In Albanian mythology, it is said that Prizren and Tetovë, high in the sky, used to be one city. But as they fell to the ground, the Sharr Mountains split them in two.
Interestingly enough, this is exactly what a view from the sky reflects
I don't believe we have any villages named Galicnik in Greece, that's not even a Greek word. Macedonia is a greek one though so please get your facts right
There's smth deeply sinister about a politician who when trying to inspire love of country can only refer to the industries of finance & pharmaceuticals (the only ones we have left) & when giving examples of British culture refers to the BBC, fashion & (get this) advertising
“The Labour Party is not a nationalist party, but it is a national party”
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says “there is so much of which we can be proud”
ancient andi lore: my dad once made fun of Enver Hoxha's (Albanian communist dictator) nose at a basement card game. his "friend" was an informant who reported this joke to the secret police. they interrogated my dad for hours and tried to get him executed
@amalieskram
This is the fate of all diasporoids: initial support from mother country as examples of "having made it"; development of apathy; noticing by mother country of diaspora assimilation; rejection of and annoyance at diaspora after 2/3 generations
It clicked for me that the reason why Albanians from Macedonia are so arrogant is that if they retaliated and bombed Tetova, it would be an improvement
Byzantine epilorikon, a part of the Cataphracts armor with detachable sleeves, originally a Persian/Turkic fashion it spread to Europe and is very similar if not the origin of the Balkan/Ottoman style of the gilded mintan
Son of an upper-class Albanian taken by the American Red Cross, 1920
"A youthful linguistic protege. This Albanian boy, a type of the better class speaks five different languages. He is employed by the American Red Cross relief workers as an interpreter & messenger...
1/2
Ancient cyclist culture documents the legendary "Rite of Wei" which supposedly gives the cyclist the power to pass through steel vehicles at high speeds
So who should be giving way to who here?
This truck driver said he saw me as he was already halfway turning across
#Cycleway4
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It's my understanding from the Highway Code rule H3 that just because you're in a truck it doesn't exempt you from stopping and waiting....
The lady I think has tattoos, meaning she's a Christian. 25% of Palestinians are Christians, these are the blood descendants of the original Apostles expelled from their homeland
🇦🇱 Albanian medical students protested new government rule that forces them to work in the country for five years before receiving their diplomas.
They said this law is not on their interest [to emigrate to Germany after graduation].
They called it a "populist communist law".
🇧🇬🇷🇺 Bulgaria PM Nikolay Denkov: Russia owes its existence to Bulgaria
"It [Russia] united precisely because, with our books and clergy, they managed to unite these torn tribes back then to create a state that today has Moscow as its capital and is called Russia"
The iconography of St. George slaying the Dragon is now a wide-spread & instantly recognisable Christian image. The origin of the icon however stems from Thrace in the Balkans & is a continuation of the regional Hero Cults of the ancient world (itself rooted in PIE steppe myths)
Across our study, women have more negative attitudes to sex work and sex workers than men, e.g.
% who think it should be legal to pay for sex
Men: 64% / Women: 41%
% willing to be friends with a sex worker
Men: 46-59% / Women: 27-44%
I think future generations will see this recent period as exceptionally barbaric and cruel: that so many women are caught in this predatory situation and prostituted and it's being encouraged even by other women
When me and my mates rewatched Avatar for the first time in 10 years we were utterly bored and had no clue who anyone was called. In fact, we thought the military bad guy was the coolest and concluded that he deserved to win
Stavro is common in Vlora cos we have a lot of Orthodox citizens as well as a Greek minority. Dhiogjen is just Diogenes, again cos there's a lot of Orthodox and Greeks.
How about you first sort out all the Toniblers before you start chatting like you always do?
A lot of the differences even internally within Yugoslav nations can be explained by poorly-attested Vlach communities. East of the Morava, bilingual Romanian/Serbs were the norm until 1400s before slowly being assimilated/settlement by Romanians from north of the Danube
For 2500 years it's gone by many names: Persia, Macedon, Rome or more recently, the Intermediate Zone. But it is the same civilisation torn apart by 19th century Liberal nationalism
Neighbouring people wear similar clothes. It isn't "theft," you expect Greeks to have completely different costumes? Every nation on earth should be wearing a unique style?
"Croatia does not culturally belong to the Balkans"
No, sorry, we are culturally Balkan and a lot more countries are culturally Balkan.
Please consult the map of cultural Balkan countries:
Vlachs from Voskopojë/Moschopole, Albania (1929)
Depicted are:
A sedentary Aromanian notable;
A Vlach shepherd with his crook;
A young woman dressed in blue and black
It's extremely funny that Albanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian nationalists have argued so much with Greeks that it has caused them to reevaluate their own history but instead of becoming aware of it, they've just started larping in the exact opposite direction
Animosity between the two peoples is largely a modern myth. Up to the 60s Muslims would celebrate Christian festivals and ask priests for blessings as is the case elsewhere in Rumeli.
“Spartans were losers, Romans were fascists, Knights sucked, Vikings were lame, & the Founding Fathers were evil.
…wait why doesn’t anybody want to study history anymore?”
- Modern historians
Martenitsa, mărțișor, martinka, mártis or verore. Whatever you call it, it's an identical tradition found in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece and Albania starting in March, that celebrates the arrival of spring 🧵
@noo_rch
A lot of people calling it goals but do you guys really want your partner to suffer like this after your death, especially when he/she is still young!? Are we sure he didn’t have any mental/physical issues? Remarrying doesn’t mean you don’t love the one who passed away!
After the brief occupation of Chios by the Venetians in 1694 islanders said "they were better off under the Turks". "I'd rather turn Turk than join you Latins who hate and persecute us," an Orthodox monk told a Catholic missionary in 1641.'
I've noticed that when Macedonia's name was officially changed, a bunch of people outside of the Balkans who don't know why this naming dispute exists have now started to referring to the Greek province as South Macedonia.
A Greek tactical victory but a Macedonian strategic one
🇦🇱☪️ Albania is no longer a Muslim-majority country, according to recent census.
The number of Muslim believers dropped to 45.7%. down 11% from previous census.
🇽🇰 Kosovo PM
@albinkurti
:
"Kosovo is a European, democratic and pro-American state. With this leadership Serbia is autocratic, pro-Asian and warmongering. We do not want conflict, we want peace and progress, but we will respond to aggression with all the power we have."
🇺🇸🇽🇰 Fourth of July celebrated in Kosovo.
President Vjosa Osmani and her family joined the U.S. embassy staff to perform a choreographed dance at the celebration.
Reading Byzantine history can be so dense. It's always shit like:
"After a loss to the Arab-Persian-Turks, the Emperor was overthrown by the half Armenian, half Isaurian, half Avar, Tzimikes the Slav-Eater. Tzimikes himself would be blinded by his wife 4 years later"
'For Orthodoxy, therefore, Islamic rule was far less damaging than Catholic. Catholic armies had brought destruction to the Balkan Christians in the crusades of 1204 and 1444; Venetian rule had been harsh and repressive in Crete and the Peloponnese...
A village in the region of Zagoria (Epirus). The region was known to be historically inhabited by transhumance shepherds made up of Sarakatsani Greeks, Vlachs, Souliots and Albanians. The houses are characteristic of the area and are known as αρχοντικά ('lordly' homes: mansions)
Far right angloids are hilarious because for days they've been saying "immigrants ransacking Paris" (after 3 Kurds were murdered: nice(!)) as if French people are never itching to riot at any moment