The Entire History of Constantinople // Istanbul Documentary
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- In October 2019 I took a trip to one of the greatest cities in the world. Here is what happened.
6:42 - Part I - Old City (Ancient Era)
25:15 - Part II - City of God (Medieval Era)
46:44 - Part III - City Of War (Ottoman Era)
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In October 2019 I took a trip to one of the greatest cities in the world. It only took me over 3 years to make the video. Let me know what you think in the comments and where you'd like to see me visit next. Cheers all & happy new year!
He's baaaack. Hello Pete. I can't wait to sit back and enjoy.
This is a nebulous idea, as I obviously don't know much about it, but perhaps a history of north Africa?
Ffs 3 years
Just subbed. Hello from Winnipeg. Love your work.
If you could go back in time would you rather watch a gladiator match or a chariot race? Just curious
Just spent a week in Istanbul: there are no words to describe how this city enveloped me. Amazing, amazing place and people.
I am truly blessed to be a Turk I grew up in the states and I am an American but my roots run deep!!
I have loads of family in Turkey!
Beautiful, historic, world class!!!
This was an amazing documentary!! Thank you very much!!
It will always be Constantinople with a Hellenic identity in the minds of people.
It's also a matter of time before the Holy Cross will stand on top of Αγία Σοφία.The way it was meant to be.
@@AKRITAS365LISTEN TO ME, YOU POOR VILLAINOUS GREEK CHAUVINIST ;
KONSTANTINOPOLIS HAS BEEN LIVING AS ISTANBUL SINCE 1453 FOR A 570 YEARS , AND SHALL REMAIN AS ISTANBUL TO ETERNITY AS OUR BIGGEST MEGAPOLIS.
IT SEEMS YOU ARE A DAYDREAMER. BUT ITS SO FUNNY. I'D LIKE TO RECOMMEND YOU NOT TO BE RIDICULOUS. YOU ARE NOT COMPARE TO US. AND, JUST TELL ME WHEN YOU'RE GONNA STOP HAVING INFERIORITY COMPLEX AGAINST WE TURKS ? BE SURE THAT, WE TURKS HAVE BEEN MASTERS, LORDS OF GREEKS ALMOST A THOUSAND YEARS. DO NOT FORGET MIKRASIATIKI KATASTROFI(1922) AND 1974.
SO, ISTANBUL SHALL NOT BE TURNED TO CONSTANTINOPLE AGAIN.
Ain't you heard the old American song "ISTANBUL(Not Constantinople) ? What a pitty ?
The story and lyrics goes like this :
STORY :
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a 1953 novelty song, with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. It was written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. The lyrics humorously refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul. The song's original release, performed by The Four Lads, was certified as a gold record. Numerous cover versions have been recorded over the years, most famously a 1990 rock version by They Might Be Giants.
THE LYRICS :
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So, take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul, Istanbul, Istanbul, Istanbul...
@@AKRITAS365 which "people" are they?
Nobody outside of Greece calls it Constantinople. Deal with it!
@@AKRITAS365 Except Christianity is dead. Good luck with your fantasy.
@@AKRITAS365 you guys 😅😂
I've visited Turkey 7 times, starting in 1989, visiting everywhere except the Northeast area. I must say my favourite city has got to be Istanbul. So much history and interesting architecture. The food of course is incredible. Pete, you mentioned that Europe meets Asia on the Golden Horn (Palic), perhaps you meant to say the Bosphorus. The Golden Horn is the river which feeds into the Bosphorus and separates the old city from the new. In Ottoman times Europeans were not allowed to live in the old section and had to live in the new city where the Galata tower and Taksim are located. Thanks for the video.
it's HALIC...Not Palic.
Golden Horn is a bay, it is also called Halic. You are wrong about permits. It is just the way communities settled.
@user-cq3gt7uw2f at the era of GOOGLE it must be hard to be an IGNORANT. Congratulations to you but stop talking without any knowledge.
Is turkey easy to live in ? What is crime rate like? Usa n canada have devolved. Canada is just a large ghetto.
Bizantio last 1000 years
Excellent documentary.
I was in Istanbul in early 2019 for the first time. An absolutely amazing place. I can’t wait to visit again.
This was inspiring. Over fifty years ago i quit highschool in ninth grade. Over the last two years i have been watching your videos and reading as much as i can about ancient history. I loved your video on the Mayans. After watching this i made decision, for the first time i will leave usa and visit Istanbul while still secular. Thank you sir.
"While still secular"?
Are you still ‘secular’?
Would love to visit the Walls and sights of Constantinople. It was so important for so long.
It is an amazing sight
İts Istanbul not constantinoole
..after seeing that the situation at Kerkoporta could not be controlled by the outnumbered Genoese men of the Bocchiardi brothers, the Emperor reined in and galloped towards the Valley of the Wolf (where the Roman Gate was located). With him was the fearless Theophilus Palaiologos, the Emperor's cousin, the brave Spanish Don Francis of Toledo, who admired Constantine Palaiologos Dragasis, and his loyal Comrade John the Dalmatian. Many Greeks tried to gather around these four men, but in vain, the carnage was great! they were trying to secure the entrances of the Roman Gate but already the defenses had been breached. Theophilus Palaiologos shouted that he would rather die than live the dishonor and rushed against the wave of Janissaries!! The Emperor now knew that the empire was lost and so was he. he wanted to die fighting to the end. He removed the imperial symbols and together with his fellow warriors Don Francisco and John the Dalmatian followed Theophilus towards the barbarian lines with swords held high! No one ever saw the brave Emperor again!!!!.
Sir Steven Runciman (From his Book, The Fall of Constantinople)
I freaking love the history of Constantinople/The Eastern Roman/Byzantine empire. Years ago, before I had learned much about it, I always thought it would have been cool for Romans and Vikings to have met - so I was pleased to learn of the Varangian Guard. The Fourth Crusade is one of the most unfortunate historic events in my opinion... Just utter nonsense. Like, I know times were different and you've got to pay up when you promise an entire crusader army a bunch of gold, but I'm an Evangelical Protestant Christian and I would never dream of defiling/destroying anyone else's holy cities, relics, churches, etc. regardless of their faith - much less a religion that's basically a different denomination of my own - I don't see how one justifies that and still claims to be a member of that faith..
But I always cheer for the Byzantines. I cheer for the Franks sometimes too but they sure knew how to destroy stuff. The Byzantines had a good thing going and even though both sides were Christian, the Franks were jealous. I've always thought that was weird how Constantinople was so advanced when Western Europe had basically reverted back in time. I kind of wish the original Roman Empire could have been restored and like Irene would have married Charlemagne or something - just to see what it would have looked like. Constantine XI's final/death charge gives me chills. He had so much history riding on him that he either had to save the city or die a valiant death trying. And that was the cool thing about Mehmet II - how he kind of set the stage for the history to be preserved. It seems like he had pretty massive respect for the place - at least by the standards of the day.
The siege and invasion of Constantinople was premeditated between the Ottomans and the Vaticans pope.
It was the Pope's mafia who ordered the crusaders to ransack Constantinople in 1203 ad completely destroying it committing unspeakable attrocities and killings on the Byzantine citizens unable to recover to its original glory.
The same scenario occurred in 1453 where the east Roman Empire refused
to provide military aid to Constantinople allowing 100,000 jannissarys savages against 7000 Byzantine defenders under the spartan born Constantine Paleologos who fought bravely and died like a Spartan like Leonidas of Sparta did 3000 years ago.
Again it was the Pope's refusal to provide military aid which could've easily attack the Ottoman savages from behind and estroy them.
But instead he allowed them to destroy Constantinople so that he can be the head of Christianity.
When in fact it was the western Roman Empire who crucified Christians and Jessus, while Constantine and Hellen promoted Christianity.
The main reason why today the Catholic crusaders refuse to celebrate Constantine and Hellen.
An incredible travel, historical and intellectual documentary!
Bravo!!!
I’d suggest following Alexander and what he witnessed and viewed in his journeys.
Always a great joy when your video pops up!
Thanks Luka
THANKYOU PETE KELLY ANOTHER BRILLIANT TRIP INTO HISTORY...THE SIMPLICITY MAKES YOU A GREAT DOCUMENTARY MAKER... THUMBS UP AS ALWAYS...
Thanks for watching
This was fantastic, Thank you. Really appreciate seeing so much of the city, landscape, and the interesting museums you visited. Seems like really nice editing. My favorite of your shows so far. I hope to visit there someday.
Thanks! Loads more on the way
Like the Mongols the Turks were a fierce warrior race
whose skill with the bow gave them considerable military prowess.
آنها همه که در ترکیه هستند ترک نیستند فقط همان از مغول و التای ایغوری هستند و چهره آنها هم مثل نسخه چینی آن است چشم های بادامی و و لپ نوک تیز ولی خیلی. ها این چهره رو ندارند یا. رومی و یونانی هستند یا چهرهای ایرانی و اریایی دا ند که در 2500 سال پیش با هم در جنگ بودند در آن سرزمین یعنی آناتولی و الان چهرهای مغول یا همان ترک خیلی کم هستند بیشتر از گشورهای اطراف آن در انجا بودند از قبل هیتی ها و قفقازی و اریایی(ایرانی) و یونانی و جهت اطلاع گفتم
I never get tired of visiting Turkey/ amazing country and people¡!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯
22:14 You are so skilled at speaking your mind diplomatically about emotionally/politically charged issues, without either ruffling feathers needlessly or walking on eggshells. Your brother too, on Voices Of The Past, shows an understanding of this excellent skill. My hat's off to you both.
I have to note though that the period between 1200 and 1923 DOES NOT cover the entire history of Constantinople. The city was founded in 330 AD by Emperor Constantine. Since we are missing 900 years… would you agree that the ‘Th Entire History of….’ part of the title could be renamed as ‘40% of the history of…’?
6 years between Los Angeles and San Diego, finally going back to home this Fall! 🥳
Excellent vlog,always interested in Istanbul and Ottoman history Sophia Aya thanks so much for this
My dream is to visit Istanbul and your tour made that desire even stronger. With the recent earthquakes it will have to be put off.
Istanbul is one of the great cities in human history. Once it was what New York is today.
Much as I hated the historical event, perhaps you could make a video about the sacking of Constantinople in 1204; what was lost - libraries, sculpture etc - what was dispersed, and what survived into the aftermath.
Wonderful documentary, Thanks for sharing your passion for a unique and historic city. You have obviousy done your homework. Having an opportunity to experience living history with all its sites and sounds and smells is quite an experience. By imersing oneself self in a culture is much more meaningful and rewarding and certainly trumps reading a history book.
Thank you.
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Roger Jefford
Pete your channels are absolutely brilliant keep it up Mo chara
I like that we’re just following some random dude around. He’s quite amusing.
Characteristics of the Byzantine Empire
After its capital was established in the east, the empire became, in scholarly parlance, the Eastern Roman Empire. Furthermore, because Constantine and all of his successors (except Julian the Apostate, 361 63) were Christians, the empire from here on can also be called the Christian Roman Empire. As a consequence of these two changes the Roman Empire had become the Byzantine. However, though used by scholars, none of these three names was used at the time. Though the empire had its center in a Greek cultural and linguistic area, as a result of which there followed a gradual hellenization of its institutions and culture, the emperors recognized no change. The empire remained the Roman Empire and the citizens (even though Greeks came to domi nate it) still called themselves Romans. The term Hellene (Greek) connoted a pagan. The term Byzantine was an invention of Renais sance scholars after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and was never used by its contemporaries. By the middle of the seventh century Greek had become the official language of all spheres of government and the army; nevertheless the empire remained "Roman" and despite divisions of its territory at times it was always seen as a single unit. Essentially the Byzantine Empire was a combination of three major cultural components: (1) Roman in political concepts, administration. law, and military organization. (2) Greek in language and culture, and (3) Christian in religion.
Fine, J., 1991. The early medieval Balkans. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, p.16.
Byzantin historians knew the term Byzantion ,Michaḗl Psellós 1018AD imperial courtier, and Michael Choniates 1138AD author, refer Byzantion and Byzantine empire, but it was never employed by the people.
@@Evagelopoulos862 The term used by Romans is done so only sparingly at best. We can think of it more like a classicizing term for the well educated. When it was employed in written document, it often referred to the suburbs and surrounding areas around Constantinople itself. It is actually pretty captivating that the Latin-writing and Greek-writing Roman historians of those times retained the ancient place names of the ancient civilizations long lost to them. Thrace was still Thracia, Phrygia Phrygia, Bithynia and Pisidia and it goes on. It is regrettable in my opinion that when the Turks set up permanent shop in Anatolia, these terms of geographic reference were by and large abolished.
The Qur'an includes the Surat Ar-Rum, the sura dealing with "the Romans", sometimes translated as "The Byzantines," reflecting a term now used in the West. These Romans of the 7th century, referred to as Byzantines in modern Western scholarship, were the inhabitants of the surviving Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. Since all ethnic groups within the Roman empire had been granted citizenship by 212 AD, these eastern peoples had come to label themselves Ρωμιοί or Ῥωμαῖοι Romaioi (Romans), using the word for Roman citizen in the eastern lingua franca of Koine Greek. This citizenship label became "Rûm" in Arabic.
In general, I agree with you commenting and documenting the terms about Roman and Byzantine.
And yes, I even knew about the term used in the Koran as Rum. But you haven't mentioned thar in the Koran, the city was named Kontantiniye. Not instanbul.
"And honor to be given to the brave man who captures Konstinye."
The Islamic mindset of slavery with the correct name for the City.
Even the conqueror of Constantinople and after him, the Sultans named the city Konstantinye during the Ottoman reign.
It became instabul only one century ago by Kemal, the founder of the Turkish State in 1923.
I am wondering how this propaganda of renaming a City from its 1700 years old name, used by all Nations and Religions and Holly Books of the world, succeeded today to force all humanity to refer to the Constant, the Eternal, the mighty City, with a pseudonym.
Please read my comment on the main section to have a more detailed view of my personal thoughts on the subject.
Byzantion, Greek legacy since 667 BC 🔥🇬🇷
I have a request: given that Catholic church deliberately tries to keep the horrible era of Crusade war under the carpet, would you be kind enough to make a documentary on Crusade war?
The crusades are well studied and documented. Do you live in a Catholic church or who is trying to keep you from learning about the crusades? Or how do you think this 1 channel would be more powerful than all of the Catholic church to uncover something that hasn't been discovered yet.
Can’t get enough of the Byzantines. ⚔️⚔️⚔️
Same
Great video. i love Istanbul and I love Turkish food.
You are the best!
Güzel olmuş Peter
I am of Byzantine descent. I am married to a Greek Constantinopolitan lady whose parental family was living in Constantinople - probably ever since the city was founded by Constantine. Her ancestors were NOT some kind of "immigrants" in Constantinople. They were Greek - Byzantines, the predominant ethnicity in Byzantium (and especially in Constantinople)! In 1964 my wife's family was expelled by the Turks from Constantinople (the city that the Turks call Istanbul - paraphrasing its Greek name. Till a century ago Constantinople had a thriving population of almost 300.000 Greeks!).
My wife and I are preserving in our house centuries old family heirlooms, books, ikons etc. from Constantinople, which are Greek in every sense! Me and my Constantinopolitan wife feel 100% Greek and we perceive our centuries old Byzantine/Constantinopolitan ancestors as Greeks (that's what history and our centuries old heirlooms are telling us)! That's why I am surprised by the comment you make in the beginning of the video that "Constantinople was a Roman capital for over thousand years"! We don't feel "Romans" dear Pete Kelly! Neither we feel that our Byzantine ancestors were "Romans"! They were Greek - Byzantines in every sense!
You don't mention at all though the fact that Byzantium was predominantly Greek! You rather allude to it being either "Roman" or Turkish (or something else)! Nor you particularly mention the impressive fact that the Turks are not indigenous to Asia Minor/ Anatolia but they arrived in this niche of the world coming over as a marauding people from their homeland, the "Altay Plateau" in Mongolia!
This Area Our Trojan Etruscan Ancestors
1071 Final Time
Don’t forget
Very true!
@@etruscanlord I certainly don't forget that the Turks have usurped other peoples' lands and properties...
@@BlueSky-wp5ic your post might perfectly serve your Albanian or Turkish nationalistic (and obviously anti-Greek) "atzzenntaa" but it doesn't serve the historical truth.
First of all, you claim that the modern Greeks are in large part "macedonians". And I am sure that you imply the false "macedonians" of Skopje. I would like to inform you that - even according to a statement of their ex Prime Minister Grigorov - those people are Slavo-Bulgarians and have nothing to do with the ancient Greek macedonians!
You are almost right when you are saying that many Greek fighters (in the 1821 revolution against the Turkish occupation of Greece. You are calling them "insurrectionists", usually the Turks call them that way) were of Arvanite origin (having a very distant "Albanian" origin, that is). Actually, these fighters were not just of Arvanite descent, they were Arvanites themselves! Many of them did not even speak good Greek. But they were Christians and they had a perception that they were inhabitants of Greece - and not of Albania, which did not even exist politically, back then!
Today, the people who have the most negative attitude versus the Albanian immigrants in Greece are the Arvanites! They often share the same surnames with the Albanians that i.e. are delivering them food, the elder Arvanites can almost fluently communicate with the Albanians, by speaking the Arvanite idiom, but still the Greek Arvanites consider themselves now ultra-Greeks and they don't want to be related - in any shape or form - to the Albanians.
You are claiming that the inhabitants of the Greek Aegean islands and of Cyprus are "Romans" and not Greeks! That's a totally false and somehow "nasty" claim. Why don't you ask the millions of tourists that visit each year the Greek islands of the Aegean and Cyprus, did they ultimately interact with "Romans" or with Greeks? And your claim that the inhabitants of the Aegean islands and of Cyprus are "Romans" and not Greeks is "nasty" because that's exactly the claim of the Turkish nationalists who want to militarily invade and usurp the millennia old Greek islands of the Aegean and Cyprus!
@@BlueSky-wp5ic your narrative is not only totally false but quite illogical and somehow "schizophrenic" too! You claim that the modern Greeks are not pure Greeks but either "Romans", Arvanites/albanians or Slavo-bulgarians (which you deliberately call "macedonians", although they have nothing to do with the ancient Greek Macedonians at all)! But if the inhabitants of modern Greece are mostly "Romans", Arvanites/albanians and Slavo-Bulgarians (that's what you mean by the term "macedonians"), how comes they accept their "enslavement" by the Greeks and they do not revolt against the Greeks?
Wait a moment though! You claim that there are no pure Greeks in modern Greece! Then, these "Romans", "Albanians" and Slavo-Bulgarians have nobody to revolt against! They are free to do as they like and the first obvious thing for them should be to declare to the international community that they are not Greeks but "Romans", "Albanians" and Slavo-Bulgarians! Have you ever witnessed anybody doing this in modern Greece? No! Then, your arguments hold no water at all! Try harder next time!
I know that the Turkish nationalists fervently seek a pretext, in order to militarily invade Greece, usurp its millennia old Greek islands (or even Greek mainland, which they claim it was "theirs") and turn them into Turkish. But at least try to invent some less lame arguments...
Just watched this amazing video. Very plesant and well done. Thanks.
Incredible document film. Thank you for your deep inside.
The writer uses the ambiguous term “Hellene,” which generally means “pagan” in Byzantine Greek. Plethon and his followers used the term almost to the exclusion of all others when referring to their own countrymen.
Nagy., 2003. Modern Greek Literature. Taylor & Francis, p.30.
" In its final centuries , the Byzantine Empire was also called " Romania . " Remnants of this Roman heritage are still evident in such terms as " Rum " and " Rumeli .
Georgius, Philippides, M. and Macarius, 1980. The fall of the Byzantine empire. Amherst, MA: Univ. of Massachusetts Pr., p.2.
Given Gennadios ' strong religious and traditional orientation , one would expect him to adhere carefully to the traditional Byzantine nomenclature wherein Hellene signified pagan and Rhomaios Byzantine .
Ćurčić, S. and Mouriki, D., 2019. The Twilight of Byzantium. Princeton: Princeton University Press, p.9.
And there is also evidence that the word 'Hellene' now meant 'pagan', and Justinian did conduct persecutions of Hellenes.
Scott, R., n.d. Byzantine chronicles and the sixth century.
The Byzantine Empire was officially called the Empire of the Romans, not the Greeks, Hellenes, or whatever. And if we proceed from the northern theory of the formation of the state, then we could not know about the Hellenic Greeks, Venetian-Venets in any way due to the lack of direct contacts. At that time, the word “Hellene” among the Romans meant a pagan and a traitor.
Attila Kagan of the Huns from the kind of Velsung Kindle Edition by Соловьев Сергей Юрьевич (Author)
The ancient Hellenes were conquered by the Romans . Emperor Justinian destroyed the last vestiges of Hellenic civilisation , and state Christianity created a new civilisation on the ruins of the old .
Koliopoulos, G. and Veremēs, T., 2007. Greece: the modern sequel. London: Hurst & Company, p.242.
Hellenes as they were called, were persecuted by the enforcement of these general rules; Justinian endeavored, above all things, to deprive them of education, and he had the University of Athens closed in 529; at the same time ordering wholesale conversations.
The Cambridge Medieval History volumes 1-5 by John Bagnell Bury, Paul Dalen (Goodreads Author) (Editor)
And there is also evidence that the word 'Hellene' now meant 'pagan', and Justinian did conduct persecutions of Hellenes. The world of Classics in the sixth century was not entirely rosy.
Scott, R., n.d. Byzantine chronicles and the sixth century
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".. *whether someone calls us Hellenes or Romans, that is what we are, and we safeguard the succession of Alexander* and that of those after him .."
-Manuel Chrysoloras
[Exhortation on behalf of the Genus]
«.. *Ἕλληνας βούλοιτό τις λέγειν εἴτε Ῥωμαίους, ἡμεῖς ἐσμὲν ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου* δὲ καὶ τῶν μετ’ ἐκείνων *ἡμεῖς σώζομεν διαδοχήν* ..»
-Μανουήλ Χρυσολωράς
[Παρακίνησις ὑπὲρ τοῦ Γένους]
".. Present your shields, swords, arrows, and spears to them, imagining that you are a hunting party after wild boars, so that the impious may learn that they are dealing not with dumb animals but with *their lords and masters, the descendants of the Greeks and Romans* .."
-Konstantinos Palaiologos
[Chronicle by Georgios Sfrantzis]
«.. Οἱ πέλται ὑμῶν καὶ ῥομφαῖοι καὶ τὰ τόξα καὶ ἀκόντια πρὸς αὐτοὺς πεμπέτωσαν παρ᾿ ἡμῶν. Καὶ οὕτως λογίσθητε ὡς ἐπὶ ἀγρίων χοίρων καὶ πληθὺν κυνήγιον, ἵνα γνώσωσιν οἱ ἀσεβεῖς ὅτι οὐ μετὰ ἀλόγων ζῴων ὡς αὐτοί, παράταξιν ἔχουσιν, ἀλλὰ μετὰ *κυρίων καὶ αὐθεντῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀπογόνων Ἑλλήνων καὶ Ῥωμαίων* ..»
-Κωνσταντῖνος Παλαιολόγος
[Γεώργιος Σφραντζής Χρονικόν]
Thank you for the video. Relaxing at 03.00
Fantastic review, than you Pete !
Superb as always Pete.
2023, starting off nicely.
Heck yes
I love istanbul , beautiful city and beautiful people
Fantastic work. ! Pete.
It's always kinda shocking to me that modern cities are built basically on top of old ruins and they don't cave in very often
Great work Peter, I enjoyed your video immensely. And thank you for acknowledging about the Armenian Genocide. I believe there should have been a distinction between the Seljuks and the Ottomans. Two distinct Turkish tribes, however,
My impression is that the Seljuks were more ruthless in their conquests, the Battle of Manzikert should be that prime example.
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Seljuks and Ottomans were both empires, not tribes! You cannot even differentiate b/w a tribe and an empire but feel the right to speak about our history. Unbelieveable!
Great narration, thank you!
Awesome video friend 👍👍👍👍👍
Brilliant content 👌 👏 👍
Thanks for watching !
The Entire History of Constantinople // Istanbul Documentary. An excellent History of Istanbul, Renamed ISLAMBUL, after the Conquest. From London, England.
Please make sure that it is correct. The city of bizantium was founded by the thracian bizas
I'd say by the 1600s the Ottoman Empire fell off big time..once glorious...then they started to isolate their sultans...used to be the sultans rode into.bttle with their troops..but then they kept the sultan in the palace never to interact with none outside of the place at all
Hey, nice work!
In the ISTAMBUL MUSEUM it is a drawing of AMERICA HUNDREDS YEAR BEFORE CRISTOBAL COLUMBUS
The God Emperor of Man kind was born on the Sakarya River Banks during mid Neolithic period, not far from Istanbul.
When I went, I felt my inner crusader rise. We must liberate Constantinople and Aiyah Sophia. Im not kidding.
thank you
Your video shows promise but I don’t understand why you would think that people interested in learning more about Constantinople would also be interested in close up shots of you eating.
The thought didn’t occur to me. I made a video that I wanted to make 🙂 whether you watch or not or enjoy or don’t enjoy is entirely out of my hands.
The way you tell the story is awesome. It's unbiased and obviously as factual as can be. You're a very good historian . Thanks.
Incredible in todays age I can sit down for an hour and learn about a city thousands of miles away and thousands of years old while getting a tour of it.
In many ways it is an amazing time to be alive
Pete is a true legend in his field, have been following him years - outstanding content, so glad to see he’s getting the views he deserves! Check out his other page ,history time’ it’s amazing
Those walls kept the huns and others out for suck a long time it took the invention of gun powder before they got breached
We used to have books, have you forgotten already?
good cult
It was narrated that Ibn 'Abbas said:
"The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'Whoever changes his religion, kill him.'"
Grade: Sahih (Darussalam)
Reference : Sunan an-Nasa'i 4061
I went here in 2015. I tell everyone it is somewhere they must go before they die. Most hospitable and kindest people. You MUST go to the top of Galata Tower
I don’t believe you . !!
I (American) walked from the north harbor chain to Haya Sophia. I continued past Constantine's column to the Theodosian II walls first walking all the way to the north until it began to drop to the sea and then backtracked walking south along the walls inside a couple gates climbing up a few stairways to the top and then in a couple of towers down to the Golden Gate (I happen to be from SF ironically) fulfilling one of my dreams!
A very good and informative historical presentation of Turkey! Thank you!
One of the best documentaries of Pete Kelly, condensing thousands of years of history, narrated in his captivating voice, with sound effects, and pictures. So mesmerising that one wishes not to move ears and eyes away from it till the video ends.
I'm not sure whether it is the mystique of Istanbul, the style of the narrator, or both that keep one so engaged.
It’s been nearly 1000 years and you don’t realise that Istanbul is Istanbul.The most densly populated city in Türkiye.Why do you use stone age names?
The Balyan family was one of the most well-known Armenian families during the Ottoman era. Coming from Central Anatolia, family members served as imperial architects for years and are remembered as the masterminds behind many palaces, mosques and barracks like the Dolmabahçe Mosque and the Beylerbeyi Palace--
The architects of the Dolmabahce palace are Abdulhalim Bey, (Turkish) Karabet Balyan (Armenian), Ohannes Serveryan (Armenian), Nikogos Balyan (Armenian) and James William Smith, that's all.
I’m from Friesia, we just built ships
It would really be helpful for us history buffs/enthusiasts that haven’t visited Istanbul if you could just list down all the places you have visited in this video so we can too. It would be much appreciated- thank you
I can’t believe you missed the history of Tokapi Palace.....but you’ll return to Turkey for Capadocia, Ephesus, etc etc LOVE the fresh taste of the food.!!
Excellent Excellent video thank you so much love the History as I’m. Greek Australian love being part of this world thank you again 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇦🇺💒👍
I wish I could have seen it at the Height of the Eastern Roman Empire, or just the Roman Empire as the Greeks call it.
Paylaşılamayan şehir!!!
Güzel bir kadın gibi; asla rahat bırakılmamış, uğrunda çok kan dökŭlmŭş.
Şimdi, yaşlı,hayli geçkin, yorgun ve çirkin...
Bakalım, onu acımasızca bu hale getirenler daha neler yapacak,ve, kim, bu haliyle onu, yeniden ve "neden" kabul edecek?.. Yine bir "ve" ; İstanbul en son kimde kalacak?...
Best regards.♟️
बआईजएनटम कओन्सटनटआइनपओल कुस्तुनतुनिया ओर अब इस्तानबुल पहला दो महाद्वीप में विस्तार वाला शहर जानकारी के लिए धन्यवाद
Well done for the work. But you should read a lot more starting with Homer. He and the other Greek authors, and if you wish, Persian ones, and last but not least, the finds will tell you about the city. Enjoy 😉
first impression: I didn't expect the religious buildings (and hagia Sophia) to so beautifully highlight the "constantinopilan/istanbulian" skyline. Some well done shots here.
The architecture is absolutely stunning there
Not Hagia Sophia but Aya Sofia
@@zahirhussain5913 What's the difference? The church's name is Αγία Σοφία οr Αγιά Σοφιά. Both are the same thing. I suppose what you said is the second one.
@@gilpaubelid3780
Aya Sofia is Greek. Am l right?
If the world would be a country.
ISTANBUL would be it s CAPITAL.
what a great city......love it.....
Dear Pete Kelly,
Would you want to make a video together on the Elamite people? I found out that the Elam society, people and state is one of the oldest societies that had ever existed, and lasted well into the late antiquity era. Ive been doing as much research as I can into it. Its incredibly fascinating and reads like a storybook.
Best,
GH
One day! I will need to visit Iran first
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Outstanding video again Pete. Thanks for all your hard work. I truly love devouring your content. Hope you had a good Christmas and a very happy new year to you. Very excited for the next installment.
Glad you like it! Much more on the way
Constantinople, the "New Rome" of Roman Emperor Constantine I, was established with the goal of transferring the Roman culture, political nexus and economic and military headquarters to the eastern side of the Roman Empire. Constantine's legacy survived for another 1000 years after his decease. Astounding just to think about the weight of it all.
Interesting. Being swedish I am interested in The long relationshìp between the scandinavian world and " Miklagård", (Istambul) mentioned on so many runestones in my area ( north of Stockholm). Must have been a popular place among my ancestors. It was one of the places where they behaved without too much scandal,I am glad to say
I'm surprised that Sultan Suleiman was not mentioned in this video given his impact on the ottoman empire.
I freakin love your documentaries. Can't wait for more. All the best Pete.
Great work Pete. If you ever get the chance to come to Australia, you should try and cover some of the indigenous cultures/nations.
Thanks. I spent 3 months in Oz a few years back, just before I started History Time. Had an incredible time and looked into the history quite a bit. I would love to go back and do a video one day.
5 minutes in and still no history
I loved it thankyou I was born in Constandinople I am Greek but leaving in Canada the circumstances brood us here but still I miss my birth place so much 🇨🇦🇨🇦👏👏
*İstanbul
@@roryhierzer563 Konstantinopole
@@roryhierzer563in greek it's Constantinople but in Turkish and most other languages istanbul
These circumstances brought Greeks and Assyrians in diaspora having no way to live there , they had to leave their birth places and immigrate 😢
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Istanbul is not Turkish name ,it's derived from it's Greek origin STIM POLI
SO ITS STILL GREEK
BECAUSE THIS WAS NEVER THE LAND OF TURCIK PEOPLE THE INVADERS WHO CAME FROM THE EAST
Most of you are not of Turkic origin either
Since 1453 OTTOMAN EMPİRE that Turkey belonged to Turkish people, actually most of Europe had bellonged to OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Early 1900's, Many countries came to to Turkey to take the land. But, couldn't because of MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK with his greatest army and wives of the soldiers fought hard. The soldiers were teenagers with older too. But, just Turkey alone fought with 4,5 different countries and with ATATÜRK and his soldiers and their wives won the war to take Turkey. After, the war, Winston Churchill said ATATÜRK was a Greatest leader alive. Which I admired him and never fight in a war. I would've shaken his hand. RIP ATATÜRK. NO ONE HAS FORGOTTEN YOU.❤😢
Revisiting your channel. You have it right on in your narrative. I love that. I walked 100 miles in Istanbul in 5 days awaiting my visa to Syria. The city teams with life and its energetic drone continues unabated since the time of mythology. The smell, the sights, the sounds, the feel and the tastes there are unforgettable.
Thank you for taking me back
It is an incredible place
Known first settlers of Istanbul is “The Phoenicians” from Levant Region Greek colonized them. And first settlers of Anatolia again not Greek. They were Hittites and Phrygians. This information is for your don’t tell Greeks part. Because Europe bases its roots to Greek culture Western people tent to stay away from this FACT. First settlers race is not identified but they are not Greek! And for the culture part what most Europeans call as Kebab is actually “Döner” if the meat is turning around the flame its döner. Kebab is another dish. Tastes completely different. Now I can enjoy the rest of the video. Thanks:)
I don't give a damn what everyone else says. To my death I will call it Constantinopolis.
@@BlueSky-wp5icjust as how Gaza will belong to isreal
The confluence of Roman political and Hellenic linguistic, and hence cultural, identity is nothing unusual in itself. The Byzantines a name used since the sixteenth century as a conventional designation for the Romans inhabiting the medieval empire centered on Constantinople called themselves Romaiot. Their hybrid civilization was a merger of Roman politics, Greek culture, and the Chris tian religion. The interrogation of what it meant for one to be culturally and linguistically Greek, but at the same time a Roman citizen, goes back to the expansion of the Roman republic in antiquity. Foundation myths told in antiquity, and also in Byzantium, attributed to the Greeks and the Romans a shared history and convergent genealogy." Christianization gave the Greek word Hellene highly pejorative connotations. The Romaioi of Byzantium thus avoided identifying themselves as Hellenes, even while they remained acutely aware of the Hellenism of their language and literary culture. The cultural and political milieu of the empire of Nicaea was particularly propitious for the emergence of new types of self consciousness because of anxieties about collective identity provoked by triumph of the Latins in 1204. While cross-cultural interactions with the erors who settled in the eastern Mediterranean intensified, conc conquerors concerns about purity and the preservation I tradition grew. The phenomenon can be observed on the Latin as well as the Byzantine side - and is known from other historical periods of mass migration. The massacre of the Armenians of the Troad after 1204 and the proselytization of the Jews during Vatatzes' reign show hardening boundaries of religion and ethni city. Patriarch Germanos II preached against the dual the dualist Bogomils in Asia Minor and made an inquiry into their beliefs and practices. Bogomils repudiating their heresy were required to obtain written document as a proof of their return to the orthodox Christian faith.19 Political and reli gious leaders felt the need to draw firmer boundaries of communal differ ence in a period when there were good reasons to question them.
Hellenic self-identification meant a sharper demarcation of identity, for Romanness was ness more inclusive, theoretically universalist, and shared with the Latins. It is not coincidental that efforts to achieve an ecclesiastical union between the Byzantines and the Latins tended to invoke the common Roman past of the two religious communities. In two discourses on the schism and the Procession of the Holy Spirit written in Epiros during his captivity (1257-59), Akropolites highlighted shared Roman a identity. He addressed his Latin interlocutors as "Romans from the old Rome" or "my Roman friends." Once upon a time the Italians and the Graikoi had been two separate peoples (ethne), but the foundation of the New Rome meant that they were henceforward called "Romans" because of the two "greatest cities sharing a common name." They became one people and shared everything: "magistracies, laws, literature, city councils, law courts, piety itself."
Angelov, D. (2019). The Proponent of Hellenism. In The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century (pp. 205). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
".. whether someone calls us Hellenes or Romans, that is what we are, and we safeguard the succession of Alexander and that of those after him .."
-Manuel Chrysoloras
[Exhortation on behalf of the Genus]
«.. Ἕλληνας βούλοιτό τις λέγειν εἴτε Ῥωμαίους, ἡμεῖς ἐσμὲν ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου δὲ καὶ τῶν μετ’ ἐκείνων ἡμεῖς σώζομεν διαδοχήν ..»
-Μανουήλ Χρυσολωράς
[Παρακίνησις ὑπὲρ τοῦ Γένους]
Btw, turks were the LOWEST CLASS Peasants of the ottomans! Including the forcefully converted ones. The Hillbillies of that Multiethnic conglomeration! 👍
Turkish food is one of THE BEST, not donner kebab, but shish & all the other extremely healthy & hardy food❤
Fairly well representation of the city of my younger years. Still visiting whenever I have a chance. One suggestion, next time don't go to those tourist trap restaurants with the servers wearing comical not even authentic uniforms and fesses. What they served you was just a made-up tourist version of "Tas Kebap". BTW kebap is a generic word for all grilled meat. For example, Doner Kebap is not called just kebap, but could be just Doner.
'Greeks' and 'Romans'
Constantine's city (Constantinople, the city of Constantine') occupied the site of the classical Greek city of Byzantion, whence the term Byzantine' and our use of 'Byzantium', but the citizens of the eastern Empire referred to themselves as 'Romans'. From this came the term Rum, used for the Byzantine empire in Arabic and Turkish sources, and Rumis for the Greek Christian population under the Ottomans. Similarly, Romios was used to denote a Greek until, with the development of the modern Greek state, it came to be replaced by 'Hellene". Though Greek was, and continued to be, the language of Byzantine government and culture a large part of the population at many periods of the empire's history spoke other languages. This was certainly true in the early period when the empire included Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia, whose languages included Coptic, Aramaic and Syriac, as well aatin-speaking North Africa, Italy and Illyricum. The Byzantine success in driving the Vandals from Carthage and North Africa in AD 533-4 led to the introduction of some Greek for official purposes until Carthage eventually fell to the Arabs in 696. At times in later periods large areas of the Balkans came under Byzantine authority, and places formerly under Arab rule were recovered, with the result that the empire included Slavs and Bulgarians on its European side and Muslim populations in the east. By the eighth century, versions of Slavonic appear to have been spoken throughout much of central Europe east of the Elbe'," and some of these regions, with their existing populations, later came for periods under Byzantine rule. Latin, Italian and Hebrew also coexisted with Greek. There were also other changes: in the Comnenian period (1081 1204) 'Hellene' begins to be used as a self-description, and a character in one of the twelfth-century romances is identified as 'a Greek [Hellene] from Cyprus," while in the last phase of the Byzantine state the term 'Hellene' came back into use in conscious evocation of Byzantium's clas sical heritage. In earlier periods, in contrast, the term 'Hellene' denoted pagan ideas or persons, and for the Christian Byzantines it carried very negative connotations. Plato, for example, was considered a 'Hellene', and his philosophy was condemned by the Church, and saints' lives, especially from the early period, are full of improving tales of the dis comfiture of pagans ('Hellenes') by Christian holy men and women; similarly, collections of miracle stories contain anecdotes demonstrating the triumph of Christian healing over 'Hellenic medicine. When the Emperor Justinian collected and codified the law in the sixth century it was Roman law in Latin that his team of lawyers made available to the Latin west and which became the basis of several European law codes."14
Cameron, A., 2012. The Byzantines. Milton Keynes: Lightning Source, p.6-7.
".. Present your shields, swords, arrows, and spears to them, imagining that you are a hunting party after wild boars, so that the impious may learn that they are dealing not with dumb animals but with *their lords and masters, the descendants of the Greeks and Romans* .."
-Konstantinos Palaiologos
[Chronicle by Georgios Sfrantzis]
«.. Οἱ πέλται ὑμῶν καὶ ῥομφαῖοι καὶ τὰ τόξα καὶ ἀκόντια πρὸς αὐτοὺς πεμπέτωσαν παρ᾿ ἡμῶν. Καὶ οὕτως λογίσθητε ὡς ἐπὶ ἀγρίων χοίρων καὶ πληθὺν κυνήγιον, ἵνα γνώσωσιν οἱ ἀσεβεῖς ὅτι οὐ μετὰ ἀλόγων ζῴων ὡς αὐτοί, παράταξιν ἔχουσιν, ἀλλὰ μετὰ *κυρίων καὶ αὐθεντῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀπογόνων Ἑλλήνων καὶ Ῥωμαίων* ..»
-Κωνσταντῖνος Παλαιολόγος
[Γεώργιος Σφραντζής Χρονικόν]
GREEK was always used, I have over 10,000 accounts of the words HELLENES & GRAIKOI used by the ROMIOI from ALL AGES of "Byzantio"….CRY NOW 🤣
@@SpartanLeonidas1821 🤓🤓🤓
@@papazataklaattiranimam Cry Goofy!!! 🤡
@@SpartanLeonidas1821 i made greek kids cry in the comment section😂
I love Istanbul/Constantinople/Byzantium and been lucky enough to visit there twice. I hope to go back someday soon. Thanks for bringing back old memories.
Is an amazing place indeed
What an absolutely enormous city and so beautiful, thank you 🙏❤️🇦🇺
Turkish food is among the best ones in the world.
Thanks Peter for this video. I absorbed the content from beginning to end. Having visited Istanbul recently it brought back many memories and like yourself it’s given me a strong desire to return and explore some more. Please keep,your content flowing.
Byzantion was fonded by the Thracians my friend !
The Spartacus people !
Don't promote wrong history my friend !!!
Thrace( Trakia) existed long before the Greeks with their own culture and customs ! Just Google
"The oldest gold treasure"
Also Orpheus is Thracian not Greek ! Also check "Ioan Malala about the Achilles's army "The Mirmidons" !
You narrate very well wrong history !!!
My new life goal, after visiting zoos with a biology enthusiast like Forrest Valkai, is travel the world with the company of a history buff.
Constantinople is still beautiful minus all the buildings added after 1453
I don't know whether it's meant to be a church or what. Can someone tell me what the building is meant to be. I know that Sophia means "wisdom" maybe a symbol of wisdom.
Hagia Sophia was built by the Greeks at the 5th century as a greek orthodox church dedicated to the Holy Wisdom. Agia- Αγία is the Greek word for Holy, Santa. Sophia means Wisdom. The Hagia Sophia Cathedral was dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God. The most ancient Cathedral for Christianity !
Awesome video, inspired me for my next family trip.
Madrid, Rome and Istanbul!
At 16:16 its Hungary,Budapest heros squer!Not istambullshit!