Battle of Maritsa, 1371 ⚔️ Death of the Serbian Empire ⚔️ Ottoman Expansion into Europe 

Bro,you should making the Battle of Garni or Parwan

Will do

@@HistoryMarche Thanks bro.

Спасибо большое брать !❤️😃🥂👍

this was epic!! you know why? because Historymarche started with doing videos on lesser known battles and of course hannibal....so its a trademark clasic of this channel!! great job....by the way...any news on a new Hannibal video? :))

Thay didnt know that ottoman army where 20 times smaller that night 😢

sf bro 😂😂20k vs 11k

Shhhh ​@@cicibannncicibannn680

Ben Türküm bu savaşta Sırpların ataları kötü bir yenilgi almasına rağmen onlar cesur savaşçılardır bunu Ankara savaşında Yıldırım Beyazid'in yanında sonuna kadar cesurca savaşarak göstermişlerdir bir çok Türk komutan padişahı yalnız bırakmasına rağmen Sırpların ataları cesurca savaştı kesinlikle Sırpların atalarına saygı duyuyorum

@@sedattunc831Well i dont respect any Serbians. I am from Bosnia and we have defeated them too. They dont have honor as they had before

When your 6/6/6 King had a son with 0/0/0 stats in EU4...bruh

@@patrijarx and Dusan is the only Nemanjic ruler that wasn't venerated as saint by the Serbian Orthodox Church

Yea honestly people say they would love to be born a Prince, in some Kingdom in History, However some Princes/Princesses really get the shaft in the situation they are born into.

I mean these namings usually happen in hindsight.

if efficient emperors didn't keep on dying suddenly , history will be very different

It's incredible how incompetent the serbs were

@@thatisme3thatisme38 No. The Serbs were good warriors of their time. especially the heavily armored Serbian knights were great. Thanks to their help, the Turks won many wars. for example: Battle of Nicopolis

@@mustafakemalpasha983 are u serious?1k take 20k and route them...that is incompetence squared. as far as nicopolis the serbs should have joined christians to fight the muslim invaders but they were traitors to their own faith.

@@mustafakemalpasha983 traitors of the Christian faith

​@@thatisme3thatisme38 shut up! Go find on google battle of Mishar 1806.

الغرب تاريخهم اساطير وقصص خيالية اما المسلمين تاريخ حقيقي ومجد عظيم ومعركة بدر و معركة العثمانيين مع الصرب خير دليل على مجد الاسلام والمسلمين 💪

@@damnthezionists1708 True..maybe they don't want it to be mentioned.

@@talalmalik4758 هم اساطيرهم سوبرمان وباتمان وفلاشمان والرجل الحديدي 😂

@@damnthezionists1708 They need to learn some history.

Perhaps because the 300 defended whats theirs. An honourable reason to fight. And these 800 killed to conquer.

It's sad... Wish that the pope helped us and we converted to Catholicism

1000 pure Turkish armies without The elit Corp jannasary

@@azmanabas8425 the other problem was the Serbs and Bulgarians were drunk

@@gludiousmaximus7918 if they were muslim they wouldn't bne drunk

It’s understated how much the conditions of a night time raid could confuse and cause panic among a camp. Half of them probably awoke late to the sound of slaughter and fled, while the rest fought barely armed and with no will to fight. Tactically speaking, it can be really hard to gauge numerical strength at night, too. A 20:1 defensive advantage should be nearly insurmountable, but the defenders never knew. It’s truly an impressive feat.

@@tyrannusrex31 I also agree. Is it possible that there is a well-worked plan?

Look, there is a point to be understood here, especially in the middle ages, the armies coming from the east win the war, if you wage a war against a nomadic society, the price will be heavy. because they are accustomed to fighting all the time.

@@grande-turko That’s a little oversimplified, but yes. Marauding armies made up of lifelong soldiers would have a natural combat advantage over citizen soldiers. They weren’t invincible, though, and they were anything but stable. In the same way that Rome collapsed after more a thousand years, the Mongols collapsed in maybe a dozen.

yeah and keep in mind that anatolia wasnt even the homeland of the Turks, that was land that conquered only a few hundred years prior. A tribe from the other side of asia, settles in anatolia and builds an empire that challanges the whole of europe for hundreds of years.

fighting people that can't fight back is not brave lol

​@@user-gx4cd1jb9h never underestimate enemies and u r gonna pay for it

​@@user-gx4cd1jb9h need to be brave to fight with much much greater army

​@@user-gx4cd1jb9h lol imagine 20 dudes sleeping in a room with their swords and your mission is to kill them all in their sleep alone

@@buckleup4210 still, in many night attacks if the ambushed party is disciplined has a good command, they can regroup and repel the attackers, albeit with losses. for this battle, if ottomans failed the attack and serbians managed to regroup and push them back, capturing edirne would be an easy task. imagine yourself being the commander right before the attack and you have 2 options, do a ballsy move but possibly lose your army and edirne in one swoop, or be cautious and hope for reinforcements to arrive which may never arrive. now you can understand how bold it was to make that decision

Deus Vult

@@leftifornian2066 lol 😂😂 they are talking about war against east, not west

@@leftifornian2066 LOL.

@@leftifornian2066the ottomans crushed them

@@leftifornian2066 Allahuekber win Deus vult lose.

Ak tolgalı Beylerbeyi haykırdı: İlerle!!!

​@@Ramonda1914easy Serb, we are friend. This is history, and enemies updated. Reposition needed

@@CenitaBrook history?? Wauu VIETNAM LAOS KABODIA PANANA RUANDA S AFRUCA SURIA LIBIA AVGANISTAN EX YUGOSLAVIA NAZZY CROATIA. NATO BOMBING SERBS IN ALL EX YU. OCCUPATION OF KOSOVO ETHNIC CLEANSING OF SERBS FROM.ALL EX YU HISTORY?? NATO= HITLERS GERMANI NACISM LIVEING IN UJRAINA CROATIA BOSNIA KOSOVO MADE IN NATO. HITLER IS ALIVE. MONSTRUM IS ALIVE. AND ITS BIGGEF AND BIGGER. 3 WW IS COMMING. NOBODY FROM THE WEST CANT SEE IT OR DONT WANT???

Average patriotic serb in action:

@@cinarbayram8516 be quiet. Sarmat is comming

We know who is gonna get a promotion. 😂

Sultan Murad died later in battle with Serbians lol

@@goxyeagle8446 So did Pasha lol hahaha

@@Amadeus8484 so did serbians lol

@@goxyeagle8446 after he fucked up the entire Wallachian, Hungarian, Frenks (chevaliers) AND Serbians, yes he died

I can't get enough of these vids.

I agree. I love these videos on History Marche.

Well donate or join his channel

@@ToneWoN who’re you?

Definitely agree

True!

The unknown history of the East is truly fascinating. A period that many contemporary historians in Westen Europe and America do not appreciate to highlight as much

@@SolidAvenger1290 the fact that Salonica front of WW1 is rarely given a spotlight despite the fact it effectively took out Bulgaria, Ottomans and Austria-Hungary out of the war says enough. Massively underrated area of rich European history that is often overlooked

There's a great Bulgaria mod for M2:TW.

100% true

@@topeagle6248 Lol, neo-Ottomans also blame Albanians for some of their defeats... I think, this is just hilarious.

serbs were never brave.we saw that in bosnian war.thee are good at killing civilians.

@@pandaren_brewmaster well many balkan nations tend to claim albanian historical figures as their own when they were victorious and heroic and immediately write them off as albanians when things went south for them…. Best examples Gjerg Kastrioti Skanderbeg, countless Revolutionaries that led to Greek independence, countless ottoman viziers etc

@@soul8938 Turkish people here are doing the same as well. When Albanians were successful, they say it is the success of Ottoman system. When Albanians sucked they say all Albanians are like ... The most common example is losing of Thessaloniki by Hasan Tahsin Pasha.

@@pandaren_brewmaster it’s an easy scapegoat for nationalists who don’t want to accept reality

What else Turkish history say about this battle?

@@dalibor.veselinovic The name of this battle in Turkish is "Sırpsındığı" which means "the place that Serbs exterminated or annihilated". In Ottoman chronicles, the real commander of the raiders was Haji Ilbey( meaning of his name "Haji means pilgrim, il means land, bey means Lord"). Another akinji(raider) bey(Lord). He was a Turkoman from another Anatolian principality, Karesids. He entered Ottoman service. At that time Ottomans were famous in all Asia Minor and beyond because of their successes. Even Moorish traveller Ibn Battuta mentions them as holy warriors of Islam in far away borderlands. Adventurers, zealots, dissidents from all dozens of fragmented Anatolian emirates flocked to Ottomans. These warriors called as Ghazis(holy raiders). First nine Ottoman rulers titled themselves as Ghazis too. Early Ottoman historian Ahmedi in his work explain the meaning of Ghazi: "A Ghazi is the instrument of the religion of Allah, a servant of God who purifies the earth from the filth of polytheism. The Ghazi is the sword of God, he is the protector and the refuge of the believers. If he becomes a martyr in the ways of God, do not believe that he has died, he lives in beatitude with Allah, he has eternal life." Lala Shahin ( meaning of his name "Lala means mentor, Shahin means falcon) was not the commander in battle according the Ottoman chronicles. He was beylerbeyi. The bey of all beys in Rumelia. After the victory Haji Ilbey died. Some European historians like Hammer speculated that he was poisened by Lala Shahin out of jealousy. Ottoman sources record that the Serbs were completely drunk. The development of the war is almost the same with this video.

@@sourweed9818 Interestingly, I didn't know anything about that. In Serbia, that battle is observed in a similar way. The stated goal of the Mrnjavčević brothers was to drive the raiders across the river Marica. In the process, they did not face any resistance, so they celebrated their arrival at the river as the end of the campaign. But that celebration came too soon and they faced a sudden defeat.

@@dalibor.veselinovic After that Serbs became indispensible part of the Devlet-i Aliyye, till they poisoned by stupid nationalistic ideas.

@@sourweed9818 Another Akinji is the Gazi Evrenos Bey

800vs 70000*

Powerful when the enemy lets their guard down and the soldiers are drunk, otherwise the Ottoman soldiers were nothing compared to Serbian soldiers at the time.

@@--X-- you mus be joking? The ottomans ruled Balkans for 509 years.

@@toni391 No word is a joke and less than 400 years. While the ottoman occupied the Serbian empire they took Serbian soldiers and leaders to fight battles for the ottomans which they won and had the reputation of some of the best fighters. The only reason the ottomans took the Balkans was due to a lack of concentration on the Serbian side and due to the general disregard for any honor in battle, ready to do anything while the Serbian fighters followed a code of honor.

@@--X-- but that is how you conquer someone. You make theme obey you brother. And anyway i think serbian hitory is many times not real but much more patriotic told then real. For example you still celebrate a battle that you lost to the ottomans. But its balkans in a nutshel

Even korean war is interesting for the Turks, the kunuri wars were amazing Turkish victory

i dont know is it about culture or traditions but in dire circumstances turks puts great efforts and achieving amazing victories

🙄☺️

⁠@@presidentialsystemenjoyer9194 its got nothing to do with culture because the ottomans lost many other important battles with huge armies and the enemy was much smaller but the ottomans made silly mistakes like how the serbs made silly mistakes in this case. it has everything to do with fate meaning the predestination of Allah/God Almighty!

​@@presidentialsystemenjoyer9194Turks are a nation that has lost many battles in history with large armies that they could easily win, but on the contrary, they are a nation that seems close to impossible and wins wars with a small number of soldiers, in short, Turks do not understand how to seize opportunities, but they love to achieve the impossible, so their history is very strange. 😂

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but also a hint of what was to come and there inability to move with the times was there eventual downfall

That's common for nomadic nations like Turks or Mongols. In the case of Seljuks, Huns, Chinggisids, Göktürks and Timurids it didn't even take a quarter century :)

Ottogigachads😎😎😎

@@nenenindonu Göktürks are minor nomads who are vassals of China. The Huns were literally the Scourge of God. Timur, on the other hand, was a highly exaggerated but a good conqueror.

Thanks so much KHK!

@@HistoryMarche name of song?

İ think eu4 taught more history to the people than history lessons at school I live in germany and here the Ottomans were not even mentioned in the history lessons despite dominating the european politics for several hundreds years

@@bossenes5020 show how biasness of germany fascist education corrupts

@@alifimran9049 No no fascists died in 1945, it's caused by lizard aliens that are secretly fighting a turkish superhero who draws power from the awareness of ottoman history.

@@alifimran9049 in the West, we are taught to bow before weakness and apologize for strength. Admitting the strength and power of Islam would make them an oppressor and complicate the narrative the schools are trying to push. It's unfortunate that the West is no longer Western culturally but progressive.

@@RambleOn07 it was before the whole modern woke stuff was mainstream İ live in the most conservative part of germany So i think it had more to do with the image of western world beeing the most advanced and that kind of stuff There were really people in my class who thought turkey was a 3 world country were the military is made up by swordsmen I know it sounds unbelievable but it was a few years before you could Google everythink online so you had no informationen about other countries if you havent visited them

Bu savaşı ""Cavit pancar""izle

Thank you so much 😀

@@HistoryMarche This video is near close to true. But Lala Shain had more soldiers, about 3000, and Serbian about 15.000.

Imagine your techer in a lesson, showing the video with a stick in her hand, and im there making tension sounds with my mouth in the backround. Only way to become this engaging

Balkan kangz🦈🦈🦈

Maybe because you need to go all out when you are outnumbered 🤔

@@redneckapehunter2639 that’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a while

Perhaps it has to do with perspective of the enemy. They might be overconfident when they see your smaller forces thus making them lose.

@@zekipeki9538 or it’s simply skill issues

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Good info on Uros in a different era he could have been a legendary leader

In other words, a fool

Well, then he shouldn't let himself be crown, give the title to somebody more suitable and gain a comfy position more in line with his character

CIM SI TI TO NAPISAO MORA DA ZBORIS NA ISTOm JEZIKU KAO I JA!!!ako ne zalutao si u holovima istorije!

​@@frankkobold He eventually shared his crown with Vukašin who declared himself co-emperor and Uroš agreed with that terms. Uroš maybe wanted to step down more early but half of the nobles of that time still supported Uroš including majority of the people in the empire. Brining down single emperor son by killing him or do anything else (which they had chance to do multiple times) would just result in a mass lords and locals revolt because his father Dušan although strict was a very popular ruler and even more importantly part of Nemanjić dynasty . Uroš on place where he was, always praying and living more monastic then diplomatic life was the best solution for Vukašin who know that he will die sooner or later and that everything will fall into his hands afterwards. Since Uroš was captured they had a chance to kill him right away or shame him in front of everyone but they decided to send him back knowing that it will turn local population against anyone who would harm him. Vukašin at the end maybe got what is deserved for guiding army in the wrong way but Uroš died right afterwards and then even greater mess happens with local lords attacking each others. Nikola Altomanović turn out to be the next candidate but due to twist and turns Lazar arise as the smartest in that whole game of thrones.

Definitely was a tactical and strategic achievement on many levels. On the surface level, you have 1,000 well trained soldiers that was able to coordinate with eachother in the darkness and not only surprise the Serbians but also kept up the pressure and surrounded them. Beneath the surface, we see near master level of manipulation of fear to cause an army 20x it's size to rout. It's hard to control troops in chaotic battles, but we see here the Ottoman commander was extremely skilled.

Save it for the Impaler. Vlad Tepes almost had the Sultan in his royal tent when he did the same thing to an ottoman camp.

@@richbattaglia5350 What does that have to do with this battle?

are you turkish?

@@richbattaglia5350 they already did that Watch Rise of Empires: Ottoman season 2 episode 5 Although it didn’t go that well for Vlad

It was indoeuropeans who first tamed the horse

​@@guzelataroach4450 don't bother speaking to him, he's crazy

​​@@guzelataroach4450 yeah they were the first but not the best in history.

@@perrypougins379 Oh yeah! It must be Europeans who domesticated horses. Dude. YOU are crazy.

the Turks tamed the horse. We Turks wo so many battles because we were good horse riders and warriors o horse. @@guzelataroach4450

Definitely more Ancient Greece content coming. No deadlines yet, but I'll cover it for sure!

@@HistoryMarche 🫡👍 and merry Christmas 🎄

Šta se dereš buraz :D

@@sranvujnovic5409 NE DERAM SE CICA, JA PISEM SAMO V KLASICNI LATINICI, DA ME RAZUMIJE CIJELI SVIJET ;)

@@LavrencicUrban Ne razumeju te zato što pišeš latinicu, razumeju te jer pišeš engleski. Stvari ti izgleda nisu najjasnije XD

@@sranvujnovic5409 AJDE, IDI PA KUPI SMISAO ZA HUMOR BRE.

Dushan is Arman/ Vlach name - ancient Macedonians

Dusan was albanian

everything is wrong in this video, serbian empire never heard, sllav chauvonism!!!

@@onid.9991 get well bruh

It sure weakened Bulgaria and completely cut off Turnovo from the lands in Macedonia, however the Bulgarian army was not absolutely crippled as in 1332 only two years later it became victorious in a major battle against the Byzantines near Rusokastro. Other factors also helped weakening the Bulgarian military and political power right before the Ottoman conquest, like the decentralization of the state and the plague.

@@Terter1551 True, and i wasn't aware of some of stuff you said. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you so much for the support! Much appreciated.

they were also drunk as they feasted

Who celebrates before victory usually wakes up in defeat, like that literally happened here

@@RandomGuy-df1oy If they're feasted after forced march from Skadar they aren't humans but aliens. You believe to Ottoman historians? They wanted to show that Islam is better religion than Christianity.

@@remixfrost Shit but yea lots of crazed drunks won lots of war. Hangovers blow!!!

@@zgemboadislic9350 And the Christian sources wanted the show that Christianity is better than Islam. "You believe to Ottoman historians?" why not? They don't make more bullshit than medieval European historians. All I know the Serbians were happy that no army arrived to stop them as they reached the Ottoman capital and they were drunk.

Hey Nate, coming soon. I hope to finish it in the next week or two. Delays just always keep popping up :(

@@HistoryMarche Ohh, thanks for the information, take your time, no rush is needed, besides the project is made by only you,

Bu bir palavradan ibaret. Ninnilerle büyütüldüğünüzün kanıtı. Olanağı yok bunun.

They were drunk af. Stupid Mrnjavcevices

There's no enough informations on that battle Unfortunately Serbians lost that's all

Were you guys in Prilep then serbs or..?

"И би велико весеље и радости и пиће вина и јела и свако неуправљање и неуређење. А Агаренски начелник чувши за долазак краља Вукашина са великом силом и беху у великој недоумици и не малом ужасу и договорише се да дају данак и пошаљу посреднике краљу Вукашину са речима:„Остави нас да овде останемо и ми ћемо ти бити као слуге и даћемо данак какав хоћеш.” И дођоше посредници као уходе и видеше где леже пијани као војска без главе икаквог управљања. И убрзо се натраг вратише свом начелнику, и приповедаху му сва неуправљања и рекоше: „Данас ће бити наше.” И подигоше се једнодушно сви Агарени и дођоше до места где војска беше и изненада нападоше на њих. То је било рано ујтру и разбише српску војску.” written by monk Pajsije in "Life of Tsar Uroš"

@@VLASPAR Dusan made Skopje capitol of Serbia. Today, the bridge he built on Vardar, which was called Dusan's Bridge, now is called Stone Bridge 😂

did they teach you about the time swedish king fled to Ottoman lands?

@@billyjesus5442 yes because ottoman was russian enemy and charles lost to russkis

Well said

İ grew up in Belgium, Turkey or ottoman empire was barely mentioned in the history books (conquest of Constantinopel and founding of Turkish republic) although many sayings and proverbs are Turkish influenced and even have a village in the south where people claim they are Turkish and have Turkish festival every year. But we learned every roman object that is located in Belgium.

Because it wasnt just thousand men. Turkish historians used this battle to create a legend, they downplayed the Turkish numbers and inflated Serbian, sometimes saying it is even 70k. Turks certainly ambushed the bigger army but it probably was up to 4 times smaller not more.

@@DelijeSerbia Serbian occupation force was around 50000. Ottoman numbers were around 4000.

@@fatihbaskaya5806 No one in Europe could have a force of 50k at that time in Europe, even if Serbian Empire was united it wouldnt be able to raise even close to those numbers, and it was only Mrnjavcevic family that controlled like 1/3 of land within an empire. For them it was not realistic to raise 20k as claimed in this video. But if you want to believe that go ahead, but it has no historical backing.

@@DelijeSerbia lol if no historical backing then how did history marche get this number? All sources available for this battle estimate serbs to be around 50ksh (not only turkish source)

@@bruhmcchaddeus413 there are no real sources, only legends written long after the battle. What they used as a source I don't know, but if you look at older battles where we have actual numbers and look at what Mrnjavcevic contolled at that time their numbers couldn't be bigger than 15k. Like I said the ratio was not more then 4 to 1. This was clearly a big loss for Mrnjavcevic family, but the story around this battle is just used by Turks for myth building just like ancient Greeks created a myth of 300 at Thermopylae.

hahhahaha

it was not 70000 it was 20 000 and litarely all souurces say that but you muslims just refuse too belive

Timur he is our great turkish ancestor

Skanderbeg is Serbian

@@carpediem7654 no hes not lol

there is not much to cover balkan's ass is getting clapped by ottomans

@@nemanjajovanovic8295 not even partially, his mother isnt documented as serbian, marlin barletius who was an eyewitness of the siege of kruje, who is the most trusted source for skanderbegs time and rebellion as he was an eyewitness notes that she was either from the arianiti or thopia, and skanderbegs siblings didnt have serbian names but orthodox names, because if we use your respectful arguement, it means that greeks that are names vlajka, konsantina etc are serbian and vice versa, besides he had albanian names siblings aswell, lets remember names werent as important during that time and the albanians would be hesitant of putting a serbian as the overlord of the league, they wouldnt do it unless he was an albanian, hence why when skanderbeg died leke dukagjini preformed the albanian traditional death cry of mourning a fallen brother, usually only done on albanians who had great impact.