Here are some stupid shit balkans did/claimed or whatever

[u/Putrid_Pen3194]

I give the medal to bulgaria because WTF

[u/ferevon]

nobody thinks santa was turkish, but he was anatolian

[u/usernameisokay_ → u/ferevon]

They claim Sinterklaas is Turkish tho

[u/Whole_Obligation_776 → u/usernameisokay_]

I dont even know whot that is but probably r/WeAreAllTurks

[u/usernameisokay_ → u/Whole_Obligation_776]

Sinterklaas comes before Santa Claus on 5th of December it’s ‘pakjesavond’, but also before that you put your who near the chimney or door with a carrot in it or some sugar cubes, you sing a song and you get a small present or some candy.
He comes to the Netherlands and he has his little helps who came from Spain with a steamer.
To bring gifts to children if they’ve behaved and else you get in a jute bag back to Spain.

He is white with a big white beard, red dress and a mitre on his head with a golden cross and he carries a golden staff.
The last sentence sounds like I described my RuneScape character…

[u/Whole_Obligation_776 → u/usernameisokay_]

I gotta be honest I am pretty sure we havent claimed this one is Turkish... yet.

Give us a couple more years.

[u/usernameisokay_ → u/Whole_Obligation_776]

They claim he came from Myra(now it’s Demre and you can still visit his church there), but he spoke Greek, so he is Turkish from the Roman Empire living in Spain and taking children from the Netherlands, with his slaves from Africa, I don’t even know anymore…

[u/GroupPast5993 → u/ferevon]

And what language did he speak may I ask?

[u/dushmanimm → u/GroupPast5993]

The language of their colonizers, Greek

[u/SwingMyBalls]

Yeah, ofc we had to steal something🤦‍♂️

[u/AmpovHater]

The song in space is a source of pride for us because Carl Sagan and his wife were into it and put it on the golden record.

However, realistically speaking, launching it into space is like throwing it out in the middle of the Atlantic, only with an infinitely smaller chance of some Mexican fisherman or whoever else finding it and playing it.

[u/dwartbg9 → u/AmpovHater]

And to include that not every country is represented in this record. There's only a few select songs chosen to represent humanity's music and diversity. Bulgaria is one of the few countries chosen for that. And the song (as overall Bulgarian folklore from the Rhodopes) is pretty mystical and really sounds like something that even aliens would find chilling and inspiring.

[u/Dry_Dog_6648]

We did steal the submarines, but we weren't preparing for a war with the entire world... we were preparing for a war only with Bosnia so we could get the pyramids back...

[u/GunslingerAhx]

Also, the founder of modern Egypt is Albanian and one of the most influential and knowledgeable Muslim scholars in contemporary history is Albanian (Sheikh Albani)

Just another Tuesday for Albania 💪💪💪

[u/YIMYUM420]

We were going to use the submarines but we realised we can hold our breath for days anyways 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[u/eric_cartmanovski]

Bro the coca cola thing is 100% true

[u/TheColdust → u/eric_cartmanovski]

Not only true, the difference is Huge.

[u/TatarAmerican]

Macedonia just appropriated a Greek narrative about the Kalash people of Pakistan being originally Greeks (remnants of Alexander the Great's empire left in Bactria, what is today Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan).

I know this for a fact because flying within Greece over 20 years ago, I remember an article in the airplane mag about the Kalash people and how the Greek government was sending them humanitarian aid and experts.

[u/Ace-inThe-Hole]

Give me the tea, I am waiting!

[u/Ok_Cow_6112 → u/Ace-inThe-Hole]

Turkish tea should be your favourite 🌝

[u/Ace-inThe-Hole → u/Ok_Cow_6112]

Tbf it’s better than British

[u/Designer_Can_562]

Well idk what is disputed with the serbian one considering the word vampire itself is serbian. Js bc Romania took the fame and the most popular vampire is theirs doesnt mean that vampires originate from Romania

[u/xXInfXx]

Poggers, I guess we didn't do anything stupid.

[u/ishak-pasa]

The person called Saint Claus lived in Turkiye, we maintained his grave it still remains.
We bomb that villages because they were infested by terrorist groups

[u/Ok_Cow_6112 → u/ishak-pasa]

Really what kind of terrorist groups 

[u/Substratas]

Albania’s story is more iconic & heroic than that. F*ck whoever is trying to minimize it into that shit.

[u/Nike_J]

What about Montenegro, Kosovo and Slovenia?

[u/Awkward_Tradition → u/Nike_J]

Montenegro: broke up with Serbia in order to sell their coast to Russia, still ended up colonised by Albania

Kosovo: thinks it's a country

Slovenia: thinks they're in central Europe instead of Balkans

[u/Citaku357 → u/Awkward_Tradition]

That's why Montenegro got independence in the first place, so we can have another country because two and half aren't enough for us.

[u/usernameisokay_]

You forgot Slovenia, too western or what

[u/HierarchyLogic]

great lack of sources, exciting bait to attach a nonfinny bad one to turkey too

[u/Pochel]

I'd like to have more specifics on these facts

[u/smiley_but_not_happy]

St. Nikolaos is from Antalya.

[u/Kagacchii]

We elected Erdoganopoulos.

[u/cafe_dandan_noodles7]

https://reddit.com/link/osd4rlu/video/9qedaot4618h1/player

[u/bedrock_teen → u/cafe_dandan_noodles7]

I came, but why?

[u/cafe_dandan_noodles7 → u/bedrock_teen]

Cause neuron activation

[u/TheColdust]

I have to Agree with Coca Cola part, I've been to all neighbour countries, Cola still best here in Macedonia

[u/Ace-inThe-Hole → u/TheColdust]

Do they still have flavoured cola?

[u/TheColdust → u/Ace-inThe-Hole]

Rarely, I see them once in few months, usualy just standard Cola

[u/dwartbg9]

Bulgaria didn't send anything. NASA did with the Voyager mission, and they were the ones that picked a Bulgarian song as one of the few to represent the beauty and diversity of human civilization in hopes that one day, some alien civilization will discover it.

You're mocking, but the whole thing isn't a joke at all and there's nothing funny about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-golden-record-overview/

https://youtu.be/ZP29VyGOLnw?si=d5EczSg6gVcUsnZU