By wearing a 'blue ADIDAS' you'll blend right in; no one would suspect you being a foreigner! Anyways, you should always buy one size larger of anything in Serbia as you are going to gain some weight there by eating the tastiest food on the planet. I've visited 13 different countries and Serbian food 'takes the cake', so to speak - the best by far!
Keep it up :) Ćele kula (skull tower) is also nice representation of Serbian mentality, or Serbian "Inat" (doing sth out of spite - "I'll show you" mentality).. Purpose of Skull tower was for Ottomans to show Serbian resistance what will happen if they keep resisting. And as you can see, Serbs made monument out of it, out of spite. You want us to be afraid, we'll celebrate it instead, and we'll never forget.. :)
Yeah, it was very cool. I knew a bit of the history but on the way there I heard more from a Serbian on the bus and realized the importance of it. Happy to get to Nis
@@kinggidorah6910In Serbian language "ljepo" is "lepo"!!! "ljepo" is in Bosnian or Croatian language!!! These are the small differences, but they are all rooted in the Serbian language!!! These are all words from the Serbian language so they appropriated them later!!! Actually Croats are Serbs who were baptized by the Vatican and Bosnians are Serbs who were forcibly converted to Turks by the Ottomans!!! It was called throughout history "danak u krvi" on English translation "tribute in blood"!!! Ottoman soldiers entered in Serbian houses and captured Serbian children for the military service and so for the whole 500 years slavery!!! And thus artificial nations were created to the detriment of Serbian people which proved throughout to 20th century!!!
What is also interesting is that not long before the Ottomans were forced out of Nis, they wanted to tear the tower down as if it did not really ever exist. Serbs decided otherwise, kept the tower and got three things out of it: 1. Remember what Serbs went through during hundreds of years under Ottoman rule. 2. Price that Serbs paid for resisting Ottoman rule and that it never happens again. 3. As you mentioned, there is always that "inat" issue, which foreigners, even up to present day, will never understand about Serbs and their love for freedom and Orthodox Christianity. I have been to the Skull Tower and would recommend everyone to see it.
@danicao.6778 you are not telling the truth...neither Croats nor Bosniaks are serbs...far from the truth. Don't mislead people on that bs story . We know real truth
Било би лепо да одете на Косово и Метохију,да посетите енклаве где живе Срби,да видите шиптарску правду према нај старијем народу Европе ,који они заједно са енглезима и вашим сународницима држе као животиње.Вама лично захвалност за леп снимак Ниша једног старог града Србије који је много страдао,поштовање за ваш рад и поздрав из Србије 🇷🇸❤️
Ahahaahahahaahahahaha you sure want to make others belive this things , even your own history books don’t say this lies . anyway we don’t have nothing to prove.
@@dardanvelaj1136не би се рекло. Није ли пре пар година бугарска историчарка Теодора Толева нашла у Бечким архивима доказе да су вас они створили од 20 различитих народа да би уништили Србе? Најжалосније је то што је око 40% данашњих Албанаца српског порекла. Прочитајте књигу бугарске историчарке Теодоре Толеве Конструкција албанске нације од стране Аустроугарске. Има је на шпанском, бугарском, сада је преведена и на српски.
As a matter of fact Stevan Sindjelic was born just 5 miles away from me. We've got a nice monument remembering this great man. I was shocked that the algorithm is so precise😅 Love your content man, keep doing these kind of videos. People should really see this. Pozdrav
It’s so nice to see you visit the south as well. It’s quite different to northern Serbia, Vojvodina region, and cities such as Novi Sad, Subotica, Sombor, in terms of wealth. But it has a different, some would argue more traditional Serbian vibe to it, the south. Enjoy your time in Serbia and thank you for great content!
Ohh molim te prestanite sa tom vojvodinom vise, osim Novog Sada sve ostalo je jadno i bedno , to sto je lepsa arhitetura ne znaci da je odmah bogatije i kao svi su kulturni i ljubazni, naprotiv i vi imate zatucani ljudi kao i u drugim delovima Srbije a takodje i pametnih i kuturni. Muka mi je od poredjena juga sa kao kuturnom Vojvodinom i da jeste to se ne prica, zadrzi sa sebe koga boli ku… sta ti mislis
@@Anyatash123 svuda ima budala, manje vaspitanih ljudi itd. Ne radi se o tome. Nego je fakat da severni region bolje stoji ekonomski nego jug, na zalost. To se u ostalom i vidi u recimo odrzavanju iste te arhitekture itd.
God bless you for showing that beautiful country! Well done! Many people on this planet think Serbia is a dangerous country because of Western propaganda! Serbia is a lovely place with very warm hearts!!! Enjoy your time in Nis❤
Brother you come all the way from Alabama and you still eat burgers. Get you some homemade sarmas, djuvec, beans, greenbeans, chicken soup anything but burger.
Good job, well presented, punctual. But above all unlike other foreigners visiting your Serbian pronunciation is awesome. So genuine. Accent is accurate.
Ein grosses Dankeschön ❤bin aus Serbien 🇷🇸 lebe in der Schweiz . Freue mich das sie unsere Volk so wundervoll presentieren.. Geboren bin in NIŠ. Im Schädel Turm habe ich gearbeitet..
06:59 Who knows how many battles that fortress saw actually.There was so many wars in Serbia,because entire country is one big highway and all armies goes to Asia or Europe,have passed that way
Dont forget to visit beatufiul Serbian south (Prizren & Pristina) and monasteries around it. Truly mesmerizing when we visited in fall 2021. Cheers from Brighton.
I don’t blame you - I went to one of the lesser known concentration camps in Belgium (in 1982) and the horror is still vivid. We still need reminders of what was possible and how close we still are to these acts against humanity. Nice Aaah-deee-daaaah tracksuit. (That’s how they pronounced it in Amsterdam). Thanks for the tour! Keep them coming (please).
Don’t worry! I’ve got 7 or 8 from the Balkans that still need to be edited. But! Next weekend is the 100 year anniversary of Turkey so I’ll in in Istanbul to cover that first. As always, thanks for watching!
@@yellowwasprakija2869 i used bad terminology, I think it was a prison camp, Breendonk I think? Supposedly just used for internment but incredibly shocking and cruel itself. For me at that time, it was enough to see the reality and horror of the concentration camps that it serviced.
@@TravelLordOnLoc there is no real translation of Slava in English. It does mean celebration but it is the one of the sacred ancestor and the cults of "fireplace" and our pre Christian deity. It is a family thing it is inherited thru the son(s) and dates back to Vinca's civilisation.
Hello,and nice video.Since this is my first time watching ur channel i really enjoyed this video.I dont know if ur still in Serbia or not but u should try local food,for example burek,cevapi,pljeskavice.In my opinion Nis and Pancevo and maybe even Belgrade have best burek and alot of other foods to try.Nice video!
Thanks! Actually I did eat cevapi and burek in Nis, but I had already talked about them in the Sarajevo video so I didn’t have it on camera. Very delicious!
Boze spasi NIS od njegovih nevidljivih magija koje nosi sa sobom I slobodno obilazi tajna mjesta u Nisu I ogovara . Sacuvaj BOZE SRPSKI ROD OD SVIH NEVIDLJIVIH MASONA U IME ISUSOVO. 😁🙏👍✌❤🧠
There are remains of a town/fortress between cerje and miljkovac (closer to miljkovac) North of that there are remains of a tower and also some kind of town and also a monastery there. It's a cool place to visit There is also a hot spring there
7:41 is a perfect example of how the average Serb cares for their country. All patriots but when it comes to the basic thing of keeping their home clean and beautiful they fail miserably. Been living here for 30 years and I will never understand it. :/ I hope one day Serbia becomes clean and proud of the people living on its soil.
You need to see very serious doctors and dont lie to yourself that you are a normal person😂...serbia have not more than 50-60 000sq.km. teritorries on the balkans legaly ,the rest is stolen and god showed you that this is the truth when you are about to loose voivodina too soon.....bulgaria legally have 180 000sq.km.and now we have only 111000....the rest we will soon take back with the help of the almighty lord
@@TravelLordOnLoc The salad was created as a culinary product in the state tourist agency "Balkantourist" in 1955. Despite the fact that the salad's name comes from the westernmost Bulgarian region called Shopluk, it was actually invented in its easternmost region. The salad appeared at the Black Sea coast, in a resort near Varna, called Druzhba. It can be found in one of the first state-approved cookbooks from 1956 (Sbornik recepti 1956, vol. 1, p. 50). The development and popularization of the salad is attributed to the doyen of Bulgarian tourism Petar Doychev (1924-2019).
as a Serbian, I sign with the video is excellent. Serbia is beautiful, people are afraid to come because we will be "Iranian in Europe" which is a lie, unfortunately the president sold Kosovo in 2013. Serbia also has Kalemegdan and Tumane and Trajan's panel Trajan's Bridge and Vinca and Djerdap and the most beautiful Uvac, beautiful Moravia, beautiful Petrobaradin, over 200 monasteries (if I'm not mistaken), we have the temple of St. Sava, excellent food. Please, foreigners, understand, don't judge by the people what the country is like, we have really embarrassing things in the country like a crime at school, a ribnikar like that idiot desingerica, don't judge the west by them, and besides, whatever Serbs you ask, they don't know how to answer, not all doe are like that, only individuals (3 million)
@@TravelLordOnLoc I am curious to know the next content on the ''Balkans'' especially when it is a non-European who is the author...Europe with American eyes. Enjoy your stay with our neighbors their culture is rich and good gastronomy
Nice video, but what bothers me it is to see graffiti on fortress and trash inside fortress. That is something unacceptable for me as a Serb, but seems we need to work a lot more on our conscious about environment and taking care of historical places.
Brother I aint told you the most important. If you would like to know what Serbs are all about learn about gusle, probably the oldest white peoples musical instument. And people who play them.
Right, we converted another American back to normal, or at least to a gopnik - good deed for today :) @10:20 "Sopska" is not Bulgarian, as Sops are Serbs, not Bulgarians, used to live before 1912 Berlin congress as far as east of Sophia. Shops = Serbs, Bulgars, east of Sophia = Turks, Asia.... @12:20 It actually worked very well, as about each year since 1903, there were uprisings in Serbia against Turks, and later joined by Greeks and Slavic Bulgars, leading to finally getting them off Europe. It is very cool that you visited Nis, place where Constantine the Great was born, who founded Constantinople (nobo0dy in Serbia calls it istambul) and brought Christendom into Europe . Yeah, there is also concentration camp memorial - Hello EU German that owe us lives 100:1 in war crimes in blood, and zillions in damages never paid (in 1999 NATO bombed Nis with carped cluster bombing, still visible on facades) . But also, I am happy that Serbian children are playing there cheerfully above bones dropped to ensure them such future. I always like to visit Nis, and cities, places and villages along Nisava river (that's how Nis got name long into B.C.). People usually think that Europe is Paris. London, Rome ... 17 Roman emperors come from today's are of Serbia, 21 in older boundaries. Nis is what Europe was, is and will be. EU is not Europe. When Nis was around, Doggerland still exiisted.
This armed uprising of the population in the Western Regions began in the context of the Russo-Turkish War of 1806, and rebellious sentiment quickly began to escalate everywhere. The flame of disobedience ignited in the souls of Bulgarians and Serbs the desire for freedom and led to the outbreak of a mass anti-Turkish struggle in the Belgrade Sanjak, Niško and Pirotsko. At that time, the resistance against the common enemy, personified by the High Porte, put in the background any contradictions between the Bulgarian and Serbian insurgents, who readily participated in mixed detachments and platoons and fought side by side against their oppressors. The rebellion was supported by many Bulgarians from Pomoravie and Vidin. To such an extent that the uprising can be called Serbian-Bulgarian (at that time Bulgarians lived even in the Belgrade Pashalak itself). Prominent names such as Colonels Kondo, Dragan Papazoglu, Kiro Bekyarski, Uzun Mirko, the famous Hajduk Velko participated, and the negotiations for peace with the "High Porte" were led by the Bulgarian Petar Ichko. In the course of the Russo-Turkish war of 1806-1812, the voivodes of the small region of Porečie, populated mostly by Bulgarians, Petar Dobryanets and Milenko Stajkovic, sought help from the Russians in order to build a Bulgarian principality there. Niš, which preserved its Bulgarian ethnic character during the centuries of Ottoman rule, became the center of the insurgent activity of the local Bulgarian population, which is evidenced by the number of titles in the Serbian periodical press at the time - "Ustanak u Bugarskoi" (Uprising in Bulgaria). In a short time, the rebel commander Stefan Sindjelic managed to gather about 3,000 people among the population of Niško, with whom he opposed the Ottoman power in the region. Soon, other Bulgarian and Serbian combat units moved into this theater of combat, whose final goal was the capture of the Niš fortress. The well-fortified Turkish garrison in the city, however, successfully defended itself against the rebel attacks and waited for the engagement of new military forces sent from the High Porte to launch a counterattack against the rebel positions. This happened in the spring of 1809, when only two months after the outbreak of insubordination in Nishko, 30,000 Ottoman troops commanded by Hurshid Pasha arrived on the scene..... According to the notes of surviving rebels, and of the Turkish authorities themselves, Sindjelic sacrificed himself and the still fighting Bulgarian and Serbian fighters by blowing up the gunpowder, where the insurgents' ammunition stocks were stored, with a pistol shot..... In a prominent place in the city, Khurshid Pasha ordered the construction of a conical masonry tower, in the walls of which he used the skulls of the fallen insurgents as the main building blocks. It should have reminded of the fate of those who took up arms against the Turkish authorities.
The best description of it by an impartial observer could be obtained from the travelogue of the French poet and traveler Alphonse de Lamartine. His words immediately take us back to 1830, when de Lamartine was near Nis: "I saw a great tower rising in the midst of the city, white as marble...When I raised my eyes to examine the monument I found to my astonishment that the walls, which I thought were covered with marble, were built of long straight lines of human skulls. Whitened by the rains and the sun these skulls were cemented together in a structure that testified to the Turkish triumph of a great battle that had been fought here. Now near the tower I could see that some of the skulls still had remnants of hair that trembled and shed with every breath of wind. The fresh mountain-side breeze passed through the open mouths of the skulls and drew from them mournful sepulchral sighs. My heart wept that day for those brave men whose severed heads should become the cornerstone of a monument symbolizing the struggle for freedom." Over the following decades, the Tower of Skulls released some of the inhabitants of its walls to their eternal rest. Bulgarian residents of Nis, believing they could recognize the skulls of their fallen husbands, brothers, fathers and grandfathers, plucked some of the skulls from the dead cement embrace of the tower and buried them in local cemeteries. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1878, which brought freedom to Bulgaria, Nis and its inhabitants entered the territorial framework of the Kingdom of Serbia. The Serbs quickly "adopted" the monument and stopped remembering their own newspaper headlines about the "Uprising in Bulgaria".
@@EpizodBG Again Bulgarian propaganda whats wrong with you people? Ćele Kula comes from heads of Serbian soldiers and Sindjelic in First Serbian Uprising to frighten the Serbs, and then Second Serbian Uprising succeded. Serbian heads, come from 1809 and FIRST SERBIAN UPRISING, nothing Bulgarian there, as they were leaded by Stevan Sindjelic. Story about gunpowder barrel is true, except there were no Bulgarians and he didn't sacrifice for Bulgarians, as it was FIRST SERBIAN UPRSING. Everything pure pure propaganda.
@@EpizodBG Dude according to you Sindjelic was probably Bulgarian. You said enough when you backstabbed us and seized just that regions of Nis and Pirot and later you ended up losing all of that, Macedonia, Thrace, etc. Stop trying to make fake history claims and get your own. First Serbian Uprising is the *FIRST SERBIAN UPRISING*
@@SuperElborbahIm in Bulgaria at the moment and heading to Turkey next week. I still have six or seven videos from the Balkans that I need to put out yet
All empires collapse. No empire is left. One should also remember that many Serbians worked in ottoman army as soldiers. Some of them became even highly respected generals. Serbians were celebrated as great warriors during ottoman period.
Be afraid of dogs! I'm not a man, I'm a Wolf! I don't talk and I don't write, I howl! I don't howl because I'm afraid, I don't howl because I'm angry. I howl to be heard by my Pack, to be heard by the Wolves, that the Wolves would hear me, that the Wolves would hear me, that my pack would gather! And when my pack gathers, fear the dogs! Serbian Emperor Dušan the Strong 1331-1355
Fortess is buliding 1719 starting finished 1723 for 4 years project do it mustaf age mehmed age turk of bulgarian of sofija age - meaning like big man .all park have 22 hektar for the wall 400 workers for cut stone for to bulid wall . Nis in albanian menaning first . Nis lived just albanian littel percent turkish and roman serbian littel percent almost albanian with percent 90 round if nis have 700 village albanian . Serbia take inside autonomy from hati sherif diplomat turk some law for to have slavs but turks do it contrat in bukurest 1833 other konvetion of makerpan slavs do it autonomy inside turk dont live beligrad in 1867 demostrated slavs king of turk or sultan give beligrad until to the city aleksinac near of nis man who looked komand ali riza pasha give beligrad back to the nis with population albanian and turk in fortess in beligrad houses . 1878 russian helped serbian for to ocuppations part of nis and some city round of nis example vranje city leskovac city prokuple and kurshumlia city so near of kosovo custumer serbian with russian do it big war put out albanian population from big nis and form some citys . Rashit pasha and halit pasha lost nis albanian going direction in the turkish state littel percent going in kosovo all family in place of kosvo from place of nis and other city round of nis ; family in kosovo have surname nishliu , kurshumilu , prokupla , arbanasi is one surname one village near of nis city . Albanian in kosovo do it one book history about of nis when leaving grandfather lost lands winter exzist when leaved nis place .
Ottomans were extremely barbaric but they fall short of barbarism of NATO. Ćele kula is a testament of heroism of Serbs. Kosovo Polje is nearby too. All that area is dotted with monuments to Serb struggle for freedom and defence of their fatherland.
Vi ste heroji, jer ste dali svoj život drugima u ruke. Ne samo novac, decu, reputaciju, posao, zdravlje, DALI STE SVOJE ŽIVOTE NAJOPASNIJIH LUDACIMA. VI STE HEROJI. ISTO KAO I ONI. I ONI SU DALI I DAJU, NE SAMO DECU, REPUTACIJU, NOVAC, VEĆ SVOJE ŽIVOTE ISTIM ČUDOVIŠTIMA, KAO ŠTO SU ONI SAMI, U RUKE. A SVI ZNAMO KOLIKO STE OPASNI TERORISTI NA DALJINU.
