8:25, there was an armenian princedom in just north of syria by the time of early crusades. they moved to the caucasuses (where their homelands were and already had a small but more defendable kingdom there) or to big cities as traders and crafters by the time turkish expansion into anatolia was about to finish.
8:54 Although there are some evidences that Armenians once inhabited today’s Turkish Mediterranean coast, it was insignificant element by 1919. In fact, British and French just wanted to cut Turks from Mediterranean Sea by any means. But they never realised these plans. Mainly because they did not decide to whom handed over these territories: to Armenians or to Kurds.
Great Video it's also important to remember the Landscape of Turkey it's very difficult to fight a War there it's quite a big country 80% of it is covered in mountains ,cold regions etc and it's sourounded by sea.
Congratz from Turkey! I've found your channel with your reaction to the "The Turkish Century" series and been watchin' your videos since. You may not have the best numbers for subs nor views but surely have some of the best quality reactions on the UA-cam. I can answer any questions of you 'bout our history btw, feel free to ask. I believe you'd succeed on the web, wish you the best luck and again "Tebrikler"!
Ancient Armenia actually held most of that Western land that is shown in the video, but last time they held it was around 428 AD, so it was a long time since they actually held much of that land.
2:01 there was actually a demilitiraztion agreement but eastern army refused to demilitiraze they were the ones who defeated armenia in the eastern front
Comparing Venizelos to Trump isn't exactly correct. Still regarded by many greeks as the most capable politician of modern Greece (even referred to as the "Ethnarch" which pretty much translates to father of the nation) the man was a top tier diplomat who more than doubled the greek territory during his various turns in office, a former revolutionary that pitched the island of Crete essentially against both the ottoman empire and the great powers and in the end managed to get concessions from them both in regards to higher autonomy from the ottoman empire and in the end a full union with Greece and last but not least, a major reformer (with laws varying from distribution of land to the people to the "idionymon" which was essentially an early anti communist law. The latter law remains a highly debated subject in Greece today) Personally I believe the biggest mistake we did was voting him out (fun fact: he won the popular vote by a slim margin, but Greece was following a electoral college-ish voting system at the time, and since the royalists won out in the major cities, in the end the venizelists lost). He knew how to run a country and was a true pragmatist. Once he was reelected after the Greco turkish war, instead of holding grudges he visited the Turkish Republic and shook hands with Kemal, showing a genuine interest in letting bygones be bygones and understanding that the era of the Megali Idea (The greek nationalist dream) was over. He was really good at maneuvering in the geopolitical scene, something you don't see from politicians nowadays
The sick man of Europe died and passed its illness onto the other empires.
The power took bite of the infected food
8:25, there was an armenian princedom in just north of syria by the time of early crusades. they moved to the caucasuses (where their homelands were and already had a small but more defendable kingdom there) or to big cities as traders and crafters by the time turkish expansion into anatolia was about to finish.
8:54
Although there are some evidences that Armenians once inhabited today’s Turkish Mediterranean coast, it was insignificant element by 1919.
In fact, British and French just wanted to cut Turks from Mediterranean Sea by any means. But they never realised these plans.
Mainly because they did not decide to whom handed over these territories: to Armenians or to Kurds.
Great Video it's also important to remember the Landscape of Turkey it's very difficult to fight a War there it's quite a big country 80% of it is covered in mountains ,cold regions etc and it's sourounded by sea.
Congratz from Turkey! I've found your channel with your reaction to the "The Turkish Century" series and been watchin' your videos since. You may not have the best numbers for subs nor views but surely have some of the best quality reactions on the UA-cam. I can answer any questions of you 'bout our history btw, feel free to ask. I believe you'd succeed on the web, wish you the best luck and again "Tebrikler"!
Oh wait, I guess you've never watch the Turkish Century series. Sorry 'bout that I guess I have mistaken. I highly recommend tho!
Haven't watched it yet but I'll add to the list!
Ancient Armenia actually held most of that Western land that is shown in the video, but last time they held it was around 428 AD, so it was a long time since they actually held much of that land.
2:01 there was actually a demilitiraztion agreement but eastern army refused to demilitiraze they were the ones who defeated armenia in the eastern front
In the next video of this series, I dare you to get an AI composite photo of President Trump and Eleftherios Venizelos. That would be awesome.
Comparing Venizelos to Trump isn't exactly correct. Still regarded by many greeks as the most capable politician of modern Greece (even referred to as the "Ethnarch" which pretty much translates to father of the nation) the man was a top tier diplomat who more than doubled the greek territory during his various turns in office, a former revolutionary that pitched the island of Crete essentially against both the ottoman empire and the great powers and in the end managed to get concessions from them both in regards to higher autonomy from the ottoman empire and in the end a full union with Greece and last but not least, a major reformer (with laws varying from distribution of land to the people to the "idionymon" which was essentially an early anti communist law. The latter law remains a highly debated subject in Greece today)
Personally I believe the biggest mistake we did was voting him out (fun fact: he won the popular vote by a slim margin, but Greece was following a electoral college-ish voting system at the time, and since the royalists won out in the major cities, in the end the venizelists lost). He knew how to run a country and was a true pragmatist. Once he was reelected after the Greco turkish war, instead of holding grudges he visited the Turkish Republic and shook hands with Kemal, showing a genuine interest in letting bygones be bygones and understanding that the era of the Megali Idea (The greek nationalist dream) was over. He was really good at maneuvering in the geopolitical scene, something you don't see from politicians nowadays