The Origins of Ethnic Cleansing
in the Balkans
by
Zhivko B. Damyanovich
Serbian Resistance to Turkish Rule
Apparently the Albanians were content to submit to the Turks and Islam after the defeat at Kosovo; the Serbs, on the other hand, although Turkish vassals as well, nevertheless continued to exist as a state for another seventy years (1389-1459). They were able to keep their cultural identity, helped by their traditions, their nationalist Serbian Orthodox Church, and their past embodied in their uniquely epic poetry which surprised Europe and enchanted Goethe.
