follow me to the fairytale fortress - Belgrade, Serbia (Oct. 2023)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- While the rain limited our first day in Belgrade, we made up for it by having one extremely busy day immersing ourselves in Serbian culture and learning about the complicated history this city holds.
10/15-10/16/23
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Hvala vam na poseti, Srbi su gostoprimljiv i miroljubiv narod, nadam se da dolazite opet, Srbija nije samo Beograd vec mnogo vise od ovoga sto ste videli🙋♀️🫶💞🍀🌏
I really enjoyed it and feel like we didn't spend enough time there. Thanks for sharing your world with us!
Nice fortress.
one of the coolest I've seen!
Best, for smooching with your girlfriend in late hours :)
ooh how romantic
@@goldilocks_walks Also fortress is overlooking the confluence of river Sava and Danube or as we say where Sava and Danube kiss each other:) regards from Belgrade and i hope you like our city
Lovely tour, thank you. One small detail though - Serbia is not in Eastern Europe, it' in West Balkans. Never was part of Eastern Europe geographically or geopolitically. It is Slavic (predominantly) and Christian Orthodox (predominantly) country, but Eastern block was never part of it's history.
Yes you are correct! We learned that it is considered part of central Europe. I guess it was never something I was taught prior to this adventure, and my brain kept reverting back to that classification for a while until I could re-wire it. 😂
@@goldilocks_walks I know what you mean! Happens to all of us. :) Hope you had nice time. We would love to have you back. Stay well! XO
I had a lovely time and it might be a while before I return, but I look forward to it!! ❤️
@@goldilocks_walks
Did you know why Western Christian churches ring bells at noon?
In 1456, the city belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary under the name Nándorfehérvár. It was the most important defense point of the southern central border.
By this time, he had already successfully fended off an Ottoman attack.
However, Sultan Mehmet II did not give up and attacked the fortress.
The Kingdom of Hungary was also prepared, and sent its best general János Hunyadi there. He was already known for his abilities. The Pope also sent help. A monk and something else. We will return to this.
The fortress had to be relieved from the outside and supported via the Danube river.
But the Turkish troops blocked the way. However, the Hungarian warship men's (among whom there were many Serbs) broke through and destroyed the Turkish ships. Thus, food, gunpowder and rested soldiers reached the fortress.
The monk successfully gathered about 15,000 insurgents. But their fighting value was weak...
In the end, the Turkish attack was successfully repelled, but János Hunyadi died in the outbreak of the plague.His son is the most popular Hungarian ruler Mátyás.
In the meantime, the other papal help reached the Europe of the time, too.
"Pray and ring the bell at noon for Christian victory"
Then the Pope amended: "This is how you give thanks for the Christian victory."
This victory was a huge thing, as it was achieved against the superpower of the time
Didn't stop NATO in '99, did it?🤣🤣🤣
6:41 here you were in front of building where Ruby Franke parents live, they have multiple shots from that square on their YT channel
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*if you get a chance visit Bosnia as well. Thank me later* 🙏
it’s on my list!! (which is so long at this point, I hope I can make it in this lifetime 😂)
@@goldilocks_walks *if there's a will, there's a way. Godspeed* 🙏
04:18 Officialy 1 680 000 people. But. Together with: students, workers from rest of Serbia and outside of Serbia, around 2 000 000 people.
I do not know exact numbers but we have around:
30 000 russian workers, we do not kount them as foreigners.
10 000 workers from Bosnia, the same as Russians.
3 500 macedonian workers, the same as Russians
10 000 turkish workers
10 000 chinese workers
10 000 workers from: Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Cuba and Guatemala
25 000 workers from Kenya.
They are not concentrated in Belgrade but most of them works in capital.
We also have russian community in Serbia, between 150 000 and 300 000 people. I belive 150 000.
They mostly works for russian, american and european companies but big percentage are youtubers-vlogers.
We lost huuuuuge amount of people in wars. They left the country searching for a better life.And we have shortage of working force now. We importing people from other countries.
05:58 Fortress is from 280 year before Christ. One of roman emperrors built it. But the most walls are from midle age. Romans, Celts, Ottomans, Hungarians, Austrians-Germans, Serbs are former or actuall owners of the fortress during history.
Wow, that's a lot of vloggers, and sounds like a melting pot of people just like the US! Thanks for sharing this info 😊
We learned a little bit about that during our trip, lots of war concerning Kosovo.
so you travel alone or not?
a little bit of both
Lijepa zemlja...ali pogan i opasan narod!!!
Ma ,a vi ste slatki ... ko šećerna bolest......
Ipak malo manje opasan od jedinog naroda u Evropi koji je imao koncentracioni logor za decu.
lol @oliveradimitrijevic1843 is this how Croatians flirt?
@SA-bf4ud somehow I always find myself near danger... 😅
@am3273 absolutely wild