What is the Most Besieged City in History? 

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Time to make an animated-map video where it shows the top 10 cities by the number of times besieged!

What about Budapest Hungary wich had more than 15 Just to name a few, it isnt complete: 1241-2 Mongols 1529 Turkish 1530 Habsburg (poorly handeled, immidiatly collapsed) 1541 Turkish 1542 Habsburg 1598 Habsburgs 1602 Habsburgs (15 years war) 1603 Habsburgs again 1684 Holy Lige (Habsburgs) 1686 Holy Liege (Habsburg) 1705-9 Hungarian rebels sorround the city 1849 Habsburg Austrians 1849 Hungarians rebels 1949 Austrians 1920 Romanians 1945 Germans (little resistance) 1945 Russians (hard siege like Stalingrad) 1956 october 23-29 Russians (against rebel strongholds) 1956 november 4-9 Russians (against rebel strongholds) The list isnt complete for exaple there were countless wars for the title of Hungarian king between 1038 and 1526, so there should be more. Even if you disregarad some it should have ended on the list, specially before Belgrade wich were an central part of the otthoman Empire, and attacked less by westerners than Buda, wich were the frontire of 150years of war between Habsburg and Otthmans.

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Now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople

@@tompatterson1548 If you have a date in Constantinople she’ll be waiting in Istanbul!

@@awfulzed you take her home via Fake Taxi

We, Turks, are lucky to have such a great city.

@@Tacocuk It's pretty awesome, not gonna lie.

@@josebenardi1554 Yea :)

@@arolemaprarath6615 Why? Romans were the founder of the city, and Turks built the Anatolian side of city...

@@arolemaprarath6615 we took it from byzantium you have to take it back if you can

Meanwhile Jerusalem be like: imagine being a city actively warred over by two major world faiths, including and up to the 2020s. (This post was made by the Samaritan gang)

Byztantbul*

@Black and Quirkless The perfect city name doesn't exis-

*Jerusalem speaks up.*

@@RexoryByzaboo Rexory my guy. You're here! Lmao

@@julioviloria3289 the Great Wall was constructed to keep raiding parties of nomadic tribes, such as the Mongol, Turic and Xiongnu out. At the time it was constructed China didn’t control any territory beyond it so it didn’t really count as fortifications inside Chinese borders since it was meant to keep foreign raiding parties out

Also, due to the terrain of china ( a large plain), mobile warfare, elastic defense is the preferred tactic. Only the citadels are heavily fortified. Even then, chinese nobilities preferred to evacuate then mount a counter offensive than holding the defend

I had heard that cities especially on the Northern frontier had some of the most complex and advanced fortifications on the planet in their day, like the Mongol siege of Kaifeng was extremely difficult.

@@DBT1007That's the most ignorant thing I ever heard. It called national identity. We are not Chinese. If we were Chinese, our ancestors would have joined China 1000 years ago already but they didn't that mean we are not the same people. By that logic, the Koreans should have joined China too because were just as close to be the Chinese but they are not.

@@DBT1007 Why don't you join them already since you have that weakass spine? You are not even Chinese.

Is that an eu4 reference?

@@_semih_ no that was the actual nickname of Constantinople

Today is the disire of the Greeks

@@stateofconstatinopole8316 LOL, your name makes it funnier.

@@ademdogukankon4726 no no I'm independent

Hi Sam! How many times Jerusalem is besiged in your series already so far? I remember six, and I'd assume you skipped some that are less relevant.

@@user-gr9fq9gt9w 13 so far: 701 BCE, by King Sennacherib of Assyria 597 BCE, by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 586 BCE, by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 164 BCE, by Judah Maccabee 162 BCE, by Lysias 134 BCE, by Antiochus Sidetes 67 BCE, by Aristobulus II 63-64 BCE, by Hyrcanus II and Pompey 37 BCE, by Herod 70 CE, by Titus (the Royalist and Zealot Temple Sieges don't count because they started inside the city.) 614, by Shahrbaraz in the Final Roman-Persian War 635, by Khalid ibn Walid 1099, by the Crusaders And another one coming on Friday.

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If mongols almost reached constantinople,if they had reached it then it could be counted as chinese. Because most of their engineers were chinese.

@@rpavangchhia8953 he talks about besieged cities, not about a sieging army. Constantinople s clearly not a chinese city 😂

Leningrad and Stalingrad: this looks like a job for me

The siege of Candia from 1648-1668. A 20 year siege. Edit: it was continuous

@@i05CrafterGames if you look at all the sieges in the world, those two don’t even make the top ten. The tenth longest siege lasted over 3 years.

The seige of Ceuta lasted for 26 years from 1694-1727

I think naming port cities could get pretty contentious, since you could argue that some of them were still actively supplied

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Could conquerors concede Constantinoples capacity? Did dormant desires delude due defeat?

@@fredriks5090 Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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"God grants great generals glory gratiously."

Hm thats actually a pretty interesting question.

It would have to considering some ancient sieges lasted for multiple years.

@@EmperorTigerstar Would port cities that weren't effectively blockaded still count if they were actively besieged by land?

@@yondie491 I think they being counted would make sense, I mean, good for the city for being positioned in a very defensible point

@@EmperorTigerstar then could you do a video about the longest sieges in history? plz

Whoever named their city the “Foundation of Peace” didn’t even know.

@@justanotherbaptistjew5659 I think it was the Sumerians (Ur-Shalim) and what's a Baptist Jew? lol

@@Aj-zr8dz Sumer is still in the Middle-East, but I was referring to Jerusalem. My name is supposed to be humorous. I’m Jewish by birth and Christian by the grace of God. Since you don’t hear of many “Baptist Jews” nowadays, I decided it would be funny if I prefaced that with “Just another,” implying it’s a common thing.

@@justanotherbaptistjew5659 Indeed, I meant I think, though not sure exactly, that the Sumerians named the city "Foundation of Peace" (Ur-Shalim) And that's great brother! My family are Christians from Jerusalem who very likely were second temple era Jews and still speak Aramaic. And I've been to a Baptist church, really felt the Holy Spirit and the warmness, love, and friendliness of all who attended.

@@Aj-zr8dz That’s nice to hear!

What

@@racoon251 What?

#1 is Wilusa

Waco would win hands down

Baghdad going from nearly 2 million people to a burning ghost town would probably win there

@@670HP-Package-NOW when was that. Also in my opinion it would be Vienna in 1683 as it grabbed the attention of basically the entire world at the time

Or dutch cities

At least in Germany sieges would usually be only held on castles. Around cities battles would usually take place, but the cities themselves wouldn't be besieged. After all, the number of small duchies and kingdoms was huge, so if you assembled an army large enough to besiege a city, your neighbours would be sure to notice and send their own to fight you.

Because we here in Central and Northern Europe we lived in mud huts, while the Mediterranean went places. Apparently mostly to sieges 😄

I would also like to see cities that were besieged but never defeated.

in the german language room there were only a few cities that got sieged more often like vienna but after turks got beaten back that was over, if they would have stayed in range of it that would have happened way more often

Also to corrupt cristianity

@@plusxz821 Ah yes Cristianity my favorite religion with my favorite person jahsus Christian

@@plusxz821 protestants seething

You know the fact that Constantinople has existed long before Constantine right?...

He just renamed it.

Yeah it's literally the gateway into Asia and Europe if you wanna avoid the trouble of going through modern day Russia

Begs the question, which reality is it? Or is it a double reality?

Mexican lol

@@andrefarfan4372 Not mexican lol

Me too , I thought it would be in the top 5

Really almost none of these cities (with exception of the Rome and Pavia) are straight European. Most are Mediterranean cities or cities in the Middle East because those cities were sieged by Europeans and Turks/Middle Eastern civilizations at different points. Italy is kind of a special case because it was so fractured throughout history and a lot of the other European powers fought over land in Italy many times. Vienna hasn't actually been that contested of a city historically - the Ottomans have barely touched it, the Crusades never bothered, and it's not on the Mediterranean.

At least in the german wikipedia ther's a list of sieges of vienna (and threats to be besieged) which lists *14* sieges (that's the number without the "almost but not really" ones). You don't need to be in the mediteranean or a port city. For one: vienna is basically the westernmost route north south in europe whithout putting up with the alps and you can use a big waterway. (the danube) Also sometimes your own people besiege a city: In vienna the population once besieged the ruling family, and the own military besieged the city (1848 during the revolutionary uprisings across europe)

@i'm about to Except they got slaughtered instead. They barely made it two Vienna what, twice? Compared to how many times for Constantinople?

@i'm about to little objection: There was no crusader army around vienna. Both ottoman sieges of vienna happend long after the crusades had ended. The first ottoman siege almost 100 years after the last of the crusades ended on 1444. And the army that the HRE emperor managed to get together wasn't 3:1 in terms of size to the ottmans. The ottomans started with around 120 000 men while the defenders inside of vienna started with around 20 000 men. The whole army the emperor managed to gather (including the polish king and his troops) numbered between 60 and 70 000. So in total the ottoman troops still had a numerical advantage. I also wouldn't call the ottoman forces unprepared. They knew (prisoner "interviews") about the army comming to try to lift the siege. But the ottoman commanders were unable to agree on how to fight a two front battle.

Yeah, I was expecting Palermo to be somewhere on this list

my guess is 8 out of 11 lol

Like half of them probably

@@El-s Only if you consider the Vandals fellow Romans.

@@jevinliu4658 the vandals never put siège on Rome, they went up the river

@@magnajota4341 Oh yeah you're right I was thinking of the Visigoths

I was expecting Jerusalem as well. I tried to figure out which city was more importent than Jerusalem at the time to have a higher record. When he said Constantinopole I was more surprised from how unsurprised I was.

No one expects the Spanish inquisition.

At the moment there are 36 upvotes :P

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Hm,did he also predict the fall of the muslim state?

@@religionisatragedy8537 Yes he did, In fact He also predict that it will rise again, you can search about it if you want.

*SIEGES OF CONSTANTINOPLE INTENSIFY*

the most obvious false prophet

cult Ibn 'Abbas said: "The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'Whoever changes his religion, kill him.'" Grade: Sahih (Darussalam) Reference : Sunan an-Nasa'i 4059 In-book reference : Book 37, Hadith 94 English translation : Vol. 5, Book 37, Hadith 4064

in Jerusalem basically every point before 1700 had a siege lol

Pew*s *Ganyu*

Why paris?

and vienna

@@kingfrederikofprussiathemo7830 Because there were at least 5 raids on Paris by the Vikings. Besides, the last siege by the Prussians in 1871.

@@adrianatgaming8640 Yes, I would have bet on Vienna with already 2 failed sieges by the Ottomans and kind of one by Napoleon (Wagram).

@@LeMariachi Raids are not sieges though. Maybe one of them could be considered a proper siege, but barely. And definitely not all of them. The stability of France makes it not surprising that Paris is not on the list. Paris also isn't in a strategic location : even when the city switched hands, this was rarely with a siege, the matter had been dealt with beforehand.

Sicily is the most contested island in history.

My city has been besieged exactly once. 1945 by the Russians

Actually that's Carcassonne and this city was never occupied by Germans in WW1 or destroyed by Russians in 1815.

@@juleslandry7585 I actually never said i came from Carcassonne, but i can understand the misunderstanding, i will correct that.

@@Viguier89 Oh sorry, I thought it was Carcassonne, I don't know where Carassonne is (Burgundy, Picardie?).

@@juleslandry7585 Wtf, did you even read OP's comment?

Maybe he is counting Buda and Pest as separate cities. But yeah I'd still think it would be a contender.

So what are you sayin is that this list is incomplete, YOU CAN HELP BY EXPANDING IT!!!!

instead of laying siege to a city, it’s more common in asia to block the supply routes and starve out the enemy, rather than waste troops trying to invade it

@@shenzhong2942 Isn't that what siege literally means?

@@paulclaw6517 i mistyped. i meant it was less common to attack a city directly and waste resources than to surround and cut off its supply routes

*Constantinople

@@amienabled6665 Like it or not, it is Istanbul not Constantinople.

@@amienabled6665 *Byzantium

@@amienabled6665 *Tsargrad

@@TheBurak47 Most of the sieges occured in New Rome (the true official name of the city under the Roman Greeks). And Istanbul is a much larger city, including other townships like Chrysopolis, Chalkedon, Diplokionon, Phocaea, Pege, Sykes, Galatas, Strongylion, Hebdomon, Nymphas, Thermopolium, Dekaton etc.

German wiki lists 15 actuall sieges of vienna. And if you include when a siege was planned but got somehow "avoided" you get to around 24 on the list.

Vienna would probably only be twice.

I just looked it up and I think Vienna had 14 Sieges, but idk why its not on the list

@@tim333y7 Huh

Where around in Delhi did they fight though outside the city walls or within.

Constantinople

@nowai90 ask Tyre how that worked out

@@Apokalypse456 Difference being the mainland closest to a Venice is swamp. So unlike Tyre setting up a siege alone the coastline is extremly dangerous and impractical.

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The city of Nanjing (Ancient name Jian Ye) in China defiantly had besieged at least dozen time