Indeed, from time to time the motherland was threatened by various savage and murderous nations: Mongols, Tatars and Turks. But the conjoined swords of her united sons swiftly vanquished all these hordes — all those who had come intending to pasture their steeds and herds on the fat meadows, on the fields covered with thick stalks of grain, and to spill the blood of the citizens of our land. But it was especially with the Turks, who terrified the nations of Europe with their savagery, that the bloodiest battles were fought, and most frequently resounded the clash of swords opposing on the fields of Belgrade, which is on the lower Danube.
Belgrade, Belgrade! How often hast thou beheld upon thy plains the mortal clinches of armed regiments? How frequently has the choking, throttling smoke o
