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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Medieval history, Roman history and the evolution of Armies and Tactics continues with a video in which we discuss the Eastern Roman Army from the very beginnings during the reign of Justinian all the way to the fall of the empire in 1453 at the hand of the Ottoman Empire with the siege of Constantinople. We will talk about the tactics, structure, weapons, armor, recruitment, navy, soldiers, mercenaries, manuals, geostrategy, fortifications, spies, diplomacy, Greek Fire, how Georgian, Armenian, Turkic, Serbian, Bulgarian, Catalan and other troops were integrated into the army.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:20 Early Origins of the Byzantine Army
00:17:14 Byzantine Military Manuals – Strategikon
00:33:36 Structure of the Byzantine Army, Themata and Tagmata
00:52:48 How the Eastern Roman Army Declined
01:07:07 Byzantine Navy
01:09:03 Dromon
01:10:58 Greek Fire
01:14:43 Naval Tactics
01:16:54 Naval Organization
01:18:38 Decline of the Byzantine Navy
01:20:58 Georgian and Armenian troops
01:22:30 Catalan Company
01:29:11 Serb and Bulgarian troopsÂ
01:30:53 Turkic troops
01:35:37 Geopolitical Situation
01:44:44 Spies and DiplomatsÂ
01:51:26 Early Fortifications and the Theodosian Walls
01:54:18 Structure of the Theodosian Walls
02:00:35 Walls of Blachernae and Sea Walls
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Roger de Flor reminds me a bit of Stillicho and Aetius as successful generals who ended up being assassinated due to the emperors distrust of them. Though in De Flor's case there was perhaps more justification for the distrust, given his plundering of Byzantine Anatolia.
I hate the term "Byzantine". They thought of themselves as Roman, their enemies thought of them as Roman, so why don't we? It's not like anyone talking about them at any serious level is going to be confused as to what point in history you're talking about.
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Enjoyed this presentation, thank you for making this.
Inbreeding and debauched sex , lol
Well, it only took a thousand years, but the Roman empire finally values scouting.
Love the work that goes into this đź¦
The eastern roman empire, my beloved.
ROMAN not Byzantian. Byzantium is 16.century invention. German Holly Roman Empire want so badly the title of Rome…so here comes not Romeia, Romeic or Rum or Romani….but Byzantion….from small crusaders fort. Same who burned and pillaged Konstantinopol, changed the name.
Greeks are not using letter B when they talk…so it is Visant…if you talk about Greeks.
Mpysantium….how you write it in Greek? mparmpar?
Kept going for nearly 900 years, but it was the crusading Franks of western Europe that sounded the death knell of the Eastern Rome in the 11th and 12th centuries
THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE WASNT Roman …. The East part had many names, among these names was also ROMAN …but the westerner's after Theodosius reign had called the empire as ΙMPERIM GREGOROYM …the Viking Varangian guard in their runnerstones they had call it greklandsstenarma….they dont mention it as Rome even in one of their stones ….google the runestones or travel to Sweden to read them by your own, the varangians had stay there in the service of the emperor for centuries , all the empires even when they had been multicultural have descendants in the modern countries world , the ROMANS empire heritage goes to present day Italy , the ottoman empire heritage goes to present day turkey , the easter roman empire or byzantine empires heritage corresponds to present day Greece
The people in the empire in their majority geeks or Hellenized other people they had called themselves as ROMIOI that it means orthodox Christians, the Greeks continue to name themselves as ROMIOI even today…
The Eastern part was the continuation of the Roman empire in administrative way ,
But they didn't have the same culture in any way, neither had spoke the same language,
The official Roman empire, that had Rome as it's capital and the only Latin ROME THAT PRODUCE ROMANS seized to exist in 5th century ad ….we can not act like this never happen , actually this was the romans empire expired day …..the living stock of the empire was the greek people , the evidence of that is that after the ending of the Greco turkish war in 1922 the population exchange that had took place was specific GREEK , the people that come from anatolia wasnt albanians , italians , romanians , serbians , bulgarians ,germans russians or anything else ..THEY HAD BEEN ONLY GREEKS , same with the people in levand , or in egypt , or in lybia, you wiill not find there anything else than Greeks
The two parts had different religions, different languages, different cultures, and in 1204 the original descendants of the Roman empire as the Venetians,had a huge part to the easts collapsed
The enpire has two realms one West Latin one East greek, the east part was the continuation but nothing else except that….
If you had take one Roman citizen from the West part from 3d century and teletranfer him in the east part of the 8th century he couldn't understand that he is in Rome, but to a foreign land …….the east roman empire actually was the continuation of Macedonian empire and Seleucid empire ,that's why it lasted thousand years more than the west part , because was homogenic , the population in the Balkan peninsula , Crimea , Anatolia , Syria , Egypt , lybia was Greek or Hellenised other people , this was the basin that the empire stood above it , back then you could find Greeks as far to Bactria, so the Macedonian and Seleucid empire had not lasted only 250 years , but throw east Rome many more till 1922 , and the ending of continuous Greek presence in Anatolia after thousand of years with the ending of Greco Turkish war , when the population exchsange huppen in 1923 you didn’t exchange latins , but greeks , today the archbishop of the east orthodox church in Constantinople is a greek guy , and not some roman as any other was greek before him …….People acting like the two realms east and West had been the same is at least biased against Greece, or historically illiterate….the civilization than the east roman empire had produced was a Greek medieval civilization, the guys acting like the empire hadnt two realms one latin one greek is at least buthearted ….the east roman empire was ORTHODOX and it has GREEK for SOME REASON as the official language …ITS PEOPLE WAS GREEK OR EVEN HELLENIZED OTHER PEOPLE , SO HELLENISM WAS DOMINANT ..and ques what ???TODAY WE HAVE A COUNTRY IN THE heart of this empire that the east roman empire is its heritage , the name of this country is THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC the east roman empire wasnt something arbitrariness , it was a very specific thing with specific heritage …..even the Italians can not claim heritage of the eastern part let alone other exotic nations
How hard is it to find a native Greek speaker to show the correct pronunciation of most of those? Hearing TopoteretES rendered as TopotEretes, or hearing all the diphthongs spelled out instead of properly pronounced is cringe worthy to a Greek. For example, the "ai" diphthong was pronounced as the "e" in "egg" ever since 500 BC; by the 5th century AD all the "oi" were pronounced as the "i" in "in" etc etc
Some people think that East Roman Empire was in “Dark Ages” like the Western Europe.
Could you make a video showing what E.R.Es creation of civilization? Both material and spiritual like the slavery ban by Manuel Komnenos.
Thanks again for bringing to life a forgotten by many empire!
Your fluency in medieval Greek is impressive.
Rashidun fighting tons of battles (more than 30, maybe more than 50) against the eastern roman empire, all of them in numerical inferiority and losing none of them, not even a single one, victory after victory after victory after victory….
I can’t ever be convinced the Byzantine army was good in any way. It just seemed like they didn’t have the staying power of Imperial legions. Always getting routed!
I want an accurate estern roman film about Justinian and his general
I wonder if we as a community could crowd fund your team to make a movie about this extremely interesting people.
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I know that this question is asked very often but can any one infrorm about the title of the excellent and very atmospheric byzantine soundtrack and its composer? Also how can I find also other Kings and Generals sountracks?
Many thanks in advance.
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The rhomphaia seems to be something of a catch-all for several centuries of weapons that were similar to the falx. Some were more curved than others, but that is true of the falx as well. The curvature on the rhomphaia often started in a different part of the blade, and at a different angle to most falx, but there was variation in the few examples that exist, and the depictions. They are kind of like a the many Japanese nagamaki without much curve, but with the blade sharpened on the other side.