Information about the "Varangians" in the title : This music is telling about the Varangian Guards, which were mercenaries in the Eastern Roman Empire around mid 900s to 1200 or even early 1400s, while they are most active in late 900s and 1000s. Varangian Guards are Scandinavian, Vikings and Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, they were known to be so loyal to the emperor and protect the emperor at all cost as long they get paid (unlike their old counterparts Praetorian Guards). The Varangian Guards also helped Basil II to reconquest a huge part of lost territories of the Eastern Roman Empire, without the Varangian mercenaries Basil II probably couldn't finish his conquest. At the 1204 Sack of Constantinople, the Varangian guards fought at all cost against the Latin Crusaders but after the emperor fled they surrendered. In 1071 at the Battle of Manzikert the Varangians with emperor Romanos IV encircled by the Turkic Seljuks, they fought bravely to the end although the emperor was still captured.
@@alportex7461 There are various reasons besides the assumption that "the Turks were better", to why the romans lost on Manzikurt. Not only that but that very assumption is disproven when an extremely diminished empire under Alexios thrashed the Turks to the point where they almost took over all of Anatolia again.
Information about the "Varangians" in the title : This music is telling about the Varangian Guards, which were mercenaries in the Eastern Roman Empire around mid 900s to 1200 or even early 1400s, while they are most active in late 900s and 1000s. Varangian Guards are Scandinavian, Vikings and Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, they were known to be so loyal to the emperor and protect the emperor at all cost as long they get paid (unlike their old counterparts Praetorian Guards). The Varangian Guards also helped Basil II to reconquest a huge part of lost territories of the Eastern Roman Empire, without the Varangian mercenaries Basil II probably couldn't finish his conquest. At the 1204 Sack of Constantinople, the Varangian guards fought at all cost against the Latin Crusaders but after the emperor fled they surrendered. In 1071 at the Battle of Manzikert the Varangians with emperor Romanos IV encircled by the Turkic Seljuks, they fought bravely to the end although the emperor was still captured.
Turks were so strong there was nothing else to do
@@alportex7461Any empire has it golden ages and weak ages, and will eventually fall.
@@andravideostation6101 I agree
@@alportex7461 There are various reasons besides the assumption that "the Turks were better", to why the romans lost on Manzikurt. Not only that but that very assumption is disproven when an extremely diminished empire under Alexios thrashed the Turks to the point where they almost took over all of Anatolia again.
amazing i will put it in the gym list
NOS EMPIRE CHEVALERIE CAVELERIE XX SIÈCLES NOS SOEUR ARMER TOUJOURS JUSTICE DEPUIS LA NUIT DES TEMPS NOTRES CONTINENT
Good
i love roman music like this