This is awesome!!🙏🙌 , Can't wait for part 5 I'm definitely checking it out

@@forbesupnxlous8681 It's be release this Friday.

@@HistoryMarche why thank you kind sir 😅 watching part 4 at this very moment!!!

HistoryMarche keep these videos coming for all history periods. So good!!!!!

Please,do some episode about John Hunyadi

I hear ya boi

Okay

Dont forget about Invicta

@@pleb9243 he doesn't make videos like these often

Agreed

And taken too many debt, and forget to invest on administrative power to stabilize the court

When you find out that mercenaries can't be used for looting

The trick is to bankrupt the ottomans

Georg Korea As a matter of fact Mehai worsened the economy of the three principalities further :).

EU4!

HistoryMarche is finishing this series this month so expect a 5th vid soon 😉

Indeed

@@HistoryMarche Next week maybe?

Rodolfo Gaming bruh don’t spoil more happens. The story is only 400 years old

@@cinepost 2-3 days :)

That's awesome. :) I lived most of my life near Orasul de Floci (Piua Petrii), the birthplace of Mihai. My great grandmother is from there when the town was still existing.

what do you think of the man? very good at winning battles, but what about the overall picture? what do you think of him?

@@2ears1mouth786 The man had the heaviest balls in history.

@@2ears1mouth786 great military commander, but a horrible politician, those territories has never been truly united, it was impossible to erase thousands of years of foreign conquest and different political and personal interests in such a short time. He should have tried to gain the full trust of the peoples and the nobles from the three principalities before starting such a difficult and daring campaign, also the international situation was totally against him, the three great powers in the region were at peace with one another, and none of the three didn't wanted a strong Romanian country because was against their interests. If I have to describe him in one word I would use the word: reckless.

@Free Spirited Cat To achieve the unity of all the regions inhabited by the Romanians, a long campaign was needed to promote this idea and to obtain the support of the nobility and the citizens of these regions. Mihai, on the contrary, did the exact opposite, surpassing the inhabitants of both Wallachia and those of the other regions after unification, this led to the lack of support of their subjects. Also due to the apparent peace between the great powers of the region, it was very difficult to find allies, the only ones who supported him to a certain extent were the Habsburgs, in the first phase Mihai had to accept the sovereignty of Emperor Rudolf, at least until the new country would have stabilized. Also before the unification, after the successful campaign against the Ottomans in the first years of rule and the creation of some kind of stability in Wallachia, the country had to be restored militarily and economically. Also the excessive use of mercenaries for me is a problem, this has led to the weakening of the normal army, and also led to leaving the country a very large amount of money, money that could have been used to improve their own army.

For me, it's the quality of maps.

I'll take both... I'll take baz battles as well and extra credits it's just so good history in depth

@@ImBananas4 Yeah, I like them all too.

exactly

I liked the voice in the first episodes more🤷🏻‍♂️

Happens with a lot of generals. They win battles but they can't rule kingdoms. If these reforms are accurate then Mihai was destined to lose his control of the territory he recently conquered. And sooner or later you have to stop using mercenaries and need time to train your own troops. I'm guess he knew he was a wanted man from all of his neighbours and desperately tried to raise enough men to fight them all off. It is a losing strategy, and would never have worked. He needed someone to support him, just 1 neighbour. Difficult situation really.

Well good general terrible leader

@@chrisortiz8072 Hard to say terrible when the situation wouldn’t allow any other course of action.

@@Madhattersinjeans It honestly seems like the only way to survive this would be to kneel to one of his neighbours and ally themselves against the other 2.

He already told that he will release all the episodes before the end of january in the comments of the last video.

@@alexandrub8786 exactly

They betrayed our first king of the kingdom of romania we are a country of cowards instead of being united and become a great power in the region and that could go head to head with any of the great powers in the region this is our curse being cowards and traitors

Cârcu Costas Damn my Romanian niggas should have just stuck with the Ottomans I guess.

@@alexandrub8786 Doesn't the narrator pronounce the word 'Székely' incorrectly? Instead of the three-syllabled /ˈsekəli/, is it not supposed to be pronounced disyllabically, i.e. /ˈseɪkeɪ/?

Not if you read the comments,the next one should be out before the end of january if all goes acording to the plan.

@@alexandrub8786 boom!

Thanks for watching. Bajomir :) Episode 5 will be released in 2-3 days.

Wow, thanks for the suggestions and especially the books recommendation. Will definitely check it out! Cheers!

@@HistoryMarche If you'd like, I can send you a free PDF of Betzalel Bar-Kokhva's book. It's a really interesting book, and the only in-depth academic military history of the Maccabean Revolt I've ever found. EDIT: Here's the PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1mB68SO_dF2L4BThvSU5WzMLP140mus0q/view?usp=sharing Thanks for the reply. I love your videos, and keep up the good work!

@@yaitz3313 Wow, awesome thanks!!

@@yaitz3313 Thanks!

How is Mihai regarded in Romania? Is in the top 10, 5, 3 most regarded rulers?

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@@NimbleBard48 He actually got the 4th place on the 100 greatest romanians list. And if there was a list about only romanian leaders, he would've definitely got into top 3.

@@HistoryMarche You weren't kidding when you said that you'll finish the series before the end of the month.

@@alinalexandru2466 No, I'm never kidding. I don't have a sense of humor. Haha, just kidding. Yeah, there was so much awesome info that I didn't want to cut. But to include it all I had to make 3 additional episodes.

That's so kind of you. Thank you for watching.

Haha! Thank you sir.

Shut up hungarian

so you are a fan of Zelea Codreanu the mistical fascist? pfffff

I wish I would have known this history. I was in Alba Iulia on our second visit to Romania. I would have loved to seen the area where the battle took place.

@@MasterMalrubius i feel 3th visit in Romania?

@Historymarche, on the map, to the right of Miraslău, beyond the Mureș River there is a placed called Groapa Ungurului (the Hungarian pit). Through oral saying I found out that it is called like that because during the chaotic retreat of the Hungarians after the battle they were chased through that valley and killed there.

@@alexandrub8786 I would love to! I have not seen the Western area nor Moldova. I have seen much of the central area, Bucharest and even into Maramures. Perhaps a Vienna, Budapest and then to Timisoara, Cluj and surrounding area. Beautiful and underrated country.

3rd should be coming soon before then end of the month to wrap the series!

Honestly I always enjoy working with Great Courses Plus. Been their subscriber for years and I always love the chance to get my viewers a deal for a free trial.

Same

mount & blade tried something a little like that '.'

Episode 5 will be released in 2-3 days. So let it be written, so let it be done!

HistoryMarche hail!!!! Long live the channel!

Who is John Smith?

@@lupusdivinorum4673 The Pocahontas one.

But not the Disney one. Okay?

@@petergray2712 'Course not the Disney one. Thats the "family-friendly" version.

He knew Starina Novak!

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Thank you sir.

@@HistoryMarche I've been trying to submit lately translates to your video titles and descriptions, that's the least I can do to help you guys. Also disabled my adblock all together on your channel. Keep up the great work!

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The Romanians were vassal of ottoman empire. They did not fight agains them they fought with ottomans together many times, Hand by hand. They only paid tribute and they only fought if they had no more money the pay. It is the truth

@@GM-os6fo They fouht against ottomans, wtf are you nuts? Ah, yes, you're Hungayrian

@@GM-os6fo I think you should learn some history.

Giorgio Basta was the more skillful general.

Well, he was born in Taranto.

Well that explain the romanian expresion of "cu asta basta" eng:"with that basta"(literar translation), "basta with that"(more accurate translation)

Despite his Italian name and birthplace , I've heard he came from a family of Albanian stratiotis who had left Albania after the ottoman conquest

Epic History

I have at least a dozen animated military history channels saved, it's more than just 3. For example Hoc Est Bellum has some amazingly animated videos as well.

Historia civilitas

The Tetrarchy - Kings and Generals, History Marche, BazBattles and Epic History!!!!

The three principalities were at peace. Until their overlord ambitions changed the diplomatic conditions of their territories and all three soon began amassing large scale military assets. In order to counter each others influence on the region. They resorted to the viewers and subs within their domains to give them levy’s for further military superiority.

Next part will be a bittersweet one...

He'll win again, but this time with a sad twist...

@@alinalexandru2466 thanks for ruining it.

@@eyecred4153 thanks better info than the other guy who ruined it lool.

@@princegaraad7308 Sorry. But still I didn't say what exactly happens.

They were only great for wallachian nobles, the average romanian peasant suffered greatly from his ambitions

@@IchKomentiereNur123 Mihai played his cards the way he saw fit. Now we can all say he could have done some things different, but his accomplishments were valuable enough, given that his newly founded kingdom was surrounded by predators.

@@IchKomentiereNur123 The peasants suffered because he needed to gain the elite's favor to have even a chance to hold the powers back enough for peace,if there was peace and some stability then he would have improved them. Its easy to say he did that and he should have done that when you have hindsight but still dont provide better ideas,would you have done better? Most likely not +who how the situation really was.

@@mojewjewjew4420 Yeah so other people pay the price for your ambitions. I dont see how thats something to be celebrated. Im not denying that he was a talented commander and politican but in the end it was all self serving. You have to ask yourself for whom he did what he did and the awnser is clear. Kingdoms werent harmonious entities, in the end it was a oppressive feudal system that exploited peasants and made them serfs. I dont think they cared back then if it was a wallachian, german or polish noble who took their grain. Fact is they were better off with their previous oppressors than with Mihai.

@@IchKomentiereNur123 He didnt do it for himself primarly and even if he did,everyone did that so how is he worst? You are not romanian or from the region perhaps to understand + your too ignorant/lazy to search on the internet which tells you plenty of things he did,funny thing is he did more than you ever will but you say he did nothing. Another contradicting point of yours is that "they were better with their previous oppressors than with Mihai" man you either dont know history or are biased af,you on your own words said "previous oppressors" how can they be better with oppressors? Mihai wasn't a oppressor he taxed them because the country was in grave danger and so many others did the same but you condemn him without knowing the context,so your opinion is invalid. Funny you mention the feudal system when the system we use today is not different maybe its even the same with modern caracters which once again won't satisfy your biased views so you won't even do some research on the topic,the world didnt really change much we just adapted,improvized and overcame the test of time.

Final episode will be out in 2-3 days

Okay, it is up to you when you upload them, also considering how effective it is from the point of view of video views.

Thank you for watching.

Part 5 will be released in 2-3 days.

That's really fast looking forward to it :)

Part 5 will be released in 2-3 days.

@@HistoryMarche you truly do great job, quality of your videos are very high.if you do a video about medieaval georgia it would be great our history are too interesting and most in world dont know about us it was very difficult to save our religion and ethnicity in this region (in south two great Muslim empires in north nomadic people)

Thank you for watching.

History is beautiful as long as it is not used as a weapon against others.

The nordic and cathar crusades(agains other christians) would be interesting too.

Romanian Székely Ah yes! The battle om the ice. Very intresting aswell!

The battle of Gurăslău (sounds weirdly close to Mirăslău but its true) is probably the last episode of the series :(

@@stalinskaya9516 Yes, very probably. But I still assume that the Zamoyski's expedition of 1600 will be at least mentioned, as most of those episodes cover more than the "main event" in the title.

@@Artur_M. possibly the next episode showing the fallout from this defeat and the other interventions

@@Artur_M. Yes , what did happen to Romanians lead by Michael the Great ,to be attack and share by other great powers in 1600 ,same would happen unfortunetly to Poland when it would be partition by other evil great powers in the 18th century . So i think polish people know better what romanians have feel in 1600

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Part 5 will be released in 2-3 days.

HistoryMarche okay because I love all of your videos and your content

Thank you for watching. Part 5 will be released in 2-3 days.

@@HistoryMarche Can't wait!! Looking forward to it! Loved the great details. Way more detailed than the school books from 7th-8th grade ^_^

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Part 5 will be released in 2-3 days.

Part 5 will be released in 2-3 days.

I live 15 km from Guruslau,there is a big column with scenes from the battle drawed on it,i pass near it everyday i go to school

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@@HistoryMarche This is amazing. Too bad that in part 5 I'll witness the death of one of Romania's national heroes.

Chad

@@cv4809 see? Everyone is fan of Romania, even Chad, they love us and they copy our colors of the flag

Please do more videos too!!

@@alexwallachian7720 a new one is coming pretty soon!

@@hocestbellumchannel excellent looking forward!

Hey there my friend. I finally get a day off! Yes, Great Courses is an awesome service. I've been subscribed for years and I'm always glad when I can get a free trial for my subscribers.

Yep, I'm hyped for HEB's new video, it'll be a beast!

Gunit you need to read more

Well, I'm getting what you're saying to be more like a poetic statement, since this is ROMANian history, after all. But, in reality this unification, hardly has anything to do with the Roman Empire, other than the fact that Transilvania si actually the realm of the former Dacia Traiana.

Gunit Albania Rome was founded as a kingdom by Romulus. In total Rome had seven kings until the last king, Tarquin the Proud was overthrown and the Roman Republic was founded.

@Western Man Indeed, that's true.

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The Habsburgs' greed back then was unimaginable. They didn't just want to drive a wedge in the Ottomans' side - they wanted that wedge to be theirs and theirs alone, hence the direct conquests that came after 1683. Second biggest reason why we like them even less than the Ottomans (the biggest one being, obviously, Hungary). It's hard to have anything remotely resembling a positive view of the great powers of Europe in this time period, at least the ones that interacted with us. Yes, Poland, you too.

Ottoman army was still stronger than Rudolf II's and perhaps if Michael joined to a offensive war there could've been revolts which would've been harder to deal with. Also there is possibility of Rudolf II having to do "Imperial duties" as he was Holy Roman Emperor in that era. Of course, they could've asked for help from other nations against the rising threat but as the battle of Vienna proved in 1683 it wasn't easy to get strong enough allies back then. Then there is also possibility of Austria having a truce with Ottomans and truce breaker title isn't what a Holy Roman Emperor would want...

@@Kissakana Michael need time to stabilize his new kingdom but he need powerful supporter.

Mihai played all sides...eventually this bit him in the ass...

Rudolf was a pretender to Hungarian crown, and Tr was part of the old Hungarian kingdom. So he saw Tr his.

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I actually had to search for the word "bop" online. Learn something every day... :)

HistoryMarche love these replies ❤️

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@@HistoryMarche seems like I'm dreaming :)

Welcome to the channel.

@@HistoryMarche love it, oh and by the way i am an orthodox monk.... love such kind of videos. Originally i am from Iasi city of Moldavia, but i live in Aiud Transylvania near Miraslau

i downloaded your videos since i dont quite have all the time internet

@@mocanucatalincristi136 Hehe, no problem. Enjoy watching them :)

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Basta was not a green general. He was 50 at the time of this battle and had written several well known military theory books which inspired many generals of this age.

@@alexwallachian7720 Ok but was Mihai aware of his reputation?

@@barbiquearea He probably was, i mean if Michael's fame spread all the way to western europe i wouldnt find it surprising that the fame of Basta would reach Eastern Europe! And about Michael fighintg "green generals". Besides Andreas his opponents, espacialy Sinan Pasha, were of high quality, i dont think that Michael just "underestimated" Basta, im not saying he didnth he surely did, but he probably charged not because he was just reckless, he did it because a quick victory would mean A LOT for his internal and external problems!

@@barbiquearea i am not sure. But his fame would have been quite great at the time. Michael had mercenaries and commanders from italy, germany, wallonia, hungary etc it would have been hard for him not to know of Basta's fame. Fun fact, the famed english adventurer John Smith from Pocahontas was also a mercenary in Michael's army and later in the army of Radu Serban, his succesor. His life was crazy look it up.

That army was basically Saxons lead by Italians.

Feigned retreat.

Undoubtedly, it was the French Musketeers that haven't feigned at all, Michael the Brave gambled on their faces.

Seeing the composition of the troops, they probably were more skilled than a regular army assembled in haste. Flemish, saxon, Walloon, Italian, ... And not led by an Austrian either.

@@robinhoodtube6449 That was funny xD

lol

Yep... Either way, he fought like a beast.

You are correct, he was in Prague. But I placed him in Vienna because A) it's further south which makes it easier to keep everything in the frame of the camera and B) Vienna didn't differ too much from Prague and since Rudolf wasn't too central to the story so it, I just kept him in a location where he could be more visible together with Mihai.