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We had a fairly nice weekend. Friday night Denis worked (surprise, surprise), but Emma and I went and saw Pirates of the Carribean (on Andrew's recommendation). It was a fabulous pirate movie, I really enjoyed it. We even sat through the credits for the final monkey scene. Saturday we both worked and then I went to a WCMA opening for Nicole Cohen's "Ma Vie en Rose". The opening was nice, but I didn't stay too long. The show looks great! Sunday we were going to work, but decided we needed a day off so just hung out at home. We made eggplant parmagana together which was more of a production than I originally planned. I started out cooking myself, but had to recruit Denis and he ended up doing most of the actual cooking while I washed a mountain of dishes. It took a while, but the result was yummy. Then he even spent time with me while I worked on my Croatian (I'm a little behind). It helps tremendously to hear someone pronounce the words correctly. It was so nice to study together (ok I was studying, he was teaching/reading/repeating). Unfortuantely another weeked spent procrastinating about Fulbright/grad. school stuff (although Croatian should count). I'm going to at least start contacting more people this week.
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answers to Dan's questions....
1) Illyiran you are thinking of is actually just a different name for Croatian. Around the beginning of the 20th century, Croatia was still part of Austrian-Hungarian empire. At that time there was a movement in Croatia to reclaim the cultural heritage. The official language at the time was (I think) german, although it could have been hungarian, I am not sure. In any case, they called themselves the Illyrian movement, named after the Illyrian tribe/people that used to live in the Balkan area cc 2000BC. (even though Croatian/Serbian people are slavic tribes that moved into the area much later cc 500AD).
There is an actual ancient Illyrian language, and it is probably related to Croatian in some way since Croats settled in the area populated by Illyrian tribes.
2) In Croatian, Hungary is called Madjarska (pronounced Magyarska, "land of the Magyars")
3) After WWI The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was founded. In 1929 King Alexander I changed the name of the kingdom to Yugoslavia - land of the southern Slavs. Tito came to power after WWII and created the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (for the full short history of Yugoslavia click here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/map/yugoslavia/).
Hope this is informative.
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Re: answers to Dan's questions....
The book I'm reading says that one of the big arguments between the Maygars and the Croats was over language--the Hungarians changed the language of the Diet to Hungarian instead of German (even though most of the Hungarians themselves were only just relearning it), but they refused to let the Croatians speak Croatian in the Diet.
Was there ever a movement to annex Yugoslavia to Russia, akin to the movement to annex Austria to Germany?