10:14 should be 1853-1856

In the 1800s the Ottomans were a weak and failed state compared to the other powers of Europe, but the people of the Balkans were still firmly under their rule. Russia's wars were instrumental in driving the Ottomans out of the Balkans, especially Bulgaria. Despite what the media says, most people here are grateful to the Russians to this day. Some say that Russia didn't do this out of humanism and had imperial interests in the Balkans. This is undeniable. Nevertheless, the freedom of the Balkans is still a direct consequence of Russia's wars with the Ottomans.

England and France desperately preventing Christendom from reclaiming Constantinople is tragic.

Western chauvinists always like to ignore and downplay the role russia played in fighting the ottomans. The fact the turks no longer control the balkans is always attributed to poland whom did win one great battle against the ottomans at vienna, but the fact russia won 11 wars against the ottomans including the war of 1878 which effectively sealed the fate of the ottoman empire, is completely ignored.

Constantinople: *falls* Russians: And we took that personally.

"Ivan the Terrible shut down the slave markets" He wasn't that terrible I guess😂

Calling the Duchy of Moscow "small" is quite a severe understatement. But otherwise, you have no idea how happy I am to see an english speaking channel talk about the Russo-turkish wars, the most underrated conflicts of the modern period.

You are missing important point. After invasion of Moscow in 1571 as you mentioned, Crimean khan decided to do it again in 1572 but suffered devastating defeat. Crimea lost all its manpower and for the next 20 years could not repeat any invasion (until 1591). As a result Ottoman Empire gave up any attempt to return any influence on the territories of Astrakhan and Kazan.

My man there was NO Ukraine! This word means “frontier” in Russian

Wow... so pretty much Russia freed most of Eastern Europe

If it was not for the British, Constantinople would be Christian today…

Imagine how would the map look like if France and UK didn't intervene in Eastern European affairs.

The Russian Empire was not “controlling Ukraine”! “Ukraine” was just a term used for border-most regions of the Empire. That territory was part of the Russian Empire since forever (with the exception of the lands stolen from Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.

"Controlling Ukraine" like it was its own country to begin with 😂😂😂

Glory to the Tzar 🇷🇺

Russia did not control Ukraine. The regions of Russia located on the border were called "Ukraine". Siberia was also "Ukraine".Therefore, it sounds stupid that Russia controlled itself in Ukraine

This is quickly becoming my favorite history channel! Keep it up!

So, we had 2 pairs of the "best friends ever": England and France, Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire.

wow this is well produced! looks awesome! keep it up! glad the algorithm offered me this channel. well done!

Ottoman joined these wars knowing they will lost. The purpose was not to win but to not surrender

The production quality alone makes it deserving of more views.

It's a dman shame that British and French prevented Constaninople from becoming a Christian city again. A betrayal even

Amazing video production. Now it's about when a video will blow up, don't give up while you can continue! A like for me

This needs WAY more views. Very good editing job!

This channel truly deserves better, nice job!

Very well explained, the production quality is insane.

This is a great overview, I’m gonna show this to my students. Very easy to follow!

I just want to add something: In 1804 Serbs rose against the Ottomans, first against the oppressive local Janissary leaders (Dahi(je)) and afterwards against the Ottoman empire as a whole. In 1806 both sides were ready to sit down have talks and sign... something. But Serbs were encouraged by the Russian promise of intervention to fall back on the talks and continue fighting - which they did, sometimes even jointly until 1812 when Russians withdrew expecting Napoleon's invasion. The isolated Serbian rebels lasted until 1813.

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Russia did not have a population smaller than the Ottomans - at least not from the 17th century, when it finally began to gain ground. It had a less robust economy and a much less organized state in the start, yes, but they managed to control strategic points, had a huge manpower, and a vastness of natural resources that far surpassed the Ottomans. I think a comparison is necessary here. First, the Ottomans. Its state was organized as a Caliphate. The administrative structure was extremely decentralized, local governments had wide autonomy - being, in many cases, virtually independent, taxation was limited, and the state depended on loyalty bonds that were not exactly stable. The centralizing force of the state of expressed mainly by the army - which depended on a tight budget and defended one of the largest and most contentious borders on the planet. The bet on the creation of elite bodies within the army has created a serious problem, which was somewhat recurring since the time of the Abbasids: the military elite bodies became an elite in themselves, and often acted as the true depositaries of power. Muscovy was a Tsardom. Organized according to the format of the extinct Byzantine bureaucracy, with touches of Slavic autocracy and Mongol capillarity. An extremely centralized state, it did not admit the self-government of his domains, and used a typically Tartar technique of conquest: Sending emissaries, which gradually obtained concessions and influence, until the point that they could simply ostracize local elites, and replace them by its own. Loyalty had its rewards, and rebellion implied in ruin. Using the mass of free man from of the border zones, Muscovy turned them into a warrior aristocracy - the Cossacks - willing to expand the Muscovite domains in exchange for their respective share. Serving as a buffer between the attacks of the Muslims of Crimea and the Caucasus, they also dominated one of the most fertile zones in the world, the Pontic Steppe. Geography was another important factor. The Ottomans had access to two oceans, but these oceans were not intercommunicable, and the lack of supply stations between the Mediterranean and Arabian Sea made military fleet transit an impractical task. In the end, two great fleets had to be administered independently. Although maritime transport was a rule, the few waterways within the Ottoman territory were completely disconnected from each other, forcing the much less reliable and efficient land transport in several long stretches. The mobility of military forces was a logistical nightmare, so that the state began to give more preference to fixed garrisons - which, in the rare times of peace, were enough; but in the frequent times of war, were ineffective. Muscovy, in another hand, had a myriad of rivers, which with relative ease linked the ends of its increasingly expansive territory. From the rods of Moscow to the bowels of Siberia, garrisons, supplies and goods could easily move. The conquest of Siberia was smoothly, not only for the technical superiority of the Muscovites, but by the logistical superiority. Venice, in this age, was called Mare Regina; Moscow very well could call herself Flumens Regina. It was a potamic power; a Leviathan swimming in rivers. The irrigated plain was only interrupted by the Ural Mountains, and continued beyond, enabling the full expansion to the East. Not everything were blossoming flowers for Moscow. The conquest of Siberia greatly strengthened Muscovite rule, but there was a fundamental weakness in the West: the Great European Plains. The same vastness that enabled Muscovites to subdue Tartars, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Mordovians, Maris, and opened Asia to the Russians, also allowed the Ottoman and Poles to attack the heart of their domains without resistance - which they repeatedly did, respectively sacking Moscow (1571) and launching Muscovy in an interregnum (1598-1613). And there comes the Cossacks. Descendants of free farmers of the extinct Russiya Zemlya, which was essentially erased by the brutal Mongol invasion, they were warriors shaped by the absolute anarchy. In their Orthodox faith, they would see Tsar as a liberator from the yoke of the Turkish Heathen and the Polish Heretic. In the 17th century, they would operate as a true living wall around Muscovy, gradually becoming the tide of Ruthenian Plains. As the Left-Bank Ukraine swears loyalty to Tsar in 1648, Muscovy acquires a powerful natural border in the Dnieper, also isolating Crimea. We analyzed The Statecraft and Geography. Now let's go to the economy. On the surface, at least, it seems that the Ottoman had a substantial advantage. But this is merely on the surface. As we have seen, Russia had better logistics integration, thanks to the wide river network. On the other hand, the mercantile and manufacturing class were small and distant from power centers. Economic power rested in the landed aristocracy - the boyars and the Cossacks, and the bulk of productivity was agrarian. The Russian economy was essentially agrarian, except by the exploration and trade of skins and wood in deep interior. It would be these same boyars that, in the course of Muscovy's reforms and its transformation into the Russian Empire, would fill the positions of manufacturers and industrialists, this time directing efforts to exploit the huge natural resources on the Russian territory. The Ottomans, on the other hand, reversed this pyramid. A strong mercantile class, manufacturing guilds, and extreme weakness in the agrarian class. The problem is that this same economically weak class composed a significant part of the economically active population. Due to the manipulation of interests, and the constraints that the Sharia imposes on taxation, a solution found to maximize the budget was to increase taxes on agrarian production, which essentially nullified the profitability of agricultural activity. Those who did not live on subsistence would hardly realize any advantage in producing food and inputs in surplus. Unless the farm was linked to a supply chain as a direct supplier (for example, a weaving workshop that raise sheeps), high productivity would hardly generate profits - which encouraged low productivity and reduced the rural manpower. In continuous stagnation, the Ottoman agrarian class has never had the slightest chance of experiencing the transition from estate to industry. As they could not accumulate capital, they had nothing to invest, nor could ever dream of competing with the established guilds. The contrast was invisible in the seventeenth century, noticeable in the eighteenth century, and stark in the nineteenth century. While Metternich foresaw a future world order led by Russia and the United States, due to the sheer size of their manpower, natural resources, waterways and fertile lands, the Sublime Porte had turned into the Sick Man.

Nice overview. Thanks!

Great video. The British and French were seriously misguided in defending the Ottomans from Russia during the 19th century. In the 1850s, instead of propping up the collapsing Turks during the Crimean war, the British and French should have let Russia capture Constantinople and then taken the Middle East for themselves - which they did anyway during and after WW1. Constantinople would again have been restored to great south east European and Orthodox Christian city that it once was and should be again..

Turkish cope in these comments is off the charts, what kind of excuse is "they were occupied with other conflicts", or "they were never alone", as if the Russian state wasn't in a near constant state of crisis and being raided non stop by several hordes, or as if the ottomans were never shrewd when they allied france, the most dominant european power until the rise of the late british and russian empires

Quite an extensive amount of conflicts between the two nations occurred in the Caucuses, it would've been great if you covered that as well

Great video. What do you use for animation? I'm quite impressed by the quality

Great stuff

Such an underrated channel.

Other than one minor mistake at 10:13 I think this is a great video. Can't wait to see more!

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Nice video keep it up love your content

Incroyable vidéo. Elle va remettre des vérités en place aux yeux de certains. Merci la Russie de nous avoir sauvé de ces barbares plusieurs fois. 🙏🏻🇷🇺💖

Broooo we were sooo close to taking Konstantinople several times😭 And if it weren't for the darn red revolution, we would have gotten it in 1918...

which video editor program do you use for this awesome work?

Nice video good qualty keep up the good work👍

I sense a good future for your channel god willing.

What I was amazed with is how you included the politics and excuses to invade each other. Very useful for what's going on nowadays.

Awesome stuff man. Little thing. You got the dates for the Crimean war a century off lol

Underrated channel

Keep makin videos man. This shit is fire

@HistoryMarche sent me hear and I'm not disappointed!

Ottoman Empire in 15 century: we are powerful Ottoman Empire now : selling Donnar kebab in Germany and selling the Turkish ice cream

Interesting and amazing.

I admire your production of this high quality content but it lacks some minor additions like showing more dates when historical events are talked about

Well done 👍

Please background Music from 4:30 ?? :(

Yet Ottomans still outlived Tsardom

i hate the name Ivan the Terrible, Should be more like "Ivan the Ferocious". He is one of the top 5 leaders throughout all of Russian history.

Nice video, very good being made

Nice history lesson but, how did they do it?

This channel has potential 🧐

A totally not biased title

This is an awesome video! I can't wait to see more! Also your voice is amazing, reminds me of history marche and kings and generals mixed together. God bless you my friend!

Great!

Correction on the Crimean war the Ottomans joined as well on the battlefield.

You should use different colours for the countrys

Ottoman empire was not a nation. Greeks and Turks are not the same nation

Turks - me against all of you .

Great Documentary

If now NATO get attacked then i don't think Turkey will go to war against Russia. Both sides finally realized after 500 years that they should stop fighting each other and focus on their real opportunistic enemies.

My Respect for Russia: 📈📈📈

Remember 1856. Ottomans kicked Russians out of Crimea . Anglo Saxons shouldn't bother themselves to persuade people about gistory according to their "own" point of wiev . British history writing sucks as it is too poor . When they lose- for example Canakkale Wars - they tend to tell it like "Turks stayed firm there" or "Biritish army chief decided to leave" instead a single "We lost so bad" 😂.

I think u should make another video and its name should be how ottoman empire humiliated europeans over and over again

So the reason Turkey hasent been Russia for a few hundred years are other Europeans. Didnt know that

Because the ottomans are the most overrated empire in human history. All through out ottoman history, all their major victories came from outnumbering the enemy 100-1 and still barely winning these battles and wars. They absolutely sucked at war

Ottomans: breath on balkans Russia: declaration of war

You forgot to add how Peter the "Great" bribed Ottoman generals to let him go after the disastrous Pruth campaign.

Except for 3 wars, Russians had the courage to confront the Turks with their European friends.

Say can you do one with the Spanish and Aztecs when Hernan Cortez and many native tribes united against them

So in a nutshell, can the ottoman empire survive by its own? -NO! Absolutely not, they depend on their british masters, like simps

GIVE US MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what is up with these colors for the map?

Tsardom of Russia: "We've won and freed ourselves from the Mongol yoke! We are the master of the [Eurasian steppe]!" House of Osman: "You think [Eurasian steppe] is your ally. But you merely adopted it; I was born in it, molded by it" Tsardom of Russia: "You've forsaken your root, old man. Now I'll teach you a lesson."

* Janissaries are in fact Yeniçeris (Janicheries) But someone in history decided to pronounciate it wrong, and rest of the history followed. ** Constantinople was officially Istanbul after 1453. Calling Istanbul Constantinople in 1600s is like calling Sankt Petersburg Petrograd in 2023, or Leningrad in 1400. A rookie mistake, or wishful thinking idk. Old names of Istanbul are Constantinople, Byzantion, Tsarigrad, Lygos etc. Turks also used to call it "Kostantiniyye"(around 10th-15th Cen). But names change so we must adapt. *edit: sorry for being that guy, actually video is great explanatory document, keep up the good work, and one love, Stew 😶‍🌫

Can you please explain the term "new Bulgarian state" ?

Question: *"How Russia humiliated the Ottoman Empire over and over again?"* Answer: *"They kept letting their cats scratch up the furniture."*

It's basically the clash between the old and the new. The Ottomans have the overwhelming numbers when it comes to sending armies, in cases like the battles of Kozludzha, Kagul, Rymnik, Izmail, and Slobozia where they severely outnumbered the Russians. The problem is their Islamic beliefs always promoted the mentality of the ghazi, mobarizun and mujahideen were annihilating the enemy is seen as an individual affair intended to please Allah, a race to whoever pleases Allah the most, rather than a team effort, therefore there is this tendency that their attacks were huge but disorganized and disorderly, making them prone to coordinated attacks and counterattacks by the Russians who employed group unit tactics imported from the officers it hired from France, Germany and Sweden. We can see the same shit happening generations later during the Battle of Omdurman where the British and Egyptians annihilated a fanatical Mahdist Sudanese army twice their size with almost no casualty to their own. Perhaps the only unit that the Ottomans utilized group unit tactics were the Janissaries but they too were inured by the Islamic mobarizun mentality inasmuch that they saw combat by the scimitar sword as more honorable than using the musket which they labelled dishonorable and sometimes even haraam, not to mention the average Ottoman musket while having the longer range is heavier than Russian muskets making them unwieldy and slow to use and reload. The Russians did use melee tactics but they did it on concerted effort coordinated between units employing various formations and manned by disciplined soldiers. When it comes to artillery, the Ottomans also have the numerical advantage and their pieces are heavier in caliber than the Russians. But they too have drawbacks in that, in the age before the rifling mechanism was conceived, huge cannons take way too long to load not to mention prone to overheating which causes them to explode freakishly and unexpectedly, resulting to many cases where the Ottomans stopped firing their artillery battery altogether prematurely and without much effect. Meanwhile, the Russians are utilizing light caliber cannons which could be easily transported on horse carriages and be used anywhere wherever the commander needed, the same tactic that Frederick the Great used that made him won many battles and catapulted Prussia into a great power. So it's unsurprising that the Janissaries rebelled when the sultans decided to dismantle them and replace then with a full-time professional army same as the Europeans had. Many of them saw the act as un-Godly and un-Islamic, but there isn't really much they could do at that point lest they risk losing Constantinople decades before the Crimean War even begins.

Hello as Muslim i understand you don't mean any intention to disrespect us , but i want to pointed out something that we Muslim don't put anything else over the Qur'an book no matter what it is except another Qur'an book , because it's one of holiest book that have high value to us , so please i kindly ask you in any next videos don't put things like weapons swords or anything in your animation above the Qur'an and thank you , such amazing video

The treaty of Nis didn't lead to the loss of Azov to the Russians: Got no idea where that comes from. What the treaty actually stated was that the Russians would be allowed to construct a trade port at Azov, but it was to be devoid of any warships or garrison--and of course, no fortifications. Azov remained a Turkish vassal. In effect, the Ottomans granted trade rights/concessions to the Russians, and nothing else. If anything, the terms favored the Turks, as the port was still surrounded by Turkic territory, and trade could be regulated to an extent. Further, the Russians were to abandon all claims to Moldavia and Crimea, as per the same treaty. The reason the terms were so favorable to the Turks was that the Russians were faced with the prospect of a two-front war with both the Ottomans and Swedes, without Austrian support. Why? Well, people forget this, but the Austro-Turkish war that was being waged at the same time (1737-1739) ended with a decisive Ottoman victory: they'd actually recaptured Belgrade, which would remain Turkish into the 19th century (save for a brief occupation from 1789-1791), and the Austrians had to cede their Serbian and Oltenian conquests as per the Treaty of Belgrade; in return, the Turks recognized the Hapsburgs as the protectors of the Christians in Turkish lands. This defeat, coupled with the simultaneous effort in the War of Polish Succession, left the Austrian Army and finances in very poor shape by 1740. Very important for the outcome of the Silesian Wars that were to soon break out. Azov wasn't seized for good until the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774--so the same conflict ended with the loss of the Crimea. Only then could they build their desired Black Sea Fleet, though soon Sevastopol would gain prominence as the main Russian Black Sea naval base, after the annexation of the Crimean in 1783, as you correctly note.

More like how they humiliated each other.

Many of today's Turks are not actually Turks. They are Turkified Europeans and Anatolians and have little to no relation to the Turks that migrated to Anatolia.

Extremely one sided video

History marche brought me here

Video was great but the city is called Istanbul for nearly 600 years. So , please correct this in your next video :)

8:50 The ottomans balkan colonies?. The balkans were a part of the ottoman empire itself and not colonies.

now do a video of how the the TATAR turks humiliated Russia over and over for centuries before this.

How many times we gotta teach you a lesson old man?

Continue

Russia Empire: We have caveman tools Ottoman empire: We have byzantine technology

Objectivity might be very challenging goal to achieve when it comes to historical narration. Russian empire was not the only challenge that faced the Ottomans as your viewers might think after watching this video. As you mentioned the different challenges that faced Russian Empire, you didn't shed light on the complexity and culturally diverse nature of the Ottoman Empire or the different challenges and wars they had in the south as Ottoman-Mamluk War and/or Ottoman Safavid war.

In history class they taught us first war Ottoman lost was against Russia.It was the first agreement they signed that was not in Turkish.Also Ottomans kept losing to Russia continuosly.