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The introduction of a limping standard in the Principality of Serbia
(Balcanica, 2007)
From the Ottoman conquest in 1459 to the monetary reform launched in 1868 Serbia was under the full monetary suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire and did not have the right to mint her own coinage. The first half of the ...
Cilices у Сингидунуму. Белешке из војничке топиграфије и епиграфике / The Cilicians in Singidunum: Notes on military epigraphy and topography
(Starinar, 2007)
The lamp stamped Cilices, dating from the Severan epoch and found at Singidunum (Moesia Superior) but overlooked by modern scholars, offers interesting additional evidence on the Cilices contirones, attested by the ...
Russian foreign policy and the Balkans in the 1990s
(Balcanica, 2007)
In the initial phase after the collapse of the USSR, Russian diplomacy lacked vision and initiative, generally following the West's lead, including its policy towards the Yugoslav crisis (1991-95). It was only from about ...
A generation gap in late fifth-century-BC Athens
(Balcanica, 2007)
The belief that there was a generation gap in Athens in the late fifth century BC is widely accepted by the scholarly community. This paper looks at how the generation gap thesis has come into being and challenges that ...
Russia and the problem of Kosovo and Metohija / La Russie et le problème du Kosovo et Metohija
(Balcanica, 2007)
Nearly ten years since the 1999 NATO military intervention against Serbia and the establishment of UN administration, Kosovo and Metohija has resurfaced as a topical issue in international politics, separating the positions ...
Two Serbian place names ending in -iš of Romanian origin - Mriš and Dešiška
(Balcanica, 2007)
The suffix -iş is among the most productive in Romanian toponymy, and is mostly used for deriving drymonyms (names of forests) with the name of a tree as their usual derivational stem. (Micro)toponyms of the kind are ...
A third Balkan war: France and the allied attempts at creating a new Balkan alliance 1914-1915 / La troisième guerre balkanique. La France et les tentatives des Alliés de créer une nouvelle alliance balkanique 1914-1915
(Balcanica, 2007)
The initial phase of the First World War in the Balkans 1914-1915 was a natural continuation of the conflicts opened during the Balkan Wars, but national fervor now encompassed all of the Balkans, from Rijeka and Ljubljana ...
Deserts and holy mountains of medieval Serbia: Written sources, spatial patterns, architectural designs
(Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta, 2007)
Essential concepts in Christian thought and practice, the desert and holy mountain denote a particular kind of monastic and sacral space. They are secluded from the world, intended for asceticism, and ambivalent in nature ...
А Shift in Ethics : Serb/Albanian Conflict in the Vernacular Discourse of a Conjurer from Kosovo
(Wiesbaden : Harrasowitz Verlag, 2007)
The paper offers the analysis of Vera Jovanović’s (1934) discourse, a well-known local expert in traditional medicine from the Serbian enclave of Vitina in Kosovo. Based on the transcriptions of the ethnolinguistic interview ...
Migrations of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo 1938-1950
(Balcanica, 2007)
The Kosovo crisis and the dissolution of the SFR of Yugoslavia provoked the scholarly community to respond in many and varied ways. This paper seeks to show how difficult it was for many to 'navigate' between the 'rocks' ...