I’m glad the Armenian story didn’t end here, in 1199 the Georgians liberated Armenia and recaptured Ani, and defeated the eldiguzids, and welcomed the Armenians back to their land. Amazing video!

Turk from Adana here. Thank you very much for this comprehensive work shedding light on the Armenian side of the Cilician history. It is fascinating that the Armenians stood up even against the Byzantines and captured the shore line at their expense. Apparently the land of Cilicia often had an exceptional level of autonomy compared to the rest of Anatolia even when the region was ruled by great empires. Similarly, the Turkish beylik of Ramazanoglu ruled Cilicia for two and a half centuries, and managed to preserve its autonomy until the early 17th century. It was the last Anatolian state to eventually join the Ottoman Empire.

It's crazy to me how these Armenian kings don't hold these meetings in their own court. "Yeah sure I'll meet you where my forces and I are completely surrounded and will likely be taken prisoner." I can understand leading from the front, but after what happened to Gagik II, how does Leo fall for the same trap, TWICE.

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

I know right, trustworthy to fault I suppose😂

@levongevorgyan6789

2 ай бұрын

It happened before Gagik too. Arshak II of the Arascida went to a meeting with the Persian King, he was captured and his right hand man, Vasak Mamikonian was flayed alive.

@Cam-ye5qg

2 ай бұрын

I feel like throughout Armenian history there is always a blind spot for betrayal. They are smart, adaptable and financially successful, but naive to treachery. Not meant to be a shot at Armenians, just an observation.

@CrusaderMapper

2 ай бұрын

The Armenians actually did that, with Bohemond III in 1194. They called him to meet with them but instead imprisoned him; he was eventually freed in 1195 after negotiations.

@TigranHakobyan-jh8ue

2 ай бұрын

Thats just our nature. I even notice it in my dad and myself. We trust way too easily and I am saying that as an Armenian

Worth mentioning that there is still an Armenian Cilician Church denomination that is the remnant of this kingdom

@MiqoARMO

2 ай бұрын

Yeah the Church is in Lebanon 🇱🇧 Aram is Catholicoses name that is onather story on its own

@araxykherlopian1573

2 ай бұрын

Since there was no royalties or governments in existence - also the Church would represent the ethnic identity as the protector - the Church was the official representative and protector . At least the Cilician church remained free when the Etchmiadzin was under Soviet rule . After the Genocide the Armenians were placed in the Middle East where there is historical continuity and the governments recognized the Armenian Church as the official representative of the community .

Amazing video! Sadly Turks in Adana are never taught about this part of the history of the region! It is as if it never happened even though Armenian castle dot the landscape

@BlazingFlame69

2 ай бұрын

Propably because the Turkish government wants you to think these lands were never Armenian

@koksalceylan9032

2 ай бұрын

Its not correct.we Turks in Turkey know very well the history of the Roman, Armenian past in Anatolia and see it as part of own history of Turkey and are proud of it too. The Glorieus Armenian and Roman and Seljuck and Ottoman times are part Ower glorious history

@alexander63736

2 ай бұрын

I know about it lol, tf

Hey, I’m a bit late here, but really liked the video man! It seems to be doing well too and, like you said, Armenian history is just so fascinating - there’s plenty of different chapters to explore. I don’t know why, but after Nagorno-Karabakh, I find myself wanting to know more the Defense of Van in 1915 and Nakhchivan.

The quality of these videos is exceptional.

Great video and one of the best if not the best Ive seen on Cilician Armenia, every time I watch a video of Stoic historian I always learn a great deal on a subject I thought I knew almost everything about, great story teller, he really breaks down what was going on at the time in great detail. Stoic Historian is the Documentarian of Documentarians, would have been a King of Kings in those days : ) շատ Մերսի

Wonderful job as always! I hope you continue the Armenian Cilicia series.

Love Armenian history, subscribed

No one has suffered as badly as the Jews and Armenians.

@patrioticamerican1484

2 ай бұрын

Jews had it coming

@talfriedman1265

2 ай бұрын

the jews suffered more but it's sad to see two groups that suffered hate each other

@BlazingFlame69

2 ай бұрын

I think you can add a whole lot more to the list

@talfriedman1265

2 ай бұрын

most of the ones you can add are realy small groups so it does't really matter@@BlazingFlame69

@MiqoARMO

2 ай бұрын

​@talfriedman1265 as Armenian I can add to the list Native Americans and and Black people , Irish, Greeks, Assyrians, Yezidis, Palestinians recent past as far as I leave I'm 35, but yeah I can agree we suffered a lot but we kinda dislike each other but in Armenian 3 nation names always fascinated me Հայ-Hay(Armenian) Հույն-Huyn (Greek) Հրեա-Hrea (Jew) There is connection in-between our names all of them starts with letter H only them is not a just coincidence

Fantastic video as always

Your channel is very underated. Awesome stuff.

Thanks for the video. It was a good review with some new knowledge.

I love it dude, keep the videos coming! I love these obscure history topics.

This is the only deep dive into this region in this time period I have ever seen and it's an excellent one at that. Kudos my friend for a job well done!

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Really appreciate that!

@lourias

2 ай бұрын

I LOVE REAL voices!

Top notch!

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Amazing Armenia. Thanks for video.

Great video so far! Looking forward to watching your backlog and seeing future content.

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

Great to hear!!

I really enjoy videos on Armenian history! Thanks.

5:53 It was Romanos Diogenes, not Doukas. The Doukids brought Romanos into power then betrayed and killed him after Manzikert.

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

Apologies, got my romanos’s mixed up there

Tough bunch these Armenians

@lambert801

2 ай бұрын

They're amazing people. Just the fact that they still exist (and exist as an independent nation and state) after all they went through, makes me think they're one of the toughest people on earth.

@Lev_cs

2 ай бұрын

@@lambert801 appreciate you, but we are being chipped away slowly by the hands of the turks and azeris.

@user-gd3dx4pd8q

15 күн бұрын

​@@lambert801мы не сильные. Вера Христу ведёт нас по этой земле

Bleeesss ya my akhperr 🙌🏻

Amazing video. It filled a lot of the gaps I had for this period. Do you recommend any books you've found in your studies so I can read more about this topic?

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

“Armenian Cilicia” is the main one I’m using

thanks

This is great. I would love to see the rest of the Lesser Armenian story.

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

And you will

Im Turkish Whit Armenian roots and 2de generation immigrant living in Belgium the country Were the currusaders came from.🎉😊

@aartur1254

2 ай бұрын

So does your Turkish part hate the Armenian part and vise versa lol?

@aramb5482

Ай бұрын

So you’re Armenian but you call yourself Turkish

Կիլիկիա Երբոր բացվին դռներն հուսո, Եվ մեր երկրեն փախ տա ձմեռ, Չքնաղ երկիրն մեր Արմենիո, - Երբ փայլե յուր քաղցրիկ օրեր. Երբոր ծիծառն իր բույն դառնա, Երբոր ծառերն հագնին տերև` Ցանկամ տեսնել զիմ Կիլիկիա, Աշխարհ, որ ինձ ետուր արև: Տեսի դաշտերըն Սուրիո, Լյառն Լիբանան և յուր մայրեր. Տեսի զերկիրըն Իտալիո, Վենետիկ և յուր գոնդոլներ. Կղզի, նման չիք մեր Կիմպրիա Եվ ո’չ մեկ վայրն է արդարև Գեղեցիկ քան զիմ Կիլիկիա, Աշխարհ` որ ինձ ետուր արև: Հասակ մը կա մեր կենաց մեջ, ՈՒր ամենայն իղձ կավարտի. Հասակ մը, ուր հոգին ի տենչ` Հիշատակաց յուր կարոտի. Հորժամ քնարս իմ ցրտանա, Սիրույն տալով վերջին բարև` Երթամ ննջել հիմ Կիլիկիա, Աշխարհ` որ ինձ ետուր արև: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZoWho8GMh66TZJM.html

Is there a continuation planned? Cilician Armenia survived Byzantine treachery to exist until 1375...

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

Might take a few months to a year tho

Right place at the right time.

@Stoic Historian At Manzikert, it was Romanos Diogenes who was the emperor. And he was betrayed by the Doukas family, but that was because he'd married the Empress who was a Doukas widow and was a political rival to the Doukas family.

After Rubenids came Herumids and Armenian Cilicia survives until 1380 or something like that. Do you have a story about that. Hetumids had alliance with Mongols

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

Yeah gonna do the whole story about cilician armenia

Doing business with those westerners was a pure joy 😉 they were like Armenians very similar mentality

They were part of the kingdom of Iberia (Ebro) in the 3rd century bc.

omg Thoros the Great

Մեր հայերին կենաց

I get that you ended the story at a point to continue it later, but you kind of give the wrong impression. The Byzantine occupation was brief, Thoros II, Leo’s third son was able to reconquer Cilicia and hold it seven years later.

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

Yeah but he was imprisoned by the Byzantines for most of those 7 years. I just felt like Thoros II deserved his own video

Megusta

The guy @ 2:30 has a Beetlejuice head.

Guys, remember that time we accidentally a country?

Anyone else here thanks to the new Age 2 DLC? ^^

Kilikia not Silicia

😄👍

It’s nice to have another perspective on this rather than the strictly Catholic interpretations.

Hoping to get the continuation of the story of Cilician Armenia! and of course an important point is that the Byzantine Empire was Eastern Orthodox (dyophysite, Chalcedonian), while Armenian Apostolic Church (miaphysite/anti-Chalcedonian) is part of Oriental Orthodox churches and they have little to do each other. In fact, Byzantines considered Armenian Church as heretical. It's just that when people say Orthodox in everyday situations they automatically mean Eastern Orthodox but in reality there is no Christian denomination called Orthodox.

Were the Armenians the truth behind the Prester John stories

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

I feel like it was either them or the Georgians, but they knew about them, so I think prester John was simply a made up story, unless you count Ethiopia

@iskanderaga-ali3353

2 ай бұрын

There were Christian communities in India since the 5th century. It's not impossible that some carved out a small polity that the Christians found out about through Indian ocean trade (and added all of the superficial details as a result)

"accidental"a babota

It's a beautiful place amazing castles I would love to visit it as a Christian land.

@aslanlovett4059

2 ай бұрын

Deus Vault

@Storm-1.

2 ай бұрын

Pl dont as long the turks live there you do nothing else than Support muslim opression when you go there. The money that you spent will be better in christian hands.

@SultanBrokenClock

2 ай бұрын

Christian land? That is the heart gods church and heaven

@Storm-1.

2 ай бұрын

@@SultanBrokenClock ruled by muslims.

@dennettshane1929

2 ай бұрын

Very weird christo-fascist comment makes me want to block this channel for liking it

Guys literally started the holy crusades

Its pronounce Kilikia not Silisia.

@StoicHistorian

2 ай бұрын

ive never heard of that, is that the armenian pronunciation?

@ZenionPlay

2 ай бұрын

@@StoicHistorian The confusion began when English speakers read Latin words in English. To be correct you have to create your own alphabet that’s why there are many misunderstandings in map reading or in names. Kilikia is well know region with it’s history. And yes it is pronounced the same way in Armenian, Greek, Latin and all other languages normal languages.

@duy-anhdang705

2 ай бұрын

Both pronunciations have merit. I personally lean more toward “Kee-lee-kee-ah” than “Se-lees-see-ah”, but we must also admit that the original Latin/Greek pronunciations do not dictate English pronunciation, or else we’d call the phonetically similar Sicily “See-kee-lee” instead of “Sis-sil-lee”.

@ZenionPlay

2 ай бұрын

@@duy-anhdang705 well if you have so many Italians in the USA that they can correct you well yes you will learn. But if there are not many people from that region you start thinking that it was written in your language not in Latin or other one. For example how you pronounce Regina?

@duy-anhdang705

2 ай бұрын

@@ZenionPlay but that’s the thing, the Greeks who originally established colonies there called it Sikelia, but now Italians pronounce it like Si-chi-lya, it’s Si-si-ly in English because we learned that from the French, so who’s right? Who’s wrong?

Now we fast-forward today where the world allowed the total erasure of Armenian culture in Azeri occupied lands.

Turks punching the air rn

I take it these Cilecian Armenians are the ones the Turks genocided in WW1?

@jacobpyne5999

2 ай бұрын

These Armenians got expelled/massacred in the 1890s during the hamidian massacres, the ones that survived fled or were killed during the 1910s

Romanos Doukas? 😂

I followed in the footsteps of those Frankish Crusaders by marrying an Armenian beauty! Being blessed by her past, roots, Christian heritage and beauty (true that) and my Germanic Frisian Viking heritage! Mer Hayarin Kenats!

Великим Армения легендарнии Киликия

You know what's super-annoying about this video? The narrator doesn't know the difference between the simple past tense and the past conditional. He's always saying that "X would be" instead of "X was". This is established history, and we know what happened - there's no need for the conditional here. I fucking hate that shit.