With a vast knowledge of poor geography the region of Kosovo played a vital role for thousands of years. During the first centuries of the 7th millennium BC about year 6800 is start of carbon dating of the pottery and artifacts at Lepenski Vir - Eastern Serbia. According to the Communist brainwash history Serbians moved to the present day Serbia only about 6th or 7th Century AD. If this were true than all the carvings at Lepenski vir were done by wolves, lions, giraffes and other wild life. The people who lived in this region were mainly hunters gatherers just like elsewhere in Europe - their language was not entirely uniform their clothing and folklore was varied and they did not call themselves Serbs - but Serbs they were. Less than 500 miles to the North East was the birthplace of Count Vlad Tepes (the Impaler) thousands of years after the Lepenski vir and the villages there are named Bistrica (river in Kosovo), Bukovina, Salaj, Dol - all Serbian words clear to anyone that knows even the most elementary Serbian language. According to my primitive math Serbians were the native peoples of the region for over 9,000 years, but their center of power was shifting and it was probably around the time of the Celtic invasion (bordering today's Greece) that Serbs intermarried the same hard-working Celtic tribes, had open communications with Alexander the Great and his teacher Aristotle, his military brainpower Pericles, after which they get conquered by the Romans retreating to the North with the Celts. Going north from today's Salonika in a pretty straight line we see many Serb's or Sorboi's villages and signs. Sankt Andrew village close to Budapest was almost entirely Serbian. Budim - before it was joined by Pest was predominantly Serbian. Bratislava's northern Danube border has villages within Gorsky Park (pronounced Horsky Park) with many Serbian last names. Lublin in Poland has some small minority of Serbian (non-Catholic) families too, while just North-west from there there is a German province Lusatia (Luzice) which is even according to today's Germans populated by Sorboi (Serbs). A pot was found in Denmark with the exact carving of the confluence of Sava to Danube rivers along with the Veliko Ratno ostrvo island - those handicrafts could not have been made by tigers, wolves and giraffes - or why would the Danes bother with geography 2000 miles to the south? Retreating to the North the Celts returned to their ancestral homes within the British Isles. Queen Boudicca’s desperate battle against the Romans was lost and London (Londinium) was the Northernmost Roman province, while the Celts stayed in today's Ireland and Scotland.

In musical terms the development of musical instruments (which originated in China, travelled to India, followed by Persia and in their attacks on Greece many of those instruments became adopted by the local Serbians. Not only is the musical five note scale quinta dominant among the Serbs, Irish and Scottish but the single pipe straight flute, single string instruments (gusle), bagpipes (gajde), fiddle, rhythm, tonality which is clearly noticeable from the ancient Kosovo songs if you ever look up recordings of the Iskon musical group from Serbia singing mainly original Kosovo songs. Some of their songs can be found here: youtube.com/watch

Lepenski Vir at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepenski_Vir

Map of Transylvania: images.google.com/imgres

Not counting the Serbian born Roman Emperors Diocletian, Constantine and Justinian, first Serbian post Roman Emperor was Dusan Stefan whose kingdom stretched from Salonika to Belgrade and whose title was Tsar of all the Greeks and Serbs Dusan Stefan. Next four generations of Serbian monarchs was all from Kosovo proper, where the last one Knez Lazar Hrebeljanovic lost his life and battle for Serbia against the Ottoman empire June 28th, 1389. That same battle was lost again just the other day.

Besides the undisputed fact that Constantine the Great born in Nis (Naisus) was a Serb and the First Roman emperor to embrace Christianity and bring it to Europe also by building a city in Greece called Constantinopolis - today's Istanbul.

It was only around the end of the 12 century that united Serbian tribes found their ethnic background, language, music, folklore, etc. From that day on Serbia was always an ethnically dominant presence in this part of Europe.

I admit that this type of writing is both boring and Academic and not the least bit entertaining (except for my typos) - but it is factual and largely unknown around the world.