Category Archives: HISTORY

THE VATICAN HOLOCAUST

The Holocaust – the mass sacrifice  of over eighteen million innocent Protestants, Orthodox Christians, ethnic Jews and minority groups by burning them alive  in ovens in Poland and Russia less than seventy years ago by Catholic   dictators Adolf Hitler S.J. and  Fr Joseph Stalin S.J. represents the largest and most expensive act of mass human sacrifice in history. So vast were the military and

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Native Americans actually came from a tiny mountain region in Siberia, DNA research reveals

Tiny region in central Russia has DNA link to native Americans today Ancestors thought to have walked across ice 13,000 years ago Altai is ‘key place’, because central location means ancient peoples passed through Altai in southern Siberia sits right at the centre of Russia. But the tiny, mountainous republic has a claim to fame unknown until now – Native

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ST. LAWRENCE OF CHERNIGOV: SOME PROPHECIES AND STATEMENTS ON THE UKRAINIAN SITUATION

Schema-Archimandrite Lawrence, in the world Luke Evseevich Proskura, was born in 1868 in the region of Chernigov. He reposed on the Feast of Theophany, 1950, and after his death his relics were found to be incorrupt. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized him as a saint in 1993 (commemorated on December 29/January 11 and January 6/19). Besides the gift of healing,

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ETHNIC, CONFESSIONAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS IN METOHIJA DURING THE 1830’s

ETHNIC, CONFESSIONAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS IN METOHIJA DURING THE 1830’s Research on the topics mentioned here has been undertaken for two scientific reasons. First, the 1830’s were a period during which a kind of borderline was created in the regional development of Metohija (i.e., in the pashaluks of Prizren, Djakovica and Pec) as far as the Porte. Second, once the research theme

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CHRONOLOGY OF SERBO-ALBANIAN RELATIONS 1878 – MARCH POGROM 2004

  June 10, 1878                       The “League for Defense of Arbanas People’s Rights” established in Prizren (so-called Prizren League). June (1) 13, 1878                  Pursuant to the “Skadar Memorandum”, the forming of territorial and ethnical Albania was requested from the great powers and protection (protectorate) over it. April 18–19, 1879                Intrusion of around 1.000 kacaks across the border line at Prepolac and

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The Past of the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs 1912-1918

The Past of the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs 1912-1918 The liberation of Kosovo and Metohija in 1912 marked the beginning of a new era in its history and folk life. After centuries-lasting Turkish rule the central area of historical Old Serbia was freed. The difficult and painful past of the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs was illuminated as national community life integrated with other populations

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Kosovo and Metohija, From the Serbian-Turkish Wars of 1876-1878

Kosovo and Metohija, From the Serbian-Turkish Wars of 1876-1878 Until Liberation From Centuries-lasting Turkish Rule in 1912 During the second half of the 19th century, Serbia led two different wars in the struggle for liberation from Turkey. The 1876 campaign failed, but the war waged between December 1877 and January 1878 ended with success when the Serbian army (composed of

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ON POPULATION IN THE PRIZREN VILAYET BEFORE THE SERBIAN-TURKISH WARS OF 1876-1878

ON POPULATION IN THE PRIZREN VILAYET BEFORE THE SERBIAN-TURKISH WARS OF 1876-1878 There are historical problems whenever addressing population issues in the Prizren “vilayet” during the third quarter of the 19th century. More specifically, the administrative part known as the “mutessarifluk” was of deep concern because of how national life and history of Serbs in the Ottoman Empire, (as well

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OLD EUROPEAN LANGUAGE IS THE PROTOSERBIAN LANGUAGE

OLD EUROPEAN LANGUAGE IS THE PROTOSERBIAN LANGUAGE The question of sense of language existence is put in the position of the deep historical background and practically means work on the materials as investigations and discoveries of the unknown and known sign contents. The slant proposed in “applied hermeneutic” is possibility to expressed through the revision and reinterpretation of themes pertinent

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THE YUGOSLAV STATE AND THE ALBANIANS, part V

THE YUGOSLAV STATE AND THE ALBANIANS (Demographic, legal, and social-economic circumstances)   The territory of the state of the Serbian people varied dynamically during the 19th and 20th centuries. Following the Berlin Congress, the Principality’s four districts of Vranje, Niš, Pirot and Toplica measured 48,300 km2, an increase of 10,300 km2. (These territorial possessions were to eventually become the Kingdom

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