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Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?

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Even the appointment of Ferdinand I to become ruler of Bulgaria was not without controversy. All across Europe, leaders didn't see him fit to do the job. Controversy followed him throughout his life, the Balkan Wars and the First World War when he had to see the defeat of his country. Find out all about that other Tsar in our episode.
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@parvanboyukliev116 7 лет назад

Bulgaria - the first and last country to have a tsar. :)

@thebj2701 6 лет назад

gromaniak16 Tsar Simeon I was the Bulgarian who created the title "Tsar". History says he pronouced himself as a Tsar of Bulgaria in 913 AD. Tsar Simeon I was born in 864 AD and died in 927 AD. The first Bulgarian Tsar was crowned in 913 AD while the first Russian Tsar was crowned in 1547 AD. More than 600 years difference and more than a proof that Bulgaria created this title. Also our first Golden Century was during his reign and Bulgaria was in its biggest extent owning almost all of the Balkans. :)

@historyrhymes1701 5 лет назад

The Byzantines regognised Simеon's title tsar as a Title equal to emperor.

@thebj2701 5 лет назад

Yeah but the title Tsar is Bulgarian anyway.

@FeZe1997 5 лет назад

Ah Bulgaria, the first slav super power

@Vahki100 5 лет назад

Technically - we still have a Tzar. A living one too!

@gringoroko 8 лет назад

The title tsar is actually the Bulgarian version of the title Cesar. The First Bulgarian tsar was Simon the Great, who became tsar in the 10. century. The first Russian tsar was Ivan I., who became tsar in the late 15. century, more than five centuries after tsar Simon the Great.

@presiqnqnkov8391 6 лет назад

gringo roko simon???? Whats a simon do you mean a salmon?? The Bulgarisn rulrn was called Simeon Симеон

@thebj2701 6 лет назад

Това е просто английската версия на името Симеон, макар че имената на владетелите не би трябвало да се променят.

@talridisblagoev242 5 лет назад

tzar Simeon the Great.

@HGRvSBG 5 лет назад

Kaiser is the German version of Caesar, too.

@zarni000 4 года назад

Technically Tervel was a Tsar as he was given the title Cesar by the Byzantine emperor which is equivalent. This was over a century before Simeon the Great

@KillerKane0 8 лет назад

His Grandson, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was briefly Tsar of Bulgaria at the tail end of WW2 and went into a Spanish exile when the country went under Communist rule. When communism ended, Simeon returned and was actually elected prime minister. He was one of only two former monarchs to democratically take power of their former domains. (The other was from Cambodia). Take that, history!

@TheNN 8 лет назад

+KillerKane0 And to top it off, he didn't do a bad job at it either.

@varsam 8 лет назад

+TheNN Tihomir got a point, he was terrible, he comed on white horse, expecting all cooperate whit him, with idea that the money he got from the arabs will secure the second mandate. He didnt know how deep he went. I belive that he took the forest so he can extinguished that dept.

@TheNN 8 лет назад

Huh...ok, talk about an eye-opener. Well, while I didn't know a ton about him, what little I did know painted him in a much better light. I admit I really did not expect that. But that's also why I love the subscriber base of this channel, what Indy and the gang don't tell us about, those who watch the videos can fill in some of the blanks or fix something that's incorrect.

@jeffreypopper9719 8 лет назад

+KillerKane0 Wow, what an amazing story!

@jeffreypopper9719 8 лет назад

+varsam Well, at least it was better than Communism

@smartacus88 4 года назад

As a child I drew maps of the local woods and added areas to my "domain" as I explored them. I made my own flag. I built forts and outpost in different areas of my domain. My slightly younger brother did the same and carved out his own domain in opposition to mine. We went to war several times over a contested pond. Shot at each other with BB guns and threw firecrackers at each other's fort demanding that the other lower his flag. We finally came to an agreement that we would merge our kingdoms with me as King (naturally) with my brother taking the title of Grand Duke, my right hand and subservient only to me. We designed a new flag. This was in the mid 90's. We didn't have cable t.v. Of course cell phones and internet weren't a thing yet. We came up with this stuff as we went. Makes me wonder what lurks in our bloodline.

@Bread-nx9fo 2 года назад

Ahuh....................

@Oechedelesk 2 года назад

I wish I did that as a kid

@emersoncordova670 2 года назад

Man that’s cool wish I had that when I was younger

@Vestegnenforlife 2 года назад

Sounds amazing lmao

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

Tsar Ferdinand modernized Bulgaria, built the most beautiful buildings in the Bulgarian cities, railways, hospitals, schools, the trams in Sofia, he still runs them, that's why 90% of Bulgarians love him

@arturocevallossoto5203 8 лет назад

Maximilian and his Mexican adventures is really one of the most bizarre episodes history has to offer. Sometimes I feel Mexico exist inside the twilight realm of dreams and spirits ...

@308473mb 8 лет назад

+Ban Ki-moon No wonder that when the Sixth World returns Mexico is a place bathed in blood to appease the spirits and gods, so that all shall fear ancient and powerful Mexico.

@GerSanRiv 8 лет назад

+Ban Ki-moon have a look at these: harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=309

@impalabeeper 8 лет назад

+GerSanRiv Thanks for sharing. The world is such a pretty weird place.

@patrickhenry6695 6 лет назад

I'm an American, and I agree

@justinbeleski7511 6 лет назад

I am American I say that we should have went to war with Mexico

@RigamortisTortoise 7 лет назад

By far one of the most interesting and through "who did what" episodes. This series is a masterpiece, keep up the excellent work!

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

Thanks, will do.

@amtiskaw 7 лет назад

I agree! I can't believe that Simeon became prime minster of Bulgaria 50 years after being exiled as Tsar. Truth really is stranger than fiction, as they say.

@mcdongalbozichka 7 лет назад

or maybe somone hasn't finished 5th grade

@vincentlefebvre9255 6 лет назад

Survivor66 Can you detail ? I would like to know more about your comment .

@sterkar99 7 лет назад

Man I am Greek but I gotta say: Bulgaria was dope in its early age

@unrealturbos 7 лет назад

yep ... then communism happend ... and " purging " of the elite and intelligence ... King Boris III tried to make a deal with America and England so that we wont be a soviet state .. but the damn soviets killed him. And to think some people still cheer for the Russians and Soviets like the brainwashed drones they are . Thosands of people died in concentration camps here after the war . You dont realise how lucky you are to not be under Soviet control after the war .

@sterkar99 7 лет назад

Well the communists did try to get Greece under their influence and right after the war we had a civil war here in Greece so bloody that historians call it "The dark ages of modern Greek history" between communists and capitalists.

@unrealturbos 7 лет назад

Bear Pig Man remember and respect the people that died in that war . And cherish the fact that you could even have that war .. Our country had a lot of soviet army troops as much as there was in Eastern Germany in it .. so we could not rebel ...Hungarians tried to rebel and that didnt end too well for them either. The people that saved you from our fate are heroes.

@t0x1cliverpool 7 лет назад

I thought he was poisoned by Hitler because he was stalling the decision on which side to participate in WW2?

@stefanradev7034 7 лет назад

Every Balkan country is pretty bada*s xD (problem is that every great thing we achieve is followed by a couple disasters) p. s. : could it be that Boris III died of a heart failure or sth like this? Even the German military in it's optimistic expectations didn't count on more than Bulgarian army staying in Balkans and holding against the red tide.

@user-es1sj8kn9g 8 лет назад

As a Bulgarian I would like to say that in my opinion this is a correct interpretation of Ferdinand, looking at both his positives and negatives. He is a debated ruler. Good job to the entire crew of the show! Браво!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Gabriel Karalov Thanks!

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

I watched this video full of lies and Serbian propaganda none of what you said about King Ferdinand is true absolute lies

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

@itsnodawayitustabe5654 8 лет назад

"that foreign woman I had to mary"

@RoScFan 8 лет назад

+Itsnodawayitustabe So romantic

@frankmueller2781 5 лет назад

That's what Bill said!

@talridisblagoev242 5 лет назад

:D Indy never said he was a nice guy:D

@robertchirco9124 5 лет назад

I laughed for 5 straight minutes at that

@DMG380 3 года назад

That's how we refer to our wives in Bulgaria

@heartofvirginia4877 8 лет назад

"The wife I had to marry" haha great quote. That will be one of my favorites, along side Frederick the Greats' quote "a crown is a hat that lets the rain in"

@thexalon 8 лет назад

In Ferdinand's defense, Franz Josef *was* an idiot, for (a) touching off this whole mess in the first place, and (b) keeping Conrad von Hotzendorf in charge of his army.

@KaiserFranzJosefI 7 лет назад

thexalon Ssshhhhh

@mowtow90 6 лет назад

There is an interesting fact about Tsar Ferdinand. The first power plant that was build in Bulgaria (under the Tsar's supervision) was used to power his personal royal stables in Sofia - shows how much he cared for the country.

@vladimirnikolic1688 2 года назад

He don't care because wasn't Bulgarian.

@cpt7752 2 года назад

he wasn't even Bulgarian

@user-bq3pf9oy2z 2 года назад

@@vladimirnikolic1688so primitive, he care a lot for sure. Great leader of Bulgarians, thats why big powers used small and pathetic countries like serbia, Greece and Vlachia against United Bulgaria.

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

Dobro Pole ist your Propaganda my friend

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

Absolute lies

@bobby3008bul 8 лет назад

I'm Bulgarian and interested in history, just want to say that your videos are great. Keep up the good work. Secondly I really hate Ferdinand (even though I really respect his son tzar Boris III (he is a complicated figure)). Ferdinand was not the only one, but one of the main reasons that drag us into WWI (which later led to a national catastrophe), and another reason for hate is the removal of Stefan Stambolov in 1894 (considered the greatest bulgarian Prime Minister). That's the reason why in Bulgaria, you can see a lot of things named after tzar Boris (like one of the main boulevards in Sofia or the Boris' Garden park), but almost nothing named after Ferdinand, opinions about him are negative in our history. You also mention the rebellion against him and Bulgaria's participation in WWI, my grand grand father was part of it, here is known as "the Soldiers rebellion" or "the Vladaisko rebellion", he then was sent to jail for for a year or two (not exactly sure, have to ask grandma). Keep making videos, they're very well made.

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Bobby Kalaydjiev Thanks. Interesting story about your great grandfather.

@rolandherbert5699 8 лет назад

+The Great War Why there lots of person name Ferdinand what does it means?

@batkolyo_ 8 лет назад

+Bobby Kalaydjiev Why was he sent to the jail?

@bobby3008bul 8 лет назад

XennonLane Because the rebellion was against the goverment and a war that lasted too long, destroyed the economy and people have nothing to eat, but that also means that it was against Tzar Ferdinand, so of course that means jail. After the war in 1919, PM of Bulgaria became Aleksandar Stamboliyski (leader of the agrarian party), Ferdinand fell from power, and the PM gave pardon to the rebels.

@Chefjohn4923 7 лет назад

I love you Bulgarians

@wronski11 8 лет назад

King Boris not only refused to fight the USSR but saved 50 000 Bulgarian Jews - the entire Bulgarian Jewish population. Although Bulgaria as all other Balkan countries signed the Trilateral Pact with Germany not a Single Bulgarian Jew was send to the concentration camps. Much different than Serbia, Greece and Romania where less than 8% combined of the Jewish population survived.

@TaffoVelikoff 7 лет назад

Aye Aye, nazdrave from Bulgaria! :D Incredible show, keep up the good work!

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

Thank you, greetings from Berlin.

@4552571d 8 лет назад

"That Idiot" surprisingly accurate.

@mazadancoseben4818 4 года назад

Not completely.More like-that biased and unassertive guy who led to people like Conrad Von Hotzendorf doing things

@hidof9598 4 года назад

@@mazadancoseben4818,indeed

@janicekgibki9172 3 года назад

Franz Josef was a great ruler! What do you want from him?

@adogddog1697 3 года назад

Ya ik he made us lose belamorska trakia we will never let him be buried in Bulgarian

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

there was a military rebellion organized by BZNS Daskalov and Stamboliyski with money from France

@BatayaRulZ 7 лет назад

Makes me very sad to listen and watch all of this...Nobody was inocent and all were guilty. As Serb, i always loved very much my ortodox brothers, Greeks and Bulgarians. What have we done? We could have been so much more! Sad...

@justinbeleski7511 6 лет назад

My favorite country of all

@blackmichael75 8 лет назад

"That foreign woman I had to marry" LOL

@PaxiKaksi 8 лет назад

Amazing show and i just want to add this. Bulgaria was the first with the title of Tsar 906 Tsar Simeon not Boris'es son.... well technically not Boris III's son because Simeon the first or only sometimes reffered as just Simeon the Great just to make it even more confusing was also son a guy named Boris . He assumed the title of Tsar before the Russians even had state.

@victorivanov9205 8 лет назад

Title tzar was firstly used in medieval Bulgaria.

@Karget46856 7 лет назад

Victor Ivanov What he meant was that "tzar" was used firstly in medieval Bulgaria,not that the first title used in medieval Bulgaria was tzar

@ianokan9120 7 лет назад

kzl

@historyrhymes1701 6 лет назад

Yеah wе usеd it sincе 913 AD thе russians startеd to usе it in thе 1550s

@aquilarossa5191 4 года назад

Tsar, Tzar, Kaiser, etc. They all have the same root meaning. Caesar, i.e., Emperour

@zarni000 4 года назад

@@aquilarossa5191 of course they do. point is that word was first used in bulgaria.

@Ixian18 Год назад

Thank you for making these great videos of the history of Bulgaria!

@nostromokg 4 года назад

Bulgarians, our neighbours.... Beautiful people, beautiful country, and beautiful culture... Stay strong and proud. Hello from Serbia...

@nostromokg 4 года назад

Tough times... But i hope that we will be able to put that beside us...

@clayronso3932 8 лет назад

Ferdinand was smart man with his will to remove Ottoman territory in Europe. If only the powers at the time had let him.

@GeorgePerakis 8 лет назад

+Clay Ronso Hey, all the Balkan states wanted that at the time. Literally all of them except for Austria-Hungary, and they all had good leaders that could damn-well try. And Greece did try and was doing quite well, taking back all of Thrace (with an allied-occupied Constantinople) and marching straight for Ancyra, already deep into Asia Minor. Sadly though, numbers speak louder than bravery sometimes. Particularly when you're outnumbered by the hundreds of thousands, going up against Kemal and all of your allies have just abandoned you, your supply chains are strained, and you're shoulder-deep into enemy territory with a battle-line more stretched than a pornstar's vagina.

@MsSomeone98 8 лет назад

+PowermadNavigator No. It would be impossible for any of the small upstart nations to get much past Edirne. Constantinople wasn't just an open city for anyone close by to take, it was fortified, and you could well bet that the Ottomans wouldn't leave their capitol undefended. None of the Balkan nations stood a chance against the Ottomans on their own. Greece tried in the 1890s, and was soundly defeated. Even the Serbs and Bulgarians only achieved independence due to Russia. It's only wishful thinking, nationalistic wet dreams, and anti-islamic bigotry that fills your head with dreams of "WE COULD HAVE TAKEN IT!".

@PowermadNavigator 8 лет назад

+Water Melonees Whatever, chief. That's a small percentage of world history which wasn't written by the victors, so if you wanna contradict it just for the sake of RU-vid, fine by me, chief.

@zarni000 4 года назад

@@MsSomeone98 that is utter nonsense. the bulgarians were stopped by the russians and the great powers. and Adrianople (Odrin) was the best fortified Turkish city. It was considered impossible to take. Bulgarians took it. Bulgarians took it alone. You need to check your history.

@zarni000 4 года назад

@@MsSomeone98 Do you blame his bias?

@kaloyanradkov8962 8 лет назад

When the episode about the battles at Doiran comes i'm gona be one of the first to completely enjoy it :) hope you make a great episode about it since its even in the English war history books :)) Great episodes keep up the good work - greetings from a Bulgarian living in Germany :)

@doomdrake123 8 лет назад

+Kaloyan Radkov Седмицата, когато се чества сто годишнината от Дойранската епопея. Така следва логиката на поредицата - вяска седмица какво се е случила в същата тази седмица 100 години назад. И аз ги чакам.

@lonewolfxx709 8 лет назад

I appreciate that this program does shows about people like Tsar Ferdinand; they never are mentioned but were important players during the war. Well done gentlemen.

@kalle911 8 лет назад

only two videos I've seen and this is already one of the more interesting history series. especially the "less-known" parts.

@NGB1 8 лет назад

Damn, im bulgarian myself and i didnt know some of these facts. You have done a great job! With love from Bulgaria!

@adogddog1697 3 года назад

♥️ Gospot e Bulgaren

@IanKath 8 лет назад

Watching these episodes since before the conflict it's interesting to see how your production values continue to improve. Today with have 3D graphics at 4:51 and Indy segues to the end links effortlessly without the usual pause and edit while camera pans to left. Not an easy thing to do. Well done to everyone. Keeping an eye to learn how it's done ;)

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Ian Kath Well spotted Ian, thanks.

@MrWhosyourdaddy88 8 лет назад

@The Great War As a Bulgarian, I'd like to say admirations on the great video, sir, your unbiased presentation of facts and detail and a great pronunciation.

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Mr Whos Your Daddy Thanks!

@thathorsethatdrivesasherma7003 8 лет назад

This will help a lot! We have several UIL tests which have mentioned him, but I knew nearly nothing about him. Thanks for making another great biography video!

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

@Happy-cn9vt 8 лет назад

Can you do a special video talking about diffrent grenades used by diffrent countries, empires

@greatwarfan3266 8 лет назад

I would like to watch that +Juss Jus

@l0lLorenzol0l 8 лет назад

This is a good idea. Get the guys from the weapon videos to help with it. Show the development of the granades and how they changed over the war. If I remember correctly, the Autro-Hungarians didnt even have grenades when the war started and were terrefied of them when invading Serbia, who did and already knew how to use them.

@mo45327 8 лет назад

+Lorenzo Pagani You are right sir, Serbia had a domesticly produced hand grenade Vasić Model 1912 which was interestingly square in shape.

@yifgohsanchez9414 6 лет назад

Sad now that King Michael of Romania died in December last year

@adogddog1697 3 года назад

Whatever

@punypunic2224 5 лет назад

Bulgaria, easily my favorite European country. 🇧🇬

@slavistoyanov432 4 года назад

Someone says something nice about Bulgaria - me: 'LIKE' (caching)

@oktayalidzhikov8347 4 года назад

Where are you from? And thanks

@greenefieldmann3014 8 лет назад

I like how much time your channel has devoted to Bulgaria!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Greene Fieldmann Thanks.

@TheAvidaEuros 8 лет назад

no Thank you!!!

@antikoerper256 6 лет назад

Without trying to sound overly emotional, I have to say that without tzar Ferdinand's efforts in developing natural sciences, botanics, zoology, even heraldics and his patronising of all arts, we wouldn't have been what we are today. The story of Ferdinand is a story of the finest days of Bulgaria. Despite beaten in 2 World Wars, and he himself - outliving his wives, sons and even generals, Bulgaria and Ferdinand were on the same track - a late-developed, but still not missed dream of what most of the East has missed - the Renaissance thinking. I, personally, value him as my favourite person from our contemporary history, although since the loss of both world wars and the onslaught of communism, he has been continiously demonized. Tsar Boris III was killed by the soviets. The germans had no real gain in such an act and the only one stopping Stalin's ambitions was the tsar. Sooner or later the truth will come out.

@izonker 8 лет назад

Am I incorrect or was Saxe Coburg and Gotha also the house name of the current British royal family, at least prior to it being changed around 1917? Or is this just a case of similar sounding phonetically, but completely different in spelling and meaning kind of words?

@Battleschnodder 8 лет назад

+izonker no, you are correct, and it is still the same house, but under a new, less german name, Windsor

@izonker 8 лет назад

Battleschnodder Thanks, . I knew the current name was Windsor, and I had remembered running across the snippet that Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the old name, but it really is shocking when you realize just how intertwined the European royal houses are even to this day .

@giveussomevodka 8 лет назад

+izonker I think they changed their name to remove association with Austria and Germany during the war, as part of the propaganda scheme. But yes, they were all one big family, playing chess together. You shouldn't forget that up until a year of WWI had passed, war was considered noble business, a sport for royals, like paintball is today maybe. The strongly negative connotations of war are modern ones, and only appeared as WWI dragged on too long and we saw people suffering and dying not in battle, but in waiting for battle.

@andrewsuryali8540 8 лет назад

+TheRhinehart86 Er, to avoid confusion, it bears pointing out that "cousin Nicky" was a Romanov while "cousin Willy" was a Hohenzollern. The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the house of Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. It became the royal house of England through this single marriage. So it wasn't that the three cousins belonged to the same House. They were related through Victoria, and that makes them distaff cousins. Sorry if that sounds pedantic. It's just that I've met people who continued insisting that all three were members of the same family due to severe misunderstanding of how European royals defined House. Victoria herself, being the legitimate monarch through birth succession, was a member of the House of Hanover, and if her uncle had succeeded the throne instead of her it would have stayed the House of Hanover.

@zarni000 4 года назад

yep correct

@vaniog29 5 лет назад

Poor Queen Eleonore .... stuck with a horrible husband , she was loved by his children and the people, was a chief of 24th Infantry Regiment of Burgas, worked as a nurse , opened numerous hospitals , did charities for children with special needs, and unlike him she's rightfully resting in Bulgaria in a modest grave in the yard of the Boyanska church in Sofia. She may not have been born Bulgarian , but she certainly dedicated her life to her country and in my eyes she is. Eternal respect Eleonore of Bulgaria, you're not forgotten.

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

@vaniog29 Год назад

@@atanasdimitrov5046 they definitely didn't at the time , and it's well documented. His army resented him. All you described is just the icing on the cake. His rule was disasterous for the country.

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

@@vaniog29 What ?

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

@@vaniog29 Are you read Bulgarian history

@vaniog29 Год назад

@@atanasdimitrov5046 seems to me that you haven't

@davidhudson6094 8 лет назад

love your show

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

thanks

@kg99ism 8 лет назад

One correction - Bulgaria maybe started the Second Balka war, but that was because Serbia has broken the contract and took the Macedonian lans, populated with Bulgarians. And we cannot call the initial conflict of Second Balkan war "Bulgarian start" - there were more than 200 small conflicts, caused by Serbs and Greeks, and finally the Bulgarian attack was the biggest of them.

@karakondzula1388 8 лет назад

+иван иванов Serbs were the one who liberated Macedonia from Turks, and the deal was that both Serbia and Bulgaria engage Turks in Macedonia. Serbs even sent a brigade to help Bulgarians in liberating their own lands. After big powers took Albania from Serbia it was natural that they would keep Macedonia which was paid in blood. Both sides had some right and some wrongs, putting blame on anyone is silly, things just happened.

@ivaneurope 8 лет назад

+karakondzula Actually why Serbia wanted a bigger piece of Macedonia had some reasons - They've been promised access to the Adriatic, but were denied. Instead their promised Adriatic region went to the newly created Albanian state. And since the Serbs wanted compensation for this denial they laid claims on the disputed area in Macedonia. Bulgarian leaders were furious that Serbia were laying claims on Macedonia and that Serbia and Greece were planning to divide Macedonia (including the part promised for Bulgaria) for themselves. Feeling backstabed Bulgaria declared war on both nations and that backfired.

@ralitsapartinova257 8 лет назад

+karakondzula Serbs did liberated Macedonia from Turks, but they had a contract with Bulgaria where exactly the border will pass. So, they just have broken it and besides, they were ready for total war against Bulgaria, and, beeing in alience with Greece and Romania, denied Bulgarian offers for truce in the very first day of the military action, and even killed some of the Bulgarian negotiators, who came to them under white flag .... As regards the blood, Serbs lost about 2000 men in the war, and Bulgaria lost 40 000, engaging the Turkish army in Trace. Besides, VMRO helped a lot to the Serb army, and also 7-th Rila division of the Bulgarian army - about 36 000 men. So yes, the fought for Macedonia, but they had an agreement for the Uncontested zone..... The only reason Bulgarians were not able to arrange some compromise with them was the fact, that Macedonian population is Bulgarian - how can you agrre to give them territories, which are not simply Otoman`s but are full with Bulgarians, specially when knowing how Serbs do treat them under occupation..

@ralitsapartinova257 8 лет назад

+karakondzula Yes, Serbs snet brigade to Odrin, heavy guns and military hospital, but for God`s sake, the wanted the whole Macedonia for that. And yes, they were f..d up by the Austrians beeing denied to take the Albanian Adriatic coast, but where here is Bulgarian guilt???? They acted as Balkan thiefs, not as allies... No problem to take any territory, but those contested territories were full of Bulgarians! And you know, VMRO helped them a lot to get Turks South, but at the next day they started to kill and arrest VMRO members and to burn books and to clera the Bulgarian signs in the churches, some of them 1000 years old...In one town, they killed and burned one teacher only because he healed the Serbian king and the Bulgarian tsar in a speech...

@karakondzula1388 8 лет назад

Ralitsa Partinova Bulgarians did the same thing to Romania. Nobody was innocent, its not like anyone trusted each other in blind way, we cant look at it like its a personal conflict between friends. Its politics, it could'a been anyone in Bulgaria's place. Bulgarians failed to establish better political relations and made terrible moves when they came out short. And we all know they messed up even more when WW1 broke out. Blaming Serbs and Greeks for playing better hands is silly, a but hurt child rhetoric for common people. Same thing when Serbs say that Bulgarian attack in WW1 was a stab in the back, like it was unexpected. Just saying we should go with ease when it comes to accusations, nobody benefits from it.

@erichalsey5230 8 лет назад

Okay Indie, you usually do great with your research, but as a specialist on Bulgarian history who wrote his MA thesis and did a Fulbright on Stamboliyski I have to firmly protest calling him a Socialist. He was a radical Agrarian, a very different political animal. Not that you have time but if you ever want to read my 60 page MA thesis on his political ideology and its connection with the project to create a balkan federal state based on a new type of nationalism you're welcome to it :)

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Eric Halsey We got help in that by a Bulgarian and before we start to explain what an Agrarian is in a political stand, we decided to go with that. Sorry, we don't always have the time you have had in your thesis.

@erichalsey5230 8 лет назад

+The Great War Sorry if that was a bit too harsh, I can certainly sympathize with how difficult it can be to explain Agrarianism to the average person. Keep up the great work!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

Eric Halsey Thanks for the feedback, really. We always have to balance accessibility and explaining it right and in this particular case it was a difficult call to make.

@X3MCTZN 7 лет назад

Eric Halsey I am surprised very well, not many folks are aware of the Agrarian title if u call it that way vision.... his party was БЗНС(Bulgarian Agrarian National Union)

@joebourban4580 5 лет назад

Bulgaria! Bulgaria! Bulgaria! 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬

@petartoshkov2076 5 лет назад

Officers: *make a coup* Boris III: *MY TURN*

@ecstasyofgold888 8 лет назад

Those Bulgarian rebel soldiers did what Barthas talked about! They turned around and fought the maniacs forcing them into the furnace of destruction.

@daanvandentillaart6734 8 лет назад

+Bulgarian Beyonder says mister keyboard warrior. These people werd send out to be butchered in tht trenches. No honour to have been gained there.

@giveussomevodka 8 лет назад

+Bulgarian Beyonder They were sensible people. The war was lost, Germany was starving, Turkey was shrinking, and even if the Bulgarian troops would rally and go fight again, they would simply be worn out in time, as more and more people from India, New Zealand, USA, Canada and Australia come to fight. It was either a quick victory, or a slow defeat from the get go. Not that they knew that, they just wanted a socialist republic and all the dreams it promises to promote, but they were still correct in forcing the peace under any terms. A similar thing happened in Russia, except much bloodier. I prefer the Bulgarian way.

@Legionaairre 8 лет назад

+Bulgarian Beyonder They were heroes that rose up against their safe and happy rulers to try and create a safe and happy life for themselves.

@TheWoodstock2009 8 лет назад

+ecstasyofgold888 Just like in Russia and Germany!

@efir2 8 лет назад

+giveussomevodka There was nothing sensible in what they did. Accepting defeat is one thing, but trying to start a revolution while there is still a war going on is beyond stupid. Just look at what happened to the Russians when they did that - the Russian Civil War killed more Russians than WW1. But like Bulgarian Beyonder wrote, they were just a few thousand soldiers, only about 1% of the army mutinied in 1918.

@XxTheworldgamerxX 8 лет назад

Great video! A lot of information.

@xSayresthx 8 лет назад

I wonder, will you ever do a video about Spain's neutrality?

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

absolutely.

@LeMarTV1 8 лет назад

+The Great War And the dutch? don't forget the dutch. you said you would talk about the dutch? what's with the dutch? do you have anything against the dutch?

@fairhurst101films 8 лет назад

+LemuurTV calm down. There's two years left! I'm sure he'll find time for the Dutch :)

@ryantheroman4331 8 лет назад

NOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

@MilionCokies 8 лет назад

+LemuurTV And the Danish? Don't forget the Danish. They said they would talk about the Danish? What's with the Danish? Do they have anything against the Danish?

@edersbernstein6725 8 лет назад

you really have a good channel, very interesting diverse and little-known facts and history stories, not only the well known things and repeated facts like everywhere else.

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Edérs Bernstein из Франкония Thanks.

@chochopav 4 года назад

1:27 "the serbo-bulgarian war, because people were worried..." PEOPLE?

@mathman1923 8 лет назад

I realize the royals were all inbred at this time, but it is weird to say you went looking for a monarch. Put an ad in Craigslist or something. New Balkan country seeks monarch. Must be of royal blood, no need to be from our country

@gagipopovic5360 8 лет назад

I think monarchy is better and fastet then democracy but only with a honest, smart and clever monarch (from the own country of course)

@mathman1923 8 лет назад

No, a monarch is the fastest way to tyranny. at least in a democracy/republic it takes a while to buy off/threaten all the leaders.

@theK1ller5 8 лет назад

+Jay Groom Monarchies represent a glorified mafia that can, as shown by the Saxe Coburgs, take over the world. Monarchies are a thing of the last millennium and I believe all monarchies will be terminated by the end of the century.

@gagipopovic5360 8 лет назад

+Jay Groom just like I said no tyranny with a honest, clever and peacefull man

@mathman1923 8 лет назад

they are hard to find and with one guy easier to sway. yes in a perfect world that would be swell

@Edmonton-of2ec 5 лет назад

Things in Bulgaria are getting interesting. Right now Tsar Ferdinand's grandson Simeon II is currently in a battle with the Bulgarian government over the Vrana Palace, his official and former royal residence. It's kind of interesting...

@Edmonton-of2ec 4 года назад

Kris Voin Then why is the government trying to repossess the Vrana Palace, the property that was seized from him that the post-communist governments gradually returned....

@ogi415 8 лет назад

Some interesting facts on the Tsar title It comes from the old Bulgarian pronounciation of Caesar - цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), similarly to the German Kaiser. In Medeival Bulgaria, it is accepted that it appeared in 927 AD when Petar was acknowleged as Tsar by the East Romans, altrough it is traditionally thought Petar's father Simeon was the first Tsar (even trough he declared himself as Basileus of Bulgars and Romans) In Kievan Rus, the earliest use of the title is between 1237-1240 AD. The main difference between the titles "King" and "Tsar" is that "Tsar" is "a supreme leader of an independent nation", While "King" is "a supreme ruler of a state".

@zarni000 4 года назад

Tsar title being equivalent to Cesar / Emperor should only be possible if it's granted by another emperor. You cannot become Tsar just because you choose that. Simeon was indeed Tsar as he was acknowledged by another emperor as such whome he defeated multiple times. Also arguably Tervel was Tsar as he was given the title Cesar in Constantinople after defeating the arabs in 8th century thus saving Constantinople,

@RiotHouseLP 8 лет назад

5:03 Stamboliyski looks surprisingly like Jack Black!!!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

Coincidence?

@ivkuasenov 7 лет назад

lol true

@dimitrezlatanov7480 4 года назад

I new he was a paid actor :)))

@SunPwnzZ 5 лет назад

No one remembers Servia back stabbed us by taking Macedonia, while we had an agreement to split it. Also Ferdinand, imo was too ambitious. We probably could have ended with part of Aegian Thrace if he hadn't done some things :/

@zutabrada6956 5 лет назад

BURGLAR calling someone backstabber is like BURGLARS calling them selves SLAVIC people....and complaining about how Russians,or even Soviets somehow pulled your asian asses back in any way is just ludecrus,because if there were no Russians you would not even exist,but instead of gratitude,there goes backstabbing...again!And having any dicusion about this muderfucker Ferdinand,and not been botherred him being foreigner is showcase of mind set,which is deeply vasal.

@crolekid1988 8 лет назад

love the video great information on the Great War

@daniwiem7917 5 лет назад

Thanks for the Bulgarians subtitles!

@user-es8fp7oi4k 8 лет назад

nice video!

@bgcvetan 8 лет назад

Just to point out, Tsar Ferdinand silently support the murder of Stefan Stambolov who were actualy former revolutionary and like the most bulgarian revolutionaries wanted Bulgaria to be independed Republic not Monarchy. and Stamboliysky short rule was marked by extremely high levels of goverment corrution and policy against the bulgarians that were banished from the neighboring countries.

@domlikatrichkova5285 7 лет назад

I am bulgarian, thanks for sharing this video, it was really interesting to me to watch it.

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

there was a military rebellion organized by BZNS Daskalov and Stamboliyski with money from France

@shrillbert 8 лет назад

Love the series, and I hope that you'll do one of these on Von Mackensen in the near future.

@abyssaljam441 8 лет назад

0:23 I think he has to many medals.

@MasonicadaM 8 лет назад

+Abyssaljam hes 10th prestige

@Ntmoffi 8 лет назад

+Adam Schofield He's got mods.

@nexttsar 8 лет назад

+Abyssaljam One can never have too many orders and decorations. He is wearing the full collar and badge of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew the First Called - only given to Russian royalty and foreign monarchs.

@giveussomevodka 8 лет назад

+Abyssaljam When you are tzar, you can kind of print as many medals as you like. It is also why many dictators in Africa have as many.

@nexttsar 8 лет назад

Take a look at a photo of Nicholas II, tsar of Russia. He rarely wore more than 5 medals. He was very modest about that and never awarded himself. The photo of Tsar Ferdinand was an official photo with all his of foreign decorations. If it was socially acceptable, I would wear medals everyday.

@Crazydunn99 8 лет назад

The pictures of Queen Victoria and Empress Carlota were mixed up. Still super interesting though.

@vasilzahariev5741 7 лет назад

It would be cool, if you do a video about the famous Bulgarian poet Dimcho Debelyanov. He wrote some of the most gentle Bulgarian poetry and fought in WWI and died in 1916.

@AHILlazy 7 лет назад

If you're ever in Sofia and want to learn more visit the Museum of Sofia. It opened in 2016 and has a few different chambers dedicated to different time periods and themes from Roman times to present day. There is a video playing on loop about Ferdinand and how he came to be Tzar.

@stan4493 8 лет назад

The first ruler to adopt the title Tsar was Simeon I of Bulgaria also known as Tsar Simeon I the Great ruled over Bulgaria from 893 to 927 during the First Bulgarian Empire. Simeon II, the last Tsar of Bulgaria, is the last person to have borne the title Tsar as well as being the last surviving person to do so. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_I_of_Bulgariaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Saxe-Coburg-Gotha en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar

@zarni000 4 года назад

also very fitting Simeon II is the last as he has been a total desecration of this mighty title.

@gagipopovic5360 8 лет назад

Can you do an special episode about King Petar 1.

@somename777 8 лет назад

Great episode as always.

@javaks 8 лет назад

Hey, love you in Better Call Saul. Keep up the good work!

@KingoftheSlavs 8 лет назад

Could you do a video on Jozef Pilsudski?

@StoyanIvanov-mt9sc 2 месяца назад

Today, the 29th of May 2024, the remains of Tsar Ferdinand are finally coming back to Bulgaria, his final wish is to be fulfilled in a few hours.

@rafnagust684 8 лет назад

Amazing video! Love your show :D

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

thanks

@HIOAZA1523 2 года назад

I love that the last tsar of Bulgaria came back to become prime minister

@FeZe1997 6 лет назад

7:08 rest in peace your majesty

@adogddog1697 3 года назад

Hahah

@brandoncochran7703 8 лет назад

"That Foreign woman I had too marry" Damn I like this guy

@diegofm741 8 лет назад

Thank you for this very instructive video. The only little detail I have found is that the picture you show as being Queen Victoria's, it is not.

@PowermadNavigator 8 лет назад

Bulgaria's history was very interesting between 1878 and 1941, a ton of very resilient and motivated leaders the likes of which it's no longer allowed to produce or elect were active in that period. Although almost every one of these leaders had blood on their hands, they should be examples of leaders to a lot of young Bulgarians, though that's just my view.

@PowermadNavigator 7 лет назад

Yep, takes either steel or madness to oppose Germany back then on an issue such is this. He did drag the country into a war with all the possibilities of things going viral and to hell really quick so... he was a man of action. The circumstances of his death are a remark and a symbol of how bad things would become later on...

@Czar_Simeon_I_The_Great 7 лет назад

Bulgaria attacked Serbia and Greece after they backstabbed Bulgaria and stole the promised to the Bulgarians Macedonian lands. If you break your contract with your ally and insult him in such a way you can only expect to pay in blood. Period. Bulgaria was not the aggressor, it was the other way around. P.s The TZAR title comes from Bulgaria. The first "self-crowned" Tzar of Bulgaria (the first tzar in the world) Simeon I The Great and the first official crowned with the title by the Constantinople Patriarch is his son Peter I.

@DaveBAWZ 5 лет назад

Sure, the Serbs and Greeks stabbed the Bulgarians in the back -- but then the Bulgarians did something infinitely more retarded, and joined Hitler's side, and did some really, awful brutal things to their Slavic brothers. That is unforgivable.

@FreshVito_bg 2 года назад

@@DaveBAWZ Yes. Sadly it’s true, but we didn’t want to side with Hitler. He was going to invade Bulgaria like he did with Yugoslavia. Our Tsar tried his best to keep the Jewish population in Bulgaria and also tried to not participate in any huge events like Operation Barbarossa. Neither the people or our Tsar wanted this to happen. But also Serbians and Greeks can’t deny the Bulgarian majority in Thrace and Macedonia. Serbians killed Bulgarian teachers, closed Bulgarian schools and began a Serbinisation of the population in Macedonia. The same can be stated also with Greece. I’m sorry that this bad stuff happened but I will never forget what the Serbians and Greeks did to our people in Macedonia and Thrace. Today they think they are Ancient Macedonians and have some Hellenistic roots, with is a total bullshit if you ask me.

@joey8062 8 лет назад

need more on the Bulgarian Army

@kennebecsmitty 8 лет назад

I never heard of Czar Ferdinand I,great to learn something new,thx!!!!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Michael Smith Glad we could be of help.

@geoclaw 8 лет назад

Will you do a special on King Carol/Karl of Romania or maybe Ferdinand of Romania ? Carol would be more interesting since he ruled for a longer time and he further modernised the state after A.I Cuza :)

@Shuforces1 6 лет назад

That at 1:02 isn't Tsar Battenberg. That's his brother Prince Louis of Battenberg - the Admiral of the British fleet.

@niniimuka 8 лет назад

Boris the 3rd is techically still a Tsar,he holds the title since during WW2 when he was 6 years old.after the second war there was a referndum amongst the people on which wy should the country continue, a monarchy or a republic,with high majority of votes for republic.thus the Tsar was officially exiled,but still holds the title even today,when he returned in the 90s he was an elected official.

@rabihrac 8 лет назад

Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria really deserves a special episode ! Thank you for teaching us abt him.

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

Thanks. We are going to have our first mention of Lebanon soon by the way.

@rabihrac 8 лет назад

+The Great War That's just GREAT... can't wait :D

@atanasdimitrov5046 Год назад

@Isthatyoudear 2 года назад

A wonderful video and highly educating. One small thing, though: you seem to have mixed up the photos of Empress Carlota and Queen Victoria in 0'54'' and once again later. Carlota is the dark-haired monarch while Victoria's slightly sharp nose betrays her as the legendary British monarch.

@mart4144 5 лет назад

Greece and Serbia committed war crimes against our people and we could not let them keep our territories, so we had to start the "2'nd" Balkan War...

@childofnewlight 8 лет назад

Is it just me, or does it seem like a plurality of the leaders in WWI were named "Ferdinand"?

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

Popular name at the time.

@pathutchison7688 7 лет назад

That or Pasha

@pathutchison7688 7 лет назад

Imagine if there was a Ferdinand Pasha... Or worse... Ferdinand Von Pasha...

@igorgrujovski 7 лет назад

Pasha is a title, not a name. But still funny thou

@vasilzahariev5741 7 лет назад

childofnewlight Yes, Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Ferdinand of Romania were the rulers of respective countries. Franz Ferdinand was the unlucky guy to be killed by Gavrilo Princip in 1914. You should also notice that there were a lot of Franz-s, Joseph-s, and von-s.

@AmirRadovic 8 лет назад

I absolutely love this show and keep up with it every week, however other than the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo from what i know theres been little talk about Bosnia & Herzegovina. I know it wasn't its own country yet, it would be still very interesting for a special on the state of affairs of Bosnia during the Great War. Thank you!!

@rodger3352 2 года назад

Same. I'm not even from the balkans but Bosnia has a special place in my heart. I hope I get to learn more about it :)

@SauberC10 6 лет назад

Saxe-coburg-gotha / Windsor and the battenburg / Mountbatten are now the ruling monarchy of the United Kingdom, Greece and Bulgaria. Incredible.

@danb7202 7 лет назад

"That foreign woman I had to marry" ,"That Idiot"- Ferdinand 1

@davenesbitt6346 8 лет назад

surface successfully scratched.

@darrenrenna 5 лет назад

Great video on a lesser known country and their ruling dynasty

@mercomania 3 года назад

It just shows how minor German royals were farmed out across Europe. Saxe-Coburg-Gothas in the UK and Bulgaria. The Battenburgs in Denmark, Greece and originally in Bulgaria until they got weedled their way into the British monarchy.

@danielmaynard1370 8 лет назад

Hurrar for the Tsars of Bulgaria.

@gandhithegreat328 6 лет назад

6:54 Rest In Peace King Micheal I of Romania October 25, 1921-December 5, 2016

@drashko 8 лет назад

The first ever Tsar in history is Simeon I of Bulgaria in the 9th century (while the first Russian one ruled in the 16th century) and the last one is Simeon II so technically it is a bulgarian title.

@GA-tl6qf 8 лет назад

Hi, love the channel! If you are ever considering to make an episode related to Hungary or there is a letter, note or any other historical source in Hungarian, I would be more than happy to help translate! (Google translate has improved a lot but sadly it's still prone to messing up word structures.) Keep up the good work!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Gaben A We would love to do an episode about Hungary but we would need something like a whole research paper of a few pages to kickstart our episode as well as a guide to pronouncing stuff.

@lastwolflord 8 лет назад

Ferdinand was exactly what other royals said about him. Unfit for the job.

@556deltawolf 8 лет назад

Actually Indy, Stamboliyski and Daskova weren't socialists per se. They were center-left agrarians that felt that wanted the farmers to be the ones to benefit the most. While some of their economic views leaned to the left (and actually contributed to their downfall) they actually opposed communism. But their policies were failed and after three years of economic collapse and instability in Bulgaria, they were overthrown by the nationalist organization called the Internationl Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.