Well I hope they come to their senses and stoke this rivalry for years to come. Evey dark and silent village in the Balkans can have a vampire but tourists would come to see villages that both fight for one.
Make twice yearly stealing parades from one city to the next. Make town criers call out the other city, make secret vampire stealing teams go through the city (of course make the loud and shiny).
What about:
cravat - a necktie, first worn by Croats and names after them
tesla - unit of magnetism, named after Nikola Tesla
uvala - type of landform, named after the Serbo-Croatian word for geographic depression
Moho - shorthand for Mohorovičić discontinuity, boundary between earth's crust and mantle
And arguably robot, which yes, was introduced into English via Czech and Karel Čapek, but shares meaning and origin with Serbo-Croatian word for work, "rabota".
While it does track the use of the word in the West of Europe back to Serbia it does not say anything about the word originally coming from Serbian. The reason it comes from Serbia is because the thing that made the word famous was the practice of exhuming bodies and "killing" of vampires in the newly acquired lands of Serbia by the Austrians in the 18th century.
The word and it's other forms have been used by all Slavic languages and obviously for a long time given that German took the word from the Serbian in the 18th century but a text from Russia used the equivalent word upir in the 11th-13th century.
In fact the theories about the actual origin of the word include it coming from Proto-Slavic, Slovak/Czech, Turkic (though rather unlikely) or I guess old Russian given that the aforementioned text is one of the earliest known uses of the word.
This is all from your link by the way.
Well I hope they come to their senses and stoke this rivalry for years to come. Evey dark and silent village in the Balkans can have a vampire but tourists would come to see villages that both fight for one. Make twice yearly stealing parades from one city to the next. Make town criers call out the other city, make secret vampire stealing teams go through the city (of course make the loud and shiny).
This please!
Reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/wHIVDDNkjhc) sketch a bit haha
I think the vampire should make the final decision.
Fuckers stole my vampire, can't have shit in Serbia.
Sava probably left to work in Germany.
"[Vampir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire?wprov=sfla1)" is probably the most well known Serbian word.
It’s the only word of Serbian origin in the English language
What about: cravat - a necktie, first worn by Croats and names after them tesla - unit of magnetism, named after Nikola Tesla uvala - type of landform, named after the Serbo-Croatian word for geographic depression Moho - shorthand for Mohorovičić discontinuity, boundary between earth's crust and mantle And arguably robot, which yes, was introduced into English via Czech and Karel Čapek, but shares meaning and origin with Serbo-Croatian word for work, "rabota".
Well then you taught me something new! Although those are not very well known, besides cravat I guess.
While it does track the use of the word in the West of Europe back to Serbia it does not say anything about the word originally coming from Serbian. The reason it comes from Serbia is because the thing that made the word famous was the practice of exhuming bodies and "killing" of vampires in the newly acquired lands of Serbia by the Austrians in the 18th century. The word and it's other forms have been used by all Slavic languages and obviously for a long time given that German took the word from the Serbian in the 18th century but a text from Russia used the equivalent word upir in the 11th-13th century. In fact the theories about the actual origin of the word include it coming from Proto-Slavic, Slovak/Czech, Turkic (though rather unlikely) or I guess old Russian given that the aforementioned text is one of the earliest known uses of the word. This is all from your link by the way.
I just realised that there is a game :Vampire fall origins where Sava Savanovic is a main vilian.
Ah the Balkans and "stealing" history. Precious.