Battle for Survival ️ How did Alexios Komnenos save the Byzantine Empire? DOCUMENTARY

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The amount of times the Eastern Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse happened at least a couple times per century. Despite losing large swarths of land the Byzantines managed to keep control of Anatolia, southern Greece and the regions around Constantinople under continuous roman rule for literally, in some cases, over a thousand years. As the Empire died so did the last bastion of Roman legacy, still one of the greatest empires of all of history.

The eastern Roman empire was Roman only at name since nearly all emperors had a Greek descedance and the official language was Greek. The fall of the empire was mainly a result of church's manipulation and control.

Half Constantinople/ half Trebizond greek here. Thank you for this video.

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Τhe three Komnenos family members, Alexios - Ioannis - Manuel, and the three greats of the Macedonian dynasty, Fokas - Tsimiskes - Basil the 2nd, are probably the most exciting part of human history. And always sidelined...

Did he save the Empire? He kept losing battles. And when he guided the Crusaders through Anatolia they laughed at him because the towns and villages were full of Turks who had no-one to stop them infiltrating since the Byzantine defeat at Manzikert. Then Alexios unrealistically tried to take back Antioch when realistically he should have focused on lands closer to home.

Eastern Roman Empire is so close to making it into modern period.

Just 39 years before Columbus reached the Americas.

I think there should be some mention of the absolute barbarity of the 1st crusade when they took the holy lands its said no muslim man, woman or babe was spared and blood ran knee deep in Jerusalem, also didnt the crusaders loot byztantium or something to that effect?

Its crazy to think of how europeans betrayed eachother simply for patches of land instead of uniting.

If Anna had married Bohemond...

great video ! do you have one with John II ? I can't find it :(

It is crusaders' achievement, not his one.

Heros of Greece when the Greeks ruled the world

+1 virtutual offering of bread and salt as patronage to algorithm.

How can the Byzantines stop the Slavs, Lombards, Turks and Arabs from conquering their lands?

The first three are rather simple. If you give the Lombards a suitable territory and help them develop it, they'll have no interest migrating into your lands. This prevents Northern Italy from being identified as Lombardia.

As for the Slavs and Turks, you integrate them, diversify the gene pool as these people can easily be assimilated into an alternative culture. The Turks would give you terrific generals and a strong core for the army, the slavs would give you a robust economy.

What about the Arabs? Now, there is a tricky one. You are ultimately fighting against Islam. If you treat your Arab subjects better, the likelihood of them turning to an Arab Conqueror is less likely. This requires altering what is Christianity to allow greater diversity, in turn you might not even have an Islam problem at all. I believe Islam is a result of the strict view of homogeneity of the faith, which in turn is why there was a schism between the lands Rome did control and did not. Without such a strict interpretation, it is much easier to control the faith and prevent any schism from happening. Sometimes less is more. The same could be done with Islam making Muhammad a saint, so to speak, instead of a prophet. He would be Saint Muhammad, similar to any figure responsible for bringing Christianity as the dominant faith in any particular region. So that would become Muhammad's story, establish an Arabized version of Christianity even more so than Nestorian Christianity. This wouldn't prevent a rise of an Arab empire, although it will make it easier to reconquer as the premise of a Jihad is unlikely.

So that is likely to happen. A Christian Arab Empire would rise like it did with the Rashiduns, but since the Sunni-Shi'ite divide wouldn't exist, there is no Arab Civil War but the Umayyads still gain power. Abbasids however would not gain power and so with the decline of the Umayyads, the Byzantine Empire could reacquire all lost lands and even proceed further with the total subjucation of Arabia, all of its lost lands, and even Iran. Iran and Rome's wars did put both in a vulnerable position and such vulnerability would present an interest in conquest simply for that reason alone. So the Arab Empire would exist, but instead of being Muslim or Muslim being a separate religion from Christianity, it would be Arab Christianity which would identify itself as Muslim. Sort of a separate denomination of the Church of Jerusalem, the Church of Mecca, which also calls itself Islam or is identified as such just like how the Church of Latter Day Saints is also called Mormonism.

Crazy history nonstop war

Clever and wise leader

brill

The Byzantine Empire : the territorial buffet of the Middle Ages

the last great roman

It’s so frustrating that The empire had so much going for it. But the Angelos dynasty and the fourth crusade killed all the the Komnenoi had achieved.

A sacrifice for the algorithm!

Byzantine history is so fascinating. The achievements of this East Roman Empire and civilization are totally underrated. Politics, Diplomacy, education, science etc. all of these still influencing our daily lives. One of the most interesting Books i read is called "Byzantine Grand strategy from the 8th to the 11th century"

Bring the latter*

Great narrator

The Komnenian Dynasty is my favourite among the medieval Eastern Romans. Alexios is naturally the fundamental reason why.

He was at Julius Cesar level of relevancy, maybe not that much military competent but much better at dealing with internal politics of the empire leading to a much longer government and peacefully transition when he eventually died.

The second Alexander the Great 🇬🇷☦️💪

Honestly insane how long Rome lasted (yes the western part as a political entity fell, but their culture and legacy still stayed around making europe what it is today)

Why you give false information?! Empress Mariam was not Alan(Osetian)!!! She was sister of King George II of Georgia from Bagrationi dynasty (Monarchs of Georgia 10 to 19th century) and Alan’s were Vassals of Georgian kingdom. Her birth name’s Martha (Mariam)!!!

Alexos I was Majorian's byzantine version

Great clip. Whenis the nxt one about his son_?

Why do you keep saying Roman when Alexios and all the Komnenes and most of the population were speaking Greek? With Alexios begins the complete Hellenization of Byzantine empire.

What year?

Its incredible just how unstable the Roman empire was during this time. You'd think that after 1000+ years they'd figure it all out by now.

Can you also cover John Komnenos, his son? Even though he is not well documented, his achievements are great.

Why didnt the byzantines allow the settlement of seldjucs in anatolia for acceptance of christianity in exchange? And allowing them in their nobility and elite ranks

can you please give me the song at the beginning please

All Hail the Gods!

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I love the background music it just sounds so authentic like something you would hear in that part of the world at that time in history, it just sets the scene beautifully and the the narration from David is 1st class as always.

Eastern Roman Empire was continued by Ottoman Sultans in different form till WW1. Whereas Western was revived by Mussolini and lasted till his fall in WW2.