So Kosovo is independent, and I really don't feel like seriously commenting on the matter. Julia's SEE-EU weblog is certainly the better place for such information. But I would like to note that the blunt website www.visitkosova.org, a spin-off of the 2005 propaganda text Monuments of Kosova (a scanned .pdf is luckily preserved on a disgruntled Serbian website), where we previously could read that Kosovo's Serb medieval architectural heritage belongs to the "Byzantine-Kosovarian style" from the "Nemanja period" (see my older posting) is apparently undergoing revision: the section cultural heritage now reads "under construction"; good enough for me. In the meantime, let's content ourselves with the fairly nice picture section, and hope for a more enlightened approach...

News from Stephen Lewis' weblog bubkes.org (the one that is legal in Turkey; his hakpaksak.wordpress.com is still banned; see my older posting). This time he takes up the theme of converted mosques in Bulgaria, his home of choice. Read "A Transformed Coincidence: From Mosque to Restaurant, From Mosque to Church, From Mosque to Rage". Not mentioned in the title, but in the posting, is curious example of the "Roman Wall" (Rimskata stena) in Sofia's marketplace, really the remains of a musalla (outdoor place for communal prayer).