BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:A search for 'Belgrade protests' turns up stories from dozens of different media outlets, so I'm inclined to believe it.Well, the western media is just copying from one another, and they have a bias to talk about how great USA is and how bad other countries are. The fact that there appears to be no mention of the protests in the local news strongly suggests they aren't actually happening, right? The only thing written in Serbo-Croatian I've found about it is the BBC article written in Serbo-Croatian. It's less reliable than local news are, right?
BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:I suspect the origin of the name is ultimately Latin, with the 'Bel' element being a variant of 'Alba' (Latin for 'white') since the first recorded instance of the name is 'Belograda'.Why would there be a metathesis from l-b to b-l? "Alba", borrowed into Old Serbo-Croatian, would give something like "Lab" in modern Serbo-Croatian (compare the ancient name for Labin, "Albona"~"Alvona").
