Show bill DC ur belgrade has changed owners many many times lent stronghold on tho danube wa subject to attack time and again by different natrona familiar with war london where the blue danube jand the sluggish sava meet less than three score miles from the hungarian krontzer sits belgrade city 0 sieges war Is nothing novel to belgrade the pity waa the very bone ot contention in days gone by when the now degen erate turk pounded at the doors ot christendom and threatened to sweep even aa atalla the hun did before time and again belgrade felt the attack of the mos lem time and again servian monte and hungarian heroes hurled back the invader veritable accomplished seeming miracles in defense of europe hunyadi saved middle europe from turkish ravages and always belgrade bore the brunt of the battling in those days the town was divided ilnyo two sections the old russian or sava machala district and the tur tish darcol or cross road section so tar back as the third century belgrade was fortified by the belts celts who named the place by which appellation it was known until the seventh century A D from the servian girl in gala costume beginning of the fourth to the end ot the sixth centuries belgrade changed its masters repeatedly huns sarma fians goehs goths and held it by turn emperor justinian brought it under roman rule toward the end of the eighth century it was captured by the franks of charlemagne A hundred years later the bulgarians Bulga rians took possession to be ousted two centuries later by the byzantine emperor basil II 11 in 1124 the hungarians Hung arians un der king stephen took it from the creeks from which time it changed hands repeatedly greeks bulgarians Bulga rians and hungarians Hung arians fighting tor its possession the city considered the key to hungary was called darol 1 jehad the home of wars to balth by the turks and they used every endeavor to capture and keep it in 1427 it was ceded lo 10 the hungar jans by the serviano ians in 1456 the turks sought ita capture and were completely routed by hungarians Hung arians un der john hunyadi and john cupis iran the fighting monk in 1521 sul tan suleiman captured the strong bold to hold it until ft hen the austrians Aust rians took it only to lose it two bears later in 1717 prince eugene of savoy captured belgrade for the austrians Aust rians who kept it until 1739 the turks again obtained a foot told they kept the servian town un til 1789 when the lustriana Au carried it by lecault ae cault losing it once more three years later in 1807 the serviano ians over whelmed ed tho turkish garrison keep jing possession tor six years when the again turned the tables until 1862 the turks kept a garri eon in belgrade and it was not until michael of servia threatened dwar and the powers brought pressure ito bear on turkey that the latter country withdrew its troops since then isernia has been in possession |