Inside a Mysterious Bosnian Exclave! 🇧🇦🇷🇸

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  • Join me as I visit the Bosnian exclave of Medurečje!
    0:00 The Road to Medurečje
    4:43 Journey to the top of the Village
    10:58 The Old Worker Dudes
    19:32 Exploring the Exclave
    30:17 Back to Priboj
    This town is completely surrounded by Serbia, yet has been a part of Bosnia since at least the late 19th century. The origins of this exclave are mysterious and so I decided to head over to Medurečje, Bosnia and Herzegovina to see what life is like there. I met some really cool dudes who were doing some work and got a good sense of how the people there live.
    #bosnia #serbia #balkan

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  • @ogilicious
    @ogilicious 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    There's no different culture there because it's exactly the same area - the only true anomaly is the border, but the area is equally mixed as is the wider region. Turkish coffee is not specific to Bosnia, it is common from Zagreb to Skopje and most people in Serbia and Bosnia drink it at home. Actually what you had looked strong, which is more common in Serbia. As the area is so small, it's completely administered by Serbia, although there should be signs you're entering BiH at the border crossing. The reason you're not seeing any BiH flags is because these are very very rare in the Serbian part of Bosnia, they're usually only on town hall buildings next to a Serbian flag (but the one without a coat of arms, the flag or Rep. Srpska). However, you're seeing actual Serbian flags because there's barely any presence of BiH infrastructure in the place - even the school looks like it's a small branch from SRB. I wonder which police is there - I doubt they have police for 100 residents. Few other details... The "lilly" (fleur-de-lis) on the flag you pointed out is actually the flag of Priboj. Lillies is the commonest heraldic symbol in the area (including Serbia - if you look at the coat of arms, fleurs-de-lis are at the bottom of the eagle). However it's probably on the flag of Priboj in duplicate to denote two ethnic groups (Serbs and Bosniaks) living in the city. When you asked about voting, what the man said was that there was a vote in Serbia (prob Dec 17 23 elections), so since most people have BiH and SRB passports, and their livelihoods depend on Serbia for the most part, they'll likely vote in Serbia as well as Bosnia. He also said that the elections aren't organized in Medjurijecje "in the school" because it's Bosnia, so they have to go outside the exclave. For BiH elections, the school does serve as a polling station - it has 108 registered voters, 31 of which voted in 2020 local BiH elections. Finally, and this was cute, the the first man said "mrtva sezona" meaning "dead" or "off-season", not "carrot season", but i can see how you heard "mrkva". Keep doing what you're doing, this was fun. FYI this place is deep deep wilderness for Bosnian/Serbian standards.

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for this comment! I need fact checking like this on all my videos lol. Pozdrav

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      One point though, Turkish coffee may not only be found in Bosnia, but in my experience it's only popular in Bosnia and the Sandžak/Raška region of Serbia. In Croatia I think espresso is more popular, in Macedonia/Kosovo macchiato is more popular. In this case I just ordered "jedna kafa" and I was given Turkish coffee. In other places I would have to specify "turska kafa" or "bosanska kafa" in order to get that. So it's not to say that you can't find it elsewhere, but I don't think it's as ingrained (pun intended) into the culture in other places than it is in Bosnia, Sandžak, etc.

    • @Milan1Nikolic
      @Milan1Nikolic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@BenTheRules Maybe you misunderstood the relation between Sandzak and Bosnia, or someone told you wrong. Nothing really mystical there. The thing is, the whole: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and Crna Gora share a way lot of common, the same traditions, origins and customs. You can think of them as the same people, whatever someone would say, just some usual regular regional differences. Regarding the coffee, the whole of Serbia is drinking the same coffee as you had in Rudo, and until 20 years all of us called it Turska kafa, and I'm still calling it Turska kafa everywhere in Serbia. 'Fildzan' style kafa is a bit different, but the outcome is almost the same as in so-called Turska kafa.

  • @GASTARBAJTER2019
    @GASTARBAJTER2019 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I AM FROM BOSNIA AND I LIKE THAT YOU TOUR THE COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND BOSNIA THE MOST BEAUTIFUL.

  • @stankestanke1618
    @stankestanke1618 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    13:58 he said ''mrtva sezona=dead season'' not mrkva sezona (carrot season). On 19:15 he said ''Ivan, zvani pilot'' that means Ivan, and people call him the pilot (nick name). All the best in the NY.

  • @nenadmil
    @nenadmil 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Not so far from Belgrade there is a Bulgarian village, older people still speak Bulgarian, but the way it was spoken 120 years ago. Similar to that Croatian village in Italy you visited.

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sounds interesting, what's it called?

    • @nenadmil
      @nenadmil 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@BenTheRules Ivanovo.
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanovo,_Pan%C4%8Devo

    • @purveshsane1435
      @purveshsane1435 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nenadmilbut it’s all kind of a dialect continuum, yes? How similar is the Serbian dialect in the area to what the people there speak?

    • @nenadmil
      @nenadmil 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@purveshsane1435 All I know that linguists from Sofia used to come there to learn more about Bulgarian that was spoken a century ago, without modern influences. Bulgarian and Serbian are both Slavic languages and not so much different, so they were assimilated slowly, however old folks who grew up without television kept the dialect.

    • @purveshsane1435
      @purveshsane1435 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nenadmil Ah, I understand now. They are Bulgarians who moved to that town in Serbia.

  • @balkangamer01
    @balkangamer01 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Great video.. I have learned something new today which was that Bosnia has a exclave. Keep up the good work..

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching as always! Will do

  • @brcak2000
    @brcak2000 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    You ask why there is no sign if it is Bosnia? If any of the Bosniaks (Muslims) put up a sign, the Serbs would take it down because the Serbs (Orthodox) are the majority in those areas and they don't even like Bosnia because they think it's all Serbia. There used to be a majority Bosnian population in those areas, but during the Second World War Genocide was committed there against those people, that was done by the Cetniks. Since then, they have been a minority, i.e. Bosniaks.

    • @user-mc2fh1cw2v
      @user-mc2fh1cw2v 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Шта си се ти напрдео овде ни сам не конташ…

    • @alexandartheserb7861
      @alexandartheserb7861 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In Bosnia, native Serbs were majority 44% till WWII and communists, and after communists Serbs were exterminated to 33% so Bosnia without native Serbs can claim independence. My ancestors are from Drvar in Bosnia which was till 1991. 98% Serbian municipality but due population engineering, it was excluded from Serbia

    • @aton9755
      @aton9755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@alexandartheserb7861Orthodox people were majority after many Muslims left for the Ottoman Empire. Plus, more Muslims were killed in Bosnia and Herzegovina Orthodox. Finally, Muslim Bosniaks became majority during the Baby Boom era.

    • @alexandartheserb7861
      @alexandartheserb7861 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@aton9755 Muslims came to us in Bosnia from Hungary when it was decolonized from Muslims after 1690, then from Serbia and Montenegro when those were decolonized in 19th century and even after that till today from Sandžak region. So we received many Muslim foreigners in Bosnia but that doesnt mean they have right on our land, to vote and have citizenship. And in surrounding countries like Hungary, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria all Muslims were expelled till 1913. only our Bosnia is still occupied by them, and Serbia's Kosovo and Albania.

    • @aton9755
      @aton9755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@alexandartheserb7861Mitoman, you have to come to an agreement with the Croats, because they have their own versions of lies and you have yours. Until then, you can only cry cause the percentage of Muslims is increasing in the region, while you polytheists are decreasing.

  • @elvirhodzic5720
    @elvirhodzic5720 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Good video !! Greetings from Bosnian in Manchester,New Hampshire, USA !!

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for watching, cheers! 🇧🇦🇺🇸🇧🇦

  • @I.D.O.B.H
    @I.D.O.B.H 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    ❤🌲👋👍☝️❤️🙏God bless you old man and Bless Serbia 🇷🇸

  • @Milan1Nikolic
    @Milan1Nikolic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Hajro, the old man, said in the video that the land belong to some 'aga', a turkish local ruler title backthen. He is referring to the Turkish period in the Balkans. The thing is, local 'aga' held a lots of land, for an example a municipality area. While the orthodox people, in this area the Serbs, were peasants, almost slaves. They had to work in 'aga'-s fields and hils, but they were fee to go, so they were not a complete slaves and lots of them escaped to the Autro-Hungary Kingdom. Those 'workers' had give a portion to the local 'aga', who was a local guy that took Islam and Turkish identity. So, for an example, one 'aga' held Sjenica, other one Rudo, some other guy held another neighbouring area, and so on, thought the whole Turkish Balkan. When Autro-Hungary Kingdom took Bosnia, the Muslims backthan, lost the privileges and soon spent all their wealth on a fancy stuff. So, tought the years, the muslim population in Serbia built the identity beside Serbian (speaking of Serbia), in contrast to Albanians that are still the same people by name, even thou belonging to the 3 religions. And all that is fine, it's history. And there is the third main religion in Balkans, the Roman catholic. The roman catholic slavs were not welcomed in the new gained Turkish lands, as Tursk saw them as Austo-Hungary guys, so they were expelled. Turks often placed orthodox guys in the ex-catolic areas, so they can farm the land and give a portion to Turks.
    All in all, local guys are the same origin. I suppose that the social status and politics thought the Otoman ages, divided the people with the same language, customs, beliefs, origin. It was not religion as the root cause, but the economics, and the local and regional politics. The 'who has the power' game.

  • @Milan1Nikolic
    @Milan1Nikolic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice video and the beautiful landscape. I hoped you'd visit Tutin on your tour, as the locals are such cool guys.

  • @frostflower5555
    @frostflower5555 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Amazing trip! I looked at a map and the place where Medjuryeche is looks so weird - like a circle within Serbia and yet the border to Bosnia is farther away. That old man is right about its history: I found something similar on Wikipedia: During the medieval times, the region around modern city of Priboj in the lower valley of the Lim river was called "Dabar" and it belonged to the medieval Serbia until the Turkish invasion in the middle of 15th century. Between 1459 and 1463, the town of Priboj was first mentioned in written documents of the Ottoman Empire

  • @carync3050
    @carync3050 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Trebao si svratiti i u Visegrad najljepsi grad.Planiraj za Juni-Juli kada i ja dodjem pa da skupa prosetamo.Svako dobro.

  • @eminak2034
    @eminak2034 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The golden lily symbol comes from the Kingdom of Bosnia. It's not a religious symbol at all. People like to make everything about religion to create divison and to push political agendas. The golden lily is a native flower to Bosnia, which is why it's such an important symbol since it symbolizes our roots to the land.

    • @kristijangrgic9841
      @kristijangrgic9841 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actualy it is religious symbol. Bosnian kinds adopted Catholicism before Turks occupied Bosnia and executed last Bosnian king

    • @libertas5005
      @libertas5005 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In case of Bosnia, it is not a religious symbol. It's a symbol of a Bosanski Ljiljan (Lilium Bosniacum) Look it up before you spread misinformation. @@kristijangrgic9841

    • @aton9755
      @aton9755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kristijangrgic9841 And yet, a golden lily symbolizes Bosnia, the native Bosnian flower, just like a dog breed tornjak.

    • @kristijangrgic9841
      @kristijangrgic9841 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@aton9755 its a reminder that you were once Catholics

    • @aton9755
      @aton9755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kristijangrgic9841And we upgraded from the polytheism.

  • @miatouma5470
    @miatouma5470 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How interesting! Keep it up!

  • @WordToMomsYo
    @WordToMomsYo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My folks were raised in Novi Pazar, and I've always had quite an interest in learning about not only Sandzak but all of the lands which once made up Yugoslavia. I even had the opportunity to visit and explore a few of those countries almost 20 years ago, which definitely helped me better understand the ethnic, linguistic, religious and cultural characteristics and fault lines which define the region. But I must admit, I don't think I ever heard anything about Medurecje prior to watching this video of yours... Pretty interesting little quirk of history.
    Thanks for posting these recent Balkan videos... It's cool to see Americans go and travel through that part of Europe and expose themselves to a part of the world that to me seems underappreciated and most certainly misunderstood.
    Regards, Some Dude in Jersey..

  • @muniramitric132
    @muniramitric132 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very informative video! 👏

  • @tima5813
    @tima5813 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very interesting trip. I never knew about that village, Medjurjecje

  • @peterscherer4817
    @peterscherer4817 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your Balkans vids are very educational and I am also learning some new words that will be useful when I go to Croatia soon. Hvala liepa

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching. Enjoy Croatia, it's a beautiful place!

  • @NicolasDudic-ph4kd
    @NicolasDudic-ph4kd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    God bless you an your family 🙏 ❤️ well done, Nice vidéo. Thank you for Sharing !! Happy new Year 🥂 merci beaucoup. Pozz svima ot sefer I marija. Francija

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you, happy new year! 🎊

  • @BranisAvBG
    @BranisAvBG 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    13:57 Wrong translation. It is not MRKVA sezona (carrot season). He said MRTVA sezona (dead season) 😅

  • @DDtch6669
    @DDtch6669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Međurečje (Serbian Cyrillic: Међуречје) is a village located in the municipality of Rudo, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2] It is surrounded by the Serbian municipality of Priboj, in Zlatibor District, making it an exclave of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and an enclave within Serbia, a kilometer from the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina. While Serbia recognizes Međurečje as part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the entire area is currently under the administration of the Serbian government. Sastavci is the neighboring village in Serbia.

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Bosnian territory at the end of the day 👍🏻

    • @DDtch6669
      @DDtch6669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Malo smanji dozivljaj.@@keno2285

    • @frostflower5555
      @frostflower5555 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The locals speak a Serbian dialect, they buy Serbian goods and I think they said they have Serbian license plates. The area might as well just be part of Serbia. It' doesn't make sense to be an enclave.

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@frostflower5555 Bosnian territory still… Origin VLACH.

    • @DDtch6669
      @DDtch6669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I never understood what grudge Bosniaks have against Vlachs. What do you have against them that fuels such a strong hate in you. I know you guys are trying your utmost to in some weird way degregate Serbs by using that word. But as a friendly advice none of us are offended really. Vlachs are Vlachs and Serbs are Serbs.
      Imagine starting New Year with Serbs on his mind. Priceless!@@keno2285

  • @LordDucarius
    @LordDucarius 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have never heard of this exclave and it is not far from where I usually stay in serbia and I thought I knew the region :D Thanks for showing this anomaly BTW: your serbian is great you speak better than I do

  • @libertas5005
    @libertas5005 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had no idea Bosnia had an actual exclave in Serbia. This is some true journalism Ben. What a treat!

  • @ToxicVaccines_HivHoax
    @ToxicVaccines_HivHoax 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    9:45 "Hot boxing wth cigars!" 😂😂 🔥
    I would have been really pissed off! 🤮

  • @KulturanCov
    @KulturanCov 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    19:12 I think he said to your question what's his name: "Ivan. Zvani Pilot". I'm guessing that's his nickname: "Pilot"? Although not sure 😅

  • @nurunnur748
    @nurunnur748 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Im ashamed that I as a Bosnien did not know about this exclave,Thank you man for educating us

  • @lukaladan3140
    @lukaladan3140 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Interesting that there are so manny bosnians in your hometown in the US. That city is it?

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I believe it’s located in the state of New York. There’s almost 30.000 Bosniaks upstate and 30.000 from the Sandžak region in NYC.

    • @aton9755
      @aton9755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Utica

  • @TxDuallyNation
    @TxDuallyNation 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why did you put "lmao" under Montenegro on the map @1:00 ??
    What part of Montenegro is so amusing to you??

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      just that only a very small part of it is visible on the map. i found that funny

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TxDuallyNation lol kako da sam fukara? Volim Crnu Goru, biću tamo uksoro. nemam problema sa tvoja država, samo mi je bio smiješno da mapa je pokazala toliko malo od Crna Gora

  • @uncchip
    @uncchip 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love the old worker dudes a lot

  • @Freefs1
    @Freefs1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sastavci is contested between Serbia and Bosnia. It was never agreed upon whether it'd go to Serbia or Bosnia but many people there have their own opinions on who they are part of.

  • @keno2285
    @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    1:14 Austrians also sold Sandžak, Mali Zvornik and other areas to Serbs…

    • @nikmoj1522
      @nikmoj1522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Your ancestors were Serbian or ottoman Turks?

    • @nikmoj1522
      @nikmoj1522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@nerminmujcic8572 bosnians are slavs...as russian croat,polish...come on man

    • @nikmoj1522
      @nikmoj1522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nerminmujcic8572 bogumili su sekta bili,a ne nacionalnost/narod
      Pre Alije je bio Ilija :)

    • @nikmoj1522
      @nikmoj1522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nerminmujcic8572 e sad neke istine bole...mozda i nermin je od tis "serbus"

    • @nerminmujcic8572
      @nerminmujcic8572 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nikmoj1522 Ilija Is the bulgarian version of the Jewish name Elia:)

  • @ToxicVaccines_HivHoax
    @ToxicVaccines_HivHoax 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    An albanin political "Prophet" named Alfred Cako predicts that very soon there is going to be an rearrangement of state borders in the Balkans.
    This rearrangement will be done through a new war most likely initiated by Serbia by invading north Kosovo.
    He predicts that this region of Sanxhak will be united with Bosnia. Other parts of Bosnia will be united with Serbia, and and Croatia respectively.
    Serbia may also get to keep parts of north Kosovo. And Kosovo will take regions in south of serbia populated by Albanians.
    As previously (ww1 was also started by serbia) this new war will be started by Serbia. And serbia will lose as usual. The currentserbian political class will be replaced with pro western political class, and serbia will join Nato. Similar to what happened with Germany at the end of ww2.
    I also suspect that this very video is made possible by the world powers that have decided this borders rearrangement, in order to make aware the world public of the situation in these regions as a preparation for the coming new border rearrangement war.
    Remember, you read it here first, before it happens! ☝️
    Happy New Year everybody. 01/01/2024. 🔥 🎂 🥂 👑
    👋🇦🇱

    • @nikmoj1522
      @nikmoj1522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kosovo /republic of Srpska

    • @nikmoj1522
      @nikmoj1522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Novus ordo seclorum /new world order
      Depopulazioni during small wars

  • @oviivo
    @oviivo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just so you know Ben your amazing at what you do keep doing it hvala 🇭🇷🇺🇸

  • @NONAME-ze1kx
    @NONAME-ze1kx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Benjamin how you afford to travel around?

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I have a real job in addition to TH-cam 👍 thanks for watching

  • @sharktailmusictm2536
    @sharktailmusictm2536 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    One of the older Gentleman said Pilot, Ivan Pilot. It seems he was a Pilot.
    The other thing i wanted to point out was, that zo need to consider that zou maz be in an exclave of Bosnia, yes. But in the Entity of Republic of Srpska, so no wonder you see so little signs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's true, yes. There weren't any Republika Srpska flags either though, only Serbian

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@BenTheRules Either way at the end of the day it’s Bosnian territory no matter how many flags they put up!

    • @frostflower5555
      @frostflower5555 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@keno2285 From reading its history, the Ottoman invaders divided it.

    • @libertas5005
      @libertas5005 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same like the Serbian invaders divided Bosnia in the 1990s.@@frostflower5555

    • @frostflower5555
      @frostflower5555 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@libertas5005 Serbs were not invaders. They were there for centuries. Ottomans divided the people, sadly. The Serbs carried the brunt of the Ottoman brutality whose plans were to continue westward.

  • @peeid8261
    @peeid8261 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very intresting, I had never heard of this exclave. They look like being more Serbs than Bosnian. But isn’t because of the religion ?

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Religion doesn’t change your appearance… Serbs are usually darker with black hair and tan skin like Vlachs.

    • @peeid8261
      @peeid8261 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@keno2285 i was not talking about the appearance more about the culture. Serbs even from Bosnia hang the Serbian flag.

    • @user-mc2fh1cw2v
      @user-mc2fh1cw2v 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@keno2285😂😂😂😂😂 која си ти протува и тешки комплексаш, такорећи шабан!

    • @Warofages97
      @Warofages97 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@peeid8261nisu iz bosne nego iz R srbske

    • @Skenderbregovich
      @Skenderbregovich 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@keno2285 no, "Dinaric" Serbs are taller and darker (Novak Đoković, Vlade Divac), "Panonic" Serbs are whiter, blue eyes, lighter hair, pure Aryans ( Nikola Jokić, Dušan Basta), if you line up a 20-year old Serb, Croat, Bulgar, and a Muslim from BiH, nobody will notice the difference, tako da, ne kenjaj Keno mnogo

  • @63Vaso
    @63Vaso 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    There is no Bosnian in Raska or Sandžak.Thera are Srbian who convert to Islam and Serbs who didn't. Bosnian ethnic doesn't exist because all of them are Serbs who convert from Christian to Muslims. They decide to became Bosnjak 1993 without anyone asking people what they think about it. Just a few politicians from Muslims in Sarajevo did it. Now they split apart ones called Serbs Muslims in two branches.

    • @sal78sal
      @sal78sal 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Orthodox in Bosnia called themselves Bosniaks until about 150 years ago. The so called "serbs" in Bosnia are just Bosniaks until recently.

    • @amirkahric7564
      @amirkahric7564 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      previše si opterećen vjerom

    • @63Vaso
      @63Vaso 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @sal78sal much more older than 1993 😄 🤣 😂

    • @sal78sal
      @sal78sal 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      pa dobro. sve tri grupa su se zvali bošnjaci dok se pravoslavci nisu posrbili. To je bilo toliko opasno za velikosrbski porjekat da su zabranili ime bošnjak. @@63Vaso

    • @DanieleLeone-re9cv
      @DanieleLeone-re9cv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bosnian Muslims and Sandzak are the same people, prior to the 1990's wars many migrated to Sarajevo.

  • @startledhamster
    @startledhamster 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That guy said "Ivan zvani pilot" or Ivan known as pilot :)

  • @SuperGeronimo1975
    @SuperGeronimo1975 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Samo napredno!!!😂

  • @radiajtorNs
    @radiajtorNs 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is not Yugo, this is called Zastava as you said but not Yugo. Yugo is shorter and has 3 doors.

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought Yugo was the make and Zastava is the model.
      Now I’m reading Wikipedia and it says “Yugo is the common name used for the Zastava Yugo, later also marketed as the Zastava Koral and Yugo Koral.” That’s confusing af 😂

    • @radiajtorNs
      @radiajtorNs 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is Yugo: th-cam.com/video/QN4UhS8cFTk/w-d-xo.html
      This is Zastava 101: th-cam.com/video/A48sCqznXTE/w-d-xo.html
      In your video you saw Zastava 101 or something similar. But the fundamental difference is that Yugo has 3 doors and Zastava 5 :)

  • @serifbeckovic
    @serifbeckovic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Come in Mostar in Herzegowina welcome :D

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It's definitely on my list

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Mostar is south Bosnia! Herzegovina btw is written as Herzegovina in English without a w.

    • @deebo7276
      @deebo7276 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@keno2285 Come on man chill :) If you're already correcting him, why not just say that Bosnia is south BiH? That way you'd both be correct. If Mostar isn't Hercegovina, what is?

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@deebo7276 South Bosnia

  • @Shiros4ki
    @Shiros4ki 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Mec si tu passes vers Tuzla semaine prochaine fait signe on va boire un café hahaha

    • @Shiros4ki
      @Shiros4ki 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      On peut même aller faire la night si tes chaud

  • @sandzopb
    @sandzopb 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey bud my father was born in Medjurecje we are US now

  • @spartacus2000
    @spartacus2000 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looks/sounds like Stone Age … ffuukkeedd up Balkan ,

  • @Yourwaterworld
    @Yourwaterworld 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Ivan zvani pilot" ivan called a pilot

  • @sadz12
    @sadz12 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My man is asking himself why there is no bosnian flag!? Has he ever heard of the ethnic cleansing from Serbian War Criminals?

  • @reythekid5309
    @reythekid5309 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    19 : 12 Ivan aka pilot ( aviator )

  • @alexandartheserb7861
    @alexandartheserb7861 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We, native Old Bosniaks are Serbs. Islamist emerged only after Turkish occupation in 15th century. So now we have problem since during last 2 centuries after Turkey fall in Austria, Serbia, Montenegro, we received Muslims from there in Bosnia and our Serbian land Bosnia with immigrants was not Serbian majority land anymore. Islam Immigrants get citizenship and voting rights, and thought they even have right to separate our Bosnia from rest of Serbia, but native Serbs opposed and thats how Republic of Srpska was founded. Problem is that we Old Bosniaks want our part of country to be in union with rest of Serbia and nonSerbs want even our part to separate from Serbia against our will

  • @vericacvetkovic9093
    @vericacvetkovic9093 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Poreklo is origin, where you are from.

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes the “poreklo” of Serbs is mostly eastern (Vlach).

    • @drazantodoric6040
      @drazantodoric6040 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Keno, Keno ,MALO BOLJE proučite istoriju . Tu ste prilično "tanki".@@keno2285

  • @dimitrijem9356
    @dimitrijem9356 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You have to come to Vojvodina,you just have to,people,culture...

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I definitely will! I was bummed I couldn’t make it on this trip

  • @omertabra6030
    @omertabra6030 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just keep going, your hype is gonna come sooner or later

  • @keno2285
    @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    0:52 No you won’t because that’s still Sandžak.

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@l.7742 Not true, we from Bosnia use “pa” a lot at the beginning of our sentences, but I understand.

    • @markomladenovic2002
      @markomladenovic2002 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "dakle" or "znači" can be used instead (the second only in the spoken, not in the written language). You can use "pa" ("paaaa") when you are not sure about something, when you are hesitating or in the phrase "pa ne baš" (not really)

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thanks for all your comments, yeah it's definitely a bad habit I picked up. I don't know all the filler words you guys use, so whenever I want to say "so," "well" or "like" in English my brain just uses "pa"

    • @markomladenovic2002
      @markomladenovic2002 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BenTheRules your Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian is great! The comments that you are getting are out of desire to share our language with a learner and to help them improve it. Btw, I live in Switzerland too and I am trying to improve my French and German, but never had such a great real-life lesson like you had.

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@l.7742 I only watched until the 2nd or 3rd minute could you tag me at the time stamps

  • @lazar923
    @lazar923 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    24:37 Zastava 128

  • @funwithbell7207
    @funwithbell7207 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bosnia & Serbia 2 country one family

  • @dzevadbayraktar322
    @dzevadbayraktar322 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    haha I don't think Bosnia even knows that they own some small region town inside Serbia

  • @sandzakJEbosna
    @sandzakJEbosna 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    At 13.55 mrtva* (dead) sezona, not mrkva (carrot) season 😂

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ahhhhhh that makes so much more sense. I was like well at least they can still eat something in the winter lol. Thanks for the correction

  • @afnium
    @afnium 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It is dead season now, not carrot 🥕 season 😂😂😂😂

  • @BornaAbramovic
    @BornaAbramovic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Please buy a camera stabilizer. I'm sick of how you shake. 🤓

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I had one and lost it the day before I made this video 😭😭😭 getting a new one soon though don’t worry

  • @faussepiste2115
    @faussepiste2115 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    great video full balkan moments : 1 muslim & 1 orthodox working for 1 guy in Austria, burning wood and plastic. This village/town is a summary of the region demographic decline, exodus to cities and the west, decaying infrastructure, administrative nonsense but great people.

  • @TheBasicsofficial_
    @TheBasicsofficial_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fact is that this is part of Republic of Srpska so in fact this is still Serbian

  • @predragkrstivojevic9488
    @predragkrstivojevic9488 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Prvi put čujem od ovog amerikanca da Bosna ima teritoriju u Srbiji.

  • @nikmoj1522
    @nikmoj1522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    beniyamin are you Israeli?
    shalom lahem from Yagodina

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      no, just from US

    • @nikmoj1522
      @nikmoj1522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BenTheRules God bless you mn

    • @keno2285
      @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Weirdo 🤣

    • @nikmoj1522
      @nikmoj1522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@keno2285 Bas jeste...mnogo toga weird :)
      brat moj

  • @JoeRogansGutBiome
    @JoeRogansGutBiome 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bosnia has colonized Serbia they just dont know it yet

  • @tri3dva2
    @tri3dva2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's called Rashka district (Рашка)

  • @bojanpalink5471
    @bojanpalink5471 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    they did a lot of bad things here Austro-Hungary, Germans...and recently America....in these areas.....In western Bosnia, there was a much larger area with a majority Serbian population....and they didn't give them one exclave, not one city. ...but here we have one village in the Muslim part.....the border between the Republika Srpska and the Federation....it looks like they included even the smallest Muslim village in the Federation....the same policy did not apply to the Serbs .....If someone doesn't believe...I know the areas I can show them....Make a video of the town of Drvar, Bosansko Grahovo...which always had a 100% Serbian population but it belonged to the Federation...or towns like Sanski Most, Ključ with a population of 60% vs 40% in favor of the Serbs...are belonged to the federation with all the surrounding villages......there is not a single exclave....but here it is shown how poor Muslims are, that they have to live in exclaves.....you are spreading the wrong picture.....but you are not interested in this are u?!?!?!?!?..........Here where the Muslims are in the minority...they behave in a friendly manner...but not so friendly where they are now the majority...artificially created after the war.....making it difficult to return, demolishing cemeteries, no restoration of representative state buildings that are demolished or burned, creating the conditions for return...in short, the silent implementation of national and religious segregation

  • @brankavujasin4381
    @brankavujasin4381 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sandzak je stara Raska.

    • @user-pc2jp2yr3c
      @user-pc2jp2yr3c 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Used to be a region of Bulgaria.

    • @brothabox6998
      @brothabox6998 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@user-pc2jp2yr3c Bulgaria is in ural

    • @drazantodoric6040
      @drazantodoric6040 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tako je.

  • @skrajina8037
    @skrajina8037 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is not bosnia, that is Republic of Srpska, or Serbian Republic.

  • @skaj28
    @skaj28 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nema Sandžak! Ne podtoji! To je Raska! Sanddzak je separatistocki naziv..!

  • @bojanpalink5471
    @bojanpalink5471 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You made a mistake about the flag 3 horseshoes is not the same as 3 crescents......3 horseshoes originates from pre-Ottoman era...medieval Serbia and is the flag and coat of arms of the province of Raška...or Sanjak how it is called by the Muslim inhabitants...Sanjak is the name of an administrative unit of the administration in the Ottoman Empire............I congratulate you, that as an American you are so curious, that you even visited these parts.....and dedicated yourself to research....but due to wrong information or superficial knowledge...you can end up with wrong conclusions and wrong conviction... .that's really not a position anyone would want...and end up spreading false information....is this that you really want?!?!?...i dont think so.....

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did not know what the horseshoes were about, i did not pretend to know what the horseshoes meant. Thanks for the explanation!

  • @stichsticher9157
    @stichsticher9157 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Now its better in Serbia?This man is too old to be real.

  • @keno2285
    @keno2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “Bosnian exclave” *puts Serbian flag*

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      classic Balkan moment

  • @malipatak
    @malipatak 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bošnjak are Serbian muslim's. It is Western propaganda, which for more than 150 years, has been destroying Serbian identity little by little. To avoid a strong and troublesome state in the region, and which would be close to Moscow. But it is the same nation, with haplogroup I2A.

  • @maksimdjordjevic3585
    @maksimdjordjevic3585 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🇷🇸🇲🇪⚜️❤️

  • @sunshine-lu2kq
    @sunshine-lu2kq 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Those flag are not Serbian. They are from entity Republica Srpska which is inside of Bosnia and Herzegowina. Acording the law there should be Bosnian flag also but its complicated, there was war and great war crimes were comitted there. People near the border of Serbia were the first to be killed by their own neighbours. They now live together but its complicated. They are all poor there living from season works. House that look nice are from people that are living in diaspora. Out.

  • @STASHYNSKYI
    @STASHYNSKYI 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its not Bosnia but Republika Srpska. Police will be send to check who the f... are you?!

  • @naskutak
    @naskutak 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bošnjak did not exist befor Turkish empire come to land of Serbia. Find me just one Islamic anything

    • @aton9755
      @aton9755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bosniaks were not Muslims back then, you ignorant. They were Christians. Serbs never existed in Bosnia before the end of the 19th century.

  • @sandzakliana2838
    @sandzakliana2838 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Rudo, Strpci wheree Milan Lukic kidnapping Bosniaks from the trains and get killed! And all of that with blessing from BG and secred service called DB drzavana bezbednost.

  • @edinsaner1391
    @edinsaner1391 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Glupa Administracija Bosne i Hercegovine i opstine Rudo, i nacelnika iz Rudog. Pa stavite barem jednu zastavu nek se zna da taj dio zemlje pripada Bosni i Hercegovini.

  • @bojanpalink5471
    @bojanpalink5471 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    they did a lot of bad things here Austro-Hungary, Germans...and recently America....in these areas.....In western Bosnia, there was a much larger area with a majority Serbian population....and they didn't give them one exclave, not one city. ...but here we have one village in the Muslim part.....the border between the Republika Srpska and the Federation....it looks like they included even the smallest Muslim village in the Federation....the same policy did not apply to the Serbs .....If someone doesn't believe...I know the areas I can show them....Make a video of the town of Drvar, Bosansko Grahovo...which always had a 100% Serbian population but it belonged to the Federation...or towns like Sanski Most, Ključ with a population of 60% vs 40% in favor of the Serbs...are belonged to the federation with all the surrounding villages......there is not a single exclave....but here it is shown how poor Muslims are, that they have to live in exclaves.....you are spreading the wrong picture.....but you are not interested in this are u?!?!?!?!?..........Here where the Muslims are in the minority...they behave in a friendly manner...but not so friendly where they are now the majority...artificially created after the war.....making it difficult to return, demolishing cemeteries, no restoration of representative state buildings that are demolished or burned, creating the conditions for return...in short, the silent implementation of national and religious segregation