🇫🇷 historian Pierre d'Avity (1573 - 1635) in his work "General Description of Europe" describes the Dalmatians as follows:

"Dalmatians are mostly tall, white and ruddy; they have beautiful features, eyes are neither blue nor black, but mixed, neck is moderately thick..." 1/x ⬇️ "...their legs also, their feet large and wide, and without further ado their whole body is robust and of the best proportions. Finally, in my opinion, they are the best built people of Europe who feel better about their own people, and it seems that God, using nature..." 2/x⬇️

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After 🇭🇷 won the🥉place in #WorldCup2022, 🇭🇷 players celebrated by singing patriotic songs by Marko Perković Thompson, including his iconic '90s song "Bojna Čavoglave" w/ its opening verse "Za dom spremni". Countless anti-🇭🇷 activists labeled 🇭🇷 players & the song as #fascist THE SUPREME COURT OF CROATIA on the salute "Za dom spremni" of the patriotic song "Bojna Čavoglave" by Marko Perković Thompson: "In the appeal the prosecutor claims that the defendant [Thompson] knowingly and intentionally encouraged the audience to participate in the performance

A FORGOTTEN BATTLE🧵

During the long & bloody centuries of Croatian Antemurale Christianitatis (the Bulwark of Christendom), Christian Croats fought countless battles against the invading Ottoman armies. Many if not most of these battles resulted in Christian/Croatian victories. Most Croats today know about the Battle of Krbava Field of 1493, a battle in which Croatian feudal forces had been heavily defeated by the Ottomans (5000-7000 killed, 1500 imprisoned).

DIOCLEAN CROATS IN SOME BYZANTINE SOURCES 🧵👇🏽

"From the Croats who came to Dalmatia a part split off and came to rule over Illyricum ... They had an independent ruler who sent envoys but only to the ruler of Croatia out of friendship" – De Administrando Imperio (10th c.)

1/ Byzantine author Niketas Choniates (c. 1150 – died after 1210), writes about efforts by Serb ruler Nemanja in the years 1163 - 1173: "he wants to win over Croatia and takes control over people of Kotor". Political Croatia was west of Neretva river at that time.

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#FactCheck 🇷🇺 WIKI 🧵

In the section Языки и этнический состав (🇬🇧⏬ ) of the #Russian wiki article on Dubrovnik Republic it is stated that according to A-U census of 1890 nobody in Dubrovnik spoke Croatian, while 87% stated that they spoke Serbian: bit.ly/3sswPJw

1/ One reference for this well-known lie is the calendar of the Serb Catholic movement of the late 19th c. Dubrovnik.

The propagandists of that political movement deleted "Croatian" from "Serbo-Croatian" (the latter was the official A-U term for central South Slavic languages)

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FACT CHECK 🧵

1) Bosniaks aren't "the only ones calling for" a civic state. BH Croat intellectuals like @Ivan_Pepic call for a civic federal state: balkaninsight.com/2022/03/01/fed…;

2) It's true that Bosniak nationalists are against federalism because they want to dominate others;

https://twitter.com/ervin_zaljevic/status/1567188446216687616

3) Bosniak nationalists call for (anti-Dayton Peace) hegemony under the "civic" guise. They want to abolish the cantons in FBiH and have "at least" that federal unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina organized as a unitary/centralized Bosniak nation-state. Again, all under "civic" guise;

1 of the leading Serbian linguists, also a pathological liar, M. Šćepanović reviewed the reaction of Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts on the pseudoscientific greater-Serbian Declaration claiming Shtokavian as only Serbian. 🧵⏬novosti.rs/kultura/vesti/…
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https://twitter.com/HCroats/status/1550405624181260290

He, i.a., said that there are a bunch of documents which prove that all Serbs were/are speakers of Shtokavian. The only problem is that some Serbs were/are speakers of Torlak, but the bigger problem this linguist has is with basic logic:
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"It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the main reason Britain did not halt Serb aggression against Bosnia [and Herzegovina - HOC] is that policy makers in Whitehall wanted Serbia and its proxies in Bosnia to prevail" (Sharp 1997: 8) - in: routledge.com/Britain-and-th… 🧵⏬

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1542462117399461891

Britain knows its place in Europe after Brexit - to be the whip of the Hypocritical Empire (🇺🇸) and get treats from it as reward. Sadly the EU is also willingly on the leash of the Empire (see article 👇🏽). Only 🇭🇺 resists. americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/05/the-eu…

🧵Mental maps (of greater Serbia) in Clark's Sleepwalkers. A very good subchapter, expect the part in yellow (Karadžić wasn't the architect of Croatian standard language; also the year 1836 is incorrect since Vuk wrote & published "Srbi svi i svuda" later) ⏬

Numerous Serbian linguists from Serbia, RS (Bosnia and Herzegovina) & Montenegro issued a “Declaration on the borders of Serbian language” in which they claim, i.a., that Shtokavian complex is originally only the language of the Serbs. novosti.rs/kultura/vesti/…

1/8🧵👇🏼 These Serbian linguists & intellectuals claim that the “consolidation” of the early medieval “Serb state” (modern term!) gave rise to Shtokavian complex of dialects, “primarily only linked to Serbian nation (another modern term!) & its countries (sic!)”

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Bosniak political scientist & member of Bosniak Academy of Sciences & Arts Suad Kurtćehajić claims that till the second half of the 19th century there were no Croats nor Serbs in Bosnia (he doesn’t mention Herzegovina)


1/10 🧵⏬ This Bosniak nationalist, and sadly a member of Bosniak intellectual elite, only says what too many Bosniak historians say.

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Some historians claim that the author of Croatian patriotic poem "Horvat Horvatom horvatski govori" (A Croat speaks Croatian to a Croat"), written in Kajkavian dialect of Croatian, was Juraj Malevac (1734-1812). His poem in a🧵⏬

According to Croatian philologist Ranko Matasović, the name Hrvat (Croat) was a word borrowed into Proto-Slavic from Iranian *harw-at- (“guarding”, ”protecting”, “guardian”).

Confirmation for this thesis is an appellative charwat (“city guard”), attested in the old Polish.

1/5 This word has 2 confirmations from the same 15th c. text written in Poznań:

1)item charwatowi duodecim grossos
2)item charwatowi sex grossos

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The author of the largest Croatian lexicographic work written before the National Revival, Joakim Stulić died in his hometown Dubrovnik #OnThisDay in 1817.
In the part of his dictionary with Croatian as basic language, he refers to that language as "Slavic" ("slovinski"),

1/4 while he refers to it as "Illyrian" in rubric titles with Italian & Latin as basic.

Like Mikalja (1649) before him (👇🏻), Stulić translates the adjective "Illirico" into Croatian as both "Slavic" ("slovinski"), and "Croatian" ("hrovatski", "horvatski", "harvatski").

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#OnThisDay in 1377 Bosnian Ban Stjepan Tvrtko - who ruled over Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks, Vlachs - was crowned in the Franciscan Church of St Nicholas in Mile, central Bosnia. Tvrtko had himself crowned as King of "Srbljem, Bosne i Primorja" ("Rassie, Bosne Maritimeque")

1/9⏬ For decades historians have been arguing about the site of Tvrtko's coronation.

Most Serbian historians argued that Tvrtko had been crowned in Mileševo (Orthodox) Monastery in the area around Lim river (his newly acquired areas)

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Ivan Filipović Grčić (born before 1660 - died after 1715) was Croatian Catholic priest, literate/writer, anti-Ottoman warrior and leader. He fought many battles against the Turks most notable being liberation of Sinj in 1686 and its defence in 1715 1/5 ⏬ For his contribution in the liberation of Sinj he was rewarded by the Doge of Venice with the title Knight of St Mark.

In 1704 Filipović-Grčić published a liturgical chant/poem 'Pisma koja se piva ili kanta...' at the end of which he wrote this invocation: Svagda nam 2/⏬