Serbs and Muslim history

Muslims burnt the remains of Saint Sava (1174-1236)

The Archbishop of the Serbs and founder of Serbian law.

The Muslim Sinan Pasha, the Albanian Grand Vizier who lead the Ottoman army in 1595 publicly burned the wooden coffin with the remains of Saint Sava on a hill where the worlds largest Orthodox Church now stands in Belgrade.  Many of the people and priests that were commanded to carry it from the Mileseva Monastery were killed along the way.  The Serbs had rebelled against the Ottoman authority by carrying flags with the icon of Saint Sava and this was the Muslim response to what they considered idolatry.

This painting by Stevan Aleksic (1912) depicts the ordeal

Cathedral of Saint Sava (photo by George Groutas)

Teodor, Bishop of Vrsac was flayed and burned alive
for leading the Banat Uprising (1593-1606) against
 the Ottoman Muslims.

Seventy Serbian Knezes (Dukes) were slaughtered by
the Muslims to prevent another uprising in 1804.  This inflamed
the Serbs and lead to the Battle of Misar (1806).  The First Uprising
of the Serbs in 1809 resulted in the death of many by the Turks.
Hurshid Pasha the Turkish Visier of Niz had a tower of  952 skulls
built as a reminder to any further rebels against the Ottomans.
Today there is a chapel built over it in memorial.

In 1540 the Ottoman Empire officially annexed Serbia and they
became a source of revenue in the form of taxes.

The Battle of Kosovo (June 15, 1389) sparked the beginning
of Muslim atrocities against the Serbs.
The Ottoman Sultans would often take a son or daughter of Byzantine leaders as security and if things did not go well they would threaten to blind or kill their child in classic Muslim fashion.