By the Battle Of Kumanovo on 23 – 24 October 1912, the First Balkan War was young, but already in full swing – it would be a decisive victory for the Serbian forces, and a shattering loss for the Ottoman. Just a week prior, on 18 October 1912, King Peter I of Serbia had issued …
On 30 September 1915, Serbian gunner Radoje Ljutovac became the first man to shoot an aircraft from the sky. He was given an award and promoted to Corporal. The Balkans were a hotbed of firsts during WWI. In addition to the first plane that was shot down, the first real dogfight also occurred over Serbia. …
In the 15th Century the Ottomans were racing through Europe, conquering everything in their path. By 1493 they had reached Croatia and the last bastion of strong defense before Vienna. On 9 September 1493, the Battle of Krbava Field in Croatia began one hundred years of war between the Ottomans and what would become the …
Royalty dictates that every dynasty and Kingdom is eternal, until history dictates that the dynasty abruptly ends and the Kingdom is shattered. Often the end is peaceful, with one generation failing to produce an heir, and another family stepping in to take leadership and divide up the territory. Sometimes the end is violent, on the …
Sometimes it feels like there was never a world without Top Gun. There was, of course. Aircraft in combat and thrilling dogfights had to originate somewhere. That place was the sky over Serbia. And the when was August 25, 1914 at the first battle of World War I – the Battle of Cer. As it …
The nineteenth century wasn’t a great time for the Ottoman Empire. It wasn’t the worst time, that would be the beginning of the twentieth century when everything collapsed. But for an empire that had been the strong conqueror of Europe out of Asia, it was a catastrophe. The coming fall of the Ottomans was so …
From 1975 to 2002, Angola fought the last Cold War proxy conflict, a conflict that outlasted the ideological struggle funding the battles. On 10 August 2001, buried under the history of the massive shock of the 9/11 attacks just one month later the Angola Train Massacre was one of the most horrific atrocities committed in …
Russians always seem to have cutting jokes: Why is Cuba such a confused country?The Cuban capital is in Havana.The Cuban government is in Moscow.The Cuban population is in Miami.The Cuban medical system is in Venezuela.And the Cuban graveyard is in Angola. Angola, a medium-size country along the coast of southwestern Africa, was one of the last battlefields …
August 7, 626 was a defeat for the Slavs, who had been attacking the walls of Constantinople under the command of the Avar army. But it was a victory, too. When the Slavs abandoned the siege, they melted back into the Balkans, where they had begun to settle. From this point in history, they would …
Prince Eugene of Savoy was relentless. With few exceptions he swept through the Balkans and set the Ottoman Empire, formerly the terrifying ascendent power galloping relentlessly through Europe, back on its heels. And so it was on 5 August 1716 when the Prince, with significantly fewer forces than those of the Ottoman Grand Vizier, managed …
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