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Ale

...since this isn't really some "world language" (it is in Croat BTW, not our ekavian so i'll not call it Serbo-C now) few explains for our readers, and listeners in own style, we all love history...... so more about some region now known as North Macedonia not so much Macedon in some Gree...

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love this song, can't be it's 50+ years old.... this is how I imagine/get some "Balkan feel" some strong drums, ethno or ancient breeze or wind, old themes, Greeks, Macedon as name says ; .....not some "orient express" feel or Turcisms etc :) (but what to do it is surely part of ...

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other aspect or "profi deformation" ) is or could be also relation of some "absolute freedoms or rights"..... for simple fact that people like me are those in society seen as those "preventing everyone to have absolute rights or absolute freedoms" in the name of order )...

Ale

besides, my Montenegro, "Marko" surely doesn't originate from little state but from Roman god Mars... so if you are to look back to my origin I gave you good guideline and where to look for it, Etruscan, Latin but ultimately divine origin :) ....you little.... :) not claiming anything like...

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"problem of Montenegro" is, too say BTW for those interested, for me more pleasant subject than any other and relaxed (but they are very tough people)) is, everyone knows on any side, actually not medieval at all more saying to foreign lovers.... it is moment from modern history when it be...

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mentioning John, good old hare ) with indeed some good lines, even unexpectedly good for our (Serb) history where he showed one would say needed objectivism in times when everything was politicized etc. and while indeed we can all say that he made many mystakes by using some "usual interpretati...

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lovely subjects so allow me more.... it is so convenient for jokes, really endless possibilites if we combine English and our events really great inspiration. So i'm not surprised at all that history of English hooliganism on continental "green fields" is so early and well documented and p...

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really lovely stories so beutifully interconnected as well, almost as never in continental history in such way so definitely there was some charm in it and understandable passion some Brit presenters sometimes tell about it, so many unusual alliances and similar, or very usual or predictable indeed,...

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since subjects are more than great, this also... I'm the one not beleiving in much "coincidences" or thigs that developed "by chance" or chaotically back in the days as you, if really patient could find some "link" or probable one in many ties in events etc. so shortly,...

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IDK, but to say also this for comedy but scientifically.... the more I think about it the more i find some "solutions" really funny and less logical as demonstrated few times.... it seems that both we and Italians used "Hungarian" words much before Hungarians (Magyars) settled ar...

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btw, to tell the story to eventual lovers of our history in those crucial times ; why not maybe someone likes but is not familiar with or finds subject too complex from outside, in a way like complexity of who was Norman, Lombard or Italic etc or some complex dynastic things in Germany or England, w...

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also - maybe to conclude or round truly great subjects i'd of course represent as film about Jaki ; and from our prospective, but are truly great for any medievalist so i'm sorry to maybe round subject at all ) - what is also interesting is longer page (wiki, eng) on battle of Dyrrhachium in 1081, G...

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really digged deeper on it, hard subject :) btw, last joke on subject - unlike some other memebers of our (tribe above all although Dioclea i.e. Zeta was part of Serbia through whole Nemanide period from which they descend) royal family which she ordered beheaded or poisoned, she "castrated etc...

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what do you mean she was Langobard? Are you trying to say that our beautiful, charming and gentle queen was "bearded woman"? :) ....on that to say, while his fathers name (which was later name of one our youngest prince which did not mature due to Jaki finishing in jail) indeed sounds more...

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also to note to lovers that Eng article on our (definitely it is our, Serb tribe history despite Rascia being often due to later geography favourized, so i take it now)) so our queen Jaquinta, the Norman one, is must tell story... let alone Matilda i.e. Maud of England, this one was real bomb :) oh,...

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so after mentioning, if you like themes but did not look yourself, let's share it in Eng as "frank" but beside i think it is also one solid article :yes Probably most notable story and a lot, really many events there, beside story of Boris clash in our history before rise of Nemanides, so ...

Ale

i think ultimately, on "our" medieval subjects, people generally can't distinguish some things due to obviuos reasons and sometimes things sound fantastic, or "not like they see them" even if (quasi) knowing something....... one thing and example that fell on my mind is that, sur...

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as i said dislike to talk about others much (if we are not involved even indirectly) but of course we all must touch "Roman themes", esp. we )... during past months really dig deeper often following some outside sources, but even wiki articles are often enough to get some idea even on surf...

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so what about George, golden fork? think it is relatively new in some aspects, maybe even relatively interesting for Hungarians (and all sub-countries of their overlordship) and some others as indeed there was some negative fame (often misunderstanding) about him and his role etc. I think today, Hun...

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really is incredible when you stop for a moment, think about one simple line and how historical irony is big and how XX c actually turned things upside down or twisted them, turnaround what is word but yoy get it.... "German kaiser attacked Bosnia and Croatia :) 500 years before while "kis...

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if you don't follow the joke, Claudia (7th) and Felix (4th) were 2 most famous legions stationed for longer in Serbia, then relatively important Meosia or Mesia superior province, until Diocletianus ruined it, "reformed" into "greater Albania" :) etc. Both legions were related an...

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really want to say also this, always honest and trying to be truthful as much as possible.... so i honestly said that am more lover of some Spain-France-Italy trio in some way i think i'd live there more easily, sensibility or really things like that, humor... while other countries obviously have so...

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regarding "not our fault" part, while true for things mentioned and that country would surely look different without turbulent events and invasions - equally is true, and maybe notion of unimportant article, that we were de facto self ruled right from the start of XIX c, and (!) by that fa...

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still looking at some pages and similar, listening nice thematic music and all that so to say finally..... silly me totally forgot and nothing to forget there as i told myself, it is not even important to talk what Serbs and Bulgars thought once and how maps looked like, as indeed it were Byzantine ...

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also would like to use this chance and activity on otherwise very active forums for history lovers ), with high possibility not to be on subjects say anything for weeks, and give people another example how you "make historical theories or fiction"... i dislike pure fiction but anything tha...

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here's one (I say) beautifully composed Eng article on (only touching as we are talking many, many centuries before)... I mean i did mention it but think did not link to it and how many really true interesents on subjects did look at it :) ...repeat, this is both "diplomatically composed",...

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I say always and said here million times that linguistics are very interesting subjects and could help historians and simply lovers very much, but again slippery area and sadly many wrong conclusions were made through time and, equally sadly many maybe right or scinetifical theories were "rejec...

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so again, while here, "return to middle ages" and quasi traditions should not be "mental and serf like" but true recognitions of values we had and positive things we could "profit on" (don't think only unimportant money but greater and more eternal things) from those sa...

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to say also this comically, in lack of any subjects but is "fun fact".... our city mayor, i mentioned myself uninvited in any sense except that he as one having house in ex-Vinegian land of Trieste should be first to care about promoting "progressive Dandolos. Patrarca and us" (a...

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"philosophy" and world views are so lovely subjects and really just few lines... 100% sure I mentioned (his time was more legendary) quasi Servius reforms of Roman kingdom army where was concluded "richer, having more real estate or land etc. (money, but initial censuses were mostly b...

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still did no change, probably since second half of week ) but in quiet moment to add... considering that floscula (btw, another latinism in Serbo-Croat rarely used in other languages, in Latin meaning "ornamesnt phrase in speech" in our "empty often used phrase") "western wo...

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considering all that laugh on serious subjects (even turning Palestrina salt into joke, horrible)) i can't help it i guess, nor cure it... it is either nature or Italian comics, or both. Namely, there was extremely popular here their comic-books in 70s and 80s (read also later) by some Bolognese-Mil...

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while i make many (so normal that even don't care to look nor correct) typing errors (even here not sure always is first or second "r" double, but generally much less i make with pure "latinisms" than later english/french refined words as symply double letters do not exists in ou...

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considering something i mentioned above - nothing to do with main passion i.e. med subjects :) - but that "cooperation", some own "philosophy" i have since 90s, but it was different time because if we are some figuartive "banana" today, what we were then than maybe just...

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also one "small detail" wiki (English mainly mean in 90% of cases) touches and is worth explaining from someone "knowing more" (as said tough to say who really knows all and what really had happened in any given moment).... it is that it mentions how Emeric (Mag king, not Hun) wa...

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AND (go and see on his page) is writen (just zoomed) Sarra Columna etc. if my eyes are not lying, and i know some latin forms but simply in given do not space nor form it to be anything else than Sarra. bang, bang it is that "Serbo-Croat" (Serbo-Latin or whatever) word i talked previously ...

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...really would world :) (esp our country and reality, history and image) be so drastically different if those events of early XIII c did not happen, if Vukan (what he quasi proposed) and his faction had won, if Hungary sported overlordship over us in that moment etc etc. Religious things i repeat n...

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of course, of course it was Francesco (Dandolo) not Andrea that (maybe but yes) invited and shielded Sciarra near death, Andrea "much" later marking moment (after HIMs conquest, earthquake and temepest, along Genoese and Hungarian war against) when Vinegians decided not to have Dandolo dog...

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must say also this while around, and believe me i'm about to finish and have some changes in life etc... I try not to speak much about others - but admit i did speak, mainly some French subjects, but how not to speak if medievalist when France (quasi and for whom?)) was "most important country ...

Ale

interesting is that time i.e. theme, to say to international readers, although many domestic surely do not know much details... I don't give it some huge importance as not so religious person, but it is in a wau some "watershed moment" in quasi history, but is important how Serb rulers aft...

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to say also this, while i talked that as well - to me interesting, of course - that only theoretically speaking - but based on more "concrete stuff" than any Helen theory, but sadly - if we accept that older son of Nemanja and man who should have been ruling Serbia as king i.e. Rascia by s...

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I mostly finished all, sadly for no interest and forum as is (but i tried what i could for pub themes) but some people obviously did read ; - added many (i believe) interesting things, some daring theories (even by some French curious heads etc) and generally some things that could if not change, gr...

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generally - why not adding to stories - Miluten's decision to further place some "court" (we i.e. royal house did not have some capitals a la Paris again) as well as Helen is not related to any ethnic reasons nor so much religious, it is merely as i see it, strategic decision as i also see...

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OR - indeed and crossed my mind and is legit theory if supported - Draguten was NOT son of Helen at all, so even wiki like on his parents is divided in part where it says that it was oldest son of king "Rugged" and other part of sentence where it is added that he was also son of Helen, cit...

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yeah, i forgot to mention and why laugh (among many other "historical" things not only on this story) on questions of Helen is that Wiki "accepts" that Draguten was born around 1244 (explained why maybe unlikely) and at same time it "accepts" that Helen herself was born...

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few more things for lovers and for probable end... i mean it is obviously interesting, containing many details that deserve second-third etc look and similar and since we are talking most important country of the era :) and grandkids of St Lou :) and grandkids of Anna, herself grandcutie of Enrico -...

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question of Draguten and Miluten, saying more for our western readers and why insist, is one of more complex and "difficlut" in our history of the time and i really hope that some of my lines are helpful... i again repeat that using logic is more cruscial than any sources or narrative so l...

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to today also explain this for lovers, see that Wiki is "sh*t" as ever :) (not so bad often) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinar it is said - and indeed is illiogical why would Serb state use "Arabic word" since start of XIII which article doesn't mention :) why it could be logic...

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I mean really, really would like to know - which E-history lover of meds wouldn't but for us would be revolutionary, but generally for continent great story.... thanks to some "daring French" for theory, i'm kinda recently obsessed with it of course and to be not so much about St Louis per...

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pardon, not from same place i.e. church as "angel" just style

...even better with my mistake, it was wider theme of the times and not just one master artist and location... pardon again

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