peacefully with the Bosnians‚ Croatians‚ Albanians‚ etc. But who’s fault was it? Many believe it to be Serbia‚ others looked at some of the world’s most powerful countries. In Yugoslavia‚ the war was horrifying brothers were fighting brothers‚ families were separated‚ innocent people killed. All of the countries were in chaos‚ pinning the blame on each other and one country caught in the middle‚ Serbia. It was the only one fighting to stay one united multi-nation country‚ but the other countries did
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million. But they are divided among twenty- four ethnic groups and three religions--- Roman Catholicism‚ Eastern Orthodoxy‚ and Islam. Both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are used in Yugoslavia‚ which is composed of six republics. These republics: Serbia‚ Croatia‚ Slovenia‚ Montenegro‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina‚ or Macedonia Yugoslavia’s physical geography is equally varied. To the north stretches the Danube River and Hungarian Basin. A Nation Divided Yugoslavia means “Land of the Southern Slavs”
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Macedonia‚ where they declared Kosovo ’s independence. However‚ the underground government of Ibrahim Rugova1‚ who was elected in May 1992‚ was declared illegal by the Serbian government. Albanians in Kosovo continued to agitate for secession from Serbia‚ seeking either annexation to Albania or outright independence‚ and tensions started to mount between Albanians and Serbs. In August 1995 Kosovo became the destination of several thousand Serb refugees.2 The government of Albania protested the resettlement
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the Balkans went to war against the Ottoman Empire in 1912 First Balkan War eliminated Turkish rule in Europe outside the area of Constantinople Austrians insisted upon the creation of an independent Albania to limit Serbian expansion and deprive Serbia of access to Adriatic Sea Bulgarians attacked the Serbs in Macedonia. Serbs repelled the attack and the Greeks and Romanians turned on the Bulgarians. Bulgaria was forced to sue for peace. This was the
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GRE – Analytical Writing Dejan Mitrović‚ Đorđe Vuletić Computer Science department‚ Faculty of Mathematics University of Belgrade‚ Belgrade‚ Serbia dejan1024@gmail.com‚ djordje988@gmail.com Analysis of an Argument “Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently‚ however‚ archaeologists discovered
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and his wife made a ceremonial trip to Sarajevo. Ferdinand was in line to be the next emperor of the Austria-Hungarian Empire. The Archduke had made enemies in the neighboring kingdom of Serbia because he once favored the reorganization of the empire to create a third kingdom of Croatia. At the same time‚ Serbia was attempting to expand its power by bringing all of the ethnic Serbs under its dominion‚ so it had designs on Croatian territory as well. As Ferdinand’s caravan of open cars made its
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would they do with the Serbians after this. In a start‚ they acknowledged that starting war with Serbia could cause war with Russia‚ but as the time passed by the support of the Kaiser Wilhelm II made Austria more secure about making war with Serbia‚ this by sending them an ultimatum that was impossible to accept‚ made intentionally by Austria in that way so they could have an excuse to attack Serbia. This action ultimately led to the start of the World War I‚ although also the sociopolitical conditions
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ISLAM and COMMUNISM by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz 2009 Muhammad Ibn ’Abd El-Krim El-Khattabi‚ leader of the Rif Berbers www.islamicpluralism.eu 2009 C IP Centre for Islamic Pluralism ISLAM AND COMMUNISM IN THE 20th CENTURY An Historical Survey by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz Center for Islamic Pluralism Washington * London * Köln * Sarajevo www.islamicpluralism.org www.islamicpluralism.eu www.islamicpluralism.de 1718 M Street NW #260 Washington‚ DC 20036 USA and BM
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Europe‚ limiting with Serbia‚ Montenegro‚ Albania and Macedonia. It contains over 1.8 million people and diverse ethnic groups‚ the majority being ethnic Albanians followed by an important minority of Serbs. The status of Kosovo is still controversial. Serbia claims Kosovo is a Serbian autonomous region‚ based on the Serbian constitution and on resolution 1244 of the Security Council. On the other hand‚ the provisional government at Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on February 17th 2008
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War? The Bosnian War began in 1992 and ended in 1995‚ throughout those years more than 20‚000 rapes occurred. The war was fought between the Serbs and the Croats that were residing in Bosnia. Both sides wanted to annex an area of Bosnia either for Serbia or Croatia. Systematic rape was one of the most common weapons primarily used by the Serbs. It was disturbingly successful in purposeful impregnations‚ instilling widespread fear‚ and stealing every bit of power the Croatian women had left. The women
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