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Let’s destroy this meme once and for all.
For 500 years, the Ottoman Empire owned the Balkans. Those who converted got certain privileges and avoided being treated as second class citizens. Those who didn’t - they weren’t that lucky. Jus Primae Noctis was a law that made sleeping with an Ottoman officer necessary on a Christian bride’s wedding night (this was before contraception). Many Serbs’ ancestors were conceived this way. Here is an artistic representation of their fate by Gottfried Sieben:
