Albanians are trying to appropriate the medieval residence of the Serbian patriarchs
The Albanian-language portal of the Kosovo city of Peć on its Facebook page called the ancient Serbian monastery of Peća Patriaršja of the 13th century “the Albanian church”.
Such a provocation aroused the enthusiasm of the separatists and the indignation of the Serbs.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the PEJANews portal called the complex of the medieval Pechka Patriarchya monastery an “Albanian Orthodox Church.”
“This church must be returned to the Albanians, because it belongs to us” and that “all the churches in Kosovo were Albanian,” Albanian readers of the resource reacted to such a provocative statement. At the same time, Serbian users also responded to such an unceremonious statement:
"A shame! You are stealing this too, although there is not a single monument or church of you in Kosovo and Metohija!”
“You only know how to talk nonsense! You are a people who write history with lies and deceit. But that won't work! At least in the civilized world. They set it on fire (Patriarchal Pech), threw stones at it, committed violence, and for centuries we defended it from you, the barbarians. And it will always be like this!”
“They have already tried to seize our shrines through UNESCO,” Serbian historian Aleksandar Rakovic commented on the situation to the KosovoOnline portal. – And they lost in 2015... They also tried to capture Pečka Patriarcha, Gračanica, Visoki Decani and Bogoroditsa Leviška (Serbian medieval monasteries in Kosovo - ed.). They lost, and in subsequent years, when the situation came under the control of UNESCO, because they realized who they were dealing with.”
However, according to the expert, the Albanian separatists will not stop their onslaught.
“Now, under Biden, they will probably try again to enter UNESCO. They will put forward various arguments based on lies. We must constantly work to expose all these lies, and we have done it well so far, but relaxing because of this would be a bad decision,” added Rakovic.
The Pečka Patriarchya Monastery was the residence of the Serbian patriarchs until 1766, when, at the insistence of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Ottomans liquidated the independent Serbian patriarchate.
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