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Ethnic Croat Girl From Baranja

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

image of graveyard for the Muslims of Srebrenica who were executed by serb terrorists.

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The son of this city Natko Nodilo 1834-1912 dedicated his mind and heart to the unity of Croats and Serbs.

Split, 21 April 2023

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57. Vinkovačke jeseni

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Her Majesty Queen Maria of Serbia, Croatia, & Slovenia 

“Mignon”, as she was called, was the daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania and Queen Marie [Princess of Edinburgh]. She married Alexander I, second King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, in 1922. After which, she adopted the Serbo-Croatian name of Marija Karađorđević [Марија Карађорђевић in Serbian Cyrillic]. 

In 1929, the three states were unified under one name — Yugoslavia. Maria then became titled “Queen of Yugoslavia”. She was the mother of Yugoslavia’s last monarch King Peter II.

On her head is Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna’s Emerald Kokoshnik.

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Genocide denial gains ground 25 years after Srebrenica massacre

Even as remains continue to be identified, denialism is moving from far-right fringe into mainstream

Yugoslavia, a communist country which was not part of the Soviet bloc, broke apart in the 1990s. The breakup was accompanied by a series of particularly ugly wars.  

Perhaps the worst of those was the Bosnian War. There were three sides in that conflict -- all were Slavs and spoke more or less the same language.

Although it is usually not framed as a religious war, the three sides were defined by their religions: The Serbs were Eastern Orthodox, the Croats were Catholic, and the Muslims (of course) were Muslims. The Bosnian Muslims are usually referred to as Bosniaks.

Most of the fighting featured the Serbs against the Bosniaks. The Croats sometimes fought against both of the other two sides but were occasionally aligned with the Bosniaks.

The genocide took place when Bosnian Serb forces overwhelmed Dutch peacekeepers and took over the Bosniak enclave of Srebrenica. Over a two week period the Bosnian Serb forces murdered approximately 8,000 Bosniak men and boys as young as 12.

Now some Bosnian Serbs are either downplaying the genocide or claiming it didn’t happen.

It did happen and it began 25 years ago today. And only a relatively small number of perpetrators such as leaders Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadžić were punished for their crimes against humanity.

Five years ago the BBC did a report on the 20th anniversary of the genocide.

The best way to prevent future genocide is to make sure that people don’t forget past genocides.

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ETHNIES OF THE WORLD : Balkans ethnies part 2 !

The Croats or Croatian are a South Slavic european people inhabitants of the country of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. They speak croatian. The ethnonym "Croat" is first attested during the 9th century CE. Traditionally, scholarship has placed the arrival of the Croats in the 7th century, primarily on the basis of the later Byzantine document De Administrando Imperio. As such, the arrival of the Croats was seen as a second wave of Slavic migrations, which took over Dalmatia from Avar hegemony, and there are between 7 to 9 millions of them worldwide. Due to political, social and economic reasons, many Croats migrated to North and South America (Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay). They have their own culture and traditions. The Bosniaks or Bosniacs are a South Slavic european people inhabitants of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and parts of Serbia and Montenegro. They speak bosnian. The western Balkans had been reconquered from "barbarians" by Byzantine Emperor Justinian. Slavs raided the western Balkans, including Bosnia, in the 6th century. After the death of Serbian ruler Časlav, Bosnia seems to have broken away from the Serbian state and became politically independent.,After frequent change of rule over the area between regional powers, a de facto independent Bosnian state known as the Banate of Bosnia arose in the 12th century, and there are around 3 millions of them throught the world. Ethnic cleansing and genocide during the Bosnian War (1992–95) have had an effect on the territorial distribution of the population. They have their own culture and traditions.

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic european people inhabitants of the country of Bulgaria. They speak bulgarian. The population of Bulgaria descend from peoples with different origins and numbers. They became assimilated by the Slavic settlers in the First Bulgarian Empire. Two of the non-Slavic nations maintain a legacy among modern-day Bulgarians : the Thracians, from whom cultural and ethnic elements were taken, and the Bulgars, who donated the ethnonym and the early statehood. The First Bulgarian Empire was founded in 681, and there around 9 millions of them. They have their own culture and traditions.

The Romanians are a Romance european people inhabitants of the country of Romania. They speak romanian. Two theories account for the origin of the Romanian people. One, known as the Daco-Roman continuity theory, posits that they are descendants of Romans and Romanized indigenous peoples living in the Roman Province of Dacia, while the other posits that the Romanians are descendants of Romans and Romanized indigenous populations of the former Roman provinces of Illyria, Moesia, Thrace, and Macedon, and the ancestors of Romanians later migrated from these Roman provinces south of the Danube into the area which they inhabit today, and there are 24 to 30 millions of them. They have their own culture and traditions.

The Aromanians, sometimes referred as Vlachs, are a Romance european people inhabitants of regions of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. They speak aromanian. Vlachs originate from the Romanised people of south-eastern Europe; from a mix of Roman colonists (from various Roman provinces) and indigenous peoples who were Latinised. The Vlach peoples from the south Balkans have generally been identified as the indigenous populations with Thracian & Illyrian (Thraco-Illyrian) and Greco-Roman (Hellenic) origins, there are around 250 000 of them. They have their own culture and traditions.

The Romani, also known as Roma, are a Indo-Aryan people inhabitants of mainly the South of Europe, but can be found throught the whole of Europe and America, as they are a nomadic people. They speak romani, and generally the language of their native region. The Romani originate from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab regions of modern-day India. They are dispersed, but their most concentrated populations are located in Europe, especially Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (including Turkey, Spain and Southern France). The Romani arrived in Mid-West Asia and Europe around 1007. They have been associated with another Indo-Aryan group, the Dom people: the two groups have been said to have separated from each other or, at least, to share a similar history. Specifically, the ancestors of both the Romani and the Dom left North India sometime between the 6th and 11th century. They are around 2 to 20 millions of them worldwide. Many have migrated to America, due to the heavy discrimination and opression that they suffer from the non-Romani Europeans. They have their own culture and traditions.

Those aesthetics are part of a serie. I’m covering the biggest ethnies of the world, starting by Europe.