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It's interesting for example how they claim the demographics in these regions changed because of Ottoman occupation (We don't know what would of happened if not for it anyway) but how was that any different than the Slavs being allowed to set foot in the Balkans thanks to Roman/Byzantine occupation. This changed the demographics of the Balkans much more than anything.
For example Noel Malcolm claims the Romanians/Aromanians originated in the West-Central Balkans and only pushed south and later north by the Slavs. There were Albanian migrations into Greece before Ottoman occupation too. And there were other Vlachs such as Istro-Romanian that settled Croatia and Megleno-Romanians more south of the Balkans. All before the Ottoman occupation.
The Bulgarians and Byzantines who held Kosovo for hundreds of years built churches and historical monuments but most of these were burned down. They were never restored like in the case for the Serbian churches, they were also destroyed during the entire Ottoman Occupation but they were restored again thanks to a Bosnian Serb Muslim convert. If it had not been for this there would be no Serbian churches there either.
Notice also for example how these texts mention the word 'Rascian' , it comes from 'Rashka' which was the early homeland of the Serbs in the Balkans
around Montenegro somewhere, north-west of Kosovo.
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