Yet most Turkish Cypriots, though determined to resist anything that amounts to subjugation, are gradually coming to realise that, without a settlement, their slice of Cyprus will get steadily poorer than its neighbour.
Serb nationalists have a special reverence for parts of Kosovo, notably the Field of Blackbirds, where their forebears' defeat at the hands of the Ottomans in 1389 cast the Serbs into 500 years of Muslim subjugation.