"Uskoks" Topic
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| Perun Gromovnik | 16 Jun 2021 7:52 a.m. PST |
At the end of the 15th and in early 16th century, Ottomans have looted and burned land in their first attacks to the west. Men were killed, women raped, and children taken to slavery. From such population, Uskoks are recruited. They vow to came back to their birthplaces and to take revenge on Ottomans everywhere and at every opportunity. They have spread that oath among their generation and passed it on to their offspring. Croatians from coast, who were running away from cruelty and chains of Venetian galleys, have also joined them. Klis, as a town and a fortress, became a place of living and struggle of these people. It literally became an uskok nest! link And another good source link Bouth sources have good pictures of uniforms |
Shagnasty  | 16 Jun 2021 9:51 a.m. PST |
They sound like righteous dudes. |
| Perun Gromovnik | 16 Jun 2021 1:27 p.m. PST |
Thru, even today memories of them are strong |
| Druzhina | 16 Jun 2021 10:38 p.m. PST |
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| Mollinary | 21 Jun 2021 11:49 a.m. PST |
In the UK there was even an episode of Lovejoy ( a comic drama about a rogue antique dealer) about them. Called something like ‘The Last of the Uzkoks', made in the mid 1990s.'. |
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