture, race..

[@SurenaofParthia]

Half of the people of Turkey carry the genes of ancient Anatolians such as Lydians, Carians and Phrygians, who Hellenized and later Turkified, rather than the genes of Central Asian and Siberian Turks.

[@muhammetcakmak713]

​@@SurenaofParthiahaha öyle bir şey yok uydurma

[@selman8411]

​​@@muhammetcakmak713 biraz öyle biz geldikten sonra yerliler puf diye yok olmadı

[@yusuf3005]

​@@SurenaofParthia Yunanlılar asimile olmadılar. 1.5 milyon Yunanı anavatanlarına geri gönderdik. Çok azı İstanbulda kaldı

[@zako9396]

Its a honor to be here early always glad to see you guys upload!

[@alejandroojeda1572]

on the other side of the mediterranean a similarly long lasting conquest was taking place. It also changed dramatically the cultural and religious outlook of the region. And it culminated in a global superpower as powerful as the ottomans. I just find it funny that Spanish and Turkish history mirror each other so well on this period.

[@Vladklx]

But spanish case was reconquest

[@Nero-ho6gt]

Scarily similar in so many ways.

[@alejandroojeda1572]

@@Azhar_shaikh1 wow... first off conquistador is a name we use only when talking about the Americas. That's because they have certain quirks. They were frequently poor, pretty desperate people who went to the new world in search of riches...not unlike the Turk mercenaries we've seen in this video. They were brutal but not entirely dependant on the crown. They were essentially warlords vaguely promoted by the Spanish monarchs. Take into account that communication was pretty bad... Cortez conquered the Aztecs without permission...in fact, they explicitly told him not to do it. During the reconquista the prominent force were nobles and (in some cases) merchants, which had very different characteristics. Now, about Spain. Contrary to popular belief All Spanish kingdoms promoted Muslims and Jews to high ranks. If you've ever been Zaragoza you can just tell from the architecture. The society was pretty liquid. In fact our most famous hero El Cid Campeador, fought with the Moors against Christian kingdoms about as often as he did the contrary. Spain was about as multicultural as Europe got. it had problems but they were not genocidal terrorists. it was only at the very end of the reconquista that the Muslims and jews were expelled from the country...not killed. And I could talk long about why they did it. And then about the Americas...no Spain didn't genocide entire people's on purpose. Why? Because they wanted them to work and have children. Spain didn't send women to the new world, so the X factor had to come from somewhere. The best possible accusations are cultural genocide, mass rape, forced labour and accidental biological and viral mayhem, but Spain really wanted their natives to live and work. What did the conquistadores do?...well they were cutthroat mercenaries I expect about anything. I would be surprised to find a single honourable bone in Pizarro's corpse.

[@XxLIVRAxX]

In the case of the Iberian peninsula, it resembles the komnenian reconquest, except that it was ultimately succesfull in preserving the the gains and repopulating the territory.

[@alejandroojeda1572]

@@Vladklx well that term is misleading. Spain was Conquered rapidly in the 700's. By the 1200's can you really talk about a reconquest? Why? Because their grandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandparents (maybe?) lived there? Btw...I didn't exaggerate that's roughly how back you have to go

[@kapekape9160]

I am working on a paper exactly on the subject, and this video comes out, crazy

[@jlvfr]

It's a trap!

[@NVera-dz9zw]

@@LuisAldamiz what do you mean Turkic genetics are missing in Anatolia? They for sure are not the dominant ones, but they are there.

[@monkmodemalik8225]

@@LuisAldamiz yh exactly so turkification of modern turkey clearly didn’t reached into the genetics of the people

[@skyfragmented3933]

I would recommend Spiros Vryonis book for everyone willing go further on the decline of Byzantium and the rise of the Turks in Anatolia.

[@fatihkoc7075]

@@LuisAldamiz From genetic standpoint: Turks were never fully East Asian, we were Eurasian ( like Uralic people). Medieval Turks had between %45-%20 Eastern Eurasian admixture. Nowadays Kazakhs have around ~%60 Eastern Eurasian admixture while Anatolian Turks vary between %8 - %20. Both the Turkic people are mixed with other populations. I just wanted you guys to understand this. Medieval Turks were never looking like Mongols but rather like modern day Bashkir - Crimean Tatar - Uzbek. Since we were (Anatolian Turks) not fully East Asian like Mongols when we mixed with the natives our Western Eurasian components became even more prominent. And so we started to lose our "Central Asian" look.

[@lefc7527]

As a Greek Orthodox with origins from Constantinople and Smyrna I thank you for shedding some light on this part of our history, it is extremely important a bit sad for us.

[@ironheart5830]

I can feel you sadness :(

[@tatarcavalry2342]

Shit happened mate now its past we are komshu and brothers no need to be sad or be foes.

[@torikeqi8710]

You are probably just a greekified Anatolians rather than authentic greek. Basically a Greek speaking Orthodox Anatolian who has lost his native language.

[@kapoioskanenas2337]

@@torikeqi8710 your argument can be said in both ways. Its better to not make assumptions.

[@tatarcavalry2342]

I have a Rum gf (Anatolian Greek) gonna go for the good shit like my ancestors did haters gonna hate :DDDD

[@seriesmovies4195]

Let’s all appreciate that this is *FREE* to watch.

[@maximilienmavian4333]

It feels like Armenians are surprisingly absent from this video? Wonderful video, I appreciate how direct it presents the information.

[@aslizthemir7192]

Armenians allied with Turks in Malzigert war. Byzantin church was trying to dominate them they were rivals.

[@evranirnek]

"vikings raid and pillage monasteries and christian regions" modern westerners: "i actually like that" "turks. simply exist" again westerners: "ayy, barbariaannzz!"

[@blacksea-caspiansea9504]

@@mickeytwister4721 Like what?

[@blacksea-caspiansea9504]

@@mickeytwister4721 ahahhahaha what about since 1920 till 1960?

[@blacksea-caspiansea9504]

@@mickeytwister4721 who protected 40 years?

[@blacksea-caspiansea9504]

@@mickeytwister4721 They are not racist but have some inferiority complex sometimes and also phobia, they fear something that doesn't exist. Because their media can cheat them very easily. Not in eastern but in western Europe some people still thinks Turkish Republic is hot desert camel people dress like arabs etc lol misconceptions bro dont give attention so much.

[@reaperplays4170]

@@mickeytwister4721 nope the europeans were the most as you can see the black slaves and the racial inequalitybin the americas

[@moritz7613]

A dark time in greek history

[@moritz7613]

@@Closed0254 lol even Bad jokes are sometimes funny

[@karipopoaetos1288]

Good time in greek history

[@moritz7613]

@@karipopoaetos1288 you mean Alexander?

[@marthsmask5798]

I'm sure the comment section will be civilised.

[@beastdeas7250]

XD

[@beatsbynowrose8946]

Look at the replies.

[@iqbal4625]

No chance of that. Nothing is, if it pit the turks and the greeks....

[@ΛεωνάνδροςΠεργαμενός]

Nice joke 😅

[@Caranthirn]

It is actually

[@firefoxlani7475]

Nice video.Could you make a video about the slavizisation of the Balkans?It is a really interesting event.

[@mongke7858]

That sounds interesting but the sources are really scarce.

[@dejanv.9685]

@@williamdavis9562 and yet there is not a single historical evidence of such event.

[@xanshen9011]

@@williamdavis9562 Lmao the balkans have always been a land of war. From the yamnaya culture till present day its been a war torn shithole

[@alexiosikomnenos7749]

I hope the comments are peaceful

[@Montechristoss]

Me too my emperor

[@berkin3086]

Emperor; if you pay your tribute we are so peaceful;)

[@Montechristoss]

@@berkin3086 yes yes we know very well how peaceful you are if you take if we give you your tribute

[@太守苏定交趾]

Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂

[@Potatoman1578]

@@太守苏定交趾 The irony is that China has been assimilating different people since several millenia, like Manchurians, Inner Mongolians, Uyghurs, Tibetans and native people in Southern China

[@asfm2]

Greek history just exists in cycles where the first half is nigh unimaginable glory and victory and golden age conquests, then the second half is just doomer regaling how it all fell apart.

[@_berat.ugur_3089]

greek history fail's start with Turks. (hunnic empire , avars , gokturks , seljuk...

[@brunofernandez3117]

Indeed. Thanks to Marxism and the leftists.

[@tabrazbaloch]

It's world history.

[@Nimai_Aquino]

It’s sad. The romans have glorious sucessor states even in the modern era. The greeks have a failed small state.

[@brunofernandez3117]

@Cemil Ekici you don’t have leftists in Turkey.

[@giannis7720]

One of the toughest videos to watch...

[@太守苏定交趾]

Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂

[@DarkBuddhist]

Big sad for the romans but way bigger applause for how beautiful your videos have become!

[@Merdumgriz]

i just wanted to say im a big fan..of your chanell (OuO)

[@bosniencommie1202]

When is next vid

[@DarkBuddhist]

@@Merdumgriz

[@DarkBuddhist]

@@bosniencommie1202 quite soon

[@pinklasagna8328]

do a buddhist something in eu4 you dark buddhist

[@spirosalygizakis3686]

Amazing work guys! I have learned more history by watching all of your videos than i did 9 years in school

[@torikeqi8710]

Dont take everything they say as accurate.

[@太守苏定交趾]

Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂

[@太守苏定交趾]

@Who are you? google Tajiks of Xinjiang before saying land of Turks

[@太守苏定交趾]

@Who are you? only 1% of Xinjiang is altai mountains , the Tarim basin used to belong to indo European tocharian and saka people (google Tajiks of Xinjiang )

[@AatJago]

@@太守苏定交趾 chinese commie bot who support genocide said what?

[@no1uknow32]

I've always wondered about the process of turkicization in Anatolia. There aren't many good explanations of it so I'm glad you touched on it!

[@georgezachos7322]

@@williamdavis9562 This is correct.

[@georgezachos7322]

@@williamdavis9562 If you go back far enough, everyone invaded some indigenous peoples land. That's just not good enough.

[@belkibelki3862]

@@williamdavis9562 who was there before greeks invaded?

[@georgezachos7322]

@@williamdavis9562 Sure. However, the Greeks and Turks are still around, but the native Anatolians, Hittites and others? Not so much.

[@georgezachos7322]

@@williamdavis9562 It doesn't really matter. All that matters is what they identify as. For example many Greeks of Asia minor and their descendants identify as Turks at this point. It doesn't matter what they once were.

[@thefulanichad]

Can you do something about Fulani conquest of west Africa .

[@thefulanichad]

Il sure you can it +500k with it all your video on African history hit the million 🙂

[@noobsaibot7006]

Fulanis are like the Turks they were nomadic pastrol herders while they were strong warriors too. Both played a role in the spread of Islam.

[@al-muwaffaq341]

Holy shit I’m Fulani

[@noobsaibot7006]

@Mukhtar indeed my brother respect to the brave Somali warriors

[@ezzovonachalm7534]

Could Y make a video on Belgium ruling Congo ?

[@HoundofOdin]

No one: Absolutely no one: Kings and Generals: *NOW IT'S TURKISH DELIGHT ON A MOONLIT NIGHT.*

[@Ntopios]

You forgot to add at the end: "With a Roman background".

[@HoundofOdin]

@@Ntopios What can I say? That's nobody's business but the Turks.

[@nathanpangilinan4397]

As Dovahhatty put it: There once was a dream, a dream that fell.

[@sakisgiannakoudis3637]

A dream to cleanse this rotten world from the barbarians that infest it - dovanhatty 2020

[@nathanpangilinan4397]

@@sakisgiannakoudis3637, and this moment marked the beginning of the final end of that dream, even if the Germans claim that the Unholy German Confederate was maintaining such a dream.

[@harzemsahtekin4441]

@@nathanpangilinan4397 Everyone is gangsta until Alparslan came...

[@EM-tx3ly]

His take on Aurelian was glorious

[@davids3282]

@@harzemsahtekin4441 more until the fourth crusade came.

[@thearabianwolf3996]

This guy deserves a golden model Man I’ve learned from his history channel more than my school + university + tales of elders Thx you +like 👍

[@hurguler]

Yes it's a great into but the real history is a lot more detailed. Much more complicated than it can be covered in a short KZbin video.

[@thearabianwolf3996]

@@hurguler Yep that’s true But sometimes a picture is equal 1000 words I think reading all of these complicated history won’t be worth much as watching an episode or short video like this one with animation and simulation I prefer this kind of ways to explain the history

[@thearabianwolf3996]

@@turkmapping130 Turkish animal?? Only in Turkey they existed?? 😂 Wolf is common animal and it’s everywhere even Arabia has some . Unfortunately they are in denger. That’s why I chose my name to be “ ArabianWolf”cuz this wonderful species are facing extinction

[@Ali24219]

I was literally wondering about this yesterday

[@jessejaimyhecker3350]

Awesome vid love historie thank you for this channel

[@hannibalbarca2928]

“ I Have Bought Such A Homeland For You That Will Be FOREVER Yours !” SULTAN ALP ARSLAN

[@BT2001]

What language is that?

[@bakdakal]

"bought" satın aldım demek

[@BT2001]

@@bakdakal alttaki nedemek gardaş?

[@hannibalbarca2928]

@@BT2001 Adud'üd devle devletin koruyucusu anlamına gelen bir ünvandır.ebu şüca ise yiğit ve cesur anlamına gelen bir ünvandır.

[@pyrusheliosmk2204]

@@hannibalbarca2928 lütfen yabancı videonun yorumlarında, bir Türk general için arapça lakaplar kullanma.

[@boqorbeerta8780]

Great work Kings and General. Turkic people history is so interesting.

[@ikballalli5539]

The quality of this video is amazing!!

[@HistorydeFacto]

Seljuks are one of the most underrated political entities. They not only changed the political and ethnic make up of the middle east, but also created the Sunni Islam as we know it today.

[@HistorydeFacto]

@@RobertGuilman The Sunni Islam as we know it today with 4 different sects that acknowledge each other was built during the reign of the Seljuks. Obviously the belief was not created during the Seljuks, but Seljuks protected the faith and structured it.

[@zerzavy]

What are you doing steppe bro?!

[@HorvardPasha]

LMAO You're a legend!!

[@taotekoncha6275]

Lmfaooo

[@ismetkorayozhan7491]

This was too damn smartly played !! 🤣

[@wooly9876]

Ffs that is actually gold

[@mikogames13]

Cursed pfp 😳

[@morganhale3434]

If you look back into the distant past of Hellas, Anatolia played a major part in its makeup. It was Asiatic Greece that got the Hellenes into the Persian Wars, and it was Anatolia by the Second Century A.D. that was the heartland of the Roman East. Anatolia from the late 3rd century till the 11th century was the political, economic, and military engine room of the Eastern Roman Empire. Since Manzikert the importance, economic vitality, and the military prowess of the Anatolians have always declined.

[@ΕυαγγελοςΑγγελος-ρ6ζ]

The looting, and the destruction of constantinople by the westerns in 1204. Caused the decline of Byzantine empire which eventually fallen by the Ottoman Turks and destroyed forever.

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Your videos are amazing, I love history and the way you condese these topics into ~20 min entertaining videos is awesome, keep it up!

[@MertBey87]

You should make a series out of this. Before islam and christianity anatolia was pagan. There are still traditions from ancient anatolia. Couple of years ago Archeologists discovered an ancient tomb. Locals have been visiting this tomb in Physkos (todays marmaris) and praying for centuries.They said the person buried here was an islamic cleric. Upon some investigation researchers found out that this tomb also existed in christian times and was highly regarded as a christian saint. After some more research they found out the guy buried there was a boxer during ancient times. People forgot the reason the guy was known for but revering the tomb still continued for centuries. His name is Diagoras of Rhodes. And long before turks, greeks anatolia was home to some of the most ancient civilizations in the world. hittities, phrygians, urartians, lydians.

[@precursors]

That is true. Also majority of Seljuks still had Tengriist practices which later embedded itself into the Islamic culture of Anatolia and the daily life.

[@precursors]

@Jerry Louis with The Thickness I know, they've been trying to push wahabist practices down people's throats but people are not buying it.

[@BETOETE]

In other words Turks shouldn' be in Anatolia, Turkey shouln't be Muslim.

[@precursors]

@@BETOETE Cry more

[@vatossureno]

@@BETOETEcry cry cry

[@Poopdahoop]

I really like the military history stuff you guys do, but this sort of thing is for some reason even more interesting! I think that people talk about wars and stuff that you guys cover a lot, and it's great seeing you guys cover that too because you're good at it. But, when you cover cool topics that people look over or are not mentioned in history class, and you do it with the same depth and quality you give military topics, it's just next level and so absorbing.

[@ironheart5830]

The topic like this in this video shouldn't be teaching at school because it make cause some you know "conflicts" should I say.

[@TuwuAshina60]

I am Anatolian Turkmen. My ancestors lived nomadic lives in the 1780s. The Ottomans forced it into settled life. My Turkmen ancestors, who are the Salmanlu tribe of the Bayat tribe of Oghuzs. Our State was destroyed by the Ottoman Empire, we are the Turkmens of the Dulkadirds Principality.

[@jihangirastra3851]

The Ottomans Anatolians have been opressing the steppe nomads for many centuries. They also killed any Crimean Tatar Khan who resisted Ottoman oppression and sent waves of Anatolian settlers into Crimea to assimilate the native steppe culture. The prophet Mohammed said that "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Turks; people with small eyes, red faces, and flat noses. Their faces will look like shields coated with leather. The Hour will not be established till you fight with people whose shoes are made of hair." (al-Bukhari Book 56 Hadith 141) The actual Turks had small eyes and small noses, Mongoloid in appearance and modern Anatolians are people who lived under the steppe nomads for centuries and now believe themselves to be their descendants. Atilla the Hun was also described by roman diplomats as having small noses and small eyes. But the Turkish government continues to spread great lies about the Turkic and steppe peoples. Hope this helps :)

[@TuwuAshina60]

Anatolian people are confused, will you look at the skull and interpret it as genetics? My ancestors are Turkmens, not Ottomans.

[@TuwuAshina60]

My ancestors fought against the Ottomans to preserve the steppe nomadic culture! Jalali Revolts Shah Veli Revolts! All Turkmen rebellions!

[@TuwuAshina60]

Now you take a Russian girl and have children with her, do they look like you or their mother?

[@jihangirastra3851]

@@TuwuAshina60 Sorry if offend you my friend. The turkmen as a whole are Mongoloid in appearance so they are actually Turkic, but the Ottoman turks are simply Greeks who use Turkic language and Islam.

[@robmckrill3134]

The best documentary channel ever, full stop...........

[@AbuLaith1963]

I watched a KZbin video where four or five young Turks did dna tests. They were astonished by the large component of Greek ancestry they each carried.

[@2016vibes-p5y]

MyHeritage confuses native Anatolian DNA with greek DNA.

[@2016vibes-p5y]

I don't understand what your point is.@jackylynn I already know everything you told me, do you want me to feel embarrassed for it? If yes then I have to fail you, because I like of all my roots.

[@2016vibes-p5y]

@jackylynn native Anatolian*

[@postachamdi6286]

You can look my illustrative dna results

[@weplo1597]

There is no such thing as pure 100% dna. Most of Turks in Turkey has 30-40% Central asia dna. As myself I look more closer to central asians or look turanid. Turkic countries aren't only 6 but 50 turkic groups and some of them will look different than others like Kıpchak turks who has blonde hair and colored eyes.

[@thomasmakepeace5191]

The History of Anatolia is as rich as time itself

[@joeshar.]

17:26 it's a very rare situation for a Christian man loves a Muslim woman at that time since Muslim women were covered. On the other hand, Muslim men (mostly soldiers) were encouraged to marry Christian women to accelerate the transformation of demography. We can see the outcome today that most of the Turks looks similar to Greeks instead of Turkic states in Central Asia.

[@SurenaofParthia]

Half of the people of Turkey carry the genes of ancient Anatolians such as Lydians, Carians and Phrygians, who Hellenized and later Turkified, rather than the genes of Central Asian and Siberian Turks.

[@Qualityfun-relaxationLla-ud7pm]

​@@SurenaofParthiaThe pontus and the aegean were mostly settled not assimilated, plus the most common y chromosomes in turkey are the same as in greece. And the local anatolians were cousin peoples to the greeks

[@iamleoooo]

The vocabulary that being used in this video is so advance that i have to open my dictionary to get through it

[@iamleoooo]

@Δημήτρης Ο Δημήτρης sorry my bad

[@iamleoooo]

@Kadir Garip which is kinda hard for me to follow through the entire video though. but nevertheless, yes! now word to learn

[@hurguler]

@@iamleoooo You can read the subtitles, freeze the video or watch it again. Actually the level of English used isn't more advanced than university level history class.

[@bobbatons1720]

Great video. Thank you very much. But also this vid made me kind of sad...

[@cevikatmaca61]

Why is that?

[@bobbatons1720]

@@cevikatmaca61 Well, as a Greek and having a part of me descend from Pontus region, it woke the "lost lands" sentiment that is common even until today in Greek populace.

[@testnameplsignore6916]

@@bobbatons1720 well, Im Turkish and ı think that we should respect each other’s countries’ respective borders and work for a peaceful and friendly future. :/ love from Izmir 🇹🇷💕🇬🇷

[@bobbatons1720]

@@testnameplsignore6916 My friend I don't want war to take back Asia Minor. On the contrary I want Turks and Greeks to live in peace and let the past (and I don't mean Matzikert but the events of the previous century) behind. In all honesty, I believe Turks and Greeks have many things in common and actually their only big difference is that they adhere to different religions. I just express a sentiment where you had something and you lost it. Especially when many Greeks descent from that region. That's all. Trust me, no one (except some far right idiots) want to kill Turks and take back Izmir/Smyrna, Instabul/Constantinople, Trebizond etc. etc.

[@manichaean1888]

The same happened in Iranean Azerbaijan, where Turkic language and culture phased out the old Persian way of life. There are remnants of the old language speakers (the Talysh) but they are very few.

[@0zaree100]

Thank you for covering this. Many people tend to think the older populations in areas are killed off or pushed away outside of the borders when cultural/demographic changes occur, not always the case. Great episode yet again!

[@caligulathemademperor3457]

@@S.Solmazturk Just remember this. What China is doing in Xinjiang is not genocide either.

[@hugof3243]

@@bilgeturkkan6095 Islam was spread by the sword in the balkans so they got driven out. How do you think those Muslims got there?

[@e.h.4789]

@@hugof3243 most of them are converts. Due to tax reasons in the past or because it was just an advantage tombe Muslim to be able to get into higher administrative position (except for financial position where orthodox Christians had better cards).

[@yetkinuysal8577]

@@e.h.4789 "devşirme" which you mean by convert or tombe, was a privilege which was granted to a small number of People with extraordinary skills. So they were not and are not the majority. And we know the converted ones exactly, even the family names who are the descendants of the devşirme. Because we are an old state with an archiving tradition and keeping historical data. We have villages, towns and city settlements for Muslim Rum, Pomak and Slavs. They are acknowledged, and they themselves do not identify themselves as genetic Turks. Blood is not lemonade. No one would lose their racial conscience and betray their genetics. If that was slightly true, greeks having Turkic genes is a more plausible option since they are the subject to the Turkish rulers, not vice versa.

[@sjolnick]

@@caligulathemademperor3457 you need to keep in mind the century these things happen. Societies have come a long way since WW2 and end of colonization, and embraced better values.

[@TheSamuraijim87]

This was a wonderful video! It was the subject I did my thesis on at university, and I think it was an amazing job! The only improvement might have been correcting the assertion that the Christians were excluded from power. There is considerable body of contemporary evidence from both Greek and Islamic sources discussing the powerful presence of Greek Christian Nobility among the Emirs of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum. They filled as large, or larger, and certainly equal part of the Sultan's court as Persian Officialdom did, and the Mixouvarvaroi nobility were often as much the cause of the back and forth of the continuous warfare and dynastic struggle, as anything else. I loved this video. Thank you Kings and Generals.

[@rumipraetorian9716]

This is always a misconception. The word "byzantines" is fabricated after the fall of Eastern Roman Empire. They called themselves romans and only a few part of its population had greek ancestry, the rest were mostly celtic, latin, slavic and illyrian people!

[@TheSamuraijim87]

@@rumipraetorian9716 they did call themselves Roman, and "Byzantine" was an appellation from later (and I did not claim otherwise), but Greek was not a minority. Greek language and culture was overwhelmingly dominant, and this identity became more prevalent as time went on. Slavic and Ilyrian peoples overwhelmingly displayed separatist tendencies - South Slavs, such as Serbs and Bulgars, overwhelmingly identified as independent peoples, not ruled by the Empire. Latin peoples never identified as Romans, and indeed were the primary party responsible for usurping and denying the Roman inheritance of the Eastern Empire. Celtic people were an extreme minority, and with the exception of within Justinian's conquests, would have only been a significant population in Galatia.

[@rumipraetorian9716]

@@TheSamuraijim87 Take in mind that roman citizens were mostly of latin origin, after the roman conquest of anatolia, the majority of population became latins (with some celts and slavs) especially in the aristocracy, greeks in most cases didn't move away from today's Greece. After sometime the greek dynasties influenced the Eastern empire's language, religion and culture. So the civilian romans adopted greek customs even though they were not ethnically greek. This is a major reason why a common turkish DNA have a average of 30% compatibility with latin hablogroup according to ethnic studies

[@TheSamuraijim87]

@@rumipraetorian9716 that's complete bogus. If the majority of civilians in Anatolia were of Latin Origin (they weren't), then Latin would easily have become the lingua franca of the East, and the Greek minority would have become assimilated. But the Romans never even tried this. You need to try reading histories which venture beyond questionable and politically biased DNA studies.

[@rumipraetorian9716]

@@TheSamuraijim87 As I explained when the ruling class was dominated by greeks, they imposed the greek customs on roman citizens, so latin people shifted from latin language, culture to hellenization. Greeks ruled just some coastlines and few counties in anatolia and other than that there is no greek presence there.

[@marolibez]

You guys are incredible! What a magnificent presentation. Teşekkürler!🙏🏽

[@theshadowsagas3617]

It's hilarious how "Malik Shah" just means "King King" in Arabic and Persian respectively

[@asker9172]

after him comes the fall of great seldchuk empire.

[@mahdi-oe6mk]

Actually it's an Iranic name that we have malik both in arabic and persian but in persian malik is a little bit greater than shah, literally the name means king of kings or more persianised shahanshah

[@theshadowsagas3617]

@@mahdi-oe6mkOk that makes more sense lol

[@arda213]

Under this comment section you will be able to observe how obsessed European people are with geneology, races and haplogroups.

[@hantlg]

@@MrFirefox Mostly you are. I don't know anything about my heritage nor interested in it, but what I know is my family have spoken Turkish for generations, and I feel Turkish. I'm just happy with that.

[@fwrususes5125]

@@hantlg in the otherhand greeks are trying to explain Turks in Turkey actually not Turks because they dont have enough XXX dna :DDD

[@milansemberac9995]

@@S.Solmazturk They are

[@jeffjefferson2676]

It really clears some things up. Ive read about it. But seeing a map now makes clear that Cilician Armenia was directly next to the crusader states. That was the part that i did not understand. But now it is clear that it was next to the Mediterranean sea, and not next to Georgia. Therefore when people went to Jerusalem they had to go through Cilician Armenia (whenever they did not go with a boat of course). Any way, thank you for the upload! Greetings, Jeff

[@brokenbridge6316]

Loved this video. It was very informative. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@KingsandGenerals---I enjoy all of your video's. I found your channel a year ago. And have since watched pretty much all of your video's. And left a comment. You people do great work. Hey have you ever considered making a video on "The Russian Dunkirk." It's a real event that happened. If I could I would help with the research.

[@太守苏定交趾]

Turks are really successful people, they turkified both Xinjiang and Anatolia !😂

[@skullsforerlikkhansthrone9306]

@@太守苏定交趾 yeah before you were remotely aware of those said places.... SO, thanks I guess.

[@太守苏定交趾]

@Üstün Dinçsoy google Tajiks of Xinjiang

[@thewarriorfrog]

The number of nomads of Turkic origin that migrated to Anatolia is a matter of discussion. According to Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, there were 200,000 Turkmen tents in Denizli and its surrounding areas, 30,000 in Bolu and its environment, and about 100,000 in Kastamonu and its environment.[1][2] According to a Latin source at the end of the 12th century there were 100,000 nomadic tents in the regions of Denizli and Isparta.[3] A large part of Turkmens became sedentary. But up until 16th century, nomadic Turkmens made up a large part of the country. According to Ottoman tax archives, in modern-day Anatolia, in Anatolia Eyalet, Karaman Eyalet, Dulkadir Eyalet and Rûm Eyalet provinces there were about 872,610 households in the 1520s and 1530s; 160,564 of those households were nomadic, and the remainder were sedentary. Of four provinces, province of Anatolia had the largest nomadic population with 77,268 households. (note: province of Anatolia does not include entire Anatolia, it includes Western Anatolia and some parts of Northwestern Anatolia only) Between 1570 and 1580, 220,217 households of the total 1,360,474 households in the four provinces were nomadic which means, at least 20% of Anatolia was still nomadic in the 16th century Around 2,000,000 Turkic migrants settled in Anatolia during the 12th & 13th centuries[4] Opened the way for several million Oghuz tribes to settle in Anatolia[5] Therefore, as early as the 12th century, Western Europeans began to describe the Anatolia region as “Turkey-Turchia”, meaning “the land of the Turks”. [6]

[@mongke7858]

Good info. I love the history of this region it is very interesting.

[@mongke7858]

@@S.Solmazturk Not 70% lol. It was big but definitely not a majority by 30%.

[@mongke7858]

@@S.Solmazturk Yeah I know there was a second big wave during the Mongol period but the migrations never outweighed the already present population.

[@mongke7858]

@@S.Solmazturk Oh well yeah if we are talking about Turks in general obviously they became the majority but I was only talking about nomads.

[@MorriganFeather13]

@@mongke7858 I guess my family did not mix much since they're 1/3 Central Asian when taking a DNA test.

[@bendahara8284]

I always like all of your videos because of the high quality of the animation and a really good storytelling.

[@icysaracen3054]

Turks who went over the Caspian Christianised and settled in Bulgaria, crimea and Hungary. Turks who went under became Muslim and settled in Anatolia.

[@georget5874]

I'd be interested to look at the genetics of these places to see precisely what proportion of those nations are turkic. my suspicion is not much, not even in turkey itself. i remember thinking years ago when i had a turkish girlfriend, how similar her and her brother looked to the people in the mosiacs in the museums over there.

[@afsharkaghan5534]

@@georget5874 Anatolian Turks are genetically a mix of Turkmens and Pre-Turkic Anatolians. I saw Gedmatch Dna Results from Anatolia, the Gene-pool is like: 40%Turkmen/60%Anatolian in Average.

[@mohammedafsal1886]

crimean are not christian they are muslim. Majority of people living in crimea are russian christians not muslim crimeans.

[@sectorgovernor]

Hungarians were Ugric. Not Turkic

[@icysaracen3054]

@@mohammedafsal1886 nope originally Christian until the mongols conquered Crimea. Look it up

[@SofronPolitis]

Finally a video that shows that Manzikert was NOT a disaster for the Romans. Almost 400 years separate Manzikert from the fall of Constantinople (1071-1453), and a "disaster" wouldn't take 400 years to show its consequences. The Romans resisted for centuries and eventually suffered a "death by a thousand cuts". At the same time, it makes no sense to say that a very deep change like the Turkification of Anatolia happened overnight in 1071. That was a very slow and complex process that took many generations to complete. PS If someone is interested in historical comparisons, the Islamisation of Anatolia happened at the same time as the Christianisation/reconquest of Iberia. 2 very slow religious changes on the Eastern and the Western edges of the Mediterranean.

[@calidone7661]

manzikert was of course decisive as Süleyman at Nicea and Çaka at İzmir declared their independence in the next decade which are nortwesternmost and westernmost points of anatolia respectively. Seljuk withdrawal from Nicea to Konya resulted from first crusade, which is usually missed. Of course this period was followed by Komnenian restoration and eventual fate of anatolia was decided at next century.

[@SofronPolitis]

@@calidone7661 No dude, "disaster" means game over and there's no turning back. But as you said yourself, the Romans pushed back with the crusaders, the comnenian restoration etc, and they were a strong player in Anatolia until the early 1300s (look up the Catalan Company), almost 250 years after Manzikert. The most "decisive" element of Manzikert was that it allowed Turkic people to settle in Anatolia, so in that sense yes, it is decisive for Turkey's history. But it wasn't a death blow for the Roman empire. Manzikert was a big defeat but not a disaster.

[@Pepperpotk]

I am absolutely loving this cultural documentaries as well as the military ones

[@Jayako12]

I was about to start my research on this to write for a story contest, and K&G hits me with it! This guys are awesome... It is like they knew what we need the most!

[@numenorian1161]

Great! Love your content! Your fan from Central Asia!

[@Turkoaryanvatan]

Turkic? Tajik?

[@numenorian1161]

@@Turkoaryanvatan Uzbek

[@Turkoaryanvatan]

@@numenorian1161 nice so you mean you are turkic

[@Turkoaryanvatan]

@@numenorian1161 lol my family came from uzbekistan too

[@numenorian1161]

@@Turkoaryanvatan yeah

[@joeshar.]

15:30 the church shown in video looks like catholic church. Ortodox church is very similar to a Turkish mosque without minarets. Turkish islamic architecture has been heavily inspired by Byzantine after the capture of Constantinople and Hagia Sofia.

[@vehbisabanc7843]

A wonderfull gift for 1st of april.

[@ArsenalGunners-]

I was waiting for that video for so many time finally it's here thanks bro

[@richraichu4068]

Kings and Generals been publishing some FIRE Byzantium videos lately and I've never been happier. But this video makes me a bit sad though :(

[@nothingghicbirseyy5499]

Why does real history make us sad? Are you a nationalist?

[@richraichu4068]

@@nothingghicbirseyy5499 Only Nationalists can feel sad over historical events? Interesting take on the Holocaust. Jokes aside, The Romans struggled for a thousand years and Anatolia was in fact THE EMPIRE. Loss of it is tragic. Also even though the Turks would go on to create one of the greatest empires in the future, at that point they were just some nomads, destructive, and not so civilized. This bitter end of Rhomania is tragic.. And no I'm not greek

[@richraichu4068]

@Abdul Rahman Mohammed Pakistani?

[@seidenstickerj]

An actual tragedy. Never Istanbul, always Constantinople. Byzantium forever

[@richraichu4068]

@@williamdavis9562 Sad not triggered. Like you should be sad while seeing a documentary about the massacre of the turks in the balkans, or the armenian genocide, or holocaust. Well if you don't feel sad over this type of historical events, then you are the odd one.

[@zoranpavlovic9540]

Hey, you are of Azerbaijanian origins? Cool 👍 . Have to tell you, suddenly came to channel and was impressed by video and facts exposed. Incredible, histirically non-biased and pictoresque for understanding subject (IMHO)...as that I've made that. Greetings from Serbia 🙏

[@swordoftengri2676]

Azerbaijanis is mix of turks and native caucasians.

[@kiwuuspurr1927]

@@swordoftengri2676 so??

[@xiongnu220]

@@swordoftengri2676theres no such thing as NaTiVe CaUcAsIaNs. armenians are indo european so theyre 500% not from caucasia. the only natives in caucasia are kartvelians

[@tamazghaunion9158]

the crescent that symbolize Islam is actually a Turkic Symbol

[@horseshit1503]

Ottoman times right??

[@tamazghaunion9158]

@@horseshit1503 yes exactly , Muslims adopted this symbol from the Ottomans , using it in flags and on the top of Mosques, while the west using it as a symbol of Muslim religion

[@aliklc2449]

No Anatolian pagan origin

[@aokiaoki4238]

No it's actually the symbol of Constantinople, ancient Greek in origin and Christian.

[@hennessey132]

@@aokiaoki4238 The moon was already an important "object/element" in the Turkic world, long before they came into contact with the Byzantines.

[@Yousefabuljadayel]

Please keep making videos about this aspect of history. I love learning more about the cultural and social shifts in history.

[@mirvan5478]

You can look at arabization of North Africa and levant Mesopotamia Egypt too

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

I don’t get the April fools joke

[@jk-gb4et]

joke is greeks having anatolia 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@armatolos_1234]

@@jk-gb4et Joke is that you are a mongol ;D

[@bruh._.1591]

For anyone wondering 3:34 the Armenian city of Ani that was pillaged by the Seljuks still has some of its ruins standing today in modern day Kars, Turkey. It’s worth a google search

[@Mirko1913]

The in-depth and yet easy to follow, explainatory content of these videos is just top-notch! Hats off to the team in charge!

[@precursors]

Historical evidence shows Seljuk Turks had long hair, sometimes braided. And they didn't wear turban.

[@RA-iq3hk]

They were using a little braided hair on the bald head

[@MrJuggernautishere]

Last time this early, the Turks still worshipped to the Great Eternal Cosmic Wolf

[@berkay5233]

Tanrı

[@serdarcite]

@@erdal0 and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself

[@MrJuggernautishere]

@@erdal0 yes..wolves are critical to Turkic identity

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[@haziqfarhan1369]

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[@victordarel5021]

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[@victordarel5021]

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[@apalahartisebuahnama7684]

Thank you kind sir.

[@ramseyr2852]

Goes rather softly on the Islamic oppression and terror which caused most of the indigenous Christians in Anatolia to either convert or flee into what remained of Byzantine Empire.

[@imnotgoodwithnamesbruh6018]

@@ruskyalmond1977 what you said is true up until about 60ish years ago. There are now more Jews on certain blocks of NYC than there are Jews in Middle Eastern countries that aren't called Israel. Doesn't change the fact that historically, yes Islam was better to Jews than Christianity has been but it's a point that needs to be mentioned.

[@SurenaofParthia]

Half of the people of Turkey carry the genes of ancient Anatolians such as Lydians, Carians and Phrygians, who Hellenized and later Turkified, rather than the genes of Central Asian and Siberian Turks.🥸

[@kienbe_]

Nice video man, keep up the good work. It's very enjoyable to watch.