Posted on 01/13/2009 10:04:57 PM PST by pobeda1945
From the fourteenth century to the present day, the land of Kosovo and Metohija has been, and will always remain, the spiritual heartland of the Serbian Orthodox nation. Sanctified by a multitude of monasteries and churches as well as by the blood of martyrs, the holy land of Kosovo occupies a place of honor and reverence within the souls of all believing Serbs.
After the sack of Constantinople by Crusaders in 1204, the province of Kosovo became the center of the Serbian Nemanjic state. Tsar Dusan was crowned in Kosovo in 1331, and he, King Stephen of Decani and King Uros had residences in the province. In 1346 the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate was established at Pec (now a women’s monastery). In the early fourteenth century Kosovo was the richest and most densely populated region of the Serbian empire. It became a major commercial center for the Serbs, containing such industries as silk production, gold and silver mining, and fine crafts. Serbian rulers allotted the fertile area between Pec, Prizren, Mitrovica and Pristina and nearby areas to churches and monasteries, and this area eventually acquired the name Metohija, from the Greek metochion, meaning an estate owned by the Church. Many of the most beautiful Serbian monasteries and churches, as well as castles and fortresses, were located in Kosovo. Archeologists have determined that there were about 1,300 monasteries, churches and other monuments in Kosovo and Metohija in the fourteenth century.
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They came there illegally. It never was theirs and it never will be. Remember that. Serbs will never, ever, ever, ever foresake Kosovo. Kosovo is Serbia.
The muslims stole Kosovo from the Serbians. The Serbs have a right to throw them out.
“And I’m Greek Orthodox and I’m more proud of Kosovo than Orthodox Serbia.”
You are, eh?! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
Orthodox ping
They need to fight them with every last breath.
So you're proud of a group of criminals that burn Orthodox Churches and monasteries, desecrate Orthodox cemetaries, rape and kill Orthodox Christians.
We're all ashamed of you.
I am proud of the US soldiers who occupy Kosovo, and I am ashamed of the traitors who side with foreigners against their own country.
One day, the Arab nation will be majority-Christian and the Muslim orde will be pushed back all the way to the sand dunes. They have no business in North Africa, Holy Land, Asia Minor, or the Balkans.
The geopolitical situaiton is no ripe for that. The Serbs, like the Greeks, waited for centuries to strike back at their Ottoman oppressors and free their lands of Islam. The Serbs will wait and retake Kosovo back in due time.
We were played by the Albanians and we bought it. The thing that bothers me is we don’t even have the decency to apologize.
And we are ashamed at the Jihadist Dhimmis who kneel before their Muslim masters and place our soldiers in defense of those who attack innocent Christians.
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