BELGRADE'S HISTORY

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 20, 23 July 1927, Page 20

BELGRADE'S HISTORY

SIXTEKN. HUNDRED YEABS OF

CHANGE,

Belgrade, .tho capital oi' Jugo-Slavia, or, if you prefer, of Serbia —whom Cabinet crises are now in order, was born in Hie third century, of .Inmost, hard-working Celtic parent p, status tho "\ r iMy York Times." Honiau brick? onlprrul .(hit architectural scheme v £u\\ centuries later, and Chnrloinngne be ciiino ils Mayor, .jib it wore, in aovui hundred and something. Then tho Bui garians set up thoir own town council which was rather summarily adjournec about 2fiO years, nftorward by Byzan tines who make Groon customs, n la modo as ,well as do rigour. • Belgrade's history roads liko a so cial register of nations. In .1.121 the Hungarians had thoir fling, followed by changes of ownership -in such rapid anccoasion that nobody was ablo to ko«| an altogothor trustworthy pount; Tin town is Raid to liavo witnessed mid par ticipated in moro battles thnn liavi most of tho celebrated fortresses ol Europe. Tho Turks once gavo it a plea Haut nickname: "Homo of wars i'ol faith."

Austria ruled for n time, introducing ninny vory sago reforms, while the Ser biiins wero gutting ready to ri«o and capture the eitndol. During ono period thorn was a sort of mixed rule divided between Serbians nnd Tni'lts. 'J'lievo seems to h.ivo existed boiiio friction, and at loast ono bombardment im oil the rouords.- Finally tho Turks with- . drow, leaving Bolgrado to tho modern I cabinets that huvo learned from the Arabs how fcento shorikl he, folded, *