Looking at the caption on this photo, one would think that the names are of other “white supremacists” who carried out terror attacks on “innocent” Muslims. That is incorrect. They are the names of Christian heroes who fought against the invading armies of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire which was trying to conquer Europe.

h/t Stefan D

Bragadin joined the marine infantry ) Corps of the Republic of Venice . In 1569, he was appointed Captain-General of Famagusta in Cyprus and led the Venetian resistance to the Ottoman conquest that began in 1570. He was gruesomely killed in August 1571 after the Ottomans took the city, the fall of which signalled the end of Western presence in the Mediterranean island for the next three centuries.

Lazar was killed at the Battle of Kosovo in June 1389 while leading a pan-Christian army assembled to confront the invading Ottoman Empire , led by Sultan Murad I . The battle ended without a clear victor, though both sides endured heavy losses, which were more devastating for the less numerous Serbs and their Christian allies. Lazar’s widow, Milica , who ruled as regent for their adolescent son Stefan Lazarević , Lazar’s successor, accepted Ottoman suzerainty in the summer of 1390.

Miloš Obilić ( Serbian Cyrillic : Милош Обилић, pronounced [mîloʃ ôbilit͡ɕ] ; died 15 June 1389) was Serbian knight in the service of Prince Lazar , during the invasion of the Ottoman Empire . He is not mentioned in contemporary sources, but he features prominently in later accounts of the Battle of Kosovo as the assassin of the Ottoman sultan Murad I . Although the assassin remains anonymous in sources until the late 15th century, the dissemination of the story of Murad’s assassination in Florentine

Marko Miljanov Popović ( Serbian Cyrillic : Марко Миљанов Поповић, pronounced [mâːrkɔ mǐʎanɔʋ pɔ̌pɔʋit͡ɕ] ; 25 April 1833 – 2 February 1901) was a Brda chieftain and Montenegrin general and writer. He entered the service of Danilo I , the first secular Prince of Montenegro in the modern era, and led his armed Kuči tribe against the Ottoman Empire in the wars of 1861–62 and 1876–78 , distinguishing himself as an able military leader.

Cantacuzino took part in the Ottoman campaign which ended in their defeat at the Battle of Vienna At the same time, it is alleged that he conceived a plan for a march on Constantinople , planning to drive the Ottomans out of Europe, counting on support from major European states. During the siege of Vienna, after being forced to join the war alongside the Ottoman Empire, he sabotaged his Turkish “allies” by warning the Austrians beforehand about the siege.

He was also informing them about the Ottoman plans, movements and tactics (in a hidden tunnel beneath the city’s walls), stalling bridge repairs across the Danube (since before that the Turks considered the Wallachians unreliable when it came to war matters) and finally ordering his men to put hay & straw inside the Turkish cannons so that the damage on the walls of Vienna would be minimized. He also planted a cross with a double meaning in which he offered moral support to the besieged Austrians while at the same time, avoiding Ottoman suspicion. As a result he received praise from General Wallenstein and the Habsburg Emperor himself and also earned the title of “Defender (or Count) of the Holy Roman Empire”