Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Vidovdan
Serbia was not the only party defeated at Kosovo,Bosnians, Croats, Hungarians, Albanians, Montenegrins (the country then was called Zeta), and even from as far away as Germany participated in the battle.For the Turks it really at the TIME seemed to be a Pyhrric victory. Most of leaders of both sides perished, only a few of the leaders on the Christian side lived to fight another day.The difference was that the Turks were part of an energetic new empire and they had endless new leadership, they had lots of new soldiers and the Christian side was divided by internal rivalries, between nations and within nations. The Turks were basically unified. They didn't have a sectarian division, and at that era, being Muslim was more important than national or social barriers which divided the Christian side. The Christian side had three sorts of Christians, Catholic, Orthodox and Bogomil, and all regarded each other as heretics. They had serious problems all along with that issue, and the Muslims of that time had comparatively few sectarian divisions.
The fact that the Christian side lost so many of it's leaders was probably at the time, and further down the road a worse problem than the defeat itself.
Serbs at low ebb as they mark loss to Turks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/serbia/article/0,,1807865,00.html?gusrc=rss
Serbian Premier Makes Visit to Kosovo
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-06-28T135617Z_01_L28886222_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SERBIA-KOSOVO.xml&src=rss
First Private Prison Planned for Bulgaria
http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=21685
Kosovo prime minister urges Albanians in Macedonia to refrain from violence
http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2006/06/kosovo-prime-minister-urges-albanians.html
Serbia Must Choose Between E.U. and Kosovo
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=125&newsid=91212&ch=0&datte=2006-06-28
Saxe-Coburg Case
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=81&newsid=91222&ch=0&datte=2006-06-28
Balkan Experts Warn of Ethnic Violence in Kosovo
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-26-voa51.cfm
Today is Vidovdan, the date of the Battle of Kosovo Polje. It is also the anniversary of the assasination in Sarajevo, and the anniversary of the turnover of Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague Tribunal.
Kosovo Talks Outcome May Spark Unrest In S Serbia-Report
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20060627\ACQDJON200606271139DOWJONESDJONLINE000426.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na
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