The Khan Who Drank From The Skull of a Byzantine Emperor

The incredible true story of the Bulgar Khan Krum the fearsome, who defeated his enemy the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I at Pliska in 811 AD, and made a wine chalice from his fallen foes skull.

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[christoph_y]

"IF YOU DON'T WANT THE PAX - YOU'LL GET MY AXE!"
Khan Krum, 811 A.D.

[purplehaze]

Drinking your daily fix of coffee out of the skulls of your former enemies is such a flex.

[nenenindonu]

Turning a defeated rivals skull into a goblet was a popular tradition practiced by various Eurasian Turkic rulers such Pecheneg Khan Kurya, Lao Shang, & obviously Bulgar Khan Krum

[papazataklaattiranimam]

Krum was not only a great warrior but an effective administrator as well . He issued the first national law code in the history of the Bulgarian state, a fragment of which has survived .

[Stemsoup]

Viewing again and commenting for the algorithm — keep up the great content!

[swordofjustice]

During the early Middle Ages, pre-Christian Bulgaria (680-864/5) was one of the most important powers of Southeastern Europe. Historians have commonly explained its survival and success in terms of a par- ticular ethnic symbiosis between Slavic commoners and Bulgar elites of Turkic origin, who ultimately gave their name to the Slavic-speaking Bulgarians. Bulgar khans, archons, or kings' ruled over territories that are now within Bulgaria and Romania. In Romanian historiography, which has traditionally viewed Romanians as a Romance-language island in a Slavic and Hungarian sea, the Bulgars play no serious role in national history. Archaeological assemblages that can be dated between the late seventh and the late ninth century are consistently attributed to "proto-Romanians." By contrast, the Bulgars are the quintessential part of Bulgarian national identity, a marker of distinction from all other histories of Slavic-speaking nations. As a consequence, studying the Bulgar (or, as it is commonly known in Bulgaria, "proto-Bulgarian") archaeology was an essential component of Bulgarian nationalism, especially in the interwar decades, as well as recently. It is only in the years after the Soviet occupation of 1944 that the emphasis in Bulgarian archaeology was forcefully shifted to the study of the Slavs."

[EzrealLux]

Thanks a lot! Keep those great vids coming!

[WillyGrippo]

Best history channel on the platform! Keep up the great work, U5!

[Flamsterette]

It's always a good day when Unknown5 uploads a video!

[IK-kkfm]

"If you don't want piece we give you the axe" It sounds cooler in bulgarian cuz it rhymes :D

[ddi]

Fun fact: In the battle of Varbitsa Pass in 811 AD, Kanas Yibigi Khrum, employed the greatest power of all -
Unification of male AND female worriers. Mothers and Fathers in defence of The Homeland!!!
Since then in Bulgaria women have a special place in society. In our history "Mother" has a sacred meaning. We call our land a MOTHERLAND unlike Western Europe's fatherland.
It is still written in our national anthem. It all begins with a mother...

[tyyger]

upload more videos bro most goated history channel.

[hunterkraft]

This is great!!! The story of one of Bulgaria's greatest leaders Khan Krum!!! Fantastic work on this video, yet again!!! Once again, I recommend doing your next list on 5 of the most disturbing and eerie songs from history...

[AltaicGigachad]

The Battle of Pliska was one of the worst defeats in Byzantine history. It deterred Byzantine rulers from sending their troops north of the Balkans for more than 150 years afterwards, which increased the influence and spread of the Bulgarians to the west and south of the Balkan Peninsula, resulting in a great territorial enlargement of the First Bulgarian Empire.

[AltaicGigachad]

The Pliska temple may have been in fact a monument erected to commemorate Krum, as the surviving elements of the building are strikingly similar to a number of similar monuments erected for the Turkic qagans in present-day Mongolia. Four other similar structures have been found in Pliska, Madara, and Preslav, all of rectangular or square shape with a north–south or east–west orientation. For the architecture of the “pagan temples” of Bulgaria, see S.

Curta, F. (2006). The rise of new powers (800–900). In Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks, pp. 111-179). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[swordofjustice]

The South Slavic tribal groups moved south and southwest from their Pripet homeland, eventually entering the Byzantine-controlled Balkan Peninsula as either allies of or refugees from the invading Turkic Avars during the second half of the sixth century. Their search for a new, permanent homeland proved successful. Today their descendants solidly inhabit virtually all of the northwestern, central, and southeastern regions of the Balkans.

Turks comprise a third ethnic component of the Balkan population. Although today numerically small-a little over 1 million people (about 2 percent of the total population) they have played a role in shaping the history of the Balkans far beyond their numbers.

In late antiquity the rolling plains of the Danube and Prut rivers in the Balkans' northeast served Turkic tribes from the Eurasian steppes as an open door into the heart of the peninsula and the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire. Huns and related tribes swept through the Balkans in the fifth and sixth centuries, followed by the Avars and their allies in the sixth and seventh. Among these latter were the Bulgars, who established a state south of the Danube. Unlike the Avars, whose settlements in the Balkans proved transitory, the Bulgar state persisted in the face of concerted Byzantine pressures. By the ninth century the Bulgars were challenging the Byzantine Empire for political hegemony in the Balkans, but by that time they also were well on the way toward ethnic assimilation into their Slavic-speaking subject population. The conversion of the Turkic Bulgar ruling elite to Orthodox Chris-tianity at midcentury opened the gate to their rapid and total Slavic assimilation. Within a hundred years of the Bulgar conversion, most traces of their Turkic origins had disappeared, except for their name-the Bulgars had been transformed into Slavic Bulgarians

Oğuz, Pecheneg, and Cuman Turkic tribes appeared in the Balkans between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Most of them eventually suffered an ethnic fate similar to the Bulgars and left little lasting impression, although the Gagauz Turks of Bessarabia, a region lying east of the Prut River (now known as Moldova), and some Turks living today in the eastern Balkans may be direct ethnic descendants of those medieval Turkic interlopers. Additionally, the Ottoman Turks' five-century rule over most of the Balkans established numerous scattered enclaves of Turkish- speaking groups throughout much of the southern portion of the peninsula, with a heavy concentration in the southeastern region of ancient Thrace.

[Formulka]

Your videos are always fantastic (if disturbing).

[lonewolfnergiganos]

It would be cool if Unknown has a collaboration with another history YouTuber.

[yaralikatil]

Khazars believe that Togarmah had 10 sons called Ujur, Tauriks, Avar, Uauz, Bizal, Tarna, Khozar, Janur, Balgar and Sabir . These names coincide with different Turkic tribes which settled in the area around the Black and Caspian seas within the Khazarian Empire .

Khari, R., 2007. Jats and Gujars. New Delhi: Reference Press, p.21.

[AltaicGigachad]

Khan Krum (803-814), who was a charismatic personality with a political and military genius, came to the throne.

MANGALTEPE, I. (2012) The first Turkic tribes to settle in the Balkans between THE IVTH AND VIITH CENTURIES. p. 602.