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A lesser known fact about him is that he was played by Antonio Banderas in the movie “The 13th Warrior.”

We the Tatars respect this man very much. The territory of Idel Bulgaria and the city of Bolghar, Bilär are part of today’s autonomous country of Tatarstan. Bashkort people he met are highly likely the ancestors of Bashkort people living today in Bashkortostan; Jaiyq/Cayıq is the river in today’s Bashkortostan and Kazakhstan. As an Idel/Volga Tatar Turkic, I learned about him and his long and marvelous journey when I was a kid. I’m glad that more people are exploring this topic right now! Cheers! Räxmät!

"Unfortunately because of the Khazar presence ... they had to go the long way around." Well, obviously. You can't Fast Travel when enemies are around, after all.

Ibn Fadlan rahimullah was an amazing traveller may Allah grand him Jannah for his great expeditions he even had contact with Rus Vikings :)

Ibn Battuta: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!

"Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton is a fun book based on the adventures Ibn Fadlan. It's a largely fictional story but written very well.

This is a well done video. My only question is, how do you come to the conclusion that the described "Bashkirs" (which actually are a still existing Kipchak-Turkic ethnicity) might be the early forefathers of the Hungarians, the Magyars (which are supposed to be a Finno-Uralic ethnicity and by modern historical estimates be placed somewhere in western Khazar territory near Crimea on their way to their modern homeland in Hungary by that age)?

I like it when you show the travels on maps. It gives us a good picture of the journey and geography. Loved the video! That's the only area of improvement I'd suggest. 😊

His work is one of the earliest sources on ancient Russia and the first Arab account describing non-Muslims. In a section entitled ‘al-Rus’, Ibn Fadlan describes his encounter with a band of traders, west of the river Volga. Little would he have known that centuries later his observations would place him as an important source in piecing together the early history of Russia and its people, about which there is still no clear consensus.

Wasn't this the guy that Antonio Banderas character was based on in The Thirteenth Warrior?

If Ibn Fadlan was the greatest medieval traveler what does that make Ibn Battuta?

Love from Baghdad ❤

This channel is just hit after hit after hit. Thank you so much for your hard work.

Its quite astonishing how big muslim empiers where.

What an amazing video! A topic never touched on much

These explorers' chronicles are wonderful! can't wait for more

Fantastic episode. Really love the stories from people traveling to foreign lands in the pre modern era. Since they are not immensed in the culture and most things are as alien to them as us, you get a very interesting insight. I recomend voices of the past for more of these tales.

Awesome topic, incredible video, ultra awesome illustrations, my congrats to the talented artist 🐎

If you all haven’t already, I highly recommend watch The 13th Warrior. It’s absolutely amazing

Legit one of my,favourite topics to teach on!

He was the teacher for Chechens, Tatars, Bashkirs, Dagestanis, and other muslim people of Russia 🇷🇺 Federation.

"Icy, cold land of darkness" They discovered New Jersey this early?

I see some people arguing that Battuta was a greater traveller than Fadlan, would remind you that there are 4 centuries between the two hence Battuta had better conditions to travel

Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job

If you are into Turkic history, he is very important source for medieval Turks. It gives a lot of information about Turkic tribes such as Khazar, Bulgar, Karluk, Oghuz etc.

Another epic episode, great work 👏

Always a great journey in history. ✨

Masterpiece! Please also do a documentary about the greatest traveller of all times,Ibn Batuta.Thanks.

Loved it thanks for the video

Thank you for Kings and Generals for posting these videos. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. A less known facts in history. I learned lot of things from you. Also i noted down some details. Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Top notch. No exceptions. I simply love this channel.

Seeing rhinoceros on the Volga is strange because I remember similarl strange stories that deals with a woolly rhinoceros being part of the fauna in late antiquity and at the beginning of the medieval age. Sarmatians hunting them on horse and such, and that the unicorn is an ancestral remembrance of this powerful and very dangerous animal. Of course, I know they disappeared millennia ago, but the story was weird enough that it stuck with me.

Very captivating! I enjoy all your videos! Please also cover about Ibn Battuta. I first heard about him from the educational animation, Procidis.

That was awesome. Thanks.

The ship was burnt on land and a mound was constructed on top of it... The visuals here indicate the Hollywood Viking burial

Actually Bashkorts (Russian Bashkirs) are real people and real nation living in modern Bashkortastan. They are Turks of Kipchak origin the people let's say between Tatar and Kazakh.

Great video! Love these little vingets y'all are doing.

Love ur videos dude, really informative.

Really interesting video. I did not know a lot of that information

An excellently done video. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

interesting history. The ending seemed familiar. seemed very reminiscent of the begining of the film 'the Thirteenth Warrior'. which I now know is based on a book by Michael Crichton who was clearly inspired by both Ibn Fadlan and Beowulf. the things you learn eh.

10:55 i love how King abdulaziz is casually standing there. Great video as always

Such a fascinating story. Worthy of a movie.

great work

"My name is ahmad ibn fadlan ibn al-abbas ibn rashid ibn hamad" "what's his name?" "ibn.."

This guy from my city baghdad, make sure to watch warrior 13

What a king. There should definetly be a full show made about him.

Thanks for very good history

His chronicler was discovered in a library located in Iran by a Turkish 19th century scholar

Great video ! The Rus story is a fairly well known story in the islamic world, and unique account as to what those pagan tribes customs were.

Great video!! K&G❤🖤

Very vivid and interesting story.

Really impressive story. Can you guys do Algirdas next? He made Lithuania a powerhouse.

Between the movie about Ahmad ibn Fadlan and Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta, which one will people prefer between these two? This question also extended to the members of the team of this channel as well.

Love from Bangladesh.☺️☺️

Would love more videos on the history and culture/customs of the bulgars, both volga and danubian, as well as earlier

That's well done video and the story it can be wonderful movie .

Such a great show

Excellent comprehensive coverage i have read the book Land of Darkness based on Ahmad ibn e Fadlan diary notes also Hollywood has made a beautiful movie 13th warrior on the subject

Enjoyed this very much. I have read this book and recommend it. The late Michael Crichton wrote a fictional extension and conclusion of Fadlan’s adventures, “Eaters of the Dead”. It was also made into a movie, “The Thirteenth Warrior”. I recommend them. Although fictional they are exciting adventures.

Ahmad Ibn Fadhlan: My name is Ahmad Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad. Herger the Joyous: Eben? Ahmad Ibn Fahdlan: No, listen, My name is Ahmad Ibn Fahdlan. "Ibn" means "son of". Herger the Joyous: Eben.

I'd say that Ibn Fadlan's journals should be made into a TV series but we wll know Netflix, Amazon, etc. would ruin it

I have read the book . Thanks for resuming it .

🟩🟩🟩 a very nice video... I hope that the next one will be about the journey of Afoqai alhajari, which is the adventure of a Spanish Muslim escaping from the Inquisition courts and his travels to France and the Netherlands

Good content

Great video! Really interesting topic.

Awesome

You did a video on Bar Sauma. You did one on Ibn Fadlan. Now you absolutely HAVE GOT to do one on Benjamin de Tudela!

Beautiful 💓

1:05 Why is the Hagia Sophia post Ottoman conquest shown as a representative of 10th century Baghdad?

Lo, there do I see my father. Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers. Lo, there do I see the line of my people, Back to the beginning! Lo, they do call to me. They bid me take my place among them, In the halls of Valhalla! Where the brave may live forever

A great video would be about the Ummayad Abdul Rahman Al Nasser who ran away from the Abbasids when he was 11 years old and stayed in Tunisia for a couple of years then ruled Spain for about 30-40 years and has done a great job building Cordoba mosque and Al Hambra as well as defeating the vikings.

abusing my early access to beat you all into making a 13th warrior reference.

And I was just in the mood to revisit Eaters of the Dead. 😻

Reminds me of the movie “13th Warrior”

As an iraqi, I feel proud of our great history

Great video....Ibn fadlan is my favorite traveler other than Vasco da gama and Ibn batuta...

How civilised islam was in that time compare to europeans

This dude deserves his own Netflix series like Marco Polo.

New artstyle 🙌

I feel like I just watched the prequel to the movie "the 13th warrior" and seriously wonder if this real traveller was the inspiration for that tale. Great video!

This should be made into a movie !

A few days ago I read the pdf of the travelogue. I'm glad you're dealing with this topic. next one ibn battuta or Marco Polo ?

The endangered Chuvash language is the only living representative of the Bulgar branch, the earliest offshoot of Proto-Turkic (PT), which is in many respects opposed to the Common Turkic (CT) languages. Evidence from Chuvash is of vital importance in reconstructing Proto-Turkic, particularly its phonology. Chuvash represents characteristic features of the Bulgar branch, such as two types of rhotacism (PT *ŕ > CT /z/, Bulg. /r/; PT *δ > Bulg. /r/ with /j/, /d/, /t/ and /z/ in different subgroups of CT), lambdacism (PT *λ > CT /š/, Bulg. /l/), the “Bulgar palatalization” (PT *s- > Bulg. /š-/ and PT *t- > Bulg. /č-/ in certain contexts) etc. (Dybo 2010; Róna-Tas & Berta 2011). These correspondences provide a more complete reconstruction of the Proto-Turkic phonological system.

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13:43 Damn I didn’t know Ibn Fadlan met Obi Wan Kenobi

The point that Ibn Fadlan story reaches us means he was able to get back home

‏‪14:10 This did put a smile on my face too

for those who dont know..the movie 13th warrior is based on this character (based in turn on the book "eaters of the dead'

Yeah its great to be well traversed, journeyed, adventured, refined, redefined, and savy

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That would of been one crazy movie!

Well done! Very interesting. Could you make a video about the battle of Cochim??? Portuguese and indians.

Unfortunately, Volga Bulgaria with a rich and long history is now under Russian occupation.

Interesting

Can you do a video on the steppe just before/after the Göktürk conquests?

You forgot the part where the Angel of Death makes him the 13th warrior and he has to travel to the north to help save king Rothgar's kingdom from the Eaters of the Dead.

The Bulgars were a Turkic tribal confederation that gave rise to the Balkan Bulgar and Volga Bulgar states. The ethnonym derives from the Turkish bulgha-, "to stir, mix, disturb, confuse." The confederation appears to have taken shape among Oghur tribes in the Kazakh steppes following the migrations that were touched off by movements of the Hsiung-nu. Later Byzantine sources (Agathon, Nicephorus Patriarchus, Theophanes) closely associate or identify the Bulgars with the Onoghurs, who were enemies of Sassanid Iran in the late 4th century. When or how this connection developed is unclear. If we discount several (most probably) anachronistic notices on the Bulgars in Moses Kliorenats'i (Moses of Chorene), the earliest references to them are perhaps to be found in an anonymous Latin chronograph of 354: "Vulgares." They are absent from Priscus's account of the migration, ca. 463, of the Oghuric Turks into the Pontic steppes, but by 480 they are noted under their own name as allies of Constantinople against the Ostrogoths. Amity with Byzantium was short-lived. By 489 the Bulgars had initiated a series of raids on Byzantine Balkan possessions. Their habitat, at this stage, appears to have been in the eastern Pontic steppes stretch-ing into the Azov region and North Caucasus. It is here that Jordanes and Pseudo-Zacharius Ithetor place them in the mid-6th century. Shortly afterward, they were overrun and subjugated by the Avars and then the Turks. When Turk rule weakened, sometime after 600, the Avars appear to have reestablished some control over the region. It was against Avar rule that the Bulgars-under their leader Qubrat, whom Heraclius had been cultivating for some rime (he and his uncle were baptized in Constantinople to 619)-revolted ca. 631-632 and founded the Onoghundur-Bulgar state. Some time after Qubrat's death (660s), this Pontic - Maeotun Bulgaria, whose Balkan descendents would also claim Attilid origins, came into conflict with the Khazar khaganate, successor to the Turk empire in western Eurasia. The Khazars emerged victorious from the contest, and parts of the Bulgar union broke up and migrated. One grouping under Asperukh in 679 crossed the Danube into Moesia and, having subjugated a local Slavic confederatton, there laid the foundation for the Balkan Bulgarian state. Yet other groups joined the Avar state in Pannonia (where some would prove to be rebellious subjects or took up restience in Italy around the five Rasennate cities, to live as Byzantine subjects.The other Bulgars either remained in the Pontic steppe zone the (the “Black Bulgars” of Byzantine and Rus’ sources) or later migrated (perhaps as early as the mid-7th century or as late as the mid-8th to early 9th century) to the middle Volga region, giving rise there to the Volga Bulgarian state, which remained, however a vassal of the Khazars. Balkan Bulgaria soon became an important element in Byzantine politics, on occasion supporting contestants to the throne and also helping to defeat the Arab attack on Constantinople of 717-18.The iconoclastic Emperor Constantine (741-775) began a series of wars against them that remained a constant theme of Byzantine-Bulgarian relations until the destruction of the first Bulgarian empire by Basil II (976-1025).In 864 the Bulgarian king Boris, outmaneuvered by Constantinople, converted to Christianity. Thereafter, the Turkic Bulgars underwent Slavicization, and Balkan Bulgaria became one of the centers of medieval Slavic. The Volga Bulgars, however, converted to Islam in the early 10th century and created a highly sophisticated, urbane, mercantile Muslim society that, after stout resistance, was conquered by the Mongols in the early 13th century. Bowersock, Glen W. & al. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World pp.354 Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-674-51173-5.

8:16 Despite the fact that the said area was probably Magna Hungaria (discovered by Father Julianus in the 13th c.), the early settlement of the Hungarians, the people living there at that time were already Bashkirs of Turkic origin, who still live there to this day. At 922 the Magyars already conquered the Carpathian basin. There was still some Magyar people around in the area till the 1200s. But in negligible numbers. and as far as I'm concerned the Magyars totem animals were the Turghul bird (Kerecsen hawk), deers (Tale of the miraculous deer), horses (horse sacrificies as religious rituals), and they were also fond of griffs (even so that these creatures were mythical). But I'd never heard of worshiping snakes and cranes. And eating lice is diffenetly out as the Magyars were sami-nomadic and had proper agriculture as well as herding animals. Or if its only the atribute of those Magyars who had stayed in the region, and picked up the habit from other cultures.