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This is some serious falsification of history and a version that has become famous regarding the events of Kosovo in 1689-90 and Austrian-Ottoman wars or also known as 'Great Turkish Wars' entire wikipedia section on it.
This theory was first spread by the Serbian writer Dusan Batakovic in the 19th century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_...s_of_the_Serbs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenije_III_Crnojević
They claim the Serbs led a revolt against the Ottoman Empire in Kosovo in 1689 under Arsenije Crnojevic, a Serb from Montenegro, and then they were pushed out from Kosovo and replaced by Albanians but in reality the revolt agains the Ottoman Empire was led by Albanians from Kosovo.
In reality this was an Albanian revolt led by the Albanian Catholics Toma Raspasani and Albanian Pjeter Bogdani from Prizren, Kosovo but they changed them into the Serbian Arsenije Crnojevic and they changed all the Albanians who fought on the Austrian against Ottomans into Serbs in their version of history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toma_Raspasani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pjetër_Bogdani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Turkish_War
He contributed a force of 6,000 Albanian soldiers to the Austrian army which had arrived in Pristina and accompanied it to capture Prizren. There, however, he and much of his army were met by another equally formidable adversary, the plague. Bogdani returned to Pristina but succumbed to the disease there in 6 December 1689Organizing pro-Austrian Albanian rebels in Kosovo during Great Turkish WarAmong the papers of Ludwig von Baden in Karlsruhe, there is a copy of an intercepted letter, in French, written by a secretary of the English Embassy in Istanbul on 19 January 1690; it reports that the 'Germans' in Kosovo have made contact with 20,000 Albanians ["Albanois"] who have turned their weapons against the Turks.
In their version they claim these 20,000 Albanians were Serbs led by the Serbian patriarch Arsenije.
Here Noel Malcolm in his new book explains all the different versions regarding these events and he shows their version is completely false: Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians
From chapter ''History'' , he first tells the fabricated versions then the real versions.
They basically claim this was a Serb organized revolt in 1689 against Ottomans in Kosovo when it was actually Albanians.
Kosovo Albanian Roman Catholic Bishop and philosopher Pjetër Bogdani returned to the Balkans in March 1686 and spent the next years promoting resistance to the armies of the Ottoman Empire, in particular in his native Kosovo. He and his vicar Toma Raspasani played a leading role in the pro-Austrian movement in Kosovo during the Great Turkish War.[9] He contributed a force of 6,000 Albanian soldiers to the Austrian army which had arrived in Pristina and accompanied it to capture Prizren. There, however, he and much of his army were met by another equally formidable adversary, the plague. Bogdani returned to Pristina but succumbed to the disease there in 6 December 1689.[10] His nephew, Gjergj Bogdani, reported in 1698 that his uncle's remains were later exhumed by Turkish and Tatar soldiers and fed to the dogs in the middle of the square in Pristina.
Then they claim they were pushed out and replaced by Albanians from Northern Albania when actually the revolt was led by Albanians, the region had a large Albanian population and people from Northern Albania also supported the Austrians and most of the Serb refugees that settled Hungary came from the Belgrade area and not Kosovo.
Arsenije Crnojevic which they claim led a resistance against Ottomans in Kosovo never did he was in Montenegro and then went to Belgrade nor do any Austrian texts from that time name him during the revolt. It was the Albanian Pjeter Bogdani and all the historical archives support this. And most of the people who joined the Austrians against Ottomans were in fact Albanians but they claim they were Serbs.
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