[Polybius]

If it wasn’t for the Serbs, Europe would have been speeking Turkish for the last few hundred years.

The historical fact of the matter is that the Ottoman Turks conquered most of Serbia before Columbus discovered America and conquered Belgrade in 1521. Serbia only managed to completely free itself from Ottoman rule in 1867.

If you want to thank somebody for saving the rest of Europe from the Ottomans, thank the Austrians, the Germans, the Poles, the Spaniards and the Italians.

Battle of Vienna, 1683

Battle of Lepanto, 1571

[SatinDoll]

Okay. I apologize.

But they did a good job of keeping the Turks at bay for a while.

We’ve done a poor job of recognizing the threat of Islamo Fascism in Bosnia. Instead, the EU and USA are trying to give Kososovo independence. That is like the U.S. having our southwest hacked-off and renamed Aztlan.

[lentulusgracchus]

If you want to thank somebody for saving the rest of Europe from the Ottomans.....

Can we get a favorable mention for the Byzantine Greeks? They stalled them for centuries.

[Bokababe]

"The historical fact of the matter is that the Ottoman Turks conquered most of Serbia before Columbus discovered America and conquered Belgrade in 1521. Serbia only managed to completely free itself from Ottoman rule in 1867....If you want to thank somebody for saving the rest of Europe from the Ottomans, thank the Austrians, the Germans, the Poles, the Spaniards and the Italians."

True, but Serbs and Greeks were such a pain in the butt to the Ottoman Turks for 400 years, that the Turks really couldn't go much further, other than in spurts -- like the attempted Siege of Vienna. If Serbs and Greeks would have been willing to lay down arms and convert to Islam, it would likely have been over for the West.

And by the way, the navigators and many of the fighters for the Battle of Lepanto were actually Serbs from near my family's old village, around Perast, Montenegro.