2:32-2:33-in the distance is not greece but bulgaria infact,aegean bulgarian teritorries taken from us,from tesaliniki,all the way east to the greek-turkish border inqluding the island of tassos,where still bulgarian villages exist,this is aegean bulgaria,many more lands are taken from us after ww1 (89 000sq.km.)cause we sided with germany,we mainly border our own lands😂north dobrudjia,where the bulgarian state was created in 681a.d. ,republic of north macedonia is bulgaria with the same language,history and traditions,the lands north of adrianopol as well and parts of east serbia,the cities of nish and belgrade are ancient bulgarian cities
@@wanderingaussies8172 Croatian's are catolic and probably the answer is arround here,we also have been in union with the catolic church for a while during early 1200s,when our emperor kaloyan had extensive letter exchange with Pope innocent the third ,you also can mention the Austrians who had their high ranking officers in the ss and were part of the final solution for killing the Jews,but they didnt became comunist state and didnt lost lands,Austrians are also catholic,catholic Bavaria was also out of the Soviet block......litle detour ...the Pope financed the Turks to conquer the Balkans,cause the bulgarians and the byzantenes expelled the latins from the peninsula,thats a fact you will not read in the textbooks....also when the undefeated knights were defeated in the battle of adrianopol 1205 a.d.by bulg.emperor kaloyan the romanslayer ,they also got raped brutally on the gates of tarnovo,Bulgaria medievil capital and after that they wrote complains to the Vatican,cause Bulgaria as I mentioned was part of the western church
@@aiwarz91This could rub people in a wrong way. Religions are almost always competing and comparisons may not be appropriate. This is like saying that the grey peas with bacon is the Latvian borscht.
@@aiwarz91you are absolutely right,this is really Bulgarian Jerusalem it is called like that by many people there is also the so called Sofia atos,or Sofia holly woods ,where a lot of monasteries are located as there are in island atos,wich was under Bulgarian rule for a while during the 13th century and our emperor ivan asen the second was giving money to the monks,we have our own monastery there the zografski or zograf monasteryit is like a fortress and is enormous,you can check it in google
Good video, well done !
2:32-2:33-in the distance is not greece but bulgaria infact,aegean bulgarian teritorries taken from us,from tesaliniki,all the way east to the greek-turkish border inqluding the island of tassos,where still bulgarian villages exist,this is aegean bulgaria,many more lands are taken from us after ww1 (89 000sq.km.)cause we sided with germany,we mainly border our own lands😂north dobrudjia,where the bulgarian state was created in 681a.d. ,republic of north macedonia is bulgaria with the same language,history and traditions,the lands north of adrianopol as well and parts of east serbia,the cities of nish and belgrade are ancient bulgarian cities
Fair point mate 😁 that's what you get for siding with Germany twice I suppose 😂
@@aiwarz91 Oddly, Croatians sided with Germans in WW2 but didn't lose their land
Well.. they didn't get to be Croatia for a while yet, that's something
@@wanderingaussies8172 Croatian's are catolic and probably the answer is arround here,we also have been in union with the catolic church for a while during early 1200s,when our emperor kaloyan had extensive letter exchange with Pope innocent the third ,you also can mention the Austrians who had their high ranking officers in the ss and were part of the final solution for killing the Jews,but they didnt became comunist state and didnt lost lands,Austrians are also catholic,catholic Bavaria was also out of the Soviet block......litle detour ...the Pope financed the Turks to conquer the Balkans,cause the bulgarians and the byzantenes expelled the latins from the peninsula,thats a fact you will not read in the textbooks....also when the undefeated knights were defeated in the battle of adrianopol 1205 a.d.by bulg.emperor kaloyan the romanslayer ,they also got raped brutally on the gates of tarnovo,Bulgaria medievil capital and after that they wrote complains to the Vatican,cause Bulgaria as I mentioned was part of the western church
"Bulgarian Jerusalem Home of the Orthodox Church" - where did you get this from?! It has nothing to do with Jerusalem.
I'm exaggerating - meaning holy place, spiritual home, pilgrimage site
@@aiwarz91This could rub people in a wrong way. Religions are almost always competing and comparisons may not be appropriate. This is like saying that the grey peas with bacon is the Latvian borscht.
Personally I am not defensive about food, religion or nationalism. But point taken.
@@aiwarz91you are absolutely right,this is really Bulgarian Jerusalem it is called like that by many people there is also the so called Sofia atos,or Sofia holly woods ,where a lot of monasteries are located as there are in island atos,wich was under Bulgarian rule for a while during the 13th century and our emperor ivan asen the second was giving money to the monks,we have our own monastery there the zografski or zograf monasteryit is like a fortress and is enormous,you can check it in google