Quick note: the Cyrillic alphabet was in fact created by one of Cyril and Methodius' disciples, Clement of Ohrid. He created the Cyrillic alphabet in honor of Cyril, thus naming it Cyrillic alphabet.
@@atticus6572 i actually agree they are the same. Still the term byzantine is very convenient in portraying the medieval christian roman empire with constantinople as capital. Edit: maybe a better term for "late roman" is "late classical roman"
@@atticus6572 the late Roman empire of Honorius and Arcadius were the same state as the Byzantines, but certainly different enough to make a distinction
Thanks for your content, interesting and in depth as always. There isn't a lot of good and easy to access Byzantine history I find. You deserve way more views.
Phocas' major achievement was crushing the Arabs in the east and liberation of Crete Tzimiskes' major achievement was entering into Antioch and to the south, almost reached Jerusalem
This is the era of the Hellenisation of Byzantium. It evolves from a greek speaking Roman Empire to a Hellenic Roman Empire. We read in Anna Komnena's Alexiad terms like "ελληνίζειν"=being greek when she refers to her culture and not only to her language. The reason is simple, as the empire shrinks it engulfs almost only Hellenic territories, so we end during the first crusade with a Hellenic Roman Empire. Although Greeks in culture they still refer to themselves as Romans we will need the 1204 fall and the greek successor states to witness the de-romanisation and the emergence of Hellenic "national" identity.
"... later called Cyril for some reason, I assume because of the translation problems" no, he was called saint Cyril since his church name was Cyril, his birth name was Constantine. In Christian church priests get a new, church name, when they come into the the church. Just like Pope Francis, whose name is Jorge, Benedict whose name was Joseph or Paul II whose name was Karol.
You've got your facts confused there. Popes take on a new name after they're named pope (as in cardinal Such-and-such became pope Some-or-other-insert-roman-numeral-at-end). In Eastern Orthodox Cristianity you get a new name once you become a monk and guess what Constantine-Cyril was. The presenter is however kinda right in saying "later" since Constantine didn't take on his "christian name" until just before he died (I guess rules were not that concrete back then?).
^btw... mate... you definitely deserve a whole lot more subscribers. are there so few people passionate about history these days? ancient and medieval history is what made us.
Yea nobody cares about anything that doesn't directly affect their base desires right now. How many people unironically asked me why I waste my time studying history is depressing. When I ask what they do in their spare time it's usually watch Netflix or play video games lmao.
The parallels between the Byzantine’s collapse and modern America are both interesting and frightening. Specifically wealthy aristocrats gobbling up all the real estate & avoiding taxes forcing the bureaucracy to irresponsibly mint currency to afford an ever increasing military bill
Martin Belde... You should perhaps know tha LAKAPENOS means " from LAKAPA a city in Kapadokia. Romanos I war nämlich ein Gebürtiger von LAKAPA, Kapadokia.
Cyril is not an error in translation. He was sanctified in the church with the name Cyril. How you could read history lectures and not know such a basic fact is beyond my comprehension....
He does stuff like that a lot but you really need to remember the breadth of history he's talking about in his lectures. Thousands of years of history, thousands of events, hundreds of people. A few mistakes per video sounds like a lot but he's compiling the events of more than a hundred years sometimes in just one video. Some people care about the pronunciations and intricacies (I'm one of those people too so I get it), but of you don't and you need to get to the meat of it then some things just aren't that important to you I guess.
@@HavanaSyndrome69 thats nor a mistake. He just made up shit intentionally... He made up an explanation without having a primary source for it. If you don't know don't talk nonsense. He could have left it without that comment. It's not an error unless you start making up your own history
The turning point of Byzantine power is by the end of the XI century AD, the ideal of Romanity (to feel, to think like a Roman), was abandoned forever in favor of an extreme Hellenistic nationalism (only Greeks allowed) and that broke beyond repair the ethnic unity of the Empire. So, with the breaking of the Roman patriotism, the Byzantines were easy conquest material for the Seljuk Turks, and the envious and codicious Venetians, and other Italian opportunists...
I find it quite interesting that between 300 BC and 800 BC, the highest quality coins in the Roman World, were minted between 200 BC and AD 200. It would not be until around 1400 when coinage would improve. Byzantine era and Middle Ages saw some pretty lousy looking coins!
History of the Filioque controversy History of the Filioque controversy refers to the historical development of theological controversies within Christianity regarding three distinctive issues: the orthodoxy of the doctrine of procession of the Holy Spirit as represented by the Filioque clause, the nature of anathemas mutually imposed by conflicted sides during the Filioque controversy, and the liceity (legitimacy) of the insertion of the Filioque phrase into the Nicene Creed. Although the debates over the orthodoxy of the doctrine of procession and the nature of related anathemas preceded the question of the admissibility of the phrase as inserted into the Creed, all of those issues became linked when the insertion received the approval of the Pope in the eleventh century.
It is accepted usage in the Anglophone tradition to call the Eastern Roman Empire "Byzantium" when speaking of the period after the fall of the West. There isn't a firm agreement as to when the labels should change though. As for Byzantium not existing, the city of Constantinople was originally Byzantium before it was renamed and built up by Constantine I. Some French scholar a few centuries ago invented the label; I don't think that I would have named it that, but unfortunately, I am not a famous Enlightenment-era historian.
The term "Byzantine Empire" was first used in 1557, by Hieronymus Wolf and spread across Europe in XVII and XVIII. They simply tried to separate the medieval Roman Empire (greek, christian, weak, declining) for the classical Roman Empire of Augustus, Septimius Severus an Constantine (latin, pagan, powerful, flourishing). In their eyes, Byzantine Empire was everything that Roman Empire was not, so medievals Roman Empire was unworthy of the name "roman". They weren't considered even greeks, because (in their minds) being greek meant having some value, as greek classical and hellenistic age displayed. So, being unworthy of being "roman" or "greek", they coined this handy term: byzantine. :)
@@histguy101 This is a stupid argument, Byzantine is a fine term, no reason to change to not hurt the feeling of dead people or retards on the internet that don't understand the concept of historiographical terms.
The Cyrillic alphabet is not named in honor of Constantine,but of CYRILL (Kiryl and Metodiy ) and was created in Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire by apprentices of the foremost mentioned brothers.The Cyrillic alphabet is the reworked later version of Glagolic.How do you miss a fact like that ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script
Following the Great Schism of 1054 the Papacy further had problems of supremacy against the Holy Roman Emperors creating the factions of Guelfs (Black Nobility) and Ghibellines.
Excruciating pronunciation of Basil as bay-sil! It should be bazzle.I'm sure Basil Fawlty(aka John Cleese) would be horrified.It was like having a pebble in your running shoes having to put up with that shocking pronunciation.
I was using the American pronunciation as opposed to the British. I am not British, so why would I use the British pronunciation when I am not talking about a British person?
Cyrillic has nothing to do with glagolithic. Please do better research on this. The glagolithic wa developed by cyrill/ constantine and Methodius. Cyrillic was developed by Bulgarian monks in ohrid and preslav over 30 years after the death of constantine.
@@zarni000 You are contradicting yourself in your comment.If You would read the other commentaries on the subject, You will note that the opinions diverge so that I am unable to pick out what is science and what politic.
@@ezzovonachalm7534 no not contradicting. Read more carefully. I can tv comment on other "opinions" but the facts are clear. Cyrillic was developed by Bulgarian scribes and monks. Glagolithic was developed by constantine and Methodist. simple.
@@ezzovonachalm7534 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script#:~:text=The%20Cyrillic%20script%20(%2Fs%C9%AA,North%20Asia%20and%20East%20Asia. Any encyclopedia has it right too. Not hard to find the facts.
I love the Eastern Romans, and i hate them just as much. i hate their wasted potential. constant betrayal and personal short-term interests destroyed my favorite empire of all. Caesar... Augustus... Trajanus... Marcus Aurelius... Constantine the Great... Flavius Mauricius Tiberius... Heraclius... Leo III... Nikephoros Phocas and John I Tsimiskes... Basil II... Alexios I... John II... Manuel I... aaand for me it pretty much stopped here. all these great emperors must be crying somewhere. i am crying and i have nothing to do with any of them. could someone write a short novel where all these emperors meet and talk about THEIR roman empire? i'd like to hear Caesar or Augustus asking "ok who tf messed up my Empire???" i'd pay to read smth like that
In a simple fashion, anyone may argue that The catholics say ''Only Pope is correct.'' The protestants say ''Everybody is correct.'' The orthodox say ''Noone is correct.''
The Cyrillic alphabet is the one that is taking more of the Greek alphabet features though, the Glagolithic one has a totally different setup! And by the way the so-called Cyrillic alphabet was not made by Cyrill and Methodius! Everybody repeats one and the same lie written somewhere without checking it! The reality is that Cyrill and Methodius made the Glagolithic which fell out of use in the later century or so! And the made in the Bulgarian empire so-called by the Russians Cyrillic alphabet, which just should be called the Bulgarian alphabet, which Russians do not want to admit, was adopted in each of the tributaries of the Bulgarian empire, then Kievan Rus and so on!
It takes a few seconds of thought to figure out that Cyril being a humble monk would have never gone fill Alexander and named his alphabet after himself. And then there's the reading... pretty sure any actual history book would make the distinction between the two alphabets. You could also have noted that Boris and Ivan are in no way russian names and we could watch the world burn together :D P.S. Glagolic was still in use until the 19th century (not in Bulgaria but still...).
@@georgytodorov7947 If you would like to use the English language, please go back to learning it first Georgy Todorov! When you formulate a clearer thought process feel free to join in! In all public celebrations, it is still mentioned that the two brothers as creators of the alphabet but .... they created an alphabet for the Great Moravian state ( the Great Moravian prince asked for it the Byzantine emperor) not the Bulgarian empire! And decades later the Bulgarian alphabet (wrongly called the Cyrillic alphabet to serve Russian pan-Slavic goals) appeared made by the students of those two brothers! If you do not like this history you can start using the devised by the the brothers Glagolithic alphabet! There are some very interesting letters there that you will enjoy! Ⰲ probably a sign for a person who is impotent, Ⰴ or the letter for Dobro= good in English, which could be seen as a sign for bein potent!!!Ⱆ or this one signifying being enlightened one and not like you?! So, I see you still enjoy being emersed in the Russian version of Bulgarian history that has being pushed on all of us but some of us check for facts and interpret them properly in the hystorical context!
Понеже очевидно нямаш идея каква е дефиницията на думата сарказъм и как да го разпознаеш в чужд за теб език, минавам на български: прочети внимателно какво съм написал. Много внимателно. Или трябва да ти обясня всяка една от шегите които си направих с некадърността на западните "историци" и тенденцията им да слагат знак за еквивалентност между Русия и всички останали славяни? Съвет: мисли малко преди да нападаш хората които те подкрепят. :) П.П. Мисля, че ти си този, който трябва да поработи над познанията си по английски :)
@@georgytodorov7947 Такак наречения ти сарказъм се губи е недоучения ти английски Георги Тодоров! Явно там е проблема! А че Борис е българско име е факт! И Иван си е българския вариант на името Йоханна! Приети от руснаците чрез книжовния и официален държавен старобългарски език! Западните историци добре знаят кое откъде идва, не си мисли че всички вярват на мАсковските измислици!
Интересна е нишката на мисълта ти... След като аз съм този който спомена имената защо реши, че е нужно да ми обясниш какво съм имал предвид? При това, на език, за който вероятността да бъде разбран от някой лишен от информацията която обсъждаме, е почти нулева. Удивителния знак не е идеалния начин да представиш академична информация. По принцип каквато и да е информация. :)
You make accomplished presentarions. However you make comments that make you sound like a high school gym teacher who picked up a master's in History because hey let's be honest being a gym teacher isnt all that difficult and gives you a lot of free time.
Samuil (Samuel) was a war commander not a ruler yet still was the guy who all and all was basically ruling Bulgaria. The eastern Roman empire and the Bulgarian empire although we never ever declared our selves an empire were constantly at war. According to history Vasilii II (Basil II) lost against Samuel who completely annihilated all his troops even personally killing Basil's war commander and boyfriend... just lol. Basil who barely survived making it on foot back to his empire swore an oath that he would destroy Bulgaria. He did conquer Bulgaria but instead tried to assimilate the population in a peaceful manner but that only lasted for 200 years.
Jimmy Page. was Samuil the dude who proclamed himself Czar of the B'lgur and the Romans ? The Roman emperor meant "well, for me he could also proclame himself the Emir of Bagdad."
@@ezzovonachalm7534 You're thinking of Simeon the great. He proclaimed himself Tsar of all Bulgarians and Greeks though that technically wasn't true as Bulgaria did not rule over all the Greeks as part of it was still under Roman rule. Kuber's Bulgaria in motdern N. Macedonia has been part ot Bulgaria for some time now but Volga Bulgaria was it's own independent state. He dreamed of of establishing a dynasty that would rule over a unified Bulgaro-Roman state in Tsarigrad(Constantinople) but died during one of his campaigns. Legend has it that a statue that overlooked the throne of Rome toke Simeon's likeness but a mysterious figure told the emperor of Rome that if he personally cuts the statue's head Simeon would follow and die immediately. Whatever the case was Simeon died unexpectedly and misteryoussly. My guess is he was poisoned.
The ignorance of Americans concerning the balkans(except Greece ofc) is mind blowing.Please stop calling the Bulgarians-Bulgars.Also Cyrillic was NOT I repeat NOT CALLED IN HONOR OF CONSTANTINE LIKE WTF YOU HAVE WIKIPEDIA DUDE COME ON
sleeper7271 is the word bulgar used only for those who lived in volga-bulgaria? Do we must call those who lived on the Balkans, Bulgars or Bulgarians? Do the actual Bulgarians consider themselves slavs?cumans?related with Turks?I don't know absolutely anything about this. I'm from Spain sorry for my bad English .
Bulgars are the Turkic/Iranic people that build Volga and Danube Bulgaria,but after settling in the Balkans,the Bulgars mixed with the Slavs/Thracians and became Bulgarians.Genetically Bulgarians are Thracian,linguistically Slavic and the name is Old-Bulgarian or "Pra-Bulgari" is how modern Bulgarians refer to them.I have no idea how this guy keeps on making videos with his bad history knowledge about the Balkans and people listen to him.Why did he simply not check wikipedia before talking about Cyrillic ???
sleeper7271 His maps are all wrong too. Byzantium had never had such vast territory under its control in the west. Bulgarians had their own empire not a kingdom and even after they were defeated, they only became a vassal state (partly), not part of the Byzantine empire. Serbia at this time was a Bulgarian vassal state at best, often not even that, just part of Bulgaria plus it is shown without Belgrade and occupying a much larger area to the west than it actually did. Croatia was never part of the Byzantine empire at all. They only had skirmishes over the rule of southern Dalmatian cities and islands in the southern Adriatic, but otherwise Croatia at this time was an independent kingdom united by king Tomislav in 925. recognized by the Pope as such. Before that Croats were either an independent dukedom in the south, and had beaten the Byzantines over and over again there, or were the vassals of the Franks in the north. Maybe if he actually read De Administrando Imperio, he'd know that.
The maps around this time tend to exaggerate a lot of Byzantine holdings through making leaps about someone in these lands holding Byzantine titles. The maps should have borders in different colors or shades to show this but it's obviously very hard to make out. Most of the time all we have are the metal seals to make judgements off of.
@@greggor07 Nope. You got everything wrong. The only thing was that Croatia/Serbia were either Vassal states or Heavily influenced. Bulgaria was completely conquered by Byzantium in 1018 till the revolt of Asen and Peter.
Quick note: the Cyrillic alphabet was in fact created by one of Cyril and Methodius' disciples, Clement of Ohrid. He created the Cyrillic alphabet in honor of Cyril, thus naming it Cyrillic alphabet.
Where have you been all my life. Late roman and byzantines topics are one of my favorites!
Get real, buddy.
Late Roman and Byzantine is mega-redundant. They're one in the same ;)
@@atticus6572 i actually agree they are the same.
Still the term byzantine is very convenient in portraying the medieval christian roman empire with constantinople as capital.
Edit: maybe a better term for "late roman" is "late classical roman"
o pm ......
@@atticus6572 the late Roman empire of Honorius and Arcadius were the same state as the Byzantines, but certainly different enough to make a distinction
Thanks for your content, interesting and in depth as always. There isn't a lot of good and easy to access Byzantine history I find. You deserve way more views.
Thanks, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video.
@@ThersitestheHistorian already told about your channel to 3 friends. Its a jewel 💎
Phocas' major achievement was crushing the Arabs in the east and liberation of Crete
Tzimiskes' major achievement was entering into Antioch and to the south, almost reached Jerusalem
This is the era of the Hellenisation of Byzantium. It evolves from a greek speaking Roman Empire to a Hellenic Roman Empire. We read in Anna Komnena's Alexiad terms like "ελληνίζειν"=being greek when she refers to her culture and not only to her language. The reason is simple, as the empire shrinks it engulfs almost only Hellenic territories, so we end during the first crusade with a Hellenic Roman Empire. Although Greeks in culture they still refer to themselves as Romans we will need the 1204 fall and the greek successor states to witness the de-romanisation and the emergence of Hellenic "national" identity.
Greeks referred to themselves as Roman until the 19th century
9:53 Clearly, the lineage of Biggus Dickus survived well into the Byzantine age...
I did a report on his sister, Uomama Lecapenus.
A clear lineage indeed. Don't forget incontinencia. But lecapenis was prolific historically speaking.
In italian Lecapenus sounds like penis-licker
@@fuzzydunlop7928 lol it took me a moment to remember where I heard your name before
@@leonardodisavino6166 same in American English :) that was their idea
"... later called Cyril for some reason, I assume because of the translation problems" no, he was called saint Cyril since his church name was Cyril, his birth name was Constantine. In Christian church priests get a new, church name, when they come into the the church. Just like Pope Francis, whose name is Jorge, Benedict whose name was Joseph or Paul II whose name was Karol.
You've got your facts confused there. Popes take on a new name after they're named pope (as in cardinal Such-and-such became pope Some-or-other-insert-roman-numeral-at-end). In Eastern Orthodox Cristianity you get a new name once you become a monk and guess what Constantine-Cyril was.
The presenter is however kinda right in saying "later" since Constantine didn't take on his "christian name" until just before he died (I guess rules were not that concrete back then?).
Αctually priests in orthodoxy never get a new name. Monks and patriarchs get new names only.
^btw... mate... you definitely deserve a whole lot more subscribers. are there so few people passionate about history these days? ancient and medieval history is what made us.
Yea nobody cares about anything that doesn't directly affect their base desires right now. How many people unironically asked me why I waste my time studying history is depressing. When I ask what they do in their spare time it's usually watch Netflix or play video games lmao.
It’s funny how you sped up talking when you came up on “Lecapenus,” then slowed back down again to a regular pace lol
Byzantine was the Roman Empire during so called medieval period. There is a non stop succession from the time of Octavian Augustus.
"The Room" is truly a masterpiece. Master Class kinda stuff.
Was the pronoia system of tax collection similar to the methods used by the classical Roman Empire (1st & 2nd centuries)?
The parallels between the Byzantine’s collapse and modern America are both interesting and frightening. Specifically wealthy aristocrats gobbling up all the real estate & avoiding taxes forcing the bureaucracy to irresponsibly mint currency to afford an ever increasing military bill
To say Byzantium "collapsed" is a weird characterization. I'd say more like "overthrown"
Pale Death of the Saracens really is a really cool nickname.
26:30 sound familiar?
Myth of trickle down has been around for a long time...
It is a very familiar story. I think that "deregulation" fits the bill a little more neatly in this instance, however.
I can’t help but snicker at your pronunciation of ‘Romanus Lecapenus’. Does every eunuch lecapenus?
Martin Belde... You should perhaps know tha LAKAPENOS means " from LAKAPA a city in Kapadokia. Romanos I war nämlich ein Gebürtiger von LAKAPA, Kapadokia.
Plato was a wrestler.
JOHN CENA
I still don't think Basil can touch Basiliscus. The disaster at Cape Bon is just hilarious. Plus his handling of the Isaurians is just beautiful too.
Oh my god him blinding all those men and giving the guy a stroke is brutal as fuck
Constantine was known as Cyril to the (Great) Moravians, because he adopted the name there to signal that he is one of them, as far as I know.
Wait the apogee is when the moon is farthest away, right? I always confuse the apogee and the perigee with each other.
Yes, think "highest point". The greatest.
Great video mate!
Lecapenus' major achievement was John Kourkouas' assignment as general of Anatolia where he crushed the Arabs and annexed Melitene emirate
17:34 surely the moral should be 'don't murder your family?'
If you must have one
Unless of course, the alternative is "be murdered by your family."
Isn't tax farming the traditional means the roman state used to collect taxes?
The Roman Republic, yes. The Empire changed things up quite a bit to try to get rid of the corruption of the republican era.
oh, brings me back to 6th grade and Medieval history of Serbia and in general.
Cyril is not an error in translation. He was sanctified in the church with the name Cyril. How you could read history lectures and not know such a basic fact is beyond my comprehension....
He does stuff like that a lot but you really need to remember the breadth of history he's talking about in his lectures. Thousands of years of history, thousands of events, hundreds of people. A few mistakes per video sounds like a lot but he's compiling the events of more than a hundred years sometimes in just one video. Some people care about the pronunciations and intricacies (I'm one of those people too so I get it), but of you don't and you need to get to the meat of it then some things just aren't that important to you I guess.
Big deal
@@HavanaSyndrome69 thats nor a mistake. He just made up shit intentionally... He made up an explanation without having a primary source for it. If you don't know don't talk nonsense. He could have left it without that comment. It's not an error unless you start making up your own history
The turning point of Byzantine power is by the end of the XI century AD, the ideal of Romanity (to feel, to think like a Roman), was abandoned forever in favor of an extreme Hellenistic nationalism (only Greeks allowed) and that broke beyond repair the ethnic unity of the Empire. So, with the breaking of the Roman patriotism, the Byzantines were easy conquest material for the Seljuk Turks, and the envious and codicious Venetians, and other Italian opportunists...
I find it quite interesting that between 300 BC and 800 BC, the highest quality coins in the Roman World, were minted between 200 BC and AD 200. It would not be until around 1400 when coinage would improve. Byzantine era and Middle Ages saw some pretty lousy looking coins!
Make that between 300 BC and AD 800.
you forgot the battle of Lalakaon river during Michael III
History of the Filioque controversy
History of the Filioque controversy refers to the historical development of theological controversies within Christianity regarding three distinctive issues: the orthodoxy of the doctrine of procession of the Holy Spirit as represented by the Filioque clause, the nature of anathemas mutually imposed by conflicted sides during the Filioque controversy, and the liceity (legitimacy) of the insertion of the Filioque phrase into the Nicene Creed. Although the debates over the orthodoxy of the doctrine of procession and the nature of related anathemas preceded the question of the admissibility of the phrase as inserted into the Creed, all of those issues became linked when the insertion received the approval of the Pope in the eleventh century.
9:55 hehe, lecapenus, like a penis lol. God what am I doing with my life? Great video though!
How can you rename the Roman Empire to Byzantium, a city that did not even existed back then!!!?
It is accepted usage in the Anglophone tradition to call the Eastern Roman Empire "Byzantium" when speaking of the period after the fall of the West. There isn't a firm agreement as to when the labels should change though. As for Byzantium not existing, the city of Constantinople was originally Byzantium before it was renamed and built up by Constantine I. Some French scholar a few centuries ago invented the label; I don't think that I would have named it that, but unfortunately, I am not a famous Enlightenment-era historian.
The term "Byzantine Empire" was first used in 1557, by Hieronymus Wolf and spread across Europe in XVII and XVIII. They simply tried to separate the medieval Roman Empire (greek, christian, weak, declining) for the classical Roman Empire of Augustus, Septimius Severus an Constantine (latin, pagan, powerful, flourishing).
In their eyes, Byzantine Empire was everything that Roman Empire was not, so medievals Roman Empire was unworthy of the name "roman". They weren't considered even greeks, because (in their minds) being greek meant having some value, as greek classical and hellenistic age displayed.
So, being unworthy of being "roman" or "greek", they coined this handy term: byzantine. :)
It's just the convention. We all know what the Byzantine Empire means. Get a life. Kiss a girl one day.
Since "Byzantine" is typically derogatory, it's a convention that should end(which it is, slowly but surely).
@@histguy101 This is a stupid argument, Byzantine is a fine term, no reason to change to not hurt the feeling of dead people or retards on the internet that don't understand the concept of historiographical terms.
The Cyrillic alphabet is not named in honor of Constantine,but of CYRILL (Kiryl and Metodiy ) and was created in Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire by apprentices of the foremost mentioned brothers.The Cyrillic alphabet is the reworked later version of Glagolic.How do you miss a fact like that ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script
He was born with the name Constantine
The lesson of Theophano and John Tzimiskes is easy, and I'm surprised you missed it. It's "Don't be a woman."
More like don’t be a backstabbing harlot
I did a report on his sister, Uomama Lecapenus. Interesting gal.
Following the Great Schism of 1054 the Papacy further had problems of supremacy against the Holy Roman Emperors creating the factions of Guelfs (Black Nobility) and Ghibellines.
Gilgal Biblewh...The Great Schism had RELIGIOUS , the conflict with Heinrich IV had dirty POLITICAL reasons..
Keep thinking my phone was going off lol
Very good, but a wrong map of Great Moravia
9:53 Romanus the 1st Like-a-Penis
More like Lick-a-Penis
Seekarr ingenuous pop(ular) paronymia based on ignorance of thr Greek language
Lekapenos : the one from LAKAPA a city in Kapadokia
Lecapenus? a most unfortunate name
DeathBinger... Lekapenos the one from LAKAPA , Kapadokia. Unfortunate is being ignorant
Excruciating pronunciation of Basil as bay-sil! It should be bazzle.I'm sure Basil Fawlty(aka John Cleese) would be horrified.It was like having a pebble in your running shoes having to put up with that shocking pronunciation.
I was using the American pronunciation as opposed to the British. I am not British, so why would I use the British pronunciation when I am not talking about a British person?
There is no british and an american pronounciation. There is only right and wrong and you were wrong
lol ... So no difference between Quebec and France? or Brazil and Portugal? Get a life.
Really? lol
No one knows how Basil was pronounced. Maybe many different ways at the same time. Lighten up.
Cyrillic has nothing to do with glagolithic. Please do better research on this. The glagolithic wa developed by cyrill/ constantine and Methodius. Cyrillic was developed by Bulgarian monks in ohrid and preslav over 30 years after the death of constantine.
So how went B'lgur monks living 30 years after the death of Konstantinos I on the denomination " cyrillic' ?
@@ezzovonachalm7534 sorry?
@@zarni000 You are contradicting yourself in your comment.If You would read the other commentaries on the subject, You will note that the opinions diverge so that I am unable to pick out what is science and what politic.
@@ezzovonachalm7534 no not contradicting. Read more carefully. I can tv comment on other "opinions" but the facts are clear. Cyrillic was developed by Bulgarian scribes and monks. Glagolithic was developed by constantine and Methodist. simple.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script#:~:text=The%20Cyrillic%20script%20(%2Fs%C9%AA,North%20Asia%20and%20East%20Asia.
Any encyclopedia has it right too. Not hard to find the facts.
I love the Eastern Romans, and i hate them just as much. i hate their wasted potential. constant betrayal and personal short-term interests destroyed my favorite empire of all. Caesar... Augustus... Trajanus... Marcus Aurelius... Constantine the Great... Flavius Mauricius Tiberius... Heraclius... Leo III... Nikephoros Phocas and John I Tsimiskes... Basil II... Alexios I... John II... Manuel I... aaand for me it pretty much stopped here. all these great emperors must be crying somewhere. i am crying and i have nothing to do with any of them. could someone write a short novel where all these emperors meet and talk about THEIR roman empire? i'd like to hear Caesar or Augustus asking "ok who tf messed up my Empire???" i'd pay to read smth like that
Aristocrats taking over all the land so that now peasants can now no longer afford the be soldiers?
Pretty sure I've heard that one before.....
Υοu don't say the truth about Schism. The rest errors are trivial.
''The churches have some differences but more or less they are the same...'''
they are more or less the same when you compare them to the protestant reformation
In a simple fashion, anyone may argue that
The catholics say ''Only Pope is correct.''
The protestants say ''Everybody is correct.''
The orthodox say ''Noone is correct.''
The Cyrillic alphabet is the one that is taking more of the Greek alphabet features though, the Glagolithic one has a totally different setup! And by the way the so-called Cyrillic alphabet was not made by Cyrill and Methodius! Everybody repeats one and the same lie written somewhere without checking it! The reality is that Cyrill and Methodius made the Glagolithic which fell out of use in the later century or so! And the made in the Bulgarian empire so-called by the Russians Cyrillic alphabet, which just should be called the Bulgarian alphabet, which Russians do not want to admit, was adopted in each of the tributaries of the Bulgarian empire, then Kievan Rus and so on!
It takes a few seconds of thought to figure out that Cyril being a humble monk would have never gone fill Alexander and named his alphabet after himself. And then there's the reading... pretty sure any actual history book would make the distinction between the two alphabets.
You could also have noted that Boris and Ivan are in no way russian names and we could watch the world burn together :D
P.S. Glagolic was still in use until the 19th century (not in Bulgaria but still...).
@@georgytodorov7947 If you would like to use the English language, please go back to learning it first Georgy Todorov! When you formulate a clearer thought process feel free to join in! In all public celebrations, it is still mentioned that the two brothers as creators of the alphabet but .... they created an alphabet for the Great Moravian state ( the Great Moravian prince asked for it the Byzantine emperor) not the Bulgarian empire! And decades later the Bulgarian alphabet (wrongly called the Cyrillic alphabet to serve Russian pan-Slavic goals) appeared made by the students of those two brothers! If you do not like this history you can start using the devised by the the brothers Glagolithic alphabet! There are some very interesting letters there that you will enjoy! Ⰲ probably a sign for a person who is impotent, Ⰴ or the letter for Dobro= good in English, which could be seen as a sign for bein potent!!!Ⱆ or this one signifying being enlightened one and not like you?! So, I see you still enjoy being emersed in the Russian version of Bulgarian history that has being pushed on all of us but some of us check for facts and interpret them properly in the hystorical context!
Понеже очевидно нямаш идея каква е дефиницията на думата сарказъм и как да го разпознаеш в чужд за теб език, минавам на български: прочети внимателно какво съм написал. Много внимателно. Или трябва да ти обясня всяка една от шегите които си направих с некадърността на западните "историци" и тенденцията им да слагат знак за еквивалентност между Русия и всички останали славяни?
Съвет: мисли малко преди да нападаш хората които те подкрепят. :)
П.П. Мисля, че ти си този, който трябва да поработи над познанията си по английски :)
@@georgytodorov7947 Такак наречения ти сарказъм се губи е недоучения ти английски Георги Тодоров! Явно там е проблема! А че Борис е българско име е факт! И Иван си е българския вариант на името Йоханна! Приети от руснаците чрез книжовния и официален държавен старобългарски език! Западните историци добре знаят кое откъде идва, не си мисли че всички вярват на мАсковските измислици!
Интересна е нишката на мисълта ти... След като аз съм този който спомена имената защо реши, че е нужно да ми обясниш какво съм имал предвид? При това, на език, за който вероятността да бъде разбран от някой лишен от информацията която обсъждаме, е почти нулева.
Удивителния знак не е идеалния начин да представиш академична информация. По принцип каквато и да е информация. :)
The room, ..... The room. Lol, ok.
You make accomplished presentarions.
However you make comments that make you sound like a high school gym teacher who picked up a master's in History because hey let's be honest being a gym teacher isnt all that difficult and gives you a lot of free time.
He mistakes the Kievan Rus for the Russians
Samuil (Samuel) was a war commander not a ruler yet still was the guy who all and all was basically ruling Bulgaria. The eastern Roman empire and the Bulgarian empire although we never ever declared our selves an empire were constantly at war. According to history Vasilii II (Basil II) lost against Samuel who completely annihilated all his troops even personally killing Basil's war commander and boyfriend... just lol. Basil who barely survived making it on foot back to his empire swore an oath that he would destroy Bulgaria. He did conquer Bulgaria but instead tried to assimilate the population in a peaceful manner but that only lasted for 200 years.
Jimmy Page. was Samuil the dude who proclamed himself Czar of the B'lgur and the Romans ? The Roman emperor meant "well, for me he could also proclame himself the Emir of Bagdad."
@@ezzovonachalm7534 You're thinking of Simeon the great. He proclaimed himself Tsar of all Bulgarians and Greeks though that technically wasn't true as Bulgaria did not rule over all the Greeks as part of it was still under Roman rule. Kuber's Bulgaria in motdern N. Macedonia has been part ot Bulgaria for some time now but Volga Bulgaria was it's own independent state. He dreamed of of establishing a dynasty that would rule over a unified Bulgaro-Roman state in Tsarigrad(Constantinople) but died during one of his campaigns. Legend has it that a statue that overlooked the throne of Rome toke Simeon's likeness but a mysterious figure told the emperor of Rome that if he personally cuts the statue's head Simeon would follow and die immediately. Whatever the case was Simeon died unexpectedly and misteryoussly. My guess is he was poisoned.
actually Romanus was completely unsuccessful
Templar E-Z yeah i guess nearly 2000yrs of continuous society is failure hey?fucking idiot!!
He was so "succesfull" that the """Bulgars"""" nearly conqered all European territories of the empire
0:01 Basil I did not own carthige
Rick Flair lol
MacDonia
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The ignorance of Americans concerning the balkans(except Greece ofc) is mind blowing.Please stop calling the Bulgarians-Bulgars.Also Cyrillic was NOT I repeat NOT CALLED IN HONOR OF CONSTANTINE LIKE WTF YOU HAVE WIKIPEDIA DUDE COME ON
sleeper7271 is the word bulgar used only for those who lived in volga-bulgaria? Do we must call those who lived on the Balkans, Bulgars or Bulgarians? Do the actual Bulgarians consider themselves slavs?cumans?related with Turks?I don't know absolutely anything about this. I'm from Spain sorry for my bad English .
Bulgars are the Turkic/Iranic people that build Volga and Danube Bulgaria,but after settling in the Balkans,the Bulgars mixed with the Slavs/Thracians and became Bulgarians.Genetically Bulgarians are Thracian,linguistically Slavic and the name is Old-Bulgarian or "Pra-Bulgari" is how modern Bulgarians refer to them.I have no idea how this guy keeps on making videos with his bad history knowledge about the Balkans and people listen to him.Why did he simply not check wikipedia before talking about Cyrillic ???
sleeper7271 His maps are all wrong too. Byzantium had never had such vast territory under its control in the west. Bulgarians had their own empire not a kingdom and even after they were defeated, they only became a vassal state (partly), not part of the Byzantine empire. Serbia at this time was a Bulgarian vassal state at best, often not even that, just part of Bulgaria plus it is shown without Belgrade and occupying a much larger area to the west than it actually did. Croatia was never part of the Byzantine empire at all. They only had skirmishes over the rule of southern Dalmatian cities and islands in the southern Adriatic, but otherwise Croatia at this time was an independent kingdom united by king Tomislav in 925. recognized by the Pope as such. Before that Croats were either an independent dukedom in the south, and had beaten the Byzantines over and over again there, or were the vassals of the Franks in the north.
Maybe if he actually read De Administrando Imperio, he'd know that.
The maps around this time tend to exaggerate a lot of Byzantine holdings through making leaps about someone in these lands holding Byzantine titles. The maps should have borders in different colors or shades to show this but it's obviously very hard to make out. Most of the time all we have are the metal seals to make judgements off of.
@@greggor07 Nope. You got everything wrong. The only thing was that Croatia/Serbia were either Vassal states or Heavily influenced. Bulgaria was completely conquered by Byzantium in 1018 till the revolt of Asen and Peter.
Pope Turdbin the 2nd
Way too many errors in this narrative.
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