Sons of Constantinople (Byzantine Empire Battle Music) 

@Erhalten pǝμмо yes! Russia will reclaim beautiful Constantinople to return the Pearl to the Greeks. Glory to God for Holy Russia

@Vlad The Impaler i think the english stopped them..

@@laurajackson8142 Somehow a country that had came out of decades of communism is the least filth infested in the world.

@Princeps the byzantine empire held rome for a while and even though it lost it they still are the roman empire it doesn't need rome itself for a while the roman empires capital wasn't even the rome it was Constantinople and even after the empire split they had Ravenna as western romes capital not rome

@Princeps the Romans since their very founding adopted Greek culture and roman and Greek culture has remained quite similar the early byzantine empire was very roman for a couple hundred years actually until it changed to be more unique since that happens over time Greek culture in 300 bc is different to byzantine culture in 1000 they simply changed rome had it never fell would change as well and they did speak Greek but most of the area that the byzantines controlled had already spoken Greek for a while anyway

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*Why choose, when you can be BOTH. Am I right?*

Romans are their citizenship, greek is ethnicity

I am both

Greeks who are the heirs to the Roman empire and claim the throne, for this reason we callled the residents of Rome not Romans but Latins. Rome was the empire, Lazio waas the place.

@@user-sl7rx4jp3t EXACTLY

Rome started as a city and ended as a city. They fought to the last man. What a way to go out.

Dont bring back the memories

Sadly Constantinople is turkish and not greek

@@eduardoa.c.4260 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP REMINDING ME!!!!!!!!

@@user-cx4ic6he9k I know, it is sad

Yee, it was a fucked up situation. Dont worry, the prophecy of paisios still gives us hope of getting it back. And till now, most prophecies have come true. Its our will that will fulfill it.:)

@Dimitris kouz You are not wrong there. The amount of comebacks they did just makes these people look like they are some sort of Gods,or protected by God.

Alex Triboi WE SHSLL RETAKE CONSTANTINOPLE!!!

Malic Bk :). I believe in them.

@Malic Bk We already are coming back. In 10 years time we will have reached pre 2008 levels which is extremely faster than predicted

Attila: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be LEGENDARY!!!

@@andrewbrigmond8784 Aetius who literally beat him: lol

@@ari3903 ' Visigoths stopped him at spain

Belisarius plays this

@@ari3903 Only thing Attila stopped by Aetius (This isnt a victory) and next year your soldiers (poor) cant defended your empire and your pope wants to mercy got down to his knees(This is sad for you). This is funny and happines because you didnt live in these years 450s.

I am a south Asian I love Byzantine and ERE 😍😍😍😍😍

I am especially happy about this as a Greek person

@Free Spirited Cat other Asians dont seem to like you.. Syria and Iran for example certainly dont

​@Free Spirited Cat Of course you don't like it because you are Turkish. You will just blindly believe that it was a great nation even though you know the illegal invasions, mass genocides and war crimes that it had done. And you even say people should love your empire that has never done anything useful when it comes to peaceful things.

@Free Spirited Cat That's why you took the children of Christians and made them as janissaries?Hahahaha even back then you needed guys from other areas, like Serbia,Albania and Greece.

As the new anthem of a newly reborn Byzantium

@@williammacdonald3173 what the fuck is a byzantium?

@@S.P.Q.Rrespublicas oh sorry. I mean Eastern Roman Empire

@@williammacdonald3173 May the Basileia Rhomaion see life again!

Idem!

Byzantium is dead dont be jealous İstanbul is our city

@@aybukedalkran5733 You are wrong! Byzantium is still alive in the Church and in the western Culture because when the city was taken, they found refuge in western Europe and from there they helped the Rennaisance to flourish even more.

​@@aybukedalkran5733 Not for long.

@@aybukedalkran5733 That Church and city will be Greek orthodox again, since your fucktard presidant wants to show supremesie over Christianity, so we will one day, take it, and without mercy

@@D...1111 "roman" is not a ethicality it's a occupation

By your logic of ethnicity, egyptians (Egypt), Mesopotamians(iraq) and people of indus river(Pakistan) have been here long before Greece . Doesn't seem right?

​@@crzahmed9707 the original Egyptians were the copts, they are all but a minority now and have mostly been replaced by the Arabs who- while they have integrated some aspects of the Coptic culture and Egyptian identify- are an entirely different culture Same goes for the Mesopotamians as well People of the Indus and the gangetic plains however have managed to preserve large sections of their culture and identify. Same goes for the Iranian people. The Iranians and Greeks managed to undergo very similar changes in that both embraced the new Abrahamic religions, discarding their old Pantheon but did manage to integrate large aspects of their pagan culture, traditions and identities with these new religions and influenced and modified the new religion in their image as well.

@@crzahmed9707 Thats why GREECE has the oldest living Language in the WORLD , written , spoken , read . THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

It could be very bad for Vikings.First of all Vikings would have to brake big walls.

@@PolishArkadas yeah they didnt have siege equipment, however: Igor was able to mount a new naval campaign against Constantinople as early as 944/945.[7] Under threat from an even larger force than before, the Byzantines opted for diplomatic action to circumvent invasion. They offered tribute and trade privileges to the Rus'.[8][9][10] The Byzantine offer was discussed between Igor and his generals after they reached the banks of the Danube, eventually accepting them.[11] The Rus'-Byzantine Treaty of 945 was ratified as a result.[12] This established friendly relations between the two sides.[13]

They called Constantinople "Asgard"

@@krzysztofys2100 no they didnt lol, they called it miklagård, which simply means "the great city".

@@stayhungry1503 ok

Not really. If you mean the branches and the meander-patterned cirle, those were used by Greeks way before the Romans.

@@josephstalin7743 literally they dont know and they speak

@@perseusofmacedon6918 Not to be misunderstood though, this is a secondary account for satire and technical issues. Don't confuse me for a commie.

Byzantium WAS the Roman Empire.

@@the.orthodox.photographer2272 maybe you dont know the difference between west roman empire and east roman empire (Byzantium) • The base language of Byzantium was greek.. the main ethnicity greek Religion orthodox... It was very different from wester who they where speaking latin language and they where Catholic.

Thanks for listening! Glad you liked it.

If it ever happens, you'll have to pay for the soundtrack. Plus the game being broken with now 75% female leaders. No thanks.

@@haydenmichaud8953 I don't think political correctness has penetrated the creative assembly just yet. Let's hope it stays that way

@@idoradm1233 Something almost as bad has taken root at CA. None of the original developers. First day DLC. Literally half of the factions as DLC. Poor game design in both battles and campaign map since Rome 2. I lost faith friend... I lost faith.

We have 1212Ad already

How old are you, soldier ????

Old enough to lose the count of summers & winters, before the Longships came to a free Galloway, recalling the stories of my sires who told of Leo III the Isaurian, ending the Twenty Years' Anarchy & old enough to remember Emperor Basil II's blue eyes & the gleam of sapphires on the haft of his sword.

Varangians > Preatorians.

Are u a son of God now? Or perhaps u still favor your old pagan gods? :) p/s: just asking.

@@jeto9625 I worshipped Tyr as my patron deity with sacrifice & when I revelled in the glories of my youth in years long past, but now Christ is my Leige & King.

you are racist you should respect each other.

@@-uriana-4430 I am not racist, it's a meme, the difference is that I'm being ironic.

@@-uriana-4430 You are idiotic you should read more.

1-)Ottoman Empire has descendents of Seljuk Empire and Byzantine Empire just mix those and add middle eastern culture 2-)Ottoman Empire was almostly twice times bigger than Byzantine Empire with same population that means Ottomans were stronger 3-)I think as a Atheist being Muslim better than being Christian because Muslims were always more merciful than Christians btw Christianty fuck beautiful Ancient europe culture especially Ancient Greek culture but Muslims bring civilization to Europe and European renaissance started 4-)Byzantine army was 5 times bigger than Seljuk army but Byzantine lost lol yeah your ancestor was weak They couldn't even beat a 5 times smaller army but Ottoman Empire beat Byzantine beat Safavids beat Mamluks beat south slavs beat crusaders beat Spain beat whole İtalian kingdoms beat whole Germanic kingdoms Ottoman Empire collapse because whole Europe united against Ottoman Empire and especially Russia was very succesful in battles

@@irzdusman1203 atleast I know how to speak English correctly lol. Also: 1) Seljuk Empire has nothing to do with the ottomans, in fact, the ottomans contributed, along with other tribes from Central Asia and the sultanate of rum, to the dissolution of the seljuk Empire. 2) The reason for that is because when the Byzantine Empire tried to reunify the roman empire, many of the technologies were missing (510 start of Byzantine reconquista vs c.1400 start of ottoman conquering period), plus, the Byzantines were weakened by the wars with the sassanids from c.400 - 628 (wars under the roman empire date back to 54 B.C.), The Arabs (629 - 1050s), the huns, the mongols, and not to mention the various barbarian people they had to fight against. 3) While muslims may have been more merciful in the past, just look at the muslims now, which if they managed to conquer more of continental europe they could've spread these ideals to the rest of europe, and probably making it a Middle East V2 4) they're not my ancestors because I'm Italian and I'm defending an empire which had little to nothing to do with Italy (talking about eastern half, not western), and the reason why byzantines lost multiple times against the seljuks, is because they were already declining at the time, and the seljuks like the mongols pretty much devastated and plundered every city they encountered. Also the ottoman empire never beated Spain, italian kingdoms (except Venice and Genoa but only due to their detached colonies), They have never also beaten the Holy Roman empire (they defeated Hungary, which isn't in HRE) and also the ottoman empire started its decline after POLAND came to beat their a$$ in Vienna, and after that, the ottoman empire started declining, the europeans now dominated the world with their colonies, became stronger and more industrialized while the ottomans barely touched any industry or railway systems except in important cities like Instanbul, Edirne and Ankara, that's why every european power, even Italy which was weak af managed to beat the ottomans, but not all togheter, but in different wars. Also the ottomans Lost to serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Greek rebels which had an army 5 times smaller than the ottoman one.

Good luck.I wonder how you're going to do this

@@PolishArkadas its a joke first off

@@unknownexplorer6232 i know 😆

don't you think it's a shame that byzantium is not that mainstream? there are 50 movies of henry viii and how many of..... heraclius for example? my discord: Proletariado#4420

@@PolishArkadas the russians would have claimed it if it wasn't for the british 😬😬😬😬

It was Greek mostly

And also Roman. Respect from India.

@Armo Moose greek was dominant modern day greece is the successor of byzantium

@Armo Moose only for the first centuries after 600 ad with the lose of northern africa and the middle east it was mostly greece but yes i know there were others too earlier

@@TheHunterOfYharnam modern day Greece isn't the succesor of Byzantium.

Hi bro Orthodox curch only :)

Only Serbs on this planet are brothers. Just now I was seeing a documentary, how Greek families took Serbian kids in order to protect them before the last war. We send the kids back afterwards and kept supporting them 'cause we loved 'em. It was touching moment. Would do it again ( hope you won't have to send your kids away anymore though ).

Slavs and Greeks always brothers

@@hermespsychopompos8267 А мы шутка какая-то для вас?

Total war Attila vibes

1204 and 1453. We seen what happened. If you want see of your enemies, You should look at West. East is always enemies of West.

@321shack Russians lost every battle. I think Russians will cry. They attack to Poland with Prussia and Austrian Empire. When Russians fighting with Ottomans, Ottoman Empire defeated because Russia only beat Ottoman. Why Ottoman lose because Ottoman technology lagged behind European states. The Winter saved Russia every time, we saw importantly; Napoleon Wars and 1941.

@@azizekaya1687 If USSR didnt win war against Germany,your land will be too killed by germans

1204

Don't Forget The Infamous Treason In 1204!!!

14/04/1205 The Battle of Adrianople occurred around Adrianople on April 14, 1205 between Bulgarians, Vlachs and Cumans under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, who only months before had been crowned Emperor of Constantinople, allied with Venetians under Doge Enrico Dandolo. It was won by the Bulgarians, after a successful ambush. Tsar Kaloyan which means Kalo(beautiful) and Ioan(Ivan) - Tsar Kaloyan(Tsar Beautiful Ivan) manages to defeat the then invincible war machine of the Europe Knights of the Fourth Crusade. Baldwin is locked in the city Veliko Tarnovo his cell is called Baldwin tower. Those crusaders were the evolution of the armor and combat fighting skills with swords and the strongest unit on the world, but only in the movies ;) About the music its beautiful and great! About their actions - scumbags combined from human greed, ego and stupidity, those are your shiny great crusaders.

1453 is nothing compared to 1204.

1204 and 1453 were autistic

Ended with Constantaine 11 th

Started with Romulus... and ended with Constantine XI.

Istanbul was conquered by Mehmet the 2nd and lost by the 6th Mehmet.

@Δημήτρης Ντάβος Rome started with Romulus, as a city. When Constantinople was chosen as the new capital, the realm was not a city but an entire Empire.

In fact, the regal numbers are just am invention by Edward Gibbon. So let’s just forget them.

Wrong cross

@HellenicNationalist Yeah brother. Πάλι με χρόνια με καιρούς, πάλι δικά μας θα'ναι! Σταύρος Νικά!

Να ζησω να δω αυτη την μερα φιλε μου

In your dreams

@@mostafatarik2467 i can believe anything i want and you can also believe anything you want now get the fck out of this video🇬🇷🇨🇾🇬🇷

@@mostafatarik2467 Thing is that if your Leader wasn't such a shithead it would indeed be only in our dreams, Turkey in it's base, statistically wise is stronger than us This Neo-Sultan of yours has ruined your international Prestige, Standing, Relations, and economy so much that literally if war between you and us happened half of the world would really like to watch you go down in flames while the rest wouldn't give a single shit, even your muslim brothers hate you, hell, the only one that might send volunteers to you is Azerbaijan, and that's it! The moment war starts it's over for you When the glorious day of the recapture of Constantinople arrives I, personally will hoist the Byzantine Flag up the Theodosian walls, this is not a promise, it's a _guarantee_

Sons of mars what a joke 😂

@GTA and Apple channel well 1204 crusade weakened the Byzantium so much, it led it to be conquered by Turks. You can't just break someone a leg, then the murderer comes to the disabled and you somehow try to help him

@@siratshi455 well at least the niceans formed it again ;/

@@kostas3577 but the venetians also was the only ppl from outside who accepted the call for help by emperor constantine and defended and died in constantinople in 1453 alongside the greek defenders and the last emperor constantine

@@horror11 You confuse Venetians with Genoese... Only venetians present at siege of Constantinople were the ones who lived there. Republic was meant to sent fleet but it never did. Genoese actually provided Romans with 700 men and Giovanni Giustiniani.

@@bobafett9348 yes there was both, venetians and genuese fighting the turks. difference was that the genuese was able to send some help while the venetians only had the fighters who was already in the city. both fought side by side with the greek and venetians and genuese was both italian so we shouldnt distinguish their local rivalry to much. italians helped the greek defend the city , no one else.

Yes, Constanine

@Nadim yes with Christan Egypt the Brother of Byzantine Empire

@Nadim ✌👍

Greece will be an ally to Egypt and support its few remaining Christians we now focus on getting back our Capital and Anatolia We will be friends with Egypt until they betray us only then we will try to return for the third time but i believe Egypt won't do that

@Dulacre verschwinde zu Satanist

Long live forever Jesus Christ who will come again and conquer the world amen

The Ottomans treated the Orthodox Christians than their co-religionists in the West.

White Lama it isn’t propaganda? It’s just a fact that by the time of 1453 the Byzantine Empire and its successor states no longer had any actually relevance in politics, and this was the direct result of the 1204 crusade. Even when the Nicaeans retook Constantinople in 1261, the empire had been divided into three separate states all claiming to be the true successor. Would the Turks have still conquered Constantinople without the Fourth Crusade permanently crippling the empire? Maybe, probably even. But my point here is that we will never know because a bunch of dumb fuck westerners were allowed to loot the most important city in the world by a dumb fuck pretender to the throne. It ruined any chance they might have had of holding off the Turks. Had the Fourth Crusade not happened, the Romans could have made a huge rebound. More astonishing feats had been accomplished by them in the past. Stating that this is “propaganda” is frankly ridiculous. I’m not some kind of Turkish fanboy, I’m not Turkish nor do I have Turkish ancestry. My statement comes from my takeaway of the facts that by the 14th and 15th centuries, the Roman Empire as a political entity was divided and no longer relevant, and it was only a matter of time before they were conquered by someone. It could have been the Venetians or the Muscovites or the Hungarians but it happened to be the Turks.

well, they had a chance. they were slowly but gradually clawing they're way back after mazinkurt, 4th crusades crippled them, but they started clawing their way back again until their holdings were halved by the serbs, then after that the biggest game in town was the ottomans. we all know what happened after that

Legatus Sedricillius Manzikert was a crippling blow but not too bad. Alexios Komnenos was able to restore most of the territory lost after that defeat. But there was really no similar restoration after the Fourth Crusade. The empire was divided into three states (Nicaea, Trebizond, and Epirus) that refused to cooperate with each other and remained divided even after Nicaea retook Constantinople from the Latins (a feat they really only managed due to military assistance from the Bulgarians and the Mongols providing a distraction to their eastern enemies). The west continued to take little pieces out of what remained of the Empire and it was able to gain very little of it back.

What the fuck are you talking about.the last remains of the great city was destroyed by the fucking ottomans

XD

@Universal Space Expeditioner Ecevit laughing in 1974

@Universal Space Expeditioner No, the Turkish Cypriot minority didn’t talk Greek and weren’t „Just“ Muslim. They had to protect their Turkish identity against ENOSIS terror. You remember Bloody Christmas? Edit: We will never be Greek and we never were Greek. Long live the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, long live Erbakan, Long live Turkey and Long live Ecevit.

LOLOLOLOL

dont do it pls

Indeed

ΝΙΚΑ Ο ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ ΣΩΖΕΙ Ο ΘΕΟΣ

NIKAA!!!!

Δεν νικησε το 1453

@@thanos6770 οχι αλλα το 1453 ηταν το πιο ταιριαστο τελος του Βυζαντιου. Γιατι πεσαμε για αλλη μια φορα απο μια δυναμη που μας ξεπερνουσε σε αριθμους κατα παρα πολυ (οι ιστορικοι λενε οτι υπηρχαν συνολικα 5000 στρατιωτες στην εξαθλιωμενη τοτε Κωνσταντινούπολη εναντιον 100000 Οθωμανους και τα υλερσυγχρονα για την εποχη κανονια τους π.χ. Μπαρμπαροσα). Αυτο ειναι το πιο πρεπον τελος που αρμοζει σε μια αυτοκρατορια που εζησε για πανω απο 11 αιωνες (392-1453). Ο ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ ΝΙΚΑ!

Frosty Dragon Ειτε αρμοζει ειτε οχι, αυτο που θελω να πω ειναι οτι δεν νικησε, μην το περνετε δεδωμενο οτι επειδη ειστε Χριστιανοι θα νικησετε, το να πειτε οτι νικαει δεν ειναι σιγουρο :Ρ

26 August 1071 & 29 May 1453 & 30 August 1922

@Alp You should try building a city for once instead of just stealing somebody else's.

@seb Borrowed? And they didn't even have a turkic culture left to replace after being completely mongolized...

What a big dream. You jerks cant understand.

İstanbul 🇹🇷💓💯

Is that in Serbia or Bosnia?

@@konstantinostourl1722 It is in Serbia

A really great city, I definetely want to visit!

Anyways the empire's forces have arrived Greece serbia italy Cyprus will corm the empure once again the phinix will rise

WE WİLL CONQUER GREECE SOON! LONG LIVE TURKEY!

@@Email5507 nigga fuck off you are everywhere

@Κωνσταντῖνος GR come and get Istanbul with your shitty army if you can you fuckin morons :D neither Turks or Greeks wont conquer eachother because there is no reason for that. you live in peace in your country and we live in our country in peace. btw both country has shitty economy.

@@Email5507 Fuck Turkey

Calm your tits honey

But they remains the legitimate heirs of the Roman Empire. Latin and Greek are two fusion cultures, that forms the Roman Culture. So, long live to the Second Roma!⚡

@@rvscitoold3816 - Si ...capiche... Una faccia ,...una raccia...Grazie ,...NJP, Auckland ,New Zealand= Nuevo Zelanda.

This is a statement by people who think in today’s small nationalistic categories. „Roman“ was not an description of ethnics or language, but of a common idea, a dream, an ideal and rich cultural variation.

​​​@@maraelionfaelivrin5959So why wasn't the Ottomans a Roman Empire, while some mentally Retarded People would Fucking call Russia "Third Rome"?

Laughes in Hunnic.

@@jakebeaudry3888 Sieeeeeet, we wuz kangz of Rome N stuffff

2. Mehmed : I dont like this song mehter is better than this.

Really? DONT FORGET ATTILA, THE HUNS, OH GOD I LOVE MY TURKIC ANCESTOR

@@devlet-ialiyye1467 Attila didn't destroy Eastern Rome.

Thanks

A turk liking a song about byzantium?

@@geodim3904 so what?

@@ma_aldemir nothing I like it actually. I gotta say I also kinda like ceddin deden

As a reward for being based Turk and liking a Greek song, I'm gonna be truthful with you in that i find Ceddin Deden catchy.(although i can't understand a word of it)

Bασιλεύς Βασιλέων Βασιλεί Βοηθεί

Βασιλευόντων;;; Χαχα και προεδρευόντων....

βασιλευόντων, ναι. Πού το περίεργο? Ήταν το ρητό των Παλαιολόγων...

@@AngelosLoukatos Το "περίεργο" είναι ότι το σωστό είναι του παντογνώστη πιο πάνω και όχι βασιλευόντων.😁

@@golkas9971 www.heraldica.org/topics/national/byzantin.htm

Cehennemi görüp Müslüman olmasaydım Ortodoks Hristiyan olurdum heralde

@@Sarnet42349 ?

@@Sarnet42349 Соболезную

You are mahmouti son of Mongolapolis.

@@obabas80 hahaahahahah biz moğol değiliz dostum. Biz tarihte Moğollarla savaştık.

The title of the messiah Ιησού Χριστού by the way

@@anonymous4183 αμήν.

Το πρώτο σκέλος είναι ίδιο με το δεύτερο...για δοκίμασε το πραγματικό που λέει: ΒΑΣΙΛΈΑ ΒΑΣΙΛΈΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙ ΒΟΗΘΕΙ

The Byzantine empire was literally in survival mode from 550 onwards lol

@ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ ΔΟ ΙΝΔΙΑ what the fuck lmao

@Czech Empire propaganda and fake/bad history at its finest...

You will say Istanbul, not Constantinople

​@@atakanozkan8473☦️🇬🇷🇮🇹🇷🇸 constantinopole ☦️ Istanbulopolis (u polis)

Custom ruler?

@@konstantinostourl1722 yup.

? THE OTTOMANS WERE EURASIAN/CENTRAL ASIAN, NOT ARAB.

u do realize the muslims beat an enemy of 100 000 to capture jerusalem in the 700s?

@@rayanomar4832 it was 630s ,and the defenders surrendered idiot

Justinian I was big emperor.He was only who gave many goods for Byzantium

@@PolishArkadas yes he was the greatest man in all od Byzantium

Are you sure xD

It lives in our hearts.Soon it shall live in the world map!

RIP Constantine IX. You were a great ruler who could've restored much of the Empire if you were born two centuries earlier. But at least you went out with a sword in your hand. And your empire died as it began, in a single city.

Cant be roman without Rome....

@@valhall89 they may have lost Rome but they were still Roman. Their nation was historically called Romania or Rhomania, literally Land of the Romans. As they were an Empire they were called the Empire of the Romans. Even before the lost of the West the Roman capital was relocated several times like in Milan, Nicomedia, Ravenna and Constantinople. The latter became entrenched as a new permanent capital to the point that when Constants II even expressed the idea of moving the capital to Syracuse in Sicily he was assassinated for it. No one had such attachment to Rome when the capitals were moved away from there, for the Roman Empire and its people had outgrown its womb and birthplace and spread across the areas via colonization.

@@RC15O5 You make some fair points, im not trolling. But to suggest that 11th century Byzantium/eastern roman is somehow the same state that Augustus ruled is a truth with heavy modifications. And i dont understand why the concept of Byzantium is seen as a negative. The byzantine Empire had almost a 1000 years of history, with many achievements. You dont have to give the Byzantines a petty legacy borrowed from a different people and land, their legecy is greek and orthodox Christianity, not latin and pagan. I have repect for the byzantines and the romans, but to say they where the same is to simplefy the situation. And the suggestion that they considered them self romans is fine, but so did the ottomans and charlemagnes Franks, and we both know that was a load of BS:D:D:DD:D

@@valhall89 I think the term Byzantium is more appropriate for the Palaiologan state that lasted from 1261 to 1453. The Roman Empire lasted as a continuous state that adapted slowlyto the changing times from 27 BC to 1204 AD when the Partiti de Romanii was signed and carved between Venice and the fledgling crusader states occupation, the so-called Latin Empire. The Byzantine state that was established in 1261 reimplemented long-held Roman customs and did away with West European laws but inherited ruins from the 1204 Sack of Constantinople and so could never field as much power as the Empire that once existed. And they historically called themselves Romans, their own records attest to this like in the Alexiad. The stigma if saying Greek to refer to Roman citizens began to go away (Greek for a long time referred to the heathen city states and kingdoms of antiquity from within Rhomania) as the Byzantines were abandoning their caesaropapist ways and trying to better relations with the Papacy to help defend against another crusade and encroaching Ottoman conquest. The others were claims based on the idea of Translatio Imperii. At least the Ottomans have some claim to it, being Islamic Turkified Anatolian-Greeks and the Osmanli sultans married into the Palaiologan dynasty. After converting to a spliced religion based on Early Christianity and the Roman Cult, the Roman Empire slowly phased out gladiators and slavery but retained absolute rule of their heathen days through apocalyptic propaganda, though the rich would use political influence to retain house slaves, and would outlaw most forms of brutality (though aristocracy came to have an unpopular likening towards facial mutilation to depose throne claimants as only people with faces as flawless as God could serve as his throne regent on Earth, as well as rebel leaders). Due to the sheer brutality found in fundamentalist Islam, the Ottomans (as well as their usage of Qasari i Rum, literally Caesar of Roma) could be seen as the Roman Empire succumbing to a splinter state adopting a violent imperial cult (harking back to the waves of cults to become fashionable prior to the rise if Imperial Christianity,like Mithras and Sol Invictus) and returning the Roman Empire to form with their capture of Constantinople in 1453, reimplementing slavery on a mass scale, racial and religious segregation (a la Pact of Umar), brutal authority (Turkified Sharia Law) and pursuing unrelenting conquest of their neighbors.

@@emresevim3786 ok 1 thank you 2 you turks butcherd the greeks completely out of anatolia literally turned anatolia from greek to turkish in just a few decades turn the armenians who controled most of cilicia into a minority

@@emresevim3786 thats my point cilicia was an armenian nation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Kingdom_of_Cilicia you guys completely butchered them

@@emresevim3786 What the fuck is wrong with you pitiful heretic? Is this how the sons of Tengri should act? Don't call yourself Turkish while you're being such an apologetic wimp. I'm not saying this because you're Christian, I'm saying this because you're such an eye-sore that even the Greeks here are disturbed by your submissive attitude.

​@@serefsevik8368 Son of Tengri.....Go do a DNA test. You would be called a heretic from your ancestors .

@Thefenerli70 I'm sorry its just that the entire city burned to the ground that's its not like cities that got sacked took centuries to be rebuilt

It fell to the Latins

Call for Freedom işte aradığım yorum buydu skdlsşfşs

His Empire.

“Hey Basil, leave this Bulgar alone! He is Orthodox like us!”

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