Prizren, Kosova

Banja Luka? Perhaps I'll find an old hamami (= banja) over there  

Jajca is an incredible place. It had the best looking castle ever, it was a hard job to besiege it f. e. both for the ottomans and hungarians.

Originally posted by es_bih Originally posted by miki015 Arber,SERBIA does exists!!!The greatest mosque in Prizren,the famous Sinan's pasha mosque has been built from the stolen blocks from the St.Archangels churc,built by Serbian tzar Stefan Dusan Silni...read history... Serbia and Montenegro is what he said, and he is correct that entity no longer exists. If you had had read the post properly you would have seen that he never said that Serbia does not exist.

And you all should notice the date of the post - back then, S&M still existed.

Originally posted by es_bih The thing is that historically that region had had a sizable Albanian population, and accounts trying to discredit that in order to tip the balance more to the Serb side are flawed and Nationalist in nature. Both populations have a rich and fluid history in the region. The Albanians did not kick the Serbs out of Kosovo in WWI or WWII. The Yugoslav kingdom controlled Kosovo in that period, as well as Tito after WWII. Tito was not anti-Serb no matter how you want to put it. He maintained peace by balancing by giving autonomy to a sizable minority within Yugoslavia as he did in Vojvodina. And the "3rd" is in co-relation to the one initiated  by the Serbian central government under Milosevic.

Of course, Serbs weren't kicked out of Kosovo in WWI - but a little correction, they were in WWII. More than 100,000 Serbs were expelled and 10,000 killed in camps by the Fascist (Greater) Albanian state, most notably the notorious SS Scandebey division. Between 1941 and 1944/1945 Yugoslavia didn't control Kosovo.

The waterfalls of Jajce . Csontv�ry Kosztka Tivadar, 1903.

Edited by Tar Szer�nd - 09-Dec-2007 at 19:17

Originally posted by Yugoslav Originally posted by es_bih The thing is that historically that region had had a sizable Albanian population, and accounts trying to discredit that in order to tip the balance more to the Serb side are flawed and Nationalist in nature. Both populations have a rich and fluid history in the region. The Albanians did not kick the Serbs out of Kosovo in WWI or WWII. The Yugoslav kingdom controlled Kosovo in that period, as well as Tito after WWII. Tito was not anti-Serb no matter how you want to put it. He maintained peace by balancing by giving autonomy to a sizable minority within Yugoslavia as he did in Vojvodina. And the "3rd" is in co-relation to the one initiated  by the Serbian central government under Milosevic. Of course, Serbs weren't kicked out of Kosovo in WWI - but a little correction, they were in WWII. More than 100,000 Serbs were expelled and 10,000 killed in camps by the Fascist (Greater) Albanian state, most notably the notorious SS Scandebey division. Between 1941 and 1944/1945 Yugoslavia didn't control Kosovo.

The whole WW2  casualities in kosova were less than 25'000 of them about 12'000 albanians and 10'000 serbs,i seriously doubt that all these 10'000 serbs died in imprisonment,but is true about 30'000(only a little part of at least 70000 serbian colons settled after 1913)serbs were kicked out,but they were all colons that were settled in the region during the prior period,and this fact was recognised even from later yugoslavian communist goverment that  forbided  their  return after  the war. And ss scanderbeg wasnt that notorious at all,it was created only in 1944 and suffered from the begining by a large haemorrhage of albanian desertions,and its minor importance was in no way comparable with the croatian or serb forms of collaborationism.And ofcourse im talking only of what happened during the war and not about the treatment reserved to the alb. kosovars immediately after.
About Prizren it is an absolute albanian city for at least  the last 300 years,was the center  of the albanian  rebellion during  the  Turko-Austrian wars and of the albanian "league of prizren".Is also undeniable its strong ottoman an serb heritage.