Welcome to our second arc of episodes! To inaugurate the 'Balkan' side of our 'Amerikanski-Balkan' podcast, we begin with the development of the 'nation state' in Serbia. From the uprising against a group of out-of-control Janissaries in 1804 lead by Karađorđe Petrović, through the rewriting of medieval history by a rising ruling class, to the regicides of the Black Hand, Rey narrates the story of the State as it developed in this corner of the world, and reminds us that "there are no ancient hatreds in the Balkans". The crew also discusses the Čukur Fountain war of the gendarmes in Belgrade in 1862, the Timok Rebellion of 1883 which spread to half the country, and the bloody State origins of anti-Albanian prejudice in Serbia.

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