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Happy Holidays and have a Great New YearComment
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Merry Christmas and happy new year for all members!Comment
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Is that your home town? It looks like it could be Eugene, Oregon. People out at night, street musicians, even a cannabis shop.Comment
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Yes. My hometown.Originally posted by Carl-NC View Post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokobanja
Although i live out of it, 2.5km away from center, at the place very similar to what you described on another topic.
This is 100m up from my house, post #557: https://www.geotech1.com/forums/show...024#post292024
I went "downtown" (center) to buy something and i spotted the "brass band" exploding all over the place!
But they are not so good, as you can hear my mum background comment on video ( i told something like "they play nonsense")... they kinda lame.
Brass bands and such music is genuine Serbian traditional thing.
So we have pretty high standards when it comes to it.
They actually tried to play this:
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It is new year day, holiday, so i guess we can allow a bit off topic joy and funny posts.
I hope nobody will blame me for this.
If you find this music amusing, nice and entertaining... well... there is so lot more than you can anticipate.
Instead me reposting here zillion of videos; you can find them directly on Youtube.
Brass bands and particulary the trumpet instrument is the genuine Serbian traditional thing.
The Serbian trumpet differs from the conventional one in the way it is made and the tonality it can spread.
There is a festival worldwide known and popular, the Gucha festival.
There are too many videos made by foreigner visitors, for this occasion i picked this one ( i really like Czech girls so much):
Many foreigners already discovered it and visiting it , each year in much larger number.
But that kind of music is spread country wide and presents the very basic and important element of our life.
It is impossible to imagine any sort of celebration here without it.
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Now i will tell you very interesting and 100% true story.
Rober De Niro... i guess you all know the guy!? Right?
Once in the past, when he was so young actor... and not so rich at the time; he visited film festival here in Serbia.
Nobody recognizes him, he was not so known and popular then, so he decided to spend some time traveling the country and meeting the people.
Learning the customs and tasting the local food and drinks. So one day he even ended on the local green market, as seller, selling vegetables.
Thing is; he wandered around the Serbian villages around the city of Nis. One night, totally lost, he knocked on the door, village man opened.
The villagers are very hospitable and gladly welcome every stranger as their closest. So he got warm room with bad, toilet, nice dinner.
Next morning he noticed that the host is getting ready to leave somewhere with a car full of vegetables.
Not knowing the language, neither he nor the host, somehow agreed and the host told him that he had to go to the local market to sell his products, but that De Niro be free to stay and rest as long as he wishes.
De Niro was curious and in the mood for adventure and offered to go with the host and sell vegetables too.
So they spent whole day on green market selling the stuff.
Later on De Niro visited many times Serbia and some cities here.
There is an urban legend that his step daughter Drena De Niro was named after the famous Drina river here.
Probably he was also amazed with one of the most popular song, the march, written and celebrating great victory in WWI and the deciding battle settled down very close to the Drina river bank.
This composition is the unofficial anthem of all true Serbs...
I can't post two videos in one post so i'll post the video in next reply...Comment
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Nice place to go metal detecting. Once every year we go camping/metal detecting near Calafat, on the Danube river banks. In the north side from your city also can be found very beautiful area, where they say that first time Romans invaded Dacia. On the Serbian shore side can be found Tabula Traiana Plaque (2000yr old monument).Originally posted by ivconic View Post
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Originally posted by ionut_mtb View Post
Closer than i expected:
Yes , Danube banks are carrying lot of potent sites!
I visited Tabula Traiana Plaque site when i was in high school.
Here in my country is prohibited to search such sites.
Still not settled well with a laws, this hobby of ours.
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While waiting familly and some guests:
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In Romania is also prohibited to search archaeological sites. South of The country is with more history because of Danube river. Giving the fact that Dacia capital was in Orastie mountain (Sarmisegetuza) , from where romans conquered and took tons of gold, that region where the small rivers drains into the Danube is a lot more interested. But is sad that romans stayed less in our country.Originally posted by ivconic View PostComment
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This is quote from another place:
These are the explanations of how it is that I am surrounded by numerous interesting sites and why this hobby is so developed here in our country.Did you know that 18 Roman emperors, one fifth of all Roman emperors, were born on the territory of today's Republic of Serbia? This is the largest number of emperors born in some province out of Italy.
One of them will be remembered as the greatest adversary to Christianity, and the other proclaimed it the official religion.
What they have in common is that they were both born in what is today Serbia.
Men in question are caesar and augustus Galerius, born in Gamzigrad, town near Zaječar in east of Serbia,
and another ruler, born in Nis, city in south of Serbia - emperor Constantine I, called Constantine The Great.
Besides them, many other emperors were born on the territory of today's Serbia:
Constantius Chlorus,
Licinius,
Vetranion,
Trajan Decius,
Aurelian,
Probus,
Maximillian Hercules,
Constantius II,
Gratian,
Jovian,
Hostilian,
Maximinus Daia,
Constantius III,
Claudius II Gothicus,
Flavius Valerius Severus
and Justinian.
On the territory of Serbia we have imperial city (Sirmium),
provincial capitals (Sirmium and Viminacium),
imperial residences and villas (Felix Romuliana, Sarkamen, Mediana and Iustiniana Prima),
combined with fortified frontier with many cities,
legionary and auxiliary forts (Singidunum, Diana, Pontes, Naissus).
These sites represent enormous heritage from antiquity.
All previously mentioned makes Serbia one of the central points in Roman Empire for centuries.Comment
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Constantius Chlorus was a father of emperor Constantine I.
He was a professional soldier and spent part of his life in the Middle East in the service.
When he returned after the service to the city of Nis;
he meets his first wife Jelena and gives birth to a son Constantine ... the rest is history.
Wanna see one of his rare coins?
Here it is:
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