The Republic of Kosovo is a very young country and while I was in Pristina, the air was inexplicably full of a kind of youthful energy and optimism that I have never felt elsewhere in another city.
What I found quite intriguing was how the local guide pronounced Kosovo as "KosovA", which I had initially thought was the Kosovo way of pronouncing it. Then I did some googling and guessed that she might probably be Albanian in ethnicity.
In addition to Vlad III, now I know of another figure that fought against the Ottomans. Vlad III and Gjergj Kastrioti were contemporaries, the former a Wallachia prince and the other an Albanian noble. Resistance against the Ottoman Empire was a theme that the local guides in different regions of Eastern Balkans spoke about without failure.
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