Re: Irredentism in the Balkans
I agree that pre-Slavic population of Balkans, whatever they were referred to as, played the most important part of Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian ethnogenesiss.
The assimilation process continued on as late as in 19th century.
Tesla was Serbian, it is completely irrelevant what were his distant ancestors,
specially if we look for them before romantic nationalism that occurred in 19th century.
Before that, we can not speak of modern sense of ethnic belonging
as we know it today.
The only question considering Tesla can be is he to be considered as Serbian scientist,
because he received all his education in Croatia, Austro-Hungary and in USA,
and was sponsored by them.
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