There is also a legend connected with the Chapel of Peace where the negotiations took place. It is certain there each side had its own door, and the warring parties entered from separate doors, but the legend is that afterwards the door that the Ottomans came through was walled up behind them so they would not be back. However, like many myths there is a whiff of the real story. The original place where the negotations and signing took place was a wooden hall that did not last long so that another Chapel of Peace was built about 50 meters from the spot, and the "Turkish Door" was indeed walled up during later renovations. Then that chapel fell into disrepair, and yet a new one was built, and it also had the door walled up, and when visiting this is part of the story that the priest tells, but alas, while a good story, it was not exactly like that.
Some would also say that the Turkish/Ottoman Empire was more or less doomed after the Battle of Kosovo when the Sultan was killed by one of the Serbian fighters, and the new sultan for the first time ever (at least as I heard it) had the other males strangled back in the hareem, and this led to the rise of hareem politics. Not sure abot that one either.
There is also a legend connected with the Chapel of Peace where the negotiations took place. It is certain there each side had its own door, and the warring parties entered from separate doors, but the legend is that afterwards the door that the Ottomans came through was walled up behind them so they would not be back. However, like many myths there is a whiff of the real story. The original place where the negotations and signing took place was a wooden hall that did not last long so that another Chapel of Peace was built about 50 meters from the spot, and the "Turkish Door" was indeed walled up during later renovations. Then that chapel fell into disrepair, and yet a new one was built, and it also had the door walled up, and when visiting this is part of the story that the priest tells, but alas, while a good story, it was not exactly like that.
Some would also say that the Turkish/Ottoman Empire was more or less doomed after the Battle of Kosovo when the Sultan was killed by one of the Serbian fighters, and the new sultan for the first time ever (at least as I heard it) had the other males strangled back in the hareem, and this led to the rise of hareem politics. Not sure abot that one either.