Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "World War Zero - The Crimean War - European History - Part 1 - Extra History" video.

  1. The Ottomans didn't refer to Palestine as Palestine, that was the British name for the place. This was all part of the functionally independent province of Syria in those days with most of the holy sites being in the functionally independent county of Jerusalem.
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  2. Holy Week corresponds to Ramadan and Purim. The custom in Ottoman Jerusalem was to have a month of festivities centered around the Patriarchs and Moses who are holy men in all three religions. Festivities were after nightfall, and things were rowdy as there was political violence and drunken shenanigans every year.
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  3. Are you sure Nicolas was as involved in these "Christian revolts" as your sources say? The Ottomans had a habit of blaming external enemies for their infighting. Like the time they blamed the Russians for a revolt among the Armenians even though the Russians were not even aware of the war until after the fact.
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  4. IIRC it is because some parts of eastern Europe still use the Julian calendar, which doesn't have leap years.
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  5. Lose the rhetoric
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  6.  @florians9949  except nothing of consequence is happening
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  7. Not when Arabs are involved
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  8. The Muslims definitely don't.
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  9.  @seytanuakbar3022  Easter is always on a Sunday, though
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  10. @Kasumi Rina  easter is literally the sunday after the full moon
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  11.  @abbasshachem3383  Palestine is the Latin mispronunciation of Pheonician, referring to the people on the southern coast of Palestine also known as the Philistines.
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  12.  @adamlatosinski5475  although at that time it only referred to four towns while the area as a whole was still called Canaan allegedly named after the first man who settled there.
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  13.  @davisjackson9154  Kinda. The Grand Mufti's power was not absolute although about 5% of the county's land mass was registered as a "religious endowelment" in the Ottoman register and listed as the Mufti's private property on the Jerusalem register. More like the Papal states when they existed.
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  14.  @tagmata1872  What?
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  15. There are dozens of so-called "First modern wars."
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  16. Monks punching each other still goes on in Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is shared by 6 sects and each has veto power over all decisions. You can't even move a chair without getting permission from 6 men and Israeli police routinely arrests monks for fighting each other. Welcome to al-Quds.
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  17.  @ferretyluv  both of which usually occur during Ramadan, the Muslim holy MONTH.
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  18.  @handhand212  what?
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  19. @Thomas Rinschler  I know, Easter is suppose to be three days after Passover but medieval scholars messed up the calledar conversion. That didn't stop Jerusalemite Christians from having costume parties for holy week.
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  20. @ferretyluv  again, because calendat differences. The Arabic month is manually started with the SIGHTING of the crescent moon
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  21.  @mt000mp  you are talking to a historian about the holiday customs in Jerusalem.
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  22.  @KrasMazovHatesYourGuts  Only if you're a heretic. However, Islam is explicitly incompatible with all other religions because it mandates certain things that are death penalty offenses basically everywhere else. No question.
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