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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... lives at the Jasenovac camp.18 Antun Miletić , a researcher at the Military Archives in Belgrade , has collected data on the inmates killed at Jasenovac camp since 1979. One source of his information is lists of persons compiled in ...
... lives at the Jasenovac camp.18 Antun Miletić , a researcher at the Military Archives in Belgrade , has collected data on the inmates killed at Jasenovac camp since 1979. One source of his information is lists of persons compiled in ...
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... lives of prominent Serbian Orthodox Church leaders throughout its history and today : It is also characteristic of the ... live in one state . " 70 Such actions of the patriarch and the hierarchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church prompted a ...
... lives of prominent Serbian Orthodox Church leaders throughout its history and today : It is also characteristic of the ... live in one state . " 70 Such actions of the patriarch and the hierarchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church prompted a ...
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... live the cemetery ! It alone is beautiful , clean and faithful . Long live rocks and ruins ! Let what blooms high up be cursed . We are for death ! ( 13 ) 47. Ranke , History of Servia , 203. Karađorđe's behavior made Ranke comment that ...
... live the cemetery ! It alone is beautiful , clean and faithful . Long live rocks and ruins ! Let what blooms high up be cursed . We are for death ! ( 13 ) 47. Ranke , History of Servia , 203. Karađorđe's behavior made Ranke comment that ...
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Dinaric Highlanders and Their Songs | 45 |
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian | 69 |
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