09 July 2008

Serbian "trivia" (5): did you know that...?

…monumental Belgrade’s Batal mosque (Mosche Batall-Chamia) was the last of the great Belgrade’s mosques and stood at the place of the Serbian Parliament at the begging of old Tzarigrad Road (today Boulevard of King Alexandar) it was rampaged and destroyed after the Turkish 1867 departure

…the largest city in 1900 in the area covered by present day (2008) Serbia was Subotica with 82,000 people

… some 227.000 people in Serbia verifies his/her signature by a sign of thumb as they are completely illiterate

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