Murad II - Ottoman Rulers #7

it had been men of the forest have finally reunited the Ottoman stage following the crushing defeat at the hands of Timur and the subsequent civil war and so when he passed away in early summer of 14 21 the big question was whether or not his absence will aid the country is straight back into anarchy knowing that this was a real risk measurement had not taken any chances he'd made sure that the Grand Vizier by seed Pasha was going to keep the death a secret than his sixteen-year-old son could drive for his coronation the plan to not work well and some 40 days of just passing the Ottomans had themselves unuseful Tom the young man was called him around the second and I work until now been governor of Amasya in eastern Anatolia hence the long wait despite his age he had already participated in this version of betadine civilians in 1416 as well as the capture of Samson from the jondor it's two years later but regardless US military credentials and the fact that his father Stan had prevented and it would be pretenders to claim the right to succeed him Murad who was not beyond being put into question and it Eve it soon was his first challenger was Mustafa the same Mustafa had fourth Damon captured alongside his father by seat at Battle of Ankara and were previously rebelled against his father in Mecca the first now just like them he was supported by the Byzantines Mustafa got control of the European portion of the Empire rather quickly but us outmaneuvered and defeated when trying to take Anatolia as revenge for his Wars unprovoked enmity Murad then they siege to Constantinople but was forced to give up when the Byzantines together with a number of Anatolian Balak supported yet another Pretender this time it was Murad's thirteen year old brother incidentally also called Mustafa he began to hiss each person and captured his neck it wasn't long before he'd been captured himself and that Murad had him executed in the aftermath of the barians many of them really been externus for the Ottomans and the Byzantines were forced to start paying tribute with peace in Anatolia mob turned always attention west and managed to capture the important city of Thessalonica in 1430 although this has been the last Byzantine city aside from Constantinople it had recently been sold to the Venetians in hope that they would be able to defend it from the Ottoman siege but despite the Venetian presence it could be taken with the help of artillery and although it's uncertain when the Ottomans first started to use cannons this would have been one of the earlier cases Thessalonica was sacked and I said about the fifth our population went on to be enslaved some of the people in now decided to flee the city were intellectuals who would contribute to the Renaissance in the West one of them called theodora's cosa was a humanist member for his unusually accurate translations of Aristotle and the defender is philosophy against the enthusiastic latest chemistries pathan another one was under Niko's callistos who would want to teach Greek thought in various Italian cities in Paris and eventually in London were passed away in 1476 while this was going on the south a conflict was brewing up in Serbia in 1427 the King Stefan mazovick also known as Stefan the tall had passed away and a dispute emerged regarding the domination of the Serbia between the Hungarians and Ottomans they initially came to an agreement making a George Branca which the new king but with a contract that one out Sigismund of Hungary sent an invoice demanded that he be recognized as sovereign over Bosnia Serbia and Bulgaria in other words he was declaring war the two parties would want to fight over area back and forth for a decade burst Hungarians and service were joined by more and more allies it became increasingly difficult for the Ottomans to hold their own in 1443 one rod was busy dealing with common in Anatolia the Pope declared a crusade against the Turks and an army led by the new king of Hungary and Poland Vladislav advanced in the Ottoman territories capturing nish and Sophia they were finally apprehended by a large ultimate force at the Battle of slit itza it ended more or less with a draw but when spring arrived the following year neither side was willing to go back on campaign and a peace deal of mentalist for ten years were signed later on in June after this was settled Marat decides to do something very unusual feeling that insecurity supporters both to the east and west he abdicates the new sultan is now his 12 year old son mehmed ii exactly why Marat decided to do this is disputed one explanation is that it fallen into depression of the recent death of his eldest son another one is that he wanted to prevent confusion by crowning successor early on after all the Byzantines were keeping a potential pretender in prison and could release him at any time and finally some argue that it simply wasn't interested in ruling ever since come to power Murad have been trying to build up an image of himself as the noble Cossack in a pious and simple man a champion of justice and someone who on the battlefield sought peace not more Wars in keeping with this image Samantha after having fought for over 20 years Marat believed that he'd done his duty and cannot begin with his greater jihad after so many smaller ones in other words he would turn inward and try to clarify his soul regardless of the reasoning behind his abdication nor would not be able to stay idle for long as already in September that year the Pope had nullified the peace agreement and the Hungarians along with their allies once again started marching into Ottoman lands but despite the bad news from the West Murad for the longest time refused to return from his self-imposed exile in Manisa and only left when the young Sultan eventually origin to who with the help of the Genoese he and his army managed to cross over from Anatolia to Bulgarian something that the Crusaders had not been counting on and met with the hostile forces on a 10th of November at the Battle of Varna initially it seemed to be going well for the Christians who managed to hold out against the far greater Ottoman force but their young king ignore the cautionary advice of a seasoned commander John Hunyadi and that the bulkeley's forces against the Ottoman center in an attempt to capture the Sultan Murad Elite bodyguard and repelled the attack and the king was killed eventually the Crusaders had retreats having lost some 20,000 men the Ottoman casualties on the other hand were closer to 50,000 in fact there were so many debt that is said to have taken three days from now to realize that it actually won following the battle Murad returned to money Sam Bruce exile wouldn't be long this time either in the following years the Byzantine Prince Constantine Oh Maria managed to capture large parts of Greece forcing Ottoman vessels to pay him tribute meanwhile a former Ottoman military commander called scanner Bank had revolted a man staring at his fellow Albanian countrymen against the Turks in a 1445 the Janissaries also staged revolt demanding among other things to have Mecca the post and although it was put down Murad eventually let himself be persuaded to return to power he assumed that Islam is degrees where quickly pushed back Constantine to the Peloponnese and of the thoroughly plundering the area forced him to pay tribute next turn towards Albania but before could get their news around that John Hunyadi had once again marched into his territories and so the Sultana continued north and managed to beat the Hungarians at the Second Battle of Kosovo skander beg who had turned up forces with an ally now returned Toby Nia quickly followed bang around he fortified himself in the castle of crew gia and despite besieging it for a longer period of time the Ottomans could not get through and were forced to give up on his return today on morale the second fell ill and dies on the 3rd of February 14:51 leaving his throne once again to mohammed ii this time for good [Music]