Battle of Maritsa, 1371 ⚔️ Death of the Serbian Empire ⚔️ Ottoman Expansion into Europe

🚩 Battle of Maritsa (1371) proved to be the final nail in the coffin of the Serbian Empire, built by the Nemanjic dynasty. In many ways, the Ottoman victory at Maritsa was far more important than the one at Kosovo (1389) and Nicopolis (1396), for it firmly consolidated the Sultanate's position in Europe and acted as a springboard for future conquest.

📢 Narrated by David McCallion

🎵 Music:
EpidemicSound

#documentary #poland #russia

[EpicMike]

"Dusan the Mighty died and was replaced by his young son Uros the Weak"

I think I know how this is gonna play out.

[BenjtheStation]

Running away from an army 20 times smaller than yours and drowning while doing so has gotta be the most embarrassing way to die

[mustafakemalpasha]

Entering a camp with tens of thousands of soldiers in the middle of the night as 800 raiders is like suicide. It's also really incredible that they won the war.

[BrightSaurus]

Everyone knows about the 300 Spartans but not the 800 ottomans

[reinerbraun]

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” ~ Sun Tzu

[سيفالشكرة-ذط]

This is insane and hard to believe, but how brave those 1000 men actually were is even crazier!

[nenenindonu]

Although the Ottoman golden age is indeed the period from the second half of the 15th century to the mid 1600's, the earlier era just gets overshadowed too much, brilliant work !

[Johnny-wrp]

The Turks definitely had a knack for winning battles against larger and better equipped armies.

[zohaibrahman]

This battle was always kept hidden as it has not too much sources. I was always willing to know more about it ( Thank U very much for making this amazing video

[ALEKSANDER_Aleks]

I think we owe this guy alot for his work and masterpiece 👏

[SuhaibM]

The sneaking into a ln army camp and making the enemy retreat is something straight out of one of those Ertugrul episodes.

[Soulkeeperr]

1000 men with balls of steel. It’s simply impossible to comprehend their courage.

[jugemujugemu]

just learnt about the battle yesterday and it feels amazing to find such an amazing documentary. 🙌

[ibrahimozcann]

''Bin atlı akınlarda çocuklar gibi şendik. Bin atlı o gün dev gibi bir orduyu yendik''

[Kuac]

Hands down one of the best history channels on YouTube. Topics, information, graphics and narration are top notch. Congrats!

[sourweed]

True and accurate translation of very famous Turkish poem about this battle.
"We were joyful like children at the raids with thousand horsemen/That day we defeated a huge army as thousand horsemen"
"White helmeted beylerbeyi(governor-general) cried out:Forward/ In a summer day as groups Danube was crossed"
"We were thrown into battlefield from seven arms like lightning /Through the road passed by Turkish horses like lightning"
"One day, our horses are full of bridle again/We took wings with that speed to the seventh heaven"
"We see the roses blooming in heaven today / Still come alive in our eyes that crimson memory"
"We were joyful like children at the raids with thousand horsemen/That day we defeated a huge army as thousand horsemen"
Late Ottoman poet Yahya Kemal translated by me

[fizzel]

No bias no ulterior motive
Simply presenting history from an academic perspective
Fantastic video to go with the many others HM
👏🏼

[toni]

Very interesting battle. 1000 defeating 20, 000 is just amazing even if it was a surprise attack. This shows how powerful the ottoman were

[HVLLOW]

Hungarian, Serbian, Bulgarian history is pretty interesting and underrated.

[Amadeus]

Sultan Murad: "Wait a minute, I thought we had a major threat on our hands!"
Lala Sahin Pasha: "Have I got good news for you, your majesty!"