The Janissaries: The Ottoman Sultan’s Slave Soldiers

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In this video, we explore how the Janissaries became the Sultan’s elite, why they were recruited from enslaved Christians, how they fought, and why they were different from western pike and shot armies.
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@Wakobear. Місяць тому

Could you cover the training system and army of the Mamluk Sultanate. Since it was one of the most professional and effective militaries in the entire medieval world, besting both Mongols and crusaders (Until the chaos after anNasir Muhammad, afterwhich it became a failed state...)

@Mr_St_Lazarus-1099 Місяць тому

Thx so much

@Mr_St_Lazarus-1099 Місяць тому

Veneto

@DrKarmo Місяць тому

The video was great, do you guys plan on covering the Italian Wars or portuguese history? They had some stuff going on in india and also their war of independence from spain

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@dzpower9156 Місяць тому

The janissaries were a double-edged weapon. This is what gave the Ottoman a superiority against European and Middle Eastern mamluk, Safavid, and aq qoyunlu but after it was the janissaries and their corruption who blocked any change to modernization and Ottomans found themselves bypassed by European

@aether3697 Місяць тому

Agreed, but I think they're more like a chef's knife: effective, wieldy and safe when sharp, but can cut you when otherwise From what I've read so far, by the time they became less effective is when they were more corrupted. They lowered the standards for recruitment to keep recruiting, became traders and married(which is forbidden, but they did later on anyway), they don't have much wars to loot and pillage from, so they started extorting money and bullying anyone beneath them. I've read that some higher status janissaries refuse to go to war(this was around 18th to early 19th century)

@RehanQawai-rj7vm Місяць тому

what modernization ??? 😅 This is simply a systematic imitation of Western tyranny, classism, and extravagance Keep in mind that this time was not during the reign of Sultan Mahmoud II, but rather a century earlier during the reign of Ahmed I, when he began to exhaust the state treasury by building French-style palaces and amusement parks... This is what will lead to popular anger and the movement of the elites and the army, and about decades later, the outbreak of the french revolution. and out on the royal family

@ivanivanovic5586 Місяць тому

Sultans, at least some of them, saw the corruption and tried to reform/disband them, like sultan selim III, who was quickly deposed, and mahmoud II, who succeeded to disband them. Some fled to then-Bosnian eyalet, which was sort-of attempting to gain autonomy(under husein-bey captain of gradačac) and reinstate at least some of the privileges the former/retired jannisaries had. Ofc sultan was having none of either and put a swift end on that bit of bosnian history.

@shergy1000 Місяць тому

It was always an archaic system of governance. Just look at how a new Sultan came to power. Lots of brothers and family members were quickly disposed of before any opposition could compete for control. They were a very efficient war machine with vast numbers and used the most modern equipment. Give credit where credits due. Like every great empire before and after they began to rest on their laurels, IMO. The rot always comes from within.

@gustavosanches3454 Місяць тому

The problem was that the Ottomans decided to expand and bloat the Janissaries instead of being a niche elite force indocrinated since childhood to be completely subservient to the sultan.

@barbarianremover2463 16 днів тому

*Elite guards become corrupted and start threatening emperor Roman : Hey, I seen this one before.

@taylannurlu7430 11 днів тому

Memluks were also the same

@kaztarihtanu Місяць тому

In kazakh they are called jana seri, which means "new knight", because seri in our language means elite soldier or knight in medieval analogy.

@osmanerdogdu7868 Місяць тому

And in Turkish they are called Yeniçeri, Yeni is Jana, and Çeri is Seri. Anatolian Turkish to Kazakh

@Althemor Місяць тому

After the acclaimed Kingmakers: Praetorian Guard, comes another smash hit from Empires That Ruled Over Constantinople: Kingmakers 2: Janissaries. Watch as yet another elite group of soldiers morphs from royal guards into a royal pain in the ass.

@user-rt6jj8lj6g Місяць тому

laughed hard on this one.

@majorkalashinikov1277 Місяць тому

Kingmakers 3, the Varangian guard crowned and uncrowned any Byzantine emperor who didnt go along with their whims

@user-rt6jj8lj6g Місяць тому

@@majorkalashinikov1277 nice effort but doesnt pack the punch of the OC

@Spaceplayzsfs Місяць тому

Ottomans to Christian boys:Want some candy kid?

@lolasdm6959 Місяць тому

Pisst.... Kid, want to fight for the sultan?

@CypherDVoid Місяць тому

Hey little boy, would you like some Turkish delights?

@willfakaroni5808 Місяць тому

Ottoman:I will let you drink two cups of Uludağ

@antokarman2064 Місяць тому

"Hey kids, wanna be a part of the shadow government?"

@nicbahtin4774 Місяць тому

Hay kid do you love my hat ? Do you want wear one ?

@juniorjames7076 Місяць тому

Its very interesting how both the Janissaries and the Knights Templar in Europe were both destroyed when their respective leaders saw them as threats. The Knights Templar were massacred by the orders of King Philip IV (France) & Pope Clement V.

@osmanerdogdu7868 Місяць тому

Except, Templars were never a part of palace coup :) An actual similar situation was Russian Streltsy

@ufem2159 Місяць тому

And janissaries were massacred by the orders of Mahmud the Second in 1826 and their order was abolished. Search "Auspicious Incident" for more details.

@vorynrosethorn903 Місяць тому

The Templars were wealthy bankers, what happened to them followed that model. The popes predecessor have been beaten resulting in injuries leading to death by the King's men for refusing to go along with the plan, so he decided to make good on it, and then secretly pardoned the Templars afterwards. The Templars were never corrupted even if the mystery has fuelled rumours and fiction of that sort, they went to death martyrs to the avarice of a king of France.

@juniorjames7076 Місяць тому

@vorynrosethorn903 There were levels of corruption among the Templars just like any institution. Drop your sunday school Catholic propaganda! Lol

@MyVanir Місяць тому

@@juniorjames7076 Yes, but they were not a satanic cult of goatee-wearing, cackling villains with goat legs, like propaganda painted them as. There was not much difference between them and the Italian banking families by that time.

@somemeansfish8987 Місяць тому

As a bulgarian fan of your channel I can't express my gratitude for you stopping to mention our viewpoint on the jannisaries,I have seen no other historian do so.My deepest thanks

@karlsussan8454 Місяць тому

Another great video! The only part I wish you included was about the intense rivalry between the Ottoman Sipahis and the Janissary Corps.

@lolasdm6959 Місяць тому

by design, I imagine.

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

It started later and I also wonder why not anybody thinking Janissaries were infantry because it's harder to flee as infantry and it's less prestigious to be infantry in most of the cultures so that prestige went to mostly ethnic Turk Sipahis

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

There is a Turkish proverb goes as: Atlı er baş kaldırmaz. Meaning cavalry don't rebel that is also a diss to Janissaries

@stehfreejesseah7893 Місяць тому

@@tatarcavalry2342 Cause one had horses and one didn’t.

@gurkeschurke6667 Місяць тому

It would distract from the intention of the video, which is to appeal to the turkophobic audience.

@belakovdoj Місяць тому

It looks like the Russian 16th-century tactic was a copy of the Ottoman's one. Especially the use of wagons and the absence of pikes (which sometimes led to catastrophes of musketeers vs cavalry massacre)

@christophernoneya4635 Місяць тому

I imagine both were designed to fight well in the Russian steppe lmao

@howdoyouturnthison7827 Місяць тому

They might converently evolve to deal with similar enemies. Turks and Russian had regularly fought against both European knights and Eastern Turkmen/Tatar hordes. Pikeman or pike and shot would not suit these variaty of enemies and both Russian and Turks lack plate armor tech to make infantry fisible.

@ZS-rw4qq Місяць тому

Gulyay gorod?

@ahmedjama1755 Місяць тому

This Channel has the best Military History content with extensive primary sources many history channels just use Wikipedia and never sight their sources

@coreyjblakey Місяць тому

Yet they shill for ai tools to make more ai trash channels?

@fortunemaster668 Місяць тому

Video: tells about the change of status from slaves to the shadow government, those slaves having many privileges(though, honestly, maybe it would be better not to use the term slave due to negative connotations), praising their military skill and how their discipline made them the elite who made foreign soldiers tremble. Comments: "you're biased, showing the ottomans in negative light, undermining their achievements" 🤦‍♂️

@Vhite Місяць тому

They were still slaves though, at least the ones recruited trough devshirme which had to go trough years of indoctrination.

@fortunemaster668 Місяць тому

@@Vhite well, probably should have said that people are needed to be more frequently reminded that slavery, although was a status of direct subjigation, didn't necessarily involve mistreatment or lack of content of the enslaved person and that it was a very deep topic back in the day

@yuzemir 16 днів тому

@@Vhite What is the difference between them and the temple knights who were converted from paganism to Christianity and were drafted into the army? Were the people fighting for the king in the West fighting for themselves? Were they slaves of the king or the feudal lord? Also, they weren't slaves, that's your lie. Janissaries ruled the Ottoman Empire rather than the sultan, and the sultan was only the final approval authority. Janissaries rise in rank and become pasha. Pashas were related to the families of many Ottoman sultans. Which slave can marry the sultan's daughters or siblings?

@jacopoarmini7889 Місяць тому

the times of the janissaries were very cruel, but man, the Ottoman empire, for all its glory and ingenuity, made cruelty a substantial part of its system.

@gurkeschurke6667 Місяць тому

For you it’s cruel for others it’s pragmatic.

@VigilantGuardian6750 Місяць тому

if they were that cruel they wouldn't last over 5 centuries, the cruleler and more unjust system the less it will last as shown by history, Ottomans obviously weren't that bad unless you are some softie westerner seeing turks as monsters cause they arent white

@gustavosanches3454 Місяць тому

@@gurkeschurke6667those are not mutually exclusive

@elguerojusticiero Місяць тому

for sure cruelty and terror were pillars of the empire. the mongol influence was strong. also western culture is heavily influenced by jesus christ so our tolerance for straight up evil is much lower than other places. when you read how the comanche killed and tortured jesuit missionsries, sometimes over years, makes you wonder if Godless heathen was more warning than insult

@matthewbutts2062 Місяць тому

@@VigilantGuardian6750 I suppose you're one of these people who excuse and brush off Imperiaism and war crimes when the perpeturater isn't white? The Ottomans were just cruel and evil as any European Empire.

@endplanets Місяць тому

Slavers rolling into town, forcing a tithe of children for future soldiers.... Damn. Warhammer 40k strikes again.

@AHersheyHere Місяць тому

It is so interesting seeing kingdoms early attempts at professional armies, and how eventually these establishments become powerful political forces. Varangians, Praetorian Guards, Mamaluks, and Janissaries.

@carlustin4034 Місяць тому

Thank you for mentioning that '''janisarry'' is the most humaliting way to call someone in Bulgarian

@mjs24 Місяць тому

This was a long awaited one! Awesome work

@thcdreams654 Місяць тому

Great content as usual. Thanks for the informative and entertaining videos that are consistently top quality.

@Albion1631 Місяць тому

I think that polearms used by the Janissaries are heavily underappreciated. Maybe the iconography or some weird western concept of lightly armored ottomans played into this. In fact, Janissaries were heavy infantry, up armored and equipped with spears (mizrak) and axes (baltadji). Especially their "stormtroopers" such as serdengeçti or zirhli nefer. Janissaries also fought behind war wagons, often using guns, while heavily armored cavalry such as the sipahi would storm enemy units. There is no other way they would have won so many battles against heavily armored european knights.

@Wakobear. Місяць тому

@nickzaichuk7457 Місяць тому

Yes please

@WhiteFalcon_EA Місяць тому

Amazing research and very good summarization, thank you.

@theepicone1264 Місяць тому

Contrary to common knowledge, Devshirme (Ottomans making high staff governors and well-paid soldiers out of farmer children) was very desired by minority parents for their children, for instance Bosnians were severely complaining to sultans about their children not being taken for Devshirme, because they were muslim.

@nvelsen1975 29 днів тому

Imagine being ultra-nationalistic and brainwashed you justify stealing children from their parents and slave-driving....

@isuckatleague745 23 дні тому

@@nvelsen1975 if you think its anything less than a lottery win for the kid you are brain damaged. For the family however its cruel but it is what it is.

@shawnbeckett1370 Місяць тому

Awesome as always

@SARodriguez-kw7wl Місяць тому

Love this video BTW. Very insightful.❤️💯

@yldrm5356 8 днів тому

LETS JUST MAKE THIS CLEAR. The ages of the boys were generally between 14 and 19 years old. At that time, most of these recruitments were voluntary and many applications were turned down. What conditions do you think rural people lived in in the 15th and 16th centuries? Do you think they are preparing for university exams, studying to become doctors and engineers, etc.? A historical event must be evaluated on its own terms. Imagine that you are in a family with 5 children who are farmers. Your father, your grandfather and his father were all farmers. Would you give up the chance to live, work and study in İstanbul, in the dream city of that time? And after receiving training, you have the possibility of rising to high ranks such as vizier, pasha or even grand vizier. Also, if you can improve yourself, you can also have jobs such as being a doctor or an architect outside the army. There are examples of all of these in history. This is a chance to get rich. Also, do not mind that the Janissaries were slaves, their financial situation was quite good. Or stay in your village and continue cleaning your cow's dung from the ground, the choice is yours.

@TheEggmaniac 7 днів тому

That sounds like a terrible excuse and justification for an appalling practice of forcibly enslaving boys. Taking them far from the families, who they would never see again. Making them convert to another religion, and then forcing them through a tough life of training, and then fighting for a country that occupied theirs. Being banned from marrying or until 40 years old or having property. And you say we shouldnt mind that they were slaves? The great majority of young boys recruited were not voluntary at all. Did you watch the video? They were forcibly recruited using the 'devşirme' system. of child levy enslavement, by which Christian Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs and Ukrainians were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army. These boys would probably never see the families, they were forcibly removed from, again, in their life. Whatever their families situation, Im sure they would have preferred it, if they were even given the choice, of staying in their community, to being enslaved into the army, of an occupying power. Im sure their parents would also have hated this too.

@Scourgeoftengri 3 дні тому

@@TheEggmaniac that's just history

@nyktal Місяць тому

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@ningen8719 Місяць тому

They were basically spartans of early modern times. Recruited at young age, raped, tortured, brainwashed, overworked, and when they ready for their first battle they either become a high ranked statesman or a rotten corpse in battlefield.

@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 Місяць тому

At the least they were not serving white supremacy /s

@manswitnohans7618 Місяць тому

Love learning about the 17th and 16th century thanks for the vids. :)

@tadsklallamn8v Місяць тому

this is my favorite history channel

@bigsarge2085 Місяць тому

Always learn something new, thank you!

@Spaceplayzsfs Місяць тому

Serbian boy:Exists Ottomans:And I took that -Personally-

@lolasdm6959 Місяць тому

Ottoman sultan: gets skewed by Serbian knights His descendents: "That's a talent we could use."

@Tyrach. Місяць тому

@@lolasdm6959 Serbian tsars and despots are slain one by one by Turkish soldiers the same Serbs after losing all the battles: Oh man, we give up to our new Masters

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

@@lolasdm6959 Most of the time Serbians were loyal vassals of Ottomans.

@lolasdm6959 Місяць тому

@@tatarcavalry2342 most of the time Serbians were in no position to choose.

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

@@lolasdm6959 Yeah and this is human experience in short well said

@panchemist Місяць тому

First of all, thank you for your educating videos. Second, as I grew up amidst the books, one of my favourite way back when was "Stars of Eger" ("Eger csillagok" by Gardonyi Geza). The story itself falls into the same timeline as many of your videos do- middle period of 16th century. Would you be willing to make a video of siege of Eger aswell ?! :) I do appologise, if you have already covered it in your previous videos, however, it was (in my teens) the most epic tales of all time! :)

@wiktorberski9272 29 днів тому

Really interesting video. So thank you very much for this movie

@jackhazardous4008 Місяць тому

Sweep it up, Janissaries! They do it for free.

@jotaro2690 Місяць тому

Can you do the mamluks next?

@icenarsin5283 Місяць тому

Excellent documentary... Thank you!

@ExperiencePlayers Місяць тому

well produced and exciting to watch.

@ivanivanovic5586 Місяць тому

If bosnian historiographers are to be believed, after it was conquered and later established as a border province of the ottoman empire, bosnian muslims requested that their boys too be part of devshirme system(which was granted), and many of them found their way both into the court and the jannisary corps. Sokollu Mehmed Pasha(or Mehmed-paša Sokolović, as he's usually called) was one of those bosnian boys.

@esoterra8050 Місяць тому

Bosnian and Ottoman relations were always profitable.

@ivanivanovic5586 Місяць тому

@@esoterra8050 There are also the stories of their involvement as part of ottoman army, like how they got majority of hungarian nobility killed in one battle that favored the ottoman cavalry(1492), or in already mentioned mohacs, they would have been at vienna gates the second time(when suleiman the magnificent died at sziget, and sokollu mehmed pasha suppressed the news of it to save army morale), the fall of majority of bosnian muslim sepahi in 1593, whose relatives gained the right of inheritance of land and service(usually was for life only), list goes on. Profitable indeed.

@UtkuOziz Місяць тому

There is archival information about this. Similar case we find in Albania too. Ottoman Turnacibashi was informed not to take children who were overly enthusiastic or not to accept bribes from people who wanted to put their children into the Janissary Order. This video should have used accurate Ottoman Archival Data which are public. But then again its not always his agenda to inform people of the facts. Take a look at this: belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin/248/eng

@juniorjames7076 Місяць тому

My ex-girlfriend's family were Turk/Bosnian Bektaşi (Bektashi) sect. They are a really laid back Sufi sect and NOT strict at all. I drank beer and rakı all the time with the father.

@aleksakuljanin2442 Місяць тому

Bosnian wasn't a nationality until the late 20th century. Go and learn something for once in your life. Those were muslim Serbs and Croats

@manatarmsfittness8874 Місяць тому

Once again you are one of the only UKpostsrs to talk about early modern non English history with quality. 👏bravo

@mikailkalashnikov1448 Місяць тому

Love this channel

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 Місяць тому

Excellent video on a great topic

@darknation6174 Місяць тому

The Sardaukar in Dune are based on the Janissaries.

@medievalist8441 Місяць тому

I heard in somewhere that christian families would actually be okay with this? As there sons could achieve higher social status and mobility when serving rather than them just being a Christian family

@iondu655 Місяць тому

Depends on the families. The devout one would raise hell. Others would move mountains for one of their children to be levied as Janissaries. They, the Janissaries', become so powerful that they become political clout 'representing' their homeland in the Ottoman court.

@Adsper2000 Місяць тому

Well, there have always been parents willing to sell their own children into slavery.

@sebastienhardinger4149 Місяць тому

Yes, was varied. Some christian families rightly saw the Janissary corps as a mechanism for social advancement. And muslim families also recognized this and got upset that their sons were denied this power, to the point that in the 1600s as the Janissaries became more of a praetorian guard, muslim families demanded and got the right to have their children inducted

@iondu655 Місяць тому

@sebastienhardinger4149 Yep, 18-19th century Janissaries are wild. They can change sultans at will.

@VigilantGuardian6750 Місяць тому

ottomans were at some point more of a euro-balkan empire than anatolian/asian one exactly cause of this, too many white balkan peeps got into places of power in the government

@sarahsidney1988 Місяць тому

Very nice video. Love your animations

@Mehmet-yp1kv 17 днів тому

nice video

@johnnyjoestar6405 Місяць тому

Turks when the boys they forced to serve them become highly disloyal and often kill the sultan: 😱😱😱😱😰

@rodrigorafael.9645 Місяць тому

Say you didn't watch the video without, saying you didn't watch the video:

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

Boys were loyal late era Janissaries were mostly not devshirme

@johnnyjoestar6405 Місяць тому

@@rodrigorafael.9645 Sem tempo, irmão.

@muffaletta Місяць тому

Dont talk to strangers or else youll end up a part of the islamic janissary guard of the ottoman empire

@akshsehgal998 Місяць тому

Fun fact the loyal artillery men that would be the end of the jannssaries would another elite unit of the empire who were at the same rank as the jannssaries and were their rivals

@absyahwa7698 Місяць тому

Nizam i cedit

@SultanBrokenClock Місяць тому

It’s so cool and strange that they were obsessed with strict rules guidelines and regulations to their daily living and order… but in battle they were against formations such as strange ideal to the modern soldier… not wrong but strange

@IsaacRaiCastillo Місяць тому

An interesting fact that is not said is that the Janissaries were, in all likelihood, the first modern professional army to use uniforms in Europe, since other armies would not take this path until practically the middle of the 17th century. A question that I have always had with the Janissaries is: How much inspiration did they take from the Mamluks? And what are the most obvious differences in the way they were organized? I think it deserves a separate video to talk about a comparison between the two units, with many similarities, since one precedes the other and they were very successful at their respective times.

@charlesiragui2473 Місяць тому

Great suggestion. Both were slave elite troops of Islamic empires. It seems that the Ottomans did a better job of training their elite slaves to be loyal, as the Janissaries only revolted when they lost their cohesion as enslaved Christians. I believe the Mamluks were Turkish slaves and already Muslim.

@fakirsplace8464 Місяць тому

in Memlûk arabs took Turkish boys as slaves and maske them soldiers. İn ottomans Turks took slavic boys as slaves and make them soldiers.

@gabrielcurraj3994 Місяць тому

How to design the perfect ww1 fortress

@willfakaroni5808 Місяць тому

Go underground

@polygonalfortress Місяць тому

polygonal forts!

@TheDoctorwannabe Місяць тому

Excellent video! Just one thing: jataGan The g is like in Aga ;)

@refiapinarergin719 14 днів тому

Not all Kids became soldiers, According to their capability, they May take important role in goverment, Even they became grand vezir ( prime minister), some of them, work as a officer or civil servant etc.

@stanbatakarata6081 13 днів тому

Yes but for 10000 kids 1 is grand Vessir

@batuhan3233 10 днів тому

@@stanbatakarata6081exactly, like in this modern age

@dennistokmak1219 9 днів тому

@@stanbatakarata6081better than 10000 kids 0 being prime minister in western world of slavery

@stanbatakarata6081 9 днів тому

@dennistokmak1219 and ? The must be happy that thier children being taken away right? Brother drink 💊!

@cenktuneygok8986 19 днів тому

7:40 The reason for this huge spike in numbers is because by the 17th century the devshirme system was abandoned and replaced with voluntary recruitment.

@stanbatakarata6081 13 днів тому

For Turks children 100 true 👍

@Ozan-qr7hu Місяць тому

One thing I'd like to point out from the start that "Tabur Cengi" literally means Battalion War. Are you sure It's not Something like Tabur-i Cengi which translates to Battalion of War. Tho I might be mistaken because as a turkish speaker it caught my attention as weird

@johnmanole4779 Місяць тому

Please do the mamluks next

@arda213 Місяць тому

People wrongfully assume Ottomans did this devshirme practice to access to a new pool of manpower. The real aim was to create an elite soldier that had no tribal ties. You cant enslave Turks because they are Muslim and therefore you cant break their tribal ties. While other Turkish beys had to please all the chiefs in their lands to gather an army, Ottomans had a centralised elite core. For a very long time janissaries had very anectodal numbers. 500, 1000, 6000 and so on. The backbone of the army was the provincial cavalry. It grew in time because of the military revolution in Europe that required Ottomans to deploy more riflemen. As the video stated they couldnt sustain the numbers merely with devshirme anymore so sons of janissaries and Turks were taken into the corps. After that point the number of the corps dramatically increased 30.000 40.000 etc. Of course the old discipline was gone when the number was this high. They also created a new army called sekban from Turks who were also riflemen later on.

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

Discipline ruined mainly because they got right for normal people stuff like marrying, having other jobs etc.

@shergy1000 Місяць тому

Just someone trying to justify the horrific practice of Devshirme. ONE or TWO guys were risen to high rang. Therefor the 100s of thousand others enslave them and fight wars constantly.

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

@@shergy1000 he literally used the word enslave buddy what you on about

@shergy1000 Місяць тому

@@tatarcavalry2342 Explain what you mean my friend?

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

@@shergy1000 This is not a justification of devshirme system this is just an explanation of it and of course they were seen inferior that's why they got chosen for process just like the simple fact that they were founded as infantry because it's harder to flee as infantry and in many cultures it's more prestigious to be cavalry that applies for Turks too

@Besiktas1903---- 6 днів тому

Geçmişini unutanın geleceği yoktur büyükler ölür ama fikirleri kalır Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

@cov.teo.8131 Місяць тому

DO NOT ASK A TURK WHAT DID THE JANISSARIES DO TO LITTLE ALBANIAN BOYS IN THE 17TH CENTURY

@_--Reaper--_ Місяць тому

why?

@Dragoncam13 Місяць тому

😂😂😂

@ZS-rw4qq 18 днів тому

5:40 Fun fact, his brother became the Patriarch of the Serbian Church and I think somewhere in Bosnia They made a statue of the two of them hugging, holding hands or smth

@hattorihaso2579 6 днів тому

Serbian propaganda they wjere in no way shape or form connected

@ZS-rw4qq 6 днів тому

@@hattorihaso2579 Really? It seems this Serbian propaganda is accepted by not only Turks, but Bosnian Muslims as well: bs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makarije tr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makarije_Sokolovi%C4%87

@hattorihaso2579 6 днів тому

@@ZS-rw4qq thats what decades of propaganda will do the men had the same last name but where not related in any way shape or form

@ZS-rw4qq 6 днів тому

@@hattorihaso2579 Ok, from where did these two come? If they're not related but still have the same name, they would have to hundreds of miles apart, right?

@ZS-rw4qq 6 днів тому

@@hattorihaso2579 Don't you think Turks would know this? After all, they very meticulous in writing, they wouldn't miss an opportunity to record it

@sebastienhardinger4149 Місяць тому

I took a class with Gabor Agoston! fantastic historian

@brokenbridge6316 Місяць тому

The Janissaries are hands down some of the most unique warriors n soldiers or world history. Great video.

@pistoneteo Місяць тому

Commentary as a sacrifice to the algorithm.

@MysticChronicles712 Місяць тому

Uniforms were worn by the Janissaries before any other European army until the mid-seventeenth century, making them the first modern professional army in Europe. How much the Janissaries owed to the Mamluks is something I've frequently pondered. How did their respective organizations differ most notably? A separate video should compare the two units, which are similar, since one was successful in its time and came before the other.

@Hasanbas-rv3vm Місяць тому

They were the first standing army who didint disband

@Kara-K38 Місяць тому

I think the main difference is that the Janisarries and the Devshirme in general are more centralised than the Mamluks, Ghulams that existed before. Mamluks/Ghulams were bought and sold by individual masters and also instructed by them or someone the master chose. This type of Mamluk still existed in the Ottoman empire through their vassals in the Mamluks of Egypt until the very end.

@tzimisce1753 Місяць тому

There were so many Bosnian janissaries that Bosnian was a second language in Istanbul by the mid-17th century. Bosnia was the backbone of the conquest of Hungary, possibly also what would later become Romania.

@tylerclayton6081 Місяць тому

Bosnia is such a tiny nation though

@tzimisce1753 Місяць тому

@@tylerclayton6081 Bosnia singlehandedly defeated Prince Hildburghausen's 150 000-man HRE army (Germans/Saxons & Austrians, Hungarians, Croats, Slavonan Serbs) with 5 000 regulars and 25 000 civilian volunteers in 1737-1739, while the whole Ottoman army was busy in Ukraine.

@juniorjames7076 Місяць тому

I lived for one year in a suburb in Istanbul called Yeni Bosna (New Bosnia). I loved the neighborhood!

@aleksakuljanin2442 Місяць тому

Bosnian wasn't a nationality until the late 20th century, what are you on?

@tzimisce1753 Місяць тому

@@aleksakuljanin2442 You're lying because you're a Serb. Serbs are seething that they can't conquer other countries, and try to pathetically disprove genetics and history for the sake of expansion. Manuel Komnenos commissioned to have "Emperor of the Bosnians" etched into the Hagia Sophia in 1166. Bosnia was under Hungarian suzerainty at that time, so curb your stupid "it's just about a passport" - passports didn't even exist in the middle ages. Meanwhile, Ioannes Skylitzes wrote in the 11th century that Serbs are a little tribe of Croats who tried to steal Bulgarian land. Now go cry in a corner while Kosovo finishes its secession and your country falls apart.

@onuscronus984 Місяць тому

I heard they all kept a spoon in their hats.

@josipboban6976 Місяць тому

😅

@JosephSchmo Місяць тому

Cool video, I always wanted to know more about the Jannissaries.

@Eendeebo Місяць тому

The AI tool sponsor feels a lil dystopian IMO

@coreyjblakey Місяць тому

Its like hes giving people the tools they need to make more ai slop channels that he has to compete with. Seems silly

@cookiedino1238 Місяць тому

The comment section is a mess

@dennisbergkamp1553 Місяць тому

When you get the Turks and the Balkans involved it’s always a mess

@IbrahimMaisur Місяць тому

In the end its the Artillery who are the kings of battles

@oriffel Місяць тому

did your voice get deeper?

@axhed Місяць тому

almost sounds like critical drinker doing an accent.

@rubz1390 Місяць тому

Why were Jewish families spared from recruitment?

@qefucan7591 Місяць тому

We all know why the sons of judas were exempt, it would be anti sneitism for them to haft to server as anything less than a general.

@R.Specktre Місяць тому

Jews were mostly merchants at the time and notorious pacifists in accordance with Jewish Law. They paid, also, to remain autonomous.

@delicavus7300 Місяць тому

The reason is that Jewish society is an urban society. One of the basic principles of the Devshirme institution is that city servants are not accepted into the hearth, because city servants have an open mind, they can belong to various movements and currents.

@rubz1390 Місяць тому

Why would the Ottomans care about anti-semitism at all...@@qefucan7591

@shergy1000 Місяць тому

@@delicavus7300 So the Ottoman Empire was afraid of being subverted from within is what I'm getting from that answer.

@andy313131313136 Місяць тому

The Turks are offering the Christian boys "Turkish Delight."

@alex_zetsu Місяць тому

There are all sorts of interesting stories that you can make with slave soldiers besides the obvious "slave revolt" arc, so while these guys might not have had the best lives, at least they can inspired many writers to make entertaining fiction.

@eldinfehric6717 Місяць тому

There is a guy called vildarodinson Bro is in every reply section Dude do somwthing else it is honestly so hilarious to see one person reply to nearly every comment that there is 😂😂😂

@adamradziwill Місяць тому

a like for the correct map, yes Muscovy !

@lerneanlion Місяць тому

The dissolution of the Janissary Corps is another evidence of quality over quantity. Am I correct about this? Also, I would like to add that the Mansure Army is not that much of the better replacement when it comes to quality because many of them started out as conscripted adult men regardless of their origins. So they are not motivated to fight much unless the salaries are good. If I am wrong about this, please correct what I was wrong about.

@RehanQawai-rj7vm Місяць тому

Well pointed out, This was simply a systematic imitation of Western tyranny, classism, extravagance . It brought calamity on the state and on the Muslims to this day

@ericponce8740 Місяць тому

Question: Did any Janissaries maintain ties with their former Christian families?

@deathdefyingowl Місяць тому

Yes. Most of them. The guy mentioned in video Sokollu Mehmet Pasha visited his family repeatedly. His brother was priest. He built a bridge his hometown. Also there is plenty of records about how janissaries sent money to their families.

@RayshiaRoman Місяць тому

Yes. Why wouldn't they?

@cameroncarter6789 Місяць тому

cool.

@rojvankoc7252 Місяць тому

Some of these Janissaries´s grand grand grandsons became rulers of todays modern Turkey. That is guaranteed

@saemonno-suke9959 Місяць тому

except they were castrated

@rojvankoc7252 Місяць тому

Do you think all of them were?@@saemonno-suke9959

@fredflinstone6601 Місяць тому

@@saemonno-suke9959not true

@tahiyattasdic Місяць тому

@@saemonno-suke9959 No duh! The Janissaries were allowed to marry after retirement. The eunuch were castrated, and majority of the eunuch were Blacks brought from Africa.

@artair70 Місяць тому

@@tahiyattasdic Never once heard that, any source? Almost all could never marry, the eunuchs were Black because it would easier to tell who the children belong to.

@ZhangK71 Місяць тому

I wonder if the Janissaries inspired Star Wars?? “Some of them never manage to join the corps, instead working various trades, but the rest of them undergo military training” is almost spot-on for the Jedi Order, except its lightsaber/combat training more so than strictly military training.

@pinchevulpes Місяць тому

Spain implemented their own version of Janissaries in the new world called ‘Genizaros’ notably from Apaches and Pueblos enslaving native boys and resettled them in buffer areas between settlements. it was ineffective because the Native fighters were better regarded, higher in number at that time and knew their land better but it was a neat idea.

@VigilantGuardian6750 Місяць тому

they also had their own jizyah system called "Paria", worked pretty much same way as muslim one

@theawesomeman9821 Місяць тому

What could possibly go wrong with people you enslaved?

@basilmcdonnell9807 Місяць тому

Ottomans enslaved their troops? Well, I suspect Russian conscripts around that time with their 25 year service times didn't feel too free.

@Alexemenos Місяць тому

You're acting like every country wont draft people during war?

@Mofifty31 Місяць тому

@Alexemenos 25 year conscription is one hell of a draft

@Alexemenos Місяць тому

@@Mofifty31 welp most of em wont make it out regardless

@ReviveHF Місяць тому

Janissaries were the ex Byzantine elite archers but ended up become Praetorian guards with muskets.

@hussainsultanzada6123 Місяць тому

the first of the Janissaries were these ex-Byzantine archers, correct. But the Devşirme system was used from then on until ofc it wasn't.

@ygdmdx Місяць тому

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@damirk3 Місяць тому

Im glad someone is talking about ottoman opression of Balkans. Many dont know that ottoman occupation was more colonization, exploitation and destruction of local culture and enslavement then just conquest.

@Imperator-vo4to Місяць тому

Then how come you guys maintain your language and religion? In africa most people speak English or French and are Christians. A legacy of colonization. But you guys could maintain yours. And the colonization of africa didnt even last as long as the ottomans rule in the balkans. Something tells me they were more tolerant with their "colonization".

@damirk3 Місяць тому

@@Imperator-vo4to because we didnt let ourself be genocided? Ever thought about that? So you are saying Armenian genocide never happend because 100% of Armenians arent killed? You are part of problem we face every day, oh living under ottomans wasnt that bad. Yea them destroying cultural heritage of your people to build mosques is totally not genocide. Balkans being slaves to muslims for 500 years totally didnt made us poor. Losing millions due to muslim enslavement totally didnt f up our demographics. Muslims never existed in Balkans, until muslims genocided, colonized and enslaved Balkans. Albania exists because of islamic colonization of Balkans, genocide of Greeks and because of Austria creating Albania. Bosnia exists because of islamic colonization of Bosnia and genocide to native Croat and Serb population. But do you know what doesnt exist? Greeks in Anatolia who were in Anatolia from ancient times. But yea keep defending ottomans, one day because of your hate towards Slavs you might end up like Greeks in Anatolia, or like Armenians in Armenia, or like Bulgarians in Bulgaria when they wanted to end ottoman rule. I guess western Europeans will never learn what is life until they find themself on frontlines with enemy that hates your existance for 500 years. And im 100% sure you arent Spanish because they know what is like to defend yourself from someone like ottomans.

@aleksaradojicic8114 Місяць тому

@@Imperator-vo4to Simple put, you are wrong. First, most people in Africa speak both there tribal language and "colonial" language. Success of conversion is also mix, with result being weird combination of local beliefs and christianity. And while it is fact that Ottomans offered cultural autonomy to Balkan people, they also massacred, clensed and converted part of those same Balkan people, which really puts question on that autonomy and tolerance which you claim was somehow higher in Balkans compared to Africa and Asia.

@nickzaichuk7457 Місяць тому

@@aleksaradojicic8114sorry man, the ottomans were the PIONEERS of the African slave trade.. Look up the eastern African slave trade by the ottomans in the Indian sea. Centuries before these African countries were white colonized, they were slave exported by Turks😮. All slave masters are bad, this video just highlights how bad the ottomans were to the Balkan people. STOP comparing levels of slavery, it’s all bad and should all be discussed!!!

@lukaswilhelm9290 Місяць тому

@nickzaichuk7457 no, the African themselves and Arabs were pioneers of African slave trade.

@ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273 Місяць тому

What's wrong comments section..?

@Brslld Місяць тому

What do you mean?

@dennisbergkamp1553 Місяць тому

Turks..

@artair70 Місяць тому

It's full of this group called "Turks" their not know for their brains.

@queentoy-qs9gb 17 днів тому

@@artair70 QQ more in comments POStz , dont forget to use your daily bh cream 😂 thx god mongols gave a peaceful visit to your country may god bless them.

@Piloulegrand Місяць тому

Wait so your sponsor is litteraly something that makes bad videos ? Are your videos done the same way, with just an AI prompt ?

@placeholder1237 Місяць тому

The video are well reached don’t seem like ai garbage

@Vorment Місяць тому

I cant find anything about polish hussary on your channel... Defienetly something to think about

@tonegrail650 Місяць тому

Too bad there aren't many documented accounts of Jannisaries deflecting and reverting back to their Christian roots, which undoubtedly happened as in the case of skanderbeg. I know if I was taken as a boy I'd do what I could to survive until I got the change to escape.

@moorishwarrior341 Місяць тому

unfortunately for you those cases were very few, i know it hurts but mostly remained muslim and thats why turkey is a muslim country

@doe6974 Місяць тому

No you wouldnt. Remember, all they know their whole lives is being ruled by their masters. The concept of "freedom" doesnt even exist. They were brainwashed from the begining.

@Bogdan-uu5oe Місяць тому

If you understand the Jannisaries you will understand why. Jannsaries were recruited from poor families with many childern, people like Skanderbeg or Vlad the Impaler were members of powerfull houses with strong identity. Those noble hostages were politicians not simple soliders, also they were trained to be the rulers of their lands, so the state could be a vasal to the Ottomans. From all the kids from devsirme, the jannisaries were the least brain gifted. The smart kids were sent to the administartive aparatus the dumb ones were sent to the janisaries corps.

@doe6974 Місяць тому

@@Bogdan-uu5oe "recruited". Whitewashing the reality. Kidnapped and brainwashed more like.

@politicalofficer832 Місяць тому

wow like real life Unsullied

@nothing00164 Місяць тому

Except with balls still on

@eindalton2638 21 день тому

@@nothing00164Yeah, they just snip their foreskin.

@shiroamakusa8075 16 днів тому

More like real-life Sardaukar.

@Chris-zr1hw Місяць тому

AND THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

@dubbyx8490 Місяць тому

HEYOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

@RayshiaRoman Місяць тому

AND THE COMMONWEALTH WAS CARVED TO PIECES!!!

@commanderpaladin Місяць тому

Hmmm

@Iason29 Місяць тому

what is the music used?

@robcanisto8635 Місяць тому

❤

@benjaminzupancic6961 Місяць тому

in my grandparence village they told a story, when turks took a one year old baby from a mother by force. They train him to become a Janissarie but when he became more mature, he returned back home and finally met his mother. At that young age he remembered the road to his willage and I think thats why he was all mature when he came home

@lastword8783 Місяць тому

Thats called a myth 😂

@HornyIndianMan Місяць тому

Wow what a boring, stupid fucking story.

@vidarodinson5246 Місяць тому

That is wonderful story, I heard that story before, probably it is real

@andreweden9405 Місяць тому

Perhaps one of the most long-lasting, large-scale, mass examples of Stockholm syndrome in the history of the world! Truly heartbreakingly sad, especially for the families that they were ripped away from as kids, as well as their mortal souls in eternity.

@Hasanbas-rv3vm Місяць тому

That was white people did to native american children!

@carlustin4034 Місяць тому

No that is when Asian people did it to White people. We Bulgarians who were genocided systematicaly,whose children were kidnaped always wondered what kind of impudent idiots can make such accusation from very dirthy souls@@Hasanbas-rv3vm

@oguzkaganonder1331 Місяць тому

@@carlustin4034 are you stupid?

@MyVanir Місяць тому

@@oguzkaganonder1331 No, but you are a turk.

@rod9829 Місяць тому

Why “Edirne” and not “Adrianople” if “Constantinople” is used?

@lolasdm6959 Місяць тому

Are you Greek? If not you certainly should not care, because the Greeks and Romans both saw your people as literal monkies with swords and enslaved your people.

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

Because Edirne is a name older than İstanbul and used at that times buddy ameri.m.utts are again not suprising with their little to no education

@rod9829 Місяць тому

@@tatarcavalry2342 Turk 🤮🤮

@rod9829 Місяць тому

@@tatarcavalry2342 Edirne became the internationally recognised name in 1928, typical horse archer, no understanding of their own history…

@tatarcavalry2342 Місяць тому

@@rod9829 you don't even know simple terms let alone history there is no term as internationally recognised name in medieval times lol