Short History of Yugoslavia

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CUP Archive, 1 oct. 1968 - 290 pages
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Page 138 - Stay ; we have on our hands a sick man — a very sick man : it will be, I tell you frankly, a great misfortune if, one of these days, he should slip away from us, especially before all necessary arrangements were made.
Page 73 - When God finished making the world,' runs an old Montenegrin ballad, 'He found that he had a great many rocks left in His bag; so He tumbled the whole lot on to a wild and desolate bit of country — and that is how Montenegro was formed.' This legend embodies the most important fact about the geography and history of Montenegro. The barren limestone country around Cetinje was a very inaccessible fortress, and its caves and rocks gave ample opportunity for guerilla warfare. It was the only corner...
Page 141 - Emperor and Autocrat of the Serbs and Greeks, the Bulgarians and Albanians." The empire fell to pieces after his death. His successors led by Prince Lazar were decisively beaten by the Turks at Kosovo in June 1389. The anniversary of the battle is still celebrated each year in Serbia on June 28, the feast day of St.
Page 216 - The political line of the Partisan Detachments lays down that there must be a National Liberation Anti-Fascist Front of all the peoples of Jugoslavia regardless of party or religion. In forming Partisan Detachments it is essential not to be narrow-minded but to give wide scope to initiative and enterprise of every kind.8 Tito and the members of his Politburo had received their most intensive political training in the...
Page 62 - Dusan, the Albanians have found a national hero in Skanderbeg, Bosnia attained her zenith under Tvrtko I. But in each case with the death of the great man the power which he had rapidly acquired as rapidly waned. Tvrtko's realm was no exception to this rule. Its founder had not lived long enough to weld his conquests into an harmonious whole, to combine catholic Croats with orthodox Serbs, Bosnian Slavs with the Latin population of the Dalmatian coast towns, Bogomile heretics with zealous partisans...
Page 131 - all the territories of his empire on the European continent to the west of a line drawn from Ainos, on the Aegean sea, to Midia, on the Black sea, with the exception of Albania.
Page 111 - Servia, almost quite overgrown with wood, through a country naturally fertile. The inhabitants are industrious: but the oppression of the peasants is so great, they are forced to abandon their houses, and neglect their tillage, all they have being a prey to the janissaries, whenever they please to seize upon it. We had a guard of five hundred of them, and I was almost in tears every day, to see their insolencies in the poor villages through which we passed. After seven days...
Page 184 - ... this un-national regime imposed on the people'. By this time probably nothing but the fear of Italian aggression prevented a rebellion in Croatia. Except for the efforts of Ministers to popularize the official party led by former Radicals and in July re-christened the 'Jugoslav National Party' (JNS), the summer of 1933 saw no change in the situation. All criticism was stifled by internments and imprisonments. Assassination became an everyday affair. King Alexander, however, could not be brought...
Page 165 - ... to-day. THE NEW STATE OF 1918 The component parts The new Jugoslav state which came into existence between the Declaration of Zagreb on 29 October 1918 and the proclamation of ' the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ' on 4 December, was constituted out of the following elements (Fig. 41): 1 . The independent kingdom of Serbia. 2. The independent kingdom of Montenegro. 3. Croatia-Slavonia, hitherto possessing some measure of 'Home Rule
Page 73 - ... and desolate bit of country — and that is how Montenegro was formed.' This legend embodies the most important fact about the geography and history of Montenegro. The barren limestone country around Cetinje was a very inaccessible fortress, and its caves and rocks gave ample opportunity for guerilla warfare. It was the only corner of the Balkan lands to escape the domination of the Turk from the fourteenth century onwards; here, a few Christian shepherds and goatherds always maintained their...

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