I know where the top four are by name. Beyond that, fairly early on in this the Washington Post published a map, wish I had saved it, that showed a much larger selection of such sites. Virtually none were in the north.
The top four are almost certainly, the monastery in Pec that is viewed as the sacred center of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is in the west of Kosovo-Metohija in the Metohija part, more south than north, but pretty much middle. Next would be the Field of Blackbirds, Kosovo Polje, site of the battle in 1389 in which the Serbian Prince Lazar died at Ottoman Turkish hands, although most historians think the battle was a draw and was a largely religious one with then Christian Albanians siding with the Serbs against the Muslim Turks (conversions of Albanians to Islam came later). Kosovo Polje is in a suburb of the Kosovan capital of Prisitina which is just southeast of the center of Kosovo-Metohija. Probably next most important are the monastery of Glagovica which is in the far south and has been bombed by NATO and the castle of Prince Lazar in Prizren, in the far south also. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 2:41 AM Subject: Barkely's guide to Kosovo
>On Thu, 6 May 1999, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
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>> 3) I have already noted that his claims regarding the
>> locations of the "important religious and symbolic sites" is
>> simply dead wrong. This guy lived there? Obviously he only
>> visited Kosmet and never looked closely at a map or is just
>> geographically incompetent. I also find it a bit disturbing,
>> although it may come to pass, that he recommends partitioning
>> Macedonia as well as Kosmet, and handing over a chunk of
>> it to Albania. Ugh.
>
>Barkley, I have complete faith that you are right about this. But you are
>absolutely the only guy that believes this. Would you please write an NYT
>editorial so I can cite it? And until then, do you think I could prevail
>upon you to give us a list of the top ten Serbian national-religious
>sites and the town they are located in? I'm sure there must be a detailed
>map of Kosovo somewhere on the web by now, and with a list I could look
>them up and point them out myself.
>
>Thanks a ton,
>
>Michael
>
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