Jihad against the Bulgarians (1393-1877) - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T07:16:33Zhttp://4freedoms.com/forum/topics/jihad-against-the-bulgarians?groupUrl=europe&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe Turkish Ottoman invasion…tag:4freedoms.com,2009-10-01:3766518:Comment:19532009-10-01T20:44:39.000ZCharles Martelhttp://4freedoms.com/profile/LutonEnglish
The Turkish Ottoman invasion of Kosovo in 1389, saw the Serbian army defeated at the Battle of Kosovo Polje, but sporadic fighting between the Serbs and the Turks continued till 1459, when the Ottomans captured Smederevo, south of Belgrade. After which, Serbia then came under direct Ottoman rule.<br />
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At Lepanto, the Turks were routed at sea - a significant event as it marked the first time that the Muslims had been defeated by an European force after the Battle…
The Turkish Ottoman invasion of Kosovo in 1389, saw the Serbian army defeated at the Battle of Kosovo Polje, but sporadic fighting between the Serbs and the Turks continued till 1459, when the Ottomans captured Smederevo, south of Belgrade. After which, Serbia then came under direct Ottoman rule.<br />
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At Lepanto, the Turks were routed at sea - a significant event as it marked the first time that the Muslims had been defeated by an European force after the Battle of Tours (Poitiers) and the Crusades.<br />
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The psychological effect of this victory upon Europe was marked - the Spanish writer Cervantes noted in his novel, Don Quixote, that the battle "revealed to all the nations of the world the error under which they had been laboring in believing that the Turks were invincible on Sea." On land however, the struggle between the various European nations and the Turks continued unabated. In many regions the Turks exacted as cruel a punishment on the locals as they had on the inhabitants of Constantinople.<br />
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The Ottomans attempted to lay siege to Belgrade in 1456, but were defeated by Janos Hunyadi a Hungarian national hero, whose name is still celebrated today. The Ottomans finally seized Belgrade in 1521, and in 1526, the Turks inflicted a crushing defeat on the hastily gathered Hungarian army at the battle of Mohacs, where the Hungarian King and more than 20,000 European soldiers were killed.<br />
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The Turks went on to capture the city of Buda (later to join with a neighboring city, Pest, to become the city of Budapest) in 1526 - but then withdrew from western Hungary, leaving that part of Eastern Europe to its own devices.<br />
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By 1483, the Turks had conquered most of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two territories remained provinces of the Ottoman Empire for the next 400 years, although unsuccessful uprisings against the Turks occurred frequently during the 19th Century. Macedonia, bordering on Greece and Turkey, was one of the first territories to fall to the Ottoman invasion - it remained under Turkish rule until the Balkan War of 1912 which saw the Ottomans driven out. The Turkish Ottoman invasion of 1389, saw the Serbian army defeated at the battle of Kosovo Polje, but sporadic fighting between the Serbs and the Turks continued till 1459, when the Ottomans captured Smederevo, south of Belgrade. Serbia then came under direct Ottoman rule.<br />
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The first siege of Vienna - Turks seize the Ukraine<br />
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In 1521, the Ottomans finally managed to capture Belgrade and the island of Rhodes in 1522. By 1529, the Muslim Ottoman armies had reached Vienna. By sheer tenacity, the city withheld the siege, and the Ottomans were forced to retreat. In 1571, the Ottomans seized the island of Cyprus and even began raiding the emerging Russian state to the northeast of their extensive empire on the European mainland.<br />
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In 1661, the Ottomans captured much of present day Ukraine from Poland, and in 1669, conquered the island of Crete. With one great last effort, the Ottomans then re-launched their attack on Vienna in 1683. But by 1683, the Christian armies of Europe had prepared their alliances with the Poles, Prussians, Lithuanians, Austrians, Italians, Spanish all knit together with a single purpose of liberating the Balkans from Turkish occupation. In 1683, their armies routed the Ottomans, giving a death blow to the Muslims. The Ottoman ambitions for the conquest of Europe was dealt a death blow by the arrival of a Polish army at Vienna. The Poles were thirsting for revenge against the Turks from whom the Ottomans had captured part of the Ukraine which was then a province of the Polish empire.<br />
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The origin of the Croissant bread commemorates the defeat of the Crescent by the armies of the Cross<br />
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The great victory feast held by the European armies after this victory at Vienna led to the origin of the bread now known as the Croissant (Crescent). The European victors ordered bread to be made in the shape of the quarter moon shape of the Turkish flag, so that they could physically eat the emblem of the enemy at the feast. From then on the Croissant, a curved sickle moon shape bread, became popular in all Europe. After their rout at Vienna, the Ottomans fell back in confusion - at last the Europeans had seized the initiative, and they pressed home their advantage.<br />
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In a swift campaign, the Russians drove the Ottomans back to Constantinople and forced them to sign the Treaty of San Stefano of 1878, which stripped them of most of their European territories, including Bulgaria, Macedonia and Thrace. Britain gained possession of Cyprus in return for an opportunist and unprincipled pledge to the Saracen Ottoman Sultan to aid him if he needed military assistance in the future against their Christian compatriots. Incidentally this was a guarantee that would never be acted upon.<br />
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The Ottoman Empire was now in terminal phase and at the mercy of the Europeans. On all fronts the European powers had seized Ottoman territories - Tunisia was taken by the French in 1881, and Egypt (which had briefly been reoccupied by the Ottomans after Napoleon had left) was taken by the British in 1882. This was followed by the occupation of Mesopotamia (Iraq) by the British and of Syria by the French after WW1.<br />
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In 1697, a new Austrian commander, Prince Eugene of Savoy, defeated a huge Ottoman army at Senta in northern Serbia, inflicting massive casualties upon them.<br />
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The Ottomans were forced to sue for peace. In terms of the Treaty of Karlowitz, the Ottomans were forced to cede substantial parts of Eastern Europe, including Belgrade, to the victorious European army. This was to mark the beginning of the Ottoman retreat from the Balkan Peninsula.<br />
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Renewed European assaults sound death knell for Ottomans<br />
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The Russians, after their initial failure against the Turks in 1711, launched their renewed assault on the Turks in 1714, And in a surprise attack saw the Ottomans in Rumania defeated.<br />
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This spurred unrest among other Balkan people who had been suffering under Turkish tyranny. After 345 years of subjugation, the Serbs launched a nine year long revolt in 1804, but were suppressed by the Turks in a brutal campaign in 1813. Undeterred, the Serbs launched yet another attempt to eject the Turks in 1815, and this time were successful - within a few months most of Serbia was cleared of Turks. The Ottomans then accepted the de facto situation and granted Serbia self-government.<br />
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Following the Russian Turkish Wars of 1828 and 1829, Serbia gained even greater autonomy. Finally, the Ottomans withdrew all claims to Serbia in 1867. Greece became independent in 1829 after launching military campaigns against the Ottomans, backed with material support from both Britain and Russia.<br />
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The final blow to the Ottoman military machine was a huge revolt by the White Janissaries in 1826 which ended in the Ottomans having to execute thousands of the Janissary soldiers. In this year the Ottomans finally disbanded the Janissaries.<br />
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Bulgaria throws off the Jihadi Yoke<br />
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Fifty years later, a rebellion in Bulgaria saw tens of thousands of Muslims being slaughtered by avenging Bulgarian Mobs. This led to reprisals by Muslims in which tens of thousands of Bulgarian were slain in what became known as the Bulgarian Atrocities.<br />
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Russo-Turkish War of 1877 and the final freedom of Bulgaria<br />
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Russia then declared war on the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In a swift campaign, the Russians drove the Ottomans back to Constantinople and forced them to sign the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878, which stripped the Turks of most of their European territories, including Bulgaria, Macedonia and Thrace.<br />
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Britain gained possession of Cyprus in return for an opportunist and unprincipled pledge to the Saracen Ottoman Sultan to aid him if he needed military assistance in the future against their Christian (Russian) compatriots. Incidentally this was a guarantee that would never be acted upon.<br />
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The Ottoman Empire was now in terminal phase and at the mercy of the Europeans. On all fronts the European powers had seized Ottoman territories - Tunisia was taken by the French in 1881, and Egypt (which had briefly been reoccupied by the Ottomans after Napoleon had left) was taken by the British in 1882. This was followed by the occupation of Mesopotamia (Iraq) by the British and of Syria by the French after WW1.<br />
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Thus ended the last Muslim invasion of Europe that used violence as their passport of entry, the first being turned back by Charles Martel in 732.<br />
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The Next Muslim Invasion of Europe<br />
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The Muslim invasion of Europe was not to take place after WW2. We see this happening today thru the medium of those Muslims who are entering Europe in the guise of immigrant workers, many of whom are Turks. Especially in some cities in Germany, the Turks represent nearly 10 percent of the population.<br />
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If Europe takes the unfortunate decision of allowing Turkey into the European Union, then we shall see opened the gates of Europe to a third Muslim invasion, when they will overrun Europe through the immigration of non-Turkish Muslims into Turkey who would then migrate onward into Europe. The Muslim game-plan today is to conquer Europe by swamping it with Muslim immigrants who will multiply manifold using the womb as a weapon to change Europe’s character into a majority Muslim country where the Europeans will be intimidated with threats, terror and murder like that of Theo Van Gough at Amsterdam and the London and Madrid attacks.<br />
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Time is running out for us to stem the tide of the third Muslim invasion of Europe that is gaining strength with every passing day. Our history with the struggle against Islam is a lesson for us. Today, our way of life, our culture, our security and our very existence is at stake. If we do not learn from our history and act fast, decisively and in unison, as we did at Poitiers and Lepanto, we would soon find ourselves on the losing side of this mortal combat with our hoary enemy – the Muslims.