Macedonian vs Albanian

[Sava]

[loinburger]

I had a professor in college who was a fiftieth-generation Turkish immigrant who wouldn't shut up about how Turkish everything is so much better than Greek everything. If I were to retake that course now he'd probably be unable to shut up about how Turkish everything is so much better than Kurdish everything.

This might have made sense if it were a European history class or something, but it was very out of place in a class on differential equations. "Use a Runge-Kutta method to solve this, also, I hate the Greeks."

[Dinner]

The foood was very similar though the only place I have ever tried, or even seen on a menu, fried calf's brains was in Skopje. Much of the video seems spot on to me.

Also, I remember taking a tour of Greek aand Roman ruins near Lake Ored and the lady tour guide was extremely anti-Turkish to the point of it almost being comical.

[regexcellent]

Excuse me I think you mean FYROM BECAUSE MACEDONIA IS IN GREECE!

(literally the most petty international dispute in existence)

[Hauldren Collider]

I love how the comments are all Balkan people simultaneously saying that THEIR ethnicity totally isn't like that while calling every other Balkan ethnic group retarded.

[regexcellent]

Holy **** I'm a ****ing idiot I just realized Sava's name comes from the Sava river.

[Dinner]

Yeah, you should beat yourself up over that.

[Ben Kenobi]

I just realized Sava's name comes from the Sava river.

Uh.

[Colonâ„¢]

Yeah, you should beat yourself up over that.

WHy eth ****? I never heard of it and I'm from Eiorpe.

[Colonâ„¢]

I spelled **** right that's all that ammers.

[onodera]

Holy **** I'm a ****ing idiot I just realized Sava's name comes from the Sava river.

You're still an idiot. His name comes from Saint Sava, the most important Serbian saint, and the river is also named after him.

Actually, I am also a little bit idiotic. The river is not named after the saint, it's just a coincidence.

[Sava]

Holy **** I'm a ****ing idiot I just realized Sava's name comes from the Sava river.

well sort of
the river is named after:

St. Sava

I was named for my mom's godfather (who died before i was born)

[Sava]

The river is not named after the saint, it's just a coincidence.

really?

I was always told the river was named after him.

[Sava]

well I'll be

Even though name Sava became very common among (and not only South) Slavs, especially as a form of personal name, either male or female, and has a "Slavic tone," the river's name is not Slavic but Celtic and Roman in origin;[142] the Latin name was Savus. Another name, used for Sava in entirety or its lower part by Strabo, is Noarus.[143]

Worshipping of various river gods in the area is traced back to the Late Bronze Age,[144] when the first settlements were founded along the Sava River.[145] Taurisci associated their river goddess Adsullata with the Savus.[142][144] Altars or inscriptions dedicated to the river god Savus were found at a number of locations along the river course, including at the Zelenci Pools where the Sava Dolinka rises, and a number of Roman settlements and castra built along the Via Pannonia, Roman road spanning from Aquileia to the Danube.[146] The settlements include Emona, Andautonia and Siscia (near modern-day Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sisak respectively) upstream of the Kupa River confluence, and Marsonia, itself built atop a prehistoric settlement,[147] Cibalae, Sirmium and Singidunum (in modern-day Slavonski Brod, Vinkovci, Sremska Mitrovica and Belgrade) downstream of the Kupa.[148] Besides the altar found at the Zelenci Pools, inscriptions and sites dedicated to Savus were found in remains of Emona,[149] Andautonia and Siscia.[150] Several years after 1751 completion of the Robba Fountain in Ljubljana, the three male figures sculpted as parts of the fountain were identified as statues of the river gods of Sava, Krka and Ljubljanica. In the early 20th century, the fountain was named the Fountain of Three Carniolan Rivers.[151]

The Baptism on the Savica (Slovene: Krst pri Savici), a Slovene national epic written by the Slovene Romantic poet France Prešeren in 1835. The poem, referring in its title to a headwater of the Sava River, inspired design of the coat of arms of Slovenia of 1991. However, the two wavy lines at the base of the blazon represent rivers of Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea rather than the Savica or the Sava specifically.[152]

The Sava River is represented in the coat of arms of the former Kingdom of Slavonia. The design, approved by the Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary in 1496, incorporates two bars symbolising the Sava and the Drava rivers tracing the borders of the kingdom. The design inspired arms of several present-day counties of Croatia in the region of Slavonia and it is itself a part of the coat of arms of Croatia.[153] The Sava River is also referred to by the poem Horvatska domovina, written by Antun Mihanović in 1835, as a national symbol of Croatia. Modified lyrics of the poem later became the Croatian anthem.[154]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sava#Tradition

you learn something new every day

[Hauldren Collider]

Are we really to be expected to know the names of relatively minor Balkan saints and/or rivers?