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STONE AND PEOPLE

1690. Some thirty thousand Serbs, led personally by the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Arsenije III Čarnojević, leave Kosovo and…

Jul 02, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #demographics #kosovo #serbia

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THE BOOTS HE WOULDN’T PUT ON

Košutnjak, Belgrade, 1915. Thirty-six Serbian soldiers, two Britons, and one Frenchman — thirty-nine men in total — held off an entire…

Jun 27, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #history #serbia #world-war-i

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A CANDLE THAT CANNOT BURN AT BOTH ENDS

1892, Budapest. A delegation from the Great School arrives to invite Nikola Tesla to visit Belgrade. Among them is the poet Laza Kostić…

Jul 06, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poetry #history #serbia

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A SANCTUARY DOES NOT BELONG TO ONE PEOPLE ALONE

Belgrade, today. A city with 46 Orthodox churches and three monasteries for over a million believers. And, in that same city — one…

Jul 06, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #religion #history #serbia

A SANCTUARY DOES NOT BELONG TO ONE PEOPLE ALONE

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SIX THOUSAND BOYS

November 1915. The Serbian army, under assault from combined German, Austro-Hungarian, and Bulgarian forces, reaches a decision with no…

Jul 01, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #history #serbia #world-war-i

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COUNTING VOTES

193 member states of the United Nations. Every vote carries the same weight, whether it comes from China with its billion and a half…

Jul 02, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #kosovo #diplomacy #brics

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ONLY A FEW METERS

The Orthodox cemetery in Pristina, November 2023. Where a monument once stood for decades, inscribed “Here rest the remains of Serbian…

Jul 01, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #history #kosovo #balkans

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THE HOUSE THAT CHANGED COLOR

The village of Rripe, northern Albania. The house is white today. The family living in it insists it was never yellow — until…

Jun 29, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #history #kosovo #organized-crime

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THE ARITHMETIC OF AN EPITHET

Serbian King Milutin built and restored 42 churches and monasteries — Gračanica, the Bogorodica Ljeviška, Banjska, Hilandar — and that’s…

Jun 28, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #history #serbia #kosovo

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BY DAY IN JEANS, BY NIGHT IN UNIFORM

On February 23, 1998, in Belgrade, US special envoy Robert Gelbard declared: “The KLA is, without question, a terrorist group. I do not…

Jun 29, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #history #kosovo #balkans