Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to GenocideHurst, 1999 - 233 pages Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's expansionist impulses to Serbian national mythology. The dominant myth - that of "Heavenly Serbia" - appeared soon after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. It attributed the Serb's defeat by the Turks and the loss of the medieval Serbian state to the Serb's preference for moral salvation over military victory. By emphasizing their commitment to the heavenly kingdom and promising an eventual restoration of the Serbian empire, this myth helped the Serbs to bear their centuries-long domination by a foreign power. Though they ultimately shed the Turkish yoke and regained statehood in the nineteenth century, the Serbs, according to Anzulovic, retained this central myth in the form of feelings of superiority to their neighbors, and a sense of destiny ordaining them to become the dominant power in the Balkans. The myth has been perpetuated by political and religious leaders, historians, novelists, and artists, and has found acceptance abroad as well. |
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... Croatia.23 This is why they chose the name Illyria for the proposed union.24 A pan- Croatian ideology , claiming that Serbs were actually Croats , ethni- cally or politically , was first formulated after 1849 by Ante Star- čević.25 He ...
... Croatia.23 This is why they chose the name Illyria for the proposed union.24 A pan- Croatian ideology , claiming that Serbs were actually Croats , ethni- cally or politically , was first formulated after 1849 by Ante Star- čević.25 He ...
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... Croatian literature . Al- though the emphasis in the Croatian readers was on Croatian litera- ture , Serbian authors and their writings were also readily discussed . The same pattern was evident in their presentation of historical ...
... Croatian literature . Al- though the emphasis in the Croatian readers was on Croatian litera- ture , Serbian authors and their writings were also readily discussed . The same pattern was evident in their presentation of historical ...
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... Croatian spring " was replaced by the " Croatian silence , " and Slovenia became the leader in the struggle for political and economic liberalization in the 1970s and 1980s . In spite of the 1971–72 purge in Croatia , which was followed ...
... Croatian spring " was replaced by the " Croatian silence , " and Slovenia became the leader in the struggle for political and economic liberalization in the 1970s and 1980s . In spite of the 1971–72 purge in Croatia , which was followed ...
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Dinaric Highlanders and Their Songs | 45 |
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian | 69 |
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