This is my question for some better educated and/or more informed people about history than me.

I don't know if this kind of thread already existed in past on this site...

I was bother by this a long time ago, but reacently I read the book mentioning the year of happening (in medieval Serbian state) as 6882! That means 1374 a.d. So I become very curious about the issue again.

In Kosovo there was (or is still - not sure) a sign on stone made by son of Serbian Duke in 1389a.d. After battle on that field he wrote a kind of poem or remainder about his father, Serbs soldiers and Sultan Murat and Turks that felt dead there, and he said: it all happened on summer (14jun-by Julian calendar) of the year 6897!?

Serbs were counting the time diferentlly even in a XIV century after Christ.
WHY?
And why this number?
Are they exist as a nation that long? Or this is some kind of Slavics tribe usual thing? Or this something that existed even before Serbs become Slavic tribe? Or this is something that is usual for the European Nations at that time?

Do you know something about that? ( Vrylakas? Lucefarul? ) :) Anyone?

How about your own nation or Country? Are you familiar with such or simular thing were in your History?

And why Civ Game start at 4000bc (+2000 = 6000. 1000 less than the age I mentioned above!!) ?

Too many questions, eh? :D

THANKS FOR ALL REPLIES / ANSWERS ! :)

Well, it cannot be moslemic counting. That starts in 622 AD, their year has only 354 days, we are in the moslem year 1426 right now.

They used the Kievan Rus calendar.
http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/C/A/Calendar.htm

In Kyivan Rus’ the years were numbered from the creation of the world; hence, old Ukrainian documents are usually dated in this way. In the 14th century documents began to be dated from the birth of Christ as well, the difference between the two systems of dating being 5,508 years. The calendar year in civil life began on 1 March and in church life on 1 September, as in Byzantium since the time of Justinian I. This difference led to confusion in the dating of the various entries in the chronicles. Only by the end of the 15th century was 1 September accepted as the beginning of both the civil and the church year. In 1700 Peter I introduced the Western practice of starting the year with 1 January. In the church, however, the older practice is still observed. At the same time Peter established in Ukraine the numeration of years from Christ's birth.

Listen to Longasc. He's right.

Well, it cannot be moslemic counting. That starts in 622 AD, their year has only 354 days, we are in the moslem year 1426 right now.

They used the Kievan Rus calendar.
http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/C/A/Calendar.htm
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