Arisaka93 said:
Then why dont we use the CoA of the Kastrioti family wich is the Profile Pic of Black_Scythe ? Its also a Double headed eagle with the Illyrian Sun Symbol.
No, using the Kastrioti family CoA makes no sense.
It's the same thing like when one Bosnian fellow here asked for Bosnia to have a
fleur-de-lis as a symbol, even though it only became prominent there in the second half of the XIV century, as a part of a completely different ruling dynasty.
Taien said:
Also why when i recruit soldiers from Kosovo i get only serbians ? Albanians lived in Kosovo even in that time. Yes i know your serb and you wont understand it nor will you accept it and we will never get a proof for it because im a albanian and you are a serb but why dont we just make it half albanian and half serb ? Deal ?
As Nike already pointed out, you can't recruit 2 different cultures from one village, so there will be no splitting.
And no one said that Albanians weren't living in Kosovo, but what about the others?
Because the second most numerous non-Serbian people in medieval Serbia were Vlachs.
Then what about all the Greeks,
especially in Kosovo? Or Bulgarians, Hungarians and Latins?
Do you get what am I saying? You can't simply say: ,,Albanians lived in Kosovo, so we should put them there.'' because there were many other people living there, all deserving to be in the mod.
But, if you want real reasons why the 3 Serbian villages in E1200 Kosovo have Serbian peasants, here's why:
Peć - according to the charters written by Stefan Nemanjić in the early XIII century, it was definitely a Serbian settlement (it wasn't a village, it was a town/
quare, but we downgraded it for gameplay reasons) and was also noted for its high spiritual qualities. Those were just some of the reasons why Peć quickly became a
seat of the Serbian Church in the XIII century, and stayed that for hundreds of years, and it still holds that position today, but only
de facto.
Hodča (present day Velika Hoča) - in the XII century, it was granted as a ''fief'' to the Serbian Hilandar monastery, and in the following years, it became a big and strong Serbian spiritual and economical ceter, with a
Square, 24 Orthodox churches and 2 or 3 Orthodox monasteries. Based on all the charters and documents that were issued, it is clear that all the names on them are of Slavic origin (it too wasn't a village, but was downgraded).
Pantino - the only true village out of those 3. Yes, it too had a Serbian majority, and it was proved in 1166/7, when practically the ''
whole village of brave Serbs'' (as they were mentioned then) sided with Stefan Nemanja's army at the Battle of Pantino, against the mercenary army of his brother Tihomir.
So, the fact that you can recruit only Serbs in those 3 villages doesn't mean that I did that only to show a big middle finger to the Albanians, but it shows that I chose the 3 settlements that were very important, culturally and spiritually, for medieval Serbia.
Nationality in Balkans is a tricky thing, so I would advise that we stay away from these topics.
For example, me and NikeBG could probably argue a lot about the settlements that make Serbo-Bulgarian border. Was there a Serbian majority in Vranya, or a Bulgarian majority in Ravno?
But there would be no point in that.
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With all that being said, I don't want for this thread to turn into a flame-fest, so there will be no more talks of tese things:
- The current Arber flag stays until
strongly proven wrong.
- There will not be any changes to the 3 Serbian villages in Kosovo.
- In this thread, we will not mention any recent centuries (19th, 20th and 21st), except the ones important for the mod. The mentioning of the events that happened in the last 200 years will only heat things up, and will not contribute to the research in any way.
- If anyone wants anything changed, not only for Albania, but for any faction, think about it a little, and give a
good and solid reason why the change should be made.
