7 thoughts on “When the Serbs Stood Up To The Ottoman Empire”

1. Just to display the Wikipedia post:
   The Battle of Kosovo, also known as the Battle of Kosovo Field or the Battle of Blackbird’s Field (Serbian: Косовска битка, Бој на Косову; Kosovska bitka; Boj na Kosovu; Turkish: Kosova Meydan Savaşı), took place on St. Vitus’ Day, June 15,[A] 1389, between the army led by Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, and the invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the leadership of Sultan Murad I. The army under Prince Lazar consisted of his own troops, a contingent led by Serbian nobleman Vuk Branković, and a contingent sent from Bosnia by King Tvrtko I, commanded by Vlatko Vuković.[1][3] Prince Lazar was the ruler of Moravian Serbia, and the most powerful among the Serbian regional lords of the time, while Vuk Branković ruled a part of Kosovo and other areas, recognizing Lazar as his overlord. The Battle of Kosovo took place in the Kosovo Field, about 5 kilometers northwest of modern-day Pristina.
   Reliable historical accounts of the battle are scarce; however, a critical comparison with historically contemporaneous battles (such as Angora or Nikopolis) enables reliable reconstruction.[2] The bulk of both armies was wiped out in the battle;[1] both Lazar and Murad lost their lives in it. Although Ottomans managed to annihilate the Serbian army, they also suffered high casualties which delayed their progress. Serbs were left with too few men to effectively defend their lands, while the Turks had many more troops in the east. Consequently, the Serbian principalities that were not already Ottoman vassals, one after the other became so in the following years.[1]
   The Battle of Kosovo is particularly important to Serbian history, tradition, and national identity.[4]

2. KOSOVO is SERBIA!!

3. I’m afraid they are claiming too much for the Serbs at Kosovo by saying they halted the Ottoman advance in Europe for 70 years. The real cause of the Ottoman eclipse during the early 15th century was not their losses at Kosovo but their catastrophic defeat by Timur’s Mongols at Ankara in 1402 which wiped out most of their army.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ankara

4. During WWII the Serbs stood up to the NAZIS and saved over 500 American flyers shot down over Yugoslavia on the way over to bomb the oil fields of Romania or on the way back from the bombing runs…. Then Churchill listened to the double agent spys in his cabinet and betrayed the Serbs out to the COMMIES under Tito.

   Our American Congress awarded Serbian Royalist General Draza Mihailovich the Medal of Freedom for his efforts to SAVE Americans. HOWEVER, the USA government DID NOT WANT to OFFEND COMMIE Tito ( a Sloven-Croat) and the award was NOT awarded to his family till Tito was long dead. Course, Tito had had the Good General executed after the war….and CHURCHILL could NOT have cared less!

   Well, nothing they ever did to help the West ever paid off for the Serbs… nothing but betrayal and treachery did they get. WWI they were our allies… fought like crazy to get their freedom from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and to help their American, British and French Allies and in the process lost over 1/2 of their entire MALE population.

   Oh wow, The Serbs got to set up Yugoslavia but they have to keep the Bosnian muslims( who have always hated them for NOT giving in to the Turks , as THEY did for riches) and then have Croatia and Slovens added to their country…. enemies for centuries… JUST to make things ROUGHER for the Serbs. And of Course the Croats almost immediately ASSASSINATED the Serbian King…just for FUN!

   During WWII, both the Bosnians and the Croats ran the biggest concentration camps in Europe called Jasenovac where the CROATIAN Nazis and the BOSNIAN Nazis managed to MURDER over 500,000 Serbian ORTHODOX Christians , 25,000 Jews and 16,000 Jews. Plus the Croats and the Bosnians formed SS divisions for Hitler’s Army.

   And that Civil War in the 1990s… ONLY the Serbs got jail time for war crimes… EVEN though All the sides were JUST AS guilty as the next. Hitler promised Croatia and Bosnia their VERY OWN FIEFDOMS and NATO and the UN did their dead level best to FULFIL HILTER’S promise.

   And the WEST gave the Albanian muslim terrorists KOSOVO , the cradle of Serbian CHRISTIANITY . Doing JUST WHAT HITLER had promised the ALBANIAN muslims he would do IF the Albanian muslims formed a division of SS for his army and cleansed the Jews and the Serbs from KOSOVO.

   So NATO has allowed the Muslims to torture, kill, kidnap Serbians and run them off their long time lands. And to burn and destroy over 250 churches and monasteries ALL while NATO watched and even allowed it to happen.

5. Thank you Gray Falcon for that reminder.
   From the Big ‘n’ Mighty Nose:
   “Following the death of Sultan Murad I, who was the only Turkish Sultan ever to be killed in battle, his son Bayezid secured his own succession to the throne by having his brother Yakub killed. Weakened, the Ottoman Turks were forced to halt their advance into Europe and they returned from whence they came without pushing any further into Serbia. It wasn’t until 1459, some 70 years after the Battle of Kosovo, that the Ottomans finally managed to subdue Serbia following a slew of further battles and conflicts.”
   From 1459 to 1817–the beginning of the Serbian revolt–was 358 years under the Ottoman yoke. And next to no one now even recognizes the significance the name Kosovo–now an officially recognized Muslim state.
   But outside of continuing resistance, the Serbs also contributed one of the most intriguing ethnic heroes in European myth and legend. Unlike Siegfried, CuChulainn or Beowulf, Marko Kraljevic was the hero of a subjugated people. Addressed by his Turkish “superiors” as “Infidel Marko,” he was a vassal of the sultan who both carried out his feudal duties and also persistently made his master uncomfortable, sometimes even killing some of his soldiers in personal confrontations. In Marko, the Serbian spirit created an embodiment of the anger and humor that could be found samizdat writings and in the bolder cabarets. 358 years is a long time, but Marko demonstrates that the Serbs have a long memory.

6. Marko demonstrates that the Serbs have a long memory

   There is no group, be it national, racial, religious – however you want to draw the boundaries – that does not have a very long memory. The U.S. hasn’t been around as long as others, but her rifts and rivalries matter deeply to the people involved.

   Maybe the sense of Belonging is hard-wired into the individual human brain and the early imprint, once established, isn’t changeable. The post-modern globalist myth is merely the tattered flag the elites hold onto. Ironically, they can’t see their own Belonging and breezily presume they’re beyond “all that”.

   Sure they are.

7. The Serbs pride themselves on saving he West which is very contradictory to the truth. They were the allies of Sadam, Gadaffi and with most anti westerner countries. During the Kosova battle (real name Dardania) most Balkan nations fought against the Turks: Hungarians, Croats, Bosnians and Albos, including Serbs.

   By the way Scanderbeg was the true albanian Christian warrior who held a blocking wall defending Europe for decades from the Turkish aggressors. He was the only one who defeated the Turks multiple times.
   He was the ultimate Hero in the Balkan and the rest of Europe and yes he was ALBANIAN.

   Peace!

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