Why didn't the Ottomans conquer Italy?

Why didn't the Ottomans conquer Italy?

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#History #Documentary

[GRDiver]

Simple, the aggressive expansion penalty is too high in Italian Provinces

[billysinge]

I often marveled at how the Ottoman Empire lasted so long that it fought during both the Crusades and World War One.

[anthonybarbano]

The village my family in italy are from has a statue of skanderbeg, its really cool. Albanian refuges founded the city

[NIDELLANEUM]

"Mehmet the Conqueror was prevented from invading Italy by Count Dracula" is a notion I didn't think I would ever hear

[abdiabdi]

ottomans: why did our invasion fail?
oversimplified: well that is because you didn't use today's sponsor Nord VPN

[antikomartin]

Imagine how a single city has influenced the story of the world in the pst 2000 years...
Roma

[EglRioNCSGO]

The failed conqest of Malta is also a huge factor

[tristormbarbarossa]

Iskender bey ( Skenderbeg ) was the reason for Ottomans not conquered Italy. He was a very talented commander that Mehmet spent much energy to his army. He was educated by Ottomans.

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

[arturslunga]

Knowledgia: Ottomans.
Me, an intellectual: Ottomen.

[missmaddy]

Simply answer: they had too many enemies at that point, even their own vassals state, constantly rebelled against ottomans bringing significant damage. And no army no matter how great it is, can't fight in two different fronts.
EDIT: Stop giving me names of battles or wars that lasted a few years. That's not the same, you completely missed the point, ottomans had countless battles, countless wars and countless enemies. They didn't fall in a day or in a battle, in a way they fall over the weight of all a of them.

[AlexS-ojqf]

Italian and German disunity is an advantage, actually. Imagine every town got their own army with their own defenses and supplies. You need to capture and pacify every single entity, unlike in places like Hungary where all power centralized in Budapest, once the main army wiped out and the city captured, the whole nation collapsed. To conquer Italy, you need to pacify Venice, Genoa, Florence, Lombardy, Naples, Sicily, each powers with their own international Alliance and the possibility of uniting against such great threat (the way Europe united against the Ottoman in Vienna).

[imcloud]

Ottomans : Lets invade Italy

Everything in existence : Nah you ain't invading Italy

[blendix]

Interesting video, but a little correction, the 1 ottoman-venetian war lasted from 1463 to 1479 not from 1464.

[soul]

Skanderbeg also helped the king of neaples with his battles in italy while at war with the ottomans..

Sadly in the end no one helped him..

[arteniskryenadhi]

I think its time history recognise Albania for some of its achievement that are forgotten through history....

[yankychannels]

Their aggressive expansion was too high.

[BVargas]

I think the mighty spanish empire was a factor, enriched with the gold and wealth of the new world. It had armies stationed in Italy and even had some balkan campaigns to help stem the Ottoman expansion. They were also closely allied to Austria due to their common Hapsburg lineage in their monarchies.

[Skerdy]

One funny story about Skanderbeg (that, considering the times, might be true):

At one point Murat (the father of Mehmet) sent an envoy to Skanderbeg basically accusing him of satanism and saying that the only reason he wins is because he had a magic sword given to him by Satan (btw, Ottomans soldiers truly called the road to Kruja, Skanderbeg's main castle, "the road of the devil").

The envoy went on saying that without his magic sword the Ottomans would have already won! But the Sultan in his graciousness was giving the opportunity to Skanderbeg to prove him wrong by exchanging their swords. So, if Skanderbeg is truly a good man and not allied with evil, the Sultan was willing to give him his own sword in exchange for his magic one!

Skanderbeg smiled and accepted. (Giving his Albanian court anxiety because they too have believed the hype).

Next year the Ottomans attacked again and Skanderbeg defeated them again. Then he sent to the Sultan a simple massage:

"It was never the sword. It's the hand that helds it."

That's the kind of man he was.

[mr.anderson]

Albania really got the short end of the stick out of this, they helped out other Christian nations in trouble yet when they were in trouble no one bothered to help, now they’re mostly muslim and were forced under the boot of the Ottoman Empire for around 4 centuries. They could’ve been an interesting nation half Catholic half orthodox in the middle of the Balkans had they not be conquered by the Turkish.