The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-13
old PRIZE OF WAR
poIurade Has Been Fought Over.
for Many Centuries.
ANA Of Countless Devastating Con-
aicts Since the celts Built the
First Notifications Seven
teen Hundred Years Ago.

r. +be spirits of the soldiers slain in
o',~rade. the capital of Servia, during
tho last thousand years could be rein
.a1nated such an armed host would
90 ronresented as has not been seen
:,ca Xerxes set out from Sardis to
nnoner the civilized world. For since
tbo first Notifications were made On
the prcmontory at the confluence of
W. Save and the Danube, near the site
- tho present city, by the Celts in the
tbird century B. c., it has been the
.aoro Of one devasting conflict after
another.
The Celts gave to Belgrade the
nome of Singidunum, and as such 1t
1,os known until the seventeenth CEN
+rrv A. D. The Romans took 1t from
tbn Celts and replaced their fort by
strong Notifications, as is evidenced
bv bricks recently dug up bearing
tho inscription Lego Nv, Flavia Fee
liz" For the following two centuries
Il changed masters often, each change
being marked by slaughter, as Huns,
sarmatians, /Goths and Gepids followed
Zach other into possession before the
emperor Justinian brought it once
more under Roman rule.
Toward the end of the eighth CEN
+nry the Franks Of Charlemagne be-
sfeged and took it, and the following
century it fell into the hands of T&1l-
uarians. In the eleventh century the
Rvzantine emperor, Basil II, recon
ouered it for the Greek empire. The
Hungarians fought over it for the first
time in 1924, when King Stephen
wrested it from the Greeks,
The Servian kings first gained it's
nossession in the fourteenth century,
and after 27 years the Servian prince.
Giorg Brankovitch, coded 1t to the
Hungarians It's possession by Chris
tan nations incensed the Turk, and
twice during the fifteenth century the
city was assailed by the followers OF
the sultans. Each time they were
beaten back, and in the last siege, that
of 1856, the monk, John Capistran,
and the famous John Hunyady rose
to fame through the vigor Of the de-
fence conducted by them.
In the middle Of the next century
the Turks under the Sultan Suleiman
took it from the Hungarians, and 1t
remained a Turkish possession until
the Austrians captured it in 1888. Two
years later the Turks recartured the
city and held it until TIT, when. by q
most brilliant campaign, Prince Eu
gene of Savoy retook it for the Aus
TRANS, who held it. until 1889.
Then the Turks gained its posses
sion only to lose it so years later when
the Austrians under General Laudor
carried it by assault and held the cita
del for four years. One hundred and
seven years ago the Servians, having
gained their independence, became
masters Of Belgrade, but were forced
to abandon it to the Turks six years
later. Until 1852 the Turks kept
troops in the garrison there, but the
Servians were practically their OWL
rulers
The dual government occasioneC
much friction, and in June, 1862, thu
Turkish commander bombarded the
Servian quarter Of the city. AS con
sequence of the assault, four years
later diplomatic pressure was brough
to bear and the Turkish garrison was
withdrawn. Then followed the modern
Balkan wars, during which Belgrade
was the scene of much armament
riots and threatened sieges.