History of Byzantine Empire in 6 minutes on Map Description | Past to Future

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Correction, Heraclius rose to power after Persia had taken the Middle East from Byzantium. He reclaimed the lost provinces and made peace with the Persians, but as the war had devastated and exhausted both empires, the Arabs rose to power, quickly overtaking Persia and undoing the byzantine progress

Byzantion was established 300-400 years BC, do not start with ''early history'' and erase 600 years of exhistance.

Awesome video. Fall of Western Roman Empire and Constantinople is always sad

There was never a Byzantine Empire it was officially called till the end Eastern Roman Empire and it was governed by the Romans the emperors who governed the empire did not think of themselves as Greeks but Romans

You missed to say that Leo the Third won with the help of Bulgarians that surrounded the arabs who cut their food and water supplies. The siege would have lasted.

ok, people have got to stop using the term 'Byzantine' because it does not exist. WE named it that way well after its fall. Eastern Roman Empire is the correct term. Great video by the way. Greetings from Greece

Turned off the second you said dolecletian

I've never laughed so hard even on historical meme videos

It was never called the "byzantine empire" its historically inaccurate and an insult to the Eastern Romans. The Empire was called "Imperium Romanum" aka "Roman Empire" stop using western derogatory terms which where made to mock and disinherit the Eastern Romans from the Western Romans.

Many of the pronunciations, maps and map labels in this video were highly incorrect my favourite being the labelling of macedonia as kosovo at the end

Was NEVER called the Byzantine Empire. Ever. This name was created by modern historians.

had no idea istanbul was the largest city in europe

How can you get every single name wrong in both pronunciation and spelling?

Why hire inarticulate teenagers to narrate these historical podcasts? I mean, really. He couldn't even pronounce 'Byzantium' properly.

WHY DO FUCK IS KOSOVO IN MACEDONIA KOSOVO IS SERBIAN

The mispronunciation was killing me lol. It’s like he got dared on how many he could mispronounce in one video

You have a very big mistake at the and of the video. On the last map, on the place where Kosovo is noted, lays the land of Macedonia.

Also, it was Basil the II that was responsible for the destruction of the Bulgarian empire in the early 11th century.

Was reading Revelation 13 and it brought me to this channel. Please note: NOT "Christian" Crusades but "ROMAN" Crusades. Thank God that the Word of God has been Historically vindicated. The Roman Empire attempted to overrun true Christianity by attempting to change Gods Holy Word/Law and deceive so many Well, there is still a "remnant" of true Christians who refuse to capitulate to their apostatcy and maintain liberty of conscious/Sola Scriptura. One World Order - one world gov/religion/banking system is still on the Roman Church's (has its seat in the Pagan Roman Empire) agenda. The Dragon/Serpent provides the power/authority. Read Bible people to see where we are in the stream of time. Jesus is coming soon to meet His children in the air and then we will live forever be with Him. 6th day/Millennium is Judgment day. End of 6th day Jesus comes. 7th day/Millennium will be spent in heaven. Its pretty close now.

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The only name he pronounces properly is Maurice

Ju-s-tin-ee-an not JuSTaaaaiinian

Die-o-clee-shion not DoLōCLeTan

You made a big blunder in this video by ignoring the fact that Hercalius won back almost all lands lost to the Sassanians a decade later.

Are you by any chance an Iranian, as your accent sounds like it?

Prejudice and hiding of facts is land mark of this clip........no word on 1074 battle of manzikrat

you deserve one big subscribe and a like button. thanks for your efforts out there! great content and great way of explanation. keep it uo.

Dolocletan? Really? you are mispronouncing almost everything. Byzantion? Honorus? C'mon

The country you named as "Kosovo" is actually Macedonia.

So many mistakes in one video

The mispronounced names make this very difficult to watch.

Video was ok ...but you destroyed the ending by saying turkey Istanbul is the biggest city in the EU ......last time I checked Turkey is not an EU member state ...so if you made that simple mistake how accurate can the rest of video be?

um... Turkey is Not part of the EU?!? Poorly done. nice graphics though

You should check your pronunciation of most of these names. It's a little silly to say " Dol-la- CLE-ton" for DI- o-clete-shun! That's just one of many mispronounced words

@Van Dare none of those your sources are even reliable or peer reviewed

Christian Orthodox people belonged to the millet-i Rum, and progressively, Greek became the dominant means of communication amongst the members of the millet, who were called by others and were calling themselves. Romioi. Interestingly, the term 'Hellene' still signified for most people the pagan classical tradition, and it was a term that especially the clergy was keen to eliminate. Certain evocations of the term 'Hellene' by Byzantine scholars (e.g. in the twelfth century) contained some elements of contemporary ethnic identification, but it never acquired widespread currency, it never really "caught" on' (Beaton 2007: 93).

Boys-Stones, G., Graziosi, B. and Vasunia, P., n.d. The Oxford handbook of Hellenic studies. p.21

A second way that Robert establishes the moral superiority of the French over and against the Greeks is by framing the French, rather than the Byzantines, as the true Romans. On this score, it is important to note that the very naming of the Byzantines as "Greek" was an explicit rejection of the Byzantine claim that they were "Roman"-as noted in the introduc tion, the people we call Byzantines never employed the term Byzantine (it is a modern categorization), never used the Latin Graecus, and only began to employ the Greek word "Hellene" around the time of the Fourth Cru sade. Rather, they almost always self-identified as Romans." Robert not only rejects their Roman identity by referring to them as Graeci, he re peatedly asserts that it is the French, not the Byzantines, who adhere to the "law of Rome."

Demacopoulos., 2019. Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought) 1st Edition.. New York, N.Y.: Fordham University Press, p.18.

Byzantine Empire was not, especially then, a national Greek state but had a broadly international character, despite the fact that Greek was the official language. In that state the Bulgarian element was preserved and could develop.

Daskalov, R., 2021. Master narratives of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria. Leiden: Brill, p.114.

The writer uses the ambiguous term “Hellene,” which generally means “pagan” in Byzantine Greek. Plethon and his followers used the term almost to the exclusion of all others when referring to their own countrymen.

Nagy., 2003. Modern Greek Literature. Taylor & Francis, p.30.

" In its final centuries , the Byzantine Empire was also called " Romania . " Remnants of this Roman heritage are still evident in such terms as " Rum " and " Rumeli .

Georgius, Philippides, M. and Macarius, 1980. The fall of the Byzantine empire. Amherst, MA: Univ. of Massachusetts Pr., p.2.

Given Gennadios ' strong religious and traditional orientation , one would expect him to adhere carefully to the traditional Byzantine nomenclature wherein Hellene signified pagan and Rhomaios Byzantine .

Ćurčić, S. and Mouriki, D., 2019. The Twilight of Byzantium. Princeton: Princeton University Press, p.9.

And there is also evidence that the word 'Hellene' now meant 'pagan', and Justinian did conduct persecutions of Hellenes.

Scott, R., n.d. Byzantine chronicles and the sixth century.

The Byzantine Empire was officially called the Empire of the Romans, not the Greeks, Hellenes, or whatever. And if we proceed from the northern theory of the formation of the state, then we could not know about the Hellenic Greeks, Venetian-Venets in any way due to the lack of direct contacts. At that time, the word “Hellene” among the Romans meant a pagan and a traitor.

Attila Kagan of the Huns from the kind of Velsung Kindle Edition by Соловьев Сергей Юрьевич (Author)

The ancient Hellenes were conquered by the Romans . Emperor Justinian destroyed the last vestiges of Hellenic civilisation , and state Christianity created a new civilisation on the ruins of the old .

Koliopoulos, G. and Veremēs, T., 2007. Greece: the modern sequel. London: Hurst & Company, p.242.

Hellenes as they were called, were persecuted by the enforcement of these general rules; Justinian endeavored, above all things, to deprive them of education, and he had the University of Athens closed in 529; at the same time ordering wholesale conversations.

The Cambridge Medieval History volumes 1-5 by John Bagnell Bury, Paul Dalen (Goodreads Author) (Editor)

And there is also evidence that the word 'Hellene' now meant 'pagan', and Justinian did conduct persecutions of Hellenes. The world of Classics in the sixth century was not entirely rosy.

Scott, R., n.d. Byzantine chronicles and the sixth century

In about 1440 John Argyropoulos wrote of the struggle for the freedom of ' Hellas ' in a letter addressed to John VIII as 'Emperor of Hellas'. We have come a long way from the days when the ambassador Liudprand of Cremona was thought unfit to be received at the Court because his credentials were addressed to the 'Emperor of the Greeks'. But 'Graeci' was never an acceptable term. George Scholarius, the future Patriarch Gennadius, who was to be the link between the old Byzantine world and the world of the Turcocratia, often uses 'Hellene' to mean anyone of Greek blood. But he had doubts about its propriety; he still retained the older view. When he was asked his specific opinion about his race, he wrote in reply: "Though I am a Hellene by birth, yet I would never say that I was a Hellene. For I do not believe as the Hellenes believed. I should like to take my name from my faith and, if anyone asked me what I am, to reply "a Christian". Though my father dwelt in Thessaly,' he adds, 'I do not call myself a Thessalian, but a Byzantine. For I am of Byzantium.' It is to be remarked that though he repudiates the name of Hellene he calls the Imperial City not New Rome or Constantinople, but by its old Hellenic name.

Runciman, S. (1970). IMPERIAL DECLINE AND HELLENIC REVIVAL. In The Last Byzantine Renaissance (The Wiles Lectures, pp. 1-23). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

In contradistinction to a Julian, an Alexander Severus, a Marcus Aurelius and even a Hadrian, who felt themselves more Greek than Latin, Justinian wished to be a Latin Roman Emperor. He was confirmed in these feelings by his horror of Hellen ism. A Roman Emperor, Justinian was also a Christian Emperor. He considered himself the pillar of the Christian orthodox faith. The Hellenic spirit is profoundly pagan and Justinian abominated it. For him, as for his contem poraries and successors, Hellene was synonymous with pagan and to call anyone by this term was to insult him. The Greek peoples themselves assumed the name Pauaio (Romans). Even to-day Romios is still used by the common people. Hellene is an artificial term revived in the nineteenth century. The capital of the Empire is called Roum by the Arab and Turkish peoples of Asia.

Lot, F., 2013. End of the Ancient World. Routledge.

Many diverse peoples and languages coexisted within the Byzantine empire (Laiou and Maguire (eds.) 1992), and although Greek was the language of government and high culture and the terms 'Hellene' and even 'Greek' were sometimes applied to themselves by educated members of the elite in Constantinople from the Comnenian period onwards (Stouraitis 2014), Byzantium was not a Greek empire and Greek was never the only language spoken. Nevertheless the Byzantines' sense of themselves rested on a shared mythology of universalism and superiority.

Linehan, P., Nelson, J. and Costambeys, M., n.d. The medieval world.

Characteristics of the Byzantine Empire

After its capital was established in the east, the empire became, in scholarly parlance, the Eastern Roman Empire. Furthermore, because Constantine and all of his successors (except Julian the Apostate, 361 63) were Christians, the empire from here on can also be called the Christian Roman Empire. As a consequence of these two changes the Roman Empire had become the Byzantine. However, though used by scholars, none of these three names was used at the time. Though the empire had its center in a Greek cultural and linguistic area, as a result of which there followed a gradual hellenization of its institutions and culture, the emperors recognized no change. The empire remained the Roman Empire and the citizens (even though Greeks came to domi nate it) still called themselves Romans. The term Hellene (Greek) connoted a pagan. The term Byzantine was an invention of Renais sance scholars after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and was never used by its contemporaries. By the middle of the seventh century Greek had become the official language of all spheres of government and the army; nevertheless the empire remained "Roman" and despite divisions of its territory at times it was always seen as a single unit. Essentially the Byzantine Empire was a combination of three major cultural components: (1) Roman in political concepts, administration. law, and military organization. (2) Greek in language and culture, and (3) Christian in religion.

Fine, J., 1991. The early medieval Balkans. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, p.16.

Hellenic states of the Seleucids, Macedonia, Achaean League, Aetolian League, Kingdom of Pergamon, Ptolemaics etc. all got destroyed by Roman Empire which resulted as ending of Hellenistic era and post Roman Greece was basically a playground for Romans, Turks, Slavs, Albanians, Thracians, Illyrians, Armenians, Italians and Germanic peoples as we all know

Hellenic rule in Greece broadly ended with the Roman conquest of Greece resulting with a dominant Roman, Turkic, and Germanic rule whereas only 3 short lived Hellenic dynasties, Komnenids, Angelids and Laskarids, managed to rule Grece

Foreign rule in Greece;

Odrysian kingdom (Dacian)
Achaemenid dynasty (Iranic)
Nerva–Antonine dynasty (Italic)
Severan dynasty (Punic)
Gordian dynasty (Celtic)
Decian dynasty (Illyrian)
Valerian dynasty (Italic)
Caran dynasty (Illyrian)
Constaninian dynasty (Illyrian)
Valentinian dynasty (Illyrian)
Theodosian dynasty (Hispanian)
Leonid dynasty (Thracian)
Justinian dynasty (Illyrian)
Heraclian dynasty (Armenian)
Isaurian dynasty (Armenian)
Nikephorian dynasty (Arabic)
Dulo dynasty (Turkic)
Krum’s dynasty ((Turkic)
Amorian dynasty (Jewish)
Macedonian dynasty (Armenian)
Phokas dynasty (Armenian)
Doukid dynasty (most likely Armenian)
Diogenes dynasty (most likely Armenian)
Principality of Arbanon (Albanian)
Principality of Valona (Slavized Turkic)
Duchy of the Archipelago (Italian)
Kingdom of Cyprus (Germanic)
Kingdom of Thessalonica (Germanic)
Empire of Thessalonica (most likely Armenian)
Latin Empire (Germanic)
Asenid dynasty (Slavized Turkic)
Duchy of Athens (Germanic)
Duchy of Neopatras (Spanish)
Marquisate of Bodonitsa (Germanic)
Lordship of Argos and Nauplia (Germanic)
Lordship of Salona (Germanic)
Lordship of Chios (Italian)
Knights Hospitaller of Rhodes (Germanic)
Principality of Achaea (French)
Palaiologos dynasty (most likely Italic)
Nemanjic dynasty (Slavic)
Despotate of Arta (Albanian)
Despotate of Ioannia (Albanian)
League of Lezhe (Albanian)
Vojivonic dynasty (Slavic)
Venetian dominions in Greece (Italian)
Principality of Lesbos (Italian)
Kingdom of Candia (Italian)
Kingdom of Ioanian Islands (Italian)
Kingdom of the Morea (Italian)
Triarchy of Negroponte (French)
Ottoman dynasty (Turkic)
Pashalik of Berat (Albanian)
Pashalik of Yanina (Albanian)
Pashalik of Scutari (Albanian)
Septinsular Republic (Italian)
House of Wittelsbach (Germanic)
United States of the Ionian Islands (Germanic)
Principality of Samos (Slavic)

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"Nevertheless, though Hellenism was beaten it did not die. Its conceptions were too deeply inherent in the blood of the Greek"
"Byzantine Civilization" by Steven Runciman p. 257

"After the Empire lost non-Greek speaking territories IN THE 7th AND 8th CENTURIES, "Greek" (Ἕλλην), when not used to signify "pagan", became synonymous with "Roman" (Ῥωμαῖος) and "Christian" (Χριστιανός) to mean a Christian Greek citizen of the [Eastern] Roman Empire."
"Roman, GREEK (if not used in its sense of 'pagan') and Christian became SYNONYMOUS terms, counter-posed to 'foreigner', 'barbarian', 'infidel'. The citizens of the Empire, now predominantly of GREEK ethnicity and language, were often called simply ό χριστώνυμος λαός 'the people who bear Christ's name'."
Harrison, Thomas (2002). Greeks and Barbarians. New York: Routledge., p. 268

"As heirs to the Greeks and Romans of old, the Byzantines thought of themselves as Rhomaioi, or Romans, though THEY KNEW FULL WELL that they were ETHNICALLY GREEKS."
(see also: Savvides & Hendricks 2001).Niehoff 2012, Margalit Finkelberg, "Canonising and Decanonising Homer: Reception of the Homeric Poems in Antiquity and Modernity", p. 20 or Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum 2003, p. 482:

"It may be said, however, that despite its multi-national character, three forces tended to give it unity. One was Orthodoxy, the other a common language, and the third the imperial tradition. The first and the second were Greek and to the extent that they were Greek the Empire was Greek also. The third was Roman, and to that extent the Empire was also Roman."
The Transfer of Population as a Policy in the Byzantine Empire Author(s): Peter Charanis Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 3, No. 2, (Jan., 1961), pp. 140-154 Published by: Cambridge University Press

"With the collapse of the empire in the west, its eastern counterpart became, in reality, an entirely new and independent state, at once Greek by language and Roman in name: 'A Greek Roman empire'."
Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, pp. 212

Not to be that guy, but you really need to pay attention to your pronunciation of names...

Poetically, Rome was born and died as a city-state.