The Ottoman Conquest of Cyprus 1571 

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The Staggering difference that a bad commander makes in any situation...

I was lucky to visit Famagusta. The walls are enormous.

Again the high quality i love from your every video. Now i have a single desire and that is to see the battle of Lepanto covered by you.

Coincidentally I just finished reading Roger Crowley's 'Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521-1580' today and it has some chapters on this siege. A really great book, you could tell Crowley has a background in Literature in that it's very well written and readable.

The high production quality of this channel, combined with the era it covers make it such a gem. And with the level of production it's even more impressive that the videos come out with the frequency they do. I've loved this channel for years and thought I'd just add a comment to help the algorithm.

Nicosia is probably the least staggering siege you ever covered

can't wait for the battle of Lepanto! This channel made me love and understand the early modern era over the past few years. Thank you!

400 people killed by the countermine, can't even visualize it, absolutely crazy. Any survivors who saw must have told that story frequently the rest of their lives.

Man... what happened to Marco has to be one of the worst possible fates for anyone let alone someone betrayed so heinously... barbaric.

Veneto guy here. Marcantonio Brigadin is still considered an hero here in Veneto.

He sent a blind monk... guy labelled "Blind Monk" appears. For some reason that made me grin.

Ive just visited Cyprus and crossed into the northern part of Nicosia. You can see Greek and Turkish influences everywhere, no matter which side of the buffer zone. I especially enjoyed Büyük Han, the old inn.

Those fortresses are insane

So the Battle of Lepanto is next?! I hope the video about it will arrived soon because I always wanted to see what it really looked like!

Yes, the battle of Lepanto is finally coming!

What an engaging and well made video!

I accidentally stumbled upon your channel, and I'm extremely glad I did. I love everything from the illustrations to the narration and details provided. Such a pity your channel is so underrated. Keep this extraordinary work up!

Kenneth’s vol III covers this, loved it overall

This is one of my favorite channels. I'm always thankful for a new video.

had to rewatch this a few days later and notice so many more details. i think your videos might lend themselves to being watched again in a few years time.

woww, the production quality always wows me, keep doing this please

Incredible history, thank you!

Very well done very interesting. Really enjoyed the narration.

Spoiler alert, but Bradagin's death was something straight out of one of those Wrong Turn movies

I feel sorry for Antonio Bragadin ☹️

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The story of intrigue on how the Ottomans came to break the peace treaty with Venice is just as interesting. Jewish banker José Nasi wanted revenge on Venice (for having confiscated his riches) and convinced Selim of invading the island, even offering to partly finance the campaign.

A vid on naval sieges would be interesting

Very interesting, thank you. Your vids are getting much better.

Really cool, thanks a bunch for sharing with us G

man these videos keep getting prettier, awesome!! thanks for all the effort

Excellent video as usual @SandRhomanHistory you really do cover the most staggering sieges! A video on the siege of Caffa would be great as it was the eventual cause of the black death. Maybe you could include it in a wider video on biological warfare in sieges.

PLEASE!!! Do a video of Lepanto! Very good work on this video!

Great work as usual thank u

Great video as always

You cannot negotiate a peaceful truce , if your enemy lies and has No honour

Great video, siege videos are my favorite of yours

Excellent video 📹 Good graphics 👌

This is how you make Veneto sad before going to bed. It still hurts after more than 400 years

My favorite channel! Keep it up 👌

Dandolo's like that rich kid that got everything fed to him with a silver spoon and grew lazy and wound up a failure.

Vital note: As the Ottoman's expanded their paper size of their domain, their actual control of the land diminished. The Ottomans were generally oblivious to what was happening in most Senjaks and entire wars came and went without anyone bothering to inform the Sultan. Sometimes Ottoman commanders went rogue and had de facto independent states, sometimes the local Ottoman government was defunct for decades at a time, and sometimes Ottoman rule was simply an empty oath of allegiance by the actual ruler who simply wanted to avoid trouble. All this was made possible by the Ottoman's habit of throwing away whole armies just to secure symbolic victories against nobles who bad mouthed the Sultan.

Yessss today i was already scrolling your video list in the hope i missed one

Keep up the amazing work

Awesome as always

I'm sure this conquest will have no repercussions that will echo into modern times, at all.

Yes, a new SandRhoman History video. :)

i know that Lepanto is famous, but please do cover it. Your videos always add to my understanding.

Thanks be for Our Lady's intercession at the Lepanto.

Can you make a video on how to build the "perfect" star fort?

I am from Cyprus and yesterday I was in Famagusta. Walls are standing still as well as in Nicosia. Loved how you used the original cathedral in illustrations.

Well narrated. I advise the book of Excerpta Cypria for those who wants to know the details.

I would advice you to take a look at Siege of Nagykanizsa 1601, as it is probably the most succesfull and perfect siege defense in history, it would be a great content for your amazing channel

Please SandRhoman, in 1567 the zayyanids don't exist anymore, be careful with the maps on north africa (it was the same on the video on the siege of malta)

The book Empires of the Sea is a great depiction of not only this siege but of Malta and the Battle of Lepanto. Highly recommend

Would be cool with some more videos about the wars and battles between the countries around the Baltic Sea.

great video

good work

Very good vídeo, i love your videos, please a video of the battle of Lepanto, the siege of castelnouvo, the siege of oran-mazalquivir and the warfere of the janissaries.......

The Venetians deserved to lose their overseas possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean. They watched the Ottomans only gain strength as time passed and as the Byzantines failed to hold them at bay. Their inaction to aid the Romans and contain the threat of the Ottomans only led to their own downfall in the end. This is karma for the 4th Crusade. I feel genuine remorse for the garrisons on Crete and Cyprus who bravely held the Ottomans back for as long as they could but to no avail. The Ottomans are savages and barbarous animals for what they did. It's totally unspeakable to me to be okay and have cruelty like this normalized in the ranks like this.

Great video greetings from Turkey.

Those little cannons firing are so damn cute!

Cool video

Cypriot Greek has often been referred to as a dialect of Greek (Contossopoulos, 2000); a variety that is linguistically proximal to Standard Modern Greek (Grohmann and Kambanaros, 2016 Grohmann et al. 2016), which is the official language in the environment our participants acquire language. Although the official language in education and other formal settings is indeed Standard Modern Greek, research has shown the boundaries between the two varieties, Standard Modern Greek and Cypriot Greek, and their distribution across different registers is not straightforward (Grohmann and Leivada, 2012, Tsiplakou et al. 2016). At times mixing is attested without code-switching being in place, while no official characterization has been provided for any of these terms in this specific context. The question arising in this context is whether the attested variants emerging in mixed speech repertoires are functionally equivalent for an individual speaker. The concept of "competing grammars goes back to Krich 11989, 1991), who proposed that speakers project multiple grammars to deal with ambiguous input This concept has been explicitly connected to the relation between Standard and Cypriot Greek (Papadopo et al. 2014; plaka 2014; Grohman et al 2017) The two varieties have differences in all levels of linguistic analysis and often monolingual speakers of Standard Modern Greek judge Cypriot Greek as unintelligible. At the same time, Greek Cypriot speakers do not always provide reliable judgments of their own speech since these are often clouded by sociolinguistic attitudes toward using the non-standard variety. Cypriot Greek lacks official codification and its status as a different language/variety is often denied by Greek Cypriots who may downplay the differences between Standard Modern Greek and Cypriot Greek and describe the latter as just an accent (Arvaniti, 2010). As the discussion of the different variants will make clear in the next section, the two varieties have differences across levels of linguistic analysis and these differences vastly exceed the sphere of phonetics or phonology. All speakers of Cypriot Greek have exposure to Standard Modern Greek through education and other mediums and in this way, they are competent to different degrees in both varieties. We employ the term 'bilectal' (Rowe and Grohmann, 2013, 2014) to refer to the participants of this study, although it is not entirely clear that the varieties they are exposed to are Standard Modern Greek and Cypriot Greek or that they are only two varieties, under the assumption that a continuum is in place. For instance, the term 'Cypriot Standard Greek' (Arvaniti, 2010) has been proposed to refer to an emerging variety that may count as the standard in the context of Cyprus. This would be a sociolinguistically 'high' variety (Ferguson, 1959) that is used in formal settings, although its degree of proximity with Standard Modern Greek is difficult to determine with precision because great fluidity is attested across different settings and geographical areas. At the school environment, for example, one notices the existence of three different varieties: Cypriot Greek, as the home variety that is used when students interact with each other, Standard Modern Greek, as the language of the teaching material, and another standard-like variety that incorporates elements from both varieties, and is present in the repertoire of both the students and the instructors (Sophocleous and Wilks. 2010; Hadjioannou et al., 2011; Leivada et al.. 2017).

Could you make an episode on the Balkan troops in the Fanti Oltramarini?

How about an episode about those "blind monks"? Could that be a thing? I'd love to learn about them.

Any chance you would cover battle of Keresztes? It's suprising that many channel that i trust to cover them would still used the outdated Ottoman decline thesis. You have a history that cover Ottoman army pretty well and i think your channel is uniquely suited to showcase battles 16-17th centuries that are not neccesarily one sided since many historian that cover this periods is in "infantry pike and shot is the best and cavalry are backward" mindset at the time

Wow, mind blowing

And from there, a geopolitical hotspot emerged.

I assume, your next video is about the battle... of the Bulge

Please do one for 1601 Siege of Ostend. Spanish v Dutch if memory serves. It's family legend that an ancestor survived inside the city walls. I've always been curious what exactly that would have meant.

can you make a video of the siege of cadiz 1810 it was one of the longest sieges of the napoleonic wars

0:05 the way my man just disintegrated💀💀

I really hope the battle of Lepanto is cover some day.

I think the Ottomans could have been stopped if Doria would not have sabotaged things. A Venetian fleet on Cyprus would have changed things quite a bit.

That's a lot of damage.

It's so strange to me that at the same time there are allready colonizes in America. It seems always like totally different time lines

It is the perfect time to listen `Kuffar` from Hasan Mutlucan while watching this.

The Turks finished flaying Marcantonio Bragadino, then sent His straw-stuffed body on tour around the city, then sent the poor man's remains to Constantinople for exhibition as well. Real sweethearts, the Osmanlis

Marco Bragadin should have waited for the holy league fleet to arrive. They were on their way to help.

Very good video! You should have made this video earlier.

Is this what Othello was based off?

Some things never change in Europe. It doesn't surprise me that Doria was stalling because he didn't really want to help. It also doesn't surprise me that the Europeans bickered so much they ended up leaving Cyprus to its fall. That Pasha Mustafa betrayed the Venician leaders just because he could or that he made slaves of the troops after agreeing to let them go. Seems like Erdogan like to play games as well. Someday Cyprus and Constantinople will be taken back.

In my current eu4 game The Ottomans declared war on Cyprus maybe a dozen times and never landed any troops

Im just wondering how they trusted that a messenger was legitimate, was it done with certain watermarking on paperwork? Would be a fun topic to see fake messengers causing chaos

Honey! A new siege just dropped!

The might of the empire capable of deploying over 100k men overseas. Imagine using that power in the times of actual peace with your major neighbours to strengthen your economy and future prosperity instead of pointless after-the-fact cruelty.

Wann gibt es die Version der Filme auf Deutsch?? es können (2.Wahl) auch deutsche Untertitel sein. Merciviumau

Flayed alive, my gosh thats brutal and cruel

All the Moor!!!!

Sorry I don't wanna be a grammar nazy But it's Girolamo Zane, not girolame, but i understand that it sound pretty difficult to write

speaker.. How swiss do you wanna sound? Yes

disunity among Christian/Europeans cause their defeat

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The numbers are greatly exaggerated France at the time could barely field 30k even if the ottomans could field such numbers this would leave the empire defenceless to siege an island not to mention logistics

I cant name a single honorable Pasha throughout all of Ottoman history. Every other role and rank, yes. But if you get the name Pasha, apparently you're just fucked.

I definitely feel even though we think Bronze Age was more brutal for civilians I’d say these black powder sieges were much worse because of the length

never never surrender.

Love the video but you need to check your pronunciation when pronouncing greek names or greek city names