East Roman Imperial Reconquest: How the Empire Struck Back | Byzantine History
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
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By the middle of the tenth century, Byzantium - the Roman Empire - was stronger than ever. Its armies were ascendant and always on the attack, retaking lost lands. While the climax of the conquests took place under Basil the Bulgar-slayer, they got into full-swing under the warrior-emperors Nikephoros Phokas and John Tzimiskes.
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00:00 Prologue
01:52 Romanos Porphyrogennetos
12:31 Nikephoros Phokas
38:31 John Tzimiskes
01:01:38 Epilogue
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We are so back
I am sure Byzantines said the same thing during this time.
When the doukids take power: “it’s so over”
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@@Znz343 When the Komnenoi usurp the throne: "We are so back!"
We’re eating well today lads
This channel is so underrated, its actually unfair.
Love your work man!
If he does Basil II, and the first three emperors of the Komneni dynasty, he'd have a direct history of the Byzantine Empire all the way from Irene to the beginning of the Angeloi.
Fascinating period in Byzantine history. How fast an empire can go from Imperial dominance to decline!
"Oh yeah. It's all coming together."
A one hour video from Serapeum? This, I like
I never thought I’d hear the word “LARPING” on such a professional video as this but I’m all for it. 🤣
Never clicked on a video faster than this
We are so blessed by receiving the notification
Dude I binged your channel last year while I was in Greece, and now that I’m back in Greece you drop this banger lol
First comment 🎉 thanks for the episode :) waiting for a long time
Thank you for your patience! This took a long time to make, but I'll have a lot more free time over the coming months so hopefully the next one will come a bit quicker :)
@@Serapeum Knowing the quality of your work ... I can wait whatever it takes !
Thank you very much
Your videos are the best! Great stuff
we are so back byzantbros, seriously, i thought the channel was dead, its good to see you back Serapeum
Best history channel out there
I appreciate it :)
But you are the best history channel out there
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The great has returned
really enjoyable as always. Have to rate Tzimiskes highly as an emperor for military and political cunning.
This is wonderful
When do we get a movie based on this time in history!
Awesome 👍
Chadax Χάνδαξ is pronounced as Hànthax (h like in have, horse and th as in the). Amazing video as always.
Sweet I can listen while I workout
Congratulations! This is the best work UA-cam has on the subject. Your narration is very nice too!
thank you for posting again!
Thank you for supporting the channel for so long! You've been very patient :)
How glad to see the hidden gem of UA-cam release another banger
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Very nice
Thanks!
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great video, loved it
Awesome vid!
Can you do a video about John Kourkouas, the Eastern Roman general
This was a great video, you have a great narration voice
Great documentory work.
I learned so much from this video. Thank you for taking the time to create such high-quality content.
That was brilliant! Please, continue chronologically with same style videos.
LFG! Great video!
Amazing work
Subbed great stuff!
Thank you so much
Imagine that you could be the son of an emperor and still be a eunuch 😳
o hell yeah man, time to binge this mighty fine byzantine channel
Hey nice video,well done 👍
Excellent!
Great video,good to have you back g
Great episode. Would love to see the episode with the battle of manzikert and the fall of rome in anatolia
Anazarbus was at that time still called Justinopolis, it was the Armenians who resurrected the old name.
Haven’t seen it yet but already liked it 😎
looking at the empire's map now, i gotta say it just had too amyn fronts with too many diverse enemies. so many resources were needed yet so few at hand, they needed to prioritize. diplomatic blunders did not help either. it does seem Basil II had the best substats of all macedonian emperors before him, plus enough power to actually do anything. truly a fascinating period for the romans.
Man, if modern day Greece/Eastern Rome consisted of Greece/Turkey/Cyprus, with Constantinople in eastern roman hands, that would be so awesome.
And southern Italy.
It is actually
The Macedonian dynasty. You have to love history. I enjoy your work man. Thanks
Great video! Thank you!
make basil ii too
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Serapeum did you take voice lessons? :O:O:O
Would you say I've improved?
@@Serapeum you became professional :)
@@AcidProphet That's high praise; and to answer your question, I haven't had any lessons but I guess I've just gradually improved my cadence and rhythm
Lets fucking go
We’re feasting today lads
farya song yesterday, today this and history of byzantium, byzansimp new vid in few days - we eating good
This video makes the marble emperor stir from his slumber. Well done
So much could have been avoided if Byzantium would have stopped stabbing itself in the back every five minutes.
One day the Greeks will retake their lands!
Wasn’t there lands to begin with
oh hey
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Good stuff. JJ Norwich eat yer heart out.
I often see a lot of mapping videos disregarding that John I's reconquest of the eastern bank of the Danube. They always just show that he only retook Thrace. Nice to see that the Danube is shown to be Roman
I'm a bit of a map nerd
Those lands (formerly called Moesia Inferior & Scythia) were lost only in 986 when Basil nearly lost his life but also lost most of his army in a similar fashion to Nikephoros I in 811, at the Battle of Trajan's Gate
I really like John I
He was better than his uncle in a lot of ways. I feel like if he lived for another 10 years, maybe Syria & the Emirate of Aleppo get annexed into the Empire.
But he did leave western Bulgaria unconquered & it allowed the Bulgars to regain their strength under Tsar Samuel
Maybe we could've gotten a conquered Syria in a decade longer reign for John I. And then a fully conquered Bulgaria by the end of Basil's reign
This is just me making up a fantasy at this point 😂
Honestly, John I was the goat; if he had lived for ten more years, he'd definitely be as famous as Alexios Komnenos and Basil. John just seemed to be good at everything.
@@SerapeumAgreed, John had a short but very impressive reign. Building on already made success from his uncle, he just added onto the good times for Rome
We eating good today lads, more wine, more women!
You know that Sayf al-Dawla is from the same tribe as House of Saud of Saudi Arabia.
Good vid, awful initial Byzantine borders.
It’s crazy to me how UA-camrs instead of historians are the ones who downplay Byzantium’s borders after the war in their own dedicated vids and ignore the fact the treaty with Peter restored the borders to those of 904
Emperor Constantine VII even mentions cities like Mesembria, Adrianople, Serres etc still being cities in the empire with command positions in his books with Imperio and Ceremoniss. Let alone the fact that he flat out points out Bulgaria no longer has land above the Danube which was lost to the Pechenegs who hindered Rus traders on their way to Mesembria.
Bulgarian Empire mapping ruined mapping on this time period, it’s sad to see.
God hasn'n forsaken us after all
My favourite era of Eastern Roman history
gj
They were fighting the hamdanid emirate with 30,000 at best and they can raise far more bigger armies, not the caliphates in it's glorious time when the hamdanid were fighting in northern Iraq against buyids and their expansion was halted and reversed when they faced the Fatmaid caliphate
Can I get a Poggers in the chat?
Nikephoros really should have remained a general only and stayed out of politics.
there are no norhtern slavs, we are divided into western, eastern and southern
Northern Slavs are the Slavs that were sent to the moon by the Soviets 😅😅😅😅😅
The Macedonian Dynasty: The Romans Strike Back.
O STAVROS NIKA!
Nikephoros was indeed a good general, but a really bad emperor.
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Tell me, why do You use Bad maps and info about the bizantine bulgarian Frontier in this times period?. The Frontier was way North, after the death of tsar Boris and it s ridículos that byzantium would let the bulgarians near the capital. DO A BETTER RESEARCH.
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Just imagine at that time the Romen accepted Islam. Nobody can stop them.
Why should they accept a mix of Rabbinic Judaism, Arianism and Arab polytheism?
@Michael_the_Drunkard i am not gonna argue with you.
But if they did accept Islam they would be unstoppable.
Ha "celibate" aka gay
Nope, they were actually serious about their Christian convictions.
Stop projecting your own degeneracy on historical figures!
Stop projecting your own fetishes on historical figures!
Projecting?
Serapeum Historia uploads - I watch. Simple as 🫡🫡
If you want to be a credible historian/history content maker then stop calling them byzantines,thats a fake name that was used long after they were gone,even as late as 1453 they were roman and everyone save for some in the west recognized them as such. Ave Roma.
That's like saying Mexicans started calling themselves Americans, after USA conquered them, and then USA collapsed.
Hehe
Eunuch names lakepenus hehehe