Ottoman Empire didn't take Yugos' freedom - it was already taken

[Loki]

... by the Byzantine Empire. The Ottoman Empire was just its successor.

[Szegedist]

Inb4 Balkan rage.

[dralos]

yugoz in that time when they arrive in balkan were like mass chinese arriving in usa,all wild men
they needed education and civilization

[Loki]

yugoz in that time when they arrive in balkan were like mass chinese arriving in usa,all wild men
they needed education and civilization

lol, made me laugh

[derLowe]

Was there a large Slavs population on the balkans during 600 AD?

[Loki]

Was there a large Slavs population on the balkans during 600 AD?

"Large scale Slavic settlement in the Balkans begins in the late 570s and early 580s"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_s...lated_homeland

[StonyArabia]

Anatolians ruled the Balkans nothing new. Most Byzantine rulers tended to be Armenians, and Armenians are Anatolians.

[morski]

... by the Byzantine Empire. The Ottoman Empire was just its successor.

What are you smoking, Loki?

[Loki]

What are you smoking, Loki?

Good stuff

But it's true, isn't it?

[morski]

Good stuff .

But it's true, isn't it?

Why, it isn't. The Byzantine monopoly in the Balkans was broken by the FBE in the 7th c. and for the next 700 years many more Balkan states appeared on the
scene. By the time the Ottomans set foot on the peninsula the Byzantines were just another petty Balkan state holding its capital, a bit of Thrace and the Peloponnese.