More lectures, by Mladen this time, this one was far more interesting than the last, as we get more and more in depth i think things will get better. this one was discussing ancient/medieval origins of the "nationalities". i got more interested when we got to the Ottoman Empire times, i got to tie some of the stuff i learned waaay back in freshman year in, about the Janissaries being paid in silver, and using the inflation caused by the influx of Spanish New World silver reducing wages as a reason for the Ottoman decline and slow pull out of Balkans.
We also wandered around a military museum in the fortress we visited firstest, tracing back all the way to the Celts in the region, and up to the NATO involvement 15 years ago. the museum was cool, lots on info...in serbian, but i could pull the important stuff out between my Cyrilic reading and history knowledge. Outside strewn about the fortress they had some WWII era German and Soviet tanks, as well as Soviet/American/JNA/JA towed weapons. i didnt know that Tito's Yugoslavia made as many of their own weapons as were presented in the museum, i guess that split from the soviet union was deeper than i thought. ex below: JNA remake of a US 105mm
while i knew the Balkan peninsula has been fraught with conflict for a LOONG time, and a number of Roman emperors were made here, it was cool to actually see all of this laid out for me at the museum.
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