In 1905, after nearly five centuries, the last Ottoman garrison marched out of Belgrade's Kalemegdan fortress. This episode traces the slow, strange handover of Serbia's 'White City' — from the 1867 formal keys ceremony to the final soldiers' departure, the dismantling of the mahala, and the city's violent reimagining. We meet the forgotten governor of the Belgrade pashalik, Ali Rıza Pasha, and follow the fate of the Ottoman cemetery and the mosque that once crowned the plateau. Lucas and Luna explore what the departure meant for those who stayed — the Muslim artisans, the Jewish quarter, the coffeehouses — and how Belgrade, reborn as a modern capital, papered over its Ottoman skin. Drawing on consular reports, memoirs, and the city's own archives, this is the story of an exit that was both a triumph and a quiet erasure.
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