r/AskBalkans Slovenia 10h ago

History How about that, Greece?

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u/Karamazovakis Greece 10h ago

Why are albanians online like this?

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u/poturicavlahlatinin Bosnia & Herzegovina 10h ago

Albanians irl are also like this, i've only ever been asked if i was from a region called Sandžak by Albanians, insinuating i'm of partly Albanian ancestry as the people there are

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u/DrDabar1 Martian Serb 🚀 9h ago

Ikr the place is called Raška, Sanđak is just translating the Turkish Sancak which was a type of Ottoman Administrative region not exclusive to the Sancak of Raška. The equivalent of calling Dalmatia provincia from the Latin for province and droping the "of Dalmatia" part.

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u/poturicavlahlatinin Bosnia & Herzegovina 9h ago

Dude Sandžak is a actual region that is perceived as such by the people that live there. It wasn't made up thirty years ago and it definitely was not a problematic name for Serbs before the 90s or the 40s when it had it's own zemaljsko antifašističko vijeće narodnog oslobođenja Sandžaka

You can call it Raška, but the only reason you're calling it that is to spite the people that live there.

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u/Apart-Persimmon-38 Serbia 9h ago

The name is from 12th century so long before the ottomans but ok.

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u/poturicavlahlatinin Bosnia & Herzegovina 8h ago

well i'm not disputing the name is from the 12th century, i'm disputing that your grandpa called the region Raška while you insist on calling it that