Loyalty on the Ottoman-Venetian Frontier

In the heat of battle, a Muslim gazi and Christian soldier exchanged blood.

Fate turned, and the Christian faced execution.

The Muslim threw himself upon his sworn brother. "Kill him, and you damn us both!" he cried.

Astonished, the gazi’s Pasha freed them.

This is one account of probratimstvo, blood brotherhood in the Balkans.