“Magnificent Century,” the Turkish soap opera about Suleiman the Magnificent, is attracting about one-hundred and fifty million viewers in Turkey, the Middle East, and the Balkans every single week. It is so popular in Croatia that the show is regularly reviewed and debated in the local newspapers. Turkey is thus becoming ever closer on account of its language and culture, both of which are familiar across this Balkan country. The Sixteenth Century is also becoming more familiar, and historical events surrounding Suleiman’s capture of what is now Budapest, as well as his efforts to capture Vienna, are widely debated. One of the articles I just ventured upon is about a certain Nikola Jurišić, a military man who successfully defended Köszeg, a tiny Hungarian town close to the Austrian border, in 1532. The nationalistic title of the article is amazing to behold: “The Croat Who Stopped Suleiman.” In fact, he only delayed Ibrahim Pasha, who led a small Turkish advance. Of course, the article fails to mention that Croatia was part of the Hungarian kingdom at the time, let alone that Slavonia and Dalmatia were also under the same tutelage. Nowadays, Croatia includes both Slavonia and Dalmatia, and few people know how small Croatia was back then. More important, the article eschews the fact that most of what is today’s Croatia was in Hungarian hands from 1091 to 1918. A magnificent millennium, to be sure. Alas, soap operas are not conducive to learning of any kind, let alone learning of history!