Serbia Online resources for S. European & Balkan States

[JimZ]

I would start a thread aimed at pooling some online resources concerning the Southern European States and Balkan Orders and Medals

Countries to include: Portugal, Spain, Monaco, Italy, Cyprus, Malta, Greece, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia & Serbia.

Kindly post any relevant links.

Thanks!

Jim

Greece: http://www.presidency.gr/en/tagmaTimhs.htm

[JimZ]

Medals of Italy - Page by Micheal Shackelford 1998

Contains a number of top Orders and Medals up to those awarded for the 1WW. Includes:

Ordine della Santissima Annunziata; Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro; Ordine Militare di Savoia; Ordine della Corona d'Italia; Medaglia Al Valore Militare; Croce al Merito di Guerra; Medaglia Dell Guerra 1915-1918; Medaglia di Volontario di Guerra 1915-1918; Medaglia Della Vittoria Interalleata; Medaglia di Madri e Vedove Dei Caduti

http://www.gwpda.org/medals/italmedl/italy.html

[Antonio Prieto]

Spain: Orders, Medals and Decoratiosn, all eras, all topics: www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/index.htm

[JimZ]

Italian Army Awards, Badges and Medals WW2

Orders and Medals awarded during WW2 (including some of the older ones retained under the Fascist regime)

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-medals/italian2.htm

[JimZ]

Italian Army uniforms of the Great War

Drawings of uniforms as well as some close up photos of Italian WW1 uniforms

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/italian_uniforms.htm

[Hendrik]

WW2 medals of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Yugoslavia (as it was then known) : Hendrik's Medal Corner

Cheers,

Hendrik

[JimZ]

Italy - Site for researching medal recipients and some award citations

A site that will allow you to look up recipients of Italian Orders and medals with lists of awardees. Some records for some of the orders/medals do not go all the way back so there are certain limitations. Still an interesting research tool.

http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/onorificenze.aspx

Edited April 14, 2011 by JimZ

[JimZ]

Serbia - Orders and Medals

Some interesting close up pics of Serbian orders. Last time I checked a few pages were not properly linked.

http://www.orden.stojanovic.ch/select1.html

[Bob]

Socialist Albania - no better place on the WWW:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showforum=140

Edited May 25, 2008 by Bob

[barrinw]

Italian Regalia - 1922-1945.

[makedon]

Dear Collectors and friends,

I would kindly ask you not to refer to FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) as "Macedonia" or "Makedonia",

because Macedonia and Macedonians are terms referring to a Greek territory and its inhabitants.

Using them for an ex-Yugoslav territory, which was part of southern Serbia (as seen by documents and historical papers before the end of World War II),

could possibly mean political propaganda in favor of this newly-formed "nation" and against Greece and the historical truth.

I would suggest that everybody uses the official United Nations' and NATO term "FYROM", because as far as I know no political propaganda is allowed in this forum.

Finally, as most members share their passion for history, it would be better to show our level of knowledge and learn how to use the proper terms that would not offend the others!

All the best from Greece!

Dimitris

[JPL]

This link should keep members busy for some time...

http://www.jeanpaulleblanc.com/Reference.htm

Jean-Paul

[makedon]

An excellent reference on Ottoman medals

http://www.turkishmedals.net/

[makedon]

Modern Greek Orders and medals

http://www.presidency.gr/en/tagmata.htm

http://www.army.gr/files/File/ITHIKES_AMOIBES/metallia.pdf

http://www.army.gr/files/File/ITHIKES_AMOIBES/parasima.pdf

[makedon]

Some more Greek medals at

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=29665&id=115483331835111&saved#!/pages/Macedonian-military-collectibles/115483331835111

[JimZ]

A rather comprehensive guide to Italian ODM ribbons:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medaglie,_decorazioni_ed_ordini_cavallereschi_italiani

You will need to copy the whole link and paste it in a browser.

Edited August 22, 2010 by JimZ

[ЧЕТНИК]

Dear Collectors and friends,

I would kindly ask you not to refer to FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) as "Macedonia" or "Makedonia",

because Macedonia and Macedonians are terms referring to a Greek territory and its inhabitants.

Using them for an ex-Yugoslav territory, which was part of southern Serbia (as seen by documents and historical papers before the end of World War II),

could possibly mean political propaganda in favor of this newly-formed "nation" and against Greece and the historical truth.

I would suggest that everybody uses the official United Nations' and NATO term "FYROM", because as far as I know no political propaganda is allowed in this forum.

Finally, as most members share their passion for history, it would be better to show our level of knowledge and learn how to use the proper terms that would not offend the others!

All the best from Greece!

Dimitris

I agree brother!

[claudio2574]

May be I can suggest my website, Italian only (sorry)...

Mainly Italian medals and awards, most of them from my private collection, some from friends who gave me the pictures.

http://www.faleristica.it

[Megan]

Nice site - but your JavaScript links at the top don't work... I had to read your source code to figure out how to get to the various pages, but it was worth it!

I shall scamper off and put a link to you forthwith.

[claudio2574]

Nice site - but your JavaScript links at the top don't work... I had to read your source code to figure out how to get to the various pages, but it was worth it!

I shall scamper off and put a link to you forthwith.

Ach! Damned Internet explorer which is not compatible with itself!

It ran flawlessly with Firefox and Chrome, but it was not enough.

Corrected and thank you for the warning.

[Megan]

It's working now, well done

(Last year I taught a web design course for which the students had to write some JavaScript, that was always the bit that caused them problems!)

[claudio2574]

Actually it is not "javascript" itself to give the problem. The fault is in the differences between the browsers, specially IE with all its versions (8 does some things, 9 others, 10 is similar but not equal to 8). Wish all be compliant with the same specs! Lot of time waste to check the compatibility.

Anyway, this is the cyberworld we are living in.

[albania]

Dear Collectors and friends,

I would kindly ask you not to refer to FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) as "Macedonia" or "Makedonia",

because Macedonia and Macedonians are terms referring to a Greek territory and its inhabitants.

Using them for an ex-Yugoslav territory, which was part of southern Serbia (as seen by documents and historical papers before the end of World War II),

could possibly mean political propaganda in favor of this newly-formed "nation" and against Greece and the historical truth.

I would suggest that everybody uses the official United Nations' and NATO term "FYROM", because as far as I know no political propaganda is allowed in this forum.

Finally, as most members share their passion for history, it would be better to show our level of knowledge and learn how to use the proper terms that would not offend the others!

All the best from Greece!

Dimitris

Dear Dimitris

There is no need to politicize and enhance xenophobia. This is an honorable forum. Concentrate on content rather than form.

[makedon]

Dear Dimitris

There is no need to politicize and enhance xenophobia. This is an honorable forum. Concentrate on content rather than form.

Dear Albanian, your comment makes no sense. I agree with your thought-it's propaganda and fraud of name and history that I am trying to avoid.

[Rogi]

This is pretty sad, we always have some "battle" going on in Serbia that we ourselves never started :S lol

Edited May 29, 2013 by Rogi