Uh-oh, these guys are onto me.

     by crni on October 31, 2007 at 6:03 am

Yugoslavia was part of the Medieval Holy Roman Empire??

     by Wolf on October 31, 2007 at 7:01 am

Sure it was. First, Tito’s army defeated Cesar’s troups, then burnt some witches and then declared Yugoslavia independent.

     by Dietmar on October 31, 2007 at 9:38 am

ROTFL

     by pengovsky on October 31, 2007 at 10:33 am

I watched this episode quite a while ago. The _only_ ex-Yugoslavia part of the Holy Roman Empire was Slovenia. In any case, mentioning Yugoslavia in this clip was greatly useless (overkill perhaps?). They might as well used the Habsburg Empire in place of “Yugoslavia”.

     by DJ on October 31, 2007 at 11:06 am

Don’t you love the way the cute guy says, “Rudolf was from … Slovenia?!” as if he’s never even heard the word before? And then the woman has to give him a short (admittedly woeful) course in European history. And this guy is a federal marshall who is supposed to be fairly well-educated.

@ DJ: if the guy’s never heard of Slovenia, I doubt he will have any idea what “the Habsburg Empire” is. But of course you’re right. Slovenia is the only part of the former Yugoslavia that was in the HRE, since Carniola, Styria and Carinthia were all “crown lands” of Austria (i.e. they were considered intrinsic parts of Austria).

     by rolig on October 31, 2007 at 2:22 pm

Actually, has anyone noticed that crni never mentions what kind of chemistry he studied? Who knows what kind of ungodly experiments he was up to in Ljubljana.

As for the HRE: I understood the explanation as Slovenia being once “part of Yugoslavia” and also part of “the Holy Roman Empire.” God knows what they intended, though.

I also love the guy’s expression upon hearing the word “Slovenia.” It’s total befuddlement.

     by Michael M. on October 31, 2007 at 2:40 pm

Wow! This is the best and shortest round-up of slovenian history I have ever heard. Slovenia was part of the HRE for almost a millenium, the last witch-hunt took place in 1746 and we don’t have to search far away for some ancient practices.

     by Robert on October 31, 2007 at 4:25 pm

I was taught everything I know by my great-grandma, known in Slovenia by the name of “Pehta”. Her skillz were not appreciated in SLO and she was chased away into the mountains. She told me not to mess with the locals and to test my skills in the wider world.

     by crni on October 31, 2007 at 4:33 pm

Ah, a short glimpse at wikipedia and I got it. The thing they named “Heiliges römisches Reich deutscher Nation” in school here. It was called Roman empire to not make a prophet’s word come true that the Antichrist will come after the downfall of some empire. In this case “Roman” and “medieval” would make sense. I guess, people are learning a lot of magic tricks from the Slovene vampires aswell, no?

     by Dietmar on October 31, 2007 at 7:36 pm

The Vampires lived in the “deutscher Nation”-part, is my guess. For example in Rotenburg…

     by alcessa on October 31, 2007 at 10:54 pm

The Roman Empire is Roman because it’s basically ruled out of Rome. The separation of church and state isn’t that old - and you know the Holy Roman Church, don’t you? The adjectiv ‘deutscher Nation’ developed after the 15th century (Netherlands, Switzerland got independent…)
And vampires? Wikipedia claims that the etimology is serbian and the first known vampire is located in the village Kringa in Istria. And if you recall that Stokers Dracula should take place somewhere in Styria, everything makes sense.

     by Robert on November 1, 2007 at 9:56 am

no no no, the evil vampires live in Slovenia, I have proof for that

     by Dietmar on November 1, 2007 at 8:11 pm

Hahaha.
We just have to buy same old castle and vampires will come over from Transilvanija.

     by Cokolesnik on November 1, 2007 at 9:37 pm

I’ve never denied my witchiness - hey, just look at the photo in my blog profile Although to be perfectly honet, my book of spells along with the secrets of candle-lighting was passed on to me by my American ‘grandmother’ so had little to do with any ancient Slovenian practices.
That was some party over Klek last night… good thing about brooms: very environmentally-friendly with regard to fuel and audio pollution. Down-side: our “holiday”, the one when we all party rill dawn, tends to be on a very cold night, so some of us came down with a cold… (she sneezes)

     by dr. filomena on November 1, 2007 at 10:38 pm

On the subject of the Holy Roman Empire. In principle, you guys are correct, however, the Slovenian regions within the scope of ‘Austria’ extended beyond Slovenia’s present day borders and included parts that are now ever so inconveniently Croatian

@crni: my long lost great great cousin!!! greatgranny Pehta sends her regrds. She gave the opening speech last night before the Party. She was pretty Fly

     by dr. filomena on November 1, 2007 at 10:57 pm