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BULGARIA AND SERBIA I Introductory THE whole of the Balkan peninsula, bounded on the north by the rivers Save and Danube, on the west by the Adriatic, on the east by the Black Sea, and on the south by a very irregular line running from Antivari (on the coast of the Adriatic) and the lake of Scutari in the west, through lakes Okhrida and Prespa (in lVlaccdonia) to the outskirts of Salonika and thence to 11idia on the shores of the Black Sea, following the coast of the Aegean Sea some miles inland, 1S preponderatingly inhabited by Slavs. These Slavs are the Bulgarians in the east and centre, the Serbs and Croats (or Serbians and Croatians or Serbo-Croats) in the west, and, in the extreme north-livest, between Trieste and Laibach, the Slovenes, which three nationalities compose the southern branch of the Slavonic race. The other inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula are, to the south of the Slavs, the Albanians in the west, the Greeks in the centre and south, and the Turk

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CONTEN'TS; PAGE; BULGARIA AND SERBIA By NEVILL FORBES; I Introductory 9; 2 The Balkan Peninsula in Classical Times, 400 B C-A D 500 12-; 3 The Arrival of the Slavs in the Balkan Peninsula, A D 500-; 650 17; BULGARIA; + The Arrival of the Bulgars in the Balkan Peninsula,; 600-700 23; S The Early Years of Bulgaria and the Introduction of; Christianity, 7°0-893 26; 6 The Rise and Fall of the First Bulgarian Empire, 893-972 31; 7 The Rise and Fall of ? Western Bulgaria' and the Greek; Supremacy, 963-u86 38; 8 The Rise and Fall of the Second Bulgarian Empire, tI86-; 1258 41; 9 The Serbian Supremacy and the Final Collapse, 1258-1393 ~; 10 The Turkish Dominion and the Emancipation, 1393-1878 ~; I I The Aftermath, and Prince Alexander of Battenberg,; 1878-86 S4; 12 The Regeneration under Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-; Coburg, 1886-1908 60; I3 ... Read more

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Chapters: History of Legal Education in Serbia, Academic Grading in Serbia, Belgrade Higher School, Music Schools in Serbia, Clerical High School of Saint Arsenije, Association of Music and Ballet Schools of Serbia, Novi Sad Open University. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The roots of law, legal thought and education in Serbia go back to the 13th century. This is owed to Rastko Nemanji, who was declared a saint under the name St. Sava. Rastko, the brother of the first Serbian king Stefan Nemanji, was the founder of not only the ecclesiastical independence (autocephaly of the Serbian church in 1219), but he also has instituted the Serbian education, literature, health, the legal system and science. At the same time when John of England released the famous Magna Carta Libertatum in Latin, in Serbia St. Sava has prepared and published in his native language a collection of both church and secular regulations under the name Nomocanon (Serbian: ). In conjunction with the monumental lawmaking initiative of Stefan Uro IV Duan of Serbia in 1349, the Duan's Code, which was written in Serbian as well, these acts constitute the foundation of the Serbian legal culture. Even during the long-lasting rule of the Turks, which began in the mid-15th century, Serbian law has survived through the practice of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which still considers the Nomocanon its official codex. However, only liberation from the Turkish authorities, starting in the 19th century, enabled the full bloom of Serbian legal science and education. At some stage in the struggle for national liberation from the Turks during the First Serbian Uprising that started in 1804, the Belgrade Higher School was founded in 1808. The classes lasted three years and in addition to gener...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18998480 ... Read more

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Title: The end of Balkan history.(Serbia )
Author: Fatos Tarifa
Publication: Policy Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Chapters: Elections in Serbia, Referendums in Serbia, Serbian Presidential Election, 2008, Serbian Parliamentary Election, 2007, Serbian Parliamentary Election, 2008, Serbian Constitutional Referendum, 2006, List of Serb Countries and Regions, Vojvodina Parliamentary Election, 2008, Serbian Local Elections, 2008, Serbian Parliamentary Election, 2003, Kosovan Local Elections, 2007, Vojvodina Parliamentary Election, 2004, Serbian Parliamentary Election, 2000, Serbian Presidential Election, 2004, Serbian Parliamentary Election, 1997, Serbian Constitutional Referendum, 1992, Serbian Presidential Election, December 2002, Serbian Presidential Election, 1992, Serbian Parliamentary Election, 1992, Serbian Presidential Election, December 1997, Serbian Presidential Election, September-october 2002, Serbian Parliamentary Election, 1993, Kosovan Parliamentary Election, 2004. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Previous PresidentBoris TadiDS A pre-term presidential election was held in Serbia on January 20 and February 3, 2008. Incumbent President Boris Tadi was reelected as President of Serbia in the second round with 51.61 percent of the votes cast, defeating challenger Tomislav Nikoli. The election for President was the first since Serbia's separation from its state union with Montenegro. The first round of elections was held on January 20, 2008, when none of the candidates secured an absolute majority of the votes cast. Thus a run-off election took place on February 3, 2008 between Tomislav Nikoli of the SRS and Boris Tadi of the DS (the incumbent President) who finished first and second respectively in the first round. 6,708,697 registered voters were able to vote, which was around 50,000 more since the parliamentary election held in the beginning of 200...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11750076 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sajmi?te concentration campwas a Nazi concentration camp, located in the Independent State of Croatia, on the outskirts of Belgrade. It was established in December 1941 and shut down in September 1944. The majority of Serbian Jews were killed in the Sajmi?te camp.In the beginning, Sajmi?te was almost exclusively meant for Serbian resistance fighters, Serbian Jews, and subsequently for Serbian Roma and political prisoners. Even as the murder of male Jews was underway in the winter of 1941,The camp was formed on the left bank of the Sava, near the railway bridge at the entrance into Belgrade where the pre-war trade fairground (sajmi?te) was located. ... Read more

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Ljudevit Posavski was the Slavic Duke of Lower Pannonia from 810 to 823. The capital of his realm was in Sisak. As the ruler of the Pannonian Croats, he led an unsuccessful resistance to Frankish domination. He held close ties with the Carantanian and Carniolan Slovenes and with the Serbian tribe of Timo?ani, named after the Timok river. He is often regarded as a national hero in Croatian and Slovenian history. ... Read more

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Chapters: History of Belgrade, History of Novi Sad, Roman Towns and Cities in Serbia, Treaty of Belgrade, Niš, John Hunyadi, Zemun, Belgrade Offensive, Siege of Belgrade, Tašmajdan Park, Petrovaradin, 1999 Nato Bombing of Novi Sad, Timeline of Belgrade History, Historical Population of Belgrade, Order of the People's Hero, Sirmium, John of Capistrano, Rigas Feraios, Singidunum, Surčin, Gates of Belgrade, Assassination of Galip Balkar, Mediana, Bombing of Belgrade in World War Ii, Avala Tv Tower, Demographic History of Novi Sad, Požarevac, Coat of Arms of Belgrade, Bulgarian Legion, Stari Slankamen, Bela Palanka, Banoštor, Panayot Hitov, Hashalom, Viminacium, Lebane, Remesiana, Donji Petrovci, Francis Mackenzie, Vidin Grad, Žitorađa, Novi Banovci, Koviljkin Grad, Gensis, Svileuva, Flag of Belgrade, Ražanj, Order of the Karađorđe's Star With Swords, Almaš, Trojanov Grad, Slavija, Podunavlje, Novi Sad. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 233. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ni -Ni is situated at the 43°19' latitude north and 21°54' longitude east in the Niava Valley, near the spot where it joins the Juna Morava River. It is in Ni that the trunk road running from the north down the Morava River valley forks into two major lines: - the south one, leading to Thessalonica and Athens, - and the east one, leading towards Sofia and Istanbul, and further on, towards the Near East. The central city area is at 194m altitude above sea level (the Main City Square). The highest point in the city area is Sokolov kamen (Falcon's rock) on Suva Planina Mountain (1523m) while the lowest spot is at Trupale, near the mouth of the Niava (173m). The city area covers 596.71 km². The climate of the Ni area is moderate and continental, with an average temperature of 11.2°C. July is the warmest month of the ye...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=249039 ... Read more

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With the war in Kosovo raging and debates heating up in Congress and in the media, most Americans still don't understand why this war erupted. Now, in this informative, timely All You Want to Know audiobook, the reasons for the conflict -- and the history behind it -- are brought to light.

Central Europe's ancient civilizations have long been dominated by empires: The Roman Empire, the Habsburg Empire (based in Austria), and, more recently, the Soviet Communists. But the decline of communism in the late twentieth century has unleashed old resentments, rivalries, and ambitions that have caused yet more conflict in this troubled region.

With this timely, critical audiobook, you will learn All You Want to Know about the continuing legacy of hatred and violence that has captivated the attention of the global community. ... Read more

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A history of central Europe
The story line is exceptionally interesting, but the details are rather weak.The title is misleading, since events in Kosovo occupy only a few pages. Instead, the book skims history from Roman times to the present.As such, it never goes into much detail.The book quotes many famous people.Each quote is read with a silly accents.This makes many a quote difficult to understand.There is a curiously anti-communist theme to the narrative, but nowhere does the author seriously critique communist philosophy. The book is probably useless for European readers closer to the action, but for American readers, it will all be very useful.

Decently done
This is a typical "All you want to know" audiobook. It's content is informative, but lacks the depth and specifics that might intrigue the more serious listeners. In the parts throughout the entire tape where actors come in and speak with specific foreign accents that fit the particular scenarios, it becomes very irritating, since these accents substantially undermines my understanding of the content, and some of them make the actors sound extremely unintelligent. No one will believe the Austrian king would speak in the way that an uneducated hobo would, but that's exactly how he sounded like. ... Read more

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Chapters: Conrad O'brien-Ffrench. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The military history of Serbia is the history of the organization of Serbian states and Serbian Army in the Balkan peninsula, from the beginning of the 8th. century to the end of first world war. Modern SerbiaSerbian army fought for the reestablished Serbian Kingdom The Serbian army during this period was primarily consisted of light cavalry and infantry force armed with spear, javelin or bows. With the increasing wealth from mining , mercenary knights were recruited to complement noble cavalry armed with bow and lance. This enabled the Serbs to fight effectively outwith their mountain strongholds. The core of the army consisted of noble cavalry (vlastela) armed with lance and bow in the Byzantine style in early medieval time. These were increasingly supplemented by western style knights. Mostly Germans in Duan's reign. Duan's military tactics consisted of wedge shaped heavy cavalry attacks with horse archers on the flanks. Many foreign mercenaries were in the Serbian army, mostly Germans as cavalry and Spaniards as infantry. He also had personal mercenary guards, mainly German knights. A knight named Palman was the commander of this unit and was the leader of all German mercenaries. Light horses were provided by Hungarian and Cuman mercenaries. Later in the period Serbian lance armed Hussars took over this role. The infantry still included lightly armed javelin troops although the bow and crossbow became the most important infantry weapon in the 14th century. A western style charge by the armoured cavalry and knights was the main tactic with the infantry used to follow up, especially in Bulgarian disaster Battle of Velbazhd in 1330. Serbian tactic was perfect, Serb territories...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12900063 ... Read more

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Chapters: Peace of Szeged, History of Legal Education in Serbia, Dušan's Code, Identity Cleansing, Akkerman Convention. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Treaty of Edirne and the Peace of Szeged were two halves of a peace treaty between Sultan Murad II of the Ottoman Empire and King Vladislaus of the Kingdom of Hungary. Despot ura Brankovi of the Serbian Despotate also had a large role in the proceedings. The ratification took place on August 15, 1444 in Várad, a few months before the end of the Crusade of Varna. The treaty was started in Edirne with discussions between Murad and Vladislaus' ambassador. Within a few days, it was sent to Szeged with Murad's ambassador, to be finalized and ratified by Vladislaus. Once it arrived, complications caused the negotiations to continue for several more days, and oaths were eventually given in Várad. The Crusade of Varna officially began on January 1, 1443, with a crusading bull published by Pope Eugene IV. The fighting did not start as planned, however. The Hungarian and Karamanid armies were supposed to attack the Ottoman Empire simultaneously, but in the spring of 1443, before the Hungarians were ready, the Karamanids attacked the Ottomans and were devastated by Sultan Murad II's full army. The Hungarian army, led by King Vladislaus, John Hunyadi, and Serbian Despot ura Brankovi, attacked in mid-October. They had several advantages over the Ottomans, allowing them to win the first encounters, such as forcing Kasim Pasha of Rumelia and his co-commander Turahan to abandon camp and flee to Sofia, Bulgaria to warn Murad of the invasion. However, the two burned all the villages in their path to wear down the Hungarians with scorched earth. When they arrived in Sofia, they advised the Sultan to burn the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11302816 ... Read more

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Chapters: World War Ii, Dacia, Pannonia, List of Serbian Monarchs, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Black Hand, Rambouillet Agreement, Treaty of Passarowitz, Moesia, Treaty of Belgrade, Vinča Culture, Beli Dvor, Timeline of Serbian History, Chetniks, Treaty of Trianon, Magyarization, History of Vojvodina, Draža Mihailović, Kosovo Is Serbia Protest 2008, Smederevo Fortress, Serbian War Crimes, Demographic History of Vojvodina, Golubac Fortress, Administrative Divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary, Comitatus, Danube Swabians, War Crimes in the Kosovo War, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Habsburg Monarchy, Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg Areas, Serbian Revolution, Siege of Belgrade, Balkan League, Military Frontier, Role of the Media in the Yugoslav Wars, Vasojevići, Austrian Empire, Demographics of the Kingdom of Hungary, Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars, Ibar Highway Assassination Attempt, Death of Slobodan Milošević, March 9, 1991 Protest, Massacres of Albanians in the Kosovo War, Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Hajduk, Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution, List of Serb Countries and Regions, History of Modern Serbia, Demographic History of Subotica, Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, Demographic History of Bačka, Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar, Sirmium, Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Serbian Nationalism, 1944-1945 Killings in Bačka, Singidunum, Milan Nedić, the Lamb of God and the Beast From the Abyss, List of Local Rulers of Vojvodina, Trajan's Bridge, Balaton Principality, Arsenije Iii Čarnojević, Ljudevit Posavski, First Serbian Uprising, Occupation of Vojvodina, 1941-1944, Serbianisation, Colonisation of Kosovo 1918-1941, Demographic History of Serbia, House of Crnojević, Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Banovina of Croatia, Banat Republic, Treaty of Bucharest, Mediana, State ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4764461 ... Read more

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This book is a TGS Historical Reprint. Though the Balkans have temporarly slid into the back pages of most newspapers, this area of the world remains a powder keg ready to explode once again on the world scene. It has been this way since the days of the Caesars. TGS reprinted this little know history so the west can understand how this area remains unsettled due to its varied history.

The authors of this volume have not worked in conjunction. Widely separated, engaged on other duties, and pressed for time, we have had no opportunity for interchange of views. Each must be held responsible, therefore, for his own section alone. If there be any discrepancies in our writings (it is not unlikely in so disputed a field of history) we can only regret an unfortunate result of the circumstances.

Excerpt from the Introduction:

The whole of what may be called the trunk or massif of the Balkan peninsula, bounded on the north by the rivers Save and Danube, on the west by the Adriatic, on the east by the Black Sea, and on the south by a very irregular line running from Antivari (on the coast of the Adriatic) and the lake of Scutari in the west, through lakes Okhrida and Prespa (in Macedonia) to the outskirts of Salonika and thence to Midia on the shores of the Black Sea, following the coast of the Aegean Sea some miles inland, is preponderatingly inhabited by Slavs.

These Slavs are the Bulgarians in the east and centre, the Serbs and Croats (or Serbians and Croatians or Serbo-Croats) in the west, and the Slovenes in the extreme north-west, between Trieste and the Save; these nationalities compose the southern branch of the Slavonic race. The other inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula are, to the south of the Slavs, the Albanians in the west, the Greeks in the centre and south, and the Turks in the south-east, and, to the north, the Rumanians.

All four of these nationalities are to be found in varying quantities within the limits of the Slav territory roughly outlined above, but greater numbers of them are outside it; on the other hand, there are a considerable number of Serbs living north of the rivers Save and Danube, in southern Hungary. Details of the ethnic distribution and boundaries will of course be gone into more fully later; meanwhile attention may be called to the significant fact that the name of Macedonia, the heart of the Balkan peninsula, has been long used by the French gastronomers to denote a dish, the principal characteristic of which is that its component parts are mixed up into quite inextricable confusion.

Of the three Slavonic nationalities already mentioned, the two first, the Bulgarians and the Serbo-Croats, occupy a much greater space, geographically and historically, than the third. The Slovenes, barely one and a half million in number, inhabiting the Austrian provinces of Carinthia and Carniola, have never been able to form a political state, though, with the growth of Trieste as a great port and the persistent efforts of Germany to make her influence if not her flag supreme on the shores of the Adriatic, this small people has from its geographical position and from its anti-German (and anti-Italian) attitude achieved considerable notoriety and some importance.

Of the Bulgars and Serbs it may be said that at the present moment the former control the eastern, and the latter, in alliance with the Greeks, the western half of the peninsula. It has always been the ambition of each of these three nationalities to dominate the whole, an ambition which has caused endless waste of blood and money and untold misery. ... Read more

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We hope we have dealt fairly with all these peoples. Mediaeval history is mostly a record of bloodshedding and cruelty and the Middle Age has been prolonged to our own time in most parts of the Balkans and is not yet over in some parts. ... Read more

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What Serb Glory is all about!
This book consists of interviews with about a dozen CENTENERIAN women (women 100+ years old!) in Montenegro compiled in 1990 by A Serb-American. One woman is a Serb muslim, the other a Catholic Albanian and there's a Muslim Albanian and the rest are Serb women.

The women all think back to the Balkan Wars, WWI and WWII. This book shows what Serbs were really about at the turn of the century and what the forces that invaded Serb Montenegro (Turks, Austrians, Germans) were really like.

You hear detailed stories of wars, death, hunger, torture, decapitation. You think the Balkans are a scary place on the news now? Listen to a dozen women 100+ YEARS OLDtell you about how bad it was when they were young.

Only in this book, you get to hear about the cruelty inflicted ON SERBS not by Serbs for a change. Those called "Turks" are in fact Serbs whose ancestors converted to Islam, today's "Bosnian Muslims" and "Austrians" refers to Croats and these same
"Turks" who - together with the Austrians descended on Serb Montenegro in WWI.

The book also talks about how patriarchy made life a grueling nightmare equally for all the women: Serb, Muslim, Catholic Albanian and Muslim Albanian women. You honestly have to read it to believe that women were actually treated this way by husbands and other family members. It is the ugliest side of Balkan life told by those who experienced it personally. The women are so candid, frank and forthright that you really get into their head and sort of grasp the outdated mentality with which they saw the world until their very last days. These women were young when the greatest technological marvel their mountaineer society could ever see was the wonder that is the sowing machine.

Made me so proud to be a Serb.

Warrior Women
This is an exraordinary book that reminds women everywhere of the unbelievable struggle of our ancestors to survive. The women in this book could have been from anywhere in a different time, enduring the worst that the world had to offer, yet they emerge from these pages with a unique strength and dignity in spite of it all. I'd highly recommend this book, not simply as an athropological study, but to anyone seeking where they came from. Because this is a book about the history of us all. ... Read more

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This book was written in 1915.This was a time that saw many significant events that affected the Balkans.Written by four different authors from different locations, here is their preface to "The Balkans".PREFACEThe authors of this volume have not worked in conjunction. Widely separated, engaged on other duties, and pressed for time, we have had no opportunity for interchange of views. Each must be held responsible, therefore, for his own section alone. If there be any discrepancies in our writings (it is not unlikely in so disputed a field of history) we can only regret an unfortunate result of the circumstances. Owing to rapid change in the relations of our country to the several Balkan peoples, the tone of a section written earlier may differ from that of another written later. It may be well to state that the sections on Serbia and Bulgaria were finished before the decisive Balkan developments of the past two months. Those on Greece and Rumania represent only a little later stage of the evolution. That on Turkey, compiled between one mission abroad and another, was the latest to be finished.If our sympathies are not all the same, or given equally to friends and foes, none of us would find it possible to indite a Hymn of Hate about any Balkan people. Every one of these peoples, on whatever side he be fighting to-day, has a past worthy of more than our respect and interwoven in some intimate way with our history. That any one of them is arrayed against us to-day is not to be laid entirely or chiefly at its own door. They are all fine peoples who have not obtained their proper places in the sun. ... Read more