Monografija - prvo izdanje - niska rezolucija

the pasha had accepted the Prophet’s green flag from the sultan’s
hands) - a silk rope and two meter deep hole, which everyone,
from the conqueror of the world to the poorest man on earth, is
forced to accept at the end of the day.
His grave didn’t “stay” for long in Belgrade- when the
city’s walls witnessed, though only for a short period, a change
from the Turkish flags to ones bearing crosses (1688), when
the city was plundered by the defeated and by the winners
like never before or after in history, Jesuits excavated the
pasha’s turbe (grave) and sent his skull westward, up the
Danube in the form of a gift to one of their cardinals (they
exhibited the distorted skull in a graceful rococo showcase in
a museum in Vienna).
Heads were traveling downstream as well as upstream on
the Danube.
When four Turkish army commanders, or dahia , rebelled
against the sultan, the four reckless, obstinate and bloodthirsty
governors of Serbia tried to escape on the Danube from the rage
of the Serbian insurrectionists (1804), only to be caught on the
river island of Ada Kale. The day after, only three skinned, salted
and straw-stuffed heads were taken to the sultan who presided
over the Divan (Turkish court of justice). The waves of the Danube
claimed the fourth head, due to the executioner’s ineptness while
washing coagulated blood from the distorted face of death, taking
it away in the river’s flow.
Maximilian Emmanuel the Bavarian proved glorious in war
beneath Belgrade’s walls (1688), leading an attacking army that
was shouting “God and Emmanuel is with us”; again a dwarf of
a giant heart, Eugene of Savoy (1717), found glory in Belgrade,
followed by Marshal Laudon (1789)…Their armies came downstream
to Belgrade, but their victories were short lived – the
Turks traveling up the Danube would again conquer the city, “the
capital of jihad”, which served as a main military camp and base
for all crusades to the West.
And it remained like this until Turks finally abandoned
the Belgrade Fortress in 1867 when the sultan “conferred the
Serbian fortified cities to the protection” by Prince Mihailo in an
expression that was meant to mild the bitter taste of Turkish
losses and defeats the mighty but weakening empire was beginning
to suffer at this point in history. Thus Mihailo ruled over the
newly formed and liberated Serbian state, whose “people rose
56
like grass from the soil.”