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Kossovo: see Kosovo Kosovo Field, Serbo-Croatian Kosovo Polje [field of the black birds], the Turks under Sultan Murad I defeated Serbia and its Bosnian, Montenegrin, Bulgarian, and other allies in 1389. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In her great 1941 work Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, West draws an analogy between the pacifism of her time in the face of the Nazis and the pacifism of the Serbs at a key moment of their history: the battle of Kossovo in 1389, in which the Serbs under Tsar Lazar were defeated by the Turks, condemning Serbia to 500 years of subjugation. However, he - the last hope of everybody concerned for the fate of the campaign - was badly beaten at Kossovo late in 1448 and had to pull back for good. |
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