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Thinkerman In reply to Darko-Stojanovic-Art [2012-02-06 16:41:03 +0000 UTC]

Well, I am working as an artist for a Metw mod, which is about the Balkans during the Ottoman invasion, so I learned much about serbian history as a whole.

I thought that Lazar is a really cool historical figure. To bad his faith is so tragic.

Pozdravi!

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Darko-Stojanovic-Art In reply to Thinkerman [2012-02-18 17:27:10 +0000 UTC]

I consider the period of Serbian Despotate as a very interesting historical setting. Despots of house Brankovic also had cool lives and reigns, I suggest to check them out.
And keep up the good work!

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Thinkerman In reply to Darko-Stojanovic-Art [2012-02-21 10:53:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

As a matter of fact I know almost nothing about the Serbian despotate and House of Brankovic, so I'm going to check them.

The bulgarian tsars and nobles had also really interesting lives, unfortunately the information about them is really obscure because of the Ottomans and the Greek Clergy.

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Darko-Stojanovic-Art In reply to Thinkerman [2012-02-24 19:50:58 +0000 UTC]

We have a weekly educational magazine here in Serbia, called "Zabavnik". It contains a comic book, various scientific and historical texts, along with some novels. One of the recent issues had a great article about Bulgarian emperor Kaloyan.

Also, why Greek Clergy? What did they have to do with Bulgarian nobility?

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Thinkerman In reply to Darko-Stojanovic-Art [2012-03-04 00:18:59 +0000 UTC]

That's great. I checked and it looks amazing, it has very interesting stuff and great pictures. To bad in Bulgaria there are not such well made magazines about education. And yes Kaloyan is one of my favourite bulgarian emperors. An amazingly vicious guy though.

The thing is that after(and shortly before) Tarnovo, the capital of Yoan Shishman, was taken, large part of Bulgarian clergy fled to Serbia, as you may know,(even the guy on the picture, patriarch Efrem is bulgarian) while in the next centuries the Sultan put the Greek clergy in charge of whole Bulgaria. So they had the chance to loot and burn, so they can turn bulgarians to greeks, as they destroy all bulgarian records. For example, the Emperor's library in Tarnovo was burned considerably late, in the 19th century(cause it was hidden in a church and long forgotten) again by a greek.

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Darko-Stojanovic-Art In reply to Thinkerman [2012-03-08 20:34:17 +0000 UTC]

Zabavnik is great when it comes to education. Way better than National Geographic (NatGeo has great pictures, but texts in Zabavnik are better).
Hmm, I would consider easy to turn some of the Slavic peoples of Balkans into another by meddling with books. I did not expect this kind of subterfuge, I must say.
And the greatest loss of Serbian knowledge was in 1941. when Luftwaffe bombed down Serbian national library to cinders. Most of the medieval books perished in that barbaric atrocity!

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