![]() ![]() Today, Albanians almost entirely populate this cradle of the Serbian nation. In the early 16 th century Muslim Albanians began to migrate to Kosovo. Gračanica (Kosovski božuri) (1913) by Nadežda Petrović (Wikipedia) Later, in a foreshadowing of Flanders Fields, legend tells that the field erupted in red peonies the following spring, the blood of the Serbian martyrs. The blackbirds described are the carrion birds that descended on the dead. ![]() In the Kosovo Polje, or Field of Blackbirds, the Ottoman army destroyed the Serbian defense, solidifying Turkish control over the Balkans for the next 500 years. The battle figures prominently in West’s narrative as well as the history of Serbia and Yugoslavia. Kosovo is a toponym derived from the 1389 Battle of Kosovo. OLD SERBIA IS what we now call Kosovo, a partially recognized sovereign state that emerged following the 1999 NATO war with the federal Yugoslavia over ethnic cleaning in the formerly autonomous province. ![]() It cannot spread its own life over the conquered areas, for life cannot travel too far from its sources, and it blights the life that is native to those parts. ![]() I saw before me what an empire which spreads beyond its legitimate boundaries must do to its subjects. ![]()
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