The ENTIRE History of the OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Turks in fezzes running the Middle East for a few centuries? No, wrong. This was a 600-year, three-continent machine that conquered the empire that had already conquered Rome, kidnapped Christian children and raised them into its most feared soldiers, and had an actual law making it legal for a new sultan to execute all of his own brothers on day one. This video busts the myths behind the complete history of the Ottoman Empire — from Osman's tiny frontier warband and the devshirme system, through the Battle of Kosovo, Bayezid's humiliating capture by Timur, the Ottoman Interregnum, Mehmed the Conqueror's siege of Constantinople, the Law of Fratricide, Selim the Grim, Suleiman the Magnificent's golden age, the real politics behind the Imperial Harem and the Sultanate of Women, the slow decline into "the Sick Man of Europe," the Tanzimat reforms, Gallipoli, and the final collapse into the modern Republic of Turkey under Atatürk. Every myth gets checked, every "definitely true" legend gets questioned, and if the history is disputed, we tell you. Historibunk exists because every empire falls, and every myth eventually gets busted. #OttomanEmpire #Ottoman #History #Documentary #AncientHistory #WorldHistory #Constantinople #MehmedTheConqueror #SuleimanTheMagnificent #Janissaries #ByzantineEmpire #TurkishHistory #Istanbul #HistoryDocumentary #AncientCivilizations #Ataturk #OttomanHistory #Historibunk