UUNDERSTANDING THE EX-YUGOSLAVIAN AREA
08/12/2021
When I first came to Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Bosnia&Herzegovina, I missed the points of the conversations with locals and couldn’t really understand where I was: why was the second biggest Turkish bazar of Europe in North Macedonia if they’re mostly Orthodoxes? why are some signs written in Cyrillic in Sarajevo? Yugoslavia, Tito (the president of socialist Yugoslavia) and nationalisms still influence the locals’ perception of their countries and culture, their sensibilities, and very often pop up in conversations at the bars. They also strongly influence the heritage displayed in museums and in the streets.
I wrote an "Intro" booklet which provides a quick overview of religions, languages and geographic situation of the ex-Yugoslavian countries. There are the things I would have liked to know before visiting. The other booklets (six to eight pages) are a deeper view of the historical background of theses countries.
Intro. The current ex-Yugoslavia
