While working my way through the 500 page long 'Kosovo - A Short
History' by Noel Malcolm, I came upon a section detailing the early
interactions between the Ottoman Empire, then newly in control, and the
local christians in and around Kosovo. Inter alia:
'Other groups of privileged christians included...falconers who bred
birds for the Sultan and the local lords (there were fifteen falconer
households in villages near Prishtina in 1477 and twenty-four in
villages near Prizren);...'
Malcolm is usually very, very accurate but I am not sure that he meant
'bred'.
That said, I thought to myself how times have changed.
Perhaps we could do with a falconry-led improvement in international
relations.
Con
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