Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to GenocideNYU Press, 1999 M03 1 - 256 pages Traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389 |
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... Albania, Epirus, and Thessaly, seizing from Byzantium more than half its remaining territory. The distance from Serbia's new border to Athens was only one hundred kilometers. Serbia had become a significant Balkan power under King Uroš ...
... Albanian, Wallachian, and especially Hungarian engagement to stop the Turkish advance. The Serbs contributed to their own subjugation by participating in Ottoman military campaigns. They fought for the Turks much more vigorously than ...
... Đurađ Branković, who had succeeded Despot Lazarević in 1427, contributed to the disastrous defeat of the Christians by informing Sultan Murad of the Christian advance and barring the road by which the Albanian leader Skanderbeg had.
From Myth to Genocide Branimir Anzulovic. barring the road by which the Albanian leader Skanderbeg had intended to traverse Serbia to join the Christian forces at Varna. He acted similarly four years later, when Hunyadi again attacked ...
... Albania and Greece. A patriarchal-heroic culture as violent as that in Montenegro developed on the Mani Peninsula at the southern end of the Peloponnesus, a part of ancient Sparta.1 The tendency toward violence is not limited to any ...
Contents
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian National Identity | |
Pagan War | |
A Vicious Circle of Lies and Fears | |
The Outsiders MythCalculations | |
Conclusion | |