Brief History of Yugoslavia

The same arguement, I'm not surprised.

I'll just re-post what I posted before.

Originally posted by Mila As an aside, though... Nationality was rarely referenced in these letters written by Bosnian nobility and aristocracy. When it was referenced, Croatian and Serbian were referenced roughly equally and only once each in the sense of nationality (all other references were to language). For example, the same Stejpan Kotromanic you say claimed he was Serbian also told the Pope he spoke Croatian. But both are overshadowed by "Dalmatian" and "Slavic", which were the most common terms used to reference nationality - especially in legal or otherwise official texts. "One can tally ethnic traits of medieval Bosnian rulers and find either Croat or Serb characteristics in the list. However, such simplistic approach is dated and discarded: there is no sign that population of pre-Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina, whichever social stratum, had developed Croatian or Serbian ethnic consciousness even in a medieval sense of the word." - Franz Miklosic, Monumenta Srbica

And add that it was quite common for Roman and Byzantine authorities to refer to us as either Croatia or Serbia.

The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, however, did no such thing until the Kotromanic dynasty, when Bosnia conquered a portion of western Serbia.

At this point Kotromanic declared himself the King of Bosnia, and of the Serbs, and of the Croats.

What you engraved on a tombstone centuries later, or what outsiders say about us, doesn't really matter to me.

We've decided, with significant historical proof, that we are not Serbian. We have no interest in being Serbian and, given the evidence, feel we never really were.

You can claim we are all we like. It doesn't raise our dead from the graves and it doesn't give you the right to claim our land. If, as you believe, we are Serbs - you should be ashamed for what you've done to your "Serbian" brothers. Not on an online chat room posting irrelevent bits of s--t from God know's where.

The tombstone for Mother Theresa in Mitrovica says she was a Serb, the one in her birthplace says she was Albanian.

Go bother Kosovar Albanians and try to steal their history first.

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Okay, Surbel. Lets make-believe.

I'm a Serb. All Slovenians, Croatians, and Bosnians are Serbs.

However, we don't like our Serbian brothers in Serbia proper much.

We humbly request you all f--k off and leave us alone. We wish to move forwards, towards Europe - not backwards, towards the Byzantine Empire.

We even built funny Orthodox Churches called Catholic Cathedrals and Muslim Mosques, hoping you'd take the hint.

It is our ancestors who settled this land, not the ancestors of Belgraders. So please respect this wish from your fellow Serbs.

Goodbye.

And this will be my last post to you, ever. Hope you still have a life worth living without someone to play with you.


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